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Introducing the New Microsoft Edge →
Yusuf Mehdi:
The release candidate of the new Microsoft Edge for Windows and macOS can be downloaded right now with general availability targeting Jan. 15 in more than 90 languages. Microsoft Edge runs on the same Chromium web engine as Google's Chrome browser, offering you best in class web compatibility and performance […]
We believe you should know who has access to your data and have the control to choose what you share. Microsoft Edge starts with tracking prevention on by default, so you don't have to take any actions to immediately start having a more private browsing experience. With SmartScreen and Tracking prevention, we help protect you from phishing schemes, malicious software and new types of malware like cryptojacking.
I wish they'd chosen WebKit instead but at least Edge should be a decent alternative for people who need to use Google's cursed Chrome.
Inside Microsoft's Surprise Decision to Work With Google on Its Edge Browser →
May 6, 2019 · 22:08
Tom Warren:, writing for The Verge:
Something had to give. Microsoft had to change its Edge browser in a big way. That meeting with Nadella ultimately led to Microsoft's huge decision to jettison the browser it built in house and start from scratch using Chromium as a new foundation. The stakes for success couldn't be much higher: the future of Windows and the web itself could hinge on this project.
This is the story of how Microsoft made that monumental decision and what could happen next.
I'm not personally interested in Edge or particularly happy that Microsoft joined the Blink/Chromium camp. I would have definitely been more please had they based Edge on WebKit or Gecko…
And speaking of WebKit…
I'm deeply disappointed in Apple for discontinuing Safari for Windows and not expanding to Linux and other operating systems. I don't trust Google or Microsoft's priorities (Google's especially), and Chrome needs to lose some market share for our benefit. History has shown that a monopoly in the browser department doesn't end well. Apple had the unique ability to challenge Google on competing desktop OSes and they forfeited that fight. Yes, Safari is holding its own on mobile. For now. That could change, when something new comes along, replacing our iOS and Android devices. At this point, all I can do is also root for Mozilla and Firefox.
Google Proposes Changes to Chromium to Kill uBlock Origin and uMatrix →
January 23, 2019 · 10:37
From the comments section:
From the description of the declarativeNetRequest API, I understand that its purpose is to merely enforce Adblock Plus ("ABP")-compatible filtering capabilities. It shares the same basic filtering syntax: double-pipe to anchor to hostname, single pipe to anchor to start or end of URL, caret as a special placeholder, and so on. The described matching algorithm is exactly that of a ABP-like filtering engine.
If this (quite limited) declarativeNetRequest API ends up being the only way content blockers can accomplish their duty, this essentially means that two content blockers I have maintained for years, uBlock Origin ("uBO") and uMatrix, can no longer exist.
Please don't use Chrome (or Chromium unfortunately). Just switch to Safari or Firefox (I use it as my second browser and it's fine).
And while you're at it, switch out your search engine to DuckDuckGo — it works surprisingly well, even in Poland when searching for Polish content.
via @khron
Microsoft Is Building a Chromium-Powered Web Browser That Will Replace Edge on Windows 10 →
Zac Bowden:
Microsoft's Edge web browser has seen little success since its debut on Windows 10 back in 2015. Built from the ground up with a new rendering engine known as EdgeHTML, Microsoft Edge was designed to be fast, lightweight, and secure, but launched with a plethora of issues which resulted in users rejecting it early on. Edge has since struggled to gain any traction, thanks to its continued instability and lack of mindshare, from users and web developers.
Because of this, I'm told that Microsoft is throwing in the towel with EdgeHTML and is instead building a new web browser powered by Chromium, a rendering engine first popularized by Google's Chrome browser. Codenamed Anaheim, this new web browser for Windows 10 will replace Edge as the default browser on the platform. It's unknown at this time if Anaheim will use the Edge brand or a new brand, or if the user interface between Edge and Anaheim is different. One thing is for sure, however; EdgeHTML in Windows 10's default browser is dead.
Having used many different browsers over the years, Safari has always appealed to me most for a number of different reasons. Since it was discontinued on Windows a few years ago, I have defaulted to Firefox on my only PC (I still naturally use Safari on my Mac), especially since Mozilla appears to be pushing privacy hard, but I really wish Safari was still around. I tried and tested Edge a few times, but it never appealed to me much. Chromium would be my second choice and I'm curious what Microsoft will do with it.


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To address the habitat loss threat, the study's authors recommend conservation organizations work with agencies that have authority over public lands in Central American countries—the goal being to protect more land from development and to find ways to better protect the public lands that already exist, as a sustainable forestry project in northern Guatemala has done.
Greater warming on the northern breeding grounds and during migration—a surface temperature increase of about 9°F (5°C) with uncertain consequences for breeding and migration success; a smaller increase of about 5.4°F (3°C) is projected for their wintering grounds.
Less rain on the nonbreeding grounds: a projected decline of 20% or more during the summer would reduce available habitat and food for birds arriving after fall migration.
More rain on the breeding grounds, nearing 25% more during the winter on their breeding grounds. This could enhance vegetation growth and increase insect densities for returning spring migrants—a positive trend if the birds arrive at the right time.
A Wood Thrush in Mexico faces threats on its wintering grounds. Photo by rolando chavez via Birdshare.
Timing is a crucial long-term climate-change threat, creating a potential disconnect between when migrants depart their wintering grounds—departure timing is based on amount of daylight—and the availability of food when they arrive on the breeding grounds.
This study highlights the interconnectedness and importance of far-flung locations for birds. Even if a threat does not exist in our own backyards, what happens elsewhere still has an impact on "our" birds. For example, the Wood Thrush—one of the species in this study—has actually been expanding its northern range as nature reclaims abandoned farmland. But the Wood Thrush population has still declined by more than 30% since 2009. The cause of this decline likely has to do with conditions on the bird's wintering grounds throughout Central America.
La Sorte, F.A., D. Fink, P.J. Blancher, A.D. Rodewald, V.R. Gutierrez, K.V. Rosenberg, W.M. Hochachka, P.H. Verburg, and S. Kelling. 2017. Global change and the distributional dynamics of migratory bird populations wintering in Central America. Global Change Biology. July 2017.
Though the study brings together the possible effects of climate and land-use change, additional human-caused threats to birds will surely remain part of the equation, including light pollution, window collisions, and cat predation.


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Israel - Palestine news this week
Israel - Palestine News 28 May - 3 June 2016
Purpose: to provide a varied selection of articles from Arabic, Hebrew and English mainstream media outlets so readers get a flavour of what is being said about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from different perspectives. The content and opinions of these articles do not reflect our aims or opinions. Please BE RESOURCEFUL and research for yourself a diversity of sources for everything you read or hear about Israel-Palestine.
