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After 2015, NDP Must Reject Mulcair, Notley and Embrace True Progressive Leadership
2015 will undoubtedly go down in history as a disastrous year for Canada's New Democrats. A series of events, followed by selective blunders on the part of the Party, damaged the federal NDP to an extent that it may not be possible to salvage the Party going forward – at least not as presently constituted.
It all started with Bill C-51. The NDP's initial hesitancy and waffling saw it cede the moral high ground on opposing the bill to the Green Party. Ultimately – and likely after being shown the way by focus groups – the NDP decided to oppose the bill, which proved to be the right decision with its base, and with a growing number of Canadians. But it was during those dark days when the Green Party stood alone against Bill C-51 that the NDP's credibility took a hit, leaving many of its base scratching their heads with regards to just where their party stood on important, progressive issues.
This would be a pattern which played itself out again and again throughout 2015, right up until NDP leader Tom Mulcair took a strong, principled position on the niqab during the election period – a position with many have suggested cost him the election. Personally, I'm not so sure that the niqab was what lost the NDP the election. Instead, the NDP's lack of clarity on important issues of the day appeared to cast a longer shadow with Canadian voters looking for progressive change. Liberal leader Justin Trudeau was able to articulate specific promises for action in a way that Mulcair never did – and on election day, Trudeau was awarded with a majority government, while Mulcair's NDP lost more than half their seats and went back to third party status.
The Victorious Alberta NDP
Things really started to go wrong for the NDP in May, when Rachel Notley's provincial NDP won an unexpected victory in Alberta. Yes – you read that correctly: Notley's majority government victory will likely prove to be one of the significant nails in the coffin of the federal NDP, going forward. Here's why.
Notley's NDP government probably faces some of the most significant challenges that any provincial government is facing at this time, or any other in Canada's history. After 4 decades of Progressive Conservative rule, Albertans were looking for an alternative – and a slim majority of them turned to Notely and the NDP. This slim majority – just a little over 40% of 54% of voters who bothered to vote – ended up handing the NDP a majority government – but one facing incredible economic challenges unparalleled in Alberta's history.
To succeed, Notley has the almost impossible task of steering an economy powered by non-renewable resources, while simultaneously implementing progressive policies which ought to transform Alberta into a more progressive society. Much more likely, Notley's NDP government will enter the pantheon of one-term failures, taking its place beside Ontario's NDP government under Bob Rae. As the Alberta NDP's failure unfolds in slow motion over the next 3 or 4 years, it is likely to tank support for the federal NDP, especially if Notley's ideological soul-mate, Tom Mulcair, stays at the helm, as he said he will.
NDP In the Back Seat on Climate Change
At the end of 2016, Alberta may be the only jurisdiction in federation led by a New Democrat. What happens in Alberta matters to Canada, and to New Democrats in a way that other provincial efforts in Manitoba or Nova Scotia don't or never did. Notley's party is supposed to the play the role of the shiny new government on the hill – a veritable beacon for progressivism. It's already not playing itself out that way, and by this I'm not referring to the death threats she's receiving from idiot right-wing partisans over Notley's desire to provide better safety for agricultural workers.
With a growing concern among Canadians about climate change, and with the Liberals at least starting a discussion about what Canada is going to do to lower our greenhouse gas emissions, New Democrats are increasingly taking a back seat. No – change that. The NDP has long taken a back-seat on climate change, much to its shame and discredit.
Climate change was yet another issue that NDP leader Tom Mulcair refused to allow himself to be pinned down on during the federal election. New Democrats in Alberta and the west were advocating building more pipelines, while those in Quebec appeared to be against that approach. Mulcair appeared to be endorsing this confusion during the campaign, by saying different things in different parts of the country (see: "Thomas Mulcair walking a fine cross-country line on Energy East," the Globe and Mail, July 16, 2015). At the end of the day, though, the NDP's evolving policy position landed on tentative support for the Energy East and Trans Mountain pipeline, as long as the NEB review process was reformed to take into consideration climate impacts. In short, the NDP adopted the position which Justin Trudeau had been articulating for months.
Alberta NDP's Plan to Fight Climate Change By Expanding the Tar Sands
Notley has been a much more enthusiastic supporter of building pipelines and expanding the tar sands (see: "Notley wows business leaders with pro-oilsands speech," the Calgary Herald, July 8, 2015). The centrepiece of her so-called climate change initiative, unveiled after the federal general election, and just before COP 21 in Paris, will see greenhouse gas emissions from the tar sands continue to rise for the next 15 years until they are roughly 43% higher than today (see: "Notley's climate change marketing triumph," the Globe and Mail, November 24, 2015). Simply put, this means that Alberta will remain on-target to expand the tar sands industrial enterprise, climate be damned.
Of course, this initiative was spun as a climate-positive – "Oh look – Alberta is going to put a cap on tar sands production", but this cap will do little good to help meet Canada's short and medium term emissions targets – and those targets are likely to get even more stringent under Trudeau and Environment and Climate Change Minister, Catherine McKenna – especially if the Liberals are as serious as they appear to be about holding warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
While Notley's NDP are proposing to do some good in the struggle against climate change, by putting a rising price on carbon emissions and eventually closing coal plants - measures which should have been undertaken before now - the overall plan only appears to be progressive in the context of the woeful efforts made by every other province. Ultimately, Alberta's NDP has provided the tar sands with a license to pollute, and the potential environmental cover to lobby for the bitumen pipelines will be needed to ship product from the expanded enterprise. And you can bet that the NDP will not be revisiting this weak effort for the remainder of their mandate – unless it's to backslide in a manner that we've seen from Christy Clark's Liberals in B.C.
A Pro-Pipeline NDP Has No Future in a Climate-Conscious Canada
I don't believe that a pro-pipeline, tar sands-expanding NDP has much of a future in Canada – particularly if the federal Liberals and their counterparts in Ontario and Quebec really do get serious about tackling climate change. And although I'm not holding my breath that the Liberals will actually will do that (see: "Sudbury Column: Trudeau is no climate champion," Steve May, the Sudbury Star, October 24, 2015), it looks like the best outcome for the NDP would be to find itself on the same page as the Liberals are with regards to climate change, and that's hardly the sort of leadership that progressive Canadians are looking for.
Make no mistake. Since Harper's government went down in flames this past October, climate change has been one of the biggest stories of our times. #COP21 in Paris clearly had a little something to do with that – but the energy and momentum which has been built up around this issue over the past few months isn't likely to dissipate. Throughout 2016, climate change will continue to make political headlines, as Trudeau and provincial leaders meet to hammer out a process for an agreement this spring, which will no doubt remain in the headlines until some of the details get sketched in. Kathleen Wynne's government will be telling Ontarians the specifics around their #OnClimate plan, and we can expect the issue to remain front and centre for other provincial governments as well.
And of course, south of the border, we may very well see climate change become one of several defining election issues, especially if Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gets the nod from the Democratic Party. Since most of the Republican Party's front runners refuse to acknowledge the reality of climate change or outwardly call it a "hoax" as Donald Trump has (see: "6 of Donald Trump's most outrageous tweets on climate change," EcoWatch, December 19, 2015), we can expect the Democrats, especially under Sanders, to make hay with the scientific ignorance of the Republican leadership. I can't think of any better way of keeping climate change front and centre in our news media than an all-out war between Presidential candidates over whether climate change actually exists. Elsewhere, the war between the know-nothings and those who believe in reality was fought years ago, with predictable results. While many Conservatives in Canada may be keen to use Trump or Cruz to re-fight that war here at home, a significant majority of Canadians already understand that the climate is changing, and most of them want our governments to do something about it.
Whither Tom Mulcair on Climate Change?
Which takes us back to the NDP, and Rachel Notley and Tom Mulcair. Both Notley and Mulcair are clearly standing in the way of the sort of progressive and aggressive positioning that the NDP ought to be taking on climate change. As an example, over the past few months, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May – the leader of a party with but one seat in the House – was all over the national media, talking about climate change and equity. Admittedly, May is a bit of a niche expert on the subject in a way that no other elected MP in the nation is. But I heard from many progressives, and couldn't help but wonder myself – just where was Tom Mulcair? Ultimately, he showed up in Paris with the multi-party delegation put together by Trudeau – but his and his party's contribution to the national dialogue on climate change was missing in action.
