Important Awards Received by Sikkim.
The State of Sikkim was awarded “4th JRD Tata Memorial Award 2008” for outstanding improvement in the important health indicators.
In recognition to the States progress in terms of Maternal & Child Health and Family Planning, Sikkim was selected among the category of smaller states for the 4th JRD Tata Memorial Awards in 2008.The JRD Tata Memorial award, instituted by the Public Health Foundation of India is a national award for the best State and the best districts with outstanding performance in population and reproductive health and family planning programme. Among the smaller states (population of less than 10 million), Sikkim did well in relation to all the indicators considered for the 4th JRD Tata Memorial award.
The State also received the “Best performance in Immunization”’.
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is one of the most cost effective public health interventions. Immunization programmes aim to reduce mortality and morbidity due to vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs).That, no confirmed cases of most vaccine preventable diseases covered under the Universal Immunization Programme like diphtheria, acute poliomyelitis, neonatal tetanus and whooping cough have been reported in the recent past, is a testimony to the efforts put in by the state.
Not resting on laurels but staying committed towards the cause of a Healthy
Sikkim the state in its own initiative became the first state in the country to launch the Hepatitis B vaccine programme from the State Plan Fund on 14th August, 2001, for infants in the age group (0-1) years. The programme has now been revised to cover age group of upto 5 years. Furthering such new initiatives, on 15th August, 2009 MMR vaccine for the children in the Immunization Programme of State government was launched free of cost from the State Plan Funds. At present State is in the final stage of launching HPV vaccines for adolescent’s girls to prevent cervical cancer amongst women.
India Today conclave award for the best Primary Health care services among smaller states.
In terms of key health indicators the state is considered one of the Good Performing States in the country. Over the past twenty years the state has managed to stay ahead of many of the key goals set by the different Planning Commissions based on the Millennium Development Goals and recently Sustainable Development Goals. While the indicators reflect the end results of the efforts put in terms of manpower, equipment, infrastructure and supplies, it is the processes that the Government has put in place over the last two decades to ensure the right environment for all round development which has been the driving force behind these gains.
Primary Health Care has been the corner stone of its effort to a Healthy Sikkim and the State has invested well towards this effort. Recognizing that grass roots level efforts to improve healthcare make a real difference in settings with limited resources it has been this Governments endeavour to bring about improvement in the health sector through its most peripheral health facilities. Primary Health Care starting from the village level Sub centre has always been this Government’s priority. Under the Panchayati Raj Act Sikkim was one of the first states in the country to devolve the powers of the sub centre to the PRI not only to empower the community but also as an effort towards community ownership.
While states across the country struggled to have Doctors posted to man the Primary Health Centres, Medical Officers in the state voluntarily requested to be posted to the PHCs. The posting of Doctors to the PHCs was made possible by the Government putting in place a policy to allow only doctors with three years PHC (rural) service permission to pursue Post Graduation.
Four Nurses namely; Mrs. Lassong Tamang, Mrs. Lakmit Lepcha, Mrs. Kesang Youden and Mrs. Madhu Mishra from Sikkim were awarded “Florence Nightingale National Award” in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2016.
Maximum Improvement Inpatient Department Services Award:
The state stood first rank for maximum improvement in IPD services among small states in Public Health Facilities during the period 2014 – 15 to 2015-16. It was awarded in a function National Summit on Good, Replicable Practices and Innovations in Public Healthcare Systems in India held from 29th to 31st August 2016 at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh
State also received award for the best leadership in the delivery of Health Care at 2nd Annual Healthcare Summit Jaipur, Rajasthan on 23rd September 2016.
J.R.D. Tata Memorial Award on Population and Reproduction Health Programme
Award for maximum improvement in IPD services among small states in Public Health Facilities during the period 2014 – 15 to 2015-16
Important Act Enacted in the Interest of Public Health.
Cigarette & Tobacco control Act.
The Sikkim Prohibition of Smoking and Non Smokers Health Protection Act 1997 was passed and enforced in Sikkim in the first day of April, 1998. Sikkim was one of the few states to enforce the Act. The Cigarette and other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution (COTPA) Act 2003 was enforced in India w.e.f. 25th February 2004 only. Further the prohibition of Smoking in Public Places Rules, 2008 was enforced in 2nd October, 2008.
In Sikkim, COTPA 2003 was republished and was enforced on 8th September 2008. District and State Tobacco Cell formation, Awareness creation, training of the NGOs and Law enforcers and enforcement of ban on Smoking in Public places are being carried out in the State of Sikkim.
Ban on sale of Gutka.
‘Gutka’ (Pan Masala Sachet containing Tobacco products) was banned for sale in the State of Sikkim vide notification No. 302/H/PFA dated 07/07/2001 for the whole of State under clause IV of section 7 of PFA Act 1954 ( Act no.37 of 1954) with rule 3(i) (a) of Sikkim Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules 1991 (c).
Sikkim Anti Drug Act (SADA), 2006.
Sikkim Anti Drug Act was enacted on 17th April, 2006 and enforced in the year 2007 in the State. Its aims and objectives to control, regulate and prevent the abuse of controlled substances with abuse potential being misused by addicts and traffickers. Further to make stringent provision to deal with ever increasing phenomenon of abuse of medical preparations and matters connected therewith.
IN 2017, Major amendment of SADA, 2006 has been proposed by the Health Department, where more stringent penal provisions specially for the drug traffickers have been made.
Ban on bursting of Crackers in the whole of state from 2015 has helped reduce pollution of environment which in the long run will immensely benefit Health of the population.


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Years before the coronavirus hit, two rural school districts developed plans to put learning online. They were ready for a snowstorm and instead found themselves prepared for a pandemic.
For the Bancroft-Rosalie Community Schools in northeast Nebraska, the move online took four years, gradually incorporating software into daily lesson plans to use during inclement weather or in place of hiring substitutes when a teacher was absent. The district used digital learning to abolish snow days – a trend that has expanded to New York City and could work its way across the country.
Taking classes online full-time happened in a way no one could have anticipated. On March 11, after a possible widespread COVID-19 exposure at a girls’ state basketball game, staff had about an hour to get roughly 285 students out the door with tablets in hand.
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Last winter, after five years of work, officials in the Bermudian Springs School District in south-central Pennsylvania launched a program for students to learn online during snow days and teacher workdays. On March 13, when districts across the state closed because of the virus, school officials found themselves relying on the program to educate 1,960 students full-time.
Great swaths of rural America had little way to transition students to online learning when schools closed. About half of Americans – 163 million people – lack access to high-speed internet, a Microsoft study found in 2018. But these districts had already put learning online and handed out devices for hundreds of students.
As school restarted this fall, some districts struggled with delayed start dates, confusing digital programs and students switching back and forth between in-person and online courses. For many rural schools, online learning was again not an option.
