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Murder and abduction in Chechnya - interview with Tanya Lokshina
Interview by Joanne Michele, Advocacy Correspondent for Safe World. April 2011
Tanya Lokshina is Deputy Director of Human Rights Watch's Moscow office.
Having joined Human Rights Watch in January 2008, Tanya authored reports on rights abuses in Chechnya and Ingushetia and co-authored a report on violations of international humanitarian law during the armed conflict in Georgia in the summer of 2008.
In 2006 Tanya received the Andrei Sakharov Award for Journalism as Civic Accomplishment.
Her work mainly focuses on Chechnya and the Caucasus. Her books include Chechnya Inside Out and Imposition of a Fake Political Settlement in the Northern Caucasus.
In July 2009 Tanya was on a mission in Chechnya working together with her best friend, award-winning Chechen human rights activist Natalya (Natasha) Estemirova. Natalya was abducted and murdered the day after Tanya finished the mission and returned to Moscow.
What began your interest in human rights? Why did you decide to become an activist?
I would not describe myself as an activist but as a researcher and a journalist.
I was working as a journalist during the huge financial crisis in August 1998. People were laid off or simply not being paid. It was really a chaotic time and there was absolutely no way you could find a job in the media – potential employers would laugh in your face and say 'everyone has been laid off'!
I really did not know what to do and how to support myself when suddenly I learned that a leading Russian human rights organisation, Moscow Helsinki Group, received a large grant from an American donor institution to implement a major multi-year project but didn't have an English speaker on staff. I had studied in the U.S. for a few years and my English was very fluent, so they hired me without further ado. My first year I kept hoping I could go back to journalism but gradually I was completely "sucked in" to reporting human rights abuses, especially in Chechnya.
It was too awful to drop it.
I felt that, by doing something to stop the abuses, I was manifesting my non-complicity. There was just no other way.
If you have seen something that horrid with your own eyes and are not doing anything to fight it, you are becoming indirectly complicit.
Russia suffered several Chechnya related atrocities (the Beslan School Hostage Crisis and the Moscow Subway bombings, for example). What do you see as the real cause of this and the Black Widow Suicide bombers?
Terrorist attacks in Russia are occurring with increasing frequency and boldness. And violence and lawlessness by law enforcement officials in Russia's turbulent North Caucasus, all those abusive counter-insurgency operations, during which people are abducted and tortured, make it easier for the insurgents to recruit supporters. Without putting an end to rampant impunity for human rights violations in the North Caucasus, Russia will not enjoy security.
Systematic abuses antagonize the population. You cannot effectively fight terrorism unless you enjoy support from the local communities.
When things such as forced disappearances occur, the public views the government as a source of – not an answer to - trouble and the insurgents skilfully use rights abuses by law enforcement officials for their own propaganda, arguing that they can give people the protection the government denies them.
Insurgency in the North Caucasus today appears to be of clearly jihadist nature. The insurgents' short term agenda is to increase tension to oust the local government.
In a long term, they want to impose a Sharia state.
What is the status of women's rights in Chechnya?
The situation of women in Checnhya is really quite dire.
One of the ways to adequately address the human rights situation in any region is to look into the situation of women.
Women in Chechnya face discrimination and are denied some of their basic rights.
One example is the enforced compulsory Islamic dress code. We released a report on this issue recently, this very spring. The report documents vicious attacks at women who were reluctant to wear headscarves. Dozens of women were shot at from paintball guns in Chechnya's capital last summer.
There is also a high rate of bridal kidnappings and domestic abuse. Women are prevented from leaving abusive marriages because the children will most likely be awarded to the man in the case of a divorce.
The status of women was actually higher during the years of armed conflict.
Throughout the duration of the Second Chechen War, it was the women who risked going out into the streets to find food for their families. They were courageously searching for their disappeared sons, brothers, husbands... When the hostilities subsided, the authorities decided they wanted to "put women in their right place."
The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who was directly appointed by the Kremlin, has stated in an interview that a man is a master and women are to be subservient.
He has said, "I have the right to criticize my wife but she does not have the right to criticize me." This sends a message to young men in Chechnya today, that they are to treat women this way and it is right. He has openly said he wants all women to wear headscarves.
With regard to the paintball attacks on women who wouldn't wear headscarves, he said that if he found the individuals responsible for the attacks (law enforcement and security officials were among the perpetrators) he would give them an award.
He said that the women who were shot at deserved to be treated that way. This is a clear signal of encouragement for these barbaric tactics.
The Kremlin does nothing to reign Kadyrov in, although his "headscarf policy" is contradictory to freedom of religion and nondiscrimination as granted by the Russian constitution.
The Kremlin supports Kadyrov and gives him a green light to do anything he wants in Chechnya in exchange for his formal pledges of loyalty to the Russian Federation and his ability to relatively suppress insurgent forces. "The only law which exists which exists in Chechnya today are his orders."
How is the human rights situation in Chechnya? In Russia?
You can't really talk about people enjoying any rights in Chechnya because the abuses are so rampant.
People are abducted, disappeared, tortured and killed on mere suspicion of involvement with the insurgency. Law enforcement and security servicemen go after relatives of alleged insurgents, to force insurgents to surrender. They burn the homes of such families, persecute them in different ways. The Chechen authorities propagate collective responsibility by insisting that parents have to "pay for sins of their sons". And local law enforcement officials use collective punishment practices widely and with complete impunity.
To date, the European Court of Human Rights has delivered over 160 judgements on cases from Chechnya, finding Russia responsible for violating some key articles of the European Convention of Human Rights, including the right to life, the absolute ban on torture and cruel and degrading treatment and the guarantee of effective domestic remedies for the victims.
The Russian government paid financial compensation to the individual applicants in accordance with the Court's rulings but it has not taken any substantial measures to prevent future violations or investigate the actual crimes.
The European Court is not about money! It exists to make sure that all the members of the Council of Europe comply with the requirements of the European Convention of Human Rights. This lack of effective implementation of all those Chechnya rulings results in new similar cases being lodged with the Court.
There is a climate of intense fear that prevails in Chechnya today. I've been doing human rights research there for nine years. During the war, the human rights crisis was frightening – there were bombings and shelling, and the number of casualties was incomparably higher than today – but back then people were not afraid to speak up.
When you arrived in a village in your capacity as a journalist or activist, you almost didn't know where to turn. People swarmed us wanting to talk. They wanted the world to know about the injustice done to them, their families, their villages – even if we couldn't help them individually. It was very powerful.
Now, when you learn an individual was abducted by a group of law enforcement officials, you travel to the village and people often refuse to speak at all for fear of repercussions.
Their reluctance is understandable, of course. When families do launch official complaints with the help of human rights organisations, law enforcement officials tell them to withdraw them, "or else."
I'm not denying the miracle of Chechen reconstruction. Its capital, Grozny, which was practically levelled with the ground, is vibrant now with entertainment centres and cafes. It's a changed city. There are no traces of war on the surface but we cannot ignore what happens behind the scenes.
Whatever happens in Chechnya and the North Caucuses is not only indicative of the human rights situation there, but in the country as a whole.
The lack of effective investigation into the abuses by law enforcement and security officials is a problem in all of the Russian regions. What makes Chechnya unique is that the law enforcement and security forces are de facto controlled by the leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.
It's also important to understand that there is a "Chechnization" of the Russian police. Innumerable police officers from across Russia had to serve in Chechnya for up to six months at a time, travel there repeatedly and acquire the 'habit' of violence and lawlessness, which they do not shake off upon return back to their home towns.
Why is this violence by state security forces spreading?
The crimes that are being perpetrated were bound to spill out.
Violence and lawlessness cannot be localized. The key outcome of the Second War in Chechnya was the emergence of a jihadist militant underground across the North Caucasus region.
The insurgents' jihadist orientation is part of the reason for Kadyrov to make such an emphasis on Islam. The government mentality is as follows: "so rebels are claiming to be true Muslims. We will show that we are the real Muslims here by imposing Islamic law while fighting the insurgents at the same time."
How can the international community act to raise awareness about women's rights and prevent Chechnya from becoming a fundamentalist society?
We have to raise awareness about this unacceptable situation.
We must make sure that whenever Russian officials are included in an international forum they are asked questions about Chechnya.
We have to remind the Russian international partners that the human rights situation in Chechnya should be a priority on their agenda.
What is the role of women's rights activists in Russia? Does the government tolerate their work? In what ways, if any, do you feel restricted?
I know some absolutely courageous women's rights activists in Russia and Chechnya.
Though in Chechnya the climate of fear is overwhelming. After Natalya Estemirova, who was a true champion for the rights of women, was abducted and killed in 2009, everyone is frightened.
Many local activists quietly help victimized families under the table and take care not to publicize their activities, not to lodge any official complaints, not to talk to the media.
Is this kind of quiet advocacy effective? Does the work have its own momentum?
It's really important to have public support – for the activists as well as for the victims. They need to know there are a lot of people behind them who want them protected.
But as concerns quiet advocacy as such, those engaged in it are sometimes able to help a victim, even to save a human life - for example, by successfully negotiating for the release of an abducted man on the condition of absolute silence. However, it is impossible to change the actual abusive, lawless system if you don't go public with such horrid stories, if you don't fight for justice using legal, judicial channels.
Are there female political prisoners in Russia?
Human Rights Watch doesn't 'award' people the status of political prisoner or prisoner of conscience. Still, there are many politicized cases that we come across, and not only in the Northern Caucuses.