Today, Mulcair says that one of the things the NDP will be doing going forward is to hold Justin Trudeau's feet to the fire on climate change (see; "How Tom Mulcair plans on opposing Trudeau's Liberals," Maclean's, December 22, 2015). Just how the NDP plan to do that when their own party is largely in agreement with where the Liberals are today is unclear. Going forward, it may very well be that the Liberals in government end up completely outflanking the NDP on climate change. The Liberals have a lot of room to maneuver on climate at this point, as they've not even begun to form a national plan. The NDP, on the other hand, have very little room to move their party on this issue, thanks to Rachel Notley's NDP government sitting on top of what's been called North America's "carbon bomb".
Any policy changes which the rank and file NDP might be thinking of calling for which would end up offending the sensibilities of Albertans are likely to be no-go's for the federal party. Divesting public sector pension funds of tar sands stocks? Not likely. Slow down pipeline approvals? Only until climate is built into their review, but then it's full steam ahead. A moratorium on tar sands development? No way. Allocating provincial carbon budgets? Not going to happen.
At one time, the NDP occupied the moral high ground on climate change. The Climate ChangeAccountability Act, first introduced by the NDP in 2006, would have established what were at that time considered to be very aggressive emissions reductions targets. Unfortunately, the NDP hasn't moved at all since then, and has failed to develop anything resembling a plan on how Canada can achieve those targets. By sitting still on climate change, they've been overtaken by the Liberals. And like World War II convoys, since the NDP can only move as quickly as its slowest component – in this case, Rachel Notley – it's not likely at all that they'll be able to play catch up.
That is unless the NDP takes drastic action. And they might just do that.
Time for the NDP to Get Serious About Climate Change
Already, discussions inside the Party have percolated out to the public. One of the matters being raised as a concern for the federal Party is just how closely the federal and provincial parties are tied to one another. The NDP is the only political party in Canada which requires its members to join both the federal and provincial parties when they're buying a membership. If you want to be a New Democrat in Alberta, you're going to have to be a federal member too. And although the various parties like to claim that they are independent from one another, this multiple membership practice really does bring the provincial and federal elements of the NDP together in such a way that it stretches credibility to suggest that true independence exists.
For the federal NDP to regain the moral high ground on climate change, and to reduce the future impacts of guilt by association, they're going to need to sever their ties with Notley's sinking ship. Severance itself might not go far enough – outright repudiation may be necessary. Repudiation is, in fact, just what Canada needs right now, because Canada's largest emitter, the province of Alberta, has locked itself in to an emissions "reduction" strategy which continues to condemn Canada to rising emissions, or forces the other provinces to pick up the slack in a way that may seriously damage their economies.
Purging Tony Blair
Jettisoning Notley will give the federal NDP the room that it needs to get serious about embracing a carbon neutral economy. But she's not the only one that will have to go: NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is clearly not cut out for the job of leading the NDP away from it's mush-middle, focus-grouped populism. Under Mulcair, the NDP has lost its principles. This was entirely evident throughout the recent election: Mulciar ran on a platform of not running deficits, effectively eliminating opportunities for fiscal flexibility and setting his government up for Jean Chretien-style cuts. The non-position on climate change, coupled with lacklustre opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership found voters scratching their heads in wonderment about just what the NDP actually stood for. And of course, who can forget the Party sinking its own candidates because they had dared question Canada's unwavering support for Israel, or spoke about the reality of having to leave fossil resources in the ground?
To a significant degree, Margaret Thatcher-loving Tom Mulcair owns these mistakes, from which he can't escape. As long as he leads his Party, he holds it hostage. Mulcair remains more Tony Blair than Bernie Sanders – and it's the latter that Canada needs a lot more of, and the former we could use a little less of (after all, we already have one Justin Trudeau!).
Why Should Orange Listen to a Partisan Green?
It may be easy for readers to brush this critique aside. After all, I'm not a New Democrat, and I am instead invested in another political party. Further, I have always been tough on the NDP in a way that I have not been on the Liberals – although I have always acknowledged that toughness and explained to my readers that it's because I have largely given up hope on the Liberals and can't be bothered wasting much time with them, whereas I continue to believe that a strong NDP is in Canada's interests – if the NDP could become more like the Green Party.
Partisanship aside, it's hard to deny where the future is heading – and I am certain than many of my New Democratic friends experience some unease with the direction that their Party has been taking lately. Just as other left-wing political parties are starting to find the courage to denounce Blair-ism (see: Jeremy Corbynn in the UK, and Bernie Sanders in the US), Tom Mulcair's vow to stay the course and lead the NDP into the 2019 election must create a feeling of unease – one which will assuredly grow as Notley's New Democrats continue to wither.
B.C. and Ontario may offer some optimism, but again provincial NDP leaders in those two provinces may find that they are unable to offer voters a principled, progressive vision. Ontario might be the better bet for New Democrats, as Kathleen Wynne's Liberals are doing everything that they can to make themselves the most hated government in Canada. But if NDP leader Andrea Horwarth fails again to articulate a cohesive vision to voters, Ontario could find itself with a new PC government in 2018.
In British Columbia, the NDP will be face a minor challenge from the BC Green Party on its flank – a position that will undoubtedly make BC NDP leader John Horgan contort like a pretzel, which could sink his chances for the Premier's chair just as Adrian Dix before him was sunk. Horgan and Horwarth are part of the NDP old guard anyway – they're browns at a time when greens are coming into style.
I believe, though, that unless the federal NDP ditches Tom Mulcair and opts for a new, progressive voice – say a Linda McQuaig or a Naomi Klein – come 2020, New Democrats will look back at 2015 in order to pinpoint when everything went wrong for their party. In 2016, however, rank and file NDP will have a chance to right their sinking ship through a leadership review. Let's hope they're up to the challenge, because Canada needs a principled New Democratic Party at this time in our history.
(opinions expressed in this blog are my own and should not be interpreted as being consistent with the Green Parties of Ontario and Canada)
Get Ready for a Global Transformation
The Paris climate summit went into overtime last weekend, but the results were worth the wait. Just about every national government on Earth put their names to a binding agreement to limit global warming to 2 degrees C.
Canada, for a change, helped break down barriers between nations by championing a 1.5 degree C target, which ultimately worked its way into the agreement as an aspirational goal.
Appropriately, Canada's delegation to Paris included First Nation and municipal leaders. First Nation communities, especially those in northern regions, are finding that they are on the front lines of climate impacts. Municipalities are discovering that, like it or not, they're going to be the ones to do much of the heavy lifting to limit warming.
Climate models consistently show that northern regions are the most vulnerable to climate impacts. Globally, we've already experienced average warming of almost 1 degree C since pre-industrial times, but that warming hasn't been uniform throughout the Earth's climate system.
#ONclimate, Ontario's Climate Change Strategy, released by the provincial government shortly before the Paris climate summit, estimates that Northern Ontario could see a rise in average winter temperature of 4 to 9 degrees C by 2050.
Indigenous peoples living in Ontario's north are already feeling the effects of a warmer world. Warmer winters mean a shortened season for ice roads that many First Nation communities rely on for the transport of goods.
With more moisture in the air, severe weather events such as ice storms are expected to become more frequent. Melting permafrost in the Hudson Bay Lowlands - one of the world's largest wetlands - could alter significant northern ecosystems and release a considerable amount of new greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, exacerbating the crisis.
Although the international community agreed to limit warming between 2 and 1.5 degrees in Paris, we don't yet have a road map to get us there. When international commitments to limit warming were plugged into computer modelling before the Paris talks, it was found that the world was on a path of approximately 2.7 degrees C of warming by the end of the century (see: "INDC's lower warming to 2.7 degrees: significant progress, but still above 2 degrees C," climateprogresstracker.org, October 1, 2015.)
Clearly, nations like Canada, which promised only a 30 per cent reduction in emissions from 2005 levels by 2030, have lacked the ambition required for success.
If Canada is to demonstrate a serious willingness to limit warming to the 1.5 degrees our government championed in Paris, it will require embracing system-wide changes impacting governments, businesses and the economy. Pricing carbon pollution and prohibiting new fossil development in the tar sands won't be enough. We'll need to electrify our transportation and home heating systems, while aggressively pursuing energy conservation.
