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Saturday Mass at Rose Hill (Recap of Xavier vs. Fordham)
I always love going to early afternoon games at Rose Hill Gym. When the sun shines through the windows on the one end of the court, it feels like church to me. And well, it should, since Rose Hill is on the campus of Fordham University, a Jesuit catholic school.
Fordham's opponent on Saturday was Xavier, another Jesuit catholic school. At one time Xavier was undefeated and highly ranked. Then came the game against crosstown rival Cincinnati and the well publicized brawl at the end of the game. Since then, the Musketeers have lost five of their last six games. Call it karma or call it penance for what transpired on December 10, but the basketball season has made Xavier pay for their transgression. The Musketeers had to be desperate to find their groove again
Xavier would have to find its groove in a packed gym. This is due in large part to the renaissance of Fordham basketball led by second year coach Tom Pecora. In his second year, Pecora had the Rams at 7-7 entering the game and they have wins over Georgia Tech and nationally ranked Harvard, which was their first win over a nationally ranked team since 1978. When Pecora's name was mentioned at the end of the Fordham introductions, the crowd gave him hearty applause.
A .500 record may not seem like a good record. But considering they had seven wins all of last season and were 2-26 two seasons ago, a .500 record is significant improvement. And the fans have taken notice as they filled Rose Hill to the brim, selling out the 3,200 seat gym, which is filled with many historic NIT and NCAA banners that date back to the forties. They wanted to see if the Rams could add another notch in the win column at the expense of the struggling Musketeers.
The game started out with Fordham taking a quick 5-2 lead. But Xavier responded as Mark Lyons scored ten straight points in a row for the Musketeers, the last of which was a three pointer that put them up 12-9. It was all the points Lyons would score in the first half.
The game would remain close for the next five minutes. The Rams' Alberto Estwick hit a three pointer made the score 23-22 Xavier with less than seven a half minutes. But the Musketeers responded with a 11-1 run capped by a Dezmine Wells dunk that made the score 34-23 Xavier. With three and half minutes left, Fordham called timeout.
The Rams were having difficulty scoring inside as Xavier's Kenny Frease's size was causing problems for Fordham's leading scorer on the season, Chris Gaston. Frease doesn't possess much leaping ability and during the second half, he missed an easy dunk because he could barely get off the ground. That resulted in a Xavier fan sitting near me yelling "How can you miss that? You're seven foot twelve!" But Frease's seven foot, two hundred seventy pound frame made it difficult for the six foot seven Gaston to shoot over him.
Thus Fordham would have to depend on their guards and their outside shooting. Enter sophomore Branden Frazier. Frazier nailed a three pointer to cut the deficit to 34-26. Then late in the half, he cut the lead even further with a three point play. Instead of being up by double digits, Xavier entered the half only up by five, 35-30. The Rose Hill crowd gave Fordham a standing ovation as they left for the locker room at halftime.
But the Rams couldn't carry the momentum over to start the second half. They got outscored by the Musketeers 13-1 over the first six and half minutes. Xavier was up 48-34 and the large Musketeer fan contingent by where I was sitting was reveling in the moment. And one Xavier fan brought a sign that said "Zip Em Up", which was in reference to the infamous quote by Tu Holloway after the brawl with Cincinnati.
But Frazier refused to let Fordham fade away. He scored twelve of Fordham's next nineteen points and with a little less than four minutes left, the Rams were down only seven, 60-53. The Rose Hill crowd was rocking with loud chants of "DE-FENSE".
The Rams continued to chip away at Xavier's lead as they got it down to five points 62-57 with a little less than two minutes left. But the Musketeers would not relinquish the lead any further. Lyons, who scored another ten points in the second half, hit two key free throws late down the stretch, Xavier held off Fordham 67-59.
Frazier led all scorers with twenty two points. Freshman Bryan Smith added twelve points for Fordham. Gaston only scored ten points, six less than his season average, on only three of eleven shooting. Lyons had twenty points for Xavier and Wells added thirteen. The most amazing stat was Holloway, Xavier's leading scorer on the season with eighteen points per game, was held scoreless and only had three field goal attempts.
A year ago, I watched Richmond, a similarly talented team to Xavier, play Fordham at Rose Hill Gym. The eventual Sweet Sixteen Spiders thoroughly outclassed the Rams 77-60. A year later, the Rams gave the Musketeers all they could handle. Though I am sure the Fordham fans went home disappointed, they could hold their heads high. The team will be more competitive in the Atlantic Ten over the next couple of months. Also, Frazier, Smith and Gaston will all be back next season.
The rebuilding process is coming along just fine. And in time, the Rose Hill parishioners will be leaving many Saturday afternoon and weekday evening masses with a winning smile on their faces.
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Q: Statistical comparison of grand/pooled means (nested, mixed-model, t tests) My problem: I am comparing the means of means of means in my data set.
However, my stats software (GraphPad Prism) doesn't know that these said individual values (the means of means of means) are composed of multiple pooled values.
Due to this, I believe that the stats software is not lending more weight to the observed differences in my means of means of means.
For example:

