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As is the case with the vast majority of the GI Joe team, Richard (working under the code name of Dodger) is naught but a normal human - at least, in the physical sense. He lacks super-human powers of any variety, be they from freakish mutations, mishaps of science, or strange and forbidden knowledge. Like his Battle Force 2000 fellows, however, he does have a lot of high tech hardware handy.
Helmet: anyone that drives a heavily armed and armored vehicle into battle will typically wear one of these accessories, because sometimes you have to poke your head out of the thing to drive - making it a great target. Whenever he takes a hit to the cranium, Dodger receives the benefit of rank value 10 protection from the damage it would inflict. This helmet also has a headset connected to the Marauder.
Laser Sonic Photon Rifle: a true marvel of modern technology that most of the world doesn't even know exists, this handy weapon is Dodger's pride and joy. It fires a sonic pulse that 'readies' the air to more readily conduct laser beams, allowing him to inflict rank value 20 Armor Piercing Energy damage per deadly blast of this cannon. It also has a spike-knuckled hand guard for hand-to-hand combat (Slashing damage).
the Marauder: this bizarre motorcycle - tank hybrid can function on land or on water, making it a true marvel of modern technology. Furthermore, the rear section can detach to help form Battle Force 2000's Future Fortress, making it fun to drive and vital to the team at the same time. Dodger's Marauder is described in its own, in-depth vehicular entry elsewhere.
Sidearm: in the event that his high tech energy weapons should fail him, Dodger carries a standard firearm with him during missions; you never know, after all. He can fire this trusty weapon to inflict rank value 6 Piercing damage in a single shot, or boost this to rank value 10 Piercing damage in a magazine-expending burst of lead, which he only does when absolutely necessary.
Vest: keenly aware how much bullets hurt, Dodger typically wears an armored vest into battle - you never know when your vehicle's armor will fail you, after all. This vest, built from state of the art artificial fibers, protects Dodger with rank value 10 ability from most torso-based assaults that hit him, whether from the front or back, or in or out of his Marauder.
Advanced Guns: supplementing his considerable ability with conventional firearms, Dodger has received extensive training in the use of rather advanced, powered weaponry. Whenever he's handling high tech weapons such as sonic or laser rifles, particle or rail guns, or even more exotic devices, he may do so as though his Coordination was +1 RS higher than is listed above.
Electronics: his secondary military specialty, this skill showcases Dodger's ability to maintain most advanced electronic systems - usually those that are vehicle mounted, but not always. He may perform maintenance and repairs on such equipment as though his Intellect trait was +1 RS in value, and should he be so inclined, he receives this bonus when building new electronic circuits as well.
Guns: an essential portion of his military training, this skill details Dodger's ability to wield most conventional firearms in battle. Whether he is brandishing a standard, semi-automatic, or fully automatic rifle, pistol, or shotgun, Dodger may fire said weapon as though his Coordination trait was +1 RS higher in value - he's just that good with the things.
Marksman: a skill he mastered due to his particular line of work in the military, Dodger has learned how to wield most heavy, line-of-sight weaponry when he needs to - usually while behind the wheel of a tank or other treaded vehicle. When operating most artillery weapons, from mortars to main tank cannons, Dodger does so as though his Coordination was +1 RS in value.
Martial Arts style B: a tried and true standby of military training, this skill describes Dodger's ability to defend himself should he find himself unarmed (a difficult feat, considering how much gear he usually has on hand). When wielding no weapons, Dodger may attack others bare-handed as though his Melee trait was +1 RS higher than is listed above, whether punching, kicking, or whatever.
Military / United States: both a talent and an origin, this skill basically describes where Dodger got all of his training (other skills) and high tech equipment. Thanks to his association with the military, Dodger has access to immense resources with which to fight the forces of tyranny, and has an inherent understanding of the SOP (military protocols and procedures).
Repair / Tinkering: his primary military specialty, this skill details Dodger's ability to maintain most vehicles in a ready state of operation. When maintaining or repairing vehicles, whether they be his assigned conveyances (usually tracked assault vehicles) or any other, Dodger may perform such ACTIONs as though the applicable trait was +1 RS higher than is listed above.
As a member of the GI Joe team, Dodger can naturally rely upon his fellows for assistance should he need it; the team definitely looks after its own. Furthermore, he's a member of the Joe sub-team known as Battle Force 2000, a tight-knit group of Joes who develop advanced technology for the GI Joe team and readily test it in the field against Cobra and any other enemies of Freedom!
When active as the driver of Battle Force 2000's Marauder (which is most of the time, when you get down to it), Dodger wears an interesting uniform that includes an orange tank top under a green vest, green fingerless gloves, a gray wrist band on his right arm, black leather boots, green and gray camouflage trousers, gray web gear, gray thigh pads, and a green and gray helmet.
Dodger is the kind of guy who believes in doing something right. Even though he could just lean on electronic devices and other high tech doo-dads, he prefers to know precisely how everything he's doing is supposed to go, in the event that those high tech toys fail him. He's an old hand at military action and is more than happy to lend a hand to the younger types on the team that are still getting the hang of things.
Real Name: Richard Renwick, Grade E-7
Occupation: armored vehicle and electronics maintenance
Legal Status: citizen of the United States with a possible criminal record
Group Affiliation: GI Joe, Battle Force 2000
Hair: unrevealed
Dodger has been an armored vehicle combatant for a very long time. He's become an expert in all manner of top of the line electronics that make the operation of tanks and other treaded vehicles dead easy. Of course, he doesn't rely on all this gear; he's learned how to engage in armored combat the hard way, and while he uses advanced electronics, he can drive a tank 'blind'.
This skill is what got him noticed by the powers that be, who were staffing a new unit for the GI Joe team. This unit would be on the forefront of weapons development not only for the Joes but for the military in general, and they could use someone who knew armored vehicles inside and out. Assuming he could pass the terrifying GI Joe entrance exam, Dodger was offered a place on the team.