The key issue is the lack of free media. Television and other major media are state-controlled. There are very few independent media and their circulation is not sufficient to reach out to a broad audience.
It's therefore difficult for the human rights activists and independent journalists to transmit their information widely enough to be heard by the public at large and have a significant impact on Russia's policies.
Well it seems to be the women who are always putting themselves at risk by speaking out. Do you think that women in the region are braver than the men?
I would not make any comparison but women often show civic responsibility and true courage.
For example, with the enforcement of headscarves in Chechnya, - women have to comply out of fear, but it's not fear for their own security. They comply to protect their families.
Women say,"If it were up to me, individually, no one could have forced me to wear a headscarf. But if I am publicly shamed for refusing, my husband and father and brothers cannot leave it alone – they will go after the perpetrators and may be hurt or killed - so I'd rather undergo this humiliation for the sake of their security."
Can you recount your memories of Natalya (Natasha) Estemirova's murder? What you heard and how you felt? Are you afraid to continue your work?
She was a very close friend.
Whenever I came to Chechnya I stayed with Natasha. And it so happened that I was staying at her place and working with her during the last week of her life as well… Then, I hopped on a plane and safely landed in Moscow. The next day she was killed.
The perpetrators have not been brought to justice for killing her or any of the other activists murdered in the North Caucasus.
On one hand it's a very personal tragedy because she was a close friend. It was a huge shock. She travelled to Moscow for Anna [Politkovskaya]'s funeral [in 2006] and I travelled to Chechnya for hers.
She was an amazing woman –she was funny, beautiful, smart and a pleasure to be with. It wasn't just that she was courageous and working around the clock to help people - though she was.
Natasha's death was a huge blow to human rights in Chechnya, to all of her friends and colleagues, and to all the innumerable people that she gave assistance to.
Now we try to encourage victims in Chechnya to file complaints, some of them say, "You could not even protect your own Natasha, so how can you protect us? We'd rather keep everything quiet."
Local activists, too, are crushed and fearful. She was the only one for a long time who dared publicly, openly, raise awareness about the law enforcement and security's abuses in Chechnya.
Others were quietly reporting on the situation too, but she was doing it under her own name and this proved to be lethal. She was murdered and this gap cannot possibly be filled.
I heard people saying, "by killing Natasha, they killed human rights work in Chechnya."
Her organization, Memorial, had to suspend their activities in Chechnya for half a year for security reasons and had to evacuate several of their key staff from Russia altogether. It was a huge challenge for Memorial just to resume activities and they could not do it on their own in this hostile environment.
So, a joint mobile group of Russian human rights organizations was formed. Activists from different regions of the country, mostly human rights lawyers, started coming to Chechnya for several weeks on rotation –three people at a time - to work on such sensitive cases as torture and disappearances by local law enforcement officials… only outsiders would touch these cases - they were just too dangerous for local activists to get involved in.
It's been this way since December 2009. And in fact, in March this year, the Mobile Group received the annual Human Rights prize from the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe for its immensely courageous work.
What are the major issues you're working on now?
Officially I am a Russian researcher for Human Rights Watch but the crisis in the North Caucasus is so profound that I devote most of my time to it.
I recently authored a report on the situation of women in Chechnya, the headscarf policy and other violations of their rights. Now I'm working on a report on counter-terrorism related human rights abuses in Dagestan, another republic in the North Caucasus.
How does your family feel about your work?
My husband is a leading expert on ultranationalists in Russia so he certainly understands the challenges.
His work is more possibly dangerous than mine!
I feel privileged if compared to my colleagues from Russian human rights group because Human Rights Watch is a large international organisation with substantial resources and can do a lot to protect me.
Does international attention to the murders of Natasha and Anna Politkovskaya help with your work?
After Anna - no doubt she was killed because of her work and the perpetrators in her murder have not been held to account - the small community of independent journalists and activists whose work is focused on the Northern Caucus realised the full degree of their vulnerability.
The thinking was, "she was a star. If that was not enough to protect her, what about the rest of us?" Natasha was also very well known. She travelled to major human rights for a outside of Russia and received several international awards, including the annual award of Human Rights Watch in 2007.
It's incredibly difficult for us to work without Anna and without Natasha. At the same time we owe it to them to continue the struggle for human rights and justice, the very struggle for which they paid with their very lives.
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Making A List: Urban Meyer's Team, Recruiting Priorities As Full Head Coaching Duties Resume
By Andrew Ellis on September 18, 2018 at 1:15 pm @teddyheisman
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OSU Football Recruiting
After a brief hiatus, Urban Meyer is set to return to the Ohio State sideline Saturday against Tulane. Overall, things have gone quite well for the Buckeyes despite the head coach's absence.
The 2018 campaign is off to a 3-0 start as Ryan Day, Greg Schiano, and the rest of the team and staff just passed the first test of the season Saturday night in Arlington. Day fielded offers in the offseason before electing to stick around Columbus, but he's officially transformed himself into one of the nation's top head coaching candidates; perhaps even the top candidate.
Still, things haven't exactly been perfect for the program and there are plenty of matters that Meyer – and the rest of the staff – will need to prioritize upon his full return. Some of the issues at the top of our list are more team/scheme related while others involve Ohio State's 2019 recruiting efforts.
Minimizing the Big Plays
I considered making a separate section for the linebacker and safety play, but then I figured it could all be tied together since those position groups have been responsible for the vast majority of the chunk plays. Simply put: the Oregon State and TCU performances have raised all kinds of concerns regarding Ohio State's back seven.
Getting Jordan Fuller back in week two was huge for Greg Schiano and Co., but the play at the other safety position has been far from optimal. Isaiah Pryor has looked lost at times and seems to really struggle with taking the correct angles, and Jahsen Wint has looked far from competent in the secondary. Wint's efforts on TCU's 51-yard touchdown pass may have been the worst I've ever seen at the position. (Note: Wint has been great on special teams)
This was less than ideal.
There's still time for things to click – and we've seen defensive backs like Gareon Conley struggle in the past before putting it all together – but it needs to happen sooner rather than later. Pryor is in his second season while Wint is a redshirt sophomore. A lot of folks are wondering if Shaun Wade gets a shot at safety, but that remains to be seen.
At linebacker, it's a young and inexperienced unit and that's shown numerous times with missed assignments and over-pursuing. Having Tuf Borland back at 100 percent should certainly help, but Baron Browning, Pete Werner, and Malik Harrison all can and should improve. Bill Davis hasn't exactly been a fan favorite in Columbus and his unit has to get better before the Buckeyes head to Happy Valley.
Prepping for Happy Valley
If you ask a coach about a game that's two weeks out then you're almost always going to get a response saying "the most important one is the next one" or something to that effect. Tulane isn't going to challenge Ohio State and everyone in the Big Ten and across the country has their sights set on the Sept. 29th showdown at Penn State.
Trace McSorley and Penn State have been rolling lately after a sluggish start against Appalachian State. The senior quarterback is only completing about 51 percent of his passes this season, but he's more than capable of doing some damage with his legs. For the Buckeyes, it was probably good to get a taste of TCU and Shawn Robinson before making the trip to State College.
The Nittany Lions' receivers aren't what they were a season ago and obviously losing Saquon Barkley would hurt any offense, but this one is likely to be Ohio State's toughest test of the season. Questions surrounding Nick Bosa's health could add some uncertainty to the Buckeyes' defensive line rotation as well.
Smoothing Things Over
Switching over to the recruiting front, Ohio State only lost one commitment during the recent ordeal and that came in the form of four-star linebacker Kane Patterson. Everything seems pretty status quo with the current crop of pledges, but we're still thinking Jordan Battle is the one who's probably wanting a sit-down conversation with Meyer; or at least a lengthy phone call.
Battle is the Buckeyes' top-rated defensive back pledge, but schools like Miami and Florida remain in hot pursuit. It's not looking like there's bad news on the horizon or anything like that, but a phone call to the Fort Lauderdale area may have been one of the first things on the itinerary when Meyer returned to practice a few weeks back. This one is probably still worth watching, but again there's absolutely no reason for panic at this point.
Four-star St. Louis native Jameson Williams remains the top wide receiver on Ohio State's board. He's a speed demon who's being courted primarily by the Buckeyes, Ducks, and Crimson Tide. Williams tweeted last week that he was nearing an announcement, and we continue to hear that a commitment could come within the next week or two; and potentially even by the end of this week as Meyer and Hartline look to nab another top wideout.
think i'm coming real close to a decision..
— juiceman (@juicedupjameson) September 9, 2018
Most of the remaining 2019 recruiting needs appear likely to be addressed, but right now it's not looking like there's an offensive tackle out there that the Buckeyes are in great shape for. Dayton Dunbar's Jonathan Allen appears far from a priority target, and the Buckeyes still have plenty of work to do on guys like Trevor Keegan and Darnell Wright. The latter looks unlikely at the moment while Keegan seems destined for Michigan, Georgia, or Ohio State.
The Buckeyes are off to a hot start with two top tackles committed for 2020, but landing another 2019 prospect should be high on the priority list for Meyer and Greg Studrawa.
Winning the Zach Harrison Sweepstakes
We don't know what's going on with Zach Harrison and I feel it's become obvious that no one knows what is going to happen with that one. There was an interview after his game last weekend and you could just tell the kid absolutely loathes the recruiting process. It was painful to watch as it was obvious that there were about a million other places he'd rather have been than standing there talking to Ohio State and Michigan reporters.
Regardless of how things are going and the general level of disinterest, the five-star is going to sign with Ohio State, Penn State, or Michigan, and a commitment is going to happen at some point over the next three or four months if he keeps his plan to enroll in January. We'll see if he pops up on any campus in the coming weeks, but even if that does happen we may not even know about it. He's not exactly the most talkative kid in the world, and to be quite honest that's actually somewhat refreshing given how outrageous others have been.
This is the one that Urban Meyer and Larry Johnson have to win. Outside of what's happening on the field, the Zach Harrison recruitment may very well be priority No. 1 for Meyer and the staff.

