No, in fact I had not really noticed. However, what I did notice a little later on was that the little Tulsi plants — from which I normally choose the best one to replace the old mother plant every year — did not make their usual appearance. It was the same with several other plants in the flower bed too. Something was obviously amiss.
My Eureka moment came one morning the following week whilst I was picking some christophines for lunch. "No honeybees!" I exclaimed to the wife. Normally at that time of the year, the christophine vines should be buzzing with these black and yellow miracles of nature. But that morning, I could not find a single one of our little friends on the cream-coloured flowers. Their absence meant that less pollination was taking place, thus explaining a reduction in fruit production. At least partly!
At its simplest, pollination involves the transfer of the male pollen from the anther to the female stigma of the flower. Provided the pollen is viable and is compatible with the female portion of the flower, fertilization will occur, which in turn will lead to the formation of a fruit. The process is largely aided and abetted by insects that meander from flower to flower in their search for nectar to nourish their larvae. The honeybee is a principal agent.
In fact honeybees account for 90 percent of all insect pollination, and they are responsible for the pollination of something like 30 percent of all agricultural crops. In just one outing, a honeybee can visit as many as 1,000 flowers. Without honeybee pollination, therefore, we would end up with a significant decrease in the reproduction of plants, fruits and vegetables.
But who/what is responsible for the decline in the number of honeybees.
Worldwide, there is a phenomenon called sudden colony-collapse disorder (CCD). This is also known as the Mary Celeste Syndrome — a reference to the mysterious abandonment by the entire crew of a British-American ship by that name in mid-Atlantic in 1872. Mysterious because, at the time the weather was fine and the ship was in good condition.
In the USA, CCD colony-collapse disorder was first noticed in 2006 by commercial beekeepers who found that adult bees were suddenly leaving the hive, only to end up dead somewhere else, thus leading to a very fast loss of the colony. Since 2006, some 10m hives have been lost due to CCD. At a replacement cost of USD 200 per hive, that amounts to a massive loss of USD 2bn. As important as this figure is, it pales into insignificance compared to the billions lost through the consequent decrease in pollination capacity and the consequent drop in the production of food crops.
In Europe also, a similar pattern has been observed. According to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the UK has lost some 30 percent of its total of 274k hives between 2007 and 2008. Around the same period, Italy lost around 50 percent of its 1092k hives and the loss in other European countries was in the range of 30-50 percent.
Since the bees go away to die, there are no bee bodies to examine. Consequently scientists are not able to determine the exact cause of death. Thus any conclusion they are able to draw is by inference only.
As far as is known, there is no single cause for CCD. Several types of viral infestation, a parasite called Varroa destructor, a bacterial disease called the European foulbrood and the irresponsible use of pesticides by farmers are thought to be the main culprits. Even proper use of some pesticides leads to a weakening of the bee's immune system, and eventually its death.
It is also thought GM crops with their pest control characteristics and even the ubiquitous cellular phone may have a weakening effect on the bee's immune system. In Mauritius, the wholesale burning of sugar cane during harvest time may also bear some responsibility for the reduction in the number of bees.
Figures gleaned from various sources suggest that there are some 400 beekeepers in Mauritius and Rodrigues, with a total of 2,000 hives. Annually, these keepers produce around 75 tons of honey and without drastic changes to our agricultural practice and environment, there is little prospect for any substantial increase in production.
Deforestation, cyclones and droughts as well as the burning of sugar cane leading to decreases in the quantity of nectar-producing flowers are major factors that restrict our capacity to increase the number of hives/honey production capacity. Like many other countries we also have a major problem with the indiscriminate use of pesticides, herbicides and all manner of other "cides!" Why, these have even found their way to our common gardens of late. There is just no hiding place for the poor little beasties!
As far as disease is concerned, figures are indeed sparse. The only thing we do know for sure from official sources is that the Varroa has been responsible for a reduction of 10 percent of the bee colonies in the country. Compared to the USA/EU, therefore, it would seem that we have been extremely lucky, but this may not be the complete picture. For instance, there is anecdotal evidence suggesting that we have been victim of CCD to a certain (unknown) degree. As for the effect of other diseases, we just do not know for sure, but they must surely have had a certain incidence on bee population.
We must also not forget that bees aren't the only insect species that have declined in numbers; man hasn't yet invented a pesticide that is selective in killing bees only. However in the absence of empirical research, we can only go by intuition, observation and anecdotal evidence. For example, the decline in the butterfly population is evident because of their size and colour, whereas the bumblebee seems to have disappeared altogether from the environment. The variation in lesser noticeable species is obviously less evident.
But since all insects are involved in pollination, any reduction in their numbers de facto leads to a reduction in fruition. Last year vegetable growers in the North were reporting a 20 percent decrease in their production. Even if all of this decrease in production may not be attributable to insect numbers, it would be surprising if a significant percentage was not.
As well as affecting the insect population, pesticides are known to cause disease in humans too. These may vary from mild allergy to life-threatening cancer. It has further been established for many years that insecticides also adversely affect animal/human reproductive process. In particular they have been found to be responsible for the phenomenal rise in breast cancer in women of all ages.
Fifty years ago only post-menopausal women were advised to self-examine themselves for any lumps in their breasts, because they were deemed to be more at risk due to hormonal changes. However for the past couple of decades, younger and younger women are falling victim to this disease which has now attained epidemic proportion. Walk down any sizeable street in any village/town and we will find at least a dozen cases.
There was a time when bee colonies proliferated in the meules that used to be a common feature of our agricultural landscape. From planting to harvest, sugar was produced by what we now call the bio method. Instead of tons of artificial fertilizers, natural cow/goat manure was used to feed the young canes. No one had ever heard of herbicides; thus weeding was done manually.