Officials at Bancroft-Rosalie and Bermudian Springs said school started more smoothly because staff and students knew what to expect and issues with connectivity and devices had been addressed. Bermudian Springs, which reopened with a hybrid schedule using both in-person and online classes, changed its start date twice to help get ready for the school year and to give teachers a week for training, collaborating and loading lessons into the online systems. Bancroft-Rosalie let students choose an in-person or online education.
Parent Amy Leatherman can see the growth Bermudian Springs has gone through since last spring. She’s a teacher in another district that didn’t have an online learning plan before the pandemic.
This spring, she said, “I was thankful for my own family and my own kids that I knew kind of what the setup was going to be.”
Goodbye, snow days
Bancroft-Rosalie, in an agricultural community that includes portions of the Omaha Reservation, has used e-learning days since November 2016. The new system helped staff incorporate technology into their classes and got students using online systems for lessons and other school-related information. Each student was issued an iPad.
Before the pandemic, e-learning would only be one or two days at a time. The assignments were given with the expectation students would meet with teachers face-to-face once school was back in session.
“We have a large media center that can accommodate up to 60 students, and when a teacher is gone, the students have e-learning assignments in the media center,” Bancroft-Rosalie Superintendent Jon Cerny said in an email.
Since students could work online, snow days at Bancroft-Rosalie were already a thing of the past when the pandemic struck. Other districts, including New York City schools, have canceled snow days or are looking into doing away with them because of the prevalence of online schooling. New York leaders said abolishing snow days will help the district fit in as many instructional days as possible.
“When we first started doing it, people weren’t interested in having remote learning during snow days. They thought that was a day kids should have off. People are going to rethink how you can use remote learning now in schools,” Cerny said.
After using the system full-time this spring, Bancroft-Rosalie learned what does and does not work. The school originally hadn’t tried to teach new concepts to young students after learning went online.
“In hindsight, we could have delivered new instruction to grades K-3 by placing students in small groups and teaching through videoconferencing,” Cerny said.
This year, one elementary teacher is assigned to work with students who opted to attend school online, Cerny said. Middle and high school teachers teach students both online and in person.
If too many teachers end up in COVID-19 quarantine, Cerny said, the backup plan is to move several classes into the gym, spread students out and let them take part in digital and in-person learning.
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The real thing
In Bermudian Springs, a district among thousands of acres of apple, cherry and peach orchards, the online learning program was in fledgling stages as the pandemic began.
The school had been updating Wi-Fi, training teachers and purchasing iPads since 2015. Last fall, Superintendent Shane Hotchkiss applied for the district to be allowed to use “Flexible Instructional Days.” Under Pennsylvania rules, a school can use class time outside school for up to five of its 180 days of required instruction.
The first flexible instruction day took place Feb. 14 to make up a January snow day.
By the next month, the district’s learning was totally remote. Fifth through 12th grade students were sent home with iPads, and the district issued an additional 150 devices to younger students.
Families had to adjust to a new way of learning.
Leatherman’s worries included one of her daughters’ algebra struggles and the internet “dropping” because of so many people in the area using it.
As the district began its transition to online, teachers called to check on internet connectivity, device availability and kids’ well-being, she said.
“It’s not just about schoolwork,” Leatherman said.
The pandemic altered parts of the program, including how online class attendance was counted, Hotchkiss said. Originally, attendance was supposed to be based on whether a student finished a certain percentage of homework.
This changed as staff realized each family’s situation is different. Teachers started looking at whether students were logging into the online systems and interacting with the classes. They reached out to students who hadn’t logged in for a while.
Parents guide to online school:9 questions to help vet your school’s program
Leatherman said staff made the best decisions for students, but she worried her children were not learning as much. She also worried about their emotional well-being during social distancing.
“Our family only has the stressors of learning from home and loss of social interaction. We only have to worry about our children’s academic and social well-being,” Leatherman said in an email this spring. “Other families are working outside the home, have a job loss and food concerns, plus online learning for their children. Some families are dealing with children with mental health issues and loss of services for them. The thought of schools not returning next school year frightens me.”
Despite that fear, Leatherman and her husband decided to send their children back to school this fall. Bermudian Springs students were separated into two groups, and students attend school on a Monday-Wednesday or Tuesday-Thursday schedule, plus alternating Fridays. Students have online lessons to complete for the days they’re not in school.
“We have three kids that learn best at school and want to be around peers. We felt like from an emotional standpoint, they need to be around some friends some days,” Leatherman said.
Price of connection
Even after years of preparation, once the school doors closed, Bancroft-Rosalie and Bermudian Springs had the same issue: how to connect some of their students to the internet. Inequitable access to the internet and broadband is widespread in many rural communities.
In a study from the Pew Research Center last year, 6 in 10 rural adults reported they have high-speed internet at home. Access differs based on a household’s income or education level, another Pew study showed.
“Regardless of income, regardless of education, rural Americans were more likely to say this is a problem where they live,” said Monica Anderson, who leads internet and tech research for Pew.
Bancroft-Rosalie had assistance with getting students online for the coming year. Over the summer, schools on the Omaha and Santee Sioux reservations, plus the Nebraska Indian Community College, accessed broadband through nearby towers. The effort was part of a federal program to grant airwave use to tribal entities, especially in rural America. The college purchased 4G LTE devices for each of the communities on the reservations to access broadband.
After Bermudian Springs sent out devices this spring, there were still about 110 kids who did not have the internet at home, Hotchkiss said.
“It’s a small percentage, but that’s still a percentage of our kids that I worry about. We just try to meet their needs in different ways,” Hotchkiss said.
In the spring, the district extended its Wi-Fi to the parking lot, and an internet company opened up a hotspot for families to use. Borrowed newspaper stands placed outside the school gave families a spot to pick up homework packets. Packets could either be mailed back in or dropped off. The papers were quarantined for several days before being scanned and sent to teachers.
The district used grant money from the federal government and state to connect families and teachers to the internet at home. The district acquired 200 free hotspots from T-Mobile.
Last school year, the school board OK’d purchasing 13 mobile hotspots for families, using $1,485 from the Bancroft-Rosalie district’s general fund, Cerny said. The internet cost the district $463.90 a month. This fall, the district supports only two households.
The costs are “a small price to pay really for being able to continue the education,” Cerny said.
Rural schools realize online learning and digital tools must be a part of education, even after COVID-19 is in the past. The “hybrid” models of in-person and online schooling could persist in some form, said Allen Pratt, executive director of the National Rural Education Association.
“We don’t want to go backwards after this, meaning go back to just a true brick and mortar,” Pratt said.
This reporting was supported by a Spencer Fellowship in Education Reporting at Columbia University’s Journalism School.
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Learn about our community with Giving Together!
GT holds periodic education programs dealing with issues related to philanthropy and our community. Many are "brown bag" lunches or wine and cheese get-togethers where members hear an informative speaker. One of our programs addressed the proliferation of giving circles nationwide. Our speaker helped us see Giving Together in the context of similar organizations. Another program provided an overview of health care in our community with speakers from healthcare foundations in DC and Montgomery County. We also enjoyed a presentation on volunteer experiences in our area. Recently, we adjusted to COVID-19 social distancing with a video conference. It featured representatives of organizations that serve the local immigration and refugee population - our 2020 grant theme. We are currently planning our next program in the series.


