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In September two apparently contradictory headlines appeared in Glasgow’s Herald newspaper. The first stated that there had been a ‘Massive Drop in Scottish Court Cases Since 2008’. Indeed the latest figures disclose a decrease of some 54% in court actions from 2008 to where we are today. Two thirds of them were settled in favour of the creditor. The second headline declared a ‘Rise in Householders Struggling to Pay Bills’.
The uninitiated may think that if there has been a massive drop in debt recovery court actions then the general populations level of debt is decreasing. How does this equate with debt levels rising?
The answer is simple. A drop in the number of debt actions can be the result of a number of factors. For example, in relation to commercial debt – and the figures don’t differentiate between commercial and consumer debt - creditors may reduce the number of cases which they pass for litigation because they are being more selective which actions should be taken to court. This may be because they have profiled their debtors more accurately and concluded that they are not worth suing because their customer does not have the assets to satisfy the court’s judgment. There will be no point in trying to get ‘blood out of a stone’. Another reason may be that creditors are more careful to whom they are advancing credit and are profiling their customer base more astutely. In short this will mean that their actual level of defaulting customers should reduce. Following on from this they will not need to take as many court actions.
There are a host of reasons why the number of court actions raised has reduced which have nothing to do with the level of debt which many individuals face. It will be obvious that there are volumes of ‘involuntary debtors’. Such people may be unable to pay their fuel or utility bills and also struggle to pay their council tax. These persons who through no fault of their own struggle to pay their bills are in an entirely different position to a business who are slow payers and will only settle their debts once a creditor initiates court action.
So the conclusion is that a reduction in debt court actions does not necessarily correspond with a reduction in those individuals who simply cannot pay their household bills. Those whose opinion that it does are simply wrong.
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On September 9, 1957, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. This was the first piece of Civil Rights legislation that had been passed since the 19th century Reconstruction era.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was designed to protect voting rights, but also established the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Federal prosecutors were also empowered to use court injunctions against those who attempted to interfere with citizens’ voting rights.”
The Civil Rights Act met resistance from racist politicians. For instance, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, a known racist, set a record for “the longest one-person filibuster in American history.” His filibuster, thankfully, did not prevent the bill from being passed.
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was a major victory for civil rights because it laid the foundation for more civil rights legislations to be passed in the future.

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Synovial cysts are lesions that usually occur on the wrist, foot and knee. They are rarely involved in the region of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), with only 10 cases reported from 1978 to 2007. The authors report a case of a synovial cyst of the TMJ in a 45-year-old woman. The patient presented with a right preauricular swelling, 1 cm anterior to the tragus. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed a small oval hypodense mass of soft tissue in the right temporomandibular region with no relation to the condyle. Fine needle aspiration reported a synovial cyst of the TMJ. The patient was taken to the operating room and a preauricular approach extending to the temporal region was carried out resulting in surgical excision of the mass. The histological findings were consistent with the diagnosis of a synovial cyst. The long term clinical and radiological follow-up (after 18 months) showed no sign of recurrence. The authors suggest, in accordance with the literature, that a surgical approach should be the treatment of choice in the case of a synovial cyst of the TMJ.
Synovial cysts rarely occur in the region of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) . They are usually present on the extensor surface of the wrist and to a lesser extent on the dorsal surface of the foot and lateral aspect of the knee . Only 10 synovial cysts in the region of the TMJ have been reported .
In the literature, the therapy most frequently suggested is surgical excision of the synovial cyst . A high success rate has been reported . The authors present a case of a synovial cyst of the TMJ treated successfully with a surgical approach.
A 45-year-old woman presented with a right preauricular swelling situated 1 cm anterior to the tragus ( Fig. 1 ). She reported that it had been growing slowly and had been present for approximately 1 year. Her medical history was unremarkable. She had no history of TMJ dysfunction and she denied any recent trauma to the ear or mandible. Her physical examination showed a soft, tender, non-erythematous swelling, 2 cm in size, in the right preauricular area lateral to the TMJ. It was fixed to the underlying structures and was painless.
The patient had normal mouth opening, without deviation, and the mandibular range of motion was normal in all directions. There was no sound and pain in the TMJ during mandibular motion in any direction. There was no facial nerve paralysis or paresis. The rest of the head and neck examination was unremarkable.
A fine needle aspiration was performed. The picture showed cytological amorphous proteinaceous material in which epithelial cells without atypia were observed compatible with a synovial origin. The results were compatible with a synovial cyst of the TMJ.
A sonogram of the area showed a hypoechoic cystic formation of about 13 mm × 8.5 mm × 10 mm, adjacent to the right TMJ. The parotid and submandibular glands were regular, without ectasia of the salivary ducts, with no evidence of lateral lymph node swellings. A computed tomography (CT) scan was obtained, which showed a small oval hypodense mass of soft tissue in the right temporomandibular region with no relation to the condyle ( Fig. 2 ).
The patient was taken to the operating theatre and a preauricular approach extending to the temporal region was carried out to gain access to the right TMJ. The incision was made through the skin and subcutaneous tissues (including the temporoparietal fascia) as far as the temporal fascia (superficial layer). An incision of the superficial layer of the temporal fascia was performed and dissections were subsequently taken at the level of the zygomatic arch, as far as the lateral surface of the capsule of the TMJ. A 2 cm × 2 cm mass in and connected to the posterior lateral part of the joint capsule was found. The mass was isolated carefully from the lateral surface of the capsule, excised and sent for histological examination. The wound was sutured in layers and a pressure bandage was applied, which remained in place for 3 days.
The histological examination of the excised mass showed a cystic space lined by synovial cells with a cartilaginous nucleus for diagnosis of the site. The histological findings were consistent with the diagnosis of a synovial cyst ( Fig. 3 ).
The follow-up examination at 18 months revealed no sign of recurrence following clinical and radiological investigations.
A synovial cyst of the TMJ is rare with only 10 cases reported in the literature ( Table 1 ). There is a male to female predominance of approximately 7–2. Including the present case, the average age of the patients was 42.8 years (range 22–65 years). The aetiology is unknown . Synovial cysts seem to be caused by an increase in intra-articular pressure due to trauma or to an inflammatory process (rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis or synovitis ), which causes a capsular herniation of the TMJ into the surrounding tissues. A displacement of synovial tissue during embryogenesis and an abnormal force on the joint resulting from a dysfunction of the TMJ have also been reported as possible causes .
|First author||Published time (year)||Cases||Age (years)||Gender (F/M)||Treatment||Follow-up (months)||Recurrences|
|J aneca and Conley||1978||1||50||M||Surgical||Not stated||Not stated|
|R eychler et al.||1983||1||30||F||Surgical||Not stated||Not stated|
|F arole and J ohnson||1991||2||22||M||Surgical||12||No|
|B onacci et al.||1996||1||46||M||Arthroscopic||12||No|
|C hang et al.||1997||1||38||M||Surgical||18||No|
|C hen et al.||1998||1||58||M||Surgical||Not stated||Not stated|
|G oudot et al.||1999||1||65||M||Surgical||Not stated||Not stated|
|L omeo et al.||2000||1||47||F||Surgical||6||No|
|M oatemri et al.||2007||1||30||M||Surgical||6||No|

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Trends in science - Faba bean - Improving faba bean for sustainable agriculture in dry areas
Fouad Maalouf, Seid Ahmed Kemal. (13/9/2017). Trends in science - Faba bean - Improving faba bean for sustainable agriculture in dry areas.
Faba bean (Vicia faba) is one of the oldest crops, originated in the Fertile Crescent and is now distributed around the world and produced under different agro-climatic conditions in Mediterranean and semi-arid conditions as a rainfed and in Nile Valley countries as irrigated crop. It is a good source of food, incomes to smallholder farmers and plays an important role as rotation and mixed crop in improving soil fertility that helps sustainable production of cereal crops and in conserving the ecosystem. Since the crop is partial allogamous benefits from the presence of insect pollinators. However, faba bean is threaten by diverse abiotic and biotic stresses. Among abiotic stresses heat, drought, salinity and soil acidity are the major constraints of the crop while Orobanche crenata, stem borer, aphids and fungal and virus diseases are key factors for high yield gaps. The International Centre for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) holds the major and unique faba bean germplasm collection (10036 accessions), which has been used in gene mining that led to release of cultivars for high yield and tolerant to abiotic (heat and drought) and biotic stresses (fungal diseases and parasitic weeds) in many countries. Faba bean improvement program at ICARDA has generated many elite germplasm with high yield, low tannin content, market traits and resistant to diseases, parasitic weed and tolerant to heat and drought and shared with National agricultural systems (NARS) and many cultivars are developed and released. During the last 10 years 21 faba bean varieties were released by NARS from ICARDA International Public Goods (IPGs) and bringing impacts on the productivity and area increases in China, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt. In Ethiopia, various varieties (Gora, Gelbechu, Moti and Walki) are being scaled out in the wheatbased cropping system in Ethiopia. In Egypt, parasitic weed resistant cultivars (Giza843 and Misr3) helped in the rehabilitation of faba bean in Egypt leading to 25% area increase. In China, cultivar Yandoo147 covered 140,000 ha in Yunnan province. Besides the achievement made so far, the breeding efforts are relatively slow due to the nature and mechanism of resistance of key diseases, parasitic weeds and abiotic stresses. To accelerate breeding cycles, there is a need to use the emerging biotechnological tools, such as marker-assisted selection, which have not been widelyadopted despite significant achievements on quantitative trait loci (QTL) studies and the development of consensus maps in faba bean. The progress made in tissue culture and genetic transformation of faba bean can help to the introgression of sources for multiple stress resistance/tolerance into high yielding and adapted cultivars.
Kemal, Seid Ahmedhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-9369

