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The Trump Technology Ten
Steve Andriole
I help execs optimize digital & educate nextgen technology pros.
There are a number of things – like Social Security, Medicare, healthcare, education and national defense – that require federal involvement – and digital technology is one of them. Not that the federal government ignores technology. Some would argue there's already too much government "interference" with the technology markets and more than enough funding of technology initiatives. The call here is for an aggressively expanded federal agenda.
Please, let's not start another "big government" argument here. Let's just acknowledge that the current US technology investment strategy is failing: the US ranks #25 in the world in R&D tax credits, has fallen out of the top ten in global innovation, is losing the AI arms race, is experiencing falling rankings in computer science and engineering, and is #11 in the world in "technological readiness." There are more indicators, but the point is clear.
Here are ten things the federal government should do about technology. I am not discounting what the individual states might do in these areas. Ideally, states are also taking steps to address technology challenges or would gladly follow the lead of the federal government. Since federal leadership on many technology issues is lagging, we cannot leave everything to the states.
So, here's the list and the recommendations:
#1 - Privacy: Pass a GDPR-Like Federal Privacy Law
Similar to what the Europeans have done, the US needs to pass an equivalent General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). Since many private and public corporations are unlikely to help with privacy (since regulations undermine their business models by limiting, protecting and controlling the information they collect and monetize) the federal government needs to work on behalf of citizens. As the Democratic Representative from Georgia, Hank Johnson, asks: "In the wake of ongoing scandals involving Americans' digital privacy, there is a growing sentiment among Americans that our federal laws need to reflect that we have fully entered the era of big data." California is already moving in the GDPR direction with its Consumer Privacy Act which will eventually allow Californians to delete their personal data and block the sale of their data to marketers and other vendors. More states are following which is why, among other reasons, the US needs a federal law to have a consistent privacy policy across the country. Trump & Co. also need to regulate the growing surveillance culture which includes the rapid deployment of facial recognition technologies. This is easily a privacy tipping point. Americans' right to privacy should tilt the scale.
#2 - Access: Return to Net Neutrality & Deploy Global Satellites
Everyone in the US (and the world, for that matter) should have access to the highest speed Internet at a price they can afford, with federal subsidies, as necessary, to assure access to the Internet, eventually via global satellite internet (GSI) access. Trump and the Congress should cut fast deals with GSI providers. In addition to access, the US needs to immediately restore Net Neutrality. If you don't want to listen to me about Net Neutrality, listen to MIT's Andy Lippman. Every Americans should have access to the highest speed Internet, including the under-populated states as well as the most populated regions that have less-than-optimal connectivity. This is a federal responsibility since carriers will always optimize toward profitable deployment. In spite of some limited efforts to provide access to the poor, the job is far from done.
#3 - Innovation Incentives: Increase R&D Tax Credits to 25%
The US ranks #25 in the world in R&D tax credits. The federal government needs to dramatically increase R&D tax credits to get the country to at least in the top #10. Ernst and Young and Joe Kennedy tell us that "Germany, the UK and China are sweetening the pot, while the US slides." "The United States needs to follow the international trend. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has called for increasing the tax credit's Alternative Simplified Credit to at least 20 percent from its current rate of 14 percent." Or 25%.
#4 - STEM Educational Support: Increase Annual STEM Funding 10-Fold
Some US states – like Pennsylvania and New York– are making important investments: "Governor Tom Wolf's PAsmart initiative has made Pennsylvania a national leader in computer science and STEM education. According to Education Commission of the States (ECS), Pennsylvania now ranks second in the country for investments in K-12 STEM and Co." But what about the feds? Well, the "U.S. Department of Education Fulfills Administration Promise to Invest $200 Million in STEM Education." Good news, right? Remember that one B-2 Spirit aircraft costs US taxpayers $737 million, and America's new aircraft carrier (without the planes), the USS Gerald R. Ford, will cost $13 billion, or 65 times the government's investment in STEM. Federal STEM funding should be increased by at least tenfold. Federal STEM educational guidelines should include funding for state-run STEM educational and training programs. Matching federal funding of state-funded programs should also be available.
#5 - Healthcare: Standardize & Fund
Healthcare in the US is a mess. "The US now ranks 27th in the world for its levels of healthcare and education ... this represents a significant decline from 1990, when it ranked sixth." "The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world with an annual spending of $3 trillion or $9,523 per person, accounting for 17.5 percent of the gross domestic product … but, consistent analysis shows that the healthcare system in the US is one most underperforming among developed nations." Nothing new here. So how can digital technology help and how can Trump & Co. make it happen? Lots of ways, including "data standardization, data integrity, information exchange, interoperability, analytics, storage, infrastructure modernization, legacy system modernization, cloud adoption, telehealth and mobile applications." We are on the verge of a technological revolution in healthcare that needs a major federal push. Electronic Health Records (EHR) standardization, sharing and protection is a federal job. We also know that wearables and mobile computing will enable large segments of the healthcare management process. Here too the federal government must standardize the use of compatible mobile platforms especially as telemedicine applications develop.
#6 - Climate Change: Fund the Linkage Between Digital & Climate
Please let's not quibble over terms like "global warming" versus "climate change." If you believe in empirical data you know we're in trouble. But how can digital technology help and how can the federal government help save the environment? There are many ways for digital to help, including big data analytics (to help identify and measure the problems), intelligent mapping technology (to help with location-based analysis), autonomous vehicles (to help reduce pollution), non-fossil fuel-based vehicles (driverless or with operators), mobile technology (that are self-powered or require less than traditional charging), cloud computing (to help reduce the number of data centers and their power consumption) and other digital technology-defined solutions. Digital technology is a huge part of the solution. All it needs is increased federal support.
#7 - Talent: Remove Measures that Reduce H-1B Visas for Technologists
Rani Molla describes things this way: "President Trump's new immigration proposal would be terrible for tech … the dead-on-arrival plan would greatly cut down on tech workers' ability to bring their families to the US." Molla further states: "using executive orders, the president has made it more difficult — and expensive — to hire high-skilled tech workers from other countries. The administration has throttled a program that encouraged entrepreneurs to come to the US. It's also ending work permits for spouses of H-1B holders, who are often highly skilled professionals themselves, among other measures to stop immigration. One result has been a net decline in high-skilled visas, known as H-1Bs, which has been bad for tech companies in the US (but good for Canada)." Similarly, Issue Lapowsky writing in Wired Magazine reports that "Visa rejections for tech workers spike under Trump." What else needs to be said about the race for the best and brightest?
#8 - Anti-Trust: Increase Competition & Efficiency by Shrinking the Technology Oligarchy
In 2018, the five largest companies in the world (by valuation) were Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook, followed closely by Alibaba, Berkshire Hathaway, Tencent Holdings, JPMorgan Chase, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson and Samsung Electronics. Amazon owns around 50% of the e-commerce market followed by eBay (6.6%), Apple (3.9%), Walmart (3.7%) and Home Depot (1.5%). Four vendors own close to 75% of the cloud infrastructure market (Amazon Web Services,33%, Microsoft 13%, IBM 8%, Google 6% and Alibaba 4%, as of Q1 2018). Three providers – Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google – own 55% of the overall cloud market. Google owns over 90% of the Internet search market. Facebook continues to dominate social media, followed by YouTube (Google), WhatsApp (Facebook), Facebook Messenger (Facebook), WeChat (Tencent) and Instagram (Facebook). Microsoft owns 36% of the worldwide operating system market, behind Android at 42% (Google and the Open Handset Alliance). The same market trends are seen in other industries, like ridesharing, where Uber and Lyft own over 70% of the market.
Because of market dominance, competition in the technology world is shrinking. It's hard to compete with oligarchies with decades-long leads. David Wessel writing in the Harvard Business Review is straightforward: "Despite their undeniable popularity, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook are drawing increasing scrutiny from economists, legal scholars, politicians, and policy wonks, who accuse these firms of using their size and strength to crush potential competitors. (Their clout caught the attention of European regulators long ago.) The tech giants pose unique challenges, but they also represent just one piece of a broader story: a troubling phenomenon of too little competition throughout the U.S. economy." As Russell Brandom andAdi Robertson suggest, it's time to resurrect antitrust.
#9 - Cyber Security: Open the Wallets – All the Way
The US digital infrastructure is leaky, to put it ridiculously mildly. Just as dangerous, the digital infrastructure and the most popular applications – like social media – are vulnerable to manipulation by terrorists, hackers, adversaries and human and software bots. According to the US Department of Homeland Security, the threats are everywhere and growing. DHS believes that the US should "reduce threats from cyber criminals. In partnership with other law enforcement agencies, DHS must prevent cyber crime and disrupt criminals and criminal organizations who use cyberspace to carry out their illicit activities and leverage identified threat activity and trends to inform national risk management efforts." In fact, there are lots of plans, objectives, "sub-objectives" and goals: "DHS must continue to strengthen our efforts as part of the law enforcement community to pursue, counter, reduce, and disrupt illicit cyber activity by leveraging, in particular, our specialized expertise and capabilities to target financial and trans-border cyber crimes … the transnational and cross-jurisdictional nature of cyberspace, as well as the sheer size of the challenge, requires closer collaboration with other federal, state, local, and international law enforcement partners." The problem is enormous and growing faster than anyone can measure. The proposed 2020 federal budget for cyber security, which includes funding for the Defense and State departments (among other agencies) is up a paltry 4.7%. Note that the "budget proposal asks for more than $9.6 billion for Defense Department cyber operations and just over $1 billion for civilian cybersecurity efforts." $1B for civilian cybersecurity efforts, and a 4.7% overall increase in the cyber security budget. One doesn't have to be an expert to conclude that the funding solution is dwarfed by the problem. The federal cyber security budget should be increased by 25% across the board every year until the threat is manageable – noting that the problem will never disappear.
#10 - Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Take the Lead
The Trump Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence issued on February 11, 2019 hopefully is just an early US shot in the AI war, an implementation war the US is arguably already losing, especially in areas like robotics. As described by Will Knight in the MIT Technology Review, "the initiative is designed to boost America's AI industry by reallocating funding, creating new resources, and devising ways for the country to shape the technology even as it becomes increasingly global … however, while the goals are lofty, the details are vague. And it will not include a big lump sum of funding for AI research." As Knight points out, "other nations, including China, Canada, and France, have made bigger moves to back and benefit from the technology in recent years."
So, where's the funding? Why the vagueness about investments? Why is funding the responsibility of Congress? Why not White House-directed funding for "the American AI Initiative"? It would be hard to improve upon the observation made by William Carter from the Center for Strategic and International Studies as reported by Kaveh Waddell in Axios: "If they can find $5 billion for a border wall, they should be able to find a few billion for the foundation of our future economic growth." Waddell further reports that "so far, U.S. funding for AI has been anemic … an analysis from Bloomberg Government found that the Pentagon's R&D spending on AI has increased from $1.4 billion to about $1.9 billion between 2017 and 2019. DARPA, the Pentagon's research arm, has separately pledged $2 billion in AI funding over the next five years … it's hard to put a number on the entire federal government's AI spend, says Chris Cornillie, a Bloomberg Government analyst, because 'most civilian agencies don't mention AI in their 2019 budget requests … (but) these numbers pale in comparison to estimates of Chinese spending on AI. Exact numbers are hard to come by, but just two Chinese cities – Shanghai and Tiajin – have committed to spending about $15 billion each.'" It's also unclear how the new initiative builds significantly and meaningfully upon the Obama Administration's National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan, issued in October of 2016. The US needs a comprehensive AI strategy (that answers the Chinese plan) and it needs significant, long-term, dedicated, earmarked funding.
What are the constants? Federal leadership and increased spending. Federal investments in digital technology should be large and continuous. There's nothing more strategic to the country's prosperity than digital technology in all forms and flavors. Counterproposals to federal leadership and spending include industry and state government leadership. But the incentives here are competitive, not national. While competition is terrific, there are times when national priorities should outweigh the competitive objectives of certain companies and states. Perhaps we need a Department of Digital Technology to advance a federal agenda.


