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August 22, 2019 A&E » Arts
Jenny Judge finds Wonderments
Whistler artist featured in Vancouver solo exhibit; named finalist in Salt Spring National Art Prize
By Alyssa Noel
Jenny Judge poses with her piece, Moonscape, currently on the wall of her Whistler home. Photo by Alyssa Noel
It was a big ask.
Around three years ago, the Craft Council of B.C. had given Whistler artist Jenny Judge a solo show—only, they had expected she would turn in glass pieces for her exhibit, as that was the medium she was working in at the time.
"Mountain Object Makers [the co-op studio space she co-ran in Function Junction] folded, I had nowhere to fire and I was really tired of working in glass," Judge says from her Alpine home. "I said to them, 'Will you just trust me? I'm not going to give you a glass exhibition. I'll probably do an installation.'"
Only, when they agreed, "I panicked," she says. "I didn't know what I was going to do."
But, as has been the case in Judge's 30-year career, an idea formed organically, with inspiration gleaned from both her surroundings, and myriad art experience.
"I decided I was going to work in plaster because, as a kiln caster in glass, I used plaster all the time, but not as a material unto itself. I thought, 'I'm going to explore plaster,' and that's what I did," she says. "I would have never envisioned the work to be this when I started. I went with the flow, and it kind of came out the way it did."
With the help of her 3D printer, Judge designed various shapes gleaned from nature, printed them, and then used vacuum-formed moulds to pour plaster into.
"I gave to a Kickstarter campaign for this home-based vacuum former years ago and completely forgot about it," she says. "I was in the middle of thinking, 'How am I going to get this show together?' and this arrives at my doorstep. It was like synchronicity."
What resulted was Wonderments and Materiality: A craft-based installation, her solo show at the Craft Council of B.C. that starts on Sept. 5 and runs until Oct. 10.
Made up of four pieces, the overall aim is to capture a fleeting moment of awe. "The easiest way to understand it is the summer night sky. You're looking up at the stars and it's so much bigger than us. You don't know how to take it all in," she says.
Each installation features several smaller plaster pieces that, collectively, make up a circle. One, currently on display at her home, is called Moonscape.
With a range of shapes inspired by the natural world, each piece is positioned in a carefully chosen spot—and mapped out down to the nail hole on paper spread out in Judge's studio space. One side of each piece is painted black and the other is white, so depending on which side of it you stand, you see a completely different hue.
"I was really working with organic shapes," she says. "The craft space is very embracing—it's different than the white modernist cube art gallery. They told me I could do whatever I wanted. That's where I came up with the wall being embraced. I thought, 'If I have organic shapes, that will work.'"
The other pieces include similar shapes with wildly varying techniques applied to them. There's Alchemy, which plays with chemical reactions to metal; Carnival and Cotton Candy, a whimsical offering in delicious-looking hues; and White Sky, which features neutral tones in order to play with shadows.
That last piece earned her a spot as a Salt Spring National Art Prize finalist. Judge was one of 52 artists from across the country—chosen from around 1,200 submissions by a jury—selected to show her work on Salt Spring Island from Sept. 21 to Oct. 19.
From those finalists, one will receive a $20,000 Salt Spring Prize.
"Getting into the show is a prize unto itself," Judge says. "You get these amazing emerging artists. I'm excited just to see all the other works."
On top of that, as part of her solo show at the Craft Council, she will also be delivering a talk on Oct. 2 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. about her series, blending technology and art, and her approach to her work.
One small tip she'll share that can be interpreted as solid life advice, too: when you find a path that feels right, stay on it.
"With this body of work, I didn't let anybody in," she says.
"I didn't take any criticism. I didn't talk to anybody [about it]. I just put my head down and made it. I think it's really hard being an artist because you're always trying to please other people and I think sometimes that gets in the way of the creative process."
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Doris just received a very large credit card and decided to make the most of it. Unfortunately she was a captive of her own emotional desires and not only overspent, but spent wastefully. Instead of checking for sales and finding the best price she often spent more than double what she had to on various products. Then when a store brand would do the job she would buy the much more expensive name brand. In addition to this she would often buy overlapping products. For instance, she had many more shoes than she needed and three cell phones when all she needed was one.
Shirley also received the same card, but took a reasonable approach and just used it when it was logically necessary. She shopped around and made sure she got the best price on needed items and used store brand and generic items when there was negligible difference in the quality. She refused to buy overlapping products and just purchased what she could efficiently use.
By using her mind and common sense Shirley subjected herself to the Law of Economy.
And what is that? DK mentions it often in the Bailey writings. It is basically this.
The creative Intelligence of the Universe follows a path which produces the greatest efficiency while using the smallest possible expenditure of energy. Those who follow the Law of Economy produce very little if any waste.
The Law of Economy can be seen at play from the sub atomic level on up to atoms, molecules, cells and all living things. The efficiency of nature is spectacular indeed.
We human beings have made many advancements in technology by observing nature, but we seem to really lag behind in incorporating this law in our lives and politics. Too many of us are like Doris and not enough like Shirley.
Unfortunately, most governments throw efficiency and the Law of Economy out the window and spend like Doris, often with no means to pay the final bill.
Here is the really strange part. Many who are quite conscientious about their personal budget and see themselves as common sense Aquarians will support extremely wasteful government spending. If government borrows to spend on a product or service they approve of, they give it their support while not even making a smidgen of effort to calculate the waste involved or voice concern.
Supporting government programs involving extreme waste is like being married to Doris and just trusting that she is doing the best possible job in making effective use of her credit card.
Does such wrong-headed support belong to the emotional Piscean mind or the mental Aquarian?
There is tremendous waste and inefficiency in most levels of government "help" and spending. I'll just pick one – healthcare.
Before government started allocating spending on its citizens in an attempt to lower healthcare costs health care was pretty reasonable. I know because I had an accident at the age of 13 in 1958 that caused me to undergo six operations and spend a total of three months in the hospital. Four of those operations were by a renown specialist, the equivalent of which would charge a huge amount today.
My first stay in the hospital lasted a month and my room cost was $8.00 a day. The most expensive room was $14.00, but being concerned about money and having no insurance we opted for the most economical available.
$8 in 1958 dollars equals just $66.50 in 2016 dollars. That was a bargain any way you look at it.
The accident happened at the worst possible time. My Mom just divorced my Dad and received no child support. Our only means of support was from both of us picking fruit in the summer and my mom worked for near minimum wage at a potato processing plant for the rest of the year.
Could a fruit picker with no insurance pay off major surgery and a month's stay in the hospital today? Not hardly. Today's bill could easily run a quarter of a million dollars.
Now here is the crazy part. We paid off all the medical bills using our own money with no help from the government or insurance companies. My mom did take out a loan, but paid it off.
For later corrective surgery we did receive some help from a private charity, but again government was not needed or involved.