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I’ve done 2 neurofeedback sessions so far and on the 2nd one my reading has level and speed has increased by alot. I went from being tired of reading after like 5 minutes to going on for a while, so there is hope with this. @firemonkey One dimensional reading was partially happening to me. I was(I’m not sure now as I haven’t tried reading a book lately) also seeing a book partially only because of what the paper looked like and without the imagination. Hopefully this will go away
I was an avid and eclectic reader in my teens. At that time I thought not being able to visualise was the norm . Thus there was no sense of missing out on anything.
It took guided imagery sessions for anxiety over 15 years ago to make me realise how wrong that was . Other people were having a positive response to it while I was not.
After that I was fully aware that there was something missing for me when it came to the reading experience. Though much more so fiction than non fiction wise.
I am like @everhopeful. I used to be a total bookworm, but after my head injury I had to relearn to read and I haven’t gotten the same joy from it ever since. I put on audiobooks while I do an activity, like showering, taking a walk, grocery shopping, etc. I started by listening to books I had already read and enjoyed. Then I moved on to new ones, after I got used to listening.
I sent you a reply just in case you didn’t see my post earlier. Neurofeedback does work, but you have to make sure the practitioner is decent. This can be checked by looking at good reviews. The one I went to has 11 good ones so at least that number should suffice.


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As Apple products go, it’s been a while since we’ve seen the Apple TV box get a hardware refresh. Although changes were made between 2nd and 3rd generation models in terms of performance, little else changed. Aesthetically, the two are almost indistinguishable. And rumors about the 4th gen model won’t go away.
A new report published by App Advice this morning predicts that the next Apple TV could be much smaller in size than the current model. This in itself would be impressive, given how many ports are placed on the rear side of the device. Even on the current model, the I/O selection virtually takes up the entire back of the unit. The author even mentions that it could take on a more Chromecast-style design, which I find incredibly hard to believe.
Secondly, and more importantly, is further speculation that Apple is wanting to start bringing bespoke apps and games to its “hobby”.
“Apple won’t be revealing an ‘iTV.” Nor will they be launching a device which offers a la carte TV programming, as was once believed. Instead, the next Apple TV focuses almost exclusively on being a gaming console.
To achieve this, we’ve heard from sources close to Apple that the company is putting the finishing touches on a new digital marketplace that looks very similar to the App Store. Initially, it will include much of the same content.”
There’s little certainty in the post. Words like “could”, “likely” and “possible” are littered throughout the article. And so it’s hard to say if any of it could be taken as guaranteed. Saying that, we’ve been hearing for months, from various publications, that Apple’s next Apple TV box is going to allow third party apps. The focus on games would certainly make sense too, and is something many of us have always seen as an evolutionary step in the Apple TV’s continued development.
As for launch time frame, the article states that this is to be Apple’s first new product of 2014 and is set to be released in a “matter of weeks.”
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Letrozole Actavis 2.5 mg, 30 tablets is a medication that falls under the category of aromatase inhibitors. It is commonly prescribed for the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Letrozole Actavis is a valuable tool in fighting against this type of cancer, and here are some important details you should know:
To take Letrozole Actavis, simply follow your healthcare provider’s instructions. The usual dosage is one 2.5 mg tablet taken orally once a day, with or without food. Remember to take it at the same time every day for optimal results.
While Letrozole Actavis is generally well-tolerated, like any medication, it can have some side effects. Common ones include hot flashes, joint pain, fatigue, mild nausea, and headache. These side effects are usually temporary and manageable. If you experience any discomfort, it’s always a good idea to discuss it with your healthcare provider.
Now let’s talk about the benefits of Letrozole Actavis:
- Effective cancer treatment: Letrozole Actavis is highly effective in inhibiting the production of estrogen, a hormone that can stimulate the growth of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer cells.
- Tailored for postmenopausal women: This medication is specifically designed for postmenopausal women because their bodies produce less estrogen. By further reducing estrogen levels, Letrozole Actavis helps slow down or stop the growth of cancer cells.
- Easy to take: Letrozole Actavis comes in tablet form, making it convenient to incorporate into your daily routine. Simply swallow the tablet whole with a glass of water.
- Hormonal balance restoration: By decreasing estrogen levels, Letrozole Actavis helps restore hormonal balance in postmenopausal women, aiding in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer and potentially preventing cancer recurrence.
- Comprehensive treatment: Letrozole Actavis is often prescribed as part of a comprehensive treatment plan for breast cancer, which may include surgery, radiation, or other therapies. It plays an important role in targeting the hormonal aspect of the disease.
Letrozole Actavis can be a valuable ally in your journey towards overcoming hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, offering hope and support along the way.

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March 31, 2021
NEW ORLEANS – Patients at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola (“Angola”) needlessly suffer from serious injuries—including severe pain, preventable sickness, and untimely death—as a result of prison officials’ failure to provide constitutionally adequate medical care. They also failed to accommodate disabilities, a federal judge ruled today.
Civil rights lawyers filed the class action lawsuit, Lewis v. Cain, on behalf of the more than 6,000 people imprisoned at Angola in May of 2015. The ruling comes after several weeks of testimony in October 2018 before Federal District Court Judge Shelly K. Dick, months of lengthy post-trial briefing on behalf of both Plaintiffs and Defendants regarding the conditions in the 18,000-acre maximum-security prison, and a brief visit to the prison on February 5, 2020.
“This ruling today affirms what we have been saying for years, the men incarcerated at Angola have been subjected to completely inadequate medical care and discrimination based on their disabilities,” said Mercedes Montagnes, Executive Director of the Promise of Justice Initiative and co-lead counsel for Plaintiffs. “Going forward, prison officials will have to start fulfilling their constitutional obligation to provide adequate medical care and disability accommodations to everyone incarcerated there, no matter how young or old, healthy or sick.”
Judge Dick found the prison’s delivery of medical care to be constitutionally inadequate in numerous ways, focusing particularly on clinical care, specialty care, infirmary care, and emergency care. In her ruling, she noted that “overwhelming deficiencies in the medical leadership and administration of health care at LSP contributes to these constitutional violations.”
The Court also found that “Defendants have been aware of these deficiencies in the delivery of medical care at LSP for decades.”
Attorneys for Plaintiffs, The Promise of Justice Initiative, the law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC, Disability Rights LA, the ACLU of Louisiana, the Southern Poverty Law Center (“SPLC”), and attorney Jeffrey Dubner, fought hard for many years to achieve this victory. The decision in their favor is even more significant as Louisiana has the highest rate of prison deaths in the country.
“Today’s decision is an enormous win for everyone,” said Jeffrey Dubner, co-lead counsel for the Plaintiffs. “Providing people who are incarcerated with adequate health care not only affirms our basic dignity as human beings, but it reduces future costs to taxpayers and facilitates successful reentry into society.”
This victory is also particularly important considering Louisiana’s changing prison population.
“Louisiana has the highest percentage of its prison population serving life without the possibility of parole sentences in the United States,” said Nishi Kumar, Director of Civil Litigation at Promise of Justice of Initiative. “For years the average age of people in the prison has risen but the state has not appropriately changed its medical care to meet the consequences of its incarceration policies. Louisiana must start paying to meet the constitutional standard for medical care and disability access, or start looking for mechanisms to release older prisoners who pose no risk to the public.”
The judge also found that the prison was in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, on behalf of a subclass of inmates with disabilities who are physically unable to access parts of the prison.
“What we have seen firsthand is that the abysmal conditions at Angola are especially harmful to our clients who have disabilities or mobility issues,” said Bruce Hamilton, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Louisiana. “They are systematically denied access to even the most basic accommodations and are prevented from accessing prison services and programming as a result of their disabilities. Now the Department of Corrections will have to make whatever changes are necessary to bring the prison into compliance with federal law.”
“Everything we found when we began investigating this case more than six years ago was occurring against the backdrop of Angola’s brutal history of slavery and convict leasing,” said Montagnes. “People were being forced out into the fields and into factories to work and were not being treated for their injuries and heat stroke. Men risk their lives at the prison rodeo every year, which generates millions of dollars in profits for the prison, and were not being treated for their broken bones. People were dying prematurely from treatable cancers. Now, we can tell our clients who have bravely been with us on this case since the beginning that things are finally going to change.”
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The Promise of Justice Initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community


Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has alarmed the world with a controversial claim that the 1980s synthesiser-based group Kraftwerk, generally assumed to be German, were in fact four electronic music enthusiasts from Gaza City.
‘Don’t be fooled by these lyrics referencing autobahns and the Tour de France,’ he continued, ‘These men have never left the occupied territories. Not that they are occupied, of course…’
He went on to blame Palestinians for Bauhaus architecture, sauerkraut, spiked helmets, oompah bands and beach towels left first thing every morning on the sun loungers nearest the pool.
A Palestinian spokesman commented; ‘It’s important that the history of the holocaust is not used as a political football. That said, it was all Netanyahu’s fault.’


Monkeypox: Where Are The African Cases?
Why Are Ongoing African Outbreaks Being Ignored?
What’s wrong with this picture?
As of June 2, the World Health Organization has recorded 780 laboratory confirmed cases of monkeypox outside of the region in West and Central Africa where the virus is known to be endemic. Absent from the majority of these cases: clear links to West or Central Africa.
While the West African clade of the virus has been identified from samples of cases so far, most confirmed cases with travel history reported travel to countries in Europe and North America, rather than West or Central Africa where the monkeypox virus is endemic. The confirmation of monkeypox in persons who have not travelled to an endemic area is atypical, and even one case of monkeypox in a non-endemic country is considered an outbreak. While most cases are not associated with travel from endemic areas, Member States are also reporting small numbers of cases in travelers from Nigeria, as has been observed before.
How does a virus spread through regions where it is not endemic? How does it even get to those regions?
The WHO does not give us the answer to those questions. Indeed, one might almost conclude there are no current monkeypox cases in Africa, based on the comments from the WHO and throughout the corporate media on the topic.
Monkeypox Is Alive And Well And Spreading In West Africa
Yet if one looks towards the bottom of the WHO’s latest Disease Outbreak News bulletin regarding monkeypox, one quickly sees that an active monkeypox outbreak is very much ongoing in Western Africa.
Moreover, a review of the WHO’s DON bulletin from May 21 reveals that monkeypox is continuing to spread in West Africa.
Which makes a particular sentence from the June 1 DON bulletin striking:
While most cases are not associated with travel from endemic areas, Member States are also reporting small numbers of cases in travelers from Nigeria, as has been observed before.
To summarize the situation, we have the following key points:
1,408 suspected of confirmed cases in West and Central Africa.
780 laboratory confirmed cases outside of West and Central Africa.
Some of the cases outside of West and Central Africa have been sequenced and appear to match the West African Clade.
Some of the cases outside West and Central Africa have been reported among recent travelers to Nigeria.
Most cases outside West and Central Africa have no known travel links to Africa.
Has The Endemic Region For Monkeypox Expanded?
The current distribution of monkeypox cases outside of the known endemic region in Africa raises the question of whether monkeypox is now endemic in Europe. Certainly the vast majority of cases appear in the UK, Spain, or Portugal.
Australia’s third case is a man who recently traveled to Europe, not Africa.
A recently returned traveller from Europe has been identified as a third case of monkeypox in NSW.
A Chicago man returning from Europe is quite likely Illinois’ first case of monkeypox.
A Chicago man who recently traveled to Europe has Illinois’ first probable case of monkeypox, state and Chicago health officials said Thursday.
Could these cases be pointing to a new nexus of monkeypox in Europe where the virus is now endemic, having found a reservoir host within European animal populations?
This possibility cannot be excluded, simply because even within Africa, the reservoir host for monkeypox is unknown.
The natural reservoir of monkeypox remains unknown. However, African rodents and non-human primates (like monkeys) may harbor the virus and infect people.
Monkeypox is considered endemic to Africa simply because, until now, cases have either appeared in West and Central Africa or have had travel links to that region. As was noted in the reporting on the Massachusetts case which was the first reported case of monkeypox in the US for 2022, last year two isolated cases of monkeypox were reported in the US, both with travel links to Nigeria.
No monkeypox cases have previously been identified in the United States in 2022; Texas and Maryland each reported a case in 2021 in people with recent travel to Nigeria.
The Massachusetts case, along with many of the other cases reported in the United States recently, have had travel links to Canada, but, so far, no cases in the US with direct travel links to Africa have emerged.
How did the virus get to Canada and Europe?
As the WHO notes, only a few of the cases of monkeypox outside of Africa have had travel links to Africa. This is fueling speculation that monkepox may have been spreading undetected for some time.
The sudden and unexpected appearance of monkeypox simultaneously in several non-endemic countries suggests that there might have been undetected transmission for some unknown duration of time followed by recent amplifier events.
Given that genomic sequencing links several of the current monkeypox cases to the West African clade, and that, as BNO News states on their Monkeypox tracker, the first reported case in London had travel links to Nigeria, there is little doubt that the virus ultimately arrived in Europe from Africa. The question is whether monkeypox has now found a European host animal to act as a natural reservoir from which humans can be infected even without direct travel to West Africa.
Making the question even more compelling is a first draft genome sequence of a monkeypox viral sample isolated from a case in Portugal, which appears to link at least that Portuguese case to a 2018-2019 monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria, which was noteworthy for having the first documented cases of monkeypox being exported outside the known endemic region in Africa.
A first rapid phylogenetic analysis of the draft genome (Figure 1) indicates that the 2022 virus belongs to the West African clade and is most closely related to viruses associated with the exportation of monkeypox virus from Nigeria to several countries in 2018 and 2019, namely the United Kingdom, Israel and Singapore
Is the current outbreak in non-endemic countries related to the 2018-2019 outbreak where cases were exported to the UK and Israel? The possibility not only cannot be ruled out, but early evidence may even support that hypothesis.
Would such a linkage, if substantively proven, raise the likelihood monkeypox is now endemic in Europe? With the current data in hand, that question is for now unanswerable.
The possibility that monkeypox has taken up residence in Europe cannot be affirmatively excluded. It is even possible some of the extant data points towards endemicity within Europe.
Monkeypox Spreading More Aggressively Outside Africa Than Within Africa
The 7-day average of non-endemic monkeypox cases as reported by BNO News indicates the virus has been spreading more aggressively outside of Africa.
While the current outbreak in Africa (and the WHO bulletins show the monkeypox outbreak in Africa is ongoing) has resulted in some 1,408 suspected cases since January, outside of Africa over two thirds that number of cases have been detected in just a few weeks.
If monkeypox is not now endemic in Europe, the alternative is to somehow explain the same virus—and, by implication, the same viral strain—spreading more aggressively outside of Africa while spreading much less aggressively within Africa. If, as the concentration of African monkeypox cases within the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests, the African cases also involve the Congo Basin clade, which so far is not implicated in the non-endemic cases, the disparity in disease spread becomes even greater, as does the challenge of explaining that disparity.
Expanded endemicity would go a long way towards resolving that challenge.
(Note: the bioweapons hypotheses advanced in some circles would also go a long way towards resolving that challenge. For reasons of focus and brevity I am not addressing those possibilities here, and may do so in a separate article)
COVID Inoculation Link?
One disturbing possibility to explain the monkeypox outbreak’s greater aggressiveness outside of Africa must be considered: the COVID-19 inoculations.
One unavoidable statistical reality of the outbreak is that the countries where monkeypox is traditionally considered to be endemic are have fairly low rates of inoculation, and the countries outside of Africa with the most monkeypox cases all have high rates of inoculation.
Nor can we avoid the empirical fact that the non-endemic countries are experiencing greater numbers of cases than every endemic country except the Democratic Republic Of Congo—a country where the native monkeypox clade is the Congo Basin clade, known to be far more deadly than the West African clade associated with the European cases.
Is this proof that the COVID inoculations are involved? No. It could be mere coincidence.
Yet, as Igor Chudov recently documented, Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 are proving far greater problems for highly inoculated Portugal than for much less inoculated South Africa.
Moreover, if, as I have speculated previously, Paxlovid rebound occurs with greater frequency among inoculated patients than non-inoculated patients, those cases present a possible reality of immune system damage among inoculated patients.
Additionally, multiple studies such as this Danish cohort study confirm negative efficacy of the inoculations against Omicron: over time the inoculations make people more susceptible to Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. Alex Berenson detailed this phenomenon back in January in his Unreported Truths substack.
In this paper, we present evidence that vaccination induces a profound impairment in type I interferon signaling, which has diverse adverse consequences to human health.
While there is no proven link between COVID inoculation and monkeypox infection, there is plainly a growing body of evidence the COVID inoculations produce lasting immune system damage extending beyond susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Against this backdrop of immune system damage arising from the COVID inoculations, might the more aggressive spread of monkeypox in Europe be an expression of a generally weaker immune system?
The data is nowhere close to providing an answer to that question, yet there is enough data to establish the question is hardly an unreasonable one.
Africa Provides Important Context
What is clear from the data is that the current outbreaks of monkeypox in Africa are an essential context to apprehending the non-endemic cases in Europe and North America. Whether the current “non-endemic” outbreak heralds an expansion of the endemic region for monkeypox to include Europe, or whether it highlights widespread immune system compromise due to COVID inoculation, it is the appreciation of the monkeypox cases in Africa that provide the necessary framework for perceiving what is unfolding here.
So far, no one has died from monkeypox outside of Africa. That fact alone precludes the outbreak from being considered a pandemic, and there is no denying that, thus far, monkeypox does not present a major healthcare risk in either Europe or the Americas.
Yet the cases present several mysteries, and raise disturbing questions. Depending on the ultimate answers to those questions, the “non-endemic” monkeypox outbreak may prove to be an immunological “canary in the coal mine”, alerting to far greater virological dangers down the road.
This becomes very apparent the moment we include Africa in our understanding of the monkeypox outbreak.
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I was at dinner a few weeks ago with my long time friend and first business partner Dave Jilk. We ended up talking about how difficult it is to determine signal from noise, fact from fiction, truth from bullshit, and bullshit from complete-and-total-bullshit.
I recently hit the wall with all the political stuff that was popping up everywhere. I think the thing that flipped my switch from on to off was a satirical article about Hillary Clinton and all the horrible things she had done that was being passed around by people who I think considered it to be factual. As I read through it, I imagined all the derivative articles building on the sarcasm embedded in the article and then making arguments which would be cited by others as truth because they showed up credibly somewhere.
I probably would have recovered from this in a few days if I wasn’t then confronted yesterday by a Wall Street Journal article that was sent to me with a clear set of assertions built around a statement that I knew to be factually incorrect, but I’ve seen written exactly the same way in other articles to make a specious argument.
Software should be able to solve this for us. It appears that whenever Google talks about working on ranking based on trustworthiness anti-science advocates freak out about it. If you are interested in seeing the math (and some concepts) behind this, the paper by some Google folks titled Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources – while chewy – is very interesting (at least the parts I understood.)
Dave sent me a presentation he’d done on this topic for a Defrag Conference several years ago. I tossed it up on SlideShare and embedded it below.
We went back and forth on it a little more and Dave ended with a strong statement around skepticism.
“It seems like a consequence of a few drivers has caused there to be more awareness of the notion and techniques of skepticism. However, people are using it indiscriminately, i.e., just to attack the other side. It’s another form of bullshit, actually – they don’t care whether the skeptical criticism is valid, but it has some additional polemical value because it has an aura of aiming for truth. Some of the drivers of the new Skepticism are all the problems with media, climate change, and probably some other things I’m not thinking of.”
When I ponder the notion of peak oil, I pine away for the concept of peak bullshit. But, like peak oil, I suspect it is an elusive construct.


