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Seth Turner, AbsenceSoft
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Jen Lucas, Tricentis
"When you get to tell some stories about somebody who walked away from suicide or how they finally got a prompting to get help for their addiction, you realize how we're really affecting people's lives"
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How are companies managing leave, accommodations, and other benefits? HR leaders share their strategies
Seth Turner
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Tricentis
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MORE IS being asked of HR than ever before, and all eyes are on HR leaders to help their organizations rapidly respond to new and unexpected challenges, such as staffing shortages, company-wide burnout, and maintaining connections among a distributed workforce. Less than one-third (32 percent) of employees are engaged at work, and 17 percent are actively disengaged, according to a Gallup poll from earlier this year. As a result, creating and fostering an enticing employee experience is the mission statement for HR leaders, especially in such a competitive labor market. Thus, they've increased investment in benefits and perqs that support employees' work-life balance, such as extended leave and accommodations.
With employees in more than 15 countries, Austin, TX-based tech firm Tricentis was already used to a distributed workforce even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that the company has transitioned to a hybrid model, with employees in the office at least a couple of days a week, the biggest challenge has been trying to increase connection among employees, as well as between them and the company. "We're trying to marry the flexibility of the hybrid work structure with connection to each other by encouraging face-to-face interaction and coming together with a purpose," says Jen Lucas, chief people officer at Tricentis. "We're also encouraging people to evaluate for themselves what they need and then to articulate that. That helps the process of managers and employees understanding what's going to work for any given person at any given time."
At a recent round table, HR leaders from AbsenceSoft, PwC, Sweetwater, and Tricentis spoke candidly about the challenges they're facing in today's rapidly changing landscape, sharing tips, trends, and practical strategies for meeting their employees' unique needs. Shifting priorities "Ten years ago, we'd be talking about our productivity, healthcare spend and bottom-line numbers," says Seth Turner, chief strategy officer at AbsenceSoft, a Golden, CO-based absence-management SaaS solutions provider. "Now, it's more about the employee as a whole and how we keep them engaged while they're at work."
Employee well-being is of utmost importance Of course, mental health plays a major role in employees requesting leave and accommodation. In the US, 28 percent of employees are reporting burnout symptoms and 32 percent are experiencing moderate distress, according to a McKinsey Health Institute report in May. Since the pandemic, many employers have recognized this growing need and doubled down on providing benefits and resources to their employees. That's expected to continue in 2023, with a recent survey by AHIP, a health insurers' trade association, indicating that health plans are improving access to mental health services by bringing more providers into their networks.
Mental health has been top of mind at Sweetwater, a leading online retailer for music instruments and professional audio gear. Headquartered in Fort Wayne, IN, the company has hosted a series of lunch-and-learns where medical professionals come in to destigmatize the topic. Additionally, the company has hired an on-staff mental-health counselor whom employees can see for free. "We weren't sure whether people would trust seeing somebody like that on campus, but that concern was quickly removed, and we've gotten tremendous feedback from the support resource being so accessible," says Jeff Ostermann, chief people officer at Sweetwater. "Sometimes these programs can feel like numbers, data, and spend," Ostermann adds. "That's true, and we have to be disciplined and good stewards of our business, but when you get to tell some stories about somebody who walked away from suicide or how they finally got a prompting to get help for their addiction, you realize how we're really affecting people's lives. That transcends the conversation about the bottom line."
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has tackled mental health through its recent My+ initiative, through which the professional services firm is investing $2.4 billion in its people experience over the next three years. The company has doubled the number of free visits with a mental health professional from six to 12 annually and increased the reimbursement amount for out-of-network mental health support from 70 percent to 90 percent.
As for leave and accommodation, PwC has expanded parental leave from eight to 12 weeks and, when folks return, they come back to work on a reduced schedule that fits their needs. The company has also launched tech-enabled vacation tools to make it easier for employees to plan and take uninterrupted time off. For example, after the company's week-long shutdown in July (another happens in December), 93 per cent of surveyed employees said their time off was uninterrupted.
On top of all that, PwC offers sabbaticals, in which employees can take up to six months off while still receiving their full benefits and 20 per cent of their pay. "We're imagining a future where well-being is even more front-and-center," says DeAnne Aussem, managing director and well-being leader at PwC. "The value of time and how we respect and protect people's time when they're taking it for non-work reasons are important, and we've put a lot of metrics around making sure we're doing what we say we'll do." Proving RoI While HR leaders are tasked with meeting their employees' evolving needs, they're also faced with making a case to their fellow C-suite members and/or boards of directors for why greater investment in benefits, such as leave and accommodation programs, is worthwhile for the company.
Lucas says HR leaders are now at the intersection of having to express employees' perspectives and what these programs' impact will be on them, as well as representing the company's investment in these programs and what impact that will have on the bottom line, in a qualitative and quantitative way. "While in the past we may have been skewed one way or the other, that holistic view is an expectation now, and being able to provide that is exciting," Lucas says.
Just a few years ago, Turner says, senior leadership didn't have enough appreciation for the work that goes into managing those programs and making them successful. That's changed since the pandemic, as leaders now understand the importance of their employees' well-being. "It's opened a great conversation to the senior levels," Turner says. "Although the focus is still on metrics and program usage, total volumes and loss of workdays, there are also return-to-work metrics and other success stories that are being woven into what the senior leaders are interested in hearing."
AbsenceSoft, an absence-management SaaS solutions provider, delivers modern, scalable, easy-to-use and flexible software to manage FMLA, ADA, disability, and other forms of leave easily, efficiently, and cost-effectively. With AbsenceSoft, companies can process leaves 10x faster than traditional methods, while ensuring compliance with federal and state regulations. By streamlining the absenteeism management process, HR can improve the employee experience during often-stressful times, resulting in increased employee satisfaction, higher productivity, and reduced turnover. AbsenceSoft is trusted by companies of all sizes and in every industry to care for employees, save time, and maintain compliance.
Seth Turner has over 20 years of experience helping clients solve their HR and absence-management issues. As chief strategy officer, Seth is responsible for working with clients on strategic initiatives and evaluating partnerships and product opportunities. Before founding AbsenceSoft, Seth held leadership roles at Hewitt Associates, Mercer, and Reed Group, focusing on outsourcing and technology solutions for leave of absence and employee benefits. Before assuming the CSO role, Seth led the product, implementation, sales, and marketing teams at AbsenceSoft. Seth has an BA in business, management information systems from Indiana University, and an MBA from Northwestern University.
Jeff Ostermann is responsible for providing leadership to Sweetwater's human resources group while also continually developing new ways for the company to invest in the growth of its team members to further its unique and industry-leading culture. Jeff came to Sweetwater in 2012 and for his first eight years provided leadership to the Sweet Family of Companies group of 14 businesses. Jeff holds a degree in finance and international business from Indiana University, an MBA from Taylor University, and a professional coaching certification from Duquesne University. He began his career in corporate finance working for Nortel Networks and General Electric.
Jen Lucas is the chief people officer at Tricentis, responsible for leading the global people team. She specializes in leading large-scale growth and change, mergers and acquisitions, driving peak performance, talent acquisition, and total rewards. She is based in Austin. Jen joins Tricentis from Frontdoor, Inc., where she served as senior vice president and chief people and communications officer. Prior to Frontdoor, she served as senior vice president and chief people officer at SolarWinds, where she led HR teams in more than 15 countries and was a key contributor to growing the company organically and through mergers and acquisitions.
DeAnne Aussem serves as the well-being leader of PwC US and Mexico. As a managing director, leadership development expert, and credentialed well-being coach, DeAnne draws upon more than 25 years of professional services experience supporting leaders, teams, and organizations across the US and globally. DeAnne is a recognized dynamic and innovative business leader with deep expertise in strategy, global leadership development, well-being, diversity and inclusion, and human capital, making her a trusted advisor and source of strategic insight into today's most difficult leadership challenges and initiatives that champion the future of work.
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American workers battling mental health issues
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"Employee satisfaction surveys are critically important," Turner adds, "as we roll out new benefits, we always look at how many people are taking advantage of those benefits and using them as intended. That's the greatest measure of success."
Turner says clients are reporting a dramatic rise in leave and accommodation rates, as employees combat high stress and anxiety by focusing on their well-being. During open enrollment season, clients also extended their benefits packages to include time off through increased PTO, vacation time, reduced workweeks, etc. Meanwhile, AbsenceSoft has encouraged employees to step away from the laptop for periodic breaks or to pick their kids up from school. "We continue to look at other ways we can inject some work-life balance or at least make our employees feel okay taking time for themselves," Turner says.


