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Q: Read loop that does not crash when file is recreated I have a python script that needs to read bytes from a file and publish them in MQTT room. But the file could be recreated during the process (the python script have to be running 24/24).
I tried this code, but when the file is being recreated os.path.isfile always return false.
def mqttToTtyOnMessage(client, userdata, message):
        tty = openFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY)
        print("%s @ %s : Message from %s to %s\n" %
              (threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), message.topic, filename))
        try:
            os.write(tty, message.payload)
        except:
            print("%s @ %s : Unable to write message to file %s\n%s" %
                  (threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), filename, sys.exc_info()))
            while True:
                if os.path.isfile(filename):
                    print("%s @ %s : File exist, come back to main loop." % (threadName, time.ctime(time.time())))
                    subTty = openFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY)
                    os.write(subTty, message.payload)
                    break
                else:
                    print("%s @ %s : File still not exist, wait few seconds and check again." % (threadName, time.ctime(time.time())))
                    time.sleep(1)
        os.close(tty)

The function openFile looks like this :
def openFile(filename, permission):
    try:
        fd = os.open(filename, permission)
    except:
        print("%s @ %s : Unable to write message to file %s\n%s" %
            (threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), filename, sys.exc_info()))
    return (fd)

I hope you have ideas about an error in my code or another way to achieve this.
Thanks
EDIT: Solve this problem by changing the way I checked if the file exist :
def mqttToTtyOnMessage(client, userdata, message):
        try:
            tty = openFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY)
            os.write(tty, message.payload)
            print("%s @ %s : Message from %s to %s\n" %
              (threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), message.topic, filename))
        except OSError:
            print("%s @ %s : Unable to write message to file %s\n%s\n" %
                  (threadName, time.ctime(time.time()), filename, sys.exc_info()))
            while True:
                try:
                    subTty = openFile(filename, os.O_WRONLY)
                    os.write(subTty, message.payload)
                    break
                except:
                    print("%s @ %s : Can't open file for the moment, try again in 5s.\n%s\n" % ("mqttToTty", time.ctime(time.time()), sys.exc_info()))
                time.sleep(5)
        os.close(tty)