This task should not scare Canadians. Instead, we should embrace this challenge as an opportunity to create a healthier, more prosperous society. A serious commitment to reduce warming will lead to job creation, as we undertake the task of retrofitting our energy and transportation systems and our built environment.
In this emerging environment, cities are strategically positioned to be leaders. Ontario's transportation sector is responsible for 35 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and our buildings account for an additional 19 per cent. Complete communities that encourage transit, walking and cycling, and built at higher densities, use scarce resources more efficiently.
Cities are already finding that low-carbon, people-centred communities are driving local economies in a way that suburban sprawl never did.
Our vulnerable northern communities are counting on global action in line with the Paris agreement. If we are serious about limiting warming to 1.5 degrees C, the world we'll create by 2050 won't be recognizable to us today.
Originally published in the Sudbury Star as "Sudbury Column: We must be part of transformation," on December 19, 2015 - without hyperlinks.
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Beg Buttons in Downtown Sudbury Bad News for Pedestrians
This may be problematic. Right now, at most downtown Sudbury intersections, pedestrian crossing signals are activated automatically when the lights change. This set-up is generally a good one for pedestrians, as there's no need to go hunting for a button to push before crossing. Buttons can be difficult to locate, or located in areas which aren't accessible for all pedestrians.
However, it seems that "beg buttons" are starting to pop in places where they've never been before, including Elgin and Ste. Anne Road, and most recently at Elgin and Elm Street. If this is the City's response to the recent rash of pedestrian collisions, many of which have happened in the downtown especially on Elgin Street - this is the wrong response.
Beg buttons make it more difficult for pedestrians - and easier for vehicular traffic. Besides issues of accessibility, what often happens with traffic flow is that a higher volume street will experience a longer duration for traffic - unless and until a beg button is activated by a pedestrian (see: "How 'Push-to-Walk' reduces the quality of walkable neighbourhoods," Transitized, December 30, 2012). Higher volume flow tends to mean greater rates of speed - which is something that our downtown certainly doesn't need more of, especially along Elm Street.
All of the good work that the recent Elm Street pilot parking project has accomplished could be wiped out by making the pedestrian environment along Elm and Elgin less friendly at the expense of moving motorized vehicles through the downtown more quickly. Of course, the City's Roads staff have always been opposed to allowing on-street parking on Elm Street, out of concern that it would affect the flow of traffic. A recent report showed that traffic in fact has been slowed travelling through this corridor - albeit only by about 24 seconds. That's not nearly enough to have had a significant impact on Elm Street, in my opinion - it's still one of the least desirable streets for pedestrians in our core, although it has been getting a little better.
It may be that these Beg Buttons are showing up now because Roads staff are concerned that pedestrians aren't obeying traffic signals in the downtown core. If you make someone press a button to cross the road, chances are they're going to wait for a signal that they themselves just activated. But as far as safety goes, Beg Buttons just don't cut it, because ultimately they end up frustrating pedestrians who then in anger often cross intersections against signals (see: "Letter to Stephen Buckley, General Manager, City of Toronto," Walk Toronto, January 20, 2015).
Rather than focusing on making traffic flow more quickly through our downtown, we ought to be focusing on making our downtown community more pedestrian-friendly. From a safety perspective, that makes sense - and it makes sense from an economic perspective as well, as pedestrians tend to spend more money in our downtowns that people travelling through them to get to other destinations.
Progressive jurisdictions are moving away from Beg Buttons. As a citizen and taxpayer in Greater Sudbury, I can't help but wonder why it is that we are seeing new Beg Buttons installed in our downtown core.
(opinions expressed in this blogpost are my own and should not be considered consistent with the policies and positions of the Green Parties of Ontario and Canada).
Thanks to Sudbury Move's Matt Alexander for much of the local information contained in this post. You can find Sudbury Moves on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCojhHCoETabtq_BHO39H2pQ
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John is "Moving On" to his own apartment!
Born in Augusta, Georgia and raised in the Bronx, John is the oldest of eight children.
After high school, John held various jobs including: caterer, grounds keeper and nursing assistant, among others. These jobs took John through East Coast states like Maryland, South Carolina, and Georgia during the 80s, 90s. He settling in New York in the early 2000s.
While living in Hunt's Point, John's building was condemned without warning following the landlord being convicted of drug charges.
John was never able to retrieve his belongings and was homeless for the next two years.
During this time John couch-surfed with family while falling into a deeper depression that he had been able to manage before becoming homeless. As his depression worsened, John's drinking and drug use increased. Over the next two years, John migrated back through various East Coast states staying with family and friends.
In 2013 John entered a Bronx Works program and stayed there for two years fighting depression and drug and alcohol addiction until his supervisor suggested detox.
In 2015 John entered detox, and says those next 31 days were the best of his life. They led to him quitting drugs and alcohol for good.
After finishing detox, John came to Urban Pathways. During that time he enrolled in and graduated from the six-month Howie The Harp peer advocate program. John continues to be drug and alcohol free, living at an Urban Pathways' supportive housing residence, Cluster House on the Upper West Side. John is now a certified peer specialist working at The Bridge: a treatment center for individuals recovering from alcohol and drug abuse; as well as mental illness.
John will be moving into his own condo in Parkchester later this month as part of Urban Pathways Moving On Initiative.
Learn more about John's pathway to independent housing through Urban Pathways at this year's Way Home Awards & Gala on May 10th at 6pm.
Answering the calls to action from City and State, New Yorkers gather to support Urban Pathways Benefit to End Homelessness.
On Thursday May 5th, New Yorkers came together for an evening of hope and opportunity.
New York, NY May 5th – On Thursday, May 5 supporters, influencers, and ambassadors for the cause of ending homelessness came together for an evening of hope and opportunity at Urban Pathways' annual fundraising gala and silent auction.
For the first time, Urban Pathways held an online silent auction that began a week before the gala and ended at the close of the event. During cocktail hour, attendees had the opportunity to see the online auction items in person and continue their bidding's throughout the night.
During the dinner portion of the gala, guests watched a public service announcement on homelessness by author, philanthropist and Urban Pathways supporter Paco Underhill as well as a moving short film titled "The Keys" featuring Urban Pathways clients whose lives have been changed for the better by the organization.
Guests listened to speeches by Urban Pathways CEO Fred Shack, President Emeritus of Urban Pathways Board of Directors Gary Belsky, current President Keith Berger, supporter Paco Underhill and Gloria Montes; a client and Army veteran.
The night was capped off with Urban Pathways clients from the short film "The Keys" accepting a standing ovation from guests. Auctioneer CK Swett, closed the evening live auctioning a vintage bottle of champagne as well as tickets to the 16 Tony Award nominee Hamilton.
Please join the hundreds of supporters who attended Urban Pathways gala in helping us end homelessness in New York City. The problem of homelessness is becoming pandemic. Currently in New York City, there are more than 60,000 homeless individuals living in city streets and shelters--a number that is over 90% higher than it was 10 years ago. As the weather gets warmer, these numbers will rise.
Urban Pathways looks to raise awareness and the critical funding to meet their goal to end homelessness by the end of the decade, including growing their existing residential portfolio by 1,000 units and expanding programs and services for homeless New Yorkers.
My name is Edward, i am a Veteran and Urban Pathways saved my life.
Edward is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps.
My name is Edward; I am a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. I served 2 tours in Vietnam before being honorably discharged. For 28 years I was a pharmaceutical representative in Connecticut until I was laid off.
Hearing of job openings in New York City, I came down to interview but was never hired.
Unemployed and living with PTSD, my wife and I could no longer afford rent and started sleeping on the streets.
After staying at a local shelter we were put in touch with Urban Pathways. I applied for housing at Urban Pathways permanent housing; Clinton Avenue Apartments and was accepted.
My Urban Pathways case manager has helped me find a place to live, get my VA benefits and he involves me in various programs such as: wellness and self management services, financial literacy, and job training opportunities that help reintegrate me into the community.
Please support Urban Pathways in creating a society in which homeless individuals and veterans like me can begin their journey toward stability and self-sufficiency.