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The safety and well-being of our employees and residents remains the Borough’s #1 priority. To that effect all Borough Offices will be closed to the public until further notice.
Borough employees will be available during normal business hours and can be contacted by phone during those hours.
Water, Sewer and trash payments may be placed in the secure mail slot to the right of the door. You may also pay your bill over the phone or at bernvilleborough.org with a credit card . We take Visa, MasterCard and Discover. Payments can also be mailed to the Borough office.
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Spies and Lies: Skripal Novichok poisoning–Reading the suspect’s body language
What do you think of when you picture a spy?
Perhaps I’ve been watching too many James Bond movies. Somehow, I think I’ve romanticised my vision of the persona of a spy. I’m feeling a little surprised–my idealised vision has broken.
I just viewed a BBC video snippet of the interview with the two suspects in the Skripal Novichok poisoning. I thought spies would be skilled at concealing emotion. It seems I was wrong.
The Skripal Poisoning Backstory
Yulia and Sergei Skripal
In March, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, survived a murder attempt in Salisbury, England. The weapon was Novichok, a powerful and deadly nerve agent developed by Russian scientists. Sergei and Yulia managed to survive the attack, regaining consciousness weeks later. Dawn Sturgess wasn’t as lucky.
Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley
Dawn fell ill within minutes of coming into contact with Novichok in June. Her partner, Charlie Rowley, had found a Nina Ricci perfume bottle, containing what he assumed to be perfume. He gifted it to Dawn, who naturally, sprayed it on her wrists. The ‘perfume’ was Novichok.
It sounds like fiction. It isn't.
It's believed this wasn’t a targeted attack. Instead, it was the unfortunate result of contact with the disposed nerve agent from the Skripal attack.
Novichok Poisoning Murder Suspects
Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov
Otherwise known as…
Dr. Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga
Earlier this month, British prosecutors named, and charged, two Russian nationals for the Skripal murder attempt. The British Government believe the suspects to be officers from the Russian military intelligence service, under the aliases of Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov. Vladimir Putin, on the other hand, insists they are innocent civilians.
In an attempt to convince the world of their innocence, the two suspects appeared on Russian television, claiming to have been in Salisbury as tourists. The Guardian video snippet, below, includes footage from the interview.
Yesterday, news reports claimed Bellingcat, an investigative website, has uncovered Ruslan Boshirov's true identity–intelligence officer, Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga.
Since publishing this post, Bellingcat has identified Alexander Petrov as Dr. Alexander Yevgenyevich Mishkin, a trained military doctor in the employ of the GRU.
Spies and Lies: What do you think?
Reading Body Language
Are ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ and ‘Alexander Petrov’ civilians? Or are they deceiving the world of their true identity?
It’s time to switch on your observation skills and focus on the nonverbal behaviour of the suspects.
Can you Read their Body Language?
Read on for a body Language Analysis…
Reading Body Language–The Skripal Suspects
Alexander Petrov Body Language
Alexander Petrov: “We are those who were shown to you in the pictures”
Both men swivel gently on their chairs–a pacifying behaviour which brings comfort. There's nothing wrong with it, per se. It indicates stress, which would be natural for most people in these circumstances–innocent or not. Often, when deception is present, we see an increase in stress. However, stress is also, often, present where there is no deception. Therefore, we can never assume deception, no matter how extreme the stress is. All we can objectively conclude is that the suspects feel a level of stress.
As ‘Alexander Petrov’ speaks, we see two telling behaviours from ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ (sitting on the left)–an eye block (see explanation below), followed by another stress indicator, a pronounced gulp.
Here’s where it gets interesting…
Ruslan Boshirov Body Language
Ruslan Boshirov: “Ruslan Boshirov”
As ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ gives his name, we see him eye block for the second time. This is an involuntary behaviour where the eyelids close over the eyes momentarily. It lasts longer than a blink–it indicates dislike or discomfort–within the moment. Always, nonverbal responses occur within the moment, making them accurate indicators of emotion, pinpointing the exact area of concern.
When faced with something they dislike, children tend to eye block with a physical covering of their eyes with their hands. It’s the physical removal of the stimulus–the cause of their dislike. Even congenitally blind children eye block in this way, despite not being able to observe this in others.
As children grow up, they learn to hide their emotions to fit in with social norms. They do this by modifying and concealing their behaviour. In adults, an eye blocking behaviour is usually seen as a covering of the eyes with the eyelids, instead of the hands–as we see here. It has the same meaning it’s just a modified version of the behaviour.
This tells us ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ doesn’t like, or feels uncomfortable with, what he’s saying–his name. For me, that raises a red flag, given the purpose of the interview. My attention is immediately piqued further, with his expression of contempt (tightness in the mouth–his left). This is so subtle, it’s barely visible to an untrained eye.
The other thing to point out here, is his blink rate. It’s fairly high, again indicating stress.
Here’s where it gets even more interesting…
Alexander Petrov Body Language
Alexander Petrov: ”Alexander Petrov”
As ‘Alexander Petrov’ gives his name, we see a one-sided (his left) shoulder shrug. Did you see it?
While there is no single behaviour indicative of deception, this one gets pretty close. A double shrug (both shoulders) indicates the speaker is confident in the words that they speak. Whereas, a one-sided (or single) shrug is only a fragment of this–an ‘emblematic slip’ or concealment.
The single shrug contradicts the words spoken. Words say one thing and behaviour says another. It's incongruences such as these that alert us to potential deception.
Six Revealing Behaviours
We observed six telling behaviours within the first six seconds of the video clip. All of these were around a crucial part of the interview, enough to alert us to potential deception. Are they spies? There seems to be a paradox here–they don't come close to fitting my romanticised image of spies. Did Bond reveal his emotions so openly?
Russian spies and nerve agent poisoning may seem a far cry from the lives of most of us, but what if someone close to you was potentially concealing something? The same behaviours could be there–would you spot them?
When you can spot behaviours like this within your interactions, it opens up additional information that most people aren't privy to. It gives you the upper hand.
Most people ignore these behaviours because they don't observe them. Those that do are able to adapt their own behaviour, responding more appropriately–potentially making better decisions.
Did you spot the concerning behaviours–could you outsmart a spy?
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Want to see more eye blocking?
Remember the BBC News interview with South Korea expert, Professor Kelly? He was interrupted by his children, mid-interview, and the clip went viral. While most people felt his discomfort, what they didn’t consciously observe was his eye blocking–a series of 9 eye blocks, each one on cue with a stimulus. You can read more about this behaviour and watch the clip in this post.


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When it comes to the return-on-investment for precision technologies, “where” can be as important as “what!”
If you have been talking with anyone from Servi-Tech Expanded Premium Services (STEPS) lately, you may have noticed us using the word “density” a lot. What we are describing is a strategy to squeeze the most value out of technologies like aerial imagery and soil moisture sensors, so we can deliver the best insights about their crops at a price that can be easily recouped. In this article, I will explain why the placement of our services are so important for maximizing the value that our customers get out of aerial imagery and soil moisture sensors, and how it paves the way for more exciting things to come.
