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How Liverpool could benefit from Barcelona swap deal if Coutinho leaves this summer
Liverpool's interest in Rafinha could see them benefit if Coutinho joins Barcelona this summer
Posted on March 25, 2017 by Louis East in Featured, Liverpool FC, Premier League, Premier League Features, Premier League Transfer News, Top Stories // 0 Comments
Barcelona are not giving up hope of luring Liverpool's star playmaker Philippe Coutinho to the Nou Camp this summer, despite the fact the 24-year-old Brazilian penned a new five-year contract in January.
Coutinho became the Reds' highest-paid player just a couple of months ago but it has done little to stop Barca from pursuing his signature as they look to strengthen this summer.
The Liverpool star is seen as an ideal replacement for Iniesta, who is approaching the end of his career and has yet to sign a new deal with the Catalan giants.
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Liverpool fans won't want to imagine life without Coutinho at Anfield. His creativity is a huge asset to the side as he can operate behind the striker or out on the left wing, thriving in both roles under Jurgen Klopp.
The Reds will need even more depth next season as they prepare for life back in Europe – whether that be the Champions League or Europa League – so losing Coutinho is a scenario Klopp will be trying not to think about.
But if the player wants to link up with former Liverpool teammate Luis Suarez, Brazilian pal Neymar and Lionel Messi it will be difficult to keep him. But there is still a way Liverpool could benefit from the loss of their No.10 as Barca could allow their own 24-year-old Brazilian playmaker to depart in the coming months.
Rafinha is reportedly being chased by Arsenal, Juventus and most interestingly Liverpool as he has been unable to nail down a guaranteed starting place with Barca. He has played 27 times in all competitions this season but has only started 17 of those matches and his chances of bettering that tally would be significantly hampered if Coutinho were to join the club this summer.
Barca would be willing to let Rafinha leave if the right offer came in, just as they did with his brother Thiago Alcantara who joined Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich in 2013. Liverpool would surely move to the front of the queue for Rafinha if the two clubs were already in discussions regarding Coutinho.
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Chances Created Per 90 Mins
Pass Accuracy
Both Rafinha and Coutinho have scored six league goals this season, with the Liverpool ace picking up three more assists. Although he has played five more games and has racked up 523 more minutes than the Barca man.
Coutinho creates more chances for his teammates per 90 minutes than Rafinha, although his passing accuracy isn't as good, with the Barca academy product only misplacing 39 passes in La Liga all season.
Losing Coutinho would undoubtedly worry Reds fans but if they can negotiate a swap deal with Barcelona for Rafinha they could still be in a position to challenge at the top end of the Premier League next season. They would also be able to free up some space on the wage bill to pursue other targets as they prepare for a busier schedule in the 2017/18 campaign.
Would Rafinha be a good replacement for Coutinho at Liverpool if Barcelona come in for the Reds star this summer?
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"The days before suspension - only a spring-loaded saddle"
Early motorcycles did not have rear suspension at all. The rigid frames would have to absorb the shock from road vibrations and other types of shocks, which meant frames frequently broke. The swingarm made shock absorption more efficient, though early models were somewhat clunky and prone to failure. Plunger systems allowed the rear axle to travel up and down two vertically-mounted posts, and while this system worked, it was not always the smoothest shock absorption system. The rebound after a shock was absorbed could alter the way the bike handled.
The swinging fork was another type of swingarm that improved on the plunger design. The parallel bars that attached to the main triangle at one end and the axle at the other were attached to a pair of shocks, one on each side of the bike. The shock ran from the swingarm to the seat rail of the bike, providing a near vertical shock absorption system. This allowed for more plush shock absorption, but it also added weight to the system.
A cantilever version of the swinging fork became common as well. This variant used the same parallel bar idea as the original swinging fork, but the shocks were not mounted between the swingarm and the seat rail; instead, the shock was mounted toward the front of the swingarm and attached at the other end to the main triangle of the frame.
This allowed for the use of one shock instead of two, and it improved the motion in which swingarms could travel, thereby improving handling of the motorcycle. From this design, the single-sided swingarm was born. This design works similarly to the cantilever shock system, but instead of using two parallel bars to connect the rear wheel to the frame, only one bar is used, and it is mounted on only one side of the wheel.


