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Hundreds turn out for Wiener's reelection bid
by David-Elijah Nahmod
State Senator Scott Wiener spoke at the kickoff for his reelection campaign January 11 at Flore cafe. Photo: Rick Gerharter
Flore cafe in San Francisco's Castro neighborhood was filled to capacity last Saturday morning for gay state Senator Scott Wiener's campaign kickoff for a second term in office.
Housing and LGBT issues were among the reasons that people were supporting Wiener's campaign, several said. He recently reintroduced the controversial Senate Bill 50, a major zoning reform that would allow more local flexibility in how to implement the housing legislation. Activist groups oppose it because they say it would allow new development at the expense of displacing residents.
At a news conference last week in Oakland, where Mayor Libby Schaaf announced her support for the bill, Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, was shouted down by protesters.
That was not the case at the Castro cafe January 11. (While Flore owners recently announced the eatery's closure, it is available for special events.)
"I'm here because we need leaders like Scott who don't only tackle tough issues like housing, but who also fight for LGBTQ individuals with bills like allowing nonbinary gender markers," said Jane Natoli, a 38-year-old transgender woman. "He's also fighting for the rights of intersex individuals with SB 201."
Natoli was referring to SB 179, which then-Governor Jerry Brown signed in 2017. The bill, which Wiener co-authored with lesbian state Senator Toni Atkins (D-San Diego), allows residents to be identified by a gender marker other than "F" or "M" on their driver's licenses.
Regarding SB 201 the intersex rights bill, the Bay Area Reporter noted this week that it died in committee Monday. Four senators on the panel thought more changes were needed to the bill, which was made a two-year bill in 2019 after it failed to garner support. (See related story.)
Wiener has vowed to keep fighting for SB 201, a major component of which is the requirement that any decisions about medically unnecessary surgical interventions in the case of intersex infants be postponed until they are at least 6 years old.
Wiener, 49, told the B.A.R. that he was pleased with the turnout at his kickoff. He will appear on the March 3 primary ballot, with the two top vote-getters regardless of party advancing to the November general election.
"I'm inspired by the large and diverse group of people from our community who came out to support my reelection," he said. "I'm thankful for their support, which comes from decades of working together in the community."
Among those in attendance were state Assemblyman David Chiu (D-San Francisco), San Francisco Mayor London Breed, and California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis.
"Our senator is no ordinary senator," Kounalakis told the crowd.
She then mentioned several pieces of legislation that Wiener has authored that have become law.
"Among them, SB 35, a landmark bill to streamline housing approvals," Kounalakis said. "SB 822, which enacts the strongest net neutrality protections in the nation. SB 1045 and SB 40, which strengthen and expand California's conservatorship laws. SB 219, which protects LGBTQ seniors in long-term care facilities, and SB 159, which allows pharmacists to provide PrEP and PEP, which are powerful HIV medications, without a physician's prescription."
Last year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Wiener's SB 40, an expansion and revision of SB 1045. Both address procedures regarding 5150 psychiatric holds and subsequent conservatorship for people deemed "incapable" of handling their own health, the San Francisco Examiner noted in an article last year. Wiener has said the new law could apply to 50-100 people in San Francisco.
Unafraid of tough issues
"Senator Wiener takes on the hardest issues," Kounalakis said. "He's not afraid of the blowback, he's not afraid of the controversy. He knows that if we're going to show that democracy delivers for people, we have leaders who will take on the challenges head on and really bring people together, to find and build consensus for change and for problem solving around these important issues, and as we know, housing is one of the key ones."
Kounalakis also pointed out that Wiener is the chair of the Legislative LGBTQ Caucus.
Daly City Councilman Ray Buenaventura also spoke. The councilman acknowledged that Wiener always remembered Daly City. (In addition to San Francisco, Wiener represents a portion of northern San Mateo County, including Daly City, Colma, and part of South San Francisco.)
David Fujimoto, co-chair of the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club, addressed the crowd. The Alice club early-endorsed Wiener in October.
"We at Alice are so proud to be supporting Scott for Senate," Fujimoto said. "Alice considers ourselves to be an independent club in San Francisco, we listen to all sides of an issue, and we support the candidates and the policy issues that represent our values and our mission, and we do what we think is best for San Francisco and to help push California along as well.
"Senator Wiener embodies so much of what Alice stands for in that regard," he added. "He listens to all sides of these very difficult issues that we've been discussing. He will push for what he thinks is right."
Fujimoto pointed out that Wiener has made it easier for trans and nonbinary individuals to change their birth certificates and driver's licenses to match their gender identity.
"He has made it so that PrEP is easier to access not only for LGBTQ individuals, but for low-income people on Medi-Cal," he said. "He has made changes to the law to prevent unequal treatment to people with HIV and has worked to reduce stigma for people living with HIV. He has made it so that sex workers — radical idea — can report crimes without the risk of facing arrest, and that they can carry condoms without that being used against them in a court of law."
Breed spoke about Wiener's strong work ethic.
"I don't think this guy sleeps," she quipped.
"Senator Wiener introduces quality legislation that is so desperately needed to move our city and our state forward," Breed added. "What I most love about Senator Wiener is that you don't have to tell him about what we need. He knows what we need. He understands the challenges that exist in our city. That's why he worked so hard to change conservatorship laws in the state, because he knew that it was so desperately needed here in San Francisco, locally in order to deal with what we see on the streets every single day. You didn't have to tell Senator Wiener to change policies around housing and housing affordability because he understands that that's the struggle of what we're dealing with."
Wiener speaks
There were wild cheers when the mayor introduced Wiener to the crowd. Wiener acknowledged the presence of elected officials from Daly City.
"A lot of times our rep in San Francisco is that we're so insular that we don't care about any of the other cities," he said. "To me, representing Daly City and San Mateo County, it matters, and you have to be there for everyone in your district, not just the biggest city."
Wiener noted that Donald Trump was elected president the same night he was first elected to the state Senate in 2016.
"We weren't just going to have to fix our own problems here in California," he said. "We were going to have to go to war to defend basic American values, basic American decency — that diversity makes us stronger, that immigrants make us stronger and built this country, basic notions that all genders are equal and that women have a right to make decisions about their own lives and their own bodies, basic notions like trans children shouldn't be demonized for going to the restroom, how about that?"
Wiener added that people were lucky to live in California, a state that has pushed back against the Trump agenda through legislation and lawsuits.
After his speech, Wiener chatted with individuals and posed for a group photo with attendees. Many people took window signs and went out to campaign and knock on doors in the Castro and surrounding neighborhoods.
After the event, Wiener spoke to the B.A.R. about his chances for reelection.
"I take nothing for granted," he said. "We live in a democracy and no elected official is entitled to a free pass. It's my responsibility to make the case to the voters that they should send me back to the Senate. It's my responsibility to ensure the voters are aware of my hard work for our community and my willingness to tackle some of the hardest issues such as housing, homelessness, mental health, and addiction and to deliver concrete results. I look forward to working hard to earn another term."
On the same morning as Wiener's kickoff, one of his challengers, Jackie Fielder, a queer progressive activist and Democratic socialist, held her own field campaign event in Dolores Park. Fielder did not respond to the B.A.R.'s phone calls requesting a comment. According to her campaign website, Fielder's agenda includes economic and social justice. She held her campaign kickoff in December.
"Restructure the economy to ensure no income, working class, immigrant, LGBTQI, and communities of color can not only access housing, health care and education, but can afford it," the website reads.
"I don't know Jackie, so I can't comment beyond what's been reported in the press," Wiener said. "She has a right to run for office, and I look forward to the campaign. I've been working in, and for, the LGBTQ community for 30 years. I'm passionate about this community, and I'll always go to the mat for it."
Another candidate running against Wiener is Erin Smith, a transgender woman who's a Republican. (See related story in this week's Political Notebook.)
Wiener has served in the state Senate, representing District 11, since 2016. He previously sat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, representing District 8, which includes the heavily LGBT Castro district. District 8 is currently represented on the board by gay Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who was in attendance at Wiener's kick-off.
"Scott and I have not always supported each other in the past," Mandelman told the B.A.R. as the crowd gathered. "But I have always respected his relentless work ethic and I think he's doing a strong job as state senator."
San Francisco's housing crisis weighed heavily on the mind of Michael MacDonald, a gay 32-year-old Wiener supporter.
"I think that Scott is our best chance of a progressive leader in San Francisco," MacDonald said. "Our housing crisis is in such a dire need of a solution and Scott is the legislator that can bring those solutions to life."

