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\section{Introduction}

Let $G$ be a finite group and $L(G)$ be the subgroup lattice of
$G$. The starting point for our discussion in given by the paper
\cite{1}, where the proper nontrivial subgroups $H$ of $G$ with
the property that

$$\text{for every}\hspace{1mm} X\in L(G)\hspace{1mm} \text{we have}\hspace{1mm} X\leq H\hspace{1mm} \text{or}\hspace{1mm} H\leq X$$

\noindent have been studied. Such a subgroup is called a
\textit{breaking point} for the lattice $L(G)$. Clearly, if $L(G)$
is a chain (i.e. $G$ is a cyclic $p$-group), then all proper
nontrivial subgroups $H$ of $G$ are breaking points. On the other
hand, we remark that the above concept can naturally be extended
to other remarkable posets of subgroups of $G$ (and also to
arbitrary posets). One of them is the poset of cyclic subgroups of
$G$, denoted usually by $C(G)$. The study of the existence and of
the uniqueness of breaking points in $C(G)$ constitutes the
purpose of this paper.

Most of our notation is standard and will usually not be repeated
here. Elementary concepts and results on group theory can be found
in \cite{2} and \cite{4}. For subgroup lattice notions we refer
the reader to \cite{3} and \cite{5}.

We mention that by a \textit{generalized quaternion {\rm 2}-group}
we mean a group of order $2^n$ for some natural number $n\geq 3$,
defined by the presentation
$$Q_{2^n}=\langle a,b \mid a^{2^{n-2}}= b^2, a^{2^{n-1}}=1, b^{-1}ab=a^{-1}\rangle.$$We also
recall that these groups are the unique finite noncyclic
$p$-groups all of whose abelian subgroups are cyclic, or
equivalently the unique finite noncyclic $p$-groups possessing
exactly one subgroup of order $p$ (see (4.4) of \cite{4}, II).
Obviously, this result shows that the subgroup of order 2 of
$Q_{2^n}$, namely $\langle a^{2^{n-2}}\rangle$, is the unique
breaking point of $C(Q_{2^n})$.

Our main theorem proves that generalized quaternion 2-groups
exhaust all finite noncyclic groups whose posets of cyclic
subgroups have breaking points.

\noindent{\bf Theorem 1.1.} {\it Let $G$ be a finite group. Then
$C(G)$ possesses breaking points if and only if $G$ is either a
cyclic $p$-group of order at least $p^2$ or a generalized
quaternion {\rm 2}-group.}

\section{The proof of Theorem 1.1}

We observe first that the above theorem can be easily proved in
the particular case of $p$-groups.

\noindent{\bf Lemma 2.1.} {\it Let $G$ be a finite $p$-group. Then
$C(G)$ possesses breaking points if and only if $G$ is either a
cyclic $p$-group of order at least $p^2$ or a generalized
quaternion {\rm 2}-group.}

\noindent{\bf Proof.} Suppose that $G$ is not cyclic and let $H$
be a breaking point of $C(G)$. Then all minimal subgroups $M_1$,
$M_2$, ..., $M_k$ of $G$ are contained in $H$. If $k\geq 2$, then
we infer that $H$ is not cyclic, a contradiction. So, we have
$k=1$, that is $G$ has a unique subgroup of order $p$. This
implies that $G$ is a generalized quaternion 2-group, according to
the result mentioned in Section 1.

The converse implication is obvious, completing the proof.
\hfill\rule{1,5mm}{1,5mm}

We are now able to give a proof of Theorem 1.1.

\noindent{\bf Proof.} Suppose that the poset $C(G)$ of cyclic
subgroups of a finite group $G$ possesses a breaking point, say
$H$.

In the following we shall focus on proving that $G$ must
necessarily be a $p$-group. By the way of contradiction, assume
that the order of $G$ has at least two distinct prime divisors.
Clearly, the same thing can be also said about the order of $H$.
Let $p\in\pi(G)$ and $K$ be a cyclic $p$-subgroup of $G$. Since
$H$ is not a $p$-subgroup, we infer that $K\subseteq H$. In other
words, $H$ contains any cyclic $p$-subgroup of $G$ and
consequently any $p$-element of $G$. This implies that all Sylow
$p$-subgroups of $G$ are contained in $H$. Then $H=G$, a
contradiction.

Hence $G$ is a $p$-group, for some prime $p$, and now the
conclusion follows from Lemma 2.1.
\hfill\rule{1,5mm}{1,5mm}

By the above results we also infer that, given a finite group $G$,
the poset $C(G)$ possesses a \textit{unique} breaking point if and
only if $G$ is either a cyclic $p$-group of order $p^2$ or a
generalized quaternion 2-group. In other words, the following
corollary holds.

\noindent{\bf Corollary 2.2.} {\it The generalized quaternion {\rm
2}-groups are the unique finite noncyclic groups whose posets of
cyclic subgroups have exactly one breaking point.}

Finally, we indicate a natural generalization of our study,
suggested by the reviewers of the paper. Let $G$ be a finite group
and denote by $$\ov{C}(G)=\{\hspace{0,5mm}[H]\mid H\in C(G)\}$$the
set of conjugacy classes of cyclic subgroups of $G$. Mention that
$\ov{C}(G)$ is also a poset under the ordering relation
$$[H_1]\leq [H_2]\mbox{ if and only if } H_1\subseteq H_2^g, \mbox{ for some } g\in
G.$$Take a breaking point $[H]$ of $\ov{C}(G)$. Then $H\in C(G)$
satisfies the following condition: for any cyclic subgroup $C$ of
$G$, some conjugate of $C$ in $G$ contains or is contained in $H$.
Clearly, this is weaker than the condition that $H$ be a breaking
point of $C(G)$. We remark that for a finite $p$-group $G$ it is
sufficient to guarantee the uniqueness of a subgroup of order $p$
in $G$. In other words, Lemma 2.1 also holds if we replace $C(G)$
with $\ov{C}(G)$. In the general case, that is for
\textit{arbitrary} finite groups $G$, the problem of
characterizing the existence and the uniqueness of breaking points
of $\ov{C}(G)$ remains still open.

\section{Conclusions and further research}

All previous results show that the concept of breaking point in
some posets of subgroups of a (finite) group $G$ can constitute an
important aspect of subgroup lattice theory. Clearly, its study
started in \cite{1} for lattices of subgroups and continued in the
present paper for posets of cyclic subgroups can successfully be
extended to other significant lattices/posets associated to $G$
(as the lattice of normal/subnormal/characteristic/solitary
subgroups of $G$ or the poset of centralizers/conjugacy classes of
elements (subgroups) of $G$). Studying the breaking points of
arbitrary posets (not necessarily connected with a group $G$)
seems to be also very interesting. These will surely constitute
the subject of some further research.
\bigskip

{\bf Acknowledgements.} The author is grateful to the reviewers
for their remarks which improve the previous version of the paper.