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Chapter XX
THE LURE OF THE SPIRIT--THE FLESH IN PURSUIT
Passion in a man of Hurstwood's nature takes a vigorous form. It is no musing, dreamy thing. There is none of the tendency to sing outside of my lady's window--to languish and repine in the face of difficulties. In the night he was long getting to sleep because of too much thinking, and in the morning he was early awake, seizing with alacrity upon the same dear subject and pursuing it with vigour. He was out of sorts physically, as well as disordered mentally, for did he not delight in a new manner in his Carrie, and was not Drouet in the way? Never was man more harassed than he by the thoughts of his love being held by the elated, flush-mannered drummer. He would have given anything, it seemed to him, to have the complication ended--to have Carrie acquiesce to an arrangement which would dispose of Drouet effectually and forever.
What to do. He dressed thinking. He moved about in the same chamber with his wife, unmindful of her presence.
At breakfast he found himself without an appetite. The meat to which he helped himself remained on his plate untouched. His coffee grew cold, while he scanned the paper indifferently. Here and there he read a little thing, but remembered nothing. Jessica had not yet come down. His wife sat at one end of the table revolving thoughts of her own in silence. A new servant had been recently installed and had forgot the napkins. On this account the silence was irritably broken by a reproof.
"I've told you about this before, Maggie," said Mrs. Hurstwood. "I'm not going to tell you again."
Hurstwood took a glance at his wife. She was frowning. Just now her manner irritated him excessively. Her next remark was addressed to him.
"Have you made up your mind, George, when you will take your vacation?"
It was customary for them to discuss the regular summer outing at this season of the year.
"Not yet," he said, "I'm very busy just now."
"Well, you'll want to make up your mind pretty soon, won't you, if we're going?" she returned.
"I guess we have a few days yet," he said.
"Hmff," she returned. "Don't wait until the season's over."
She stirred in aggravation as she said this.
"There you go again," he observed. "One would think I never did anything, the way you begin."
"Well, I want to know about it," she reiterated.
"You've got a few days yet," he insisted. "You'll not want to start before the races are over."
He was irritated to think that this should come up when he wished to have his thoughts for other purposes.
"Well, we may. Jessica doesn't want to stay until the end of the races."
"What did you want with a season ticket, then?"
"Uh!" she said, using the sound as an exclamation of disgust, "I'll not argue with you," and therewith arose to leave the table.
"Say," he said, rising, putting a note of determination in his voice which caused her to delay her departure, "what's the matter with you of late? Can't I talk with you any more?"
"Certainly, you can TALK with me," she replied, laying emphasis on the word.
"Well, you wouldn't think so by the way you act. Now, you want to know when I'll be ready--not for a month yet. Maybe not then."
"We'll go without you."
"You will, eh?" he sneered.
"Yes, we will."
He was astonished at the woman's determination, but it only irritated him the more.
"Well, we'll see about that. It seems to me you're trying to run things with a pretty high hand of late. You talk as though you settled my affairs for me. Well, you don't. You don't regulate anything that's connected with me. If you want to go, go, but you won't hurry me by any such talk as that."
He was thoroughly aroused now. His dark eyes snapped, and he crunched his paper as he laid it down. Mrs. Hurstwood said nothing more. He was just finishing when she turned on her heel and went out into the hall and upstairs. He paused for a moment, as if hesitating, then sat down and drank a little coffee, and thereafter arose and went for his hat and gloves upon the main floor.
His wife had really not anticipated a row of this character. She had come down to the breakfast table feeling a little out of sorts with herself and revolving a scheme which she had in her mind. Jessica had called her attention to the fact that the races were not what they were supposed to be. The social opportunities were not what they had thought they would be this year. The beautiful girl found going every day a dull thing. There was an earlier exodus this year of people who were anybody to the watering places and Europe. In her own circle of acquaintances several young men in whom she was interested had gone to Waukesha. She began to feel that she would like to go too, and her mother agreed with her.
Accordingly, Mrs. Hurstwood decided to broach the subject. She was thinking this over when she came down to the table, but for some reason the atmosphere was wrong. She was not sure, after it was all over, just how the trouble had begun. She was determined now, however, that her husband was a brute, and that, under no circumstances, would she let this go by unsettled. She would have more lady-like treatment or she would know why.
For his part, the manager was loaded with the care of this new argument until he reached his office and started from there to meet Carrie. Then the other complications of love, desire, and opposition possessed him. His thoughts fled on before him upon eagles' wings. He could hardly wait until he should meet Carrie face to face. What was the night, after all, without her--what the day? She must and should be his.
For her part, Carrie had experienced a world of fancy and feeling since she had left him, the night before. She had listened to Drouet's enthusiastic maunderings with much regard for that part which concerned herself, with very little for that which affected his own gain. She kept him at such lengths as she could, because her thoughts were with her own triumph. She felt Hurstwood's passion as a delightful background to her own achievement, and she wondered what he would have to say. She was sorry for him, too, with that peculiar sorrow which finds something complimentary to itself in the misery of another. She was now experiencing the first shades of feeling of that subtle change which removes one out of the ranks of the suppliants into the lines of the dispensers of charity. She was, all in all, exceedingly happy.
On the morrow, however, there was nothing in the papers concerning the event, and, in view of the flow of common, everyday things about, it now lost a shade of the glow of the previous evening. Drouet himself was not talking so much OF as FOR her. He felt instinctively that, for some reason or other, he needed reconstruction in her regard.
"I think," he said, as he spruced around their chambers the next morning, preparatory to going down town, "that I'll straighten out that little deal of mine this month and then we'll get married. I was talking with Mosher about that yesterday."
"No, you won't," said Carrie, who was coming to feel a certain faint power to jest with the drummer.
"Yes, I will," he exclaimed, more feelingly than usual, adding, with the tone of one who pleads, "Don't you believe what I've told you?"
Carrie laughed a little.
"Of course I do," she answered.
Drouet's assurance now misgave him. Shallow as was his mental observation, there was that in the things which had happened which made his little power of analysis useless. Carrie was still with him, but not helpless and pleading. There was a lilt in her voice which was new. She did not study him with eyes expressive of dependence. The drummer was feeling the shadow of something which was coming. It coloured his feelings and made him develop those little attentions and say those little words which were mere forefendations against danger.
Shortly afterward he departed, and Carrie prepared for her meeting with Hurstwood. She hurried at her toilet, which was soon made, and hastened down the stairs. At the corner she passed Drouet, but they did not see each other.
The drummer had forgotten some bills which he wished to turn into his house. He hastened up the stairs and burst into the room, but found only the chambermaid, who was cleaning up.
"Hello," he exclaimed, half to himself, "has Carrie gone?"
"Your wife? Yes, she went out just a few minutes ago."
"That's strange," thought Drouet. "She didn't say a word to me. I wonder where she went?"
He hastened about, rummaging in his valise for what he wanted, and finally pocketing it. Then he turned his attention to his fair neighbour, who was good-looking and kindly disposed towards him.
"What are you up to?" he said, smiling.
"Just cleaning," she replied, stopping and winding a dusting towel about her hand.
"Tired of it?"
"Not so very."
"Let me show you something," he said, affably, coming over and taking out of his pocket a little lithographed card which had been issued by a wholesale tobacco company. On this was printed a picture of a pretty girl, holding a striped parasol, the colours of which could be changed by means of a revolving disk in the back, which showed red, yellow, green, and blue through little interstices made in the ground occupied by the umbrella top.
"Isn't that clever?" he said, handing it to her and showing her how it worked. "You never saw anything like that before."
"Isn't it nice?" she answered.
"You can have it if you want it," he remarked.
"That's a pretty ring you have," he said, touching a commonplace setting which adorned the hand holding the card he had given her.
"Do you think so?"
"That's right," he answered, making use of a pretence at examination to secure her finger. "That's fine."
The ice being thus broken, he launched into further observation pretending to forget that her fingers were still retained by his. She soon withdrew them, however, and retreated a few feet to rest against the window-sill.
"I didn't see you for a long time," she said, coquettishly, repulsing one of his exuberant approaches. "You must have been away."
"I was," said Drouet.
"Do you travel far?"
"Pretty far--yes."
"Do you like it?"
"Oh, not very well. You get tired of it after a while."
"I wish I could travel," said the girl, gazing idly out of the window.
"What has become of your friend, Mr. Hurstwood?" she suddenly asked, bethinking herself of the manager, who, from her own observation, seemed to contain promising material.
"He's here in town. What makes you ask about him?"
"Oh, nothing, only he hasn't been here since you got back."
"How did you come to know him?"
"Didn't I take up his name a dozen times in the last month?"
"Get out," said the drummer, lightly. "He hasn't called more than half a dozen times since we've been here."
"He hasn't, eh?" said the girl, smiling. "That's all you know about it."
Drouet took on a slightly more serious tone. He was uncertain as to whether she was joking or not.
"Tease," he said, "what makes you smile that way?"
"Oh, nothing."
"Have you seen him recently?"
"Not since you came back," she laughed.
"Before?"
"Certainly."
"How often?"
"Why, nearly every day."
She was a mischievous newsmonger, and was keenly wondering what the effect of her words would be.
"Who did he come to see?" asked the drummer, incredulously.
"Mrs. Drouet."
He looked rather foolish at this answer, and then attempted to correct himself so as not to appear a dupe.
"Well," he said, "what of it?"
"Nothing," replied the girl, her head cocked coquettishly on one side.
"He's an old friend," he went on, getting deeper into the mire.
He would have gone on further with his little flirtation, but the taste for it was temporarily removed. He was quite relieved when the girl's named was called from below.
"I've got to go," she said, moving away from him airily.
"I'll see you later," he said, with a pretence of disturbance at being interrupted.
When she was gone, he gave freer play to his feelings. His face, never easily controlled by him, expressed all the perplexity and disturbance which he felt. Could it be that Carrie had received so many visits and yet said nothing about them? Was Hurstwood lying? What did the chambermaid mean by it, anyway? He had thought there was something odd about Carrie's manner at the time. Why did she look so disturbed when he had asked her how many times Hurstwood had called? By George! He remembered now. There was something strange about the whole thing.
He sat down in a rocking-chair to think the better, drawing up one leg on his knee and frowning mightily. His mind ran on at a great rate.
And yet Carrie hadn't acted out of the ordinary. It couldn't be, by George, that she was deceiving him. She hadn't acted that way. Why, even last night she had been as friendly toward him as could be, and Hurstwood too. Look how they acted! He could hardly believe they would try to deceive him.
His thoughts burst into words.
"She did act sort of funny at times. Here she had dressed, and gone out this morning and never said a word."
He scratched his head and prepared to go down town. He was still frowning. As he came into the hall he encountered the girl, who was now looking after another chamber. She had on a white dusting cap, beneath which her chubby face shone good-naturedly. Drouet almost forgot his worry in the fact that she was smiling on him. He put his hand familiarly on her shoulder, as if only to greet her in passing.
"Got over being mad?" she said, still mischievously inclined.
"I'm not mad," he answered.
"I thought you were," she said, smiling.
"Quit your fooling about that," he said, in an offhand way. "Were you serious?"
"Certainly," she answered. Then, with an air of one who did not intentionally mean to create trouble, "He came lots of times. I thought you knew."
The game of deception was up with Drouet. He did not try to simulate indifference further.
"Did he spend the evenings here?" he asked.
"Sometimes. Sometimes they went out."
"In the evening?"
"Yes. You mustn't look so mad, though."
"I'm not," he said. "Did any one else see him?"
"Of course," said the girl, as if, after all, it were nothing in particular.
"How long ago was this?"
"Just before you came back."
The drummer pinched his lip nervously.
"Don't say anything, will you?" he asked, giving the girl's arm a gentle squeeze.
"Certainly not," she returned. "I wouldn't worry over it."
"All right," he said, passing on, seriously brooding for once, and yet not wholly unconscious of the fact that he was making a most excellent impression upon the chambermaid.
"I'll see her about that," he said to himself, passionately, feeling that he had been unduly wronged. "I'll find out, b'George, whether she'll act that way or not."
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Atlas II – Lockheed Martin
Family: Atlas meters
Length: 47.54 meters
Launch Mass: 204
Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 6580
The Atlas II was manufactured by Lockheed Martin with the first launch on 1991-12-07. Atlas II has 0 successful launches and 0 failed launches with a total of 0 launches. Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. It was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. Sixty-three launches of the Atlas II, IIA and IIAS models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the Atlas II the most reliable launch system in history.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024. Lockheed Martin is a Commercial USA entity that was founded in 1953 and is administered by .
Lockheed Martin has 7 successful launches and 1 failed launches with a total of 8 launches.
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Are Luis Barragán's Ashes More Important Than His Life's Work?
Una pieza de la exposición. Image Cortesía de Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo
Written by Karina Zatarain | Translated by Sophie Devine
https://www.archdaily.com/875306/luis-barragans-ashes-arent-more-important-than-his-lifes-work
In a somewhat poetic proposal, Jill Magid, the American artist, offered Federica Zano, owner and archivist of the Barragan Foundation in Switzerland, a two-carat diamond ring made from ashes from Barragan's cremation, in exchange for returning Barragan's professional archive to Mexico.
This gesture was the pinnacle of an art project that "posed fundamental questions about the consequences and implications of converting cultural legacy into private corporate property." Magid's work, titled "A Letter Always Arrives at its Destination," held an exhibition at the University Museum of Contemporary Art at the UNAM.
I recently visited the exhibition and bumped into an acquaintance in the second room. She was overwhelmed by the number of pieces in the exhibit but had not seen the famed and controversial ring, and asked me if I'd seen it. I responded that it was also my first time at the exhibit but that it would probably be in the last room. She left abruptly without saying goodbye. As is common with contemporary art, this piece had caused fierce debate; in this case, it was about its origin. The dispute surrounding the piece overshadowed its content, but someone has to say it: Luis Barragán's ashes are not more important than his life's work.
When I arrived in the last room, I was pleased to see the ring mounted unpretentiously, similar to the other pieces surrounding it. To review again the topic that the project explores: "the consequences and implications of converting cultural legacy into private corporate property," I ask myself, where is the indignation for the fact that this important part of Mexico´s architectural heritage is jealously guarded abroad?
Cena que organizó la artista con la familia de Luis Barragán. Image Cortesía de Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo
A lot has been spoken about the Barragán family, who, previously unaware of the project, were shocked to find out about the piece´s contents. But my intention is not to discuss them, or the ring, or the Catholic faith to which Barragán professed, which has made recent headlines. But rather, I want to focus on the Robles Castillo House, his first formal piece of architecture that now is a taco stand, and the rest of his "lost" work in Guadalajara. The real scandal is that the Mexican government hasn't acquired and protected his work as architectural heritage and that his professional archive abroad by Zanco has been rebranded as Luis Barragan (without the accent).
It is worth asking while we discuss the ethics of converting ashes into diamonds: who should guarantee that we are not losing something more valuable?
Karina Zatarain
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Cite: Zatarain, Karina. "Are Luis Barragán's Ashes More Important Than His Life's Work?" [Las cenizas de Luis Barragán no son más importantes que su obra y archivo] 10 Jul 2017. ArchDaily. (Trans. Devine, Sophie) Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/875306/luis-barragans-ashes-arent-more-important-than-his-lifes-work> ISSN 0719-8884


