[This post was originally uploaded on July 31, 2014. It has been updated below with new information on December 19, 2015 and then on March 11, 2015.]
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Nielsen is a long-established and industry leading firm in measuring, analyzing and reporting upon media deployment, usage and audiences. Their services also include a similar range of sophisticated services concerning consumer behavior and products.
A fascinating new report appeared on their sites Newswire section on June 2, 2014 entitled This TV Season’s Biggest Moments on Twitter that chronologically mapped which US TV shows from September 2013 through May 2014 generated the greatest volume of traffics and postings on Twitter. The categories included:
- Greatest Reach
- Most Tweets
- Greatest Activity and Reach
- Most Impressions
- Most Tweets Per Unique
- Most Tweets and Tweets Per Minute
Each of these data points is clearly explained and includes the names of the shows, their corresponding data generated by these massive amounts of Twitter activity, and the hashtags and handles involved. In a single screen, this data visualization is a terrific example of how to present so much information that is belied by its elegant and informative design.
Moreover, the value of this data must be highly significant in a multitude of ways to, among others, advertisers, entertainment companies, media planners and producers, content strategists and marketers, and demographers in assessing their respective audiences and clients.
December 19, 2014 Update:
For me, the best story told on TV during the 2014 season was – – in a fictional world where “brains” take on an entirely different significance – – The Walking Dead on AMC in terms of the extraordinary number of tweets about ongoing adventures Sheriff Ricky and the Grimes Gang. This was covered on Nielsen.com on December 15, 2014 in a post entitled Tops of 2014: Social TV. TWD averaged twice as many tweets as its next competitor in the ongoing series category. As I read scores of TWD tweets on the mid-season finale myself, everyone will miss you, Beth.
March 11, 2015 Update:
We are now experiencing the emergence of what is being called Social TV, a phenomenon where Twitter and other social media traffic and sentiment data and metrics are exerting significant influences upon on-air advertising campaigns, audience perceptions and creative choices. Just to cite another example of this is the contemporaneous two-screen experience audiences can now join on shows such as The Walking Dead.
Scientific support for the relevancy, accuracy and scalability of Twitter data and metrics on individual TV shows continues to grow. Persuasive new evidence was released on March 9, 2015, in a report authored by Nielsen entitled Social TV: A Bellwether for TV Audience Engagement. An informative article on this report was also published in yesterday’s edition of The New York Times entitled Social Study of TV Viewers Backs Twitter’s Claims to Be Barometer of Public Mood by Vindu Goel. I will sum up, annotate and comment on this article and supplement this with a look at the Nielsen report itself. I very highly recommend clicking through and reading both of them in their entirety.
Nielsen used 300 people in a study of their brain activity while they watched eight selected shows in an effort to find the level of correlation to their volume of tweets about the same content. The results showed a significantly close correlation. The Nielsen report contains a concise graph of the data that visually charts this point at 79.5%.*
As a result, researchers can now accurately assess the level of a particular show’s “depth of engagement” of its audience with the events as they unfolds on the small screen. Moreover, this is not only for the show itself, but on a more granular level on a scene-by-scene basis. Thus, this study and report reaffirms Twitter’s assertions that its data accurately represents its platform’s real-time engagement of its users in real-time during a show’s broadcast, as well as a show’s “popularity”.
Most importantly, this data and its interpretations can be used to sell ads to advertisers looking to best maximize their expenditures in their efforts to most effectively reach the audiences they are seeking for their services and products.
Twitter data and metrics can also be used for predicting potential audiences for new shows even before they premiere, according to a report Nielsen released on January 15, 2015 entitled Must See TV: How Twitter Activity Ahead of Fall Season Premieres Could Indicate Success.
Nonetheless, neither Nielsen nor Twitter have addressed the key issue of the degree to which the volume of Twitter traffic actually increase the size of the viewing audience.
Nielson is planning another study to evaluate the impact of Twitter activity concerning TV ads upon the audiences who view them. (Might I suggest starting with this current TV ad about Mountain Dew Kickstart that has been viewed nearly 6.5 million times on YouTube and makes me laugh out loud every time I see it!)
* Issues concerning the distinctions between correlation and causation were raised in two recent Subway Fold posts on November 27, 2014 entitled Minting New Big Data Types and Analytics for Investors and then on January 27, 2015 in a post entitled Studies Link Social Media Data with Personality and Health Indicators.


Discovering the Intermodal Transport Chain
A More Modern Example of these Innovations in Transport is Provided by the British East India Company, which, before the opening of the Suez Canal, established a maritime route between England and India through the Mediterranean. This service was characterized by a novel approach: a ship left England for Port Said, where another waited to complete the journey from Suez to India. Meanwhile, the land portion between Port Said and Suez was carried out using dromedaries, taking advantage of their ability to cross the arid desert.
These examples illustrate a constant search for efficiency and safety in the transportation of goods, an effort that has shaped entire civilizations.
The heart of intermodal transport
Now, let's delve into the details of the intermodal transportation chain. Before we do, it's crucial to understand that intermodal transport is based on a system where goods move from their origin to their final destination through various means of transportation, all without the need to change or handle the cargo!
In this mode of transport, the container emerges as the unsung hero and essential element of the process. However, the container is not alone, as there are various cargo units designed to meet different needs, including mobile boxes and semi-trailers. Each of these units plays a vital role in the intermodal chain, ensuring that everything from small packages to large loads reaches its destination safely and efficiently.
The intermodal transport process begins with the collection of goods, whether from a factory or warehouse. This first step usually involves a truck equipped with a container platform, responsible for transporting the container to a seaport or railway terminal. This phase is commonly known as the 'first mile'. Once the container reaches its intermediate destination, which could be another port or terminal, a second truck with a similar platform takes the container to its final location. This last segment is known as the 'last mile', and the final arrival point can be another warehouse or a factory.
The interoperability evolution and sustainability
The current focus in intermodal transportation is not to compete between modes, but to complement them. The goal is to form integrated and competitive logistics chains, crucial in a globalized world. This paradigm shift is redefining logistics and opening new avenues for innovation and cooperation.
