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NSF Email and Possible Impacts from Required Email Configuration
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Domain-based Messaging and Reporting Compliance (DMARC) was implemented at NSF in October 2018. DMARC is a series of email authentication and reporting checks that improve email security within Federal agencies by improving email fraud defenses.
This Department of Homeland Security (DHS) required protocol may result in some external email recipients not receiving some NSF email if organization email is not configured to meet DMARC requirements or if people are auto-forwarding email to another account, such as a personal email account.
DMARC enables organizations like NSF to verify that email was sent from a trusted source rather than from bad actors such as spammers, hackers or phishers. Since NSF's implementation of DMARC, NSF has observed that some external organizations use email routing practices such as email auto-forwarding from organization to personal email accounts or using third-party email distribution services (e.g., Constant Contact, GovDelivery, Amazon SES) that cause messages to be blocked from distribution because they are flagged as potentially fraudulent by DMARC security checks. This means some recipients of NSF email may not be receiving some important NSF communications related to research funding actions, deadlines, and/or other important messages.
NSF, as all other federal agencies, is required to implement this standard. In response, some universities communicated to their staff about DMARC and specifically about not auto-forwarding email. (Just a few of the examples include the University of Illinois, Northwestern University, Cornell University and the University of Minnesota. Click on the name of the organization to view their public communications.)
If you are hearing about or believe you or researchers at your organization are experiencing email delivery issues with NSF email, please contact your organization's IT division. After contacting them, if you still have questions, please contact NSF's IT Help Central. IT Help Central (ITHC) can be contacted by phone at 703-292-HELP (x4357) or 800-711-8084. ITHC hours of operation are 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., ET. You may also contact ITHC by email at ITHelpCentral@nsf.gov.
More information about NSF's experience with DMARC can be found on NSF's website at https://www.nsf.gov/policies/dmarc.jsp. More information about Binding Operational Directive 18-01 can be found athttps://cyber.dhs.gov/bod/18-01/
Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards – Educational Session
Announcements, Educational Sessions
The Vice President for Research Office will host an educational session, "Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards" from noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 24th. The session will be in the Memorial Union Building, Ballroom A1.
This session will help faculty and staff understand and address foreign national restrictions considerations when conducting research. Topics covered will include: managing technical data, intellectual property and proprietary materials; defining and working with foreign nationals, publishing and teaching; and exporting and licensing considerations.
Registration is open and ends on Tuesday, April 23. Register now to reserve a seat!
This workshop is sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research. There will be desserts and beverages provided, please bring your own lunch.
If you have questions, please contact Ramona Englund at 487-2654 or rlenglun@mtu.edu.
Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards – Education Session
Announcements, Compliance Training, Educational Sessions, Proposals, Sponsored Programs
The Vice President for Research Office will host an educational session, "Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards" from noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 9th. The session will be in the Memorial Union Alumni Lounge. Registration begins today and ends on May 8.
Register now to reserve a seat!
NSF Research.gov Proposal Preparation Site Preview Now Available and Research.gov Proposal Preparation and Submission Site Initial Release Will Be on April 30
Announcements, Proposals, Sponsored Programs
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is pleased to announce that beginning on April 30, 2018, proposers will be able to prepare and submit full, research non-collaborative proposals in Research.gov. The initial release of this new Research.gov capability will run in parallel with existing FastLane proposal preparation and submission capabilities, so proposers can choose to prepare and submit full, research non-collaborative proposals in Research.gov or in FastLane starting on April 30, 2018.
Research.gov Proposal Preparation Site Preview
The other exciting news that we want to share is that starting today, NSF is previewing the new Research.gov proposal preparation functionality to the research community to collect preliminary feedback and to provide the community an opportunity to acclimate to the new technology. The preview can be accessed by selecting the "Prepare & Submit Proposals" tab on the top navigation bar after signing in to Research.gov and then choosing "Prepare Proposal." This preview will continue until 8:00PM EDT on April 27, 2018, and will allow any research community user with a FastLane or Research.gov account to sample the following proposal preparation features prior to the initial release on April 30, 2018:
Initiate full, research non-collaborative proposals (other proposal types are planned for future releases);
Add Principal Investigators (PIs), Co-PIs, Senior Personnel, and Other Authorized Users;
Upload required proposal documents;
Create budgets;
Check compliance; and
Enable Sponsored Project Officer (SPO)/Authorized Organizational Representative (AOR) access for review.
Please be aware of the following important items as you test the new functionality during the preview period:
All test data entered on the Research.gov proposal preparation site from February 26, 2018, until the preview concludes at 8:00PM EDT on April 27, 2018, will be deleted at the end of the preview period.
NSF will not be able to recover any proposal test data entered during the preview period and deleted by NSF after the preview period concludes.
Information entered on the Research.gov proposal preparation site during the preview period will not be submitted to NSF.
Test data can be entered on the Research.gov proposal preparation site but actual proposals cannot be submitted to NSF via Research.gov during the preview period.
Additional information will be available on a Research.gov "About Proposal Preparation & Submission Site" page accessible on the Research.gov homepage.
Feedback on the New Research.gov Proposal Preparation and Submission Site
Your feedback on the new Research.gov proposal preparation functionality during the preview period (February 26, 2018 through April 27, 2018) and on the full Research.gov proposal preparation and submission functionality after the initial release on April 30, 2018, is vital to NSF. The survey link will soon be available on the Research.gov "About Proposal Preparation & Submission Site" page. Feedback from the community and NSF staff will be used to implement enhancements and expand functionality incrementally, with the goal of eventually transitioning all proposal preparation and submission functionality from FastLane to Research.gov.
NSF's goals for the new Research.gov proposal preparation and submission functionality are to:
Modernize the applications supporting the proposal submission and merit review processes and improve the user experience via the development of a new application;
Reduce the administrative burden to the research community and NSF staff associated with preparation, submission, and management of proposals;
Increase efficiencies in proposal preparation, submission, and management;
Improve data quality and capture proposal content in a way that supports data analytics; and
Improve availability, security, and flexibility of proposal preparation and submission IT systems.
We invite you to keep these goals in mind as you prepare and submit your feedback on the new functionality, so that we may improve the new Research.gov interface and develop additional available features.
For IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or rgov@nsf.gov. Policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov.
NSF.gov, FastLane, and Research.gov Unavailable from Friday, June 30 at 8:00 PM EDT until Tuesday, July 4 at 6:00 PM EDT
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is moving its Data Center IT servers to the Foundation's new headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, from June 30 at 8:00 PM EDT through July 4 at 6:00 PM EDT, to prepare for NSF staff relocation in August 2017. This move has been scheduled around a holiday weekend to minimize the systems downtime and reduce the impact on the research community and NSF staff.
Please be advised that the NSF website, FastLane, and Research.gov will be unavailable from Friday, June 30 at 8:00 PM EDT until Tuesday, July 4 at 6:00 PM EDT. During this outage period, there will be no access to these websites, proposals cannot be submitted in FastLane, and project reports and cash requests cannot be submitted in Research.gov. However, previously saved information and uploaded documents in FastLane and Research.gov, including in-process proposals and reports, will be accessible after the Data Center move.
We encourage you to share this information with your colleagues. For IT system-related questions, please contact the NSF Help Desk at 1-800-381-1532 or rgov@nsf.gov. Any policy-related questions should be directed to policy@nsf.gov. For additional information about NSF's relocation, please see https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/issuances/in139.jsp.
New NSF Proposal & Award Newsletter
The Policy Office in the Division of Institution & Award Support at the National Science Foundation is pleased to release the second quarterly NSF Proposal & Award Policy Newsletter. If you have any questions or comments, please send an email to policy@nsf.gov.
Two-Tier Internal Deadline Pilot for Select Sponsored Opportunities in June and July, 2017
The Sponsored Programs Office will pilot a two-tier internal deadline structure for the following opportunities in June and July, 2017:
NIH R01 Research Grants – sponsor deadline June 5
NIH R21 Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award – sponsor deadline June 16