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The 1899-1900 Famine in India
Figures & Events
Asian Wars and Battles
by Kallie Szczepanski
Dr. Kallie Szczepanski is a history teacher specializing in Asian history and culture. She has taught at the high school and university levels in the U.S. and South Korea.
In 1899, the monsoon rains failed in central India. Drought parched crops over an area of at least 1,230,000 square kilometers (474,906 square miles), impacting almost 60 million people. Food crops and livestock died as the drought stretched into a second year, and soon people began to starve. The Indian Famine of 1899-1900 killed millions of people - perhaps as many as 9 million in all.
Victims of the Famine in Colonial India
Famine victims in colonial India, starving during the 1899-1900 famine.
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Many of the famine victims lived in British-administered sections of colonial India. The British Viceroy of India, Lord George Curzon, Baron of Kedleston, was concerned with his budget and feared that aid to the starving would cause them to become dependent on hand-outs, so British aid was seriously inadequate, at best. Despite the fact that Great Britain had been profiting greatly from its holdings in India for more than a century, the British stood aside and allowed millions of people in the British Raj to starve to death. This event was one of several that inspired calls for Indian independence, calls that would increase in volume over the first half of the twentieth century.
Causes and Effects of the 1899 Famine
Drawing of Indian famine victims by Barbant.
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One reason that the monsoons failed in 1899 was a strong El Nino - the southern temperature oscillation in the Pacific Ocean that can impact weather around the world. Unfortunately for the victims of this famine, El Nino years also tend to bring outbreaks of disease in India. In the summer of 1900, people already weakened by hunger were hit with an epidemic of cholera, a very nasty water-borne disease, which tends to bloom during El Nino conditions.
Almost as soon as the cholera epidemic had run its course, a killer outbreak of malaria ravaged the same drought-stricken parts of India. (Unfortunately, mosquitoes need very little water in which to breed, so they survive drought better than crops or livestock do.) The malaria epidemic was so severe that the Bombay Presidency issued a report calling it "unprecedented," and noting that it was afflicting even relatively wealthy and well-fed people in Bombay.
Western Women Pose With a Famine Victim, India, c. 1900
An American tourist and an unidentified western woman pose with a famine victim, India, 1900.
Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
Miss Neil, pictured here with an unidentified famine victim and another western woman, was a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, a communal religious organization founded in the Old City of Jerusalem by Presbyterians from Chicago. The group carried out philanthropic missions, but were considered odd and suspect by other Americans in the Holy City.
Whether Miss Neil went to India specifically to provide aid to people starving in the 1899 famine or was simply traveling at that time, is not clear from the information provided with the photograph. Since the invention of photography, such pictures have prompted outpourings of aid money from viewers, but can also raise justified charges of voyeurism and profiting from other people's misery.
Editorial Cartoon Mocking Western Famine Tourists in India, 1899-1900
Western tourists gawk at Indian famine victims, 1899-1900.
A French editorial cartoon lampoons western tourists who went to India to gawk at the victims of the 1899-1900 famine. Well-fed and complacent, the westerners stand back and take a photo of skeletal Indians.
Steamships, railroad lines, and other advances in transportation technology made it easier for people to travel the world at the beginning of the 20th century. The invention of highly portable box cameras allowed tourists to record the sights, as well. When these advances intersected with a tragedy such as the Indian Famine of 1899-1900, many tourists came across as vulture-like thrill seekers, who exploited others' misery.
Striking photographs of disasters also tend to stick in the minds of people in other countries, coloring their perceptions of a particular place. Photos of the starving millions in India fueled paternalistic claims by some in the UK that the Indians could not take care of themselves - though, in fact, the British had been bleeding India dry for more than a century.
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F.A.C.E. is a fitness and character education program our elementary students participate in every Thursday afternoon. The program focuses on fitness to help reduce obesity in children along with character education to build self-esteem and respect. Program Developer and teacher, Kirk Farber, says, "Fitness training is essential, but CHARACTER BUILDING is priceless!" Kirk is joining forces with Montessori Tides to help our students become tomorrow's successful leaders by combining confidence, growth and positive attitude.
Kirk implements his program at Montessori Tides School through a combination of martial arts, jump rope, and juggling, along with a weekly theme. The "word of the day" (as Kirk calls it), is something like respect, responsibility, what I want to be when I grow up, etc. At the end of each session, a few children are chosen to get up in front of the class to talk about the "word of the day" and what it means to them. Kirk helps the children recognize and attain self-esteem and confidence through performing and public speaking while he keeps the emphasis on fitness and coordination.
Since its inception in 2003, F.A.C.E. has reached more than 20,000+ students building self- confidence, nurturing broken spirits, growing moral character and instilling a non-defeatist attitude. In addition to the contribution F.A.C.E. makes building a child's self esteem, F.A.C.E. also helps combat one the greatest new threats facing our next generation, childhood obesity along with addressing anger management issues. Learn more by visiting their website or "liking" them on Facebook.