There are a few different strategies to collecting aerial imagery. Some providers fly ultralight aircraft as low as about a thousand feet and make multiple passes over a field in a method that is not very different than how UAVs are used to map a field. On the other end of the scale, some providers fly much larger twin-engine aircraft at 28,000 feet and use huge cameras cut into the hull of the plane to capture the imagery. Servi-Tech’s aerial provider, TerrAvion, is somewhere in the middle. They capture about a mile swath as they fly over fields.
Distance is money, when it comes to collecting aerial imagery. The further you have to fly between fields, the more hours you have to pay for the pilot and the more fuel and maintenance you have to pay for the plane. If you connect the dots between fields with a mile-wide paintbrush, you quickly realize just how many fields are being flown along the way! No one is using (or paying for) that imagery, though, so it is effectively going to waste. When we sign up multiple fields that are close to each other for aerial imagery, it doesn’t cost much more to collect than if we had signed up a single field that the pilot had to go out of their way to visit.
The image above shows how many fields are being captured by a single pass of the aircraft.
It’s a nice thing to save the pilot fuel by consolidating our aerial imagery acres, but what’s in it for the grower? To keep a simple and consistent price for the grower, we aren’t going to be asking them to pay different amounts from county to county. There are two different ways that we can pass along a better offering to the grower in the long term, however. We can obviously pass along a better value by lowering the price of the service, but another way is to keep the price the same while increasing the frequency of flights and the improving the resolution of the imagery. What this means is that the more acres of aerial imagery, the better offering it will be for everyone!
I hope that it makes a lot of intuitive sense as far as the density of fields affecting the value of aerial imagery. But what about soil moisture sensors? The old version of TheProfiler used a separate cellular modem at each soil moisture location in order to move the data from the field and onto our servers. This was the best technology at the time, but now there are ways to do things much more efficiently.
With TheProfiler Plus, the soil stations use a medium-range radio to report back to a nearby gateway, which is mounted on a pivot, grain bin, or other structure. These low power LoRa radios are able to communicate for several miles, with perfect line-of-sight, and can still send a reliable signal up to a mile away when located under the canopy of corn. The integration device, (the little gray box that the moisture sensors plug in to) runs on two AA batteries for an entire season. The gateway can serve many soil stations, which reduces hardware costs and cellular fees.
Just how much lower is the cost with a gateway/soil station type setup? It all depends on the number of soil stations per gateway! The closer together we are able to place the soil stations, the fewer gateways we need to service them, reducing labor and hardware needs.
All six of these Soil Stations (marked by the red X) can be served by a single gateway on the pivot.
TheProfiler Plus network isn’t going to stop at soil moisture stations, though. Tank level monitoring, pivot and well diagnostics, in-field weather, and more are being developed at this time to work on the same LoRa radio network. It’s a good thing that the gateways can each handle the traffic from hundreds of individual devices, because the options for field-monitoring and equipment-monitoring sensors are going to greatly expand in the coming years.
As these options for in-field sensors increase, STEPS will continue to develop our website and app to keep this information at the fingertips of our agronomists and growers, but without overwhelming them with unmanageable amounts of information. The ideal outcome with any of these sensors is that the grower is given timely, actionable advice, rather than a flood of raw data.
To summarize: the density of our aerial imagery and soil moisture monitoring in 2018 is going to play a big part in our ability to continue to improve both the quality and value of those services in future years. By lowering the cost of collecting imagery and reducing the amount of hardware and labor involved with in-field sensors, we will be able to offer better services, at better prices, year after year.


Sony has lost an appeal over a lawsuit in Brazil regarding users sharing accounts to access its PS Plus Collection service. The gaming giant was appealing a decision whereby it was told it couldn't deactivate users' PS5 consoles over sharing the Collection.
Why has Sony lost this PS Plus Collection lawsuit?
This news comes to us via Brazilian tech platform Tecnoblog (we're using machine translation for this link). In its appeal against the suit, Sony said it banned the user because account sharing - that is, allowing other users to access PS Plus Collection games without those users paying a subscription fee - is against the terms of service for PlayStation Plus. According to Sony, this regulation is crystal-clear, but the Sao Paulo Court of Justice disagreed, stating that neither this specific rule nor the punishment for breaking it are clear enough in the ToS. As such, the court upheld its original ruling.
The Court of Justice found that Sony provides inadequate information and punishes users unfairly for sharing PS Plus Collection games. Since we're using machine translation, the wording of the ruling can be a little ambiguous, but it seems like Sony hasn't put sufficient emphasis on the rules against sharing games, nor the penalties for doing so, in its terms of service text. As such, the Court stated that the ban on the complainant's PS5 "goes against the Consumer Protection Code" and puts the consumer at an "exaggerated disadvantage". Sony must reactivate the user's PS5 and pay $1,500 in damages to the user's lawyers, as well as paying costs.
What does this mean for Sony around the world?
It's worth noting that a previous Court of Justice of Sao Paulo ruling already found that Sony isn't legally able to block users' consoles for sharing PS Plus Collection games. Still, this likely isn't going to feel good for Sony, even if the ruling doesn't apply outside of Brazil. When it emerged last year that users were selling or sharing access to the PS Plus Collection, thousands of bans were issued in places like Hong Kong, so it's clear Sony doesn't want users doing this. Any impediment to stopping the company from blocking users trying to share the PS Plus Collection isn't likely to go down well at Sony HQ.
Sony's argument - that it banned the user fairly due to a violation of the terms of service - may not have allowed them to deactivate a console, but this doesn't necessarily apply to deactivation of accounts. As a result, we'd recommend not sharing the PS Plus Collection as a precautionary measure. Even if the bans are automated, it's not fun to have the ban hammer fall on your account due to something like this. We'll bring you more on this as we get it.
How do you feel about the Court of Justice of Sao Paulo's decision? Let us know in the comments below!


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“Five years ago, Australia had a bourgeoning video game development sector employing thousands of talented people in this rapidly growing industry,” said Ludlam in a statement.
In Australia... the sector has been treated like the poor cousin of the creative industries.“Internationally, companies have experienced strong growth thanks to smart government support and favourable regulatory settings.
“In Australia, no such luck: the sector has been treated like the poor cousin of the creative industries, culminating in the Abbott Government’s decision to close the $20 million Australian Interactive Games Fund, just 12 months after it was established.”
The creation of a $20 million program to help support Australian developers was announced by then-Arts Minister Simon Crean back in 2012 before being axed and repossessed by the Abbott government last year, much to the bitter disappointment of the Australian games development sector.“This inquiry will help establish what the government should be doing to support Australia’s games industry and the employment, economic and creative benefits it delivers to the nation,” said Ludlam. “The inquiry will begin accepting submissions in the coming days, with public hearings to be held in the near future. I look forward to working with the Committee to do what we can to help get the industry back on its feet.”
