The Abilene High, Cooper and Wylie softball teams completed tournament play over the weekend.
The Wylie softball team capped off a tough Granbury tournament with a win on Saturday afternoon.
The Lady Bulldogs (5-9) went 1-1 on Saturday, falling to Lubbock High 5-2 before picking up a 9-2 win against Mineral Wells in the final game of the weekend.
Wylie led 1-0 after two innings and 3-2 after four, but broke the game open in the fifth. Halle Arbilera hit an RBI triple, Bailey Buck hit an RBI single, Abbey Hund scored on an error, Kylie Barnes scored on a wild pitch and Molly Mason hit an RBI single in a six-run inning that turned out to be the difference.
Buck finished with three hits and Minely Avila was 2 for 3 with two RBIs. Arbilera also had a two-RBI performance while Barnes and Hund scored two runs each.
The Lady Bulldogs scored first against Lubbock High with two runs in the second with RBIs from Lilly New and Kaylin Samulde. But LHS got a run back in the third and scored four in the fourth to go up 5-2. Wylie got a run back in the bottom of the fourth as Arbilera was hit with the bases loaded, but the rally ended there.
The Cooper softball team wasted little time putting up big numbers in Saturday afternoon's 9-0, four-inning win against North Mesquite to finish the Granbury tournament.
Cooper followed a four-run first inning with five runs in the second to put the game away. Summer Simmons earned the complete-game, four-hit, shutout victory. She struck out two and walked two, adding a hit and an RBI at the plate.
Simone Gary hit a two-run home run and Keiana Kemp had two hits and two runs scored to lead the way. All 10 batters Cooper sent to the plate got a hit, Kemp and Jada Willis had two each, seven scored at least one run, Kemp and Willis scored two each, and five had at least one RBI.
Cooper begins District 4-5A play on Tuesday, hosting Wichita Falls High at 4 p.m.
Sydnee Killam hit a double and a grand slam as the Abilene High softball team defeated Plano East 12-1 at the McKinney tournament on Friday night.
The senior first baseman finished 3 for 4, a run scored and five RBIs. KK Roberson also had a three-hit day with a triple, two runs scored and two RBIs. Hannah Lopez and Addison Kyker had a hit and two runs scored, each, while Alyssa Washington, Kaylen Washington and Aubrianna Salazar had two hits apiece.
Kaylen Washington earned the win in the circle allowing one unearned run in five innings on three hits with no walks and 11 strikeouts.
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Glenn Close will be this year's honoree of New York's Museum of the Moving Image 32nd annual Salute. Past honorees have included Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jimmy Stewart and Warren Beatty, among others.
The announcement was made by Lustig and Carl Goodman, the Museum's Executive Director.
Set for December 3, the Salute dinner will feature clips from Close's career introduced by her friends and colleagues, as well as the award presentation.
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Other past honorees of the museum Salute include Annette Bening, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, Robert DeNiro, Robin Williams, Goldie Hawn, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Hugh Jackman, Steve Martin, Julianne Moore, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier and Julia Roberts.


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Q: Need understanding of the code for installing mongodb server in ec2-linux instance I am hosting a mongodb server on ec2-linux instance by following some API documentation.I have not understood some lines where I need some understandings because it is very necessary to clear each step in order to clear the concepts of programming(I am a newbie).
The code that I am following is as follows:
$ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1.tgz
$ tar -xzf mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1.tgz
$ cd mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1/bin
[bin]$ ./mongod --version

In the above stanza when I ran Last line and executing it ./mongod --version It shows unknown option version, when I changed it to ./mongod --3.0/3.0.0 it displays unknown option error.
So how to execute this command:./mongod --version?
2.) How to create the mongodb datafile directory in the desired location and then run the database:
mkdir /mnt/db
./mongod --fork --logpath ~/mongod.log --dbpath /mnt/db/
I have not understood this command.What I have understood I can explain it here please correct me if I am wrong.
My Explanation:
1.)In my /home/ec2-user/mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1/binfolder there is a file named mongod, So we are pointing that file to ./mongod --fork --logpath ~/mongod.log --dbpath which conatins mnt/db folders.This is what I have understood.
Please help!
Thank you

A: $ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1.tgz

Curl does a HTTP request so that you're able to download mongodb.
$ tar -xzf mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1.tgz

MongoDB package comes as a combined tar archive so you're opening it to a directory. (X option for extract)
$ cd mongodb-linux-x86_64-1.0.1/bin

Change directory to mongodb's bin folder.
$ ./mongod --version

Execute mongod binary with the argument --version. If that doesn't work for you, make sure your binary has executable permissions. To do that execute below command while you're in bin folder:
$ chmod +x *

I'll try to explain executing something on shell as its simplest, when you execute something in shell, it uses currently open terminal so you need to run your mongod instance as daemon to work properly. Therefore:
./mongod --fork --logpath ~/mongod.log --dbpath /mnt/db/

--fork option guarantees that mongod instance will run as daemon, and will use ~/mongod.log for logging and of course you're setting a data path to make mongodb work.
If you get unknown option error, that means you're giving some wrong arguments to binary. To see which arguments are valid you can simply run
./mongod --help

Furthermore, to read more about fork read here Also I would recommend you to download a newer version of Mongodb, 1.0.1 is like ancient. Current version is 3.4.4
Executing a binary in shell possible with either one of the two ways:

*

*Change directory into where binary located at and use ./binary

*Directly use /home/sercan/binary
Don't forget that it needs to have executable rights. As a side note --fork is only valid for linux.
EDIT: To install (curl) latest stable mongodb:
curl -O https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.4.tgz