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Q: Función Flecha y función normal Tengo varios DIVs con la misma clase e hice el siguiente código para sacar el texto con el evento onclick. Mi pregunta es, ¿por qué la primera no funciona y la segunda sí?
¿Tiene que ver el tipo de funcion?
for (var i = 0; i < opc.length; i++) {
  //Este no me funciona
  opc[i].onclick = () => {
    console.log(this.innerHTML);
  };

  //Este si me funciona
  opc[i].onclick = function () {
    console.log(this.innerHTML);
  };
}

A: Hay una serie de reglas que nos pueden ayudar a saber cuál es el contexto de ejecución vinculado a una función (this binding).
This binding en Event handlers
Cuando se declara una función anónima con la sintáxis function, el this vinculado es:

*

*El objeto que llama a la función (En este caso el Div opc[i])

Esto funciona:
//Este si me funciona
opc[i].onclick = function(){
    console.log(this.innerHTML);
}

Cuando se declara una función anónima con la sintáxis arrow, el this vinculado puede ser:

*

*Strict Mode: undefined

*No Strict Mode : El objeto Global Window
Esto no funciona:
//Este no me funciona
opc[i].onclick = ()=>{
    console.log(this.innerHTML);
}

Observando las reglas para arrow function
Dicho lo anterior, para el caso de la sintáxis arrow, supongamos que se esta trabajando en Strict Mode, al dar click a alguno de los div's, Javascript regresará:

TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'this.innerHTML')

Porque, de acuerdo con las reglas listadas anteriormente, el valor de this de la función arrow del onclick tiene vinculado undefined; entonces undefined.innerHTML no es un objeto.
Después, supongamos que se está trabajando en Non Strict Mode, al dar click a alguno de los div's, Javascript regresará:

undefined

Porque, de acuerdo con las reglas listadas anteriormente, el valor de this de la función arrow del onclick tiene vinculado el objeto global Window.
Además de que opc[i] no es parte del objeto global Window, Javascript asigna valor undefined a propiedades no definidas, por eso se tiene undefined para this.innerHTML, pues innerHTML no está definída en el objeto global Window.

Notas de campo

*

*Es un tema complicado, yo sugiero que trates de que tenga sentido conforme encuentres casos de uso, como este.

*Las reglas pueden cambiar dependiendo el Javascript hosting enviroment (Browser, node.js etc...)

*Puede haber problemas de referencias al usar funciones anónimas en Event handlers, sobre todo cuando se trata de remover el Event handler.
Uso de this en Event Handlers
Uso de This en funciones
Espero que esta respuesta sea de ayuda

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During the months of April and May, the three-day trainings for enhancing the capacities of the civic organizations for influencing youth policies were held. These trainings are part of the project "Enhancing CSOs capacities to enforce the creation of youth policies", funded by the European Union, and implemented by the Youth Entrepreneurial Services (YES) Foundation and the Youth Cultural Center from Bitola. The three events were held in the hotel "Shator", under the slopes of Mount Pelister in Bitola, and a total of 45 representatives of various civil society organizations from the whole country took part.
The first of the three training sessions on enhancing the capacities of civic organizations for influencing youth policies was held on 19th and 20th of April 2018. This group was composed of 16 representatives of civil society organizations. During the two-day training, the participants learned and improved their skills for creating and implementing youth policies on various topics, in accordance with the interests they represent through their organizations and projects such as: development of social entrepreneurship, human rights, protection of victims of domestic violence, local and youth development, prevention of migration from small places, etc. Photos from the first training are available at this link.
On the second day of the training, together with the trainer and expert Ivona Krstevska, the participants worked on youth policy from concept to practice, actively simulating the process of creating a youth policy. After the group work, they all presented presentations and together discussed the aspects of the created policies and ways of exercising influence in cooperation with the local authorities and with the institutions. Within the discussions, reflections and the two-day trainings, representatives of CSOs created recommendations that will be the basis for developing a toolkit and online course for influencing youth policies, which are part of the project "Enhancing CSOs capacities to enforce the creation of youth policies ", supported by the European Union.
The second training was conducted with 13 new representatives of 13 different civic organizations from several cities in the country. Representatives and their organizations advocated various topics of interest including: reducing youth unemployment, the impact of local policies at the municipal level, protecting the environment, developing social entrepreneurship, cultural development, youth participation, and stimulating and retaining young people in smaller places as one of the challenges. The second training was held on April 26th and 27th, 2018. Photographs of the second training are available at this link.
The third and last of the series of trainings for influencing youth policies that took place at the Hotel Shator in Bitola was held on May 10th and 11th, 2018. The last group was composed of 16 representatives of CSOs working on: economic and legal research and policies, improvement of the socio-economic conditions for life and retention of youth in the country, development of education, promotion of minority and gender rights, local participation, entrepreneurship, youth activism and youth workers' rights. This group completed the process of training of 45 representatives of civil society organizations to enhance their capacities for creating and influencing youth policies. Photos from the third training are available at this link.
The general impressions of the participants were that they want these types of training to last even longer, having in mind their interest and need to maximally develop their skills to actively represent the interests of their organizations, as well as the young people they represent. The following activities, which are part of the project "Enhancing CSOs capacities to enforce the creation of youth policies", financed by the European Union, implemented by the Youth Entrepreneurial Service Foundation and the Youth Cultural Center from Bitola, include the preparation of a toolkit for creating and influencing youth polices, an online courses and networking events.


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Q: Why does button look weird? I am trying to make a button like this:

That is how it shows up in my XML layout editor, and I want it to show like that in my emulator also. However, it looks like this in my actual emulator and test devices:

Why is it not rounded? How can I make it more rounded? Here is my button:

    android:onClick = "messageButton"

    android:text="Make Custom Message"
    android:textColor="#FFFFFF"
    android:textSize="15sp"

    android:layout_width="230dp"
    android:layout_height="63dp"
    android:background="@drawable/messagebutton"
    android:shadowColor="#A8A8A8"
    android:shadowDx="0"
    android:shadowDy="0"
    android:shadowRadius="5"
    android:layout_above="@+id/helpbutton2"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" />

And here is the drawable:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle" >
    <corners
        android:topLeftRadius="100dp"
        android:topRightRadius="100dp"
        android:bottomLeftRadius="100dp"
        android:bottomRightRadius="100dp"
        />
    <gradient
        android:angle="45"
        android:centerX="35%"
        android:centerColor="#A871A6"
        android:startColor="#E8E8E8"
        android:endColor="#33FF8B"
        android:type="linear"
        />
    <padding
        android:left="0dp"
        android:top="0dp"
        android:right="0dp"
        android:bottom="0dp"
        />
    <size
        android:width="250dp"
        android:height="83dp"
        />
    <stroke
        android:width="3dp"
        android:color="#878787"
        />
</shape>

Thanks,
Ruchir

A: Rounded rectangle radius is considered like below image. What you need is to set radius to half of your button height which is 63/2=~32dp


(Photo courtesy of JASON DUCHOW) Sandpoint freshman Ethan Butler pitches during the Bulldogs' 9-6 win over Moscow on Friday afternoon.
(Photo courtesy of JASON DUCHOW) Alex Stockton makes a diving catch before turning a double play during the top of the fifth inning in Sandpoint's 9-6 win over Moscow on Friday evening.
Six innings through Sandpoint's first Inland Empire League game against Moscow, it looked like the season's old habits had reared its ugly head. The Moscow Bears jumped out to a 5-0 lead, the offense couldn't string together enough hits to counter and the defense wasn't as tight as Sandpoint head coach Chase Tigert expected.
Thankfully for the Bulldogs, Friday's doubleheader had a happy ending in part due to a freshman righty, some veteran defense and a five-run third inning.
No player took advantage of the fresh start quite like freshman pitcher Ethan Butler, who threw for six innings, struck out five and only allowed one hit in his final three innings of play.
As the freshman shimmied his way with every strikeout, the Bulldogs' offense shot ahead with a 3-0 lead. Butler's fly in the ointment — a two-run, three-hit third inning — set Sandpoint back 3-2, but the offense battled back. The Bulldogs attacked early in the count throughout the second game, forcing two quick mound-visits from Moscow's staff. But by the time the Bears trotted out their third pitcher of the evening, the momentum was firmly in Sandpoint's favor. Singles from Alex Stockton and Avery Bocksch, then Max Thielbahr's drawn walk helped load the bases, then Kade MacDonald drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game. Connor Dodd's single to shallow left brought Bocksch and Thielbahr home, then an error on a wild pitch sent MacDonald home two batters later.
But the highlight of the game came in the fifth inning when senior right fielder Stockton made what Tigert called "one of the best catches" he has ever seen.
Moscow's Billy Adams looked like he was about to get the best of Butler during a six-pitch at-bat. But as his deep fly-ball careened into right field, Stockton made a beeline for the ball and made the out. Realizing that Chad Redinger didn't tag up, first baseman Tyler Lehman got Stockton's attention to help turn the double-play. It was a bang-bang play that even caused the officials to convene for a moment before ruling Redinger out. Butler's final strikeout of his six-inning day ended the inning five pitches later.
Yet the Bears — with some help from the Sandpoint bullpen's miscues — made things interesting. Despite only managing one hit in the seventh, Moscow drew not one, but four walks and wore two pitches in order to pull within three runs. Two pitching changes later, Caleb Davis and the defense put Moscow to bed on a routine ground out.
Sandpoint (3-6, 1-1 IEL) will host Lakeland for a doubleheader on April 18, starting at 3 p.m. Tuesday's doubleheader against the Hawks will be played on April 23.
Game called in the 6th by 10-run rule.
HITS: Moscow — Thompson, Decker, Redinger 2, Vis. Sandpoint — Bocksch 2, Thielbahr, Garcia, Stockton 2. 2B — Brackett, Dodd.


