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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the basis for mimicking human intelligence processes through the creation and application of algorithms built into a dynamic computing environment. Stated simply, AI is trying to make computers think and act like humans.
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'Truth in Ink' series
Part Two - Lauren
The problem with the first impression is the betrayal.
You see a glimpse of a silky texture and think: roses, strawberries, vanilla, nuances of violet - delicate.
A longer look reveals a spiciness, even a racy acidity - daring.
It's a contradiction that is a true reflection of our complex world intrigued?
***Awarded Bronze medal in 2017 Australian Italian Varieties Awards***
Photography by: Emily Williams Photography
'Truth in Ink' series
Part One - Steve
All my life I have been drawing and fascinated with art. From a very young age (high school) I was carving crosses and ribbons into my forearms with a compass, so I guess the progression to tattoo art was very much a natural one. Small tattoos on my shoulders (a swallow and a dragon on each) started it all. Then larger tattoos on my back. The obsession and the dedication to this art form grew. As the less visible parts of my body were adorned with colour, the decision was gradually made to take the step to more visible areas, and the commitment to bear them for life. Traditional art was always a big influence, both American and Japanese. Because they are timeless art forms, the style always remains the same, not affected by "fads" or the "style of the moment." To me, my art for life will never go out of fashion, for me. That is such a special personal thing and keeps me wanting (and designing and planning) more ideas.
Being a drummer and DJ, I have been hugely influenced by music over the years! From rock (Alice in Chains, Foo Fighters) to Alternative (The Cure, The Smiths) to Metal (Metallica, Slayer) to Mod / Ska (Madness, The Specials). Ultimate tune... The Cure - A Forest.
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2- Alice in Chains - Rooster
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4- Sunday - Sonic Youth
5- One Step Beyond - Madness
6- Love Removal Machine - The Cult
7- London Calling - The Clash
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9- China Girl - David Bowie
10- One Inch Man - Kyuss
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(Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press, 2019)
Joan Fiset’s newest collection, How It Was with Scotland (2019, Ravenna Press), is a startling, vivid chapbook comprised of fragmentary poems and surreal images. Each poem is paired with visual art by Noah Saterstrom, and the images — with their rough brush strokes and swirling colors — function to both illuminate and obscure the lines they are printed beside. Indeed, these combinations of the lyric with the visual ask readers to dwell a little longer with each poem, to ask questions that may not be answered and to linger in the beauty tinged with uncertainty.
The poem that begins, “this is summer,” for example, is paired with the image of what appears to be a mother and her three young children. Wearing bright red clothing, they stand on the steps of a building; their attire and the warm colors imply that the season here is also summer. Though their faces are not detailed, we can tell that they are smiling as though posing for a picture: a happy family on summer vacation. The poem itself continues: “over there the lake / returns so blue we / look together into it / dreaming the hummingbirds home”. Because of the image beside the poem, the “we” in these lines becomes this young family on the steps. The ideas of dreaming and home become all the more nostalgic in the context of this family. At the same time, the image opens up questions that the poem cannot fully answer — what happened to the family, to this “we”? Who is the speaker now, and where is home?
Throughout the collection, these pairings seem to offer us glimpses of a world not so different from our own — a world we might almost remember, except that it is too dreamlike, too fragmented for us to recall. Fiset’s poems are almost entirely without punctuation or capitalization, with lines that seem to begin mid-sentence and passages that end abruptly, without completion. As other reviewers have commented, reading these poems feels much like overhearing a few words from a conversation, prompting us to fill in the missing words and meanings for ourselves. Besides the continual enjambment, other elements of these poems create the sense of gaps and incompletion. A poem that begins “A room white breath” for example contains several lines with extra white spaces between words, as though various words have been cropped from the poem. The closing two lines read, “sail on as if what / left and” , leaving us with the impression that we are not reading the full story.
Even with this sense of incompletion, however, Fiset’s talent is to offer us a chapbook that feels whole, even profound. Throughout, the poems repeat themes: an emphasis on colors and spaces, or a particular character, Lucinda. In the latter part of the book, a few of the poems adopt longer lines or prose-like blocks that, though still fragmented, give the impression of thoughts becoming more concrete, even as the lines themselves speak of things lost or broken. What is more, the collection opens and ends with the exact same poem, a longer piece that ends with the line “it begins again” — thus, the collection feels whole in that it is almost circular, perhaps even cyclical, beginning and ending at the same place.
We have here a profound reflection on the nature of incompletion — what it means for something to have completion and why completion, in its common interpretation, is not always necessary to generate meaning. While Fiset’s poems are difficult to understand in their fragmentary shape, they do not fail to offer truth because of their structures. Rather, the structures themselves help create that meaning. In a way, Fiset testifies to the shortcomings of art to generate clarity. At the same time, she reveals art’s power to characterize and alleviate human experience. This latest collection, filled with imagination, layered with evocative language, and arranged profoundly, is a testament to Fiset’s enduring talent as a writer.
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LeBron James scored 23 points but had his return to action spoiled as the Boston Celtics secured a 130-108 blowout victory.
The 36-year-old had missed eight games due to an abdominal strain and his presence was a welcome return for the Los Angeles Lakers who had lost five games without their star player.
His return was announced shortly before the game, with the decision made after James finished a shooting session an hour before tip-off.