The Inquiry will be conducted by the Senate Standing Committee on Environment and Communications. It will report in April 2016.
Luke is Games Editor at IGN AU. You can find him on Twitter @MrLukeReilly.
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Farming is one of the fastest-growing industries in Hawaii.
It’s also one of its most lucrative.
And in 2017, it was one of just six agricultural sectors in the U.S. to report a revenue increase in excess of 10% year over year.
But as the number of farms has exploded, so too have questions about how best to grow food for the country.
The latest, from the state’s Agriculture Department, outlines a plan for a state that is grappling with a boom in a food system that depends on agriculture.
The report, released Wednesday, is the latest piece in a yearlong effort by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to create a better farm for the future, including through the establishment of new programs and the creation of a new crop insurance fund.
“Farmers are more and more engaged and aware of how we grow food,” said Mike O’Brien, the state agriculture commissioner, who is also Hawaii’s top legislative Democrat.
The department’s recommendations include improving access to fresh produce and making it easier for farmers to grow their own food.
The goal is to improve farmers’ ability to grow crops at low-cost, and to make sure those farms are healthy and not vulnerable to pests.
But for many farmers, the new recommendations still don’t address the problem of the unsustainable agricultural system.
“We are facing a crisis of food security,” said O’Connor.
“People are working longer hours and not getting enough time to rest and decompress.”
To address that problem, the department is working with the Hawaii Farm Bureau and other groups to create the Hawaii Land-Grazing Cooperative, a program that provides land for farmers, to make it easier to farm.
The program will start operating in 2019.
It is aimed at providing more stable, predictable land for farming, and providing an incentive for farmers who want to sell their land.
It will also provide funding for small, local farmers to expand their operations.
A big change is coming to the state of Hawaii’s farm industry.
The number of small farmers has grown rapidly in recent years.
In 2016, the Hawaii County Farm Bureau had a total of about 3,500 members, up from 1,200 members in 2014.
The new crop is called kiwi, a combination of kiwis and waka, and it’s grown in Hawaii since the late 1800s.
Kauai, the island where the Hawaiian islands are located, has the largest population of the state.
But Hawaii’s agricultural sector is shrinking because of climate change and changing weather patterns.
In 2017, the Bureau of Land Management said it was expecting a 7% drop in the number, or about 1.4 million acres, in Hawaii’s rural areas.
O’Leary said that in some areas, like Hawaii’s central highlands, the number could be as low as 4,000.
In Hawaii’s most productive farms, like those that depend on agricultural operations like the Honolulu farm, the crop can be more profitable.
But even those farms that don’t rely on agriculture often have their land locked up, said Mike Lipscomb, the executive director of the Hawaii Farmers Union.
And that’s where the big changes come in.
Lipscombs farm in the central highland of Waikiki was on lock down in 2019, with just two employees.
He said he is not sure how many more workers are likely to be on the farm this year.
“They have been locked down,” Lips, an agricultural engineer, said.
“There are a lot of locks and gates, and if you walk in, you’re on a tight leash.”
The farm has become so tightly regulated that the farmer’s insurance company, Pacific Insured, won’t cover damage to his farm.
Lipps also worries about a growing shortage of land for farm operations, particularly in areas where the land is not as well-maintained as it should be.
“The bigger issue is that we are losing the land we grow, and that’s a problem,” he said.
The farm was one small piece of what O’Dwyer and O’Hara hope to achieve in the coming years.
“It’s about the farm,” O’Hawley said.
It started with a small farm and eventually turned into a big farm.
“A lot of people who grew up in Hawaii didn’t grow up on farms.
They were taught that farming was something you did yourself,” he explained.
And now, with the rise of the Internet, there are more ways for people to access the farm.
And, Lips said, the farm is now being built with technology.
OʻHawley’s farm, with about 50 employees, now grows about 2,500 acres a year.
It produces about 4,500 pounds of kahuna, a staple food for many in Hawaii, and about 8,000 pounds of tomatoes.
“I’ve been able to grow so much more food on my farm than I could have ever imagined

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The second wave of the £500 million ‘Integrated Digital Care Fund’, (formerly the ‘Safer Hospitals, Safer Wards Technology Fund’), opens to applications today.
NHS Trusts, and now Local Authorities, can apply for part of £240 million of funding to digitise and integrate patient information across the health and care sector, driving improvements in patient care.
It builds on the first wave of £260 million of Department of Health capital funding announced by NHS England last July to support NHS Trusts to digitise records and develop electronic systems for prescribing medicines quicker and more accurately.
Beverley Bryant, Director of Strategic Systems and Technology at NHS England, said: “The focus for health and care staff is their patients but historically, staff have had to work within the limitations of paper records and slow bureaucratic systems.
“Digitisation removes this barrier – staff don’t need to wait for a set of paper records to be transferred to where their patient is – they can be available at the touch of a button by the staff who need them, when they need them.
“Demands on healthcare are increasing and we need to be smarter in the way we deliver care. Modern technology, when used well, provides a string to our bow that we didn’t have twenty years ago. We need to continue to embrace it as a tool for great patient care.”
The application process for wave two of the Integrated Digital Care Fund will run until 14 July 2014. The £240 million will be split – 2014/15 (£160m) and 2015/16 (£80m). Applications will be reviewed by a multidisciplinary team to ensure the funding will deliver benefits for staff and patients and value for money.
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Maputo — Trade between Mozambique and China rose to 1.224 billion US dollars in the first eleven months of 2012, representing a growth of 42 per cent, according to figures released by the Chinese Customs Bureau.
According to the news agency Macauhub, Mozambique’s imports from China stood at 859 million dollars, while its exports to the Asian country stood at 365 million dollars.
The growth in trade between the two nations has increased at a quicker rate than with other Lusophone countries. Trade between Portuguese speaking countries and China grew to 117.7 billion dollars - an increase of 9.7 per cent.
Most of this trade, totalling 78.1 billion dollars, was with Brazil.
Angola was China’s second largest trading partner in the Lusophone world, with trade totalling 34.57 billion dollars (an increase of 37.73 per cent).
Because of high demand for Angola’s oil, most of this trade (30.87 million dollars) was exports from the African nation.
China’s third largest Lusophone trading partner was Portugal, with 3.67 billion dollars, an increase of 1.75 per cent over the previous year.


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What will happen with housing prices nationwide and in Massachusetts in particular in the next year?
Moody’s predicts that home prices will fall across the country in 2023 and 2024, based on the nationwide 12% dip in prices between June 2022 and February 2023. As of February, the median sales price for a single-family was $363,000, down from $413,800 last June. Moody’s predicts a recession in late 2023, no easing on lending rates, and increased unemployment – all of which will keep prices down.
Prices are falling most dramatically in large Western and Southwestern cities like San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego and Phoenix. The Southeastern and Northeastern states are still holding value.
The dramatic chart below shows how mortgage applications have plummeted as the interest rate has risen in late 2022.