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GIM Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clarissa Diamantidis, MD, presented at the Duke Endocrinology Grand Rounds on Friday, July 28. Her presentation, "Can Telehealth Reduce Disparities in Diabetic Kidney Disease?" described technology-based disparities (using chronic kidney disease as an example), highlighted the potential and current uses of telehealth technologies in Diabetic Kidney Disease care, and examined the limitations of telehealth.
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BNP Paribas: NW retail rents to fall again in 2010
The North West retail market will see rents fall by 8.4% in 2009 and a further 2.5% in 2010, according to Keith Steventon, head of research at BNP Paribas Real Estate.
The retail sector will begin to rise in two years' time, by 3.8% in 2011 and 6.0% in 2012, Steventon told an event at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on Friday.
Steventon added: "The overhang of available office space is less severe than in the 1990s and the development pipeline has been closed down faster. In the major North West hubs, there is little or no prime space being developed, which should push prime rents up very quickly once demand returns."
In the offices sector, banks, financial services and business service companies will continue to feel pressure for two or three more years as restructures continue, adding to a lack of demand for space.
This lack of demand for space will cause rents to fall further in the UK, bottoming out in late 2010 or early 2011 depending on local demand and supply balances. BNP Paribas Real Estate forecasts that office rents will have fallen 20.5% by the end of 2009, 8.0% in 2010 and 0.1% in 2011 with 2012 and 2013 set to see increases in rental growth of 5.1% and 6.7% respectively. The office sector in the North West will see falls of 4.4% in 2009 and 3.5% in 2010. 2011 will see modest growth of 0.3% followed by further increases of 2.6% and 4.9% in 2012 and 2013 respectively.
The UK logistics occupier market may have a longer wait for rents to pick up due to bigger void rates, meaning that demand will have to build before rents can increase. BNP Paribas Real Estate predicts a fall of 5.6% in industrial rents in 2009, 2.7% in 2010 and 0.8% in 2011before rising an average of 2.7% year on year until 2014 in the UK. Comparatively, the North West industrial sector will experience a fall in rental growth of 9.4% in 2009; with the annualised growth from 2010 to 2014 reaching 1.5%.
However, while UK investment activity has picked up and prime yields have hardened for the last two months in a row, the falling rents are continuing to have an effect on capital values – resulting in a further fall in values this year.
BNP Paribas Real Estate is predicting a fall in capital values across all sectors nationwide in 2009, with offices seeing falls of 7.4%, followed by industrial at 7.3% and retail at 6.5%. However, 2010 will see a rise of 7.1% in industrial capital values, and 6.7% and 5.7% for retail and offices respectively.
Steventon said: "UK values should rise next year as long as a slow economic recovery does not hold rents down for longer, and as long as investor enthusiasm for property continues to push values up. What we may see is some of next year's predicted growth in capital values realised towards the end of this year and, of course, our predictions of rental falls may be too pessimistic if occupiers find a new-found confidence in the market."
Steventon added: "Further falls in capital values will no doubt draw more investors into the market – particularly in Central London where prime property is still looking like a bit of a bargain. Banks are reducing their exposure to commercial property, so investors will be mainly equity, meaning that the sub-£50m purchases should continue, subject to the prime stock at this margin being available."


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Q: Power BI - Data not refreshing on web published report predictably UPDATE:
It turns put this seems to refresh after an hour or so if you refresh the url.  I can't find any documentation on this time frame.
Any pointers to docs on this or if I can change it to be faster would be appreciated.

My requirement is that I need to display a report on a wall mounted screen (without logging  in as I use a special service to display it) and have it refresh the data regularly.
I have a scheduled dataset refresh that works fine from MySQL.
Dashboards refresh automatically but I can't use a dashboard as these can't be web published (need to log in).
I have published a report to the web but even when the dataset is refreshed in PBI Service and I navigate to the url again the data in the report has not refreshed.
If I manually click refresh on the report in PBI Service this updates the report visuals but only in PBI Service the web published report is still old data and it won't seem to refresh.
Update: it seems to refresh after an hour or so.
It doesn't seem to be a browser cache issue as I cleared everything there.

A: Web published reports update every 1 hour.
This seems to be independent of when the dataset refresh is.
Unfortunately I can no longer find the link to the documentation on this, feel free to add below.

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Shri Ram Nath Kovind addressing after taking oath of the office of the President of India, at a swearing-in ceremony in the central hall of Parliament, in New Delhi on July 25, 2017.
New Delhi: India's 14th President Ram Nath Kovind took oath in Parliament's Central Hall on Tuesday in a ceremony that was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all the lawmakers.
Chief Justice of India Justice JS Khehar administered the oath of office to Kovind.
Once the oath taking was over, Kovind and Mukherjee exchanged seats on the dais after which the new president delivered his maiden speech as president.


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ThinkProgress: Trump confidant dumped millions in steel-related stock last week (Also the Trade War thread)
By No Excuses,
March 2, 2018 in The Tailgate
Beloved Tailgate News Anchor
2 minutes ago, Larry said:
So, we're paying for the tariff wall?
I wonder how much we'll have paid out by the end of the tariffs.
FanboyOf91
The Free Agent
The Chinese must be feeling like the Goths when they first beheld the Western Roman Emperor Honorius.
Edited March 13, 2019 by visionary
I thought we had a deal in place....
Got to admire Pompeo. Trying really hard to imply that Donald Trump gives a flying **** about any country's human rights record. (Including the US, for that matter.)
Cooked Crack
I feel like we've heard this before....
Also interesting ****ing timing.
Edited April 4, 2019 by visionary
What appears to have happened, according to new research from economists at the University of Chicago and the Federal Reserve, is a case study in how a measure meant to help domestic factory workers can rebound on American consumers, creating unexpected costs and leaving shoppers with a sky-high bill for every factory job created.
Research to be released on Monday by the economists Aaron Flaaen, of the Fed, and Ali Hortacsu and Felix Tintelnot, of Chicago, estimates that consumers bore between 125 percent and 225 percent of the costs of the washing machine tariffs. The authors calculate that the tariffs brought in $82 million to the United States Treasury, while raising consumer prices by $1.5 billion.
The new tariffs ended a yearslong decline in the price of washers in the United States, which rose about $86 per unit because of the tariffs last year, the authors calculate. But tariffs also raised prices for dryers, largely because manufacturers of laundry equipment used the tariffs as an opportunity to raise prices on things that were not, in fact, affected by the tariffs.
Trumponomics in action.
Agent Orange ruined the lives of thousands of American farmers for...nothing?
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Dow futures are currently down 500 points on the news of the China trade talks potentially being stalled due to Trump's tweet today.