The Lakers confirmed his return by tweeting that ‘The King has arrived and will play’.
‘I felt okay,’ James said after the match. ‘Obviously being out two and a half weeks I felt kind of like a rookie again, just being away from the game. Excited. Felt good enough that I could trust my body.’
Following the defeat the Lakers now hold an 8-9 record and are ninth in the Western Conference.
James said: ‘It’s never 65 games left (in the season). We need to play better.’
The Lakers will hope James can help turn their season around after a slow start to the season in which they are 6.5 games behind conference leaders the Golden State Warriors.
Boston Celtics have also had a slow start to the season, but All Star Jayson Tatum inspired them to victory on Friday night.
Tatum scored 37 points and grabbed 11 rebounds while Marcus Smart got 22 points and Dennis Schroder added 21 as the Celtics climbed back to a .500 record for the season so far.
Anthony Davis led Los Angeles with 31 points and James finished with 23 in 32 minutes. They each had six rebounds and two assists.
The teams who have accounted for nearly half of the NBA’s championships with 17 apiece renewed their rivalry in front of a raucous TD Garden crowd that made it seem like a play-off atmosphere from the opening tip.


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COASTAL RESILIENCY FUNDING TO BENEFIT ERIE REGION
Community engagement workshops planned for 2020
(ERIE, PA) – Pennsylvania’s Great Lakes coastal communities will benefit from $38,000 in funding to address extreme weather and climate change. The effort, “The New Normal–Breaking down social barriers to build up coastal resilience in a Great Lakes coastal community,” will address immediate and long-term impacts of weather extremes and climate change to businesses, residents, the economy, and the environment in Erie County, PA.
Pennsylvania Sea Grant and the Community Resilience Action Network of Erie (CRANE) are leading the effort, with funding through the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessments (GLISA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Erie Insurance Company. The effort will include piloting a vulnerability assessment tool, called the Coastal Resilience Index (CRI), hosting a series of community and decision-maker workshops that project climate scenarios, and identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities and action strategies to address those vulnerabilities.
The project area of Erie County hosts an abundance of valuable economic and natural resources and opportunities, including 76 miles of Lake Erie shoreline, Presque Isle State Park, the City of Erie, and eight other coastal municipalities.
Unfortunately, extremes in weather, temperature and climate have impacted the region. Unprecedented snow and rain events, flooding, high lake levels, temperature fluctuations, tornados, and damaging high winds are all examples of the varying impacts related to climate change. Yet, despite the increase in frequency and intensity of these events, past focus groups with decision-makers and residents have shown a general lack of knowledge about the tools, resources, and science available to help the region better prepare.
Damage and losses for businesses, farmers, and residents have long-lasting impacts to the local and regional economy, crop viability, infrastructure, and individual homes. Presque Isle State Park, one of Erie’s most notable assets, attracts over 4 million visitors each year and is considered vital resting site for migratory birds. It too is threatened by climate and weather extremes and variabilities.
“The effort will launch the process of resiliency planning for Erie County,” said Sara Stahlman, extension leader for Pennsylvania Sea Grant and chair of CRANE. “The results will help safeguard our most vulnerable communities, farmers, businesses, and Presque Isle State Park, from the threats of extreme weather and climate.”
The work will begin in 2020, with research into past and predicted weather events, and climate trends. Insights and responses from community engagement workshops will help to create a realistic assessment of the region’s ability to prepare for and respond to extremes.
“The research and community engagement efforts are the first steps to identifying the vulnerable and valuable assets that are at greatest risk,” said Leann Sestak, interim executive director for Environment Erie. “We’ll be collecting public input, opinions, and knowledge of available resources in order to make a baseline assessment of the community’s connection to and understanding of extreme weather and climate and how it impacts their daily lives.”
Future phases of the effort include follow-up visits with decision-makers and stakeholders to refine the list of possible action strategies and compile a best management practices document with action strategy recommendations, which will act as a roadmap to building resilience in Erie. Learn more about PA Sea Grant’s climate-based efforts (http://seagrant.psu.edu/topics/climate-change) and visit CRANE (https://pacrane.org/).
Composition of Project Team: Pennsylvania Sea Grant chairs a group of community members called the Community Resilience Action Network of Erie (CRANE) who are committed to developing a climate-conscious community through education, coordination, and implementation of projects that address climate adaptation and build local resilience. CRANE is made up of the Erie County Department of Planning, the Regional Science Consortium, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Environment Erie, and the Green Building Alliance.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, the chasms in the food and agricultural systems became plain for all to see. But even before COVID-19, the food and agricultural systems were in crisis: millions of people were hungry, there was a loss of biodiversity, climate change impacts were devastating, and labour conditions appalling. So, how do we do things differently to guarantee a different outcome in a world beset by seemingly insurmountable challenges and faced with a lack of strong political leadership, as well as collusion, corruption, authoritarianism, and theft, especially in times of crisis?
The authors of this publication present alternatives for post-COVID-19 food and agricultural systems from a politically-leftist perspective and discuss the impacts of the pandemic with a focus on small-scale food producers who feed the majority of the world’s population, and the invisibility of farmworkers that grow, pick, and pack the food sold in supermarkets and other food retail outlets. By documenting the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our food systems in different regions across the world, the publication aims to provide an account of the nature of the prevailing food systems globally and their outcomes, and reflect upon the experiences and perspectives of the hardest-hit communities within rural and urban settings.
