Power features in a new documentary The Final Year, an all-access look into the end of Obama's presidency.
The new documentary The Final Year shows a year in the life of the Obama administration as it wrestles with seemingly impossible foreign policy crises. The civil war in Syria, the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria, climate change and North Korea. The oncoming wind of Trump is barely felt by the administration during the election campaign until it arrives with a jolt and makes the administration's remaining months in the White House feel all the more crucial.
Many of the film's central protagonists are well-known: National Security Advisor Susan Rice, John Kerry and the President himself – but Samantha Power, Obama's ambassador to the UN, takes centre stage. Her manner seems more human than her colleagues who've spent their lives in electoral politics. Having spent much of her life as an academic and critic of US foreign policy.
Power becomes something of the focal point of the film, travelling to Nigeria to comfort the mothers whose daughters have been kidnapped and delivering a powerful speech to new immigrants receiving American citizenship.
VICE spoke to her at the end of last year, about her reflections on her time in the White House, how it felt being in on the outside looking in at the Trump administration and where American foreign policy can go next.
VICE: Hi. You're promoting a film. I imagine that 's nothing compared to the kinds of schedules you're used to.
Samantha Power: It's true but things have gotten a little cushy in my new life. I was out late with some London friends. You're catching me on fumes a little bit but I'm going to rally for you.
Do you find it strange watching the film back now?
To me it's motivating, it's inspiring but audiences – some audiences – have a different reaction to it. It feels like a period piece, like a lost generation. But it's totally within our power to lead on foreign policy again.
Indeed if anything, by the end we're wiser about how to use our power and more plugged into the international system. 2015 was probably our best foreign policy year and that was on the heels of the ending the Ebola epidemic, but that was when we did the Paris agreement, [reinstating diplomatic ties with] Cuba, Iran [nuclear agreement] – it was an amazing and then 2016 you try to lock down what you've done, but you know people want a silver bullet and there isn't one.
You went from being a critic and a policy advisor to having a crucial role in the administration. How much did that change you?
I mean, my objectives stayed from what I can tell. I'm too self-aware not to admit the possibility of self-rationalisation, but the things I was fighting for the last day in office were very similar to what I was fighting for in the first place.
Where have I evolved? Just getting much more efficient at building coalitions among my fellow cabinet members. You really do come to realise that the most important discussions you have are outside the room, where the policy debate is happening because that's when you align yourself up with people so you come in and you're part of a mini-team.
Basically, so much of policy is just about winning, it's about trying to win the argument. It's about trying to get your ideas embraced as the policy of the United States.
So the internal battles were the hardest ones?
Completely. In many ways, they are so much more important, and so much more challenging. Take the fate of the ebola epidemic, that was massively impacted by President Obama's decision to send troops and health workers into the eye of the storm. There was a huge internal debate about that: Congress were calling for a wall to be built up and health workers not to be allowed back into the country. Then, once Obama had made the decision [to send US personnel to West Africa to assist], then that's the easy part. Now I've got the ability to go to other countries and say "we're putting 3,000 troops in harm's way what the heck are you guys doing?" So there was nothing better than being an advocate when we had made our minds up and we were in a strong position.
The climate negotiations were similar. We had to formulate what we were willing to do, what skin we were willing to put in the game. After that it's a lot easier to go to China, go to India. So the most stressful part of my job as a member of the cabinet was the internal fights because they're with my friends, my colleagues you know? It's not stressful to fight with Russia about Aleppo. It's stressful to have big differences with people whose values you share and who are equally loyal to the President and the country.
"In my articles, I could sympathise with the characters and be proud of how it's written but you don't care how something's written in government, it's all about how you prevail."
When you're meeting with 50 people a day, and the people that you're meeting are meeting with 50 people a day – how do you make sure that your message is heard and make sure that you're being as persuasive as you can be?
It's hard. I think just preparation, I mean I worked, I was reading intelligence and other sources of information every morning before I really started going in the day. Knowledge is a comparative advantage. I also always try to bring in the voices of people, whether it was NGOs or survivors or refugees – to hear their stories and project those experiences into these otherwise kind of sterile debates. So that was also kind of an important way of making people stop and get it out of their comfort zones a little bit.
I suppose like most laymen you read something that seems spot on in the New Yorker or whatever and think, well they should just put this writer in charge? And you are in a lot of ways that person, you are the academic you've thought about these issues. But do you change a lot when you stop being an outsider?
Well, I'm writing a book called The Education of an Idealist which is about: what does one learn? What I will say is that I found being on the outside kind of easier on the soul in the sense of: I could write a New Yorker piece on Darfur, what I thought was a great piece and then I would hope that Condoleezza Rice read the piece.
But the problem when you're inside is that you're reading someone's article about whether or not your ideas are prevailing. When they don't, there's no other country that's going to be the team captain to figure this thing out. So, to the degree that you are actually moved by the suffering of people on the ground, you are heartbroken because you know that if it's not us, it's not happening pretty much.
I mean again we have a lot of other countries, the British especially, but others as well, a huge amount of the international system, but mobilising a coalition, building movements and really strong policy responses – the US kind of had to be at the centre of that. In my articles, I could sympathise with the characters and be proud of how it's written but you don't care how something's written in government, it's all about how you prevail.
You had such a wide set of foreign policy goals, from responding to civil war in Syria to the rise of Boko Haram in Nigeria, climate change to the rising power of China and Russia. You can't help but compare to the Trump administration, which not only seems to antagonise the rest of the world but also seems to have no desire to deal with many foreign policy questions at all. What do you think the bigger issue is – hostility or inaction?
I mean the only algorithm I can identify that seems to define what Trump himself wants to do is "tell me what Obama did and I want to do its opposite". That's a kind of action. So pulling out of the TPP, that's action. Pulling out of the climate agreement or seeking to do so when the time has come is action. Then there is this malaise or passivity towards contemporary conflict which is pernicious inaction: so not mobilising, not being the leader on the Rohingya being systematically ethnically cleansed.
I mean Rex Tillerson, Trump's secretary of state, has said some things, but you know it's so hard to build diplomatic coalitions, to put pressure on people to change their calculus, it requires more than a statement, it requires working the phone, having a summit, pulling people together trying to figure out incentives and disincentives for the people who might be abetting the Burmese government. I don't see any diplomacy out of these people. So I think it really is both.
Is there anything positive that has come from the Trump administration?
I'll be the first to say when Trump does something good. It makes me happy to know he helped get Aya Hijazi an Egyptian-American prisoner out of jail, someone whose fate I had been championing unsuccessfully for months that was a good thing and I applauded him. He got Joshua Boyle and his wife out of Pakistan, that's a good thing. The strike against the Assad regime against their chemical weapons use was a good thing. I wish it had been better thought through and had more of a tail to it but that's kind of it. I can't think of a lot, just a few individuals here and there that have ended up benefiting from some of the relationships he's built and then a single strike. It's very hard to point to things that are net positives for the US in our interests.
So do you think that talented, smart people – if they're offered a post in the Trump administration – should take one?
That's a great question, I don't think anyone can make that choice for anybody else. I do not judge people who say no, I don't judge people who leave but my hope as a citizen is that good people go in. There is controversy on this some of my very close colleagues are adamant and very public in demanding that his whole economics team should resign.
I think it's different is in foreign policy. If these people leave I don't think it would that convince anybody that Trump is less... whatever they like in him. Whereas at least my friends who are economic experts believe that if the whole economics team bailed that that actually would have an effect on some of Trump's supporters. So that's one difference.
But also I do think Trump's complete lack of foreign policy experience means that there's at least some scope for foreign policy experts that speak to the country to influence, if not Trump directly, the people around Trump in a way that is kind of less about do this, do that but just basic facts. There's just so much ignorance and there hasn't been a great respect for expertise by him and his people, but still the moment can come where they turn around and actually are curious for the first time. I mean George W Bush's first term was very uncurious and then shifted. So it scares me to think of so many of these great people leaving and also it scares me to think of who would fill those spots because they're long-term positions but Trump could fill them with political hacks.
So it's probably not good to think in hypotheticals like this, but were this an Obama third term, and you were continuing to serve as ambassador to the UN, what kind of foreign policy goals do you think you'd be looking at?
I wonder about things like the Atrocities Council, which you were instrumental in setting up, to make sure countries didn't fall off the policy agenda. That just seems so far removed from what is currently going on in The White House.
They don't think in those terms anymore I doubt that would still exist.
I doubt it. It was meant for the Burundis, the Ivory Coasts, you know the sort of smaller countries where those countries are not well known at the highest level and those issues wouldn't traditionally rise. And the APB sort of ensured that even a small country would have its day in court like among senior policy makers. So it's a shame to lose it because it was sort of a way of fighting gravity to make sure that people are fighting on those issues.
So is the answer that we grin and bear the next four years and wait for another election or do you feel like there are people outside of US government that should be doing a lot now? Can some other body take on some of the kind of diplomatic responsibilities that the US seems to be forgoing?
Well there's a lot in that. You know I think the US is leading now, so we're always leading, no matter what we do because no matter what you do, when you're big you can just lead. So what Trump is doing and saying is a form of leadership, he's into sucking up to autocrats, he's projecting that around the world.
But other parts of American society are leading too. It's a form of US action when we take state legislatures or when we make a Liberian refugee Mayor of Helena, Montana or a transgender state legislator. So, I wouldn't discount that. and We're so used to looking to the President to define, but we're finding this other sort of more pluralistic sense of what America is.
The Final Year is in selected cinemas, and avaliable on iTunes, now.