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who can belong in our cities will determine what our cities can become
Julian Agyeman
Author | Speaker | Educator
Teaching & Advising
Moving Beyond the Sharing Economy: The Case for 'Sharing Cities'.
By Julian Agyeman | July 10, 2014 | 0
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What can be bad about an economy that's called 'sharing'? Sharing is the antithesis of our current dog-eat-dog economy right? With a booming global population and mass-migration to cities, surely anything that encourages getting-along with each other is a good thing?
But the sharing economy is under attack – though surprisingly not from market-is-gospel neoliberals. It's being rejected by people who put 'all for one and one for all' at the center of their politics. The sharing economy, they say, is nothing more than sly companies profiteering from the skills, possessions and spaces that people would otherwise never think of making money from. Let's take a closer look at why we must move beyond the current concept of a sharing economy and make the wider case for Sharing Cities.
In our forthcoming book Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities (McLaren and Agyeman MIT Press 2015), when we talk of Sharing Cities, we deliberately embrace the ambiguity of the verb and adjective of 'sharing'. We argue that a reinvention and revival of sharing in our cities could enhance equity, rebuild community and dramatically cut resource use. With modern technologies the intersection of urban space and cyber-space provides an unsurpassed platform for more just, inclusive and environmentally efficient economies and societies rooted in a sharing culture. In the book we set out a case for moving beyond the bounded and ultimately limiting concept of the 'sharing economy' to both understanding whole cities as shared spaces, and acting to share them fairly. In brief outline, our case for Sharing Cities runs as follows.
Humans are natural sharers.
Sharing is, by all accounts, an evolutionary trait (Schmidt and Sommerville, 2011). Shared efforts allowed our ancestors to band together to hunt, farm and create shelter, and reciprocal forms of altruism arose naturally from repeated interactions in such collective groups where reputation matters for survival (Ridley 1996). Hunter-gatherer societies depended on sharing and cooperation and this behavior instilled a natural preference for fair shares and broadly equal outcomes (Tomasello and Warneken 2008). The earliest cities developed in a number of places, from Mesopotamia to Asia to the Americas and were always about sharing, with their public spaces serving as focal places of exchange, encounter and entertainment. One of the largest with around 50,000 inhabitants at its peak was Mohenjo-daro, in present day Sindh Province, Pakistan. It existed from about 2600 BCE, and had a population of 50,000 or more. It had a marketplace, shared well, a communal housing structure and public baths.
Traditional or 'socio-cultural' sharing, as happened in hunter gatherer societies and early cities, still happens everywhere in both the global North and South, but it has largely broken down in modern cities in the face of 'bling' culture, commercialization of the public realm, the increasingly rapid pace of economic and technological change, the rise of our competitive nature and the destabilization and fragmentation of human identities these trends have engendered. Writer and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan (2014) suggests that rather than stimulating innovation and inspiring us to do better, competition can generate fraud, cheating, stress and inequality whilst suffocating creative instincts. The problems of competition are exacerbated in todays globalized markets, cultural industries and sporting contests, where a 'winner takes all' structure (Frank and Cook 1996) awards the lion's share of the rewards to a very few elite participants who gain celebrity status and advertising endorsements that multiply their direct earnings many times over.
The future of humanity is urban.
Nowhere in human culture is the centrality of collaboration and sharing more obvious than in the city. The city is not just a venue for the sharing of spaces, 'things' and services, but is historically a shared entity in itself; the product of shared creation or co-production. Demographic, economic and cultural forces are bringing us together in larger and larger urban regions, particularly in the global South. Around 53% of the world's population currently lives in cities (World Bank 2012). According to The Economist (2012) this will rise to 64.1% in the developing, and 85.9% of the developed world by 2050.
Contrary to what many might argue, this is not a disaster for humanity, as the physical nature of urban space facilitates – and in some ways, necessitates – sharing: of resources, infrastructures, goods, services, experiences and capabilities. The effects of population density and highly networked physical space are converging with new digital technologies to drive and enable sharing in cities – particularly in novel 'mediated' forms. All three come together to provide critical mass in both demand for, and supply of, shared resources and facilities. New opportunities for collaboration and sharing are arising at the intersection of urban space and cyberspace.
While San Francisco is at the forefront of the modern wave of collaborative consumption with high-tech sharing companies, new sharing start-ups and the development of new norms amongst Millennials, Seoul, South Korea is one of the first global cities to officially endorse the sharing economy, but also, to move beyond. The city, which is home to more than 10 million people living within 234 square miles (Johnson, 2013), is striving to cultivate a sharing culture and build the public's trust in sharing enterprises and activities. Seoul's mayor, Park Won-soon, a political independent and long-standing human rights activist, is a strong driving force behind this official embrace of sharing. In September of 2012, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plan to promote a sharing vision through "Sharing City, Seoul" (Ejang, 2013). This city-funded project aims to make sharing activities accessible to all citizens by expanding physical and digital sharing infrastructure, incubating and supporting sharing economy startups, and putting idle public resources to better use. According to Kim Tae Kyoon, director of Seoul's Social Innovation Division, Sharing City could help citizens regain some of the community that rapid urbanization and industrialization have lost. He told Shareable that the ultimate goal of the project is to "share lives among dispersed people, recover trust and relationships, and shape a warm city in terms of people's heart (Johnson 2013)."
Sharing Cities prioritize social justice.
While there is a growing realization that with new opportunities for sharing we have new opportunities to enhance trust and rebuild social capital, the sharing economy is also creating new spaces in which commercial interests can casualize labor, privatize public services and capitalize on growing land values through gentrification.
David Golumbia argues:
"Siding with upstart venture capital is not my idea of giving ordinary people "a leg up." The "sharing economy" doesn't have much to do with individuals. Instead, it represents corporate capital doing what it typically does: Monetizing parts of the social world that have previously avoided it" (cited in Burns 2014).
Similarly, SolidarityNYC:
"There's a spectrum of sharing economy groups, from cooperatives to private companies like Airbnb. Airbnb is portrayed as helping cash-strapped individuals, which may be true in some cases. But in the long-term, it will likely exacerbate New York City's housing crisis, by allowing landlords to charge more in rent because their tenants can turn to this secondary market to make up the difference" (ibid).
In such ways the emerging sharing economy can deepen inequalities and deliver injustice. City leaders therefore need to support and emphasize communal models of sharing that build solidarity and spread trust. In other words, social justice doesn't simply happen; sharing systems must be designed around equity and justice: these cannot be retrofitted. In Medellín, Colombia's second city, architect Alejandro Echeverri worked with former mayor Sergio Fajardo on the city's transformation, which came out of the department of urbanismo social (social civic planning or social urbanism). During the mid-1990's, Echeverri explains: "a small group began to think in terms not of top-down policy, but of one that would begin with the poorest neighborhoods…it was both a concept and a physical strategy" (cited by Vulliamy 2013). Social urbanism focuses on spatial justice: striving to bridge the city's socio-spatial divide and achieve inclusion through prioritizing historically neglected neighborhoods on the urban agenda. For Medellín, this has meant a substantial shift in public investment in the form of infrastructure, and public services, buildings and spaces, all of which have received high quality architectural design.
Increasing trust and collaboration
Like any other practice, sharing with equity and justice, can naturally shift cultural values and norms – in this case towards trust and collaboration. Benkler (2004 341 citing Kahan 2002) argues: "Both analytic models and empirical evidence support the proposition that as kind, sharing, and reciprocal behavior increases in society, so does the tendency to trust others, reciprocate, and behave pro-socially". In other words, "by practicing sharing people come to value it more, or come to learn to trust other participants" (ibid). Trust in strangers, say Botsman and Rogers (2010), is not an abstract unfounded naivety, but a product of the right circumstances and transparency. Rating systems online provide the equivalent of personal recommendations, and, in a world where only 14% of us trust advertisers, but 78% trust peer recommendation (p203), this is incredibly powerful.
A Right to (remake) The City
This can deliver a further dividend, in that increased trust increases the motivation for social investment in public goods and the public realm or urban commons (common resources, managed and sustained by our collective activities). Such an enhanced public realm can in turn directly facilitate more and more efficient sharing, with significant democratic benefits. This requires seeing beyond a 'sharing economy' to seeing whole cities as shared entities with shared public services such as healthcare, childcare, education and libraries; shared infrastructural resources such as shared streets, mass transit, electricity, water and sewerage and shared spaces, such as public spaces and green spaces. But we need go further in seeing not only a 'Right to the City' and to the urban commons but a right to remake them (Harvey 2012) as being fundamental to any form or urban social contract worthy of the title 'sharing city'.
Through various methods of urbanism – guerilla, DIY, tactical, pop-up, and open-source to name a few – city dwellers are reimagining and redefining their environments. By their nature, such movements interpret the collective urban commons as a shared space, but rather than accepting places as they are, they are redefining what they can become (Massey 1995). Indeed, space as possibility (Agyeman 2013) is another way of framing a Right to the City, a recognition of Harvey's conclusion that such a Right should be seen not as "an exclusive individual right, but a focused collective right" (2011 137).
Transforming the political domain
Increasing trust and collaboration also establishes a precondition and motivation for collective political debate which recognizes the city as a shared system. The same measures that enable sharing online, also – if civil liberties are properly protected – enable collective politics online. We see the increasingly blurred nexus between urban- and cyberspace enabling transformation – this time in the political domain. These spaces are fundamentally important for forms of participation invented and controlled by the people. However, at the same time as neoliberalism is forcing a a 'trenchant reregulation and redaction of public space' (Low and Smith 2006 1), it is also threatening the same in cyberspace. Net neutrality is essential to the Sharing City. It is based on the principle of equality: that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and governments should not discriminate on the basis of (legal) content or introduce different charges, whether by type of user, particular content, particular site, platform, application, type of equipment, or mode of communication.
Towards a sharing paradigm
It is in the anticipation of such transformations that we suggest that the 'Sharing Cities' concept should become the guiding purpose of the politics, planning and policymaking for the future city. Adopting what we are calling the 'sharing paradigm' offers cities the opportunity to lead the transition to just sustainabilities. The sharing paradigm is based on the fundamental understanding that our wellbeing depends on building and developing human capabilities for all, and the fundamental resources we have available to do that – from breathable air to education, and from energy resources to health-care – are better conceived and understood as shared commons than as private goods.
We may collectively decide that the best way to manage and allocate certain resources is through market economies, or perhaps through public management, but our starting point is the recognition of their collective, shared nature. The sharing paradigm therefore foregrounds ways of thinking based on sharing resources fairly, rather than by ability to pay; treating resources and the environment as the common property of humankind; nurturing the collective commons of human culture and society and stimulating human flourishing by establishing and enabling the expression of individual and collective capabilities.
Leadership for Sharing Cities
City authorities are essential actors in such a transformation. Sharing advocates such as Janelle Orsi et al (2013), April Rinne (2014) and Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers (2010) have all suggested a range of actions cities might take. Here we summarize and elaborate on their suggestions to paint a picture of the leadership role of the city authorities in a Sharing City.
A Sharing City will need a public commitment to its vision, backed by the necessary strategies, institutions and resources.
It will need also to systematically map the assets owned by the city to identify those that could be shared, and opportunities for community engagement; and review all operations and policies to identify where it utilize collaborative economy platforms to meet its needs or goals (also including shareability criteria in local procurement tenders and other municipal contracts).
It will actively invest in public services and enable co-production in city-led services, protecting and enhancing of public common resources and services, from libraries to public spaces, and from health to education.
It will need to develop appropriate indicators for the city as a whole and its districts – such as a 'neighborhood shareability index', and establish means of monitoring progress, perhaps piggybacking on smart city investments.
It will engage the public in governance, for example, through participatory budgeting. It will also design and 'police' the public realm in ways that enable participation and create physical, virtual and psychological spaces for insurgent counter-cultures and interculturalism.
It will enable collaborative economy operations in the city, reviewing and reforming regulation and policy as necessary across areas such as taxation, planning and zoning, insurance and licensing; and investing its own capital in the sharing ecosystem, to support incubators and accelerators, research, capacity-building and shared infrastructure; and particularly to provide finance for non-commercial approaches to sharing.
And it will act as a 'meta-intermediary' or sharing hub, publishing online directories, linking sharing activity operators together with one another and with citizens, perhaps also aggregating and guaranteeing reputation for its citizens, underpinned by enabling open, affordable high-speed (mobile) internet access for all residents.
The Sharing Cities concept offers a radically different vision compared with a global race to the bottom to attract footloose investment capital that many cities are currently engaged in. It redefines what 'smart cities' of the future might really mean – harnessing smart technology to an agenda of sharing and solidarity, rather than one of competition, enclosure, deepening inequality and division.
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With the help of Makeup Artist Lani Barry to make the models even more lovely than nature I was able to photograph a lot of the vintage clothing that will be put up for sale. You can't really see the clothes, how they fit, how they move without a person in them. Some of these unique outfits came alive on the models as I had imagined them in my head. What a world of difference to see them in motion on a live human. It points up the flaws in my current mannequins as well. I'm sure there are better ones out there but nothing does an outfit justice as well as a live body.
Many thanks go to the models I used; Emily DeWan of Emily DeWan Photography, who took time out from her own portrait photography of the models to model for me, Lani Barry, my makeup artist who modeled my one Victorian outfit at the very end, my sister-in-law, Kim Grad and her daughter Amanda, who I was able to photograph together for some sweet family portraits, and to New York City swing dancers Elaine Silver, Mimi Liu, Laurel Carpenter and Jeri Lynn Astra Herbert who brought a lot of sass and dancerly grace to the shots.
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Most likely scenario – you and your partner/friends end up at a not-so-pinked up bar for dinner and drunken karaoke.
If you have no interest in going outside, then you better grab some popcorn and plough through a line-up of all your favourite movies.
Sometimes, there really is nothing better than just getting lost in the fictional (or not) life of someone else and ignoring reality. We'd just recommend staying away from the rom-com section.
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This Shouldn't Even Be an Issue: The Fight for Healthcare
Photo by The Hill
I'm going to begin by saying it's utterly embarrassing that a "first world" nation denies their people the right to healthcare and is damn proud of it. It's chilling how many people are aghast at the very idea of our tax dollars improving the quality of life for their family, friends, and neighbors.
But you rarely hear a peep about our bloated defense budget. The Pentagon came up trillions of dollars short during their latest audit, with nary an explanation as to where all our money went. Funny how that happens.
Nobody blinked because the American people don't mind being robbed blind by the rich. Being fiscally raped by the wealthy is entirely acceptable and even expected. Suggesting we should make our people's health and well-being a priority, however, is met with derision, scorn, and anger.
It doesn't matter that Single Payer Healthcare would be a boon for our flagging economy. Study after study, even those initiated by the GOP, point to this fact.
It saves businesses money by relieving them of the expense of providing health insurance for their employees.
It saves the people money by not having most of their earnings go to healthcare and erasing sky-high deductibles for those who have insurance but can't afford to use it. And those millions of Americans who have no access to healthcare at all will finally have coverage.
Decisions regarding your care and treatment will be made by actual healthcare professionals rather than some pencil-pusher with no medical expertise at the insurance company.
It will alleviate the uniquely American experience of going bankrupt and losing everything you own because of unpaid medical bills.
And most importantly, it will halt the rising trend of people literally dying because they can't afford to treat chronic or acute life-threatening illness. People are needlessly losing their lives each day for no other purpose than to satiate corporate greed.
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You can't teach someone common sense, you can't knit them a conscience as a birthday gift. A person either cares about others or they don't.
But …
you can know your audience and stress what's in it for them. That's the only motivation some people have to do anything.
So let's use that to our advantage.
Let's play to the self-centeredness of those opposed to Single Payer and emphasize how great it would be for them personally. Then it might start to register that we can't afford to NOT implement Medicare for All.
Luckily in this instance, there's more than enough perks to placate even the most selfish among us. (Except for the insurance company lobbyists and most members of Congress, but let's be frank. Screw them.)
So let's work on our friends and neighbors. Help them see how Medicare for All benefits them and their family. But we must act quickly and decisively. Our country(for what is a country but its people) is literally dying bit by bit each day.
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To celebrate his 50th birthday, adopter Graham Jump wanted to do something a little different and decided to enter the Boston Rowing Marathon along with 50 others rowers on Sunday 20 September 2015.
Graham, who is the Head of Rowing at The Grange School in Hartford, and his wife Kirsty adopted a five year old little boy through the adoption charity and now want to 'give something back' by raising funds in one of rowing's toughest challenges with rowers racing over the 52km course in quads and eights.
Graham commented: "Five years ago, my wife Kirsty and I decided to look into adopting a child. After many months of soul searching and lots and lots of paperwork, we finally got the go-ahead to adopt and in October 2012 we welcomed our 5 year little boy into our family. We cannot begin to tell you the joy that he has brought into our lives and to those close to us.
In October 2015, which amazingly is also National Adoption Week, we celebrate having him in our lives for three years and we felt it was the right time to put something back so others can be encouraged to either think about adopting and to help out children and parents who need some support. We were so impressed with Adoption Matters and have remained in contact with our social worker.
Graham completed the row, along with 46 other rowers ranging in age from 16 to 49 years.
A truly fantastic day was had with 47 rowers including sixth form pupils, staff and local club rowers joined together to take on the challenge of rowing 31 miles from Lincoln to Boston along the River Witham.
"Whilst raising funds will benefit Adoption Matters, spreading the word about adoption is just as important. It is without question the best thing Kirsty and I have ever done"! Graham said.
On 13 November 2015, the Grange School held a special school assembly where Graham spoke about his adoption journey to the whole school. Mr Jeffery, Headmaster of The Grange School, presented a cheque for the final sum raised by Graham of £6,250, completely smashing the initial target of £1,000.
Graham commented: "Putting something back into adoption was very important to Kirsty and I and we are both overwhelmed and so proud of everyone that helped me to do it, either on the water, providing the essential back up or simply donating".
Norman Goodwin, CBE commented: "I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to Graham, his team, The Grange School and everyone who donated and supported the event. We are delighted with this magnificent total raised which will assist our charity in finding more families for children and offering support to adopted children and their families".
Pictured above: Norman receiving his cheque from Graham and Mr Jeffery at the special adoption assembly at The Grange School.
Pictured below: Graham & his team.
The row team
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While President Donald Trump's former longtime attorney Michael Cohen makes headlines with his legal troubles, the lawyer's wife has so far escaped them.
Trump also brought up Michael Cohen's wife, born Laura Shusterman, in tweets Monday calling on his former lawyer to serve a full prison sentence.
Cohen on Thursday pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the extent and timeline of his discussions about a proposal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump accused him of lying to try to get a reduced prison sentence.
Laura Cohen has more connections to Trump than simply being married to the man who was his personal lawyer for many years. Her Ukrainian father, Fima Shusterman, introduced Michael Cohen to Trump, longtime Associated Press reporter Seth Hettena wrote in his book Trump / Russia: A Definitive History published in May. A former federal investigator in the book alleges that Fima Shusterman could have been Trump's business partner on the quiet and that Trump employed Cohen within the Trump Organization "as a favor to Shusterman." Michael Cohen denied the claims.
Laura Cohen's parents reportedly co-own property with the Cohens in Trump Tower in New York City.
Michael and Laura Cohen earned a fortune from New York City taxi medallions but reportedly owe tens of thousands in unpaid taxes to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a result.
Michael Cohen mentioned his wife in a statement to the Senate Intelligence Committee last September.
The Cohens have a daughter, Samantha Blake Cohen, and younger son Jake Ross Cohen.