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The Uttarakhand HC ordered the closure of all illegal slaughter houses in the state "within 72 hours"
The bench observed that the pictures were disturbing and pricked the conscience of the court.
The Uttarakhand High Court on Thursday ordered the closure of all illegal slaughter houses in the state "within 72 hours", besides directing the authorities to ensure that there is no culling of animals in the open.
A bench comprising Acting Chief Justice Rajiv Sharma and Justice Manoj Tiwari issued the order on a public interest litigation by Haridwar resident Parvez Alam, who placed before the court pictures of animals being slaughtered brutally.
It was contended in the petition that illegal slaughtering of animals openly on roads and outside authorised slaughter houses is prevalent in the state.
"How can the authorities permit the slaughtering of animals in the streets, in villages and towns, is beyond our comprehension. Animals also have constitutional legal rights. The authorities cannot remain mute-spectators towards the slaughtering of animals, that too, in a very beastly manner," the court said.
It is the duty cast upon the statutory authorities, including police, to ensure that no illegal slaughtering takes place and the Slaughter House must conform to the standards laid down by the State Pollution Control Board and the Pollution Controlling Committees, it said.
Kartikey Hari Gupta, the advocate for the petitioner, pointed out that there are no proper facilities in slaughter houses.
There is no proper flooring, water supply or ventilation in the slaughter houses. The slaughter houses do not install pollution control devices, he alleged.
He said as per sample registration system baseline survey of 2014 conducted by the government, 74% Of the population of Uttarakhand consumes non vegetarian items.
As such the quality of such food items can only be kept in check through a proper system of slaughter houses.
The court directed that "all illegal slaughter houses in the state of Uttarakhand are ordered to be sealed within 72 hours from today".
The court further directed the Secretary (Home) to ensure that no animal is slaughtered on the streets or open spaces forthwith.
"The state government is also directed to constitute a Committee for Slaughter Houses as per the letter dated 26.04.2012 issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forest, if not already constituted, within a period of seven days from today," the court said.
"It is the duty cast upon all the Executive Officers of the Local Self Government, Municipal Corporations, Municipalities, Nagar Panchayats and other Panchayats to ensure that no animal is slaughtered in the public and at open spaces, open to public gaze," it said.
The court directed the state government to ensure that no slaughter house is permitted to run without complying with the Food Safety and Standards under Licensing and Registration of Food Businesses Regulations.


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If you know me, you know my mind is like that nasty jello with fruit cocktail mixed in it – full of bits of both good (peaches) and bad (those are not cherries) and hard to nail down. So you never know exactly what to expect, but I'm just going to jump in and maybe it won't be that bad.


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An international ruling next month is expected to deprive China of any legal basis for its claim to most of the South China Sea, and Beijing risks being seen as an "outlaw state" unless it respects the outcome, the Philippines' chief lawyer in the case said on Wednesday.
In an interview with Reuters, veteran Washington attorney Paul Reichler expressed confidence that the Permanent Court of Arbitration, based in The Hague, would rule in Manila's favor on July 12 in a highly charged case against Beijing, which rejects the tribunal's jurisdiction and says it will ignore the ruling.
The Philippines, a close U.S. ally, is contesting China's historical claim to about 90 percent of the South China Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. Several Southeast Asian states have overlapping claims in the sea, and the dispute has sparked concerns of a military confrontation that could disrupt global trade.
Reichler, who heads Manila's legal team in the 3-1/2-year-old case, said he was not privy to the ruling and did not expect to be informed until the last minute. But he had little doubt that Manila would win the legal argument, matching the consensus in Washington and most major foreign capitals.
"We are confident we will have success on the merits," said Reichler, who called the case potentially one of the most far-reaching to be decided by the court. He spoke just hours after the court announced the date for its ruling.
China bases its South China Sea claim on a "Nine Dash line" stretching deep into the maritime heart of Southeast Asia and covering hundreds of disputed islands and reefs, rich fishing grounds and oil and gas deposits.
Reichler said a ruling against Beijing "would deprive China of any legal basis for making such a claim." Manila argues that China's claim violates the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea and restricts its rights to exploit resources and fishing areas within its exclusive economic zone.
On Wednesday, China said Manila's approach flouted international law and Beijing would not accept any third-party decision on the issue.
Reichler said for China to reject the ruling meant it had "essentially declared themselves an outlaw state" that did not respect the rule of law.
Reichler is an international lawyer with a reputation for representing small countries against big powers, including a 1980s case by Nicaragua that accused the United States of funding right-wing Contra rebels against a left-wing government.
He predicted China would face pressure to abide by the ruling from other rival claimants, including Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia, despite signs that some other Southeast Asian countries are wavering in response to U.S. efforts to forge a unified regional front.
"It may be that in time ... the Chinese will come to realize that they have more to lose than to gain from creating a chaotic, lawless situation," he said.
China has accused the United States of "hyping" the dispute and has warned that complaints would snap back on its critics. But it has largely avoided specific threats of how it might respond to the ruling.
U.S. officials are worried China may declare an air defense identification zone in the South China Sea, as it did in the East China Sea in 2013, and by stepping up its building and fortification of artificial islands.
They say the U.S. response to such moves could include accelerated "freedom-of-navigation" patrols by U.S. warships and overflights by U.S. aircraft as well as increased defense aid to regional countries.