Today a typical stay in the hospital is around $4,000 a day or more. That means if I had to stay in the hospital today, the cost would be about 500 times more than in 1958. Adjusting for inflation it would still be about sixty times as much.
The irony is that, today, gas prices are a primary sore point with the public, the media and politicians. Everyone wants to investigate "Big Oil" for gouging us. Many also want to penalize them by taxing more of their profits.
But, even though gas prices seem high we should be praising big oil for holding their prices as low as they are.
The price of gas in 1958 was 39 cents a gallon in the area where I lived, and no one was grumbling about Big Oil. If the price of gas had risen 500 times, it would now cost $199.50 a gallon!
Why is it that by 2016 the price of gas and many other items has risen less than ten times the 1958 price, whereas a hospital room has risen around 500 times? It is puzzling that no one is asking this question. Even more puzzling is why people are not grumbling more about big hospital than they are about big oil or other commodities.
This great inefficiency started to plague us about the time that government stepped in to help us with our medical bills in the form of Medicare and Medicaid.
When these programs started in 1965, they seemed like a good idea to many, especially in consideration of the cost projections at the time. The public was sold on the idea that Medicare's $3 billion cost in 1966 would only reach an inflation-adjusted $12.0 billion by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was a whopping $67 billion. The "experts" were off by 7.44 times. Total Medicare spending reached $440 billion for fiscal year 2007, or 16 percent of all federal spending. Since that time, spending has continued to rise.
The only larger categories of federal spending are Social Security and defense.
The question is whether the bill could have even passed if the public had been given an accurate representation of what the actual cost would be.
In addition to this, the annual cost to taxpayers of Medicare and Medicaid fraud (not counting waste) is estimated to be around $100 billion. One estimate of the fraud of the whole health care system is $272 billion a year.
The bottom line is that there is no way one can claim he is in harmony with the Aquarian energies of the mind when if he supports programs that create such extreme waste. Anyone not ruled by pure emotion would support the elimination of waste and applying the Law of Economy before spending money on new programs that will do more of the same.


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A sheen is usually dispersed (but not cleaned up) with detergents which makes oil settle to the bottom. Oils that are denser than water can be more difficult to clean as they make the seabed toxic.
There are many ways to stop the spread of oil in the ocean. Workers can place a boom around the tanker that is spilling oil. Booms collect the oil off the water. A boom may be placed around a habitat with many animals living there. These booms will absorb any oil that flows around it.
The workers also use skimmers. Skimmers are boats that can remove the oil off the water. Sorbents are sponges that can collect the oil. An airplane can fly over the water dropping chemicals into the ocean. The chemicals can break down the oil into the ocean.
They also can burn freshly spilled oil with fireproof booms to contain the oil. Workers might not decide to burn the oil because this method causes air pollution.
There are just a few ways to clean the oil off the beaches. Workers can use high or low pressure hoses to spray the oil that is on the beaches. Vacuum trucks may be driven on the beaches to vacuum up the oil. They can also simply use shovels or road equipment to collect all the oil off the beaches.
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Modeling IR spectral energy distributions: a pilot study of starburst parameters and silicate absorption curves for some GOALS galaxies
Dopita, Michael A. and Armus, Lee and Kewley, Lisa J. and Rich, Jeff A. and Sanders, Dave and Appleton, Philip N. and Chan, Ben H. P. and Charmandaris, Vassilis and Evans, Aaron S. and Frayer, David T. and Howell, Justin H. and Inami, Hanae and Mazzarella, Joseph M. and Petric, Andreea and Stierwalt, Sabrina and Surace, Jason (2011) Modeling IR spectral energy distributions: a pilot study of starburst parameters and silicate absorption curves for some GOALS galaxies. Astrophysics and Space Science , 333 (1). pp. 225-239. ISSN 0004-640X. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110415-155627256
This paper describes a pilot study into the spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting and the derivation of physical parameters for 19 galaxies observed as part of the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS) survey as observed with the Spitzer Space Telescope. For this we have used the pan-spectral fitting tools developed in a series of papers by Dopita and his co-workers. We show that the standard Lee and Draine 'astronomical silicate' model cannot provide a good fit to the silicate absorption features as observed in the heavily dust-extinguished (A_V ~ 50 mag.) starbursts. We have derived an empirical fit to the 'starburst silicate' absorption in these objects. This absorption curve is consistent with the silicate grains being systematically larger in starburst environments than in the local Galactic interstellar medium. We demonstrate the sensitivity of the SED fitting to each of the fitted parameters, and derive these parameters for those galaxies which do not have an embedded AGN. This technique is simple and provides reasonably robust and uniform parameters for the starburst, especially as far as the star formation rate, population of old stars, compactness of the starburst region and total foreground extinction are concerned. However, the chemical abundances and the optical extinction cannot be reliably determined by this analysis, and optical SEDs will also be required to provide a complete characterization of the starburst region and of the surrounding galaxy.
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© 2010 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Received: 13 August 2010; Accepted: 9 December 2010; Published online: 23 December 2010. Dopita acknowledges the continued support of the Australian Research Council (ARC) through Discovery projects DP0984657 and DP0664434. Dopita and Armus thank the Aspen Center for Physics for providing the stimulus for this collaborative research. This research has made use of the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) which is operated by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We thank the anonymous referee for the great care and knowledge demonstrated in the referee reports, which has greatly improved our resultant paper.
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ISM: dust silicates-extinction; H II galaxies: general; Star formation rates; Spectral energy distributions; Starburst-infrared: galaxies
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Obama Faces Tough Questions from Texas Reporter
by Alyssa Anderson April 20, 2011 October 4, 2011
On Monday President Obama gave four interviews at the White House, one of which was with Brad Watson of WFAA-TV in Dallas.At one point towards the end of the interview Obama says with frustration, "Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?"Hostility from Watson was noticeable as he asked the president, "Why do you think you're so unpopular in Texas?"Obama did not automatically agree that he is "so unpopular in Texas" and began to argue about the size of his loss in Texas in 2008. Perhaps he did not remember that he lost by 11.8% and not the "few percentage points" he insisted that he lost by. In the end Obama conceded with the statement: "If what you're telling me is that Texas is a conservative state, you're absolutely right."The president also responded strongly to criticism from the Texas governor Rick Perry:"Gov. Perry helped balance his budget with about $6 billion worth of federal help — which he happily took — and then started blaming the members of Congress who had offered that help," Obama said.Obama also denied that the White House had anything to do with the denial of giving Houston funding for space shuttle orbiters in favor of supporting projects in other states which can help his re-election."That's wrong," the president stated. "That had nothing to do with it; the White House had nothing to do with it."In response to Watson's persistence with this subject the Obama reiterated his position with vehemence."I just said that was wrong," and, later, "I just said that wasn't true."Another issue high on the Texas priority list is reforming immigration legislation, which Obama addressed:"The question is going to be, are we going to be able to find some Republicans who can partner with me and others to get this done once and for all instead of using it as a political football?," Obama said.President Obama also emphasized that he has definitely not given up on winning Texas when he runs for his re-election as president in 2012:"I never write off any states," Obama said. "I love Texas."