Instead of the current practice of mass burning for easier harvest, mostly women labour was employed to effect depaillage of the sugar cane. This involved the stripping of the straw from the cane thus rendering it ready for cutting before being loaded onto lorries/trams/ox carts for transportation to the milling factories. Consequently, after harvest the straw was left in situ to rot in the field and fertilize and enrich the soil naturally. Every seven years, at the end of its life cycle, the cane was uprooted and coquelicots planted on the land. Once mature and full of beans, these were interred interline to make the soil even richer still before replanting cane boutures.
It is evident that we can't quite get back to those halcyon days. But even as a layman, I know that we can certainly go for a mix of organic/inorganic farming — by replacing artificial fertilizers with compost, herbicides and insecticides particularly the lethal neonicotinoids by biological alternatives. As for the wild bees, they can be replaced by domesticated ones and, in the absence of the meules, the hives can be placed in strategic places. And why not increase nectar production by planting hedgerows with flowering plants. One thing we can do straightaway is abandon this mad, bad, sad policy that forces people — under threat of prosecution — to destroy all the plants growing on their morcellement plots, instead of leaving them alone to produce more wild flowers.
I am sure a multidisciplinary group of "experts" can think of many other ways of increasing flower production and insect protection. That is the challenge if we want to continue enjoying our mangoes in their different guises (achard, salad, chutney, ripe), our delicious pumpkin with roti and the hundreds of home grown and imported food crops pollinated by our friend the bee and its insect allies.
Otherwise old Albert's prophecy may well come to pass one day. Hopefully in the very distant future?


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Governor Dodge Looks at the Global Economy and the Implications for Ontario
In a speech by video conference to the Ontario Economic Leadership Summit in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Governor Dodge reviewed the Bank's projections contained in the Monetary Policy Report, published last week. Global economic growth is expected to be a little higher than previously anticipated, but a weaker near-term outlook for the U.S. economy has curbed the near-term prospects for Canadian exports and growth, the Governor said. The Bank's base-case projection now calls for average annual GDP growth of 2.8 per cent in 2006, 2.5 per cent in 2007, and a return to 2.8 per cent in 2008.
Governor Dodge pointed out that Ontario's economy will be affected more than the national average because of the close ties between the province's industrial base and the two sectors of the U.S. economy that are slowing the most: automobiles and housing. "Nevertheless, modest growth in Ontario's economy should persist," Governor Dodge said. "Seventy per cent of Ontario's economic activity comes from the service sector, and that sector remains in good shape."
The Governor went on to address some of the longer-term structural challenges facing Ontario, as well as some of the policies that will be important to secure Ontario's economic future. In particular, the Governor stressed the need for sound policies on the development of human resources and ongoing improvements in the province's infrastructure.
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The Global Economic Landscape and the Implications for Ontario
Remarks David Dodge 2006 Ontario Economic Leadership Summit Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
How can we develop human capital to its fullest potential, and retain that capital? How can we foster research, innovation, and commercialization in this province? How can we improve Ontario's competitiveness in the global marketplace?

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Q: Twitter Typeahead min length = 0 equivalent? I'm using Twitter's Typeahead.js (Not the one included in Bootstrap) and I was wondering if there was a similar function to minLength=0 that exists in Better-Typeahead (Bootstrap)
Triggering on input looked promising, but I don't want there to be any text in the input box when the dropdown is triggered.

A: Yep, Datasets have a minLength option, see the code here. It's been around since v0.9.1, but it hasn't made its way to the README yet.
Here's how you'd use it:
$('.typeahead').typeahead({
  minLength: 3,
  local: [/* ... */]
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Why Bruce Springsteen decided to sell his music rights
In one of the biggest music rights acquisition deals, Bruce Springsteen has sold his entire music catalogue to Sony Music Entertainment for a reported $500 million.
The deal included both the Boss' recording and publishing assets, leaving many asking why the deal was brokered in the first place.
With many musicians opting to sell their song rights for a hefty price, there are many factors that make catalogue sales an appealing option.
For Bruce Springsteen, the money involved in the sale is one aspect that is difficult to turn down.
Especially when the $500 million pay cheque is reportedly 30 times the annual royalty payments received by the 20-time Grammy winner.
With many selling their music rights for a huge once-off compensation payment, the selling price is often a lot higher than their annual income from royalties, record sales, or touring.
The Boss' sale could also be a way to future-proof his inheritance.
Physical assets such as cash and property are much easier to pass on to a nominated heir than a complex basket of music rights that span several decades.
Others have been entangled in lengthy legal battles for music rights of a deceased artist, namely James Brown and Sonny Bono, with music estates being the hottest commodity for some to fight over.
As outlined by Forbes, Springsteen's sale could have been associated with potential tax benefits.
In layman's terms, the federal capital gain tax rate in the US is currently at 20%, but runs the risk of being hiked to 43.4% for those who earn more than $1 million in a proposal by The White House.
Because of this and other possible tax jumps, as well as the fact that royalties are already taxed as "ordinary income", Springsteen will receive more money in his pocket after one huge pay out, rather than opt to cash in his royalties annually.
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As soon as I entered this shop, I immediately felt the attention given in the small details, everywhere. From the fancy and very interesting Italian products to the decoration of the shop, even the vase with the impressive flowers in the entrance. Fabrizio, one of the owners, is the person you need to ask for any explanation you may need about the food products, the selected wines, the very interesting chocolates, the wild mushroom crackers and so many more. You really want to taste everything. Attractive packaging italian style and many great ideas if you want to impress with your gift giving. Visit and be impressed. The place hosts wine tastings very often and also various exhibitions with local artists. Keep an eye on this one for new arrivals as well.
A 100% sugarfree smoothie? Who said that?


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Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields is a simple, Java-based simulation software that enables you to broadcast radio waves from KPhET.