Here are some pieces from our talented stitchers!
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In order to hold your place in the class we would like a $125 deposit.
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Home›Opinions›Campus POV›Sustainability at Boston College: What More Can Be Done?
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Sustainability at Boston College: What More Can Be Done?
by Shae Heitz
Climate change and sustainability are topics constantly being discussed in politics, on social media, and around college campuses. According to Boston College administrators, significant efforts are being made to heighten the sustainability level on campus, yet some students question if enough is being done.
Student organizations and clubs such as EcoPledge, EcoReps, Real Food BC, and Climate Justice BC make it their mission to raise awareness about sustainability issues on campus and to discuss what more can be done to create a greener BC community. But in order to make major changes to campus sustainability, administrators must step more forcefully in and take action.
Over the past several years, BC has made efforts to increase the overall sustainability on campus. For example, in terms of lighting, the CFL and fluorescent light bulbs in buildings have been replaced with LED lights, which are more energy efficient. In addition to housing, BC has created numerous buildings on campus that identify as green housing, including Stokes Hall, Medeiros Hall, Stayer Hall, and 2150, which supposedly are more efficient than normal buildings.
However, many students do not believe that enough is being accomplished. Alex Alvarado, MCAS '17, suggests that "the amount of plastic silverware that BC goes through on a daily basis must be absurd." This is even more concerning because the recycling percentage at BC is 42%, only a 4% increase from the 2011 figure. "I think the problem starts with poor education," Alvarado continued. "If BC made freshmen take a course on [sustainability], what is at stake for the future, or the overall goal to become a sustainable campus, students would [naturally] be more involved."
Although the sustainability department has resources on campus, the community is still falling short. Jack McCarthy, MCAS '17, said that "the sustainability office here does great work but it's so small and underfunded that it's hard to make a huge impact."
Considering that BC is ranked 22nd on the Forbes list of best universities in the country, the university is not a very green campus. According to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), BC is not even ranked in the top 39 greenest universities, rated according to the STAR (Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating) system. Nevertheless, other colleges and universities in our area, such as UMass Amherst and Babson College, are ranked 16th and 33rd, respectively.
What more can be done? Beyond recycling and reducing water usage, universities across the country are making major changes to their campuses in order to create a greener community. Schools such as Princeton and Northwestern have placed solar panels on flat-top roofs; with numerous flat roofs on BC's campus, this would be an entirely possible (and energy-efficient) undertaking. Additionally, colleges such as Oregon State University have had energy-producing exercise bikes installed in recent years. With construction plans for the new Plex underway, an initiative like this is more than feasible. Whether or not such actions will be taken remains to be seen.
The administration at BC can do more to create a sustainable campus. However, even if large-scale changes such as solar panels or energy-producing bikes don't occur, students can play a significant role in improving sustainability on campus. There are small things that students can do every day that would make BC, on the whole, greener. The following includes some simple ways that we can all contribute to increasing the sustainability at BC.
5 Easy Ways to Build a More Sustainable Campus:
1.) Use a reusable water bottle instead of plastic bottles.
2.) Turn off lights when not in use.
3.) Put in a work order for leaky faucets or showers.
4.) Begin composting at Mac on March 13.
5.) Spread the word about the importance of building a sustainable campus.
If you are interested in joining a student run organization to increase sustainability on campus, or want to learn about green initiatives on campus, please visit the BC Sustainability webpage found here.
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I took an hour off from war reporting yesterday to drop in on a course being taught by Ancient Earth (AE) member Archaegeo Platini, and while I was AFK and up to my neck in IMs for much of it, I have to say that for the first time ever I had the impression that online instruction actually made sense. In this case Archaegeo was teaching a course on 3D space, introducing the notion of vectors and rotation. Not only did he have streaming video of his notes and graphics to boot, but the basic structure of SL made it ideal for a ?virtual hands on? medium for playing with vector values to see what happens. Students can even rez representations of the XYZ axes themselves and make their objects rotate through them, for example. Really a brilliant idea. I could have done without the new age music being piped in though. Some snaps follow.
Looking forward to this new SL venture!
Best of luck to Ancient Earth and to Archaegeo.
What I'd like to see as a follow along to this are quizzes which go along with the class and report back to the teacher if people are understanding the material.
Eg: if 50% of the class can't answer a particular quiz question than the instructor needs to spend more time on that point .. if only 10% doesn't get it, then the instructor can follow up later with that person on that point.


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Sojuz 7k (1967-1981)
Questo modello è stato progettato durante la corsa allo spazio per l'atterraggio sulla Luna, anche se i lanci con equipaggio non superarono mai l'orbita terrestre bassa. Con il fallimento del vettore N1, furono prodotte la versione OKS e la 7k-T per il rifornimento delle stazioni spaziali della serie Saljut.

Sojuz T (1978-1986)
Questa versione è stata progettata a seguito dei suggerimenti americani durante la missione ASTP per migliorarne la sicurezza.

Sojuz TM (1987-2002)
Introdotta per il trasporto di astronauti verso la Mir e in seguito verso la ISS, ha introdotto una serie di migliorie per aumentare l'autonomia e un nuovo sistema di rendezvous.

Sojuz TMA (2002-2012)
Primo modello a includere un glass cockpit su richiesta della NASA, fu inoltre aumentato lo spazio disponibile per l'equipaggio.

Sojuz TMA-M (2010-2016)
La Sojuz TMA-M è l'ultima navetta della serie TMA, che ha terminato il suo servizio nel 2016 e ha lasciato spazio al nuovo modello MS. La TMA-M, a differenza della precedente, vede la sostituzione di 36 strumenti analogici e del vecchio computer di bordo Argon, con 19 strumenti digitali ed il nuovo computer di bordo TsVM-101, che ha comportato una riduzione del peso, insieme ad altre migliorie, di circa 70 kg.

Sojuz MS (2016-)
L'ultima navetta della serie Soyuz vede un cambiamento sostanzioso, tra i miglioramenti più importanti vi sono: miglioramenti all'efficienza dei pannelli solari, una quinta batteria, sostituzione di vari sistemi relativi alla comunicazione via radio, il nuovo sistema di docking automatico Kurs-NA e luci a LED in sostituzione delle luci alogene.