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\section{Introduction}

Since overlap fermions have an exact chiral symmetry on the lattice,
they are an appropriate tool to investigate the chiral phase
transition.\footnote{Our results on the vacuum structure for $T=0$
quenched configurations are presented in the talk by Y. Koma \cite{Koma:2005}
at this conference.}
Simulations involving the effects of dynamical overlap sea quarks are just
becoming possible now, but as they are still numerically extremely demanding
on realistic lattices, we use a hybrid approach by implementing the overlap
action for the valence quarks on dynamical configurations
generated with $N_f=2$ flavours of $\mbox{${\cal O}$}(a)$ improved Wilson sea quarks.

As the lattice spacing, $a$, for dynamical fermions is connected to both
the coupling constant $\beta$ and $\kappa_{sea}$,
increasing the temperature
$T=1/(N_4 a)$ across the transition
is affected by an increase in  $\kappa_{sea}$ at fixed values of
the coupling, $\beta$, and time-extent, $N_4$, of the lattice.
In order to probe the topological properties of dynamical gauge fields in the
vicinity of the phase transition, we concentrate
on the values $\kappa_{sea}$ = 0.1343, 0.1348 and 0.1360 corresponding
to $T/T_c$ = 0.98, 1.06 and 1.27, respectively, at
fixed $\beta=5.2$ on $16^3\times 8$ lattices generated by the
DIK-collaboration \cite{Bornyakov:2004ii}. The lattice spacing
is approximately $a=0.12$ fm.
We use $\mbox{${\cal O}$}(200)$ configurations for each value of $\kappa_{sea}$.
The transition point $\kappa_c$ can be identified as the point where the
Polyakov loop susceptibility \mbox{$\chi=N_s^3(\langle L^2\rangle-\langle L\rangle^2)$}, with the Polyakov loop
$L(\vec{s})=\frac{1}{3}\mbox{Tr} \prod_{s_4=1}^{N_4} U_4(\vec{s},s_4)$ , assumes its maximum.
Recent work of the DIK-collaboration on $16^3 \times 8$ lattices at
$\beta=5.2$ gave $T_c=212(2)$ MeV, corresponding to $\kappa_c=0.13444(6)$ \cite{Nakamura:2005}.

\section{Density and locality of the eigenmodes of the overlap operator}

The spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry by the dynamical creation of a
nonvanishing chiral condensate,
$\langle\bar\Psi\Psi\rangle$,
is related to the spectral density
$\rho(\lambda)$ of the Dirac operator near zero by the
Banks-Casher relation
$\langle\bar\Psi\Psi\rangle=- \frac{\pi}{V} \rho(0)$.
Using the Arnoldi-algorithm, we compute the 50 lowest eigenvalues on every
configuration.\footnote{For our implementation of the overlap operator
see Ref.~\cite{Galletly:2003vf}. Also here we use $\rho=1.4$  and
stereographically project the eigenvalues.}
To smooth the configurations we perform 1 step of APE-smearing, using the smearing coefficient $\alpha=0.45$.
In Fig.~\ref{fig-density} we plot the spectral density. One can clearly see a nonvanishing
chiral condensate in the chirally broken phase  at $\kappa_{sea}=0.1343$
below the phase transition and a large gap in the spectrum at
$\kappa_{sea}=0.1360$  in the symmetry restored phase.
However, at $\kappa_{sea}=0.1348$, a value which was determined by the
Polyakov-loop method to be above the transition, we find a nonvanishing
tail of small eigenvalues extending down to zero.

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=pics/density.ps,width=6cm}
\end{center}
\vspace{-0.5cm}
\caption[]{The spectral density of the overlap operator in the vicinity
of the phase transition (50 lowest eigenvalues included).}
\label{fig-density}
\end{figure}

A useful measure  to quantify the localisation of eigenmodes \cite{Aubin:2004mp} is the
inverse participation ratio $I=V\sum_x\rho(x)^2$,
with the scalar density
$\rho(x)=\psi_\lambda^\dagger(x)\psi_\lambda(x)$ for
normalised eigenfunctions $\sum_x\rho(x)=1$.
While $I=V$ if the density has support only on one lattice point,
$I$ decreases as the density becomes more delocalised,
reaching $I=1$ when the density is maximally spread on all lattice sites.
Fig.~\ref{fig-ipr} shows the IPR's for all configurations as a function of
the modulus of the eigenvalue below and above the phase transition.
One can see that in both cases the zero modes and the first non-zero eigenmodes are highly localised,
while the mean IPR for the highest computed eigenvalues is approximately 1.3.

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{cc}
\epsfig{file=pics/plot-1343.ps,width=6cm}&\epsfig{file=pics/plot-1360.ps,width=6cm}\\
$\kappa_{sea}=0.1343 \;(T<T_c)$ & $\kappa_{sea}=0.1360 \;(T>T_c)$
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{The IPR of overlap eigenmodes
(50 eigenmodes from all configurations)
below and above the transition.}
\label{fig-ipr}
\end{figure}

\section{The local structure of topological charge fluctuations}

The topological charge density for any $\gamma_5$-Hermitean Dirac operator
satisfying the Ginsparg-Wilson relation is defined as \cite{Hasenfratz:1998ri}:
\begin{equation}
q(x)=\frac{1}{2}\mbox{Tr}\;\gamma_5\,D(x,x), \;\;Q=\sum_x q(x).
\label{eq-q}
\end{equation}

To compute the topological charge density, we use two different approaches \cite{Horvath:2002yn, Horvath:2003yj}.
In the first approach, we  directly calculate the trace of the overlap operator
according to equation Eq.~(\ref{eq-q}).
This is a computationally very demanding task and is
therefore performed on only  5 configurations for each $\kappa_{sea}$.
The ``full'' density computed in this way includes charge fluctuations at
all scales. The second technique involves the  computation of the topological charge density based
on ${\cal O}(50)$ low lying modes of the overlap Dirac operator. Using
the spectral representation of the Dirac operator, the eigenmode expansion
of the topological charge density reads

\begin{equation}
q_\lambda(x)=-\sum_\lambda(1-\frac{\lambda}{2})\; c^\lambda(x),\;\;
c^{\lambda}(x) =\psi^\dagger_\lambda(x) \gamma_5 \psi_\lambda(x)\;.
\end{equation}

Truncating the expansion acts as an ultraviolet filter by removing the short-distance fluctuations from $q(x)$. Note that the topological charge $Q=\sum_x q_\lambda(x)$ is not affected by the level of truncation.

Reflection positivity, i.e. positivity of the metric in Hilbert space,
demands that the topological charge correlator is negative \cite{Seiler:2001je}
\begin{equation}
\label{eq-seiler}
C_q(r)= \frac{1}{V} \sum_x  \langle q(x)q(y)\rangle \le 0, \;\; r>0 \:,
\end{equation}

\noindent where $r=|x-y\,|$ is the Euclidean distance. Since overlap fermions are not ultralocal, the fermion action is not
strictly reflection positive. Therefore,
analysing dynamical or quenched lattices with
valence overlap fermions,
one may expect a positive core and a negative tail of $C_q(r)$~\cite{Koma:2005,Horvath:2005cv}. This will be washed out when a finite UV filter is applied.

Let us first consider the local structure of the topological charge
fluctuations, studying sign coherent clusters formed by connected
neighbours $x_i$ with $|q(x_i)| > q_{cut}  = 0.1 \dots 0.4\: q_{max} $, where $q_{cut}$ is a
cutoff value to be varied at will.
To give a picture of the spatial distribution of the topological charge density, isosurface plots with $q(x)=\pm q_{cut}$ are shown in Fig.~\ref{fig-contour}.\footnote{Movies are available at
[\href{http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~weinberg/topdens/}{{\tt http://www.cip.physik.uni-muenchen.de/\~{}weinberg/topdens/}}].}

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-full-0.10-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-full-0.20-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-full-0.30-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-full-0.40-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm} \\
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-50-0.10-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-50-0.20-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-50-0.30-2.eps,width=3.1cm}\hspace{0.3cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/0.1343-00500-50-0.40-2.eps,width=3.1cm}

\caption{Isosurfaces of topological charge density with
$|q(x)|/q_{max} = 0.1$, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, with red (green) surfaces indicating
positive (negative) charges
in one timeslice of a configuration with
$\kappa_{sea}=0.1343$.
The upper (lower) pictures are based on the full (eigenmode truncated) density.
}
\label{fig-contour}
\end{center}
\end{figure}
It is obvious that the UV cutoff in the topological density results
in a completely different structure actually seen by the lowest modes.
This is also reflected in Fig.~\ref{fig-correlator50} which shows the topological charge correlator Eq.~(\ref{eq-seiler}) in terms of the truncated density. We take 50 modes into account, which seems not to be sufficient to generate the negative tail of the correlator \cite{Koma:2005}.
Since hypercubic rotation symmetry could be broken we plot the correlator
as a function of the Euclidean distance $r$  and the temporal distance $t$.
The UV truncated correlator represents mainly size, shape and temperature
dependence of the clusters seen in the lower row of Fig.~\ref{fig-contour}. We see a slightly more negative correlation developing in the high-temperature phase.