The publication is a result of the collaborative efforts of the Agrarian Politics Working Group of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung (RLS). The content for this joint publication was facilitated by a number of RLS regional offices and authors from several countries including Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, the Philippines, South Africa, the US, and Zimbabwe.
The scope and focus are two-fold. COVID-19 exposed to an even greater extent the highly concentrated and inequitable distribution and commercialization of food. Therefore, the articles featured in this publication firstly analyse the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on access to food, and secondly, examine how the pandemic laid bare the deep contradictions in agro-food chains from multiple perspectives. The articles observe the socio-economic impacts, the assault on farmworkers, violations of the right to food, the aggressive hijacking of food production and commercialization by large corporations, levels of concentration in food systems, unfair food pricing, incoherent food policies, the role of social organizations that produce and distribute food, and the role of the state. Interestingly, the experiences of social movements and peasant organizations during the pandemic show that different food systems are necessary and possible. A beacon of hope amidst the doom and gloom surrounding COVID-19 is the realization that a sense of community, care, and reciprocity is critical to sustaining life. The articles provide glimpses of what post-COVID-19 food and agricultural systems might look like by exploring the steps and strategies that would be required to bring about this change. In addition, the authors uncover the risks and dangers of corporate domination over our food systems.
As the RLS Agrarian Politics Working Group, we trust that the experiences and responses documented in this publication are useful to activists, civil society organizations, and social movements in the continuing struggle for food sovereignty. No doubt the responses from below will stimulate critical debate among policy makers to challenge the hegemonic food system and prompt the mindful contemplation and swift implementation of alternative food systems. On the occasion of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) 2021, we hope our contribution strengthens counter-narratives to food systems that have been increasingly captured by global capital.
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For those of you unaware, this website is intended as extension of my current PhD work, which focuses on the relationship between folklore, the cultural figure of the monster and Gothic Fiction, particularly between the years of 1846-1914.
My work particularly looks at the concept of the ‘Folkloresque’ within such works, a term largely derived in relation to 20th and 21st popular culture, which relates to how popular culture adapts, revises and even invents folkloric motifs, traditions and themes within their narratives. My current studies seek to take this very contemporary term and apply it to an era that has so far been ignored by contemporary scholars, notably the late 19th and early 20th Century. In particular, my project focuses on the various popular Gothic fictions of the time, whose tales of shadowy, monstrous figures were eagerly consumed by the reading public, with texts such as Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Beetle, being bestsellers of their day. My work therefore examines how popular Gothic fictions such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, utilise, invent and adapt folkloric motifs within their narratives, all the while seeking to understand the possible reasons for why authors may have included such items within each story.
This website and blog will work to support this research. On a regular basis, I will post updates on my research, promote potential upcoming events that may be of interest to scholars and also (perhaps most notably) provide short insights on Gothic texts from the period, analysing them from the perspective of the folkloresque. Within each of these latter posts, I will seek to not only highlight and identify any potential folkloric sources, traditions and motifs that are utilised within such Gothic tales, but I will also note how such sources are then adapted and changed within the narrative.These critiques are intended to work as potential resource for fellow folklorists and Literature academics, who may wish to read up on how the folkloresque is potentially utilised within the specific Gothic stories of the late 19th and early 20th Century. This in turn will hopefully provoke further academic discussion and conversation within the particular arenas associated with the folkloresque.
It is my hope, that this website and blog will work to not only promote and provide readers with insight into my own research, but that it will also promote that of the emerging concept of the Folkloresque, as well as the larger fields of folklore, Gothic Literature and popular culture. Additionally, I would also encourage further collaboration and discussion with other researchers in the field. As such, if anyone would like to get in touch to ‘guest blog’ with a feature or suggest a topic please feel free – I would very keen to get in touch with any other researchers in order to further develop research networks and clusters.
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for this 13th release trenton is proud to introduce 2 brand new upcoming artists coming all the way from north germany (neumunster): till von sein and aera!
till von sein started as a mc listening to hip-hop before getting more into electronic dance music by dj’ing for years in his home land where he is also having his own night called “sweat” at luna club in kiel. he started to get into producing more and more and hooked up with ralf schmidt aka aera, who he knew for a long time from his hip hop and skateboarding background and who already had a massive experience in studio work and making music…
a1: lesbah is a great minimal groovy track with an acid bass line sound. a cool break with a french touch vibe… a2: prody is a bit in the same spheres… minimal killer beats and a great chords line that drives the tune all the way thru.
b1: the remix of nooncat aka alexei meshkov of the original listed below… alexei’s style with a solid kick and strong lines made for the dance-floor… perfect dj tool!
b2: the original, which is the deepest track of this release, is definitely their most personal work on that record. very deep music indeed with strange vocal lines and a breakbeat flair.


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Solar home sales in the Phoenix area held strong in January to start the new year despite a 26 percent decline in overall home sales in the area, according to data from the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service (ARMLS).
In January 2015, there were a total of 78 solar home sales, 28 solar homes had a solar lease while the other 50 homes had an owned solar photovoltaic (PV) system on the roof. Solar home sales represented 1.63 percent of the total home sales in Phoenix during January, up from 1.25 percent of December area home sales.