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Think it's been hot up on the roof this summer? Well, you're not alone. It is hotter this summer. Already this season, all-time heat records have been set all over the world. According to recent reports, "Overall, 2018 is on track to be the fourth warmest year on record after 2016, 2017, and 2015," So yeah, roofing this summer will be warm, but thankfully, there's something we can do about it, and that's where cool roofing provides a valuable solution.
When the Heatwaves Hit Heat Islands
In addition to record-setting global heat, NASA climate scientists are observing longer, more intense heat waves. These heat waves are particularly problematic for metropolitan populations where 'the annual mean air temperature of a city with 1 million people or more can be 1.8–5.4°F warmer than its surroundings,' according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
"Heat waves are often most pronounced in dense, urban areas," wrote Umair Irfan recently at Vox. "Asphalt, concrete, steel, and glass soak up the summer weather and create a heat island, which can make a city upward of 22°F warmer than its surroundings."
With such sudden, severe heat in urban areas, "heat islands can affect communities by increasing summertime peak energy demand, air conditioning costs, air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, heat-related illness and mortality," said the EPA.
"Heat waves are especially deadly when nighttime temperatures don't cool enough to offer urban residents relief," found Alissa Walker in Curbed. "The human body isn't able to recover from the effects of extreme heat if air temperatures don't dip below 80 degrees Fahrenheit at night," she added.
As the world continues to urbanize, and more people move closer to cities, a 2017 report by the World Meteorological Organization found that, "between 2000 and 2016, the number of vulnerable people exposed to heatwave events has increased by approximately 125 million."
Cool Roofs Can Help Combat Heat Islands and Even Save Lives
To combat the effect of urban heat islands, the EPA also recommends the installation of cool roofs which, "help to reflect sunlight and heat away from your home, reducing roof temperatures." In addition to helping a home stay cooler, reducing energy use for air conditioning units (as much as annual energy savings of almost 50 cents per square foot), cool roofs can also help save lives.
Heat-related deaths citywide in Los Angeles could reduce by more than 25 percent from an increase tree canopy paired with programs to cover roofs and pavements with more reflective surfaces, according to the Los Angeles Urban Cooling Collaborative. With 125 million more people now vulnerable to heatwave events worldwide, a few more cool roofs could go a long way in preventing heat-related fatalities.
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Cool roofing products are relatively similar to other roofing materials, save for a few key innovations that Malarkey has honed over the years: asphalt and granules. Asphalt, a common bonding agent for roofing materials, left to its own devices, and exposed to the sun and heat would effectively bake; becoming dry and brittle. Malarkey's polymer modified asphalt however, uses polymers to delay the baking process and retain the adhesion of granules which protect the asphalt from UV degradation. Using solar reflective, cool roofing granules manufactured by 3M, the surface temperature of the roofing material is reduced, further protecting the asphalt.
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Cool Roofing Part 1: Los Angeles Addresses Urban Heat Island
Over the past decade, metropolitan areas have worked to address the UHI effect – on a national and global scale. As the second-largest urban region in the U.S., and with the highest heat island effect in California, Los Angeles has demonstrated strong commitment and leadership with these efforts.
Cool Roofing Part 2: Los Angeles "Cool Community" Interview
In 2015, LA became the first major city to mandate cool roofs for new residential construction projects in response to the heat island effect. To learn more about the cool roof ordinance, its reach and impact, we spoke with the Los Angeles Department of Building Safety Division Chief, Osama Younan.
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NEOFECT that enables and empowers people with hand paralysis to perform daily activities has developed a wearable, soft robotic hand called NeoMano. They named this gadget NeoMano which means "new hand" in a Latin/Spanish amalgamation. This wearable robot helps restore people's hand function. It is to wear on three fingers.
The NeoMano is a boon to people who have no strength in their hands though they can make a movement in their wrist and arm. This includes people who suffer from hand paralysis due to spinal cord injury (SCI), stroke, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS), multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy and nerve injury.
Its uses differs according to the diagnosis and individuals hand function.
NeoMano has a complete kit which includes accessories like the glove, motor, remote controller, clip, and others as shown below.
You can manipulate the position of thumb with the aluminum splint on the thumb. Likewise, you can adjust the index and middle finger to form a C-shaped grip for larger objects, and a pinch grip for smaller objects.
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The glove is equipped with an assistive strap, made of neoprene fabric, on the back of the index finger to adjust the degree of tension. This is an aid to people who suffer from finger stiffening to maintain a better hand position for functional use.
The silicone coat on the palm and fingers help provide a firmer grip on objects and prevents slipping. The exposed fingers and palm were designed to provide tactile sensory input.
The Bluetooth wireless remote control enables the grip and release of the NeoMano, powered by 3 AAA batteries that hook into the glove via the motor.
When activated, the Grip button flexes the fingers to enable a gripping gesture. The Release button loosens the wires, allowing the hand to return to its original neutral position. The wire is highly elastic, which helps maintain wire integrity despite repetitive winding and loosening.
When the glove is not being utilized and powered by the motor. In this case, the motor can easily be detached by carefully pulling it away from the magnets on the glove. This allows people to easily transition from active to passive use of the glove.
The power source has a button. The button will pair the Bluetooth remote control to the motor for wireless control of the glove.
Wireless Bluetooth remote control directs movement of the glove. The Grip button will activate the wires within the glove to begin to wind and will create a tighter grip the longer its held down.
It uses to perform daily tasks.
Daily tasks are arduous to perform for people who don't have full functionality from their hand, which is why many rely on assistive devices or caregivers. NeoMano allows people to return to their daily-living activities and hobbies.
It boosts confidence by providing more independence.
The grasp pattern provides the independence required to perform tasks single-handedly, allowing people to move forward with their lives.
It is made from flexible material that comfortably fits over the thumb, index, and middle finger.
The partial glove design allows tactile sensory input to part of the palm and exposed fingers, and the leather allows for the flexibility essential for everyday tasks.
Similarly, every accessory of this gadget is carefully curated to provide comfort to the user by all means.
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Users can grab a pen to write texts or a signature.
A user can hold a bottle and open the lid.
Users can grab a brush to paint a picture.
Users can read a book as they flip the pages.
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Brussels 8 th February 2017 – Mental Health Europe together with Member of the European Parliament Deirdre Clune (Ireland, EPP) held a successful event in the European Parliament yesterday to discuss the importance of active ageing and why it matters to mental health. With more than 50 people in the room, the event gathered experts and policy makers including the Irish Minister for Mental Health and Older People Helen Mc Entee. The overall message coming out from the event was positive and full of hope: demographics are changing, life expectancy rises, but ageing should not be seen as a burden for society but as an opportunity.
While population ageing is one of the greatest social and economic challenges facing Europe today, it is crucial for Member States to address its implications on health and particularly mental health in a holistic and positive manner. Changes in lifestyle, anxiety about the future and increased proportion of physical health conditions with age have undeniable impact on the mental health of individuals. The alarming levels of suicides among older persons particularly at time of retirement or when a person becomes dependent on other people must be addressed since depression should not be seen as a normality for older people.
Everyone should enjoy the right to participate in society in a meaningful way at all ages. As Minister Helen Mc Entee said "older people are entitled to the same rights than everyone else and in order to make this a reality we must ensure a whole-of-society and government approach". Johan Ten Geuzendam from the European Commission shared insights on existing European and international frameworks supporting age and mental health friendly policies including Article 25 of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights on the rights of the elderly, the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing, the EU Cross-border Healthcare Directive, the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities as well as the World Health Organization Global Strategy on Ageing and Health. Nigel Henderson, President of Mental Health Europe highlighted that "we are all living longer but not always better lives. Increase in life expectancy is a reality across the EU, we need to start preparing for longer lives earlier".
Being prepared will be possible only through the implementation of age-friendly policies ensuring the social inclusion of older people through participation in society and inclusion in the community. It is widely acknowledged that active ageing contributes to the well-being and positive mental health of people throughout their life. The active participation in the labour market of people aged 55–64 is on the rise and active and healthy ageing is not only a necessity but a reality.
Brenda O'Brien from the European Agency for Safety at Work insisted on the need to focus on healthy workplaces for all ages and called for every employer to assess the risk factors for health in the workplace including psychosocial risks factors. As Ms O'Brien explained "stress and stress related ill health are the second biggest reason why people are absent from work for longer than three days".
Among the many recommendations expressed by speakers and participants can be mentioned the need for training of geriatricians, general practitioners as well service providers to mental health issues. More information about possible side effects of medication for older people that have implications on mental health should also be provided. Experts emphasised the importance of developing age-friendly policies and integrated strategies in collaboration with organisations representing older persons and mental health associations, calling for more joint thinking and budgetary integration between occupational health and safety, employment and health policies at national and European level.