He managed this, of course, and was placed in GI Joes's new, Battle Force 2000 unit. They first saw action in the Arctic nation of Freusenland, where the team was testing out all of its new hardware. Little did they know that Cobra had been setting up Terror Dromes all over the place, and had finally activated the low frequency mood alteration technology within, causing riots nationwide.
The Joes were affected by these 'paranoia waves' as well, and Dodger and Avalanche got into something of a fight before Blaster figured things out, and convinced everyone to stop beating on each other and put headphones on. Once they did this, Dodger and the Battle Force mounted up, using their gear to take out as many of the Terror Dromes as they could, meeting other Joes arriving in the process.
Helping them fight off a Cobra advance, the Battle Force 2000 turned the tide and won things, proving the viability of their new gear - which can combine to form some sort of super field fortress - in the process. Dodger and company then went on to be a staple of several further Joe operations, at least until the Battle of Benzheen, in which things went horribly wrong for the Battle Force 2000 crew.
While they were advancing through the oil tanks of Benzheen, Battle Force 2000 was targeted by Cobra Commander, who learned of their presence no thanks to the bumbling leader of Benzheen. Destroying all the oil tanks, Cobra Commander managed to wipe out all of the Battle Force 2000 team in one shot, save for Dodger, who somehow managed to survive the intense blast of the detonating oil.
The lone survivor of his team, Dodger was reassigned to work with a small unit of Joes testing out advanced, sonic weaponry soon after. His extant gear was rather close to this, so most of this work was rather easy. He continued on in this capacity until the Joe team's first deactivation, though when the team was intermittently active after this point, Dodger was more than happy to help when asked.
He did so during the second Cobra Island Civil War and, of course, World War III, where he and his fellow Joes helped to turn the tide of battle, and stoppe Cobra from taking over the world once and for all. With their leader in chains, the group fell apart, leaving Dodger and company to simply mop up and hold things together until the world could rebuild all the damage Cobra caused.
Laser Pistol: a newer weapon that Dodger has picked up to test along with minor upgrades to his laser sonic photon rifle, this lesser unit is also a bit smaller in the damage it inflicts. Dodger may fire this one-handed weapon to inflict rank value 10 Armor Piercing Energy damage per blast, and he can fire about ten shots from this weapon before it requires a recharge for its power pack.
After the unfortunate demise of the rest of Battle Force 2000, Dodger started wearing a slightly different uniform. It consists of a green tank top under a red vest, red fingerless gloves, a golden (brass?) wrist band on his right arm, red and brown leather boots, tan camouflage trousers, golden (brass?) web gear to hold tools and such, gray thigh pads, and a green helmet.
Dodger's third GI Joe field uniform is almost identical to his original, Battle Force 2000 ensemble. It includes an orange tank top beneath a green vest, an orange leather belt, green fingerless leather gloves, a gray accessory pack on his right wrist, green and gray leather boots, green and gray camouflage trousers, gray knee and thigh pads, and a green and gray helmet.
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Proposed Amtrak route would connect Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta
Priscilla Aguirre
The proposed route would connect Dallas and Fort Worth to Atlanta.
Courtesy, Amtrak
A proposed Amtrak route that would connect the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex to Atlanta is chugging along. Canadian Pacific Railway announced in a news release last week its plans to support Amtrak's service expansions of passenger rail service in the Midwest and the South.
Amtrak's two-passenger rail routes would include service between New Orleans and Baton Rouge and a study for potential Amtrak service between Meridian, Mississippi, and Dallas. The proposed I-20 corridor passenger rail route would include stops in Marshall and Longview.
It comes as welcoming news to the I-20 Corridor Council, a nonprofit, grassroots advocacy comprised of mayors, judges, elected officials, and other stakeholders along the I-20 corridor. The council has been working for more than 15 years to establish an east-west long-distance passenger rail connection between Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta, according to its website.
NEW ROUTE: #Amtrak's new I-20 Corridor long-distance route would connect Dallas and Atlanta, with East Texas stops in Mineola (Tyler), Longview, and Marshall.
Take a closer look at the proposal here: https://t.co/6Cxs4JaPih pic.twitter.com/KNs5W8UssE
— Lane Luckie (@LaneLuckie) January 11, 2022
Former Texas State Senator and former Harrison County Judge Richard Anderson, chairman of the I-20 Corridor Council, wrote on Facebook the council is "very pleased and grateful for the positive steps that Amtrak and Canadian Pacific have announced."
"We look forward to continued progress in this regard as we continue to work toward making the I-20 Corridor long-distance passenger rail connection a reality for the great benefit of our Southern region and nation," Anderson wrote.
According to the council's website, the Fort Worth to Marshall passenger link currently exists as part of Amtrak's Texas Eagle long-distance route. In the proposed route, it would create an East-West connection between Texas and the East Coast but also to Los Angeles and New York.
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A keeper of seeds hopes to save the world from starvation
May 2, 2014 / Thu-Huong Ha
If you ever find yourself in the northernmost town in the world, look carefully. Built into the side of a sandstone mountain is a glowing blue façade on top of a concrete tunnel; it might be the door to the secret headquarters of a Bond villain. And like Bond's greatest villains, its purpose is at once deeply pessimistic and oddly hopeful.
The Global Seed Vault on the archipelago of Svalbard, Norway, is built to protect the world's seed diversity from natural disasters and warfare. Designed to last 10,000 years, this vault is the world's insurance policy, a way to ensure that humanity never runs out of diverse sources of food to grow.
The vault is the brainchild of Cary Fowler, a 65-year-old bespectacled man with a mop of curly red hair and a gentle southern American twang (he's from Memphis, Tennessee). Frankly he makes a somewhat unlikely candidate for the role of protector of the planet's food supply. But the so-called "doomsday vault" he helped to found, which opened in 2008, is the culmination of a career dedicated to agricultural diversity. Back in the 1970s, he wrote his PhD dissertation on intellectual property rights related to crop varieties, which started him on his lifelong quest to protect the world's plants. In the 1990s, he led the first-ever global assessment of the world's plant genetic resources for the United Nations. In 2007, he became the executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, a foundation to protect food security, and worked on starting the vault, which is funded by the trust and the Norwegian government. And he remains obsessive when it comes to seeds and plants. (It's even how he met his wife.)