NIH R15 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) – sponsor deadline June 25
NSF CAREER – sponsor deadline July 19, 20 and 21 depending on Directorate
This pilot will include a staggered, two-tier internal deadline structure for the submission of the final internal and external documents related to each of the above opportunities. All final internal documents and the application package (completed in NIH ASSIST or NSF FastLane) will be due to the Sponsored Programs Office no later than 7:00 a.m., 1 week (7 calendar days) prior to the sponsor deadline. However, not all of the science documents in the application package needs to be final at this point and the application package does not need to include the completed budget forms. All final science related documents will be due to the Sponsored Programs Office no later than 7:00 a.m. the day of the sponsor deadline. Once received, personnel in the Sponsored Programs Office will upload the final documents into the application package. This later deadline will provide valuable time for the PI/researcher to focus on the science aspects of the proposal.
Once the Sponsored Programs Office receives the internal documents and the application package, personnel in the Sponsored Programs Office will enter the approved budget into the applicable application package….the PI/researcher will not need to complete this task.
The specific science related documents for each application package will be identified and communicated to the respective Principal Investigators once the intent to submit is known.
Please contact the Sponsored Programs Office at 487-2226 if you have any questions.
Yun Hang Hu Wins Both Research Award and Bhakta Rath Award
Yun Hang Hu won the 2017 Michigan Tech Research Award. He was also selected for the Bhakta Rath Award with his PhD student, Wei Wei.
Hu, the Charles and Carroll McArthur Professor of materials science and engineering at Michigan Technological University, has been awarded the Michigan Tech Research Award this year for his outstanding research achievements in advanced materials and clean energy. He also earned the 2017 Bhakta Rath Award with his PhD graduate student, Wei Wei. This is the first time a faculty member has won both awards.
NSF Makes Changes to Guide
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a new Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG) that affects all NSF proposals being submitted on and after Jan. 30, 2017.
The new guide can be found here, and a full summary of the significant changes to the Grant Proposal Guide can be found online.
In particular, investigators should note:
The PAPPG has been modified in its entirety, to remove all references to the Grant Proposal Guide (GPG) and Award & Administration Guide (AAG). The document will now be referred to solely as the NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide (PAPPG). PIs accustomed to referring to the GPG for guidance should now look to the PAPPG for instructions.
Collaborators and Other Affiliations Information includes additional instructions for proposers. Each section of the Collaborators and Other Affiliations Information document should be listed alphabetically by last name. The text has also been revised to remove the requirement that proposers list postgraduate scholar sponsors in this section of the proposal.
Indirect Costs (also known as Facilities and Administrative Costs (F&A) for Colleges and Universities) (Line I on the Proposal Budget), has been updated to clarify that the use of an indirect cost rate lower than the organization's approved negotiated indirect cost rate is considered a violation of NSF's cost sharing policy. (This affects faculty submitting proposals to NSF's CAREER program, as Michigan Tech is no longer able to voluntarily choose to use our off-campus rate as we have done in the past.)
Special Information and Supplementary Documentation: includes additional language to emphasize the importance of submitting letters of support only when specifically required by a program solicitation.
In addition, NSF recently changed the way that Fastlane checks the project summary for compliance. Instead of a 4,600 character limit, the text now simply needs to fit to one page when formatted by Fastlane. PIs will need to verify their text meets the page limit during the proposal preparation process.
Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards Education Session
The Vice President for Research Office will host an educational session entitled, "Review of Foreign National Restrictions on Awards" from noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 16th. The session will be in the Memorial Union Ballroom A1. Registration begins today and ends on November 14.
Updated Tables for Estimating GRA Stipends and Tuition
Plan Ahead for Proposal Preparation and Submission Services
New NSF policy – Notification Requirements Regarding Sexual Harassment and Assault
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Chlamydia prevalence in adolescent Australians
Most Australian guidelines for clinical screening of chlamydia infection advise testing sexually active individuals aged 16-24 years. Recent research shows that age at first sex in Australia is decreasing; a recent Victorian survey showed 29% of respondents reported being sexually active before age 16 years. There is also evidence that younger age at first sex is associated with risk behavior such as unprotected sex and having multiple sex partners.
We examined three years of laboratory testing data (2008-2010) collected via the Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance (ACCESS). Data from 15 laboratories were used; five from Victoria, four each from New South Wales and Queensland, two from South Australia and one from Tasmania. Chlamydia test numbers and proportion positive were compared by age group.
In three years 286,020 tests were conducted in individuals aged 12-24 years, the majority occurring in females (3:1 ratio). Of total tests, 3.6% were in 12-15 year olds (n=10,296) compared to 32% in 16-19 year olds. The proportion chlamydia positive was highest in adolescent girls aged 12-15 years (13%) compared to 12% in those aged 16-19 years, 8% in those aged 20-24 years (p=.001) and 9% in boys aged 12-15 years (p<.001).
Chlamydia testing in 12-15 year olds was much lower than in other adolescents but this group had the highest chlamydia prevalence. This is possibly due to less routine chlamydia testing in 12-15 year olds or only testing those presenting with sexual risk. Testing young adolescents is complicated by legal policies relating to age of consent, and privacy is a potential barrier to testing. Also of concern is the sexual behaviour of younger adolescents potentially increasing their risk of infection. Research into sexual behaviours of this group is needed.
Speakers: Carol El-Hayek
Conference: ASHM 2013
Areas of Interest / Categories: AIDS 2013, Child and Adolescent Health, Sexual Behaviour, Sexually Transmitted Disease
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Delayed HIV diagnoses among gay and bisexual men in Australia
The majority of HIV diagnoses including delayed diagnoses in Australia occur among men who report homosexual contact – hereafter called gay and bisexual men (GBM). Delayed diagnosis is strongly associated with increased HIV-related mortality and morbidity. People who are unaware of their HIV-positive status may also be unwittingly transmitting HIV. We assessed trends in delayed HIV diagnoses among GBM in Australia.
Complex case report that illustrates the paucity of data for long term management of Visceral Leishmania-HIV co-infection.
HIV-associated leishmaniasis, endemic in the Mediterranean basin is a growing problem in India, Brazil and East Africa. Despite surviving for than 20 years, the clinical course of our visceral-leishmania (VL)-HIV co-infected patient illustrates several management challenges including diagnosis, speciation and drug resistance; monitoring burden of disease; access to and use of VL-treatments; end-organ toxicity and the combined immunosuppressive effects of HIV-VL.
Clinical factors associated with suboptimal adherence to antiretroviral therapy in Asia
Adherence to combination antiretroviral therapy (cART ) plays an important role on treatment outcomes. The TREAT Asia Studies to Evaluate Resistance – Monitoring Cohort Study (TASER-M) collects patients' adherence based on a Visual Analogue Scale. The aim of this analysis was to assess the rates of, and factors associated with, suboptimal adherence in the first 24 months of initial cART in Asian patients.
Reinvigorating evidence for action and capacity in community HIV programs (REACH Project)
REACH was a collaborative research and practice initiative to develop evidence building frameworks, capacity, tools and resources with the Victorian HIV community partnership.
The impact of immune activation on natural killer cells in the setting of HIV infection
HIV disease is associated with chronic inflammation and activation of the innate immune system. This state, as measured using plasma markers of inflammation, persists following suppression of HIV viremia using antiretroviral therapy, and may increase risk of non-AIDS co-morbidities. The causes of innate immune activation in the setting of virological suppression are unclear. Natural killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells that kill virus-infected and transformed cells without prior sensitization. We have shown that NK cells are activated both phenotypically (elevated expression of HLA-DR) and functionally (increased spontaneous degranulation measured by CD107a surface expression) in virologically suppressed (VS) HIV+ individuals. NK cells also lose expression of CD16, the receptor which mediates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.
Men who take more risks avoid HIV testing due to structural barriers
Regular HIV testing is recommended in men who take sexual risks. We assessed the relationship between perceived barriers to HIV testing, and frequency of testing among men who engaged in unprotected anal intercourse with casual partners (UAIC), to inform HIV testing strategies.
Behavioural trends among Australian gay men pose increasing challenges for HIV prevention: findings from the Gay Community Periodic Surveys, 2003-1
Gay men remain the primary population affected by HIV in Australia. While recent attention has been focused on increasing HIV testing and the use of antiretroviral-based prevention to reduce infections, it is equally important to sustain safe sex and other risk reduction practices. Increases in unprotected anal intercourse (UAI), for example, may counteract any beneficial changes in testing and treatment.