Last year had some ups and downs and I did not weather the downs nearly as well as I would have liked. Months would pass and I would peck away at random stories or ideas, never getting anywhere, never completing anything, not especially liking stuff I did write. December in particular was a very bad month, as my professional career had me traveling back and forth to Mississippi and working some long hours. Add to that of course the family requirements of the holidays and a need to sometimes just do nothing and suddenly the end of the year was here and I was looking back at 2014 wondering what happened.
Things I accomplished in 2014 for my writing include publishing a novella, republishing novels under my own company instead of myself, and almost publishing a new novel (this one is in limbo awaiting some ISBN fixes).
That brings me to January 1st, 2015. A day that many are sleeping off hangovers with as much reckless abandon as they acquired those hangovers. I however found myself in an airport at 6 a.m., sober and sleepy and traveling out of state for work. I missed my connecting flight in Houston by about three minutes and ended up with a three-hour layover in the George Bush Intercontinental airport in Houston. The wi-fi in the airport wasn't working, probably because the IT guys were also sleeping off some kind of New Year's Eve LAN party where they took shots every time they got a headshot in Call of Duty.
Naturally I could browse on my phone's 4G, or just read a book, but neither was proving very engaging for me. The book in particular, while good, was making my eyes droop like a sleepy kitten in an internet video. So it was that I grabbed my laptop, a six year old Gateway that I turn on maybe three times a year, and started perusing old word files, just seeing what there was and what I may have never transferred off to other PCs or cloud storage.
I found one from 2009 that had maybe 4,000 words. 8 pages roughly. I read through it, cringing at some of the stuff I'd written back then, and then just as suddenly realized I could work on it.
I had two and a half hours left on my layover by this point and I resolved to get to work. What the hell, I said, might as well make use of this unexpected layover.
So I edited, and rewrote, and then wrote new. I thought it appropriate to break my no editing rule since I was pulling a file from the vault and it was pretty short. By the end of the layover I had 6,000 words (1,800 brand new) that I felt pretty good about. And the seed was planted. By the time I went to sleep that night I was already plotting the Year of Writing.
Every single day in 2015, I will write a minimum of 1,000 words of fiction. If I miss a day, or even if I write 999 words instead of 1,000, it is a failure. If I write 2,000 words on Monday but none on Tuesday, Tuesday is still a failure. It is not a cumulative average of 1,000 words a day, but a minimum per day.
I will make a weekly post called 1KaDay and you can keep track of my daily progress with the hashtag #1kaday2015 on Facebook or Twitter.
The reason I'm doing this is because I absolutely need to get a lot of work done this year, and even on days when I don't feel like writing, there is shame and punishment that will spur me on. If I can manage a few weeks of this, I believe it will be easier to keep it going beyond that.
Day 1 – 1,789 words.
Total count for the year thus far is 15,545 words. Average daily word count is 1,554.5 words. The novel I'm working on is at 20,098 words. Based on my projections for the story, it is 10% finished.
You can follow me on Facebook or Twitter to see my progress, and join in if you like!
Write on, writers, write the hell on.


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[Goanet-News] Proposed Port Development in Goa Threatens to Wipe out Fishing Communities (VideoVolunteers)
Goanet News
https://www.videovolunteers.org/mormugao-port-development-threatens-to-wipe-out-fishing-communities/
Proposed Port Development in Goa Threatens to Wipe out Fishing Communities
Sagarmala, a project designed to modernise India's ports, threatens to wipe
out the livelihoods of fisherfolk in Goa. A public hearing on the matter
will be held on 5 October, 2018.
Devidas Gaonkar
Devidas Gaonkar is a poet and journalist, and a proud member of the
indigenous Velip tribe. He lives in a remote forest reserve not far from
the beautiful and touristic beaches of South Goa. Devidas dropped out of
school in 2003 because there was no money for education, and of boredom if
he had note found film-making, his passion. One of the earliest members of
Video Volunteers, Devidas has used camera and storytelling to document the
struggles of his own community against the rampages of mining, focusing on
the environment, tribal rights and fading traditions, all of which found no…
Fishing is the economic mainstay of several communities in the coastal
state of Goa. But mechanisation of fishing, coupled with industrialisation
and environmental degradation, is threatening the livelihoods of
traditional fishing communities.
The fishing community in Khariwado, a kilometre-long stretch in Vasco da
Gama, which has seen its fortunes dwindle over time, is now opposing a new
project that threatens to wipe out their source of livelihood. The beach is
contiguous with the Mormugao Port, one of the biggest ports in India, and
has borne the onslaughts of controversial port expansion projects over the
"60 percent of the beach is already contaminated, and the remaining 40
percent has disappeared altogether. Further dredging will wipe out the
entire beach," says Olencio Simoes, Vice Chairperson of the National
Fishworkers' Forum.
The latest projects of the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) include a fishing
jetty, a passenger jetty, a POL (petroleum, oil and lubricant) jetty and
general cargo berths. These projects are part of the Sagarmala Project, an
initiative of the central government to modernise ports across India. The
fishing jetty is proposed to be constructed in Khariwado, and the sea bed
is already being dredged for the project. While the fishing community is
not opposing the fishing jetty itself, they are opposing the MPT's proposal
to build a 520 metre finger quay with a petroleum, oil and lubricants berth.
"The authorities are trying to trick us by saying that they are building a
fishing jetty but it is actually a POL jetty", says Simoes. Residents fear
that the fishing jetty could be a way to evade the NGT's order and continue
to serve corporate interests.
A fishing jetty would not require the kind of dredging that the MPT is
currently undertaking. In September 2016, the National Green Tribunal (NGT)
had halted the dredging activity that the Trust was then carrying out for
the construction of a new berth because it had begun the work before it got
the Environmental Clearance to do so. Moreover, the MPT had bypassed the
compulsory public hearing and the NGT also found discrepancies in the
Environmental Impact Assessment Report, which the Bombay High Court upheld.
A public hearing was finally held in February 2017, but 65 percent of the
dredging had already been done by then.
A petroleum and oil jetty will mean greater industrial activity in the
vicinity, more pollution and related health hazards, and displacement of
the fishing community. Even the neighbouring Baina beach, another fishing
hub, will be affected.
"If the beach ceases to exist, we will lose our way of life and our source
of livelihood," says Custodia D'souza, a fisherman representing the Old
Cross Canoe Owners Association. It will not only affect the local fishing
community but also migrant communities who work in the Goan fishing
industry, for lack of better opportunities back home. Overall, 2000
families in the area are engaged in fishing.
Residents also fear demolition and displacement. "Communities that have
lived here for 200 years are being told by the MPT that their homes are
going to be demolished," says Simoes. The Environmental Impact Assessment
Report, however, maintains that there is no resettlement and rehabilitation
plan since the project will be carried out on the existing port premises
and no land will be acquired.
"The coast is nearly destroyed, Jindal is responsible for it," says Juze
Roderigues, a 75-year-old from Khariwado.
Jindal Steel Works (JSW) accounts for the bulk of the operations being
carried out at the Mormugao Port and the company was banned from
transporting coal for flouting the permit prescribed by the Goa State
Pollution Control Board. This not only affected the company's profits but
also the profits of the MPT, which gets 18 percent of the revenue generated
by the South West Port, the JSW berths in the Mormugao Port. However, the
Board announced a fresh permit for the company in June 2018.
In the meantime, this trail of industrialisation is leaving an irreversible
imprint on the lives of ordinary Goans. Fishing communities are losing
their source of livelihood, people are suffering from respiratory and
reproductive illnesses and conventional lifestyles– all in the name of
To ensure that development projects do not evade public scrutiny and
transparency and that development is participatory in nature, the
environment clearance process mandates that a public hearing be held, where
stakeholders can have a direct interaction with government.
On 5 October 2018, an environment public hearing will be held in Vasco da
Gama where residents can present their views, seek clarifications or
information about the project; and hopefully, the government will listen.
Video by Community Correspondent Devidas Gaonkar
Article by Alankrita Anand, a member of the VV Editorial Team
Posted in: Environment, Goa, Labor Rights Tagged in: goa, fishing
community, Fishing in India, Ports in India,Mormugao Port
Goanet News	2018-10-06 23:29:28 UTC