Cary Fowler in the Global Seed Vault in 2007. Photo: Kalle Koponen.
Fowler's face lights up when he talks about his favorite crop, Lathyrus sativus, commonly known as the grass pea or chickling vetch. The seeds from this legume can be eaten roasted or boiled, or turned into a protein-packed flour, and the plant is extremely drought-tolerant. Fowler calls it "a miracle," "just an incredible thing." But there is a dark side to the wonder crop: it contains a neurotoxin that becomes more concentrated in drought conditions and can cause permanent paralysis if eaten in isolation for a few weeks. Yet it's a staple crop for farmers in countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia and India — places where drought is more and more an issue. The grass pea, in other words, has become a potential weapon of mass destruction. As Fowler puts it, "The poorest people in the world are faced with an absolutely horrible, unconscionable, immoral choice: Starve, or be paralyzed."
Variants of the grass pea that contain less of the neurotoxin have been developed. But until recently, the biggest collection of those seeds was at the International Centre for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) in Aleppo, Syria. In 2012 just as bombing in Aleppo had gotten so bad that ICARDA researchers were evacuated, their seed collection was moved to Turkey. And, after Fowler and his team hustled, backup seeds are housed in Svalbard.
That's why the vault is so important. Some 1,400 seed banks exist all around the world, but in general they are working collections used by plant breeders and biology researchers who retrieve seeds to work on. The Global Seed Vault, which houses 825,000 unique seed samples, is the insurance for these local vaults, a backup to the backup. As food security comes under threat from climate change — a recent Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change report projects that future wheat yields will drop by two percent per decade — crop diversity is necessary to ensuring a stable, sustainable food supply. We'll need to try many kinds of crops to see what grows in our new weather.
Fowler's recent focus has been to connect with smaller, less accessible banks. To date, he's obtained seeds from North Korea, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, and after many years of discussion is now hopeful of getting them from China, Japan and Ethiopia. (Iran is still proving to be a struggle.) Some smaller banks from countries such as Kenya and Pakistan have been eager to send seeds; civil strife had managers worried that their collections might be in danger. And rightly so: War destroyed both Iraq and Afghanistan's national gene seed banks.
The irony of Fowler's life's work is that, in the best-case scenario, the vault is never used. "I'd be happy if on my tombstone they said something about how I did something that was totally unnecessary; what a fool," he says.
While you might think that no one could find fault with a would-be savior of the world's agriculture, you might also be surprised. In the past five years, Fowler has been accused of being everything from a Monsanto puppet (false) to part of a NATO conspiracy to destroy the world and repopulate it with two million vault-stored Norwegians (false, and difficult, as there is one port-a-potty in the entire vault). Says Fowler, "If you go all the way up to the North Pole and build a tunnel 130 meters into the mountain and put a strange-looking wedge-like structure aboveground with a light on top, it's going to spark some conspiracy theories and intrigue." Yet the soft-spoken plant lover, now chair of the vault's international advisory council, clearly finds it both upsetting and baffling that anyone should question his motives. He recalls a lecture he gave two years ago in Minnesota. The university insisted that plainclothes policemen act as security because someone had phoned in a death threat, accusing him of plotting with Monsanto to destroy the world. Says Fowler, "I thought, 'This is crazy, really crazy. I'm just trying to save some seeds.'"
With the seed bank stocked up, Fowler is now looking forward to semi-retirement on his farm in Rhinebeck, NY. There, he says, he'll grow a couple of hundred varieties of peppers.
Top image: Svalbard Global Seed Vault at Night. Photo: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust/Dyveke Sanne.
Thu-Huong Ha writes and edits for TED. She likes to eat and learn, at times in tandem.
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DESCRIPTION OF PROCEDURE: After obtaining an informed consent, the patient was taken to the operating room where a time-out process was followed. Initially, the patient was intubated with a #6 French tube because of the presence of previous laryngectomy. Because of this, I proceeded to use a pediatric bronchoscope, which provided limited visualization, but I was able to see the trachea and the carina and both left and right bronchial systems without significant pathology, although there was some mucus secretion that was aspirated.
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From Birth of a Nation to Silent Sam: What History and Popular Culture Can Teach Us About the Southern "Lost Cause" and Confederate Monuments Today
by Steve Hochstadt	tags: Southern history,statues,Confederacy,monuments
Steve Hochstadt is a writer and a professor of history at Illinois College.
The thousands of monuments to the Confederacy and its leaders scattered across the South have become a national political controversy that shows no signs of abating. The decision of the City Council of Charlottesville, Virginia, to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee, mounted on his horse on a 20-foot high pedestal in the center of town, prompted three public rallies of white supremacists in 2017. At the Unite the Right rally in August last year, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one woman and injuring dozens of people. He has just been convicted of first-degree murder. The statue still stands.
Of the approximately 1700 public memorials to the Confederacy, less than 100 have been removed in the past few years. These visible symbols represent the persistence of a cherished historical myth of American conservatives, the honor of the "Lost Cause" of the Civil War. Developed immediately after the defeat of the South in 1865, the Lost Cause relies on two claims: the War was caused by a conflict over states' rights, not slavery, and slavery itself was an honorable institution, in which whites and blacks formed contented "families".