Despite its advantages, the intermodal transport chain faces unique challenges. From managing different regulatory systems to coordinating multiple actors, each step requires precision and collaboration. However, these challenges also present opportunities for innovation, from technological improvements to new logistic management strategies.
Another crucial aspect of the intermodal chain is its environmental impact. In an era where sustainability is key, this system offers a more efficient and ecological way to transport goods. Route optimization and reducing empty trips contribute significantly to reducing the carbon footprint in transport.
Looking to the future, the intermodal transport chain is set to play an even more significant role in our global economy. With technological advancements and a growing focus on sustainability, we can expect to see innovations that make transportation even more efficient, safe, and environmentally friendly.
Weaving the Global Commerce Network
The intermodal transport chain is not just a technical concept as it represents a revolution in how we understand and execute the global movement of goods. Each container, each pallet, and each cargo unit are links in an increasingly integrated and efficient network, essential for the future of commerce and international logistics.
Following the end of World War II, a revolution in global transportation unfolded, marking a before and after in how we move goods across the world. This transformation began with the invention of transportation units such as pallets and containers, paving the way for what we now know as the intermodal transport chain.
The origins of the intermodal chain
To fully understand this phenomenon, we must look back in time. The history of transportation is rich and diverse, ranging from the ancient dolias found in Liguria (Italy), which were wooden containers used to transport liquid or semi-liquid loads, to the cages used by the Romans to transport wild beasts from Africa to Roman circuses.


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Strolling through Culzean Castle grounds one comes along many scenes like this. - Well, maybe not all the time though as this was a rather special day in Autumn and shows the beautiful colours of these trees at this time.
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Thank you Joanna, I think you have saved this picture from the 'withdrawn' collection. I am especially encouraged by your like award. Greetings from the UK, Herb
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Thanks again Herb, is a place of plain dear to me.
This is magical Herb, it really draws you in, filled with curiosity....what's in there?
Silvy do I understand that you have been here? If not I can recommend you to visit. Thanks for enjoying my picture here.
Laurel, Cilzean is quite a large estate and has a most beautiful walled garden. This gate is one of many leading out (or in) and shows us a glimpse of the cultured woodland. Maybe, I shall post a picture of the gardens themselves but I have so many of that place as I had a one week entrance ticket! they will not all fit into my gallery.
ps - try zooming into the map to see the gardens themselves!
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Georgy and Loe, welcome to you both to my gallery. A simple arch and gateway displayed here that must appeal to your taste. Thank you. I am glad you called and liked this. I shall try to look at both your galleries too.
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The inspiring dancer, Alex Owens will dazzle the audiences with her chic dance moves in the third largest city in Ohio this time. So make your holiday season more special by getting hold of Flashdance Columbus tickets for the upcoming production.
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5 tablespoon corn oil
2 medium onions, chopped
1 teaspoon shredded ginger
1 teaspoon sliced garlic
6 whole dried red chillies
3 cardamom pods
2 cinnamon sticks
6 black peppercorns
1/2 teaspoon salt
450 boned leg of lamb
2 1/2 cup water
2 fresh green chillies
2 tablespoon chopped fresh coriander
Directions: How to Cook Khara Masala Lamb (Whole Spices Lamb)
1. Heat the oil in a large saucepan. Lower the heat slightly and fry the onions until they are lightly browned.
2. Add half the ginger and half the garlic and stir well.
3. Throw in half the red chillies, the cardamoms, cinnamon, peppercorns, cloves and salt.
4. Add the lamb and fry over a medium heat. Stir continously with a semi-circular movement, using a wooden spoon to scrape the bottom of the pan. Continue in this way for about 5 minutes.
5. Pour in the water, cover with a lid and cook over a medium-low heat for 35-40 minutes, or until the water has evaporated and the meat is tender.
6. Add the rest of the ginger, garlic and dried red chillies, along with the fresh green chillies and fresh coriander.
7. Continue to stir over the heat until you see some free oil on the sides of the pan. Transfer to a serving dish and serve immediately.
NOTE: With whole spices (khara) used in this curry, you should warn your diners of their presence especially the whole dried red chillies! ;-)
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Nearly 400 districts and 120 individual schools were recognized for their efforts in making music education widely available to students.
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December 31, 2014
If in rounding out 2014 you're still finding yourself a bit fuzzy on the difference between the common-core standards and curriculum, two recent NPR pieces might offer some clarity.

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Some two weeks after the visit to Kalmar, Briggen Tre Kronor and Hållbara Hav hosted a rewarding seminar about the current status of the Baltic Sea. ”Is it getting better or worse?” was the intriguing title. The question requires quite complex answers, but still the different speakers gave hope to the audience. The status of … Continue reading The Baltic Sea – is it getting better or worse?
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Favorite movie released in 2006 that you saw: The Prestige
Runners up: Invincible, Casino Royale, Pirates of the Caribbean II, Akeelah and the Bee.
Honorable Mentions: The Devil Wears Prada and The Guardian. And I'd like to make a nod to a 2005 movie I loved but saw in 2006: Millions.
Least favorite movie(s) released in 2006 that you saw: Little Miss Sunshine
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Saturday, 28 June 2014
Saturday Spotlight Week 34
Welcome to The Saturday Spotlight!
This week's page is 'Sailing' by Tracey (TLB)
I love the watercolour effect here - goes with the nautical theme perfectly. I also think the framing is fab and makes the photos really stand out. The journaling in a circle adds the finishing touch.
The photos are Tracey and her husband on a cruise. Very nice too!
Tracey used a template from Studio Dawn Inskip.
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Internal clock influences skin cancer risk
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How harmful UV rays are to our skin is also determined by our internal clock. Evidence has been discovered by US researchers in mice. The ability of skin cells to repair UV damage fluctuates throughout the day, the researchers report in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The risk of skin cancer developing from such UV damage is therefore higher at certain times of the day - even when the UV radiation is the same. "Also, humans are likely to show such a circadian rhythm in their susceptibility to UV-induced skin cancer, " study coordinator Aziz Sancar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his colleagues write.