Wiggle the transmitter electron manually or have it oscillate automatically. Display the field as a curve or vectors. The strip chart shows the electron positions at the transmitter and at the receiver.


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What Makes a Good Politician?, Asks Lee Hamilton '52
Tiger Women Ranked 22nd in Both National Hoops Polls
Reich Finishes Second in Mile at Indiana Relays; Sets School Record
Jacksonville Jaguars Name Rob Boras '92 Tight Ends Coach
Tyler A. Archer '11
February 4, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — "I'm always surprised that relatively little attention is focused on examining closely whether someone serving in or running for Congress has the personal attributes it takes to be an effective member of the institution," writes Lee H. Hamilton, the 1952 DePauw University graduate who served 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. "If someone's behavior is shady or unsavory, that will make the news. But the qualities and skills that set good politicians apart should draw more notice."
In a newspaper op-ed, Hamilton offers, "Chief among those qualities is honesty. The public may believe that politics is a dirty business, but effective members of Congress must be trustworthy. They understand that to work together over the course of years, they must level with their colleagues. The same is true in their dealings with constituents, who are on the lookout for hyperbole and misleading statements."
Other attributes cited by the veteran statesman include energy, focus, communication skills and ambition. "While most politicians -- good and indifferent -- are adept at identifying and seizing on issues that will work to their own or their party's benefit, the better ones possess an additional skill: they know how to use the system to achieve results. They understand where in the federal bureaucracy to get help for a constituent, and they think creatively about how to use the congressional process and their colleagues' interests to advance a policy goal. Perhaps just as important, they also understand the limits of their power -- both what a legislator can realistically accomplish, and the fact that legislators might react to events but rarely can control them ... And perhaps most important, they understand that politics involves give and take, and the ability to find common ground. A good politician listens very carefully to those on the other side, not only to learn their arguments, but especially to learn how far he or she can move them and how far he or she has to be moved in order to reach consensus."
The Democrat concludes, "Finally, they never forget where they're from and fight hard not to succumb to Potomac Fever. They understand their districts and states, remain loyal to their constituents, and have an abiding faith in the decency, intelligence and patriotism of the voters. Without that, it's almost impossible to be a true representative, able to express in the halls of the powerful the hopes, dreams, and interests of ordinary Americans. That's what they got sent to Washington to do, and the very best never forget." (at left: Hamilton receiving the Eisenhower Medal from Gen. Colin Powell in May 2007)
Access the complete essay at the Web site of Ohio's Hillsboro Times-Gazette.
Lee Hamilton has been appointed co-chair of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Now president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, he previously co-chaired both the 9/11 Commission and Iraq Study Group.


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Intermission Edition: Theater Magic Moments
by Seattle Rep
When you see live theater, there are sometimes those "theater magic" moments where you wonder, "How did they do that!?" This week, we're giving you the inside scoop. We asked members of our production team to share the stories behind the most memorable theater magic moments from our stages.
Stories from Brian Fauska, Technical Director
Stories from Jolene Obertin, Properties Director
Throwing Up On Cue: God of Carnage (2010)
Denis Arndt, Amy Thone, Bhama Roget, and Hans Altwies in God of Carnage (2010). Photo by Chris Bennion.
"The God of Carnage script calls for an actress to throw up onstage on cue. I contacted the set designer Eugene Lee and asked for advice. Eugene has been one of the set designers for Saturday Night Live since it began. I was sure I had seen this being done on that show. Eugene put me in contact with a prop person, who then put me in contact with NBC's special effects department. Then, I sat down with Seattle Rep Technical Director Brian Fauska and we devised a plan.
The whole idea was actually very simple: you need a tank to hold fluid, a way to pressurize the fluid quickly, and hoses. Then came the tricky part: there was a hose traveling down the actor's arm that stopped right above her wrist. She would put both hands together (both palms up, with the hose on the bottom wrist), put her hands up to her mouth, and act like she was vomiting. The director wanted to be confident that this was all worked out before we went into technical/dress rehearsal, so for almost three weeks our assistant stage manager would try different things out in the Seattle Rep parking lot. We played with the pressure and the hand positions. Hand positions played a very important part in getting the spray where we wanted it to be.
The one other thing the actors had to do onstage was hook the hose up. This was so the actor could wander around the stage freely. She then would sit down and the other actors gathered around her acting like they were all concerned because she felt sick and would hook up the hose that started at her waist, went up her back, and then down her arm, held in place by a special costume piece built to hold the hose in place. One dress rehearsal, the hose didn't get connected in time so instead of soup going through the hose, the fluid hit the actor's backside.
When I talked to the NBC folks, they told us that they would get pea soup from their commissary to use. We don't have a commissary and on television, they never had to worry about the soup being cleaned out of costumes since they only do it a couple of times on camera. We needed to do it 40 times during the run of the show and we couldn't replace costumes that often. We also used a pea soup, but one that had no meat, fat or dairy.
The whole cast was great—they were the ones that had to make sure the audience believed that it was real. I've talked to numerous theaters on how to do this effect, and we actually rented out our set set-up close to a dozen times."
Making a Severed Head: MAC BETH (2018)
Sophie Kelly-Hedrick, Analiese Emerson Guettinger, and Laakan McHardy, (and the prop head of Charlotte Schweiger) in MAC BETH (2018). Photo by Navid Baraty.
"The director of Mac Beth [Erica Schmidt] liked the work that was done to make the decapitated head of the character Macbeth. [Erica] liked it so much that when she mounted the show at two different off-Broadway theaters, she had the two different Macbeth actors flown out to Seattle so Properties Artisan Angela Zylla could do the head cast, construction, and painting, and Joyce Degenfelder could do the hair." [Editor's Note:] The artistry of this severed head had one of the creative minds behind Game of Thrones exclaiming "this is the best head I've ever seen" after being shown a picture of the final product.