Why not make a statement game? D.C. United is not calling tonight's game at home against the San Jose earthquakes a statement game or a must win (coverage begins at 6:30 p.m.
Here it comes, just as the tension and pressure ratchets up in Major League Soccer, the magical mystery tour that is the CONCACAF Champions League starts for DC United with a road test on Wednesda
In climbing to the top of Major League Soccer, D.C. United has now used 23 different starting lineups in 25 games.
The buzz about D.C. United’s 6-4 win over Real Salt Lake last Saturday has lasted all week. It makes sense for a game that delivered cracking goals and even dramatic saves.
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my question is the following . .
I have 2 objects that collide (I can check that)
The Objects have a movement vector (lenght = velocity)
I can compute the real angle (not only the direction of the vector) if that matters somehow.
How can i compute the resulting vectors of the two objects after
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that a non moving object becomes an amount of movement from an object that moves against it.
For each object, F = m*v f - m*v i, where v f and v i are final and initial velocities respectively. F 1 is equal to -F 2 (the changes in momentum for the two objects ar equal in magnitude, but opposite). Determining the effect of one particle on the other requires knowing how the force was transmitted through the particles'' centers - in straight lines or tangentially. The tangent is the natural attenuation factor for the transmitted velocity.
In English, calculate the intersection point of the bounding region of each object with the direction vector of the other. if the center of the bound object lies on the same line, then simply add the vector. If not, then calculate the vector from the point of intersection to the center and add that to your velocity vector.


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Founded in August 2018 by Rohit Chokhani, Easy operates across geographies in a phygital model and provides instant decision on home loans. It said that it provides mortgage on mobile to the underserved consumers. The venture is focused on measuring Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) Impact proactively.
Rohit Chokhani, Founder and Director, Easy, said, “A consumer has to jump multiple hoops to get a home loan. In order to offer mortgage on mobile solution, we must first understand the income, assets, credit & property. The traditional way would be filling out multiple forms and answering questions to figure out these variables, but we use data to understand our customer better."
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The company earlier raised an undisclosed amount from Harbourfront Capital in August 2019. Easy aims to achieve $150 million assets under management over the next 24 months and will expand its network to more than 100 locations across the country. The company is backed by more than a dozen banks and financial institutions, it said in a statement.
PR Srinivasan, Managing Partner, Xponentia Capital Partners, said, customers of Easy can focus on things that matter and not worry about drudgery and paperwork.
"Buying a house is what it should be - a delightful experience. We are excited to partner with Rohit and the entire team in their journey to digitize the mortgage industry," he added.


The Wilkes-Barre Area School Board should hold off on buying new security cameras and can save money by going back to the surveillance service from Wilkes-Barre's Hawkeye Security Solutions, a city official said.
The new cameras could cost the school district between $1.5 million and $2 million, school district Purchasing Director Jim Post said earlier this month. Greg Barrouk, the city's deputy administrator and Hawkeye board member, said the school board decision in April against renewing its Hawkeye contract "was unfortunate."
Hawkeye, a nonprofit entity that maintains the 300 surveillance cameras in the city, installed 50 cameras outside district schools and properties and will begin removing some of them, Barrouk said. Hawkeye also offered connecting internal school cameras into its network, Barrouk said.
The district was paying Hawkeye $90,000 a year for the security-surveillance service.
That amount was too costly, and the school board won't spend close to $1.5 million on new cameras, school board President John R. Quinn said, adding the district will find a less expensive option.
Board members this week will be going through the district's nine schools to see how many cameras are already in place and what is needed, board member Dino Galella said.
"I think we can do it for a lot less. We don't have that kind of money," Galella said of the $1.5 million estimate.
Quinn added Hawkeye doesn't appear to be an option because the Wilkes-Barre Parking Authority voted Tuesday to stop paying $7,500 a month to Hawkeye.
The parking authority's three-year contract with Hawkeye expires at the end of October. Hawkeye maintains and monitors 65 cameras in the authority's three garages.
The authority is Hawkeye's last remaining revenue source. Hawkeye spent all funds from $3 million in state grants, which were used to create its network. The city plans to apply for more grants next year to rejuvenate Hawkeye's coffers.
Hawkeye's operational costs are around $10,000 a month, the amount it costs to pay private security officers to monitor cameras.
The school district is looking at buying additional security cameras for school entrances, bus-pickup areas and playground areas off of a state contract, Post said. A detailed proposal with specific costs is expected in mid-November, and the school board could vote to buy new cameras in December.