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Global Kinetics get USFDA 510 (k) approval for Parkinson's-treating smartwatch
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Australian biotechnology company Global Kinetics Corporation has received the 510 (k) marketing clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its second-generation PKG Watch aimed at assisting patients suffering from Parkinson's disease.
The watch is being developed to record movement symptoms of Parkinson's and provides medication reminders, and helps in making assessments about response to medication.
It has been developed on the basis of extensive feedback from users of the previous-generation PKG, and the FDA's clearance is said to support Global Kinetics' aggressive expansion into new product and service offers that will meet the needs of the global Parkinson's community.
The new second-generation PKG Watch is smaller and compact in size with a water resistant enclosure, including mobile charging and data handling capacity. The PKG Watch has a touch sensitive backlit screen with haptic and visual feedback.
Though the second-generation PKG Watch is pending CE Mark regulatory approval in the European Union, the device will be available in the US in late September 2016.
Healthcare is one of the most interesting areas for the potential of wearable technology to thrive – and Global Kinetics is far from the first company to target the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, a US-based biomedical technology firm, and startup XEED are separately working on similar technologies, as this publication has previously explored.

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The Stimulus: A Down Payment on a Green Future
Pretty soon, Kermit the Frog is going to need a new song to sing. I'm not saying it's easy being green. But it's getting easier.
As part of the $787 billion stimulus package that President Obama just signed, the federal government will be investing about $60 billion in clean energy, environmental projects, and scientific research.
Gene Karpinski, head of the League of Conservation Voters, calls it "by far the biggest investment in new green technologies that we've ever seen from the federal government."
This is a huge step forward for America. The twin crises of economic collapse and ecological devastation have proven that the old, pollution-based economy has failed both the people and the planet. The 'green' money in the stimulus package is a down payment on a clean, green economy that will serve both the people and the planet.
Check out some of the details:
$11 billion for the creation of a smart energy grid
$8.4 billion for public transit
$6.3 billion for state and local energy efficiency grants
$6 billion for the cleanup of contaminated Department of Defense sites
$4.5 billion to green federal buildings
$1.2 billion for the EPA's cleanup programs
Plus, the final version of the bill eliminates the loan guarantees the Senate had included for nuclear and so-called clean coal technology development -- false environmental 'solutions' that would have made matters worse, not better.
It's an especially exciting moment for me and my colleagues at Green For All, the Apollo Alliance, the Workforce Alliance and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. The stimulus includes $500 million for green jobs training -- funding we've been trying to get for two years. That means that the recovery package won't just stimulate the green economy. It will also make sure that the green economy includes pathways out of poverty for low-income people and people of color.
If only the billions that went to tax cuts had been used for even more green investments! Then Kermit would have had to completely rewrite that song.
© 2009 Huffington Post
Van Jones, President of Rebuild the Dream, and author of the new book Rebuild the Dream. Jones was the founder and former president of Green for All and author of The Green Collar Economy. In 2009, he served as the green jobs advisor in the Obama White House. Van is currently a senior fellow at the Center For American Progress, and also holds a joint appointment at Princeton University, as a distinguished visiting fellow in both the Center for African American Studies and in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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Naval Intelligence — Agents of Change
By 1861, America's military traditions were already well established. When America needed an armed force, it recruited one. When the United States no longer needed an armed force, they disbanded it. In the minds of our founding fathers, there was no reason to maintain a standing military force. Why? Because in the experience of American colonists, the British used its standing army to enforce tyrannical edicts from the Parliament.[1]
By 1875, a decade after the end of the American Civil War, the United States Navy had deteriorated due to the neglect of Congress and the Navy's senior leadership. The Navy's ships were rusting away, its officers had grown apathetic and unprofessional, and (when compared to the other significant navies of the world — Britain, France, Russia, Japan) the US Navy appeared in last place. It took the United States government another five years to realize that the condition of the Navy demanded a national discussion. One of the young officers to lead this discussion was Lieutenant Theodorus B. M. Mason. He was one of the Navy's early agents of change.
Born in New York in 1848, Theodorus came from a distinguished family. His father was a prominent attorney and a former colonel in the U. S. Army during the Civil War. His uncle was Rear Admiral Theodorus Baily. He adopted Mason's surname in deference to his maternal grandfather Sidney, who had no male heirs to carry on the family name.
Mason graduated from the U. S. Naval Academy in 1868. He was known for his intellect, his linguistic ability, and his foresight. After serving with the Navy's hydrographic office, he traveled extensively in Europe and South America as a naval observer charged with collecting information about foreign navies.[2] Mason knew what information was available and how to obtain it. He recognized that for the U. S. Navy to compete with foreign navies, the United States would have to develop capacities in naval science and technology. Mason became convinced that the U. S. Navy would require a unified intelligence agency to gather, analyze, catalog, and disseminate foreign naval developments to achieve modernization.
From the report, Mason wrote of his travels and discoveries, William H. Hunt, the Secretary of the Navy, on 23 March 1882, directed the establishment of the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) with the Bureau of Navigation.[3] Hunt appointed Mason as its first director. Mason assumed his new post, Chief Intelligence Officer, in June 1882. The Navy assigned him to a small office in what was once known as the State, War, and Navy Building, which is now the Old Executive Office Building.
Initially, the heads of the various sections of the Bureau of Navigation paid Mason little mind. He was a comparatively junior officer, a lieutenant, and the ONI was a fledgling undertaking. However, Mason began providing information that the various bureaus could use to justify the funds needed to expand and modernize the Navy.
His primary work, however, may not seem like much of an accomplishment today. Titled Information from Abroad: The War on the Pacific Coast of South America Between Chile and the Allied Republics of Peru and Bolivia, 1879-81, Mason's work in 1883 was little more than a chronology of events incorporating his and the observations of other naval officers on a singular event. After 77 pages, Mason concluded, "Since the fall of Lima, there has been no battle of importance; many skirmishes have taken place between portions of the army of occupation and small bodies of Peruvians. There has also been a large amount of diplomatic maneuvering, which, although belonging to history, conveys no lesson of value to the naval or military student."
The Navy transferred Lieutenant Mason to other duties three years later, replacing him with Lieutenant Raymond P. Rodgers in April 1885. In January 1894, the Navy promoted Mason to lieutenant commander and retired him due to ill-health in December.
It wasn't until 1916 when Congress authorized the first significant expansion of ONI, an increase in funding to support domestic security operations in advance of World War I. Two years into the war, Congress was finally convinced that someone should be looking after America's ports, harbors, and defense plants. Germany, by then, had embarked on a significant spying operation in the United States, and subversion and sabotage had become a valid concern. ONI worked closely with the Departments of State, War, Justice, Commerce, and Labor to help prevent unauthorized disclosure of sensitive defense information. The number of ONI agents employed to accomplish such a feat was undoubtedly substantial.
ONI agents continued their counter-intelligence investigations throughout World War II — a mission assigned to its Special Activities Branch. ONI also expanded its efforts to discover critical intelligence on German submarine operations, tactics, and technologies. Most of this information came from interrogations of captured German submariners. Within this period, ONI produced thousands of ship and aircraft recognition manuals for front-line forces. Also initiated during this period was a sophisticated photo-interpretation effort and a related topographical model section that aided in the planning for combat operations by amphibious planners of the Navy, Army, and Marine Corps. ONI also established two schools for the training of fleet intelligence officers.
In 1945, the Navy began hiring civilian scientists and technologists to guide advancements in a wide range of fields. The Sound Surveillance System, acoustic intelligence, the Navy Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center, and the Navy Reconnaissance and Technical Support Center came from this effort.
In 1946, ONI established the Office of Operational Intelligence. This particular office inherited the mission of the Navy's Combat Intelligence Division, created by Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King during World War II. Its "Special Section," known as Y1, evolved from the Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean area (JICPOA) that successfully operated against the Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War.
After World War II (faced with ongoing budget cuts), the ONI returned to its somewhat abbreviated peacetime mission. This changed with the beginning of the Korean War in 1950. ONI began a significant buildup of special agents whose principal mission was the security of Naval facilities and personnel and criminal investigations involving Navy and Marine Corps personnel.
In 1957, ONI incorporated a signals intelligence effort under the Navy's Field Operational Intelligence section. This group provided real-time information about the disposition of foreign naval and military forces during the Cold War.
In 1966, a special investigative unit was formed and named the Naval Investigative Service (NIS). NIS became the primary investigative agency of the Department of the Navy for counter-intelligence and criminal activities. In 1982, NIS assumed responsibility for the Navy's Law Enforcement and Physical Security mission. Following the Beirut bombing in 1983, NIS established the Navy Anti-terrorist Alert Center. One notable employee of ATAC was a civilian analyst named Jonathan Pollard, convicted of spying for Israel in 1987. Pollard was released from prison in 2015 and now lives in Israel.
Following the so-called "Tailhook Scandal" in 1991 (with pressure from the Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee (Senator Sam Nunn)), the Naval Investigative Service was re-named Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). It concurrently became a federal law enforcement agency under civilian leadership within the Department of the Navy.
Post-Cold War
Between 1988-93, ONI joined the U. S. Coast Guard Intelligence Coordination Center and the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity supporting domestic maritime and expeditionary and littoral intelligence collection missions. This newest facility is called the National Maritime Intelligence Center. In 2009, the Chief of Naval Operations directed the transformation of ONI into a major naval command which included four subordinate components: scientific and technical intelligence, operational intelligence, information services technology, and expeditionary/special warfare intelligence support.