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40 Belief-Shaking Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
David DeGraw· June 18, 2018 ·7 min read
If there's one thing Friedrich Nietzsche quotes do well, it's obliterate feel-good beliefs people have about themselves. He has been criticized for being a misanthrope, a subvert, a cynic and a pessimist, but I think these assessments are off the mark. I believe he only wanted human beings to be more honest with themselves.
He did have a remarkable gift for aphorism — he once declared, "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book." A hundred years after his death, Nietzsche retains his disturbing talent for turning a person's worldview upside-down with one jarring remark.
Even today his words remain controversial. They hit nerves. Most of his views are completely at odds with the status quo.
Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the man himself. Many you'll agree with. Others you will resist, but these are the ones to pay the most attention to — your beliefs are being challenged. It's either an opportunity to grow, or to insist that you already know better. If any of them hit a nerve in you, ask yourself why.
1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.
2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
4. There are no facts, only interpretations.
5. Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.
6. No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.
7. Without music, life would be a mistake.
8. Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.
9. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.
10. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
11. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.
12. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
13. No victor believes in chance.
14. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
15. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
16. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
17. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
18. The future influences the present just as much as the past.
19. The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.
20. I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.
21. Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, is what makes someone a friend.
22. God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
23. Success has always been a great liar.
24. Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
25. What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.
26. Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
27. When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.
28. When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
29. Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
30. All things are subject to interpretation. Whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
31. What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
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32. Fear is the mother of morality.
33. A politician divides mankind into two classes: tools and enemies.
34. Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
35. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
36. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.
37. The Kingdom of Heaven is a condition of the heart — not something that comes upon the earth or after death.
38. What is the mark of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
39. Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
40. We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
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Published: January 14, 2019, 7:37 am
Tags: Lions, Football, NFL, Editors Pick, Sports
2019 NFL Draft: Early look at who the Detroit Lions could target in first round
Lions hold No. 8 pick in first round
Bob Quinn General Manager of the Detroit Lions introduces Matt Patricia as the Lions new head coach at the Detroit Lions Practice Facility on February 7, 2018 in Allen Park, Michigan. (Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
DETROIT – The Detroit Lions are almost on the clock.
Well, we're still months away from the 2019 NFL Draft but that doesn't mean we can't stare at mock draft boards and act like we know what's going to happen.
The Lions have the No. 8 overall pick in the draft and there are a lot of choices. The draft class is loaded with defensive prospects and the Lions could use all of them.
Here's a look at what those wacky mock drafts are saying about your beloved Lions:
CBS Sports: A.J. Brown, WR, Ole Miss. "How about something other than a pass-rusher for the Lions here at No. 8 overall? Let's do that. Marvin Jones is still around to be the complement to emerging star Kenny Golladay, but Detroit has to get more out of the expensive Matthew Stafford. With Brown, they'll get size and outstanding yards-after-the-catch skills."
Bleacher Report: Clelin Ferrell, DE, Clemson
NBC Sports: Josh Allen, LB, Kentucky: "The Lions kept Ziggy Ansah on the franchise tag. They could use another pass rusher even if Ansah stays long-term. Whether Allen is consensus top-15 at this point in the process or not, guys that get after the quarterback rise up boards. He finished the regular season with 14 sacks and 18.5 tackles for loss."
Sporting News: Clelin Ferrell, DE, Clemson: "Ferrell is at the top of the Tigers' defensive line prospects because his size (6-5, 260 pounds) gives him a good baseline as an outside run-stopper to add to his explosiveness as a pass-rusher. He's the kind of versatile player out of whom Matt Patricia can get the most, and he also fits the Lions' top need."
Ken Haddad is the digital content manager for WDIV/ClickOnDetroit.com. He also authors the Morning Report Newsletter.


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No more playing nice: Labour must lead the charge against Tory dirty tricks
Theo Bertram
It's not enough to have a positive manifesto. The party should take a leaf out of the Tory playbook and go on the attack
Wed 20 Nov 2019 11.40 EST Last modified on Wed 20 Nov 2019 13.40 EST
Jeremy Corbyn arrives at Media City in Salford ahead of Tuesday's televised debate with Boris Johnson. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
The first rule of political attack is that whatever you say about your opponent reveals more about you than about them. In that regard, the Tories' campaign appears dodgy and duplicitous, but determined.
After the 2017 election, James Johnson, one of Theresa May's advisers, delivered a postmortem to the cabinet that showed they had barely landed a punch on Jeremy Corbyn, and their campaign had only served to make voters feel they could vote Labour with impunity.
The Tories' campaign this year is clearly a reaction to what went wrong in 2017. So there was no question of Boris Johnson ducking the debates (something that cost May support), there has been very little fresh policy (the Conservatives are learning the lesson of the social care announcement) and there is no complacency about the threat of Corbyn.
Corbyn needs to rouse his fighting spirit to win this election | Aditya Chakrabortty
The Tories are fighting Labour as if they were neck and neck, and when fights are close they get more vicious. We have not seen a Tory campaign so heavily skewed towards attack since 1992. The only proposition they have is to "get Brexit done". Everything else is focused on reminding voters that Corbyn is a real risk and terrible threat.
A pattern is emerging in the type of attacks the Conservatives are willing to make. Their economic dossier exaggerated Labour's spending plans to a degree that no independent judge could take seriously. They fabricated the ending to a video of Keir Starmer in order to highlight Labour's indecision. During the leaders' debate, they changed the name of the Conservative press office's Twitter account to "factcheckUK" in an attempt to impersonate an independent fact checking account that clearly risked misleading voters.
Each of these moments show that the Tories are willing to do whatever is required to make sure their message about the dangers of Corbyn as prime minister stays in the news and trends across social media.
I have not seen tricks as dirty as this since the Labour campaign that I was part of in 2005. Early in that campaign we recorded and released a secret tape of Howard Flight, then a shadow cabinet minister, suggesting the Tories would make deep cuts to public services. He was sacked. From then on, Labour were repeatedly accused of dirty tricks, but the Tories were on the back foot.
Liam Fox, then Tory party chairman, spent a week accusing Labour of outrageous "black arts" but every time he took to the airwaves in denouncement represented us knocking them off their message.
It was a morale boost every time Labour HQ heard him complain. Meanwhile, all the public could hear above the noise of an election was something about Tory cuts, even from the Tories themselves.
There is a lesson here for Labour's strategy team. Every minute given to stories about the Labour spending dossier, the stitched-up video and the duplicity of their tweets is time spent on topics the Tories want to talk about, instead of Labour's messages. There is a surfeit of information in our lives: what we all suffer from is a poverty of attention. Voters just don't have time to pick through the bones to get to the truth.
