NOTE: The organizations mentioned below (with the exception of Slow Food) have not yet taken a position against GM foods, but they share common concerns about improving nutrition standards, agricultural sustainability and increasing federal funding for child nutrition, in particular through school meals. A few school districts have successfully passed ordinances to improve school meals and even serve organic meals—for example, Berkeley and Santa Cruz, CA—thanks to the work of food pioneers such as Chef Alice Waters and Ann Cooper (see below), and other activist organizations.
One of the main difficulties so far in improving the food quality in schools has been the extremely low funding allocation for school meals which induced many schools to rely on the cheap processed foods that are fueling the obesity epidemic. Until now, schools received $2.68 for each lunch served – of which only about $1 goes towards ingredients. With the recent passage by President Obama of the Child Nutrition bill, the situation has improved. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act will expand the number of children in school lunch programs, increase the reimbursement rate to school districts for meals by six cents and replace the junk food available outside the cafeteria, such as in vending machines, with more healthful options. The $4.5 billion expansion of the school lunch program, which feeds 16 million children, gained bipartisan support in the Senate, yet initially stalled in the House before passing mostly along party lines. Republicans balked at the cost and constraints of the bill.
National Farm to School Program Website – www.farmtoschool.org – These federally funded programs connect schools and local farms with the goal of serving healthy meals in schools, improving nutrition, and support local small farmers. The site allows you to locate where these programs are, and gives technical assistance on how to start a program, as well as information on the farm to school policy that is part of the Child Nutrition Reauthorization.
Slow Food in Schools is a network of community-based food education projects for youth, such as schoolyard gardens, cooking classes, and farm to school initiatives. Each Slow Food in Schools project works closely with a local SF chapter to teach students where their food comes from, who grows it, how to prepare it, and the importance of sharing it with friends and family. Examples of some Slow Food in Schools project initiatives include: a mobile healthy food cooking cart; after-school farmer's markets; farmer visits to the classroom; parent and child cooking classes; tracing foods from seed to plate by growing, harvesting, preparing and eating; reintroducing Native Foods to Reservation school children.
Here you can find information on the different pieces of legislation that cover the spectrum of child nutrition, including the National School Lunch Program.
Food Corps http://foodcorps.org – Food Corps responds to the needs of the current "obesity generation." According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in three children born in the year 2000 is on track to develop Type II diabetes. For minorities, the prediction worsens to one in two. The vision for Food Corps is to recruit young adults for a yearlong term of public service in school food systems. Once stationed, Food Corps members will build Farm to School supply chains, expand food system and nutrition education programs, and build and tend school food gardens.
The Edible Schoolyard http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/ The Edible Schoolyard (ESY), a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, is a one-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom for urban public school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. At ESY, students participate in all aspects of growing, harvesting, and preparing nutritious, seasonal produce.
Classroom teachers and Edible Schoolyard educators integrate food systems concepts into the core curriculum. Students' hands-on experience in the kitchen and garden fosters a deeper appreciation of how the natural world sustains us and promotes the environmental and social well-being of our school community. Check under resources on their website for instructional publications.
The Real Food Challenge www.rfc.org is the primary organization to bring into college campuses education and activism around the issue of healthy, sustainable food. They host frequent on-campus events, open to people willing to teach workshops, a great opportunity for our non-GMO speakers.
The Nourish Middle School Curriculum Guide, developed by the Center For Ecoliteracy, offers a set of resources to open a meaningful conversation about food and sustainability. The materials contain a viewing guide, six learning activities, action projects, student handouts, suggested resources, and a glossary.
Community Food Security Coalition – Information on Farm to School, Farm to College, Technical Assistance, Federal Policy, Food Policy Councils, and Conferences.
Food Policy Councils (FPCs) are an interesting tool for increasing public participation: they bring together stakeholders from diverse food-related sectors to examine how the food system is operating and to develop recommendations on how to improve it. FPCs may take many forms, but are typically either commissioned by state or local government, or operate as a grassroots effort. Food policy councils have been successful at educating officials and the public, shaping public policy, improving coordination between existing programs, and starting new programs. Examples include mapping and publicizing local food resources; creating new transit routes to connect underserved areas with full-service grocery stores; persuading government agencies to purchase from local farmers; and organizing community gardens and farmers' markets.
Organic School Project www.organicschoolproject.org is a Chicago-based non-profit seeking to combat childhood obesity and related illnesses through wellness programming in schools. Through their Grow.Teach.Feed program, they assist schools in installing organic school gardens, involving kids in every step of the process from installing raised beds to growing and harvesting vegetables, teaching nutrition and wellness in the classroom, and encouraging healthier food to be served in the cafeteria that includes meals from fresh, local, seasonal ingredients. They publish Grow Teach Feed: A Complete Curriculum to Inspire Healthy Lifestyles in Schools, to serve as a tool box for schools to implement this program.


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Google Says It Will No Longer Read Users' Emails To Sell Targeted Ads
By Laurel Wamsley
Google has announced it will no longer scan users' emails to target ads. Above, the company's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., in 2015.
Google will no longer scan emails in Gmail accounts in order sell targeted advertising, the company said Friday.
The company will make the change later this year, bringing Gmail in line with its G Suite products for business users. "This decision brings Gmail ads in line with how we personalize ads for other Google products," Diane Greene, senior vice president of Google Cloud, wrote in a blog post. "Ads shown are based on users' settings. Users can change those settings at any time, including disabling ads personalization."
The blog post says that "Consumer Gmail content will not be used or scanned for any ads personalization after this change." That leaves the door open for the company to continue to scan emails for other purposes, like sorting them by priority, or suggesting replies you might send.
And Google will continue to display ads in Gmail based on what it knows about users. Which, we know, is a whole lot.
"[G]iven how much the company already knows about all of its users, it just might not need these additional signals from Gmail," posits Techcrunch. "And maybe they even turned out to be relatively useless or even detrimental for ad performance."
In 2014, Gmail updated its terms of service to inform users that their emails were analyzed by software in order to target ads.
The fact that Google was scanning users' emails has long troubled privacy advocates. It appears that perhaps it was the concerns of business users that finally made Google end the practice.
"Some of the regular people who use Google services disliked the way their email contents were being used to target ads way back in 2004," Seth Schoen of the Electronic Frontier Foundation told The New York Times. "Yet their concerns couldn't get much traction until Google became aware 13 years later that some current or prospective paying enterprise customers were uncomfortable with this practice."
What technology companies call "personalization" is what some people call "creepy." By knowing users' interests and demographic information, Google, Facebook, and other companies can sell advertisers access to targeted audiences. Google offers users the ability to turn off ad personalization on this page.
Though Alphabet, Google's parent company, has expanded into businesses including mobile phones, home assistants, and autonomous vehicles, it still made 88 percent of its revenue from advertising in 2016.
Laurel Wamsley
Laurel Wamsley is a reporter for NPR's News Desk. She reports breaking news for NPR's digital coverage, newscasts, and news magazines, as well as occasional features. She was also the lead reporter for NPR's coverage of the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.
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Technological advances and significant reductions in cost have made installing clean, renewable energy systems an increasingly attractive, beneficial and viable option for individuals, communities, businesses and energy providers around the world. That's especially the case in remote, isolated communities where grid access is not available or prohibitively costly, and even more particularly, when such communities are located in often rich yet fragile natural environments.
Such communities have typically relied on diesel fuel generators for electrical power. That's changing, as communities, along with power utilities and government authorities, look to insulate themselves from the high and volatile cost of diesel and other petroleum fuels, as well as the harmful environmental and health effects of diesel and fossil fuel combustion. Switching to renewable energy systems provides substantial benefits.
First and foremost is the reliable provision of clean, renewable electrical power, power that can open up new opportunities and change lives for the better. The environmental and health benefits are equally substantial: significant reductions or complete elimination of carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as well as the land and water pollution associated with fossil fuel combustion and consumption.
One instance of this is currently moving forward in Argentina's world-famous Patagonia region, a region rich in ecological and cultural diversity. Contributing to realizing the aims of the UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative, the Global Sustainable Electricity Partnership (GSEP) last week announced that environmental licenses had been issued for two non-profit demonstration micro-hydro/wind-diesel power projects in the small, remote Patagonia communities of Chorriaca and Cochico.
GSEP develops non-profit renewable energy projects worldwide that promote sustainable energy development and/or reduce GHG emissions. In line with Sustainable Energy for All's ambitions, the GSEP projects in Patagonia have three primary objectives: reducing CO2 emissions by reducing diesel fuel use and inefficiencies; promoting local renewable energy resources; and providing sustainable, reliable power 24×7 to community consumers.
Located in Argentine Patagonia's Neuquen province, both the small communities of Cochico and Chorriaca lack access to the national grid. They rely on diesel fuel generators for electricity, which is provided on an intermittent basis.
Aiming to provide clean, renewable electricity to the communities reliably on a continuous basis, project plans call for a micro-hydro facility to be built in Cochico and a wind-diesel plant in Chorriaca. Each will have a 90-kW (kilowatts) capacity, which, though modest by modern urban standards, is sufficient to meet community residents' needs.
Covering the construction and operation phases of the hybrid micro-hydro/wind-diesel power projects, the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) GSEP and provincial government-owned power utility EPEN submitted proved acceptable to local authorities, paving the way for the two demonstration projects to move forward. Once up and running, EPEN will take ownership of the two hybrid renewable energy systems. The GSEP project team has begun final negotiations with the project's builders with an eye toward beginning construction shortly thereafter.
The project stakeholders view the two hybrid community renewable power projects as pilot tests that may be replicated in other communities in Patagonia. Attention is being paid to the use of appropriate technology and maximizing local resources and socio-economic development potential.
it'll embody its traditional safe home status or not.
If you take your time and energy to search around and research before you buy then buying US Property can a secure and profitable experience.