text:
package com.mygdx.UI;

import com.badlogic.gdx.Gdx;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.OrthographicCamera;
import com.badlogic.gdx.graphics.g2d.Batch;
import com.badlogic.gdx.math.Vector2;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Actor;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.Stage;
import com.badlogic.gdx.scenes.scene2d.ui.TextButton;
import com.badlogic.gdx.utils.Array;
import com.badlogic.gdx.utils.viewport.StretchViewport;
import com.mygdx.game.MyGame;
import com.mygdx.handlers.MyInput;

import java.awt.Button;

/**
 * Created by James on 3/24/2015.
 */
public class MyStage extends Stage {

    public MyStage(){
        super(new StretchViewport(MyGame.V_WIDTH,MyGame.V_HEIGHT));

    }

    @Override
    public boolean touchDown(int screenX, int screenY, int pointer, int button) {
        Vector2 temp = this.screenToStageCoordinates(new Vector2(screenX,screenY));
        MyInput.x = (int)temp.x;
        MyInput.y = (int)temp.y;
        MyInput.down = true;
        return super.touchDown(screenX, screenY, pointer, button);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean touchDragged(int screenX, int screenY, int pointer) {
        Vector2 temp = this.screenToStageCoordinates(new Vector2(screenX,screenY));
        MyInput.x = (int)temp.x;
        MyInput.y = (int)temp.y;
        return super.touchDragged(screenX, screenY, pointer);
    }

    @Override
    public boolean touchUp(int screenX, int screenY, int pointer, int button) {
        Vector2 temp = this.screenToStageCoordinates(new Vector2(screenX,screenY));
        MyInput.x = (int)temp.x;
        MyInput.y = (int)temp.y;
        MyInput.down = false;
        return super.touchUp(screenX, screenY, pointer, button);
    }

   /* @Override
    public void draw() {
        Batch batch = this.getBatch();
        batch.begin();
        Array<Actor> actors = this.getActors();
        for (Actor a: actors){
            if (a instanceof TextButton){
                batch.setProjectionMatrix(hubCam.combined);
                a.draw(batch,1);
            }
            else{
                batch.setProjectionMatrix(this.getCamera().combined);
                a.draw(batch,1);
            }
        }
        this.getCamera().update();
       batch.end();
    }*/
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Think you're in good shape? If so, maybe it's time you put your fitness to the test by undergoing a workout with a professional trainer. You'll probably find out you're not as strong as you thought, and you'll probably discover a few muscles you didn't know you had.
I recently took on a challenge by signing up for an afternoon with trainer Tracy O'Malley at Performance Health and Fitness in Peterborough. Personally, I thought that as a collegiate hockey player, that I'd skate by, so to speak. Just having finished my season, I'm still in decent shape and I didn't think I needed to do any more than what I was already doing.
Hockey is demanding enough to where it could make you believe your fitness level is higher than it really is. The constant striding up and down the ice, going body to body with other players fighting for the puck, falling and getting back up when you're already dead tired are all aspects of the game that help improve your cardio, endurance and overall body strength.
I decided I wanted to test my body and find out how good of shape I was actually in. Everyone has their limits on what their body can handle, and I wanted to figure out mine and whether or not with some help, I could surpass those limits.
I called O'Malley and requested a personal training session with her, and she ended up running me through what they call a "Boot Camp" over at Performance. I was very excited to see what this entailed, and I was ready to test my body. I certainly was far less excited the morning after the boot camp — I could barely walk up and down my stairs my legs were so tight and my body was sore all over. But we'll get to more of that later. First, here's what we did.
Before we even got started she had me do a series of stretching exercises to get my blood flowing, get my heart rate up and to ultimately get my body lose before a demanding work out like the boot camp. We ran through jumping jacks, stationary squats, walking lunges, high knee skips and "inchworms." These warm-ups stretch you to allow your body to prepare for a full-body workout. I learned quickly that I am nowhere near as flexible as I should be being, especially as an athlete.
O'Malley informed me that flexibility is paramount when it comes to athletic performance, but what she has realized over the years is that people neglect to adhere to a proper stretching schedule.
Well, before I knew it I was out of breath and wanting a break, but the determination and confidence that O'Malley instills in her clients didn't allow me to stop. There was no looking back, and definitely no slowing down. Looking back at the workout, I can see why she wouldn't let me.
The boot camp lasted about 40 minutes, including stationary stretches at the end to help yourself cool down. The workout consisted of 10 stations. Each station had three different exercises that worked the areas of the body.
For example, one station had traveling lunges, where you would walk and lunge and the same time but keep the proper form for maximum results; split jumps where you jump and land in lunge position, keeping your head up and back straight to get the full impact of the exercise; then lateral lunges where you lean side-to-side, extending the opposite leg from the way your body is leaning. All of these exercised parts of the body like hamstrings, quads and the gluteal muscles located in the buttocks.
Each station lasted three minutes, 50 seconds on and 10 seconds off, and then it was right into the next exercise. O'Malley stressed that short breaks between reps or stations will actually increase your strength. She discussed that quick breaks don't allow your heart rate to drop, so you'll burn more calories and ultimately improve the health of your heart.
Every station worked the same way whether focusing on the arms, legs, shoulders, back or core. Throughout the workout, your body will adjust to the fast pace tempo and it will become easier. O'Malley always stressed the point about breathing because during aerobic exercises your muscles need oxygen to be able to perform. She would make sure I was breathing and she could always tell when this wasn't happening properly, or at all.
I learned quickly that I wasn't in the shape that I thought I was in. My muscles were completely dead before I could finish the workout because I had never pushed myself in that way. O'Malley said that was because when you go through a true and proper workout, your muscles need to be fatigued and ripped so they can grow back bigger and stronger.
So here's the lesson I learned: Never accept the state you think your body is in because you can do more. Doing the workout is the easy part. Challenging your body and motivating yourself to do so can be the hardest part of all.
Taylor Adolphson of Peterborough is a senior at Keene State College, where he just completed a season on the men's hockey team.


text:
Q: Show/Hide Div Combinations jQuery UPDATE:
Working answer.

This is quite a complicated question about jQuery/JS - I've found a post that addresses a similar issue here, but I'm not using raw html or a tags, so the structure of the code is quite different.
Basically I have a list of divs that need to be hidden on page load, and then I need to display each div when a trigger element is clicked. The catch is that I need to hide all of the other divs when clicking different trigger elements. Obviously display: none; will need to be present on page load but the jQuery is beyond my current knowledge.

Example:
When this div is clicked

View Div 1 Contents

this div is shown:

Div 1 Content Here

I have this working using this JS:

Pretty simple use of .toggle() I know, but this is where is gets complicated, I have 5 trigger divs and 5 content divs in total, each of them needs to display their corresponding div and hide all of the other divs at the same time.
I was thinking something like the following:

and then this ^ 5 times over to control each trigger div (although I am almost certain there is a cleaner/more 'correct' solution to this issue).
Please consider that all trigger div's are labelled by 'divnumbertrigger' such as #div2trigger; and all content divs are labelled 'divnumber' such as #div2.
Lastly for visual reference here is a screenshot of the frontend to help visualise the usage, all content divs use the same area of the page (green box) and all of the 'View' buttons (inside red box) are the div triggers:

Can anyone provide me with a workable solution/correct method of achieving this?