The Navy's intelligence mission is evolving, providing critical support to national and global governments and industrial partners. In 2016, the "Information Warfare Community," which operates under the supervision of the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, became the Navy's primary conduit for global information systems. Its primary function is command and control systems, battlespace and adversary management, and power projection. It is an effort that employs around 52,000 military, civilian, and civilian contract employees in warfare, cryptographic, meteorological, and oceanographic disciplines. Today, there are five separate organizations within the Office of Naval Intelligence: The Nimitz Operation Intelligence Center, Farragut Technical Analysis Center, Kennedy Irregular Warfare Center, Hopper Information Services Center, and the Brooks Center for Maritime Engagement.
The Office of Naval Intelligence is not without its critics, however. Those who suspect the existence of a "deep state" within the U. S. government point to former ONI officer Robert Woodward and his journalistic sidekick Carl Bernstein as willing participants of a deep-state plot organized to bring down President Richard Nixon in the so-called Watergate Affair. If true, it may have been the first time that manufactured materials targeted high-ranking US officials. Such accusations are easier made than proved, which goes to the secrecy of official intelligence operations and ONI's long involvement in domestic spying operations.
Giving some credence to the concerns of "deep state" theorists, in the aftermath of President Biden's disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Director of Naval Intelligence recently warned active duty and retired military personnel that any criticism made by them toward the President of the United States, Vice President, cabinet officials, and members of congress may subject them to court-martial proceedings for violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), and a warning to civilian employees that they may be censored pursuant to Department of Defense Instruction 1344.10. It is enough to cause one to wonder how far the role of ONI now extends into matters of America's Constitutional guarantee of expressing personal opinions.
I have no answers.
O'Brien, P. P. British, and American Naval Power: Politics and Policy, 1900-1936. Greenwood, 1998.
"Our Heritage," The Office of Naval Intelligence online.
[1] After the revolutionary war, Congress disbanded America's land and naval forces. At the end of World War I, the United States demobilized the US armed forces. President Truman ordered the demobilization of the armed forces in 1946. Truman saw the error of his ways in late June 1950 when the United States came within a hair's width of being physically thrown off the Korean Peninsula.
[2] Hydrographic is the study and process of measuring the physical characteristics of waters and marginal land
[3] Secretary Hunt served only briefly as Secretary of the Navy, under President James Garfield. His one enduring achievement, beyond creating the ONI, was a Naval Advisory Board, which he tasked with reviewing and evaluating suggestions for rebuilding the U. S. Navy. It wasn't until 1915 that Secretary Josephus Daniels established a permanent advisory board — a suggestion by famed inventor Thomas A. Edison.
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Over $57M in NJ student loan debt canceled in Navient settlement
Erin Vogt
Erin Vogt Published: January 13, 2022
(Navient via Facebook)
New Jersey student loan borrowers are in line to receive over $60 million in relief from a settlement with Navient Corp., Acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck and the state Division of Consumer Affairs announced on Thursday.
The $57.2 million in debt relief and $3.1 million in restitution payments to New Jersey borrowers — plus $3 million payment to the state — is part of a $1.85 billion nationwide settlement.
It resolves a 2020 lawsuit filed against the student loan servicing giant and its subsidiary, Navient Solutions for alleged predatory behavior.
The state had accused Navient of deceptive conduct, unconscionable commercial practices and misrepresentation in servicing thousands of New Jersey consumers' student loans over a decade.
Debt cancellation will benefit about 2,040 New Jersey borrowers, while another 11,522 New Jersey borrowers will receive restitution payments of roughly $260 each, under terms of the settlement, pending court approval.
Nationwide, Navient will cancel more than $1.7 billion in subprime private student loans owed by about 66,000 borrowers, while also paying $95 million in restitution to about 350,000 consumers.
Navient, formerly known as Sallie Mae, was one of the nation's largest servicers of both federal and private student loans, until partially exiting the business in September 2021.
In the settlement, Navient expressly denies violating any law, including consumer-protection laws, or causing borrower harm, according to the company's own written release.
Who's getting payments
Consumers do not need to take any action to receive the benefits.
Anyone receiving private loan debt cancellation will be notified by Navient, and they will also be refunded any payments made after June of last year.
Navient said the loan debt to be canceled would be among "certain qualifying private education loans that were originated largely between 2002 and 2010 and later defaulted and charged off," according to its own release on Wednesday.
Those eligible for restitution payment will automatically receive a check from the Attorney General's settlement administrator, later this year.
Federal loan borrowers who may be eligible are urged to update contact information in their online account.
Additional information is at the settlement website.
"Too many New Jerseyans have struggled to pay off their student loans," Bruck said in a written statement. "And too many of those borrowers have had a harder time because their student loan servicer put corporate profits above their best interests."
More than 44 million people across the country have taken out student loans, as the average cost of tuition and expenses from a four-year college or university rosen about eight times as fast as the average wage, between 1986 and 2016.
Total student loan debt is now estimated at more than $1.75 trillion nationwide.
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The average New Jersey borrower carries $35,730 in student debt, according to the state attorney general's office, among the highest in the country.
"With today's settlement, we are holding one of the country's largest student loan servicers accountable, and we are putting millions of dollars back in our residents' pockets," Bruck said.
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Foster carers open up about their 'rewarding roles' to help find children in care forever homes
By Vanessa Sims @MrsVanessaSims Editor
CARER: Terri Forbes has urged other families to consider taking in foster children
FOSTER carers in Barrow and Dalton have shared their experiences in a bid to urge others to step forward and help kids in need of a family.
As part of a foster carer recruitment campaign, Cumbria County Council is keen to highlight the different types of fostering.
Terri Forbes from Dalton has fostered for 20 years and specialises in 'parent and child' fostering - helping a parent to care for their child by passing on her own parenting skills and helping them to develop theirs.
She said: "I wanted to make a difference to children's lives. I really enjoy it and I couldn't imagine myself doing anything else." She said she started foster caring as "it meant that I could work from home as I have three other children, and so I didn't have to get time off work when it came to the school holidays."
Helen Guibert is a short term foster carer, who looks after pre-school age children. Short term foster carers can have children placed with them for anything from a few weeks to two years. "It is a deeply rewarding job," she said.
"To be able to offer children an actual childhood is amazing and I would say to everyone who is considering it to just go for it."
Alex Finnie is a long term foster carer who has looked after 18-year old Liam since he was 10.
She said: "It is the best job in the world and I don't know why more people don't do it.
"It is such a rewarding job and if you have a spare room, you can do it."
If you would like more information about fostering see cumbria.gov.uk/fostering or call 0303 333 1216.
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Slate Green Challenge
Welcome to the Slate Green Challenge
Your eight-week carbon diet.
By Meaghan O'Neill
Oct 23, 200611:56 AM
There's no longer any real doubt about it: Global warming is happening. The average temperature of the Earth's surface has risen about 1 degree Fahrenheit over the past hundred years, and overwhelming evidence suggests that most of the increase is due to greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide released by humans. Though a 1-degree increase might not seem like much, even a small rise in global temperature significantly changes the climate, potentially resulting in major storms and droughts, disruption of the food supply, and the catastrophic spread of disease.
Human carbon-dioxide emissions come mainly from two sources: burning fossil fuels and changes in land use, such as deforestation. Americans are the climate's worst enemy. On average, each of us is responsible for about 22 tons of carbon-dioxide emissions every year, according to the United Nations, compared with an average of six tons per person throughout the rest of the world. That means the typical U.S citizen emits the equivalent of four cars.
Much of the discussion around climate change involves national and international policy—should the United States sign the Kyoto Treaty or increase auto efficiency standards? But even without major political or legislative changes, there's a lot that concerned individuals can do to make the problem better. To that end, we've created the Slate Green Challenge—a straightforward program to evaluate and reduce your carbon emissions between now and the end of the year.
For the next eight weeks, Slate, in collaboration with eco-Web site treehugger, invites you to consider your own individual contribution to global warming—and challenges you to go on a carbon diet. The goal is to reduce the amount of CO2 that you put into the atmosphere by 20 percent. If you're a carbon glutton who doesn't bother to turn off the lights when you leave the house, you may find this diet pretty painless. (And just think of the fringe benefits—lower heating bills, poorer oil barons.) But even if you're already a svelte recycler or a carpooler, there's a lot more you can do.
Start here by taking this initial quiz to determine your current carbon output. This is like weighing yourself at the beginning of a diet. Then, go straight to the first segment, which asks you to assess your transportation-related emissions and suggests ways to reduce them. Then, come back every week between now and Dec. 11 for the other units we've developed on such subjects as food, clothing, electricity, and holiday shopping.
You'll always take a short quiz, which will point you to a series of "action items"—things you can do to reduce your carbon output. It's only a few hundred pounds here and there, but it adds up. Once you've registered, we'll keep track of the carbon pounds that you lose from week to week, following up with reminders and additional tips while the program continues. We'll also keep track of how much we've lost collectively, shooting for that 20-percent reduction overall. Don't worry if you've missed the launch date; you can get started at any point by taking the initial quiz. And please, spread the word.
If you succeed in losing the full 20 percent, you will be eligible for two rewards. The first is a free Slate/treehugger Green Challenge T-shirt, brought to you by our friends at I'm Organic, which the first 500 people to complete the challenge will receive. The other is the knowledge that you've trimmed down to help the planet.
(Click here to start the Slate Green Challenge.)