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Danilo Kraljice je naselje u sastavu Grada Šibenika, u Šibensko-kninskoj županiji. Nalazi se oko 22 kilometra istočno od Šibenika, uz autocestu A1.

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Naselje je do 1971. iskazivano kao Kraljice.

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Prema popisu iz 2011. naselje je imalo 104 stanovnika.

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Home Politics Former Energy Secretary Amber Rudd joins board of British Gas owner
Former Energy Secretary Amber Rudd joins board of British Gas owner
Mr O'Shea also suggested measures such as suspending VAT on energy bills and financial support for the most vulnerable customers. He insisted British Gas, the UK's biggest supplier with about 9m customers, "hasn't asked for a bailout, we don't want a bailout and we oppose any bailouts".
While a global gas supply shortage is the main factor pushing up wholesale prices, UK energy policy over several years – such as the price cap, lax market regulation amid efforts to encourage competition, and the closure of storage facilities – has contributed to the problem.
Ms Rudd endorsed a report by the Competition and Markets Authority in 2016 that claimed customers were overpaying by about £1.7bn a year. The watchdog recommended a price cap for the roughly 4m customers on prepayment meters, considered the most vulnerable. At the time, Ms Rudd said: "This is a wake-up call to the big six [energy providers]."
The prepayment cap was introduced in 2017 but Theresa May, who succeeded Mr Cameron as prime minister, subsequently went much further, introducing a price cap on default tariffs covering about 15m households in England and Wales.
Ms Rudd also supported efforts to boost competition in the markets, and was in favour of onshore fracking for natural gas. She has been building a career in the private sector since leaving government in 2019.
Ms Rudd became home secretary under Mrs May but resigned in April 2018 in the wake of the Windrush scandal, when Caribbean immigrants were wrongly threatened with deportation.
She resurfaced as work and pensions secretary seven months later before quitting the cabinet in late 2019 in a row over Brexit, and decided not to fight again for her Hastings and Rye seat in the November 2019 election.
In October it emerged she was quitting her role as an adviser at public relations firm Teneo to move to rival Finsbury Glover Hering, founded by her brother Roland Rudd. She also chairs the international advisory group of the UK arm of Equinor, Norway's state-owned oil company.
Ms Rudd will join Centrica's board on Monday, taking up a seat on the safety and environment committee as well as the pay committee.
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This speech is in regards to the disappointment felt by the liberal party in regards to proposed reforms to the CFS which could result in a downgrading in the influence of the volunteer sector in favour of the MFS.
The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK ( 15:51 :00 ): I rise to make some remarks in relation to the Address in Reply, and I start by thanking our new Governor, Mr Hieu Van Le and his lovely wife Lan for the work they do. We are all very proud of this wonderful couple, who were born overseas and have such a great story to tell, and we commend them for their work and they are welcome here any time. That said, as I often say in relation to these speeches, having commended the Governor and wife who are in residence at the time, I turn to the comments within the Governor's speech, most of which I find somewhat lamentable. There are a range of issues I would like to raise.
Some of the opening remarks from the speech related to the bushfires that we saw earlier this year, and I think we are all very pleased with the spirit of South Australians in banding together to offer assistance to local residents and the community spirit that was demonstrated. There were a whole range of areas (I will not talk about them all), but being a Hills resident myself (nowhere near the fire) I noted the number of posts on social media from people offering to transport horses. I received a number of calls from people who were concerned for my safety, which I appreciated, although I was never in any danger, being south of the freeway.
I thank the CFS in particular for the wonderful work they do, bearing in mind the volunteer hours that go into their training. We have a shop in our town in Bridgewater that is constantly processing material that people have donated, and it is put out several days a week for people to purchase. There are a whole range of areas in which the CFS volunteer hours are so incredible, and they are at their best in a crisis. They handled the fires magnificently, and we are all grateful to them. I also commend the CFS chief, Mr Greg Nettleton, who really came to the fore and did a great job.
In light of that, it has been disappointing that we have seen the proposed reforms (that word should always be used in inverted commas) to CFS, which we all feel, particularly on this side of the chamber, a number of our members being members of the CFS, will downgrade the influence of the volunteer sector in favour of the MFS. We are glad that there has been an announcement today that the reform process will be slowed, but we are all still very suspicious that it is the ultimate agenda of the government to downgrade the CFS in this state at a time when we are all so aware of the job they have done.
The speech talks about protecting the environment and then turns to the nuclear industry, and I would say that the Liberal Party welcomes debate on this issue. I think things have changed a lot since people in my generation were at high school and feared a nuclear oblivion through the third world war, when the Iron Curtain was still up, and so on. Indeed, it is Liberal policy that we have a discussion on this issue, so that we can put all the facts and figures on the table and recognise that there have been changes to that particular technology over time.
Of course, the issue of this being handled by a royal commission is quite extraordinary and I think has more to do with the internal dynamics of the Labor left needing to be dragged kicking and screaming into some recognition that there might be some future for an expanded nuclear industry in South Australia. The royal commission is quite an extraordinary level to take it to.
We have inquiries in parliament all the time. We have an inquiry into unconventional gas taking place at the moment, so the issue of nuclear having to be elevated to that level, I think, really does speak to the internal problems that the Labor Party has with managing this issue in a sensible manner. And so, in effect, some of the opponents of it may well be muzzled. That is something that may take place and pretty clearly that is some of the pressure that will be brought to bear.
We also had reference to Green Industries SA, which is to be the new incarnation of Zero Waste SA, an organisation that—I will give credit where credit is due—was started by this government. I think the minister at the time might have been John Hill. It has worked collaboratively with government and industry to reduce waste significantly in South Australia. In referring to Zero Waste, I would like to commend the work of its CEO, Mr Vaughan Levitzke, who was also recognised in the Australia Day honours.
Zero Waste is a globally-recognised brand and there is a lot of concern within the sector that that will be lost in this new incarnation that the government is proposing. There is not a great deal of detail at this stage about how that will operate, so that is one issue that deserves further examination when we consider future amendments to that piece of legislation. I think we need to look at this very closely to make sure that we are not throwing out something that has played a very effective role in this state.
The speech had a fair bit of hyperbole in places, including the reference to a carbon-neutral Adelaide green zone. Indeed, it is not going to be the first carbon-neutral city. In 2008, Sydney claimed that mantle and, in 2012, the City of Yarra also claimed that mantle. We are going to have this green zone, and one wonders what that means. Labor is very good at empty symbolism. I suspect it will be another version of that. We had the carbon-neutral cabinet. Former premier Rann wrote to us all to declare that we were going to have a carbon-neutral cabinet. I think this will be one of those. Labor is also very good at running out with initiatives to get a headline and then dropping them when they hope that nobody is looking, so that is one that we will look at with interest.
I note the proposal that, within a decade—which is beyond the term of the current government—electric and hybrid vehicles will be the preferred form of transport within the Adelaide central business district. This again is empty Labor symbolism. Talk to people who do business within the Adelaide CBD about the difficulty that anyone in a vehicle has getting around the city these days thanks to all the things that the Labor Party—and the former Adelaide City Council as well, I might add—has done to restrict things.
There are some people who think that Adelaide can be turned into a walkable city, and we get comparisons with European cities. London has a congestion tax. I wonder whether that has been mooted. But what is forgotten in these sorts of debates is that countries like Australia have big distances, and Adelaide does not have a really comprehensive public transport system, so to try to make those comparisons with a city where somebody can get on an underground railway and get anywhere they want to within 20 minutes is just not realistic. We also had the driverless vehicles, which were claimed to revolutionise transportation in South Australia. I am not quite sure how the government is going to be responsible for that, but there we have it: more empty symbolism. One statement that I agree with is:
Many South Australians lack confidence in the planning process given its significant vested interests.
To that I say, 'Yes, we agree.' We hear from them on a regular basis. Honourable members of this chamber who are members of the Environment, Resources and Development Committee hear from people regularly who have no confidence that there are not secret deals done between government and certain interests. We have examples like Gillman and Newport Quays, in which the government really gets caught out badly. It is almost as if, in making that statement, they are distancing themselves from it, whereas I think they need to take full responsibility and stop having a go at learned people like the judge who made comments about the Gillman inquiry as if they do not know what they are talking about when they clearly do.
We also had references to prime agricultural land, which I would respond to by saying that this is often better protected by zoning and master planning processes. For instance, the Northern Adelaide Plains we believe needs to have a proper masterplan associated with that whole district so that we can look at the agriculture opportunities and expanding use of wastewater and groundwater resources without some areas being hived off for housing which may well be better utilised for agricultural opportunities.
Things that I put a tick next to included issues such as enabling individuals to better participate in our democracy, regardless of their gender and sexual orientation, and that gender should not be a barrier to full participation in our community. I also commend the comments in relation to the White Ribbon accreditation and note that workplaces, particularly government workplaces, really should lead by example, because they have the capacity to do so and to assist people in their workplace who may be—I have been told I am not allowed to use the word 'victims' of domestic violence—champions of domestic violence.
We also had references to health and the new Royal Adelaide Hospital. The new Royal Adelaide Hospital really was a thought bubble of I think it was the 2007 budget, and what we are seeing now is that the thought bubble and its expenses are causing the government to be forced to make expenditure cuts, which it is now doing to a number of the non-spine hospitals—that is, Modbury, Noarlunga and the Repat Hospital as well as the Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre. One wonders why the government was not upfront with these issues prior to the 2014 election. Indeed, I think the member for Elder had written to her future electorate and claimed that the Liberal Party was going to cut services at Flinders, and now we see that that is exactly what her government is doing.
We hear the health minister on the radio defending things. I have heard the Premier say things along the lines of that Transforming Health is all about quality. Well, it is just patently not. It is patently about cutting expenditure to certain hospitals and shifting services to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital and to Lyell McEwin. Clearly, there are a lot of people in government who have never actually worked in hospitals and really do not understand how they operate at all, and do not appreciate that, for instance, when you are providing rehabilitation or mental health services, you often need open space. You certainly need a lot of space for rehabilitation and equipment and providing those services, and relocating them from their current places of operation is going to downgrade the quality enormously.
We also had quite a section on ageing. South Australia has an older population than most of the rest of Australia. I think the government probably should take some of the blame for that, because a lot of our young people leave the state for opportunities for work interstate. It is a huge number of young people. It is actually the working age population which leaves South Australia the most, because this government, in particular, after 12 years, really is strangling the business opportunities. We hear weekly of businesses which are shedding significant numbers of staff, and the opportunities just do not exist.
On the other side of the coin, if we look at the opportunities, there are some, and some of those are referenced in the speech, but I note that they did not actually include anything about workplace policy for older people, volunteering opportunities and the like. There are all locational services which deal with people's immediate living environments rather than some of the social or emotional needs of older people.
We had a very poor choice of words. If there was any moment which made people gasp—which is what the Premier had been promising us—it was when the Governor said: 'My government believes that South Australia can be known as the place where you age, but you do not grow old.' It is just laughable for them to say this sort of thing. I think it was a bit of a brain snap on the part of the person who wrote it. To enter into one's mature years in a healthy manner I think requires people to ease into their retirement, and therefore I think there should be more examination of scaling down from full-time work to part-time work, with greater human interaction and roles which will keep the brain sharp as we age. With those words, I commend the motion to the house.


