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Delaware Innovation Week is a week-long celebration of technology and innovation. There's something for everyone!
The 4th annual Delaware Innovation Week will take place November 2-10, 2018.
Technical.ly is starting off Delaware Innovation week with our first ever Kickoff event in conjunction with Delaware College of Art and Design's monthly art gallery open house.
Join Technical.ly at the Delaware Innovation Week 2018 Business Conference. This entire conference day is for new and established businesses alike.
Select ONE focused workshop and spend over three hours in class with an expert, learning the basics in these hands-on workshops.
Spend the afternoon with your dev team getting inspired with a series of high-level presentations.
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The startup and business community conversation. Think: venture capital, startups, B2B, doing business with the banks.
Peggy Del Fabbro is the CEO of M. Davis & Sons, Inc., a 5th generation industrial construction company that is leading the way as a new breed of industrial provider, focusing on safety and quality workmanship, to provide complete construction, fabrication and maintenance turnkey solutions to global corporations, regional leaders and government agencies. M. Davis is headquartered in Delaware with four additional manufacturing and engineering plants in the Mid-Atlantic region, with global reach in fabrication and manufacturing.
Peggy has served in leadership positions at M. Davis for more than 30 years. Peggy assumed the role of CEO in 2008 and works to distinguish the construction company in the marketplace through an unwavering commitment to safety and quality.
In 2009 Peggy made the decision to pursue certification as a Woman Owned Business by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Peggy promotes diversity by participating in a wide variety of roles in support of WBENC, most recently she has taken on the leadership role as 2nd Vice Chair for the WBENC Women's Enterprise Forum.
Peggy also serves on the Board of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) Delaware Valley Chapter.
As a socially concerned business leader, Peggy supports various community needs with donations to Delaware Foundation for Reaching Citizens with Intellectual disABILITIES, annual Toys for Tots drive hosted by ISPE and Stockings for Soldiers, a non-profit organization that supports U.S. troops. She personally participates in many charitable events such as the Dogfish Dash 8K (which benefits the Delaware Chapter of The Nature Conservancy) and Faithful Friends Animal Society's annual 5K and Mutt Mile. Peggy enjoys working with children and volunteers her time to teach karate to children at Cornerstone Martial Arts. There she is also an advocate for Women's Self-Defense classes.
David Wallin, long interested in the intersection of creative expression and technology, is the Manager of Innovations at the Archer Group, a leading digital marketing agency in Wilmington, DE. His job is to investigate emerging technologies such as AI, AR, and VR to see how they can be used to enhance client products and outcomes.
Previously, David worked in the pharma industry developing video chat applications, and at an online edu-gaming startup, creating games that taught kids math and reading skills. In his spare time, he has developed several internationally recognized music production apps for iOS. Currently he is working on a VR game for PC VR headsets.
David graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BS in Computer Science.
Luis J Concepcion is a Sr. Buyer and Supplier Diversity Advocate, who works for the Dupont Corporation, working with business and operations leaders to develop and execute sourcing strategies and plans. In his areas of accountabilities, Luis is responsible for $20MM category spend for the US region on None Hazardous Waste Disposal, Mobile Equipment, Environmental Lab Services and PPE. After spending nearly 20 years as a procurement professional, Luis believes and knows that everything is negotiable!
In his next role in Dupont (2019) , Luis is going to be the Global Procurement Diversity and Sustainability leader, responsible for the overall leadership of Dupont`s Supplier Diversity, D&I and Sustainability in the Procurement function globally.
Luis holds a BBA in Accounting from the University of Puerto Rico, and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. He also holds several certifications from the Institute of Supply Management (CPSM &CPSD) and is a Six Sigma Green Belt. He is currently an active Board Member on the ISM Diversity Committee and member of the Dupont Supplier Diversity Advisory Council.
Power in support of other Exelon subsidiaries. Ms. Mann-Flores' oversight and regional management has resulted in an annual increase of Atlantic City Electric and Delmarva Power's diverse supplier spend. In 2017, Atlantic City Electric was given the Economic Impact Award by the Supplier Diversity Development Council (SDDC) for considerable increase in diverse spend over the previous year.
Ms. Mann-Flores is a graduate of DePaul University and serves on the boards of the Supplier Diversity Development Council and the Women's Business Enterprise Council.
Soraya (Morgan) Gutman founded and successfully grew her business advisory firm, Morgan Business Solutions which was sold to Brand Launcher where she served as a C-level Executive for 5 years.
Today, Soraya is CEO of Cross Talks; a one-of-kind think tank and networking mastermind for entrepreneurs with a Biblical perspective. Cross Talks won the Penn State Boost Program in 2018 for its unique,results-driven process helping business ownersincrease their profit and quality of time by actualizing their highest potential.
Soraya is a TEDx speaker, won the New Castle Chamber of Commerce Speakers Award and is a 5 out 5 ranked speaker for organizations including The U.S. Military, Vistage, Informa, The Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, FABTECH & Leadership Delaware. Having lived and worked during political, economic and social turmoil in England, Germany, Egypt and Turkey, Soraya has a deep understanding of the challenges business owners face during all economic climates. She is uniquely talented at transforming her international and resourceful spirit into practical, can-do business solutions that produce results. Soraya lives in Delaware with her beloved husband, daughter and Hungarian Pointers.
Michelle N. Morin, M.B.A.: is the Executive Director of the State of Delaware Office of Supplier Diversity (OSD). It is the mission of her office to assist the entire supplier diversity community of minority, women, veteran, service disabled veteran, and individuals with disabilities owned businesses as well as small businesses of a unique size in competing for the provision of commodities, services, and construction to State departments, agencies, authorities, school districts, higher education institutions and all businesses. During her 5 year tenure to date in Delaware, state contracting engagement with diverse and small businesses increased by 283%, from FY2013 at $75Million to $314.3Million by the end of FY2018. During this time, Michelle and OSD have been recognized and honored with nine awards. She knows that no one person does anything of value and importance alone. Michelle greatly appreciates her colleagues in OSD and GSS, as well as the "Inclusion Team" of procurement professionals and buyers throughout the State. Treating opportunities inclusively is how we all ensure access to opportunity for traditional, diverse, and small businesses. Michelle presently sits in participant or advisory roles on nine councils, boards, and commissions.
Prior to relocating to Delaware to take on her current role, Michelle was a Supplier Diversity Professional within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. There, she provided support for a program that reach $1Billion in spend for diverse businesses. Before that, her career was supporting the legal industry and their corporate clients where her subject matter expertise spans multiple interconnected disciplines and multi-billion dollar project management including global financial sector client business urgencies, utility merchant power disputes, and utility regulatory matters. Examples of some of her most unique work opportunities includes: one of the first internet challenge lawsuits regarding music recordings; divestiture of a solely-owned nuclear power plant; a market-MAC provision involving three world banks; and the first public utility to be approved under the Telecommunication Act of 1996 which included legal challenges by three unions, Cable TV, and telecommunication companies. She is a fairness reviewer for the LAST Test. Michelle is in her 17 th year of post-baccalaureate university teaching that includes a decade at Northeastern University and now at Curry College, both are in Massachusetts and she only teaches online since moving to Delaware.
Zachary Jones is the Director of Dual School, an organization that empowers high school students to launch social impact projects. He's taught design thinking at Stanford's d.school and facilitated workshops for over a thousand people from Delaware to California. He's also spoken at Google and on the TEDx stage.