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Too Close For Comfort - The Village Stompers - New Beat On Broadway! (Vinyl, LP, Album)
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9 thoughts on " Too Close For Comfort - The Village Stompers - New Beat On Broadway! (Vinyl, LP, Album) "
Grozshura on	 28.10.2019 | 05:47
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Tojami on	 27.10.2019 | 08:13
The Village Stompers are often misidentified as a folk group, owing to the early-'60s era when they were at their peak, and to their name, as well as the title of their only hit, "Washington Square," which together evoke images of earnest young folksingers strumming acoustic guitars in New York's Greenwich Village. The truth is, they were a Dixieland jazz outfit, and their existence is a.
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Too Close for Comfort (TV Series –) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Kelrajas on	 29.10.2019 | 05:27
Too Close for Comfort is an American television sitcom which ran on the ABC network from November 11, until May 5, , and in first-run syndication from April 7, until September 27, It was modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family, which premiered nine months before Too Close for Comfort debuted in the U.S. Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the.
Male on	 31.10.2019 | 19:20
Find The Village Stompers credit information on AllMusic. The Village Stompers are often misidentified as a folk group, owing to the early-'60s era when they were at their peak, and to their name, as well as the title of their only hit, "Washington Square,".
Meziktilar on	 01.11.2019 | 22:35
Too Close for Comfort is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from November 11, , to May 5, , and in first-run syndication from April 7, , to February 7, Its name was changed to The Ted Knight Show when the show was retooled .
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AT&T Corp.'s stock price is partly supported by a dividend yield of nearly 7 percent, but the company faces daunting competition in its video and entertainment business segments that limits its potential for capital appreciation.
AT&T's stock price dropped 3.49 percent through Feb. 5 after releasing its financial results on Jan. 30, when its revenues of $48.0 billion for the last three months of 2018 fell short of consensus analysts' estimates of $48.5 billion. The company's Q4 2018 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) of 86 cents beat analysts' estimates of 78 cents but AT&T's management provided pedestrian guidance of low single-digit-percentage adjusted EPS growth this year.
Critics complain that AT&T (NYSE:T) has been less focused on spending money to offer cutting-edge fifth-generation (5G) telecommunications services than U.S. wireless industry leader Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ). Another competitive threat is that streaming video services collectively are devoting billions of dollars to acquire and to create content that has erected another marketplace battlefront for AT&T to fight.
AT&T's top priority for 2019 is driving down the debt from its Time Warner acquisition in June 2018, said AT&T's Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson during the company's fourth-quarter and full-year 2018 earnings call on Jan. 30. Of course, cutting debt from that purchase also was a key AT&T priority for 2018 and the markets failed to reward shareholders for management's efforts.
AT&T's rising dividend policy and track record of increased payouts qualify it as a so-called Dividend Aristocrat. Dividend Aristocrats form a group of S&P 500 stocks that have boosted their annual dividend payouts for at least 25 consecutive years and whose individual market capitalization exceeds $3 billion.
Despite offering a forward dividend yield of 6.89 percent, AT&T's stock price has faltered during the past year. The company's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio currently is 10.37, while the consensus forward P/E of analysts for AT&T is 8.33, according to Morningstar.
Indeed, telecom services generally, and AT&T in particular, have not been a friendly environment for investors to turn a profit in the past few years amid heightened competition. The telecom services sector for the past week dropped 0.17 percent, while AT&T slid 3.48 percent. For the past month, the sector rose 2.02 percent, while AT&T fell 0.73 percent. For the past year, the sector dipped 4.43 percent, with AT&T plunging 16.93.
AT&T's largest business segment is wireless communications, which delivers almost 40% of the company's pro forma revenue. America's second-largest U.S. wireless carrier after Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), AT&T connects more than 100 million devices.
In addition, AT&T's consumer and entertainment segment accounts for about 25 percent of its revenue, including the DirecTV satellite television and consumer fixed-line businesses. WarnerMedia, formerly Time Warner before its acquisition by AT&T for $85 billion, contributes roughly 18 percent of revenue with media assets that include HBO, the Turner cable networks and the Warner Brothers studios.
Also contributing to AT&T's revenue stream are fixed-line business communications, which is 15 percent of the company's sales; Latin American satellite television, accounting for 3 percent; and Mexican wireless services, chipping in 2 percent.
"AT&T has confused investors because it is trying to change from being a utility to being a media and entertainment conglomerate," said Bob Carlson, who leads the Retirement Watch investment advisory service. "What's making that worse is that the utility parts of the business, cable television and wireless telephones, were supposed to fund the growth of the media and entertainment businesses.
Hilary Kramer, a seasoned Wall Street professional who leads the Value Authority, Turbo Trader and Inner Circle advisory services for individual investors, said, "Nobody expected a life-changing growth outlook here, but reaction shows that Wall Street is running out of patience with the company's efforts to turn the cable TV business around. People are cutting the cord. It's a deteriorating market and the question of whether AT&T can stabilize subscriber numbers remains open.
The stakes are high for AT&T because growth targets in the low-single-digit percentages are so low, Kramer said. As management confirmed on the call, the best AT&T can do even after the Time Warner merger is 3 percent earnings expansion this year, she added.
The introduction of 5G services by wireless providers is important to offer consumers much faster data download and upload speeds, wider coverage and heightened stability in connections. The 5G technology will make better use of the existing and limited radio spectrum to allow more devices to access the mobile internet simultaneously.
Rival Verizon achieved several 5G firsts in 2018. It became the first provider in the world to commercially offer 5G to consumers. Verizon officials said they are aiming to give their customers a best-in-class and game-changing experience on its networks. Verizon plans to devote $17-18 billion to capital expenditures in 2019 that will include expanded commercial launch of 5G.
AT&T's dividend yield of nearly 7 percent is enticing, but odds are good that the slight edge on that front won't last long with Verizon's long-term growth and 5G potential fueling its future.
Internet broadband is offering a clear and highly competitive "alternative" to traditional pay TV providers, Schaeffler said.
Super Bowl LIII, played on Feb. 3, provided an example of how broadcast TV essentially is "cannibalizing itself," Schaeffler said. Traditional broadcaster CBS (NYSE:CBS) allowed ads from streaming media companies, such as Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and Amazon Prime (NASDAQ:AMZN), to promote their video programming. Every streaming media show that a consumer watches is one that will not be viewed on broadcast television, he added.
AT&T's DirecTV Now service was "late to the steaming media party," especially compared to early-to-market pioneers such as Sling TV, Schaeffler said. Sony (NYSE:SNE), NBCUniversal, Time Warner and other new players have streaming media products to compete with AT&T, he added.
The winners will provide broadband distribution services and content, Schaeffler said. Verizon's purchases of Yahoo and AOL so far are not paying off as investments, and AOL was not "fresh, new or interesting," he continued.
DirecTV will never be interactive, so it can't leverage its distribution investment to create on demand, over-the-top (OTT) services to deliver video through the internet in the same way as cable companies, Blum said. AT&T's telecom business is also showing the strain, since it is holding back on 5G and fiber upgrades and increasingly relying on its existing 4G infrastructure and technology, he added.
"AT&T is replacing copper networks in rural and other less lucrative communities with 4G-based fixed wireless service and, in part, relying on federal public safety and universal service fund subsidies to do it, and it's investing in marginal 4G upgrades rather than 5G technology, but calling it 5Ge," Blum said. "Outside of the limited areas where it's investing in fiber upgrades, AT&T's networks are taking a back seat to more specialized players in its footprint: cable companies can deliver faster broadband service more widely and have a plausible chance of creating walled gardens that can hold off OTT challenges. OTT companies are sucking up consumer viewing hours and pure play, or near pure play, mobile companies are moving to 5G.
Also bland on the immediate prospects of AT&T is Goldman Sachs analyst Brett Feldman, who placed a neutral rating and a modest price target of $31 a share on the company. However, an optimistic outlook for AT&T comes from Nomura/Instinet analyst Jeffrey Kvaal, who gave AT&T a buy rating and a price target of $43.
The outlook for AT&T as an investment, aside from its dividend yield, is open to debate. Ultimately, AT&T will need to show its competitive muscle to succeed in its varied businesses. For now, AT&T seems to be a risky investment that could deter all but the most dividend-loving investors.