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He is currently involved with Prof. Ian Scoones from the Institute of Development Studies in elaborating and developing a project that links pastoralism to our society in a provocative way – 'can we learn from pastoralists in managing risks, living with uncertainties and building resilience' (www.pastres.org).


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Peter Novelli's St. Amant Sessions smacks of Tab Benoit's The Sea Saint Sessions (Telarc, 2003). For Benoit, the significance of Sea Saint Studios is that they are a NOLA landmark founded by Allen Toussaint. For Novelli, St. Amant, LA is up I-10 between NOLA and Baton Rouge. There, Brignac's Sound Shack resides and this is where, Novelli recorded his third collection, St. Amant Sessions. Both men play a brand of American and blues that can immediately be identified as from Louisiana. However, the two approach their treatments of Louisiana music differently.
Where Benoit hails from Houma, deep in the Louisiana swampland, Novelli comes from further north. Benoit's music is infused with Zydeco, particularly in the shuffling rhythm that propels a good many of his songs. Novelli pours a more solid blues-rock foundation for his music that, while retaining the NOLA shuffle, bears a sharper edge, honed with jazz and country overtones and a heapin' slab of southern-fried backbeat. Novelli opens the disc with the rave-up "Louisiana Sunrise," featuring one Sonny Landreth playing his surgically-accurate slide guitar. It is a fine performance over a sauntering twelve-bar figure that sets the stage for the rest of the recording. Landreth is like cayenne, lime and garlic, his contributions improve everything they are a part of.
Novelli possesses a guitar capability that is heads and shoulders above many of his contemporaries. He is playing is facile and intelligent across the sub-genre of his oeuvre. He peppers St. Amant Sessions with powerful instrumentals. "Boudin" features his precise and slashing guitar playing over a Meters funk motif. Drummer Brian Brignac is afforded space to display his wares among Novelli's sparks. It is jazz by any other name. "Shreveport Stomp" includes elements of the Beatles, Bill Haley and Jerry Reed in Novelli's guitar playing. He hits on his country cylinders. "I-10 Boogie" pulls out all stops as a bar- walking, trash talking, instrumental where Novelli shows what he is made of. It is "pots on...gas on high."
Track Listing: Lousiana Sunrise; Boudin; Je Ne Sais Quoi; Spirit Passing By; Bourbon Street Blues; Woman in My Dreams; Story In Your Mind; Shreveport Stomp; Thinkin' or Drinkin'; I-10 Boogie; Zyedco Ride.
Personnel: Peter Novelli: vocals, guitar; Chris Senac: bass; Brian Brignac: drums; Kevin McKendree: keyboards; Chubby Carrier: triple row accordion (10, 11); Elaine Foster: background vocals; Bobby Henderson: tenor saxophone, vocals (9); Sonny Landreth: slide guitar (1); Sammy Naquin: single row accordion (3, 9).