For their study, the researchers expose mice to the same dose of UV radiation at different times of the day. Both groups developed skin cancer over several weeks. The animals that were irradiated in the morning, however, got up to 500 percent more tumors than animals that were exposed to radiation only in the afternoon. By analyzing the skin cells, the scientists also found out why: "Mice in the skin are copied in the morning more DNA molecules, but there are fewer repairs than in the evening, " say the researchers. As a result, the cells are more susceptible to DNA damage in the morning, as caused by UV light.
Inner clock is different in humans and mice
The scientists also believe that humans have such a day cycle of DNA repair. Compared to the nocturnal mice, however, the daytime running of the internal clock is offset by twelve hours. The DNA repair is therefore the most effective in humans in the morning and the weakest in the evening, the researchers conclude. "Our findings suggest that reducing the risk of skin cancer in humans would be to just sunbathe or visit a tanning salon in the morning, " says study leader Aziz Sancar of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
So far, there have been only recommendations to avoid the sun during the particularly UV-rich noon. In the morning and in the evening, the UV levels of sunlight fall and are then about the same low. Now you know that the skin even with the same radiation exposure at different times of the day also react differently sensitively. display
Repair protein ensures the repair of UV damage
Responsible for the daily differences in DNA repair is mainly a repair protein, the so-called XPA, the researchers say. This usually ensures that damaged areas are cut out of the genome molecule and replaced. To find out how active this protein is at different times of the day, the researchers kept mice in each of twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness. Each hour they took skin samples from the animals and analyzed the content of the protein XPA and the effectiveness of the DNA repair. The researchers performed the same test on mice whose internal clock was disabled by a gene mutation.
Daily differences only with functioning inner clock
For mice with a normal working clock, the highest levels of XPA were found in the early evening, the researchers report. In the morning, on the other hand, the salary is very low. By contrast, the values for the "no-time" mice always remained the same. This proves that the amount of this protein in the mice and, most likely, in humans is also controlled by the internal clock, the researchers say. In order to find out how much the influence of the internal clock on human DNA repair is, they now want to measure this on human skin samples. (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2011; DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1115249108)
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As i said in one other post that i'm not going to link. I rolled my second captain a few week ago and after reading stuff about how bad was to level a captain here the thoughts about the 30-ish first level. I will eventually update for the 30-50, 50-60 and 65+. Will take some times as i don't play that toon that often.
First, I am sure some people will say that i've already rolled one and i used how slow a captain is, though after 3 years the game changed and it wasn't that slow.
To roll that captain i decided to go on another server so i would not have (or a very few) help from other.
The leveling from 1 to 26 was kinda linear with the Archet, Staddle, Bree, West Breeland (skipped the old forest) and bandit hub, though i did the northern breeland (orc and also the snapper soup quest) then finish with Barrows Down.
Before leaving for the LL i make sure to grind the needed virtues in starter area (eredluin, Shire and Breeland). I don't have them in mind but i focused on the vit/morale one, determination, valour, justice loyalty and stuff (gonna relist these). No res/mit virtues as i'm not planning to do heavy instance.
In the lone-lands i did the 3 quests hub (forgotten inn, the on by goblin and the dorf by dourhand) then i got my horse path at Ost Guruth and ported to Threstlebridge and started to do the quest there.
I putted also some time into Crafting Vocation, chose Jooler. Now i'm halfway to master T2 and accumulating ressources to finish T2 and starting T3.
It took 24 hour and half of game time though i did trait/virtue grind, craft grind and cash grind. Decent gear and i'm sitting with around 6g.
I do not think it was long, hard or even difficult. It was also a lot more easier then it used to be back in pre-book9 or 10. Also even at lv25+ the mobs are still easy to kill even for a captain. It is a very interesting experience to see how the game changed since 2007 in the zone that i haven't rolled into in a while and using the captain (my personal favorite class) added a little more to the experience.
So i'm asking myself, do those who complaint about captain's slowlyness knows how to play or they're just repeating lies from other opinion..


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Cutting plugs of tissue culture produces bushy ficus plants. Propagation ficus plant , how to grow ficus from cutting. However, these roots start off growing underground. Ficus Alii PlantBotanical Name: Ficus binnendiijkii ‘Alii.’ Other Names: Amstel King, Ficus Amstel, … So far, the wasp (Eupristina verticillata is the scientific name) hasn’t spread much outside its native Asian range, except for the Americas. Harsh, direct sunlight may burn the leaves. At times, a sister species called Ficus retusa is mistaken for microcarpa. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. This species is quite common as a bonsai, and there’s a trick to telling it apart from Ficus benjamina, another favorite houseplant. 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This method reduces the time it takes to grow new trees from seeds by about a year and provides some foresight into which characteristics the cuttings will have. The genius Ficus contains more than 800 species, which includes fig-bearing trees and houseplants. How to Grow a Ficus Ginseng Bonsai. Constant pruning means checking on the plant often and removing twigs and growth that doesn’t please you. Ficus benjamina is certainly one of the favorite plants all around, and deserves to be taken care of diligently. It has slender branches that arch gracefully from a light gray trunk. Place the cuttings into good-draining potting soil and cover with clear plastic, which creates a greenhouse. It can be easily propagated by seed (Growing ficus plants from seed in spring), by cutting, or by Air-layering (Air-layering will work best in April – May). All ficus bonsai trees have milky latex sap. 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Maresa Pryor-Luzier has studied and photographed the natural world for more than thirty years. She was raised in Florida and now resides in New Mexico with her husband, Sadie the dog, kitties, miniature donkeys, and horses.
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Vintage pendants given a fun retro touch with colourful beading
After buying a job lot of vintage jewelery for 99 pence I found a couple of pendants with out chains and decided to use varied colours of seedbeads instead of putting them on new chains in order to make them unique and one of a kind. This way I could choose just how long I wanted to make them and what colours I wanted. I bought some time ago some boxes of beads based on colours from the shop Tyger and used these on the necklaces and added jump rings on the ends rather than tie the thread and used these to attach the pendants in order to keep them in place. They remind me of the kids jewellery me and my sister used to have to play dress up with.
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Our 2015 Columbia River Gorge Driving Tour launched bright and early Saturday morning May 30 from BMW Northwest in Tacoma. Our host, Chris Busch, Pre Owned Sales Manager, welcomed us with refreshments in their new, state-of the-art showroom, a great venue for our morning drivers’ meeting. Thank you to Chris and BMW Northwest for reaching out to our Club members!