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Q: Pulling out "text" from JSON I am writing a google app script that works with telegram. The user will key in their unique 4 digit code and it will run against my array. i have most of the stuff working. I'm currently stuck getting my code to match the users input.
from the JSON below. i am only able to extract the first result in my syntax.
for example extracting the chatid
var contents = JSON.parse(e.postData.contents)
var id = contents.message.from.id

But what i am trying to extract is the "Welcome" from the text portion of the 2nd response.
{
  "ok": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "update_id": 11111111,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 412,
        "from": {
          "id": 22222222,
          "is_bot": false,
          "first_name": "don",
          "username": "king",
          "language_code": "en"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 333333333,
          "first_name": "Don",
          "username": "king",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1600865179,
        "text": "Test"
      }
    },
    {
      "update_id": 111111111,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 413,
        "from": {
          "id": 1111111111,
          "is_bot": false,
          "first_name": "Don",
          "username": "king",
          "language_code": "en"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 44444444,
          "first_name": "don",
          "username": "king",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1600865186,
        "text": "Welcome"
      }
    }
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This is the main part of my script that has difficulty. I was able to log and confirm it works and generates the values and array i need. However when i send an input to telegram it stops at "Please Wait".

function doPost(e){
    var contents = JSON.parse(e.postData.contents);
    var id = contents.message.from.id;
    sendMessage(id, "Please wait");
    var userInput = contents.result[1].message.text;
    var ssId = "XXXX";
    var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(ssId).getSheetByName("Sheet1");
    var idArr = sheet.getRange("A2:A").getValues();
    idArr = idArr.map(row => row[0]);
    var idIndex = idArr.indexOf(userInput);
     if(userinput == idArr){
        let rowNumber = idIndex + 3;
        let colNumber = 4; //col D
        var dateNow = new Date;
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A: Does this work for you?
console.log(contents.result[1].message.text)}

 contents= {
  "ok": true,
  "result": [
    {
      "update_id": 11111111,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 412,
        "from": {
          "id": 22222222,
          "is_bot": false,
          "first_name": "don",
          "username": "king",
          "language_code": "en"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 333333333,
          "first_name": "Don",
          "username": "king",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1600865179,
        "text": "Test"
      }
    },
    {
      "update_id": 111111111,
      "message": {
        "message_id": 413,
        "from": {
          "id": 1111111111,
          "is_bot": false,
          "first_name": "Don",
          "username": "king",
          "language_code": "en"
        },
        "chat": {
          "id": 44444444,
          "first_name": "don",
          "username": "king",
          "type": "private"
        },
        "date": 1600865186,
        "text": "Welcome"
      }
    }
  ]
}

 console.log(contents.result[1].message.text)

A: The result inside that JSON is an array so you could try loop it to get the data. try this....

  var yourJSON = {
  ok: true,
  result: [
    {
      update_id: 11111111,
      message: {
        message_id: 412,
        from: {
          id: 22222222,
          is_bot: false,
          first_name: "don",
          username: "king",
          language_code: "en",
        },
        chat: {
          id: 333333333,
          first_name: "Don",
          username: "king",
          type: "private",
        },
        date: 1600865179,
        text: "Test",
      },
    },
    {
      update_id: 111111111,
      message: {
        message_id: 413,
        from: {
          id: 1111111111,
          is_bot: false,
          first_name: "Don",
          username: "king",
          language_code: "en",
        },
        chat: {
          id: 44444444,
          first_name: "don",
          username: "king",
          type: "private",
        },
        date: 1600865186,
        text: "Welcome",
      },
    },
  ],
};

for (var x in yourJSON.result) {  // Example 1
  var fromId = yourJSON.result[x].message.from.id;
  if (fromId == 1111111111) {  // condition to get the data you want
    console.log(yourJSON.result[x].message.text); // Welcome extraction
  }
}

yourJSON.result.map((data) => { // Example 2
  var fromId = data.message.from.id;
  if (fromId == 1111111111) {   // condition to get the data you want
    console.log(yourJSON.result[x].message.text); // Welcome extraction
  }
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So, You Want to be the Class Valedictorian? Sorry You Did Not Show You Deserved It!
In one of the current episodes of "The Bottomline," the talk show gave Krisel Mallari the floor to finally deliver her unfinished speech. If you remember, she made headlines and made people discuss about graduating with honors as foundation of personal success. Her speech privilege was cut in the middle when one of the teachers and school administrators sensed that she was no longer along the line with a prepared speech but instead delivered a whining speech where she lambasted the school for being unfair to her. Now that she finally finished and we heard her speech on camera, it is time to ask if she deserved to be the class valedictorian instead of being a salutatorian.
Personally, I believed that she made the wrong decision of reading her speech on this popular TV show of Boy Abunda. Apparently, she just showed to people some reasons why she was not awarded the top medal on her graduation day and settled for second best. What went wrong with her speech on TV?
First, she already had ample time to prepare for her valedictory address on camera and she should have done it with a bang. She could have impressed people by writing down notes on an index card and delivered the speech without reading words typed or written on several pages of a bond paper. By delivering the speech from memory and just using the index cards as her cue, she could have impressed me and other people as well of her speech skills and probably tilt the balance to her way. Unfortunately, she just showed one reason why she was a salutatorian; she is reactive instead of proactive.
Second, while I do not detest people watching "teleserye," her quoting from one of a popular TV series is an indication of how shallow her level of intelligence is. Yes, she is a bright girl but that just what she has. A person with intelligence should have the sophistication to quote from literature or from classic speeches or essays to enhance a speech. Unfortunately again, she showed the second reason why she was given the second best medal, her personal choices lack sophistication which intelligent people are known for. She was just as shallow as any other ordinary people.
Third, inspiration and role modelling is part and parcel of who you are and what you want to become. By quoting something from Dwayne Wayne, is another reason for me why she ended up as salutatorian. Her choice of source of quotation is an indication that she is not a cut above the rest. Yes, there is nothing wrong with admiring people from pop culture but she would have convinced people that she deserved to be class valedictorian if she quoted words from Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, or even Cory Aquino.
Finally, the nail in the coffin with regards to her being a salutatorian is her lack of maturity. Maturity is defined in psychology as the ability to respond to an environment or situation in an appropriate manner. It is learned instead of instinctive. In this definition, she unwittingly revealed her level of personal maturity that she acted on instinct instead of reason and that is the biggest reason why she ended up as salutatorian.
When you wanted to become the creamiest of the crop one must only not have the brains but a certain swag that people can easily identify that you rightfully owned the spot , however in her case I was kinda expecting more. My main concern was her speech and I agreed to what the writer wrote about her humiliating situation. Intelligence comes with sophistication and with speeches comes a great need to convey one's mind. When you started quoting from Teleserye to Dwaynes Wayne one would be asking was she even interested in literature ( both English & Filipino), and to think there are so many of them that she could have used especially when she talked about injustice. ie ( M.Luther, Voltaire, F Sionil Jose, AmAdo Hernandez) author like Lemony Snicket to name the few. I also do not condemned students in watching Teleserye or having a player as their role model nor you do not have to be a brilliant orator to deliver a great speech. However I for one demanded something more from her material and found that she's lacking in some area of her speech. People nowadays are more becoming critical and not so easy to please , and to top that they make certain demands and wanted to be assured that your effectiveness & intelligence when it comes to speech is above others. Therefore in that particular moment it is not up to her to proclaimed that she was suppose to be the Valedictorian it was up to us her audience to decide and sadly I think that she did not realize that she lost that entitlement once she step foot on that stage. There was no turning back the speech was unprepared and it wasn't catchy and the worst part is she get interrupted couple of times while delivering her speech and got boot out of the platform. The results were dramatic and people like me realize that she was not cut from the same tree as those people with fantastic minds. Lastly Eleonor Roosevelt have said" Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people ".