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"""diagram objects
"""

from logilab import astng
from pylint.pyreverse.utils import is_interface, FilterMixIn

def set_counter(value):
    """Figure counter (re)set"""
    Figure._UID_COUNT = value

class Figure:
    """base class for counter handling"""
    _UID_COUNT = 0
    def __init__(self):
        Figure._UID_COUNT += 1
        self.fig_id = Figure._UID_COUNT

class Relationship(Figure):
    """a relation ship from an object in the diagram to another
    """
    def __init__(self, from_object, to_object, relation_type, name=None):
        Figure.__init__(self)
        self.from_object = from_object
        self.to_object = to_object
        self.type = relation_type
        self.name = name

class DiagramEntity(Figure):
    """a diagram object, i.e. a label associated to an astng node
    """
    def __init__(self, title='No name', node=None):
        Figure.__init__(self)
        self.title = title
        self.node = node

class ClassDiagram(Figure, FilterMixIn):
    """main class diagram handling
    """
    TYPE = 'class'
    def __init__(self, title, mode):
        FilterMixIn.__init__(self, mode)
        Figure.__init__(self)
        self.title = title
        self.objects = []
        self.relationships = {}
        self._nodes = {}
        self.depends = []

    def add_relationship(self, from_object, to_object,
                         relation_type, name=None):
        """create a relation ship
        """
        rel = Relationship(from_object, to_object, relation_type, name)
        self.relationships.setdefault(relation_type, []).append(rel)

    def get_relationship(self, from_object, relation_type):
        """return a relation ship or None
        """
        for rel in self.relationships.get(relation_type, ()):
            if rel.from_object is from_object:
                return rel
        raise KeyError(relation_type)

    def get_attrs(self, node):
        """return visible attributes, possibly with class name"""
        attrs = []
        for node_name, ass_nodes in node.instance_attrs_type.items() + \
                                node.locals_type.items():
            if not self.show_attr(node_name):
                continue
            names = self.class_names(ass_nodes)
            if names:
                node_name = "%s : %s" % (node_name, ", ".join(names))
            attrs.append(node_name)
        return attrs

    def get_methods(self, node):
        """return visible methods"""
        return [m for m in node.values()
                if isinstance(m, astng.Function) and self.show_attr(m.name)]

    def add_object(self, title, node):
        """create a diagram object
        """
        assert node not in self._nodes
        ent = DiagramEntity(title, node)
        self._nodes[node] = ent
        self.objects.append(ent)

    def class_names(self, nodes):
        """return class names if needed in diagram"""
        names = []
        for ass_node in nodes:
            if isinstance(ass_node, astng.Instance):
                ass_node = ass_node._proxied
            if isinstance(ass_node, astng.Class) \
                and hasattr(ass_node, "name") and not self.has_node(ass_node):
                if ass_node.name not in names:
                    ass_name = ass_node.name
                    names.append(ass_name)
        return names

    def nodes(self):
        """return the list of underlying nodes
        """
        return self._nodes.keys()

    def has_node(self, node):
        """return true if the given node is included in the diagram
        """
        return node in self._nodes

    def object_from_node(self, node):
        """return the diagram object mapped to node
        """
        return self._nodes[node]

    def classes(self):
        """return all class nodes in the diagram"""
        return [o for o in self.objects if isinstance(o.node, astng.Class)]

    def classe(self, name):
        """return a class by its name, raise KeyError if not found
        """
        for klass in self.classes():
            if klass.node.name == name:
                return klass
        raise KeyError(name)

    def extract_relationships(self):
        """extract relation ships between nodes in the diagram
        """
        for obj in self.classes():
            node = obj.node
            obj.attrs = self.get_attrs(node)
            obj.methods = self.get_methods(node)
            # shape
            if is_interface(node):
                obj.shape = 'interface'
            else:
                obj.shape = 'class'
            # inheritance link
            for par_node in node.ancestors(recurs=False):
                try:
                    par_obj = self.object_from_node(par_node)
                    self.add_relationship(obj, par_obj, 'specialization')
                except KeyError:
                    continue
            # implements link
            for impl_node in node.implements:
                try:
                    impl_obj = self.object_from_node(impl_node)
                    self.add_relationship(obj, impl_obj, 'implements')
                except KeyError:
                    continue
            # associations link
            for name, values in node.instance_attrs_type.items() + \
                                node.locals_type.items():
                for value in values:
                    if value is astng.YES:
                        continue
                    if isinstance( value, astng.Instance):
                        value = value._proxied
                    try:
                        ass_obj = self.object_from_node(value)
                        self.add_relationship(ass_obj, obj, 'association', name)
                    except KeyError:
                        continue

class PackageDiagram(ClassDiagram):
    """package diagram handling
    """
    TYPE = 'package'

    def modules(self):
        """return all module nodes in the diagram"""
        return [o for o in self.objects if isinstance(o.node, astng.Module)]

    def module(self, name):
        """return a module by its name, raise KeyError if not found
        """
        for mod in self.modules():
            if mod.node.name == name:
                return mod
        raise KeyError(name)

    def get_module(self, name, node):
        """return a module by its name, looking also for relative imports;
        raise KeyError if not found
        """
        for mod in self.modules():
            mod_name = mod.node.name
            if mod_name == name:
                return mod
            #search for fullname of relative import modules
            package = node.root().name
            if mod_name == "%s.%s" % (package, name):
                return mod
            if mod_name == "%s.%s" % (package.rsplit('.', 1)[0], name):
                return mod
        raise KeyError(name)

    def add_from_depend(self, node, from_module):
        """add dependencies created by from-imports
        """
        mod_name = node.root().name
        obj = self.module( mod_name )
        if from_module not in obj.node.depends:
            obj.node.depends.append(from_module)

    def extract_relationships(self):
        """extract relation ships between nodes in the diagram
        """
        ClassDiagram.extract_relationships(self)
        for obj in self.classes():
            # ownership
            try:
                mod = self.object_from_node(obj.node.root())
                self.add_relationship(obj, mod, 'ownership')
            except KeyError:
                continue
        for obj in self.modules():
            obj.shape = 'package'
            # dependencies
            for dep_name in obj.node.depends:
                try:
                    dep = self.get_module(dep_name, obj.node)
                except KeyError:
                    continue
                self.add_relationship(obj, dep, 'depends')

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Raise voice against intolerance : Mahesh Bhatt.
Hyderabad: Noted Revolutionary Film Producer, Mahesh Bhatt strongly condemned the increasing intolerance in the country and stressed the need for the theaters and Artists to come forward to oppose this evil. He further told that the basic objective of the theater is to raise the crushed voice. Mr. Mahesh Bhatt was addressing a gathering at International Convention Center in Hyderabad convened by Qadir Ali Baig Theater Foundation on its 10th anniversary celebrations.
Due to this reason the name of theater's legendary figure, Qadir Ali Baig is remembered not only in India but also throughout the world. Addressing the meeting, Mr. Bhatt told that he feels the fragrance of the late Qadir Ali Baig in this gathering. He kept alive not only the traditions of the theater with his iron will but also promoted them. Qadir Ali Baig was the personality who knew the art of going alone with courage and enthusiasm without caring for oppositions.


Engineer Signing is a fun event for high school seniors who are committing to study engineering in college. Students from schools all across the Tulsa area come together to sign letters of intent with representatives from their chosen college. The signing covers majors such as aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, biomedical engineering, civil engineering, computer science, computer engineering, fire and emergency services, mechanical engineering, petroleum engineering.
Because signing day isn't just for the athletes.
This year, we're teaming up with the Tulsa Engineering Foundation to host the Engineer Signing during their annual Discover-E Engineers Week Breakfast. Students will have the opportunity to hear panels of professional engineers, network with engineers in the community, and discover future career opportunities.
Teachers are asked to nominate students. We'd like teachers to provide a good contact email or number for the student(s) so we can then reach out to the student(s) to send them an invite. The students and parents will receive an invitation promptly following their nomination.