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News Southern
Dilapidated Sogeri Police Station To Receive Much-Needed Facelift
Sogeri Police Station cell blocks are unfit for human habitation.
Lack of water and poor electricity have affected living conditions of inmates.
This has been an ongoing problem, with little attention from relevant authorities in addressing it. Sogeri Police Station was the face of the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary back in the 1950s.
Years of neglect have seen this icon of RPNGC crumble and it now requires urgent repair.
Inmates have to endure inhumane conditions while awaiting their referral. There is no water supply, electricity or toilet facilities.
Senior Inspector Stanley Baroro, manning the station, has condemned the state of the facility.
He says inmates do not deserve to live here and the station should not operate, due to its condition.
Their obligation to safeguard the community has kept them going. Numerous reports to the police headquarters in Port Moresby have fallen on deaf ears.
The police station has been promised a major facelift next year by local member Peter Isoaimo.
If this eventuates, it will be the first in more than 30 years.
Sogeri hosts a number of important national assets such as schools, the Rouna hydro power station and it is the gateway to the Kokoda Track.
The rehabilitation of the police station will boost the morale of the policemen to effectively perform their duties to protect these assets.
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Measles Outbreak: What You Need to Know
The recent outbreak brings forward the debate on vaccinations
Published February 5, 2015 • Updated on February 6, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Public health officials say they're investigating a "cluster of measles" at a suburban daycare center.
Two children at a KinderCare Learning Center in Palatine have been confirmed to have the virus while test results for three others are pending, though they have been diagnosed by clinical and epidemiological criteria, officials said.
Another 10 children are at-risk of contracting measles, said Dr. Terry Mason, the CEO of the Cook County Department of Public Health. A majority of those who may have been exposed are too young for a vaccination, Mason said.
Officials expect even more cases to be diagnosed.
Here are a few things you should know about measles.
What is measles?
Measles is a highly contagious respiratory disease that causes fever, red and sore eyes, runny nose, cough and a characteristic rash. The disease can cause severe health complications, including pneumonia, encephalitis and death.
Measles is transmitted by contact with an infected person through coughing or sneezing and can remain in the air and on surfaces for up to two hours. Infected people are contagious from four days before their rash starts through four days afterwards.
How can you prevent it?
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Cook County Department of Public Health say vaccinations are the safest, most effective way to protect individuals from measles and other potentially dangerous communicable diseases. Children who are under the age of one or with certain clinical conditions cannot be vaccinated and are therefore at highest risk for measles.
"Residents are strongly encouraged to get vaccinated to protect themselves and the most vulnerable members of the community," IDPH said in a statement.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said one dose of measles vaccine is about 93 percent effective at preventing measles if exposed to the virus, and two doses is about 97 percent effective.
There has been at least one other confirmed case of measles in suburban Cook County in 2015, according to the Cook County Department of Public Health.
The CDC said 102 cases were reported in the U.S. in January alone. States affected include Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington. An outbreak at Disneyland was said to be responsible for 92 percent of those reported cases.
Is measles widespread?
Each year there are 20 million cases around the world, and 145,000 people die, according to the CDC.
Last year, the United States experienced a record number of measles cases, with 23 outbreaks reported, including one large outbreak of 383 cases occurring primarily among unvaccinated Amish communities in Ohio, the CDC said.
Many of the cases in the U.S. in 2014 were associated with cases brought in from the Philippines, which experienced a large measles outbreak.
Hasn't measles been eliminated in the U.S.?
In 2000, the United States declared measles was eliminated, meaning it is no longer native to the country. Health officials say, however, that unvaccinated travelers who get measles in other countries can bring it back into the U.S.
Since 2000, the annual number of people reported to have measles ranged from a low of 37 people in 2004 to a high of 644 people in 2014, according to the CDC.
Before the measles vaccination program started in 1963, health officials estimate that about 3 to 4 million people got measles each year in the United States. Of those people, 400 to 500 died, 48,000 were hospitalized, and 4,000 developed encephalitis (brain swelling) from measles.
Is there cause for concern?
It is possible that measles could become endemic in the U.S. again, particularly if vaccine coverage levels drop, according to the CDC.


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Q: Creating a bitmask with a large number of options In my Android app I have a class containing only data (exposed with getters). This class needs to be serialized and sent across to other clients (done naively by iterating over all getters, and storing them in a ByteBuffer).
public class Data
{
     public int getOption1() { }

     public int getOption2 { }

     // ...

     public int getOptionN { }
}

Serialize:
public void serialize(Data data) {

    // write getOption1();
    // write getOption2();
    // ...
}

Deserialize:
public void deserialize() {
    // read Option1();
    // read Option2();
    // ...
}

I'd like to be able to define which fields actually get sent (instead of blindly sending all of them), and one potential solution for this would be to define another field which is a bitmask that defines which fields are actually sent.
The receiving side parses the bitmask, and can tell which of the fields should be deserialized from the received message.
The problem is - using an int (32-bit) for bitmask allows for only 32 unique options (by using the "standard" power of 2 enum values).
How can one define a bitmask that can support a larger number of items? is there any other encoding (other than storing each value as a power of 2) ?
The number of actual values may vary (depending on user input) and may be anything from ~ 50 up to 200.
I'd like to encode the different options in the most efficient encoding.