We're bombarded with negativity and bad news in the modern world. So many alerts about all the deaths and evil and things to be afraid of. I've been moderating the information that gets attention from me for a while now, and I'm better off as a result.
But I still read some news daily when I'm not off the grid.
My go to site for morning news is permaculturenews.org. They have articles on different aspects of permaculture, homesteading and other related topics. Reading articles on things I can do to to make my world more productive and in tune with natural rhythms gets me started with a positive mindset, and helps me maintain that mindset throughout the day.
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Medical Marijuana Prohibition
Kenneth Michael White, OP/ED, opinioneditorials.com
Since California first did it in 1996, several other States have decriminalized medical marijuana, even though the Federal Government considers all marijuana to be contraband. Despite the constant threat of Federal criminal sanction, there are thousands of people in the United States who use marijuana for medical purposes. Did these people come to their decision to use medical marijuana in accordance with the teaching of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Writing from a Birmingham jail in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., explained the four steps of civil disobedience. First, research must reveal an injustice. If the facts show that a law is unjust, then the next step is to negotiate a remedy with those in a position to fix the problem. If after good faith negotiation the people in power refuse to repair the damage they caused, then the next step is self-purification. Unclean hands should not accuse other hands of being too dirty. The final step of civil disobedience is to actually disobey a civil law.
The facts show that medical marijuana prohibition started because of racial animus directed primarily towards Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Southwest. In 1937, the 75th Congress criminalized marijuana over the objection of the American Medical Association. Prohibitionists told Congress: "The Mexican population cultivates on average two to three tons of weed annually. This the Mexicans make into cigarettes, which they sell at two for twenty-five cents, mostly to white school students" (see Kenneth Michael White, 2004, "The Beginning of Today: The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937," PublishAmerica, page 22-23).
Since the start of Federal medical marijuana prohibition, there have been advocates calling on the Federal Government to view drug abuse as an issue that requires primarily teachers and doctors, not law enforcement. Most notably, in 1972 a commission created by President Nixon urged the Federal Government to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana for personal use, and in 1999 a rigorous government-controlled study concluded that marijuana has known medical value, even in smoked form. In spite of these findings, as of today the Federal Government refuses to act.
Since the Federal Government has failed to protect the right of individuals under the care of a physician to use marijuana for medical purposes, people who need the plant have been forced to either disobey Federal law or suffer. Pain is a wholly subjective experience, thus medical marijuana patients have had to decide for themselves when private medical need trumps the politics of Washington, D.C.
What would Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., say about medical marijuana patients? I think he would judge the history of racial prejudice, failed negotiations, and compelling medical need as prudent bases for civil disobedience. I think he would say that following the advice of your doctor is not a crime.
Kenneth Michael White is the author of "The Beginning of Today: The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937" (PublishAmerica 2004) and "Buck" (PublishAmerica 2004).