Perhaps the manifesto launch will allow Labour to set out a positive vision that catches public attention, just as it did in 2017, but the difference this time is the Tories are waging an effective war of attrition. They don't need to land punches on Corbyn to be successful, they just need to make it harder for Labour's positive message to reach voters. If Labour voters in the north, the Midlands and Wales hear only rows about Brexit and process, they won't heed the call to come back.
In the next three weeks, we should expect more outrageous and misleading attacks that distract voters from Labour's positive message. If Johnson wins with a majority on 12 December, then, regardless of the dirty tricks, the Tory campaign will be lauded, just as ours was in 2005.
So what should Labour do? They must give the manifesto a chance to break through, but also go on the attack. In 2016, Michelle Obama memorably told the Democratic National Convention that "when they go low, we go high" and while that might have worked for an Obama, the Democrats lost to a campaign that went very low and which ultimately won by suppressing motivation to turnout among Democrats.
Labour needs to remind those who voted Labour in 2017 why they voted against the Tories, and they need to do so with more bite. Fight fire with fire: pin Johnson back on to areas that he does not want to talk about, so that it is harder for him to make this election all about Brexit. The Tories have learned the lessons from the 2017 campaign and now this is a different fight: they are successfully stopping Corbyn's positive message from gaining the traction it did last time.
When Labour makes its manifesto announcement, expect another low blow from the Tory attack machine. Labour strategists need to adapt quickly: in politics, there are no prizes for playing nice.
• Theo Bertram is a former adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown
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X-Factor: Layla Miller
X-Factor: Layla Miller Special Review
Does Layla Miller know stuff about the future?
Updated: 12 May 2012 10:11 am
Posted: 21 Aug 2008 3:14 am
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I think there are a few readers who'd agree that since Layla Miller was spirited off the ranks of X-Factor and stranded in Bishop's dystopian future, things have been a bit less clever or funny around those parts. To make up for her very noticeable absence, Peter David delivers the second X-Factor product this week, X-Factor Special: Layla Miller, which features her running around doing... stuff.
In terms of art, tone, and character, Layla is essentially a more accurate representation of X-Factor than the Secret Invasion tie-in "He Loves You." Regular series artist Valentine De Landro is even on hand for art duties. In keeping with that idea, just as Layla's main purpose in the series so far has been to manipulate events and characters, she's up to the same hijinx in the future and making sure that her time spent there is in service to the way things "should be."
As one might expect of a Layla Miller one-shot, David delivers a clever and intentionally misleading story that's a ton of fun if you're willing to sit back and let it take you for a ride. Even readers who don't follow the book might be enticed by David's hijacking of the dangling Summers Rebellion plot thread that was hinted at in Uncanny X-Men fifteen years ago. It's impossibly cool to see unfold and definitely worth the price of admission on its own.
While it doesn't seem that Layla will be returning to the lineup of X-Factor just yet, it's nice to know she's not forgotten about and that she's still part of the grand scheme that Peter David has in store for the team. One part "Messiah Complex" epilogue, one part What If...? tale, it's got something for almost every X-Fan and definitely the X-Factor book you should be paying attention to this week.
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The Beltline: Just as boxers must do better, we must know not to expect perfection
Although an exchange during Liam Smith and Chris Eubank Jnr's fight week press conference was disappointing, the fallout from it was blown out of proportion, writes Elliot Worsell
by Elliot Worsell
Media Review: What constitutes pay-per-view in 2023?
KSI, apparently…
by George Gigney
The Beltline: Can a fighter be crowned "Fighter of the Year" despite not officially winning a fight this year?
Jack Catterall didn't officially win a fight this year, yet no performance in the UK was better than the one he produced against Josh Taylor, writes Elliot Worsell
Media review: DAZN appears the leading contender to acquire BT Sport
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Reports suggest DAZN is closing in on a deal to take over BT Sport, Terence Crawford demands $10m in damages as he files lawsuit against Bob Arum and more in George Gigney's media review
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THE relationship between promoter Bob Arum and pound-for-pound stalwart Terence Crawford has been growing increasingly fraught over the past few years, so much so that their partnership ended in November of last year.
Now, however, it has gone a step further as Crawford filed a lawsuit against Arum, accusing him of "revolting racial bias" and demanding $10m in damages, according to the New York Post.
The papers state: "Crawford shines a spotlight on the systemic racism that runs through Top Rank, Top Rank's complete inability to properly promote Black fighters, and Top Rank, Arum and [his stepson] Todd DuBoeuf's disparate treatment of Black fighters, including Crawford."
The legal filing claims that Arum purposefully handicapped Crawford's potential earnings by refusing to market him, alleging that he did so because of an apparent racial bias against black fighters.
Arum told the Post: "Don't call a man a racist when really this is because of your own failures. His marketability didn't measure up to this ability and that has absolutely nothing to do with what race he is. The outstanding fact is that Terence's numbers on PPV have always been dreadful because of his failure to market himself."
This is all quite ugly. Arum – now 90 – has said some regrettable things in the past, including a comment about how Floyd Mayweather Jnr enjoys "shooting up cars" in his spare time; an untrue statement that seemed steeped in a racist stereotype. However, Arum also has a storied history in boxing and has had successful relationships with some of the sport's most prominent black fighters; Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler and Mayweather, to name a few.
Crawford's lawsuit states that many people within boxing see Arum as a racist and that his bias against black fighters is clear to see. That doesn't appear to be the case at all; the documents mention no names of someone stepping forward to accuse Arum of this and there have been numerous people, including Foreman himself, who have publicly defended Arum since news of the lawsuit came to light.
It is suggested this lawsuit is a product of Crawford's frustration more than anything else. If there was clear evidence that pointed toward Arum misrepresenting black fighters because of their race, then it would be a different issue entirely.
Crawford does have a right to be frustrated, too. He is one of the most talented boxers on the planet – and has been for years – yet still cannot be considered a legitimate star. Arum has frequently spoken about how Top Rank lost money on Crawford PPVs which, while not inherently racist, didn't exactly help "Bud's" cause.
That being said, the lawsuit did raise some valid points, namely that Top Rank has no black executives and very few black employees overall. Representation is essential in any company, not just Top Rank, and steps should always be taken to ensure it is present.
For now, the hope is that Crawford can push on with his career and get the big fights he's been so desperate for – more specifically a superfight with Errol Spence Jnr.
It seems as though DAZN is once again the leading contender to acquire UK broadcaster BT Sport. Reuters reports that the streaming service is closing in on a deal that would see it take over BT Sport at a cost of $800m.
Reports of such a deal emerged last year, however talks apparently stalled, allowing Discovery INC to enter as a rival bidder. Now, Reuters claim, DAZN seems most likely to acquire BT Sport.
The move would give DAZN broadcast rights to live Premier League and Champions League football games; products the service has long wanted to offer. For BT as a whole, a sale could help cover the costs of recent rollouts for fibre broadband and 5G next generation wireless networks. It has also been reported that the telecoms giant wants to move away from costly sports broadcasting.