A: An int provides a bit for each of 32 options. You can use a long to get a bit for each of 64 options. For larger number of options, you can use an int or long array. Take the number of options, divide by 32 (for an int array) or 64 (for a long array) and round up.
A byte array will provide the least waste. Divide the number of options by 8 and round up. You can reserve the first byte to contain the length of the byte array (if you're passing other data as well). Since Byte.MAX_VALUE is 127 (but you can treat the value as the maximum valid index, not the byte count), this limits you to 128 * 8 - 1 = 1023 options (or 2047 options if you are willing to do a little extra work to deal with negative byte count values). The maximum waste will be less than one byte (plus an additional byte of overhead to store the count).
If each option can be independently there or not there, you cannot do much better. If options can be grouped such that all options in a group are always either all present or all absent, then some additional compression may be possible.

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UN "Experts" Show Their Hand About Treaty on the Child
March 9, 1995 by Phyllis Schlafly
It was appropriate that Hillary Rodham Clinton was the one who announced that the Clinton Administration signed the United Nations Convention (Treaty) on the Rights of the Child and is sending it to the Senate for ratification. After all, this UN Treaty has been a major goal of the Children's Defense Fund ever since that lobbying group failed in its effort to pass the 1990 ABC Child Care bill (which was designed to create a new federal entitlement: federal babysitting of preschool children).
Hillary Rodham Clinton was chair of CDF's board of directors from 1986 to 1991, CDF's CEO Marian Wright Edelman is Hillary's close friend, and her husband Peter Edelman is scheduled to be appointed by President Clinton to the second highest court in our land. The UN Treaty, the Children's Defense Fund, and Hillary Rodham Clinton all share the world view that government, not parents, should have the primary sayso over the upbringing of children.
These notions are not very popular in the United States, but 176 foreign nations have signed this UN Treaty. It creates a long list of children's rights that presumably would be enforced against parents by the government or by an international bureaucracy.
Article 43 of the treaty sets up a Committee on the Rights of the Child consisting of ten "experts" chosen by the signatory governments. Its purpose is to examine the "progress" made by the governments "in achieving the realization of the obligations undertaken" in the treaty.
Last month, the Committee released its report on the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. It demonstrates the sort of international bureaucratic busybodyism that will be in store for us if the U.S. Senate ever makes the mistake of ratifying the treaty.
In its report, the UN Committee expressed its concern about "the adequacy of measures taken to ensure the implementation of economic, social and cultural rights to the maximum extent of available resources." The Committee concluded that "insufficient expenditure is allocated to the social sector both within the United Kingdom and within the context of international development aid."
Such arrogance! This UN committee presumes to admonish the United Kingdom to spend more taxpayers' money "to the maximum extent of available resources." This UN Committee, if it ever gets the chance, will be able to censure the United States about our failure to spend enough money on liberal social programs, thereby giving liberal activist federal judges the excuse to order us to comply.
The UN Committee didn't create this spending obligation out of whole cloth. It's right there in the text of the treaty. If we are fools enough to ratify it, we will be obligated "to the maximum extent of [our] available resources" to provide all children with "health care services" (Article 24), social security (Article 26), and an "adequate" standard of living, nutrition, clothing and housing (Article 27). Are you ready for higher taxes?
The UN Committee says it is "concerned" that "the possibility for parents in England and Wales to withdraw their children from parts of the sex education programmes in schools" means that "the right of the child to express his or her opinion is not solicited" and that "thereby the opinion of the child may not be given due weight and taken into account as required under article 12."
Article 12 purports to give children "the right to express [their] views freely in all matters." So, now we know that the UN Committee believes that a child's rights should include the right to overrule his parents' decision to withdraw him from sex education classes. It is not likely that Americans want to delegate to the UN the right to overrule parents on sex education.
The UN Committee calls for "establishing further mechanisms to facilitate the participation of children in decisions affecting them, including within the family and the local community." "Decisions affecting them"? About what they eat and wear? When they study and sleep? What school and church they attend? What rules of behavior govern their lives? Under the UN treaty, parents get lost! The kids are in the driver's seat!
The UN Committee "recommends that physical punishment of children in families be prohibited in light of the provisions laid down in the Convention." Will a UN gestapo soon start peeking through windows to see if parents are spanking their disobedient children?
The UN Committee urges "that procedures be introduced to ensure that children are provided with the opportunity to express their views on matters of concern to them in the running of the schools." Are we ready for children to run the schools?
Finally, this UN Committee of experts, legally operating under the treaty already signed by 176 foreign countries, calls for "introducing education about the Convention on the Rights of the Child into school curricula." School textbooks will soon be teaching children how to assert their rights against their parents.
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What the heck is a hemlock woolly adelgid? The state needs your help finding them
by Jimmy Jordan February 11, 2022 April 4, 2022
The hemlock woolly adelgid attaches to the stems of hemlock trees, where it sucks starches from the base of their needles. The white cotton like balls they form protect them from the winter's harsh conditions. Credit: Provided / Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station Archive
ITHACA, N.Y.—Drop the name "hemlock woolly adelgid" in a conversation and it's likely to yield a response similar to this: "What the heck did you just say?"
The hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) is an invasive insect that when able to swell in numbers, can kill the trees of the eastern U.S.'s evergreen hemlock forests. Without any natural predators, the only thing that controls their populations are the deep freezes of winter. Mild winters mean big gains for their populations, and the loss of more hemlocks, which can be commonly found in the gorges.
"Basically, the only control over their population growth is called weather right now," said Mark Whitmore, the Director of the New York State Hemlock Initiative.
The warming effects of climate change are projected to only increase the HWA's northern range. While long term solutions, like biocontrols are being worked on by the NYS Hemlock Initiative and others, there are chemical treatments that can be effective in slowing an HWA infestation, but only in its early stages of infestation.
HWA reproduces asexually, adding to its population twice a year in the spring and fall. A single hemlock woolly adelgid lays 50 to 100 eggs each time it reproduces, so the population growth can be exponential.
"If you get to an area and it's been infested for years and it's spread over many hundreds of acres, there's not a lot you can do," said Whitmore. "But when you get into an early infestation stage, you can get in there and maybe knock down the population and keep it from growing locally."
But doing that means knowing where the woolly adelgid is spreading—so here's where citizen science steps in.
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The New York State Hemlock Initiative is launching a "Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Winter Mapping Challenge" with iMapInvasives, an online database tool used for (you guessed it) mapping the spread of invasive species.
The mapping challenge will run from Feb. 12 to Mar. 12.
Caroline Marschner of the New York State Hemlock initiative said that, "This is a really great year for looking for HWA."
The pests are sedentary, fixing themselves to hemlock branches and sucking out their sap from near the base of the hemlock needles. In southern hemlock forests, HWA infestations kill their host trees in four to 10 years. In New York's harsher winters, it can take six to twenty years. The hemlock woolly adelgid is practically invisible to the naked-eye, only being identifiable by the waxy wool they form around themselves to survive the cold of winter.
Marschner said that the last few winters have been mild enough for the HWA to build up it's populations substantially. "And last winter was so mild, we had the lowest mortality we'd ever seen," said Marschner.
While this is bad news for the hemlocks, the silver lining is that the HWA will be clustered into woolly clumps on tree branches, making them easier to spot.
The Finger Lakes Partnership for Regional Invasive Species Management (PRISM) is managing volunteers for the mapping effort. The New York State Hemlock Initiative also has volunteer opportunities.
The Cascading Effects of Declining Hemlock Forests
In eastern U.S. forests, hemlock trees are what's known as a foundational species. They determine the way an ecosystem functions on money levels.
"They (hemlocks) are super abundant, and they're the thing that makes the ecosystem the ecosystem that it is," said Marschner.
"Basically they provide a foundation upon which many species need to survive in the environment," said Whitmore
Since hemlocks keep their needles year round, their heavy canopies regulate temperature, slowing snow melt in the spring time, and keeping creek waters cool.
"The native brook trout, and the Atlantic salmon require cooler waters to reproduce. And hemlocks are an important part of that," said Whitmore.
There's also a growing body of science showing that these humble conifers are important for regulating the water levels within the watersheds that they grow.
Marschner said, "There's growing evidence that watersheds that have lost their hemlocks are seeing more flooding, and just more fluctuations in their water levels."
The reason being, Marschner explained, is that hemlocks are "most active" during the spring and fall, when there's an overabundance of water from rain and snowmelt.
In addition, hemlocks grow well along steep slopes and along stream banks, holding the soil and slowing erosion.