Richie I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your mother. My prayers go out to you and your dear family.
I spent many a good time w/Wanda and I am very saddened to hear of her passing. My thoughts and prayers go out to all the family members....I know how much she meant to each of you and I'm sure you will all miss her. Memories are a wonderful thing though....they will keep her forever in your hearts. Please know I care and that Wanda has a special place in my heart, too.
I just wanted to say how sorry I am about your lose and my prayes are with you and your hole family.
Wanda will be greatly missed by all. She always treated me as if I was a daughter not just a dauter-in-law. I have great memeories of our Wal-Mart and Burger Shack runs on Sat mornings after our house cleaning... I pray that the Lord will comfort each of you during this difficult time.


Support NIH grants R01EY026970, P30GM122744, and P30EY021725 (Core), grants from IRRF, OCASCR, OCAST, and RPB, and endowments from Harold Hamm and Choctaw Nation.
Yun-Zheng Le, Meili Zhu; Mechanisms of Müller glia-mediated neuroprotection in diabetic retinopathy and hypoxic retinal diseases. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2018;59(9):2505.
Purpose : We previously showed that Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) signaling was required for MG survival in diabetic mice, which in turn, caused retinal degeneration, likely through the reduction of MG-derived neurotrophic factors, Glial cell line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)(Diabetes, 64: 3554). To develop Müller glia (MG)-mediated neuroprotection in DR and hypoxic retinal diseases, we investigated the relationship among VEGF, BDNF, and GDNF in promoting MG viability and its effect on neurons.
Methods : Interactions among trophic factors for MG viability and proliferation was analyzed with a rat cell line rMC1 and primary Müller cells (MCs) by quantitative analysis of live and BrdU+ cells. Hypoxia was generated with cobalt chloride. Retinal morphology was assessed in hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) stained sections. MG density was evaluated with immunohistochemistry. Protein concentration was analyzed with immunoblotting and ELISA.
Results : Under diabetes-like or hypoxic condition, BDNF, GDNF, or VEGF promoted MC viability, which was achieved through both survival and proliferation. These trophic factors appeared to work in an addictive or synergistic fashion in supporting MC viability. VEGF also had a stimulative effect on BDNF or GDNF production. MG-specific VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR2) null mice had accelerated loss of MG and retinal neurons under hypoxia, which could be rescued partially by BDNF and GDNF supplement. Rescuing accelerated MG and neuronal degeneration in diabetic MG-specific VEGFR2 null mice is in progress.
Conclusions : VEGF is critical to the survival and proliferation of MG in diabetes and hypoxia. While VEGF may work in concert with BDNF and GDNF, it also stimulates the production of BDNF and GDNF by MG. As 1) DR shares a hypoxic retinal environment which is very similar to that in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and 2) the very thin retina (loss of neurons in all retinal layers) in diabetic and hypoxic MG-specific VEGFR2 null mice resembles to that in a substantial portion of neovascular AMD patients treated with anti-VEGF drugs for 5+ years, protecting MG may provide additional support to retinal neurons in DR and AMD patients during anti-VEGF therapies. Finally, VEGF stimulated MG proliferation may also be critical to MG-mediated retinal regeneration de novo.