If you are interested in VR/AR/MR and you haven't heard about Antony Vitillo, aka The SkarredGhost, then you had better get to Twitter, follow him and sign up to his newsletter. Considered (and rightfully so) as a top influencer in the VR industry, we had the chance to talk with Tony with whom we share a passion for all things VR. Why does he call himself the Skarredghost? Quite simply because once upon a time he wanted to be an indie game developer and needed a nickname. It stuck.
Can you tell us a little about your background? What brought you to VR?
I studied computer engineering at Politecnico Di Torino so I have a rather strict and logical background. In 2014, 7 years after graduating, I bumped into an old classmate of mine. Excited about the recent release of Google Glass, we both got to talking about AR and started throwing around some ideas about a startup. The conclusion was: let's do something! The next step was to get our hands on a pair of Google Glasses, which, being in based in Italy, was no easy feat. After some convoluted operations, we managed to get the glasses shipped to Italy. It was an expensive ordeal but we pulled it off.
I was super excited. "The future is here," I told myself. And then I put them on my head and thought "what is this tiny screen?!?" In about 10 minutes it started overheating and 20 minutes later it was out of battery. To be honest, we didn't really know what to do with it. Thankfully my colleague had a plan B: get an Oculus Rift. And then, all of a sudden I was transported to another place, it was magical. The device was far from being perfect but it was usable.
Tony's website, The Ghost Howls, is a treasure trove of VR/AR related information.
Tell us about some of the companies you've founded and worked for?
Our company was called Immotionar. We developed full-body VR using Microsoft's Kinect and virtual reality headsets. By 2014, we had already developed full body room scale. People loved our work, we won awards, got articles on various online blogs but ultimately our startup failed.
We were focused on the technical side and after a while, we started asking ourselves if people were really interested in paying for our tech, a question we probably should have asked ourselves sooner. However, we learned a lot of important lessons which help me to this day. Most important of all, I realized the importance of having business partners with complementary skills sets. You need to have the right partners so if you are a techie, for example, you need to find someone whose expertise is business and marketing. You can build the coolest app or tech in the world, but without the right partners, there is a good chance it will fail.
My word of advice for people getting started in this industry is to put in a maximum effort, be creative and make stuff. It's a long hard road, and you're going to suffer a bit but the community is there, we are here to help each other and make it through!
These days I'm part of a consultancy called New Technology Walkers (NTW) focused on technological multimedia projects. Our main interest is in IT fields that have a clear artistic and creative side, such as web design, AR, VR, computer vision and video production. Recently, most of our customers and prospects are interested in augmented reality, especially for training, maintenance and or industry. They come to us with projects for the Hololens, looking for apps and prototypes, trying to tap into the full potential of this exciting tech.
Day to day, I spend a lot of time experimenting and creating experiences. For example, I've been testing 7invensun's eye-tracking tech. It is very interesting in terms of UX. I'm convinced eye tracking will be very disruptive. I've also been hacking an HTC VIVE Focus to create AR and MR experiences. I'm quite proud of Beat Reality, which makes the world beat to the music you are listening. We took it to a club in Milan so people could try it, the feedback was very interesting!
At the end of the day, testing the limits of what's possible is what interests me. I want to push the technology further ahead. I do this as a consultant and also through my blog by sharing my experiments and my take on the industry news. Needless to say, my to-do list is neverending.
You recently traveled to China, what impressed you the most?
First thing, my stomach doesn't like Chinese food. People there just don't know what "not spicy" means!
China is changing very quickly. The only way to understand the country, in my opinion, is to go there. I've studied Mandarin and have a genuine passion for the country and its culture, but it wasn't what I expected. It's a big mess of old and new with people running everywhere trying to compete and grow and this creates a lot of confusion. It's all about getting things done over there, some way or another. Some things seem to come straight from the future and others from the past. It's fascinating but very complicated and difficult to comprehend at times.
Because of the intense competition, big companies have to create products very quickly. If they adopt a technology, they know competitors will do so quickly also. Investors want companies to start making money right away, creating a very fast paced environment.
In terms of VR, I was very curious because I had read that VR was everywhere in China. This turned out to be partly true. There isn't VR everywhere, but there is much more than in Italy, but it's no Ready Player One. The VR experiences available to the public in malls are generally pretty poor. The headsets are cheap and quite hard on the nose and eyes. But as I said, things are changing quickly and I'm confident these bad experiences will vanish in the next few years I think.
The Chinese government is smart, they are heavily investing in education. So many departments are investing in education and VR that it is hard to say just how much money is being spent, but it is, without a doubt, huge.
What are your projections for VR/AR/MR for near to mid future?
I remember a lot of people saying last year that next year was the year that VR was going to take off. But people say that every year. The release of the Oculus Quest is going to be a big deal and while the VIVE Focus is a great device, I still don't see either of these being used by my mother. These devices will certainly give VR more momentum, push competitors to create new products but we still not quite there yet.
When I talk to my non-techie friends, they always ask me how VR is useful. I've tried to explain. The problem is that one of the most crucial aspects of virtual reality, presence, is almost impossible to describe.
Mixed reality is something I'm very excited about also but that's looking way ahead. Sometime in the future, maybe 10 years from now, we will probably be living with an MR headset of some sort on our heads.
And last question, what are some of the devices you are looking forward to getting your hands on?
Currently, around the office, I have an HTC VIVE, a HTC VIVE Focus with eye-tracking, an Oculus Rift as well as an Aryzon 3D AR Headset for AR, an OSVR Razer headset, a Gear VR and a few more scattered around the office. However, there's a few I'd like to get my hands on that haven't tried yet like the Pimax 8K, StarVR One, and Varjo. In fact, I'm very curious about the Varjo as it is meant to have no screen door effect.
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Climate science at a glance
Changes that occur in one part or region of the climate system can affect others.[1]
Studies have linked record warm temperatures in the Arctic to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns in the midlatitudes.
The IPCC fifth assessment report states, "it is likely that circulation features have moved poleward since the 1970s, involving a widening of the tropical belt, [and] a poleward shift of storm tracks and jet streams."[2]
What is large scale circulation?
Large-scale atmospheric circulation is driven by dynamic processes including wind and pressure systems that determine where it is dry, where it is wet, where it is hot and so on. Changes in large-scale atmospheric circulation are known as "dynamic changes". Dynamic processes are in contrast to thermodynamic processes, which include energy exchanges and phase changes related to land‐atmosphere interactions and convective processes.
Differences between the Northern and Southern Hemispheres
Compared to the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere has a lot more open ocean. Notably, there is a band of water North of Antarctica and below Australia, Africa and South America that is completely uninterrupted by land masses. This open band allows for a strong circumpolar ocean current around Antarctica that is unique to the Southern Hemisphere. The strong circumpolar current creates atmospheric circulation patterns throughout the Southern Hemisphere that are more "zonally symmetric"—a meteorological term that means more consistent across latitudes.
Atmospheric circulation and winds are being displaced toward the poles
In recent decades, global atmospheric circulation structure and associated winds have been displaced toward the poles. Trends associated with these displacements are important signals of climate change. Observed trends include the poleward expansion of the Hadley cell, the poleward shift and increase in mid-latitude westerly winds and contraction of the northern polar vortex.
Changes in the Arctic have global implications
Disruptions to the natural cycles of arctic sea ice, land ice, surface temperature, snow cover, and permafrost affect the amount of warming, sea level change, carbon cycle impacts, and potentially even weather patterns in the lower 48 states.[1] Recent studies have linked record warm temperatures in the Arctic to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns in the midlatitudes.[1][3]
Large scale global circulation change trends
There has been a northward shift in winter storm tracks since detailed observations began in the 1950s and an associated poleward shift of the subtropical dry zones.[4][5]
Arctic warming is linked to the frequency and intensity of severe winter storms in the United States.[6][7]
Depending on the indicator under investigation, scientists have observed tropical widening by 0.3 to 3.1° latitude per decade since 1979, with a consensus widening of about 1.4°.[8] (Note: Part of the wide range is because the boundary between the tropics and extratropics is not well-defined and depends on the definition of specific indicators of tropics width—such as the position of the jet stream, where surface winds change from westerly to easterly or physical indicators like ozone concentration and humidity.)
Research indicates that extratropical cyclones have shifted toward the poles in both hemispheres over the past 50 years, with further but limited evidence showing a decrease in wind storm frequency at mid-latitudes.[2] Mid-latitude westerly winds have generally increased in both hemispheres.[2]
Studies attribute large scale global circulation change to global warming
(Mann, Rahmstorf, Kornhuber et al. 2017): This study finds a clear human fingerprint behind the increase in temperature distributions favoring planetary wave stalling.[9]
(Francis and Skific, 2016): The disproportionate warming in the Arctic warming and resulting weakening of the poleward temperature gradient is causing the Northern Hemisphere circulation to assume a more meridional character (i.e. wavier).[6]

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Volvo is building a $500 million car plant in Berkeley County with plans to produce 100,000 cars a year. Volvo's site is approximately 1600 acres and will include six main buildings that total 1.7 millon square-feet.
Site designs include 1500 employee parking spaces with planned expansions and a campus-wide utility distribution network. A two-mile long vehicle test track loop is also part of the site design.
The project involved coordination with international end-user designers, multiple design-build contractors, and with county and state economic development funded infrastructure design and construction. ADC provided the landscape architecture, civil engineering design, structural engineering designs for the foundation and Seismic and Wind Lateral Force Resisting System.