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Q: Reading package list takes forever I've been trying to update my stuff on my machine, and it seems like it can't read my package list. It seems like every time i do the sudo apt-get install *something* && sudo apt-get update it gets stuck at reading package list, this have not been a problem before. Here is my specs and whatnot :

*

*Memory : 15.8 gb

*Processor : AMD Phenom(tm) II x4 965 Processor x 4

*Graphics : Gallium 0.4 on AMD BARTS

*OS type : 32-bit

*Netspeed :

A: The advice at http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/archives/521 has sped it up for me several times on various computers:
sudo dpkg --clear-avail
sudo sync-available

(The blog also recommended sudo dpkg --forget-old-unavail between the 2 steps but apparently it's deprecated and no longer needed.)

A: Follow the steps:

*

*Clean out cache:
sudo apt-get clean

*Move the sources.list so apt cannot use it:
mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list1 && sudo apt-get update

*Move it back then update:
mv /etc/apt/sources.list1 /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-get update

Also check and remove any PPAs and source lines you don't need.

A: I've seen that as well.
I don't have a solution, but I have a workaround (echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches) and potentially more information so someone can bring the investigation any further.
It's not a network issue because at "Reading package list...", it is just reading files in /var/lib/apt/lists/. A:
strace -tt -T -fo strace.log apt-get update

gives:
16394 14:43:03.921130 open("/var/lib/apt/lists/gb.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 7 <0.000012>
[...]
16394 14:43:03.995238 read(6, "-3.1ubuntu2)\nConflicts: linux86\n"..., 32444) = 32444 <0.000111>
16394 14:43:05.787187 read(6, "c (<< 1:14.b.4-dfsg), erlang-exa"..., 32239) = 32239 <0.000069>
16394 14:43:05.788025 read(6, ".deb\nSize: 42130\nMD5sum: c7de671"..., 31695) = 31695 <0.000068>
16394 14:43:05.870734 read(6, "5: 29c4b395a92bdc12932f151c3643a"..., 31607) = 31607 <0.000071>
16394 14:43:05.890862 read(6, "e-pack-af-base\nFilename: pool/ma"..., 32538) = 32538 <0.000070>
16394 14:43:05.891425 read(6, "buntu-usb-live, ubuntu-dvd-live,"..., 32090) = 32090 <0.000066>
16394 14:43:05.891960 read(6, "cd9755b03ac2c9b8251125c7b6618\nDe"..., 32195) = 32195 <0.000034>
16394 14:43:06.043001 read(6, "rg>\nArchitecture: all\nVersion: 2"..., 32535) = 32535 <0.000072>

See how those 8 read system calls took over 2 seconds even though each individual call takes less than 1 ms.
Running time apt-get update or looking at top, that process is not busy between those two calls. So why the delay?
Then I did:
echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

a few times and looked at the outcome in kern.log:
 apt-get         D 00000000     0 16790  12706 0x00000000
  e8695d30 00000086 f7bd5e6c 00000000 f7bd5e44 f74a6580 c1990e00 c1990e00
  efe46efe 000042cb f7b9de00 e71a7230 f74a6580 c107e116 00000000 00000000
  044aa200 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 e8695d0c e8695d0c c1038de8
 Call Trace:
  [<c107e116>] ? enqueue_entity+0x186/0x220
  [<c1038de8>] ? default_spin_lock_flags+0x8/0x10
  [<c15e13bd>] ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x2d/0x40
  [<c15e0533>] schedule+0x23/0x60
  [<c15deecf>] schedule_timeout+0x12f/0x290
  [<c1075c38>] ? ttwu_do_activate.constprop.86+0x58/0x70
  [<c1055190>] ? usleep_range+0x40/0x40
  [<c15e0846>] io_schedule_timeout+0x86/0xd0
  [<c15cef7d>] balance_dirty_pages.isra.17+0x3f5/0x4b4
  [<c15e118d>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0xd/0x10
  [<c1180781>] ? __set_page_dirty_buffers+0x81/0xb0
  [<c110deb5>] ? set_page_dirty+0x55/0x60
  [<c11812c9>] ? __block_page_mkwrite+0xe9/0x170
  [<c110f3ae>] balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr+0xde/0x100
  [<c1126f53>] do_wp_page+0x503/0x830
  [<c1128ef7>] handle_pte_fault+0x267/0x2c0
  [<c1129c62>] handle_mm_fault+0x1e2/0x280
  [<c15e4988>] do_page_fault+0x158/0x4c0
  [<c104e4dc>] ? irq_exit+0x5c/0xa0
  [<c15e22d0>] ? do_debug+0x180/0x180
  [<c15e4830>] ? vmalloc_fault+0x195/0x195
  [<c15e1c53>] error_code+0x67/0x6c

So, not sure what that means but that looks about the handling of page faults, so points at a potential memory management issue.
I then tried a:
echo 3 >/proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

And that did make the problem go away.
Now, it very much looks like a kernel issue. So, I've updated to the latest kernel (3.8 backport from raring) and that's where I'm at. Will update if the problem persists with the newer kernel.
Edit
The problem does persist with the new kernel, though not as bad. And same thing,
echo 3 | sudo tee /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

clears the problem for a while. I've only seen that happen on MSI laptops (Product Name: CR61 2M/CX61 2OC/CX61 2OD).
Edit December 2015
As confirmed by btrace aptitude/apt-get does appear to do some disk I/O at the time. It's got a temporary file (/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin.<random-chars>) mmapped in memory which is why it doesn't show in the strace output.
Still can't explain why it only happens on some machines only, why dropping caches helps, why switching to 64bit helps.
If somebody can reproduce it, an interesting test could be to see if that also happens when running under eatmydata or if moving /var/cache/apt onto tmpfs or a ramdisk helps.

A: On my system, the cause was an incorrect value in the LANGUAGE= environment variable. It should hold values such as en:fr:de, and not en_US.UTF-8,sl_SI.UTF-8:
root@fik:~
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8,sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

When ran (via strace), the apt-get update command clonks on the read() call. It takes ages to execute, and eats all the available cycles of one CPU core:
root@fik:~
# strace apt-get update
[snip]
read(5, "form, hardware::opengl, implemen"..., 32146) = 32146
read(5, " Maintainers <pkg-bluetooth-main"..., 32658) = 32658
read(5, ": 17569748\nMD5sum: 9c20d52f9a0d5"..., 32200) = 32200
brk(0x55ac79212000)                     = 0x55ac79212000
read(5, "scription-md5: ca1156b27bec24d4c"..., 32469) = 32469
read(5, " Boost.Math Library\nMulti-Arch: "..., 32477) = 32477
read(5, "epends: libc6 (>= 2.4), lsb-base"..., 32648) = 32648
^C--- SIGINT {si_signo=SIGINT, si_code=SI_KERNEL} ---
strace: Process 18452 detached

If I set LANGUAGE= to a correct value (such as en), everything goes back to normal again:
root@fik:~
# export LANGUAGE=en

root@fik:~
# locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en
LC_CTYPE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_NUMERIC=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_TIME=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MONETARY=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
LC_PAPER=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_NAME=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=sl_SI.UTF-8
LC_ALL=

root@fik:~
# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian experimental InRelease
Ign:3 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian jessie InRelease
Hit:4 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian jessie-updates InRelease
Hit:5 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian jessie-backports InRelease
Hit:6 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian sid InRelease
Hit:7 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Hit:8 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://ftp.at.debian.org/debian jessie Release
Hit:2 http://screenshots.getdeb.net xenial-getdeb InRelease
Hit:10 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease
Hit:11 http://security.debian.org stretch/updates InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