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CannabisMonster - As of January 2020, 33 states in the United States have legalized the use of cannabis for medical purposes, while 11 and Washington, D.C. allow for some recreational use among adults aged 21 and older.
Two recent studies from Oregon State University, in Corvallis, explore the evolving habits of college students who live in states with legalized recreational use.
One study finds that, in these states, increasingly more cannabis is being smoked by college students, while the other explores the impact of this increased consumption on that of other popular recreational substances.
The first study has been summarized in Addiction and the second in Addictive Behaviors.
How legalization affects cannabis use
The Addiction study was conducted by Harold Bae, Ph.D., of OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences, and David Kerr, Ph.D., of the College of Liberal Arts.
It's the first study to look at the effects of recreational legalization in multiple states, taking data from more than 850,000 students who self-reported their cannabis use twice yearly as part of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) survey.
The researchers analyzed survey data from students aged 18–26 who had attended college in any of the seven states that had legalized recreational use by 2018 or the 41 states that had not.
The analysis included responses from students at 135 colleges in states with legalization and 454 colleges in states without it. The students had submitted responses between 2008 and 2018.
Unsurprisingly, the team found that cannabis use increased upon legalization. In those states, students were 18% more likely to have used cannabis in the past 30 days than students in states where the drug was still illegal.
Students in states with cannabis legalization were also 17% more likely to be frequent users, which the authors define as using 20 or more times in the past 30 days. "It's easy to look at the findings," says Kerr, "and think, 'Yeah, of course rates would increase.' But we need to quantify the effects these policy changes are having."
Because they had included data from a decade, the researchers had the opportunity to identify long-term trends.
The data revealed that after 6 years of legalization, students were 46% more likely to have used cannabis than students living in states without legalization.
According to the Pew Research Center, just 32% of people in the U.S. say that cannabis should be legal for medical use only, and 8% believe that it should be entirely illegal. From 2012 to 2018, its use climbed from 21–34% in states with recreational legalization and from 14–17% in other states.
Digging more deeply into their data, the team behind the Addiction study found that the increase in cannabis use was most pronounced in students aged 21–26, in females, and among students living off-campus.
The effect on other substances
Using the same data set as the first study, Ph.D. candidate Zoe Alley, Bae, and Kerr analyzed the effects of increased cannabis use on that of other recreational substances popular among college students.
For the NCHA survey, students also reported any nicotine use, binge drinking, use of illegal drugs, and misuse of prescription stimulants, sedatives, and opioids. The study's authors found that increased cannabis use had only a minor impact on other consumption, with two exceptions: alcohol and sedative abuse.
In states with legalized recreational use, the team observed a greater reduction in binge drinking among students aged 21 and over, compared with similarly aged students in other states. However, in states with legalization, they saw an increase in sedative abuse among students younger than 21.
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The two studies both aim to provide a first look at the effect of cannabis legalization on college students' habits. While further investigations will no doubt follow, this research offers an early glimpse of what to expect as more states, and perhaps the federal government, pursue legalization.
It contains at least one surprise: "For [cannabis], we saw state-specific increases that went beyond the nationwide increases," says Kerr, "whereas binge drinking was the opposite: a greater decrease in the context of nationwide decreases."
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Actor Sanjay Dutt, who launched the trailer of his upcoming film Bhoomion Thursday in Mumbai, said, "Will start working on Munna Bhai 3 post Bhoomi," reports news agency IANS. Sanjay Dutt said that he would completely focus on the third film of the Munna Bhai series after the release of the Omung Kumar-directed Bhoomi. Rajkumar Hirani's Munna Bhai MBBS released in 2003 and it was a hit at the box office. In the film, Sanjay Dutt featured as a local goon Murli Prasad Sharma, who insists on becoming a doctor to avenge his father, who was humiliated by the dean of a medical college. In 2006, Munna Bhai MBBS was followed by a sequel titled Lage Raho Munna Bhai, in which Murli Prasad Sharma pretended to be a history professor to impress the love of his life. At the trailer launch event, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra told IANS that Abhijat Joshi is still writing Munna Bhai 3's story.
Mr Chopra added, "Sanjay Dutt was getting bored sitting at home. How much more we could've made him wait. Whenever he asked, 'Is it happening? We said, 'Yes sir it's happening.' So, we will start the film as soon as the script is ready," reports IANS.
Sanjay Dutt said that both director Rajkumar Hirani and writer Abhijat Joshi, along with his friends and family, have been with him through the thick and thin and he cannot wait to start the next Munna Bhai movie with them, reports IANS.
The 58-year-old actor also added, "Raju and Abhijat have given me the best film of my life and that's Munna Bhai MBBS. After Bhoomi, I won't do anything else and just focus on Munna Bhai 3."
Director Rajkumar Hirani and Sanjay Dutt have worked together in films like PK and the Munna Bhai series.
Rajkumar Hirani, who was also present at Thursday's event, credited the actor for making him the filmmaker he is today. He said, "I've made four films by now, three of which feature him. My fifth one is about him (referring to the biopic on Sanjay Dutt). He has inspired me. He made Munna Bhai great. I really wouldn't have been what I am without Sanju (Sanjay Dutt). We have been waiting to see Sanju the actor," reports IANS.
Bhoomi, co-starring Aditi Rao Hydari and Sidhant Gupta, is scheduled to release on September 22.


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Amongst the many wonderful sights that nature can provide around the Cotswold Water Park, the summertime spectacle of Banded Demoiselle Damselflies gleaming in the sunlight as they 'dance' around our watercourses, is one of the very best.
Named after the broad, dark-blue, band across the otherwise translucent wings of the males, which also have shiny blue bodies; they are one of the largest of our damselflies, with a 60mm wingspan. The females have metallic green bodies and duller, non-banded wings. Damselflies can be told from the larger dragonflies by their weaker, more fluttering, flight and the ability to fold their wings over their backs. The only damselfly which the Banded could be easily confused with is the Beautiful Demoiselle, which can also be seen in our area (though in much smaller numbers, you are likely to see at least 100 Banded to every 1 Beautiful). The male Beautiful Demoiselle lacks the band on the wings – which are entirely a shimmering dark blue.
Demoiselles are usually found along flowing water and are common on most of the small rivers and streams which meander through the CWP. The Thames Path provides convenient access to areas where they are easy to see and some can also be present on gravel pits when they happen to wander. They prefer areas with luxuriant bankside vegetation, which provides cover when they are resting. They become most active, and easiest to see, on warm, sunny days. Food involves insects (Caddis Flies, Alder Flies etc.) and the demoiselles are in turn hunted by dragonflies: life can be tough in the wild!
The Damselflies can start to appear in late April, are prolific through May – August and can be seen into September. So, if you want to enjoy them, go searching in the summer months when the sun is out.