*

*Take 2 groups of values e.g. 2, 5, 4 and 3; and 6, 7, 7 and 9

*If you treated these as 'normal' values (i.e. not means), the stats software would likely return a t-test as not statistically significant in a comparison of the two groups

*However if the stats software 'knew' or 'treated' these and pooled means, it would return a greater statistical difference between the two groups. I would think this would occur because it would attribute a greater weighting to the individual values in both groups

A: I infer that your question is what can be done about this. You need to take advantage, carefully, of the numbers of relevant observations going into each "mean of means" and of the experimental design structure.
You example data actually are significantly different. I use R instead of GraphPad.
t.test(c(2,5,4,3),c(6,7,7,9))
#   Welch Two Sample t-test
#
# data:  c(2, 5, 4, 3) and c(6, 7, 7, 9)
# t = -4.1603, df = 5.9961, p-value = 0.005951

For illustration in a harder case, start with "ideal" values each 2 units lower for the second set. Say that the two sets of values represent two treatments evaluated in 4 separate experiments. Each experiment involved 4 animals for each treatment. That's 32 animals total. Say that experiments are expected to have systematic differences from each other, something captured here by putting both sets of "ideal" values into increasing order.
setA <- c(2,3,4,5) ## ideal mean values per experiment, treatment A
setB <- c(4,5,5,7) ## ideal mean values per experiment, treatment B

Now there is no "significant" difference between the "means of means" with an unpaired t-test under the usual p < 0.05 criterion.
t.test(setA,setB)
#   Welch Two Sample t-test
#
# data:  setA and setB
# t = -1.9415, df = 5.9961, p-value = 0.1003
sample estimates:
mean of x mean of y
     3.50      5.25

Use these "ideal" values as a guide, but add some randomness. First simulate mean values for each of the 32 individual animals with random variation--normal distributions, standard deviation (SD) of 2--around the above "ideal" mean values.
set.seed(101)
indivA <- rnorm(16,mean=rep(setA,each=4),sd=2)
indivB <- rnorm(16,mean=rep(setB,each=4),sd=2)

Then simulate 3 technical replicates for each animal around those animal-mean values, with an SD of 3.
techA <- rnorm(48,mean=rep(indivA,each=3),sd=3)
techB <- rnorm(48,mean=rep(indivB,each=3),sd=3)

Collect these final "measurements" into a dataframe, with val the measurement values, id representing animals, experiment the 4 experiments, and treatment of A or B. Use factor() to have the numeric labels interpreted correctly as identifiers rather than numbers.
df1 <- data.frame(val=c(techA,techB),id=factor(rep(1:32,each=3)),experiment=factor(c(rep(1:4,each=12),rep(1:4,each=12))),treatment=factor(rep(c("A","B"),each=48)))

Verify that the simple means of means of means aren't "significantly" different after this added randomness. First get the overall means (each a mean of 3 observations on each of 4 animals) for each experiment/treatment combination.
byExpTx <- aggregate(val~experiment+treatment,data=df1,FUN=mean)
byExpTx
#     experiment treatment      val
#   1          1         A 1.314736
#   2          2         A 2.705538
#   3          3         A 4.240616
#   4          4         A 4.847567
#   5          1         B 3.563284
#   6          2         B 4.905319
#   7          3         B 4.957705
#   8          4         B 6.458030

An unpaired t-test on those mean values, comparing the 4 experiments under treatment A against the 4 under treatment B, isn't "significant."
t.test(byExpTx[1:4,"val"],byExpTx[5:8,"val"])
#   Welch Two Sample t-test
#
# data:  byExpTx[1:4, "val"] and byExpTx[5:8, "val"]
# t = -1.7533, df = 5.6455, p-value = 0.1332
#
# sample estimates:
# mean of x mean of y
#  3.277114  4.971085