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Mr. Monopoly Is the Consumer Protection Hero We Need
By Heather Schwedel
Oct 04, 20171:28 PM
Former Equifax CEO Richard Smith, and over his right shoulder, an activist dressed as Mr. Monopoly.
Screencap of the hearing
Once upon a time, Mr. Smith went to Washington, and now, so has Mr. Monopoly.
This week, Congress is holding hearings about the Equifax breach and treating its former CEO Richard Smith as a "rhetorical punching bag," as Slate has noted elsewhere. But Congress' pursuit of truth can't hold a candle to the real hero of the people: Mr. Monopoly, who is peering on from the audience.
As the hearing livestreams online and airs on television, the person in costume can occasionally be seen over Smith's shoulder wearing a top hat and fake, long white mustache, parodying the way companies like Equifax profit off of their treatment of consumers. Sometimes the behatted observer twirls her mustache on camera—that is if she's not busy adjusting a monocle or pantomiming with fake money. Because the internet can't resist a good photobomb, the stunt is gaining attention all over social media. The Hill identified her as Amanda Werner of the advocacy group Public Citizen.
SCREAMING. A+ troll
h/t @EvanSparks via #equifaxbreach hearing https://t.co/rggknj8hlw pic.twitter.com/3Hawi3RmGh
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) October 4, 2017
He's still there! pic.twitter.com/gvCTYhscgj
— Kaitain 🇺🇸 (@Kaitain_AZ) October 4, 2017
The character is technically known as Rich Uncle Pennybags, but aliases and costume changes are part of any hero's playbook. Or, actually, as a Twitter user points out, Mr. Monopoly doesn't wear a monocle, so perhaps this is more of a generic old, rich jerk? Either way, though, she's an American hero.
According to CNBC, the costumed crusader's appearance comes courtesy of the groups Public Citizen and Americans for Financial Reform, which are seeking to draw attention to the way forced arbitration clauses favor financial institutions rather than consumers. In a statement, Public Citizen called arbitration clauses a "get out of jail free" card for companies: "Forced arbitration clauses buried in the fine print of take-it-or-leave-it contracts may be the single most important tool that predatory banks, payday lenders, credit card companies and other financial institutions have used to escape accountability for cheating and defrauding consumers." When Equifax announced the breach, which compromised more than 145 million people's personal data, it initially required that consumers agree to arbitration if they wanted to use the credit monitoring service the company was offering to those affected, a condition the company has since nixed and Smith has called a mistake.
With its Monopoly stunt, Public Citizen hopes to draw attention to and prevent the Senate's efforts to strike down a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule that allows consumers to challenge wrongdoing in court class actions. The message to both Equifax and Congress is clear: Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.