A: Use class fundamental here, so you can do this as:

Div 1 Content Here

So, we are hiding all the divs and then display only the require div.
Thanks

A: to select all divs that are not #div1 you can use css not selector in jquery like this and then hide/toggle it.
    jQuery("#parentcontainer div:not(#div1)").hide();

$("#div1trigger").click(function(){
    $("#div1").toggle();
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div1)").hide();
});
$("#div2trigger").click(function(){
    $("#div2").toggle();
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div2)").hide();
});
$("#div3trigger").click(function(){
    $("#div3").toggle();
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div3)").hide();
});
$("#div4trigger").click(function(){
    $("#div4").toggle();
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div4)").hide();
});
$("#div5trigger").click(function(){
    $("#div5").toggle();
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div5)").hide();
});
.hide {
  display: none;
}

Div 1 Trigger

Div 2 Trigger

Div 3 Trigger

Div 4 Trigger

Div 5 Trigger

div 1 display

div 2 display

div 3 display

div 4 display

div 5 display

A: The cleanest way to do that is through data-attributes. Linking from trigger to div - this gives you one listener for multiple trigger-div pairs.
For HTML you go like this:

Div 1 Trigger

Div 2 Trigger

Div 3 Trigger

Div 4 Trigger

Div 5 Trigger

With JavaScript is one listener:

A: You can extract the id of the clicked trigger using
var divId = $(this).attr('id');

then you can extract the number part from id using
var divId = $(this).attr('id');
And finally use it to hide all other div and toggle the required div
$("#parentcontainer div:not(#div" + divNum + ")").css('display', 'none');
$("#div" + divNum).toggle();

Here's an example

$(".trig").click(function(){
    var divId = $(this).attr('id');
    var divNum = divId.match(/\d+/);
    $("#parentcontainer div:not(#div" + divNum + ")").css('display', 'none');
    $("#div" + divNum).toggle();
});
.hide {
  display: none;
}

Div 1 Trigger

Div 2 Trigger

Div 3 Trigger

Div 4 Trigger

Div 5 Trigger

div 1 display

div 2 display

div 3 display

div 4 display

div 5 display


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17 Dezember 2019| doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3753022
TikTok: Ein Kaleidoskop an Bildern, Daten und rechtlichen Fragen
Ermöglichen Social Media Plattformen Menschen, sich über Grenzen hinweg zu verbinden, oder sind sie die Wächter digitaler Kommunikationsräume, in denen ihre Nutzer strenge, inhaltsbezogene Regeln einhalten müssen? Das jüngste Beispiel TikTok zeigt, dass Plattformen immer noch Schwierigkeiten damit haben, benutzerfreundliche Dienste mit Grundsätzen der Meinungsfreiheit zu vereinbaren.
TikTok is the new social media platform "en vogue". It hosts chatoyant user-generated pictures, gifs, music, and videos underlined by filters and effects that make the user experience different from usual services. TikTok's image is young, fun, easy, and the pace is commonly described as particularly fast, leaving users feeling kind of dizzy. Currently, the TikTok application is leading in terms of downloads amongst teenagers and young adults. This confirms a trend of increasingly audio-visual content dissemination and, subsequently, of visual communication. As one user describes it: "The service is supposed to help you create and to use your cinematographic imagination to make others smile". But this enthusiasm among users is not fully shared with experts and freedom of expression advocates, and here's why.
A platform like an amusement park
One of TikTok's most important feature is that it provides not only the tools to create exciting imagery and the platform infrastructure to publish it, it also develops a recommender system based on human moderation and a machine learning system which constantly supplies new content. If other large social media platforms are sometimes compared to a newsstand or a marketplace, TikTok is more like an amusement park: users have constant access to young, fun, and entertaining content. On its trending page, they will find suggestions on what they should watch and what they should post: the system will nudge them in both ways. The app and its recommender system have been under scrutiny in questions mainly related to data protection, also due to the fact that the service is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance. Experts fear that user data from the U.S. or the E.U. might be collected and later analysed by Chinese authorities. This speculation could turn out even more unpleasing if the data is somehow used in combination with the Chinese social scoring system. There is a general concern about data protection on TikTok, especially because the app collects data of everyone not only of registered users. German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that TikTok uses the 'fingerprinting method' to track users. U.S. authorities have now started investigating the company with regard to the data protection aspect and experts confirm that the Chinese authorities might indeed be looking into the user data from abroad as they expand their media control globally.
How user-generated content is perceived in China could be the reason for the company's criticised content moderation policy. The community guidelines sound similar to those of other large social media platforms but their wording is much vaguer and generic. In addition, their enforcement on the base of guidelines is opaque to users. All in all, TikToks content moderation policy replicates mistakes from previous platforms on the level of what is removed and how. First, TikToks community guidelines forbid the usual categories of unwanted content without further describing what is meant. There are a few inconsistencies like forbidding copyright infringements without providing any guidelines on how to legally include third-party content although the app is based on the dissemination of visuals and music snippets (and users rarely compose the music themselves). It bans any type of content showing nudity without mentioning any exception like breastfeeding or art. For the sake of space, I will not go into every possible point of critique but so far TikTok's community guidelines are simplistic and lead to a shallow treatment of the issue. As to the German peculiarity, that is, the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG), TikTok provides an explanation which unfortunately contains misleading information: according to TikTok, content that was subject of a complaint but does not fulfill the criteria for an immediate removal within 24 hours, shall be removed within seven days. In reality, under the NetzDG, the content may as well not be removed at all if it is not punishable under German criminal law. In addition to providing a "NetzDG complaint" option next to each post (similar to YouTube), users can also access the complaint form via TikTok's privacy and safety information page.
A secret change in moderation
A recent report by Netzpolitik.org gives unique insights into how content is moderated on TikTok. In this online spreadsheet, a secret source describes how the content moderation guidelines have been changed after a critical piece by the Guardian (which, on a side note, demonstrates the importance of reporting bad practices) according to which the company instructs moderators to 'censor' content related to 'Tiananmen Square, Tibetan independence, or Falun Gong'. Indeed, several users were locked out of their accounts for talking about detention camps in China. Another important take-away of Netzpolitik's report is how reviewers 'censor' content, i.e., not only removing but mainly down-grading it. According to the community guidelines, content that violates the rules shall be removed or the account closed. Decreasing the visibility of user-generated content is not mentioned as a form of sanction but is apparently used as an easier way of hiding unwanted content without being exposed to the allegation of censorship. Investigations have shown that TikTok systematically downgraded images of people with a handicap or who are overweight. The company tried to justify this behaviour as a way of protecting users from cyber-bullying. But as a platform that describes itself as 'inclusive community' this argument seems – again – contradictory. It also conflicts with its (presumed) legal status as a neutral platform: curating and ranking content to this extent increasingly resembles publishers' activities.
To conclude, it seems impossible to keep politics out of the TikTok equation. Be it the alarming situation in Hong Kong, the creeping social scoring system or the ongoing human rights violations for minorities in mainland China – one cannot help but wonder if Tiktok will be a space for more freedom of expression or a censorship agent, possibly controlled by a government (or its laws as a proxy). Its vague and yet restrictive content moderation policy is a source of concern for users, not only because of the alleged link to the Chinese State. However, the company is noticeably pressured by public opinion as well as by a rapidly changing market: if TikTok is unable to convince their users that the app users worldwide respectfully without removing and hiding unwanted content on the base opaque community standards, it might get outpaced by other services. For instance, Instagram (not to say that its policies are exemplary) has already launched an in-app very similar to TikTok called Reels, respectively Cenas in Brazil, and history might repeat when looking back at the takeover performed Instagram Stories from Snapchats format.
Amélie Heldt
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text:
export {
  FileBox,
}           from 'file-box'

export {
  ScanStatus,
}               from 'wechaty-puppet'

export {
  config,
  log,
  qrcodeValueToImageUrl,
  VERSION,
}                         from './config'

/**
 * We need to put `Wechaty` at the beginning of this file for import
 * because we have circluar dependencies between `Puppet` & `Wechaty`
 */
export {
  Wechaty,
  WechatyOptions,
}                     from './wechaty'

export {
  PuppetModuleName,
}                     from './puppet-config'

export {
  Contact,
  Friendship,
  Favorite,
  Message,
  Moment,
  Money,
  Room,
  RoomInvitation,
  UrlLink,
  MiniProgram,
}                         from './user'

export {
}                         from './deprecated'

export { IoClient }   from './io-client'


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text:
Ministry provides information on Molnupiravir
SGGP Wednesday, January 12, 2022 05:46
Following the information that Molnupiravir, an anti-viral drug developed by US companies Merck and Ridgeback, has been kept out of the treatment protocol recommended by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Ministry of Health has provided feedback on the issue.
According to the Ministry of Health, the drug Molnupiravir has been licensed for circulation and approved for emergency use in the treatment of Covid-19 in many countries such as the UK, the US, and Japan.
Based on the indications and recommendations of the drug Molnupiravir approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Molnupiravir is used to treat mild to moderate Covid-19 adults. It has at least one risk factor for severe progression; drugs used in patients with symptom onset less than five days; plus, people should not be used for post- or pre-exposure prophylaxis against Covid-19.
Notably, the health agency also warned, caution for the drug Molnupiravir not recommended for use during pregnancy. Females were required to not be pregnant or breastfeeding. Women who were of child-bearing age had to agree to use a highly effective contraceptive method or be abstinent for 28 days.
For children and adolescents, Molnupiravir should not be used in patients under 18 years of age because of possible effects on bone and cartilage development. For men, Molnupiravir can affect sperm, although the risk is considered low. Therefore, men who are sexually active with women of childbearing potential should use a reliable method of contraception consistently during treatment with Molnupiravir and for at least three months after the last dose of Molnupiravir.
The Ministry of Health specifies that to ensure safety and effectiveness, only use Molnupiravir with a doctor's prescription following the indications, usage limits and warnings, and cautions of the drug. People shouldn't self-medicate with illegal Molnupiravir or medicine with unknown origin. While using Molnupiravir, a patient should immediately notify their doctor for advice and timely treatment if they encounter any adverse drug reactions.
Lately, ICMR Chief Dr. Balram Bhargava said on January 5 that Covid antiviral drug Molnupiravir has major safety concerns and has not been included in the national protocol for the treatment of coronavirus because of permanent transmissible changes in the structure of genetic material of cells, muscle, and bone damage.
To date, the Ministry of Health has allocated about 400,000 doses of Molnupiravir to 51 provinces and cities that are implementing the program on the controlled use of Molnupiravir for mild cases of Covid-19 in the community.
The results of the Molnupiravir trial showed that most of the Covid-19 patients taking the drug had a low viral load, a very low rate of severe disease and no deaths. Recently, the Ministry of Health has granted conditional circulation registration for three drugs containing the active ingredient Molnupiravir which are produced in the country.
By Nguyen Quoc – Translated by Uyen Phuong
Ministry of Health Molnupiravir mild cases of Covid-19
PM directs not to make it difficult for returnees for Tet celebration
First three community Omicron cases recorded in HCMC
Covid-19 in HCMC: New cases, hospitalizations, deaths all decrease
Localities tighten restrictions on travel to curb spread of virus on Tet holiday
Health watchdogs ask to prevent drug shortage during Tet holidays
HCMC maintains post-Covid-19 healthcare for people
HCMC halts operations of four temporary Covid-19 treatment hospitals
Cho Ray hospital receives JICA President Award
Saturday, January 15, 2022 16:51
HCMC maintains pandemic alert level 1 for second week
Old woman from US becomes HCMC's 13th Omicron case