If, however, you take advantage of the structure of the experiments, pairing of treatments within experiments, you see a "significant" difference.
t.test(byExpTx[1:4,"val"],byExpTx[5:8,"val"],paired=TRUE)
#
#   Paired t-test
#
# data:  byExpTx[1:4, "val"] and byExpTx[5:8, "val"]
# t = -4.7523, df = 3, p-value = 0.01768

You can also do better than comparing the means of means of means if you use the information about the number of cases underlying the observations. You might use the average of technical replicates to represent each animal:*
byExpTxId <- aggregate(val~experiment+treatment+id,data=df1,FUN=mean)

Then even without considering the pairing within experiments:
lm1 <- lm(val~treatment,data=byExpTxId)
summary(lm1)
# Coefficients:
#             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|)
# (Intercept)   3.2771     0.5546   5.909  1.8e-06
# treatmentB    1.6940     0.7843   2.160   0.0389
# Residual standard error: 2.218 on 30 degrees of freedom
# Multiple R-squared:  0.1346,  Adjusted R-squared:  0.1057
# F-statistic: 4.665 on 1 and 30 DF,  p-value: 0.0389

The "30 degrees of freedom" represent the 32 animals that the calculations now incorporate, less the 2 estimated coefficients. Add in the pairing within experiments to see how that also matters:
lm2 <- lm(val~treatment+experiment,data=byExpTxId)
summary(lm2) ## reports of residuals and coefficient values not shown
# Residual standard error: 1.959 on 27 degrees of freedom
# Multiple R-squared:  0.3927,  Adjusted R-squared:  0.3027
# F-statistic: 4.365 on 4 and 27 DF,  p-value: 0.007506

anova(lm2)
# Analysis of Variance Table
#
# Response: val
#            Df  Sum Sq Mean Sq F value  Pr(>F)
# treatment   1  22.956 22.9563  5.9832 0.02124
# experiment  3  44.029 14.6765  3.8252 0.02098
# Residuals  27 103.593  3.8368

More generally, you might use a mixed model with animals (id) (or even experiment) treated as random effects, but in this case with a balanced design and underlying normal distributions it doesn't make any difference.

*You have to be careful to distinguish the technical replicates within animals from the biological replicates among animals. To evaluate the treatments you need to compare the treatment differences against the differences among animals, not against the differences of technical replicates within animals. Taking the mean of technical replicates is one way to avoid that problem. A mixed model using all of the measurements and treating animals as random effects is another, better particularly if you have different numbers of replicates for each animal. In GraphPad that's what's done in "nested" t-tests and ANOVA.

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Can contact tracing help stop the spread of Ebola?
Contact tracing is key to stanching the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Our partners Last Mile Health in Liberia and Wellbody Alliance in Sierra Leone have community health workers on the ground presently conducting contact tracing. Partners In Health will help them strengthen their work and link the patients they are finding with Ebola Treatment Units so they get the care they need.
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I love all the pics... it looks like you're having a lot of fun!! When do you get to head home??


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I have considered this to be the most important unsolved problem in agriculture and this will easily handle everything except field crops.like grains and canola which is simply too tightly packed..
A system like this can also handle mature weeds as well by simply cutting the weed down and perhaps chewing up the root head. Yes they will still re sprout but additional passes will be cheap and sufficient..
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Q: invalid type literal import - How to import and use my custom service So I created a simple service with a single class, without constructor : services.RecursiveQuery and added it as a plugin to my Eclipse instance as described in this question.
According to the documentation the next step would be to import it in my template file file so I tried this:
{m:import:services.RecursiveQuery}

However I get this error in the validation file:
Expression "import:services.RecursiveQuery:services" is invalid: invalid type literal import:

What am I doing wrong ? It feels like I'm missing something. Also I was wondering how to use the getAllChildren() method of this service. I would have tried
     {m:for child | services.RecursiveQuery.getAllChildren(self)} but that doesnt feel right.