Total earnings for 83.5% of the total healthcare market capitalization are up 13.7% on revenue growth of 7.8%. The growth rates seem unimpressive when compared with some of the other sectors. Earnings and revenue beat ratios of 91.9% and 83.8%, respectively, are also not great either.
Among the most notable players, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ - Free Report) was the first major drug company to report earnings on Jul 17, followed by Eli Lilly and Company (LLY - Free Report) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY - Free Report) on Jul 24 and Jul 26, respectively. Other major U.S. drug companies — Merck (MRK- Free Report) and Pfizer (PFE - Free Report) — reported on Jul 27 and Jul 31, respectively. These industry bigwigs came up with solid results beating on both earnings and revenue estimates.
The world's biggest maker of healthcare products continued its long streak of earnings beat. Earnings per share came in at $2.10, four cents ahead of the Zacks Consensus Estimate and 14.8% higher than the year-ago quarter. Revenues grew 10.6% year over year to $20.83 billion and edged past the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $20.21 billion. However, Johnson & Johnson reduced its revenue guidance to $80.5-$81.3 billion from $81-$81.8 billion for 2018, citing a strong dollar. Further, it also narrowed the earnings per guidance range to $8.07-$8.17 from $8.00-$8.20.
Earnings per share of 81 cents came in 6 cents above the Zacks Consensus Estimate and revenues of $13.47 billion beat the estimated $13.26 billion. On an annual basis, earnings per share and revenues rose 21% and 4%, respectively. For 2018, the U.S. drug giant narrowed the revenue guidance range from $53.5-$55.5 billion to $53-$55 billion, while raised earnings per share guidance from $2.90-$3.00 to $2.95-$3.05.
Earnings per share came in at $1.06, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.03 and improving 5% from the year-ago quarter. Revenues inched up 5% year over year to $10.46 billion and were above the estimated $10.31 billion. Merck also tightened its 2018 revenue guidance to $42-$42.8 billion from $41.8-$43.0 billion from $41.2-$42.7 billion while raised the earnings per share guidance to $4.22-$4.30 from $4.16-$4.28.


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Yuasa is a top quality motorcycle battery. I purchased this YT9B-BS for my Yamaha R6. The battery came very well wrapped and with the electrolyte fluid in a nice separate container. I simply poured the electrolyte fluid in the battery, charged it, and then installed it.
My motorcycle battery lies on its side when installed. The battery fluid cover fits VERY tight and I have had no problem with the battery leaking.
I am very happy with this battery and don't see any reason I would ever go to a different brand.
I put this in my 2002 R6 and its great. You have to put the acid in the battery yourself and that's no big deal. Don't get overly worried about the bubble deal in the directions. Just make sure the stuff is flowing and leave it alone for a couple of hours. Every time I do this I sweat the bubbles and its never made a difference. Once that's done fully charge it and your all set. Just keep it on a trickle charger if your not using the bike for a bit and you should get at least five years of life out of them I'd guess.


10 (5!) minute long breakdown of the week's events in markets and the economy. Markets mixed. Bezos energy.
10 minute long breakdown of the week's events in markets and the economy. Markets up. Jobs report very strong, no rate hike.


Why do brothers and sisters fight so much?
Parents all the around the world worry about sibling rivalry and have had to put up with countless temper tantrums thanks to it. However, some kids do go on to become the best of friends with their brother or sister, but that would be few and far in between. In the majority of cases, sibling rivalry begins even before the second child is born. It then just continues to grow as the kids grow and eventually they may even find themselves competing for everything. Most of the time they are actually fighting for attention.
It can really be frustrating for parents to watch while their kids continue to fight for everything from their spot at the dinner table to who gets to use the bathroom first. But luckily, sibling rivalry is not something that lasts into adulthood always. It is also something that can be avoided and at the very least, managed. But first, you need to know why sibling rivalry even happens.
Many different things could trigger sibling rivalry. A lot of the time kids experience jealousy or competition and this can quickly escalate to them getting rough on each other. Apart from this, there can also be other reasons as to why siblings are fighting.
Their needs are evolving. It is completely natural for the needs and anxieties within children to also affect the way that they interact with each other. For example, a toddler may be very protective around his or her toys and would react aggressively if the other sibling were to pick it up.
They have individual temperaments. Your children are very different to each other. They may have identical facial features but they may process feelings and behaviours very differently. Therefore it is also normal for them to be at loggerheads on anything at all.
Your attention should not divide them. When you give attention to your kids, try to always make it equal. It is not intentionally that you would devote extra time to a sick child, but the sibling would probably not see it that way. For them, that is competition and a reason cause a conflict between siblings.
Special needs and sick children. If you have a child that is differently abled, you may have no other choice but to spend more time with them as they genuinely need it. However, as draining as it may be for you, your other children might feel neglected or even jealous that this is happening.
Role models. The way that you and your partner have built the culture of problem solving in your home could contribute to why siblings fight. For example, if they always see the both of you arguing with each other, they may genuinely believe that that, is the way to solve problems.
What can you do when the fighting begins?
Knowing what to do and what to avoid can make the difference between a quickly resolved sibling fight and a long, drawn out and dramatic one.
Don't get involved as much as possible. Always step in wherever there could be a chance of one of your children getting physically hurt. If you always step in, the children will rely on your intervention rather than learning to figure things out on their own.
If you have concerns about the language that your children are using on each other during a sibling fight, coach them impartially about how they can express themselves without the need for hurtful language. Even then make sure you tell them what you should and then allow them to rectify the issue within themselves.
What if you have to get involved to stop sisters and brothers fighting?
Separate them until they have calmed down. Sometimes, it is intelligent to let them compose themselves for a while before you do a rehash of the conflict. There is no point of talking to kids while their emotions are running high.
Remember that it takes two to fight. It doesn't matter who did what. Therefore don't put your time into asking who started the fight. It helps kids see that you are not attaching importance to one child.
Try to create an environment where the kids learn to negotiate and compromise. If they both want to play with the same toy at once, you can always get them toys that are big enough and shareable for both of them to play at once. But if you notice that even then, one child seems to be not letting the other use that toy, remove it from both of them so that nobody can have it.
Remember that as kids learn and grow they also begin to learn about things like the respectful way to behave towards another person, what they should and should not say, accept difference in opinions and understand that their perspective may not be the only one around, and this is a very important part of growing up as well as cognitive development.
While sibling rivalry may literally be sucking the life force out of you, understand that there are many ways to deal with it and that you can be educated about it too. Gaining education in nannying and caring for children can really help you take the sibling rivalry phase with better confidence. If you are in the profession of nannying, this can help you look after the children entrusted to you better.
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Up for consideration is a clothing pattern to fit the 14" Kish Dolls; Wren, Piper, Raven & Lark. The pattern includes a long sleeve turtleneck top with snap closure in the back, a pleated wrap skirt and a long sleeve jacket with three pockets. Included are separate pattern pieces, instructions and photos of possible outfits. Pattern has been designed to use with tee shirt knits, light weight wool and wool blends and similar weight fabric. This design is also available forr43cm BJD MSD dolls, Ellowyne Wilde and Marley Wentworth. The PDF version prints on 8 1/2 x 14 legal size paper.