Thus the political and military leaders of the Confederacy were engaged in a righteous struggle and deserve to be honored as American heroes.
This interpretation of the Civil War was a political tool used by Southern whites to fight against Reconstruction and to disenfranchise and discriminate against African Americans. Northern whites generally accepted this mythology as a means to reunite the nation, since that was more comfortable for them than confronting their own racial codes.
During most of the 160 years since the end of the Civil War, the Lost Cause reigned as the official American understanding of our history. The glorification of the Ku Klux Klan in the film "Birth of a Nation" (originally titled "the Clansman") in 1915 was a landmark in the nationalization of this ideology. The newly formed NAACP protested that the film should be banned, but President Woodrow Wilson brought it into the White House, and the KKK sprang to life again that year in both North and South.
Not as overtly supportive of white supremacy as "Birth of a Nation", "Gone With The Wind" in 1939 reinforced the Lost Cause stereotypes of honorable plantation owners, contented slaves unable to fend for themselves, and devious Northerners. It broke attendance records everywhere, set a record by winning 8 Academy Awards, and is still considered "one of the most beloved movies of all time".
Generations of professional historians, overwhelmingly white, transformed the Lost Cause into official historical truth, especially in the South. Textbooks, like the 1908 History of Virginia by Mary Tucker Magill, white-washed slavery: "Generally speaking, the negroes proved a harmless and affectionate race, easily governed, and happy in their condition." This idea prevailed half a century later in the textbook Virginia: History, Government, Geography, used in seventh-grade classrooms into the 1970s: "Life among the Negroes of Virginia in slavery times was generally happy. The Negroes went about in a cheerful manner making a living for themselves and for those for whom they worked." A high school text went into more fanciful detail about the slave: "He enjoyed long holidays, especially at Christmas. He did not work as hard as the average free laborer, since he did not have to worry about losing his job. In fact, the slave enjoyed what we might call collective security. Generally speaking, his food was plentiful, his clothing adequate, his cabin warm, his health protected, his leisure carefree. He did not have to worry about hard times, unemployment, or old age." The texts were produced in cooperation with the Virginia state government.
The Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s not only overturned legal segregation, but they also prompted revision of this discriminatory history. Historians have since thoroughly rejected the tenets of the Lost Cause. All the leaders in the South openly proclaimed that they were fighting to preserve slavery, based on their belief in the inherent inferiority of the black race. Both official and eyewitness sources clearly describe the physical, psychological and social horrors of slavery.
But the defenders of the Lost Cause have fought back against good history with tenacious persistence. In the international context of the Cold War, the local journalists and academic historians and forthright eyewitnesses, who investigated and reported on the real race relations in American society, became potential traitors. These "terrorists" of the 1950s cast doubt on the fiction of a morally superior America, as it battled immoral Communism. The dominance of white Americans in every possible field of American life was also threatened by a factual accounting of slavery before, during, and after the Civil War.
Bad history persists because those in power can enforce it by harassing its critics. It was easy for the FBI and conservative organizations to pinpoint those academics, journalists, and film directors who dissented from the Lost Cause ideology. They could then be attacked for their associations with organizations that could be linked to other organizations that could be linked to Communists. These crimes of identification were made easier to concoct because of the leading role played by American leftists in the fight against racism during the long 20th century of Jim Crow.
Thus did Norman Cazden, an assistant professor of music at the University of Illinois, lose his job in 1953. The FBI had typed an anonymous letter containing what Cazden called "unverified allegations as to my past associations," and sent it to the University President. Cazden was among 400 high school and university teachers anonymously accused by the FBI between 1951 and 1953.
The defenders of the Lost Cause switched parties in my lifetime. Shocked by the white supremacist violence of the Civil Rights years, popular movements and popular sentiment forced both parties to end Jim Crow, using historical and political facts to attack all facets of white supremacist ideology, including the Lost Cause.
The shift of Dixiecrat Democrats to loyal Republicans is personified in the party shift of Strom Thurmond, Senator from South Carolina and most prominent voice in favor of segregation, from Democrat to Republican in 1964.
It still seemed appropriate in 2002 for the Senate's Republican leader, Trent Lott, to toast Thurmond on his 100th birthday by saying he was proud to have voted for Thurmond for President in 1948, and "if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either." None of the major news outlets, the "liberal media" reported the remark, dwelling instead on the pathos of the old famous rich racist. Only a groundswell of criticism forced the mainstream media to recognize Lott's words as a hymn to white supremacy.
By then, generations of Americans, both in the South and in the North, had absorbed the bad historical lessons that remain the basis for racist beliefs today.
The Lost Cause lives on in the South, supported by federal and state tax dollars. An investigative report published in Smithsonian magazine revealed that the official sites and memorials of the history of the Confederacy still "pay homage to a slave-owning society and serve as blunt assertions of dominance over African Americans." During the past decade, over $40 million in government funds have been spent to preserve these sites, originally created by Jim Crow governments to justify segregation. Schoolchildren continue to be taught Lost Cause legends.
Politics keeps bad history alive, because of the political expediency of the false narratives it tells. American white supremacists have been created and encouraged by this version of American history.
So the struggle over history goes on. Most recently, several dozen graduate teaching assistants at the University of North Carolina announced a "grade strike" to protest the University's plan to spend $5 million constructing a new building to house a Confederate monument that protesters had pulled down in August. They are refusing to turn in students' grades.
The Lost Cause story itself deserves an "F", but it will persist as long as political leaders find its fictions convenient.