Arabic News Sources (English versions):
PNN: Israeli murderer of Dawabsheh family released
On Wednesday morning, 20 year-old Meir Ettinger was released after 10 months of administrative detention on Wednesday morning. Ettinger led the arson attack on the Dawabsheh home in the village of Duma. Ettinger was detained following the murder of the Dawabsheh family last July, in which baby Ali Dawabsheh and both his parents were killed. Ahmad, their five year old son spent some ten months in hospital recovering from third degree burns on 70% of his body. The murderer was placed in administrative detention for six months and was later extended by a further four months. Now, the Shin Bet security service did not seek to extend the administrative detention order again. Following his detention, a judge noted that Ettinger encouraged acts of violence that harmed Israel's security, and that he organized a violent revolt aimed at toppling the state.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/06/01/israeli-muderer-of-dawabsheh-family-released/
Al Jazeera, Ylenia Gostoli: The vulnerability of Palestinian women in Israel
A recent survey by the Knesset Research and Information Centre that dealt with perceptions of personal security among residents of Israel - from economics, to health, to employment, to feelings of safety in public spaces - found Palestinian women were by far the most vulnerable group. The survey found that overall women's sense of personal security was lower than men's. Among women, Arabs were found to feel the least secure, with 73 percent of Palestinian women fearing discrimination due to their identity, followed by Haredi women at just over 30 percent. While 30 percent of men and women overall said that fears of arrest or interrogation had affected their sense of personal security, the number rose to 79 percent among Arab women, who were also the group most afraid of being harmed because of their appearance. "In Jaffa, we feel safe; it is our home," said Safa Younes, the founder of Arous Elbahar, a centre that works to empower Palestinian women in Jaffa. "But most women don't feel comfortable going out - especially older women, those who don't work outside the house. I heard stories of women being verbally abused, or someone might try to pull their hijab."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/05/vulnerability-palestinian-women-israel-160502072755923.html
Ma'an News Agency: Reports: Abbas says would meet with Lieberman if latter backs two-state solution
On Wednesday, Israeli state radio Reshet Bet reported that during a meeting with Israeli mayors, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stated his willingness to dialogue with Israel's newly-appointed Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman should the latter come out in support of a two-state solution. Abbas added that the Palestinian Authority did not judge people based on their comments or political affiliations, but rather on their practices on the ground. "If Lieberman shows that he really accepts the two-state solution, we will forget his previous remarks describing Palestinian diplomacy as terroristic," Reshet Bet quoted Abbas as saying. Netanyahu and Lieberman also reiterated support for statements recently made by Egyptian President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi promoting similar negotiations, and threw their support behind the two-state solution. However, Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now criticized the two Israeli politicians' declarations, saying they did not align with the Israeli government's policies on the ground in light of imminent settler construction plans in occupied East Jerusalem. "While Netanyahu and Lieberman just backed the two-state solution, on the ground they are supporting actions that are making a future compromise much more difficult," the NGO said.
http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=771715
PNN: Shaked: No Palestinian state with Jewish Home in gov't
On Wednesday, the Israeli Justice minister, Ayelet Shaked said that as long as her nationalist religious party, Jewish Home, is in the Israeli government coalition, there will be no Palestinian state. Shaked, who's famous for her far-right statements, has said that Israeli settlements will not be evacuated and or given back to Palestinians. "I will say the obvious: As long as we are in the government, there will be no Palestinian state, there will be no settlement evacuations and we will not give any land to our enemies," Shaked said during a tour of the West Bank Binyamin region on Tuesday. According to Israeli media, Shaked said that her party is the only one fighting for the Israeli settlements, or communities inside the West Bank, against what she called "Hamas" and Da'esh.
http://english.pnn.ps/2016/06/01/shaked-no-palestinian-state-with-jewish-home-in-govt/
Hebrew News Sources (English versions):
The Times of Israel: Settlers, Palestinians come together to seek EU-model end to conflict
A group of Israelis and Palestinians has teamed up in a movement calling for a European-style confederation between Israel and a future state of Palestine, that would allow citizens from both sides of the conflict to live in either country but retain their original nationality. The 'Two States, One Homeland' movement — the Israeli side of which is mostly comprised of settlers — is the culmination of four years of low-profile meetings and discussions between activists on both sides. It was reported upon by Channel 2 news on Friday night. The movement rejects the idea of separating the two peoples, claiming that reality has proven that such an effort, started 23 years ago with the Oslo Accords, has failed. One Israeli activist in the movement, journalist Meron Rapoport, said its final goal was to ensure that Jews could live "everywhere they want in the Land of Israel, and Palestinians can live anywhere they want in the land they call Palestine." Efrat Chief Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, an influential figure in the community, has given his blessing to the movement. "The sheer idea of two states and one homeland can be a breakthrough. You have a right, and we have a right — we are both heirs of [biblical patriarch] Abraham, our father," Riskin said.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/settlers-palestinians-come-together-in-seeking-eu-model-end-to-conflict/
Haaretz, Barak Ravid: EU Warns Israel: Policy of Demolishing Palestinian Homes in Area C Will Harm Relations
The European Union sent a very harsh message to Israel a few days ago regarding the demolition of Palestinian structures in Area C of the West Bank, including some that were built with EU funding. In a meeting with the coordinator of activities in the territories Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai last week, the EU ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg Andersen, warned that a continuation of the massive demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank is liable to harm relations between the EU and Israel. Area C, which constitutes about 60 percent of the West Bank, is under full Israeli security and civilian control. The Palestinians and the international community consider the area as the main land reserve for the future Palestinian state. Israel for its part wants part of Area C, where the settlements are located, to remain in its hands. An EU official requested to remain anonymous said that the EU ambassador emphasized in the meeting with Mordechai that the organization and its 28 member countries believe that Israel's demolishing of Palestinian homes in Area C is a serious blow to the two-state solution. "Public opinion in Europe is opposed to home demolition and forced evacuation of populations," he said.
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.722519
Jerusalem Post, Lidar Gravé-Lazi: Hundreds of Arab, Israeli children building 'bridges to peace' through tech
On Wednesday, former president Shimon Peres addressed a crowd of some 600 Jewish and Arab youth for the closing ceremony of the "Bridges to Peace" project in Petach Tikvah. "In order to be great, you do not need a long sword but unity and dialogue between us. You will be the future leaders of tomorrow - don't be afraid to take chances, to be curious and to dream big," he told the youth. Bridges to Peace, a joint initiative of the Peres Center for Peace, Google and the ORT school network, aims to bridge gaps in Israeli society through technology. Using Google + Hangouts youth from different sectors of society engaged in online conversations getting to know one another. In addition, each Hangout group of students works together on a joint project, which they develop and implement. After a series of initial online meetings where they learn about each other's daily lives, the youth met face-to-face at the Peres Center for Peace in Jaffa to fully break down barriers. The program, which has connected thousands of students, aims to create a dialogue between youths that would otherwise not build lasting bridges between their communities.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hundreds-of-Arab-and-Israeli-kids-mark-Unity-Day-together-455649
Ynet News, Hassan Shaalan: Attacker sentenced to 25 years in prison
Alaa Ziad, who carried out a ramming and stabbing attack on route 65 near Kibbutz Gan Shmuel in October, was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday morning. Ziad will also have to compensate his victims between NIS 40,000-150,000. Ziad ran over Orel Azuri and another soldier at a bus stop near the Gan Shmuel Interchange in his attack. A civilian who was in the area observed the incident and proceeded to subdue the terrorist with his bare hands. During his hearing, Ziad claimed that he did not carry out a terror attack but rather lost control of his car: "I did nothing. They want to turn me into a terrorist. I don't know what they want from me. I am not a terrorist." Azuri, from Ramla, was severely wounded and underwent a number of surgeries. She has been recuperating for the past couple of months. Ziad was convicted of four accounts of attempted murder and wielding a knife for racist motives. According the indictment, Ziad was motivated by the clashes at the Temple Mount and decided to carry out an attack against soldiers and Jewish civilians.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4810718,00.html
US-UK News Sources:
Reuters, Luke Baker: Israel's settlement drive is becoming irreversible, diplomats fear