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1. Not as many happy returns. For REI, that is.
2. Poverty porn. It's an industry, and a lot of rich people are getting richer from it.
3. Imagine there's no logic. I wonder if you can. ACA wipes out wide variety of private insurance plans. That would be okay, if we were going to single-payer. But we are not.
4. Okay, so maybe drones really ARE worthwhile, after all. Drone buzzes the Queen Bee, in Germany. Apparently it was a "Pirate Party" stunt, protesting drone observation of citizens. Me gusta.
5. Interesting piece by Brendan Nyhan on scandals, scandal coverage, and the effects on voters.
6. 7 politically incorrect health ideas...
7. Interesting. The welfare state is unsustainable. So all you "sustainability" worriers have something new, and actually real, to worry about. If they actually dismantle their welfare state, the US will soon be set to pass the Dutchies on the left hand side...
8. Wow, even that cheezy shameless rent-seeking suck-up Warren Buffet is abandoning the Prez. That has to hurt.
9. Scary clown! No, not Rick Santorum, this guy. He just stares.
10. Apparently, Oklahoma intends to secede...
11. I have not seen Anonyman dance (and I am grateful for that, don't mistake me). But I'm pretty sure this is what it would look like.
12. Steps to better foot health. (get it? steps?)
13. Teachers may in fact be underpaid. But the American public substantially underestimates how much teachers are paid.
14. I think they are compensating by writing the need other people have to compensate. That's what I think.
15. You don't have to be a denier to wonder whether a narrow focus on CO2 is worth it.
16. I had thought this must be a parody. But apparently it's real. They actually think that there are poor people who own beachfront property. And they further think that because insurance is "too expensive," the rest of us should subsidize people taking the very risks that make the insurance too expensive in the first place. I wish it were a parody. As JR notes, it starts out plausibly enough. But then it goes badly off the tracks at the end.
17. Seriously? A "sandy handy"?
18. I don't know what he's whinin' about. In Provincetown you gotta extra for this.
19. It's not porn...
20. Surviving Whole Foods: Not easy
21. Ezra Klein hates things that use electricity, especially your fridge.
22. Old school blackened dogs. They gots NO ketchup, mayo, kraut, chips, fries or any of that crap. And the menu says so.
23. This seems wrong somehow. But it is a little more complicated than it seems. The "health care" is provided by their "job." So maybe not that ironic after all? Still, a tin ear...
23. Should we change the grant adjudication process?
24. Bizarrely, the article appears to want us to believe that the regulation of "ride-shares" is to benefit consumers. But of course, it is designed to benefit large corporate interests, the way that all regulation is designed to benefit large corporate interests...
25. Champ test: I like the way the "manager" sounds like a NASCAR driver
26. Really grump things can be cute. So now maybe Scott de Marchi will get an endorsement deal next?
27. Addicts behave rationally. So do scientists. Of the two, addicts are more admirable.
28. Putting over goose poo.
29. WH on ACA and underwriting.
Some of our favorite headlines:
1. British drivers can pay for parking with chestnuts.
2. Man charged for DUI while "driving" lawn mower.
Maybe that last guy is just a big George Jones fan doing an homage.
7:29 AM, September 23, 2013
In your #7, politically incorrect health ideas, Maddock muses "how long before ...a computer that is run by a scary smart technician tells us what treatment we need?"
Technician? Really!? Who needs the technician? We already have webMD, wikipedia, and dozens of other ways to evaluate symptoms in the web. A $50 device turns your smart phone into an opthamalascope. With just your camera, you can get skin lesions evaluated for signs of melanoma. et cetera, et cetera.
The future is here.
Johnson85 said...
Did you link to the wrong article in No. 16?
Wasn't much about beach front property in there. As stupid as our flood insurance program has been, it doesn't help the debate to pretend that people receiving the subsidy own or live or do business on beachfront property. It's basically anyone close to rivers or the coast. The people that are going to lose their houses because of the changes in the NFIP are not the ones on the beach, it's the ones living inland that were stupid enough to build to a height the government told them to build to (or buy a house built at the height the gov't told them to build to).
12:48 PM, September 23, 2013
John Covil said...
""There seemed to be at least as many — if not more — cases in which illicit drugs played little or no role than were there situations in which their pharmacological effects seemed to matter," writes Dr. Hart, now 46. Crack and meth may be especially troublesome in some poor neighborhoods and rural areas, but not because the drugs themselves are so potent."
And it's worse than that. Not only does prohibition cause massive problems because of increased criminality and civil liberties abuses and all that, the lack of an open market means the quality of drugs is unknown. Not just potency, but in composition. Illness and death from 'illicit' compounds in the drugs have to be a cost as well, right?
Have there been any attempts to quantify the amount of harm from drug use that arises from questionable formulation?
For reference, see this Atlantic piece on the interplay of MDMA and electronic dance music. Some attention is given to the danger of suspect MDMA. It's long, but well worth the read.
2:00 PM, September 23, 2013
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/09/electronic-dance-music-s-love-affair-with-mdma-a-history/279815/
It would help if I included the link.
Patrick R. Sullivan said...
Destroying all those little, catastrophic health care plans is by design. The necessary prelude to single-payer.
John Thacker said...
The people that are going to lose their houses because of the changes in the NFIP are not the ones on the beach, it's the ones living inland that were stupid enough to build to a height the government told them to build to (or buy a house built at the height the gov't told them to build to).
No, they didn't "build to a height the government told them to build to." The federal flood maps always showed the high-water level higher than where they built. What happened is that the governemnt subsidized their insurance and, as a result, people didn't build their house to the level shown on the government's flood maps, (or bought a pre-existing but too low house) but trusted that the subsidized insurance would save them.
The government never "told people to build" to a certain level. What it did was promise people a subsidy that it shouldn't have, enabling people to do something that they otherwise couldn't afford, and now that subsidy is going away. One can feel bad for the people who trusted in that subsidy in some sense, but the appropriateness of a buyout of their subsidy is a matter for discussion.
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To all those who from Argentina and many countries supported us with feeling and passion. Bernardo Silva has urged Cristiano Ronaldo not to retire from global football.
One option could see Fernandinho come into the side for a role he is accustomed to playing at Manchester City . They've players who can make the difference, they have good box-to-box players who are unsafe .
England struggled against Belgium when they weren't able to get the ball into the middle in advanced positions. There is not really a set five yet, but everyone is confidence enough to go over and take one.
It is now 3,850 acres with 50 percent containment (up from 7 percent contained yesterday.) This fire was caused by lightning. A firefighter scrambles to stop a wildfire as the wind drives embers across Highway 20 near Clearlake Oaks on Sunday.
At the awards ceremony Queen's Young Leaders Awards at Buckingham Palace Markle came up with for her unusual styling. The move was also seen as Meghan expressing her feminist beliefs - walking down the aisle as an independent woman.
" He has been accused of being a "mainstream" or "establishment" Republican , as if this makes him an unreliable conservative". Kethledge, 51, was confirmed to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2008 after spending most of his career in private practice.
Two Thai medical workers have also joined the cave's occupants to keep them company and monitor their health, the SEALs added . In the five-minute navy video, the boys are seen wearing their soccer uniforms and are calm, curious and polite.
After representing England from Under-16s to Under-21s, Pickford was given his global debut in a friendly with Germany in November 2017.
SpaceX has sent the first robot with artificial intelligence - nicknamed the "flying brain" - to the International Space Station . The second is for CIMON to look at a Rubik's cube through its camera and give Gerst instructions for how to solve it.
Unable to bring in us dollars and euros ahead of the new USA sanctions that kick in in early November, Iran is open to accepting agricultural products and medical equipment in exchange for its crude oil, Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA) quoted the spokesman of the Parliament's energy committee, Asadollah Gharekhani, as saying.
The Saudis said on Tuesday that they would increase production to offset what's not coming into the market from Venezuela and Iran (whose oil markets have been hobbled by sanctions), but did not say by how much. State Department official, noting that some key Iranian customers may be pressured into complying with American demands.
"The OPEC Monopoly must remember that gas prices are up & they are doing little to help", Trump tweeted Wednesday.
Trump's abandonment of the Iran nuclear deal may have consequences for oil prices.
More so, expectations of a drop in the USA crude stockpiles due to be published by the EIA later on Thursday, following the bullish API crude inventories report, helps underpin the sentiment around the barrel of WTI.
America wants to cut Iran's oil exports to zero by November. Prices to (sic) high!
Norway-based Rystad Energy expects Iranian production to drop by 700,000 bpd by December 2018. Gasoline and distillate stocks, which include diesel and heating oil, were also down, the API said.
Libya's National Oil Corp (NOC) declared force majeure on loadings from Zueitina and Hariga ports on Monday, resulting in 850,000 bpd of supplies being disrupted.
Another day, another economic threat from Donald Trump.
"If Libya's oil doesn't return fast to the market it will be an important test to OPEC's spare capacity, especially given that output from Venezuela and Iran is expected to fall significantly in the next couple of months", he added.
The UAE was the fourth largest Opec producer with 2.89 million barrels per day in June after Saudi Arabia (10.3mbpd), Iraq (4.5mbpd) and Iran (3.7mpbd). The facility produced 253,000 bpd on average past year.
"Over the course of last week, downside risk to future Iranian oil supply has increased rapidly", Martijn Rats, global oil strategist and head of the bank's European oil and gas equity research, told CNBC.