Watch how this infamous head was created in our Making the Magic video:
Baaaaaaackstage Shenanigans: Curse of the Starving Class (1987)
Curse of the Starving Class (1987), actors unknown. Photo by Chris Bennion.
"When we did Curse of the Starving Class in the PONCHO years ago, we rented two lambs and their mother to star in the show. We only used one lamb onstage at a time—they had just been weaned, so we wanted Mom there for comfort. We named the lambs Legga and Racka and the mom Stew. We built a pen out in the Seattle Rep parking lot (yes, that meant I and others in the prop shop mucked out the pen and fed them!). Every show, an assistant stage manager would walk one lamb down the hallway for their entrance. Sheep don't really like to cross door thresholds, and they would always stop at a backstage mirror and try to rub noses with their reflection in the mirror. After the run of the show, Legga and Racka went to live on a wool farm, and Stew went back to the farmer in Snohomish that rented them to us. Whenever we've used animals onstage, we talk to owners and veterinarians about best practices to keep the animal healthy, safe, and calm."
August Wilson's Personal Jukebox: Two Trains Running (2018)
The 1955 Rock-Ola jukebox, Model 144 from the original Two Trains Running production (at Seattle Rep in 1991). Photo courtesy of Arena Stage.
"When we did Two Trains Running [in 2018], it was the second time the show played on the Bagley Wright stage [in Seattle Rep's history]. August Wilson lived in Seattle for many years, and Seattle Rep was one of the few theaters that had produced all of his plays. Some of the productions Seattle Rep originated here, and a fair amount came to Seattle Rep from Broadway. August once told me that he saved a prop from each of his shows, therefore I knew that the jukebox from the original Two Trains Running production [1990/91 season] had gone to his Seattle home. We contacted his widow, Constanza Romero and she kindly let us borrow the jukebox again." Read more about the long history of this jukebox in The Washington Post.
What's a Laptop?: Inspecting Carol (1991)
R. Hamilton Wright and the cast of Inspecting Carol (1991). Photo by Chris Bennion.
"When we produced the original production of Inspecting Carol, we ended up being able to borrow a laptop computer from a family member of our then-Technical Director. In 1991, nobody at that point had laptops—we didn't even have many (if any) computers in the whole building. We were all in awe and couldn't imagine regular people owning laptops."
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Interview with Cassie Beck
Actor Cassie Beck discusses playing Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me, the local teen debaters involved in the play, and more in a series of video interviews.
Urgency, Creativity, and Heart: An Interview with Playwright Heidi Schreck and Actor Cassie Beck
Read on for an interview with What the Constitution Means to Me playwright Heidi Schreck and actor Cassie Beck.
It Takes a Collective Voice
We recently sat down with Accessibility Consultant and Founder of Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium (SCAC), Elizabeth Ralston to discuss accessibility in the arts, SCAC, and much more.
Interview with the Cast of Ghosts
We recently sat down with the entire cast of Ghosts to dive into Paul Walsh's exciting new translation, their characters, Henrik Ibsen, and much more.
Prescient for Our Own Time
We sat down with Ghosts translator Paul Walsh and director Carey Perloff to hear about this new translation of Ibsen's classic masterpiece.


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Hydrogen Energy Briefing Paper No 2/2021
This paper was produced to assist the Legislative Council's Standing Committee on State Development with its current inquiry into the Development of a hydrogen industry in New South Wales.
What is hydrogen and what can it be used for?
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, with the simplest atomic structure of any element (a single negatively charged electron circling a single
positively charged proton). The most abundant source of hydrogen on Earth is water, the compound H2O. Hydrogen can also form hydrogen gas (H2); a colourless, odourless, non-toxic, flammable gas that is present in the Earth's atmosphere in amounts less than 1 part per million by volume. Below -252.87◦C, hydrogen gas forms Liquid Hydrogen (LH2).
Hydrogen can be used to generate two forms of energy: heat and electricity. Heat energy is generated when hydrogen undergoes combustion in the presence of oxygen. The output from the combustion of hydrogen in the presence of pure oxygen is heat energy and water. No carbon dioxide (CO2) or other greenhouse gas is emitted. However, if hydrogen is burned in the presence of air, harmful nitrogen oxides (NOx) can be formed. Electrical energy is generated when electrochemical processes in a fuel cell strip hydrogen atoms of their electrons and the electrons flow through a circuit. The only by-products are heat energy and water.
Hydrogen can be used in the natural gas network for home heating, cooking and water heating. It could replace up to 13% of the natural gas distributed by the network without any modification of appliances, existing pipeline infrastructure and gas meters. High-temperature industrial processes that currently rely on natural gas can convert to hydrogen with minimal retrofitting of existing equipment.
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The United States may have two nuclear submarines positioned near North Korea, able to strike at the reclusive regime if necessary. These details emerged thanks to a confidential transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and his counterpart in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte. The document raises additional questions about Trump's handling of sensitive information, as well as the possibility of a potential strike against Pyongyang's military or government.
On April 29, 2017, Trump called Duterte ostensibly to commend the Philippine president on his violent and controversial war on drugs, in which police have killed thousands of Filipinos, mostly addicts and small-time dealers. The freewheeling discussion quickly turned to other topics, including North Korea and its leader Kim Jong Un.
"He [Kim Jong Un] is playing with his bombs, his toys and from the looks of it, his mind is not working well and he might just go crazy one moment," Duterte says at one point near the end of his chat with the American president. "We have a lot of firepower there," Trump responds, apparently unprompted.
Anonymous sources leaked the transcript, an official Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs document that is marked confidential and has a security cover sheet, to various news outlets on May 23, 2017, according to The New York Times. Additional unnamed individuals confirmed its contents as "an accurate representation of the call." The Intercept subsequently posted a complete copy of the document online.