The median price for a solar home in January fell 2.6 percent to $248,400, but 28 percent higher than the Phoenix median sales price of $194,700 (which also fell 1.17 percent from the month before). Single family homes continued to dominate the majority of the solar home sales, representing 93.6 percent of all solar home sales for the month (up 1 percent from December).
Homes with a solar lease outpaced the general resale market. The average solar home sold in 104 days with homes with solar leases sold within 78 days on average, approximately 18 percent faster than the Phoenix market average for January.
The age of sold homes with solar continued to be fairly evenly mixed. 14.1 percent of the Phoenix area solar homes were 5 or less years old. 25.6 percent of the homes were 6 to 10 years old while 21.8 percent of the homes were 10 to 20 years old. 38.5 percent of the solar homes in the Phoenix area were 20+ years old. These percentages have been fairly consistent throughout the past 12 months.
Financing continued to play a significant role in Phoenix solar home sales. Conventional financing (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgages) accounted for 51.3 percent of the total solar home sales in the Phoenix area (the same as November’s data) while FHA and VA financing total 9.0 percent and 5.1 percent respectively. Cash home buyers purchased 32.1 percent of the total Phoenix solar homes for sale in January, up approximately 3 percent from December 2014.
The number of new listings jumped significantly in January with 220 new solar home listings (though that is not a big surprise as new inventory dropped in December and typically increases after the first of the year). Meanwhile, the current inventory of solar homes in Phoenix rose to 540 solar homes for sale in ARMLS, giving us a 6.9 month supply of solar homes for sale, though the general market saw a 41.27 percent increase in supply of homes in January for the Phoenix area.
Sales were generally more spread out across the valley in January though concentrations of sales can be seen in the Sun Cities, Goodyear and parts of the far east valley (see Phoenix solar heat map).
With the Super Bowl over and the excitement of all of the car shows and golf tournaments wrapped up, I expect Phoenix home buyers to jump in the market in February. With incredibly low interest rates and a slight drop in median prices for the months, there are plenty of home buying choices throughout the Phoenix area. Buyers are feeling better about the economy and I do not hear a lot of complaining about the sub $2.00 gas prices in Phoenix. If you are thinking about selling, now is the time to get your home on the market for the Phoenix real estate market peaks during February – May time frame for activity.
You can read more about the general real estate market in Phoenix and the monthly sales at GreenLeafAZ.com
Considering selling a home with solar? Want to know how much additional value solar adds to your home? Give the Solar Home Broker a call at 480-888-1234!


Miss Muffet was once a young girl who sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey. But now, she’s all grown up and she’s not afraid of spiders anymore! In fact, she’s taking matters into her own hands with her new product, Miss Muffet Strikes Back: Spider Killer.
This powerful spider killer is now available in your area, and it’s the perfect solution for anyone who’s tired of sharing their home with these eight-legged pests. With Miss Muffet Strikes Back, you can say goodbye to spiders and hello to a spider-free home.
What sets Miss Muffet Strikes Back apart from other spider killers on the market is its unique formula. It’s made with natural ingredients that are safe for both humans and pets, yet powerful enough to kill even the toughest spiders. And unlike some other spider killers, Miss Muffet Strikes Back won’t leave a sticky residue behind. Instead, it dries quickly and leaves your surfaces looking clean and fresh.
But that’s not all. Miss Muffet Strikes Back is also incredibly easy to use. Simply spray it directly on spiders and in areas where spiders are likely to hide, such as corners, crevices, and behind furniture. Then sit back and relax as the spiders are eliminated.
And for those who are concerned about the environment, you’ll be happy to know that Miss Muffet Strikes Back is eco-friendly. Its natural ingredients are non-toxic and biodegradable, making it a safe choice for both your family and the planet.
So don’t wait any longer to take control of your spider problem. Miss Muffet Strikes Back: Spider Killer is now available in your area, and it’s the perfect solution for anyone who’s tired of playing host to these creepy crawlies. With its natural ingredients, powerful formula, and easy-to-use design, it’s the ideal way to keep spiders out of your home for good. Give it a try today and say goodbye to spiders once and for all!


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Our Milwaukee builders have created diverse two story designs, all with their own personality and atmosphere to fit a variety of lifestyles and landscapes. We want you to find your truly perfect home, so designs are open to modification in order to fit each individual’s needs. Each design has been carefully crafted to the smallest detail, avoiding common home problems and ensuring long standing construction. View our portfolio of beautiful and versatile two story home designs to find your dream home.


The Missouri AFL-CIO says Missourians are looking for action by the legislature on one issue — jobs. And the labor organization says it will work with business groups to get Missourians back to work.
“While there are many dedicated elected officials that have pledged to work cooperatively to get Missouri back to work, there are a few trying to take advantage of a deserate jobs situation,” AFL-CIO leaders say. “When Missouri business groups, including the Missouri Chamber of Commerce introduced their priorities for this session, they talked about their vision for a pro-business agenda, and their agenda did nto include wholesale attacks on workers and their right to collectively bargain.”
Missouri AFL-CIO Secretary and Treasurer Herb Johnson says his organization wants to work with business to get more money into the hands of the working men and women of our state, and helping the Chamber of Commerce advance its legislative agenda would do that.
He admits the two interests have some different ideas about how to get that done, but that he looks forward to working with both Republican and Democrat legislators as well as business leaders to compromise and make it happen.