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}
\hspace*{-0.5cm}\begin{tabular}{cc}
\epsfig{file=pics/qq-1343.ps,width=7.1cm}&\epsfig{file=pics/qq-1360.ps,width=7.1cm}\\
$\kappa_{sea}=0.1343 \;(T<T_c)$ & $\kappa_{sea}=0.1360 \;(T>T_c)$
\end{tabular}
\end{center}
\caption{The topological charge correlator using 50 eigenmodes on
${\mbox{${\cal O}$}}(200)$ configurations.}
\label{fig-correlator50}
\end{figure}

Further investigating the full density, we show in  Fig.~\ref{fig-cluster} (a) and (b) that the number of clusters reaches a maximum at a moderate cutoff value, while for a
cutoff as low as $q_{cut}=0.1\; q_{max}$
there are 2 totally dominating oppositely charged clusters with a fractional
volume of around 50\% each.\footnote{The maximal number of clusters of the truncated density is an order of magnitude smaller.}
The fractional volume and the total charge of
the clusters ordered by their size are plotted in Fig.~\ref{fig-clustervol}.
Studying the
point-to-point correlation of the largest clusters based on the full charge density, we find
that the clusters start to percolate at $q_{cut}=0.2\; (0.25)\;q_{max}$ for $\kappa_{sea}=0.1343\; (0.1360)$.  Fig.~\ref{fig-cluster}~(c) shows the maximum of the minimal distance between each point of the largest  cluster and every point of the second largest one.
The small value for low cutoffs in $q$ implies that the 2 dominating clusters
are tangled and intertwined in a complex way.

A preliminary dimensional analysis indicates that we are rediscovering for the full density the picture of 2 dominating approximately
3D sign coherent clusters \cite{Horvath:2005rv}
at low cutoffs also at finite $T$, whereas we see 1D highly charged small clusters at high
thresholds.
This picture means that the QCD vacuum model with 4D coherent
(anti)instantons with a typical instanton radius of $0.3-0.4$ fm
is strongly modified by quantum fluctuations. The eigenmode-truncated density is more
compatible with the conventional multiple-lump picture.
Apart from the topological susceptibilty which is strongly suppressed in the chiral-symmetry
restored phase, only quantitative structural differences between the phases
are seen so far.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\hspace*{-0.5cm}\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\epsfig{file=pics/clusternum.ps, width=4.8cm}&
\epsfig{file=pics/clusterfrac.ps, width=4.8cm}&
\epsfig{file=pics/clusterdist.ps, width=4.8cm}\\
(a) & (b) &  (c)\\
\end{tabular}
\caption{The total number of clusters of full density (a), the fractional size of the largest cluster (b) and the distance between the 2 leading clusters (c)
depending on the cutoff value.}
\label{fig-cluster}
\end{center}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[h]
\begin{center}

\epsfig{file=pics/clusterfrac01.ps,width=7cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/clusterfrac04.ps,width=7cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/clustercharge01.ps,width=7cm}
\epsfig{file=pics/clustercharge04.ps,width=7cm}
\end{center}
\caption{Fractional volume (uppper plot) and total charge (lower plot)
of the clusters of full charge
sorted by their size for $q_{cut}=0.10\; q_{max}$ (left) and $0.40\; q_{max}$
(right) for one
configuration with $\kappa_{sea}=0.1343$.}
\label{fig-clustervol}

\end{figure}

\section*{Acknowledgements}

The numerical calculations have been performed at DESY-Zeuthen,
LRZ Munich and the CIP Physik pool at the University of Munich.
We thank these institutions for support. Part of this work is
supported by DFG under contract FOR 465
(Forschergruppe Gitter-Hadronen Ph\"anomenologie).

\bibliographystyle{JHEP-2}

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the Tornillo-Guadalupe port of entry gate for a protest against the separation of families at the border.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rose to prominence last week with a surprise victory in New York's Democratic primaries against a senior incumbent.
Ocasio-Cortez favors a government jobs guarantee and says Americans should not underestimate the power of policymakers to channel deficit spending toward social goals like healthcare and education.
"The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken," Ocasio told In These Times. "Honestly I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics."
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congressional candidate who stunned political pundits with an unexpected Democratic primary victory, is only 28 years old.
Yet her knowledge of one of the most crucial and least understood features of the US government — the budget deficit — surpasses that of her senior Democratic colleagues in a way that will become an asset to the party if, as appears likely, Ocasio-Cortez wins her congressional seat in November.
This is her key insight: Despite quack economists' insistence to the contrary, the US government is nothing like a household. It is not "burdened" by debt. It can borrow indefinitely, as long as that borrowing does not spur inflation. What matters, really, is the quality of the spending, not the size of the deficit.
"The idea that we're going to austerity ourselves into prosperity is so mistaken, and honestly I feel like one of the big problems we have is that, because Democrats don't have a deep understanding of or degrees in economics, they allow Wall Street folks to roll in the door and think that they're giving them an education," Ocasio-Cortez told In These Times last month.
"They're not. It's a con, and they're getting conned because they don't understand the transformative power of the purse that Congress has. It's not just Democrats. I don't think most of Congress understands how economics works."
The United States is especially privileged: The dollar's status as a global reserve currency means there's a constant, almost insatiable demand for US Treasury bonds, seen as some of the safest assets on the planet.
Why is this basic premise so important? Because Democrats often allow themselves to be straitjacketed by unwarranted fears of rising budget deficits while they are in power. Yet Republicans, who pay the loudest lip service to the need to bring down the deficit and issue constant warnings about a looming crisis that never comes, are content to sharply expand government spending under their own watch.
Just witness this year's massive tax cuts and budget, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office expects to catapult the US deficit to over $1 trillion next year. And it just keeps growing from there.
Yet not only has the US not faced any sort of budget crunch whatsoever, it has also, against the predictions of doomsayers, experienced chronically low inflation and weak wage growth despite a recovery now in its ninth year and an expansive monetary policy from the Federal Reserve.
Ocasio-Cortez, who has an economics degree from Boston University, says the US economy needs another New Deal like the one implemented by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression.
"There has almost never been a period of substantial economic growth in the United States without significant investment," she said. "And no investment pays off within the same cycle. No investment pays off within the same year — especially a governmental investment. Even businesses don't work that way."
The problem isn't too much spending, Ocasio-Cortez says, but rather that the funds are being channeled into tax cuts for the wealthy rather than anti-poverty measures like a government jobs guarantee.
Asked about her definition of socialism, Ocasio-Cortez, who identifies as a Democratic Socialist, told Chris Hayes on MSNBC: "In a modern, moral, and wealthy America, where we have the capacity to ensure that every American can have healthcare, an education, and access to dignified housing, we should try to do that as a society by whichever means we can."
She added: "I don't think any person in America should die because they are too poor to live."


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"There was an error evaluating Javascript for the package" error when installing both RMX Plugins
Hey all, is anyone receiving this error when trying to install the RMX 500 and RMX 1000 Plugins?
"There was an error reading the package.
An error occurred while evaluating JAVAScript for the package"
I am on a mac running 10.10.5
I activated JAVA (I am under the impression that JAVAScript comes packaged in with JAVA, but someone please correct me if I am wrong)
Have latest JAVA which was verified on their website (Assuming that the above statement is true)
Brian Gagliardi 2 janvier 2016 14:20 Partager
yes I have the same..was hoping for an answer
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I think that it's that we need an older version of JAVA installed and thanks to Apples stupid ways about JAVA, this may be hard to accomplish. Hopefully Pioneer will reprogram the installers in a better language
Brian Gagliardi 7 janvier 2016 21:44 0 votes Partager
Have written to them..will report if there's any joy
Good Luck.. I just called them and they were ZERO help... I may have lost a few IQ points after the phone call..... They actually think that me downloading the file to another PC, putting it on a flash drive and bringing it to my main computer and installing it will fix the problem..... I'm still in shock, that just may be the dumbest thing I have ever heard... please let me know if you have any better luck!!!
will do..I will use all the charm and acerbic wit I can muster, was really looking forward to using that plugin and have already had great results with the hardware..so it's fkin irresponsible of them to ignore their shortcomings..the new apple?
I think I may be on to something.... the RMX 500 has a driver... I just installed the RMX 500 Driver for Yosemite (even though I am not going to be using it as an interface) and it actually allowed me to install the RMX 500 Plugin afterwards... however, I tried the 1000 and the same issue occurred again (but there is no driver for the 1000).... So if you are using the 500... try that driver and then install the plugin... If not, we will keep each other posted on the RMX 1000. I do have both units and what is crazy is that on the 500, I wasn't getting the error that the RMX 500 Must be connected to install the software, I was getting the JavaScript error in question.... Maybe whatever is in the code for the 500 driver, they need to make a driver with the similar code for the 1000 in THAT driver..... It sounds dumb as crap, but it definitely more viable than download it to another computer and transfer it over via a flash drive.
WELL DONE OLD CHAP !!! It bloody worked!!..can't thank you enough regards Sal
500 or 1000?
I only have the 500..I use Mavericks but the Yosemite driver did the trick..it seems to want to work as an interface too but with my zillion dollar signal path no way... thanks again..anything I can do just holler
OK... I was hoping that you only had a 1000 or both and it worked on at least the 1000 ;)... If they get back to you, please let me know what they said on how to fix this
Thanks and happy effecting,
I've asked our product team to verify that the drivers and plugins for the RMX units are up to date for all operating systems.
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Thanks a million... this is really strange.... I thought the drivers were for using it as an audio device, not necessarily for controlling the plugin... as far a the RMX 1000, I do have the RemixBox software installed and it sees the 1000 fine... which tells me that it's not a driver issue, but the 500 did the same error until I installed the driver.... thanks a million for all of your help!!!!!!
Don't ask me how/why... but it is now allowing me to install the 1000 plugin... even though it did not let me originally install it after installing the RMX 500 driver... I think that something in the driver is what ultimately let me install it... really strange...... (I have restarted and completely shut down multiple times)