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Connection Between Addiction, Excess Social Media Use Explored
A new study's results could potentially change the way excessive social media use is treated.
There's been a lot of debate over whether technology and social media can be addictive, and a study has strengthened the connection between the behaviors of people with substance use disorders and those who use social media excessively.
"This result further supports a parallel between individuals with problematic, excessive [social media] use, and individuals with substance use and behavioral addictive disorders," the authors of the study wrote in the Journal of Behavioral Addictions.
As part of the study, researchers asked individuals about their social media use and its effects on their lives and had them complete the Iowa Gambling Task, a measure used by psychologists to determine decision-making abilities. They found that people who performed poorly on the task were more likely to have excessive social media use. People who abuse drugs also generally performed poorly on the task.
"With so many people around the world using social media, it's critical for us to understand its use," lead study author Dar Meshi, an assistant professor at Michigan State University, said in a press release. "I believe that social media has tremendous benefits for individuals, but there's also a dark side when people can't pull themselves away. We need to better understand this drive so we can determine if excessive social media use should be considered an addiction."
Meshi added that with one-third of people on the planet using social media, researchers and health care providers need to better understand the ways this can affect health and social functioning.
"Our findings will hopefully motivate the field to take social media overuse seriously," Meshi said.
People with substance use disorders are known for not making the best decisions, something that was also found in people who used social media heavily.
Meshi explained, "Decision-making is oftentimes compromised in individuals with substance use disorders. They sometimes fail to learn from their mistakes and continue down a path of negative outcomes. But no one previously looked at this behavior as it relates to excessive social media users, so we investigated this possible parallel between excessive social media users and substance abusers. While we didn't test for the cause of poor decision-making, we tested for its correlation with problematic social media use."
In the study, authors concluded that the results could change how we as a society perceive and potentially treat excessive social media use.
"Our results have important societal implications," they wrote. "Taking this into consideration, our current finding, which demonstrates a behavioral similarity between excessive [social media] use and substance use and behavioral addictive disorders, can influence the beliefs and practices of policy makers, therapists, and tech industry leaders."
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Justia U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Opinion Summaries
Articles Posted in Consumer Law
Electric Reliability v. Just Energy
January 6, 2023 by Justia
Electric Reliability Council of Texas, Inc. ("ERCOT") determines market-clearing prices unless otherwise directed by the Public Utility Commission of Texas ("PUCT"). ERCOT is the sole buyer and seller of all energy in Texas. According to the operative complaint, during winter storm Uri ERCOT and the PUCT allegedly "intervened in the market for wholesale electricity by setting prices [that were] orders of magnitude higher than what market forces would ordinarily produce." Just Energy, a retail energy provider, purports that after the storm, ERCOT "floored" it with invoices totaling approximately $335 million. Just Energy commenced bankruptcy proceedings in Canada and filed this Chapter 15 case in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division. Just Energy challenges its invoice obligations. At the hearing on ERCOT's motion to dismiss, the bankruptcy court stated that it would strike various language like, "subject to reduction only after a finding by the Court concerning a legally appropriate energy price per megawatt hour as proven by expert testimony, if appropriate, but in no event greater than the price per megawatt hour in effect after market forces took effect." By striking this and similar language sprinkled throughout the complaint, the court concluded that "this change solves the abstention problem." The Fifth Circuit disagreed and vacated the bankruptcy court's order and remanded with instructions to determine the appropriate trajectory of this case after abstention. The court explained that abstention under Burford6\ is proper because: (1) the doctrine applies in the bankruptcy context; and (2) four of the five Burford factors counsel in favor of abstention. View "Electric Reliability v. Just Energy" on Justia Law
Posted in: Bankruptcy, Consumer Law, Energy, Oil & Gas Law
National Horsemen's Benevolent v. Black
November 18, 2022 by Justia
The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA) is a federal law that nationalizes governance of the thoroughbred horseracing industry. To formulate detailed rules on an array of topics, HISA empowers a private entity called the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (the "Authority"), which operates under Federal Trade Commission oversight. Soon after its passage, HISA was challenged by various horsemen's associations, which were later joined by Texas and the state's racing commission. Plaintiffs argued HISA is facially unconstitutional because it delegates government power to a private entity without sufficient agency supervision. The district court acknowledged that the plaintiffs' "concerns are legitimate," that HISA has "unique features," and that its structure "pushes the boundaries of public-private collaboration." Nonetheless, the court rejected the private non-delegation challenge. The Fifth Circuit declared that the HISA is unconstitutional because it violates the private non-delegation doctrine. Accordingly, the court reversed the district court's decision and remanded. The court explained that while acknowledging the Authority's "sweeping" power, the district court thought it was balanced by the FTC's "equally" sweeping oversight. Not so. HISA restricts FTC review of the Authority's proposed rules. If those rules are "consistent" with HISA's broad principles, the FTC must approve them. And even if it finds an inconsistency, the FTC can only suggest changes. What's more, the FTC concedes it cannot review the Authority's policy choices. The Authority's power outstrips any private delegation the Supreme Court or the Fifth Circuit has allowed. Thus the court declared HISA facially unconstitutional. View "National Horsemen's Benevolent v. Black" on Justia Law
Posted in: Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Constitutional Law, Consumer Law, Government & Administrative Law
Franklin v. United States
September 15, 2022 by Justia
Plaintiff appealed from the dismissal of his claims challenging tax penalties assessed against him, as well as the revocation of his passport pursuant to those penalties. He also appealed the denial of an award of attorneys' fees under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Fifth Circuit affirmed. The court explained that Plaintiff sought to overturn the penalties, restrain collection of them, or otherwise cast doubt on the validity of the assessment. The government has not waived its sovereign immunity for those challenges, and so the district court was correct to dismiss them for lack of jurisdiction. Further, the court explained that Congress was within its rights to provide the IRS another arrow in its quiver to support its efforts to recoup seriously delinquent tax debts. Under even intermediate scrutiny, the passport-revocation scheme is constitutional. Thus, the district court was correct to dismiss Plaintiff's challenge. Finally, the court explained that when considering FOIA attorneys' fees, the court has generally looked with disfavor on cases with no public benefit. Here, the district court did not abuse its discretion in declining to award fees. Plaintiff's lawsuit is far afield from the purposes for which FOIA, and its attorneys' fees provision, were designed. There is no public value in the information and no value for anyone other than Plaintiff. Instead, Plaintiff only sought the information to aid him in his personal fight with the IRS regarding his tax penalties. View "Franklin v. United States" on Justia Law
Posted in: Constitutional Law, Consumer Law, Tax Law
Perez v. McCreary, Veselka, Bragg
August 15, 2022 by Justia
Plaintiff recieved a debt-collection letter from Defendant, a law firm that specializes in collecting debt on behalf of the Texas government. However, the limitations period for the debt mentioned in the letter had run. Plaintiff filed a claim against the law firm under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Plaintiff also sought, and obtained, class certification. The law firm appealed the district court's certification.On appeal, the Fifth Circuit sua sponte found that Plaintiff lacked standing to bring a claim against a debt-collection law firm under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. The court held that Plaintiff failed to establish that the law firm's debt-collection letter inflicted an injury with a "close relationship to a harm traditionally recognized as providing a basis for a lawsuit in American courts." Without this showing, Plaintiff could not establish the first element of standing: that she suffered a concrete harm. View "Perez v. McCreary, Veselka, Bragg" on Justia Law