Diplomats and international monitors are increasingly concerned that the Israeli settlement drive, which has settled more than half a million of its people at a cost of tens of billions of dollars, may be reaching the point of irreversibility. The ongoing expansion further diminishes the prospect of any significant progress being made when foreign ministers from 20 countries meet in Paris this week to discuss how to revive Middle East peace efforts, given the settlements have been a central obstacle for at least two decades. If a peace deal were magically struck tomorrow, the Palestinians would expect the Israelis living in Mitzpe Yericho to leave. But its 3,000 residents, nearly all whom are religious nationalists, have no such intention. To them, the settlement enterprise is God-given and irreversible. "If there's peace with the Palestinians we're staying and if there's no peace we're staying," said Yoel Mishael, 65, who has lived in Mitzpe Yericho since its founding. "It's part of Israel, according to the Bible. It's something from God." The foreign ministers will meet on Friday with the aim of paving the way for a summit later in the year that they hope the Israeli and Palestinian leaders will attend.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-settlements-idUSKCN0YM1MY
The Guardian, Peter Beaumont: Gaza fence jumpers looking for work find prison instead-but keep trying anyway
Last year, according to official and media accounts, between 150 and 200 Gazans were caught jumping the fence. Most were in pursuit of work, although at least two people caught this year – according to recent claims by Israel – were activists with Hamas. And despite the recent Israeli focus on Hamas' tunnels, with two more discovered in recent months, most Palestinians who have entered Israel since the end of the 2014 Gaza war have come over the fence. The young men the Guardian meets are more desperate than dangerous, most having grown up during the decade-long Israeli siege of Gaza, and many have unrealistic notions of what lies beyond the fence. If there is a motor still driving the jumpers, despite the increased Israeli military activity on the border searching for tunnels, it is that no other escape exists. Egyptian efforts have closed many of the southbound tunnels at the border town of Rafah, and passage is costly. Poverty and unemployment in Gaza are continuing to worsen. Scaling the fence, for all its risks – including being shot – costs nothing to try. "I went over the fence last August," explains the 18 year-old Mohammed Nashwan, who was released from an Israeli prison for jumping four months ago. "I did six months in prison before I was released. And then 11 days in a Hamas jail. I was going to find work''.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/01/gaza-fence-jumpers-palestinians-israel
The New York Times, Diaa Hadid: 3 Palestinians Executed in Gaza Soon After Call by Hamas to Resume Death Penalty
Three Palestinians convicted of murder were executed in the Hamas-controlled coastal territory of Gaza on Tuesday, less than a week after Hamas lawmakers called for the resumption of capital punishment. The executions, the first approved by a court in nearly two years, were "meant to deter those who may think of committing such crimes," the Gaza general prosecutor's office said in a statement, according to a translation published in Maan. Two men were hanged, one after being found guilty of beating another man to death with a hammer in August, Alresalah reported, and the other on a murder conviction. A third man was executed by a firing squad after he shot and killed a man in 2014 who was trying to collect a debt. "No one should be put to death, certainly not as a part of a legal system in which torture and coercion are common," Sari Bashi, the Human Rights Watch director for Israeli and Palestinian issues, said in a statement. Hamas officials have carried out the death penalty at least 67 times since taking control of the territory in 2007, according to the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights. That figure does not include extrajudicial killings by Hamas of people suspected of collaborating with Israel during the three wars of the past decade. Most Palestinians approve of the death penalty for those convicted of spying for Israel, a crime that is viewed as deeply shameful in a society long under the shadow of a military occupation.http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/01/world/middleeast/3-palestinians-executed-in-gaza-after-call-to-resume-death-penalty.html?ref=middleeast
The Washington Post, William Booth: A Palestinian teen killed an Israeli mom. Now their families struggle with why.
The wife of Israeli settler Natan Meir, Dafna, was stabbed to death in January by a 15-year-old Palestinian who sneaked into the Jewish settlement from a village a mile away. Alongside the Israeli ambassador, Meir went to the United Nations in April to tell his story. He delivered a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling for "endless patience and endless love." Meir is a Jewish settler living deep in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on land the Palestinians want for a state. He said he took solace from the fact that he is friends with some Arab neighbours. News coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tracks well the day-to-day violence, but after the funerals, the families recede to their corners to carry on with their lives. For the past eight months, young Palestinians from the West Bank — mostly men, but some women, too — have been attacking Israeli soldiers and civilians with knives, guns, cars and bombs. The killings have been incredibly intimate — face-to-face at a time when modern warfare is increasingly prosecuted at great distances, by smart bombs and remotely piloted drones. Palestinian officials blame the almost 50-year occupation — the frustration and humiliation of checkpoints, land seizures, raids, military tribunals and the building of the Jewish settlements, communities like Otniel that the international community describes as illegal, though Israel disputes this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/a-palestinian-teen-killed-an-israeli-mom-now-their-families-struggle-with-why/2016/05/31/e62badb2-20df-11e6-b944-52f7b1793dae_story.html
Op-eds:
The Jerusalem Post, Douglas Bloomfield: WASHINGTON WATCH: ONE MORE MISSED OPPORTUNITY
Bloomfield produces an extremely insightful and analytical piece on Abbas' and Netanyahu's strategies vis-à-vis the Paris peace talks and how both are avoiding direct talks to advance their personal interests. When Netanyahu claims that he is prepared to "fly to Paris tomorrow" for one-on-one negotiations with the Palestinian leader, Bloomfield claims that it is really 'a safe offer because he knew he had a key ally in his corner', Mahmoud Abbas. According to the author, each leader is continuously calling the other's bluff in public to meet for peace talks because they both know that it is not on the table. In such a way, both can be perceived by the general public as being open to ending the conflict and can blame each other whenever one walks out. The priorities for each leaders is plainly stated: 'Abbas doesn't want to be accused to conceding anything to the Zionists' whilst 'Netanyahu doesn't want to be known as the midwife of Palestinian statehood'. Bloomfield compares the 'big and bold' Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin- who were murdered for having the courage to try to make peace possible-to the 'weak' and cowardly leaders at present on both sides, who he believes lack what it takes to truly negotiate an end to the occupation.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/WASHINGTON-WATCH-One-more-missed-opportunity-455683
Ynet News, Alex Fishman: Sting like a Bibi
In another strong analytical article of the political strategies of Middle Eastern leaders, Fishman reveals the recent gestures by Sisi, Netanyahu and Abbas in advancing a renewed peace agreement to end the conflict as yet another 'farce'. Once again, such leaders are measured against the superior Sadat and Begin to undermine their political intentions. The proof lies in Netanyahu's new ultranationalist coalition with Lieberman, which has effectively given a death sentence to any possibility of backing a two-state solution or any kind of negotiations with the Palestinians and the Arab League. Fishman carefully outlines Netanyahu's key interests, the firt one being the need to paralyse the international community's pressure to force Israel and the Palestinians into an agreement backed by the UN Security Council. Secondly, Netanyahu realises that Sisi's public offering of an agreement would have necessitated him to offer up some a minimal gesture toward the Palestinians as proof of his sincerity to cooperate in ending the conflict, the author argues. This could have easily taken the form of halting all development in the settlements, but of course with the new ultranationalist addition to the coalition, Lieberman, this possibility rapidly vanished. Fishman's dissection of current Israeli politics is inevitably grim: 'While [Netanyahu] is talking about policies and diplomatic proceedings, in Israel the focus is on internal politics and personal survival'.
Al Monitor, Rasha Abou Jalal: Is new Gaza war more probable with Lieberman?
Jalal's piece explores the opinions of Palestinian and Israeli political experts across the spectrum of parties and professions on the effect that Lieberman is expected to have on Gaza. Jalal explains one of the most worrying aspects of the new Defense Minister's appointment: his precondition to impose the death penalty on Palestinian 'terrorists'. Wassel Abu Youssef, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, told Al-Monitor that Lieberman joining the Israeli government "warns that Israeli violence against Palestinians will escalate and that the ongoing Palestinian bloodshed will be fuelling the survival of the extremist government." Islamic Jihad leader Ahmed al-Mudallal reported that Lieberman joining the Israeli government "reveals the ugly face of Israel and shows the extent of extremism that prevails over the Israeli Netanyahu-led government." Additionally, Mudallal said that Islamic Jihad "expects additional military escalation on the Gaza Strip after Lieberman takes office as minister of war" and that 'the resistance will deal with Lieberman…based on one policy, namely responding to any aggression." Political analyst Eyad al-Qara believes that it is very possible that Lieberman will expand military escalation in the Gaza Strip and again warned of retaliation on behalf of the Palestinians. Given all speculations, Jalal hints to a clear trend in the minds of many Israelis and Palestinians, producing a resounding 'yes' to her title's question.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/05/with-liberman-joining-government-prospects-war-gaza.html
CNN, Aaron David Miller: For Netanyahu, a devil's bargain?