Once on the road, we covered lots of back road territory and great scenery including coastal mud flats, forests, river crossings and an ocean. As our 24 BMWs approached Astoria, where the Columbia reaches the ocean, the sun emerged and curvy roads drew us into the coastal lowlands.
Arriving in Astoria, we pulled over for some great BBQ before turning up river and crossing back over the Longview Bridge. From there we could enjoy long views down the Columbia on one side and Mt. St. Helens on the other.
After jumping on I-5 briefly, SR 503 returned us to the twisties as we worked ourselves back down to the river gorge with Mt. Hood in the distance. SR 14 wound us up along the river to our final destination at Skamania Lodge in Stevenson.
There we were welcomed with exclusive parking and an outdoor grassy lounge. It was great just to relax, compare notes, and visit with fellow members and friends, old and new.
All in all, it was a great day of driving, exploring, and connecting with fellow enthusiasts.
See you on the next tour!
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#1. Put An Awesome Collection On A Dining Room Table
Displaying a collection of Chinese porcelains is a great way to draw guests in to your dining room. You can even have a separate display table along the wall in the dining area to display more exotic and pricey porcelain pieces or small statuettes. The pieces don’t even have to match, exactly, but they should look together as a whole. Just having a set of porcelains on your dining room table instantly makes you look classier and more well-traveled (and definitely more sophisticated).
#2. Hang Up An Interior Curtain
Run a linen curtain along a track spanning a kitchen. It can be pulled to hide all the mess of food preparation. Just look at home interior pictures of this concept if you’re a little unclear on it. Once you see it, you’ll wonder why you didn’t take advantage of this idea years before. You’re probably not going to find this home interior decorating idea in any magazine, though. Don’t get a home interior catalog and expect to see it. It’s a little bit unusual as a concept, and you will probably just have to search for it on Google.
#3. Mix And Match The Bedding Up
You can use a really cool theme in your bedroom, like a nautical theme. The mix-and-match feeling of the patterns and faded batik prints can make these type of sheets feel like a bunch of old textiles brought back from a long time at sea. You can even hang antique cage lights from a canopy bed. You can really make your whole bedroom area feel like something out of a nautical adventure story. Don’t go with boring or tired designs for your bedding. Try to be creative and fun, but don’t be so creative that you turn people off when they see the bed. Just don’t go with the ordinary.
4. Put Up An Antique In The Bathroom
Consider turning a guest bathroom into something out of a period piece film. It doesn’t mean you can’t make it modern and clean, too. Just choose a few antique pieces, like an antique table that can double as a bathroom organizer or a pedestal tub.
#5. Paint A Cheap Piece Of Furniture White
You can create an airy, bright, and light feeling with a ton of white paint. You can purchase an old table on Craigslist or at an estate sale and give it a whole new look by painting it in a high-gloss white. You can touch up any old piece of furniture
#6. Put A Whole Bunch Of Plates On A Wall
When you cover an entire wall with plates, it’s just the same as covering it with a piece of art. You can hang up a couple of dozen plates, and it will look really modern and unique. Consider a soft color, like a blue hue, so the plates won’t look so obtrusive.
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If you have a roll of wallpaper lying around, then think about using it for the vinyl window shades in one of your rooms, maybe the guest room. Just wallpaper over them. You just have to go for it. It’s kind of a creative and fun idea, an unconventional idea, and maybe you’ll get a few weird looks for doing it, but most of your guests will love how it looks. It really is a unique idea that you don’t see a whole lot of in interior design magazines.
#8. Spruce Up Your Hallways With Turkish Runner Rugs
Use Turkish runner rugs to really spruce up an area. You can use the rugs to draw attention to a reading nook. Vintage carpets can transform a plain hallway into a uniquely decorated space.
These Interior Design Ideas Are Just The Beginning
These ideas aren’t going to bust the bank, and they are easy to pull off. Plus, they add a whole lot of vibrancy and life to any room. Just use these initial ideas as a springboard for coming up with more of your own, or cherry-pick from this list to make any of your rooms better to live in.


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Voters in Princeton were lined up out the door of the Legion early Saturday to have their say.
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It’s the first time in seven years residents have had the opportunity to vote in a municipal election as the mayor and council were elected by acclamation in 2014.
There are three candidates for mayor in 2018 and fifteen people seeking one of four council seats.
Initially the mayoral contest was a four-way contest, however Jim Manion withdrew his name for health reasons.
At an all-candidates’ debate two weeks ago council hopeful Gino Del-Cottio stated that this election amounts to a referendum on the issues of whether or not Princeton builds a $27 million aquatic centre and whether the KVR will be opened within town boundaries to motorized vehicles.
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In our last blog post, we discussed colors that influence food sales and touched on the potentially strong connection between color and food. Here we’ll expand upon that and go into detail on the powerful emotional connection to food and how you can make it work to your advantage for your gourmet food brand.
But first, let’s ponder food for a moment. Food is necessary to life and provides us with energy. The quality of what we put into our bodies directly affects our well-being and health. We have strong memories of food stemming as far back as from childhood, and taste and smells can evoke these memories.
In packaging, you often can’t smell the food contained within, but the right visuals and messaging can trigger the connection to taste and evoke memories and feelings. You can also evoke a certain type of lifestyle or well-being with food—fit and healthy, rich and indulgent or strong and robust, as a few examples.
When you get clear on your brand message, your target audience and your product’s positioning in the marketplace, you can strategically pinpoint specific feelings and reactions to evoke in your product’s branding. So how exactly do you leverage the emotional connection to food in your retail packaging?
1. Set the right mood.
The overall look and feel of the packaging—colors, typography, imagery, container—all come together to create a certain mood. You need to set the right tone as this is what will draw people in, and it needs to take into account your competitors and the product’s context on the retail shelf. The consumer should get a feeling just by looking at the package regardless of reading any words, as if they didn’t understand the language. All the elements other than the message must be strong enough to create a mood that draws the eye in.