A: The M2Doc documentation may be unclear on this point: {m:import...} is not a valid statement in a M2Doc template file. It should be used in MS Word document properties, not in the docx template file.
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On Monday the Stuart City Council approved an Urban Renewal Amendment with provisions to supply five different projects and one program with Tax Increment Financing(TIF) funding.
The first two projects cover two small commercial enterprises. The City pledged no more than $90,000 in incremental property tax revenues for interior and exterior improvements to the commercial building at 111 North Division Street. The other pledges no more than $100,000 to help support the construction of a sale barn located at 523 East Front Street.
The next two projects cover two larger commercial enterprises. The City pledged no more than $200,000 in incremental property tax revenues for renovations to Hotel Stuart. Current plans for the renovation include a hotel, restaurant, and commercial events center. The City also pledged no more than $3,500,000 for the Karl Chevrolet expansion project.
The final project allows the City to hire necessary professionals to update the comprehensive plan, which will include economic development goals and City strategies. The total commitment is not to exceed $25,000. The final program supported by the amendment is the Urban Renewal Planning and Administrative Support Program. The Economic Development Director position will be repaid with incremental property tax revenues not to exceed $55,000. This position will help the City carry out economic development support programs, promotional events, initiatives and activities. They will also be responsible for providing technical assistance to and administering the City's urban renewal program.
All projects are subject to an executed Development Agreement between the City and each project's developer, which will require approval from the City Council.