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But all in all, this is a most important new study of a presidency that still feels far closer than it is, and continues to rebuke successive occupants of the Oval Office for the smallness of their dreams. This is an intimate portrait indeed. After a short stroll along Fisherman ´ s Wharf, the tourist center of S. Many of the illnesses appeared at one time or another to be fatal, and on at least two occasions he received the last rites. Die charakteristische Mischung aus Anmut und Stärke und die geschmeidige Schönheit des Pferdes werden vom Menschen seit langer Zeit analysiert, bewundert und künstlerisch festgehalten — ob als Gemälde, Skulptur oder Fotografie. Before writing, Robert Dallek, a respected presidential historian at Boston University, received permission from the family's praetorian guard to examine the president's private medical records.


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By Alison Campbell • 29/10/2010 This post was syndicated from BioBlog - View original source
Prominent creationist Ray Comfort once (in)famously commented that the 'design elements' that make up a banana, including its so-convenient shape, are evidence for the existence of a Designer. A comment that has been pretty resoundingly debunked – unsurprisingly, since the banana-as-we-know-it is due in large part to the hand of man, selecting for those features of bananas that make them desirable as a food – lack of seeds (wild-type, uncultivated bananas have almost more seeds than flesh) & that wonderfully unzippable peel. Something that last year's Schol Bio examination asked students to think about.
Image: inside a wild-type banana (from Wikipedia)
Bananas belong to the genus Musa. If you think back to the last banana you ate, you'll rememember that it's seedless, unlike the 'wild' banana shown above. All commercially-grown banana plants are produced asexually, from suckers or sprouts. The varieties we import also tend to be rather large, but the fruit can be much smaller (apparently the name 'banana' derives from an Arabic word for finger, banan). They're imported as unripe fruit, & ripened before sale by being exposed to ethylene. Ripe fruit (not just bananas) release this gas, but for commercial ripening the fruit are placed in a room that's then flooded with it.
Incidentally that lack of any sort of sex life places banana crops at some risk: because they're clonal, if a pathogen comes along to which they have no resistance, much of the crop may fail. For example, the 'Black Sigatoka fungus' can lower production by up to 50% in infected crops. This problem is magnified by the loss of genetic diversity in wild bananas as rainforests are felled. Another pathogen, bacterial banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW) disease, poses a significant threat in East Africa. While we may view the loss of bananas as something of a misfortune, for others it would be much worse: after rice, maize & wheat, bananas are the world's 4th most important food crop.
Now, back to the question. The examiner tells us that "Many different species of banana exist today, all of which are descended from one or other of the 'wild' Asian species: Musa acuminata (AA:2n = 22) and Musa balbisiana (BB: 2n = 22). Students needed to pay careful attention to the AA & BB. They represent the genome – the full chromosome set – rather than alleles at a particular locus. This is important, because the question goes on to give you information about the genomes of several of the major cultivars in modern bananas:
Species Genome
Jari Buaya
Gros Michel
Grande Naine
Abuhon
Chuoi Hot Qua Lep
Njalipoovan
Awak
Pelipita
Kluai Ngoen
So, the examiner asked scholarship candidates to "[d]iscuss the sequence of events and processes that have resulted in the three different species of banana with the followign genomes, arising from the original 'wild' species of banana: AAA, AB, and ABB," and advised using annotated flow diagrams in doing this. The discussion also needed to include "the genetic processes that could have occurred to produce the different cultivars of Gros Michel, Grande Naine and Cavendish within the one species of the AAA genome." (The question went on to ask candidates to design an experiment to investigate the action of ethylene on ripening rate in bananas, but I think we have enough to look at without going into that right now!)
O-kay. I am not one of those clever people who can do all sorts of flowcharts on their webpages, but if I was, I'd be drawing a flow diagram or two showing things like polyploidy & hybridisation. This is because that first AAA genome must be the result of a cross between 2 M.acuminata individuals where one produced normal (i.e. n = 11) haploid gametes, A, while the other produced gametes (at least some!) which were diploid (AA) due to complete non-disjunction in meiosis. The 3n (AAA) individuals thus produced are autopolyploids (both parents from the same species. Because as triploid organisms you'd predict they'd have difficulty producing gametes of their own, these AAA plants are sterile & can reproduce only asexually.
The second (AB) species is the result of a hybridisation event involving one M.acuminata parent and one from M.balbisiana, both producing haploid gametes. And tthe third, ABB, species is another polyploid organism. This time it's an allopolyploid (2 different parents) with the M.acuminata parent contributing a haploid gamete (A: n = 11) while the M.balbisiana parent must have produced some BB (2n = 22) gametes, again through complete non-disjunction during meiosis. (You could probably get away with not drawing flow diagrams, but in that case you'd need to give a comprehensive & logical description of what was happening.)
What about those different cultivars with the one genotype (AAA)? Two possibilities here. One is mutations after the AAA triploid was formed. In some cases mutations – in different plants – could result in different phenotypes. And if those phenotypes were viewed as 'desirable' by farmers, they'd be propagated by cuttings, ending up as the different cultivars.
The other possibility is that the original parent plants (those AA individuals) had differences in their genotypes. This is really only to be expected, given the fact that independent assortment, crossing-over & recombination routinely shuffle alleles between homologous chromosomes, and homologues assort independently when gametes are formed. Again, when the AAA polyploids were produced (I think it's safe to assume this could happen more than once) then they'd receive these variations from their parents. And again, any 'desirable' phenotypes would be selected for.
There! Isn't that a rather more satisfying explanation than Mr Comfort's?
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Review: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
Posted by Amy on Jul 25, 2019 in Fantasy, Reviews | 0 comments
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
H.G. Parry
Published: July 23, 2019 (Redhook)
Purchase at: Amazon
Review Source: Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for and honest review
Reviewed by: Amy
For as long as he's been alive Charley Sutherland has had the ability to bring forth literary characters from the books where they reside into the real world.
For as long as Charley has been alive his older brother Robert has been picking up the pieces and cleaning up the messes that usually occur when bringing a literary character into the real world.
On one such occasion, Rob is called to the university where Charley works to help apprehend one Uriah Heep (of David Copperfield fame). Before Uriah can be sent back, he alludes to the fact that something big is on the horizon. Something that will change the world forever.
Rob and Charley soon learn there is another Summoner in their midst. Someone who has been calling forth characters and using them to commit crimes. When a portal leading into a mysterious Dickensian London street appears, Charley will finally have to use the powers he's tried suppressing his entire life in order to keep the real world from getting edited out.
There is a lot to unpack with The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep. With so much, it'll be difficult to talk about everything this book can/could/should/did allude to, but we'll give it a try.
I really think that this is one of the best literary mashups I've read in quite a while, giving me real Thursday Next vibes. I loved seeing all the familiar characters popping up. Most of them were expected (Darcy, Heathcliff, Dorian Gray, Artful Dodger etc.), some were a little unexpected (such as the Jabberwock), but all were fun to encounter. The best thing about these characters is that their personalities are often based upon the Summoner's interpretation of the text which may vary from language translations or be influenced by a movie adaptation (I'm looking at you Darcy, who jumps into pools). H.G. Parry pulls the literary analysis together really well, in a way that's accessible to any type of reader you might be.
In the center of everything you have Charley and Rob, who fill in the roles of "chosen one" and "non-magical sidekick" respectively. Through that we see what is perceived as the certain responsibilities both roles often require within the literary world, but we also see how it's not necessarily always easy to be the person in which the world's safety rests or being the person who supports them. Rob and Charley have never had an easy brotherly relationship. Besides pulling characters from books, Charley is also extremely intelligent. Graduating high school at the same time as his older brother has been cause for accolades, but also for more attention because he was so young. So there's a jealousy factor to their relationship, but there's also the idea of the older brother wanting to protect his younger brother, to keep him safe. It's instinctual for Rob, yet he also feels like it's his obligation. I really enjoyed seeing the push/pull between them. Definitely a very familial focused story.
Overall, The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep was a fun, interesting, adventurous read. Perfect for booklovers. I cannot wait to see what H.G. Parry has for us next.
Sexual content: None