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Daily high temperatures decrease by 7°F, from 76°F to 68°F, rarely falling below 63°F or exceeding 83°F.
For reference, on July 29, the hottest day of the year, temperatures in Corroios typically range from 66°F to 83°F, while on January 18, the coldest day of the year, they range from 47°F to 58°F.
La Paloma, Uruguay (5,832 miles away) is the far-away foreign place with temperatures most similar to Corroios (view comparison).
The month of October in Corroios experiences rapidly increasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy increasing from 36% to 49%. The highest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 49% on October 31.
A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. In Corroios, the chance of a wet day over the course of October is very rapidly increasing, starting the month at 17% and ending it at 29%.
The average sliding 31-day rainfall during October in Corroios is rapidly increasing, starting the month at 1.5 inches, when it rarely exceeds 3.2 inches or falls below 0.2 inches, and ending the month at 3.1 inches, when it rarely exceeds 5.9 inches or falls below 0.7 inches.
Over the course of October in Corroios, the length of the day is rapidly decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 1 hour, 12 minutes, implying an average daily decrease of 2 minutes, 23 seconds, and weekly decrease of 16 minutes, 44 seconds.
The latest sunrise of the month in Corroios is 7:56 AM on October 26 and the earliest sunrise is 59 minutes earlier at 6:57 AM on October 27.
The latest sunset is 7:19 PM on October 1 and the earliest sunset is 1 hour, 42 minutes earlier at 5:38 PM on October 31.
The chance that a given day will be muggy in Corroios is decreasing during October, falling from 13% to 6% over the course of the month.
For reference, on August 16, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 17% of the time, while on January 9, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 0% of the time.
The average hourly wind speed in Corroios is increasing during October, increasing from 10.1 miles per hour to 11.1 miles per hour over the course of the month.
The hourly average wind direction in Corroios throughout October is predominantly from the north, with a peak proportion of 49% on October 1.
Corroios is located near a large body of water (e.g., ocean, sea, or large lake). This section reports on the wide-area average surface temperature of that water.
The average surface water temperature in Corroios is essentially constant during October, remaining within 1°F of 65°F throughout.
Temperatures in Corroios are sufficiently warm year round that it is not entirely meaningful to discuss the growing season in these terms. We nevertheless include the chart below as an illustration of the distribution of temperatures experienced throughout the year.
The average accumulated growing degree days in Corroios are increasing during October, increasing by 446°F, from 3,701°F to 4,147°F, over the course of the month.
The average daily incident shortwave solar energy in Corroios is rapidly decreasing during October, falling by 1.6 kWh, from 4.7 kWh to 3.1 kWh, over the course of the month.
For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Corroios are 38.645 deg latitude, -9.148 deg longitude, and 95 ft elevation.
The topography within 2 miles of Corroios contains only modest variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 299 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 80 feet. Within 10 miles contains only modest variations in elevation (748 feet). Within 50 miles contains significant variations in elevation (2,215 feet).
The area within 2 miles of Corroios is covered by artificial surfaces (59%) and water (25%), within 10 miles by water (37%) and artificial surfaces (36%), and within 50 miles by water (52%) and cropland (22%).
This report illustrates the typical weather in Corroios year round, based on a statistical analysis of historical hourly weather reports and model reconstructions from January 1, 1980 to December 31, 2016.
There are 2 weather stations near enough to contribute to our estimation of the temperature and dew point in Corroios.
For each station, the records are corrected for the elevation difference between that station and Corroios according to the International Standard Atmosphere , and by the relative change present in the MERRA-2 satellite-era reanalysis between the two locations.
The estimated value at Corroios is computed as the weighted average of the individual contributions from each station, with weights proportional to the inverse of the distance between Corroios and a given station.
The stations contributing to this reconstruction are: Montijo Air Base (64%, 12 kilometers, northeast) and Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (36%, 15 kilometers, north).


On the heels of a small stirling engine we featured, an astute Hackaday reader sent in a few awesome builds from HMEM, the home model engine machinist forum.
First up is a fantastic looking stirling engine made entirely from scratch. The build is modeled on a Moriya Hot Air Fan, but instead of making a fan spin around, [IronHorse] put a flywheel on the engine. It also uses propane instead of an alcohol or other liquid fuel lamp for the heat source.
Next up is a pee-wee sized V8 engine by [stevehuckss396]. Unlike the model engines we're used to, this one runs on gasoline. The engine started out as a 3 x 3 x 5 inch block of aluminum. This thread goes on an amazing 85 (!) pages and makes for great afternoon reading, but here's a video of the engine in action.
Last is [keith5700]'s amazing 1/4 scale V8. Not only is this [keith]'s first project, he also completed this entire project on manual mills and lathes. There's an electric starter thrown in there, and the pictures are simply incredible.
Thanks to [Norberto] for sending this one in, and if you've got an example of amazing machining skill, send it on it to the tip line.
Winter's coming, and you don't want to be outdone by your neighbor's new snow blower. We think it's pretty safe to say you'll be the envy of gearheads throughout the neighborhood if you can build your own snow blower around a V8 engine. [Kai Grundt] is a metal fabricator by day and a horror movie prop yard implement builder by night. He pulled the engine out of his Chevy truck and then filled in parts around it to make this 412 HP snow blower.
The tank treads that it rides are each have their own dedicated hydraulic pump, making it easy to drive and steer this 800 pound whale. One of the first orders of business for the beast was to throw snow from two houses away, burying his buddy's car. That's the price you pay for laughing in a guy's face when he describes his next project. It sounds like [Kai] was planning on selling kits so you could more easily replicate the build, but we couldn't find any additional info on that. If you've got the details, please let us know by leaving a comment.