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If your product is cherry pie filling, put cherries on the package. It seems obvious, but that’s the point. Remember, the consumer should be able to understand on a basic level what the product is without reading words, and your product only has a 2–3 second window on the retail shelf. The more you make the brain work (by having to read in order to understand) the less likely the consumer is to buy. The harder they have to work, the sooner they will give up. Make it easy, but also make it interesting and unique. If everyone else is putting cherries on their package, consider doing yours in a way that is different, or make sure your product’s overall packaging is strikingly stronger than its competitors.
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Tantalize the senses by showing the actual product through the package somewhere. If your packaging consists of a label on a container, make sure you leave enough room around the label to see the product well. If it’s a printed pouch or box, be sure to leave a window whenever possible to reveal the product. A photo of the product doesn’t compare (reference our blog post on that topic here) and is more commonly used for a commercial product than specialty and gourmet food. Revealing the actual product conveys its culinary craftsmanship, quality, texture, flavor, color—and it teases, in a good way, by making the consumer want to eat the product. People like to see the product before they buy, and this is especially true regarding food.
4. Tell a story.
Your passion, your history, your purpose for selling this product is what will enrapt them. You could tell a story visually with the right mood, touch on it briefly with a few words (and direct the consumer to your website for more), or—if it makes sense and you have the room—tell the full story on the package, but briefly and succinctly. But here is also where you evoke flavors—made the old-fashioned way, made with exceptional, all-natural ingredients, made with the finest hand-selected, vine-ripened tomatoes… Tell not only your brand story but also the story of your product and how it’s made. Use juicy, visual descriptions that make the mouth water and convince the sale.
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Northern Ireland’s newest millionaire is one of four winners to share the £4.5million Lotto jackpot on April 26.
Identified only as ‘Miss S,’ the lucky lady scooped a life-changing £1,124,068 without ever touching a winning ticket.
The Co Down woman – who entered the draw online – received the good news in an email after her chosen numbers were automatically checked by national-lottery.co.uk.
Interactive winners have the opportunity to have their names released into the public domain or, like Miss S, remain anonymous.
There is also the choice to have some details released through partial publicity.
A recent survey of lottery winners found that many shunned champagne, turning to tea to celebrate.
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In Littlehampton, a civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, sits the Ferry Footbridge. Known fondly as "the Red Bridge," the retractable bridge was in desperate need of repair. A FEVE fluoropolymer paint system was specified to ensure the longevity of the refurbishment and to lower life cycle costs. Before Image via ©A&I Coatings As part of the county's carbon neutr...
The Ear of Corn Water Tower in Rochester, MN, dates back to the early 1930s when the Reid, Murdoch, and Co. canning company was built. The tower has since become a local attraction, showing southern Minnesota's agricultural history. The tower was commissioned in 2018 to be added as a landmark by the city's historic preservation ordinance, protecting the tower from future demolition.
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The psychology of color tells us that orange, a mixture of reds and yellows, showcases creativity. In an article in Arch Daily, the color is described as euphoric and enthusiastic, seen in imaginative projects worldwide. ALUCOBOND® PLUS Spectra Collection's orange panel, Spectra Cupral, has a color-shifting ability. The color-changing panels display an array of orange hues based on focal, natural, and artificial lighting factors.
4300 Wilson Blvd in Arlington, Virginia, is the site of an impressively revamped interior. Inside a 270,000 square-foot Class A office building, the Ballston Point project creates hospitality design in a commercial space. Invoking hospitable design elements, the interior focuses on common, connective spaces, drawing in visitors and staff.


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By Kerry Young, CQ Roll Call
June 27, 2016 -- A November deadline for creating a new Medicare payment system for doctors may leave federal officials little time to significantly change a draft proposal, predicted an Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) official.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) might ease some of the proposed reporting requirements for doctors, but may leave much of its initial proposal intact, said Gayle Lee, director of physician payment policy for the AAMC, in an interview. The agency is required by law to finalize the rules by November if officials intend to implement them when the new payment year begins in January.
CMS unveiled the proposed rules in April. More than 3,000 responses were submitted before a Monday deadline, according to CMS.
"I think there will be tinkering, but the basics of what we've seen will be what they are finalizing," Lee speculated.
Many physicians appealed to the agency to shorten the reporting period for doctors who will be covered by the most common reimbursement approach, the new merit-based incentive payment system. Instead of looking at a full year of data from doctors, a six-month period could be used, she said.
"It's possible CMS may be open to that, although there are concerns with the reliability of quality measures when you reduce the length of the performance period to a shorter period of time," she said.
The rule will carry out the mandate set in last year's overhaul of physician pay (PL 114-10), known as the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. A key concern with MACRA has been helping doctors in small practices adapt to the new reporting requirements. Groups representing doctors have sought to persuade CMS to reconsider the standards for qualifying for alternative payment models, which may prove more profitable in the long term for doctors.
The American College of Rheumatology on Friday told CMS that few of the current alternative payment models work for their members, who treat severe cases of arthritis.
"Workable alternatives should be developed with attention to facilitating participation of small and solo practices," Joan M. Von Feldt, president of the ACR, wrote in the comment to CMS. "As currently written, the requirements for qualifying participation in APMs are formidable, and establish too high of an administrative burden."
The rheumatology association also asked that CMS delay the effective date of the first year for the new MACRA rules to 2018 rather than next year. Doctors do not have time to prepare to prepare for the new system, the group argued.
"One of the largest fundamental changes in Medicare reimbursement must be implemented in a way that allows everyone to evaluate, prepare, and implement these changes to their practice so that reimbursement accurately reflects performance," Von Feldt wrote.


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Mr. Grinspoon’s Girls — Sample!
To finish up this week’s introduction, below is a sample of Mr. Grinspoon’s Girls–the very first few minutes. I hope you enjoy it, and that you’ll join me on Monday, March 18th to get the rest!
The music used in the production of Mr. Grinspoon’s Girls, entitled Persephone, is © 2012 Snowflake. It is used and altered under a Creative Commons Generic Attribution License. Details can be located at Creative Commons, and Snowflake’s work can be found at CCMixter.
The narrated component of Mr. Grinspoon’s Girls is © 2012-2013 Lia Habel. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved.