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Q: What is different way to store order item and item can have sub item? The application has order and an order can have items.
For it we had database tables like following.
Table 1 - T_ORDER(pk_order_id, order_no, date)
Table 2 - T_ORDER_ITEM (pk_order_itemid, fk_order_id, ean, quantity, price)

Now we have to support the case that order can have bundle item means one bundle item contain more than one real item. A bundle item will have all the property that an normal item can have like ean, quantity, price.
Basically bundle is virtual group of one or more real item but it can have property like real item like quantity - so user can place order more than one such bundle item, ean - for identification, price - it can have price including all real item in the bundle.
I wish to know best database table design to support this case? and what are advantage and disadvantage of one over another and which points should I consider during selecting one of them?
Option 1 - New tables for bundle and bundle item
           In addition of above two tables , we add two new tables like
           T_ORDER_BUNDLE(pk_order_bundle_id, fk_order_id, ean, quantity, price
           T_ORDER_BUNDLE_ITEM (pk_order_bundle_itemid, fk_order_bundle_id, ean, quantity, price)

Option 2 - New table to store bundle and use existing table for item
           T_ORDER_BUNDLE(pk_order_bundle_id, fk_order_id, ean, quantity, price
           Just add new column like fk_order_bundle_id in T_ORDER_ITEM table.

Option 3 - New table to store sub items of an item
           Bundle item can be stored in existing T_ORDER_ITEM table.
           New table - T_ORDER_ITEM_SUBITEM(pk_order_item_subitem, fk_order_itemid, ean, quantity, price)

Note :-
We do not have any master table for items.  Table T_ORDER_ITEM contain all item data and relation to order. As order can accepted for any item and we don't have any fixed list of items to sale.

A: You are dealing with item bundles, where for example the bundle is a tennis racket set consisting of three items: two rackets and one ball. You have considered three approaches on how to model this in your database. I'm proposing a fourth way.
What you have so far:

*

*items (item_id, ean, description, list_price)

*orders (order_id, order_no, date)

*order_item (order_item_id, order_id, item_id, quantity, price)

This is what the item table may look like:

item_id | ean     | description      | list_price
--------+---------+------------------+-----------
1       | 1234567 | tennis racket    |      50.00
2       | 2345678 | tennis ball      |       4.00

Now there is two things we need: A bundle item for the tennis set and the assignment which items belong to the set.
First let's add the bundle item to the item table:

item_id | ean     | description      | list_price
--------+---------+------------------+-----------
1       | 1234567 | tennis racket    |      50.00
2       | 2345678 | tennis ball      |       4.00
3       | 3456789 | tennis set       |      98.00

The set price 98 is cheaper than the sum of the set's content 50 + 50 + 4 = 104, which is often the reason to buy a set.
Now, for the association we create an association table we can call bundles or something alike. It shows which item contains which other items and how many of these.

*

*bundles (bundle_item_id, bundled_item_id, amount)

And then let's fill it with our data:

bundle_item_id | bundled_item_id | amount
---------------+-----------------+-------
3              | 1               |      2
3              | 2               |      1


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Q: sonarqube+jacoco+junit code coverage showing 0% in sonarqube dashboard I am using sonarqube + jacoco for codecoverage, i have junit test case for my java code in below dir structure.
src/main/java/code/abc.java
src/main/test/code/Testabc.java

I want a code coverage on sonarqube dashboard and i am using gradle for the same.
apply plugin: "java"
apply plugin: "org.sonarqube"
apply plugin: "jacoco"

jacoco {
toolVersion = "0.7.9"
reportsDir = file("${project.buildDir}/jacoco/customJacocoReportDir")
}

sonarqube {
    properties {
        property "sonar.sources", "."
        property "sonar.projectName", "javacode"
        property "sonar.projectKey", "javacode"
        property "sonar.java.coveragePlugin", "jacoco"
        property "sonar.java.binaries", "/data/tmp/env/"
        property "sonar.jacoco.reportPath", "${project.buildDir}/jacoco/test.exec"
    }
}

buildscript {

   repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.sonarsource.scanner.gradle:sonarqube-gradle-plugin:2.7"

  }
}

I am running gradle sonarqube
I dont know where i am doing wrong? if any one can help to get the coverage of test case written from java code.

A: It seems to me, that Jacoco test reports are generated in one directory, but SoanrQube is configured to look into another one. Here is the directory you save reports:
reportsDir = file("${project.buildDir}/jacoco/customJacocoReportDir")

and here is Sonar configuration to look up Jacoco results:
property "sonar.jacoco.reportPath", "${project.buildDir}/jacoco/test.exec"

There is customJacocoReportDir directory missed

A: Here's the minimal config that is working with

*

*gradle 7.5

*sonarqube gradle plugin 3.3

*jacoco latest version

Gradle snippet:
apply plugin: "org.sonarqube"
apply plugin: "jacoco"