Friends, the gyre has widened. Again.
In September, Ben wrote a Brief called Schrödinger's Senate Hearing. It explored the effect of the widening gyre on our conscious intellectual processes – on our capacity to effectively reason. Presenting the Kavanaugh confirmation in terms of Schrödinger's Cat, Ben showed how political polarization makes it nearly impossible for us to entertain, much less maintain, a probabilistic framework for understanding the world. The widening gyre is an environment in which we must adopt a deterministic framework, in which we must auto-tune our views to one of several discrete possible values.
Just over a month later, in November, I wrote a Brief called Hey, Maybe It's the Needle. It was an exploration of the Jim Acosta microphone affair – remember that? – and what it could teach us about the influence of the widening gyre on something as fundamental as our senses. As absurd as it still sounds, it demonstrated that two perfectly reasonable, perfectly intelligent, perfectly decent people could watch the same video and come away with entirely different conclusions about what took place.
During that time – and much further back – we've written ad nauseam about the acts of political missionaries (President Trump chief among them) and the media missionaries who seek to tell us how to think about events and issues. To our peril, those missionary statements are so often clothed in the finery of facts and information, but with an implicit or explicit underlying aim to conflate those facts and information with subjective ideas through the use of powerful symbols and memes.
Choice A: A group of smirking teens in MAGA hats harassed, mocked and were disrespectful in multiple ways to a veteran and native American elder. This is really yet another story about what Trump's cozy attitude toward white nationalism and open racism is doing to America, and about the millions of Americans who will stand by in silence when vulnerable populations are assaulted.
It's a brutal pair of choices, but those dueling narratives become clear in NLP analysis. Here are the stories from Saturday, January 19th. They are completely one-dimensional, and offer one explanation. On this day, 74% of the articles discussing the event expressed enough confidence in the facts of the events to use the fairly loaded words "mock" or "taunt." Around 57% thought it important to reference "MAGA hats." Just over 41% used the word "hate." None of us is invulnerable to this type of single-narrative missionary activity. I know that I wasn't.
By late Saturday into Sunday morning, longer videos of the entire event emerged. At that point, the narrative didn't change. It split. There was now a coherent narrative of highly similar language and imagery describing the event as MAGA Hat Harassment, and a completely separate counter-narrative based on the interpretation of the more complete video and additional eyewitness accounts. In the narrative map of news articles from January 20th below, you can see the former on the left, and the latter on the bottom right.
When you closely examine the terms and phrases used in each of these two dominant narratives, you notice something else: In less than one day, the authors within each cluster are hard at work to find connections to other issues of broader significance. For people slotted by the widening gyre into Choice A, this was no longer a single ugly event. It was another seminal moment in the history of privilege and hate. It was another 1960 Woolworth's Lunch Counter, another Little Rock Nine. It revealed the real hearts of those behind pro-life march and religious schools. It was a symbol of how Trump and his supporters have tacitly enabled hatred of all kinds. It was a symbol of all those smirking children of privilege.
For those forced into Choice B, the event wasn't about the kids or the elder at all. It was now a symbol of the unchecked bias of media elites. It was a symbol of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It was a symbol of how the political left ignores homophobia and hate if it serves their political purposes. It was a symbol of how far people would go to thwart Trump and conservatives, like celebrities, politicians and members of the media openly campaigning to ruin the lives of teenagers before all the facts were available, and then refusing to walk back their words when they were.
The Competition Game is our Zeitgeist.
In a Competition Game, the gyre continues to widen because both the cause and effect of each widening event – its abstraction into existential memetic symbols – are the same. A chain of linked engagements. This is another skirmish on the battlefield that has defined every event that has shaped this widening gyre. On the one hand are those whose Greater Truth is the existential importance of protecting historically marginalized people from institutionalized sources of power. On the other hand are those whose Greater Truth is the existential threat of a left-wing monoculture in media, entertainment and academic institutions that control all of our cultural narratives. You don't have to think that these things are equivalent in importance (I don't) to believe that they represent good-faith fears and honest desires (I do). But like all existential fears, when the Zeitgeist becomes a Competition Game, they come to define our divisions. This wasn't the first such skirmish. It won't be the last. Each will leave us more divided.
But there's something in this event in particular that worries me: Our machinery for translating any kind of event into an existential crisis that requires us to abandon a humble, probabilistic view of the world has evolved into something truly exquisite. It now takes that machinery less than a single day to extrapolate the meaning of an event into Common Knowledge – something that everybody knows that everybody knows. It takes only hours to marshal us all into defense of issues of existential importance to our Greater Truth.
Under these circumstances, it's hard to have clear eyes about any of our priors or how those priors are influencing our interpretation of reality. It's a rotten state of affairs for our civil society, but it's a really rotten state of affairs for any fact-based process or profession.
So what do we do, that is, if we're not willing to settle for rank nihilism? Now more than ever, I think we've got to look for people of varying philosophical views and circumstances with whom we can come to a mutual agreement: to hold one another accountable and to trust one another's expressed motives. People who will wait and think with us, who will understand that our hesitance to jump into the fray isn't evidence of a lack of principle or conviction, but respect for the empirical observation that our judgment will inevitably be clouded by the Zeitgeist.
Around here we call that a pack. If you haven't found one, do it now, before this widening gyre makes it impossible.
That's what this is about?!?!?!?! I just saw the pictures online and assumed it was just a bunch of ahole Patriot fans circling the wagons outside of Arrowhead. Ugh, I like my version better.
The best advice I've seen on this is to wait 48 hrs before diving in. Let the echo chambers stop reverberating. Then look. Not easy to do these days.
At least that long. The perilous part of the racket is the "if you are silent, you are complicit" line that seeks to compel earlier action (externally) and the panicked impression that we are not appropriately offsetting some other side's perspective (usually an internal impetus).
Totally agree, I've started to highly curate the content I consume. Reading primarily via Feedly, curated blogs and email news letters. Perhaps a small wiki page or something where ET readers can post their favorite sources (with a tag to identify if it's leaning to one side of the gyre) would be neat. Would be happy to setup hosting for something like that if people are interested.
The narrative map did spark a thought in my mind. I've realized it takes hard work, careful thought and an elastic mind to try and navigate these complex issues. It almost seems as if the general news "browsing" public will never go through the effort to try, as it feels to good, and is far to easy to simply get angry.
But, how could we use data to help inform the general populous that the "chain of articles" leads them down the path towards an end of the gyre. This is sort of what Read Across the Line app tries to do. I'm imaging a chrome or safari plugin that shows you "where" on the narrative map you currently are, and where the links on the page are leading you. One could also think of an automated system that given your region "txts" you an alert if the current news station is heavily influenced. I understand that the "backfire effect" is pretty strong so this may be a non-starter.
If it were possible (and it probably is) to do this in a systematic way, this is a…really interesting idea, Willem. I'm always concerned about the injection of priors into the structure of something like this, but that goes with the territory. I'll bring it up with the Quid team in our next conversation.
Phenomenal. This is an excellent article and perfect timing. I was watching this unfold this weekend on social media and felt the emotional pulls in each direction like the tide was going out on me. Probably because of bias against a lazy media I withheld judgement and wondered what else would come to light, but I still felt strongly pulled towards the "racist!" meme. The next day the "full video" clips started coming out and I strongly felt compelled to the "biased media!" meme. What was lost on me was as you pointed out the fact that this happened rapidly. The whipsaw was like a wave on a highschool physics graph with the midline being "I don't care" and it pulled you a great distance one way away from center and then just as far in the opposite direction. The strength of each of those pulls was interestingly strong, but the speed for that wave cycle from beginning to end was really amazing.
It would be interesting to map these events out on a linear graph in chronological order. Things like "Kavanaugh!" "Shutdown/Wall!" etc. I wonder what they look like if we mapped them out as individual waves in a chronological sequence and then measured intensity and wavelength for each event. I think that would be an interesting exercise.
It would. We can actually do this now when it takes place over days. Our present tools haven't yet accommodated looking at these things over…well…hours. But no reason they can't. We will explore it.
The beauty of managing global assets from far away in the Southern hemisphere is that we often "miss" the bluster of these false narratives. We certainly don't miss that at all! Clear Eyes, Full Hearts.
It is a rare luxury, but alas, I fear we shall all have our day in the sun!
I keep coming back to the French Revolution as a historical analog to our current situation. Hyper partisan media and events that quickly spiral out of control, with truth and justice left by the wayside. "If you are silent you are complicit" sounds like another way of say "the revolution eats its own children." One difference is that we have seen minimal physical violence, even though the conditions seem ripe for that. Perhaps that is a function of a population that is relatively dispersed and siloed – one were media is the preferred battleground. What is worrisome is that the widening gyre suggest the potential for further escalation.
Two narratives is evidence of how far apart are our political viewpoints OR that the media has become militarized for disinformation…. YES.
Life was so much simpler with only three big TV networks.
In this case, with the information I can parse from my bubble, ima gonna go out on a limb and say that there is a 70% probability of privileged teenagers being a55holes and a further 50% probability they are inspired by the privileged teenager POTUS.
You might want to consider getting information outside your 'bubble'. The one thing I disagree with in the article is that "perfectly reasonable, perfectly intelligent, perfectly decent people" could come away with choice 'A'. That is unreasonable based on the video accounts. Not to say you only have choice B, it doesn't take much to rule out 'A'.
Both of these comments make Rusty's point for him. You're both coming to the exact logical conclusion from your perspective. Rusty's point is that its not the perspectives that are wrong, it's the process.
With respect, even if I personally witnessed the events at ground zero in real time, I might disagree with you (or anyone else) . I have digested both narratives and based on all my inputs, background and lack of omniscience I stand by my call. YMMV. Besides which, it is the meta-narrative here that is important. In the first account youths inspired by trump is implicitly criticism of trump. But now the Trump-supporting media says the kids were provoked by librul nutcases. Touche!
Much more importantly, what % of this kerfuffle is amplified from St. Petersburg or Tehran or NK?
I understand and respect your perspective/position. My only point was when removed from the 'narrative' and looking at what had transpired I don't think it reasonable to conclude that teens 'mocked, harassed, disrespected a veteran, native american elder (no telling he was a veteran and need to assume he is native american). Not to mention Trumps open racism while silently watching vulnerable populations being assaulted. That position might exist without any video or occurrence, thanks to the narrative machine however could not be reasonably concluded from the event.
I understand that your 70% and 50% probabilities are most likely based on their skin color, their dress, their MAGA hats and the fact they are at the Right to Life March to which you are certainly entitled. You may very well be correct.
There is likely a near 100% chance that at least one and likely a near 0% chance that all the teenagers would meet your criteria above. (No comment about the 'teenager-in-chief', I wish RG had used the same verbs for choice A or B instead of 'slotted' and 'forced'.