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The long-distance passenger train, the Orient Express, is a name associated with luxury travel, intrigue and opulence – largely thanks to being featured in one of legendary author Agatha Christie’s most famous crime novels, Murder on the Orient Express.
The original Orient Express was created in 1883 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, providing a long-distance passenger service. It had several routes, although the two cities most commonly associated with the train are Constantinople (Istanbul) and Paris.
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Run by the Austrian national railway, ÖBB, the very first Orient Express – a scheduled EuroNight express – departed from Paris on 1st October 1883. Among the destinations en route to Constantinople were Munich, Vienna and Giurgiu in Romania. In 1885, a second route was added to include Belgrade and Niš in Serbia. From 1914 to 1918, services were suspended during World War I. After the war, the Simplon Tunnel opened in 1919, enabling the launch of a new route – known as the Simplon Orient Express – via Milan, Venice and Trieste.
The 1930s was the heyday of the Orient Express services. Three routes were in operation simultaneously: the original Orient Express, the more southerly route covered by the Simplon Orient Express and in addition a new Arlberg Orient Express, passing through Zürich and Innsbruck on the way to Budapest. It was during the 1930s that the service acquired its reputation for luxury travel, with comfortable sleeper cars and restaurant cars providing fine cuisine. The service became popular for royalty, diplomats, business people and the rich and famous.
In 1934, Agatha Christie’s novel, Murder on the Orient Express, put the service firmly on the map. The plot revolved around a murder investigation on the famous train and the group of passengers were all suspects. The lavish journey across Europe descends into a murder mystery aboard the train, as famous detective Hercule Poirot begins to interrogate the passengers, searching for clues before the murderer strikes again.
The service was again suspended from 1939 to 1945 during World War II, after which it resumed, although with slightly different routes due the closure of the border between Greece and Yugoslavia.
The Wagon-Lits company discontinued running the carriages in 1971, selling or leasing them to national railway companies but still providing the staff. The direct Orient Express from Paris to Budapest was withdrawn on 19th May 1977 and many travellers thought that was the end of the service but it continued to run until 12th December 2009.
Initially, it provided an overnight service direct from Paris to Vienna. However, from 1982, in order to travel along the whole original route, it was necessary to catch four separate trains: one from Paris to Strasbourg, the second from Strasbourg to Vienna, the third from Vienna to Belgrade and the final leg from Belgrade to Istanbul.
The final EuroNight Orient Express train left Strasbourg on 12th December 2009 for its final journey to Vienna – and the following day, the name disappeared from the European train timetables after 126 years on the track.
The original luxurious dining car, as seen in the film, Murder on the Orient Express, is now exhibited at the OSE museum in Thessalonica.
Today, a privately-run Venice Simplon Orient Express service, using vintage restored sleeping and dining cars, runs between London and Venice but it’s not the original Orient Express. The company also runs similarly-themed luxury trains – the Eastern and Oriental Express – across Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, operating luxury overnight train services in Peru, Ireland and Scotland.
The fascination with the original Orient Express continues with the news there is to be a remake of the Murder on the Orient Express movie, directed by Kenneth Branagh and featuring an all-star cast including Judi Dench, Willem Dafoe, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Daisy Ridley. Produced by Fox Studios, it is due for release on 10th November.
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Gamer Chimps: Primates Master Hunting For Hidden Fruit In VR Video Game Study
British and American researchers have found that chimpanzees can master hunting for hidden fruit in a virtual reality video game.
The study, led by Matthias Allritz and Josep Call from the University of St Andrews in the UK and Francine Dolins at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in the United States, found that chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation while searching for virtual fruit in the game.
The University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said in statements obtained on Monday, June 27, that using touchscreen technology, six chimpanzees living in a zoo had learned to find their way to a distant virtual tree with different types of fruit underneath it.
They even worked out how to find the landmark from different starting locations.
The primates, located at Leipzig Zoo in, took part in “the first empirical study of how chimpanzees navigate an open-field, naturalistic, virtual environment and demonstrates that chimpanzee maneuvers in the virtual world share several key features with real-life navigation.”
The University of St Andrews added in its statement: “The results also suggest that virtual environment technology can be used to address longstanding questions in the study of primate spatial and other forms of cognition.”
Dr. Matthias Allritz, postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said: “Almost all animals navigate their environment to find food, shelter and mates.
“Because of the space restrictions in zoos, studying the spatial cognition of nonhuman primates experimentally is notoriously difficult.
“Using virtual environments allows researchers to create large-scale, controllable environments for primate participants to navigate, including completely novel environments.”
He added: “Beyond the clear goal-orientation in the chimpanzees’ spatial learning, one thing that stood out to us was the remarkable speed at which the chimpanzees learned to control the virtual agent and to complete the spatial tasks.
“It required less training than I originally thought it would, and certainly less than many of the more traditional touchscreen tasks designed for animals.”
The study’s participants were three adult male and three adult female chimpanzees from the Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Center (WKPRC) at Leipzig Zoo.
The University of St Andrews statement said: “All six chimpanzees had prior experience with using touchscreens, and five of them had limited experience with 3D video games at the time the study began.
“All participation was voluntary, and all testing was conducted in the apes’ familiar testing areas at WKPRC, where they are given access to touchscreen tasks regularly.
“A new custom virtual reality (VR) application – APExplorer 3D – was created for the study, presenting the primates with a virtual environment through which an invisible, first-person character could be steered to explore and interact with objects in a three-dimensional cartoon style.”
The video game allows the user, using a touchscreen monitor, to guide a virtual avatar “through an open space containing grassy hills, trees, rocks and other obstacles.”
The game difficulty was increased over the course of a month, with “progressively more challenging navigation tasks”, with the virtual world geared toward displaying “several cognitive processes and behavioral signatures within the virtual environment that have been predicted to guide navigation in the wild, such as learning to recognize and search for distinct landmarks and to optimize route efficiency.”
Dr. Francine Dolins, principal investigator and associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, said: “Tracking primate navigation in the wild has many challenges, including not knowing what landmark information they use as the basis for making spatial decisions.
“Virtual reality affords greater control over what landmarks are presented and where they are in relation to the virtual foraging sites, for example, a fruiting tree.”
Professor Josep Call, said: “Our study illustrates that non-invasive experiments in open space virtual environments have great potential to study primate spatial cognition.