"Hemlocks are just an irreplaceable part of the Eastern forests," said Whitmore.
Hemlocks are shade tolerant, and when they die back, Marschner said, "they're usually getting replaced by hardwoods that don't provide the same ecosystem services."
Biological controls have been explored extensively at the NYS Hemlock Initiative. Biocontrol is the use of other organisms to suppress the populations of pests. So far, the NYS Hemlock initiative has found success with early establishments of the laricobius beetle, which feeds on developing and adult HWA, but only it's winter spawns. The NYS Hemlock Initiative started releasing these beetles in 2008.
Silver flies have been released as a biocontrol for the spring wave of HWA since 2015. The fly larvae feed on HWA's eggs.
While these efforts are showing promise, it's unclear how long it may take for their populations to establish in New York State.
"There are short term solutions, and long term solutions to an invasive pest. A short term solution is figuring out where it is and treating it in places where you have important hemlocks you want to save," said Marschner. "And the long term solution is biocontrol. But you'll lose your hemlocks if you sit around not doing the short term solution and waiting for the long term solution."
Tagged: Cascadilla gorge, cornell, environment, forest, hemlock trees, hemlock woolly adelgid, jimmy jordan, new york state, New York State Hemlock Initiative, state, trees
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4-year-old rushed to Nemours after crash in Millsboro
A 4-year-old was rushed to Nemours/A.I duPont Hospital for Children with serious injuries after a crash in Millsboro Saturday evening, police said.
4-year-old rushed to Nemours after crash in Millsboro A 4-year-old was rushed to Nemours/A.I duPont Hospital for Children with serious injuries after a crash in Millsboro Saturday evening, police said. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/10/06/4-year-old-rushed-nemours-after-crash-millsboro/3890235002/
Jessica Bies, Delaware News Journal Published 9:48 a.m. ET Oct. 6, 2019 | Updated 2:31 p.m. ET Oct. 6, 2019
A 2013 Chevy Silverado driven by a 59-year-old Selbyville man was stopped at a red light, waiting to turn left at the intersection of northbound DuPont and Town Center boulevards, State Police said.
A 2004 Volkswagen Jetta, driven by a 51-year-old Georgetown woman, was traveling in the southbound right lane of DuPont Boulevard, approaching the same intersection, according to a press release.
The light changed, and the Chevy, which had a green arrow, started to turn. The Jetta failed to stop at the red light, police said, and it struck the front right end of the Chevy.
The driver of the Chevy, who was wearing a seatbelt, was not injured.
A 4-year-old in a booster seat in the back of the Jetta sustained serious injuries and was taken to the A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children, police said.
An adult male in the front passenger seat of the Jetta was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured, according to the press release.
The driver of the Jetta, who was also wearing a seatbelt, was taken to Nanticoke Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. She was cited for failing to stop at the red light, driving without a valid license and failing to have a registration card.
Police do not believe she was impaired at the time of the crash, according to the press release.
Anyone with information about the crash may contact Trooper K. Campbell at Troop 4 by calling 302-856-5850.
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Ricoh Named as Leader in Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant
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Ricoh Named as Leader in Analyst Firm's Magic Quadrant for Multifunction Products and Printers
WEST CALDWELL, N.J., Aug. 23 /PRNewswire/ — Ricoh Americas Corporation, a leading provider of digital office equipment and advanced document management solutions and services, today announced that Gartner placed Ricoh as a Leader in its Magic Quadrant for multifunction products (MFPs) and printers worldwide (1). Gartner's Magic Quadrant serves as a guide for midsize to large organizations to identify and evaluate technology providers that can match their global footprint, become their partners in helping them reduce costs and gain control of their printer fleets and help them reduce the environmental impact of the organization's print environment.
According to Gartner, "Leaders are the most capable in providing MFPs (including SMFPs), printers and the associated printing solutions and services, regardless of customer location. Providers in the Leaders quadrant offer the most extensive product portfolio relative to their peers, and they have the broad channel capability to deliver the products to customers where they want to procure them. Thus, Leaders hold consistently high market share worldwide and are capable of delivering consistent service levels in the regions where Gartner customers are located. Leaders tend to have the deepest global capability and the inventiveness and resources, skills and vision to deliver superior levels of support to existing and future customers globally. Leaders have a proven track record of channeling R&D initiatives into products and solutions that customers need."
"We believe Ricoh's recognition by Gartner as a Leader in the 2010 MFP Magic Quadrant further demonstrates the strength of our hardware, software and services offerings, along with our ability to work to meet our customers' needs no matter where they are located throughout the globe," said Shun Sato, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Ricoh Americas Corporation. "A key component of Gartner's evaluation includes direct feedback from interviews with customers, making this acknowledgment even more meaningful."
Ricoh's commitment to innovation is demonstrated by its significant investment of resources for research and development, all of which aim to support the changing nature of print. Additionally, the company has a history of environmental contentiousness, and was recognized at the 2010 World Economic Forum as having strong sustainable business practices and products in the electronics business.
For more information on Ricoh's products and services, please visit http://www.ricoh-usa.com.
(1.) Gartner "Magic Quadrant for MFPs and Printers" by Federico De Silva Leon, et al. July 26, 2010.
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The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
About Ricoh Americas Corporation
Ricoh Americas Corporation, headquartered in West Caldwell, N.J., is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the 74-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2009 sales in excess of $21 billion.
Ricoh's fully integrated hardware and customizable services and software help businesses share information efficiently and effectively by enabling customers to control the input, management and output of documents.
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Cyber Essentials is the MOD's base requirement to be implemented by their supply chain to protect against cyber security threats.
This will be followed by additional requirements depending on the cyber risk profile detailed by Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP). This is part of the Government plans to invest heavily in cyber security over the next five years, including the South West. British Industry should take action to reduce the threat of cyber attacks by implementing Cyber Essentials, a government backed scheme, after a Government survey highlights the increase in cyber security breaches.
HM Government commissioned a 2015 Information Security Breaches Survey. This showed that there had been an increase in the number of both large and small businesses that experienced breaches. It shows that 90% of large organisations (a rise of 81% from the previous year) and 74% of small businesses (a rise of 60% from the previous year) have suffered a security breach. Unauthorised outsider attacks last year affected 69% of large and 38% of small businesses whilst the average costs of the worst possible breach ranges from £75,200 – £310,800 for a small business and between £1.46m – £3.14m for a large organisation.
By implementing the basic cyber controls required of the Government's Cyber Essentials scheme businesses will protect their information assets from almost 80% of cyber threats.
The MOD is committed to ensuring it and its supply chain are appropriately protected and has been working jointly with Industry and other Government departments in the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) to develop a proportionate means of achieving this. As a first step, the MOD will be implementing the Government's Cyber Essentials Scheme through a compliance question in its supplier selection Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
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The figure of the governess is very familiar from 19th-century literature. Much less is known about the governess in reality. This work explores what the life of the home schoolroom was actually like. Drawing on original diaries and a variety of sources, the author describes why the period 1840-80 was the classic age of the governess. She examines their numbers, recruitment, teaching methods, social position and prospects. The governess provides a key to the central Victorian concept of the lady. Her education consisted of a series of accomplishments designed to attract a husband able to keep her in the style to which she had become accustomed from birth. Becoming a governess was the only acceptable way of earning money open to a lady whose family could not support her in leisure. Being paid to educate another woman's children set in play a series of social and emotional tensions. The governess was a surrogate mother, who was herself childless, a young woman whose marriage prospects were restricted, and a family member who was sometimes mistaken for a servant.
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"A fascinating and very readable study." --Choice
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The Imperials é um grupo americano de gênero gospel fundado nos anos 60. O grupo tem mais de 48 anos de carreira e uma longa discografia. Houve muitas mudanças para a banda em composição e estilos musicais ao longo dos anos. Eles já ganharam quatro Grammy Latino e foram introduzidos no Gospel Music Hall of Fame. A cantora Marina de Oliveira já fez várias regravações em português de suas músicas, e uma delas estão a música Bread Upon The Water que no título brasileiro é Faça um Teste.<ref>Som Gospel Marina de Oliveira - Imenso Amor Página visitada em 5 de dezembro de 2012</ref>. O grupo aparece como um dos vocais de apoio do cantor Elvis Presley em espetáculos de 1970 em Las Vegas, mostrados no documentário do mesmo ano Elvis: That's the Way It Is.