I have a problem. It's called brownies. Fudgy, chocolate, delicious brownies.
I guess I phrased that wrong. Brownies are not the problem. The problem is, I can't stop at just eating one. Does anyone else lack the self-control to stop at one brownie? Please tell me I'm not the only one!
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A triple chocolate delicious protein shake. Have it after a work-out, as a snack, or even for breakfast!
Combine all of the ingredients except the Fiber One brownie into a blender. Blend until smooth and the ingredients are all incorporated.
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I painted this a few weeks ago, but it was a study for a wedding gift and I didn't want to spoil the surprise. 8 x 13 inches, oil on linen.
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A peaceful day in Laguna.
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Omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia: Hugo of Saint-Victor (1097–1141) and the problem of hyperspecialisation in the contemporary concept of science
Johann Beukes Academic research 2020-04-09
This article surveys three key concepts in the philosophical output of Hugo of Saint-Victor (1097–1141), namely sapientia, trivium and quadrivium. The three concepts are interpreted within the realm of both Hugo's and early scholastic philosophical orientations, with the intention to indicate their relevant implications in a 21st-century framework of education. The problem of hyperspecialisation in contemporary science is critically interpreted within this historical framework, with reference to hyperspecialisation as tempo-intensified specialisation, as the logical consequence of inductive specialisation and as focused on the prioritisation of the mechanical.
After a short biographical introduction, opening with Hugo's leading statement in Didascalicon , Omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia – "Of all things that should be sought after, wisdom is the first" – his conviction that "knowledge progresses swiftly, but wisdom slowly" is explored as a form of self-critical and self-interrupting wisdom teaching. This tentative understanding of "wisdom" is situated within the context of the early-scholastic (late 11th to early 13th century) distinction between theology and philosophy, as one of the first manifestations of the division, subdivision and specialisation of knowledge in the central Middle Ages. A thorough exposition of this distinction between theology and philosophy in the early 12th century is afforded, indicating how and when the unity discourse of philosophia as inherited from antiquity (Pythagoras and Seneca) and the early Middle Ages (Augustine and Boethius, with reference to the seven liberal arts, the trivium and quadrivium) was transformed at the time in order to clearly differentiate between theology and philosophy (without rigidly dividing them, which would happen only much later in the Middle Ages). It becomes clear from this exposition that Hugo's self-interrupting and inclusive understanding of the concept sapientia came under pressure in his own time due to the dividing, specialising element in the formal distinction between theology and philosophy.
Hugo's unique indexing of the seven liberal arts, in four categories, is henceforth analysed: (1) The theoretical arts, consisting of theology, physics and mathematics; (2) the practical arts, consisting of the "private and public disciplines" (for example, jurisprudence and education); (3) the mechanical arts, consisting of domains of material fabrication, construction and production (for instance weapon production and commerce [the Medieval prelude to the study of economics], interestingly including medicine as well); and (4) the logical arts, consisting only of grammar and rhetoric. Hugo's attempt to recategorise the old trivium and quadrivium is described as the direct consequence of the pressure exerted by the young and upcoming universities of the early 12th century to position every faculty, subject and discipline within the broader scheme of divisions and subdivisions in Aristotelian natural philosophy: his unique four-part index was the first attempt from early scholasticism to deal with the phenomenon of progressive specialisation from those divisions.
The increasing and seemingly endless subdivision of knowledge Hugo attempted to deal with, is nevertheless not the first characteristic of what in contemporary science is manifested as hyperspecialisation; the problem manifests itself first and foremost in the progressive tempo of these specialising divisions, which put it in direct opposition to Hugo's central argument for "slow wisdom". Where the faculty, subject and discipline were rather slowly divided in Hugo's own time, these sped up exponentially through the later Middle Ages, through the phases of modernity and in contemporary science. Referring to this problem as "hyperspecialisation as tempo-intensified specialisation" the article points out several problems arising from too early and too rapid specialisation, with too many specialists and too few masters of the subject, and too much technique and too little competency. The demarcation of "hyperspecialisation as tempo-intensified specialisation" leads to a second problem because of hyperspecialisation in contemporary science, namely as the logical consequence of inductive specialisation. Specialist research domains are generally inaccessible outside of specialist abilities and interests and are seemingly content to deliver outputs for the sake of the specialist domains themselves, with the consequence that researchers within a particular domain communicate only with one another, and do not seem interested in whether the specialised domain or niche is actually impacting the broader discipline. As necessary and productive as balanced specialisation may well be, hyperspecialisation causes much internal stress in a particular subject, with too many people knowing everything about something (however unimportant) in a particular subject or discipline, and too few people knowing something about everything that is truly important in the same subject or discipline. Again, the notion of slowly developing "wisdom" in the Hugoian sense is impoverished. The third problem stemming from hyperspecialisation has to do with the prioritisation of the mechanical disciplines in contemporary science, where only the domains of knowledge that prioritise the mechanical and support instrumental rationality (and again not "wisdom") are considered to be crucial, while those disciplines inherently critical of instrumental rationality are progressively deprioritised and soon regarded as obsolete. From these three manifestations of hyperspecialisation in contemporary science, the article concludes with a reconsideration of the extent of the loss of the wisdom ideal in the contemporary idea of the university, speculating about the possibilities of an alternative university for the 21st century.
Keywords: Didascalicon; contemporary problem of hyperspecialisation as the logical consequence of the strict distinction between philosophy and theology in early scholasticism; hyperspecialisation as tempo-intensified specialisation; hyperspecialisation as the logical consequence of inductive specialisation; hyperspecialisation and the prioritisation of the mechanical disciplines; Hugo's four-part presentation of the seven liberal arts; sapientia; trivium; quadrivium
Omnium expetendorum prima est sapientia: Hugo van Saint-Viktor (1097–1141) en die probleem van hiperspesialisasie in die eietydse wetenskapsbegrip


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Acting Texas Secretary of State David Whitley is being forced to rescind his discriminatory voter purge in a victory for voters, but he's not the only problem.
Months after pushing a massive voter purge, Texas Secretary of State nominee David Whitley and Governor Greg Abbott are finally ending their voter suppression scheme (for now). Friday afternoon, news dropped that the state had settled a lawsuit claiming that the Republicans'voter purge effort was unlawful and wrongfully targeted naturalized citizens and communities of color.
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They were wrong to discriminate against our fellow Texans. They were wrong to attack the most sacred right to vote. They were wrong to think we wouldn't notice.
And this isn't the first time. In 2012, then-Attorney General Abbott was behind purging 68,000 voters whose names matched those of deceased Texans. Living voters received a letter in the mail letting them know that the state had reason to believe they were dead. Coincidently, the state settled a lawsuit about that voter purge as well.
This week's settlement is just another chapter in the long playbook of Republicans stacking the deck against Texas voters. We see it in voter purges, dangerous elections bills, and David Whitley's nomination for our top elections official. Republicans' failed leadership has created an electoral process designed to reduce the number of eligible voters who cast their ballots.
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Are you starting to see a trend? Yeah, us too. This effort is the same old Texas Republican tricks at work. Nip and tuck the voter rolls to cut out voters of color year after year, and hope they don't get caught. Abbott and his cronies, including Whitley, are terrified of what might happen if every day people show up to vote.
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FARE beabsichtigt, dass das "schöne Spiel" Fußball ohne die "Krankheit" des Rassismus gespielt werden kann.
Das Netzwerk hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Rassismus und Ausländerfeindlichkeit im Fußball quer durch Europa zu bekämpfen. Durch koordinierte Aktionen und gemeinsame Bemühungen auf lokaler und nationaler Ebene beabsichtigt FARE, all diejenigen zusammenzubringen, die daran interessiert sind, gegen Diskriminierung im Fußball vorzugehen. Ein Beispiel für die Aktionen der FARE ist die Unterstützung des Mondiali Antirazzisti.