well yeah it's morning but not sure whether a good one - can see it is gonna be one of those days!!
3) it's only bloody 9.25 and feels like it should be lunchtime!
Have a nice day ... .
What's everyone got on today then?


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We received an email from crowsrock, the coach of Wecky's Wackos, looking at players who we should look at upgrading to. It is upgrade season and we need to make the right choices. Which players do you have targeted for upgrades over the next few weeks?
We are now well into upgrading season with some of our cash cows getting nice and plump for the picking. Below is a list of upgrades in my opinion.
Joel Selwood: If you take the 27 he scored in less than a quarter before being KO by Farren Ray's hip he is averaging a massive 119.7, this would be the best average in the league, even better that Pendles, Boyd and Swan. Besides the 27 he has only scored under 100 once and that was against the unfriendly DT side Sydney. His next lowest after that is 116. His games in this time haven't been easy either playing Collingwood, Hawthorn, Carlton who are all top 4 sides. Has a good run home playing Adelaide 2 times and Richmond, Melbourne, Gold Coast and Brisbane.
Dean Cox: The second place has to go to the big cox, he has been the highest averaging ruck by a fair bit this year and is the 4th highest averaging player in the game. He has fallen below the 100 mark only twice this year and has a nice ceiling of 141. Also plays Adelaide twice as well as Gold Coast, Brisbane, Melbourne, Port Adelaide and Richmond on the run home. He really is a must have this year.
Scott Pendlebury: After having a small form slump and dropping a bit in price the highest averaging player in the game is back after a big 131 on the weekend. Has a massive ceiling of 166 and has only dropped under 100 3 times this year. Plays Gold Coast, Port Adelaide, Richmond, Brisbane and Melbourne in the run home. Best option would be to get after his bye in round 13. And is only selected by 28% of the coaches.
Matthew Boyd: The second highest averaging player in the league this year is a must have in any good side this year. Has only dropped under 100 twice this year and has a massive ceiling of 162. Plays Gold Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide, Port Adelaide in the run home. Is only selected by a small 22% of coaches.
Lance Franklin: The second highest averaging forward this year is back to his best of a couple of years ago. After a slow-ish start to the year he has averaged a very nice 110.8 in his last 5 games. Has fallen below 100 only 4 times this year and has a nice ceiling of 144. Has nice run home playing Gold Coast x2, Port Adelaide, Melbourne and Brisbane.
I will probably get slammed for not including Gablett in the upgrade list but I don't see him as a good upgrade. This year in 7 games he has cracked the ton only 2 times. Has already missed one game from injury/soreness and will no doubt miss more. Young team will tire and struggle towards end of year possibly. But how about the massive 156? Wow 156 against Adelaide he must be back, NOT. 52,000 coaches have already been sucked into Ablett and I feel sorry for them.
Hang on, how does trading in Dal Santo save you a trade?
Can only assume you mean you'll save a trade by not having to downgrade and upgrade to get in Dal. Just a straight swap for a player who has hit their limit???
I thought that was relatively obvious. But if Lyon keeps playing him off half back it's a great trade.
How do these trades sound?
Yeah thats what i'm thinking. If he can pump out about 75-80 for the rest of the season that'l be fine. What are peoples thoughts on Darling. Apart from his 50 last week he has been solid with an average of 74. Do people think he can be a potential keeper or not?
Great trade if Didak comes back into form before his bye and Darling can hold his value until then. Have been thinking about that trade myself.
I'd off load Harris before Swallow and if you can get Pendles in then that will help offset the loss of Swan when he's lazing by the pool in Arizona!
I just had a thought RE Ablett – I wonder what % of points he was getting from goals in past seasons. I have a feeling it was a reasonble amount. 45 last year from memory?
His goal scoring seems to have dried up this season for whatever reason, probably a good reason to steer clear for the moment.
That coupled with a lot more one two's. Handball then receive and kick or handball again. He scored a lot of those 4 and 5 point combos in years gone. Not too many one two's available at the Suns.
he has only had 12 marks for the year also, he has never been a big marker but i think this reflects him having a player on his hammer 24/7..
Who would you choose between hodge, thompson or murphy?
Hodge if you're after value for money. Murphy or Thompson if you want consistency across the board. Toss a coin between those two!!
Matera to Mzungu, Dangerslut to Sylvia…Was thinking of downgrading Harris to Mzungu but want to keep him as a 7th mid so it's Matera to Mzungu. Was initially going to trade Dangerslut to Hodge but I want to keep the DPP link with the forwards. I reckon Hodge and Sylvia will average around the same, and because I already have Franklin, Rioli and Puopolo, not sure if I can afford to have more Hawks. Therefore, Sylvia is welcome!
Hopefully it's more of a welcoming for me than when I picked him up last year, the week before he rooted his toe.
Swallow > any premo around 430,000 any thoughts?
I have Jimmy Bartel but he's been spudding up lately and has costed me any chance of winning the overall competition.
What is your thoughts on this trade as I understand that this is a sideways trade with plenty of upside in it. Should I proceed with this trade or just wait hold and keep Bartel for the remainder of the season?
Do those trades (Murphy's in great form), but how has he costed you any chance of winning overall?? what's your current rank?
Ranking slid from 278 to 1664 and I'll use 2012 as a step-up point for a chance at winning the car as Dream Team will go back to normal.
Heys, just a quick question reguarding my final midfield upgrade.
three options, one spot who to choose?
Harris > Sylvia: Mr Consistent chappy of 2010, easy final four weeks and will leave me with 2 ddp fwd in the midfield, one will be on the bench.
Harris > Hodge : Underpriced, injury free, has had a good month and is the captain and is wanting to prove a point to his critics.
Harris > Mitchell : Has been down on form, is a ball magnet, has been wanting to prove a point after standing aside to let hodge be captain.
Based on current form i'd go Harris > Hodge. Just be mindfull he's carrying a dodgy achilles and it could come back to bite in the latter part of the year. May be worth the risk though, and will save you a bit of cash.
Mate, I'm also eyeing him off. After Hodge, I reckon Dal Santo will be the next cheap premium to pop. At $330K his price has surely bottomed out due to the saints recent form slump but after last weeks demolishing of Freo where he was a ball-magnet it looks like the saints are on the rise and it is a good sign of things to come.
The only fault is his b/e of 90 so while he should blitz it this week it wouldn't kill you to wait one more week.
Looking at getting in Mzungu and another mid Premium (Ablett/Thompson/Hodge) this week. Just curious as to what people might think of who I should trade.
Harris is definitely going to be one of them just unsure about the other one. I know I shouldn't sideways trade but my "Kennedy Experiment" hasn't worked so far and I don't think it will. Not sure whether I should bite the bullet on that one and get him out now or go Buckley or Swallow instead. Thinking I want to keep Swallow and will be getting another Def/Mid DPP within the next few weeks so guess it's between Kennedy and Buckley.
Planning to get Pendlebury in for Rd. 15 as well. May do it for Rd.14 depending on his breakeven as I'm not sure he'll smash out a huge score against Sydney.
I got rid of Kennedy 2 weeks ago, not worth keeping him if you can afford to offload him.
why not murphy, thompson or mundy ? still unique averaging better.. if your set on one of those 2 would go rischitelli..
Please excuse the repost. I wrote this yesterday but fits this much better here.
Who is more important to get in this week? Jelwood/Coxy or even Mzungu?
Its like a sale that you just can't go past and are wondering how the f**k the price tag is on the item and even the person at the check out hasn't picked up on it.
Or should I try to break the habit and stop being a screwge and Jellywood-Cox it up?
Also what is the ETA on Curnow?
Holy sheet. I think either the DT website is friken around or the amount of outs this week my choice will definatley be made up for me. Geebuz.
It's Wecky's Wacko's sorry missed the ' in Wacko's. I'm ranked 3433.
Marc Murphy anyone? Judd cops the tag so he gets the ball a bit.
Whos the best mid? monty for sure kicks the ball the most out of all (52%) and thats where the monies at.
Can't wait to get him after the bye.
Whats the general way to go about a season in regards to trades and spacing them out. I unknowingly started using 2 every week not knowing exactly how DT worked and now i'm sure i'm gonna pay for it come finals time. Is there anywhere that explains how DT fully works and when finals are etc etc… ? Anyone got any tips or hints, cheers ..
who is considered the best hawk defender to upgrade too, birchall? suckling? guerra?
and from any of the supporters…..why would you pick them?
Suckling is the most consistent.
what should i be doing with Brad Sewell?
i can upgrade him to anyone but is it worth it or too much of a sideways trade?
I would leave that 'upgrade' until last. If you have spare trades later, use them on that.
and who is a good upgrade option for my foward line that has buddy, fyfe, sylvia, goodes? Is Pav worth getting on?
Swallow > Hodge is too sideways for me..don't do it. All of the forward upgrades are premo's and good.
My plan is to go Bartel -> Selwood at some point unless he improves somehow.
This week I can go Harris -> Hodge, but I'm not completely sold on Hodge and there are risks considering I already have Suckling, Franklin, Bailey and Puopolo in terms of both rd. 17 bye and rd 24 when many players could be rested for the bye. Then again Hodge is on the cheap, in good form and a proven performer.
I could do that or the jelwood trade now. Bartel will only go down this week and Selwood should get the 123 BE against a hapless bulldogs side in geelong. Surely there will be as good opportunities in coming weeks for cheap premiums. problem is though this only replaces a premium instead of adding one and my team will be a bit weak as a result.
Time to upgrade Duigan? Playing Port this week so might get some points. Defence is looking weak atm.
he's been a great cash cow but with only two big scores i consider him ready for an upgrade. Having said that, i will probably have to hold him until after Hawtthorn's bye (round 17) as i'm running low on trades (10).
Duigan to Broughton-he's back baby. Consecutive score rises over the past three weeks, his price curve is on the up and priced at 290k. Shazayam! Got bench cover if Goddard pulls a heart muscle.
Harris to Marc M- will go close to being the no 1 scorer for the year and no-one has him. JUMP ON.
It means I don't get Gu til next week, but buying him as a bench keeper, so his first price rise is irrelevant to me.
My fwd line is a little weak with Petrie covering 211 and Chappy out. Means I have C-Rich and T Lynch on the ground. I am not gunna waste a trade to cover a POSSIBLE donut/weak score from these guys.
This week leaves me with 12 trades left and close to 100k in the bank. Placed 7859 and preparing for The Run Home.
I'm considering Laidler to Broughton this week. I havent seen Freo's last 3 games but I saw most of their other games this year and Broughton was nowhere to be seen in most of them. does anyone have anything more than his last 2 scores to support trading him in? I have heaps of cash so Suckling and Fisher are also on the radar. Decisions, decisions.
Got cover in Lower should Goddard become a late withdrawal on Saturday.
Darling > Didak to complete my forward line.
Stanley to Sammy Fish maybe to complete the backline?
Yeah I wouldn't go crazy with trades if you only have 8 left.
I agree with trading stanley out for another defender. Fish would be a good buy, or maybe a hawk.. I'm thinking of going suckling?
There is nothing wrong with Swan apart from his weight.
Matera or Harris to Mzungu?
Then I'm thinking Toy to Suckling simply because the Hawks look like they'll keep this tactic going if it worked on the weekend. If they do I'll be a very happy dreamteamer!
Thoughts on the first trade?
Yeah I know but I read an article and he's not injured they just thought it was time his body needed a rest… they reckon he's one of their best this year and that he has more to come… i dunno this article has persuaded me a little… only thing with harris is he doesn't play on the field and it feels useless leaving a bloke worth over 200 on your bench where there are guys valued at 90k who get similar scores.
Finally after 16 odd hours of strategising, calculating and coming up with different scenarios I have arrived at a plan. I missed a few options by a measley $3000, due to Obrien, Matera, Harris and Libba all scoring terribly last week.
I have figured how to finish the team while leaving 5-7 trades left for the run home rounds.
I should have reasonable cover across most lines as well.
Welcome to Mzugu this week.
Thinking of getting pendles this week or perhpas downgrading to Harris. Does anyone have this week's breakevens?
Think I'll risk pendles anyway! Go scott you beast!
What is S. Buckleys B/E vs Swallows B/E?
I'm upgrading one today to my 7th Premium Mid.
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Filed under: Food, Summary Judgment, Settlements, RLUIPA, Religious Diet. Location: Virginia.
Aaron Carter is a Virginia state prisoner; he is also a member of the Nation of Islam. Due to his religion's dietary restrictions, he was enrolled in the prison system's Common Fare program (CFP), which serves both halal and kosher meals.
On October 1, 2015, the CFP added fried foods to its menu. The Nation of Islam tells its adherents to "[s]tay away from eating fried foods," thus Carter felt prison officials had breached their duty to serve a proper menu that adhered to his faith. On November 26, 2015, he was caught taking a Thanksgiving Day lunch from the regular serving line instead of his CFP meal. Consequently, he was suspended from the CFP for one year.
Carter grieved the suspension, arguing his agreement to participate in the CFP was already void due to the addition of fried foods. He then filed a pro se suit raising claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), alleging the prison had failed to accommodate his religious dietary needs.
Carter was transferred to a different prison while he litigated the case; the new facility refused to reinstate him in the CFP even after his one-year suspension ended. Nevertheless, the district court granted summary judgment to the defendants, finding he had "fail[ed] to disprove the reasonableness of the suspension policy" and there was no "genuine factual dispute as to whether his religious exercise was substantially burdened" due to the CFP menu.
The defendants initially argued he lacked standing. The Fourth Circuit disagreed in a January 8, 2018 decision, holding he had adequately shown standing to challenge both his suspension from the CFP and its altered menu that included fried food.
On the complaint's merits, the appellate court held the CFP's addition of fried foods was a "genuine factual dispute," thus it was error to grant summary judgment against Carter on his First Amendment and RLUIPA claims. The district court's order was reversed and the case remanded. On February 21, 2018, prison officials agreed to settle the case by paying $2,000 in damages and reinstating Carter to the CFP within 60 days.
David M. Shapiro at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law represented Carter on appeal; he was represented before the district court by attorney Jeffrey Fogel. See: Carter v. Fleming, 879 F.3d 132 (4th Cir. 2018).