Posted in: Class Action, Consumer Law
Wages and White Lion Investmen v. FDA
July 18, 2022 by Justia
Petitioners Wages and White Lion Investments, LLC, d/b/a Triton Distribution ("Triton") and Vapetasia, LLC ("Vapetasia") sought to market flavored nicotine-containing e-liquids for use in open-system e-cigarette devices. Petitioners needed to submit premarket tobacco product applications as required by 21 U.S.C. Section 387j—which the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") deemed applicable to e-cigarette tobacco products. FDA denied the requested marketing authorizations, finding that Petitioners failed to offer reliable and robust evidence (such as randomized controlled trials or longitudinal studies) to overcome the risks of youth addiction and show a benefit to adult smokers. Petitioners sought review of those marketing denial orders ("MDOs"), and prior to the consolidation of the two cases. Petitioners argued that the FDA lacks the authority to impose a comparative efficacy requirement and that FDA acted arbitrarily and capriciously by "requiring" scientific studies. The Eleventh Circuit denied the petitions for review. The court explained that Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act ("TCA") in an active effort to protect public health. Relevant here, the Deeming Rule subjected e-cigarette manufacturers to the TCA's prior authorization requirement—manufacturers of "new tobacco product[s]" must submit premarket tobacco product applications ("PMTAs"). The court held that the FDA's consideration of the lack of cessation as a risk and comparing that risk between new tobacco products and old tobacco products "fall[s] squarely within the ambit of the FDA's expertise and merit[s] deference." As such, the court cannot say that FDA acted arbitrarily and capriciously by disagreeing with Petitioners as to the significance of the evidence they presented. View "Wages and White Lion Investmen v. FDA" on Justia Law
Posted in: Consumer Law, Drugs & Biotech, Government & Administrative Law
Barnett v. American Express National
June 29, 2022 by Justia
American Express National Bank ("AmEx") filed suit for breach of contract in Mississippi state court to recover $2,855.74 of unpaid credit card debt incurred on Plaintiff's account. Plaintiff contended an unknown person incurred this debt fraudulently. Plaintiff then filed Fair Credit Reporting Act ("FCRA") claims against AmEx and other defendants in Mississippi state court. The district court denied AmEx's motion to compel arbitration. The Fifth Circuit vacated the decision of the district court and remanded for reconsideration in the first instance in light of Forby v. One Techs., L.P and Morgan v. Sundance, Inc. The court held that these cases were decided on the same day and after the district court's ruling. Forby clarified the test for waiver by a party of the right to compel arbitration and reiterated that waiver analysis occurs on a claim-by-claim basis. In addition, Morgan addressed this and other sister circuits' tests for waiver by a party of the right to compel arbitration. The court explained that although it can apply subsequent precedent to cases before it, "[a]s a court for review of errors, we are not to decide facts or make legal conclusions in the first instance." Thus, the court's task is to review the actions of a trial court for claimed errors. View "Barnett v. American Express National" on Justia Law
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CFPB v. All American Check Cashing, et al
May 2, 2022 by Justia
On the panel's initial hearing of the case, Judge Higginson concluded that the restrictions on the President's removal authority under the Consumer Financial Protection Act are valid and constitutional. Judge Higginson found that neither the text of the United States Constitution nor the Supreme Court's previous decisions support appellants' arguments that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutionally structured, and thus he affirmed the district court's judgment.More than two years later, and after conducting a vote among the circuit judges, the Fifth Circuit vacated its previous opinion and elected to hear the case en banc. View "CFPB v. All American Check Cashing, et al" on Justia Law
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Fessler v. Porcelana Corona de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.
January 11, 2022 by Justia
The Fifth Circuit vacated the district court's award of fees to class counsel in a class action settlement involving consumers who purchased defective toilet tanks against defendants. The court agreed with Porcelana that the district court erred in calculating the lodestar and refusing to decrease it. In this case, the district court abused its discretion by failing to make any factual findings regarding the nature of the class's unsuccessful claims and an unsupported assertion is insufficient to permit the district court to bypass the proper lodestar calculation and only consider the unsuccessful claims under the eighth Johnson factor. Nor is this a case where the record supports such a conclusion in the absence of an explicit finding by the district court. Even assuming the district court had adequately supported its conclusion that unsuccessful claims were intertwined with those that proved successful, the court stated that the district court still failed to properly analyze the award in relation to the results obtained. Accordingly, the court remanded for further proceedings. View "Fessler v. Porcelana Corona de Mexico, S.A. de C.V." on Justia Law
Posted in: Class Action, Consumer Law, Legal Ethics
Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C. v. United States Food and Drug Administration
October 26, 2021 by Justia
The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, implemented through the FDA, 21 U.S.C. 387a(b), 393(d)(2), prohibits manufacturers from selling any "new tobacco product" without authorization. The FDA's 2016, "Deeming Rule" classified electronic nicotine delivery systems (e-cigarettes) as a "new tobacco product." To avoid an overnight shutdown of the e-cigarette industry, the FDA delayed enforcement of the Deeming Rule then required e-cigarette makers to submit premarket tobacco applications (PMTAs). Originally, the FDA required that all PMTAs be filed by 2018. The FDA later extended the PMTA deadline to 2022 but then moved the deadline to 2020. Initially, the FDA's guidance stated that "in general, FDA does not expect that applicants will need to conduct long-term studies to support an application" but later changed course and required long-term studies of e-cigarettes.Triton had e-cigarette products on the market before the Deeming Rule. Triton (and others) submitted PMTAs for flavored e-cigarettes. In August 2021, the FDA announced that it would deny the PMTAs for 55,000 flavored e-cigarettes, stating it "likely" needed evidence from long-term studies." Less than a week later, Triton submitted a letter stating that it intended to conduct long-term studies of its products. About two weeks later, the FDA issued Triton a marketing denial order. The Fifth Circuit granted a temporary administrative stay and, later, a full stay, "to prevent the FDA from shutting down Triton's business" pending disposition of Triton's petition. View "Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C. v. United States Food and Drug Administration" on Justia Law
Cranor v. 5 Star Nutrition, LLC
May 26, 2021 by Justia
Plaintiff filed a class action complaint alleging that 5 Star negligently, willfully, and/or knowingly sent text messages to his cell phone number using an automatic telephone dialing system without prior express consent in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The district court dismissed the complaint for lack of standing.The Fifth Circuit reversed, concluding that plaintiff has alleged a cognizable injury in fact: nuisance arising out of an unsolicited text advertisement. The court concluded that the TCPA cannot be read to regulate unsolicited telemarketing only when it affects the home. The court also concluded that plaintiff's injury has a close relationship to common law public nuisance and, moreover, plaintiff alleges a special harm not suffered by the public at large. The court rejected the Eleventh Circuit's holding in Salcedo v. Hanna, 936 F.3d 1162, 1168 n.6 (11th Cir. 2019), and remanded for further proceedings. View "Cranor v. 5 Star Nutrition, LLC" on Justia Law
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I love midi skirt, but I still don't own any of those! So I decided to make a fashion inspiration for them, so that I am motivated to find one for myself!
Wouw, prachtige inspiratie! Ik hou echt van midirokken en heb er ook al aardig wat, maar wil er nog steeds meer, haha!
Great pictures! I love Midi skirts too!