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Benakal  is a village in the Yelburga taluk of Koppal district in the Indian state of Karnataka.

See also
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Munirabad
Hampi
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Adam has been in the remodeling business for over 7 years and has been with Hatchett since 2015. Adam enjoys meeting new people and helping home owner's live more comfortably in their home.
On his time off, he is often in his garage doing car repair/maintenance or immersing himself in the world of PC gaming.


Robert Leshner, a chartered financial analyst and the founder of Compound, a San Francisco-based firm focused on creating interest rate markets for crypto assets, recently told Fortune that one of the problems with digital currencies is that you cannot earn interest on them.
Leshner's response to this was to launch Compound - a company which holds users' cryptocurrency and pays them a rate of return. Backed by investments from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, and Coinbase Ventures, Compound lets users deposit their basic attention tokens (BAT), augur (REP), 0x (ZRX), and wrapped Ethereum (WETH) - in order to earn interest on them.
Leshner said his company is planning to add support for other cryptocurrencies in the future - including stablecoins. He thinks stablecoins, which are backed 1-to-1 with USD, are easy to create and there are many crypto traders interested in buying them.
However, Leshner noted that companies issuing stablecoins are actually borrowing money for free from the buyers as they are not paying any interest. These companies are also charging usage or transaction fees when they issue stablecoins.
Leshner, an economics graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, explained that many firms are supplying stablecoins because it's a lucrative business. As CryptoGlobe reported in September, two regulated stablecoins were launched: Gemini Dollar (GUSD) and Paxos Standard (PAX).
Since then, many other companies and organizations have announced that they are planning to introduce their own stablecoin. Leshner has predicted there could soon be over 50 actively traded stablecoins in the cryptocurrency market - which would be similar to the situation when many US banks in 19th century began issuing their own version of the dollar.
When questioned about whether the US Federal Reserve would start issuing its own digital dollar, Leshner said it was not something that would happen anytime soon.
The advantage of tokenization is it brings transparency and programmability to currency. When dollars are open to blockchain there's so much more innovation that can occur.
He explained that blockchain-based tokenized currencies have the ability to interact with smart contracts - which gives them more functionality compared to fiat money which is limited to serving as a medium of exchange.
We've always known crypto in an environment of essentially zero or low interest rates. And that's an environment of easy and loose money where capital has been prolific and looking for returns wherever it was found. We're finally starting to enter an environment of rising interest rates which crypto has never seen before and it's going to be potentially challenging to the price of a lot of crypto assets just like it will be for a lot assets in general, including equities.