It's unclear at this stage what a sale to DAZN would mean for BT Sport's boxing offerings, which are currently aligned with promoter Frank Warren. BT also has a broadcast deal with the UFC.
If the sale goes through, DAZN would instantly become Sky Sports' biggest competitor in the UK and the service's plans for aggressive expansion would receive a needed shot in the arm.
BoxingScene confirmed with several sources that one of the best fights that can be made in boxing is close to being finalised. Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano are on course to face each other toward the end of April at Madison Square Garden in New York. It would be the first women's fight to headline a show in the Garden's main theatre.
Taylor-Serrano has the potential to change the landscape of women's boxing and bring it further into the mainstream. Not only are both fighters extremely marketable, they are exceptionally talented and decorated competitors. Let's just hope they're finally allowed to fight over three-minute rounds.
As Anthony Joshua seems set to reveal a new training team, he has received some stick for a recent Sky Sports interview in which he discussed listening to motivational speeches.
In reality, the interview was open and honest. Whether or not you agree with Joshua's decision to split with Rob McCracken – which has not yet been confirmed – he remains refreshingly erudite in defeat.
In the interview, he talks about how he was able to compartmentalise his loss to Andy Ruiz Jnr, but that this most recent defeat to Oleksandr Usyk was hard to swallow because he was at "100 per cent".
If he can carry that self-awareness into his training camp for the return with Usyk (which is also yet to be finalised), he will be bolstering his chances of exacting revenge.


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Q: double integral question How to solve the following $$\iint\limits_{x^2+y^2\ge k}\frac{\exp(-(x^2+y^2)/2)}{2\pi}dxdy?$$
I think I should make the substitution $u=x^2+y^2$, but I don't know how the integral will look like.

A: If you use polar coordinates, you have $dx\,dy = r\,dr\,d\theta$, so that:
$$\iint\limits_{x^2+y^2\ge k}\frac{\exp(-(x^2+y^2)/2)}{2\pi}\,dx\,dy =
\int\limits_{r\ge \sqrt{k}}\exp(-r^2/2)r\,dr$$
You can then use $u = r^2/2,~ du = r \,dr$ to get:
$$\int\limits_{r\ge \sqrt{k}}\exp(-r^2/2)r\,dr
= \int\limits_{u\ge k/2}\exp(-u)\,du = e^{-k/2}$$

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Aug 20, 2016-We humans never feel complete and are in constant search for something or someone who will be able to fill that void within our hearts. Some people resort to religion, some to material possession, but most us try to fill it with love.
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A shabby bicycle in what looks like the protagonist's workshop opens up the scene in the video. He is working on a project, to construct a hawaijahaaj that will take him to his beloved. Then we are shown an ominous ball, glowing red. There on, the somber tone of the video quickly gives way to a sci-fi interplay. The hawaijahaaj is made out of the bicycle with the red ball working in an inconceivable way as the protagonist's embarks on an odyssey to meet his beloved.
That is when the protagonist takes a metaphysical detour—from reality to fantasy—underscored by the video's shift from dark frames to radiance. Only then are we hinted to the theme the director is working from: from a dark world of reality to the bright world of fantasy.
Hawaijahaaj tells the story of someone who can't afford to fly on a hawaijahaaj. He is working hard in his workshop on a shabby bicycle, and clearly he can't afford a plane ticket to wherever his beloved is. Hawaijahaaj, then, is a metaphor of an unrequited dream, of an unquenched thirst and of hopes deferred. Isn't that what we Nepalis are living with after all? How many of us can afford to travel abroad just to meet our beloved? Then we turn our heads and resort to fantasy; here, but not quite: endlessly we stare at the fantasy world the oblong devices offer us—and we bask in the warmth of an escape from the reality.
In this video, as in life, the end is as ambiguous as it can be. After the dream of finding his love crashes, as does his hawaijahaaj, the protagonist is seen lying on bed with a blue ball and a blue comb. Does it mean that he met his beloved, finally? Or is it just his imagination? What's more, he smiles in the end, as if in mirth. Is it that protagonist is smiling because he realises that even though there are miles that separate him with his love, imagination is always capable of bridging that gap?
What is also noteworthy is the shrewd use of colours in the video. The beloved in the protagonist's fantasy is carrying a ball of colour blue, the colour of compassion and fulfilment, what the protagonist aims to attain through love. Whereas, he carries a red one—the colour of desire (even rage and frustration). The blue ball lurking beside the lying protagonist at the end might well be signifying the contentment he has finally received, one way or another. But there is no obvious telling point here. It is as ambiguous as any wonderful piece of art is. A video that succeeds on so many levels, aesthetically or thematically, is so rare, especially here in Nepal. Hawaijahaaj succeeds at what it tries to tell. While capturing the theme of a common Nepali desperation, it, with its deft artistic touch, renders what is abstract palpable and prods us to rethink our dreams and the notion of fulfillment.


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Scots women devastated after IVF cancelled because they haven't had covid jabs
Women learned on Christmas Eve of new rules which mean unless they have had all their Covid jags they will be kicked out of the fertility programme
Vivienne AitkenHealth & Education Editor
Women desperate to be mums got their worst ever Christmas present - their fertility treatment cancelled because they had not received Covid jags.
Some couples heard their chances of becoming parents were in jeopardy in Christmas Eve phone calls following a Scottish Government policy change.
Last night Scottish Labour's health spokeswoman Jackie Baillie called the move "inhumane".
She said: "It is heartbreaking for those couples to have infertility treatment cancelled at the last minute.
"Of course I would encourage everyone to get vaccinated as the best protection against the virus but the rules were confusing at the start and treating these women in this way is inhumane.
"The Scottish Government should rethink their position urgently."
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Scots mum gives birth on M8 after midwife walking dog hears her screams
Jemma McDonald and Hayden Brown, both 25, from Govan, Glasgow have been trying for a baby for almost five years.
The couple have a genetic issue which means they need to have PGD (preimplantation genetic diagnosis) before IVF to ensure they have a healthy child.
The testing they have had to undergo took several years but in January they were due to sign the consent forms to begin the process and were hopeful this Christmas would have been their last without a child.
But now the couple's hopes have been dashed.
Jemma, a nursery teacher, said: "I spoke to a receptionist who said there were some phone calls being made because if you hadn't been vaccinated you were no longer eligible to get IVF.
"Two people were turned away at reception who were due to have their transfer (the process of removing eggs for fertilisation) that day. They were turned away at the front door without any warning."
Jemma and scaffolder Hayden had decided not to have their Covid jags because in the early days of Scotland's vaccination programme, pregnant women and those hoping to become pregnant were advised against getting jabbed.
Medics believed they did not have enough data to guarantee the safety of mum and baby.
However that advice changed with the growing number of pregnant women ending up in hospital and in intensive care.
Jemma said: "I had wanted to speak to doctors and nurses face-to-face about vaccinations to see what was best to do.