Miller divides his opinion article into various questions which he later debriefs and debates. These include: Is Netanyahu still in charge? Will Lieberman be an extreme minister? Is the centre-left opposition dead? Will US-Israeli relations get worse? The answer to the first question is a firm 'yes', as the Lieberman deal has meant forming a stronger right-wing government and expanding his 61-seat majority to 66, meaning he 'will now be able to pass the Israeli budget this fall and likely withstand pressure from the Europeans and the U.S. on the peace process' says Miller. He argues that Netanyahu will keep Lieberman in check as he 'doesn't want the West Bank to explode', addressing the second question. In terms of the state of the centre-left opposition, Miller shies away from a direct answer but purports that Herzog has been made to look a fool by 'Bibi' following Lieberman's appointment, and that this has only weakened the opposition leader politically and deeply undermining the public's belief that he could rival Netanyahu. Miller believes that US-Israeli relations could definitely get worse as he speculates that Lieberman will 'make statements and do things related to the West Bank that will roil the waters in Washington'.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/27/opinions/netanyahus-bargain-opinion-miller/index.html
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Melbournians Lampoon Sydney's Lockout Laws With Guerrilla Marketing Campaign
By ERIN MARY Doyle
"Sydney-siders … Play till it's my bed-time, not Mike Baird time;" that's the slogan that greeted Sydney residents this week in a grass roots, guerrilla style marketing campaign by Melbourne's Chapel Street Precinct, which is aiming to divert money from Sydney's businesses struggling under the lockout laws.
Featuring hundreds of posters blanketed throughout Sydney's hardest hit suburbs as well as a mobile digital advertising truck, the daring campaign depicts a life-like cartoon of NSW Premier, Mike Baird, resplendent in dirty Y-front briefs, daggy socks and carrying a 1920s candle.
This marketing move is designed to poke fun at Sydney's lockout and drinking laws, and recommend Melbourne's Chapel Street as a more playful alternative.
"We've got nothing against Premier Mike Baird," said Chrissie Maus, Chapel Street Precinct association marketing and events director.
"We're simply treating Sydneysiders as responsible adults. If you are fed-up with NSW's draconian entertainment laws that have killed off the once vibrant precincts Oxford Street and Kings Cross, there is an alternative to shop, play and stay! Melbourne's Chapel Street boasts some of the country's best bubbles and bites, and it's where revellers can party till sunrise."
Maus said this is the first time Chapel Street has taken a stealth-like marketing campaign into Sydney's heartland. "Melbourne's just a short, cheap flight away and we're about to be in the midst of Australia's biggest sporting event, the Spring Racing Carnival, so what better time to come!"
This highly unconventional approach to marketing and promotions is the brainchild of the Chapel Street Precinct Association's new Marketing and Events Director, Chrissie Maus, and new Association President, John Lotton, whose recent appointments herald a period of heightened activity for the precinct.
A high-profile former Nova Entertainment and Channel Seven Events and Marketing Head, Maus is well known for her bold marketing tactics. She made history at Channel Seven where she helped take the station's fundraising Telethon to over AUD$100million, making it the most successful charity in the world (per capita).
Former businessman, engineer, land economist and Fellow of the Institute of Company Directors, Mr Lotton is also part of the changing guard breathing new life into the precinct.
Maus said unconventional, high energy campaigns designed to excite, shock and surprise – and leave an indelible impression in the process – will be the hallmarks of all future marketing campaigns for the historic precinct, clearly differentiating it from its competitors.
"There's little point in being 'vanilla' about our marketing and promotions. We'll leave that to the shopping centres. As a destination, Chapel Street is fun, funky and just a little out there and we need to reflect that in our marketing by pushing the boundaries, taking risks and daring to be different."
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Before we get to that economist, here's what people on the street said they think of the state's tax system.
"What I don't like is when middle class and poorer people get taxed to provide benefits for the rich, you know?" said Garrett Cole.
"I think we're fair-taxed," said Jane Mangers when asked whether she thought we were overtaxed, undertaxed or fair-taxed.
"I mean, across the board, there's nothing good to say about it," Conway said.
Conway says our tax system is unfair, inadequate, not transparent and unstable. He has just finished a report comparing Washington's tax system with other states.
Washington is among a handful of states that don't have an income tax. Washington does have a high sales tax, and that means the burden falls disproportionately on low-income residents. Conway says these residents are overtaxed, but not the rest. Compared to other states, our overall tax burden is light.
"We're collecting about 10 percent less tax revenue per dollar of personal income than everybody else on average," he said.
Conway says one solution would be for the state to throw all the other taxes out and replace them with a flat-rate income tax. It would be fairer and more transparent, and the state's tax revenue would rise as personal income climbs.
Still, many political realists say it's not going to happen. But if we don't do something, says Conway, the state will be even worse off 10 years from now.


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John William Bricker (September 6, 1893 – March 22, 1986) was a United States Senator and the 54th Governor of Ohio. He was also the Republican nominee for Vice President in 1944.
Born in Madison County, Ohio, Bricker attended Ohio State University and began a legal practice in Columbus, Ohio. He also served in the United States Army during World War I. He held various public offices between 1920 and 1937, including the position of Ohio Attorney General. Bricker served three terms as Governor of Ohio from 1939 to 1945. Bricker was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1944. [1] He was Thomas E. Dewey's running mate on the Republican ticket in the 1944 election, campaigning against the New Deal and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's judicial nominees. The Republican ticket was defeated by the Democratic ticket of Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman.
Bricker won election to the Senate in 1946. He introduced the Bricker Amendment, which would have limited the president's power to make treaties. Though the Bricker Amendment received support from some members of both parties, it was not passed by Congress. Bricker won re-election in 1952 but was defeated by Stephen M. Young in 1958. After leaving office, Bricker resumed the practice of law and died in 1986.
2 Public service
3 Professional life and death
4 Miscellaneous
Early life[edit]
Bricker was born on a farm near Mount Sterling in Madison County in south central Ohio. He was the son of Laura (née King) and Lemuel Spencer Bricker.[2] He attended Ohio State University at Columbus, where he divided his time between the debating team, the varsity baseball team,[3] and the Delta Chi Fraternity. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio State in 1916 and from its law school in 1920, he was admitted to the bar in 1917 and began his legal practice in Columbus in 1920.[4]
He was married to the former Harriet Day.
Public service[edit]
During World War I, Bricker served as first lieutenant and chaplain in the United States Army in 1917 and 1918. He was subsequently the solicitor for Grandview Heights, Ohio, from 1920 to 1928, assistant Attorney General of Ohio from 1923 to 1927, a member of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio from 1929 to 1932, and Attorney General of Ohio from 1933 to 1937.
He was elected governor for three two-year terms, serving from 1939 to 1945, having each time won with a greater margin of victory.[3] Bricker espoused a stance against centralized government, preferring to increase involvement in state and local governments, and made this known in his inaugural address as Governor:
There must be a revitalization of state and local governments throughout the nation. The individual citizen must again be conscious of his responsibility to his government and alert to the preservation of his rights as a citizen under it. That cannot be done by taking government further away, but by keeping it at home.