// jacoco task config not needed since I'm using the defaults (latest version, default dir)
// jacoco {
//     toolVersion = "0.7.9"
//     reportsDir = file("${project.buildDir}/jacoco/customJacocoReportDir")
// }

sonarqube {
    properties {
        property "sonar.sources", "."
        property "sonar.projectName", "javacode"
        property "sonar.projectKey", "javacode"
        property "sonar.java.coveragePlugin", "jacoco"
        property "sonar.java.binaries", "/data/tmp/env/"
//      no need to define sonar.jacoco.reportPaths or sonar.coverage.jacoco.xmlReportPaths as sonarqube
//      finds the xml report in the default location (build/reports/jacoco/test/jacocoTestReport.xml)
//      property "sonar.jacoco.reportPath", "${project.buildDir}/jacoco/test.exec"
    }
}

jacocoTestReport {
    reports {
        xml.enabled true   // to be sure xml report is created (sonarqube knows jacoco's default report location)
    }
}


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Turn you Mac into a TV studio with CamTwist (free download)
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Using your favorite streaming provider such as Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, BlogTV, LiveStream and many others you can stream your CamTwist produced shows live on the Internet. Want higher quality? CamTwist fully supports Flash Media Live Encoder as well as Telestream's Wirecast allowing you to stream HD quality content live online. CamTwist is a capable of 720p output. If you have an input card that supports 1080i or 720p CamTwist can even scale up to 1080p output as well! CamTwist includes over 50 special effects from social elements like IRC overlays to fin effects like broken glass and bubbles. You can apply one effect at a time or stack the effects to get a truly unique image.Want to add some graphics to your screen like you see on broadcast television? Add the 'Image Overlay' effect and drop in a Photoshop file. How about a countdown effect which will count down either to a specific time or from a specific number to show your viewers when the next live show will be. In addition to effects that you can add on top of your videos, the Studio function of CamTwist also offers transitions between sources. Cut, Dissolve, Page Peel or even Ripple between your cameras, videos and graphics in real time! Need more power? CamTwist allows you to create your own special effects using Apple's Quartz Composer.
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Durban #COP17: Climate Justice Experts Available for Interviews at UN Climate Talks, Durban, South Africa
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To reach contacts listed below, unless otherwise indicated, call Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project Communications Director: +27 (0)73.623.0619 [to call from outside of South Africa do not dial the (0)] jc@globaljusticeecology.org http://globaljusticeecology.org/pressroom.php?ID=590 [excerpt] Daniel T'seleie K'asho Got'ine First Nation, Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories — Canada. Daniel T'seleie is a Canadian Youth Delegate for Durban COP17 and coalition member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. He is a 2010 Jane Glassco Arctic Fellow, lives in Yellowknife, NWT, Canada and works as Director of Lands and Environment with the Dene Nation. His previous experience has included work on climate change mitigation and adaptation with territorial and national NGOs, a photojournalist with work in Yellowknife and Iqaluit, and held policy positions with the Government of the Northwest Territories. Daniel participated in previous UNFCCC COP meetings. Contact: danieltseleie@hotmail.com François Paulette, Dene Suline, Alberta, Canada. François Paulette is a member of the Smith's Landing Treaty 8 Dene First Nation and lives 200 miles downstream from the tar sands industry site in Alberta, Canada. François was previously chief and vice-chief of the Dene Nation and is currently a commissioner with the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), a national organization representing 630 First Nations across Canada. 'As both a father and grandfather, François believes that the way of life for many people living in First Nation lands in Canada is quickly changing, leaving many people uncertain about the future. The drastic drop in water levels in the Athabasca River system and a lack of fresh water for drinking are the biggest concerns for aboriginal communities living downstream from the tar sands development in northern Alberta, Canada.' François participated in previous UNFCCC COP meetings. Contact: francois.paulette@yahoo.ca
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The art of the mug shot
[excerpt] The eyes stare hauntingly across time. Outfitted in bowlers, ties and jackets, newly minted criminals gaze unflinchingly at photographers hired by Ontario police to record freshly arrested crooks in the Niagara area in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The 100 striking photographs in "Arresting Images" have been selected from 474 mug shots found at the OPP's Niagara regional headquarters during some housecleaning in the 1960s. Culled from hundreds of well-preserved studio cards, the photographs are on display at the Helen McClung Gallery at the Archives of Ontario building at York University until Dec. 9. They aren't mug shots as we've come to know them today. These aren't the dishevelled Lindsay Lohans, Paris Hiltons or Nick Noltes of their day, dragged into sterile police rooms to face cops clicking a camera. They're mostly petty criminals, arrested for pickpocketing or fraud, hauled off to private photo studios, which at the turn of the last century were still a curiosity. View the photos http://photogallery.thestar.com/1093789
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CNN launches #COP17 Twitter data visualisation tool | The Wall Blog
[excerpt] This is really pretty cool. CNN has launched a great Twitter data visualization tool called 'Ecosphere' in support of the COP17 climate change conference in Durban, which starts this week. The site picks up every tweet tagged with the #COP17 hashtag and uses them to stimulate growth in a plant or tree in the Ecosphere that represents a certain topic, such as sustainability. The Ecosphere constantly listens to the global conversation on Twitter and every new tweet tagged with hashtag #COP17 is brought into the
environment, scanned for keywords and then grouped with similar contributions, connecting input from around the world, and building conversations within the dynamic environment. It produces a lush 3D environment that allows you to explore, view content up close or zoom out to observe the visualisation as a whole. It is beautifully distracting. The Ecosphere will culminate in Durban with an installation piece at the COP17 Conference that renders this globe as a 3D holographic image.
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Fuji's Upcoming Mirrorless Camera May Pack a Revolutionary Organic Sensor
If you're a fan of Fujifilm's X100 and X10, then you might want to brace yourself: the company's next camera might be the one mirrorless camera to rule them all. Fujifilm's upcoming mirrorless camera …
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The Hidden Cost of RED Epic and Digital Cinema
Since its release, the RED Epic has been pumping out tons of test footage, chart samples and eye candy on Vimeo. It has also been busy shooting well-known features like the Spiderman reboot and Ridley Scott's Prometheus. But while the camera stands to improve on its predecessor, the RED one, in both technology and price, there is a cost hidden within the complex circuitry and 5K sensor of the camera. This isn't the cost of time or quality — it equates to real money — so if you're stretching your budget thin already, you might want to pay attention.
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The Sketchbook of Susan Kare, the Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face | NeuroTribes