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IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links below): Carcinogen found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities; Ocean acidification may disrupt the marine nitrogen cycle; GM launches new electric hybrid car in US; New federal efforts to control Asian Carp insufficient: states; 'Shark finning' ban passes House; CA to launch cap-and-trade system; Investigative Jounalist Greg Palast, busted by BP in Azerbaijan; EPA ethanol move slammed by auto, boat manufacturers; Mexico oil pipeline blast kills at least 28; Toxicologist says LA seafood may not be safe for children ... PLUS: The Science of Cities: the future or a dead end? ....
STORIES DISCUSSED IN TODAY'S 'GREEN NEWS REPORT'...
2010: The Year the Planet Struck Back, and Packed a Wacky Winter Weather Wallop for the Northern Hemisphere:
2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards (AP) [emphasis added]:
This was the year the Earth struck back.
Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people were killed worldwide by natural disasters this year than have been killed in terrorism attacks in the past 40 years combined.
"It just seemed like it was back-to-back and it came in waves," said Craig Fugate, who heads the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency. It handled a record number of disasters in 2010.
"The term '100-year event' really lost its meaning this year."
And we have ourselves to blame most of the time, scientists and disaster experts say. Even though many catastrophes have the ring of random chance, the hand of man made this a particularly deadly, costly, extreme and weird year for everything from wild weather to earthquakes.
That snow outside is what global warming looks like: Unusually cold winters may make you think scientists have got it all wrong. But the data reveal a chilling truth (Guardian UK)
Storm hits California with heavy rain, high winds (AP)
Europe weather: EU brands snow-hit airports 'weak link' (BBC):
BBC Stephen Evans: "The effect of the great European freeze is now being felt in airports from New York to Hong Kong."
The EU has heavily criticised European airports for failing to deal with recent freezing weather, which has left thousands of travellers stranded.
European transport commissioner Siim Kallas urged airports to "get serious" about planning, and labelled them a "weak link" in the infrastructure.
Snow disrupts travel across northern Europe (BBC)
Cold weather turns UK gas demand up to record levels (Guardian UK):
Britain's gas system is under unprecedented pressure after cold weather pushed demand to a new record today.
Chinese endure power shortages as coal runs short (Washington Post)
Eastern Arctic warming trend alarms scientists: "We have dramatic changes taking place" (Nunastsiaq Online):
You might think of scientists as calm and cool.
But the first three presenters during the opening session of the three-day ArcticNet conference in Ottawa sounded alarmed by the increasingly visible signs of Arctic warming and the limited amount of money that Canada will spend to understand what's happening.
The most "unusual things [are] going on in the winter," Wohlleben said. Nothing is progressing as it used to, she said, listing a string of peculiar happenings:
• air temperatures 20 C above normal at the beginning of the year in the Baffin Island communities of Clyde River and Qikiqtarjuaq;
• large ice cracks south of Resolute Bay last January, which caused a hunter to float off on an ice floe;
• and other cracks in land-fast ice spreading throughout the High Arctic islands, endangering research stations, causing problems for polar trekkers and swallowing up a Twin Otter.
Evangelical Christian Group Launches New Salvo in War on Environmentalists:
Beware the Treehuggers! (VIDEO) (Mother Jones):
Just in time for the holidays, a coalition of Christian conservative groups has issued an "explosive new 12-part DVD series" detailing the dangers of environmentalism. "Resisting the Green Dragon" explains how caring about future of the natural world is really an attempt to "push evangelicals to embrace anti-Christian environmental views."
Remember When Cap and Trade Was a GOP Idea? (Kate Sheppard) [empahsis added]:
It might have been hard to tell during the past few years, with Republican opponents branding all attempts to cut greenhouse gas emissions "cap and tax," but the idea of capping emmissions and trading emission permits was originally a GOP idea introduced to deal with acid rain. On Monday, the Environmental Protection Agency released a report celebrating the 15-year-old program to curb acid rain as an environmental (and economic) success.
Moreover, the EPA reports, the program has saved $120 billion in public health costs, which is about 40 times what it cost to implement the program. The EPA concludes that the program's success in cutting fine particle pollution has saved 20,000 to 50,000 lives per year.
Off The Rails: The Year In Fox News Misinformation (MediaMatters.org)
In Contrast: How parents keep the faith: Mandate a moral code, not theology: For the Unitarian Parker parents, to keep the faith is to offer a universal moral code and let the child pick theology. (Christian Science Monitor)
More Revelations from Wikilieaks:
WikiLeaks: Hackers tried to infiltrate U.S. climate negotiators (Wonk Room):
A diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks reveals that hackers launched a sophisticated attack against United States climate negotiators about the same time the Climategate hacking of scientists happened last year. The attack, a "spear phishing" attempt to gain control of Department of State (DoS) computers, took place in the months before the Copenhagen climate talks of December, 2009.
US threatened 'retaliation' to bully EU into accepting biotech crops, cable shows (Raw Story) [emphasis added]:
Reacting to a French pledge to represent the "common interest" in considering biotech foods, a former US ambassador recommended publishing a "retaliation list" of European locations where genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were being grown in hopes that activists would destroy them and "cause some pain" for officials, a leaked diplomatic cable shows.
The document would appear to expose a high-ranking US official advocating a selective leak of otherwise confidential information to achieve a European political objective on behalf of US private industry.
Is the Wikileaks Saga the Biggest Crypto-Environmental Story of 2010? (Treehugger)
WikiLeaks cables: BP suffered blowout on Azerbaijan gas platform (Guardian UK)
Wikileaks Reveals Hushed Concern Over Tar Sands in US State Dept (Treehugger)
Wikileaks: Dalai Lama Says Tibet's Environmental Problems Cannot Wait, But Political Solution Can (Treehugger)
Wikileaks Reveals Shell Oil Has Agents Installed in Nigerian Government (Treehugger)
Wikileaks Cables Show US Pressured Saudi Arabia to Back Copenhagen Accord, and More (Treehugger)
What's Better for the Environment?: Real vs. Fake Christmas Trees:
How Green Is Your Artificial Christmas Tree? You Might Be Surprised (NYT Green):
In the most definitive study of the perennial real vs. fake question, an environmental consulting firm in Montreal found that an artificial tree would have to be reused for more than 20 years to be greener than buying a fresh-cut tree annually. The calculations included greenhouse gas emissions, use of resources and human health impacts.
The annual carbon emissions associated with using a real tree every year were just one-third of those created by an artificial tree over a typical six-year lifespan. Most fake trees also contain polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, which produces carcinogens during manufacturing and disposal.
World's Most Wasteful Christmas Tree is...Too Wasteful (Treehugger)
'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (Stuff we didn't have time for in today's audio report)...
Probable carcinogen hexavalent chromium found in drinking water of 31 U.S. cities (Washington Post):
An environmental group that analyzed the drinking water in 35 cities across the United States, including Bethesda and Washington, found that most contained hexavalent chromium, a probable carcinogen that was made famous by the film "Erin Brockovich."
The study, which will be released Monday by the Environmental Working Group, is the first nationwide analysis of hexavalent chromium in drinking water to be made public.
Ocean acidification may disrupt the marine nitrogen cycle (Scientific American):
Scientists already know that a drop in ocean pH affects the carbon cycle, reducing the carbonate ions that organisms like corals, mollusks and crustaceans use to build shells and external skeletons. Now, a new study shows that a CO2-induced increase in acidity also appears to disrupt the marine nitrogen cycle. The finding, to be published December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could have ramifications for the entire ocean food web.
General Motors launches new electric hybrid car in US (Guardian UK):