—  John W. Bricker, inaugural gubernatorial address, January 9, 1939.[3]
Bricker was the 1944 Republican nominee for vice president, having run with presidential nominee Thomas E. Dewey, the governor of New York who was nine years Bricker's junior. The Republicans lost handily to the Democratic ticket of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. In that campaign, Bricker proved to be a tireless campaigner. He visited thirty-one states and made 173 speeches, including 28 over a six-day period. His final remarks came on radio on election eve from the governor's office in Columbus, when he declared: "Not only has the New Deal depleted our resources, recklessly spent our money, but it has undermined the very spiritual foundations of our government."[5] Though most of his campaigning was in New England, the Midwest, and the West, Bricker even visited the then-historically and -heavily Democratic state of Texas, where in Dallas, he called Franklin Roosevelt "a front for the Hillman-Browder Communist Party," referring to the respective leaders of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Communist Party of the United States of America.[6]
In 1946, Bricker was elected to the United States Senate. He was re-elected in 1952, serving from January 3, 1947, to January 3, 1959.
Governor Dewey was the Republican presidential nominee again in 1948, but Senator Bricker was not his running mate. Dewey chose instead Governor Earl Warren of California in the hope that the 1948 ticket would carry California, which the Dewey-Bricker ticket had failed to do. The Dewey-Warren ticket also lost California, and the absence of Bricker on the second ticket may have been a factor in Dewey's failure to win Bricker's home state of Ohio again.[citation needed] Bricker had campaigned with Warren in 1944 in Sacramento, where Bricker attacked the politics of war-time rationing; then in San Francisco Bricker charged that Roosevelt had packed the U.S. judiciary with liberal jurists hostile to the Constitution.[6] However, even if Dewey had carried both California and Ohio in 1948, the two large states would have been insufficient to elect him President in that second campaign.
Bricker's Senate service is best remembered for his attempts to amend the United States Constitution to limit the President's treaty-making powers (the Bricker Amendment). He was the chairman of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the 83rd Congress.
On July 12, 1947, a former Capitol police officer, William Louis Kaiser, fired shots at Senator Bricker as he boarded the underground trolley from the Senate office building to the Capitol. The two shots, fired as close range, narrowly missed their target.[7] Kaiser stated he was "trying to refresh" Bricker's memory. Kaiser had served on the police force as a protege of Bricker's predecessor in the Senate and had complained of losing substantial money on Columbus real estate.[8]
Bricker voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.[9] In 1958, Stephen M. Young ran for the Senate against the incumbent Bricker. Bricker seemed invincible, but Young capitalized on widespread public opposition to the proposed "right to work" amendment to Ohio's constitution, which Bricker had endorsed. Few thought that Young, 70 at the time, could win; even members of his own party had doubts, particularly Ohio's other senator, Democrat Frank J. Lausche. In an upset amid a national Democratic trend, Young defeated Bricker by 52 to 48 percent. Bricker then retired from public life.
Professional life and death[edit]
In 1945, Bricker founded the Columbus law firm now known as Bricker & Eckler. The firm now has additional offices in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Marietta, and Barnesville. It is now one of the ten largest firms in the state of Ohio.
After leaving the Senate, John Bricker resumed the practice of law. He died in Columbus on March 22, 1986 at the age of ninety-two and is interred there at Green Lawn Cemetery.
Miscellaneous[edit]
Bricker Hall on the Ohio State University campus is named for him. The building currently serves as the home of many of the university administrative units, including the Office of the Board of Trustees and President Dr. Michael V. Drake. Bricker was a member of the OSU Board of Trustees from 1948 to 1969.[10]
The Bricker Building at the Ohio Expo Center (site of the annual Ohio State Fair and many other events) is named for him.
The John W. Bricker Federal Building in downtown Columbus is named for him.
In Philip K. Dick's 1962 novel The Man in the High Castle, set in an alternate timeline, Bricker succeeded John Nance Garner as the 33rd President of the United States in 1940.
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This paper examines international trade policy within a completed European internal market. The Ethier-Horn argument for internal tariffs in a customs union is shown to be inapplicable to most of the EC's existing, cost-increasing, barriers to trade. The implications of abolishing both Article 115, which prevents trade deflection, and Monetary Compensatory Amounts on agricultural trade are examined. National production subsidies are examined in the context of the free intra-EC mobility of capital and skilled labour. Subsidies are doubly harmful to a small open economy in the presence of factor mobility. Moreover, even where rent-snatching subsidies may be profitable for the EC as a whole, subsidy wars could erupt between member states as they compete for rent-generating industries.


Should Guillermo Del Toro Have Taken The Reigns On Universal's DARK UNIVERSE? He Thinks So… – Show Me The Movies!
Guillermo Del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER is on the very top of SMTM!'s must-watch list this December (well, alongside a certain space-franchise that is). It's looking like the most personal and beautiful movie he has made since PAN'S LABYRINTH and in a recent interview with the New York Times he discusses how he wished he had taken Universal's offer up of overseeing the DARK UNIVERSE franchise.
Universal may be wishing he had taken their offer up as well as the DARK UNIVERSE franchise hasn't got off to the best of starts with the Tom Cruise starring THE MUMMY. Del Toro was also attached to direct THE HOBBIT and HELLBOY 3 was also on the cards at one point but at leas t we have THE SHAPE OF WATER to look forward to very soon!
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Two of them died after a lorry crashed into the Eldorado Nkomo compound of late footballer, Marc Vivien Foe.
Four people were killed on Saturday August 26, 2016, in Yaounde in two road accidents. The first occurred in the Odza neighbourhood just below the Total Filling Station at Borne 10. According to Staff Sergeant Gbaman Antoine of the Odza Gendarmerie Post, the accident happened at 1.15 pm as a Toyota pick-up van with Chassis Number 02 29 36 was transporting a corpse from Yaounde to Mbalmayo.
An electrician, Ombga Essomba, born in 1989 and his in-law, Baba Zacharie, 30, were coming from Borne 12 to Odza when their bike lost control and hit a Honda Sonata jeep with registration number LT 743 GN driven by Pfouma Mana épouse Bakinde Blandine, a senior bank staff. This sent the bike crashing on the right front side of the pick-up. Ombga Essomba died on the spot, while Baba Zacharie passed on 15 minutes after in hospital, Gbaman Antoine said. The corpses were kept in the Yaounde Military Hospital Morgue at Ekounou, while Pfouma Mana epouse Bakinde Blandine and the driver of the Toyota pick-up van, Onana Fabrice, were detained for questioning.
The accident in Eldorado Nkomo occurred in the home of Marc Vivien Foe, the late Indomitable Lions football player. Florine Tatiana Ngo Bii, the younger sister to late Foe's wife, said a truck with registration number LT SR 419 AK transporting a loaded shipping container from Yaounde to the East Region crashed onto the perimeter wall of the compound just by the watchman's guard post. Falling debris smashed a car and motorbike parked in a neighbouring compound. Two friends walking on the pavement were crushed in the crumbling wall. They were Talla Engelbert, born in 1971 and Kogne Darius, reportedly a worker in brewery depot in Mimboman, Yaounde.
Chief Inspector of Police Mbele Adah Jonas of the Centre Regional Highway Traffic Group, said the accident occurred at 2 pm. The driver who fled and later took refuge at the Nkoabang Police Station was handed over to Commissioner Adamou Baba, head of the Centre Regional Highway Traffic Group for questioning. Mbele Adah suggested that the truck might have developed a problem with its breaks or steering, obliging the driver to crash it on the nearby perimeter wall instead of knocking down more people and crushing vehicles on the road.


*** Selena, Dreaming of You (EMI Latin/EMI): Who knows whether Selena could have become the Gloria Estefan of Texas, crossing over from regional popularity as a Tejano music star to pop superstardom. After Selena was slain in March, the headlines helped send her albums soaring up the charts. It's impossible to say now how much of her posthumous success was due merely to morbid curiosity or how the pop audience would have accepted the singer's planned English-language debut had she been able to complete it.