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Bihar on Wednesday approved amendments to the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, changing some of its stricter provisions, which was earlier termed as ‘draconian’ by a section of the society.
The decision was taken by Council of Ministers lead by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and the amendments are likely to be tabled in the upcoming Monsoon Session.
Nitish Kumar had hinted about making these changes at some his public meets. However, he had stated that liquor ban was here to stay in the state.
The state government has kept the amendments as secrets but according to latest reports, the new law does not have the provision of seizing property or vehicle, if liquor is found there.
The punishment of imposing heavy fine if liquor was found has also been removed, the reports said, adding that it’s either a three-month jail time or a monetary fine for the first-time offenders.
Those who have completed the jail time for breaking the law are also likely to be released by the government, added a source.
Bihar had imposed complete alcohol prohibition on 5 April, 2016, following which manufacturing, consumption or sale of liquor was banned in the state.
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WASHINGTON – For lobbyist Jack Abramoff (search), no politician was too big to pursue and no detail too small to charge his clients for.
Working to keep the Northern Marianas Islands (search) free of new U.S. regulations, Abramoff sought help from Tom DeLay (search), other congressional leaders and high-level Bush administration officials.
At the same time, he charged the islands for such mundane tasks as securing tee times at the right golf courses for Washington visitors and obtaining an autographed copy of a book by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
Questions about Abramoff's billing practices arose well before a federal grand jury and two congressional committees recently began investigating whether he overcharged several Indian tribes for his lobbying work on gambling issues.
His own lobbying firm was concerned as early as 1996 about his use of a credit card to pay for congressional trips to the Pacific U.S. territorial islands, fearing it ran afoul of ethics rules, according to billing records obtained by The Associated Press.
By 2001, the island government was questioning whether Abramoff's multimillion-dollar lobbying bills -- sometimes covered with U.S. tax dollars -- were justified.
Abramoff offered the island government a string of reasons, including a Jewish holiday, why he wouldn't appear at an October 2001 hearing the Marianas Senate called to look into why the cash-strapped territory paid so much to Abramoff's lobbying team.
"I can't attend such a hearing (and am not sure I would be allowed to do so anyway, by the code of ethics -- you are our client, not the legislature). It is Simchas Torah that day," wrote Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew. "I can't really come to the CNMI before November, and in any event, given how red hot things are right now on the minimum wage, my leaving for a week would be horrible (I am needed to work WH senior staff and House leadership)."
Another Abramoff client, the Marshall Islands (search), refused to pay all its lobbying fees, which included Abramoff's hourly rate of $425.
Abramoff's firm at the time, Preston Gates (search), sued the Marshalls in 2001 for $433,363; the Pacific islands agreed to pay part of that and the case was settled.
Abramoff, a high-level fundraiser for President Bush, has remained mostly silent in public as a federal grand jury investigates his work and as increasing scrutiny is given to his relations with DeLay and other members of Congress.
Abramoff and his spokesman will say only that his work was worth everything he charged.
Some lawmakers are calling for tougher ethics rules to govern contacts with lobbyists, and the House is prepared to open an ethics investigation into the DeLay-Abramoff dealings.
Abramoff's billing records make clear his efforts spread far across Washington.
He and his team had dozens of conversations with DeLay or his staff, and at least 195 contacts with Bush administration officials in Bush's first 10 months in the White House.
Abramoff's lobbying efforts included regular briefings with House and Senate leaders and strategy sessions with well-connected conservative activists including Grover Norquist (search), whose Americans for Tax Reform group is being subpoenaed by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee for documents as part of its Abramoff probe.
Abramoff also established himself as a Republican fundraiser, collecting more than $100,000 for Bush's re-election campaign, for example, and giving campaign cash to DeLay and other lawmakers.
A question for those investigating Abramoff will be whether he crossed the line between schmoozing of clients and lawmakers and actual illegality.
The details are key, said longtime Washington lobbyist Wright Andrews, a former president of the American League of Lobbyists.
"Many lobbyists have close friendships with members of Congress. I think there's obviously nothing wrong with that," Andrews said. "The lobbyist should not try to obtain favors in exchange for campaign contributions, or other benefits that they might be able to provide for the member. But so much is just on a case-by-case basis, you have to look at the actual situation."
Abramoff's team asked Gingrich to autograph one of his books and attended a think tank dinner that honored him, billing the islands for the time spent on both.
Abramoff entertained island officials with e-mailed jokes poking fun at politicians, including Gingrich and two fellow Republicans, former Vice President Dan Quayle and a senator who resigned amid a sex scandal, Bob Packwood (search) of Washington.
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Abramoff's push for payments was a constant refrain -- even in a consolation e-mail he sent a Marianas official after the islands' 1997 election caused a switch in rulers.
"I am so sorry about the bad news on the campaign. I was really depressed the whole time I was there (I am now in Manila). I hate to ask, but I was wondering if you had any thoughts on keeping the payments coming and getting up to date?"