It's very likely that your entire conception of "outsourcing" is off-base and in need of serious re-thinking.
Yes, you. And me too. I've made more than my fair share of mistakes trying to offload work to other people.
The wild part about building an online business is that it's more or less the exact same thing as building a "real" business. Newsflash…a business is a business.
An online business abides by the same general rules as "normal" business. The difference is that your options are much broader online.
Which brings us to outsourcing. In the real world, this is called hiring. Try looking at it through that lens and I guarantee most of your problems around outsourcing will melt away.
All you're doing here is evaluating where you're most valuable in your business. Your value to your own business changes often.
For example, when I started building out my website, I was 100% valuable to every part of it. I had no revenue, no growth, and my brainpower and effort was needed in every aspect of the business.
One way to think about your role in your business is to be the Alpha and the Omega, but nothing in-between. I am the strategic brain behind my business, and I am also the reactor to market feedback to my business.
I am not saying that you need to copy my strategy. You have to evaluate where you are most valuable and what your most irreplaceable talents are, and then hire out the rest of the work.
You might be an incredible writer, so you should never give that aspect of the business up. But hiring an editor, social media coordinator, outreach specialist, etc. could all be great choices.
My rule of thumb is "as soon as you realize your time is better spent elsewhere." In a perfect world, I would insta-hire someone to take something off of my plate the microsecond that it wasn't valuable for me to do anymore.
Of course, that's not realistic, but it's a good heuristic for how to think about when to outsource if you're trying to scale up quickly.
The sooner you remove low-value work from your plate, the more high-value work you do. And the more high-value work you do, the higher value you output. The higher value you output, the more your business grows and the more value you can capture if you so choose.
Once you internalize these models for outsourcing work, then you can get into the practical elements of outsourcing, which I'm more than happy to write about. Leave me a comment or drop me an email and I can put together a more practical guide.


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Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois.
The pathogenesis of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is complex and involves changes in reflux exposure, epithelial resistance, and visceral sensitivity. The gastric refluxate is a noxious material that injures the esophagus and elicits symptoms. Esophageal exposure to gastric refluxate is the primary determinant of disease severity. This exposure arises via compromise of the anti-reflux barrier and reduced ability of the esophagus to clear and buffer the refluxate, leading to reflux disease. However, complications and symptoms also occur in the context of normal reflux burden, when there is either poor epithelial resistance or increased visceral sensitivity. Reflux therefore develops via alterations in the balance of aggressive and defensive forces.