“The chimpanzees in our study learned the basic game mechanics quickly and soon exhibited learning and decision-making patterns that resembled real-life navigation.
“They learned to recognize certain objects as landmarks and to orient and search for these when they could not see them.
“And they flexibly adapted when food availability became less predictable – though some of them were clearly faster than others.
“Provided that future studies can replicate and extend these findings to other primate species, naturalistic virtual environments may become a powerful tool to address longstanding questions in the evolution and development of primate navigation that had previously been difficult to study in captive environments and in the wild.”
And Dr. Allritz added: “Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans, so understanding how they make travel decisions and how they recognize, remember and reason about travel routes does not only help us to better understand them, it is also critical for understanding the evolution of navigational abilities in our own species.”
The statement also said: “From a welfare perspective, the chimpanzees may also benefit from the cognitive enrichment that virtual environment games may provide, given their creative problem-solving and innovative abilities.”
The team are planning to make a version of the APExplorer 3D app available on the Open Science Framework so that other researchers may also replicate their methods and adapt them to their own research questions.
The study, titled ‘Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) navigate to find hidden fruit in a virtual environment’, was published in the academic journal Science Advances on June 24, 2022.
It was authored by Matthias Allritz, Josep Call, Ken Schweller, Emma S. McEwen, Miguel de Guinea, Karline R. L. Janmaat, Charles R. Menzel, and Francine L. Dolins.


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The deadline for the 2009 Levis Poetry Prize, sponsored by the independent press Four Way Books, is less than a week away. The annual award, which includes a thousand dollars and publication of a book-length collection, is open to any poet writing in English, regardless of publication history. This year's judge is Mary Jo Bang, author, most recently, of the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning collection Elegy (Graywolf, 2007) and the director of the creative writing program at Washington University in St. Louis.
The guidelines for the Levis Poetry Prize are not only practical but also interesting for their description of the press's reading policy, which underscores the lengths legitimate sponsoring organizations will go to ensure that there will be no allegations of unfairness. (Such a description also illustrates how the culture of competition has evolved from what it was four or five years ago, when skepticism and even cynicism about all things contest-related seemed to reach its peak). What's changed, exactly? For starters, the process whereby winners are chosen has become, in many cases, more transparent.
After describing the ways in which poets may submit their work to the contest, the Four Way Books editors end with the following note about a potential submitter's relationship with the judge: "Please do not submit to this contest if you are close enough to Mary Jo Bang that her integrity, your integrity, and the integrity of Four Way Books would be called into question should you be selected as the winner. You may query us if you have questions regarding this matter. We will allow you to submit to us outside of the contest if you feel that you are treading deep water in this regard."
The press's reading policy, which details the path each manuscript travels—from the point at which it's stripped of identifying material to its delivery to preliminary readers to its arrival at the judge's desk—can be read on the Four Way Books Web site.

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Our Response to COVID-19
Gastroenterology of the Rockies wants to assure our patients and the community that we are closely monitoring the situation and following guidance from public health officials and government agencies. As part of our commitment to help protect the health and safety of our patients and employees, we have implemented additional measures to create a safe environment within our clinics and endoscopy centers.
We are practicing the following safety measures to protect our patients and staff:
1. Implementing screening and temperature checks for all patients, staff and providers upon entry to the facility
2. Separating chairs in the waiting rooms to maintain social distancing between patients
3. Patients, staff and providers are required to wear masks during their visit
4. Additional PPE requirements for staff and providers to maximize safety for all
5. Frequent cleaning with N-list (EPA approved to disinfect COVID-19) chemicals
5. Minimizing visitors in the facility to enhance social distancing
7. Providing guidance, education, resources and supplies to our employees within our facilities.
Below are some common questions and our current advice, please realize that this information may change as more medical data is received.
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Are you performing surgical procedures?
Yes, we are currently performing endoscopic procedures as we are an essential service. If you would like to schedule a surgical procedure, please call us at 303-604-5000.
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We do not recommend postponing your screening because the early detection of cancer greatly increases the odds of prevention and limiting the spread of the cancer. It is also important to remember that a colonoscopy is the only way to detect and prevent colorectal cancer. If you have any questions or concerns about your surgical procedure, please call us at 303-604-5000.
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We recommend one of the 2-dose mRNA vaccines: either Pfizer-BioNTech (if 12 years old or older) or Moderna (if 18 years old or older).
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Yes, the CDC does recommend proceeding with the appropriate COVID vaccine: Click here for more info.
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Per the CDC recommendations:
- If you have had a severe allergic reaction or an immediate allergic reaction—even if it was not severe—to any ingredient in an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, you should not get either of the currently available mRNA COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna).
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Per the CDC and FDA guidance 8/13/21: "Effective August 13, 2021, CDC recommends that people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised receive an additional dose of an mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna) at least 28 days after the completion of the initial mRNA COVID-19 vaccine series."
For IBD Patients, our interpretation suggests that this includes people who are being treated with:
- high-dose corticosteroids (i.e., =20mg prednisone or equivalent per day)
- Imuran (azathioprine), Purinethol (6-MP), Tabloid (thioguanine), Xeljanz (tofacitinib), Zeposia (ozanimod)
- Biologics such as tumor-necrosis (TNF) blockers (Remicade (or biosimilar), Humira, Cimzia, Simponi); and other biologic agents such as Stelara and Entyvio.
- If you are on a different therapy than those and are not sure, please contact us. You do NOT need a booster if your IBD medication is just sulfasalazine, mesalamine ("5-ASA"), or budesonide (Entocort; Uceris).
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The CDC and FDA have recommended that your booster be the same as the original vaccine you received. We do not know that this is necessary (in fact, there may be some benefit to switching, but we do not have data on this question yet). Click here for more info.
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For additional COVID related questions, please visit the CDC's website.
We will continue to monitor the situation, and adjust protocols if necessary. We are committed to continuing to provide excellent care for our patients while maintaining a safe environment.


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Equipment and preparation: You will need four ramekins with a base diameter of 2½ inches (6 cm), a top diameter of 3 inches (7.5 cm), 2 inches (5 cm) deep, lightly buttered, and a small, solid baking sheet.