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An estuary is an area where a freshwater river or stream meets the ocean. In estuaries, the salty ocean mixes with a freshwater river, resulting in brackish water. Brackish water is somewhat salty, but not as salty as the ocean.
An estuary may also be called a bay, lagoon, sound, or slough.
Water continually circulates into and out of an estuary. Tides create the largest flow of saltwater, while river mouths create the largest flow of freshwater.
When dense, salty seawater flows into an estuary, it has an estuarine current. High tides can create estuarine currents. Saltwater is heavier than freshwater, so estuarine currents sink and move near the bottom of the estuary.
When less-dense freshwater from a river flows into the estuary, it has an anti-estuarine current. Anti-estuarine currents are strongest near the surface of the water. Heated by the sun, anti-estuarine currents are much warmer than estuarine currents.
In estuaries, water level and salinity rise and fall with the tides. These features also rise and fall with the seasons. During the rainy season, rivers may flood the estuary with freshwater. During the dry season, the outflow from rivers may slow to a trickle. The estuary shrinks, and becomes much more saline.
During a storm season, storm surges and other ocean waves may flood the estuary with saltwater. Most estuaries, however, are protected from the ocean's full force. Geographical features such as reefs, islands, mud, and sand act as barriers from ocean waves and wind.
Types of Estuaries
There are four different kinds of estuaries, each created a different way: 1) coastal plain estuaries; 2) tectonic estuaries; 3) bar-built estuaries; and 4) fjord estuaries.
Coastal plain estuaries (1) are created when sea levels rise and fill in an existing river valley. The Chesapeake Bay, on the East Coast of the United States, is a coastal plain estuary.
Chesapeake Bay was formed at the end of the last ice age. Massive glaciers retreated, leaving a carved-out landscape behind. The Atlantic Ocean rushed to fill in the wide coastal plain around the Susquehanna River, creating a large estuary known as a ria: a drowned river mouth.
Tectonic activity, the shifting together and rifting apart of the Earth's crust, creates tectonic estuaries (2). California's San Francisco Bay is a tectonic estuary.
The San Francisco Bay lies at the junction of the San Andreas fault and the Hayward fault. The complex tectonic activity in the area has created earthquakes for thousands of years. The San Andreas fault is on the coastal side of the bay, where it meets the Pacific Ocean at a strait known as the Golden Gate. The Hayward fault lies on the East Bay, near where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers enter the estuary. The interaction of the San Andreas and Hayward faults contributes to downwarping, the process of an area of the Earth sinking.
Like the Chesapeake, the San Francisco Bay was only filled with water during the last ice age. As glaciers retreated, land around the bay experienced post-glacial rebound—without the massive weight of the glacier on top of it, the land gained elevation. The Pacific Ocean rushed in through the Golden Gate to flood the downwarped valley.
When a lagoon or bay is protected from the ocean by a sandbar or barrier island, it is called a bar-built estuary (3). The Outer Banks, a series of narrow barrier islands in North Carolina and Virginia, create sandy, bar-built estuaries.
The Outer Banks protect the region's coast from waves and wind brought by Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. The islands and sandbars also protect the delicate, brackish ecosystems created by the outflow of many rivers, such as the Roanoke and Pamlico. For these reasons, engineers monitor the shifting sandbars of the Outer Banks, and constantly work to maintain them.
Fjord estuaries (4) are a type of estuary created by glaciers. Fjord estuaries occur when glaciers carve out a deep, steep valley. Glaciers retreat and the ocean rushes into fill the narrow, deep depression. Puget Sound is a series of fjord estuaries in the U.S. state of Washington.
Like fjords found in Alaska and Scandinavia, the fjord estuaries of Puget Sound are very deep, very cold, and very narrow. Unlike many of those fjords, Puget Sound's fjord estuaries also have inflows from local rivers and streams. Many of these streams are seasonal, and fjord estuaries remain mostly salty.
Some estuaries not located near oceans. These freshwater estuaries are created when a river flows into a freshwater lake.
Although freshwater estuaries are not brackish, the chemical composition of lake and river water is distinct. River water is warmer and less dense than lake water. The mixing of the two freshwater systems contributes to lake turnover—the mixing of the waters of a lake.
Freshwater estuaries are not affected by tides, but large bodies of water do experience predictable standing waves called seiches. Seiches, sometimes nicknamed sloshes, rhythmically move back and forth across a lake.
The Great Lakes, in the United States and Canada, experience seiches and have many freshwater estuaries. Old Woman Creek National Estuarine Research Center, in Huron, Ohio, was established to study the habitat created by a natural freshwater estuary. At the research center, Old Woman Creek empties into Lake Erie.
Many plant and animal species thrive in estuaries. The calm waters provide a safe area for small fish, shellfish, migrating birds and shore animals. The waters are rich in nutrients such as plankton and bacteria. Decomposing plant matter, called detritus, provides food for many species.
The estuarine crocodile, for example, is an apex predator of tropical Australian and Southeast Asian estuaries. The estuarine crocodile is the largest reptile in the world. A specimen caught in the Philippines in 2011 measured 6.4 meters (21 feet).
Like most apex predators, estuarine crocodiles eat almost anything. This means the estuary must support a wide variety of food webs. Estuarine crocodiles do not usually consume producers—sea grasses, seaweeds, mushrooms, and plankton in the estuary. However, they do prey on consumers in the second trophic level, which rely on these plants and other photosynthetic organisms for food: insects, mollusks, birds, and fruit bats. Estuarine crocodiles also prey on consumers at the third trophic level, such as boars and snakes (and, rarely, people).
Estuarine crocodiles are ideally adapted to the brackish water of river estuaries. They can survive equally well in freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. During the rainy season, estuarine crocodiles live in freshwater rivers and streams. They feed on fish such as barramundi, and terrestrial species such as kangaroos and monkeys. During the dry season, estuarine crocodiles swim to river mouths and even out to sea. Fish remain the main component of their diet. Some estuarine crocodiles have even been known to attack and consume sharks.
Estuarine crocodiles have also adapted to seasonally vanishing estuaries. The reptiles can go months without eating. Estuarine crocodiles can simply not eat when the estuary shrinks and food becomes scarce.
Estuaries and People
Estuaries are excellent sites for community living. They provide freshwater for drinking and hygiene. Access to both rivers and oceans helps the development of trade and communication.
In fact, the earliest civilizations in the world developed around estuaries. Ur, in what is now Iraq, developed around 3800 BCE near the estuary of the Euphrates River where it met the Persian Gulf.
Ur was a sophisticated urban area, with a population of more than 60,000 at its height. Its estuary was the most important port on the Persian Gulf. All ships carrying trade goods from places such as India and the Arabian Peninsula had to pass through Ur. The estuary's wetlands and flood plains provided a rich source of wild game and allowed for the development of irrigation and agriculture.
Today, Ur is an archaeological site well inland from the Persian Gulf coast. The landscape has changed, and the estuary of the Euphrates is more than 300 kilometers (186 miles) away.
Many modern cities have grown around estuaries, including Jakarta, Indonesia, New York City, New York; and Tokyo, Japan. These urban areas have undergone rapid change, and put their estuaries at environmental risk through land reclamation, pollution, and overfishing.
Communities have filled in the edges of estuaries for housing and industry since the times of Ur. This process is called land reclamation.
Jakarta's 10 million residents have one of the highest population densities in the world. To create more space for homes and businesses, Indonesian officials have dredged the Ciliwung River and Java Bay. The sand and silt dredged from the river bottom and seafloor fortify the city's beaches and create new land.
Land reclamation comes at a price, however. Jakarta's fisheries are disrupted by the dredging. This reduces the potential profits for restaurants and markets, as well as fishers.
Destroying the estuary also creates the conditions for flooding. Estuaries provide a natural barrier to ocean waves, which can erode the shoreline and destroy coastal homes and businesses. Jakarta is particularly at risk for tsunami damage, as the area experiences frequent earthquakes.
Pollution accumulates in estuaries. The Hudson-Raritan Estuary, where the Hudson and Raritan rivers meet the Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most-trafficked and most-polluted estuaries in the world.
Pollution from ships routinely spills into the Hudson-Raritan Estuary, just south of New York City. Debris in the estuary, including fuel, garbage, sewage, and ballast, remained unregulated for decades.
Runoff from agriculture and industry in New York and New Jersey also contributed a toxic estuarine environment. Industrial waste and pesticides travel downstream and settle in the water and sediment of the estuary.
Today, strict regulations and community activities are working to protect and restore the Hudson-Raritan Estuary. The restoration of oyster beds is an important part of many projects.
Oysters are a keystone species in the estuary, filter feeders that naturally help regulate toxins in the water. Millions of oyster beds greeted Henry Hudson when he entered the river in 1609. By the middle of the 20th century, however, the few remaining oysters were too toxic for human consumption. Today, several environmental groups are establishing oyster beds to repopulate the region's native species and reduce pollution in the estuary.
Many estuaries have been overfished. Pacific bluefin tuna are not endangered, but their range has been drastically reduced. Japan provides one of the largest markets for bluefin tuna, and the fish used to swim in the estuary of Tokyo Bay.
Bluefin tuna are large, predatory fish. They require an expansive habitat and many kilograms of food every day. As Tokyo's population grew and technology made it easier to catch more fish with less time and money, Tokyo Bay's bluefin tuna population shrank.
Today, there is not a bluefin tuna population in Tokyo Bay. However, Japanese scientists have established a successful tuna fish farming technique. Farm-raised tuna does not have a direct environmental impact on the Tokyo Bay estuary.
Indonesian, American, and Japanese governments and environmental groups struggle to promote sustainable development in estuaries. Sustainable development aims to preserve the environment while satisfying people's economic standard of living.
Tokyo, the most populous city in the world, was originally known as Edo, which means "estuary." Tokyo Bay is an estuary formed where the Sumida and Arakawa rivers flow into the Pacific Ocean.
Largest Estuary in the World
Because the definition of "estuary" is fluid, determining which one is the world's largest is an ongoing debate. However, many scientists say that that St. Lawrence River, which connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, is the world's largest estuary. The St. Lawrence River is about 1,197 kilometers (744 miles) long.
Some Native Americans called estuaries the "Between-Land" because they are not quite land and not quite water.
to gather or collect.
the art and science of cultivating land for growing crops (farming) or raising livestock (ranching).
warm, surface current flowing from a river or stream into an estuary.
species at the top of the food chain, with no predators of its own. Also called an alpha predator or top predator.
place where evidence of the past is being studied by scientists.
heavy material, usually water, used to provide stability for large ships or other oceangoing vessels.
place where a river mouth is at least partly protected from the ocean by sandbars or barrier islands.
long, narrow strip of sandy land built up by waves and tides that protects the mainland shore from erosion.
salty water, usually a mixture of seawater and freshwater.
to move around, often in a pattern.
complex way of life that developed as humans began to develop urban settlements.
coastal plain estuary
place where the ocean rushed in to flood a low-lying river valley.
rocky outermost layer of Earth or other planet.
remains of something broken or destroyed; waste, or garbage.
having parts or molecules that are packed closely together.
non-living organic material, often decomposing.
foods eaten by a specific group of people or other organisms.
process of an area of land sinking.
to remove sand, silt, or other material from the bottom of a body of water.
the sudden shaking of Earth's crust caused by the release of energy along fault lines or from volcanic activity.
community and interactions of living and nonliving things in an area.
person who plans the building of things, such as structures (construction engineer) or substances (chemical engineer).
to wear away.
cold, dense bottom current flowing from the ocean into an estuary.
cold, dense bottom current flowing from the ocean into an estuary.
mouth of a river where the river's current meets the sea's tide.
a crack in the Earth's crust where there has been movement.
aquatic animal that strains nutrients from water.
art and science of raising and harvesting fish and other seafood, such as shrimp or crabs.
place where a river or freshwater stream flows into a deep, steep gorge carved by a glacier and filled with seawater.
flat area alongside a stream or river that is subject to flooding.
all related food chains in an ecosystem. Also called a food cycle.
place where a river mouth flows into a large freshwater lake.
wild animals hunted for food.
mass of ice that moves slowly over land.
environment where an organism lives throughout the year or for shorter periods of time.
tropical storm with wind speeds of at least 119 kilometers (74 miles) per hour. Hurricanes are the same thing as typhoons, but usually located in the Atlantic Ocean region.
science and methods of keeping clean and healthy.
long period of cold climate where glaciers cover large parts of the Earth. The last ice age peaked about 20,000 years ago. Also called glacial age.
activity that produces goods and services.
watering land, usually for agriculture, by artificial means.
organism that has a major influence on the way its ecosystem works.
process of the dense lower layer of a lake rising to become the upper, less-dense layer.
process of creating new land for housing or industry by draining parts of rivers, lakes, or the ocean.
place where a river empties its water. Usually rivers enter another body of water at their mouths.
to harvest aquatic life to the point where species become rare in the area.
natural or manufactured substance used to kill organisms that threaten agriculture or are undesirable. Pesticides can be fungicides (which kill harmful fungi), insecticides (which kill harmful insects), herbicides (which kill harmful plants), or rodenticides (which kill harmful rodents.)
introduction of harmful materials into the environment.
place on a body of water where ships can tie up or dock and load and unload cargo.
process in which land that was crushed by a glacier regains its shape.
animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals.
organism on the food chain that can produce its own energy and nutrients. Also called an autotroph.
a ridge of rocks, coral, or sand rising from the ocean floor all the way to or near the ocean's surface.
low, wetland area near the mouth of a river. Rias are often called "drowned river valleys."
overflow of fluid from a farm or industrial factory.
region and name for some countries in Northern Europe: Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark.
solid material transported and deposited by water, ice, and wind.
standing wave in an enclosed body of water.
small sediment particles.
marshy wetland largely defined by thick mud.
body of water, larger than a bay, partially surrounded by land.
individual organism that is a typical example of its classification.
standard of living
amount of goods and services a person in a specific community or geographic area is able to afford.
type of wave that does not move or lose strength.
abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm. Also called a storm tide.
narrow passage of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
human construction, growth, and consumption that can be maintained with minimal damage to the natural environment.
movement of tectonic plates resulting in geologic activity such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
place where tectonic activity causes downwarping, and the ocean rushes in to fill the downwarped land.
having to do with the Earth or dry land.
one of three positions on the food chain: autotrophs (first), herbivores (second), and carnivores and omnivores (third).
ocean waves triggered by an earthquake, volcano, or other movement of the ocean floor.
developed, densely populated area where most inhabitants have nonagricultural jobs.
area of land covered by shallow water or saturated by water.