Referring to the Chamber’s “Fix the Six” priorities, Johnson says reforming the workers’ compensation program is paramount. He calls the current laws that changed the definition of workplace injuries in 2005 the result of “overzealous legislators,” and he says it’s putting employers at risk.
The Chamber’s other priorities include: Employment Law Reform, Franchise Tax Cap, Winimus Wage Escalator Elimination, Tort Reform and Unemployment Insurance Reform.
Johnson says the AFL-CIO is in favor of getting a second nuclear power plant in Callaway and says it should be a priority for legislators as it would create hundreds of jobs.
And he says the AFL-CIO will oppose Right to Work legislation, a measure House and Senate leaders have vowed to pass this session. Johnson says making Missouri a Right to Work state wouldn’t generate revenue and wouldn’t stimulate job growth.
Listen to the complete statement and press conference HERE. [Mp3, 58 min.]
“It is outrageious that some politicians are promoting the interests of corporate interests outside our state over the urgent need to get Missourians back to work,” says the AFL-CIO. “To use the more than 280,000 Missourians out of work this winter as an excuse to pay back teh same greedy CEO’s that have been shipping our jobs overseas is shameful.”


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The artist who created this extra-thick book of zany animal pictures has left out at least one important detail in every illustration. It's up to boys and girls to discover the missing element, then pick up their pen or pencil and start doodling. Kids are free to draw any new detail that they please as they try to make each funny picture even funnier. Silly snakes, madcap monkeys, frolicsome fish, as well as dogs, cats, and more than a hundred other animals are here in cleverly silly pictures for kids to complete.
Welcome to the Doodle Factory,
a fun series for doodlers everywhere!
Zoodles is bursting with over 100 brilliant animal pictures for you to complete.
All you need is a pencil and some imagination!
What are the ants carrying away?
How long is the chameleon's sticky tongue?
The answers? You doodle, you decide!
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Art institutions rewrite history
On the day the British Museum in London reopens its doors to the public, after about four months, it joins the Black Lives Matter movement. The historic English institution removed from its pedestal the statue of its founder Sir Hans Sloane, physician and owner of African slaves in Jamaica in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In a historical period like the one we are experiencing, characterized by struggles led by minorities who suffer historical heritage, also another important institution like the Witte de With has made public the news that soon will withdraw its thirty-year name “Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art”. In this phase of decolonization it is now clear that even the major artistic institutions are “losing” important pieces, such as their founders, on which they weigh questionable past.


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- Portion size 175 servings
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- 1/3 cup dry-packed sun-dried tomatoes
- 1/3 cup boiling water
- 3 tablespoons toasted pine nuts
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 3 tablespoons grated Parmesan
MethodIn bowl, soak sun-dried tomatoes in boiling water until softened, 10 minutes. Drain, reserving 2 tbsp (25 mL) liquid.
In food processor, finely chop tomatoes; reserved liquid, pine nuts, tomato paste, garlic, pepper and salt. With motor running, add olive oil in thin steady stream until puréed. Pulse in grated Parmesan.


We present a family of Bell inequalities for three parties and arbitrarily many outcomes, which can be seen as a natural generalization of the Mermin-Bell inequality. For a small number of outcomes, we verify that our inequalities define facets of the polytope of local correlations. We investigate the quantum violations of these inequalities, in particular with respect to the Hilbert space dimension. We provide strong evidence that the maximal quantum violation can be reached only using systems with local Hilbert space dimension exceeding the number of measurement outcomes. This suggests that our inequalities can be used as multipartite dimension witnesses.
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Food to go for honest passengers…in a hurry !!
Dublin Airport is to trial a new, honesty-based food and drinks take-away fridge, testing the virtue of passengers.
However, unlike the airport’s honesty payment system for bottled water, where passengers are simply asked to put a euro in a box when they take a bottle, this time around there is a catch.
Customers using the Honest Eats Co fridge in Terminal 1 will have to scan sandwiches, wraps, salads, snacks and drinks and pay for them via a cashless self-service checkout – rather than drop a 20c in place of a €1 coin.
It means the opportunity for light-fingered flyers to make off with an unpaid-for pastry are more limited.
Passengers using the new fridge will only be able to pay for their purchases with cards and mobile payment apps.
The initial trial will last for four weeks and the first fridge will be located at Marqette’s Cafe.
However, if successful, the airport ultimately hopes that more units will be located across both terminals.
The airport says that typically around 92pc of people pay the €1 charge for the honesty bottled water. It considers this to be a success and is hoping passengers will be just as willing to pay up at the new fridge.
The fridge will have a range of up to 73 different foods and drinks.
As customers scan their items, Marqette’s kitchen will be notified about sales and will be able to ensure stock levels are properly maintained.
Such self-service check-outs are becoming increasingly common in supermarkets.
Announcing the initiative yesterday, managing director of Dublin Airport Vincent Harrison said: “We are constantly seeking to improve the passenger experience at Dublin Airport and are delighted to be working with Marqette to trial the new Honest Eats concept.”
Mr Harrison added that the results of the trial will be shared with participants in the upcoming InspireFest Conference in Dublin as part of a mini-hack competition to further refine and improve the concept.
Marqette owner Michael J Wright said: “Honest Eats has the potential to work really well in an airport setting where passengers in a hurry want to grab high quality food and drink on the go.”