Pre-heat the oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3.
First of all make the lemon curd by lightly whisking the egg in a medium-sized saucepan, then add the rest of the lemon curd ingredients and place the saucepan over a medium heat. Now whisk continuously using a balloon whisk until the mixture thickens; this won't take long
When you're ready to make the soufflés, separate the eggs, putting the yolks into a medium-sized bowl and the whites into a spanking-clean larger one. Now, using an electric hand whisk, whisk the whites to the stiff-peak stage, which will take 4-5 minutes start on a slow speed, gradually increasing to medium and then high. Then add the dessertspoon of caster sugar and whisk on a high speed for 30 seconds more. Next add the zest and lemon juice and the remaining 2 oz (50 g) of sugar to the yolks and mix them together briefly. Now take a tablespoon of the whites and fold them into the yolks to loosen the mixture, then fold the rest of the whites in using a light cutting and folding movement so as not to lose the precious air. Spoon the mixture into the prepared ramekins, piling it high like a pyramid, then run a finger round the inside rim of each one.
Next place them on the baking sheet and put this in the oven on the centre shelf for 15-17 minutes or until the tops are golden. Then remove them and let them settle for about 5 minutes to allow the lemon curd to cool. They will sink a little, but that's normal. Just before serving, place them on smaller plates and give them a light dusting of icing sugar.
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La Cabane du Coureur
Indulge yourself at this culinary destination in Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu. Choose between two comforting yet refined menu options: one that values the simplicity of traditional flavours and one that pushes the boundaries of gastronomy, both emphasizing finesse over excess.
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By Colonel Richard L. Klass (USA, Ret.)
I wonder who will take “credit” if the Iranian nuclear talks fail. Will it be Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio), based on his unprecedented partisan invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress, and on the rapturous applause he received from the GOP attendees? Or will it be freshman Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R) impertinent and flawed letter to the Iranian government, signed by forty-six GOP colleagues? While GOP members of Congress are exchanging high fives, will they take note of the smoldering embers of U.S. foreign policy and the vastly diminished U.S. influence in the world?
Cotton has been clear in his intention to stop any agreement on curbing the Iranian nuclear program, stating in January that, “The end of these negotiations isn’t an unintended consequence of congressional action. It is very much an intended consequence.” He contended, however, that his current epistle was merely intended to educate the Iranians on U.S. constitutional procedures. If so, he was a poor teacher, mistakenly characterizing the role of the Senate in ratifying treaties.
In return, Cotton and his colleagues received a terse tutorial on international law from Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, who noted that international agreements, the vast majority of which are executive agreements and not treaties, are obligations entered into by governments, not legislatures. But Cotton and his colleagues’ aim was not to educate or be educated but to undermine the president’s authority and, frankly, kill the negotiations.
Who will be cheering when the international and UN sanctions regime collapses as U.S. foreign policy becomes as dysfunctional as U.S. domestic policy? And to the extent that Boehner’s misguided invitation to Netanyahu is credited with killing the negotiations, who will blame our negotiation partners for fingering Israel as the culprit? So not only will U.S. support for Israel become less secure as it becomes more partisan, but already weakening European support for Israel will continue to erode.
And who will take credit when other negotiations favored by the GOP such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) falter because those negotiating partners see the authority of the president undercut? Do forty-seven GOP senators believe that this will not come back to bite a future GOP president? Do they believe that this partisan effort enhances the stature of the Senate as a deliberative body when the attempt is to short circuit the process and prevent deliberations on the text of an agreement?
The Iranian Foreign Minister also informed the signers of the letter that “The world is not the United States, and the conduct of inter-state relations is governed by international law, and not by US domestic law.” This point will be appreciated by Russia, China, the UK, France and Germany, the rest of the P5+1 negotiating team who not unreasonably believe that they have a stake in the outcome of the negotiations at least as large as that of Arkansas.
Make no mistake, the credibility of the United States as a negotiating partner is at stake for our friends and adversaries. If our foreign policy is seen as equally as partisan and dysfunctional as our domestic policy has become, the U.S. position in the international community will be seriously wounded. There is time to recover. Fortunately the Iranians seem to have taken the letter with all the lack of authority that it deserves. Several GOP senators did not sign the letter, including the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. What is needed now is to take a deep breath and return to sanity. Wait to see what, if anything, emerges from the negotiations. Then examine, analyze and evaluate its terms and conditions before acting. And judge it not as a perfect deal but against the alternatives, intended and unintended, of its rejection.
Klass is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, the National War College and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He flew more than 200 combat missions in Vietnam and served in the executive office of the president as a White House fellow. His awards include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross and Purple Heart. He is a member of the Board of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
Click here to read the article on The Hill.


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CHARLESTON -– More and more people serving time for rape or murder are being released from prison due to DNA evidence – often many years after the crime. Is it really as simple as it sounds?
Find out on the next "The Law Works" at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on West Virginia PBS.
Host Dan Ringer and his guest will discuss what DNA evidence is, and its significance in past and current cases. Often called the most significant development in criminal justice since the jury trial, DNA evidence is still evolving, but it's not as clear-cut as it is often portrayed by the media or popular television programs.
Ringer's guest for this show is Assistant Public Defender Richard Walker. Prior to joining the Federal Public Defender Office, Walker worked in Miami as an associate in the firm Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, which specializes in the defense of high-profile and complex criminal cases throughout the United States. Walker has been with the Public Defender's office since 2003.
On next week's program (June 12), "The Law Works" explores the use of the insanity defense and how it is applied in a legal climate where the definition of mental illness continually changes. Walker will be one of the guests on this show along with Dr. William J. Fremouw, professor of clinical psychology at West Virginia University. Fremouw has a Diplomate in Forensic Psychology and frequently testifies in court.
More information about these and other recent topics from the program is available online at www.wvpubcast.org/lawworks.
"The Law Works" is the state's only weekly television show discussing legal issues that effect daily life. The program provides West Virginians with important information concerning the legal system from a national, regional and local perspective.
"The Law Works" is produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting in cooperation with the West Virginia State Bar, The West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association, the West Virginia University College of Law and ALPS Professional Insurance.

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