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Di Matteo’s Pizza
DiMatteos is a family restaurant located in Hamden, Ct. Since 1972, we have specialized in serving Authentic Italian style Pizza, along with a variety of dinners every day. We are a restaurant built on tradition and family. We want to share our family's passion for food with you. We create authentic pizzeria pizza made from the freshest ingredients: basil, olive oil, ripe tomatoes & fresh mozzarella. Our pastas and sauces are homemade, with recipes passed down from generation to generation
We have just finished a total re design of our restaurant. Our dining area is open and bright, allowing our patrons to enjoy the delicious aroma of their pizza cooking.
We hope that you will enjoy the quality tradition and great taste of our food as much as our family does. Please Visit our NEW LOOK and have dinner with us. We hope to see you soon!

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There are numerous causes behind hair loss, and with that, there are numerous treatments that help the thinning hair be halted or even regrown. If regrowth is not an option, there are many wigs and weaves available that are a great substitute. In the following paragraphs, you’ll gain a better understanding of hair thinning, and will learn what you can do to fight back.
Hair thinning can be caused by certain hair styles. Avoid pulling hair too tight, and do not keep it tied in rubber bands or other holders for long amounts of time. Although hair products have improved from the past, they can still cause damage. Wearing ponytails too tight can actually damage the hair shaft and lead to damage deeper in the hair follicles.
There are some hair products that are not healthy for your hair. Read the label and choose your products carefully. Don’t put any chemicals in your hair that could be harmful. Some hair products actually slow down the growth of hair tremendously. You should only use a product after you have researched it and made sure that it is safe.
To help manage your spirits and your looks if enduring substantial blading, consider buying a good wig. Get the wig prior to all your hair is lost, so that you can correctly match the color. Getting a wig in advance, also gives you time to get comfortable with it before you need to wear it every day.
Maintain plenty of protein in your diet to slow thinning hair. Eggs, poultry, beans, fish and nuts will give your body the protein that it needs. Eating these foods will help your hair produce keratin, which is its own protein. A good amount of keratin will strengthen your follicles and slow hair loss.
As surprising as it might seem, air pollution can be a contributing cause of blading. It has been proven in studies that men who reside in areas of high pollution are more prone to developing hair thinning because of pollutants that are found in their bloodstreams.
Research the cause of your hair loss to find an appropriate treatment. Consult your physician if you experience sudden the loss of hair that may indicate an underlying medical condition. If you keep this article’s advice in mind and establish a thinning hair treatment program of your own, you can minimize or reverse the blading effects you experience.

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Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) have developed an algorithm that controls trapped ions for scalable quantum control.
This novel technology utilises the first known holographic optical engineering device to control trapped ion qubits, promising to aid the development of more precise controls of qubits. This will help the creation of quantum industry-specific hardware to further quantum simulation experiments as well as the potential of furthering quantum error correction processes for trapped ion qubits.
The results of the study were published in the journal npj Quantum Information.
“Our algorithm calculates the hologram’s profile and removes any aberrations from the light, which lets us develop a highly precise technique for programming ions,” said Chung-You Shih, lead author and PhD student at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing.
The team at IQC have been trapping ions used in quantum simulation in the Laboratory for Quantum Information since 2019 but required a more accurate way to control them.
When a laser is aimed at an ion it can communicate with it and change its quantum state, thus establishing the necessary building blocks of quantum information processing. However, laser beams have irregularities and distortions that can result in a complicated, wide focus spot. This is complicated as the distance between trapped ions is a few micrometres.
In order to stimulate the ions, it is necessary that the laser beam profiles are accurately engineered. The team took a laser, blew its light up to 1cm wide and then delivered it via a digital micromirror device (DMD), which is programable and functions as a movie projector.
The DMD chip has two-million micron-scale mirrors on it that are separately controlled with electric voltage. Utilising an algorithm developed by Shih, the DMD chip is programmed to display a hologram pattern. The light generated from the DMD hologram can have its intensity and phase exactly controlled.
During the testing process, the researchers were able to control each ion with the holographic light. In previous experiments, ‘cross talk’ has been an issue, which meant that a laser focusing on one ion would result in light leaks on the surrounding ions.
In contrast, with this new device, the researchers were able to effectively differentiate any aberrations as a sensor. They can then cancel the aberrations by adjusting the hologram and obtain the lowest cross talk in the world.
“There is a challenge in using commercially available DMD technology,” Shih explained. “Its controller is made for projectors and UV lithography, not quantum experiments. Our next step is to develop our own hardware for quantum computation experiments.”


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The Milwaukee Bucks have put Larry Sanders their rear view mirror, but his contract isn't going anywhere any time soon.
Just over two weeks ago, the Bucks and the beleaguered veteran center agreed to a buyout on his guaranteed, four-year, $44 million contract.
Since then, there have been various reports about the terms and conditions of the agreement, especially in regard to how the Bucks will pay the 26-year-old Sanders.
In recent days, league sources claim the Bucks will use every year they are allotted under the NBA's “stretch provision.'' And that means the Bucks will pay Sanders in annual increments of approximately $1.9 million over a seven-year period. That amount will be applied to the Bucks’ salary cap each season through the 2021-2022 season.
The stretch provision allows teams to make their payments for twice the number of years remaining on a contract, plus an additional year. Sanders has three years remaining on his contract.
Sanders, who was twice suspended by the NBA for drug infractions – last season for five games and 10 games this season – will thus collect about $22 million – or half of his original $44 million deal.
That’s not shabby considering Sanders played a mere 27 games this season and won't play for them at all the next three seasons.
Prior to reaching a buyout agreement, I was told by individuals who know Sanders and who work for the Bucks that he had no desire to continue playing basketball. I’m told that is still the case.
Bucks general manager John Hammond and Bucks owner Herb Kohl made the egregious decision to give Sanders a contract extension in August of 2013.
It immediately brought wide-spread disbelief around the NBA, especially considering Sanders had only one quality season with the Bucks, had several run-ins with teammates and still had another season remaining on his contract before he became a restricted free agent.
The Bucks’ decision to make Sanders a cornerstone of their franchise became even more suspect when, shortly into the 2013-2014 season, he was involved in a nasty downtown Milwaukee bar fight that resulted in him hurting his right hand. Sanders wound up playing only 23 games that season.
Officials from numerous NBA teams have told me they don’t have any intention of trying to sign Sanders, whom the Bucks selected with the 15th overall selection in the 2010 draft. What’s more, some NBA officials and Sanders’ acquaintances are convinced he’ll never play again in the NBA.