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Hurricane Irma Roars To Category 3 In Atlantic, Forecast To Reach 'Extremely Dangerous' Cat 4 Strength
The forecasts of a busy Atlantic hurricane season are proving accurate.
As Harvey weakened to a depression, a new hurricane, Irma, fired up in the central Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday.
As of 5 p.m. ET, Irma was rated a Category 3 "major" hurricane with 115-mph winds, and is forecast to roar into an "extremely dangerous" hurricane over the next several days, with winds of 140 mph. (A "major" hurricane is one of Category 3 strength or above.)
Irma was located about 1,780 miles east of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean and was moving to the west-northwest at 12 mph.
It poses no immediate threat to land and its eventual track remains highly uncertain as is typical for storms this far out to sea.
Irma will take about a week to trek west across the Atlantic Ocean, AccuWeather said.
Possibilities range from a landfall on the Leeward Islands in the northeastern Caribbean to the Carolinas and Bermuda — and everything in between, according to AccuWeather.
Meanwhile, closer to home, the hurricane center is also watching a separate area of disturbed weather in the western Gulf of Mexico, one that could spin up into a tropical depression or storm in the next five days.
"Development, if any, of this system is expected to be slow to occur as the low moves slowly northward," the hurricane center said. "If this system does develop, it could bring additional rainfall to portions of the Texas and Louisiana coasts."
And in the eastern Pacific Ocean, Tropical Storm Lidia took aim on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. As of 5 p.m. ET, Lidia had winds of 65 mph and was located about 20 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Tropical storm warnings were in effect for much of the Baja as well as the west coast of Mexico.
Lidia is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 8 to 12 inches across the Mexican states of Baja California Sur into Baja California and western Jalisco, with isolated maximum totals of 20 inches.
The rains could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 31, 2017 Categories Breaking News, Extreme WeatherTags Forecast To Reach 'Extremely Dangerous' Cat 4 Strength, Hurricane Irma Roars To Category 3 In Atlantic, hurricane irma roars to category 3 in atlantic forecast to reach extremely dangerous cat 4 strength
Rescuers Start Block-By-Block Search Of Flooded Houston
Rescuers began a block-by-block search of tens of thousands of Houston homes Thursday, pounding on doors and shouting as they looked for anyone — alive or dead — who might have been left behind in Harvey's fetid floodwaters, which have now heavily damaged more than 37,000 homes and destroyed nearly 7,000 statewide.
More than 200 firefighters, police officers and members of an urban search-and-rescue team fanned out across the Meyerland neighborhood for survivors or bodies. They yelled "fire department!" as they pounded with closed fists on doors, peered through windows and checked with neighbors. The streets were dry but heaped with soggy furniture, carpet and wood.
"We don't think we're going to find any humans, but we're prepared if we do," said District Chief James Pennington of the Houston Fire Department.
The confirmed death toll stood at 31, though it is expected to rise. But by midday, the temporary command center in a J.C. Penney parking lot had received no reports of more bodies from the searches, which are expected to take up to two weeks.
Unlike during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath in New Orleans, crews used GPS devices to log the homes they checked rather than spray painting neon X's on the homes, which also avoided alerting potential thieves to vacant homes.
Elsewhere, the loss of power at a chemical plant set off explosions that prompted a public health warning. The blasts at the Arkema Inc. plant northeast of Houston also ignited a 30- to 40-foot flame and sent up a plume of acrid smoke that the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency initially described as "incredibly dangerous."
FEMA later backed away from that statement, saying that Administrator Brock Long spoke out of an abundance of caution. An Environmental Protection Agency analysis of the smoke showed that it posed no immediate threat to public health, the agency said.
The French operator of the plant warned that up to eight more chemical containers could burn and explode as chemicals stored there degraded without refrigeration.
The latest statewide damage surveys revealed the staggering extent of the destruction. The figures from the Texas Department of Public Safety did not include the tens of thousands of homes with minor damage.
Rescues continued, as did the search for shelter among people made homeless by the storm. Emergency officials reported 32,000 people in shelters across Texas.
The Harris County FEMA director said the agency was looking at how to house people who have lost their homes to Harvey. The priority is to get them out of shelters and into some form of temporary housing, with hotels being one option, he said.
"Right now nothing is off the table," Tom Fargione said Thursday. "This is a tremendous disaster in terms of size and scope. I want to get thinking beyond traditional methodologies you've seen in the past."
As the water receded in the nation's fourth-largest city, the threat of major damage from the storm shifted to a region near the Texas-Louisiana state line.
Beaumont, Texas, with a population of nearly 120,000, struggled with rising water. The city lost water service after its main pump station was overwhelmed by the swollen Neches River. That forced Baptist Beaumont Hospital to move patients to other facilities.
A steady stream of ambulances and helicopters arrived at the hospital to pick up the patients, some of whom already had been removed from flooded nursing homes. Hospital spokeswoman Mary Poole said other patients were able to be discharged.
The city's second hospital, Christus St. Elizabeth, said it was using stored water and accepting only critical and emergency patients.
Some people who had not gotten the word were still arriving Thursday seeking medical attention, including J.D. Clark, who said he had a heart condition. He wanted medicine and water but was turned away. Clark said the landlord had turned off the power at his apartment complex.
"We're trying to get up out of here," said his wife, Regina Blackburn. "I'm trying to call for a hotel, but they won't answer. We're leaving. We're getting out of Beaumont."
That's a challenge, though, because most of the highways out of the city are flooded.
Economists said the storm shut down everything from plastics plants to oil refineries to the Houston port — the second-busiest in the nation — which could affect the nation's economy.
Macroeconomic Advisers, a forecasting firm, calculates that economic damage could shave between 0.3 and 1.2 percentage points off the nation's economic growth in the July-September quarter. The economy had been expected to grow at an annual rate of about 3 percent from July through September.
Also Thursday, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said he would release 500,000 barrels of crude oil from an emergency stockpile in a bid to prevent gasoline prices from spiking in the wake of disruptions caused by Harvey.
As the floodwaters dropped, Houston public schools pushed back the start of classes by two weeks because of Harvey. The nation's seventh-largest school district had been scheduled to open Monday, but classes will now resume Sept. 11.
Although it has been downgraded to a tropical depression, Harvey was still expected to dump heavy rain on parts of Louisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky through Friday. Forecast totals ranged from 4 to 8 inches (10 to 20 centimeters), with some places possibly getting up to a foot.
For much of the Houston area, the rain had passed. But with temperatures likely to climb in to the low 90s over the weekend, residents were warned about the dangers of heat exhaustion, especially for people who lost power or must toil outdoors.
Houston's two major airports were slowly resuming full service. Limited bus and light rail service had also been restored, as well as trash pickup.
Harvey initially came ashore as a Category 4 hurricane in Texas on Friday, then went back out to sea and lingered off the coast as a tropical storm for days, inundating flood-prone Houston.
Harvey's five straight days of rain totaled close to 52 inches, the heaviest tropical downpour ever recorded in the continental U.S.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 31, 2017 Categories Breaking News, Extreme WeatherTags Rescuers start block-by-block search of flooded Houston
Live Updates: Blasts at Plant in Crosby, Texas, Underscore Worries About Storm Damage
A series of small explosions shook a chemical plant northeast of Houston on Thursday and more blasts were expected, after floodwaters shut down the cooling systems that kept the chemicals stable. It was one of a host of new dangers emerging in the aftermath of Harvey, once a Category 4 hurricane, as floodwaters receded in many Houston neighborhoods and the storm moved through northeastern Louisiana and into Mississippi.
In a region dotted with chemical factories, oil refineries, natural gas plants, and other potential sources of combustion and toxins, the explosions at the Arkema plant near Crosby, Tex., underscore the worries that many people have about the lingering dangers that damage from the storm, which was downgraded to a tropical depression on Wednesday night, poses to the region's infrastructure, economy and health.
It appeared that the health and safety risk from the plant was limited; Houston Methodist San Jacinto hospital in Baytown treated 21 first responders for chemical exposure, decontaminating them and then discharging them. The area within 1.5 miles of the plant was evacuated, but it is sparsely populated.
The plant produces chemicals called organic peroxides, and Rich Rennard, an Arkema executive, said that smoke from the blasts was "noxious," an irritant to the lungs, eyes and possibly skin, but he would not say whether it could be called toxic. A total of eight containers at the plant lost refrigeration and can be expected to detonate as the chemicals in them decompose, officials said, but they could not predict how soon others would explode.
In Beaumont, about 70 miles east-northeast of Houston, flooding shut down the system that supplies running water to the entire city on Thursday, prompting a hospital to evacuate. With most roads in and out of the area under water, and the Neches River still rising, federal officials are trying to get enough bottled water into Beaumont to prevent a health crisis.
In Houston, officials ordered mandatory evacuation of areas around the Barker Reservoir, as flooding from that overwhelmed basin, and the nearby Addicks Reservoir, continued to pour into neighborhoods on the city's western edge. In other parts of the city, floodwaters receded, exposing countless losses and new hazards, like ruined and abandoned vehicles blocking roads, damaged electrical systems, and mold.
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Local officials said there were at least 38 deaths in Texas so far that were related or suspected to be related to the storm. Officials throughout southeast Texas said they were prepared for that number to inch higher as floodwaters began to recede.
Vice President Mike Pence and other cabinet officials were visiting the Corpus Christi, Tex., area on Thursday to meet with storm survivors.
President Trump plans to donate $1 million of his own money to help storm victims in Texas and Louisiana, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said on Thursday afternoon.
Tom Bossert, the White House official spearheading the administration's response to the storm, on Thursday estimated that 100,000 houses in Texas and Louisiana have been damaged or destroyed — and said Mr. Trump will seek billions in aid in the coming weeks.
More than 30,000 people remained in shelters in the region, and Houston fire officials said they would begin the painstaking search of homes in the city to make sure no one was left behind. The process could take up to two weeks. "The shelter mission is the biggest battle that we have right now," said Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FEMA also reported that 95,745 people in Texas have been approved for emergency assistance, which includes financial help with rent, repairs and lost property. The agency has so far disbursed about $57 million to citizens in Texas.