Dreaming of You cobbles together six new tracks, a few of Selena's old Latin hits, a Spanglish remake of her hit duet ("Dondequiera Que Estes") with the Barrio Boyzz and two songs originally recorded for the movie Don Juan de Marco. The four new English-language songs were clearly intended to target the same audience served by pop divas such as Celine Dion, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey. Selena is a more captivating singer than any of them. Her rich, sweet alto has more tonal colors and emotional range. Unfortunately, the material is utterly forgettable pap.
On the other hand, the two mariachi songs from Don Juan and "El Toro Relajo" and "Tu Solo Tu," are quite lovely. And a bilingual collaboration with former Talking Head David Byrne is absolutely stunning. The flamenco-flavored "God's Child (Baila Conmigo)" is as alluring as any song Byrne has written. The contrast between his tightly wound voice and Selena's sure, sultry vocal proves strangely moving. Byrne, who has explored many facets of Latin music on his solo albums, also concocts a simple setting (guitar, harmonium, bass, marimba, percussion) that allows Selena to reveal herself as a passionate, unforgettable singer rather than a would-be pop queen.
Selena may not have left enough synth-drenched shlock behind to turn her into a posthumous pop phenomenon. But "God's Child" proves all the hype touting her as a sure-fire platinum crossover was really selling her tragically short as an artist.


Vintage Reed & Barton 64 Piece Tiger Lily Silverplate set in Original Case. Picture #3 -- 8 Soup Spoons.
Picture #4 -- 8 Salad Forks. Picture #5 -- 8 Ice Tea Spoons. Picture #6 -- 8 Tea Spoons. Picture #7 -- 8 Tea Spoons.
Picture #8 -- 8 Forks. Ladle, Butter Knife, Grape Fruit Spoon?
Sugar Spoon, Two Serving Spoons, Meat Fork, & a Slotted Serving Spoon. Picture #10 -- Silverplate Case.
Picture #11 -- Reed & Barton Silverplate Lifetime Guarantee. Picture #12 -- Tiger Lily pattern on all 64 pieces. None of the pieces have any damage, and could use some light polishing. (the condition is so good they'll look like new). The cloth inside the case (along the back edge) needs re-glued, Everything else is in very good condition. Please feel free to ask question and thanks for looking. The item "Vintage Reed & Barton Tiger Lily Silverplate Flatware Set. Service 8 64 Pcs" is in sale since Monday, January 18, 2016. This item is in the category "Antiques\Silver\Silverplate\Flatware & Silverware". The seller is "rocki12" and is located in Alliance, Ohio. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, AE, QA, KW, HR, MY, TR, BR, CL, CO.


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The Trawick Prize
The Trawick Prize is a regional Contemporary Art Awards funded by Carol Trawick. It is a juried art competition and exhibition established in 2002. The top three winners receive $14,000 in prize money: "Best in Show" winners are awarded $10,000, second place, $2,000, and third place receives $1,000. A "young artist", one who is under 30 years of age at the time of submission, is sometimes recognized with a $1,000 award.
The Trawick Prize, which was one of the first regional competitions of its kind in the metropolitan area, has received over 3,000 artist submissions over the years. Artists must be 18 years of age or older and residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, DC. This event is produced in September of each year by the Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District & Bethesda Urban Partnership.
Congratulations to Oletha DeVane of Ellicot City, MD,
the 2019 Trawick Prize Best in Show Winner!
Read the East City Art Review here. For information on The Trawick Prize and how to apply, visit the Bethesda Urban Partnership.
The Bethesda Painting Awards
The Bethesda Painting Awards was established in 2004, and is also funded by Carol Trawick. Similar to The Trawick Prize the Bethesda Painting Awards is a juried art competition that exclusively honors painters from Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. Prize monies totaling $14,000 are awarded to the top four painters, annually.
Congratulations to Mary Anne Arntzen of Baltimoree, MD, the 2019 Bethesda Painting Awards Best in Show Winner!
For more information and to read all about the finalists, visit the Bethesda Urban Partnership.
Pictured from left to right; Catherine Leggett; Councilmember Sidney Katz; Lauren Adams. 2016 Best in Show winner; Carol Trawick, founder; Elaine Joost, Bethesda Urban Partnership Chair; Catriona Fraser, The Trawick Prize Chair
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Love for God and his creation inspired men like Johannes Kepler, an astronomer of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Carl Linnaeus, a botanist of the eighteenth century, to study the world around them. Taking seriously St. Paul's words in the first chapter of Romans, they believed that studying God's handiwork would aid their understanding of the Creator. In the same way that theologians search for God's truth in his word, these men searched for it in the first book of revelation, his works. Their legacy is the rich scientific tradition of the Western world. However, the once widely recognized link between the search for truth in God's word and creation has long since been severed. Nowadays, even in the church, the study and care of God's creation carries no particular esteem.
Cheryl Bear is from the Nadleh Whut'en First Nation (Bear Clan) in the Carrier Nation located in northern British Columbia, Canada. She is an international convention speaker and twice award-nominated recording artist (Shai Award 2005; Covenant Award 2006) who has worked with Indigenous people across Canada, the United States and in over 20 countries of the world raising awareness of the value and uniqueness of thier Indigenous people and their culture. Cheryl holds an MDiv degree from Regent College and a Dmin from from The King's College and Seminary in Los Angeles.


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Click the link at the bottom of this post to listen to this week's installment of the Thursday interview. This week's interview is with Prof. Suja Thomas of the University of Cincinnati College of Law about her two most recent articles, "The PSLRA's Seventh Amendment Problem" and "Why Summary Judgment is Unconstitutional."
[Update: take a look at Anne W. Reed's recent review of Prof. Thomas's "Summary Judgment" article]
Here's the abstract for "PSLRA":
This Article is the first to examine the proper role of the jury in private securities fraud litigation. In the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, Congress required that a securities fraud complaint plead "a strong inference" of scienter. The courts have disagreed on the standard that satisfies this requirement, and likewise, the involved parties disagree. Defendant corporations argue for a stringent standard that would result in the dismissal of many claims, while plaintiff investors support a flexible standard that would allow more claims to go forward. Indeed, the Supreme Court's resolution of this issue may have an impact beyond securities litigation. If a stringent standard is adopted, special pleading may be permitted in other types of cases, including employment discrimination cases. Thus these cases may be dismissed before any discovery has been conducted. In the present context, securities law experts have not addressed the constitutional issue posed by the special pleading requirement; whether this requirement violates the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. The Supreme Court has held that a modern procedure must satisfy the substance of the English common law jury trial in 1791 to be constitutional under the Seventh Amendment. Accordingly, the special pleading rules developed in 21st century securities litigation must be viewed through an 18th century common law lens. This Article argues that the scienter standards developed by the courts in securities cases do not comport with substance of the common law jury trial and thus are constitutionally problematic. Contrary to the common law, the courts improperly engage in one or more steps of assessing the reasonableness of facts and corresponding inferences pled by the plaintiffs. This Article also acknowledges the possible constitutional infirmity posed by the PSLRA's "strong inference" standard itself and the heightened pleading requirements and proposes an alternative standard to dismiss a securities fraud claim that comports with the Seventh Amendment.