The challenge of designing a personal computer that "the rest of us" would not only buy, but fall crazy in love with, however, required input from the kind of people who might some day be convinced to try using a Mac. Fittingly, one of the team's most auspicious early hires was a young artist herself: Susan Kare. […] Kare's first assignment was developing fonts for the Mac OS. At the time, digital typefaces were monospaced, meaning that both a narrow I and a broad M were wedged into the same bitmapped real estate — a vestigial legacy of the way that a typewriter platen advances, one space at a time. Jobs was determined to come up with something better for his sleek new machine, having been impressed by the grace of finely wrought letterforms in calligraphy classes he audited at Reed College, taught by the Trappist monk Robert Palladino, a disciple of master calligrapher Lloyd Reynolds. (The lasting impact of Reynolds' instruction can also be seen in the playful cursive of the seminal West Coast Beat poets Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen, making Reynolds and Palladino the human hyperlinks between desktop publishing and Jack Kerouac's Dharma Bums.) For the Mac, Kare designed the first proportionally spaced digital font family that allowed text to breathe as naturally on the Mac's white screen as it does in the pages of a book. The distinctive Jobs touch was upgrading the original monikers of these elegant typefaces from the names of train stations near Philadelphia — like Rosemont and Ardmore — to those of world-class cities like Geneva, Chicago, and New York. […] There was an ineffably disarming and safe quality about her designs. Like their self-effacing creator — who still makes a point of surfing in the ocean several mornings a week — they radiated good vibes. To creative innovators in the '80s who didn't see themselves as computer geeks, Kare's icons said: Stop stressing out about technology. Go ahead, dive in! […] In time for the holiday season, Kare has self-published her first book, Susan Kare Icons, http://www.kareprints.com/?p=691 with copies signed by the artist available on her website. A modified version of this essay serves as the introduction, though the hand-drawn icons seen here are not included in the book. I asked Kare if she had any feeling at the time that the work she was doing at Apple 30 years ago would be so pervasively influential. "You can set out to make a painting, but you can't set out to make a great painting," she told me. "If you look at that blank canvas and say, 'Now I'm going to create a masterpiece' — that's just foolhardy. You just have to make the best painting you can, and if you're lucky, people will get the message."
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Keystone XL delay boosts prospect for completing Mackenzie pipeline, new premier says
The delay of the contentious Keystone XL pipeline is good news for the Northwest Territories in its decades-long bid to get a natural gas pipeline built, its new premier believes. Bob McLeod, a former industry minister who was appointed premier last month under the territory's cooperative style of government, has spent much of his career pushing for the Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline. His territory needs it now more than ever. [excerpt] The government is near its federally imposed debt limit, facing an infrastructure crunch and is anxious for a deal on "devolution," which would hand province-like control over resources and land down from Ottawa. In short: the NWT needs cash, and a massive pipeline would be a boon. Gas prices have sunk, however, and left the long-simmering project in peril. A long-time bureaucrat in the industry ministry before entering politics four years ago, Mr. McLeod remains an unrelenting believer in the project and has long been a pitchman for it. He travels to energy summits across the continent. His ministry has spent more than $250,000 in travel since he took office four years ago, a shade behind the premier's office and far ahead of any other ministry, government disclosure documents show. These days, he believes Keystone XL will boost the case for Mackenzie because the same environmental concerns will trip up domestic natural gas production in the United States, leaving the country anxious for gas from his shovel-ready pipeline.
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Several Vacancies, BBC World Service Trust, Sierra Leone – including Radio Producer and Trainer
2011-11-27 1 Comment
JOB VACANCIES in Kenema The BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) is the international development agency of the BBC, using media and communications to improve people's lives. The BBC WST is running a 3 year skills development project which will promote radio to build awareness and improve the technical capacities of farmers working in the cocoa sector in Eastern Sierra Leone. The BBC WST is now recruiting for 4 new positions to work at our field office in Kenema. These are all national positions offered on 12 month contracts and come with competitive local terms and conditions.
The four positions are; • Project Officer –supporting the Livelihoods Programme Manager in planning and co-ordinating the project, • Finance and Administration Officer – responsible for financial management and administration of the Kenema office, • Radio Producer and Trainer – delivering a range of radio production and training outputs with Eastern Radio, • Driver – to drive the project vehicle and ensure the safety of project and partner staff in the vehicle.
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Bolivia Under Evo Morales Review of Jeffery Webber, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation and the Politics of Evo Morales
New Socialist… [excerpt] Bolivia Under Evo Morales Sunday, 27 November 2011 15:01
By Sarah Hines Review of Jeffery Webber, From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation and the Politics of Evo Morales (Chicago: Haymarket, 2011). Bolivia has been on forefront of challenges to neoliberalism in Latin America and the Global South, and stands out for the level of autonomy and power achieved by its social movements. Of all the left-leaning governments elected to office in recent years in Latin America, the 2006 election of Evo Morales, head of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS) party, most clearly resulted from popular struggle from below. Among the so-called "pink tide" governments, Bolivia has been deemed by critics and proponents alike to be among the most radical. Just a few months after Morales took power, The Economist, referring to Morales and Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, declared that, "A specter has arisen [in Latin America], one of anti-American leftist nationalism." Leftists have looked to these governments as beacons of hope and evidence that it is possible to successfully challenge neoliberalism and imperialism at a time when war and economic crisis are ravaging the lives of poor and working people around the globe. Morales's election was especially inspiring due to the fact that he is the first indigenous president of an overwhelmingly indigenous country and has called out developed countries for their environmental crimes. While there has been active debate among Bolivian leftists about what position to take toward the MAS party and Morales government, leftists outside Bolivia often see their role as supporting and celebrating rather than deeply understanding the rise of Morales and the MAS. In From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia, Jeffery Webber challenges the international left to look more critically at what the rise of the MAS and the first term of the Morales government represent for struggles against oppression and planetary destruction. The book offers an accessible introduction to the trajectory of Bolivian political developments since 2000, and undertakes a deeper analysis of social, political and economic change and continuity than is found in most progressive writing on Bolivia.
Via www.newsocialist.org


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