The police in Houston rescued 18 people overnight, Mayor Sylvester Turner said on Twitter on Thursday morning. The mayor also said there had been no arrests or citations for breaking the city's curfew for the second night in a row.
What went wrong at the chemical plant?
The plant's owner, Arkema, said the site had been without power since Sunday and the water was six feet deep in some areas. But the organic peroxides stored there need to be refrigerated or they become unstable. With a storage warehouse warming up, the crew transferred the chemicals to diesel-powered refrigerated trailers.
Then the backup generators designed to keep refrigeration units operating were flooded as well. The units apparently warmed to the point where the chemicals exploded overnight.
The chemicals, which are used in making plastic and other materials, start to decompose as they warm, which creates more heat and can quickly lead to a rapid, explosive reaction. Some organic peroxides also produce flammable vapors as they decompose.
Mr. Rennard said that Arkema employees had no plans to enter the site until the water had significantly receded, given the instability of the chemicals there. The blasts were not expected to affect chemicals in other parts of the plant, he said, and the company was able to monitor the status of the containers remotely.
"We're not going to put anyone in harm's way to try to restore refrigeration," he said.
Pence: 'The American people are with you.'
Vice President Mike Pence and several cabinet officials arrived to a sunny, hot and humid Corpus Christi, Tex., around midday on Thursday before heading to nearby Rockport to speak with victims of the storm.
"The American people are with you," he told a crowd in Rockport, outside a church that was damaged by the storm. "We are here today, we will be here tomorrow and we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before."
About 21,000 federal workers have been mobilized in response to the storm and Congress is expected to debate passage of a multibillion-dollar emergency aid package in the coming weeks.
Mr. Pence said that he had spoken with Mr. Trump by phone from Air Force Two earlier in the day and asked if he had any words for survivors of the storm. "He just said 'Just tell them we love Texas,'" Mr. Pence said.
Mr. Trump, who visited the area earlier in the week, is expected to return to Texas on Saturday. Mr. Pence was joined in Texas by the secretaries of homeland security, energy, transportation, veterans affairs and labor.
Beaumont is running out of water, and a hospital is evacuating.
With a record-breaking flood sweeping through Beaumont, taps there ran dry Thursday morning, and officials there said they could not predict when homes and businesses in the city of almost 120,000 residents would have running water again.
The city manager, Kyle Hayes, said at a midday news conference that he would not be able to assess flood damage to the city's water pumps, or give a timeline for fixing them, until water began to recede, which he said would happen no earlier than Saturday. He added that the city was working on setting up bottled water distribution centers.
Lack of drinking water poses a survival risk for people trapped in the city, and Mr. Long, in his morning update, said that it was of particular concern to FEMA, which would look to distribute water. But Harvey dropped 47 inches of rain in the Beaumont-Port Arthur area, and most roads into the cities remain impassable, making relief shipments of bottled water difficult.
Executives at Baptist Beaumont Hospital decided to evacuate because of the water shutdown. The hospital began to transport most of its 193 patients by ambulance and helicopter to hospitals outside the city, and to discharge those who could safely go home, said Mary Poole, a hospital spokeswoman.
Christus Southeast Texas-St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont decided not to evacuate, but until the city water supply resumes, it will only admit new patients who need critical or emergency care. The hospital, which has 256 patients, told nonessential employees not to report for work.
Beaumont's water comes from two pumping plants, a primary one on the Neches River, and a secondary one drawing from wells north of the city, Mr. Hayes said. But both were inundated, and by Thursday morning, the pumps were out of action. The Beaumont Police Department posted pictures of the flooded main pumping station on its Facebook account.
City officials made it clear that Beaumont was in the early stages of dealing with the flooding, and did not provide details of the number of dead, or how many people had been rescued or were in shelters.
Our reporter Rick Rojas is in Beaumont, his hometown. Read more about his journey home here.
'So much despair,' one evacuee says.
At the George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston's main shelter, evacuees have been learning of deaths from social media and from watching news reports on an enormous projection screen.
"Part of me wants to just break down crying because it's so much despair," said Billy Cartwright, a construction worker who has been staying at the convention center since Monday. "I feel pretty grateful, but part of me's pretty sad. It's pretty bad."
Mr. Cartwright, 44, said he believed he had lost all of his possessions to the flood.
"I try to think that when all of this passes, just like any other tragedy, America always bounces back," he said.
The flooding threat has not passed.
The rain continued across the far eastern part of Texas and the western part of Louisiana on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service, even as the storm lost power as it moved northeast.
Flash flood warnings were in effect in East Texas, the lower Mississippi Valley and in the western parts of the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys, where the storm was expected to spread over the next several days. Some rivers in southeastern Texas remained at record levels Thursday — some were still rising and setting more records — as the deluge made its way downstream, and swollen reservoirs released some water into streams.
Near the Louisiana border, the Neches River at Beaumont rose on Thursday to more than five feet above its previous record — more than 14 feet above flood stage — and it was projected to keep rising through Friday. Beaumont has received about 47.35 inches of rain since the storm first arrived.
At two flood gauges in the suburbs west of Houston, the Buffalo Bayou remained two to three feet above the old record for the fourth straight day, nine to 11 feet above flood stage, and it was not expected to drop for several days. Southwest of Houston, the Brazos River at Richmond broke its flooding record on Thursday, reaching 10 feet above flood stage, and was not expected to crest until Friday.
A Houston school district delays reopening as Austin offers help.
After initially saying schools would open on Tuesday, Sept. 5, the Houston Independent School District announced Thursday that classes would not resume until Monday, Sept. 11. Superintendent Richard Carranza said more than 10 percent of the city's schools sustained water damage or had lost power.
Families have reported that they lost hundreds of dollars' worth of new school supplies and clothing in the storm. The district also announced, via Twitter, that uniform rules would be relaxed through January. Houston public school students will have access to three free meals per day, regardless of family income, for the duration of the 2017-2018 school year.
Also on Thursday, officials in Austin announced plans to open their classrooms to potentially hundreds of displaced students whose families have fled there to move in with relatives or seek refuge in shelters.
"We want them to know we have their back," Mayor Steve Adler said. "They're welcome in our town and there is a place for them in our schools."
School officials have been circulating through shelters to advise families from storm-battered southeast Texas that their children will be able to enroll in Austin schools as early as this week, said Paul Cruz, superintendent of the Austin Independent School District.
At least 100 students staying in the shelters have signaled their interest in attending. The students are also being invited to attend any of the district's Friday night football games, he said.
Port Aransas is trying to get back on its feet.
When 120 m.p.h. winds lashed this beach town where Hurricane Harvey made landfall, they smashed some things and spared others. Houses were pushed off their foundations, while shacks next door were spared. Big trees stood as small trees toppled.
At Spanky's Liquor on the main street, the windows shattered, the walls collapsed. "The roof? It's about 100 feet that way," the owner, Tom Hamilton, said as he paused from sweeping the pieces and pointed toward a house with a boat capsized against the porch and a surfboard lodged in a tree.
But miraculously, nearly every bottle of liquor was still intact on the shelves, now standing under an open sky.
On Wednesday — the first full day Mr. Hamilton had been allowed back to his store — a crew of employees packed boxes of bottles in the sun.
Like many on the island, Mr. Hamilton and his staff were beginning the long, often quiet ordeal of loss and recovery. Christy Lambert pulled out her phone to find a photo of her home in Aransas Pass, just across the bay. There was nothing left but a single kitchen wall. Most of her possessions had blown away.
"When I saw it, I cried, I cried for hours," said Ms. Lambert, who fled the storm and returned Monday.
"I don't really have anything but a few things I packed and $40," she said. "It's going to be hard to come back from that, but as long as I can keep working, I'll be O.K."
Legal aid lawyers are preparing for more cases.
Lawyers for the poor in Texas are expecting more cases in the wake of the storm, on matters including the denial of disaster relief claims by FEMA and landlord-tenant disputes.
David Hall, executive director of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, said his office, which is based in Austin, expects to handle an additional 15,000 client matters this year, on top of the 20,000 to 25,000 client cases it usually opens each year, and to field a 1,000 calls a day related to damage.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 31, 2017 Categories Breaking News, Extreme Weather, VolcanoesTags live updates blasts at plant in crosby texas underscore worries about storm damage, Live Updates: Blasts at Plant in Crosby, Texas, Underscore Worries About Storm Damage
Live Updates : Waters Still Rising as Storm Pummels Region for 6th Day
With rivers still rising, and emergency workers still rescuing soaked and frightened people in southeast Texas who have lost nearly all they own, officials counseled patience on Tuesday, warning that conditions for many residents will not improve any time soon.
The slow-moving, record-shattering Harvey, now a tropical storm, pummeled the Houston region for a sixth straight day and began to batter southwest Louisiana. With hundreds of thousands of people under evacuation orders, shelters filled to bursting with people who craved some news about the safety of their loved ones and the state of their homes.
For now, the city's focus "will continue to be on rescue," and not on damage assessment — much less recovery — Mayor Sylvester Turner said at a news conference.
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The National Weather Service said Tuesday that Harvey has now set a record for total rainfall from a single tropical cyclone in the continental United States, with two weather stations in Texas reporting total rainfall over 48 inches.
Local officials said there were 13 deaths in Texas so far that were storm-related or suspected to be storm-related. Officials in Houston confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Sgt. Steve Perez, 60, died while driving to duty on Sunday.
The Houston Police Department has rescued more than 3,500 people from flooding since the storm began, Chief Art Acevedo said on Tuesday, up from about 2,000 a day earlier. The city fire chief, Samuel Peña, said his department had performed more than 400 rescues. The Harris County Sheriff's Office did not have an updated figure on Tuesday, but said it was considerably higher than the roughly 2,200 rescues it reported on Monday.
President Trump is visiting Texas, having arrived in Corpus Christi before traveling to Austin, the state capital.