text:
//
//  VOKPagingFetchedResultsDataSource.h
//  Vokoder
//
//  Created by teejay on 1/21/14.
//  Copyright © 2014 Vokal.
//

#import "VOKFetchedResultsDataSource.h"

NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN

@protocol VOKPagingAccessory <NSObject>

/**
 Called when loading has completed after an overscroll
 */
- (void)loadingHasFinished;

/**
 Called before loading begins after an overscroll
 */
- (void)loadingWillBegin;

/**
 Called when the scroll view overscrolls

 @param overScrollPercent Distance of the overscroll as a percentage of the trigger distance
 */
- (void)hasOverScrolled:(CGFloat)overScrollPercent;

@end

/**
 Generic completion block signature
 */
typedef void (^VOKCompletionAction)(void);

/**
 This is your primary interaction with this class. Inside this block you should fetch your data,
 insert it into Core Data, and then execute the fetchCompleted() block.

 @param tableView      Table view to fetch more results for
 @param fetchCompleted Block to execute when you have finished your data fetching
 */
typedef void (^VOKPagingResultsAction)(UITableView *tableView, VOKCompletionAction fetchCompleted);

/**
 Data source that allows the user to over-scroll to load more items in the view. Just like the
 superclass, VOKFetchedResultsDataSource, this should be subclassed instead of being used directly,
 so that the cellAtIndexPath: method can be implemented.
 */
@interface VOKPagingFetchedResultsDataSource : VOKFetchedResultsDataSource

/**
 Setup and activate the paging functionality. By not including either an action for a specified
 direction, the controller will not attempt to handle that direction

 @param overscrollTriggerDistance The distance a user must scroll past the bounds to activate a page fetch
 @param upPageActionOrNil         Executed when scrolling beyond the top bound of the tableView. Make API calls here.
 @param headerViewOrNil           View that will be inserted above the table, and notified of scrolling updates
 @param downPageActionOrNil       Executed when scrolling beyong the low bound of the tableView. Make API calls here.
 @param footerViewOrNil           View that will be inserted below the table, and notified of scrolling updates
*/
- (void)setupForTriggerDistance:(CGFloat)overscrollTriggerDistance
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A baby who was hit by a car in Penge in a crash which killed his mother, has died in hospital.
The toddler died yesterday (January 20) , Metropolitan Police confirmed.
His mum Nicole Newman, 23, who was pushing Luciano's pram at the time of the incident, died at the scene.
It is claimed the dying mum screamed "where's my baby" after she and the pram were hit by a car.
Speaking after the crash, Luciano's devastated gran said is parents had recently become owners of their own flat.
A bartender at a nearby pub paid an emotional tribute to the mum last week.
The woman, who did not want to named, said: "I've known her for years.
"Her boyfriend is called Charlie and they've been dating for about three to four years.


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Bonus Bear was released in 2007 by Playtech. The game has set of 5 reels and 25 paylines. The graphics of the game are animated with bright and colorful reel symbols. The theme of the game is inspired from Alpine Picnic. The symbols of the game are Park Ranger, Skunk, Bee, Picnic Basket and some high value playing card symbols. In the background the game has its own composed light hearted soundtrack, which loops. The highlight of the game is its Bonus Bears Free Spin Bonus game.
The game has a set of 5 reels and 25 paylines. The coin size of the game varies in the denomination of 0.01 up to 0.25 per line bet, and wagers 1 to 10 coins per line bet. The minimum bet amount is 0.01 and the maximum bet amount is 62.50 per spin. The highest payout of the game is 5000 coins.
The bonus bear symbol in the game acts as the wild symbol in the game. It substitutes all other symbols of the game to complete winning combinations except the scatter symbol. It appears on the reels of 2, 3, and 4. When the wild symbol appears anywhere on the reels of 2, 3, and 4 it triggers the Bonus bear free spin feature.
The beehive symbol in the game acts as the scatter symbol. It can scatter anywhere on the enabled payline to complete the winning combination provided by the two and more scatter symbol. The winnings of the game are calculated by multiplying the Beehive symbol combination payout. The combination of three and more scatter symbol activates the Honey Pot Bonus Feature game.
This feature gets activated when the combination of bonus bear wild symbol appears on the reels of 2, 3 and 4. During this feature, the player gets awarded by 15 free spins. The winnings during this feature get tripled. The bets and paylines in the free spins are same as in the bonus feature. During this feature all control of the buttons are disabled. If wild symbol appears on the reels during the free spin feature, the player gets awarded with 15 Free Spins.
The combination of three and more scatter symbols activates Honey pot bonus feature game. During this gameplay, player has to select Trees for the Bonus Bear to climb in search for the Honey Pots. A bonus prize is awarded to player for finding each Honey Pot. Player has to keep selecting the trees until the scatter symbol is found.
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App developed by high school students could help make veterans healthier
Photo courtesy of Ethan Ocasio
Caregivers & Families
A group of high school students from Fairfax County, Virginia have developed a new app that's designed to give veterans and those on Medicare and Medicaid easier access to clinical trials.
Three high school students, Ethan Ocasio, Neeyanth Kopparapu and Shreeja Kikkisetti worked together for about six months to create the Clinical Trial Selector.
"Its purpose is to be able to let veterans find clinical trials that they are eligible for, clinical trials that they might not have known about it," Ocasio explained.
Dr. Gil Alterovitz, the director of AI for the VA, said the app will increase access to clinical trials that are meaningful to veterans.
"In terms of accessing clinical trials, that's one of the priority areas for VA research," he said.
Nine million veterans could potentially benefit from the app, as well as 50 million Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries, according to Alterovitz.
The trio started developing the app after connecting with the Department of Veterans Affairs' artificial intelligence team and joined the VA Health AI Tech Sprint.
"The main issue is many patients are actually eligible and willing to participate in research trials but aren't aware of them," said Kikkisetti. "On the other side, researchers are actively looking for patients that meet their research criteria to join their trials, but can't find them."
The students won honorable mentions from the National Artificial Intelligence Institute during a recent demonstration day and are now working on making the app available to the public.
Ocasio said the app will be accessible through a patient's VA or Medicare account. You'll simply have to sign in and then click on clinical trials, he said.
The students take part in the Girls Computing League, a nonprofit student group that aims to empower underrepresented groups in the technology workplace by fostering the interests of young people in computer science, data science, and technology. It is led by students for students.
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By: Pamela Price | Oct. 6, 2017, 11:03 a.m.
SIWY, also known as the 'Denim Kingdom,' kickstarted LA Fashion Week at The Beverly Hilton on Thursday night.
Pop singer Ashley Brinton sported some stand-out pieces from the SIWY collection: black jeans with elastic red race stripes and a contemporary cut varsity jacket worn loose over the shoulder.
The rich colors stood out amongst the vintage cars on display.
SIWY's runway show was certainly geared towards the hip and trendy millenial generation with models holding iPhones down the catwalk.
The denim company recently made headlines after launching a special Mickey Mouse capsule collection for Disney. Mixing some of their Mickey designs with shredded cut-off denim pieces, SIWY continues to deliver unique and edgy clothing.
From two-piece royal blue striped pajamas to jeans with open side zippers, the line's "Zip Me Up 80's Style" theme was perfectly titled.
In the past, paparazzi have photographed SIWY on style icons, including Kate Moss and Nicole Richie.
To spice up the runway, SIWY's CEO Kris Park collaborated with MOIRA for makeup looks, SOHO Style for hair accessories and the popular Steve Madden for shoe styling.


There haven't been a whole lot of 1080p/60FPS games on the PlayStation 4, even with all the power that it affords- usually, developers hit that resolution, by taking a hit on the frame rate (amusingly enough, even the Wii U has a major exclusive running at 60FPS/1080p, with Super Smash Bros.), but it appears we will finally be getting a 1080p/60FPS game on the system that doesn't compromise on visual fidelity either. It's the upcoming Primal Carnage: Extinction.
"For the time being we're going to stay digital. Support from the games industry and our key partners is strong enough that a retail push isn't really necessary. And the size of the game won't scare anyone off from downloading this to their console.
That sounds like a fairly standard answer. The game looks great, and hopefully it can deliver on its promise. Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage.