"We drove it a lot," he said. "The car was on all day. It was after 2 o'clock when I was finished for the day and I looked down and it had half a battery to go. It was doing fine."
Impressed by the test run, Kaffee, who is now an estate agent, decided to make the car his main commuting vehicle.
Asian carp: Midwest states welcome new US efforts --- but still want more (Christian Science Monitor)"
The Obama administration has announced 13 additional measures to address concerns about a potential Asian carp migration. But many Midwest states are demanding a permanent barrier to separate the Mississippi River from Lake Michigan.
Shark finning ban bill passes House, headed to Obama's desk (The Hill)
In a last-minute lame-duck victory for conservationists, the House passed Tuesday a bill that puts new restrictions on shark finning in U.S. waters.
The legislation... closes a number of loopholes in the United States's current ban on shark finning.
Conservationists have been raising red flags for years about shark finning, in which valuable shark fins are removed and sold, noting significant declines in shark populations that could have broad impacts on ocean ecosystems.
California air regulators approve carbon-trading plan (LA Times):
The cap-and-trade system will limit emissions from 600 major industrial plants in the state, starting in 2012. Firms could buy pollution offsets from timber companies that preserve carbon in forests.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a champion of a market-based approach to climate regulation, showed up partway through a 10-hour public hearing at the board's headquarters to applaud the agency's effort to develop trading rules for carbon emissions. "We have led the nation in developing green policies," he said. "And we have seen our green economy grow as a result."
Investigative Jounalist Greg Palast Arrested: Busted by BP in Azerbaijan (GregPalast.com):
"Here in Azerbaijan we believe in human rights. PLEASE GIVE US YOUR FILM."
Oh, no, no, not good.
Auto, boating industry groups launch legal assault on EPA ethanol waiver: A coalition of auto and boating industry trade groups is asking a federal court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's October decision that allows higher blends of ethanol in gasoline for late-model vehicles. (The Hill)
Deadly blast on oil pipeline in Mexico's Puebla state (BBC):
Oil gushed through the streets and caught fire, destroying homes and cars and forcing hundreds of people to flee.
He said that according to early indications, a criminal gang had punctured the pipeline.
"They lost control because of the high pressure with which the fuel exits the pipeline. The streets began to flood, then came a spark and we saw rivers of fire in the streets," he said.
UNO toxicologist: Louisiana seafood may not be safe for children: A leading scientist at the University of New Orleans says the FDA has yet to prove that Louisiana seafood is safe for children, and her heavy criticism over the agency's findings stretch far beyond. (WVUE, New Orleans)
The Science of Cities (New York Times Magazine):
What Bettencourt and West failed to appreciate, at least at first, was that the value of modern cities has little to do with energy efficiency. As West puts it, "Nobody moves to New York to save money on their gas bill." Why, then, do we put up with the indignities of the city? Why do we accept the failing schools and overpriced apartments, the bedbugs and the traffic?
In essence, they arrive at the sensible conclusion that cities are valuable because they facilitate human interactions, as people crammed into a few square miles exchange ideas and start collaborations. "If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons," West says. "They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure."
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Phys.org In the last decade, Ethiopia has invested more than US$1.2 billion annually in restoring landscapes in several regions of the country. But despite its big restoration initiatives, Africa's second-most populous country is still insufficiently tracking how projects have helped to recover and boost ecosystem services, a new study shows. Recent research led by the […]
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Boeing's misfiring system was at the heart of both the Ethiopian Airlines and earlier Lion Air crash
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A Remarkable Rail Journey Into the Horn of Africa's Past, and Future
New York Times, By Henry Wismayer, Photographs by Marcus Westberg We were around 30 miles shy of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, when the train hit a cow, its impact signaled by an abrupt drop in speed and a sharp judder rippling through the couplings. "What's happening?" I asked the carriage attendant, as she hurried along the aisle. "No problem," she […]
African Bamboo is using Orbit to find a corporate finance advisory
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Ethiopian PM Says Reforms Will Deliver 3 Million Jobs in 2019-20
By Samuel Gebre, Reuters Most jobs to come from small businesses, Abiy tells lawmakers Africa's second-most populous nation has 11 million unemployed Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed plans to double jobs created in 2019-20 as he implements a reform agenda that opens up the economy for more foreign investment. Africa's second-most populous nation will probably create […]
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Messier 78 (M78) • NGC 2064 • NGC 2067 • NGC 2068 • NGC 2071
The Messier Catalog, sometimes known as the Messier Album or list of Messier objects, is one of the most useful tools in the astronomy hobby. In the middle of the 18th century, the return of Halley's comet helped to prove the Newtonian theory, and helped to spark a new interest in astronomy. During this time, a French astronomer named Charles Messier began a life-long search for comets. He would eventually discover 15 of them. On August 28, 1758, while searching for comets, Messier found a small cloudy object in the constellation Taurus. He began keeping a journal of these nebulous (cloudy) objects so that they would not be confused with comets. This journal is known today as the Messier Catalog, or Messier Album. The deep sky objects in this catalog are commonly referred to as Messier objects.
The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated as NGC) is a catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888 as a new version of John Herschel's General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, known as the NGC objects. It is one of the largest comprehensive catalogues, as it includes all types of deep space objects and is not confined to, for example, galaxies. Dreyer also published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index Catalogues, describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects.
Looking like a pair of eyeglasses only a rock star would wear, this nebula brings into focus a murky region of star formation. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope exposes the depths of this dusty nebula with its infrared vision, showing stellar infants that are lost behind dark clouds when viewed in visible light.
Best known as Messier 78, the two round greenish nebulae are actually cavities carved out of the surrounding dark dust clouds. The extended dust is mostly dark, even to Spitzer's view, but the edges show up in mid-wavelength infrared light as glowing red frames surrounding the bright interiors. Messier 78 is easily seen in small telescopes to the naked eye in the constellation of Orion, just to the northeast of Orion's belt, but looks strikingly different, with dominant, dark swaths of dust. Spitzer's infrared eyes penetrate this dust, revealing the glowing interior of the nebulae.
The light from young, newborn stars are starting to carve out cavities within the dust, and eventually, this will become a larger nebula like the "green ring" imaged by Spitzer
A string of baby stars that have yet to burn their way through their natal shells can be seen as red pinpoints on the outside of the nebula. Eventually these will blossom into their own glowing balls, turning this two-eyed eyeglass into a many-eyed monster of a nebula.
This is a three-color composite that shows infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6- and 4.5-micron light and green shows light of 5.8 and 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer's infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer.
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Q: Is it possible to add donate button in mobile application (iOS,BB,Android)? Some guys gave me the idea to add donate button in  mobile apps instead  of adding ads.
I search in google, but i couldn't find useful information. It seems that this is impossible for iPhone. There isn't information for BB and i found one discussion for Android.
Do you have experience with such implementation? Is it possible?
I have an idea to add link to web page(simplified for web) where i will place paypal donate button. What you think about this idea?