Courtesy of Breda Heffernan. Independent.ie


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The one CD Ed Sheeran hoped would never see the light of day is hitting the auction block
Chris McKay/Getty ImagesThere’s a CD out there that Ed Sheeran really doesn’t want you to listen to: the demo he recorded in 2004 when he was just 13 years old. Unfortunately for him, that ultra-rare album is heading to the a…
By ABC Audio on August 17, 2020
There's a CD out there that Ed Sheeran really doesn't want you to listen to: the demo he recorded in 2004 when he was just 13 years old.
Unfortunately for him, that ultra-rare album is heading to the auction block at Omega Auctions where it's expected to fetch a pretty penny. Estimates say the record could go for $13,000, at least.
Yahoo News UK reports that Spinning Man features 14 tracks and a good portion of them are centered around a breakup that rocked the then-13-year-old Sheeran's world.
Ed has said he's collected 19 of the 20 copies he believes he released into the wild. However, the last existing copy -- that he knows of -- was recently unearthed in a drawer belonging to the brother of a family friend.
The man, who only identified himself as Kevin, says Sheeran personally gave the CD to his brother when the young singer was crashing on a relative's couch after busking all day on the street.
"My brother put it in a drawer and forgot about it," he explained, saying it languished there for many years. "At the time, Ed Sheeran was just this wee, ginger-haired busker and he thought nothing of it."
Sheeran touched upon Spinning Man in his 2014 autobiography Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey, and revealed that he "burnt the CDs myself and made the covers" and that the songs were mostly about "a girl called Claire" who broke his heart.
"There are probably 20 copies of Spinning Man in existence, and I have 19 of them. I don’t want anyone else to get hold of a copy," he revealed at the time.
By Andrea Dresdale
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Whether it's your first time in Napa or you are a regular wine country visitor, a local, or from a far away land, The Napa Valley Wine Train will enchant you.
Imagine the romance and luxury of touring this stellar terrain while sipping Napa's finest wines and enjoying the Cal- Med cuisine of Executive Chef Kelly Macdonald.
Whatever the season, rain or shine, whatever the reason, The Napa Valley Wine Train is one of the most unique and affordable ways to experience this magical valley.
The Napa Valley Wine Train provides beautifully restored 1915 vintage train cars where guests can experience a memorable gourmet meal. Photo by Michael Reiss
The period decor---unique to each of the original 1915 train cars--- provides the plush ambiance to enjoy the scenic surroundings, as you slowly chug your way from Napa to St. Helena and back.
The leisurely, multi-course meal is deftly prepared by Chef Macdonald's team in the challenging confines of the galley with its glassed-in kitchen, perfect for observation by the culinarily curious.
Before dessert, you are invited to stroll through each car marveling at the comfort of the Pullman Lounge Car inviting entry to sit and sip, as the view of the vineyards beckons your senses. Walk all the way through the train and pop out to the open air deck to savor the sights, smells and sounds en plein air. Spend a spell sipping in the tasting car where a large array of wines can be compared and contrasted at leisure.
The Vista Dome Car on the Napa Valley Wine Train provides unparalleled views of the beautiful Napa Valley Photo by Michael Reiss
>p>For a special treat, book passage in the Vista Dome Car perched above the rest of the train. On offer ---for a small premium--- is unparalleled viewing, a champagne toast, a four course meal served by entertaining and knowledgeable wait staff cum guides who delight by pointing out the tidbits and highlights that make this valley so renowned.
On the Napa Valley Wine Train the Vista Dome Car includes a glass of Napa Valley sparkling wine along with a four course gourmet meal. Photo by Michael Reiss
As the train pulls back to the station, smiles of pleasure mix with bittersweet sighs of regret that this memorable journey is ending.
Reserve your seats now, all aboard, the Napa Valley Wine Train will be departing again soon, this time with you on board!
On the Napa Valley Wine Train guests can enjoy the wonders of the Napa Valley in the fresh air. Photo by Michael Reiss

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Removing a water heater
I was recently faced with removing a heavy water heater from another attic area. I removed the hot copper flex supply lines and bent the other line over and attached the loose end to the hot nipple on top of the water heater, forming a nice handle. Made it very easy to lower the water heater down. Have since used it on many replacement jobs with great success!
Big Spring, Texas
Removing a water heating element
If you do not have the correct size socket, you can remove the element by putting a cold chisel on one of the edges and striking with a hammer to spin out the element. Also works better than the cheap “water heater socket kits” sold at the store. You can use that to put the new one in.
George A. Green Plumbing
Keeping toilet bolt caps on
Regarding cutting the closet bolts off to install the covers, don’t. I’ve created a one-piece tall toilet bolt cap that screws on and doesn’t pop off during cleaning.
Sometime during the life of that toilet, chances are the caps will pop off. The installer will like not needing to lie down and cut the bolts, and the next person will like having the cap come off and not having a cut bolt to contend with. These caps cover the standard 2.25” closet bolts and can be painted to match the toilet.
Send Us Your Tool Tips
If you have an idea that has saved you time and money, Plumbing & Mechanical would like to share your tip with our readers. The first-place winner each month will receive a Kinetic Water Ram from General Pipe Cleaners with a retail value of $325. Read here for more details.