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Amazon has announced plans to open a fulfillment centre in Calgary’s Nose Creek Business Park.
The company says this will create over 750 full-time jobs, adding to its current workforce of over 2,000 full-time fulfillment associates across Canada. Altogether, Amazon says it employs more than 4,400 Canadians across its corporate offices, development centres and other facilities.
Amazon says fulfillment centre associates are responsible for picking, packing and shipping all sorts of items, ranging from aviator sunglasses to zebra costumes.
Calgary’s upcoming 600,000 square foot facility will be Amazon’s first fulfilment centre in Alberta and seventh overall in Canada. The other six centres are located in Ontario (Brampton, Mississauga, and Milton) and British Columbia (Delta and New Westminster).
“We are excited to continue our growth in Canada and especially in the greater Calgary community where we’ve already received great community support,” said Glenn Sommerville, director of Amazon operations in Canada, in a press statement. “Our ability to create more than 750 good-paying jobs with great benefits is the result of our dedicated workforce across the country who continue to raise the bar on operational excellence and customer obsession. Customers have seen the great work they do and we couldn’t be prouder of our ability to grow in Canada.”
In the meantime, Amazon has been looking for a city to house its second North American headquarters, the first being in Seattle, Washington.
Calgary has been one of the Canadian cities vying for the new HQ and has even made an offer to fight a bear as part of its bid. Ontario’s Mississauga, Toronto and Brampton have also rallied for the new location, as have Vancouver and Halifax.
Some Canadian business executives, however, have argued that Canada shouldn’t be pursuing Amazon’s second headquarters.
To date, Amazon says it has received 238 proposals from “cities and regions in 54 states, provinces, districts and territories across North America.”
Source: Canada Newswire


Medina Ohio Music
Celebrate the sounds of summer with an evening of music, good food and celebrations! Come to Lincoln Center Theater for a free concert honoring local schools that are short of money.
The following people have been commissioned to write and arrange for the Medina Community Band: Douggla D'Alessandro, Robert Siennicki, John C. Miller and John D. Smith. The work was written and arranged by them in collaboration with the band members and their families. This concert is made possible by the generous support of the city of Medina and the community as a whole, as well as local businesses and individuals.
Piccolo soloist, right, is a former student of Deidre McGuire and has been a member of the Medina Community Band since 1994. Sue has been performing for over 20 years and plays both flute and piccolo in the Medina Community Band.
She performed at jazz festivals in the region and led a concert at Night in the Town in Cain Park. Louie has also performed at the Cleveland Jazz Festival, Ohio Jazz Fest and the New York City Jazz Festival.
She is also responsible for the design and implementation of a professional art tour that reaches all seven school systems in Medina. Her duties include training sixth and ninth grade bands and she is the tour moderator for all components of the moderator tour. She is a member of the Medina County Arts Council and Medina Public Schools' tour moderator list and has been on the tour list for the Cleveland Jazz Festival and the New York City Jazz Fest.
Students from Barberton received excellent reviews at the awards ceremony, and in fact Rainbow was voted the best school band in Medina County and the third best in Ohio State. I was able to see all my friends in front of thousands of people at a concert in New York City on the eve of the Cleveland Jazz Festival.
It became increasingly popular after Mr. Sousa used it as a concert hall during the Spanish-American war. It was performed at almost all of his concerts and always brought tears to the audience's eyes.
Adam's parents were always the first to show their support, and he was involved in all activities related to music and theatre.
In the fall of 1999, she became a music teacher at Medina County High School in Medina, Ohio. During her tenure, Christine founded an extracurricular choir for honors, directed an annual fifth-grade musical that often consisted of her own arrangements and arrangements, and was the director of the Medina County Honors Choir, directing its annual Medina County Fair performances. Mrs. Judd even took over the school for the first time during my time as principal. Besides instrumental music I also taught piano, violin, guitar, cello, trumpet, drums, drums and piano.
Goldman died in 1956 at the age of 78, and his death marked the end of an era: John Philip Sousa had glorified the band, but Goldman had increased its station and given it a new format in the world of symphonic music. Back in the Midwest, Maria won a Grammy for her interpretation of "Dennis the Menace" by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She opened for jazz trumpeter Chuck Mangione at Coach House in Columbus, Ohio, and performed as a support act for Bob Doroguh. Maria has also performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra and other major orchestras in the United States.
She was the national chairman of the organisation from 1998 to 2000 and is still a member today, currently as a woodwind juror and state historian. Neiman is active in local affairs and has been an active member of various arts committees in the school community and various arts committees for schools and communities.
She was also a board member of the Akron Public Schools Music Education Association and an associate professor at the University of Akron, where she teaches the course "Music Education in the Profession." She earned her Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the University of Ohio and her Master of Education from Ohio State University and earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Music Education from Akron and a Master of Arts in Art and Science from Cleveland State College of Music, both of which she attended during her time in Akron public schools.
Curtis received her bachelor's degree in music education from Cleveland State College of Music in 2004, where she graduated in arts and science. She is a member of the Akron Public Schools Music Education Association and a board member of the Ohio Music Educators' Association.
Membership in the Medina Community Band is open to all, but members are expected to participate regularly. The Medina Community Band is proudly supported and sponsored by its association, which consists of members of the Medina Community Band. The Medina Community Bands are not only sponsored by the association, but also by a standing committee. Due to the auditions, the band has no admission and no fees for rehearsals, rehearsals or band members.


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2018 Ticket Sales Open
7/06/2018 8:00:00 AM
Staggered ticket sales for the 2018 Festival:
ON SALE THURSDAY 7TH JUNE for Week 1 performances (Monday 25th - Saturday 30th June, inclusive)
ON SALE WEDNESDAY 13TH JUNE for Week 2 performances (Sunday 1st - Friday 6th July, inclusive)
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As promised in my post about my visit to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff here are the things that I bought there...
The gift shop was packed with so much cool stuff it was hard to decide which things to get! The first thing I grabbed was the Titan Bad Wolf Tardis figure. This has been on my wishlist for a long time as I am a big fan of Rose/Bad Wolf- it's my favourite era :D
I also bought a comic book style coaster and poster, a postcard and a Tardis key chain.
As the trip was a Birthday present I was treated to the companion merchandise ticket which came with a bag of goodies. Inside the Tardis bag cam a a t-shirt, festival band, companion guide book, fancy admission ticket (sponsored by Magpie electricals!), a Gallifrey certificate, and a boxed Tardis key.
I'd definitely recommend getting this with your ticket if you go as it works out great value and a lot of these things are exclusive to the pack.
So that's my little haul :)


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Solyndra fall-out could tank solar for military bases
The SolarStrong project to put rooftop solar panels in Department of Defense bases risks being derailed because of a Congressional-led slowdown in DOE loan guarantee process.
Martin LaMonicaFormer Staff writer, CNET News
Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT publication InfoWorld.
SolarCity said today that the Department of Energy has not been able to finalize a loan guarantee for a project to install rooftop solar panels on military bases, blaming the political furor caused by bankrupt solar company Solyndra.
Earlier this month, the Department of Energy announced a $344 million conditional loan guarantee agreement with SolarCity to install solar photovoltaic panels at Department of Defense bases in 33 states. The distributed solar project, called SolarStrong, would have doubled the number of residential solar installations in the U.S. and would have been the largest rooftop solar project.
The DOE told SolarCity that it has been unable to finalize the loan guarantee by a September 30 deadline because of requests for additional oversight from Congress over loan guarantee project proposals. Without the loan guarantee, the project is at "severe risk," according to SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive.
SolarCity is requesting that the deadline to finalize loan guarantees be extended beyond the September 30 deadline. "The additional oversight is understood. We have no issue with that. It's the arbitrary deadline of September 30," Rive said.
During a hearing today, Solyndra's CEO and CFO today were accused of misleading the DOE about the company's finances. In addition, some politicians are now attacking incentives for solar power, in general, and scrutinizing the loan guarantee program which was established in 2005 to help bring new technologies to market at large scale.
SolarCity's residential solar project is substantially different than providing a loan guarantee for a solar manufacturing facility, as was the case with Solyndra. SolarCity installs rooftop solar panels and provides financing through banks to offer homeowners a lease. Rather than purchase the solar panels, the homeowner pays a lease fee and their monthly electricity bills go down.
There have been four loan guarantees provided to solar manufacturing. The other solar-related loans were for projects, such as utilty-scale solar power plants, which are considered less risky financially.
The SolarStrong project is less risky than large-scale solar projects, Rive said. The DOE loan would be used to guarantee the solar leases in the case of a default, rather than new technology development or project construction, he said. Additional oversight of the loan guarantee application causes significant delay because it is thousands of documents and was a year in the making, he added.
"Unfortunately, Project SolarStrong, together with the thousands of job years it would create and the benefits it would bring to our country's military communities, is at risk of becoming an unintended casualty of the controversy over Solyndra," Rive wrote in a letter to chairmen on the Subcommittee on Energy and Power and to the Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
The DOE has been able to move ahead with other loan guarantees before the September 30 deadline. Today, it finalized loan guarantees for three renewable energy projects although none were in solar.