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New to Stream: HBO Max October 2020 Highlights
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By Kylie Hemmert
HBO Max has unveiled their October 2020 highlights, which includes the Sundance award-winning film Charm City Kings, A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote, and Greg Berlanti's documentary series Equal, as well as the premiere of the limited series The Undoing, starring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant, and the season finale of Lovecraft Country, among many more titles.
RELATED: Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Reboot Series Ordered at HBO Max
Titles Coming to HBO Max in October
October TBA
Chelsea Handler: Evolution, HBO Max Original Special Premiere
Gomorrah, Seasons 1 & 2 (Dubbed & Subtitled)
the Monster at the end of this Story, HBO Max Original Premiere
Available October 1
A World of Calm, Documentary Series Premiere
Akeelah And The Bee, 2006 (HBO)
All-Star Superman, 2011
American Dynasties: The Kennedys, 2018
American Reunion, 2012 (HBO)
Analyze That, 2002
Analyze This, 1999
The Angriest Man In Brooklyn, 2014 (HBO)
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, 1997
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, 1999
Ball of Fire, 1941
Beavis And Butt-Head Do America, 1996 (HBO)
Beef (HBO)
Beginners, 2011 (HBO)
Best in Show, 2000
BLOW, 2001
Bombshell, 1933
Boogie Nights, 1997
Boomerang, 1992
The Bush Years: Family. Duty. Power., 2019
The Butterfly Effect, 2004
Cats & Dogs, 2001
Catwoman, 2004
Cellular, 2004
Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke, 1978
The Chronicles Of Riddick, 2004 (Director's Cut) (HBO)
City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold, 1994
Clean and Sober, 1988
The Client, 1994
Collateral Beauty, 2016 (HBO)
The Color Purple, 1985
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, 2003 (HBO)
Constantine, 2005
Cradle 2 the Grave, 2003
Critters 2, 1988
The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957
Day Of The Dead, 1985 (HBO)
Death Sentence, 2007 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Deerskin, 2020 (HBO)
Dirty Dancing, 1987 (HBO)
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, 2004 (HBO)
Deliverance, 1972
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave, 1969
Dreamcatcher, 2003
Edge of Darkness, 2010
Empire of the Sun, 1987
The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House, 2017
Endings, Beginnings, 2020 (HBO)
Enter The Dragon, 1973
Eraser, 1996
Firewall, 2006
Frantic, 1988
Frequency, 2000 (HBO)
Friday, 1995
The Friday After Next, 2002
Galaxy Quest, 1999
The Golden Compass, 2007
Gothika, 2003
Grudge Match, 2013 (HBO)
Hairspray, 1988
Hairspray (Musical Remake), 2007
Harina (Aka Flour) (HBO)
The Haunting, 1999
The Hills Have Eyes, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)
The Hills Have Eyes II, 2007 (Extended Version) (HBO)
Horror of Dracula, 1958
The Hunting Ground, 2015
I Am Sam, 2002
Infamous, 2006
The Informer, 1935
The Invisible War, 2012
Jonah Hex, 2010
The Last Kiss, 2006 (HBO)
The Last Mimzy, 2007
Laws of Attraction, 2004
Lethal Weapon, 1987
Lethal Weapon 2, 1989
Libeled Lady, 1936
Life as We Know It, 2010
Little Baby Bum, 2011
Little Big League, 1994
Madea's Big Happy Family, 2011
Malcolm X, 1992
Man of Steel, 2013
Marie: A True Story, 1985
The Matrix Reloaded, 2003
The Matrix Revolutions, 2003
The Matrix, 1999
Million Dollar Baby, 2004
Miracle of Morgan's Creek, 1944
Mister Roberts, 1955
Monsters Vs. Aliens, 2009
The Mummy, 1959
Mutiny on the Bounty, 1935
Next Friday, 2000
Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always, 2020 (HBO)
Nothing Sacred, 1937
Open Water, 2004 (HBO)
Open Water 2: Adrift, 2007 (HBO)
Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, 2013
The Pelican Brief, 1993
A Perfect Murder, 1998
The Perfect Storm, 2000
The Phantom of the Opera, 2004
Presumed Innocent, 1990
Race for the White House, Season 1
Raised By Wolves, Season 1 Finale
Revolutionary Road, 2008 (HBO)
Roger & Me, 1989
Sands of Iwo Jima, 1950
Scanners, 1981 (HBO)
Scooby-Doo! Haunted Holidays, 2012
Se7en, 1995
Semi-Pro, 2008
Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird, 1985
Shame, 2011 (HBO)
Sherlock Holmes, 2009
Sleight, 2017 (HBO)
Son of Batman, 2014
South Park: The Pandemic Special
Steel, 1997
Superman vs. the Elite, 2012
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, 2010
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, 2009
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, 1991
They Were Expendable, 1945
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, 1996
The Thin Man, 1934
The Thing, 2011 (HBO)
A Time to Kill, 1996
Tin Cup, 1996
TMNT, 2007
Training Day, 2001
Tricky Dick, 2019
Turistas, 2006 (Extended Version) (HBO)
U.S. Marshals, 1998
Us, 2019 (HBO)
Vampire in Brooklyn, 1995
A Very Brady Sequel, 1996
We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World, 2016
What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire?, 2018
When Harry Met Sally, 1989
Where the Wild Things Are, 2009
The Whole Ten Yards, 2004 (HBO)
The Wings of Eagles, 1957
You've Got Mail, 1998
Lina From Lima (HBO)
The ABCs of Back to School: A CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall for Families, 2020
Downhill, 2020 (HBO)
Siempre, Luis, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Wild Card: The Downfall Of A Radio Loudmouth (HBO)
Charm City Kings, HBO Max Original Film Premiere
The Fungies, Season 1B
The God of High School (Dubbed)
Entre Nos Presents: Shayla Rivera: It'S Not Rocket Science (HBO)
Room 104, Series Finale (HBO)
Available October 10
Cats, 2019 (HBO)
Ghosts, Season 2
Detention Adventure, Season 2
A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote, HBO Max Original Premiere
La Odisea De Los Giles (Aka Heroic Losers) (HBO)
The Perfect Weapon, Documentary Special Premiere (HBO)
David Byrne's American Utopia, Special Event Premiere (HBO)
Lovecraft Country, Season Finale (HBO)
The Vow, Docuseries Finale (HBO)
Smurfs, Season 3
537 Votes, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Equal, HBO Max Original Docu-Series Premiere
How To With John Wilson, Season 1 Premiere (HBO Original)
Emma., 2020 (HBO)
The Undoing, Limited Series Premiere (HBO)
It: Chapter Two, 2017 (HBO)
John Lewis: Good Trouble, 2020
The Soul Of America, Documentary Premiere (HBO)
Burning Ojai: Our Fire Story (HBO)
Vida Perfecta, Season 1
Mano De Obra (Aka Workforce) (HBO)
Black Christmas, 2019 (HBO)
RELATED: Zack Snyder's Justice League to Start Filming New Footage Next Month!
Select Titles Leaving HBO Max in October
Leaving October 8
The Nice Guys, 2016 (HBO)
Leaving October 11
Fantastic Beasts: The Crime of Grindelwald, 2018 (HBO)
The Conjuring 2, 2016 (HBO)
A Cinderella Story, 2004
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, 2011
Amelie, 2001 (HBO)
American History X, 1998
Barefoot in the Park, 1967
Batman Beyond: The Return of the Joker, 2000
Batman vs. Robin, 2015
Batman: Gotham Knight, 2008
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1, 2012
Beautiful Creatures, 2013
Blade Runner: The Final Cut, 2007
Blood Diamond, 2006
Cop Out, 2010
Crazy, Stupid, Love, 2011 (HBO)
Dangerous Liaisons, 1988
DEVIL, 2010 (HBO)
Driving Miss Daisy, 1989
El Norte, 1984 (HBO)
Gremlins 2: The New Batch, 1990
Home Alone, 1990 (HBO)
House Party, 1990
Kung Fu Panda 2, 2011
Kung Fu Panda, 2008
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002
Ocean's Eleven, 2001
Paul (Extended Version), 2011 (HBO)
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, 1987
Raising Arizona, 1987 (HBO)
Serendipity, 2001
Soldier, 1998
Spies Like Us, 1985
Star Trek, 2009
Swing Time, 1936
The Adventures of Pinocchio, 1996
The First Wives Club, 1996
The Others, 2001 (HBO)
The Outsiders, 1983
The Replacements, 2000
This Means War (Extended Version), 2012 (HBO)
Three Kings, 1999
Top Hat, 1935
V for Vendetta, 2006
Woodstock (Director's Cut), 1994
Yesterday, 2019 (HBO)
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Article: New Owners of Fastest Known Time
By Buzz Burrell on Thu, 03/10/2022 - 06:01pm
We have sold Fastest Known Time to Outside Interactive Inc, the publisher of numerous iconic magazines such as Trail Runner, Climbing, and of course Outside Magazine itself. Buzz, Peter and Jeff are very happy with what we created, and are very grateful to all of you that have cared and supported our work, so that FKTs are now an integral part of the sport of running, utilized by a worldwide community.
Most importantly, the community itself will be very happy to know that Outside is bringing a massive amount of knowledge, passion, and resources which will greatly improve the services and features of this website, something which we we wanted to see happen and were unable to do. This is good news for everyone!
We launched this website on March 27, 2018, almost 4 years ago. Whew! A lot has happened - - -
As of January 1 2022, you have submitted and we have uploaded 3,358 FKT Routes and 8,120 FKTs, from all States, all Provinces, and about 63 countries. Congratulations! This is a crowd-sourced process and you made it happen.
Peter Bakwin, along with our 17 volunteer Regional Editors, has manually reviewed every single submission - that's a lot of work - thank you!
fastestknowntime.com thus is a uniquely curated database of the selected best routes in the world, who did them, and how fast.
"FKT" is now a common term in our language, with press coverage from the Wall Street Journal, New York Time, National Public Radio, and many others.
Peter will continue to run and scramble mountains brilliantly, and will spend time as a newly certified spiritual teacher. Jeff continues with his active web development business, and is still the fastest runner on the team. Allison Mercer will remain to answer all your questions, and Craig Randall will continue to send out the Newsletter on Monday. Our esteemed Regional Editors will be processing your Route and FKT submissions. And you will meet the new Outside team next week, and hear their ideas for improving the website.
Please listen to the podcast here, as Buzz, Peter, and Jeff share our thoughts on this milestone, with really good comments from Allison Mercer, Hillary Allen, Jared Campbell, and Anton Krupicka.
Thank you, thank you all - you are the community - you helped make this happen.
Buzz, Peter, Jeff
Peter waves goodbye ...
Buzz rides off into the sunset ... or something ...
Jeff says see you at the summit!
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Wow, that is big news! Added resources sounds great. Hope we don't lose the special vibe that Peter, Buzz, and everyone has created. I need to put this podcast at the top of my "to listen" list for my next run!
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Good to hear from you Marcy and Jason! Remember you are your own vibe, and you can't lose it. As for me, there's an owie in my left knee and I wear reading glasses all the time, so I'm losing something!
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Marcy,
Agreed, Big News. I agree also on the not losing the vibe and openness of the community as it is. I love this space and have a significant portion of the last 4 years of my life contributing over 60 different mixed-skill routes and completing over 100 FKTs, even writing articles to draw attention to the interesting films that have been made about the space. I hope we can build in more features that give us as a community more voice in rating/reviewing routes and efforts. "To-do lists" and "tick lists" to track interest and completion of routes could be cool.
A primary concern of mine...
I started chasing FKTs with maxed out credit cards and living out of a $600 smoking astro van, so I have deep concerns around any kind of a "pricing out" of true "eat ramen and crush mountains" dirtbag athletes. I think of early Alex Honnold, Brad Gobright, Sean O'Rourke, and so many more who wouldn't have necessarily ever payed to have their name featured but showed up and smashed speed records. We have to hold in mind that significant contributors to our culture of "what is possible in the backcountry" choose FKTs because there isn't a $200 - $1000 dollar race entry...and that some aren't even willing to pay $14.99 a month for netflix because of how many packets of ramen it buys them (I think of Nathan Longhurst and Travis Soares who are out there crushing right now). I think there is a risk to the legitimacy of the phrase Fastest Known Time, if these people are breaking the records but then just posting elsewhere.
It doesn't seem this is a direction things are intending to go, long or short-term, but in my mind it is of paramount concern.
On a positive note, I am stoked to see that mountain bike, road bike, and ski records are already starting to live on the website here...I am excited for the new creativity these new sports will add for deeply complex and engaging outdoors experiences. This will be good. If you are going to use the name "Fastest Known Time" you should house any speed related record the communities you serve agree is relevant. Will we see "The Nose" and other prominent records displayed here? If so, pictograms depicting the style, technical risk levels of routes, etc would be pretty cool to see.
here is to use weathering the growing pains of this movement together! Lets keep guiding this thing everyone :)
With stoke and gratitude,
My reaction upon reading this was surprise, but after listening to the podcast that has faded to a more typical world-weariness. People need to step away from projects they've started, whether they grow too large to manage, feel complete, or are no longer top priorities -- I certainly have. And being able to cash out at the same time is a nice bonus.
To the extent that this has been a "community," I have been on the periphery, but have been there since at least 2012. Fellow oddballs with their own reasons to compete outside of organized races benefited by having a central repository of interesting routes done fast, rather than bits of lore scattered on various fora and personal sites. Back in the Proboards days, I was contributing to that repository of interesting routes done fast. Later, in the bespoke website and podcast era, I was contributing to Buzz and Peter's project, which I also supported. Going forward, contributing to this site means working for Outside Inc., being "paid" in the dubious coin of "influence." It remains to be seen how they will turn this into pennies, clicks, and bits of consumer data, but capture and value extraction are the downside of centralization.
Back when I first became interested in ultra-endurance and speed records, I was inspired by Bob Burd's Sierra trip reports (https://www.snwburd.com/bob/) and the lore on Matt Mahoney's site (http://mattmahoney.net/ultra/). These stories of focus, obsession, and drive untethered to money or fame appealed to me. A brief foray into organized ultra running around 2010 convinced me that this alluring spirit was being snuffed out by professionalism and commerce. Plus, I was already well into my 30s and lacked the speed to be a contender in what the sport was becoming. I preferred bagging peaks, anyways, and my interest in trail racing faded. The competitive drive remained, though, and putting up times on mountains was a way to satisfy it, push myself, possibly inspire others as they had inspired me, and look both up and down the scale of human performance to know my place.
Now once again I see the writing on the wall. I know I will keep doing similar things for similar reasons, finding inspiration and information here and elsewhere. A some other old guy once said: "Neither a follower nor a leader be. This above all: to thine own self be true."