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Home » Four U.S. Organizations Receive Nation's Highest Honor for Performance Excellence
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Four U.S. Organizations Receive Nation's Highest Honor for Performance Excellence
WASHINGTON — U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker named four organizations as the 2016 recipients of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest Presidential honor for sustainable excellence through visionary leadership, organizational alignment, systemic improvement and innovation.
This year's recipients—two small businesses and two health care providers—represent four states, including the first awardee from Idaho; and feature four distinctly different operations, including the first winner ever from the long-term care and rehabilitation field and the first awardee from the textile industry since 1989.
• The 2016 Baldrige Award recipients—listed with their category—are:
• Don Chalmers Ford, Rio Rancho, New Mexico (small business)
• Momentum Group, Irvine, California (small business)
• Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Center - Mountain Valley, Kellogg, Idaho (health care)
• Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land, Texas (health care)
"This year's honorees are trailblazers in innovation, small business, health care and sustainable textiles. Their visionary leadership is helping to power the economy and increase our ability to compete globally," said Secretary Pritzker. "The Commerce Department proudly supports these four outstanding organizations for their unwavering commitment to performance excellence and their dedication to always reaching higher."
The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) manages the Baldrige Award in cooperation with the private sector. An independent board of examiners recommended this year's Baldrige Award recipients from a field of 34 applicants after evaluating them in seven areas defined by the Baldrige Excellence Framework: leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis and knowledge management; workforce; operations; and results. An organization may compete for the award in one of six categories: manufacturing, service, small business, health care, education and nonprofit (including government agencies).
"We are particularly excited about the diversity of the organizations being recognized this year," said Robert Fangmeyer, director of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. "Like those before them, the 2016 honorees have created robust processes and cultures that focus on benefitting their customers, workforce and communities, and in doing so, have achieved outstanding operational and business results."
To date, more than 1,600 U.S. organizations have applied for the Baldrige Award, and there are more than 30 independent Baldrige-based state and regional award programs covering nearly all 50 states. Internationally, the program has served as a model for nearly 100 excellence programs. In addition, many organizations use the Baldrige framework for its improvement and innovation strategies without applying for any of these awards.
During the period 2010-2014, more than 4 million copies of the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence, the core of the Baldrige Framework, were distributed. Their widespread acceptance and use both nationally and globally has dramatically impacted all types of organizations.
Take for example, these achievements by the 2016 Baldrige Award winners:
New employees at Don Chalmers Ford (DCF) are mentored by senior leaders and work with the general manager using the firm's "How I Connect" guide that aligns each individual's role to the company's core values and to delivering the "DCF Experience." This has helped increase the retention rate of sales consultants from 56.3 percent in 2011 to 71.4 percent in 2015, and increase gross profit by 13 percent for 2012-2015. Both marks are significantly higher than the national averages of 26 percent and 8.4 percent, respectively.
In support of its core value of "bettering the world around us," Momentum Group was the first in its industry to offer a full textile product line of reduced environmental impact fabrics. In just over two decades, Momentum Group's sales have grown more than 400 percent and have outperformed the industry for 19 years out of the 22 that the firm has been in business.
For seven consecutive years, Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation Center—Mountain Valley has achieved a five-star quality rating—the highest possible—from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, a ranking designed to help potential residents, families and caregivers compare nursing homes. Less than one percent of 15,600 skilled nursing facilities nationwide received the five-star rating over that period of time.
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital ranks among the top 10 percent nationally for a number of performance metrics, including emergency center arrival-to-discharge time, compliance with regulations to reduce medication errors, bed turnaround times, radiology and laboratory result turnaround times, and the use of computerized physician order entry.
The Baldrige judges also may recognize best practices in one or more of the Baldrige Criteria categories by organizations that are candidates for the award but are not selected as a recipient. This year, the judges have chosen six organizations for this honor (listed with the categories for which they are acknowledged):
• City of Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado—leadership
• Kaiser Permanente San Diego, San Diego, California—leadership
• Maury Regional Medical Center, Columbia, Tennessee—leadership
• Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina—leadership and strategy
• Park Place Lexus of Texas, Plano, Texas—customers
• Southern Management Corporation, Vienna, Virginia—workforce
The 2016 Baldrige Award will be presented at an April 2017 ceremony during the Quest for Excellence conference in Baltimore, MD.
The Baldrige Program raises awareness about the importance of performance excellence in driving the U.S. and global economy; provides organizational assessments, training, tools and criteria; educates leaders in businesses, schools, health care organizations, and government and nonprofit organizations; shares the best practices of national role models; and recognizes those role models with the Baldrige Award. The Baldrige Program is a public-private partnership managed by NIST and funded through user fees and the financial support of the Baldrige Foundation.
The Baldrige Award was established by Congress in 1987 and is not given for specific products or services. Since the first group was recognized in 1988, 113 awards have been presented to 106 organizations (including seven repeat recipients).
For more information, visit the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program website.
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American kiteboarder Rob Douglas took his third Kite Speed World Championship crown after racing in perfect conditions at the Masirah Island event in Oman earlier this week.
The only racer to reach a top speed of over 50 knots in ideal kiteboarding conditions on the island's flat and shallow lagoon, Douglas pipped French defending world champion Alex Caizergues to the title, with British rider Dave Williams repeating his third-place finish of last year.
Robert Harding (USA) and Enrico Giordano (ITA) completed the top-five positions in a competitive international field. Douglas' US compatriot Mandi Browning won the women's class ahead of Britain's Anna Weld.
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Pelosi Flies Dems to Spain on Taxpayers' Dime To Say 'We're Still In' Climate Change Fight
By Joe Saunders
Published December 2, 2019 at 3:50pm
She's nothing if not shameless.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knows her party controls only one of two houses of Congress.
She knows that President Donald Trump is almost certain to be in the White House through the rest of his term, and probably a second, despite her party's best efforts to impeach him.
She must know that millions of her own countrymen aren't even sold on the idea that the world is facing an existential threat from the internal combustion engine or farting cows.
But none of that stopped the California Democrat from using taxpayer money to fly herself and 14 Democrats from the House and Senate all the way to Madrid, Spain, this week.
They'll be attending the COP25 conference on implementing the Paris agreement on climate change — the same Paris agreement that Trump pulled out of on Nov. 4, at the first opportunity he had. The withdrawal will take effect Nov. 4, 2020, one year after the withdrawal, and one day after the next presidential election.
"By coming here we want to say to everyone, we're still in," Pelosi said at a news conference in the Spanish capital, according to Politico. "The United States is still in."
Nancy Pelosi on climate change, at the opening of the U.N. conference on climate change: "This is a mission, this is a passion, this is a scientifically-based approach, to all. We are here to say to all of you, on behalf of the House of Representatives … We're still in it." pic.twitter.com/mQUFhNf937
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 2, 2019
By that, of course, she means Democrats are still in.
Do you think Democrats will take back the White House next year?
If, God forbid, they recapture the White House in 2020 and set the country back on the course of self-destruction charted by the Obama administration and cheered by liberals in newsrooms and faculty lounges, they could well reverse the tide of American economic growth, prosperity and low unemployment that was ushered in by the election of Donald Trump.
The Washington Post's Dino Grandoni wrote that the "trip is the latest sign that Democrats are preparing for the day Trump is no longer president — when the United States may once again start pushing other nations to cut their climate-warming emissions. "
Still, it's a message that could easily have been sent with an email, a text or even Skype if an actual conference was in order. If a human delegation to Madrid was an absolute necessity, surely one or two competent Democrats could probably have handled things.
But that was clearly not enough for Pelosi, whose Democratic entourage, according to Breitbart, numbered 13 of the speaker's fellow House members along with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, all going to Spain to gas about global warming.
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Of course, the lawmakers were traveling on the taxpayers' dime, Breitbart reported, because their presence in Madrid was absolutely vital to the well-being of the American electorate.
At least Democrats like Pelosi can try to convince themselves of that.
More honest Americans — particularly those with an eye for the irony of using carbon-emissions-producing aircraft to attend a climate change conference — might disagree.
Nancy Pelosi & Congressional Democrats are flying 3,781 miles to a global climate change summit
The main focus:
Stopping unnecessary contributions to atmospheric CO2 pollution via aviation
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) December 1, 2019
You mean the flying for me but not for thee club?
— Laurie Dotson (@LaurieAnnDee) December 2, 2019
She also has no authority to make any proposals or agree to anything. @TRHLofficial it looks like another duty free shopping spree
— W. Clayton (@weciv01) December 2, 2019
Seriously was it even necessary for them to go & spend taxpayers $$? They've already wasted tremendous amounts.
— Targeted Justice (@JusticeTargeted) December 2, 2019
That last tweet asks the money question. Of course, the junket wasn't necessary.
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement negotiated by Trump has a better chance of being passed by Pelosi's House Democrats than Trump is likely to ever agree to any requirements mandated by the climate change fascists at the United Nations.
But that doesn't deter Democrats like Pelosi from wasting legislative time and American taxpayer dollars on pointless travel — just as the fact that the chance the Republican Senate will ever convict and remove from office a Republican president who resembles Ronald Reagan in his ability to rejuvenate the country's economy hasn't deterred Pelosi from squandering legislative time and American taxpayers dollars on an "impeachment inquiry" that's turned what should be a solemn, last-resort constitutional process into a cheap, partisan political stunt.
And Nancy Pelosi just proved it again.
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Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro desk editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015.
Joe has spent more than 30 years as a reporter, copy editor and metro editor in newsrooms in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida. He's been with Liftable Media since 2015. Largely a product of Catholic schools, who discovered Ayn Rand in college, Joe is a lifelong newspaperman who learned enough about the trade to be skeptical of every word ever written. He was also lucky enough to have a job that didn't need a printing press to do it.
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Espresso: My double was served in a 12oz. paper cup. It reached nearly 4oz. in volume and was extremely hot. The crema was almost uniformly pale and thin; there was a small darker strip present, and the thinness of the crema was certainly not helped by the wide-brimmed cup. The heat seemed to blanch out all the flavour that might have otherwise been present. There was a bit of nuttiness and bitterness.
Atmosphere: All Caffe e Via locations are drive-throughs, so I'm going to spare my readers a description of the interior of my car. This status possibly excuses the use of a paper cup, but it still should have been properly sized.
I'm sorry but you must've visited Starbucks not Caffe e Via. Caffe e Via is a 4 time consecutive SCAA TOPS award winner for excellence in coffee. We may be a drive thru coffee shop but our coffee is some of the best you will find around. Our espresso blend is 100% arabica beans, no fillers.
There is NO possible way your double shot could've been 4oz. Are you measuring by eye? Each double shot measures to 2.5 ounces. As a barista at C.E.V. I know from rigorous training and experience that our doubles are 2.5 ounces and timed from 20-30 seconds with a goal of a 25 second shot. Anything outside those perimeters and the shot is discarded.
As for an extremely hot shot. I'm sorry, I thought coffee was supposed to be hot. To be sure though, I tested the espresso with three different thermometers upon reading your review. All read out to 150 degrees fahrenheit, the approximate temperature of our lattes, mochas, and all other hot beverages we serve.
As a shift leader and barista at Caffe e Via in Los Banos I take pride in the quality of service to our customers and to the complete dedication, devotion, and respect for espresso we serve up. I'd recommend stopping by again to have another double shot where it's ground, tamped, and extracted right from the porta filter into that paper cup and served up immediately. With rich, semi-dark, thick crema that makes the taste buds explode and the true essence of coffee come out.
Absolutely, I estimate shot volume by eye, and if you'd read more than one of my reviews, you should have come across sufficient information to realize that. I thought I recalled stating something to the effect that I'm not so experienced in estimating in large cups and so I might be off, but it isn't here. Perhaps I left that out accidentally, or perhaps I mistyped 4oz. when I meant 3oz. Honestly, I don't recall as it's been a while.
Espresso is supposed to be hot, but it isn't supposed to be of a mouth-scalding termperature. As you most assuredly know, a grouphead can heat up when it is idle. I would assume that the barista simply didn't perform an adequate cooling flush.
Remember that I only evaluate a single experience, although I'm always happy to come back and take a renewed look. I don't get out that way very often, but I will see if I can stop by when I can.