Though the conversation occurred in private, the comments are in line with the Trump administration's increasingly stern rhetoric with regards to increasingly worrisome North Korean provocations. Since January 2017, the regime in Pyongyang has conducted nearly a dozen ballistic missile tests – including firing significantly more advanced and heretofore unseen types than in previous years – and made apparent preparations for sixth nuclear test, all in defiance of existing international condemnation and sanctions. Since the beginning of April 2017, North Korea has averaged almost one missile launch every week.
North Korean forces launch a KN-15 missile in May 2017.
But it should go without saying that U.S. officials disclosing even the relative position of U.S. Navy submarines, regardless of the circumstances and the parties involved, is highly unorthodox at best. America's submarines are nicknamed the "silent service" for a reason. Their ability to operate all over the world, performing missions ranging from routine patrolling to intelligence gathering, all without giving away their location is their greatest strength. This ability to quietly move into a particular area and potentially strike without warning makes them a very credible deterrent threat.
The transcript immediately sparked criticism and concern about the president's attitude toward discussing sensitive information. Trump had already provoked outrage among politicians and pundits by apparently disclosing top secret intelligence from an Israeli source during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Russia's ambassador to the United States Sergey Kisylak. In an attempt to push back against those reports, in a joint press conference with Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump insisted he hadn't specifically mentioned Israel during the incident. This admission only seemed to confirm that he had discussed the highly sensitive source of information with the Russian officials.
North Korean premier Kim Jong Un laughs while observing the test of a KN-15 missile in May 2017.
And this isn't the first time Trump has drawn flak of for his open discussion of military matters by talking about the presence of submarines in the region. In April 2017, he mentioned them specifically as part of a force the United States was sending in a show of force to North Korea during an interview with FOX Business Network reporter Maria Bartiromo.
The carrier in question was the USS Carl Vinson, whose precise location became a news story in its own right after a series of confusing statements from the Trump Administration and the Navy about where it was headed and when. The submarine issue got lost amid those reports. Now there is a concern that their presence in the area is yet another indicator the Trump administration is still actively considering a military strike on North Korea.
To be fair, Trump did not appear to tell Duterte exactly where the submarines were, what type of boats they were, or exactly what sort of weaponry they had on board. Based on publicly available information, we can't say for sure what subs he was talking about or if they are still in the vicinity of North Korea nearly a month later.
Reconnaissance Marines prepare to depart USS Michigan during a training exercise off Guam in 2015.
One was almost certainly the USS Michigan, an Ohio-class missile submarine, which arrived in South Korea's port city of Busan on April 25, 2017. The Navy described this stop as "a routine visit during a regularly scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific." This isn't the first time the sub has made a stopover in South Korea. In addition, though the majority of the Ohios carry 24 Trident II nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, Michigan is one of four converted to only fire conventional Tomahawks instead. These boats carry a massive load of 154 of the land attack cruise missiles. On top of that, Michigan is on the Ohio-class vessels to carry the Dry Deck Shelter, which allows it to deploy special operations forces and their swimmer delivery vehicle mini-subs.
The other submarines might be a Los Angeles-class attack boat, which routinely accompany carrier groups, such as the one escorting the Carl Vinson. The vessels also conduct independent patrols and the Navy's Commander, Submarine Group Seven oversees the activities of four Los Angeles-class attack subs in the Western Pacific from Apra Harbor on the island of Guam.
Though their primary job is to attack enemy ships, each Los Angeles can fire Tomhawks. Early boats could launch the missiles horizontally through their torpedo tubes, but more recent members of the class have a dozen vertical launch cells that can accommodate either the cruise missiles or Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
The Los Angeles-class submarine USS Sante Fe shows off her vertical launch system.
All of this would seem to imply the U.S. military is prepared for a very limited strike against North Korean nuclear or missile facilities, akin to the American strike on Syria's Shayrat air base in April 2017. In that case, the Trump administration chose to employ Tomahawks, too. At the time, the War Zone took a hard look at the decision to employ cruise missiles in that mission.
Unfortunately, Pyongyang employs hardened structures, deep caves, and similarly difficult to reach sites in order to protect its most sensitive military assets. It seems unlikely the Tomahawk would be a good choice for attacking those nuclear and missile sites. Launched in close proximity, the missiles could be useful for time-sensitive strikes, driven by information from Washington's massive intelligence infrastructure spying on North Korea, to hit Pyongyang's missile forces while they're still moving into position and preparing to fire. This would work best against the country's liquid fueled missiles, which take significantly longer to get ready to launch than solid-fuel types.
Still, since the Trident II has a range of more than 7,000 miles, an Ohio-class boat wouldn't need to be very close to the Korean Peninsula in order to be in a position to attack targets in North Korea. Based on heavily redacted copies of the Pentagon's actual nuclear war plans that we obtained the Freedom of Information Act, the War Zone has already published a particularly detailed look about what would go into an American nuclear attack on North Korea and how any U.S. administration might arrive at that decision.
Another one of the four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, the USS Georgia.
Regardless of his actual intent, as in the past, Trump's statements are only likely to fuel the North Korean government's victim complex and its paranoia about American attacks, which it routinely says are imminent and the reason for its nuclear weapons program, as well as lending weight to its domestic propaganda – something we've already warned about here at The War Zone. North Korea's state-run media arms already published threats to sink the Michigan and the Vinson in April 2017.
So far, the presence of any American submarines in the area has so far not deterred Kim Jong Un. Since the beginning of May 2017, North Korea has already tested two more ballistic missiles, including the off-road mobile and potentially nuclear-capable Pukguksong-2, also known as the KN-15. It is possible that the Trump administration may feel increasingly compelled to strike, whether or not subs are ultimately involved.