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Q: Solutions of inhomogeneous system let Ax = b be a linear system when $A \in M_{m,n}(F), \ b\in F^m$
if $x_1, x_2$ are solutions of the system then $\forall c \in F,\ cx_1 +(1-c)x_2$ is also a solution of the system.
I think the statement is incorrect because $Ax = b$ is not a linear sub-space which means that it's not closed under addition. Can someone confirm my statement or fix me if i'm wrong?
Thanks in advance!

A: Linearity quickly destroys this.
Convex combinations are just special linear combinations. What happens if we multiply this "solution" by $A$? Well,
\begin{align*}
Ax &= A(cx_1 + (1-c)x_2) \\
&= Acx_1 + A(1-c)x_2 \\
&= cb + (1-c)b \\
&= b
\end{align*}
as required.

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Michigan's top doctor has recommended school mask mandate to governor, MDHHS
Still no state-issued school mask mandate despite concern for kids' safety
By: Doug Reardon
WXMI — There's no state-issued mask mandate for schools in Michigan, but on a call with members of the press Wednesday, the state's top doctor said she had recommended it to the governor and director of the state health department.
The revelation comes the same day school districts in Allegan and Kalamazoo counties announced K-6th grade students and their teachers would be required to mask in schools, and several other districts have made the same determination. The CDC has also recommended masking in the classroom.
Wednesday's press call was an update on the state's response to COVID-19 and meant to share details about new transmission rates, and other pertinent data.
During the question-and-answer portion of the call, reporter Craig Mauger with the Detroit News asked Dr. Sarah Lyon-Callo, the state's top epidemiologist, whether she'd recommended that the governor institute a statewide requirement that students wear masks in schools.
"I don't know if that would really be a question for Dr. Lyon-Callo to answer, so I think we're probably going to have to get back to you Craig," said a spokesperson for MDHHS on the call after a long pause.
"She can't answer that question?" Mauger followed up.
"That would not necessarily be in her per view," replied the spokesperson.
Minutes later, Kristen Shamus with the Detroit Free press followed up.
"Given the data laid out here today, especially with the risk of transmission in schools, why isn't MDHHS requiring masks now; mandating them like some other states have done?"
"I guess I don't know if we have an answer for that question right now from Dr. Lyon-Callo. Once again, that would not be in her per view to make that mandate so once again Kristen, I can get back to you afterward."
Dr. Lyon-Callo is the director of state epidemiology. After another follow-up, Dr. Khaldun, the chief medical officer for MDHHS, answered.
"I've said it before, I'm concerned about what is happening – what could potentially happen – with our schools. We have put out and updated our guidance last week and specifically recommended that schools implement a universal mask requirement so we can protect our students, keep them in-person learning," Dr. Khaldun said.
"We do understand that there currently is a law that would allow us to be able to implement that mandate, but at this time, the governor and the director have not made that determination," Dr. Khaldun continued.
Mike Wilkinson with Bridge Michigan followed up by asking if Dr. Khaldun did in fact recommend a mask mandate to the governor.
"Throughout this entire pandemic it has been my job to always recommend public health interventions and policies that'll be protective and I've continued to do that throughout the past several weeks as well," said Dr. Khaldun.
Andrew Feather with WWMT then asked for clarification from Dr. Khaldun.
"Did you specifically recommend to the governor and to the director of MDHHS that we implement a mask mandate in schools?" said Feather.
"I have recommended that if a mask mandate were in place and it were followed it would likely decrease the spread of COVID-19 n schools," said Dr. Khaldun.
Kate Wells from Michigan Radio was given the last question.
"Has the governor then, Doctor Khaldun, given you any explanation or can you provide us any explanation on why were not doing that then?" said Wells. "The data on these slides is so stunning and the risk to these kids seems so strong, what is there to lose at this point by having the mask mandate?"
"I cannot speak to that," said Dr. Khaldun. "I do know that my lane is to provide public health guidance but I also recognize that there are many other things that have to be considered when it comes to implementing a mandate."
"Can you give us an idea though of some of those considerations so we can present them to people?" Wells followed up.
"I cannot at this time, I would defer to the director," said Dr. Khaldun.
Dr. Khaldun said the MDHHS is working closely with local health departments to provide information on school safety.
Children under the age of 12 are not yet eligible for a vaccine.
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Carolyn Bertozzi is a leading authority on the promising new field of bioorthogonal chemistry, which could fundamentally change drug development and the diagnosis of cancer and other diseases. (Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, Berkeley Lab)
"Bioorthogonal chemistry is literally chemistry for life," said Carolyn Bertozzi, an internationally acclaimed leader and founder of this emerging and highly promising field of science that could fundamentally change drug development and disease diagnostics. In delivering the Kavli Foundation Innovations in Chemistry Lecture at this year's Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Diego, Bertozzi described how her own ground-breaking research made use of experiments nearly a century ago by two German chemists whose work was driven primarily by scientific curiosity as opposed to the more problem-driven research of today.
Bertozzi is a senior faculty scientist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the T.Z. and Irmgard Chu Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California (UC) Berkeley. She is also an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The Kavli Foundation is a philanthropic organization that supports basic scientific research. Its ACS lectures are designed to address "the urgent need for vigorous, outside the box thinking by scientists."
Bioorthogonal chemistry is the term Bertozzi herself coined nearly a decade ago to describe chemical reactions that can take place inside living systems without interfering with native biochemical processes. Bertozzi has said she developed bioorthogonal chemistry to solve the scientific equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack – singling out one type of biomolecule for analysis from the all the diverse species that populate cells and organisms.
"Bioorthogonal chemistry was launched with the growing realization that the molecular details of biological processes can be most accurately understood by probing biomolecules within their native habitats, that is, in cells, or even better, live organisms," said Bertozzi. "Bioorthogonal chemistry opens the door to producing active ingredients for medicines within the diseased tissue inside a patient's body, and to non-invasive in vivo molecular imaging."
Bertozzi's development of bioorthogonal chemistry began in the late 1990s from her scientific interest in glycans, the sugar molecules that are abundant on the surfaces of living cells. Glycans are central to the signaling that takes place between cells during development, and are also involved in bacterial and viral infections, as well as the immune system's response. Imaging glycans, however, posed a major challenge because unlike proteins, they are not directly programmed by genes, which means they can't be labeled using standard genetic-based fluorescence techniques. Bertozzi needed to find a way to tag glycans with chemical groups that would only react with a specific glycan of interest and the fluorescing molecule sent to probe that glycan. Furthermore, since the reaction vessel would be a living cell or organism, the reaction had to take place in water under physiological conditions. Also, it was imperative that the reaction not interfere with any other biomolecule or process in a cell or organism.
"It was a pretty restrictive set of boundary conditions that a traditionally trained organic chemist like me never had to work within," Bertozzi said. "Such reactions are usually performed in very clean, dry test tubes and flasks under conditions that the chemist can control. A living cell or organism, with all its water, proteins, fats, sugars and metabolites is very messy and uncontrollable by comparison."
Searching the chemistry textbooks for something that was suitably selective and non-interfering, Bertozzi and her colleagues found what they needed in the century-old work of Hermann Staudinger. The Staudinger reaction occurs between an azide, a molecule featuring three nitrogen atoms, and a phosphine, a molecule containing a phosphorus atom. The azide sheds two of its nitrogen atoms, and a compound called an aza-ylide is formed. Though the reaction is "stunningly selective," Bertozzi said, the aza-ylides fall apart in water. She and her colleagues corrected this liability by adjusting the phosphine component to produce their own reaction, which they called the Staudinger ligation.
"The Staudinger ligation was the first bioorthogonal tool at our disposal," Bertozzi said. "Owing to the complete absence of azides and phosphines from living systems, neither reacts with biological molecules, but both react rapidly and at high efficiency with each other in water and at room temperature."
The Staudinger ligation proved particularly powerful for imaging cultured cells after Bertozzi and her colleagues developed "smart" probes, fluorophores that turn on only after they have reacted with the azide reporter in the target glycans. It also proved safe for living systems and was used for tagging glycoproteins in mice. However, the Staudinger ligation was much too slow to capture the action of most of the biological processes involving glycans.
Meanwhile, at the start of this century the "click-chemistry" concept was being developed by Barry Sharpless of the Scripps Research Institute, in which molecules are reacted to rapidly assemble without interference by surrounding functionalities. One of the click-chemistry reactions, the copper-catalyzed addition of azides and alkynes, hydrocarbons that are rare in living systems, is about 25 times faster than the Staudinger ligation and would be excellent for bioorthogonal chemistry except that the copper catalyst is toxic to living systems.
This click chemistry reaction was itself inspired by the 1950s work of Rolf Huisgen, who described the reaction between azides and alkynes as a 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. In 2008, Bertozzi and her colleagues redesigned this azide-alkyne reaction using a ring-shaped molecule called a cyclooctyne (difluorinated cyclotoctyne or DIFO) to produce a copper-free version of click-chemistry that is safe for living systems.
"This copper-free click reaction of azides and cyclooctynes combines the biocompatibility of the Staudinger ligation with the fast reaction kinetics of click chemistry," Bertozzi said.
In her Kavli Lecture, Bertozzi described using the copper-free click-chemistry reaction to probe glycan dynamics in living cells, live zebrafish embryos and laboratory mice, widely regarded as the model organism for studying human pathology. Her ultimate goal, she said, is to use it to study human cancers.
"If we can visualize sugars on cancer cells and discriminate between sugars on a normal cell we might be able to detect cancers through imaging techniques or follow the progression of a course of drug therapy to see how the drug is affecting the cancer," Bertozzi said.
She also envisioned scenarios in which bioorthogonal chemistry techniques could be used to deliver a drug to diseased tissue at the concentrations needed to be effective. For example, with an oral drug that is not absorbed well into the blood through the stomach, physicians might use bioorthogonal chemistry to administer the drug's constituent molecules so that they reach the diseased tissue then recombine into the actual drug for treatment.
In acknowledging the debt of bioorthogonal chemistry to past curiosity-driven research, Bertozzi took a moment to note the dwindling resources and opportunities for scientific inquiries that are not problem-driven.
"Without some curiosity-driven research we won't leave much of a legacy for the next generation of scientists," she said.
For more about the research of Carolyn Bertozzi, visit her Website at www.cchem.berkeley.edu/crbgrp/
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New Jersey's 'Aid in Dying' law for terminally ill takes effect
( Office of Sen. Pat Toomey )
TRENTON, N.J. - Medically assisted suicide is now officially an option for terminally ill adults in the state of New Jersey.
The law went into effect Thursday after Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act in April.
Murphy had previously indicated he would support the bill, but in a personal statement, Murphy - a lifelong Catholic - revealed that he wrestled with whether to sign the legislation. The state's Catholic Conference testified against the measure.
Under New Jersey's law, only patients who are irreversibly terminally ill and have a prognosis of six months or less to live could acquire medication to end their lives.
Lawmakers have tried since at least 2012 to advance the legislation.
The effort got some attention in New Jersey in 2014 when a 29-year-old California woman drew news coverage after she and her husband moved to Portland, Oregon, so she could use that state's law to end her life on her own terms. Brittany Maynard, 29, was terminally ill with brain cancer.
The New Jersey legislation includes measures that legislators called "safeguards."
The law requires that two doctors sign off on the request, that the patient be deemed an adult resident of New Jersey, who can make such a decision and who voluntarily expresses a wish to die.
It requires patients to request the medication twice and says they must be given a chance to rescind the decision. At least one of the requests must be in writing and signed by two witnesses.
At least one witness cannot be a relative, entitled to any portion of the person's estate, the owner of the health care facility where the patient is getting treatment or a worker there, or be the patient's doctor.
Under the law, patients must administer the drug to themselves, and his or her attending physician would be required to offer other treatment options, including palliative care.
Supporters say the law lets qualified patients decide to end their lives in a dignified manner.
Opponents, including the state's Catholic Conference, say that the measure hurts the most vulnerable, and the state should instead work to improve its health care system.
The measure passed the Democrat-led Assembly 41-33, with four abstentions. It cleared the Democrat-controlled Senate 21-16.
In addition to California and Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia all have similar legislation. Montana does not have a law permitting medically assisted suicide for the terminally ill. However, a 2009 Montana Supreme Court ruling determined that nothing in state law prevented a physician from prescribing such a drug to a terminally ill person.
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Q: Laplacian on a warped product. Let $(M, g)$, $(N, h)$ be complete Riemannian manifolds (not necessarily compact). Let $f : M \rightarrow (0, \infty)$ be a smooth function, and finally let
$$\overline{M} = M \times_f N$$
be the warped product of $M$ and $N$ with warping function $f$.
My question: is there a nice formula for $\Delta_{\overline{M}} : \Omega^p(\overline{M}) \rightarrow \Omega^p(\overline{M})$, the Laplacian operator of $\overline{M}$ on $p$-forms, in terms of $\Delta_M, \Delta_N$ and $f$?