"At the start the government said we shouldn't get the vaccinations.
"I just feel personally there is not enough evidence about what could potentially happen to a baby in three or four years time.
"I still haven't had the opportunity to discuss that with anyone.
"Going through IVF is hard enough without just beginning to see the finishing line and then being thrown back to the start again.
"It is really hard mentally as well.
"I do have a good support network but to hear about this just a couple of days before Christmas was really upsetting.
"I had hoped to be pregnant by March or April but if I have to be vaccinated first it could be the end of this year rather than the start before it happens."
"I feel it is a complete breach of our human rights."
Another woman desperate to have a child told how she "cried for two hours" after being delivered the crushing blow on Christmas Eve.
The woman and her partner do not wish to be identified as their families do not know they have received fertility treatment.
The couple, from Ayrshire, have been trying for three years to conceive and have been told they have "unexplained infertility".
They were about to begin a series of injections with implantation expected within the next month.
The couple first heard rumours of the policy change on an IVF forum on December 23.
But it was Christmas Eve before their worst fears were confirmed.
She said: "I got a call to ask if I had been double vaccinated and when I said no they said no-one who hadn't been vaccinated was being treated now.
"I was heartbroken. I just burst into tears. It was so abrupt, there was no discussion about it."
The woman, an early years practitioner, had heard from friends that the vaccine had affected their menstrual cycle.
She said: "I know that doesn't happen to everyone but when you have fertility issues it is an added worry that it could have an impact on treatment.
"Going through IVF is already emotional.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: "The Covid-19 vaccines are safe and strongly recommended in pregnancy to reduce the significant risks of COVID-19 to unvaccinated pregnant women and their babies.
"Due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases, and concerns about the impact on unvaccinated women, Ministers have taken a decision to temporarily defer fertility treatment for women who are not fully vaccinated. We continue to review the evidence and will look to review this decision early this year."
The latest evidence from the UK Obstetric Surveillance System and the Mothers and Babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK shows that unvaccinated pregnant women and their babies have died after admission to hospital with Covid-19 and that 98 per cent of pregnant women in ICU with Covid-19 are unvaccinated.
Jackie Baillie
Scottish Labour
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How Often Do Patients Need Meningococcal Vaccines?
By Sara Hunt, MSN, RN, PHN, FNP-C
Pharmacy TimesAugust 2019 Back to School
Meningitis is a deadly condition that affects up to 1 million people per year globally.1
Meningitis is a deadly condition that affects up to 1 million people per year globally.1 It is characterized by inflammation of the meninges but can also affect the parenchyma (meningoencephalitis), the spinal cord, and the ventricles (ventriculitis).2 The most common and lethal meningitis is bacterial, but several types exist: amebic, fungal, noninfectious, parasitic, and viral.1,3
The rate of meningococcal disease is at a low in the United States, declining since the 1990s.4 Since the inception of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine recommendation, the rate of meningococcal disease caused by serogroups C, Y, and W has decreased by 80% among 11-to-19-year-olds.4 Importantly, remember that meningitis is not synonymous with meningococcal disease.3 Meningococcal disease is any illness caused by Neisseria meningitidis, but bacterial meningitis in the United States is often caused by group B Streptococcus, Haemophilus influenzae, Listeria monocytogenes, Neisseria meningitidis, and Streptococcus pneumoniae.5 Bacterial meningitis is a medical emergency, and fortunately, vaccinations are available and recommended to prevent the disease.
The bacterium that causes meningococcal disease, N meningitidis, has 5 serogroups, A, B, C, W, and Y, that are covered under 2 types of vaccinations4: conjugate vaccines (Menactra and Menveo) and serogroup B (recombinant) vaccines (Bexsero and Trumenba).
The meningococcal vaccination is not routinely recommended for all infants and young children but is recommended in special circumstances. The CDC recommends that infants and children aged 2 months
to 10 years receive the meningococcal conjugate vaccines (Menactra and Menveo) if any of the following special conditions are present4: complement component deficiency, damaged spleen or asplenia, HIV, residing or traveling near a meningococcal disease outbreak, taking Soliris, or traveling to places where meningitis is common.
Children who continue to have an increased risk of contracting meningococcal disease should receive their booster shot 3 years after their first vaccination.6
The CDC recommends the serogroup B menin- gococcal vaccine for children 10 years or older if any of the following special conditions are met4: at increased risk because of a serogroup B meningococcal disease outbreak, complement component deficiency, damaged spleen or asplenia, or taking Soliris.
PRETEENS AND TEENS
This age group is at increased risk of contracting meningitis.7 Therefore, the vaccination is routine. The CDC recommends that all children aged 11 to 12 years receive their first dose of meningococcal vaccine followed by a booster shot at age 16.4 Between ages 16 and 18, all teenagers can also get the serogroup B meningococcal vaccine, and the CDC recommends it especially for preteens and teens if they are taking Soliris, have asplenia or spleen damage, have complement component deficiency, or plan to travel to places at increased risk of meningococcal outbreak.4
The CDC does not recommend the meningococcal vaccine routinely for adults, but the agency does recommend it for those in special circumstances.4 These include an adult who is a microbiologist who has a damaged spleen or asplenia; has complement component deficiency; has HIV; has increased risk because of a serogroup A, C, W, or Y meningococcal disease outbreak; is regularly exposed to N meningitidis; is in the military; is not up-to-date with this vaccine and is a first-year college student living in a residence hall; is taking Soliris; or is traveling to countries where the disease is common.
Patients should also get a serogroup B meningococcal vaccine if they4 are a microbiologist who is regularly exposed to N meningitidis, are at increased risk because of a serogroup B meningococcal disease outbreak, are taking Soliris, have a damaged spleen or asplenia, or have complement component deficiency.
FREQUENCY FOR SPECIAL CONDITIONS
The following populations should receive a booster of meningococcal ACWY (MenACWY) every 5 years: microbiologists who work with meningococcus, people with HIV infection, those who travel repeatedly to regions of Africa hyperendemic to meningococcal disease, and those without a spleen.8
Patients without a spleen are at increased risk of infections and should receive 2 doses of MenACWY separated by 8 weeks, then a booster dose every 5 years. They should also complete a series of meningococcal B vaccine, 2 or 3 doses, depending on the brand.7
Booster shots are not routinely recommended for meningococcal B disease.
MENINGITIS RISK WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL
Meningitis and meningococcal disease occur around the world, but meningitis is more prevalent in certain countries. Specifically, the highest incidence of meningococcal disease occurs in sub-Saharan Africa, also known as the meningitis belt.9 Additionally, people who travel to Saudi Arabia for hajj or umrah are required to have proof of the quadrivalent (serogroup A, C, W, or Y) vaccination.9 Patients must receive the conjugate vaccines (MCV-4), Menactra and Menveo, no more than 8 years before arrival.9
Patients with a history of allergic reaction to the MenACWY and meningococcal B vaccines themselves or ingredients in the vaccines should avoid them. Those who are moderately to severely ill should also avoid them.4
Sara Hunt, MSN, RN, PHN, FNP-C, is a licensed and board-certified family nurse practitioner, a public health nurse, an adjunct assistant professor of health policy, and a doctor of nursing practice student at the University of California, San Francisco. She was the spring 2015 health policy fellow at the American Association of Nurse Practitioners' Government Affairs Office in Washington, DC.