The Bromeliad fasciata is a hardy house plant that is also known as the Urn plant. The fasciata can be identified by thick silver and green leaves that arch to form an 'urn' in the middle. It produces a tropical flower that adds to the plant's unique beauty. Keep the inner pockets between its leaves filled with fresh water.


MakeGoodCoffee.com sought to create an objective report card evaluating the coffee makers on the market today. Concerning price point, the good news is that a basic but very reliable model landed in fifth place, and you'll see that first place through to fourth place are priced higher and in roughly the same range.
The primary criteria against which the coffee makers were measured was quality of the carafe and ease of use. The container that catches the brewed coffee and pours it has to do its job as cleanly and efficiently as possible. And, the coffee maker should be simpler in making a good cup of coffee than being loaded with features that don't put more flavor in your cup.
The secondary criteria included two features that are each important in making good coffee as opposed to many of the other features you'll see on machines that either don't add any real value in making good coffee, don't deliver on their stated purpose, or needlessly complicate the machine. The two features that are important are a thermal carafe rather than a coffee pot that sits on a heater (slowly burning flavor out of the coffee), and a "small-batch switch" that increases the coffee maker's power for making small amounts of coffee at a time.
The MakeGoodCoffee.com Coffee Maker Report Card starts with two main criteria establishing most of the coffee maker's score, and in addition, "bonus points" that are rewarded to the coffee maker if it contains an additional useful feature. The result was that the top third scoring of the list scored within a narrow range from one coffee maker to the next, until points were added for useful features. The first place coffee maker is one that has both of those features earning "bonus points". Second place through fourth place had one or the other useful feature, but not both.
* Programmable: A programmable coffee maker means you are preparing your coffee way too soon before drinking it; ex. getting your coffee ready the night before and programming the machine so that it's ready when you wake up. An argument could be made for the coffee maker with a built-in programmable grinder pulling beans from a built-in airtight container. Otherwise, we did not reward points to a coffee maker that is programmable.
* Brew-strength control: Coffee makers do a poor job of extracting based on how you set this control, and you will find most machines with this feature do not have much variation in the coffee they make from one setting to another. Better to keep more than one coffee in the house or vary how much ground coffee you use if you want to "adjust" your brew strength.
* Dispenser: The odd coffee maker drips the brewed coffee into a container rather than a carafe sitting on a heater. It would seem intuitive to reward for this feature, but the container is heated so coffee is still in contact with heat -- potentially more so than if the brewed coffee were allowed to drip into a carafe on a heater.
* Stop-interrupt feature: Coffee does not brew with the same strength at the beginning of the cycle as it does at the end of the cycle. When the carafe is removed mid-cycle with a stop-interrupt feature, it contains the strongest of the cycle's brewed coffee. If a cup is poured from the carafe, it will be exceptionally strong and coffee poured from the rest of the cycle will be exceptionally weak. The coffee maker manufacturers are lucky we didn't deduct a point for building this feature in (~just kidding~).
Of the two features contributing the most points to a coffee maker's score, the first is quality of the carafe, or every way that the carafe needs to be handled from preparing the coffee to pouring from it to cleaning up in the end. In the case of a dispenser-style coffee maker, the ease of using the dispenser was evaluated instead of the quality of the carafe.
The second main criterion is ease of use or the simplicity of operating the machine past useless or impractical features. It's meant to make a good cup of coffee quickly and easily. Where features are included to help you customize the coffee you brew, those features were measured against good coffee making practice.
Each of these two main features was measured from 1-5, with 1 being unacceptable and 5 being as good as can be delivered (or "as good as the best"). Scores of 2, 3, and 4 are self-explanatory with 2 being usable but barely acceptable, 3 being acceptable, and 4 being above average. In the following scoring step, bonus points are individually added to the coffee maker's average score from the two main criteria.
The first is a thermal carafe. If the brewed coffee drips into a thermal coffee pot that doesn't need to sit on a heater, it will keep from burning, keep its freshness and flavor longer, and if the carafe is designed properly, stay hot. This is an important feature.
The second is a small-batch switch that uses more power when you're making a small amount of coffee. Less water spends less time in the brewing process, and as a result, requires "double-heat" (to quote Cuisinart) to ensure the water is brought closer to the optimal 200 degrees Farenheit. Otherwise, the water in your coffee-maker is not extracting enough coffee flavor through heat from the ground coffee.