A: In the case $p=0$ (so this is the normal laplacian on smooth functions) there is the following formula, where $d_N$ is the dimension of $N$,
$$
\Delta_{\bar{M}}u =\Delta_M u+\frac{d_N}{f}\langle grad_{M_1}f,grad_{M_1}u\rangle+\frac{1}{f^2} \Delta_{N}u.
$$
For example if $M=\mathbb{R}^+, N=S^{d-1}, f=\rho$, so this is the usual spherical decomposition of Euclidean space, we have
$$
\Delta_{\mathbb{R}^d}u=\frac{\partial^2 u}{\partial \rho^2}+\frac{d-1}{\rho}\frac{\partial u}{\partial \rho}+\frac{1}{\rho^2}\Delta_{S^{d-1}}u.
$$
To prove the formula, one method is to choose local coordinates $x^i$ on $M$ and $y^i$ on $N$. With respect to these coordinates, the metric $\bar{g}$ on $\bar{M}$ has the block decomposition $\begin{pmatrix}g_{ij}(x) &0\\ 0 & f(x)^2h_{ij}(y)\end{pmatrix}$. If we then use the local coordinate expression for the Laplacian, we have that (using the shorthand $|m|:= \sqrt{\det m_{ij}}$ for matrices $m$), $|\bar{g}|=|g|\cdot |h|\cdot f^{2 d_N}$, and so
$$
\Delta u=\frac{1}{g(x)h(y)f^2(x)}\left(\partial_{x^i}(g^{ij}(x)|g(x)|\cdot |h(y)|\cdot f(x)^d \partial_{x^j}u)+\partial_{y^i}(\frac{h^{ij}(x)}{f(x)^2}|g(x)|\cdot |h(y)|\cdot f(x)^d \partial_{y^j}u)\right).
$$
By factoring out terms that only depend on $x$, the second term is clearly $\frac{1}{f(x)^2}\Delta_{N}u$, a similar computation works for the first term, but now one has to consider when $\partial_{x_i}$ falls on $f(x)^{d_N}$, which produces the rest of the expression.