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1964: Jake Hess & The Imperials1964: Introducing The Illustrious Imperials1964: Fireside Hymns1964: Blends and Rhythms1965: Talent Times Five1965: Slaughter Writes - Imperials Sing1965: Happy Sounds of The Imperials1965: He Was a Preachin Man1965: Slightly Regal1966: Sing Their Favorite Hymns1966: Sing Inspirational Classics
1967: To Sing Is the Thing1968: New Dimensions1969: Love Is the Thing1970: Gospel's Alive and Well1971: Time to Get It Together1972: Imperials1973: Live1974: Follow the Man with the Music1975: No Shortage1976: Just Because1977: Sail On1978: Live1979: Heed the Call1979: One More Song for You1980: Priority1980: Christmas with the Imperials1982: Stand By the Power1983: Side By Side1984: Sing the Classics1985: Let the Wind Blow1987: This Year's Model1988: Free the Fire	Bill Schnee
1990: Love's Still Changing Hearts
1991: Big God
1992: Stir It Up
1995: Til He Comes
1997: It's Still the Cross
1998: Songs of Christmas
2002: I Was Made for This
2006: The Lost Album
2007: The Imperials
2007: Back to the Roots
2010: Still Standing

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On 2 February 2016, UNU will host "Public Administration Priorities and Challenges in China", a conversation with Dr Lan Xue, Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing. This event will start at 6:30 p.m. at UNU Headquarters in Tokyo.
China's multi-decade high economic growth levels, significant demographic shifts and environmental challenges have attracted much international public attention, not least because hundreds of millions of Chinese citizens have been lifted out of poverty. It is now restored to great power status.
Dr Lan Xue will join UNU Rector David M. Malone for a conversation exploring the opportunities and potential pitfalls that beckon for public policy in China in the years ahead.
Please note that this event will be in English only; Japanese interpretation will not be provided. Advance registration (by 1 February) is required. Please click on the REGISTER button above to access the online registration page.
Dr Lan Xue is Cheung Kong Chair Professor and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing. With a PhD in public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, he taught at the George Washington University before returning to China in 1996. His teaching and research interests include public policy analysis, science, technology and innovation policy, crisis management, and global governance. He has published widely in these areas, including, Risk Governance on Climate Change (2014, Science Press of China), and Globalization of Science and Technology and its Influence on China's Development (2015, Tsinghua University Press).
Dr Xue also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His many public service appointments include a member of the Expert Committee on Emergency Management of the State Council of China, Vice President of the China Association of Public Administration, a member of the Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development advisory board on Science, Technology and Industry. Since 2012, he has been the Co-Chair of the Leadership Council of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN). He is a recipient of the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science.


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Why The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air's Original Aunt Viv Was A 'Spotlight' On Representation For One Of Her Co-Stars
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air has been a cultural phenomenon since it first premiered on our TV screens in 1990. The NBC sitcom not only served as a starring vehicle for Will Smith, but it also gave households across the country a look at a loving and financially stable Black family. Part of that household was Vivian Banks, a sweet, but stern, college professor. The role was originated by Janet Hubert, who controversially departed the series in 1993. Hubert's performance is still widely loved by fans, but it was particularly important to co-star Tatyana Ali, who viewed Hubert as a "spotlight" for representation.
Tatyana Ali was only 11 years old when she was cast as Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but she had plenty of co-stars to look up to like Karyn Parsons and the late James Avery. But Janet Hubert was particularly influential in her formative years, as her performance on Fresh Prince marked one of the few times Ali had gotten to see a dark-skinned woman shining in such a complex role. Following the recent reunion, the actress explained what Hubert means to her:
When we were working on the show together, we always talked about how beautiful she was. She had makeup and hair people that were there for her. When she does that amazing dance sequence, the leotard she was in… I hope that she knows that for me as a young girl, I saw her with a spotlight on her, and that's how I thought she was being represented on the show. In terms of beauty, Black beauty, as a young Black child, I thought she was radiant, and I thought the spotlight was on her and that was something that I wasn't used to seeing. I didn't get a chance to tell her that at the reunion, but if she hears that, I hope that gives her some comfort. For the things that she went through, she meant a lot to a lot of people, young people.
Tatyana Ali's sentiments to Clay Cane on Sirius XM beautifully sum up the far-reaching impact of Janet Hubert's performance on The Fresh Prince. It's crazy to say but, even in the '90s, Black actresses (especially those who are dark-skinned) were rarely offered characters like Vivian Banks.
Representation is a powerful thing, as it can mean a great deal to viewers to be able to see someone like themselves on screen. In Tatyana Ali's case, she got to see this first hand, and it's stayed with her throughout the course of her career.
As Ali mentioned, Hubert went through a lot after her highly publicized Fresh Prince exit. At the time, reports inaccurately claimed she had been fired when she had actually departed over an unsatisfactory contract extension. Claims of her being difficult to work with would unfortunately damage her career, resulting in a scarce amount of work for her in the years that followed.
Thankfully, after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Reunion, the love for Janet Hubert is at an all-time high, as the special gave the actress the opportunity to tell her story. The event also saw her reconcile with co-star Will Smith, after the two went 27 years without speaking to each other. Their candid conversation made for one of the most emotional segments of the reunion.
Hollywood is slowly but surely taking greater steps when it comes to representation and, hopefully, things will continue to improve. But as we move forward, let's definitely not forget to honor stars like Janet Hubert, who truly helped blaze trails for new generations of performers.
You can check out Janet Hubert's work on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air by streaming it on HBO Max.
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Dimapur Municipal Council (DMC), in collaboration with CAN Youth, conducted a one-day training program on paper-bag making for Ebenezer Orphanage Home (EOH) on August 4 at the Recreation Room of the home.
A press release from MSW student, Bosco Institute Jorhat, (Intern with CAN Youth), Putuchiba Walling stated that while expressing gratitude to DMC for approving their proposal for the paper-bag training program, proprietor of the orphanage home, Akum Amri spoke about transforming society into a peaceful environment which would further lead to the achievement of a better Nagaland. He also spoke on the pollution caused by the use of polythene bags or plastic which is hazardous to humans as well as the environment.
Amri expressed his views on the importance of training the children and how it would impact the environment at large. The training will also provide an income generation skill for the children and through it, the orphanage home will also be financially sustained, he added.
He further urged the people of Nagaland to retrospect on how they had all contributed towards the unhealthy environment. Ebenezer orphanage home also lauded CAN Youth for taking up the initiative of training people to make paper bags.
A welcome song was presented by the children; while vote of thanks was proposed by children secretary of the orphanage home. Altogether 24 children participated were part of the training program.