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There's a reasonably large Western European constituency, in other words, for some sort of climate change skepticism. (And probably a growing one: In Britain, at least, as in the United States, the economic slump has dampened public enthusiasm for anti-emissions regulation.) But the politicians haven't been responding. Instead, Europe's political class, left and right alike, has worked to marginalize a position that it considers intellectually disreputable, even as the American GOP has exploited that same position to win votes.
This isn't a very popular statement, but there is a role for elites in public life. Just like I want knowledgeable CEOs running companies and knowledgeable doctors performing surgeries, I want knowledgeable legislators crafting public policy. That's why we have a representative democracy, rather than some form of government-by-referendum. But of late, the elites in the Republican Party are abdicating their roles, preferring to pander to the desire for free tax cuts and the hostility to Al Gore than make tough and potentially unpopular decisions to safeguard our future. That isn't to say, incidentally, that Republican politicians should agree with me. But maybe they could agree with AEI fellow and former Reagan biographer Stephen Hayward.
Are you implying that government-by-referendum is a bad thing? If so, why?
In the long run — besides being dead — we get what we deserve.
If we're not smart enough to vote for people with intelligence on the subject of climate change, but rather for science-deniers, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Are YOU asserting that government by referendum is a GOOD thing? If so, how would you differentiate it from mob rule, or do you think mob rule is also a good thing?
Christine O'Donnell represents the ultimate devolution of the GOP approach - 'Vote for me - I'm YOU' (and don't pay any attention to the fact that I have my head firmly up my _ss). It's the ultimate in poltics as the art of stirring up people's lizard brains, rather that treating them as intelligent and responsible participants in their own governance. In other words, it's not democracy, any more than Hitler's Germany was.
Are there any left of center European parties that accept the output of computer simulations as unquestionable facts?
jtravis: Are you implying government-by-referendum is a good thing? I for one am only knowledgeable enough to have an educated opinion on so many issues and I'm happy to delegate the power to make the votes and compromises of governing to someone else just as I'm happy to make my rick crispies out of plain rice every morning. I'd be more happy to delegate to someone competent, intelligent and earnestly trying to find the right answers and do the right things but a good man is hard to find these days.
"Are YOU asserting that government by referendum is a GOOD thing?"
I didn't, but I am asserting it now.
Democracy is not mob rule. Democracy is a system which is dependent upon the consent of the public. Mob rule is a system in which a certain group of people, especially a majority, dominates another. Mob rule could be potentially totalitarian, while democracy is dependent upon the consent of everyone, so it precludes mob rule. Democracy is NOT, and never was defined by majority rule. Majority rule was just a poor attempt at determining the will of the public.
"It's the ultimate in poltics as the art of stirring up people's lizard brains, rather that treating them as intelligent and responsible participants in their own governance. In other words, it's not democracy, any more than Hitler's Germany was."
With direct democracy, none of this could take place. Representatives would be irrelevant.
It gets back to the "to the battlements!" mentality of our political culture. Take one issue. Any issue. Find the side that at least purports to have the same view as you on that one issue, and then go to their side of the field and put up with all of the rest of the nonsense. In fact, you may begin to participate in the nonsense yourself.
What's your stance on abortion? From that I could probably predict with 80% certainty what your stance is on taxes, the stimulus package, global warming, and the war in Iraq. What's your stance on environmental regulation? Once I knew that I could predict with 80 % certainty what your view is on the Patriot Act, the Second Amendment, and HCR.
The big joke being played on all of us is that most of this crap is a distraction from the corporate takeover of our Democracy. Brought to you by Dems and Repubs both.
If you really think that your representative knows better and you prefer to be governed rather than control your own life, then a compromise might be to let the public vote on legislation if they want, and to also have representatives to vote for people who don't want to vote themselves. The representative's vote could be assigned to all the people in his or her district who didn't vote.
Sarah Palin is what you get when you choose politicians who give you sound bites without substance: all ideology and no facts. (I'm still haunted by the story in a Vanity Fair piece about how, during a debate for candidates for Governor of Alaska, one candidate had statistics to back up his answer, and when it was her turn, she not only dissed him for relying on factual information, she said it wasn't necessary!). No, thank you. Let's get the facts out there, and then we can debate the different partisan positions on those facts.
tl_houston, none of which I'm aware. Your point?
If President Obama were smart he would make the policy proposals from this report into a bill and dare, DARE the GOP to oppose it. I'd love to see the headlines "GOP kills conservative's bill on Clean Energy and Climate Change"
Imagine watching Republicans trying to argue against their own think tank.
Leaving all the politics aside, I clicked on the Stephan Hayward link to the Breakthrough Institute site and read the article and summary. I've downloaded the entire white paper for further reading.
My interest was initially sparked by the fact that the paper had been written by the AEI and Brookings Inst. in cooperation with Breakthrough. I figured it had to be interesting. I was not disappointed. Moreover, as a moderate or centrist who's very much interested in clean energy innovation, increased global competitiveness, climate change, and cost efficiency I found this report well worth consideration. I plan to send it to my Senator, Barbara Boxer, and ask her to read it.
This report indicates smart thinking and collaboration. Now, if we can get "politicos" to start thinking and behaving this way, we might gain back our competitive edge before the BRIC countries clean our clock!
"The truth is, American Republican politicians have pulled off a very neat trick. They've tapped into widespread grass roots anger that manifests itself in all kinds of volatile ways, while pursuing a political agenda that primarily benefits elites and specific corporate special interests. When those two match up -- as in the case of climate change skepticism, the GOP is golden, and the politicians feel free to rant away. But when they don't match up: taxing the rich, for example, they are remarkably quiet. The real difference between the U.S. and Western Europe may just be that politicians in Europe can't get away with such arrant hypocrisy."
The simple fact is that political elites in Western Europe are no more committed to action on climate change than are those in the US. They differ only in the amount of lip service given.
Those countries signed on to the Kyoto Protocol, which obligated them to reduce carbon emissions, but they haven't actually done so. Europe's emissions continue to climb. (They only achieve legal compliance with Kyoto by lumping themselves together with the Eastern Europe countries whose economies collapsed in the 1990s). Similarly, when the Democrats had filibuster-proof power here in the US, they didn't even try to pass a climate-change bill.
Essentially, therefore, it's not a matter of intellectual repute but of intellectual candor. No major party in the US or Western Europe is going to get serious about cutting emissions, but the Republican party is the only party honest enough to admit it.
Ezra, you could replace the word's "global warming" with "death penalty" and be just as accurate.
It seems to me that the elites in the Republican Party abdicated their role way back in 2000, when they didn't try to keep Bush from winning the nomination.
His biography makes him sound more like a nuclear engineer than a climatologist. But, hey, who's counting?
jtravisrolko @ October 13, 2010 2:51 PM wrote "Are you implying that government-by-referendum is a bad thing? If so, why?"
OK, so according to Prof. Lewis, Dwight Eisenhower warned the American Physical Society not to get corrupted by big money.
It's not just that he isn't a climatologist, he a professor EMERITUS, and a little checking shows him to be 87 years old, possibly retired for 20 years. Anyway, he makes no cogent argument against Global Warming -- just claims everything is corrupted by money and that anyone (read: any sane non-lying liberal lousy excuse for a scientist scumbag) who read the so-called ClimageGate emails would draw the same conclusion as he does. Oh yeah, somebody used the word "trick" the way a mechanic would say "I used the old trick of sliding a long pipe over the end of the wrench to get more leverage".
And yet, people like James Delingpole are claiming this is the biggest thing since Martin Luther nailed his however many theses to the door of whatever. I've also heard the phrase "shot seen round the world" used.
I firmly believe that one of the things the "right" has going for it all the stories, including "the global warming hoax" which the mainstream media can be accused of suppressing, which the Mainstream media does indeed not print, either because it isn't true, or it's a non-story.
If they were ever to give up climate change denial, and more importantly the "great liberal hoax" that is the other side of that coin much of the wind would go out of their sails.
By the way, have we all seen this piece in the National Review which directly challenges the "Global Warming is an evil liberal power grabbing hoax" myth.
Bet lots of people were calling him RINO that week.
President Obama is what you get when you choose politicians who give you sound bites without substance: all ideology and no facts. President Obama played everyone for suckers. He told everyone what they wanted to hear or was so vague on issues people could hear what they wanted to hear and people voted for this.
Also he played the race card constantly. Why should we trust the elites when they give us candidates like Obama? Democrat elites are just as corrupt and self-serving as the republican elites.