And while prices are decreasing, Moody’s stresses that this is a market correction, adjusting downwards after the extreme spike of prices during the pandemic, and not a crash. They predict prices will continue to fall by 5 to 10% by 2025, but they will still be about 30% higher than they were in 2020 before the pandemic. An overall increase in value of 30% over five years is a good return on housing investment.
Housing need will continue strong, according to Moody’s, as the national market has a 1.5 million unit shortage.
What about Massachusetts?
The Mass Association of Realtors’ February report showed that sales of existing homes declined for the 12th month in a row and the sales of new homes were lower in January 2023 than in January 2022 or January 2021, but if we look back to pre-pandemic days, sales are up. So the 18 months or so of the pandemic realty frenzy (March 2020 – September 2021) can be considered an anomaly, and probably should be.
A March 22, 2023 article on Boston.com by Vivi Smilgius and Eileen Woods on Boston.com gives a deep dive analysis of the Warren Group’s Housing Report and shows us that residential property is still increasing in value in the state as a whole:
But in Greater Boston, residential real estate is finally starting to fall in price, showing that market correction that Moody’s suggests is happening across the country:
Although the prices are declining in Greater Boston, they are still much higher than the median prices in the state as a whole.
The Warren Group shares a breakdown by county of median prices and volume of single-family sales between February 2022 and February 2023. Only two counties saw a decrease in sales prices compared to the previous year(Norfolk at 3.8% and Middlesex at 0.9%), but all counties had a double-digit decrease in volume of sales – except Norfolk, which had an increase in sales volume of 3.9%. The data is below:
The condo market shows even larger dips in volume of sales, and has more loss of sales value than gains:
So while prices are up overall in Massachusetts, inventory and number of sales are down and each county is quite distinct in housing market data.
Realtors often look to Spring as a time of increased sales. Will more homes and condos come on the market this Spring in Massachusetts? Only time will tell.

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Another year of blogging and farming gone by already! It was an interesting year that started out too wet, but brought us perfect harvest weather even if the yields weren’t perfect.
I’ve been sharing my top ten most viewed posts of 2015 on facebook and twitter so I thought I’d collect them all here in a list for quick reference. Check ’em out!
“A cover crop does just what it says. It covers the soil during the period between the time you harvest one crop and plant the next. For my farm this means winter. Our cover was seeded by airplane in mid September just ahead of harvest. We chose aerial application in order…….”
“Compacted soil layers inhibit root growth which limits the ability of a crop to locate water and nutrients. We used to rip about a third or so of our acres every year going across entire fields. Now we just want to hit high traffic areas in our fields and maybe wet spots because machinery isn’t the only source of soil compaction. Areas that pond frequently can…..”
“There are roughly five months between us and mature corn, soybean, and popcorn crops ready for harvest. So what happens now that we are done planting? Plenty! In fact I almost feel like we are busier now because we aren’t nearly 100% focused on one task. Now we are juggling several things at once.”
“I’ve always wondered why earthworms come out of the ground when it rains. I don’t know about you but after a rain I can always find them on driveways and roads. Sometimes I’ll see thousands of them on a short stretch of road as if they are having some kind of mass annelid exodus from a field on one side of the road to the other. So what gives?”
“We use glyphosate on our farm. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup. We grow wheat. I have never seen our wheat germinate as poorly as the right half of that picture shows. And not over a wide area like a whole field that has a history of Roundup treatments. There could be any number of factors that contributed to the appearance of that wheat on the right.”
“We plant on average 32,000 seeds per acre taking the whole farm in account. 32,000 x 850 = 27,200,000 corn plants. Just to keep things simple let’s say all the corn plants emerged and survived to harvest. In some soils we plant more corn, and some areas we plant less. But one still might wonder why I care about one single ear among 27 million.”
“No-till is just what is sounds like. A true no-till system avoids disturbing the soil with tools like chisel plows, field cultivators, disks, and plows. Not all of our acres are no-till, but we have been doing less tillage as of late including putting more acres into no-till. I’m 32 years old and I’ve never actually ran a moldboard plow over a field aside from the single acre we took turns playing on a few years ago in our 1956 John Deere 70 Diesel and three-bottom plow.”
“We raise both dent and waxy corn on our farm. Whenever I mention waxy someone inevitably asks me, “What is waxy corn?” Even other corn growers tend to ask because it is not a large part of the overall corn market. Here in Indiana there are several markets for waxy corn.”
“We recently completed wheat harvest on our farm using two John Deere combines. After 20 years of sitting in a barn after purchase, we were able to get our John Deere model 45 combine up and running so it could participate in the action. I thought having a machine from the 1950s out in the field with our 2010 9670 STS would make for some great comparison photos. It’s easy to see that the new combine is larger. Quite a bit larger actually.”
“What did it say? “*Made with non-genetically engineered popcorn.” Really? I would like to know where anyone would find popcorn that is genetically engineered. Of course as a popcorn farmer I know better, but most people aren’t going to realize this. Is this type of marketing disengenuous when there is no GMO option on the market? I want to hear from people on different sides of the issue so please leave a comment and let’s have a discussion.”
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The atemoya is a hybrid of two fruits – the sugar apple and the cherimoya. The fruit is popular in Asia, South and Central America, Cuba, and the Mid-East.
The flesh is not segmented like the Sugar Apple but more similar to the Cherimoya. It is very juicy and slightly sweet, a bit like a piña colada. When it's ripe the fruit can be eaten right out of the shell with a spoon, like custard.
The atemoya needs artificial hand pollination to produce the best quality fruits. The 'Geffner' variety produces without hand pollination. If an Atemoya develops with one side misshapen it is usually the result of inadequate pollination.
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The Asia Pacific region has been ranked most improved for real estate transparency, with Australia leading the way.
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Major Asia-Pacific carriers Singapore Airlines, Qantas and Air New Zealand are set to raise surcharges once more, in line with skyrocketing oil prices due to political unrest in the Middle East.

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Buttermilk Cherry Scones
Scones are sort of like a sweetened version of biscuits. I used buttermilk to wet the dough, as you would for biscuits, but I then added dried cherries for sweetness. You don’t want the scones to be as sugary as French pastries, because scones are typically eaten with jam. I spent most of my childhood vacations in Great Britain, and what I remember most is how wonderful English breakfast and tea time food was. Between the wonderful tea selections, orange marmalade and scones, I can't recall better breakfast fare anywhere else.
This weekend I felt like introducing my little 5-year-old munchkin to the scones I enjoyed in my childhood. She helped me measure everything, all the while proudly spelling out loud every single ingredient while nibbling on the extra dried cherries. She's in kindergarten and is so eager to learn. Cooking with children is a great way to give them a little knowledge about food, while at the same time introducing them to spelling and a little bit of math. Teaching small children how to read and count should be kept fun and lighthearted, and I can’t think of a better way to do so.
Yields: 12 scones3-½ cups flour (see tips)
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons vegetable shortening
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold
1-¼ cups buttermilk
1/3 cup dried cherries
4 tablespoons Belgian pearl sugar
Preheat the oven to 375°F.