More rain is expected through Friday.
Parts of Houston have already been inundated by more than 40 inches, and totals could exceed 50 inches there and 20 inches in southern Louisiana. With sustained winds near 45 miles per hour, the storm is not expected to weaken until its center moves further inland early Wednesday.
As for the record rainfall, a station at Clear Creek, near Interstate 45 southeast of Houston, measured 48.64 inches of rain since Harvey began, and one at Mary's Creek in Pearland, a suburb, recorded 49.32 inches. The amount of 48.00 inches was recorded in Medina, Tex., during Amelia, a tropical storm in 1978.
Weather service officials noted that storm is not over and that those numbers may soon surpass the overall United States record for total rainfall from a single cyclone. In Hawaii during Hurricane Hiki in 1950, 52.00 inches of rain were recorded at a ranger station on Kauai.
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Trump visits Texas.
Mr. Trump arrived in Corpus Christi on Tuesday for a briefing on relief efforts, and then headed to Austin for a tour of an emergency operations center and a briefing with state leaders.
"It's a real team, and we want to do it better than ever before," Mr. Trump said of the response effort during a meeting with officials from local, state and federal agencies in a Corpus Christi firehouse. "We want to be looked at in five years, in 10 years from now as, this is the way to do it." Read more about his visit here.
A Houston officer died trying to get to work.
Officials confirmed on Tuesday afternoon that Sgt. Steve Perez, of the Houston Police Department, died in floodwaters Sunday on his way to work.
Mr. Perez, 60, left his home around 4 a.m. on Sunday and spent at least 2.5 hours trying to make his way to work, Chief Art Acevedo said. After having not heard from Sergeant Perez, officials began searching for him on Monday. A dive team found his body early Tuesday morning,
"Unfortunately, in the darkness, Sergeant Perez drove onto an underpass," Chief Acevedo said.
Long lines formed outside Houston's main shelter.
In the early afternoon on Tuesday, scores of people waited under occasional raindrops, hoping to enter the George R. Brown Convention Center, where more than 9,000 people had been taken in. A pile of wet American Red Cross blankets sat near the end of one line, where most people waited quietly.
On Sunday and Monday, evacuees had been able to enter the sprawling complex with few, if any, delays. The convention center was far thicker with people on Tuesday and, it appeared, more organized.
But there were some signs that the shelter was growing more strained. Some people set up bedding in the main corridor — an area that had been mostly empty a day earlier — and said they had moved from the increasingly crowded main dormitory.
Nathan Malbrue, who was sitting on the edge of an inflatable mattress, said he was not bothered by the growing crowd. He said he was in the hallway, near a medical station, because of a heart condition. "Just bring everybody in," he said. "This is a big building."
But Cora Watson, 58, feared that the convention center would be overwhelmed. "Move them to hotels or something," she said, her voice barely audible.
A levee breach threatens a village near Houston.
A levee designed to protect the community of Columbia Lakes, 40 miles southwest of Houston, from the Brazos River was breached Tuesday morning, Brazoria County officials said.
Columbia Lakes is a small resort village with a country club and golf course, and is surrounded by levees. Residents were ordered to "GET OUT NOW!!" according to a Twitter message, although many had already left after a mandatory evacuation order was issued Sunday.
Tom MacNeil, an owner of a real estate brokerage in the town, said that residents who were still there told him the breach occurred in a levee alongside a creek that flows into the Brazos. Because the Brazos is rising, the creek backed up and poured through two low spots on the levee. The residents shored up the low spots and there was no water in the streets, Mr. MacNeil said.
But the National Weather Service has forecast that the Brazos, currently just above flood stage at 30 feet, will rise another few feet by Wednesday and go over the levees, which are at 32 feet.
"That's the scary part we're watching for," Mr. MacNeil said.
Reservoirs are reaching their capacity in Houston, too.
Water rose to the top of an emergency spillway at a major flood-control reservoir west of downtown Houston on Tuesday morning, threatening to add to flooding in the area.
Levels at the Addicks reservoir dam read slightly more than 108 feet, the height at which water should overtop the spillway at the dam's northern end. But officials said observers had so far seen no sign of water going over the structure.
"We do expect it to happen," said Mike Sterling, lead water manager for Army Corp of Engineers' Southwest Division. Efforts to release water through the dam's gates have not kept the reservoir level from rising.
Mr. Sterling said that most of the overflow should enter drainage ditches and eventually flow into Buffalo Bayou, which passes through downtown Houston. But rising water is putting several neighborhoods north of the reservoir, including Twin Lakes, Eldridge Park and Tanner Heights, at risk of more flooding.
Levels at another nearby reservoir, Barker, are increasing as well and its spillway may overtop soon, Corps officials say.
And in a cruel paradox, the city also has to worry about having enough water. Houston's Northeast Water Purification Plant, one of three plants that supply water to the city, is flooded. While the system is still working, even with much of its equipment underwater, city officials are worried about their ability to keep it running.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 29, 2017 Categories Breaking News, Extreme WeatherTags live updates waters still rising as storm pummels region for 6th day, Waters Still Rising as Storm Pummels Region for 6th Day
After Harvey, Two More Tropical Storms, Irma And Jose, Aren't Far Behind
Hurricane Harvey continues to cause widespread flooding and damages across Southeast Texas and Louisiana, and before the system has a chance to move on, two more tropical systems are brewing.
The next possible tropical storm is off the coast of North Carolina and what the National Hurricane Center is currently calling "Potential Tropical Storm Ten."
Harvey was able to rapidly intensify into a Category 4 hurricane because it moved across exceptionally warm waters and experienced no wind shear.
The storm system on the East Coast has more of an uphill battle. The warmer waters are there, but there's a lot of shear, which could rip the storm apart before it has a chance to form.
Current forecast models give the storm about a 50-50 chance to become Tropical Storm Irma. Whether it forms or not, North Carolina are still under tropical storm warnings and can expect heavy rain and gusty winds.
Another system, currently referred to as Invest 93L, is just off the coast of Africa, and that storm could become Tropical Storm Jose before the end of the week.
Invest 93L has become better organized in the past day or so, and it keeps growing and intensifying as it moves across the Atlantic.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 29, 2017 Categories Breaking NewsTags After Harvey, after harvey two more tropical storms irma and jose arent far behind, aren't far behind, Irma and Jose, two more tropical storms
Large Storm To Remain Offshore Of Atlantic Canada, Three-Metre Swells Expected
HALIFAX – The Canadian Hurricane Centre says a large storm system that's tracking towards Atlantic Canada is expected to remain well offshore, but up to three-metre swells are expected in some areas of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.
Forecasters say it is now less likely that potential tropical cyclone ten will become the season's next named storm — Irma — as it has not organized itself and is struggling to become a tropical storm.
But it is nevertheless expected to develop into an intense post-tropical or extra-tropical system as it tracks northeastward across southern Canadian waters on Wednesday and Thursday.
Most of the rain and strongest winds are expected to remain offshore, but some rain and gusty northeast winds could brush Nova Scotia and southeastern Newfoundland on Thursday.
Up to three metre swells are also expected on those provinces' southern coasts on Thursday.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 29, 2017 Categories Extreme WeatherTags Large storm to remain offshore of Atlantic Canada, large storm to remain offshore of atlantic canada three metre swells expected, three-metre swells expected
NASA Sees Sanvu Strengthen To A Tropical Storm
Tropical Depression Sanvu has strengthened into a tropical storm in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean and NASA's Aqua satellite gathered temperature data on the storm's cloud tops using infrared light.
The Atmospheric Infrared or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on Tropical Storm Sanvu Aug. 29 at 0335 UTC (Aug. 28 at 11:35 p.m. EDT). Infrared data provides temperature information to scientists. Cloud top temperatures are an important factor when it comes to determining the strength of storms. The higher the cloud tops, the colder and the stronger the storms.
The image showed that the area of coldest cloud tops had expanded since the previous day. Coldest temperatures were as cold as or colder than minus 63 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 53 degrees Celsius). Those storms were around the center of circulation and in a thick feeder band of thunderstorms extending southwest of the center. NASA research has shown that storms with cloud tops that cold, reached high into the troposphere and had the ability to generate heavy rain. The image did reveal that the tropical storm was being affected by southwesterly vertical wind shear as clouds are being pushed northeast of the center.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC) on Aug. 28 the center of Sanvu was located near 24.4 degrees north latitude and 146.5 degrees east longitude. That puts Sanvu's center about 315 nautical miles east of Iwo To Island, Japan. Maximum sustained winds were near 45 knots (51.7 mph/83.3 kph). Sanvu was moving to the north-northwest at 15 knots (17.2 mph/27.7 kph).
The Joint Typhoon Warning Center expects Sanvu to move in a northeasterly direction and intensify to typhoon status by Aug. 31, before weakening again.
Author Mitch BattrosPosted on August 29, 2017 Categories Extreme WeatherTags NASA sees Sanvu strengthen to a tropical storm
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On This Date, October 23rd in 1972: Filming began for the British film That'll Be the Day, a coming of age story set in the late 50s / early 60s starring David Essex (of "Rock On" fame) and Ringo Starr, with Keith Moon in a memorable, drum playing cameo. That'll Be the Day is a fairly bleak look at life in post-war Britain and, more importantly, the central character, Jim (David Essex) isn't a very nice guy. But if you're a fan of The Beatles, this film is a fascinating re-creation of the environment in which they and the entire British Invasion came of age. Of further interest to fans of The Beatles and The Who, the film is somewhat based on the early life of John Lennon, and Pete Townshend wrote the song "Long Live Rock" for the soundtrack. That'll Be the Day has never been released on DVD but you can stream it online if you subscribe to Netflix. The story moves a little slowly, but it is worth checking out.
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The Mysterious E says:
Had no idea this existed. What would I do without your online news source?
Geoffrey says:
Honestly never knew this existed either!!!! I think the Mysterious E and I can have a viewing party.
Jeff Schneidewind says:
Yeah, this is a great tip – I've seen Stardust, with Essex playing Jim Maclaine again, many times, including a few at the old Balboa Theater, but I've never even heard of this. Stardust also features Keith Moon plus Dave Edmunds as members of Maclaine's rocker band "The Stray Cats," and former teen idol Adam Faith as their manager. Was Stardust a sequel to "That'll Be the Day"? Sounds like almost the same story, but I should stop blathering and watch the movie. Thanks again!
GailPink says:
Hey Jeff, Thanks for the comment. Yes, "Stardust" is a sequel to "That'll Be The Day." Can't find "Stardust" on DVD though and it's not available for streaming on Netflix! Bummer! — G