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A laboratory for policy
The TRACE model shows that relaxing social distancing with current national capacity for testing and contact tracing "flattens the curve," while a more gradual relaxation of social distancing combined with expanded testing and quarantine policies can yield true suppression. (Figure courtesy Ross Hammond/Brookings Institution)
Several months into the biggest public health crisis in a century, policy-makers in the U.S. and around the world are trying to figure out when and how to begin reopening businesses and public spaces. But with so many uncertainties remaining around the coronavirus, including how many people have it, how contagious asymptomatic people are, and whether those who have recovered are immune, it can be difficult for officials to make informed decisions. And the stakes could not be higher: Reopening too soon, or without adequate precautions, could cause a surge of contagion and more deaths.
SFI External Professor Ross Hammond, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, along with collaborators at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, has developed a new agent-based computer model that helps policy-makers wrangle with that uncertainty. The simulation model, called Testing Responses through Agent-based Computational Epidemiology, or TRACE, incorporates both knowns and unknowns to produce multiple variations for any particular policy option.
"Unlike many models, we really try to embrace that uncertainty," Hammond says. "We're trying to determine which policies are a good idea to pursue, and we want policies that are robust to that uncertainty."
As an agent-based model, TRACE can incorporate variations in age, contact networks, activity patterns, and likelihood of infection, all critical factors in determining how to contain COVID-19.
For example, a state that's considering focusing on testing and contact tracing to contain the virus and ensure a safe reopening may want to know how extensive testing would need to be if asymptomatic carriers of the virus are contagious, versus if they are not. Or officials may want to know how accurate tests would need to be, or what kinds of social distancing measures might still be needed to minimize risk as businesses reopen. Whatever the question may be, the model, which simulated 10,000 different combinations of factors, has a simulation for that.
With such precise modeling of complex policy scenarios, the TRACE project, which Hammond describes as a " policy laboratory," can help decision-makers set effective policies that go beyond "flattening the curve" and instead actually suppress the virus while allowing for a gradual relaxing of social distancing.
The next step for the new model, unveiled in May, is applying it to real-world decisions.
"We've been in touch with policy-makers ranging from U.S. states to the White House committee on reopening to foreign governments around the world," Hammond says. "They're all interested in this model."
Read more about the TRACE model, and view the interactive dashboard.
Read Hammond's blog post, "Developing policies for effective COVID-19 containment: The TRACE model" (May 15, 2020)


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The Japanese Bitters Co. Yuzu Bitters (100ml)
Creator, Yuki Yamazaki, formed his vision for a line of Japanese bitters after making cocktails during a charity event at the Japanese Embassy in Toronto in 2011. The drinks were so popular, and guest's interest in classic Japanese flavors so piqued, that he immediately started planning a larger-scale production. In 2015, Yamazaki travelled to the Herman Jansen distillery in the Netherlands to learn more about distillation. Upon his return to Japan, he implemented what he had learned and spent a following two years perfecting his Shiso, Yuzu, and Umami bitters.
Yuzu has become a beloved flavor because of the ability to utilize this vibrant and sweet/tart citrus fruit in a more concentrated form is a game-changer. A few drops of Yuzu Bitters in an Old Fashioned or Martini can highlight familiar flavors in unexpected ways and turn tried-and-true recipes into technicolor renditions. The Japanese Bitters Co. Yuzu Bitters contain only fresh yuzu, alcohol, and water. 27% ABV