A: I can only comment on the iPhone side of things... At this time, they still don't seem to allow donations within the app, even via in-app purchases unless of course you make the in-app purchase into a feature upgrade or unlock some new content.
More info: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/nonprofit-developer-apples-no-donation-policy-is-a-cop-out.ars
Updated info from Apple's app store guidelines:

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Reader's Comment of the Day: Where is our Palmerston in our days of drift and indecision?
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In response to Andrew Cadman: The EU is intrinsically Tory. So Dave will fight to stay a member of the ultimate gentleman's club, BSO wrote:
I watched Kwasi Kwarteng's lecture on Palmerston yesterday – as you do. Not being a member of the Conservative Party, I had never heard of him. I was impressed. I say this because I simply don't know the dynamics inside modern Toryism – the factions, groupings and tensions. For example: I would vote Conservative and possibly join the party if Daniel Hannan was leading it. I know he is an MEP, of course, but I have no idea what support he might garner.
As it is all I see is a useless liberal Home Secretary that makes Charles Clarke look competent, a shallow Chancellor and economic policy (why rebalance the economy when a mini housing boom will do), a Prime Minister who above all thinks making a speech is sufficient for the world to conform. I take the view that this is a socially liberal almost left Conservative Party leadership with no real Eurosceptical credentials at all. If we wait long enough, Cameron will renationalise the railways, not because it is the right thing to do, as it probably is, but because the Bennite Marxist calls for it.
No longer in Coalition there has been, as was obvious, no radical rightward move. Global Warming Hoax, Feminist Gender pay Gap Hoax, Living Wage with no consultation with business (so unless councils are given more money this one measure will capsize the threadbare social care system in one go), getting ready to overthrow Assad (while claiming it is ISIL) to please the Saudis and Qataris, but most of all totally clueless on and in Europe.
The biggest thing missing is a national mission. The idea that the natives of Britain, whatever their colour, come first over any person trying to come into the country regardless of free movement. We are no longer a nation but a federal enclave of Greater Germany. In so many areas we appear to be adrift and mediocre.
The only thing left to make the Conservatives look right wing are vindictive and technical changes around payment of union subs in the public sector (yawn) and real cuts in working tax credits. But this latter one is clearly a set up to allow further offsetting tax cuts and to embarrass the Labour/Feminist/Marxist Party.
I don't want to be a European. I want to be a British subject who holidays in Europe. Trade yes, unelected dictatorship no. I am coming to the conclusion that the Eurosceptics inside the Conservative Party are also as Mr Cadman says: Happy to stay in their gentlemen's club, their safe seats and bleat, but do very little about Europe. I conclude with a quote from Palmerston, the clubbable Tories' Tory:
"It is only from England, and from the exertions of England, that any hope can be entertained of the extinction of the slave trade, and of the ultimate abolition of slavery throughout the world; because it is England alone that feels any deep and sincere interest in the matter.
"England now holds a proud position among the nations of the earth, and exercises a great influence upon the destinies of mankind. That influence is owing, in the first place, to our great wealth, to our unbounded resources, to our military and naval strength. But it is owing still more, if possible, to the moral dignity which marks the character and conduct of the British people…
"Those who desire to see the principles of liberty thrive and extend through the world, should cherish, with an almost religious veneration, the prosperity and greatness of England. so long as England shall ride preeminent on the ocean of human affairs, there can be none whose fortunes shall be so shipwrecked…"
How the mighty, however flawed, have fallen.
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They're not likely to make many more splashy moves, but there are still some areas where the Vikings could make revisions to their roster.
The Vikings made blockbuster headlines during the first wave of free agency, signing Kirk Cousins to the first fully-guaranteed deal for a quarterback in the salary cap era and landing Sheldon Richardson on a one-year, $8 million deal.
Minnesota also added some offensive line help by signing former Bears guard/tackle Tom Compton, and the Vikings still have $20.4 million in salary cap space left, according to NFLPA records.
Offensive line depth: Adding Compton gives the Vikings another option for their right guard spot, and former Eagles guard Josh Andrews could compete for the job, too. But with Joe Berger heading into retirement and valuable utilityman Jeremiah Sirles signing with Carolina, the Vikings could stand to add another player to help on the line. GM Rick Spielman was at Ohio State's pro day last week to take a look at Billy Price, who could be a target for the Vikings in the draft, but another veteran at the right price wouldn't be a bad investment.
Defensive tackle depth: Richardson should be the Vikings' new three-technique tackle, replacing the departed Tom Johnson and Sharrif Floyd (who still remains in settlement talks with the Vikings over the grievance he filed in September and who broke his months-long silence with a strongly-worded Instagram post over the weekend). Second-year man Jaleel Johnson figures to step into a bigger role in the defense in 2018, but with Shamar Stephen joining Tom Johnson in Seattle, the Vikings figure to need at least one more body to help in a rotation behind Richardson and Linval Joseph.
Linebacker: Emmanuel Lamur, who left Minnesota to reunite with former Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther in Oakland, leaves the Vikings with just five linebackers on the roster. Second-year man Eric Wilson could step into a bigger role this year, but it wouldn't hurt the Vikings to look to add to the group in the draft — particularly if they can find either a big run stopper or a player that can function as a linebacker/safety hybrid.
Wide receiver: The team's decision to release Jarius Wright made sense from a salary cap perspective, but it also took away a reliable option from a team that has few proven players behind Stefon Diggs and Adam Thielen. There are a few in-house options here; the Vikings continue to hope Laquon Treadwell can break out in Year 3, Coley could get a chance to replace Wright in the slot and former CFL receiver Brandon Zylstra could be a training camp surprise. But a receiver that can stretch the field and compete for a returner job might make sense.
Tight end: The Vikings tried to sign Jared Cook a year ago, and it makes sense for them to add another pass-catcher to complement Kyle Rudolph, especially given new offensive coordinator John DeFilippo's affinity for throwing to tight ends. An athletic player at the position could be worth a look in the middle rounds of the draft.