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A Dangerous Passion
The Bloodiest Trading Post in Kansas
June 12, 2015 by Guest Blogger
Trading Post, Kansas, near the Marais Des Cygnes River, is about an hour down the highway from where I live. This unincorporated town is reputed to be the longest continuously occupied community in Kansas, established in 1825 as (you guessed it) a trading post with the Osage Indians.
For years I drove by this tiny spot on the map and had no idea of the monumental impact it had on this region and the whole United States.
In 1858, a brutal massacre on "free state" men occurred just a few miles away. John Brown built a cabin close by to protect fellow abolitionists and plotted vengeance on slave owners, which culminated with his raid on Harper's Ferry Virginia, a year later. From trading post, Kansas Senator Jim Lane and his infamous Jayhawkers launched a retaliatory raid on southern sympathizers in Missouri in 1861.
All this from a little place called Trading Post.
I stopped one day and visited the small museum there and found a few interesting artifacts. Here's the door to the cabin built by John Brown, who vowed to protect "freestate men" in Kansas after the massacre.
Near the museum, a memorial to the massacre victims was erected.
I also visited the site of the MARAIS DES CYNES MASSACRE, which inspired John Brown to greater violence, spurred Jim Lane to attack Missouri, and arguably lit the spark that started a Civil War.
Kansas suffered the highest rate of fatal casualties of any Union state, largely because of its great internal divisions over the issue of slavery.
The bloodiest single incident in the Kansas-Missouri border struggles (1854-1861) occurred May 19, 1858, when thirty pro-slavery Missourians seized eleven Kansas 'Free-State' men and marched them to a creek bed near Trading Post. The eleven men were lined up execution style and promptly shot, apparently for no other reason than occupying land in a Free State.
The incident shocked the nation and galvanized abolitionists.
A few weeks later, John Brown arrived and built a two-story log "fort" (about 14 x 18 feet), which he occupied with a few men through that summer. That December he led a raid into Missouri and liberated eleven slaves, killing one white man in the process. Ultimately, he took his fight east to Virginia, where after his ill-fated raid he was captured and hanged.
Later that same year, Kansans rejected a pro-slavery constitution and entered the Union as a "free state" in 1861.
A Brown follower bought Brown's property near Trading Post and later, at the site of the fort, built a stone house that still stands there today. The building and grounds are now part of a State Historical Site.
Visiting this and other historical sites caught up in the bloody conflict, I thought about how the border conflict changed the lives of everyday people for decades to come.
The character of the hero in my upcoming novel, Fugitive Hearts, is shaped by this tragedy, which leads him down a path of vengeance first, and then to the pursuit of justice.
Read more about it here:
"Sheriff…I just shot my husband."
Hotel owner Claire Daines is a respected member of the community. Until she shocks the entire town by rushing into a saloon wearing only her nightclothes and confessing to very inebriated lawman.
Is she a killer? Is she crazy? Or is she covering up something worse?
For years, Claire hushed up her husband's dangerous condition to guard his reputation. When tragedy strikes, she puts her own life at risk when she vows to keep another terrible secret.
Sheriff Frank Garrity must get to the truth, although the tough, hard-drinking lawman hides his own secrets and would rather walk a lonely path than face his demons. But as Frank unravels Claire's subterfuge and unlocks her heart, he's torn between his desire to save her and his duty to bring her to justice.
Will he bring her to justice…or into his heart?
"Pure romance and passion that will steal your breath!"
Linda Broday, New York Times Best Selling Author
Available for pre-order on Amazon
Other books in the series:
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Planned Parenthood Lobbyists Received Millions from Hillary's State Department, But Look What She is Saying Now…
Hillary Clinton's State Department awarded tens of millions of dollars to Planned Parenthood lobbyists, but the 2016 presidential front runner is changing her tune now that four disturbing videos have surfaced about illegal activity in Planned Parenthood facilities nationwide.
Planned Parenthood lobbied the Department of State many times during Hillary Clinton's tenure there and received tens of millions of dollars from foreign policy agencies over the past few years, according to a new report.
As secretary of state, Clinton attacked the Mexico City Policy, which bans federal funding of abortion overseas. Her husband revoked the policy during his administration and President Obama lifted the ban upon taking office in 2009. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which is tied to the State Department, steered more than $100 million in funding to Planned Parenthood, its international affiliates, and the pro-abortion Population Council between 2010 and 2012, according to the Government Accountability Office—about 20 percent of the nearly $500 million pro-abortion organizations received from taxpayers during that time frame.
The taxpayer dollars that Planned Parenthood received dwarfed the $3.4 million that Planned Parenthood spent on lobbying during President Obama's first term, according to a report from Women Speak Out PAC, a partner of the Susan B. Anthony List, and American Rising. Government records document more than 30 instances of Planned Parenthood lobbying federal agencies, including the State Department while Clinton was serving there.
There's no doubt that the Clinton's are deeply tied to Planned Parenthood. But now that Planned Parenthood doctors were exposed in their own words as the unethical, profiteering criminals that they are, Hillary Clinton is surprisingly distancing herself from the program.
The Washington Examiner quotes Clinton:
In a one-on-one interview in New Hampshire, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination said: "I have seen pictures from them and I obviously find them disturbing. Planned Parenthood is answering questions and will continue to answer questions."
In contrast, Bernie Sanders said this about the Planned Parenthood videos:
"The current attempt to discredit Planned Parenthood is part of a long-term smear campaign by people who want to deny women in this country the right to control their own bodies."
Time will tell how far Democrat voters are willing to twist their logic to continue making excuses for the leading provider of abortions in the U.S., or if Hillary's recent comments have given them unspoken permission to question the ethics and integrity of the program.