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Abandoned toddler saying 'mama' and 'papa' found near Texas-Mexico border, feds say
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An abandoned toddler child was found among a group of migrants traveling through Texas on Nov. 28, border officials said.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents in McAllen, Texas encountered the group of 47 people at midnight, according to a news release. When they did, several migrants from the group told the agents that there was a young boy with them and that they found him abandoned near a river.
The child couldn't communicate with agents, and could only say the words "mama" and "papa," the release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Agents guessed him to be about 2 years old.
He didn't have any processing documents or identifying information on him. However, agents at a Border Patrol processing facility noticed a phone number written on his shirt. They called it and got in touch with the child's mother, who confirmed that he was 3 years old and from Honduras, the release said.
The child was with one of several groups who were apprehended by Border Patrol agents in Texas on Nov. 28, the release said. One hundred sixty-eight migrants from Venezuela were discovered by agents at 6 p.m. in La Poloma, Texas, and a smaller group of 10 migrants from various countries was encountered by agents at 10 p.m. in Roma, Texas.
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Q: Why bother with abstract or interface classes? This has been boggling me as to why its better to have an abstract class. So lets say i have to calculate areas of a different shapes (circle, rectangle). I was taught its better to have a abstract/interface shape and then classes such as Rectangle, Circle extending it.
I made the following code
abstract class Shape {
    abstract int getArea();
}

class Rectangle extends Shape{
    private int width;
    private int height;

    public Rectangle (){
        this.width = width;
        this.height = height;
    }

    // get set methods ommited

    public int getArea () {
        return width * height;
    }
}

It seems like shape class serves no purpose. I can't do an impementation of getArea in shape class, since different shapes calculate area differently. I could just remove shape class and make my code simpler.
So what would be the actual purpose of having an abstract/interface class shape? Thanks in advance for any explanations

A: If you want to pass to a method an arbitrary Shape you can do:
public void method(Shape shape) {
   int area = shape.getArea();
}

This is called polymorphism.
If there is no abstract class or interface you can't do this.

A: You can use an interface or an abstract class when you want to group classes based on certain behaviours or properties they share. This will allow you to use the interface/abstract class as types of parameters or in generics. In your case, for example, you may do the following:

*

*Creating a list of different shapes List <Shape>.

*Pass a shape to a method. Let's say you have a method getArea() on your Shape class/interface. You can use it then in a method whichIsGreater (Shape shape1, Shape shape2) that would use getArea() method in its implementation.

There is one more very important aspect of using interfaces or abstract classes. Having an abstract class (or an interface) defined for your classes shows the intention of your code design. Someone who would pick up your code, would have much easier task to understand it with properly defined inheritance.
The goal of good code design is not really writing the shortest possible code. It's about efficient but also clear and self-documented code.
For completeness of my answer, I have repeated some of the points raised in other answers - no disrespect intended.

A: In your particular case, Shape should be an interface not an abstract class.
An interface is basically an abstract class with only public methods and no implementations. An abstract class makes sense when you you are able to implement a certain method that is correct for all or at least most of the implementing subclasses. It's an application of the Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY) principle in this case.
Why bother with abstract classes or interfaces?
Because now you can have just a List<Shape> where you can put all kinds of different Shapes into and you do not need to care which shape it exactly is. The JVM will do the work for you and choose which getArea implementation it has to choose.

A:
It seems like shape class serves no purpose. I can't do an impementation of getArea in shape class, since different shapes calculate area differently. I could just remove shape class and make my code simpler.

Suppose you have a picture which is composed of several shapes - some circles, some rectangles etc. You can store all those shapes in a List<Shape>, and then compute the total area using:
int totalArea = 0;
for (Shape shape : shapes) {
    totalArea += shape.getArea();
}

How would you do this if you didn't have a common Shape class or interface? Your Picture class would have to know about each individual shape class, rather than using the commonality between the different shape classes to make the code more general.
As another example, consider streams. Imagine that we didn't have the InputStream class - we just had the individual subclasses. Then every time you wrote code which had to read some data, you'd have to provide an overload for each individual subclass you wanted to be able to handle, even though the code would be exactly the same in each method. InputStream abstracts away the differences, exposing the common functionality (reading, skipping etc). That way you can write a single method which just takes InputStream, and then call it with a FileInputStream, or a ByteArrayInputStream etc... without the method needing to care which one it receives.

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gdb provides two mechanisms for extension.  The first is based
on composition of gdb commands, and the second is based on the
Python scripting language.

To facilitate the use of these extensions, gdb is capable
of evaluating the contents of a file.  When doing so, gdb
can recognize which scripting language is being used by looking at
the filename extension.  Files with an unrecognized filename extension
are always treated as a gdb Command Files.
See Command files.

You can control how gdb evaluates these files with the following
setting:

set script-extension off
All scripts are always evaluated as gdb Command Files.

set script-extension soft
The debugger determines the scripting language based on filename
extension.  If this scripting language is supported, gdb
evaluates the script using that language.  Otherwise, it evaluates
the file as a gdb Command File.

set script-extension strict
The debugger determines the scripting language based on filename
extension, and evaluates the script using that language.  If the
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (BBN)– The flow of inward remittance jumped by more than 32 per cent in January following the depreciating mode of the local currency against dollar, officials said.
The money sent home by Bangladeshis working abroad amounted to $1.59 billion in January 2019, up by more than $387 million from the December level, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB) latest statistics.
Remittance stood at $1.20 billion last December. It was $1.38 billion in January 2018.
However, remittance inflow grew by 9.26 per cent to $9.08 billion during the first seven months of this fiscal year compared with $8.31 billion in the same period of last fiscal.
Talking to the BBN, a senior executive of a leading private commercial bank said the depreciating mode of Bangladesh Taka (BDT) against US dollar and BB's surveillance to check 'hundi' helped raise remittance inflows in the recent months.
The exchange rate of taka depreciated significantly against dollar last year mainly due to a higher demand for the greenback for settling import bills.
The local currency depreciated by BDT 1.05 to BDT 83.95 on Sunday in the inter-bank foreign exchange market from BDT 82.90 a year before.
The recent flow of remittance indicates that it is gradually increasing and this trend is likely to continue in the upcoming months, according to a BB senior official.
He also said the central bank as well as the government is working continuously to expedite remittance inflows from different parts of the world.
Currently, 29 exchange houses are operating globally with around 1,225 drawing arrangements set up abroad to boost remittance inflow.
The central bank of Bangladesh earlier took multiple measures to encourage expatriate workers to send home their hard-earned money through formal banking channel to help boost the country's foreign exchange reserve.