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Q: Consistent estimator - bias and variance calculations Working through some homework problems for a Mathematical Statistics course and I'm having a hard time finding good examples in the text to explain some details.  This particular problem is:
$Y_1 ... Y_n \sim f_\theta(y) = \frac{6}{\theta^3} y (\theta-y)$
Find a constant a so that $\hat{\theta} = a\overline{Y}$ is unbiased, and show that it is consistent.
I calculated the Method of Moments estimator:
$$
m_1^{\prime} = \frac{6}{\theta^3}\int_0^\infty y^2(\theta - y) dy = \frac{\theta}{2}
$$
So, $\hat{\theta}=2\bar{Y} \Rightarrow a=2$
So far so good.
For bias:
$$
B(\hat{\theta}) = E(\hat{\theta}) - \theta
$$
$$
B(\hat{\theta}) = E(2\bar{Y}) - \theta
$$
$$
B(\hat{\theta}) = 2\mu - \theta
$$
And now I'm stuck on what should be obvious.  How do I equate $2\mu$ and $
\theta$?
To check consistency, I need bias and variance to be zero, or approach zero as $n \rightarrow \infty$. Bias is above, but I'm stuck calculating variance for $\theta$.
Looking through the text, all the examples and other homework answers make large jumps in logic without any explanation.  In cases like this, examples simply state that bias and variance are zero, but there is no work shown for reference.

A: Your density is missing a constraint on the support, namely $0<y<θ$. Indeed,
$$\int_0^\theta y(\theta-y)\text{d}y = \dfrac{\theta^3}{2}- \dfrac{\theta^3}{3} =  \dfrac{\theta^3}{6}$$
which is the proper normalising constant.
This however does not change the constant $a$ that turns $a\bar{Y}$ into an unbiased estimator:
$$\dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\int_0^\theta y^2(\theta-y)\text{d}y = \dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\dfrac{\theta^4}{3}- \dfrac{\theta^4}{4} =  \dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\dfrac{\theta^4}{12}=\dfrac{\theta}{2}$$
Which implies that$$\mathbb{E}_\theta[2\bar{Y}_n] = \theta$$is unbiased.
For consistency, you do not need to prove that bias and variance to be zero (bias is indeed zero since the estimator is unbiased) but that $2\bar{Y}_n$ converges almost surely to $theta$. Given that $\bar{Y}_n$
is an average, you should look at the Law of Large Numbers for an argument.
Note that computing the variance of $Y$ is not particularly complicated:
$$\dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\int_0^\theta y^3(\theta-y)\text{d}y = \dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\dfrac{\theta^5}{4}- \dfrac{\theta^5}{5} =  \dfrac{6}{\theta^3}\dfrac{\theta^5}{20}=\dfrac{3\theta^2}{10}$$You should be able to deduce the variance of $\bar{Y}_n$ on your own from there.
A final comment is that, given that the support of the distribution depends on $\theta$, an estimator based on $Y_{(n)}=\max_{1\le i\le n} Y_i$ should be more efficient that $\bar{Y}_n$.


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Books have been my salvation. Growing up an only child, they were my companion and entertainment. As a tween, they were sources of romance. I tried to sneak read Endless Love and got caught. And Are You There God? It's me, Margaret – what?! Judy Blume so got me.
As an adult, books are sources of strength and inspiration when I need it, and education when I want to learn how to do something. Be more communicative -- check. Personal development -- always ongoing and lots to read. Entrepreneurship and marketing -- in process.
But, the books that have impacted me the most are the ones that challenged me to see life, and myself as bigger than I imagined. Books that have opened my eyes, expanded my mind, and left me feeling amazed -- and hopeful about life. I share them below.
"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation."
The author was angry with God. In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch broke his neck in a car accident, lost his wife and his job, and became homeless. In a moment of despair, Walsch wrote "a spiteful, passionate letter" asking God why wasn't his life working, why couldn't he find happiness in relationships, and what had he done to deserve such struggle. After he was done, Walsch found himself writing a reply, to his surprise, that felt like "dictation." So, Conversations with God started, and led to a New York Times Bestseller for more than two years plus a part two and three of the book. I enjoy it because it's filled with wisdom and inspiration to be who we truly are: gifted, limitless individuals capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.
Books can give us exactly what we need when we need it, and even change us. Have you read any of the above books? If so, what did you think? Recommend any others? Let me know on my blog or Facebook page.


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Study Finds Stress Does Give You Gray Hair, But There's A Way To Reverse It
By Brittany Roston/June 23, 2021 4:08 pm EST
The public has long associated stress with the development of gray hairs, an observational link so common that it spawned phrases like, "You're giving me gray hair." A new study has confirmed that yes, indeed, experiencing too much stress may cause some of your hair to lose its youthful color — but this isn't a permanent change and you can, with some relaxation, reverse the color loss.
The new study comes from Columbia University, where researchers report that experiencing psychological stress can cause your hair to start graying. This color change impacts new hairs; contrary to popular mythology, existing already-grown hairs can't be drained of their color.
It's not surprising that the study confirmed a link between experiencing stress and developing gray hair. What is notable, however, is that the researchers say this impact can be reversed so that, in time, the gray hair disappears and new strands grow with their original color.
The findings were based on a precise analysis of individual hairs from more than a dozen participants. These people likewise kept a stress diary, enabling the researchers to compare the hair data with the participants' self-reported stress levels. This is the first time scientists have 'quantitatively documented' that these hairs can regain their natural colors when stress is removed from the equation.
There is a limit, however, with the researchers pointing out that hair naturally turns gray as a person ages, and dealing with stress can only do so much. Rather, it seems there's a "threshold" where hair starts to turn gray, and becoming stressed closer to that threshold may push one's hair over the edge.
For this reason, learning to meditate or reducing the stress in one's life won't reduce the gray hair one may have at the age of, for example, 70. At the same time, a child who experiences high levels of stress likely won't develop gray hairs as they're far from that transition threshold.


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Rattlesnake gets up close and personal with trail camera
By Chris Williams
Rattlesnake Ready for Its Closeup at Arizona Trail Camera
A trail camera in the Phoenix Mountains, Arizona, was visited by a rattlesnake ready for its close up earlier this year. (Credit: Steven Tippett via Storyful)
A rattlesnake couldn't get any closer to a trail camera when it slithered its way to a water bowl in Phoenix Mountains, Arizona, over the summer.
Steve Tippett recently posted the video to Facebook on November 20.
He said his "kind-hearted son" had put out a bowl of water by a den area during the height of drought season, and caught on camera a "couple of southwestern speckled rattlesnakes and a western diamondback" as they came for a drink.
According to The National Wildlife Federation, rattlesnakes "are highly specialized, venomous reptiles with large bodies and triangle-shaped heads." The federation said it's one of the most iconic groups on North American snakes due to the "rattle" at the tip of the trail.
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The federation said rattlesnakes are found in almost every part of the continental United States but are common in the southwest.
According to the Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County, each year, around 7,000–8,000 people are bitten by venomous snakes in the U.S.— a fraction of the country's total population.
This story was reported from Los Angeles.
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Blockchain is disrupting all industries, since it is a general purpose technology. At the Blockchain Forum in Zürich at the end of March, our expert Elena Karafiloski presented use cases in health and education.
Blockchain is a database of timestamped blocks. Blockchains are always transactional databases and the transactions are irreversible. There is not one central agency responsible for the database. It removes intermediaries and creates trust in the data. In her talk at the Blockchain Forum, Elena Karafiloski demystifies blockchain and presents the use cases Health Information Traceability (HIT), a blockchain-based online marketplace for personal health data and Attainr, a blockchain-based education credentials platform.