Here's the abstract for "Summary Judgment":
Summary judgment is cited as a significant reason for the dramatic decline in the number of jury trials in civil cases in federal court. Judges extensively use the device to clear the federal docket of cases deemed meritless. Recent scholarship even has called for the mandatory use of summary judgment prior to settlement. While other scholars question the use of summary judgment in certain types of cases (for example, civil rights cases), all scholars and judges assume away a critical question: whether summary judgment is constitutional. The conventional wisdom is that the Supreme Court settled the issue a century ago in Fidelity & Deposit Co. v. United States. But a review of that case reveals that the conventional wisdom is wrong: the constitutionality of summary judgment has never been resolved by the Supreme Court. This Essay is the first to examine the question and takes the seemingly heretical position that summary judgment is unconstitutional. The question is governed by the Seventh Amendment which provides that "[i]n Suits at common law, . . . the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law." The Supreme Court has held that "common law" in the Seventh Amendment refers to the English common law in 1791. This Essay demonstrates that no procedure similar to summary judgment existed under the English common law and also reveals that summary judgment violates the core principles or "substance" of the English common law. The Essay concludes that, despite the uniform acceptance of the device, summary judgment is unconstitutional. The Essay then responds to likely objections, including that the federal courts cannot function properly without summary judgment. By describing the burden that the procedure of summary judgment imposes upon the courts, the Essay argues that summary judgment may not be necessary to the judicial system but rather, by contrast, imposes significant costs upon the system.
A big thank you to Prof. Thomas for the interview.
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Bumper harvest in 2021: what does it mean for growers?
By Sandy Hathaway, Senior Analyst, Wine Australia
The 2021 Australian winegrape crush is estimated1 to be 2.03 million tonnes, the largest ever recorded after a season characterised by near-perfect growing and ripening conditions across most states and regions.
The 2021 crush was 31 per cent higher than the 2020 crush of 1.54 million tonnes2, and 17% above the 10-year average of 1.74 million tonnes. The estimated yield was just under 14 tonnes per hectare, slightly lower than in 2017 when it is estimated that the area of vineyards was about 5000 hectares less.
The 2020-21 season was a perfect contrast to the previous one. While summer 2019-20 was the second hottest on record, 2020-21 was the coolest in 10 years (0.28°C below average) under the influence of the La Niña climate pattern. South Australia had its coolest summer in 19 years and Western Australia its coolest in 15 years. December 2020 was the third wettest on record nationally, whereas December 2019 was the driest. Fewer heatwaves and good rain at the right time allowed grapes to ripen optimally, reducing bottlenecks at wineries and ensuring excellent fruit quality. Good fruitset, strong grape prices and the need to recover incomes after the low 2020 vintage drove cropping levels up, facilitated by good water allocations through the inland regions, while a lack of disease pressure meant low levels of rejected fruit.
The value of the 2021 crush at the weighbridge is estimated to be $1.56 billion, an increase of 36 per cent compared with 2020, providing $400 million in additional income for the sector at the weighbridge.
Winegrape prices increased slightly in 2021, despite the large crop and despite widespread pre-vintage concerns relating to the impact of the sudden closure of the China market to Australia due to the imposition of extremely high tariffs on our bottled wine exports.
Does a bumper crop mean over-supply?
There remain many unknowns and it is too early to speculate as to whether this large vintage will lead to an oversupply in future across some or all of the sector, nor what impact it will have on grape pricing. While this was a record crush, the larger tonnage balanced out the two previous low-yielding vintages, with the average of the three being closely in line with the long-term average. Wineries went into vintage 2021 with stocks at historically low levels, after three years where sales (domestic and export combined) exceeded production3.
The China market, although significant, accounted for 10% of Australia's average production. In an average year, Australia produces around 1.2 billion litres of wine. The domestic market is very stable at 450-500 million litres, leaving around 650-700 million litres available for export. In the year ended June 2021, Australia exported 643 million litres to destinations other than mainland China.
The harvest also needs to be seen in a global context. Australia accounts for around 5% of world wine production. Reports from France are indicating that it may have lost around 30% of its total 2021 harvest due to frost, which would amount to more than Australia's entire average annual production. Until the harvest is complete in the northern hemisphere, it is hard to predict how competitive the global market will be. However, global supply generally exceeds demand, and the long-term decline in consumption trend may be exacerbated if there is a post-Covid-19 recession in major European countries.
What are winegrape prices telling us?
The average value across all purchases in 2021 was $701 per tonne, an increase of 1% on the 2020 average value of $694 per tonne. However, the overall increase was made up of a 4% decrease in the average value of reds to $833 per tonne, offset by an 11% increase in the average value of whites to $538 per tonne (see Figure 1).
The average value for reds was down overall in both the inland 'river regions' and across the rest of Australia, while the average value for whites increased in both areas (Figure 2).
This is the first year since 2014 that the average value for red winegrapes has fallen. It reflects a clear shift in demand towards whites, reversing the trend of the past 10 years, which has favoured red over white in terms of a price premium and, hence, seen the share of white varieties fall from 55% in 2011 to 43% in 2021 (Figure 3).
What is the outlook for the next season?
Overall demand, particularly for reds, will depend on how successfully Australian winemakers are able to expand into other markets. The shift in demand towards whites is likely to be exacerbated due to the loss of the China market, which was almost entirely red wine, although that will depend on which other markets are found to take its place.
The large 2021 crush has put pressure on winery storage capacity, and there are reports of global shipping delays and container shortages4, making exporting wine difficult. If the next six months are slow-moving due to market forces and/or logistical issues, capacity will be an issue ahead of vintage 2022, potentially leading to reductions in fruit intake.
The impact of the China tariffs is widely varied across the supply chain and exposure is highly variable from business to business and region to region, depending on ability to diversify, cash flow and the ability to physically hold stock.
Growers are strongly encouraged to have early and open conversations with their potential buyers and to stay informed about market conditions. Although the 2021 vintage is undoubtedly an exceptionally positive one that will put growers and winemakers in a strong position going forward, another large vintage in 2022 could not easily be absorbed into a global market where supply generally exceeds demand.
1Based on responses to the National Vintage Survey 2021
2Department of Agriculture, Water and Environment, May 2021
3Wine Australia Production, Sales and Inventory Report 2020
4 Ciatti Global Market Report May 2021
This post was originally featured in the Spring 2021 issue of the Wine & Viticulture Journal.
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The thyroid gland is a 2-inch butterfly-shaped organ located in the front part of the neck. Although small, the thyroid glans is a major gland in the endocrine system and affects virtually every organ in the body.
The thyroid gland regulates fat and carbohydrate metabolism, respiration, body temperature, brain growth, cholesterol levels, the heart and nervous system, blood glucose levels cycle, skin integrity, and more.
Thyroid disease generally involves an underactive thyroid gland, also known as hypothyroidism. In the USA, an autoimmune reaction called autoimmune thyroiditis or Hashimoto's disease usually causes hypothyroidism. As with all autoimmune disorders, the body identifies its own tissues as an invader and strikes until the organ is destroyed. This chronic attack will finally prevent the thyroid gland from producing thyroid hormones. The lack of these hormones may slow down metabolism and also cause weight gain, fatigue, dry skin and hair loss as well as lead to difficulty concentrating. Hashimoto's thyroid disease affects approximately 5 percent of the US population, is seven times more prevalent in women than men, and generally occurs during middle age.
Hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid gland, is another frequent thyroid disease. The form is Graves' disease in which the body's autoimmune reaction causes the thyroid gland to make too much T3 and T4. Symptoms of hyperthyroidism may include weight loss, high blood pressure, nausea, and a rapid heartbeat. The disease also disproportionately affects women and presents until the age of 40.
Hashimoto's thyroid disease is more common than Graves' disease, but both are known as autoimmune thyroid disease (ATD), which has a strong genetic link and is associated with other autoimmune disorders, such as type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and celiac disease. A goiter, or enlargement of the thyroid gland, may be caused by hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, excessive or insufficient consumption of iodine from the diet, or thyroid gland, the most frequent endocrine cancer whose prevalence studies imply is increasing.
Many dietary factors play a role in optimizing thyroid function. But, excesses and both nutrient deficiencies could cause or exacerbate symptoms. Working in collaboration with a doctor is ideal to determine status for optimal thyroid health. Many functional medicine practitioners specialize in functional nutrition, which can help with thyroid disease.