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package br.com.engebras.model.entities;

/**
 * @author Adalberto
 * dt. início: 07/06/2016
 */

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Objects;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.Temporal;
import javax.persistence.TemporalType;

@Entity
@Table(name="contrato")
public class Contrato implements Serializable {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Id
    @Column(name="nr_crd", nullable=false, length=6)
    private Integer nr_crd;
    @Column(name="nr_codFilial", nullable=false, length=5)
    private Integer nr_codFilial;
    @Column(name="dc_contrato", nullable=false, length=30)
    private String dc_contrato;
    @Column(name="dt_inicioContrato", nullable=false)
    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    private Date dt_inicioContrato;
    @Column(name="dt_fimContrato", nullable=false)
    @Temporal(TemporalType.DATE)
    private Date dt_fimContrato;
    @Column(name="dc_uf", nullable=false, length=2)
    private String dc_uf;
    @Column(name="nr_codMunicipio", nullable=false, length=5)
    private Integer nr_codMunicipio;
    @Column(name="dc_responsavel", nullable=false, length=25)
    private String dc_responsavel;

    public Integer getNr_crd() {
        return nr_crd;
    }

    public void setNr_crd(Integer nr_crd) {
        this.nr_crd = nr_crd;
    }

    public Integer getNr_codFilial() {
        return nr_codFilial;
    }

    public void setNr_codFilial(Integer nr_codFilial) {
        this.nr_codFilial = nr_codFilial;
    }

    public String getDc_contrato() {
        return dc_contrato;
    }

    public void setDc_contrato(String dc_contrato) {
        this.dc_contrato = dc_contrato;
    }

    public Date getDt_inicioContrato() {
        return dt_inicioContrato;
    }

    public void setDt_inicioContrato(Date dt_inicioContrato) {
        this.dt_inicioContrato = dt_inicioContrato;
    }

    public Date getDt_fimContrato() {
        return dt_fimContrato;
    }

    public void setDt_fimContrato(Date dt_fimContrato) {
        this.dt_fimContrato = dt_fimContrato;
    }

    public String getDc_uf() {
        return dc_uf;
    }

    public void setDc_uf(String dc_uf) {
        this.dc_uf = dc_uf;
    }

    public Integer getNr_codMunicipio() {
        return nr_codMunicipio;
    }

    public void setNr_codMunicipio(Integer nr_codMunicipio) {
        this.nr_codMunicipio = nr_codMunicipio;
    }

    public String getDc_responsavel() {
        return dc_responsavel;
    }

    public void setDc_responsavel(String dc_responsavel) {
        this.dc_responsavel = dc_responsavel;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int hash = 5;
        hash = 53 * hash + Objects.hashCode(this.nr_crd);
        return hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object obj) {
        if (this == obj) {
            return true;
        }
        if (obj == null) {
            return false;
        }
        if (getClass() != obj.getClass()) {
            return false;
        }
        final Contrato other = (Contrato) obj;
        if (!Objects.equals(this.nr_crd, other.nr_crd)) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

}

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Q: how to execute completion block from another method in objective-c? Is it impossible to get completion block success then data received from another method?
@property myCompletion;

// I have first call listeners, i can't add this in to "createOrderWithsuccess"

-(void)listeners {
    [[SocketIOManager sharedInstance].socket on:@"someAction" callback:^(NSArray* data, SocketAckEmitter* ack) {
        // data received
        myCompletion(data);

    }];

}

// this will be called <del>first</del> later
- (void)createOrderWithsuccess:^(NSArray *data) {
    // but it has to wait then data will be received
    myCompletion = success;
 }

A: If I understand your intent correctly, the idea is fine.  Callers can use the createOrderWithsuccess: method as a setter for a completion block.  Subsequently, callers call listeners with the understanding that the block they set earlier will be invoked upon success.
It's fine, but consider a few things: (1) Copy the block...
@property (nonatomic, copy) void (^myCompletion)(NSArray *);

(1.5) The block would be better named "successHandler" or something like that, and the property could be made public, so you could delete the createOrderWithsuccess: setter.
(2) Since you're not sure if the caller has set the block, check for nil before invoking (it's a crash otherwise)
if (self.myCompletion) self.myCompletion(data);

(3) nil the block after you're through with it.  If the block references this object, nil-ing it will break the retain cycle.
if (self.myCompletion) self.myCompletion(data);
self.myCompletion = nil;

A: It's a bit hard to understand what you are looking for, but this might be it. This is how I handle Completion callbacks in my app:
@import Foundation;

typedef void (^CompletionBlock)(NSArray *data);

@interface TheClass()

@property (nonatomic, copy) CompletionBlock *myCompletion;

@end

@implementation TheClass()

// ....

- (void) createOrderWithsuccess:(CompletionBlock)success {
    _myCompletion = success;
}

-(void)listeners {
    [[SocketIOManager sharedInstance].socket on:@"someAction" callback:^(NSArray* data, SocketAckEmitter* ack) {
        // data received
        _myCompletion(data);

    }];
}

// Alternatively, breaking possible retain cycles
-(void)listeners {
    __weak TheClass *weakSelf = self;
    [[SocketIOManager sharedInstance].socket on:@"someAction" callback:^(NSArray* data, SocketAckEmitter* ack) {
        // data received
        if(weakSelf.myCompletion) weakSelf.myCompletion(data);
    }];
}

The typedef should be in the .h file so that both this class and the one calling createOrderWithsuccess: knows about it.


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Hirakawa's Clover Manga to End on October 15
posted on 2015-10-11 07:00 EDT by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Fighting manga that launched in 2007 inspired live-action series in 2012
This year's 45th issue of Akita Shoten's Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine revealed on Thursday that Tetsuhiro Hirakawa is ending his Clover fighting manga in the magazine's next issue, which Akita Shoten will publish on October 15.
The manga's story follows three boys — Hayato, Tomoki, and Kenji — who were close friends in elementary school. Hayato transfered to another school, and the three drifted apart. Five years later, however, Hayato returns, and the three reunite by chance.
Hirakawa launched the manga in Weekly Shonen Champion in 2007. Akita Shoten published the manga's 42nd compiled book volume on Thursday. The manga received a live-action drama adaptation that aired on TV Tokyo from April to June 2012. Hirakawa's manga is unrelated to two similarly named Clover shōjo manga series from CLAMP and Toriko Chiya.
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Q: Add column value using scalar valued function I'm copying data from one table to another and during the copy i'm adding a autogenerated number.
The below query is a job that runs every day to add invoices for a specific day into the table.
insert into dbo.tblabc (InvoiceNumber, AgentId)
select [dbo].[udf_GetInvoiceNumber](AgentId),AgentId from dbo.tblxyz

The function [dbo].[udf_GetInvoiceNumber](cd.AgentId) returns the InvoiceNumber based on the Agent already available.
//Function
ALTER function [dbo].[udf_GetInvoiceNumber](@AgentId int)
returns varchar(50)
begin
 DECLARE @JC varchar(50) = 0
    if exists(SELECT count(agentid) from dbo.tblabc where AgentId = @AgentId and year(CreatedDate) = year(getdate()) group by agentid)
    begin
        Set @JC = (SELECT count(agentid) from dbo.tblabc where AgentId = @AgentId and year(CreatedDate) = year(getdate()) group by agentid)
    end
    Set @JC = (Select concat('ALD/SHJ/',year(getdate()),'/INV/000', @JC + 1))
return @JC
end

Now, this doesn't work and updates only one row with InvoiceNumber when multiple rows are added at the same time.
Any other way to achieve this?