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Obama didn't 'allow' annexation of Crimea
This won't surprise regular readers of this blog, but I agree with former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice's assertion that Donald Trump has taken an outrageous position with regard to Russia and its former membership in the Group of Eight nations.
Trump wants the now G-7 nations to bring Russia back into its fold. Susan Rice said the following, according to The Hill: Rice said Trump made "a disgraceful statement" when he said Obama "allowed Russia to take Crimea."
"Rather than understand Russia is our adversary, Russia had taken on behavior that is absolutely reprehensible… for the president of the United States to suggest all that is forgotten, that we are together, that we are fine with one country annexing another country's sovereign territory is outrageous," Rice said.
Russia took another nation's territory by force. It has done not a damn thing to rectify its aggression against Ukraine. It has continued to prop up a dictatorial regime in Syria. Oh, and it meddled in our 2016 election.
Rice is suggesting that Trump is divorced from any semblance of reality by asking for Russia's re-inclusion into the G-7 nations comprising the world's greatest economic powers.
The president's desire to bring Russia back after the nations kicked it out after annexing Crimea has been met with almost unanimous scorn by the rest of the G-7; only Italy has backed the president's request.
Moreover, Trump's continual harping on actions taken by his immediate predecessor, Barack Obama, seem to suggest some sort of sick fixation with the 44th president. He keeps singling him out specifically, making preposterous assertions that he "allowed" Russia to take Crimea. It begs the question: What would Donald Trump had done if he had been in the Oval Office, making the tough call? Does anyone actually believe he would have put "boots on the ground" to prevent a Russian takeover? Give me a break, man!
I have stayed away from asserting in this blog that Russia might have the goods on Trump, that it might be holding some deep, dark secrets about the president's business dealings in Russia.
These continuing assertions from Trump that all is forgiven with regard to Russia are making me wonder about those reports about Russia and possible business connections with the Trump Organization.
Disgraceful.
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Let's ask: Did Putin play a part in this killing?
March 1, 2015 kanelis2012	Leave a comment
It's easy for peanut-gallery observers far away from the action to ask questions those closer to the scene might not ask. So, I'll ask it: Did Russian strongman/president Vladimir Putin have a hand in the assassination of a leading critic of his government?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/surveillance-video-appears-to-show-nemtsov-killing/vi-BBi6dTs
I'm not sure if the Russian criminal justice system has a presumed-innocent clause in its framework, but having watched Putin from a great distance over many years, and knowing of his background, my darker side tells me something just doesn't smell right in Moscow.
Boris Nemtsov was gunned down on a Moscow street — in the shadow of the Kremlin — this past week. Who is this fellow? He was considered perhaps Putin's leading critic. He had a huge political following in Russia and was seen by some as a serious political threat to the Russian president. Many thousands of them marched in tribute to the slain leader.
http://news.yahoo.com/russians-march-memory-murdered-critic-putin-101910307.html
Now, what about Putin?
His background is worth examining. In his previous life, Putin fellow led the KGB, the intelligence agency of the Soviet Union, the one-time "Evil Empire" made infamous by its known practice of eliminating critics of the communist regime. The KGB's name went away when the Soviet Union vaporized in 1991, but its infrastructure has remained pretty much in place, even as the agency was split into two parts.
Putin has served a couple of non-consecutive tours of duty as Russia's president. Each one has demonstrated the hallmark of this individual's makeup.
He is as ruthless as ruthless gets. He took over a portion of Ukraine, a supposedly sovereign country bordering Russia. The term "bully" doesn't even come close to describing Putin.
I have this terrible feeling in my gut that Vladimir Putin — at the very least — just might have a good idea as to who killed Nemtsov. If he does — and I believe that's the case — let's not expect Putin to give up whoever did the deed.
Boris NemtsovCold WarCrimeaKGBKremlinRussiaSoviet UnionUkraineVladimir Putin
Don't discount pain of economic punishment
March 20, 2014 kanelis2012	Leave a comment
Before we let the chicken hawks and armchair generals get too far ahead of themselves in this U.S.-Russia confrontation debate, it's good to perhaps understand what kind of pain can be delivered via economic sanctions leveled against Russia.
A number of President Obama's critics want him to do more than just level some specific economic sanctions against Russia. They want some form of military option, such as arming Ukrainian military units and sending troops to NATO nations as a standby warning to Russia.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/03/20/obama_orders_new_round_of_sanctions_on_russia_121998.html