Affordable and Effective Airspace Protection Against Hostile Drones
At this week’s Israel HLS & Cyber Conference in Tel Aviv, Elbit Systems will unveil the ReDrone system from subsidiary Elisra; a unique solution for the protection of closed airspace and critical infrastructure against hostile drones.
Featuring open system architecture, ReDrone is designed to detect, identify, track and neutralise a variety of unmanned aerial systems (UAS). It can be integrated and operated with Elbit Systems’ SupervisIR, an infra-red wide-area persistent ISTAR solution, thus enabling full-scale SIGINT operations against drones. Providing 360° protection and situational awareness, the system caters for multiple simultaneous targets; advanced passive detection systems enhance environmental protection and operator, public and physical security.
Prosecuting a target, ReDrone disrupts the communications (radio, video and GPS positioning data) of the drone, causing it to move off track and abandon any attack. The Android-based digital control unit provides operators with an intuitive, user-friendly interface. Designed for simple, rapid installation, the system will operate in all weather conditions.


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 Beyond Sabina is Latium, wherein the city of Rome is situated. It comprises many places which formed no part of ancient Latium. For the Æqui, the Volsci, the Hernici, the aborigines around Rome, the Rutuli who possessed ancient Ardea, and many other nations, some larger, some smaller, formed so many separate states around Rome, when that city was first built. Some of these nations, who dwelt in villages, were governed by their own laws, and subjected to no common tribe. They say1 that Æneas, with his father Anchises and his child Ascanius, arrived at Laurentum,2 near to Ostia and the bank of the Tiber, where he built a city about 24 stadia above the sea. That Latinus, the king of the aborigines who then dwelt on the site where Rome now stands, employed his forces to aid Æneas against the neighbouring Rutuli who inhabited Ardea, (now from Ardea to Rome is a distance of 160 stadia,) and having gained a victory, he built near to the spot a city, to which he gave the name of his daughter Lavinia. However, in a second battle, commenced by the Rutuli, Latinus fell, and Æneas, being conqueror, suc- ceeded this prince on the throne, and conferred on his subjects the name of Latini. After the death both of himself and his father, Ascanius founded Alba,3 on Mount Albanus,4 situated about the same distance from Rome as Ardea. Here the Romans and Latini conjointly offer sacrifice to Jupiter. The magistracy all assemble, and during the period of the solemnity the government of the city is intrusted to some distinguished youth. The facts related of Amulius and his brother Numitor, some of which are fictitious, while others approach nearer the truth, occurred four hundred years later. These two brothers, who were descended from Ascanius, succeeded conjointly to the government of Alba, which extended as far as the Tiber. However, Amulius the younger, having expelled the elder, governed [alone]. Numitor had a son and a daughter; the former Amulius treacherously murdered in the chase; the latter, that she might remain childless, he made a priestess of Vesta, thus imposing virginity upon her. This [daughter] they name Rhea Silvia. Afterwards he discovered that she was pregnant, and when she had given birth to twins, he, out of respect to his brother, placed her in confinement, instead of putting her to death, and exposed the boys by the Tiber according to a national usage. According to the mythology, Mars was the father of these children, and when they were exposed they were discovered and suckled by a she-wolf. Faustulus, one of the swine-herds of the place, took and reared them up, and named one Romulus, the other Remus. (We must understand that Faustulus, who took them up and nourished them, was an influential man, and a subject of Amulius.) Having arrived at man's estate, they waged war upon Amulius and his sons; and having slain them, restored the government to Numitor. They then returned home and founded Rome, in a locality selected rather through necessity than choice, as the site was neither fortified by nature, nor sufficiently large for a city of importance. In addition to this, the neighbourhood supplied no inhabitants; for those who dwelt around, even though touching the very walls of the newly founded city, kept to themselves, and would have nothing at all to do with the Albani. Collatia, Antemnæ, Fidenæ, Labicum,5 and similar places are here alluded to, which then were small cities, but are now villages possessed by private individuals; they are distant from Rome 30 or 406 stadia, or rather more. Between the fifth and sixth mile-stone which marks the distance from Rome there is a place named Festi; this they say was at that time the limit of the Roman territory, and at the present day, both here and in numerous other places which they consider to have been boundaries, the priests offer the sacrifice denominated Ambarvia.7 They say that, at the time of the foundation [of the city], a dispute arose in which Remus lost his life. The city being built, Romulus assembled men from every quarter, and instituted for an asylum a grove between the citadel and the Capitol, to which whoever fled from the neighbouring states, he proclaimed as Roman citizens. Not having wives for these men, he appointed a horse-race in honour of Neptune, which is celebrated to this day. Numbers [of spectators] having assembled, particularly of the Sabini, he commanded that each of those who were in want of a wife, should carry off one of the assembled maidens. Titus Tatius, king of the Quirites, took up arms to avenge the insult, but made peace with Romulus on condition that their kingdoms should be united, and that they should divide the sovereignty between them. Tatius, however, was treacherously assassinated in Lavinium, upon which Romulus, with the consent of the Quirites, reigned alone. After him Numa Pompilius, formerly a subject of Tatius, assumed the government, by the general desire of the people. Such is the most authentic account of the foundation of Rome.
1 Gosselin calls our attention to the difference between Strabo's relation of these occurrences, and the events as commonly recounted by the Greek and Latin authors.