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The Progress of the Gospel in the Book of Acts
By Doug Enick - November 27, 2017
The book of Acts follows the progress of the gospel from the time of our Lord's resurrection and ascension, which occurred in a.d. 30, to the time that Paul reached Rome as a prisoner in about a.d. 60. The first twelve chapters follow the ministry of Peter; the remaining chapters follow the ministry of Paul.
Jesus himself provides us with an overview of the progress of the gospel in geographical terms in 1:8 when he says to the twelve: "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." This is how the book unfolds, by recounting the witness of the apostles:
In Jerusalem: chaps. 1-7
In Judea and Samaria: chaps. 8-9
To the ends of the earth: chaps. 10-28
This geographical progression roughly corresponds to an ethnic progression of the gospel.
In Jerusalem: chaps. 1-7 Jews In Judea and Samaria: chaps. 8-9 Half-Jews To the ends of the earth: chaps. 10-28 Non-Jews
We unders…
The Providence of God
In the book of First Samuel, when we're first introduced to Saul, whom the Lord had chosen to become Israel's first king, we find a remarkable instance of God's providence.
Saul was the son of a wealthy man named Kish. As it happened, Kish's donkeys wandered off, and he sent his son to go find them. After three days of searching without success, Saul determined to return home, lest his father cease to be worried about the donkeys and begin to worry about his son. But Saul's servant advised that since they were so near to Ramah, the city of the prophet Samuel, they ought to consult him to see if he could divine the location of the missing donkeys. This is where the curtain is pulled back for just a moment and we're allowed a glimpse of the secret working of God. The day before Saul arrived in Ramah, the Lord had said to Samuel, "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel" (9:16).
Did you catch it? It's n…
The Copernican Revolution and Man's place in the Universe
In a previous post we noted the conventional wisdom that posits an eternal conflict between Christianity and science, a narrative made plausible only by a selective reading of the historical evidence.
One of the many subplots of this narrative is the Columbus and the Flat Earth Myth. The truth is that virtually no educated person in Columbus' day believed the earth was flat—not leaders in church or state, not university professors, and probably not even the average medieval serf plowing the field of his lord.
Another subplot focuses on the supposedly catastrophic consequences of the Copernican Revolution for the Christian faith. Prior to the 16th century nearly everyone took for granted that the earth lay at the center of the universe, a view known as geocentrism. This certainly seemed obvious enough. After all, do we not see the sun, moon, and stars move across the sky? What could be more obvious than the fact that the heavenly bodies circle a stationary earth?
The ancient astronomer…
The Curious Case of Jephthah's Daughter
By Doug Enick - October 30, 2017
What exactly did Jephthah do to his daughter? The usual—but by no means universal—view is that he literally sacrificed her (i.e., slit her throat and burned her on an altar). This seems to be the implication of the text.
Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, "Whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."
Then Jephthah came to his home in Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances… And [he] did with her according to his vow that he had made (Judges 11:31, 34, 39)
If he did indeed put her to death and burn her on the altar, then the episode is a tragic illustration of the morally chaotic period of the Judges. But I don't think this is what Jephthah did. In the first place, in a variety of ways Jephthah showed himself to be a faithful man. He committed the outcome of his campaign against the Ammonites to the Lord's providenc…
Columbus and The Flat Earth Myth: Washington Irving's "Mischievous Nonsense"
By Doug Enick - August 03, 2017
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He took three ships with him, too, And called aboard his faithful crew. Mighty, strong and brave was he As he sailed across the open sea. Some people still thought the world was flat! Can you even image that?
- A traditional child's poem -
In a recent post we remarked that conventional wisdom assumes a perpetual conflict between Christianity and science—perpetual and inevitable—because the two are inherently irreconcilable.[1] The history of science is said to be the history of the emancipation of the human race from the ignorance and superstition foisted upon society by two millennia of Christian teaching by obscurantist clergy who suppressed (sometimes violently) discoveries that undermined the view of the world as depicted in the Bible.
John William Draper, for example, accused the Catholic Church of "ferociously suppressing by the stake and the sword every attempt at progress."[2] This idea of the violent persecution of sc…
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Burhanettin Muz (born 15 April 1939) is a Turkish diplomat and poet.