However, the sanctions that Obama has imposed on a number of key Russian leaders with lots of money spread around in banks throughout the world well could put a serious damper on an already-weak Russian economy.
Russia's economic growth is near zero. The Crimean region that Russia has effectively annexed is an economic basket case. Corruption still runs rampant throughout Russia, with gangsters and thugs controlling an underground economy that dwarfs many aspects of the above-ground economy.
The measures enacted by the White House through executive orders signed by the president are meant to deny access to financial assets by key Russian leaders. It's going to cause them considerable personal pain. There well might be more severe measures taken against rank-and-file Russians if Russia ratchets up its military involvement in Ukraine.
Let's be crystal clear about one non-starter of an idea: War with Russia is out of the question, which Obama has declared. There will be no battlefield confrontation between the nations.
Having said that, there's no way to guarantee what Russia might do to re-annex three Baltic states — Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, all of which are members of NATO. Let us not forget that NATO constitution says that an attack against one member nation is an attack against the entire alliance — which includes the United States of America.
The White House is banking that given the sad state of the Russian economy, the economic punishment just might be enough to give Russia pause if it aims to continue its aggression in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the chicken hawks ought to pipe down.
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Let's define 'sanctions'
The media have this habit of latching on to words without clarifying their context, meaning or importance.
The word of the day is "sanctions."
President Obama today announced he is expanding the sanctions being leveled on high-level Russian officials who have played any important role in Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
Being a reasonably well-read individual, I think I know what he means by "sanctions." The president is using executive authority to freeze assets of individuals high up in the Russian government. They'll be unable to move money around. They'll be hit where it hurts, in the bank account.
I think that's what the word means.
The media, though, ought to explain these sanctions and how the U.S. government intends to inflict enough pain on Russia's government to make it stop interfering in Ukraine's internal affairs. If the media cannot do it, then they should ask White House officials, Treasury Department gurus, Federal Reserve Board brass, high-level Ivy League economists or anyone else with intimate knowledge on how these things work to explain to us unwashed masses.
Sanctions.
It's a nice word. It seems so clinical, so clean and so, oh, bordering on meaningless unless you can define how the sanctions actually work.
I'm all ears.
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U.S.-Russia relations in freezer
Let's not call it Cold War 2.0, at least not yet.
The New York Times reports that the Ukraine crisis involving the Russian takeover of Crimea signals a deepening freezing of relations between the world lone superpower and one of its rivals for international supremacy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/19/world/europe/if-not-a-new-cold-war-a-distinct-chill-in-the-air.html?hp
The United States won the first Cold War partly because the then-Soviet Union bankrupted itself by trying to out-muscle its American rivals. It didn't have the resources to keep up. The United States won. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Russia emerged a damaged, highly corrupt nation.
What's happening now in Ukraine isn't the first such land grab that the Russians have completed. They did the same thing in Georgia in 2008. Ukraine's unrest made Moscow nervous for the ethnic Russians in Crimea, which voted to secede from Ukraine.
Where do U.S.-Russia relations go from here? Into the tank, according to the New York Times.
The Times's Peter Baker reports: "The decision by President Vladimir V. Putin to snatch Crimea away from Ukraine, celebrated in a defiant treaty-signing ceremony in the Kremlin on Tuesday, threatens to usher in a new, more dangerous era. If it is not the renewed Cold War that some fear, it seems likely to involve a sustained period of confrontation and alienation that will be hard to overcome. The next reset, if there ever is one, for the moment appears far off and far-fetched."
Against this backdrop we have critics of President Obama pushing him to do more than he's done. Obama's response has been to rely heavily on international allies to join in condemning the Russians' efforts to undermine Ukraine's sovereignty. Russia, of course, is having none of it.
What does the United States do? What can the lone superpower do? The hard reality is that our hands are tied, except to deny Russia involvement in high-level economic summits, such as the G-7 meeting about to occur next week in The Netherlands. It should be the G-8, but Russian strongman Vladimir Putin won't be there.
The rivalry between the United States and Russia has just gotten a good bit frostier.
Barack ObamaCold WarCrimeaU.S.-Russia relationsUkraineVladimir Putin
Vlad says U.S. crossed the line? What line?
Russian President Vladimir Putin's remarks to his parliament had me turning to my atlas.