Kyle Flood might be a stranger to Southern Methodist coach June Jones, but he is anything but that when it comes to the offensive scheme most synonymous with Jones and his proteges.
Before he came to Rutgers in 2005 and climbed the ranks to head coach in 2012, Flood spent five seasons as the offensive line coach at Hofstra, which used the run-and-shoot offense under coach Joe Gardi.
Hofstra averaged 31.3 points per game during Gardi's tenure, which ran from 1990-2005 and included stints by Rutgers quarterbacks coach Robb Spence as offensive coordinator, and Rutgers offensive line coach Damian Wroblewski and Rutgers defensive coordinator Dave Cohen in their same positions.
The run-and-shoot features the quarterback in the shotgun formation and emphasizes receivers – usually four of them on the field at the same time – making route adjustments based on coverage reads. Variations of the run-and-shoot can call for pre-snap motion but all are designed to spread the defense.
It was invented by a high school coach and popularized by Mouse Davis of Portland State and the USFL's Houston Gamblers in the early 1980s. Davis taught the offense to Jones, who brought it with him everywhere, most notably to head coaching stints with the NFL's Atlanta Falcons (1994-96) and the University of Hawaii (1999-2007).
Timmy Chang, who attempted 2,436 passes and threw for a then-NCAA record 17,072 yards and 117 touchdowns as Hawaii's quarterback from 2000-04, is a graduate assistant on SMU's staff.
SMU ranks 11th in the country with 330 passing yards per game – a challenge for Rutgers' defense, which ranks 93rd in passing yards allowed (261.8) per game.
"If you can just get pressure with four players that is a huge advantage because you can leave seven in coverage," Flood said. "I think that very rarely happens on a consistent basis all the time with just four guys. I think the way this offense is designed, at times it's going to be four, at times it's going to be five, and at times it's going to be six and there's going to have to be a mixture of it, while at the same time disguising which of those three options it will be.
While Jones has spent days and not years reviewing tape of Rutgers, he is impressed by what he has seen thus far.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2013 by Ryan Dunleavy.
Fred Hill, 79, is taking a medical leave of absence from his longtime post as Rutgers baseball coach, the school announced Monday. Associate head coach Joe Litterio will take over the reins while Hill is sidelined.
No timetable was given for the return of Hill, who is 941-658-7 with 11 NCAA Regional appearances, 12 regular-season conference championships and eight conference tournament titles in 30 seasons at Rutgers.
As an infielder at Rutgers from 1990-93, Litterio experienced Hill's early success. He returned to his alma mater as the lead assistant and recruiting coordinator in February 2012 after spending 12 seasons as the head coach at Wagner.
At that time, Hill was asked about his future by New Jersey Press Media.
Rutgers is in the midst of its fall season, which runs through the end of October.
As it prepares to face arguably the two best quarterbacks in the American Athletic Conference, the Rutgers football team will be without veteran cornerback Gareef Glashen.
Coach Kyle Flood said that the redshirt junior will miss the next two games due to personal reasons. He will not be at practice.
Rutgers also announced that redshirt sophomore offensive lineman Marquise Wright will transfer to the FCS level.
Coach Kyle Flood had said that he hoped linebacker Jamal Merrell (kidney) would be healthy after the bye week, but instead the defensive captain will miss his third straight game as per the Rutgers football injury report.
1. Alabama; 2. Oregon; 3. Clemson; 4. Ohio St.; 5. Stanford; 6. Florida St.; 7. UCLA; 8. Louisville; 9. Georgia; 10. Texas A&M; 11. Oklahoma; 12. LSU; 13. Miami; 14. Washington; 15. South Carolina; 16. Northwestern; 17. Michigan; 18. Florida; 19. Baylor; 20. Texas Tech; 21. Fresno St.; 22. Maryland; 23. Mississippi; 24. Northern Illinois; 25. Arizona St.
Oklahoma St., Rutgers, UCF, Missouri, Virginia Tech, Iowa.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 29, 2013 by Keith Sargeant.
As the NCAA continues to debate whether to award $2,000 stipends to scholarship student-athletes—a divisive issue between big-money sports schools and the rest of the membership—I interviewed four New Jersey ADs and some current and former student athletes with Garden State ties on the issue.
Below is the in-depth analysis that appeared in Sunday's Gannett New Jersey papers, followed by edited transcripts of my interviews with the four ADs.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2013 by Ryan Dunleavy.
NEW BRUNSWICK — Perhaps it was only fitting that the first official practice under new head coach Eddie Jordan on Friday would take place in "The Barn," the old College Avenue Gym, where he starred as a player in the 1970s.
Jordan is trying to limit expectations for this team, with a host of new faces learning new systems on offense and defense, all while competing in a different conference.
In fact, the only goal right now he says is to improve from one day to the next.
But for the players who have lived through the disappointing seasons, as well as the controversy surrounding former head coach Mike Rice, some goals will never change.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 27, 2013 by Ryan Dunleavy.


ALBUM: Tove Styrke - Sway - Sync.
Tove Styrke has changed dramatically over the past three years. Since releasing her last album Kiddo back in 2015, she has signed to the awesome Chess Club Records, toured the US with Lorde and teased her eagerly anticipated new album Sway with the release of five singles over the past year.
Opening with the title track Sway, we instantly get the vibe that Styrke is frustrated with an uptight lover who's afraid of commitment, as she angrily sings "Why are you on your phone?". This narrative of wanting more from a relationship runs throughout this album and connects each song nicely. The guitar is really a nice touch on this track, making the song stand out from some of her other new songs whilst also bridging the gap between this album and her previous one. The only problem that arises upon first listen is how quickly she delivers her vocals, as sometimes it can be difficult to fully understand what she's saying in the verses, but in general she always manages to get the message across.
Our first introduction to the all new Tove Styrke was Say My Name, featuring twangy guitars which sound so quirky and refreshing. Some of the vocal manipulation on this track wouldn't seem out of place on an M.I.A record and her backing vocals give her the powerful delivery that she needed for this to earn the banger status that it deserves.
On the Low is the most vulnerable moment on this album, with Styrke repeatedly singing "I don't wanna keep it on the low", suggesting that she can't hide her love for this person any longer. Her vocals are fragile on this track and the beats are a little softer to match the vulnerability in the lyrics. In the chorus, she shouts 'ON THE LOW!' and it perfectly contrasts the whispery, airy vocals, letting out her frustration and representing her desire to declare her love to the world. The lyrics are so direct that they sound like a conversation between two lovers and when you're listening, you feel a little bit like you're listening in on a conversation between them.
Changed My Mind is a pop masterpiece and it's rare to hear a pop song that deals with the topic of falling in love with someone who you'd previously treated as a friend. I'm not really a fan of the vocal manipulation towards the end of this track, I found it a bit too strange but that's just down to my personal taste, it doesn't really spoil the track.
It's a little disappointing that we don't get to hear a brand new track until we're over halfway through this short eight-track album. I Lied features quite child-like vocals, but she's really having fun with it and it's nice to hear. The second new track On A Level is very interesting sonically, it plays with the listener with pauses before each beat drops. It's a rollercoaster to listen to, keeping you on edge at all times. It's surprising that she chose to close the album with a cover of Liability by Lorde. The cover is brilliant and she totally made it her own, but I don't think it was the right choice to close her album with it.
Tove Styrke has certainly proven that she's capable of making fun, quality pop music that can win the hearts of audiences around the world. She's proudly pop, and she's doing it with some boundary-pushing production, keeping within the mainstream whilst retaining plenty of the quirkiness that sets her apart.