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Backyard museum: Hobby historian builds a museum to share his findings with others
Larry Levin is not your typical hunter. To begin with, he doesn't use dogs. Nor does he wear camouflage. There are no guns on Levin's hunt, except those remnants he has retrieved of a French fur traders' rifle. And when he bags a big game prize, ...
By WCT Newsroom
Larry Levin is not your typical hunter.
To begin with, he doesn't use dogs.
Nor does he wear camouflage.
There are no guns on Levin's hunt, except those remnants he has retrieved of a French fur traders' rifle. And when he bags a big game prize, he's not loading deer or bear meat into his truck, but rather centuries-old Lakota pottery and fossilized brontosaurus bone.
Without formal training or title, Levin is a hobby historian.
As a boy, Levin said he had little interest in the history buried beneath his feet. But at the age of 12, when he was trapping gophers for a neighbor, he came across an unusual triangular-shaped rock.
The rock was an arrowhead, and Levin never again looked at a cultivated field the same way.
Levin's curiosity for the natural world soon became a hobby and he began hunting for Native American artifacts in pastures. From that hobby grew trips to trade shows, and fields and riverbanks in South Dakota. Then he found a few dinosaur bones. Then he made some purchases, including a plot of land specifically for his hunts, and shell, mineral and butterfly collections.
And as if to complete the punch line for a joke, his friends had facetiously alluded to since he began his collection, he built a museum in his backyard.
"Most people think I'm nuts," the 49-year-old Levin laughed. The museum is a 35 by 60 foot sheet metal shed (shrine) he built to hold his immense collection of Native American artifacts, dinosaur bones, shells, butterflies and an assortment of natural and anthropological knickknacks.
For a man with his nose pointed in the direction of the prehistoric, his museum's opening on June 10 -- which drew 300 people -- might as well have been yesterday. Located in the backyard of his rural New London home, it's tall enough for the 7-footer to walk around without fear of banging his head on a beam. Levin keeps it open during weekdays and has volunteers for staff.
Lifetime pursuit
The collection resembles the dedicated and detailed lifetime pursuit of a natural scientist or historically inclined pack rat. But Levin is neither.
Many of the pieces in his collection he's had to educate himself on through hours of weekly research -- which explains the various books stuffed in those places in his museum where a bison skull or Native American pinball machine can't fit. And he said he's different from a pack rat in one significant way -- his desire to share.
Since the opening, he's been able to host at the museum the educational rock and bone show that for years he had taken on the road.
What Levin can claim, then, is an itching curiosity and desire to preserve the past for future generations.
"Finding something that has been buried or covered up for 300 million years to 200 years ago is a thrill," he said.
For 48 years, that thrill was Levin's and Levin's only. In 2005, however, he married Barb Mossberg. "She screwed it up," he joked.
Levin had been storing the collection at home. But the couple had to make a decision when Levin moved in with Barb. She said they would either build the museum or downsize the collection.
"We built," Barb said, as if there even had to be a discussion.
Backyard museum
Levin's backyard museum -- he doesn't have a name for it yet -- goes back 9,000 years, not including the dinosaur bones. His most prized possessions were found at a site that is named in his honor and is one of the 10 oldest archaeological sites in the state.
The museum's interior resembles any other large, hollow, one-room shed. Except this shed is filled with shelves protruding with rocks and glass display cases that contain colorful shells and minerals.
The museum is logically organized. The dinosaur bones and fossils are near the front of the shed, the shells and minerals are in glass cases in the center and the butterfly collection, one of his more popular pieces, is hanging on the west wall.
At the back of the shed, near Barb's woodshop, is the museum's Native American collection. There is no Native blood in Levin's lineage, only half Norwegian and half Swedish. But, his interest in Native American culture runs deep.
Native artifacts were Levin's first interest and he soon grew interested in pictures, trinkets, books, birch bark baskets and pipestone pieces. He's found hundreds of arrowheads, pottery shards and hammerstones.
In 1983, Levin caught the attention of the state archaeologist when he found a large and old Native blade. The site he found the blade on later turned up a rare pendant as well, and the state archaeologist named the site in Levin's honor.
"I don't have any kids so after me the Levin name is done," he said. "Except for the Levin site."
There are 10 or 12 sites in Kandiyohi and Meeker counties he hunts on, but the Levin site is his favorite. It was most recently a campsite for Lakota Indians. He rents the site and pays to have it ploughed with a disc.
A cultivated field is essential for his hunting. Unlike archaeologists, he doesn't dig. Instead, he surface hunts. But, he's had complications in recent years.
"Farmers in general are often lazy," he said, jokingly. The practice of minimum-tillage, while beneficial for farmers, doesn't upturn the topsoil and hampers his searches for Native artifacts.
But Levin's focus has broadened over the last two decades to include other areas and targets.
After a trip to South Dakota he started searching for fossils, including dinosaur bones. In future years, he said he expects to pursue more nature items, such as butterflies, leaves, nuts of trees, skulls of different animals or "any other strange items that we could make a collection of."
Aside from the standard pieces, Levin has a few wildcards as well. One is named the "bending rock," because, well, it appears to be a slender rock and does bend. Another is the teeth of a shark that could've swallowed a man whole. He also has a shelf that contains the antique press plates of The West Central Tribune.
In another case he keeps his latest hunting niche: old tobacco tins and sugar lumps.
Though foremost a hunter, he has traded for or purchased over half the items in his collection.
The shells came from a family in Montevideo and the butterflies from a St. Cloud man.
Unlike his peers, some of whom keep pieces stored out of sight, Levin enjoys sharing his collection with the public. He has presented his collection and the accompanying tutorial in local classrooms and 4-H meetings for many years.
"The kids are getting smarter. I can't fool them anymore," Levin said. His evidence: fourth graders were able to answer why his sparkling blue crystals would turn grey in water. The answer: salt gives the crystal its shine and the salt washes away in water.
Levin is protective of his treasures, but not paranoid. He hasn't insured the museum and a "Don't Touch" sign can't be found. For Levin, the joy comes from the finding and sharing.
Though usually closed on weekends, Levin said he will open the museum this weekend to visitors. Admission is free.
As long as the sites keep coughing up artifacts and the practice isn't made illegal, Levin said he hopes to continue hunting and adding to his collection. He has only one stipulation about what happens to his collection when he's gone.
"I want someone to have it who is going to put it on display for people to see," Levin said.
Whoever it is, they'll need a big shed.