We are lucky in living near to the semi natural ancient woodland of Coaley Wood and the footpath through the wood passes this coppiced beech tree which has been recently recorded as an ancient tree.
This tree has stood on this spot for hundreds of years and has survived because it has been coppiced or cut down for timber and allowed to regrow from the original stump. The adjacent has been quarried for stone and the roots of the tree undermined somewhat but the tree has survived with six stems from the old trunk.


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Q: Configuring dynamic height for Table Cell I have some lag issue with this method tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath.
My scenario as follows:
I have some textviews in each of the cell so I need to loop through the cell to get the yPosition of the last textview and its content size in order to configure the height for that particular cell.
In order to do so, I used UITableViewCell *cell = [self tableView:tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath]; in heightForRowAtIndexPath method. So that it does is, it calls cellForRow and reconfigure the content of my cell and return back to me.
However, this is where the lag issue occurs. Since heightForRow will be called before the actual cellForRow, it means that I will be calling cellForRow twice. One in heightForRow in order to get the cell and another for the actual cellForRow implementation.
Kindly advice on what I need to do in order to avoid this lag issue. Thank you.

A: You should calculate row height at your -tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath: method, by calling -[NSString sizeWithFont:forWidth:lineBreakMode:] or some other API alike, and adding any padding heights to it.
However fast you do it in -tableView:heightForRowAtIndexPath:, there is still a penalty compared with tableView.rowHeight.

A: You should never be calling table view delegate methods on your own. You can tell the table view to reload its data with this: [tableview reloadData];


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Does my Toky credit expire?
The credit that you buy comes with an expiration date of one year since the moment you bought it. If you don't spend it in that time, it will released after a year. A whole year is plenty of time to make calls 😜.


I have been a big fan of this site since i discovered it a few months back. I find it an invaluable source of info as i move my way through my Traditional Jiujitsu belts. Is there any chance of finishing off the techniques page from purple belt upwards??? it would seriously help. I would volunteer but my ugly mush is enough to put people off.
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In today's video I wanted to introduce the concept of "Barista Fire"
No barista fire is not when your Starbucks barista overheats the expresso machine, it's a lifestyle and a term within the personal finance community.
I think in order to understand barista fire you have to first understand the concept of F.I.R.E. which stands for financial independence retiring early. The key concepts of this are increasing your income as much as possible, sacraficing in lifestyle a bit to cut expenses as much as possible, and raising your savings rate as much as possible so you can pour as much money as you possibly can into investments.
Within the FIRE community you have another community called Lean FIRE which is basically people willing to live a very minimalist or spartan lifestyle in order to make this happen.
Now oddly enough this video I'm posting right now is the only video on Youtube about this subject matter. There are a lot of Youtube videos about coffee shops catching on fire when you search barista fire but nothing about this concept.
The concept of barista fire is someone who wants to retire early or take advantage of the FIRE lifestyle at an earlier age, but maybe isn't at the point where they don't need to earn more income, maybe they come up just a bit short in terms of being able to cover their monthly expenses without dipping into savings.
Someone interested in barista fire may have some good money put away for retirement, they may have some passive income comming in in the form of a side hustle or some profits from investments, but maybe they are a bit short of covering all their expenses. Someone in this postion may decide to barista fire meaning they leave behind their day job or corporate career they are unhappy with and take on a part time job. Barista is an example hence the name but it could be working at a golf course, working as a lifeguard, basically working a fun job that doesn't take up too much of your time, something not stressful and something you enjoy doing, and even if your only making 10k, 15k or 20k a year, that's all you really need to be able to cover your lifestyle and still continue putting some money away for retirement.
I think this is an interesting lifestyle for Entrepreneurs or people who want to be Entrepreneurs because it leaves a lot of free time to have little side hustles, start businesses, take on passion projects.
I think this lifestyle is perfect for someone who values free time, autonomy, happiness and time with friends and family over material things.
Essentially with this video I just wanted to introduce an idea of a different type of lifestyle. There's nothing wrong with working a corporate job or wanting to make a lot of money, but there's also nothing wrong with having different values and wanting to live your life on your own terms.
I'd love to hear your guys take on this. Does the barista fire lifestyle appeal to you? Are any of you already aware of the FIRE movement or the idea of barista fire and trying to make it a reality? Maybe some of you are already living this lifestyle. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Drop a comment in the comments section below.
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Q: Cherrypy server run a python script I want when I press a button in cherrypy a specific python script is executed I tried to add it like that but of course that doesn't work, What is the right way to do it
   What I want to execute is (ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0')
   ser.write(b'hello') )
import cherrypy
import string

class HelloWorld:

    """ Sample request handler class. """
    @cherrypy.expose
    def index(self):
       return """

            <form method="get" action="generate">
              <button type="submit">Press!</button>
            </form>

          ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0')
          ser.write(b'hello')
        """

if __name__ == '__main__':
   cherrypy.config.update({'server.socket_host': '0.0.0.0'} )
   cherrypy.quickstart(HelloWorld())

A: You have to dd your code before the return outside the string:
@cherrypy.expose
def index(self):
   ser = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyUSB0')
   ser.write(b'hello')
   return """

        <form method="get" action="generate">
          <button type="submit">Press!</button>
        </form>

    """

This will send hello to the serial port. If you want to do it on the button click it has to go into a method called generate but is similar to index above.