Anyone else have this issue? running windows 10. Only using 1/4 of ram.
Close the program, open your task manager/processes and check if any part of Solidworks is still running and close that.
It happens to me occasionally, when Solidworks doesn't close down correctly.
Makes sense to do that, but I'm trying to avoid doing that. It's obviously a software problem that should be solvavble.
Available window resources typically refers to GDI objects and/or USER Objects rather than ram (you can check in task manager by adding columns for GDI and USER objects.
. It is typically seen when you have alot of windows open and is a limit imposed by Microsoft, however this can be changed in the windows registry, best to talk to your IT support on that before going ahead, but i've never had any issues after raising the limit on my last couple of systems.
I get that all the time on the system that I have that's running Windows 10 & 24GB of memory with only a couple of windows open. I can use the system at work that has Windows 7 on it & have 3 different cad programs plus email & browser all open at once & never had an issue.
Ah i didn't know that about windows 10 i'll have to look on a system with that on to see the process now.
However That does sound odd if you can't see a reason for it I would definately consult your VAR, as Leszek says you can modify the registry keys (with IT approval and the usual disclaimers about modifying the registry) but the course seems unusual.
I can see one issue unique to Windows 10 and SOLIDWORKS, this is to do with the 3d Connexion LCD manager which seems to be part of the Space Pilot Pro Drivers.
I am using a 3d mouse.
Windows 10 Task manager doesn't allow you to add columns to see the GDI objects.
I'm using Windows 10. The stuff you are showing me above doesn't work.
You can try 30 000, and 10 000.
On Windows 10? Could you please tell me how?
Select the Start menu, type in "regedit"
Right click each value end select modify.
Thanks I'll try that. Why isn't it set higher by default?
I am currently experiencing the same issue but the proposed fixes do not seem to resolve the issue. Windows 10, both registry changes applied (maxed to the upper limit) with 10 GB free ram (16GB total) and no GDI leaks (about 4k for Solidworks and 9k total for all applications combined), I still get popups about insufficient memory. Everything seems to work without issues other than the annoyance of the frequent message.
I'm experiencing the same issue. No GDI leaks lots of memory lots of GDI objects remaining. I would say Solidworks is a bit laggy as well.
I did increase the GDI counts as this thread suggests but it has made no difference.
The described method of increasing GDI object limit in the registry is confirmed NOT to work with Windows 10 (see Windows 10 GDI Objects limit). I tried it myself for a user that is constantly crashing SW 2017 SP02 with Windows 10 due to hitting the 10,000 GDI limit and increasing the value to 16,384 or 65,536 does not change anything.
Not on windows 10 yet. But was having that problem when I was using SP2. Now that I'm on sp3 I have not see that warning.
Thanks for the hint David, I will update to SP03 then and see if it helps.
EDIT: Updated to SP3 and it really seems to fix the problem!
We're on (SW2017) SP5, and I still see this 'low resource' message occasionally. Though, I believe it happens most often with large assemblies and drawings of large assemblies open. Or I've seen it with a simulation open/running in the background while looking at other parts/assemblies.
I will give the GDI and User objects regedit a go, and post what I see.
I have SW2017 SP5 on several machines getting this error. Eventually if you keep running SW, it will error out and crash. I changed the registry Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\GDIProcessHandleQuota to the theoretical maximum of 10000 Hexadecimal (NOT DECIMAL!) and it worked like a charm. Please be advised, this solution was for supported P4000 graphics cards as well as unsupported hardware. The newer computers we are using are completely custom builds using consumer gaming cards and we are having zero issues since modifying the registry.
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by: Interview by Joseph Burkes, M.D.
I asked the witness several questions about her recurrent contact experiences.
Dr. Burkes: What kinds of communication occurred between you and the non-human beings that you repeatedly encountered?
Dr. Burkes: Did they tell you about what their intentions are?
Shannon: No harm is intended. They are simply monitoring our planet and are very concerned with regard to our use of nuclear weapons and our failure to respect our planet's environment. Medical tests have been run periodically to determine the level of environmental toxins in my body. They are concerned about our survival, as this toxicity could lead to the disintegration of our species, due to changes in the DNA structure that is being caused environmentally. They are attempting to propagate our species while they study us. They are also very concerned because there is so much misinformation being disseminated by those who wish to cast them in a negative light. They said that they are sorry for frightening us, but they do their best to work quietly and without interfering too much in our lives.
In her forties Shannon developed the sudden onset of profound fatigue, muscle aches, sore throat, swollen glands and fever. Her doctor initially diagnosed mononucleosis. Instead of improving over the following months her severe fatigue and other symptoms persisted. Any kind of physical exertion made her feel worse. Shannon also described experiencing sleep disturbance and loss of mental concentration. Her condition worsened to the point where she became disabled from a highly respected profession that she loved. Shannon was referred to an infectious disease specialist and a diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) was made. The witness reported that during exacerbations even simple household tasks such as preparing food could not be accomplished. The symptoms waxed and waned in severity but the disabling fatigue continued. At times Shannon had to use a cane.
In 2012 she heard about an individual that claimed to be channeling extraterrestrials. Being somewhat skeptical of his assertions she decided to put him to a test. She asked that he request a medical healing for her from the "ETs" that he allegedly was in communication with. Several nights later Shannon awoke and found herself in unfamiliar surroundings with intense pain in her muscles. It had an electric quality as if she was being electrocuted. Shannon could not move. Above her she saw either some kind of video screen or holographic like technology that showed the outline of a human form that she presumed was hers. On the display overhead, the left side of the abdomen where the spleen is located was colored mint green. The right groin where Shannon had enlarged lymph nodes was colored pink. The witness also reported observing several tall Gray ET beings that had a glow around each of them. She then reportedly lost consciousness.
When Shannon awoke she was back in her bedroom and it was morning. To her delight all symptoms of her disabling Chronic Fatigue Syndrome had completely disappeared. Her ability to exercise was now normal. She could walk several miles, a task that had been impossible for nearly two decades. She was able to work out at the gym for over an hour without any risk of triggering a relapse as had been her plight before the healing. Shannon had no recurrent fevers, swollen lymph nodes, sore throat, or sleep disturbance. Her mental concentration was also restored.
Dr. Burkes: Were any explanations provided as to why you were selected for the recurrent visitations?
Shannon: They told me that I was selected, because they are studying the DNA in my family line and watching for changes in the DNA structure.
Dr. Burkes: What explanations, if any, were offered as to why your request for a healing was granted?
Shannon: I was informed that they heal their own.
Dr. Burkes: How did the healing influence your thoughts and feelings about your long history of encounters?
Shannon: I feel very grateful to have been healed. It is a clear indication to me their agenda is benevolent.
In a speculative vein, one might suggest that if the intelligences associated with UAPs have found an effective treatment for CFS, as this case indicates, then the therapy might have to be directed at every cell in the body where the energy producing mechanisms involving the metabolism of sugar occur. In contrast, Reverend Carter's and Alina del Castillo's conditions involved one body part, the lower extremity, and they were reportedly cured by an intervention that took place in their homes. Shannon with a systemic illness, now understood to be associated with metabolic abnormalities in billions of cells all over the body, apparently required transport to another location (ET spacecraft?) where perhaps a "higher level of care" could be administered.
Preston Dennett: Dunlap's report of being healed of CFS answers many questions and raises others. In most respects, it's a typical case of a CE healing. A person with a lifelong history of contact, suffering from an illness (chronic fatigue syndrome) is healed by grey-type ETs using what appears to be advanced technology. The description she provides of seeing her own organs displayed is one I have heard many times before. And yet, there are unusual elements. The pathway to Dunlap's healing was largely her own doing. She asked for the healing, and it was granted. The question is, why did the ETs wait so long? Dunlap had suffered for many years from CFS, and the ETs did not cure it.
Asking for and receiving a healing is somewhat rare. The fact that the healing was the result of a visit to a channeler is very unusual, but not unique. I have interviewed other individuals who visited a channeler and requested actual ET contact, and it was granted. The fact that the healing occurred in this way shows how complex and interdimensional ET contact is.