A: the challenge you are facing here is because of the function. the function always checks for the values which are already there in the database and generates the Invoice number for you. so when You have 2 or more rows to be inserted from the source, the destination still holds the same number of rows, so it'll return the same ID for all the rows. so to overcome this, try generating the invoice number outside the FUnctions. maybe try with the below approach
;WITH CTE
AS
(
    SELECT
        AgentId,
        YearCount = COUNT(1)
        FROM dbo.YourTable
            WHERE YEAR(CreatedDate) = YEAR(GETDATE())
        GROUP BY
            AgentId
)
INSERT INTO dbo.DestinationTable
(
    InvoiceNumber,
    AgentId
)
SELECT
    InvoiceNumber = concat('ALD/SHJ/',year(GETDATE()),'/INV/000', ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY AgentId ORDER BY AgentId )+ISNULL(CTE.YearCount,0)+1), --Generate ID without a function which will be much faster also
    AgentId = SRC.AgentId
    FROM SourceTable SRC
        LEFT JOIN CTE
            ON SRC.AgentId = cte.AgentId


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Tag: Human Torch
Playwright Takes Stand Against White-washing of His Play
Clarion University student actors Sam Atwell and Kiah Harrington-Wymer in a rehearsal photo from the school's planned production of "Jesus in India" published to social media. (Photo Credit: Clarion University)
The theatre world is embroiled in controversy right now over the attempted White-washing by Clarion University of Lloyd Suh's cutting-edge play, "Jesus In India".
Suh's play — an irreverent exploration of popular conceptions and misconceptions of historical religious figures — includes several characters of Indian descent. However, when Professor of Theatre at Clarion University Marilouise Michel decided she wanted to put on a student production of the play this year, she seized upon a quip by Suh in one of the play's liner notes (wherein he describes the play's appeal as "universal") and interpreted it as license to cast non-South Asian actors as characters named "Gopal", "Mahari", and "Sushil". Michel also decided to make dramatic rewrites to the play (which originally contained only two or three songs). She commissioned a full songbook, transforming the play into a musical.
Continue reading "Playwright Takes Stand Against White-washing of His Play"
Tags Tags Clarion University, Cross-racial Casting, Fantastic Four, Human Torch, Jesus in India, Lloyd Suh, Michael B Jordan, Race-bending, Stan Lee, Whitewashing
The post-racial revolution should not be televised
Leave it to CNN to report on ideas that have been circulating in the blogosphere for years like it's news, and to further treat those ideas with the kind of insipid, uncritical patina that suggests that the article is the end-result of maybe two hours — tops — of online reading. Leave it to CNN to give a complex and nuanced conversation a Monday morning rush job on an otherwise "slow" news day.
This morning, CNN published an article by John Blake, who normally writes for CNN's Belief Blog; today Blake was writing about diversity in speculative fiction.
The basic premise of his op-ed? Televised speculative fiction is awesome right now because there are people of colour doing things next to White people.
If [Martin Luther] King clicked on TV today, he might shout that we've reached the Promised Land. A racial revolution is quietly taking place on the small screen, and zombies, witches and headless horsemen are leading the way. There's been an explosion of multiracial casting on science-fiction, fantasy and horror shows, and the people powering this trend say it is here to stay.
Popular shows such as "The Walking Dead," "Sleepy Hollow" and "Arrow" are giving us a sneak preview of a post-racial America that can still seem far away, fans and creators say. The most eye-popping elements are not the special effects and supernatural creatures but the multiracial casts and the casual acceptance of racial differences. These shows routinely feature actors of color in nonstereotypical roles, and interracial relationships are the norm.
Yes, according to Blake, we have arrived at King's Promised Land: we have built a post-racial world, and it has zombies in it.
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Tags Tags Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, Diversity in Comics, Human Torch, John Blake, Race-bending, Sleepy Hollow
Want real diversity in superhero comics? Meet Grace Choi.
Michael B. Jordan (left) and The Human Torch (right).
Yesterday, I wrote about the news that Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station, Chronicle) would be adopting the mantle of The Human Torch. I talked about my enthusiasm for integrating diverse story-telling into comics, and my reservations that trans-racial casting in the absence of varied and complex writing is literally skin-deep diversity.
On the other side of the argument, some have celebrated Jordan's casting, arguing that cross-racial casting of major superhero properties is the path of least resistance towards the goal of diverse superheroes. They argue that the road towards introducing superheroes of colour to the major publishing houses — DC and Marvel — is rife with red tape obstacles; the solution, therefore, is to encourage the seamless and casual transracialization of existing characters.
If the purpose of diversifying comics is to introduce minority fans to relatable superheroes, then while seeing an empowered brown body shoot lasers from her eyes is fun, seeing an empowered brown body shoot lasers from her eyes and who is also brown when she takes her cape off is far more relatable. Cross-racial casting doesn't dismantle the pretenses of an industry that has since time immemorial treated race like window-dressing while it is also viewed as an unseemly subject best left out of comics. When comic writers and publishing houses are encouraged in the fantasy that writing a superhero is race-neutral until an artist puts blue pencil to paper (or a casting director taps a talented non-White actor to play the part) it perpetuates a system that has historically ignored, disrespected, and devalued Blackness and race in general.
If we want to inject diversity into comics, the solution isn't to offer the appearance of race while ignoring its impact on the people behind the mask. The solution is to tackle race head-on.
Want an example? Meet Grace Choi.
Continue reading "Want real diversity in superhero comics? Meet Grace Choi."
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Q: SQL Profiler shows a StartTime greater than EndTime I'm using SQL Profiler to check some long run query. Somehow I see some entries in SQL profiler show StartTime that are greater than the EndTime, and the duration value is obviously overflow.
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Vulture capitalists are investors that acquire distressed firms in the hopes of making them more profitable so as to ultimately sell them for a profit.  Due to their aggressive investing nature, and the methods they use to make firms more profitable, vulture capitalists are often criticized.

Distinguishing between venture and vulture capitalists
A venture capitalist is an investor who provides funding for start-ups, early stage firms and companies with growth potential. These types of firms seek out venture capitalists, as they are too small or too new to have credit profiles, making them ineligible for bank loans and other forms of raising capital.