Facts about meningitis. Confederate of Meningitis Organisations website. comomeningitis.org/facts-about-meningitis/. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Hoffman O, Weber RJ. Pathophysiology and treatment of bacterial meningitis. Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2009;2(6):1-7. doi: 10.1177/1756285609337975.
Meningitis. CDC website. cdc.gov/meningitis/index.html. Updated March 13, 2019. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Meningococcal vaccination: what everyone should know. CDC website. cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mening/public/index.html. Updated May 17, 2017. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Bacterial meningitis. CDC website. cdc.gov/meningitis/bacterial.html. Updated January 25, 2017. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Meningococcal: questions and answers. Immunization Action Coalition website. immunize.org/catg.d/p4210.pdf. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Meningococcal vaccination for preteens and teens: information for parents. CDC website. cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mening/public/adolescent-vaccine.html. Updated May 19, 2017. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Vaccinations for adults without a spleen. Immunization Action Coalition website. immunize.org/catg.d/p4047.pdf. Accessed June 21, 2019.
Meningococcal disease. CDC website. wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2018/infectious-diseases-related-to-travel/meningococcal-disease#5227. Updated June 12, 2017. Accessed June 21, 2019.
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Menendez, Booker Part of Bipartisan Effort to Reform National Flood Insurance Program
Posted by NJOP on June 21, 2017 March 8, 2019
Menendez, Booker Part of Bipartisan Effort to Reform National Flood Insurance Program – by Juliet Kazhas-Hoch
Eight U.S. senators from coastal states – including Sens. Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-N.J.) – have laid out a framework for sweeping reforms to the National Flood Insurance Program. Last week the lawmakers introduced comprehensive, bipartisan legislation to extend the NFIP for six years while instituting modifications to address the system's faults.
"Americans deserve a National Flood Insurance Program that is sustainable for taxpayers, affordable for homeowners, and accountable to everyone," Menendez stated. "If we want a more sustainable system, the answer isn't to slam homeowners with even higher premiums. This legislation puts the lessons we learned after Superstorm Sandy into action, levels the playing field for policyholders, and attacks the NFIP's rampant waste and abuse to create real savings and greater investment in mitigation and resiliency efforts to make our residents and communities safer."
The bill is also cosponsored by Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Bill Nelson (D-Fla.).
Menendez, chair of the Sandy Task Force and a senior member of the Senate Banking Committee that oversees the NFIP, pointed out that many property owners are forgoing flood insurance because of rising premiums coupled with the headache, or nightmare, of dealing with the federal program following a natural disaster.
The new proposal, the senators say, would reduce costs for policyholders, while upping the amount spent to prevent damage from future storms. Menendez's press secretary, Steven Sandberg, explained, "The Sustainable, Affordable, Fair, and Efficient (SAFE) National Flood Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2017 tackles systemic problems with flood insurance, puts it back on solid fiscal ground, and reframes our nation's entire disaster paradigm to one that focuses more on prevention and mitigation to spare the high cost of rebuilding after flood disasters.
"Congress must reauthorize the NFIP, which expires on Sept. 30, 2017."
As Booker noted, "This legislation takes common sense steps toward making coverage more affordable, extending coverage to those who need it most, and investing in pre-disaster flood control and mitigation efforts that will help protect New Jersey families."
SAFE NFIP addresses critical problems with the program – administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency – following Sandy and other disasters, including: unsustainability, low participation rates, inaccurate flood maps, an indifference to the benefits of flood control infrastructure, agency mismanagement, unsustainable debt service costs and contractor profiteering.
In addition to reauthorizing the NFIP for six years, the act would cap annual premium increases at 10 percent, fundamentally revamp the claims process, provide for increased training and certification of agents and adjusters, expand Increased Cost of Compliance coverage, authorize funding for technology for more-accurate flood risk mapping, and ensure investment in mitigation efforts, among other reform measures.
The act has the support of several experts and flood victim advocates, including Susan Marticek, executive director of the Ocean County Long-Term Recovery Group, who believes the legislation "takes into account all of the hard-learned lessons from Sandy, and implements changes that will directly benefit policyholders in the aftermath of a disaster and expedite recovery for the individual as well as the community at large."
"The pre-disaster aspects of this bill will go a long way to make our communities more resilient and save a tremendous amount of tax dollars in disaster recovery aid," Marticek added. "The post-disaster reforms show the admirable degree to which Sen. Menendez truly listened to the advocates and Sandy victims on the ground, carrying those lessons into his bill to ensure that disaster victims are at the center of FEMA's response, and that the failures of the NFIP claims process following Sandy are not replicated in the future. We fully endorse this bill and need it now more than ever."
Amanda Devecka-Rinear, director of the New Jersey Organizing Project, said the measure is "forward-looking and invests in mitigation and prevention to safeguard families from losing everything, to ensure protection from flood disasters isn't out of reach, and to make rates more affordable."
"Flood insurance works only when policyholders' claims are paid fully and promptly in case of loss," noted Jay M. Feinman, distinguished professor of law at Rutgers Law School. "This bill gives insurance consumers a fair claims process and effective remedies to guarantee them the protection they have purchased. The reforms in this bill are essential to restore the integrity of the program and keep its promises."
"This is what bold legislation looks like," stated George Kasimos, president and founder of StopFEMANow. "Sen. Menendez never forgot the Sandy victims and those along the shore in need of relief. This proposed bill covers all the reforms needed to the NFIP. It is the most policyholder-friendly bill being proposed yet it is fiscally responsible to the budget. This is evident by the widespread support on both sides of the aisle."
Menendez, who chaired the Sandy Task Force with Booker and Sens. Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand (both D-N.Y.), first exposed the widespread lowballing of flood insurance claims during congressional hearings in 2014, and last year successfully pushed FEMA to reopen every Sandy flood insurance claim for review. The claims review has since compensated Sandy victims more than $230 million in additional payments they were initially denied, Sandberg pointed out.
Menendez authored the Superstorm Sandy Relief and Disaster Loan Program Improvement Act, signed into law last November, which extended and expanded access to federal disaster loans through the U.S. Small Business Administration. The senator's Homeowner's Flood Insurance Affordability Act, meanwhile, was signed into law in 2014 to address the skyrocketing rates many Sandy survivors encountered. In 2013, Menendez shepherded the original $60 billion federal Sandy aid package through Congress.