Iodine deficiency has been considered uncommon in america since the 1920s, largely as a result of widespread utilization of iodized salt. This, along with poultry, milk, and grains, is a major source of iodine in the conventional American diet.
However, iodine intake has decreased during the last few decades. Americans get approximately 70 percent of their salt intake from foods which, in the USA and Canada, don't contain iodine. A 2012 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report indicates that, on average, Americans are receiving sufficient amounts of iodine, together with the potential exclusion of women of childbearing age.
Both iodine deficiency and surplus have significant dangers; thus, supplementation ought to be approached with care. Supplemental iodine might lead to symptom flare-ups in individuals with Hashimoto's thyroid disease because it stimulates antibodies.
Vitamin D deficiency is connected to Hashimoto's, according to one study showing that over 90 percent of patients studied were deficient. It's uncertain whether the low vitamin D levels were the direct cause of Hashimoto's or the result of the disease process itself.
Foods which contain some vitamin D include fatty fish, milk, legumes, eggs, and mushrooms. Sunlight also is a source, but the sum of vitamin production depends upon the season and latitude. Supplemental D3 could be necessary, if clients have low vitamin D levels, along with the customer's doctor should monitor progress to ensure the individual's levels stay within a suitable range.
The maximum concentration of selenium is found in the thyroid gland, and it has been demonstrated to be a necessary element of enzymes integral to thyroid function. Selenium is a vital trace mineral and was shown to have a deep effect in the immune system, cognitive function, fertility in both women and men, and mortality rate.
A meta-analysis of randomized, placebo-controlled studies has shown advantages of selenium on both the thyroid antibody titers and mood in patients with Hashimoto's, but this impact appears more pronounced in people who have a selenium deficiency or insufficiency in the outset. Conversely, an excessive intake of selenium can lead to gastrointestinal distress or perhaps raise the risk of type 2 diabetes and cancer. So clients will benefit from getting their selenium levels tested and integrating healthful foods into their diets, including Brazil nuts, tuna, crab, and lobster.
Studies show that about 30 percent of people with ATD experience a vitamin B12 deficiency. Food sources of B12 include salmon, sardines, mollusks, organ meats such as liver, muscle meat, and dairy. Vegan sources include fortified cereals and yeast. Severe B12 deficiency may be irreversible, therefore it is important for dietitians to suggest clients have their levels analyzed.
Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage naturally discharge a chemical known as goitrin when they are hydrolyzed, or broken down. Goitrin can interfere with the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Nonetheless, this is usually a concern only when combined with an iodine deficiency. Heating cruciferous vegetables denatures much or all of this possible goitrogenic effect.
Soy is another possible goitrogen. The isoflavones in soy may lower thyroid hormone synthesis, but many studies have discovered that consuming soy does not result in hypothyroidism in individuals with adequate iodine stores. But Dean cautions clients to consume soy in moderation.
The potential exclusion is millet, a nutritious gluten-free grain, which might suppress thyroid function even in people with adequate iodine intake. If a dietary recall indicates frequent millet ingestion in patients with hypothyroidism, it may be wise to indicate they choose another grain.
When it comes to thyroid medications, it is very important to RDs to know the drugs can interact with common nutritional supplements. Calcium supplements have the capacity to interfere with absorption of thyroid medications, so when taking the two patients need to consider the timing. Studies recommend limiting calcium supplements and thyroid drugs by at least four hours. Coffee and fiber nutritional supplements reduced the absorption of thyroid drugs, so patients should take them one hour apart. Dietitians should affirm whether customers have received and are adhering to these guidelines for optimum wellness.
Chromium picolinate, which is marketed for blood sugar control and weight reduction, also impairs the absorption of thyroid medications. If clients decide to take chromium picolinate, then they ought to take it three to four hours apart from thyroid drugs. Flavonoids in vegetables, fruits, and tea have been shown to have potential cardiovascular benefits. But, high-dose flavonoid supplements can suppress thyroid function. The Natural Standards Database provides a comprehensive list of nutritional supplements with a possible impact on thyroid function, thus taking precautions and coordinating patient care with a knowledgeable practitioner is sensible.
In addition to the obvious impact exercise has on weight and metabolism, a study of patients with Graves' disease found that a structured exercise plan revealed remarkable improvements in fatigue levels, and significantly more patients have been able to successfully quit taking antithyroid medications with no relapse.
Celiac disease presents unique challenges as a result of unwanted weight changes, significant cardiovascular disease, and symptoms such as fatigue, mood changes, and gastrointestinal upset, which can hinder the growth of healthful behaviors. It's vital that dietitians focus when counselling clients on setting goals that are realistic for adjustments and routine exercise. With so many nutrient deficiencies and interactions with medications and nutritional supplements, it will be important for dietitians to coordinate with their clients' health care team for health outcomes.
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Helmont, the crime-laden strip of turf from the 700 to 1200 blocks of Belmont Avenue, is really hitting its warm weather stride.
More than 25% of the robberies reported in Wrigleyville and Boystown this year have taken place on Helmont—including 3 this month.
Helmont has consistently been the most dangerous stretch of road in our neighborhood, racking up more robberies than any other street in 2012, 2013, and 2014.
Despite the consistent, undeniable pattern of violence, the Chicago Police Department has never made a concerted effort to reign in Helmont's mayhem.


In the last 5 years, there has been an increase in the number of people using skin care and beauty products. This is because there are now more ways to market and introduce a new product. While some anti-aging products may work and give you results, there's another emerging market that is making new waves in the industry.
Why add essential oils in your skin care?
Essential oils are now the new holy grail of skin care. Most of you might have a toner, a cleanser, or a moisturizer on your regimen. They might be reliable and safe but if you haven't tried using essential oils then you might be losing a lot of potential benefits. Invest in these organic products and discover the wonders of essential oil for your skin.
Essential oil can be used in a number of ways. It can be topically applied on the skin. Some essential oils can be orally taken which helps in alleviating conditions or in soothing body pains. Some oils are only intended for aromatherapy or used specifically as ingredients in skin care and beauty products.
These oils alone are enough to bring wonders to the skin. But they can also be mixed with other types of oil to level up their effects. For skin care, topically applied oils such as Pomegranate Seed oil and Castor oil are ideal. A small amount of these oils can help you tremendously. A drop of essential oil contains an abundance of vitamins and minerals. It brings therapeutic effects and great results of skin improvement. It will also nourish the skin from deep within.
Another advantage of using essential oils is that they can also be used for the hair and nails. Most of these products are also suitable for all skin types. Rose oil, Castor oil, and Pomegranate Seed oil, in particular, can be applied to the skin, hair, and nails. They will not only nourish the skin but they can also provide protection against damages and other benefits. You can even use these products to cure common skin disorders like eczema and psoriasis.
Cure acne with the help of essential oils.
Adding essential oils to your skin regimen can do wonders to your skin. There are lots of oils that are known for being effective in preventing and treating acne. Most of them have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties. They will not only fight against bacteria that can damage the skin, they also help soothe swelling which is effective against pimples.
Other types of essential oils that are also beneficial for the skin include sandalwood, lemongrass, rosemary, rosehip oil, and clary sage oil among many others.
How to use essential oils to cleanse your face?
Essential Oils are also great cleansers that can completely lift off impurities from the surface of the skin. Some products in the market use chemicals to boost their effects. It can be harsh for the skin. Oils are great substitutes because of their gentle formula.
To use essential oils on your face, rinse your face with warm water. Pour the desired amount of essential oil on your palms and rub gently on the face. It is best to massage the flesh in a circular motion to make sure that the nutrients seep through the skin. Leave it for 2-3 minutes for best results. Rinse your skin with lukewarm water. Use a clean washcloth and gently pat the skin dry. Make sure to use essential oils in your daily routine.
Check this guide for more information on maintaining a good skin care regimen.