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Iraq: April 4, 2003
ON POINT: It's Time for American Impatience With China
For the last 48 hours, Iraqi soldiers are surrendering and deserting in larger numbers as U.S. forces get closer to Baghdad. Uniforms and military equipment is being found abandoned along roads and inside towns.
Most of the airport, 25 kilometers outside Baghdad, has been taken by U.S. troops. There were no casualties to the Americans in this operation, as has increasingly been the case during the Iraqi operations.
U.S. Marines continue moving up towards Baghdad from the southeast, where an unconventional battle for the city is planned. The psychological warfare campaign, although little heard from in the media, goes on and has an effect. Iraqi soldiers, and even Saddam loyalists, are increasingly demoralized at the untouchable and unstoppable American troops. The word is spreading that the American not only can't be defeated, but even killing or wounding them is nearly impossible. All of the sudden, the fantastic stories of the 1991 Iraqi rout in the desert come back to mind, and most Iraqis conclude that the Americans have only gotten better since then. And they are right, and that includes the British as well. Down south, the British have tested and refined tactics for moving into a large Iraqi city, tactics that will be used in Baghdad as coalition commandos and regular forces squeeze the city to find Saddam and his key aides. The Saddam government will start to disappear, being replaced by the interim military government now waiting in Kuwait. U.S. troops will not attack into Baghdad so much as they will stage raids. Using urban warfare tactics learned from the Israelis, and used in the urban fighting to the south, the coalition troops will pick apart Iraqi opposition, not go after it head on.
Many pundits continue to invoke urban combat debacles like Mogadishu and Grozny as examples of what coalition forces can expect in Baghdad. What is forgotten here is that new and more effective urban fighting tactics have already been demonstrated in the cities of southern Iraq. Moreover, the inhabitants know they have an incentive to aid the coalition, for extended fighting will mean loss of water and electricity supplies, and death for thousands of civilians. Saddam supporters will be pressed by coalition troops in the front and anti-Saddam Iraqis from behind.
The most difficult chore the new interim government will face is law and order. In addition to the usual crooks and gangsters that thrived even in Saddam's police state, there will be the thugs and unemployed enforcers who formerly worked for the government. These guys have guns and are accustomed to using them to get their way. The coalition has not yet revealed how they plan to deal with crime, and Basra is already suffering a massive crime wave.
In northern Iraq, more resistance has been encountered outside Mosul, halting advancing Kurdish militiamen.
So far, U.S. losses have been 41 troops killed in combat, 13 from accidents, seven captured, 16 missing and 160 wounded. The casualty rate per day has been declining as the war went on. The vast differences in training, leadership and equipment quality between coalition and Iraqi troops has not only kept friendly losses low, but made the losses lower as the fighting went on. This is because the coalition was able to improve their tactics quickly, in reaction to Iraqi tactics or unexpected conditions.


Illustrator Miranda Sofroniou paints "whimsical worlds" that are full of color and pattern. Since I last featured her work nearly a year ago, Miranda has leaned into the idea of places that bend reality a little bit. Using tighter brush strokes, a flattened sense of space, and incorporation of many more houseplants, these images make me say "I want to go there." Her interiors, in particular, are really cozy and make me want to stick close to home. If you're looking for more adventure, however, Miranda paints that too—just check out her travel illustrations.
Miranda sells her work on Etsy. Be sure to follow her on Instagram, too!
Ready to snuggle up with your houseplants? Check out Miranda Sofroniou's cozy illustrations!
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Crytek's posted a gameplay tutorial video for the upcoming multiplayer beta of Crysis 3. The game's in development for PlayStation 3 and will be out in March this year.
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This photosimulation, supplied by the city of Ceres, shows how the proposed Verizon tower would have looked from N. Canyon Drive while the tower seen at right is the Angie tower already in place. Was it that big of a deal, asks editor Jeff Benziger? - photo by Contributed to the Courier
Jeff Benziger
Updated: June 17, 2015, 7:17 a.m.
Verizon customers in the area have every right to be upset at the Ceres City Council following its Monday, June 8 action.
The major cell phone company wants to improve coverage area in Ceres, as well as in the industrial area to the north of the river and the Modesto Airport area. Thus, Verizon desires adding a new tower in a strategic location - in the yard of a business at 2907 Nicholas Way (where Angie and Nicholas meet).
In a 4-1 vote, the council told Verizon to stick it up somebody else's pole.
The Ceres Planning Commission previously debated the issue - after city staff didn't recommend approval - and voted 3-2 against the tower. One of those favoring the request was Bob Kachel, who has a breadth of planning experience beyond the other members. Both he and Hugo Molina didn't feel there was an aesthetic problem with a new tower being in close proximity to another one.
The issue is a bit complex since it involves city practices and the science of how cell towers work. Let me try to simplify.
Tom Westbrook, director of Community Development, recommended denial of Verizon's request, citing city staff's unwritten "preference" to have companies gang up on the same pole. Westbrook admitted that the city's industrial zoning allows the Verizon tower but proclaimed "that my job is to look at the aesthetics."
Herein lies the city's problem. The zoning code conditionally allows cell towers but does not say how much space must be between cell towers. It's only past practice that co-locatable towers are built, not a requirement in the code.
Westbrook tried coaxing Verizon to mount its equipment on an existing pole some 350 feet south on Angie Way. The pole, owned by SBA, already has two carriers with one third position remaining. You might call it the "bottom man on the totem pole" position, which, as everyone knows, is not a desirable place to be.
Verizon was pretty clear that no cell carrier wants to be as low as 56 feet to the ground. Since cell signals operate line of sight - they don't bend around river bluffs, hills and mounds - the best place to be is as high as possible. Verizon's site acquisition consultant, Mark Lobaugh of Epic Wireless Group, insisted that the next available position on the existing 82-foot-tall Angie tower is at 56 feet height - not high enough to maximize coverage for the $350,000 cost. Verizon wanted its own tower with receiver and transmitter equipment at 61 feet, a difference of five feet taller, which he added "means all the difference in the world."
Lobaugh said that in a "sea of residential ... there really aren't any good locations other than this industrial park to adequately serve this coverage area." He said the area is seriously underserved and customers experience a lot of dropped calls, poor data transmission speeds and poor cell signal.
Members of the City Council took great lengths to create objections to the Verizon tower, despite its proposed height being 17 feet shorter than the Angie Way tower approved in 2005.
Vice Mayor Bret Durossette fashioned his questions to Lobaugh to suggest that the equipment building would emanate "noise" since he hears a hum from the cell equipment building at Costa Fields. Lobaugh said the only sound would be the hum of a small AC unit to keep the equipment cool. (One has to wonder what would be more annoying - an air conditioner humming or the whine of diesel brakes and sound of traffic on nearby Mitchell Road?)
Mayor Chris Vierra, a civil engineer by trade and hardly an expert on cellular phone signals, viewed Lobaugh's claims with open suspicion. Vierra penned out his own angles and did some quick trigonometry to suggest the height difference wasn't worthy of concern. "Maybe I'm a little green when it comes to this ... maybe I'm missing something here but I'm not quite bought into the six foot is that big of a difference." Lobaugh insisted it was, however.
Vierra asked Lobaugh if Verizon had any towers at 56 feet. He replied, yes, in Fresno, where the city has capped cell tower height at 60 feet, which means there are cell towers "all over the city." In their quest to over regulate, Fresno leaders thought they were being smart but now have a proliferation of towers because of their height cap.
Councilman Mike Kline appeared confused as he asked questions in trying to understand technical Doppler type maps of coverage areas evaluated at different heights.
Only one on the council, Linda Ryno, could see that the city had a real problem fighting something which the code allows. She noted that if the city wants greater separation of cell towers, they need to delineate that in the code, not arbitrarily say who gets to build a tower and who doesn't. "Why do we have an ordinance if we aren't going to go by what that ordinance says," said Ryno.
Resident Leonard Shepherd, who often interjects good old fashion horse sense, reminded the council that, duh, the higher the tower the better the signal coverage. He also said the average person in Ceres "doesn't give a rip about aesthetics."
The council didn't even express the slightest interest in Lobaugh's offer to disguise the tower as a pine tree and place a nylon antenna sock over it to soften its appearance. If aesthetics was the concern, they sure didn't want to pursue that compromise.
Kline admitted to me the next day that he was unaware that there was an existing tower on Angie Way. Keep in mind that that one is taller than the one Verizon proposed. So much for the tower being an eyesore.
On Friday I drove southbound into Ceres on Mitchell Road to see where the Angie tower would first come into view. I didn't see it until my vehicle got to Nicholas Way and even then, there was no "oh my gosh, what an ugly tower" experience.
As I listened to the council's lengthy debate, I got this nagging suspicion that there was some behind-the-scenes drama against the tower. It all got a little clearer with two opponents got up to speak.
Randy Moring, who owns a 14,000-square-foot residential lot backing up to the industrial area, was the first to speak against the tower. Moring has had a family connection to Durossette. Moring suggested it was about aesthetics of the tower and the building on the ground, even though the equipment building is only 10 feet tall and tucked behind a six-foot fence. Even Westbrook suggested the building wouldn't be very visible.
Local contractor, Harinder Toor, who lives in a McMansion on North Canyon Drive, also protested. He mentioned owning six residential lots on Canyon Drive - on which he wants to build more upper scale homes - and somehow the tower would damage his property value. Toor, who gave Durossette a $100 campaign contribution in 2011, insisted that the tower "will definitely affect my retail value." Toor didn't say why his custom homes are being built so close to an industrial park or explain if the nearby Angie tower has resulted in a loss of property value.
I've suspected, over the years, that members of the Ceres City Council curry special favor to friends, campaign donors or people for which they hold greater esteem in the community. Case in point is the way the council has treated their dealings with Dirk Wyatt, a land owner, billboard king and insurance agent. The council has rarely said no, if ever, to Wyatt. Years back, Ken Lane rushed to defend Wyatt's proposal to add yet another billboard on Highway 99, which was too close to another billboard, and the council changed the policy to allow it. In case you're wondering, Wyatt served as Lane's campaign treasurer in 2011. Lane also favored, in 2007,Wyatt's request to proceed with annexation of 52 acres near Ceres River Bluff Regional Park without undergoing the required area wide master plan. In 2010, Lane supported Wyatt's request to put up an electronic reader board on Mitchell Road after revamping the sign ordinance to allow them. And despite concerns lodged by neighbors about traffic, the council in 2009 approved Wyatt's request to convert a vacant house at the corner of Sixth Street and Whitmore Avenue to an Office (O) use and rezone the property from Single Family Residential (R-1) to Administrative Professional (A-P).
The bottom line is that councilmembers should probably excuse themselves from voting on matters if any close friends and campaign backers are directly involved.
The council's alleged concern about aesthetics over the Verizon tower might resonate if they were as equally troubled about the huge eyesore in the city water tower, which is embarrassing with its rust and peeling paint. And in case you're wondering, that eyesore is 80 feet high.
Meanwhile, if you have terrible Verizon service in that area of Ceres, you have the Ceres City Council - and their friends - to blame.
How do you feel? Let Jeff know by emailing him at jeffb@cerescourier.com