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A year after daily publication ceased in Alabama and New Orleans, media market is 'fractured'
By: Rebecca Theim
B.E. Mintz is attuned to the irony: After the 176-year-old New Orleans Times-Picayune ceased daily publication a year ago this week, "people took the position, 'I'm so angry that I have to read the newspaper online, that I'm going to go read my news somewhere else online,'" he said.
Mintz is editor and publisher of NOLA Defender, a 3-year-old news and arts website. Not coincidentally, he said, the site's readership has doubled and its advertising revenue has increased by more than 50 percent since the T-P's cutbacks were announced.
Besides New Orleans, the communities of Huntsville, Birmingham, and Mobile, Ala., and Pascagoula, Miss., also lost their daily newspapers on Oct 1, 2012, as part of a radical "digital-first" restructuring by Advance Publications, the nation's second-largest privately held media company. After publishing daily for a combined total of more than 500 years, the papers became primarily digital operations augmented by less frequent print papers. (Since those restructurings, Advance rolled out similar changes at its newspapers in Syracuse, N.Y., Harrisburg, Penn., Cleveland and Portland, Ore.)
The Advocate's New Orleans edition next to the Times-Picayune on a newsstand in Metairie, La., last September (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
I'm a former reporter with The Times-Picayune and last year became deeply involved in the unsuccessful effort to save the daily newspaper. I subsequently wrote a book, being published this month, about that battle and the dynamics roiling the newspaper industry that provoked those changes.
For this report, I interviewed 17 residents, journalists, businesspeople and academicians living and working in New Orleans and the three Alabama communities.
All but one — a Times-Picayune reporter — said their communities now receive print products with a marked reduction in enterprise and investigative reporting.
"On a day-to-day basis, you can tell a difference in what's not getting covered," said Chris Roberts, a former editor and reporter at newspapers in Alabama and South Carolina, who now is a journalism professor at the University of Alabama and wrote a chapter about the Alabama component of Advance's digital-first initiative for a forthcoming book edited by mass communications faculty at Louisiana State University.
The past year has been "a black hole for news in this city," says Doug Jones, a Birmingham attorney who rose to national prominence for reopening and successfully prosecuting the infamous 1963 16th Street Church bombing case while serving as U.S. Attorney for the Northern Alabama district.
Jones said he and his wife are contemplating dropping their Birmingham News subscription in favor of the still-daily Tuscaloosa News, based some 60 miles south, which is testing the competitive waters by offering subscriptions in some Birmingham neighborhoods.
"We've got some good journalists who still write for al.com, and on occasion, they'll come up with some great coverage and analysis, but I think they're probably more frustrated than the readers at what all has transpired," he added. "All is not completely lost, but it's getting there, if they don't watch out."
"It's been a rough year on all fronts," said Times-Picayune environmental reporter Mark Schleifstein, the only person still employed with either Advance or The Times-Picayune's newly constituted parent company, NOLA Media Group, to speak to me on-the-record for either the book or this report. (As in the past, neither Editor Jim Amoss, who I worked under during my tenure there, nor Publisher Ricky Mathews responded to my requests for interviews.)
"As one of the remaining reporters of what was The Times-Picayune, I can say it's now a completely different newsroom," he added. "I think we're holding our own in terms of our coverage, with some minor slots that need to be filled. In terms of what we hear, we're holding our own on the circulation front, and we're more than holding our own on the electronic front. And we're beating the hell out of the competition."
Competition was something Advance once rarely worried about – the late S.I. "Sam" Newhouse, the company's founder, targeted monopoly markets for his newspaper acquisitions and most have remained the top outlets in their communities. But the disastrous way the T-P's employees, readers and advertisers learned of the changes in May 2012 — courtesy of The New York Times — led to outrage that fueled and emboldened other media outlets.
Since then, New Orleans billionaire John Georges acquired the Baton Rouge-based Advocate and aggressively expanded the New Orleans edition that its previous owners had launched in response to The Times-Picayune's cutbacks.
Other New Orleans news organizations, like alternative weekly The Gambit, nonprofit investigative and public policy site The Lens, public radio station WWNO and hyperlocal sites Uptown Messenger and Mid-City Messenger report moderately-to-substantially larger audiences since the Picayune went to a reduced print publishing schedule.
"Because the news environment here is in transition and is still sorting itself out, people are willing to look at all kinds and different news sources, and that benefits us," said WWNO General Manager Paul Maassen.
The communities' alternative newspapers report significant growth and have either expanded or plan to do so in 2014. "We've definitely seen a big uptick in the past two quarters, and I think some of that is attributable to the fact that the daily is gone," said Rob Holbert, co-publisher and managing editor of Mobile's biweekly Lagniappe, which plans to go weekly in 2014. "It's just changed the landscape around here, and the market has really expanded for us. If [the Press-Register] is abandoning the print market, we're certainly willing to take it."
The changes in the daily newspapers' operations have also spawned media alliances. WWL-TV, New Orleans' dominant station, has partnerships with The Advocate and the Messengers, while WVUE-TV, the region's Fox affiliate, is allied with NOLA.com, and The Lens with WWNO. In addition, The Lens makes its reports available for free to outlets that publish them with attribution, and its work has appeared in the pages of both The Advocate and The Times-Picayune.
In Birmingham, al.com has an alliance with Alabama Public Radio, while alt-weekly Weld for Birmingham has a distribution partnership with the Tuscaloosa News and content partnerships with the region's CBS TV affiliate and Birmingham Mountain Radio.
Advance's experiment came in response to declining subscriber and ad revenues that U.S. newspapers have experienced for at least a decade. The most recent report it filed with industry group Alliance for Audited Media showed the newspaper's average Sunday print circulation declined 9 percent, to 140,243, year over year. However, combined print and "digital non-replica" circulation – the latter which publisher Mathews told Poynter "represents average unique users of our digital apps" – climbed 13 percent, to 175,097 over the same period.