One of Dollywood's most popular visiting shows is back for the summer! From now until August 6, 2017, guests at the theme park can enjoy the Gazillion Bubble Show, a one-of-a-kind performance that your whole family is guaranteed to love. To help you make the most of your next vacation, Visit My Smokies has put together a guide to everything you need to know about the Gazillion Bubble Show at Dollywood.
The Gazillion Bubble Show was started more than 25 years ago by Deni's father, Fan Yang. Originally, Fan appeared in circus-style shows that included martial arts, knife throwing, juggling, and pyro acrobatics. When Fan began introducing bubble art into his performances, this new segment of the show became a breakout hit. Fan soon dropped the other elements of his show to focus exclusively on bubbles.
The key to Fan's magical bubbles is his signature bubble solution. Using a "secret formula", Fan was able to create smoke bubbles, bubbles inside of bubbles, giant bubbles, bouncing bubbles, millions of tiny bubbles, and even more breathtaking displays. Fan even pioneered a way to put people inside of bubbles – an amazing trick that has been performed on stage with Halle Berry, Julia Roberts, Chris Rock, Peter Dinklage, and many other celebrities.
Over the years, the Gazillion Bubble Show has been featured on a number of television shows, including The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The David Letterman Show, The View, and many more. The show has been staged in Japan, Korea, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Canada, and around the United States.
Starring in the Gazillion Bubble Show has become a Yang family tradition! Fan's wife Ana and his brother Jano are both accomplished bubble artists, as are his children Deni and Melody.
At the Gazillion Bubble Show at Dollywood, Deni takes center stage. Deni puts his own spin on the classic show, which includes not only millions of bubbles, but also a laser light show that he describes as "The Matrix meets Star Wars".
The Gazillion Bubble Show runs three times a day at DP's Celebrity Theater from now until August 6, 2017. The show lasts for 45 minutes and is completely free with park admission.


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Summary Report No. 117
Evaluating Global Climate Policy - Taking Stock and Charting a New Way Forward
D. Klingenfeld (April 2010)
The objective of this report is to derive evaluation criteria for global climate policy and to apply this analysis framework to a number of existing proposals for climate policy architectures relying on a global carbon market. In addition, the current policy landscape defined by the Kyoto Protocol and the Copenhagen negotiations will be evaluated to obtain a benchmark where global climate protection efforts currently stand with respect to a set of target criteria.
Based on the insights gained in the analysis of both theoretical frameworks and the current situation, in the last part of the paper I develop a proposal for a new way forward in international climate protection efforts. The cornerstones of the comprehensive architecture proposed are a modular, expandable carbon market whose integrity and time consistency is ensured by a World Climate Bank, to be created by participating countries. Based on regular and comprehensive auctions of emission allowances, the climate rent is shared among countries and distributed to citizens in a way that reflects common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities in addressing climate change.
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Tribeca Film Festival | "Life, Animated"
Letting the story speak for itself
Owen Suskind and Ron Suskind
Directed by Roger Ross Williams
Nathanael C. Hood April 15, 2016
I think it was the moment when Gilbert Gottfried showed up out of the blue at the Disney club run by Owen Suskind—an autistic man who learned to interact with the outside world through Disney movies—that I started to feel like I was being manipulated by Roger Ross Williams' new documentary "Life, Animated." Because while I am for documentarians taking whatever creative license they feel necessary to get their points across I couldn't help but sense that Williams was trying too hard to make me feel something concerning an already extraordinary story. Suskind's life smacks of the same storybook magic and wonder that made Walt Disney's animated films so magnificent: parents desperate to connect with their withdrawn autistic son; their breakthrough when they discover that he has memorized every single Disney film and can communicate by reciting lines from them; his gradual reintegration back into society; his graduating from school and moving into his own apartment with his girlfriend. How can you watch the film and not be moved?
And while the documentary's intentions may have been noble—especially an extended series of sequences where they animate a story Suskind wrote as a child about a young boy becoming the Protector of Disney Sidekicks—the film feels like it's shilling for Disney. I'm not sure how anyone could have told Suskind's story without the post-modern pastiche of Disney footage juxtaposed with scenes from his life; the depiction of Disney films as a benevolent panacea which literally saved a young man and his family from a lifetime of potential misery and hopelessness. But "Life, Animated" doesn't seem to have enough confidence in Suskind's story to let it speak for itself.
A&E IndieFilms, Motto Pictures, Roger Ross Williams Productions.
SCORE: 5 out of 10
Nate Hood is Screen Comment's main film critic in New York. Follow him here @NateHood257
Tagged With: Life animated, Owen Suskind, Roger Ross Williams, Ron Suskind, Tribeca2016
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package androidx.appcompat.widget;

import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;

import static org.mockito.Mockito.mock;

import android.text.InputType;
import android.text.method.KeyListener;
import android.widget.TextView;

import androidx.appcompat.testutils.BaseTestActivity;
import androidx.test.annotation.UiThreadTest;
import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4;
import androidx.test.filters.MediumTest;

import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
@MediumTest
public abstract class AppCompatBaseEditTextEmojiTest<ActivityType extends BaseTestActivity,
        ViewType extends TextView & EmojiCompatConfigurationView> extends
        AppCompatBaseTextViewEmojiTest<ActivityType, ViewType> {

    public AppCompatBaseEditTextEmojiTest(Class<ActivityType> clazz) {
        super(clazz);
    }

    @Test
    @UiThreadTest
    public void setKeyListener_hasSameFocusChangeBehavior_asPlatform() {
        TextView platformTextView = new TextView(mActivityTestRule.getActivity());
        platformTextView.setFocusable(false);
        platformTextView.setEnabled(false);

        ViewType notFocusable =
                mActivityTestRule.getActivity()
                        .findViewById(androidx.appcompat.test.R.id.not_focusable);

        KeyListener keyListener = mock(KeyListener.class);
        notFocusable.setKeyListener(keyListener);
        platformTextView.setKeyListener(keyListener);

        assertThat(notFocusable.isFocusable()).isEqualTo(platformTextView.isFocusable());
        assertThat(notFocusable.isEnabled()).isEqualTo(platformTextView.isEnabled());
    }

    @Test
    @UiThreadTest
    public void constructor_doesntClobber_inputType() {
        ViewType textEmailAddress =
                mActivityTestRule.getActivity()
                        .findViewById(androidx.appcompat.test.R.id.text_email_address);
        int actual = textEmailAddress.getInputType();
        assertThat(actual & InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS).isEqualTo(
                InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
    }

    @Test
    @UiThreadTest
    public void setKeyListener_hasSameInputTypeBehavior_asPlatform() {
        TextView platformTextView = new TextView(mActivityTestRule.getActivity());
        platformTextView.setInputType(
                InputType.TYPE_CLASS_TEXT | InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);

        ViewType textEmailAddress =
                mActivityTestRule.getActivity()
                        .findViewById(androidx.appcompat.test.R.id.text_email_address);

        KeyListener keyListener = mock(KeyListener.class);
        platformTextView.setKeyListener(keyListener);
        textEmailAddress.setKeyListener(keyListener);

        assertThat(textEmailAddress.getInputType()).isEqualTo(platformTextView.getInputType());
    }

    @Test
    @UiThreadTest
    public void setKeyListener_null_setsToNull() {
        ViewType textEmailAddress =
                mActivityTestRule.getActivity()
                        .findViewById(androidx.appcompat.test.R.id.text_email_address);

        textEmailAddress.setKeyListener(null);
        assertThat(textEmailAddress.getKeyListener()).isNull();
    }
}


Wait too long and deals could disappear as air carriers cut service to the U.K.
Travelers, London is calling—but perhaps not for long. The costs and inconveniences of traveling to the United Kingdom may pile up as the nation disentangles itself from the European Union over the next two years. For now, though, currency translations are in your favor, with the pound down 17% against the greenback over the past year, despite a bounce following a post-Brexit nosedive. And airfares are subdued, with fuel prices still low and terrorism concerns keeping travelers at home. The prospects for affordable travel to the U.K. (and Europe) "look bright for at least the next several months," says George Hobica, of Airfarewatchdog.com.
But don't miss out. Delta and United airlines have said they will reduce some service to the U.K. this winter, which could lead to higher prices if there's less competition. If European low-cost carrier Ryanair follows through on talk of "pivoting" traffic away from U.K. airports, options for cheap flights from the U.K. to Europe could diminish as well. And there is the potential for longer waits at customs if EU travelers must line up with other foreigners.
As for hotels, look into flexible booking options, in case the pound falls further or the British economy contracts. Fewer business travelers could mean empty hotel rooms and more bargains.