For the dry ingredients:
Reserve about 1 tablespoon of flour for rolling the dough on the pastry board.
In a bowl, combine the flour, salt, sugar, cream of tartar and baking soda. Sift all the dry ingredients.
For the scone dough:
Reserve about 1-½ tablespoons of buttermilk. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, beat the egg with granulated sugar for about 5-6 minutes. You'll get a pale, yellow foam and the texture of the eggs will be thicker.
Dice 2 tablespoons of chilled butter and reserve in the refrigerator while preparing the dough.
In the bowl, place the dry ingredients. Grate 4 tablespoons of butter over the bowl using a cheese grater. Mix the ingredients using a pastry cutter (if you don't have one, the back of a fork works fine as well). Mix until barely blended and still crumbly. Incorporate the eggs and buttermilk. Finally, add the reserved chilled butter and the dried cherries to the scone mixture. Do NOT over-mix; otherwise the scones will have a dense texture.
Sprinkle the reserved flour over a pastry board and transfer the scone dough. Using a rolling pin, even out the dough to about a 1-inch thickness. Create 10 disks using (3-1/16" diameter or 76 millimeters) biscuit cutters and form the last 2 disks with the remnants of dough (knead the dough as little as possible).
Place the scones on a baking sheet, previously lined with a silicone mat or parchment paper. Using a pastry brush, lightly brush the reserved buttermilk over the scones. Sprinkle the top with pearl sugar.
Bake for about 5 minutes at 375°F, then lower the heat to 350°F and bake for another 20-23 minutes. For a golden top, I broiled the scones for a minute. Transfer the scones to cooling racks.
Serve warm with butter, fruit preserves or marmalade.
If you're fond of chocolate, you could also add chocolate chips. You could also add sliced almonds for more crunch.
The traditional way of making baking powder is by combining 1 part of baking soda and 1 of part cornstarch to 2 parts cream of tartar. Corn starch is often used as a thickening agent in commercial baking powder and is not necessary in this recipe. However, you can always use baking powder if you don't have baking soda and cream of tartar on hand.
For the perfect texture, it's preferable to combine 2-½ cups of all-purpose flour and 1 cup of cake flour but if you like, you can also use 3-½ cups of all-purpose flour.
To ensure that the mixture remains cold, it's preferable to use a pastry cutter, rather than kneading the dough by hand.
Belgian pearl sugar is available in specialty stores and online. It's a coarse sugar that's a less sweet than regular sugar. The thick lump of sugar keeps its shape and does not melt when it's baked, so you'll still find a sugar crust after the scones are baked. I also use this type of sugar for making brioche, rugelach and waffles.
I added 1-¼ cups of buttermilk to thin the dough; you want the scone dough to be wet and rather sticky.
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Out here in the country, we live too far apart to make door-to-door trick or treating feasible for the local kids. So this weekend a dozen or so houses held our annual Treat Street event, where homeowners in the area pick one street to set up candy tables so that the kids and parents can go candy hunting safely.
Last year we had a pretty big turnout and I ended up running out of candy before the evening was halfway over. I swore I wouldn't let it happen to me again, and so this year I picked up a bulk bag of candy corn on the cheap from ACandyStore.com.Well, lo and behold, the weather was awful cold and as a result only two dozen or so trick or treaters showed up. And so now I'm left with a huge bag of candy corn and nobody to feed it to.
I plan on donating the lion's share of it to charity, because Lord knows our family doesn't need any more sugar in the house. But before I do I decided to use some of it in a batch of pumpkin spice cupcakes I whip up every fall. I wasn't sure how the candy corn "highlights" would taste with the cream cheese frosting, but the cupcakes actually turned out really well. My family and friends loved them (except for my daughter Hailey who hates candy corn anyway). So if you're looking for a super-easy seasonal dessert to share and, like me, happen to have some spare halloween candy and pumpkin guts lying around, I highly recommend giving this recipe a try.
What You'll Need:
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a muffin pan with cupcake cups.
Combine the flour, cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl using a whisk or hand-cranked mixer. If you don’t own one of these devices, then buy one. A spoon won’t get the job done and an electric mixer is overkill (and messy).
In a separate bowl, whisk together the pumpkin puree, the sugars, the oil and the eggs. Pour this over the dry mix while stirring. Keep stirring until you’ve got something resembling the consistency of cake batter.
Pour that batter into the muffin tray. Put that muffin tray into the oven for about 15 minutes or until the cupcakes pass the toothpick test. Then get ready to make the icing.
The Cream Cheese Frosting
What You’ll Need:
First, you’ll need to get the butter to room temperature. Some people choose to wait it out, I prefer to stick it in the microwave on low for about 15 seconds.
Add the warm (but not melted!) butter to a clean mixing bowl along with your cream cheese. Grab an electric mixer (or get that whisk ready if you hate yourself) and mix for about five minutes or until everything is creamy and smooth.
Add in the vanilla extract and, if you’re feeling crazy, some crushed bits of candy corn and a dash of the spices you used in the batter. Slowly pour in the sugar while mixing on low until smooth. Keep adding sugar until the frosting is thick enough to form peaks. If your frosting is too thick, add a dash of skim milk to thin it out.
Wait until the cupcakes are all out of the oven and cool to frost them. Apply frosting with a butter knife or rubber spatula. Decorate with candy corn and sprinkles. Enjoy tremendously.


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Im uppgrading his and mine.. he already got a 939 socket.. and just ordered the stores last 64 3800 to him.
gues i have to get AM2 for my self.. Tho AM2 dosemnt appers to be any pricier
Then ill prob upgrad c: drive too. I only have 34G now
Perhaps i can make a smal backup puter of the parts i take out
got an old case just laing around.. And i cud even try Linux on it..hows linux and sata? prob better than windows.... blah now im just writing what im thinking here..


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Rumors have flown for many years that DC police routinely infiltrate and spy on the frequent protests in the nation’s Capitol. But until now, activists have never been able to identify a specific undercover cop at a protest. Now, after months of piecing together evidence, attorneys Jeffrey Light and Sean Canavan working with United Students Against Sweatshop (USAS) have confirmed that under an assumed name, Metro police officer Nicole Rizzi has participated in USAS protests against companies doing business in Bangladesh who refuse to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh following the death of as many as 1,129 workers in the Rana Plaza factory collapse.
USAS and its lawyers have numerous pieces of evidence placing Rizzi at protests under a pseudonym. District of Columbia Public Employee Information List records obtained by In These Times confirm that Rizzi has been on the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) force since December of 2003.
USAS filed suit on Monday against the District of Columbia seeking an injunction to stop police from spying on the group’s activities.
The story of how Rizzi was uncovered reads like a mix of “Gossip Girl” and “The Wire.” Activists pieced her identity together from her obsessive posting to social media sites, including Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, Wordpress and Yfrog.