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Inside Kashmir
By Justine Hardy
The first time I celebrated Eid was in a house beside one of Srinagar's lakes, in the summer capital of The Kashmir Valley, up in the Himalayas of North India. I was nine, I think, young enough to remember certain things in great detail, and the greater things barely at all. We sat on a stone floor to break the final fast of Ramadan with dates from Jordan, and I spat out a partly-mulched almond that had been pushed inside the date, more out of surprise than anything else. It was my first stuffed date. No one seemed to mind.
Photos by Justine Hardy
I remember the floor, a dichotomy that worked: thick stone that should have been cold and ungiving except that it was warmed through from underneath by hot bricks that were constantly reheated in a fire out in the kitchen courtyard. I fell asleep part of the way through dinner, probably lulled by the warm stones and the lilt of Kashmiri chitchat. I did not particularly notice the thing that was the most remarkable about that night. I spent Eid with Kashmiri Muslims and their Pandit neighbours, their Hindu friends; another dichotomy that seemed to work, a religious separation that was surmounted by what was deemed to be a greater thing—to be Kashmiri.
The Sûra from the Qur'an that was used to break the fast that night was this:
The servants of the Merciful are they that walk softly on the earth; and when the foolish speak unto them, they answer, Peace!
Kashmiri Muslims used not to believe that it was a crime to copy Sûras from the Qur'an, an act deemed a form of sacrilege by most strict Muslims. So the verse of that Eid night was given to me on a piece of paper that I have kept, handed to me as though I was a child of the family with whom we were staying, though I was neither Kashmiri nor a Muslim.
It was this tolerance, this ease of religious co-existence, combined with the all-encompassing nature of the Sufi tradition of The Valley, that made Kashmir such a great prize to the various invaders of the subcontinent. It was a fecund place of fruit trees, trout streams, lakes, poplars, of women fabled for their beauty, a place where Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Christians seemed harmonious. Everyone lusted after it: the Mughals for its lushness, the Brits for its temperate sense of home after the desiccation of the plains, Bollywood film makers for the bursting-forthness of mother nature, a place that they could use liberally as a suggestive backdrop to thousands of navel-swivelling dance numbers.
And the tourists came too, from all over the world, filling Srinagar's houseboats, and then filling up their backpacks with locally woven carpets, pâpier maché, shawls, carved wood, and indeed substantial lumps of Afghan gold, the smokable variety. Everything and almost anything was easily and charmingly available from the shikara salesman as they cross-hatched the waters of Srinagar, Dal and Nagin Lakes, in fairground boats, their fleet of waterborne Surreys-with-the-fringe-on-top taxis, with their Super Deluxe, Xtra-deep, Xtra-sprung seats. Heike from Heidelberg could sink into them and canoodle with Peter from Poughkeepsie, such was the travel equality of a time when the five-star resort culture was only just beginning to create the great divide between the travelling rich and backpacker brigade.
For twenty years the lakes of the Kashmir Valley hummed with business and international long vac love affairs in super-sprung shikara seats funded by student loans. But while the people of the Valley were managing to co-exist, bound and blended by the transcendent sense of being Kashmir, their giant neighbours, Pakistan and India, had begun to fight over the valley, even as Independence had been declared, and as Pakistan was forged as a new Muslim nation in August 1947.
The mutual tolerance within The Valley ended in 1989. A minister's daughter was kidnapped, student separatist bodies took up the gun and, for a heady moment, they believed they could win freedom for their state from both Pakistan and India. The Muslim majority finally vented a latent historical sense of rage at being the underlings to the minority Pandit elite of Kashmir. Srinagar was in flames. The Indian Army clamped down, and insurgents began to cross the border. They were ready jihadis, "defenders of Islam" honed by the Soviet-Afghan war of 1979-1989, the same Cold War conflict in which America, Britain, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and many other European countries had contributed extensively to the funding of the Mujahideen, the "holy strugglers" who had been fighting against the Soviets forces, one Osama bin Laden being amongst their number.
With the arrival of the jihadis the insurgency of Kashmir became a war. We should have been paying more attention.
While the escalating conflict in Kashmir perennially slid down the agenda at the UN, and India determinedly declared it a domestic problem, extremists poured in forcing many of the more Sufi-based Kashmiri Muslims to convert to being either Sunni or Shi'a. We could have watched more closely as the different parts of the state began to divide, as villages turned against their neighbours, families against families, and as various factions claiming to be soldiers and warriors of Allah used a mutating notion of their god as a blunt instrument with which to bludgeon. The security forces rammed back with all that they could bring to bear on the militants, insurgents, and anyone else they believed might be sheltering or harbouring any of the fighters.
Within the conflict the people of The Valley began to lose all faith.
Having travelled to India extensively with my mother as a child I began to write from there as an adult in the early 1990s. I was writing about The Valley, albeit as a greenhorn young journalist, but getting clear stories out was almost impossible. This was partly because there was random censorship, understandable in some ways, a standardized if denied part of any conflict. But with hindsight the reason that seems actually sad is that editors from Sydney to New York simply did not think Kashmir was an interesting enough story. My pile of article and essay rejection letters was testament to this lack of interest. The subject has since proven itself as a working template for many current conflicts: Afghanistan, Iraq and beyond.
The worst of that time has passed, for now. The Valley still has a heavy military, paramilitary and police presence. The violence continues, and the peace brokers and bridge-builders continue to seek new ways of constructing more than just a temporary truce, but for now there is relative calm. This fragile peace carries another lesson. Many at the political table believe that this quieter time has arrived because of their actions and rhetoric. Neither thing would have had much effect if it had not been for that fact that the Kashmiri people had been ground down by conflict, by hardship and the blanketing depression that comes with the attrition of war. It is only then, when the people cannot tolerate any more, that, with carefully matching smiles, the politicians can hold up their statements of intent in front of banks of flashing cameras.
In the heart of the city of Srinagar is the old Hindu quarter, a place of winding streets whose tall houses virtually obscure the high blue sky, their filigreed Juliet balconies almost touching each other across the narrow divide, hardly a space between. This place was once the hub of the city, the commercial centre flanked by the great wooden mosques where women and foreigners can still go, such was former easy local habit, such was the rhythm of Srinagar. If you stand in the heart of those streets and close your eyes you can almost hear the throb that once was. The reality is that the wooden frames of the houses are burnt out, roofless ghosts, shadows of the Pandit community from that time of tolerance in The Valley, when it was championed by soon-to-be-Independent India's prime minister-in-waiting, Pandit Nehru, himself of Kashmiri origin. The rupture of India's Partition in 1947 slow-burned within The Valley, turning Kashmir from happy valley into the steadily fermenting hot house that finally blew in 1989.
But what can you expect when you visit a city that has been an area of war and conflict for a generation? Can you really return and find the things that were there before: huge and gracefully cedar-carved houseboats; chugging, belching motorboats that used to haul optimistic tourists up out of the lake weed on antiquated water-skis: fringed shikaras for skittering to and fro across the lakes; the easy slide by of days on the water as seen from the cushioned verandas at the back of those absurdly romantic little floating hotels? And, perhaps most of all, what is it like to take holiday among people who have been ground down by a generation of hardship and death?
Well, some of the lake weed has gone, though it is an on-going battle. Nagin and Dal lakes were suffocating until the good burghers of Srinagar bandied together. They realised that if the conflict eased and tourism was to return there was not going to be a lot of lake for it to return to. They also knew that the great dollops of money that had come from the central government of India for the preservation of the lakes had curiously evaporated twixt central coffers and preservation projects. Their action has cleared some of the weed, and the lake water itself is cleaner too in parts.
Before the insurgency began in 1990 the tourist overload had been bearing down in some unsupportable ways that both floated and sank. In short there was just too much effluent being pumped out into the lakes. Eighteen years of almost negligible tourism mean that parts of the lakes are clean enough to swim in again, though the problem is far from solved as the waterside villages that cling to the banks still regard the lakes as their personal and bottomless garbage sites.
But while the tourist figures creep up, and great efforts are made to spruce the houseboats back to their former scented-cedar glory, the houseboat owners know that the days of Heike and Peter have gone. They have been replaced by a new generation of credit card dinkies hailing from a broad sweep that reaches from New Delhi to New Jersey. They come with a heavy requirement for instant gratification, a notion that is an antithesis to the world of the lakes where everything eventually comes because you do have time to wait.
While a shadow play of life is returning to the lakes, the situation in the rural areas remains hard and often brutal, smashed down by both the conflict, and then again by nature, like in October 2005 when an earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale pulverised a whole belt of Kashmir that stretches across both Pakistan and India. (Just as a marker, the earthquake that devastated Los Angeles in January 1994 measured 6.6 on the Richter scale.)
And in all this there are some things that have not changed. Eighteen years ago I used to sit on the back veranda of a Nagin lake houseboat watching the sky fall down into the Himalayas above the poplars, slides of colour that get lost amongst adjectives and hyperbole, light that roots itself in your core and lodges there. Mr. Marvellous, the number one Nagin Lake flower seller, came to sell me roses, and we used to talk about business and life. His real name has faded, and he is simply Mr. Marvellous the flower man, as was his father before him. During the eighteen years in between I went on sitting with my heart wrapped in the falling light, listening to gunfire from the city. Mr. Marvellous still came, not to talk of life, but of loss and mourning, both for the state of his business and for his friends and young male relations who had "crossed the border" to train as militants, and to become part of the body and soul count.
Now I can sit again in the eye of this unchanging scene and Mr. Marvellous is back to talk about roses and how well his children are doing at school. We hope to go on talking this way.
Justine Hardy
Justine Hardy has been based in India as a journalist and writer for over 18 years. Much of this time has been spent covering the conflict in Kashmir. Her book, The Wonder House, a novel set in The Valley, has recently been published by Grove Atlantic.
Barbara Happe and Martin S. Fischer's The Auerbach House by Walter Gropius with Adolf Meyer
By Morgan Ridler
DEC 19-JAN 20 | Art Books
Edited by the house's current owners, the new edition advances the earlier publication's argument that the rather little-known Auerbach House was crucial to the development of Walter Gropius's Bauhaus style. This edition of the book improves the quality of the wall painting images and utilizes recent scholarly work to update the analysis of the book.
Thoughts on Mies's Lemke House: Architecture—Feminism—Philosophy
By Joseph Masheck
OCT 2018 | 1 by 1
The Lemke House, built between 1932 – 33 for Karl and Martha Lemke, who had no children, on a pair of lots in the Berlin suburb of Hohenschönhausen (now Berlin-Lichtenberg), is modest. It's the last house that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe built in Germany, before closing the Bauhaus, owing to Hitler, and moving to Chicago. Karl Lemke, who ran a graphic arts business that catered to the art world, was a friend of the architect. That this work entailed a great deal of thought on Mies's part is attested to by a huge quantity of preliminary drawings, starting from much more ambitious ideas.3 The economy was taking its toll; yet something excellent was envisioned. Two significant features of the project do not seem acknowledged, however: the role of a woman designer, and the fact that the house, small as it is, is an extraordinary example of the influence on Mies of his most admired living philosopher, Romano Guardini.
Carmen Maria Machado: In the Dream House
By James W. Fuerst
OCT 2019 | Books
The subject matter of her memoir, however, is vastly different: it centers on the passionate same-sex relationship between the author in her mid-twenties and another young woman that quickly turned sour and became abusive. The eponymous Dream House, the author informs us, is neither a Hollywood set nor a narrative prop, but rather an actual place—the idyllic-seeming home that Machado and her lover shared in Bloomington, Indiana—as well as a "haunted house" where "metaphors abound."
Mark Morris's Ascension in a Shrinking Summer Dancescape at Lincoln Center
SEPT 2018 | Dance
With this summer's dearth of other large venue dance at Lincoln Center, and Morris's consistency with Mozart festival appearances, suddenly the "enfant terrible" has assumed the role of grand poobah of summer dance at the cultural center.
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From Brooklyn to Bourbon Street
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Science & technologyDec 15th 2001 edition
Malaria vaccines
No vaccine at all may be better than an imperfect one
ACCORDING to the World Health Organisation, malaria kills about 3,000 people a day, as many as 70% of them children under the age of five. Many groups of researchers are working on vaccines against the disease, but most agree that any vaccine that results will be imperfect. Nobody is expecting to confer full immunity with a vaccine, because the organisms that cause malaria are not viruses or bacteria (the traditional targets of vaccination) but single-celled animal-like creatures. These are a lot more complex and diverse than traditional vaccine targets. It is therefore hard to prime the immune system against all the strains of them that may cause the disease.
That might not be thought to matter much, on the basis that some protection is better than none. But a paper by Sylvain Gandon, Margaret Mackinnon and their colleagues at the University of Edinburgh, published in this week's Nature, shows that this ain't necessarily so. Partially effective vaccines may end up doing more harm than good. The researchers' mathematical models suggest that such vaccines may provoke the evolution of particularly virulent strains of the pathogen that causes the disease.
To understand why an imperfect vaccine might increase a disease's virulence, consider the matter from the pathogen's point of view. The main cost of increased virulence is that it will shorten the lifespan of the host, reducing the chances of the disease being transmitted to new hosts. On the other hand, a pathogen benefits from increased virulence because pathogenic organisms that are more virulent are less easily defeated by a host's immune system. That means that once a pathogen gets into a new host, it has a better chance of establishing itself.
In nature, the balance between these two forces is what governs the virulence of a given disease. The effect of a vaccine that confers full immunity, from the pathogen's point of view, is to reduce the size of its host population, since only unprotected individuals can then be infected. If anything, that will tend to reduce virulence, since the pathogen will have to hang on longer between transmission opportunities, and so will "want" its host to survive. But a vaccine that confers only partial immunity will increase host survival anyway, allowing pathogens that are not affected to "bank" this increased survival by becoming more virulent themselves.
This means two things. First, in the long run, the vaccinated will be no better off than they would otherwise have been. Second, the unvaccinated are actually worse off, since the newly virulent strain will spread at the expense of the older, less virulent ones. That is something that policymakers need to consider carefully if and when they are presented with a vaccine against malaria.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline "Unintended consequences"
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10 years ago, I shot this photo from Chappy of a sailboat moored in Edgartown. It's taken a while to paint it, primarily because I have been trying to develop my style for painting the rigging. I'm getting there little by little.