Sen. Pat Roberts is a longtime member of Congress and the chairman of the Senate Agricultural Committee.
To new President Donald Trump Roberts is "Farm Guy."
According to Roberts, this is how Trump refers to him after meeting with the president concerning crop insurance.
"But, he listened to me," Roberts said of Trump. "I'm still not sure he knows my name, but he knows what I do."
Roberts made the comment as part of a Washington, D.C. update sponsored by the High Plains Journal and the Dodge City/Area Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday morning at High Plains Journal.
"We're working hard on getting a Farm Bill passed later this year," the senator told the crowd. "We don't want to have to go to the 2018 session because that's an election year and all kinds of things might happen.
"So, I've asked the leadership to give me two days later this session to get everything done."
Roberts said one of the reasons he met with the president was on exports. According to Roberts, two of the key exports right now are peanuts and cotton.
"Peanuts are really getting good prices," he said. "I didn't know this until I met some farmers in Alabama.
"But we need better exports for corn, wheat and beef. We need these markets to open up."
Roberts suggested infrastructure was another area of need, but that as of yet there is no groundwork for a bill to be considered.
The senator spoke about former US senator and presidential candidate Bob Dole being given the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.
"It took me just 2 and a half days to get 100 senators on board," Roberts said. "Bob still carries a lot of weight in Washington.
"Plus, I'm the chairman of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Monument Committee and we're moving forward on that as well."
After the meeting Roberts took some questions from media. He expressed the need for politicians to work together on passing new legislation and thought Trump would not change.
"He is who he is," the senator said of the president. "We need to work with him to get things done."
When asked if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was in trouble — based on recent comments by Trump — Roberts was quick to answer.
"No," he said emphatically. "McConnell still has everyone's respect in the Senate."
To contact the writer email rbluhm@dodgeglobe.com.


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African-American Facts for Week of: April 19, 2015
By Annette Johnson
The Stono Rebellion, also known as Cato's Rebellion, is believed by some historians to be the first slave rebellion ever recorded.
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Know Your History!
Up to the early 20th century, most American knowledge of Black history was limited to the African American struggle through slavery and emancipation. The significance of Black history is recognition of the advancements and accomplishments of a group of people once defined by the Constitution as three-fifths of a person. While slavery in America hosts the background of Black history, the African American impact on history reaches beyond the country's early history, as African Americans have made significant contributions.
National Urban League Formed
The National Urban League was formed in New York City. The league was born out of a merger of the National League for the Protection of Colored Women, National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes and the Niagra Movement.
Network news anchor
Max Robinson is the first African American to anchor network news. The network is ABC.
Harriet Tubman starts the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and during the American Civil War, a Union spy. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made about thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved family and friends,using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad.
Volunteer African American Army Units, including the 3rd Alabama, 3rd North Carolina
Volunteer African American army units, including the 3rd Alabama, 3rd North Carolina, 6th Virginia, 9th Ohio, 9th Illinois, 23rd Kansas and 10th Cavalry regiments, some units with African American officers, took part in the Spanish-American War on Cuban soil. Some of these veterans, upon return to the United States, were treated with parades and speeches. Others were assaulted and even lynched.
Stono Rebellion
Slave revolt occurs in Stono, – Charleston, S.C.
Inventor Granville T. Woods born
Born in Columbus, Ohio, Inventor Granville T. Woods. Woods received more than 35 patents including those for a steam boiler furnace, an incubator, and an automatic air brake. He is also the first American of African ancestry to be a mechanical and electrical engineer after the Civil War. Self-taught, he concentrated most of his work on trains and streetcars.
National Medical Association of Black Physicians
National Medical Association of Black Physicians organized in Atlanta, Ga.
The United Negro College Fund
On April 25, 1944, the United Negro College Fund was incorporated. The UNCF was incorporated on April 25, 1944 by Frederick D. Patterson (then president of what is now Tuskegee University), Mary McLeod Bethune, and others.
Memphis Federal Court Case
Consent judgment in Memphis federal court ended restrictions barring voters in Fayette County, Tennessee. This was the first voting rights case under the Civil Rights Act.
It is important to celebrate the achievements and contributions Black Americans have played in U.S. history.
To me, the omission of any group from history teachings results in a limited understanding of history's relationship with the present and future. Know your history.
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1. Perfect Match Gel Polish: this is the shade I have on my nails right now and I'm pretty sure it's my favorite gel color ever! This brand always lasts the longest for me too so I lean toward using it every time I go to my salon. Highly recommend this shade if you're due for a new color!
2. 'Beach Please' Baseball Hat: whether you're out running errands, haven't had time to do your hair or are in the sun, baseball hats are musts and these cute hats with says have been taking over this summer! I love this "beach please" cap and the price - only $15!
3. 'Always Happy Hour' Door Mat: I have an obsession with cute door mats like this! Perfect for summer and to stick outside when you have friends coming over.
4. Black Bow Slide Sandals: I chatted about these last week on Instagram and they were a huge hit! They're on sale right now for $18, so yes, you can totally buy two! ;) They're a perfect dupe for these Sam Edelman sandals and they come in quite a few colors.
5. Sunnies: you can never have too many sunnies come summer time, and at $12 they're the perfect pair to keep in the car or your bag for all of those times that you forget to grab ones from home! I love the shape of these and I'm not normally the type to go for circular frames, so if you feel the same way don't hesitate to buy these because they're great either way!
6. Tie-Dye Dip Tank: when I saw this in the store last week I fell in LOVE! Something about it is so fun and it's my favorite tank for the summer now. Fair warning - you definitely want to hand wash this and/or wash it alone (and in cold water!) the first few times so that the dye doesn't run. Some of the reviews warned that it ran, but I washed it the first time by hand and the second time alone in the washer in cold water and it was fine, #shoppersprotip?
8. Hawaiian Tropic After Sun Moisturizer: this is my holy grail product all summer long! If you haven't used this, you need to grab it - I put it on after my showers after being in the sun. It moisturizes your skin and has aloe in it so it's great for sunburn too! It's cooling to the touch and I kid you not, it has THE best scent in the world. I don't even know how to explain it, but it's heavenly!
10. Embroidered Wedges: these are pricey, but SO worth it. Embroidery is everywhere you look this season and they're one of those staple pieces you'll wear every once in a while and get tons of compliments each and every time! Definitely a splurge piece, but definitely a "need it" too!
11. Gemstone Earrings ℅: statement earrings can completely change the look of an outfit and these beauties do just that! I was so excited when I saw these come in the mail from BaubleBar - the different colored gemstones are stunning and the blues and turquoise shades are great for summer. I love the way they look with a pretty summer white!
12. Woven Tory Burch Tote: SALE ALERT! This is over $200 off retail and it's the cutest summer tote! I lean toward smaller bags on a daily basis (especially in the summer) but traveling is always easier with totes and I love how summery this Tory tote is! It fits so much and it's extremely large inside, so if you're like me and like to grab a cute new splurge piece each season, this is a perfect option!
14. Striped Bow Hat: there's no such thing as too many fun summer hats! This one is $22 - perfect to take on a beach trip and the shape is very flattering on all sized heads. That's often a problem I find when hat shopping.
15. Pineapple Glass Markers: I grabbed these a month ago and they've been such a hit at all of my summer events so far! They're a simpler take on glass charms in my opinion and they're so easy to re-use. My friends have loved them!
What a fun, Summery list! It makes me so sad that it's currently Winter here in Australia. This whole selection is adorable, but I'm especially feeling the baseball cap and those black slide sandals - so cute!
That purse is super cute!I'm totally checking it out! I love nordstrom, they seem to be having alot of sales.
They're actually not too bad! I have fairly sensitive ears so they're a little heavy on me, but not bad - my sister doesn't have sensitive ears at all and she says they don't feel heavy one bit! :) They're SOO cute in person - the pictures online don't do them justice!!
That "beach please" cap is SO cute! I've been on the hunt for the one that says "bad hair day" but can't ever find it in stock!
I have those bow sandals in 2 colors...THE best!
Isn't it adorable?! OMG! That's so funny - I just found one at the outlet center near me the other day!! Here it is, it's only $19!!! - http://shopstyle.it/l/bYQR xoxo!
3, 4, 10, 12, 13 are all me! Love this thanks for sharing! You've got a fun style that could suit many people!
I love those glass markers! They are adorable! And so are the wedges!
I need that beach please hat! Perfect for summer.
Great list! I'm loving that bow hat, too cute!
Definitely love those embroidered wedges and the Tory woven tote is so so cute for summer too! Great summer pics!
Those embroidered wedges are to die for! Totally worth the price!
Love the sandals and the cute welcome mat!
St. Tropez is awesome and that doormat is super cute!!
You picked such beautiful things! I love the wedges and the super cute pineapples!
I'll take EVERYTHING! I've heard such great things about St. Tropez... and that doormat needs to be in front of my door! So cute, I love nordstrom and can't wait to shop their sale!
uhhh i'll take one of everything!! seriously, i want them all!
How cute are those glass markers. Need those.
I love those sneakers!! That color is so cute! I love having colorful shoes to workout in!
I have the pineapple glass markers and love them! Those shoes are amazing!
Those wedges are too cute and those pineapple glass makers are awesome!
I love St. Tropez products! They are my favorite brand of tanning!
I'm crazy about bags. And that Tory Burch Tote is totally my style!
THOSE WEDGES!! I need them in my life, asap. So pretty and perfect for summer!
Seriously want everything you have picked out here! I love those embroidered Kate Spade wedges!
Those embroidered wedges are GORGEOUS. I lovelovelove a good statement shoe!