Although risky, venture capitalists invest in firms as there are very lucrative returns on their investments when the company they are investing in is successful. Furthermore, venture capitalists will often invest in a range of firms rather than just one or two, in order to mitigate risks if the investments are unsuccessful.

On the other hand, vulture capitalists provide a final attempt at gaining funding. Whereas venture capitalists seek firms with growth potential, vulture capitalists usually seek out firms where costs can be cut in order to increase profits. Mostly, these firms are distressed and on the brink of bankruptcy. Due to this reason, vulture capitalists are able to buy these firms at a much lower price than if they had been profitable and expanding.

Once the firm is acquired, vulture capitalists can attempt to increase efficiency in order to turn the company around. This is often done by cutting costs wherever possible, which in part is likely to be accomplished by firing workers where possible, reducing benefits or both, which increases profits or the likelihood of future profitability, thus raising the share price and the worth of the investors holdings. Lastly, the vulture capitalists sell any equity they own, making a profit. But vulture capitalists can also choose to divide and sell off the entire company in pieces, if this should increase the attractiveness of each individual piece to its purchaser and thus allow the vulture capitalist a net profit.

Criticism

Vulture capitalists receive a lot of criticism as they often go for firms that are in very poor shape, meaning these firms are unable to secure capital from banks or even venture capitalists as they are too risky an investment. Due to this, vulture capitalists are able to acquire the firms for prices that are often very low considering what  they would have been if the company was not currently under pressure, or if other participants were bidding on it.

Once vulture capitalists acquire a firm, they often fire workers to reduce costs, in order to raise profitability for their own gain. Vulture capitalists are criticized for this, especially as the newly unemployed people can be said to put pressure on the political economy and general society through their need of unemployment benefits, which comes from company payroll taxes and other taxpayers.

For the same reasons, venture capitalists can be accused of being vulture capitalists, or "vulture" for short, depending on how they conduct their business. In this sense, vulture capitalist is used as a derogatory word for venture capitalists, as the vulture capitalists are considered to be preying on firms in distress for their own profit.

See also
Asset stripping
Leveraged buyout
Private equity

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Q: symlink over ssh fails Please help me out, as I'm trying to execute 'rm -Rf' and 'ln -s' on a bunch of servers through 'ssh -i' and somehow symlink fails, although running directly on servers works...
$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa www@web1 '
    rm -Rf /home/www/system &&
    ln -s /home/www/framework/system /home/www/system'
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/www/system' to `/home/www/framework/system': No such file or directory

Here is what I see on the remove server for path /home/www/framework:
$ ls -al
total 32
drwxr-xr-x  5 www www 4096 2011-04-26 09:21 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 www www 4096 2011-06-03 11:25 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 www www 2547 2011-04-26 09:21 license.txt
drwxr-xr-x  8 www www 4096 2011-04-26 09:21 system

A: Problem solved! This is sooo weird, but basically when I did ssh -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa www@web1 'rm -Rf /home/www/system; ln -s /home/www/framework/system /home/www/system', it worked!!!


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Climate change governs a crop pest, even when populations are far-flung
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LAWRENCE — As delegates from 195 nations meet in Paris to debate mankind's response to global climate change, scientists from the University of Kansas and Rothamsted Research in England today issue a study of a major crop pest that underlines how "climate is changing in more ways than just warming."
Their paper, appearing in Nature Climate Change, shows how large-scale climatic changes drive a coordinated rise and fall of numbers of aphids across Great Britain, even when individual aphid populations in that nation are separated by great distance.
The researchers studied a phenomenon called "spatial synchrony," revealing how changing climate can effect ecological populations through increases in average temperature and changes in how climatic fluctuations in different areas relate to each other.
"If you care about crops, you have a reason to care about how climate change affects crop pests like aphids," said Daniel Reuman, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and senior scientist with the Kansas Biological Survey, who co-authored the paper.
"If you eat, you have a reason to care about crops," he said.
The scientists looked at decades' worth of population surveys of 20 aphid species carried out with suction traps throughout Britain. In the data, they searched out triggers for shifts in spatial synchrony among aphid numbers over multiple timescales — triggers that, until now, have been hard for researchers to determine.
"There are a lot of possible causes. With so much complexity it can be hard to work out what's driving things," Reuman said. "It's like a baseball team that might be great for a decade, but with good years and bad years within that decade — then they might be terrible for a decade. There are long-term changes and shorter-term fluctuations. We needed to separate these timescales from each other to understand that the causes of overall changes were linked to climate."
Using "wavelets" — a statistical technique for dissecting variations by time and timescale — the researchers found the key influence on aphid flight timings are winter temperatures, even though aphids first fly in springtime.
"For most aphid species, winter temperatures were the main things that drove synchrony of when they first fly in spring or summer," Reuman said. "That was interesting because winter temperatures are months apart from when they fly. Temperatures in January effect when they fly in May and June. April and May temperatures had much less impact on when they fly than these winter temperatures. The coldest times of year effect when they're flying. If it gets colder, they fly later."
The researchers linked their results to the North Atlantic Oscillation. The NAO is a large-scale climatic oscillation, like El Niño in that respect, but mostly over Europe and the North Atlantic.
"These oscillations affect many species and also human industries like fishing," Reuman said.
The timing and population size of aphids have a major effect on a number of important commercial crops, according to the KU researcher.
"Aphids aren't just a pest in Britain — they're a pest worldwide," Reuman said. "A pest aphid makes its living sucking sap out of the crops. When they get to high levels, they can suck enough to stunt plant growth, and they spread plant viruses. Cowpea aphids, also called black aphids, effect alfalfa in Kansas. The wheat aphid, also known as the Greenbug, has been a serious wheat pest in Kansas for more than 100 years and attacks other crops."
Beyond aphids, Reuman said the team's findings would deepen understanding of how climate influences spatial synchrony in many different species of animals and could have implications for public health and commercial endeavors.
"Synchrony can be seen in all sorts of species and in human disease epidemics," he said. "There's good reason to believe that similar phenomena to what we observed in aphids may occur in other species. We should look to El Niño for similar effects, as a next step."
Reuman's collaborators on the research were Lawrence W. Sheppard at KU and James R. Bell and Richard Harrington at Rothamsted Research.
The UK Natural Environment Research Council, National Science Foundation and KU supported this work.
Top Photo: The black bean aphid (Aphis fabae). Photo courtesy Rothamsted Research.
Top right: The English Grain Aphid (Sitobion avenue) Photo courtesy Rothamsted Research.
Graphic (larger size available): Changes in winter-temperature synchrony mirrored changes in the NAO. Wavelet mean field magnitudes for winter temperatures from 13 long-maintained UK weather stations (a) resembled their counterparts for the 11 aphid sampling locations; the comparable part of the plot is indicated by black lines. A normalized wavelet transform of Hurrell's winter NAO index (b) showed similar features on long timescales (4–27 years). The real part of the 10-year-timescale component of this NAO transform is plotted in c. The envelope enclosing the fluctuations in c is the height of b at 10-year timescale. Times for which long-timescale NAO oscillations were strong (red) or weak (blue) are also marked in c.