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Education, General Earth Institute
Faculty Profile: Jason Smerdon
by Cassie Xu|April 4, 2013
"Much of sustainable development is about where the world is headed in the future, anticipating the changes that are to come and evaluating the choices that we have available to address them. But understanding how natural and socioeconomic systems will change in the future, including the climate system, often requires that we look to the past as a guide." True to form, Jason Smerdon is on an exciting career trajectory to understand climate variability and change on multi-decadal to centennial timescales. "We have to think about climatic changes in the past because our modern observations are not much longer than a century. This brief window of time is simply not sufficient for scientists to fully characterize how the climate can change and what surprises may lie ahead," says Smerdon.
Smerdon's discoveries and application of paleoclimate research to today's and tomorrow's most vexing climate questions brought him to the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2005, and to the Earth Institute as a junior faculty member in February 2012. As a postdoctoral fellow at Lamont, Smerdon's studies of paleoclimate reconstructions led him to work with Richard Seager, Mark Cane, and Alexey Kaplan. Smerdon recalls that "the collaborative experiences I have enjoyed speak to the magic of Lamont, an environment that makes for dynamic interactions and allows people from many disciplines and backgrounds to come together to foster transdisciplinary research."
As an example of the kind of synergy that exists at Lamont, Smerdon recalls an impromptu discussion he had with, Seager, a climate modeler, and Rosanne D'Arrigo, a dendroclimatologist. What started as a casual discussion about the extremely cold and snowy winter conditions in New York and along the East Coast in 2009-10, eventually led to interesting connections between the modern winter and the volcanic eruption of Laki, an Icelandic volcano, in 1783. For many years the volcanic eruption had been pinpointed as the cause of the very harsh conditions in the United States and Europe during the winter of 1783-84. This in fact was the eruption that Benjamin Franklin used to draw the first connection between volcanoes and their climatic impacts.
Based on the research of Smerdon and his colleagues, however, the winter conditions in 1783-84 likely were not strongly connected to the volcanic eruption, but were instead caused by conditions in the ocean and atmosphere that were very similar to those that caused the extreme winter in 2009-10. These conditions involved the simultaneous occurrence of a strong negative North Atlantic Oscillation, which drives cold Arctic air south in the Eastern U.S. and Europe, and an El Niño event in the tropical Pacific Ocean. Smerdon and his colleagues found that the strength of these combined conditions in 1783-84 was second only to the 2009-10 winter over the last 600 years and their work provided historical context for how frequently these conditions combine to cause extreme winters on the East Coast. For Smerdon, it is the power of this historical context that highlights the importance of understanding past climate change and the use of such understanding to inform our projections of how the climate will change in the future due to increasing greenhouse gases.
Now as a Lamont associate research professor, Smerdon continues to explore near-term climate change and its effects. Environmental and socioeconomic changes will occur at different scales, and in order to think about how we will adjust to those changes, Smerdon is using climate models and paleoclimatic evidence to constrain and improve model projections of 21st-century climate change.
Smerdon has also played an important role in the expansion of the Earth Institute's education programs, as a co-director of the Undergraduate Program in Sustainable Development with Kevin Griffin and Ruth DeFries. He is also involved in the Masters of Public Administration in Environmental Science and Policy at the School of International and Public Affairs as a professor of climatology, where for the last five years he has thoroughly enjoyed teaching and engaging the diverse and energetic students in the MPA ESP program.
Smerdon grew up in Washington State and later moved to Minnesota, where he graduated with a B.A. in physics from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1998. In 2000, he received an M.S. in physics from the University of Michigan, where he also completed a Ph.D. in applied physics in 2004. His doctoral thesis focused on how interactions between the land and atmosphere generate climate signals in subsurface soils and rocks, which are used to reconstruct historical temperature changes hundreds to thousands of years into the past. For more information about Smerdon's research and educational activities, please visit his website.
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