He told Russian lawmakers that the United States and its allies "crossed the line" by imposing sanctions on Russia for its incursion into Crimea, a section of Ukraine.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/ukraine-crisis/putin-slams-west-calls-end-cold-war-rhetoric-n55386
I pulled my atlas out and looked at the map of Europe. Yep, there it was: Ukraine includes the Crimea Peninsula; it's all part of the same sovereign country, or at least it was until Crimea seceded from Ukraine over the weekend.
Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Crimea to "protect" ethnic Russians there. He's now officially recognized the creation of this new entity in southern Ukraine.
But he's scolding the United States because we refuse to recognize the incursion — or invasion — of Russian forces into Crimea? We were "unprofessional"?
"We have to stop this Cold War rhetoric and realize that Russia is an independent nation … you have to respect those interests of Russia," Putin told the parliament. True enough, Mr. Strongman/President. No one doubts Russia's independence. What's at issue here is why Russia seems to doubt Ukraine's independence, just as it did in 2008 when it doubted Georgia's independence when it sent troops into that former Soviet satellite republic.
Russia is in the catbird seat here. The international community can do only so much to Russia. There will be no military counter-offensive to boot the Russians out of Crimea, or air strikes against military facilities elsewhere in the massive country. There will be further economic sanctions and political isolation measures taken.
Putin can criticize the United States all he wants. We are, after all, the biggest of the big dogs seeking to pressure Russia to rethink its own interference in another nation's internal struggle.
For him, though, to say the United States has "crossed the line" is laughable on its face.
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Rikers Island inmates on hunger strike over horrid conditions, lack of basic services
By Graham Rayman
Detainees in a Rikers Island jail say they are on hunger strike in protest of horrid conditions and a lack of basic services.
Around 200 inmates are participating in the strike at the island's Robert N. Davoren Center, estimated Chris Boyle, director of data research and policy with New York County Defender Services. The strike was underway in four dormitories containing about 50 detainees each, Boyle said.
The action represents an escalation of longstanding issues within the troubled city jail system. Continuing problems surrounding lack of staffing, the coronavirus pandemic and Correction Department mismanagement made 2021 one of the worst years on Rikers Island in memory.
Security fending surrounds inmate housing at Rikers Island. (Jeenah Moon/AP)
Boyle told a city Board of Correction meeting Tuesday that the Davoren center's warden hasn't visited the hunger-striking inmates.
As the protest went on, Boyle said, an officer spoke to the detainees and asked: "Do you want food? Because we're not going to bring it if you don't want it."
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"They said, 'No, we don't want it,' and he walked out," Boyle told the Board of Correction. "So no food is being brought in right now."
Two detainees described their reasons for the strike in voicemails left in phone calls to the Daily News.
"This is very important. Right now my unit, we're on a hunger strike," detainee Ervin Bowins said in a voicemail.
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"We have a list of reasonable things that we would like to get on the table so we can get things rolling such as law library, recreation and mental health and medical and stuff like that that we're not being afforded."
Bowins, 37, concurred with Boyle's estimate that roughly 200 detainees are involved in the protest. "We're asking just for a little help," he said.
In a second voice mail, another detainee said they aren't receiving mail, any rec time outside or medical services. "This continues to linger months and months on end," he said. "We are currently on 24/7 lockdown and we've been isolated for 15 days and counting.
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"Court dates and hearings are constantly being adjourned, motions and bail hearings as well. We are not receiving communication in a timely fashion as well. We are basically here stuck in limbo.
"The city is still open for business but Rikers Island is closed," the second detainee said. "We are not getting visits or lawyer visits which has continued to hinder our due process as well."
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"They are at a point where they feel they have no other options," Boyle said at the Board of Correction hearing. "It shows that despite what DOC says, things have not gotten better. They've gotten worse, and (DOC is) ignoring the problem."
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Boyle said he received voicemails from 14 to 15 other detainees on Monday night who said they are also involved in the hunger strike.
"As of last night they had missed their 12th meal," he said Tuesday. "There is one officer in the bubble for 100 people and no one seems to care."
A Correction Department official said initial reports indicate there is a protest and the detainees are rejecting their meals. But they are sharing commissary food — though the detainees claim that food is limited.
The Correction official added the detainees are upset about being under quarantine as the jail undergoes a spike in COVID-19 cases.