Apartamento is located 25km from zadar and 3km from biograd ma moru. 60 km from the national park krka. Of sibenik.
In a quiet area 300m from the beach and village center.
With private parking. grill. wi fi air conditioning.
" Oh La La! " House on quiet island where your car is not needed!
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Q: Is there any way I could spawn new Spanner nodes based on CPU over utilization? I have a use case where we receive a sudden traffic from API Gateway which results in over utilisation of Spanner node. So someone has to monitor the Spanner node during the peak hours and adjust the nodes as per the cpu utilisation. So I was just wondering is there any way I could just set the threshold in the backend app and spawn the node as per requirement. Let me in case there is any way-out. Thanks for the help in advance.

A: Autoscaling Cloud Spanner nodes based on CPU utilization is not natively supported at the moment, however we are evaluating it for future use. In the meantime, you might want to take a look at the autoscaling library from Spotify which they have made for Bigtable (https://github.com/spotify/bigtable-autoscaler), and modify it to work with Spanner


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Algebraic quadratic equations are special cases of a single generalized algebraic quadratic matrix equation (GQME). This paper focuses on the numerical solution of the GQME using probability-1 homotopy methods. A synoptic review of these methods and their application to algebraic matrix equations is provided as background. A large variety of analysis and design problems in systems and control are reported as special cases of the presented framework and some of them are illustrated via numerical examples from the literature.