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The holiday season is in full swing and New Years Eve will be here before we know it. You don't want to be left out of the plans, right? Right. We've got a comprehensive list of everything happening downtown this NYE, to help making plans as easy as can be.
Ars Lyrica at the Hobby Center
Ars Lyrica's Venetian Carnival NYE dinner is a Downtown staple. The musical program features virtuosic concertos for flute and equally flamboyant works for one, two, and three solo violins. The evening begins with a three-course dinner and concludes with a lively post-concert party with music and dancing. Purchase tickets here.
Andalucia Tapas
One of our fav tapas places Downtown of course has a Spanish-style party planned. The event runs from 5pm-12am and includes a 4 course meal & complimentary sangria toast at midnight, for $59/ea. Make reservations here.
Come out to the Historic District and take part in Batanga's Passport to 2020 NYE event. There's food specials, a live DJ set and most importantly, a champagne toast.
Bovine & Barley
This Main Street bar has one of the city's only free NYE parties, complete with a champagne toast and a $2000 balloon drop. Here's the deets.
C Baldwin
Downtown Houston's newest luxe hotel, C. Baldwin, wants you to celebrate New Year's Eve in style. They have just the right overnight package along with options for dinner at Rosalie Italian Soul and table service at Lobby Bar that will keep you entertained without ever having to leave the hotel! So whether you are ready to dive into a delicious Italian meal or dance to DJ Gracie Chavez, C. Baldwin has you covered.
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Ring in 2020 at Four Seasons Hotel Houston's New Years Eve Bash sponsored by Moët & Chandon. Gather in the lobby of Houston's Living Room for the ultimate New Years Eve Party featuring a complimentary midnight toast, DJ and dance floor, a Moët Champagne Tower, food & drink specials from Bayou & Bottle including craft cocktails and special priced bottles of Moët Imperial Brut for $110.
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Drinks and dancing will be abundant at this Roaring 20's, Gatsby-inspired New Year's Eve celebration. With two floors of DJs & dancing, a complimentary buffet, and a champagne toast (plus plenty of drinks flowing from the bar), this is sure to be one for the history books. Keep an eye out for more details.
Houston's #1 live band + DJ dance party is back again with Five Minutes to Midnight. The event includes complimentary party favors and a champagne toast, all at the House of Blues main concert hall. Put on your dancin' shoes and party all night!
Last Concert Café
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Escape to a decadent party at Prohibition Supperclub & Bar, housed in the historic building that was once Houston's Isis Theater. The Moonlight Dolls present to you, The Jazz Age: a modern, glamorous and site-specific collaboration of dance, theatre and comedy, filled with evocative jazz music, where you can party with the infamous and glittering Lost Generation. With three shows to choose from, it's a perfect place to visit this NYE.
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Cielo Vista expansion could mean a move for school
Brett Kelman
A parent group is pushing to expand one of the best schools in desert through eighth grade, but the expansion may require the campus to move, creating a hurdle for low-income families with kids at the existing campus.
Currently, Cielo Vista Charter School serves about 800 students, grades kindergarten through sixth, at a campus on 650 S. Paseo Dorotea, south of the Palm Springs airport. Parents want to add two more grades to the school, but because the campus is boxed in by homes, school leaders say the campus must move before it can grow.
Jim Cioffi, president of the Cielo Vista governing board, believes the benefits of expanding the school outweigh the impacts of moving it. Most parents would be willing to drive further so their kids could stay at a good school for longer, Cioffi said.
"We think that being able to keep their kids in the Cielo Vista environment for two more years outweighs them having to travel," he said. "Yes, there is a neighborhood contingent — parents who walk their kids to school — but that's true of any school, and it's a fairly minor consideration when it's compared to the overall benefit of expanding to eighth grade."
Cielo Vista welcomes students regardless of where they live. Families are not required to live within the Palm Springs Unified school district, or even in the Coachella Valley. Due to years of climbing test scores and a growing reputation, the school now attracts students from throughout the desert — even as far away as Banning.
However, the school does not offer bus services, leaving parents responsible for getting their children to the campus. Therefore, if the school were to move from its current location, some low-income parents may need to transfer schools because they would be unable to drive their children to the new Cielo Vista campus.
About 75 percent of the student population is "socio-economically disadvantaged," according to state education data.
The Cielo Vista decision ultimately rests with the Palm Springs Unified School District, which oversees the charter school.
Mike Swize, assistant superintendent of education services in Palm Springs Unified, said the district was "open" to the expansion of Cielo Vista, and had asked the principal to re-write the school's charter for proposal to the school board.
However, the district has not considered moving the school, Swize said.
"There haven't been any official conversations about moving that campus," Swize said. "From our perspective, this has always been about looking at the existing campus to see what is possible there."
The Palm Springs Unified School Board meets on Tuesday night. Fliers have been circulated encouraging Cielo Vista parents to attend the meeting to show support for expanding the school. The board is not scheduled to vote on any decisions about Cielo Vista, but board members will receive public comments on the future of the campus.
Although some parents may not want to move Cielo Vista, it appears that a majority are in favor of making the school bigger.
More than 400 people have signed two petitions supporting the plan to expand the school through eighth grade. The petitions, circulated online and in print, focus on the campus expanding to eighth grade but also make it clear that relocation might be necessary.
However, on Monday, The Desert Sun spoke to five Cielo Vista parents who said they had signed the petition without realizing that it said a campus shift was likely.
Luz Maria Orozco, the parent of a Cielo Vista kindergartner, said these petitions had led to confusion among Cielo Vista parents, many of whom weren't getting the full message.
"They only ever talk about the school expanding, but don't say anything about moving the school," Orozco said, speaking through a Spanish translator.
Cara Van Dijk, a member of the school's "parent teacher group," said parents have been talking about a possible expansion since 2010, when Cielo Vista first became a charter school.
She said the bottom line was this: Parents want more Cielo Vista. If the school can expand where it stands, that would be ideal, but if it has to move to get bigger, many parents will support that.
"There has always been a buzz around the school, but we understand it is a process," Van Dijk said. "I think the first part of that process is that Cielo Vista needed to prove itself as a viable school, a successful school, and we have done that."
Cielo Vista's test scores have climbed rapidly in recent years. In 2013, it became the first school in Palm Springs Unified to score above 900 on its Annual Performance Index (API,) a feat accomplished by only a few other desert schools. The charter school also offers full-day kindergarten and more robust music, art and physical education programs than many surrounding schools.
Reporter Brett Kelman can be reached by phone at (760) 778-4642, by email at brett.kelman@desertsun.com, or on Twitter @TDSbrettkelman.