Combined average Sunday circulation at Advance's three Alabama newspapers declined about 8 percent during the same period, with then-nascent digital edition circulation having little effect there.
Although The Times-Picayune made a number of new editorial hires, more than half of its old newsroom was laid off in the changes, while a total of more than 600 employees were cut across the three states. Those reductions are reflected in the quality of the news product both online and in print, most of those interviewed said.
"What I've seen, at least in this first year, is because of the reduction in resources committed to local reporting, we've experienced a dramatic decrease in quality news available to the community," said Jim Aucoin, professor and chair of the Communications Department at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. "Investigative and enterprise coverage just isn't there anymore."
Birmingham lawyer Jones specifically criticized al.com and what he characterized as its generally superficial coverage. "You go online and there are all these teasers, but when you click on them, there are just two or three paragraphs," he said. "And there's no decent national coverage. Hell, we can't even get good coverage of University of Alabama football anymore."
Readers in highly technologically savvy Huntsville may be less troubled. "I think al.com has responded reasonably well to the increased [digital] demand by providing convenient and free online access to the state's major newspapers," said Eletra Gilchrist-Petty, associate professor of Communication Studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. "Overall, there do appear to be more strengths than limitations associated with al.com."
Since the change, Amoss has insisted the outlet has a reporting staff comparable in size to before the change. Pew's State of the Media report for 2013 said the paper laid off 84 of its 171 people in the newsroom, and that "ultimately the staff, including 8 people already working at NOLA, grew back to roughly 150. So the staffing loss was 20 to 30 positions together with some changes in the mix of job status and duties." Amoss wrote in January that the staff stood at 155, a figure at odds with both my reporting for the book and Ryan Chittum's reporting in CJR.
In that same piece, Amoss detailed six major investigative and enterprise reports NOLA.com had recently produced, and highlighted its state capital, arts, dining, entertainment, sports and community coverage. "Readers had to accept on faith our assurances that we would maintain the journalistic excellence they have come to expect from us. … Now that we have more than three months under our belt, you have a basis for judging our performance."
New Advocate owner Georges has launched the country's most aggressive response to Advance's changes. He has hired some 30 former Times-Picayune employees since acquiring the newspaper in late April, and recently launched a marketing campaign featuring TV advertising, along with alliances with the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, and LSU's sports teams.
"Maybe I win, and maybe I don't, but I can tell you that I have a very long-term outlook and a very high threshold for pain," Georges told me in a May interview for the book. But even if he achieves his home subscription circulation goal of 30,000 by year's end, The Advocate will still have roughly one-quarter of The Times-Picayune's current average print circulation.
"In terms of reaching the audience I felt it was important for me to stick around for, this is still the place to be," Schleifstein said about NOLA Media Group and its far higher circulation.
Within a week on either side of Georges' acquisition of The Advocate, NOLA Media Group launched BR, a free weekly tabloid circulated in Baton Rouge, and a newsstand tabloid available the three weekdays on which The Times-Picayune no longer publishes.
Even among fellow privately held companies, Advance is particularly secretive, so any financial analysis of digital first's early success is speculative.
Ken Doctor, consumer news industry analyst for global research and advisory firm Outsell, has estimated that Advance has slashed 25 percent of its expenses and retained 90 percent of its advertising revenue. This "means that strategy is working pretty well" from a financial perspective, he told me in a May interview for the book, and affirmed this week.
However, "a year out is probably a little too soon to tell" anything meaningful, said Poynter business analyst Rick Edmonds. "This is not something that was done for an immediate payoff."
Thus, the big question remains: Will New Orleans' advertisers migrate online with NOLA.com, and support two newspapers and numerous online and broadcast outlets?
"The immutable fact is that if there wasn't enough print advertising for one daily newspaper a year ago, that's even truer today," Gambit Editor Kevin Allman said. "So now, we have two newspapers competing for the same pot of advertising money and the same diminishing subscriber base. The next big battle will be the ground war for advertisers and subscribers."
Gambit publisher Margo Dubos observed that The Times-Picayune has so far held on to the lucrative preprint advertising supplements. But interviews I conducted for the book showed that the reduction of print editions has prompted at least four major advertisers to significantly reduce overall advertising spending with NOLA Media Group, or to stop advertising in the company's products altogether.
"The actions they have taken over the past months are driving us away from their print publication," Rick Haase, president of New Orleans-headquartered Latter & Blum, Inc., the largest real estate agency in the Gulf South and The Times-Picayune's largest advertiser in the real estate category, told me for the book.
"We have always supported local businesses and will continue to do so, but if [NOLA Media Group] thought cutting its number of print editions was going to drive our print spend into the NOLA.com digital space, they made a serious error. We think they are really hurting themselves."
Executives with three other formerly major advertisers offered similar assessments.
But if local advertisers embrace digital advertising, another irony may arise.
NOLA Media Group "legitimized online news overnight," said Robert Morris, founder of the Messengers, which he said have doubled both unique visitors and ad revenues since The Times-Picayune announcement in the spring of 2012. "They had a monopoly on print newspapers, and then all of the sudden, directly because of the action they took, we now have two newspapers in the city.
"The market was impenetrable, but now it's completely and utterly fractured."
Rebecca Theim grew up in Huntsville and was a Times-Picayune reporter from 1988-94. Her book, Hell and High Water: The Battle to Save the Daily New Orleans Times-Picayune, published by Pelican Publishing Co., will be in bookstores later this month.
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Michael Jay Swenson passed away on June 21, 2012 in Blanding, UT.
Michael was born May 2, 1961 in Monticello, UT to Morris J Swenson and Constance Gay Little. He was a fun-loving, adventurous and mischievous boy, being the second of six children.