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Tucker Carlson: School closures show triumph of equity over equality in America
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Six weeks into the Biden administration and there still has been no solo press conference from the president. That is the longest stretch of silence from any new president in at least a century. By refusing to speak directly to the media, Joe Biden is attacking our most cherished democratic norms. Even CNN is complaining about it.
We would echo those complaints if we really cared, but we're happy to listen to Joe Biden's flacks and mouthpieces explain why he bombed Syria, why he blocked the passage of a $15 minimum wage, and why Dr. Seuss is racist.
In their spare time, Joe Biden's scribes produce an awful lot of presidential proclamations. One of his very first proclamation was entitled "An Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government."
This was the document that introduced the administration's new equity plan, which is going to "eliminate systemic barriers to opportunities and benefits for people of color and other underserved groups." It's quite a mouthful, but what does it mean? Has anyone asked what it means or did everyone in Washington graduate from Yale and thus intuitively understands sloppy, meaningless words like this?
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The rest of us might still like to know what a "systemic" barrier is and how Joe Biden plans to eliminate it. That's easy, with equity, of course. But that raises a whole new question: What exactly is equity and how is it different from equality, the central principle this country was founded on?
Well, the first thing to know about equality is that it's designed to challenge power. Equity, by contrast, is designed to protect power. Equity is what the British monarchy had. Equality is what the American colonists wanted. Equality is what allowed Andrew Jackson to rise from a childhood of bitter poverty in the Carolina woods and make it all the way to the White House. Andrew Jackson was tough, smart and energetic. He lived a remarkable life, and America rewarded him for it. That's equality.
Equity is the opposite. Equity is what allowed Kamala Harris, the privileged child of two PhDs, to stay privileged and become one of the most powerful people on the planet, despite having achieved nothing impressive or worthwhile over the span of 56 years.
So Andrew Jackson and Kamala Harris — both Democrats, one the child of equality, the other the child of equity. That's the difference in a nutshell.
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Equality challenges power. Equity protects power. That principle has never been on starker display than in the case of the teachers unions, which are some of the most powerful institutions in America. They are using the term "equity" to justify their own prerogatives as they hurt the weak — in this case, school children and their increasingly desperate parents.
For months, parents whose kids use public education in Los Angeles have been begging Cecily Myart-Cruz, the president of the local teachers' union and an equity promoter, to reopen the schools. Cruz responded by demanding that those parents shut up immediately. Those parents, she explained, have the wrong skin color.
CECILY MYART-CRUZ: Some voices are being allowed to speak louder than others. We have to call out the privilege behind the largely White wealthy parents driving the push for a rushed return. Their experience of this pandemic is not our students' families' experiences.
"We have to call out the privilege," says the lady who can literally never be fired from her job, no matter how she acts. Never mind the 100% increase in suicides among school-aged children, Cecily Myart-Cruz is not interested in that. She's interested in equity, which means she's interested in protecting her own unearned privilege by attacking the people below her.
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What do the parents and children being attacked think of this? Myart-Cruz wouldn't think to ask them because she doesn't care. So Tuesday, Fox Los Angeles reporter Bill Melugin stepped up and asked them himself.
"It's almost like minority families want the schools to open more than anybody else," one Black parent told Melugin, "and the reason I say that is because education, for us, for our culture, this is their way out of poverty. So every day that our children is not in school, that's just a day closer to poverty for them."
Youth football coach Lamar Freeman told Melugin that every parent he spoke to wants his or her kids back in class. These parents are not racists, they just want their kids educated.
"Most of my kids before the pandemic, we had 80% honor roll grades," Freeman said. "Since distance learning and Zoom calls, it has it dropped to maybe about 20%, like most of my As and Bs kids are getting Ds and Cs."
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So purely because the most privileged government workers in the United States won't work, an entire generation of children is being destroyed. That's equity: The strong hurt the weak and call it justice. Everyone who thinks about this, even for a moment. knows that it's true. That's why you never hear equity debated or even defined. They won't define the term because they can't defend its definition.
Instead, they bully the population into silence. Cecily Myart-Cruz and her ilk are doing that right now.
The Daily Caller has obtained a recent email sent from someone who identifies himself as an employee of the Los Angeles teachers' union to a mother who was publicly calling out for the reopening of schools in Los Angeles.
"I'm working on a research project on who speaks on LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District] issues in the LA Times and coding for race and class," the email reads. "You are quoted twice in the last eight months … Could you tell me how you racially self-identify or point me to a citation on your identity?"
What could possibly be the point of this? Why would a parent's skin color be relevant in any to what is supposed to be a medical question? There's only one point to this: Racial intimidation. We saw you complained, tell us your race. How is that not a violation of our civil rights laws?
Of course, it will never be prosecuted or even criticized by anyone in power because the teachers' union is doing it and they're doing it in the name of equity. The hunt for White supremacy justifies all, including injuring children and scaring their parents into silence.
This article is adapted from Tucker Carlson's opening commentary on the March 3, 2021 edition of "Tucker Carlson Tonight."
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Location: Fort Payne, Alabama
Website: National Park Service
Description: Little River Canyon is on the nation's longest rivers the flows for most of its length on top of a mountain. Beginning at 1900 feet on Lookout Mountain the river ends up at 650 feet where it empties into Weiss Lake. While no more than a trickle during the dry summer months, spring rains will swell the river to an impressive torrent of rapids and waterfalls. The Little River has created a unique habitat for small plants and insects found nowhere else. The Canyon Rim Drive follows the western rim of the Canyon for 11 miles with 9 overlooks to look out over 400-700 foot drops to the canyon floor.
1) I would never have believed that Alabama has one of the most spectacular canyons and rivers east of the Mississippi, but the 22 miles of Little River Canyon more than meets this requirement. Starting at the beginning of the canyon at Little River Falls the Canyon Rim Drive provides many views of the canyon.
2) The Lynn Overlook is noteworthy not only for the overlook of the canyon, but also because it highlights some of the rare species of plants found in the Canyon. For example, the elf opine is a very small plant found nowhere else in the world and grows in shallow pools in limestone outcroppings in the spring. We were able to find some great views of this small plant at the overlook.
3) The Beaver Pond Trail was a bit of a disappointment. It is an easy walk through the woods and would be noteworthy for that reason alone. However, the main purpose of the trail was to an overlook of a beaver pond which was disappointing. While it is obvious it was a beaver pond in the past, it is mostly drained now with no evidence of beavers.
4) You certainly will want to miss the Mushroom Rock, because if you don't it could do major damage to your can since it is a massive rock outcropping in the middle of the road. The road literally splits around both sides of the rock.
5) The Hawks Glide overlook is probably the best view of the canyon as you can see quite far down the canyon to the south and the Canyon View and Wolf Creek overlooks are kind of neat since you can see the other overlook which is over a mile away by road as it has to travel up wolf creek which has carved it's own canyon before joining Little River.
6) The Graces High Falls Overlook is great in the spring time since there is water dropping over 100 feet across the canyon from the Overlook.
7) Eberhart Point is the final Overlook on the Rim Drive and has a nice picnic area with restrooms. There is also a very steep trail down to the river for those adventurous souls that want to swim in the river pools.
8) While the Canyon Rim Trail ends at Eberhart Point, there is county road 148 that continues another 11 miles along the western rim of the canyon down to the Canyon Mouth. You are warned not to attempt the drive in an RV or pulling a trailer and the warning should be taken seriously. While the road is paved and in good shape, there are no shoulders or guard rails and the grades exceed 10%. There are no planned overlooks, but there are still some spectacular views of the river and canyon along the drive.


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Donna Wooster, Marissa Bachar, Francesca Barrale, Allison Carroll, Meagan Floyd, Monica Landeche, Jordan Manning; Assessment of Transportation Safety for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Am J Occup Ther 2016;70(4_Supplement_1):7011515243p1. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.70S1-PO1053.
Occupational therapists have the knowledge and skills to provide adequate caregiver instruction regarding transportation of children with autism spectrum disorder. Emphasis should be placed on adaptive equipment, environmental modifications, sensory strategies, and behavioral strategies.