I recently switched from Android to iPhone and now searching for something that can automatically sync Outlook data with iPhone. I tried doing it through iTunes and it syncs everything except notes. Don't know why this is happening but that's what I have at the moment. I don't want to use iCloud due to security reasons so I'm looking for a reliable way on how to do this without sending all my data to Google or Apple servers.
I googled and found one thing on the first results. An application is called Akruto and it seems to be synchronizing notes and other Outlook data as well. It looks promising but I have never used similar apps. Have you had any previous experience with it? Is it worth installing?
There is also Outlook for iPhone provided free by Microsoft.
Please excuse my brusquerie , i am wondering how do you switch Android to iPhone ?I always can't finish this program.
And why not sync iPhone to Outlook in the same way.
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Notes can also be synced. You need to add an Outlook account in your iPhone and then save your notes there.
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Happy Life: Evangeline Lilly & Ike Barinholtz to Star in New Drama
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Highland Film Group has announced that Golden Globe nominee Evangeline Lilly (Lost, Avengers: Endgame) and Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) will be starring as a married couple in the upcoming drama Happy Life.
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Lilly appears in Avengers: Endgame, currently playing in theaters, and recently starred in Ant-Man and the Wasp, Little Evil, Ant-Man, and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. She will next star opposite Gary Oldman and Armie hammer in the drama thriller, Dreamland. Barinholtz, best known for his role as Morgan on The Mindy Project, recently starred in Late Night, The Oath, Blockers, Bright, and The Disaster Artist. He will next be seen on this Thursday's episode of The Twilight Zone as well as Nick Cuse's horror The Hunt.
Happy Life follows new mom Allison Beck (Lilly) who suspects her workaholic husband, Eli (Barinholtz) of having an affair with an Instagram star. One mistake after another leads her into the arms of a younger man as she struggles to come to terms with her life decisions and the mother she aspires to be.
David Stassen (The Mindy Project) wrote the screenplay and will also direct it as his feature debut. Stassen will also serve as producer alongside Barinholtz. The duo formerly collaborated on Central Intelligence, The Path, and Blockers.
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Andrew Robinson and Aperture Media Productions will also produce. Principal photography on the film will begin this summer.