During high school, he played football, wrestled, was named second team All-State his junior year and first team All-State his senior year. In wrestling, he placed second two years running in the state tournaments.
Mike earned a wrestling scholarship to Weber State University after serving an mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Dearborn, Michigan.
Michael was blessed with four loving children: Ashley Swenson Pope, Ryan Michael Swenson, Zachary Taylor Thomson and Merissa Grace Thomson. His children meant the world to him.
He worked as a material specialist for the State of Utah in the transportation deportation for close to 13 years. After suffering a disabling back injury, he taught himself, mastering computers and other technologies.
Michael was a loving, devoted father. He was passionate in any endeavor in which he engaged. He loved adventure, intellectual discussions and could fix anything. Often times, he would spend hours or days fixing whatever it was that was asked of him.
Material possessions were not important to him and he would often give anything he had to the needy. Michael will be greatly missed.
He is preceded in death by his brother, John L. Swenson.
He is survived in death by his parents, Morris and Connie Swenson; children Ashley (Kael) Pope, Ryan Swenson, Zachary Thompson and Merissa Thompson; brothers Blair (Paula) Swenson, Craig (Heidi) Swenson and Jim Swenson; sisters Barbara Swenson and Linda (Alan) Larson; and many nieces and nephews.
The Swenson family expresses their deepest gratitude and appreciation for all the love, kindness and thoughtful gestures that have been bestowed upon them during this time of bereavement.
A special thanks to the Sherriff's Office and Blanding Police department for the extra kindness and services provided above and beyond their duties. It is a pleasure and honor to live in a wonderful caring community.


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My name is J.J. Molodecki. I grew up in Arizona but felt God drawing us to Chicago. I am one of those weird people who actually love the cold. I also have a passion for God, my family, mission trips, theatre, the San Antonio Spurs, and people!
I received my BFA from the University of Arizona then moved to the area almost 15 years ago. While working at Addison Trail High School in the Special Education Department, I also served as a Youth Pastor at Bethel Assembly of God in Elmhurst. We still felt that call to the city and went to work at Maranatha Chapel in Evergreen Park for 11 years starting in Youth and College Ministry then becoming an Associate Pastor. During that time, I obtained my License and then my Ordination through Global University. We saw God do many amazing things and felt he wanted to do even more.
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I believe worship provides a context for encountering the love, power, presence, and person of Jesus Christ. I have a heart to see the people of Chicago, and cities all over, come to experience and know the Lord for themselves.


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Britain to revert back to the Gold Standard and to using Anglo-Saxon coins
Following the discovery of a huge amount of Saxon Gold the Chancellor today announced a plan to move the pound back to being measured against the gold standard and a distribution of revised coinage. This will be a first step in a series of reforms to support hard pressed public finances.
"In no way are we saying that the country is broke," said Mr Darling from his place in the soup line. "However I did see an advert on the telly for one of those companies that buys old gold and thought we could raise a few quid that way."
The Saxon hoard is comprised of thousands of gold coins, which will form the basis of the new currency, as well as some gold ornaments, which will be sent to pawnyourgold.co.uk.
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The Chancellor refuted claims that a couple of thousand coins would be insufficient upon which to base the economy, saying that this was just the first phase.
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Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
By Alan Lightman
Category: Science | Philosophy
About Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine
As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself—an eternal unity, something absolute and immaterial.
The result is an inspired, lyrical meditation from the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams that explores these seemingly contradictory impulses. Lightman draws on sources ranging from Saint Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's theory of relativity, and gives us a profound inquiry into the human desire for truth and meaning, and a journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of that quest. This small but provocative book explores the tension between our yearning for certainty and permanence versus the modern scientific view that all things in the physical world are uncertain and impermanent.
From the acclaimed author of Einstein's Dreams, here is an inspires, lyrical meditation on religion and science that explores the tension between our yearning for permanence and certainty, and the modern scientific discoveries that demonstrate the impermanent and uncertain nature of the world.
As a physicist, Alan Lightman has always held a scientific view of the world. As a teenager experimenting in his own laboratory, he was impressed by the logic and materiality of a universe governed by a small number of disembodied forces and laws that decree all things in the world are material and impermanent. But one summer evening, while looking at the stars from a small boat at sea, Lightman was overcome by the overwhelming sensation that he was merging with something larger than himself—a grand and eternal unity, a hint of something absolute and immaterial. Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine is Lightman's exploration of these seemingly contradictory impulses. He draws on sources ranging from Saint Augustine's conception of absolute truth to Einstein's theory of relativity, from the unity of the once-indivisible atom to the multiplicity of subatomic particles and the recent notion of multiple universes. What he gives us is a profound inquiry into the human desire for truth and meaning, and a journey along the different paths of religion and science that become part of that quest.
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"An elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science." —The New York Times Book Review
"Delightful. . . [Lightman's] elegant and evocative prose draws in the reader." —The Wall Street Journal
"Once again, this deft wordsmith has effortlessly straddled the divide between the hardest of the hard sciences and the nebulous world of existential doubts and longings." —Nature
"A lyrical and illuminating inquiry. . . . [Emerges] with that rare miracle of insight at the meeting point of the lucid and the luminous." —Brain Pickings
"Contemplative, elegant and open-minded, [Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine] is an engaging companion to understanding our longing for connection with the infinite." —Charleston Post and Courier
"This is a volume meant for savoring, for readerly ruminations, for thinking about and exploring one essay at a time. Lightman's illuminating language and crisp imagery aim to ignite a sense of wonder in any reader who's ever pondered the universe, our world, and the nature of human consciousness." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An illuminating, deeply human book." —Booklist
"Lightman's artful and questioning narrative style easily conveys complex concepts from physics to philosophy. Both believers and nonbelievers will find much to ponder in this discussion of science and religion, which reads like a soothing meditation." —Library Journal


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