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The Baerii caviar has a delicate texture and it is made from the egg of the sturgeon Acipenser Baerii native from Siberia. It is the most common species in European farms. Its small grains are easily detached. They have a fairly dark brown color. In the mouth, opens the taste buds instantly with a dominant fruity flavour, we appreciate its beautiful mineral notes on a very discreet iodine structure.
The Baerii caviar has a delicate texture and it is made from the egg of the sturgeon Acipenser Baerii native from Siberia. It is the most common species in European farms. Its small grains are easily detached. They have a fairly dark brown color. In the mouth, French caviar Baerii opens the taste buds instantly with a dominant fruity flavour, we appreciate its beautiful mineral notes on a very discreet iodine structure. His brother Bulgarian caviar Baerii is very similar while having a less pronounced taste.


A note about the word slave used in this man page and command name: Starting with Redis 5 this command: starting with Redis version 5, if not for backward compatibility, the Redis project no longer uses the word slave. Please use the new command CLUSTER REPLICAS. The command SLAVEOF will continue to work for backward compatibility.
The command provides a list of replica nodes replicating from the specified master node. The list is provided in the same format used by CLUSTER NODES (please refer to its documentation for the specification of the format).
The command will fail if the specified node is not known or if it is not a master according to the node table of the node receiving the command.
Note that if a replica is added, moved, or removed from a given master node, and we ask CLUSTER SLAVES to a node that has not yet received the configuration update, it may show stale information. However eventually (in a matter of seconds if there are no network partitions) all the nodes will agree about the set of nodes associated with a given master.
The command returns data in the same format as CLUSTER NODES.


USAIN GOAT !!! | USAIN BOLT WINS LAST 100m RACE IN JAMAICA |KINGSTON GRAND PRIX 2017 REACTION!!!
Usain Bolt, the LEGEND, the GOAT. Final individual race of his career, final 100m race at London 2017.
A mix i did of my favorite track athlete maurice greene. 4 ever the G.O.A.T..
Usain bolt ends glittering career, where does he rank among goats?
In this episode of the GOAT Movie Podcast Angel, Julius, Daniel, and Sam discuss the following: Usain Bolt Wants To Be In The Flash Movie? Thanks and enjoy!
Usain Bolt 9.58 and 19.19 or was it 18.9?
He's the G.O.A.T of sprinting...PERIOD.
No copyrights intended Song Faygo dreams.
4*100 Relay London 2017-Usain Bolt lost his final race. But still GOAT!!
Usain Bolt limps down the track in his last relay race.