Now, as Warren wrote in an op-ed she, Menendez, Kennedy, Van Hollen, Rubio and Cochran penned for the Wall Street Journal, "It's time to come together to pass a long-term, bipartisan NFIP reauthorization that makes much-needed reforms to the flood insurance program. Our bill will make changes that extend affordable flood insurance protection to everyone who needs it and that places more emphasis on better flood mapping, prevention, and resiliency."
— Juliet Kaszas-Hoch
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One morning, California wakes up to find that one-third of its population - the Hispanic third - has disappeared. A strange pink fog envelops the state, and communication outside its boundaries is completely cut off. The economic, political and social implications of this disaster threaten California's way of life, and for a group of disparate people (all white, except for one Latina), the cracks in their private lives are forced wide open.
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.


After our test at the TU Delft university, we learned that it was difficult to be dependent on national institutions and their hard-and software. We would like to have more freedom to decide when we wanted to use a computer. That freedom was limited by our salary. The first home computers had become 'cheap' enough for consumers to buy. You could choose from a range of suppliers. The Apple ][, the TRS-80, the Commodore PET, the ZX-81, the Nascom and later the Commodore VIC-20, the BBC Micro, MSX 1 and successors, the Commodore 64, the Acorn Atom and the Atari 400 and 800 series.
At one point we found ourselves in an apartment in Eindhoven where the engineering office of Tricomp was located. It was a chaotic space. Everywhere there were boxes with computers and peripherals. You had to step over the boxes when you wanted a chair or table. Coffee was served on boxes while engineer Schröder apologized for the chaos. We said that we hesitated about a NEC APC microcomputer or an Apple ][. Engineer Schröder advised us an English Apple clone: the Pearcom. In the end we chose the Pearcom because it had 14 input / output slots. That was 6 slots more than the Apple ][ computer. Some data: screen size 25 lines of 40 characters (upper and lowercase). 32 Kbyte of RAM (expandable to 96 Kbyte on board). BASIC, Fortran and Cobol available. Full Colour PAL video supplied (16 colors). Professional keyboard with function keys and two Apple disk drives. In 1982 it costs us about 5677 Euro.
I browsed through the Applesoft BASIC textbook and looked through the chapters: starting with Applesoft, the principles of programming, PLOT error messages, GOTO loops, NEW, LIST, RUN and HOME, graphics, strings and arrays. It all seemed very interesting but puzzling at the same time. When the computer started the 'DISK II MASTER DISKETTE VERSION 3.2 16-FEB-79 COPYRIGHT 1979 APPLE COMPUTER INC.' appeared. The menu was also very reassuring. The textbook stated that the menu on the screen was in fact working on the same way as if you were in a cafeteria. If you would like to have fried eggs with chips, vegetables and coffee you just can say, 'I want number 5.' Number 5 is the color demonstration program.
At one point I was asked if I understood the operation of the presented program. First, an array is filled with numbers, after which the contents of the array is mixed up. Note that the array does not have to start at zero. Suppose we have two glasses. A wine glass (WINE) and a glass of milk (MILK). Oh no, there was something wrong. The milk is in the wine glass and wine sits in the glass of milk. Fortunately we have an extra glass (TEMP). We can use the extra glass to fill it with milk, then we pour the wine into the wineglass and then the milk in the milk glass. Now we have both drinks in the right glass. Well… its fine that we could use the TEMP glass to get the drinks into the right glass but why do I have to know that? It really did not make any sense at all.
The second point which annoyed me was the terrible low resolution. Yes… you had the choice to work in two modes: low and high-resolution. In the low resolution you could draw 40 x 40 dots. And you had 16 colors available. You could draw teletext-like images. The high-resolution screen counted 280 x 192. However, that reduced your color palette from 16 to 8 colors. A huge disappointment if you compared the resolution of the computers within the University of Delft. So what could we do with this Apple clone beside playing Space-Eggs?
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Supergirl: Season 5 Episode 2: Stranger Beside Me - Review
Lena is planning something and in typical Luthor fashion, that means it won't end well for anyone else.
The title of this episode, Stranger Beside Me, follows the Supergirl tradition of naming episodes after books or sayings with this one, not only telling us what will happen in the episode but also playing with the title of the book about Ted Bundy; 'The Stranger Beside Me'. Luckily though, Supergirl features no sexual violence, though this episode does feature people not really knowing who is standing next to them.
The episode opens with two new couples still trying to get to know one another, Alex nearly kills her girlfriend Kelly because she doesn't realise she is allergic to blueberry's and she tried to get her to try some blueberry pancakes. And then there is Nia and Brainy, when Nia tells him she likes sushi, so Brainy sends 35 boxes of sushi to her desk at CatCo.
J'onn is also fighting a stranger literally and metaphorically. He now knows that his brother is alive though he wiped all memories of him because of the role he played in the Martian civil war. But in doing this J'onn finds out it isn't only his brother he has to fight but also himself. When working with Kelly, he discovers that parts of his memory have been wiped clean and that he is a stranger to himself. J'onn's brother Malefic is the main antagonist of this episode. And as Malefic is a shape-shifter, he disguises himself as both Alex and Kelly and both sides of the real relationship have to work out who the real one is at one point in the episode, in turn learning more about each other in the process.
We also get to learn some more about the new CatCo employee, William who has completed some of Kara's work for her when she has to fly away. Following Kara to the sewers he then encounters Supergirl and while the writers didn't out-and-out say it, I think he's worked out that Kara is Supergirl. Also there seemed to be a bit of chemistry between the pair and while I still hope that Kara will end up with Mon-El, I think that has grown increasingly unlikely. But with a little more screen-time for William, I think that he might be a good pairing for Kara!
But Lena is still simmering some resentment towards Kara who has lied to her for years and as a Luthor she is taking her revenge out in the most twisted of ways. She has kidnapped Eve, who we last saw on the run at the end of the last season and who betrayed Lena in the previous season to her brother Lex and Lena wants to perform experiments on the brain to make people morally better and she is using Obsidian tech to do it.
Lena doesn't care for Eve and plans to use her as a test subject but Eve changes enough for Hope to inhabit her mind and change her. It is an interesting parallel to how social media changes people and almost forces people to be the same as each other. It also opens up the question as to whether free will is really free or if we are all being controlled and I hope the writers continue to explore that side of the story throughout the course of this season.
Overall, Stranger Beside Me is another solid episode, even if it lacked the fast-paced momentum of the previous outing. It poses a number of interesting questions and puts many characters in some moral positions. I still think the Hope Interface will become the big-bad for the season but I might be surprised!


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1997 WU16 (asteroide 33073) é um asteroide da cintura principal. Possui uma excentricidade de 0.31183210 e uma inclinação de 9.77626º.

Este asteroide foi descoberto no dia 28 de novembro de 1997 por NEAT em Haleakala.

Ver também

 Lista de asteroides
 Asteroide da cintura principal

Ligações externas

Asteroides da cintura principal
Objetos astronômicos descobertos em 1997

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