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Home>News>Cardiff Met food students help the Welsh food and drink industry to innovate
Cardiff Met Food Students Help the Welsh Food and Drink Industry to Innovate
22/05/2019
 Undergraduate food science and nutrition students from Cardiff Metropolitan University
Food science and nutrition students from Cardiff Metropolitan University have developed a range of innovative food and drink products in response to briefs from the Welsh food and drink industry.
The teams of undergraduate students had 12 weeks to develop and manufacture their new food and drink products, working to a set budget and detailed client requirements. Industry briefs included developing a ketogenic snack bar for Gwynedd's Brighter Foods, a protein rich meat product for older consumers at risk of muscle mass loss, and a festive vegan nut roast for Bridgend's Parsnipship.
The students had to consider all aspects of new product development from carrying out market research, concept development and recipe testing to product costing, sensory evaluation, allergen assessment and nutritional analysis. Their final manufactured products were presented to members of the Welsh food and drink industry at a new product development fair where the teams received feedback directly from their clients.
Robin Williams, CEO of Brighter Foods said:
"We didn't give the students the easiest brief but I think they've done a fantastic job in a short space of time – it's certainly given us something to think about. I'm encouraged for the future of the food industry if we have new talent like this who are passionate about innovation."
Josee Swettenham, BSc Nutrition student, Cardiff Metropolitan University said:
"The project took a lot more effort than any other undergraduate module I've ever done. However, it was worth it to see the product we created at the end. The project allowed us to get to grips with the course content in a really hands-on way and gave us an insight into what it's like to work in the food industry."
For further information about undergraduate and postgraduate Food science and nutrition courses at Cardiff Metropolitan University click here.
To read this story in Welsh, click here.


Home » Marijuana Use and "Amotivational Syndrome"
Marijuana Use and "Amotivational Syndrome"
"One of the major concerns about the psychological effects of chronic heavy cannabis use has been that it impairs adult motivation. The evidence for an 'amotivational syndrome' among adults consists largely of case histories and observational reports (e.g. Kolansky and Moore, 1971; Millman and Sbriglio, 1986). The small number of controlled field and laboratory studies have not found compelling evidence for such a syndrome (Dornbush, 1974; Negrete, 1983; Hollister, 1986). The evidential value of the field studies is limited by their small sample sizes, and the limited sociodemographic characteristics of their samples, while the evidential value of the laboratory studies is limited by the short periods of drug use, the youthful good health of the volunteers, and minimal demands made on volunteers in the laboratory (Cohen, 1982). Some regular cannabis users report a loss of ambition and impaired school and occupational performance as adverse effects of their use (e.g. Hendin et al, 1987) and that some ex-cannabis users give impaired occupational performance as a reason for stopping (Jones, 1984). Nonetheless, it is doubtful that cannabis use produces a well defined amotivational syndrome. It may be more parsimonious to regard the symptoms of impaired motivation as symptoms of chronic cannabis intoxication rather than inventing a new psychiatric syndrome."


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Takfir (arab. تكفير) – w prawie islamu uznanie za niewiernego (zarówno jednej osoby jak i całej grupy). Może ono nastąpić w wyniku aktu wyrzeczenia się wiary  muzułmańskiej, jak i uznania za niewiernego przez sąd muzułmański (częsty jest pogląd, że najważniejsze znaczenie ma tu fatwa szarifa Mekki). Ta druga możliwość ma miejsce znacznie częściej. W praktyce wśród sunnitów i większości szyitów dominuje pogląd, że nawet popełnienie najcięższego grzechu nie musi być jednoznaczne z takfirem. Jedynie zaprzeczenie podstawowym prawdom wiary islamu (np. niewiara w grzechy, aniołów, posłannictwo Mahometa czy w samego Allaha) niezaprzeczalnie skutkuje takfirem. Dla mutazylitów i zajdytów osoby dopuszczające się ciężkich grzechów tworzą specjalna grupę pomiędzy wiernymi i niewiernymi. Wyznawcy charydżyzmu uznawali natomiast pogląd, że grzech automatycznie czyni niewiernym, obecnie ich następcy – współcześni ibadyci uważają, że grzech powoduje pewną formę "odwrócenia się Boga od grzesznika" (gdyż ten odrzuca łaskę bożą).

Akt, który prowadzi do takfiru (grzech ciężki lub wyrzeczenie się wiary) nazywa się mukaffir, a odstępcy (i wszyscy niewierni) nazywają się kafirami.

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By just winking Priya Prakash Varrier went viral last year. But things are a little different this year. Her debut Bollywood movie "Sridevi Bungalow" directed by Prasanth Mambully has gotten into massive trouble. The movie shows a lonely actress who eventually dies by drowning in a bathtub. A pair of feet dangling over the edge of a bathtub is shown in the film's poster.
The legendary actress Sridevi too was also found dead in the bath tub in a hotel of Dubai after attending a family member's wedding. The death made headlines for days. Accidental drowning was finally declared to be the official cause of the death.
Obviously this didn't go down too well with Sridevi's family. A legal notice is sent to the team by husband Boney Kapoor.
Since the trailer is out, netizens slammed the video and came in support of Sridevi's family. For sharing similarities to the life and death of the real Sridevi, people are calling the film 'disgraceful' and 'rubbish'.
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