Lacy MacAuley, an activist and media manager for the Institute for Policy Studies, has suspected for the past several years that a protester named “Missy” was an undercover cop. “Missy” seemed to be at every protest, but no one knew her. However, MacAuley had no way of proving her suspicions.
Then, in November of 2012, MacAuley was at a bar on U Street when a friend recommended that she follow a Twitter account of a funny person with the handle @snufftastic. MacAuley immediately identified the user in the photographs as the person she knew as “Missy.” The user Tweeted frequently about the daily grind of being a police officer in DC.
MacAuley says she then spotted Rizzi as “Missy” at an anti-Keystone pipeline protest at the Canadian Embassy on March 21, 2013. That was when MacAuley decided to approach Jeffrey Light, an attorney who works on police misconduct issues, with her suspicions. Light and his law partner Sean Canavan began searching for evidence to peg Rizzi as an undercover police officer.
The trickiest part was establishing Rizzi’s real name. But on @snufftastic, she let clues drop. On August 2, 2012, she Tweeted, “They used to call me No Sweat Nico because no matter how hot it was at academy, I never sweat.”
Light and Canavan did a public database search of all police officers in D.C. and found only two named Nicole; one was Rizzi. Photos on “Nicole Rizzi”’s Facebook account matched those on the @snufftastic Twitter and Instagram.
Moreover, a post on Rizzi’s since-deleted Tumblr account seemed to indicate that Rizzi worked undercover. In response to a post from a reader asking her how flexible her dress code was as a police officer, Rizzi said she wore “ordinary clothes,” but made a distinction between her position and that of a “plainclothes” patrol cop: “In the position I’m in, it’s beneficial to wear ordinary clothes. Plainclothes assignments too, you wear what would blend in.”
On April 20, MacAuley spotted “Missy” at a protest outside of the World Bank and snapped a photograph of her (above left). Meanwhile, Light and Canavan dug up evidence that Rizzi was a police officer, including a photograph posted on yfrog of Rizzi pointing out a typo on a piece of mail addressed to the “DC Metropolation [sic] Police Department.” Rizzi’s finger partially covers up the address line, but it appears to read “Director, Intelligence Branch.”
Light then began searching for a plaintiff who would have standing to file a complaint against Rizzi for spying. On May 15, Light happened to be walking by a USAS protest outside a Children’s Place clothing store in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of D.C. when he spotted Rizzi handing out protest flyers.
Light flagged down USAS organizer Garrett Shishido Strain and alerted him to Missy’s presence. Shishido Strain knew just how “Missy” had wound up at the protest: He had met her four days earlier at a USAS protest outside of a Gap. Rizzi identified herself as “Missy Thompson,” gave Shishido Strain her email and phone number, and asked to be informed of future actions so that she could attend. On May 14, Shishido Strain emailed her about a last-minute protest at the Children’s Place in Columbia Heights the next day.
Having been alerted by Light, Shishido Strain and other activists filmed Rizzi handing out flyers at the May 15 like a normal protester. Later, Shishido Strain would spot Rizzi once more, at a June 29 protest against the Gap.
In retrospect, Shishido Strain believes that Rizzi had notified DC police about the group’s plans. “One of the steps we usually take at our protest is to deliver a letter detailing the human rights abuses in their supply chain to the store/business being protested,” says Shishido Strain. “We do not break any laws and if we are asked to leave the store after delivering the letter, we do. After ‘Missy’ began participating in our events, we were twice blocked from delivering letters by the Metropolitan Police Department, who presumably had been tipped off about the time and location of our events. This occurred at the May 15 Children’s Place demonstration and the June 29 demonstration.”
A law enacted by the D.C. Council in 2004 imposes strict guidelines on police when they investigate or attempt to infiltrate First Amendment-protected groups. The Police Investigations Concerning First Amendment Activities Act of 2004 specifies that the MPD departments can only investigate free speech activities if they can prove sufficient cause that protestors are engaged in crime and they have the authorization of the Executive Director of the DC MPD Intelligence Fusion Divisions (or an appropriate supervisor of similar rank). To send in undercover officers, they have to go through the same authorization process again.
But USAS attorneys Sean Canavan and Jeffrey Light say the MPD rarely follows this law. To wit, a 2012 investigation of the department by the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor concluded that the DC police failed to obtain authorization for 16 of 20 investigations into protest groups between January of 2005 and November 21, 2011. (Another seven cases were open during this period, but the files were destroyed before the review.) The report also found that the MPD never obtained official permission to send in undercover officers to protests, but did so in 17 cases.
The DC Metropolitan Police Department did not return request for comment. However, in response to the audit in 2012, DC MPD Chief Cathy L. Lainer wrote, the “MPD contends that the Intelligence Branch has consistently gone far beyond what is required by the Act.”
Light, who filed the case on behalf of USAS, says that undercover surveillance sows suspicion among activists and hinders collective action.
“If they are putting an undercover [cop] there, then they are putting undercover [police] everywhere. That is a big problem for a lot of these groups,” says Light. “You are trying to get people to come out and protest knowing that there is a undercover cop there — it’s a huge problem.”
Shishido Strain says his run-ins with Rizzi have already made him wary of strangers who want to get involved in fights for workers’ rights.
“I have personally become much more cautious with people who express support for us at actions and others who express an interest in joining our actions, if I do not know them already,” he says.
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Lewisham Live is crowdfunding and they need you!
The Lewisham Live Festival will be back in 2018, providing many more unique performance and development opportunities for local children and young people.
The Festival is put together by Lewisham Youth Theatre, Laban Dance Company , The Albany Theatre and other groups. This year’s festival saw 16 performances, in 9 prestigious venues with 2000+ young participants from across Lewisham including schools in Hither Green.
Lewisham Live has now launched a crowdfunder campaign to ensure that ticket prices for the Live Voices and Live Dance events, held at The Broadway Theatre Catford, remain affordable for families. theatres already provide their rehearsal and performance space at little or no cost to ensure funds go to where they are needed most; development opportunities for young people.
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“So many young people state year after year how much of an incredible experience it is to perform somewhere as prestigious as the Broadway Theatre and that seeing their mums, dads, siblings and grandparents in the audience is something they will never forget. It’s a real honour to be able to provide such exceptional opportunities for Lewisham’s young people, but it is increasingly more expensive. We are hoping individuals, group and businesses will support our crowdfunding campaign so we can make sure as many young people have the chance to perform in this iconic local treasure and see their loved ones cheering them on.”Natalie Clarke, Festival Coordinator
Lewisham Live is working to raise £3000 from their crowdfunding campaign, which will be used as matched funding for an arts council application helping to secure the festival activity and costs for 2018. There are various ‘pledges’ offering marketing credits, event tickets and promotion in exchange for donations, but any support however big or small is a great help.
Lewisham Live Festival is a celebration of children and young peoples talents in music and dance, which takes place every year in the Spring.
Festival partners: Lewisham Education Arts Network (LEAN), Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, The Albany, Lewisham Music, The Horniman Museum, Blackheath Halls, XLP, Bellingham Gateway Housing Association and Lewisham Council.


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