We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives.
The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings,.. thousands of confident religions,.. ideologies and economic doctrines,.. every hunter and forager, ..every hero and coward,.. every creator and destroyer of civilizations, ..every king and peasant,.. every young couple in love, ..every hopeful child,.. every mother and father,.. every inventor and explorer, ..every teacher of morals,.. every corrupt politician, ..every superstar,.. every supreme leader, ..every saint and sinner in the history of our species,.. lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.
The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. ..Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. ..Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot.
How frequent their misunderstandings, ..how eager they are to kill one another,.. how fervent their hatreds. ..Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,.. the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, ..are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
This excerpt comes from an opening address delivered on 11th May 1996.
Dr. Sagan's book, Pale Blue Dot, expands on these ideas.


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Spotlighting Governance Challenges: Lessons from Namibia
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Graham Hopwood
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In January 2017 Namibia became the 37th state to join the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), the continent's self-assessment tool promoting good governance. In 2018 Namibian civil society organisations (CSOs) met to develop an evidence-based written submission, highlighting 13 of the most critical governance issues in the country. Through the APRM Sensitisation Project in Namibia (ASPIN), the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) provided ongoing technical support while the Windhoek-based Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) brought together the Namibian CSOs and helped develop the submission. This policy insight unpacks the key lessons from these experiences, to serve as guidance for civil society in other countries that may want to adopt a similar approach for their own national APRM processes.
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Ingekua Vipi-MwanaFA Revisited and Re-Released
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Ingekuwa Ingekua Vipi-Revisited And Re-Released MwanaFA [real name Hamis Mwinjuma] is, without a doubt, one of the most successfully and respected Bongo Hip-Hop artist in Tanzania, across East Africa and certainly beyond those borders. If that statement made your eyebrows tilt even a bit, I'd suggest you take one step back and think a little. His lyrics and songs have inspired new words, idioms etc into the street and classroom dictionaries and thesauruses of Swahili. The grandness of his lyrical abilities staggers even me who was once upon a time considered by my peers and schoolmates to be a walking Swahili dictionary. He can rhyme quickly, confidently and cleanly while making sense of every word that come out of his mouth. Recently I approached him with an idea I have wrestled with for a while. How about re-releasing some of the biggest hits from the time when Bongo Fleva/ Bongo Hip-Hop was starting to see the white-blue sky. The motivation is to flaunt the standards of the past and give today's generation a renewed chance to hear not only the "old school" stuff all over again but to gain a hindsight of the stories behind. He didn't hesitate even for a second. He agreed and here we are. Let's Go! *******************************************************************************************
Like a ship starting a long journey across the world, in 2000s what we now know as Bongo Fleva/Bongo Hip-Hop had just left the harbor. Its destination wasn't known. Regardless, some bold minded fellas had decided to slow down the Congolese music influx that had dominated Tanzania's music scene for years. The likes of Sikinde and Msondo had also lost their mojo among younger audience. The youth needed something different to entertain themselves and make one of those postcard-perfect days.
Tanzania's youth, like many youth across the globe, had also failed to resist a time capsule of American culture. American Rappers/ Artists etc were becoming more popular among Tanzania's youth than their own President. Times were changing…and changing at high speed. President Mwinyi had allowed the influx of foreign culture. The country became an opportunity society. For the first time, people could watch television in their living rooms. Entertainment channels like MTV, BET, and CFI etc were now accessible at the comfort of an arm length holding remote controls. Those are the days when it was cool to walk around holding James Hardley Chase novels, magazines such as Ebony, Yo Rap etc with video cassettes tapes for movies that we hardly understood. As the new decade was getting into the groove, Hamis Mwinjuma whom we now know as MwanaFA's career was also starting to take shape. It wasn't an easy.
He was a struggling artist. He was broke. The penetrating tropical sun of cities such as Dar-es-salaam was unleashing its ultimate "burning" power even in his pockets. His only wealth, was his songwriting abilities, vision and confidence that he was/is a good songwriter and therefore his breakthrough was on the way. He had chosen a difficult-to-cope with stage name. Mwanafalsafa [A Philosopher] had to act like one. He had to write like one. I am sure the pressure of living his name was as high as the feeling you get from the first attempt to jump out of plane [in a parachute]. He spent countless hours writing and contemplating. There were many days of gray unrest and discontent. He was eager to establish a pattern of excellence as far as Bongo Fleva/Bongo Hip Hop was concerned. His breakthrough came in 2002. Towards end of 2001, upon reflections, writing, deleting, editing etc, and fusing of intelligence and imagination, MwanaFA had penned down Ingekuwa Vipi.
He clearly remembers where he was when he started writing Ingekuwa Vipi, "I was at home. As you can imagine, I was broke and trying hard to figure out how to move forward. I used to stay home a lot at that time. It was the safest place to be", he tells me with a broad smile that never existed during those trying times. It occurred that as soon as he had almost finished writing it, Jay Moe [who was to be featured on the track, popped in for a quick visit. MwanaFA let him listen to the lyrics while boom boxing their hands. The lyrics blew his mind. He wanted to be part of it. Success begins with a great idea. Jay Moe saw this as a great idea. It was. What followed was going to Mawingu Studio to meet DJ/Producer Bonny Luv. At that time, Tanzania had very few established producers let alone studios. His choices were limited. Lucky for him, he had recorded some other tracks before with Bonny Luv.
It wasn't difficult to convince him to take on the project and that Jay Moe was going to be featured. Bonny understood and loved the lyrics as well. Now, contrary to what many people believetoday, Ingekuwa Vipi was not MwanaFA's first studio recorded song. He had done it before. He just hadn't penetrated the airwaves the way he did with this one. Ingekuwa Vipi was the first song he released on the radio. He had recorded 4 songs before. He, therefore, had to hide the nerves inside with frequent smiles as he spent countless hours with Bonny Luv perfecting what would turn out to be his "breakthrough" song. He watched the clock as it edged toward "freedom". "We recorded and left Bonny Luv to mix etc", He tells me as I attentively admire his recollections of events and struggles that he had to go through before "making it" Those were no days like today. Softwares and technologies weren't like today where you can e-mail the song to thousands or even million people in a second. Clouds FM was one the few radio stations championing most of grassroots movement of Bongo Fleva/Bongo Hip-Hop. Radio One was another entity but was more selective of what went into air etc. MwanaFA had to take to the radio stations the CD with hand-written [using marker pen] "Ingekuwa Vipi" on top. On 2nd February 2002, Ingekuwa Vipi premiered during Bongo Fleva session, which was hosted by DJ Steve B. On the same day, MwanaFA remembers, Balozi Dolla Soul, Inspekta Haruni and Luteni Kalama and Imam Abbas had dropped their singles.
Before the end of that session, Ingekuwa Vipi had captured the airwaves not once but twice. He says, "Jeff, I felt like I had just inhaled the cleanest, crispest air I have ever breathed" In the first week since its release, Ijumaa newspaper reported that Ingekuwa Vipi had played 72 times in different radio stations. A record. To him, salvation was getting through the day. Success in the airwaves meant Mwanafalsafa was now becoming popular but also with an opportunity to make money. He remembers his first show was for Embassy and was coordinated by Jimmy Kabwe, a veteran DJ who has recently re-joined Clouds Media Group after years of roaming in other stations. The event was held at The Leaders Club. He pocketed TZS 50,000/=. That was a lot of money then. He took the smile to the bank. The wind was suddenly sweet. The sun was warm over the country flowers. Life was getting better and sweeter. His success was almost cut short though. The group Walume Ndago decided to challenge his song. It was almost an underground battle of Nine Miles. They released a counter titled Ingekuwa Poa [It'd be Just Alright]
When I asked Mwanafalsafa how did the counter song sink with him, he calmly said, "Not very well Jeff. See, at that time I was a newcomer into the game. I had no experience at all of being "crucified" like that. I thought was a huge injustice towards me". Lucky for him, someone else defended him. Another group released a counter over Walume Ndago's counter. That neutralized the whole experience. MwanaFA had started his long journey into stardom. He had broken out of the lineup. Here is your chance to Listen And Download Ingekuwa Vipi. THE LYRICS ARE AVAILABLE HERE
Article by Jeff of BongoCelebrity