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A Quick Glance on Divorce Trends and What to Expect in the Future
December 16, 2016 | Categories: Family Law & Divorce
As 2016 comes to a close, we thought it might be interesting to give you a quick look at the past results from recent divorce trends and what we could expect in the coming years.
A Change in National Marriage Rates
A research survey from the National Center for Family Research at Bowling Green State University has been conducted by a group in order to establish the US trends in divorce in 2015. They came up with a divorce rate representing the divorce per 1,000 married women aged 15 and older in a national sample.
The results of this period determine, the divorce rate was 16.9 divorces per 1,000 married women, down from a rate of 17.6 in 2014. This is a significant decline from 1980, when this rate was 22.6 per 1,000 married women. This is a significant decline of 25 percent in 2015!
Sources: 1970-2000, National Center for Health Statistics ; 2008-2015, U.S Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 1-yr est
How Does the Rate of Marriage Factor into Divorce?
In addition to this report showing a significant decline in divorce, it also comments on the current state of marriage as well. Since 1980, the marriage rate has steadily declined from 61.4% of women 15 or older to only 31.9% in 2014.
According to sociologists, younger people are choosing to forego marriage at ages that their parents and grandparents would have entered matrimony. The current generation has preferred to either enter into adulthood prior to marriage or live with their partner without an official engagement, otherwise known as cohabitation.
One can assume that the reduced rate of marriage has contributed to the reduction in divorces because:
married couples are finding partners that more closely meet their adult needs before committing to marriage
long term relationships that would have ended in divorce if the couple were married are unaccounted for in sampling
However, in 2015 marriage rates showed signs of growth by increasing to 32.2 marriages per 1,000 women, up from 2014. This suggests that the idea of marriage from younger generations is making a "comeback." Additionally, the passing of Federal legislation regarding the approval of same-sex marriages may be a contributing influence to the increase.
Does Rate of Divorce Change from State to State?
During the study, researchers noticed that divorce and marriage rates vary depending on the State where the report was conducted. For example, the highest divorce rate was attributed to Washington, DC with an amount of 29.9 per 1,000 married women and the lowest rate of divorce is in Hawaii with 11.1.
How Does North Carolina Fair with Divorce and Marriage Rates?
Concerning the State of North Carolina, the divorce rate is under the national rate (16.9) with an average of 14.5. The state ranks 36th in the nation in divorce rates (36/51 State ranking) with Washington D.C. holding the first position.
As the conclusion of 2016 looms near, we can draw a positive conclusion to marriage and divorce trends. Since the divorce rate in the United States is at its lowest level in more than 35 years and the marriage rate is the highest since 2009, it is believed the United States will continue to see a decrease in the divorce rate as well as a stabilization regarding the marriage rates.
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Extreme Heat Linked to Global Warming
By Emily Sohn published 6 August 12
August 2011 ended a summer that brought record-breaking and near record-breaking warmth to the U.S. and the globe. (Image credit: NOAA)
As relentless heat wave has followed relentless heat wave across the United States this summer, conversations have increasingly turned to the role of global warming in extreme weather events. A new study solidifies the link.
Before 1980, excessively hot summers were practically non-existent. More recently, found a new study, summers that averaged 3.3 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than normal have become common – covering about 10 percent of land area around the globe each year – up from an average of just a few tenths of a percent in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. In some recent years, super-hot summers have struck as much as 20 percent of the Northern Hemisphere.
Statistically, the pattern is too extreme to be considered a result of chance, found a new study, which pointed a finger directly at global warming as the underlying cause of the recent spike in extra-hot summers.
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With projected warming over the next 50 years, the study predicted that summers averaging 5.5 Fahrenheit above normal will happen regularly. In a decade, nearly 17 percent of the globe will likely be experiencing scorching summers each year.
"The problem is that there's always this caveat when people say, 'Well, you can't blame any individual event on global warming,'" said James Hansen, a climate scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
"But what we show is that you can blame this strong change in the bell curve (of temperature distributions) on global warming. And that change has really made a remarkable impact on the chance of the likelihood of extreme weather events."
High-profile summer heat waves have fueled headlines around the globe in recent years. The historically hot summer of 2010 from Moscow to the Middle East was followed by a record-setting summer in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mexico in 2011. The summer of 2012 has already strained air-conditioners across the Midwest and eastern United States.
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Scientists often come up with meteorological reasons, including high-pressure systems and La Niña events, to explain individual heat waves. In an effort to see if there might be any larger trends, Hansen and colleagues analyzed seasonal temperature averages around the globe dating back to 1950.
When the researchers compared the period between 1951 and 1980 with the period since 1980, they found that average temperatures shifted toward the warmer in the latter period.
Even more striking, the team reports today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, anomalously hot summers – defined by average temperatures that were three standard deviations or 3.3 F hotter than normal – became far more common in recent decades. Hot summers directly raise the risk of damaging wildfires and devastating droughts.
Overall, the study found, temperatures are becoming more variable with more extremes at both ends, making cooler-than-average summers likely to happen in the coming years, as well. Global warming also increases levels of water vapor in the air, raising the likelihood of extreme snowfall, rainfall, and flooding in some places.
Those kinds of patterns can be confusing to a public that tends to take global warming more seriously when they are living through unusually warm weather.
ANALYSIS: Summer Heat Screws Over Sensible Shoppers
"We increasingly think that one of the biggest determinants of whether people think climate change is real or not, or whether they think it's severe or moderate, is their relatively recent experiences with local weather," said Barry Rabe, a political scientist who studies environmental and energy policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
For the past five or six years, Rabe and colleagues have been conducting nationwide polls to gauge the public's attitudes toward climate change. Their results suggest that concern peaks during heat waves and wanes during cooler-than-normal seasons.
Policy changes also tend to happen not when scientists announce a rise in global average temperatures, but when an area faces some kind of imminent threat that is related to climate change. An infestation of mountain pine beetles as a result of warmer winters in British Columbia, for example, had a direct impact on the creation of a major carbon tax there.
The new study, then, may come at an opportune time – as long as the weather remains wiltingly hot.
"Generally, in public policy and environmental policy, the thinking is that things have to be pretty significant and severe in a vivid way for people to become concerned and governments to react," Rabe said.
"Normally, we have seen major policy changes follow some kind of disaster, he added. "One of the big challenges with climate change is figuring out what is the crisis, what is the burden of proof, and what is the demonstrable evidence."
This article was provided by Discovery News.
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Portsmouth City Council is set to meet on Monday evening to tend to regular business matters. On the agenda for the for the meeting is a single ordinance which will be up for a second reading. The ordinance in question, which would authorize the appropriation of an additional $50,000.00 from General Fund No. 101 to Engineering/Construction Miscellaneous Services Account Number 101.112.5299 is needed to meet the current and future expenses for 2018.
While statements and remarks from citizens present in council chambers will be welcomed for both items on and off the agenda, Council members may have updates on issues brought to the attention of council at the previous city meeting. A popular item of concern to those present in council chambers during the July 9 meeting was the current state of Greenlawn Cemetery and its poor upkeep, and council goers may hear the status of this problem addressed during the portion reserved for individual reports.
The City Manager's conference, which will begin after the adjournment of the City Council meeting, will have items such as the appropriation of funds for new water treatment plant, the re-establishment of a mechanic position, and the creation of victims advocate position. According to correspondence from City Manager Sam Sutherland to members of council, it has been determined that the City needs to reestablish a position of Mechanic 1 to the Garage Division of the Public Service Department, which was removed from the budget for 2018 which has compromised the city fleet and resulted in inordinate amounts of overtime. Sutherland asks that council pass legislation to reestablish the position.
According to remaining legislation, the victims advocate position is requested to be established by the city solicitor, and is mandated due to the adoption of Marcy's Law as an amcCity municipal building, with the city manager's conference being held directly after.