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    public final TableField<TypeInfoRecord, Short> MAXIMUM_SCALE = createField("MAXIMUM_SCALE", org.jooq.impl.SQLDataType.SMALLINT, this, "");

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     * The column INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TYPE_INFO.RADIX.
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     * {@inheritDoc}
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        return InformationSchema.INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
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     * {@inheritDoc}
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    public TypeInfo as(String alias) {
        return new TypeInfo(alias, this);
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     */
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NASHVILLE, TN (January 19, 2017) – Aaron Lewis is starting 2017 where he ended 2016 – with a string of sold out performances including this past weekend in Greensboro, Raleigh and Charlotte and an upcoming sold out schedule promoting his critically acclaimed album SINNER (Dot Records).
The self-proclaimed "Northern Redneck" and Staind frontman achieved critical and commercial success with SINNER earning him the #1 position on the Top 200 Albums, Top Country Albums and Top Digital Albums Charts upon release.
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SINNER was also named one of Billboard's "10 Best Country Albums of 2016" stating "The no-holds-barred honesty of tracks such as "I Lost It All" and "Mama" were some of the finest writing from a male artist this year."
The Boot raved, "Aaron Lewis shows a surprising understanding and respect for country music with his latest album, SINNER. Drawing from his childhood influences of listening to country music in his grandfather's car, SINNER shows Aaron's abilities as a singer, songwriter, musician and stylist. SINNERmight just be the record that propels Aaron to a permanent place in country music." Maverick Magazine concurs, "Aaron Lewis brings a raw honesty to his songs on the new album SINNER that Country Music radio hasn't heard in a long time. The imagery of the lyrics sucks you in, but his mournful voice and guitar keep you!"
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Q: Proper way to handle C# AggregateException I have a question about when its safe to handle an aggregate exception when using WhenAll(). It seems like the natural place would be inside the catch block, because if the catch block never fires, it would imply there are no exceptions to handle. But I see a lot of code that has an empty catch block and checks for the existence of an AggregateException before handling any found exceptions (including on MS website).