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SIP SUPPORT FROM AN UNLIKELY QUARTER
Originally written: Mar 2004
In my small corner of the world we are seeing much more interest in SIPs both from the consumer and the architectural sectors than we ever hoped for. It is poor science to make projections on such a small statistical sample, but interest from another entirely unlikely quarter gives me good reason to have my heart soar like an eagle when thinking of the immediate future of SIPs.
I (we, the SIP Brotherhood) have received endorsement from none other than Frank Lloyd Wright. Well, not exactly. He is dead. In fact, very dead, having passed away to the great Architect in the Sky in the spring of 1959. However; to the extent that he continues to live through his works and ideas, he is not only still alive, but arguably still remains the most progressive architect out there.
Wright, after the long drought of the Great Depression, in 1935/36 in his mid sixties, spread on the table for us all: Fallingwater, The Johnson's Wax Building – each one of which could be seen as the zenith of one's career – and a small $5,000 house; the Jacob's residence. Not in any way to detract from the contribution of the other two, I believe the little 1500 square foot building was his greatest work. It launched his "Usonian" series and contained so many "firsts" that it makes your head spin;
1. First radiant hydronic slab heat
2. First carport
3. First plywood panel non-load-bearing walls
4. First "composite/built-up" roof system
5. First lighting/electrical raceway built-in
6. First compact central "chimney" kitchen
And that's not all! But this is more than enough for our purposes. (I really recommend you do some research and check out these little Usonia jewels!)
…I guess you get the idea. A real architectural and technological breakthrough!
Yes, I know this is an article about SIPs. I'm getting there, a little patience, please.
So the items of great interest for us are numbers 3 and 4.
Wright actually designed these babies to built "upside down;" that is, from the roof down! There were masonry piers and short walls – usually brick – that were built first on top of the slab and then the plywood and plank composite walls were to be inserted under the roof. Apprentices who "cheated" on Wright and reversed this process and were caught were severely dressed down and sometimes – fired! These walls were seen as enclosing panels that completed the thermal envelope, but were not structural where clerestory glass ribbons sat between them and the underside of the roof. They were of sandwich composite construction, comprised of horizontal 1 x 12s and battens screwed together over a ¾" plywood core. Today, I'm certain Wright would have welcomed SIPs as superior thermal enclosures that would accept the fastening of his unique exterior weather-skins and interior paneling. Wright was clearly into the large sizes his composite wall panels could attain, and I'm sure he would have great affinity for the jumbo SIPs.
Most interesting of all are the Usonia roofs, number 4 on our "Hit Parade" of firsts. Wright developed a "composite" roof structural system consisting of three layers of 2 x 4s with the center layer perpendicular to the other two adding up to a nominal 12 inch deep structure. This enabled him to have a wooden space-frame-like "panel" that could span in both directions or even work with his hexagonal grids at 60 degrees. These roofs were the technological "key" to the Usonia designs. Glass could go from floor to ceiling and other traditionally required beams, girder, purlins and framing was – for the most part – eliminated. This system allowed for glass clerestories to be located at the top of almost all walls. This "floating ceiling" effect was exploited by Wright to create paradoxical spaces that, with their thick roofs and large overhangs, conveyed a powerful sense of shelter and security, yet at the same time, with the eye travelling from inside to outside along the ceiling plane, delivered a sensation of strong engagement with the outside. When Wright proudly proclaimed that he had "destroyed the box," he was really saying that his spaces did not have the overwhelming sense of containment that was the hallmark of traditional western building.
Now it's perfectly clear to me that there are d—n few roof framing systems out there that give you the opportunity to catch 'em up and support 'em wherever your fluid plan just happens to let you! One can see why Wright had to invent such a system when you experience his buildings. A brick pylon here, a short wall there, a chimney, a post wherever! Not much in any regular position holding up the roof! I have tremendous sympathy for those apprentices who, out of frustration, thought to put the walls up first.
Aside from a true space frame or curved shell construction SIPs can deliver this kind of span capability without even breathing hard. I know in my heart of hearts that Wright would have loved 'em! His Usonia designs are so magical because they deliver experiences and sensations that ordinary stick framing just can't economically match. The proof is that these built-up bi-directional roofs were trouble for Wright and his clients. Their structural performance depended upon the strength and stiffness of the connections between the layers of 2 x 4s and the stability of the wood framing members. Toe-nailing wasn't a great way to achieve a really good connection and the wood itself experienced considerable shrinkage across the grain equal, of course, to the 12" of total depth. While the concept was more than clever in that it also allowed Wright to specify pitch into the build up so as to avoid ponding water on the roof, deflection due to connection movement would be excessive. Thus SIPs would have performed beautifully for Uncle Frank ( as we affectionately refer to him in our office ) as none of these problems would have occurred. I guess this is a clear example of being ahead of his time.
It wasn't the only time Wright designed and detailed for materials that weren't yet available. The Johnson's Wax building had skylights and clerestories of glass tubes sealed parallel to each other. Too bad this was well before silicone caulk/sealant was invented. They leaked like crazy until they were finally sealed, decades after Wright's death, with the silicone we now take for granted.
The issue here is that modern buildings, which are defined as those that don't have a particularly strong sense of containment ( a solution based on the presumption that the outside world is not hostile ), and that encourage the occupants to engage their environment, use glass and opaque planes under a "floating" roof. SIPs excel as thermal and structural wall planes, but they can also be utilized as multi-directional roof planes. Supported on seemingly random points, as Uncle Frank would say, " As a waiter supports his tray on the tips of his fingers," SIPs can help you to create a home with a terrific sense of shelter, but also one that is in tune with the contemporary social outlook.
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By now we should all have an idea what Kano analysis looks like. There are basic, performance and excitement classes of requirements. You generally have to work your way through the basic ones before you can start to address the other categories.
I have been reading Daniel Kahneman's work on decision making and found he's got some concepts on the importance of reference points for decision making. He talks about "Bernoulli's error.
I'll back up two steps and cover the "Bernoulli's error" concept here.
So, an example; You need to work out the best car for you. The Aptera 2e may be the right choice. It was always the right choice, and it always will be. At least until a better car comes along.
If you are already driving the ZAP Alias, the decision to migrate to the Aptera may be a different one that if you are driving something a little older.
The mistake that Kahneman identifies and articulates is that our reference points change over time. What we perceive as valuable, or risky today, is different from the past and will be different in the future.
Kano recognises this and sees that what can be an 'exciter feature' today will eventually be commoditized.
Another example for the business casers out there. A return on a project of $10 million a year sounds okay now, but what if a better opportunity comes up later? Does our decision to go for $10Mpa stand?
And at the more detailed level, a system requirement that sounds like a basic and mandatory feature today might become irrelevant later, as more becomes known about the way users interact with the system itself.
Interesting point Craig. The "Bernoulli's Error" concept is also beautifully described this interview with Daniel Kahneman in http://www.forbes.com/2002/11/06/cx_da_1106nobel1.html.


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SilviaTerra helped sponsor the Society of American Foresters Forest Technology Workshop this week in Columbia, South Carolina.
SilviaTerra co-founder Max Nova presented a talk about the economics of forest inventory called "How To Not Waste Money on Forest Inventory." For the theory behind the graph in the picture above, check out some of the "cost + loss" articles we've written in the SAF Forestry Source "Biometrics Bits" column.
It was great to see many familiar faces at the conference - we're looking forward to seeing everyone again at SAF nationals in Portland!


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Red Hot Chili Peppers "Dark Necessities" (video)
Less than 24 hours before the Red Hot Chili Peppers reveal The Getaway, the L.A. funk-and-pop foursome have unveiled a street-riding music video for the record's "Dark Necessities."
Directed by actor Olivia Wilde (Vinyl, House), the clip first finds the assorted Chili Peppers caught between the cushions of a couch. While the foursome ultimately funk it up in a carpeted locale, another part of the video focuses on a group of skateboarders making their way through the streets of Southern California. Memorably, they bust out tricks and goof around within the almost dried-up halfpipe canal otherwise known as the Los Angeles River.
You'll find the trick-heavy display, a few banged-up knees, Anthony Kiedis dancing in his underwear, and the sight of Flea laying down a four string groove while sitting in a kitchen sink down below.
As previously reported, The Getaway sees release tomorrow (June 17) via Warner Bros. Records. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' upcoming tour schedule, which includes Canadian dates, can be found over here.
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How many sheep there is in your city?
How to design a happier urban space .
A culture that does not allow an emotional discourse on architectural objects, creating urban environmental planning failure. A culture in which no emotional discourse legitimized as part of the design principles, subtracts those aspects of it, creating an urban space lacking.
The early settlement history, animal life was an integral part of a person's direct surroundings. He raised them, supported them and supported them and made them his family. The animals were part of their way of life, they violated the physical and social functioning, as well as the emotional and cognitive functioning. Later, the relationship between man and animals was investigated and proven inherently therapeutic "Zoaotrfih". Today, a typical city, animals are not part of the urban landscape. Relationship lasted for at least 10,000 years faded and instrumental rational urban and totals dog park, a fenced.
Restore the human environment which accompanied her since ancient times and design spaces for different types of domesticated animals in urban environments. Domesticated animals combining parts from the open spaces will allow the creation of areas that provide a natural feeling pastoral including a multitude of birds, butterflies and plants typical of the region. All this financial investment is lower than that required for the maintenance of public areas and other, protectors and patients inside the settlement.
Planning of spatial continuity thoughtful green animal needs and allows their closeness to us. By planning that takes into account the physical limitations of the animals, in the urban environment, will create an environment that relates to values and also our emotional needs.
Sheep is a archetype of the peace, quiet and relaxation – that we are missing so modern urban life.
From Antoine de Saint-Exupéry "the little prince asks to draw a sheep" and to Yonatan Gefen with the "16 sheep", between humans and sheep, there is an ancient Intimate and comforting relations.
1. Host grazing area: grazing in urban areas and landscapes nature with grass and weeds around in small groups – from 5 to 10 sheep, an area of about 20-40 square meters, or large groups of up to 300 sheep per acre.
2. permanent grazing area: grazing areas between residential areas industrial zones.


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