Full title: "A multiple tracer approach to characterizing water and contaminant movement through abandoned mine workings near Rico, Colorado."
The Rico Argentine mine is a long-term acid mine drainage (AMD) site where current management of contaminant discharge consists of a series of passive treatment settling ponds. The settling ponds have a limited lifespan and do not provide a permanent solution to controlling the AMD. A relatively new but challenging approach to AMD management is using tracers to actively identify the sources and flow paths of contaminants, thereby creating an opportunity for targeted remediation. At the Rico Argentine mine a suite of inorganic salt and organic dye tracers were used to track the interactions and flows of surface and ground waters. At several sites the organic and inorganic tracers were applied simultaneously to account for potential problems associated with chemical and physical interactions between organic dyes and AMD geochemistry. The first objective was to use constant injection and slug injection tracer techniques to determine if water from Silver creek was lost in the vicinity of the mine workings and the Blackhawk fault. Tracers were also injected at discrete locations within the mine to better understand the interior connections of the mine system. Additionally, isotopic and geochemical analyses were performed to further identify source waters, flow paths, and residence times of waters moving throughout the mine and discharging to the settling ponds. Initial results indicate that Silver creek losses are small (<5%) and are potentially moving through near surface pathways, but not directly into underground workings associated with the Blackhawk fault. Results also indicate significant connectivity of the inner mine workings with arrival times of 17 hours and 10 hours for tracers traveling approximately 5000 feet and 1000 feet respectively. The rapid arrival times indicate significant structural integrity of the abandoned mine system and may aid in the development of more localized remediation strategies at the historic Rico Argentine mine system.


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Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing
View ORCID ProfileAndrew J. MacDonald and View ORCID ProfileErin A. Mordecai
aDepartment of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
bEarth Research Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
PNAS October 29, 2019 116 (44) 22212-22218; first published October 14, 2019; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1905315116
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Edited by Burton H. Singer, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, and approved September 17, 2019 (received for review March 27, 2019)
Correction for MacDonald and Mordecai, Amazon deforestation drives malaria transmission, and malaria burden reduces forest clearing - August 10, 2020
Widespread human impacts on the environment are expected to harm human health, which may in turn alter our interactions with the environment. However, evidence for impacts of environmental changes on health, and for feedbacks between environmental change and health, remains locally specific and context dependent. Using a large, geospatial dataset encompassing the Brazilian Amazon rainforest across 13 y, we identify strong evidence for a feedback between deforestation and malaria: Deforestation significantly increases malaria transmission, while high malaria burden simultaneously reduces forest clearing. Our results put into broader context the contradictory effects of deforestation on malaria found in earlier studies and provide evidence useful to land use policy and public health interventions that provide win–win solutions for conservation and health.
Deforestation and land use change are among the most pressing anthropogenic environmental impacts. In Brazil, a resurgence of malaria in recent decades paralleled rapid deforestation and settlement in the Amazon basin, yet evidence of a deforestation-driven increase in malaria remains equivocal. We hypothesize an underlying cause of this ambiguity is that deforestation and malaria influence each other in bidirectional causal relationships—deforestation increases malaria through ecological mechanisms and malaria reduces deforestation through socioeconomic mechanisms—and that the strength of these relationships depends on the stage of land use transformation. We test these hypotheses with a large geospatial dataset encompassing 795 municipalities across 13 y (2003 to 2015) and show deforestation has a strong positive effect on malaria incidence. Our results suggest a 10% increase in deforestation leads to a 3.3% increase in malaria incidence (∼9,980 additional cases associated with 1,567 additional km2 lost in 2008, the study midpoint, Amazon-wide). The effect is larger in the interior and absent in outer Amazonian states where little forest remains. However, this strong effect is only detectable after controlling for a feedback of malaria burden on forest loss, whereby increased malaria burden significantly reduces forest clearing, possibly mediated by human behavior or economic development. We estimate a 1% increase in malaria incidence results in a 1.4% decrease in forest area cleared (∼219 fewer km2 cleared associated with 3,024 additional cases in 2008). This bidirectional socioecological feedback between deforestation and malaria, which attenuates as land use intensifies, illustrates the intimate ties between environmental change and human health.
↵1To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: andy.j.macdon{at}gmail.com.
Author contributions: A.J.M. designed research; A.J.M. performed research; A.J.M. analyzed data; A.J.M. and E.A.M. wrote the paper; and E.A.M. helped in the development of the project.
The authors declare no competing interest.
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Did Pinot Meunier enter the witness protection program? While most famous for a major role in Champagne blending along with Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, when was the last time you drank a bottle of still red wine produced from Pinot Meunier after substantial skin contact? The variety has successfully avoided headlines while holding honors as the"most widely planted grape" in Champagne for a couple hundred years. Where is all the Pinot Meunier?
The Germans make a little bit of Schwarzriesling (Black Riesling?) from the grape, and some light styled rosés are produced in Austria, Loire Valley and Germany using Pinot Meunier. Duck Walk Vineyards in Long Island makes an unblended Pinot Meunier, River Road Winery makes one in the Russian River, Graziano makes another in California, and Vineland Estates produces it in Niagara, Canada. Most famously, California sparkling wine producer Domaine Chandon has been bottling it unblended since 1989. You would be hard pressed to find others.
Meunier translates to "Miller" in english, getting its name from the white-hued Dusty Miller plant because of the kindred white-down-fuzz on the backside of Meunier leaves. The variety offers farming advantages since its delayed budding sidesteps most chances for retarded development, or coloure. It also ripens quickly for early harvesting under more favorable weather conditions. Champagne makers look to Meunier for body enhancement or plushness. The wine is high in acid and light in color. Considering today's consumer trend for drinking wines that lean into their acid profiles, why isn't more Pinot Meunier bottled unblended as serious red wine?
The folks at Domaine Chandon, who grow it and bottle it blended and unblended in the cooler Carneros region of Napa, suggest it is a project only for the most adventurous winemakers. I'm not sure why. Nevertheless, I have had the chance to taste the $30 unblended Domaine Chandon Pinot Meunier on release in many vintages. From my early days visiting Napa and stopping into Domaine Chandon for the most luxurious lunches, I have always been taken by the wine and felt it was a steal for the price.
Earlier this month at Troquet, we drank a bottle of Domaine Chandon Pinot Meunier with 18 years of age to it. The 1995 version proved that while the grape is mostly turned into light rosés or blended into early drinking Champagnes, that it can age famously on its own. Actually, of the dozen old French and California wines we tasted from many venerable producers that evening, this wine turned my head more than any of the others for its grace, balance, liveliness and intriguing bouquet after long years in the bottle. The fruit flavors were a sweet kiss, the mouthfeel silky and round, its acidity vibrant. Most compelling, though, it smelled like great stinky Burgundy. Leather and smoke and great earthiness were dominant on the nose. I never wanted the bottle to end…that's how good it was.
The wine sells for around $30 at Domaine Chandon. It appears to me now that I have missed out on a surprising opportunity to lay down a wonderful red wine that will improve immensely through bottle age. Who would have known considering the lack of global emphasis placed on making unblended Pinot Meunier? If you lay some bottles down now like I will, you just might also feel like you punctured the protective outer layers of a witness protection program ten years hence.
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Synechodes rubroris is a moth in the family Brachodidae. It was described by Kallies in 1998. It is found on Sulawesi.

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Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

Brachodidae
Moths described in 1998

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The claimant purchased a cigarette vending machine for use in her cafe. She signed an order form which stated in small print 'Any express or implied, condition, statement of warranty, statutory or otherwise is expressly excluded'. The vending machine did not work and the claimant sought to reject it under the Sale of Goods Act for not being of merchantable quality.
In signing the order form she was bound by all the terms contained in the form irrespective of whether she had read the form or not. Consequently her claim was unsuccessful.


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