    public async Task MyMethod() {

      var tasks = new List<Task>();
      for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        tasks.Add(DoSthAsync());
      }

      var masterTask = Task.WhenAll(tasks);
      try {
        var results = await masterTask;
      } catch {
        // Safe to access masterTask here and handle aggregate exceptions? Have all tasks completed?
        foreach (var ex in masterTask.Exception.innerExceptions) {
          HandleException(ex);
        }
      }

      // Or necessary to check for and handle aggregate exceptions here?
      if (masterTask.Exception != null) {
        foreach (var ex in masterTask.Exception.innerExceptions) {
          HandleException(ex);
        }
      }
    }

    public async Task DoSthAsync() {
      // ...
    }

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It seems like the natural place would be inside the catch block

Yup, that would work fine. Task.WhenAll returns a task that completes when all the tasks have completed. So in your case, by the time your code enters the catch block, masterTask has completed, and this means all the tasks have completed.

A: The code that you posted works because Task.WhenAll returns a task that only completes when all sub tasks have completed.
Why does the code do it that way? Why no catch (Exception ex)? This is because await only throws the first inner exception. If you need access to multiple exceptions this code pattern is a good way to do it. You also could do catch (AggregateException ex) and use that object. It's the same object.

I personally avoid using catch like that. Essentially it's using exceptions for control flow. This makes debugging harder and can lead to verbose code.
I like this:
var whenAllTask = Task.WhenAll(...);

await whenAllTask.ContinueWith(_ => { }); //never throws

if (whenAllTask.Exception != null) ... //handle exceptions

I made the .ContinueWith(_ => { }) bit into a WhenCompleted extension method so that the code looks clean.

Then you wondered whether the second way to check for exceptions is a good idea:
  // Or necessary to check for and handle aggregate exceptions here?
  if (masterTask.Exception != null) {
    foreach (var ex in masterTask.Exception.innerExceptions) {
      HandleException(ex);
    }
  }

You can certainly do that. Essentially it's the same thing. Use what is more convenient in the particular situation.

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A Brief History of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London
What is the Victoria and Albert Museum?
The Victoria and Albert Museum is a world-leading museum in London with a permanent collection of 2.5 million objects.
Victoria and Albert Museum History
The V&A is the world's leading museum of art, design and performance. From fashion to ceramics, fine art to furniture, the museum's unparalleled collections are some of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Exploring this vast collection, you might discover Henry VIII's writing desk, the exterior façade in carved wood of a 17th-century London townhouse (a rare survivor of the Great Fire of London), or the jewelled bracelets once worn by Marie Antoinette.
The museum holds the largest collection of Asian art in the world, with around 160,000 objects. Its centrepiece is the spectacular Ardabil Carpet, the world's oldest dated carpet.
The Italian collection, spanning from the medieval to the neoclassical period, is unmatched outside Italy. Its highlight is the set of Raphael Cartoons, a set of seven full-scale tapestry designs commissioned by Pope Leo X in 1515 for the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. Together, they are considered one of the greatest treasures of the Renaissance.
The museum was established in 1852 and originally based at Marlborough House on the Mall. It wasn't until five years later that it migrated to its current magnificently decorated building. In 1899, the South Kensington Museum, as it was then known, was renamed after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, both great patrons of the arts and intimately involved with the museum's formation.
Henry Cole, the first director, declared that it should be a 'schoolroom for everyone', and this mission statement remains fulfilled today: the museum's 6.5 million objects represent over 5,000 years of human creativity, in virtually every medium and from across the globe, and can't fail to excite, inform and inspire.
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The V&A also houses one of the world's largest libraries, dedicated to the study of fine and decorative arts. This public library holds some documents of great significance, including a collection of the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, hand-written texts by Charles Dickens and Beatrix Potter, and countless illuminated manuscripts.
Given the size of the collection, only a small percentage can be displayed at any one time, though this still means you will have around 2.5 million objects to choose from on your visit. If this sounds like thirsty work, make sure you visit the café, the world's first museum refreshment room. Whilst luxuriating in its opulent décor, you can gaze into the John Madejski Garden, an intimate space surrounded by the wonderfully decorated façades of the exterior building.
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Q: Change Range Icon with Img Materialize CSS can i change icon Range Slider from Materialize ?

Thanks

A: If you dig deeper into the materialize.css file then you'll find this, on editing few things from this you can customize the slider-thumb.
Check W3Schools docs on Range sliders, you can customize by changing values like -
border, height, width, border-radius and many more. Don't forget to override these with the help of !important.
input[type=range]::-webkit-slider-thumb {
        border: 1px solid #000;
        height: 20px;
        width: 20px;
        border-radius: 25% !important;
        background: #4826a6 !important;
        -webkit-transition: -webkit-box-shadow .3s;
        transition: -webkit-box-shadow .3s;
        transition: box-shadow .3s;
        transition: box-shadow .3s, -webkit-box-shadow .3s;
        -webkit-appearance: none;
        background-color: #26a69a;
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Q: How do I achieve this array-like layout? This is a bit from Eisenbud's Commutative Algebra:

I like the format of that centered portion, and I wonder how it's achieved. I doubt it's an array or a tikz commutative diagram, because how would I get the arrow to go inside the cell like that?
Thanks for any help you can give.

A: The output uses mathtools' extensible \xmapsto:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{mathtools}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Hom}{Hom}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\lipsum[1]
\[
  \varphi
  \xmapsto{\makebox[.35\linewidth]{\raisebox{.5\baselineskip}{$
    \Hom_R(M \otimes_R N, P) \cong
    \{ \text{Bilinear maps $M \times N$ to $P$} \}
  $}}}
  \varphi b.
\]
\lipsum[2]

\end{document}

A: Here's a way to do it:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry} %
\usepackage{mathtools}
\DeclareMathOperator{\Hom}{Hom}

\begin{document}

\begin{alignat*}{2}
    \Hom(M & \otimes_R N, P)\simeq \bigl\{\text{Bilinear maps }M & & \times N\enspace \text{to}\enspace P\bigr\}\\
     & \;\varphi \mathrel{\mathrlap{\xmapsto{\hspace{11.65em}}}}  &  & \varphi b
\end{alignat*}

\end{document}


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Mavericks Bar and Grille May Be Shut Down By Town In September
Aug 19, 2014 06:51AM ● By Bill Gilman
A popular South Tewksbury eatery may be shut down for good in September if the town revokes its various licenses due to non-payment of taxes and water bills.
At the urging of Town Manager Richard Montuori, the Board of Selectmen set a hearing date of Sept. 23 to consider revoking the licenses of Mavericks Bar and Grille. The hearing is set for 7:30 p.m. at the interim Town Hall on Main Street.
According to Town Treasurer/Collector Kelly Odams, Mavericks owes the town 95,755.96 in past due taxes and water bill. Of that total, $79,475.48 is unpaid property taxes from Fiscal Years 2012, 2013 and 2014. The first property tax bill of FY 2015 was just sent out this month.
According to Odams, Mavericks also owes $14,755.21 in unpaid water bills dating back to September 2013 and another $525.27 in overdue personal property taxes (kitchen equipment etc.)
"I believe (Mavericks unpaid taxes) has been an ongoing issue since I've been on the board," said Todd Johnson, chairman of the Board of Selectmen. "Hopefully, the owners of Mavericks will address this in a prompt and effective way."
According to town records, Mavericks, its building and property are owned by Richard W. Proctor Trust and March and Main Realty Trust.
Attempts to contact the ownership of Mavericks for comments on the tax issue were unsuccessful.
It is within the power of the Board of Selectmen to revoke Mavericks liquor license, as well as their entertainment license and their license to serve food.
In recent years, Mavericks has come under fire from neighbors for excessive noise and for poor behavior by patrons in the parking lot.
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