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Social media is a threat to democracy: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019
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For the 50,000 people of the Faroe Islands, a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark, hunting long-finned pilot whales — a dark gray species found in their waters — is a tradition that stretches back centuries. These whales are a food source, and hunting them is considered an important part of Faroese culture. Today, […]
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The Australian Government is contributing $17.6 million to improve the training of medical physicists.
There is a shortage, nationally and internationally, of medical physicists required to provide a range of medical treatments and diagnostic tests. Medical physicists help to ensure safe, efficient and effective cancer treatment, diagnostic imaging and other health services involving radiation.
The Australian Government contracted with the Australasian College of Physical Scientists and Engineers in Medicine (ACPSEM) to support the training and accreditation of medical physicists until 31 December 2020.
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South Sudan urges EU to support lifting of arms embargo
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UN Security Council in July 2018 imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan due to renewed violence in July 2016 that violated the 2015 peace deal signed to end years of conflict.
Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | South Sudan said on Thursday that it's seeking support from the European Union to help lift the arms embargo and sanctions imposed by the United States following the outbreak of conflict in December 2013.
Deng Dau Deng, deputy minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation said they have urged the EU to support their effort in lifting the existing arms embargo and individual sanctions imposed by the UN and U.S.
"This is why we have to talk to them (EU) to know that the reasons why sanctions were imposed was because of war and now the war has come to an end, we are implementing the peace agreement, those sanctions on individuals have no reason to remain," Deng told journalists in Juba.
In 2017, the U.S. imposed sanctions on senior South Sudanese officials including military officers from both the government and opposition on the pretext that they were obstructing the peace process.
The UN Security Council in July 2018 imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan due to renewed violence in July 2016 that violated the 2015 peace deal signed to end years of conflict.
Deng revealed that the unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. were endorsed by the EU and it's for this reason that they are urging the latter's support to help lift them.
"We are very concerned about our government officials who have been sanctioned by the UN and U.S. We have to speak to the international community for them to be able to review and support the call for lifting arms embargo and sanctions on individuals in South Sudan," said Deng.
The official disclosed that sanctions and existing arms embargo are the frustrating implementation of the 2018 revitalized peace deal.
The government has said failure to procure weapons overseas was delaying graduation of the unified forces made up of both government and opposition troops.
"We have to call for the lifting of arms embargo because South Sudan has the responsibility to provide security to restore its integrity. We have the responsibility to provide security across our borders and we have to provide security to our citizens," said Deng.
The parties to the 2018 peace deal formed the transitional unity government in February 2020 but are yet to conclude training and unification of the army to take charge of security during the ongoing three-year transitional period.
They have not also established the legislature, accountability and transitional justice institutions including passing of the amended permanent constitution.
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About time these type of arseholes are banged up.
A leader of a biker gang which staged a "ride-out", causing "mayhem" to a town and its surrounding villages has been jailed.
Ben Nelms, 27, was among about 70 motorbike and quad bike riders who "brought terror" to Bedford last July.
The self-styled Stunt Squad wore masks as they drove "en-masse", performing tricks on roads and pavements, Luton Crown Court Heard.
Nelms was jailed for 15 months after he admitted causing a public nuisance.
While the riders had donned disguises and removed number plates from their vehicles, Nelms was identified via an Instagram account, the court heard.
Prosecutor Alison Ginn told the court "The group caused mayhem and brought terror to Bedford and the surrounding villages. They put the lives of people at risk.
"They rode en-masse, on public roads, on pavements, performed wheelies and rode with no hands on the handle bars.
"Other drivers were caused to stop. They rode at pedestrians and some surrounded cars and kicked them. Some of the cars had children inside. They performed this in front of police cars."
Alexander Wright said in mitigation that Nelms admitted they had caused annoyance and made people feel nervous, but had not caused terror.
Judge Michael Kay QC, sentencing on Friday, told him the ride-out was "plainly meant to be a challenge to the establishment and police".
"The simple message needs to go out if you take part in ride-outs then you will go to prison," he added.
Nelms of Prior Close, Clapham, has also been banned from driving for 25 months and two weeks.
He must also abide by the terms of a Criminal Behaviour Order upon release.
About time these type of arseholes are banged up. Copied from the BBC A leader of a biker gang which staged a "ride-out", causing "mayhem" to a town and its surrounding villages has been jailed. Ben Nelms, 27, was among about 70 motorbike and quad bike riders who "brought terror" to Bedford last July. The self-styled Stunt Squad wore masks as they drove "en-masse", performing tricks on roads and pavements, Luton Crown Court Heard. Nelms was jailed for 15 months after he admitted causing a public nuisance. While the riders had donned disguises and removed number plates from their vehicles, Nelms was identified via an Instagram account, the court heard. Prosecutor Alison Ginn told the court "The group caused mayhem and brought terror to Bedford and the surrounding villages. They put the lives of people at risk. "They rode en-masse, on public roads, on pavements, performed wheelies and rode with no hands on the handle bars. "Other drivers were caused to stop. They rode at pedestrians and some surrounded cars and kicked them. Some of the cars had children inside. They performed this in front of police cars." Alexander Wright said in mitigation that Nelms admitted they had caused annoyance and made people feel nervous, but had not caused terror. Judge Michael Kay QC, sentencing on Friday, told him the ride-out was "plainly meant to be a challenge to the establishment and police". "The simple message needs to go out if you take part in ride-outs then you will go to prison," he added. Nelms of Prior Close, Clapham, has also been banned from driving for 25 months and two weeks. He must also abide by the terms of a Criminal Behaviour Order upon release.
Good news that the legal system is sending out the message that it's not going to be tolerated.
I`m concerned about the judges quote of " if you take part in ride-outs then expect to go to prison".
Pusherman, I think what was meant was that anyone taking part in the kind of ride outs the defendants were on trial for. Riders who behave like human beings have little to fear.
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Governor Ron DeSantis has named Sanibel city councilman Chauncey Goss to the board of the South Florida Water Management District. The governor made the announcement yesterday at the Rookery Bay Environmental Learning Center in Naples. The Governor has requested that all nine board members resign, and he said that Goss "has a clear record of supporting and preserving Florida's natural resources." Governor DeSantis also rolled out a plan that includes $625 million for water resources projects, including Everglades restoration.
R&B singer James Ingram has died at the age of 66.
James was nominated for 14 Grammy's and two Academy Awards throughout his long career.
His reported cause of death was brain cancer.
Just how cold is this week's midwestern polar vortex get? On Wednesday, it will be colder in Chicago than in Antarctica, Siberia, or the top of Mt. Everest.
Local forecasters are predicting temps to reach a record low of 20 below zero on Wednesday.
And it won't just be the Windy City - more than 90 million people in the U.S. will experience below-zero temps this week. John Gagan with the National Weather Service is calling it 'once in a generation' cold.
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