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Cyberpunk Bartending Game Mixes Waifus With Great Storytelling
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Bartending for a delinquent cast of sci-fi characters, it turns out, is the ideal way to world-build a dystopian visual novel/game. VA-11 Hall-A, released yesterday on Steam, offers players the chance to serve up noxious drinks to the sketchy citizens of Glitch City, circa 207X A.D., the kind of place that would star as the background for a sci-fi blockbuster. The game is a must-buy for fans of interactive fiction, stylized retro games, cyberpunk and girls with cat ears–just about everybody, right?
It's a brilliant experiment in storytelling that, somehow, developer Sukeban Games ("delinquent girl" in Japanese) seriously undersells. Billed as a "waifu bartending" point-and-click, perhaps a desperate appeal to the otaku community, VA-11 Hall-A is less akin to a moe harem anime than it is comparable to a self-mocking William Gibson novel.
VA-11 Hall-A's world is gleaned through patrons' over-the-bar confessionals. In the new game, you are Jill, a spacey bartender with little ambition and a great deal of patience for the insane sequence of characters who wander in. Your city is a bleak tax haven overrun by criminal corporations. Nanomachines programmed for mind-control influence human motives while, a green-haired girl in a mech suit explains to you over a cocktail, the White Knights enforce the law. VA-11 Hall-A, nicknamed Valhalla, is a piss-smelling bar (patrons say) near the city's slums. It's where you work.
Like all the best science fiction, VA-11 Hall-A's enchanting setting fuels players' momentum through the game's first few hours. True to genre-defining books like Neuromancer, writer Fernando Damas doesn't spoon-feed you context. It reveals itself through proxies. At Jill's apartment, players can navigate a news app on her smartphone, which offers bleak but humorous vignettes of 207X A.D. There, entertainment consists of "a massive stage show about a Cyborg fighting terrorism while wearing heels." You can mull around Jill's apartment or go shopping, wasting her money on Holo-Plants and Megachristmas trees before heading to the bar, the main setting for the game's action.
At Va-11 Hall-A, neon-haired anime patrons pitch topics from the ethics of gossip journalism to father-daughter role-play (eww). Regulars return every now and then to buff their storylines and check in. Uniformly, I was delighted by the game's character designs: A side-eyeing man with slicked-back pink hair who orders a "Big Gut Punch," a super-advanced AI sex worker. Although patrons consistently criticize the bar's cleanliness, drinks go for about $160 a pop, reflecting greater class conflicts in Damas' dystopia. Yet somehow, everyone from gritty hackers to media moguls finds their way to you.
Players aren't offered dialogue choices, which would be annoying if the scripted conversations weren't so dynamic. The main game mechanic is making drinks: You just drag and drop esoteric ingredients like "Flanergide" and "Pwd Delta" into a shaker and hit the "mix" button. It's surprisingly relaxing. Like in real life, patrons are occasionally too lazy or messed up to know what they want to drink, prompting you to rifle through the recipe book and guess. Whatever cocktail you choose can affect the trajectory of your conversation with them, leading them to praise or denigrate your bartending skills. At the end of day, if you've done well, you'll earn cash, which you can blow on a few more hologram ferns.
You can also load songs into VA-11 Hall-A's jukebox, which is stocked with nearly an hour of glammy techno that is 100% my new favorite writing music.
The gaming aspects of Va-11 Hall-A serve primarily to break up its engrossing dialogue sequences. I felt compelled to play longer than I would less substantive point-and-click adventures because I wanted to tie together the game's branching strands of information. I wanted to get to know this world and its inhabitants. Even the drinks serve as a channel for Va-11 Hall'A's world-building–the description for "beer," which in 207X is served up as some mutant cocktail, reads, "traditionally-brewed beer has become a luxury." To add depth, a few real-life cultural phenomena make appearances, like the idol Kira Miki (Hatsune Miku?) and "SoCal Justice Warriors," a "mafia-vigilante group that runs around solving crimes in swimsuits."
The best analogue to this game is probably MidBoss' Read Only Memories, last year's cyberpunk point-and-click mystery with a sassy cast of characters and a synthy soundtrack. The games both take their visual inspiration from pixel-forward retro Japanese adventures with blocky typefaces and bold colors. But unlike Read Only Memories, VA-11 Hall-A's dialogue sequences never threaten monotony. It's deep, for sure, testing players' capacity for empathy and understanding, even when evil-reading characters describe their somehow sympathetic worldviews to you. For example, the pink-haired freak who asks whether you've faked an orgasm, miraculously, comes off all right by the time he pays his tab. At one point, your new AI sex worker friend cheerfully describes a client who, every year on his dead daughter's birthday, pays her to role-play his daughter. Super gritty. For Sukeban's second game (the first was a full-blown visual novel), VA-11 Hall-A is wildly impressive.
So, sure, you bartend for a lot of cute anime girls. One even has cat ears. But if you're playing Va-11 Hall-A for the waifus, you're missing the point.
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By Lynne Tillman
To Be Honest
Dave Chappelle's comedy of discomfort
I'm in the first row at Radio City Music Hall. Dave Chappelle is onstage, starting his act. He says he can't live in NYC anymore with cigarettes at $15 a pack, and hilariously impersonates a New Yorker bragging about how great the city is.
When he switches gears, Dave lowers his head, then lifts it. He moves on to Rachel Dolezal, messing with her last name, explaining she's 'the black/white woman'. Dolezal 'passed' as black, becoming head of the Seattle NAACP, until she didn't. Dave says, she'll know what it is to be black when she has a lien against her house. He wants to meet her, to call her the N-word to her face. He says the word.
Dave walks toward the back of the stage for his smokes, often. He's chunkier than he was in Chappelle's Show (2003–06). Dave changed comedy. He's a genre- and race-bending intellectual comic. He makes people – white, black – laugh and feel uncomfortable. Like his audience, he's figuring life out; unlike them, he's thinking about it out loud, in public. Dave's a process artist.
Comedy opens that anxious door called Repression, onto embarrassment, humiliation, offence, defensiveness, psychologically oxymoronic stuff, not lethal. Sigmund Freud wrote: 'We only laugh when a joke comes to help us.' Different strokes, true, but some people can't be helped. Dave calls Dolezal 'a trans', and slides into his curious, controversial relationship to the trans community. Why, he asked, did Bruce Jenner gain acceptance so fast for changing his gender, but Cassius Clay got hell for years for just changing his name to Muhammed Ali? He says white men can get away with anything. On Donald Trump: black people, Dave says, don't want those Chinese jobs Trump is promising. Who wants to do that stuff? He's complicated about Trump: Trump might, 'by accident', do something good. Dave might be an optimist.
The first time he ever voted, he confessed, was for Barack Obama. The lines of black people were so long, he thought he was at a cheque-cashing joint. The crowd is eating out of his hand. Dave laughs at some of his own stuff. He bends all the way over, and holds his stomach.
He voted for Hillary Clinton – not totally happy about it, he says, but supported her, of course, implying: don't skip out; don't stay home again. He knew she'd lose: the lines to vote were full of poor whites. He described their bloated faces, which brought him to the neo-nazis and white supremacists carrying Tiki torches, marching in Charlottesville, Virginia.
He bows his head, raises it, to tell a story about a 14-year-old Chicago boy who travelled to the South: Emmett Till. A white woman told some white men Till flirted with her. They beat him to death. Dave says Till's mother is a 'gangsta' – audience clapping madly – because she insisted that every newspaper show a picture of her son's brutalized body, in his open coffin. She wanted everyone to see what they – white people – did to him. Dave calls that white Southern woman a 'nasty bitch'. Then explains, solemnly, that she died not long ago, first recanting her lying testimony: Till never did anything to her. That's good, Dave says, her telling the truth, it must have been hard for her. After a long pause, he says: 'To be honest.' She's still a bitch. A young boy died because of her. Dave works the 'to be honest' trope, using it five, six times. He delivers the expected, rational response; next, the long pause, and then he says, slowly: 'To be honest.' We, the people, know it's coming – honesty, Dave-style. Objectionable, offensive or not, it's real, and it's a relief.
A free society, whatever that means to you, or me, needs blurts, admissions, self-recognitions; people have to acknowledge their discomfort with the new and examine why it's there. Humans fear what they don't understand. Like, why they laugh. A laugh, like a dream, comes involuntarily. Both reveal the lurking unspeakable within. Let it speak, Freud says, have a laugh.
I believe: if you can laugh at yourself, you have a chance.
Dave is winding up his act. He says he's with the good people, not the Tiki-torch-carriers. Everyone stands up, shouting. I'm on my feet, silent. I shyly wave at him, like a besotted teenager at a rock concert. Dave sees me, he looks right at me, smiles – no, he's amused – and waves back in the same dopey way.
Main image: Dave Chapelle, August 2017. Courtesy: Comcast Corporation, Philadelphia; photograph: Mathieu Bitton
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Mortadella and Calabrian Hot Spread Focaccia
By: Alex Testere
13x18 inch loaf
Basic Focaccia Loaf
active-dry yeast (one packet)
Extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
slices deli-style provolone cheese (6 oz)
½ c
Calabrian hot spread sauce
extra-thin slices mortadella (8 oz)
"Hot spread sauce" is a popular condiment in Calabria, the southernmost tip of Italy. It is a spicy, vinegary, multipurpose spread made from Calabrian chiles and chopped mixed vegetables that makes a great addition to sandwiches, eggs, and other dishes in need of a little kick. Ask your deli to slice the mortadella as thinly as possible. It's okay if it tears, as you're going to rip it into pieces and pile it in heaps when you top the focaccia at the end.
In a small bowl, combine 100 grams of the water with the yeast. Stir to dissolve and let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
In a large bowl, combine the flour, remaining water, and 30 grams of olive oil. Add the yeast mixture, and mix thoroughly with your hands until all the visible flour is incorporated and a shaggy dough forms, about 3 minutes.
Cover the dough loosely in plastic wrap and set aside to autolyse for 30 minutes. This will help the flour to become fully hydrated, activating enzymes that will help the yeast to access its nutrients.
Sprinkle the salt over the dough and mix with your hands until fully incorporated. The dough should feel smooth and supple and a little taught.
Cover with plastic wrap and allow the dough to sit at room temperature for about 1-2 hours to ferment. It should appear bubbly and nearly doubled in size. It's okay if it hasn't fully doubled by this point; it will continue to ferment in the fridge.
Chill the covered dough for at least 8 hours, and up to 24. This lengthy fermentation will develop flavor and structure.
Remove the dough from the fridge and allow the dough to warm slightly at room temperature, about 30 minutes.
Apply 15g of olive oil to a 13x18" rimmed baking sheet and use a spatula to scrape the dough from the bowl onto the oiled sheet. Using oiled hands, gently stretch dough, pushing it into the corners of the pan. If it tenses up, let it rest for 5-10 minutes. This will allow the gluten to relax, making it easier to stretch.
Using hands or a pastry brush, gently rub 15g of olive oil over the top of the dough. Cover gently in plastic wrap and allow to proof in a warm place for 1-2 hours, or until it's puffy and bubbly, and has grown to fill the tray. 30 minutes before baking, preheat the oven to 450°F.
When the oven is preheated and the dough is puffy, use your fingers to press deep dimples across the entirety of the dough. Bubbles should rise to the surface, and the dough should spring back only slightly, leaving the dimples intact.
Bake 10 minutes, until the focaccia is puffy, then working quickly, remove focaccia from the oven and arrange the provolone slices evenly across the top. Bake until crisp and golden brown, and the cheese is bubbly, 10-15 minutes more.
Remove from oven, allow to cool slightly, then spoon half of the hot spread across the surface of the focaccia. Tear the mortadella slices into 3-to-4-inch pieces and arrange them on top, and then spoon over the remaining hot spread. Serve immediately.
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Alex Testere is a writer, editor, and illustrator based in Brooklyn. He spends most of his time cooking and thinking about his houseplants.


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Matt Messore's dream pop project gigs a New Jersey graveyard before hitting the West Coast.
It's starting to feel like the time of year for jamming hypnagogic pop and shredding aquatic gnar, and Cathedral Bells have got you covered with their recent self-titled debut EP. As gauzy as it is 'gazy, Matt Messore's dream pop project sounds like the Gulf Coast response to SoCal's Surf Curse and their bedroom pop offshoots.
In honor of their upcoming West Coast tour, the group is sharing a lo-fi vid for the two-minute "Cemetery Surf," which features the duo thawing out a graveyard somewhere that is decidedly not on the West Coast. It's a trippy montage, and it suits the band perfectly.
Cemetery Surf EP is out now on Good Eye Records.


Heat is building in parts of Western Australia today meaning some very hot daytime maximum temperatures should stick around until just after the end of March. However, temperatures are then expected to drop across the southern parts state as we head further into April.
A trough over the coast is the cause of this heat, as winds draw in hot air from northern parts of the state. Cold fronts should then pass through the state on Tuesday and Thursday, pushing the heat out of the region.
Albany is forecast to reach a maximum of 30 degrees on Monday the 1st of April which, if this occurs, should be its hottest daytime maximum since the 17th of October last year. Yesterday, Geraldton had a 39 degree maximum and again could see a very hot day, with forecasts predicting a maximum of 38 degrees. While these temperatures aren't close to the hottest Geraldton has seen in March (45 degrees on the 6th in 2007), should Geraldton reach 38 degrees today, it would be the fourth time that a pair of consecutive days were over 35 degrees this year.
Furthermore, high cloud cover is expected over southwestern parts of WA for the next couple of days. As a result, uncomfortably warm mornings should be expected. Temperatures this morning in Perth and Geraldton only dropped to 17 and 23 degrees respectively, while tomorrow is not expected to drop below 21 degrees for either place. Kalgoorlie could see a morning that doesn't drop below 19 degrees on Thursday as the heat shifts east.
The first cold front arriving sometime on Tuesday should drop temperatures to around average for the southwestern cities. However, the second front should be more intense than the first and bring some daytime temperatures that will be the lowest that they have been in months for some cities.
Looking further ahead, heat should rebuild fairly quickly following the series of fronts. After next weekend most temperatures will back to average or even slightly above.