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FILE - Ice skaters take advantage of unseasonable warm temperatures to ice skate outside at Westchester Lagoon in Anchorage, Alaska, Jan. 2, 2018. While a large part of the county is freezing under Alaska-like conditions, parts of the nation's northernmost state were basking in balmy conditions.
Winter is off to a late start in parts of the nation's largest, and usually coldest, state.
Months of higher-than-normal temperatures in parts of rural Alaska have opened dangerous gaps in frozen rivers that residents use to travel from village to village and to hunting grounds because there are no roads.
One troublesome ice highway is the half-mile-wide (0.8-kilometer-wide) Kuskokwim River, where a man died New Year's Eve after he and five family members, traveling on a snowmobile and sled, fell into a gaping hole. The others survived.
Search and rescue teams in the southwest Alaska commercial hub of Bethel have been marking holes on the Kuskokwim, but there were so many, they ran out of the $300-a-roll reflective tape. While they wait for more supplies to be shipped, residents in villages along the river and its tributaries have been marking the openings with tree branches.
A group of adults and children enjoy an afternoon of sledding and snowboarding on a hill on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Jan. 17, 2018.
It's a role switch of sorts with much of the lower 48, where dangerously cold temperatures have been blamed for dozens of deaths.
The unseasonable warmth in parts of Alaska is a factor in making last month the warmest December on record for the entire state, experts say. The statewide average temperature for the month was 19.4 degrees, far higher than the historical average of 3.7 degrees, according to Rick Thoman, climatologist for the National Weather Service's Alaska region.
Boris Epchook, who has lived most of his 54 years in the Yup'ik Eskimo village of Kwethluk, east of Bethel, said he has seen dramatic environmental changes in the past two decades, but never to this degree.
Weather Service data bears that out. Bethel, representative of the region, had the warmest fall and early winter on record. The average temperature for the period between Oct. 1 and the first week of January was 28.6 degrees, far above the 30-year average of 18.3 degrees, according to Thoman.
FILE - Sea ice floats within Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, undated handout photo from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
The sustained warmth speaks to the continuing effects of climate change, which have escalated in a region many consider a harbinger of global warming. Erosion and flooding are nothing new for many remote Alaska communities, which are increasingly vulnerable to melting permafrost and shorter periods of coastal ice that historically protected them from powerful storms.
Farther north, warm weather slowed the formation of sea ice above the Arctic Circle, including the Chukchi Sea, which didn't freeze over until Dec. 31, Thoman said.
As in the Bethel area, the changes are disrupting life and hunting patterns in northern communities such as Point Hope, an Inupiat whaling village built on a triangular spit surrounded by the Chukchi, Arctic Ocean and a large inlet.
Lifelong Point Hope resident and former Mayor Steve Oomittuk said the changes have been significant over the past decade, most dramatically in the last five years. The sea ice used as platforms by prey animals like walrus and seals is slower to form, making it more dangerous for hunters to venture out, Oomittuk said.
The warming also affects ancient traditions. For example, people bring out fermented bowhead-whale tails to feast and celebrate the first forming of slushy ice along the coast.
It's a tradition historically observed in late September or early October in the community of 700. But the past couple of years, the whale tails have come out much later, in November. This season, they stayed in villagers' ice cellars until three days before Thanksgiving, Oomittuk said.
Residents worry about all the changes.
The state is shifting to a cooler trend this week.


Congratulations to Edward who became a fully qualified driver today! Edward took a course of driving lessons with Clearway instructor Paul Kirkpatrick and passed with just four driving faults at the test centre in Slough. Edward works in Slough and currently has to commute every day from home in London by public transport, so driving will make his life much easier! All of us at Clearway Driver Training are delighted to have been able to help you achieve your goal Edward.
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Community Corner: Darkest Before the Dawn?
January 2, 2020 Like 0 Darren O'Connor
If the truism that it is always darkest before the dawn holds up, local and national government policy on homelessness must soon see positive change. Current policy across the country has indeed gotten darker, from Trump vilifying people experiencing homelessness for causing harm to those seeking "prestigious real estate" and placing "real-life horror" Robert Marbut in the role of national homeless czar, to Redding, CA, Mayor Julie Winter seeking to lock them up until they can "demonstrate self-sufficiency."
The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty's update to the "Housing Not Handcuffs" report says in part, "the criminalization of homelessness is prevalent across the country and has increased in every measured category since 2006… We also found a growth in laws criminalizing homelessness…" Camping bans have increased 15 percent and the number of people experiencing homelessness increased 10 percent in the last three years. Future reports may see the number of camping bans decrease, however, as a result of the Supreme Court's recent denial of Boise's appeal in Martin v. City of Boise: "as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter."
Rather than address the root causes of homelessness — overwhelmingly a lack of affordable housing and wages that are far behind cost of living — cities like Boulder implement ever more draconian policy that places those who are already at risk, while homeless, in greater danger of staying homeless.
In Boulder (e.g.) service providers require six months residence before one can access anything except the walk up shelter offered only when temperatures are predicted below temperature thresholds (not based on science or safety). Council members and staff defend opening the shelter only at 32 degrees or lower as better than some other cities in a race to the bottom for care of our most vulnerable. With over 70 percent of those accessing such services reporting a disability, one should hope this truly is the darkness before the dawn.
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