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Anya Hindmarch wins business woman award
British luxury handbag designer Anya Hindmarch has been announced as the winner of the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award 2012.
The fashion accessories guru fought off stiff competition from fellow shortlisted entrepreneurs, Helena Morrissey of Morrissey Investment Management, and Ruth Rogers, founder of River cafe, in being awarded the coveted accolade.
Regarded as the 'Oscars' of the business world, the Veuve Clicquot Business Woman Award is now in its 40th year and celebrates entrepreneurial women who have made a significant contribution to business life in the UK.
Anya's commitment to running a socially responsible business was welcomed by this year's judging panel - particularly her iconic "I'm Not A Plastic Bag" campaign, launched in 2007.
Anya started her business at the age of 19, growing it from a tiny first floor shop on London's Walton Street to a cool 57 stores worldwide, including a London flagship on Sloane Street and a Tokyo flagship in Aoyama.
ABOVE: Baroness Verma with winner Anya Hindmarch
"It is the greatest honour to win," said Anya. "It is a very real compliment to be deemed to share some of the qualities of Veuve Clicquot herself, who was clearly a brave and pioneering woman."
Anya also hailed her fellow finalists, Helena and Ruth as "brilliant businesswomen and lovely people".
Anya has been frequently praised for her contributions to the British fashion industry in the past. In 2009 she was awarded an MBE. In 2011, she became a UK Trade Ambassador as well as becoming a Non-Executive Director of the British Fashion Council. She is also a trustee of both The Royal Academy and The Design Museum and a Governor of The University of The Arts. Her support of the next generation of British entrepreneurs, most notably through the Government's "Start Up Britain" campaign was also cited by the judges as a reason for her being awarded business woman of the year.
"I congratulate Anya Hindmarch and hope her success inspires budding businesswomen across Britain," said the ceremony's keynote speaker and Home Secretary, Theresa May. "Women are at the heart of our economic future and I would like to see many more reaching the top of their chosen field."
Three cheers to that - and congratulations to Anya for her win.
Words: Sophie Haslett. Picture Credit: Rex Features.


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NASA Selects Ball Aerospace for Three Studies to Develop Sustainable Land Imaging Technologies
By Aerospace and Defense Review | Tuesday, September 22, 2020
The selection of Ball Aerospace comes after the final airborne science flights of two other Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technology demonstrations, the Reduced Envelope Multispectral Imager, Airborne (REMI-AB) and the Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer, Airborne (CHPS-AB).
FREMONT, CA: NASA has selected Ball Aerospace to move forward with three studies to develop and demonstrate innovative Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technologies for potential use on future missions of the Landsat program, a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that is entering its fifth decade of existence. The studies leverage previous SLI Technologies, including the Ball-built Operational Land Imager 2, which will fly on the Landsat 9 mission launching in 2021.
"We are honored and excited that Ball was chosen by NASA for three studies to explore next-generation technologies for the Landsat Program," said Dr Makenzie Lystrup, vice president and general manager, Civil Space, Ball Aerospace. "These studies reflect the importance of continued advancement and the development of creative solutions. We are pushing the boundaries of what's possible when it comes to innovating robust, precisely-calibrated sensors in increasingly compact packages."
The selection of Ball Aerospace comes after the final airborne science flights of two other Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technology demonstrations, the Reduced Envelope Multispectral Imager, Airborne (REMI-AB) and the Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer, Airborne (CHPS-AB). Both were designed to demonstrate improved Landsat mission performance in compact instrument packages.
The three studies included are Landsat Calibration Satellite (LCS), TransCal, and Reduced Envelope Multispectral Infrared Radiometer (REMIR). LCS builds on the CHPS instrument and aims to provide the cross-calibration and validation capability required to knit together a future Land Imaging Constellation. LCS-B focuses on the key technical challenges to delivering an on-orbit reference instrument – specifically, differences in spatial and spectral performance between disparate platforms, such as Sentinel-2, Planet, and Landsat-8.
Transcal is an innovative calibration approach using Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal material to continue the precise on-orbit calibration method used extensively in the Landsat program, while significantly reducing the size and complexity of the calibration subsystem. This study aims to reduce resources needed for next-generation SLI instruments while meeting or exceeding the current Land Imaging capabilities. The REMIR study will design and build a single, full spectral range (visible through thermal infrared) instrument suite that represents the next step in meeting the thermal infrared band requirements for future Landsat missions. The proposed technology leverages the previous success of the REMI instrument, as well as NASA and Ball investments in new detectors, innovative calibration subsystems and a scanning approach that enables significant reductions in size, weight, and power compared to the existing Landsat architecture.
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Global Prognosis
Attack Dogs of Christendom
Is this how to bring grace and savor to a crumbling civilization?
David Aikman| August 27, 2007
When atheist Sam Harris wrote his 2004 bestseller The End of Faith, a radical attack on religious belief in any form, he was prepared for strong rebuttals from Christians.
What may have surprised him was the vitriol in which many of the emails and letters were couched. The most hostile messages came from Christians (not Muslims or Hindus). "The truth is," he explained in the forward to his latest bestseller, Letter to a Christian Nation, "that many who claim to be transformed by God's love are deeply, even murderously, intolerant of criticism."
"How do I know this?" he asked rhetorically. "The most disturbed of my correspondents always cite chapter and verse." Indeed, Letter to a Christian Nation is his response to those vituperative critics and yet another weapon in the armory of people hostile to Christianity.
I am not surprised that Harris attracted negative feedback. What disturbs me, however, is the extent to which some Christians have turned themselves into the self-appointed attack dogs of Christendom. They seem determined to savage not only opponents of Christianity, but also fellow believers of whose doctrinal positions they disapprove.
A troll through the Internet reveals websites so drenched in sarcasm and animosity that an agnostic, or a follower of another faith tradition interested in what it means to become a Christian, might be permanently disillusioned.
None of the major figures of American Protestantism in the past quarter-century have been spared from attack, from Billy Graham to Rick Warren, from Tim LaHaye to Robert Schuller. The attacks, moreover, are not reasoned or modestly couched criticism, but blasts of ire determined to discredit beyond redemption the targets of the criticism.
The angriest websites ...
David Aikman is professor of history and writer-in-residence at Patrick Henry College and wrote for Time magazine from 1971 to 1994. Among his books are Jesus in Beijing and A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush. His column, "Global Prognosis," ran from 2006 to 2007.
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I've got a major release published for my alternative/extended implementation (http://www.samplerbox.org/forum/137).
Most of it will also be in the merged samplerbox release Joseph mentions in his blog (http://www.samplerbox.org/article/november2016news), so you can also wait for that to stay in the mainstream.
But if you want to use some/all of it before merging completes: you can find image, sources and docs at http://homspace/homspace/samplerbox/index.html.
And please do also share your enhancements / extensions to help develop this wonderful idea.
Thanks to everyone else for this amazing project!
I was hoping you could answer a question for me. Am I correct that for the LCD in your code, I have to interface directly to the LCD, and not through I2C?
I'm asking because I have one with a I2C module already connected, and it would be nice not to have to desolder it.
You're right, this connects directly (saved space and the I2C module).
I don't think it's hard to get it running with an i2c lib implementation.
Just disable or remove my stuff and follow installation of the I2C plug of your preference.
Also check the display routine, you may need another way for getting the two lines (s1 and s2) with correct line length.