He graduated from Ankara Atatürk High School and Ankara University Faculty of Law. He started to work at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1961.

He served as Turkey's ambassador to Algeria from 1995 to 1999. Apart from his duty as an ambassador, he served as the consul general of Karlsruhe between 1986 and 1990 and the consul general of Geneva between 2001 and 2003.

He also served as a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Inspection Board between 1999-2001 and 2003–2004.

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Living people
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Direct sellers dream of a DVD Christmas
Just like the ones they never knew
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Despite the heat of summer, direct PC vendors are already preparing their Christmas campaigns. Q4 this year is likely to be particularly busy in the consumer market as PCs with DVD drives will be widely available for the first time. DVD drives - despite being labelled as "gimmicky" by a number of retailers - are set to appeal to consumer users that want to be first with everything, and are expected to boost sales. Walthamstow-based direct vendor Simply Computers is hiring 20 new sales staff, and created a dedicated sales unit for small businesses as it prepares for high consumer demand for DVD-drive PCs. "Within the next six to nine months the CD-ROM drive will disappear and be replaced by DVD drives on new PCs," said Simply Computers product manager Mark Abery. "DVD drives will then sell at the same price that CD-ROMs did." Simply Computers is issuing its small business customers a separate phone number to order, fearing that phone lines might be swamped by consumer customers in Q4. It also claims that 10 per cent of its total sales are done end-to-end over the Internet. Also gearing up is Time Computers, which is mid-way through a three-week national TV advertising campaign. The campaign, the second by Time, aims to build brand awareness before the consumer-buying season begins. National sales manager Colin Silcock said that the vendor - which also has nationwide showrooms - would use focus groups to see if the adverts worked before deciding on whether to continue with TV advertising.


Is your child planning to take the SAT in the coming months? Here's how you can help them to be as ready as possible for this all-important academic challenge.
Taking the SAT is a major stepping stone in a student's path toward college. It's a long, complicated test that requires intensive preparation for months ahead of time. If this sounds like a lot for a single student to take on alone, you're probably hoping that you, as a parent, can do something to help. Here are our top six suggestions for ways you can help your child prepare for the SAT.
As studious and motivated as your child might be, there are some things that he or she can't easily study alone. This is where you come in as the patient, supportive, in-house study buddy. (Note that these are qualities that can't always be found in study buddies who are friends or classmates.) For example, you can go over common SAT vocabulary words, check the accuracy of a math problem, or evaluate a sample essay. All of these activities will be tremendously helpful during your child's test preparation process.
One of the more challenging parts of the SAT is the reading comprehension section, which requires students to read different types of texts and understand the vocabulary within them as well as the text's arguments, main ideas, themes, and writing style. To help prepare your child for the reading section of the SAT, consider helping him or her find and parse through an assortment of different types of writing. Some options include historical texts, literature from around the world, and scientific papers, even legal documents.
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Sometimes, studying alone or with mom and dad just doesn't cut it. If that's the case with your child, consider finding and hiring an SAT tutor. After all, succeeding on the SAT is a very specific skill that isn't as connected to general knowledge, intelligence, or understanding as one might expect. The best way to get a good score is to work with somebody who has expert knowledge about what it takes to get that good score on the SAT. Whether you choose to spring for weekly meetings or just a session or two before the big day, an SAT tutor will be a major help.
It's easy to get lost and overwhelmed when preparing for the SAT, so one effective way for parents to support their children is to help them keep track of their schedules. While having your child be responsible for his or her time management can be an educational opportunity, remember that the major focus should be on the test itself. As such, you can help your test-taker create and track his or her long-term schedule, including signing up for the test, preparing for the test, taking a practice test, taking the actual test, and, if necessary, retaking the test. You can also help to keep your child on track on the day of the test, ensuring that he or she gets to the testing center on time.
The final, and perhaps most important, thing you can do for your child during the SAT preparation process is just to be there. SAT season can be a stressful, overwhelming time for adolescents, and sometimes they just need somebody to talk to or a shoulder to cry on. Check in with your child and provide emotional support as needed. Nothing will make your child happier than a special treat from you during this time of intense pressure.
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// Licensed under the MIT License.

using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Azure.Communication.Identity;
using Azure.Core;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace Azure.Communication.Chat.Tests.samples
{
    public partial class Sample2_MessagingOperations : ChatSampleBase
    {
        // This sample demonstrates the messaging operations that can be performed on a thread: send, get, update, delete, typing notifications and readreceipts
        [Test]
        public async Task SendGetUpdateDeleteMessagesSendNotificationReadReceiptsAsync()
        {
            CommunicationIdentityClient communicationIdentityClient = new CommunicationIdentityClient(TestEnvironment.ConnectionString);
            Response<CommunicationUserIdentifier> threadMember = await communicationIdentityClient.CreateUserAsync();
            AccessToken communicationUserToken = await communicationIdentityClient.GetTokenAsync(threadMember.Value, new[] { CommunicationTokenScope.Chat });
            string userToken = communicationUserToken.Token;
            string theadCreatorMemberId = threadMember.Value.Id;

            ChatClient chatClient = new ChatClient(
                TestEnvironment.Endpoint,
                new CommunicationTokenCredential(userToken));

            var chatParticipant = new ChatParticipant(new CommunicationUserIdentifier(theadCreatorMemberId))
            {
                DisplayName = "UserDisplayName",
                ShareHistoryTime = DateTimeOffset.MinValue
            };
            CreateChatThreadResult createChatThreadResult = await chatClient.CreateChatThreadAsync(topic: "Hello world!", participants: new[] { chatParticipant });
            ChatThreadClient chatThreadClient = chatClient.GetChatThreadClient(createChatThreadResult.ChatThread.Id);

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_SendMessage
            SendChatMessageResult sendChatMessageResult = await chatThreadClient.SendMessageAsync(content:"hello world");
            var messageId = sendChatMessageResult.Id;
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_SendMessage

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetMessage
            ChatMessage chatMessage = await chatThreadClient.GetMessageAsync(messageId);
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetMessage

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetMessages
            AsyncPageable<ChatMessage> allMessages = chatThreadClient.GetMessagesAsync();
            await foreach (ChatMessage message in allMessages)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"{message.Id}:{message.Content.Message}");
            }
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetMessages

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_UpdateMessage
            await chatThreadClient.UpdateMessageAsync(messageId, "updated message content");
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_UpdateMessage

            //Note : Due to the async nature of the storage, moving coverage to CI tests
            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_SendReadReceipt
            //@@await chatThreadClient.SendReadReceiptAsync(messageId);
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_SendReadReceipt

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetReadReceipts
            AsyncPageable<ChatMessageReadReceipt> allReadReceipts = chatThreadClient.GetReadReceiptsAsync();
            await foreach (ChatMessageReadReceipt readReceipt in allReadReceipts)
            {
                Console.WriteLine($"{readReceipt.ChatMessageId}:{((CommunicationUserIdentifier)readReceipt.Sender).Id}:{readReceipt.ReadOn}");
            }
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_GetReadReceipts

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_DeleteMessage
            await chatThreadClient.DeleteMessageAsync(messageId);
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_DeleteMessage

            #region Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_SendTypingNotification
            await chatThreadClient.SendTypingNotificationAsync();
            #endregion Snippet:Azure_Communication_Chat_Tests_Samples_SendTypingNotification

            await chatClient.DeleteChatThreadAsync(chatThreadClient.Id);
        }
    }
}

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