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While most college seniors are busy finding a job or applying to graduate school, Andrew Hutchinson is running for the First Ward City Council seat. With a strong background in advocating for social justice issues, Hutchinson decided to run his campaign focused on affordable housing, infrastructure and community policing.
"We're in a very changing time and I think Columbia has a lot of decisions specifically in the First Ward that it needs to make in regards to what support it wants to give our residents and how we want to make it an inclusive and equitable place to live," Hutchinson said.
Growing up in a Mexican-American household with a mother who is an educator for a program called English Language Learners, Hutchinson has always been exposed to helping those who are less fortunate. His upbringing transpired into his politics.
"The people I met when I worked for public housing made me want to speak up for them but also on a smaller note even students here," Hutchinson said.
Andrew Hutchinson is running for the City Council seat from the First Ward. Photo by Grace Lett.
Being a student at the University of Missouri, Hutchinson understands what it's like for students who balance work and school. Hutchinson said that issues concerning students in the First Ward often go unheard. The fear of higher tuition in combination with luxury student housing may make it harder for low income and working students to find housing as well as transportation to the university.
Hutchinson said that this is because luxury student housing has taken over a large portion of downtown Columbia. If elected, he hopes to be a voice for the students who live in the First Ward.
Hutchinson and Parker grew up together. Parker says that since they were young, Hutchinson had always stood out.
His passion for politics and social justice helped Hutchinson to create "One Mic." "One Mic" was founded a few years ago by Hutchinson and fellow co-worker, T'Keyah Thomas. "One Mic" hosts poetry slams that feature poets and musicians from diverse ethnic groups.
"That's why we always try to make sure that whether it be women poets, black women poets or black male poets that we try to distance ourselves from the white male narrative of poetry which can be very intense and toxic," said Hutchinson.
His background in "One Mic" and his various work in non-profits among the Columbia community inspired him to run for the First Ward City Council seat. Regardless of the outcome of the election, Hutchinson plans to continue his non-profit work.
The First Ward City Council election will be in April.


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Q: What kind of JOIN statement do I need? I have two tables PROCESS and STEP and some data inside as show below. (They have 1-N relationship.)
PROCESS ->

ID START_TIME STARTED_BY STATUS
1  31/08/2012 User1      FINISHED
2  31/08/2012 User2      FINISHED
3  05/09/2012 User3      ACTIVE

STEP ->

ID PROCESS_ID START_TIME END_TIME   STATUS
1  1          31/08/2012 02/09/2012 FINISHED
2  1          02/09/2012 03/09/2012 FINISHED
3  1          03/09/2012 10/09/2012 FINISHED
4  2          31/08/2012 04/09/2012 FINISHED
5  2          04/09/2012 06/09/2012 FINISHED
6  2          06/09/2012 09/09/2012 FINISHED
7  3          05/09/2012 06/09/2012 FINISHED
8  3          06/09/2012 NULL       ACTIVE

What I need is a JOIN, which will give me Start and End times of Finished processes like below:
PROCESS_ID START_TIME END_TIME
1          31/08/2012 10/09/2012
2          31/08/2012 09/09/2012

What kind of JOIN statement do I need to write to accomplish this?

A: To avoid pulling in PROCESS_ID 3, you need to aggregate and filter first
The HAVING clause will ensure you ignore all rows for PROCESS_ID 3 in the STEP table. A simple WHERE END_TIME IS NOT NULL or WHERE .. 'FINISHED' won't do it. Neither will aggregating after the JOIN
SELECT
   P.PROCESS_ID,
   S.StartTime, S.EndTime
FROM
   PROCESS P
   JOIN
   (
   SELECT
      PROCESS_ID,
      MIN(START_TIME) AS StartTime,
      MAX(END_TIME) AS EndTime
   FROM
      STEP
   GROUP BY
      PROCESS_ID
   HAVING
      COUNT(*) = COUNT(END_TIME) -- only where we have no END_TIME nulls
   ) S ON P.PROCESS_ID = S.PROCESS_ID

There are other options with a NOT EXISTS to ignore ACTIVE rows, for example, but I'm using just END_TIME and NULLs here to ignore STEP rows

A: Looks like you need an INNER JOIN and use the MIN and MAX functions.
SELECT PROCESS.PROCESS_ID, MIN(START_TIME), MAX(END_TIME)
FROM PROCESS
INNER JOIN STEP ON STEP.PROCESS_ID = PROCESS.PROCESS_ID
GROUP BY PROCESS.PROCESS_ID


Thoughts from my morning run….One key to personal satisfaction, happiness and results that I have discovered is the "Art of Balancing Flexibility with Discipline".
Discipline in WHAT you do — your goals, your targets, pushing yourself, removing distractions, focusing on completion, moving forward….
Flexibility in HOW you go about doing it — change your patterns, embrace a newer approach, find another path, innovate, take risks ….
To me the balance is not about doing the same thing everyday, in the same way, at the same time. But its about being disciplined about what you want to achieve, being consistent and disciplined in your efforts – — but having the ability to look at different possibilities, better ways of achieving the results.
An example to help illustrate this is connected to my Morning run regime. I like to be disciplined about going for my run daily, disciplined about running my 5k daily and disciplined about going in the morning…However, I like to stay flexible with WHERE and HOW I do my 5k, flexible about exploring a new path (this helps be break my set pattern – and its wonderful how much impact this can have on our ability to take other risks).
have a 27 slide presentation doesn't mean I need to go through it the way I made it or even show all of them or maybe any of them!
So, I guess we need to really explore what aspects of our lives/ work we need to be Disciplined about and try and take risks & different ways (break patterns) to Flexibly achieve our goals.


Westar Energy and Electric Transmission America have banded together in hopes of building ultra-high capacity transmission lines between Wichita and the Spearville substation.
The partnership, dubbed Prairie Wind Transmission, is expected to get under way after the company receives government approval for the project, according to a statement released by Westar Energy.
The purpose of the transmission lines was to provide an opportunity for Kansas' renewable wind energy to be shipped across the state and country, Westar CEO Bill Moore said in a statement.
Kelly Harrison, Western Energy vice president and president of Prairie Wind, said in the same statement that the project would offer economic benefits for those in the affected areas, including Kiowa and Ford counties.
Harrison said the lines would be the start of an interstate transmission "super highway" that would allow Kansas to export renewable energy resources to states that don't have similar options. Kansans could also access power markets across the region.
The 230-mile project includes a southwest stretch of transmission lines branching from Medicine Lodge south to the Oklahoma border.
The construction project, which could eventually cost more than $500 million, would offer an economic boost in rural Kansas by providing new construction jobs, according to a news release from Westar Energy.
Prairie Wind Transmission's first project is touted to be the first ultra-high capacity transmission line built west of the Mississippi River.
Erin La Row, spokeswoman for Westar in Wichita, told the Globe on Friday that it was unclear this early in the plan whether the wind energy produced by the Spearville Wind Farm would be tied into the new lines. La Row went on to say it was also unclear how much wind power in general would be transmitted.
No time line has been set for the project, but company officials are estimating the lines would be up and fully running by the end of 2013.


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