2 Near the spot now called Patemo.
3 Cluvier placed the ancient Alba on the east shore of Lake Albano, about Palazzuolo. Holstenius thinks that it was on the southern shore in the locality of Villa-Domitiana. The Abbe de Chaupy places it farther to the east of Monte Albano.
5 The sites of these places are much disputed.
6 Kramer considers this 40 an interpolation.
7 Usually Ambarvalia, sacrifices performed by the Fratres Arvales, who formed" a college or company of twelve in number, and were so called, according to Varro, from offering public sacrifices for the fertility of the fields. That they were of extreme antiquity is proved by the legend which refers their institution to Romulus; of whom it is said, that when his nurse, Acca Laurentia, lost one of her twelve sons, he allowed himself to be adopted by her in his place, and called himself and the remaining eleven-Fratres Arvales. (Gell. vi. 7.) We also find a college called the Sodales Titii, and as the latter were confessedly of Sabine origin, and instituted for the purpose of keeping up the Sabine religious rites, (Tac. Ann. i. 53,) there is some reason for the supposition of Niebuhr, that these colleges corresponded one to the other—the Fratres Arvales being connected with the Latin, and the Sodales Titii with the Sabine element of the Roman state; just as there were two colleges of the Luperci, the Fabii and the Quinctilii, the former of whom seem to have belonged to the Sabines. The office of the Fratres Arvales was for life, and was not taken away even from an exile or captive. They wore, as a badge of office, a chaplet of ears of corn fastened on their heads with a white band. The number given on inscriptions varies, but it is never more than nine; though, according to the legend and general belief, it amounted to twelve. One of their annual duties was to celebrate a three days' festival in honour of Dea Dia, supposed to be Ceres . . . . Of this the master of the college, appointed annually, gave public notice from the temple of Concord on the Capitol. On the first and last of these days, the college met at the house of their president, to make offerings to the Dea Dia; on the second day they assembled in the grove of the same goddess, about five miles south of Rome, and there offered sacrifices for the fertility of the earth. An account of the different ceremonies of this festival is preserved in an inscription, which was written in the first year of the emperor Heliogabalus, (A. D. 218,) who was elected a member of the college under the name of M. Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix. The same inscription contains a hymn, which appears to have been sung at the festival from the most ancient times.Besides this festival of the Dea Dia, the Fratres Arvales were required on various occasions under the emperors to make vows and offer up thanksgivings, an enumeration of which is given in Forcellini. Strabo indeed informs us that, in the reign of Tiberius, these priests performed sacrifices called the Ambarvalia at various places on the borders of the Ager Romanus, or original territory of Rome; and amongst others, at Festi. There is no boldness in supposing that this was a custom handed down from time immemorial; and, moreover, that it was a duty of this priesthood to invoke a blessing upon the whole territory of Rome. It is proved by inscriptions that this college existed till the reign of the emperor Gordian, or A. D. 325, and it is probable that it was not abolished till A. D. 400, together with the other colleges of the pagan priesthoods. The private Ambarvalia were certainly of a different nature to those mentioned by Strabo, and were so called from the victim hostia Amber- valis that was slain on the occasion, being led three times round the corn-fields, before the sickle was put to the corn. This victim was accompanied by a crowd of merry-makers, (chorus et socii,) the reapers and farm-servants, dancing and singing, as they marched along, the praises of Ceres, and praying for her favour and presence while they offered her the libations of milk, honey, and wine. (Virg. Georg. i. 338.) This ceremony was also called a lustratio, (Virg. Ecl. v. 83,) or purification; and for a beautiful description of the holiday, and the prayers and vows made on the occasion, the reader is referred to Tibullus (ii. 1). It is perhaps worth while to remark that Polybius (iv. 21, § 9) uses language almost applicable to the Roman Ambarvalia in speaking of the Mantincians, who, he says, (specifying the occasion,) made a purification, and carried victims round the city and all the country. There is, however, a still greater resemblance to the rites we have been describing, in the ceremonies of the Rogation or gang-week of the Latin church. These consisted of processions through the fields, accompained with prayers (rogationes) for a blessing on the fruits of the, earth, and were continued during three days in Whitsun-week. The custom was abolished at the Reformation in consequence of its abuses, and the poram- bulation of the parish boundaries substituted in its place. Vid Hoomer, Eccl. Pol. v. 61, 2; Wheatley,, Com. Pray. v 20. Bohn's standard Library edition.)
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Renting an affordable home in any of Australia’s capital cities is verging on impossible, as massive rent hikes and stagnant wages leave scores of the nation stretching themselves to pay their bills.
The latest rental affordability index, which compares household incomes to market rents and was released by SGS Economics and National Shelter overnight, shows that rental affordability is notably falling in every capital city across the country.
The index, which suggests that those spending more than 30 percent of their income on rent are in housing stress, found that Hobart continues to be the least affordable capital city in Australia for average renters (a mantle it’s held since 2019), while levels of affordability in Greater Brisbane have hit a historic low, the largest fall of any capital city.
Ellen Witte, a partner and principal at SGS Economics, said the freezes and falling rents seen through periods of the pandemic have well and truly tapered off. Now, she said, rents are either equal to, or well above, what was seen three years ago.
“The pandemic also saw the existing rental crisis spread to the regions, when many households left capital cities,” Witte said.
“More and more regional households are struggling to pay their rent and key workers are unable to access housing, especially in the regional areas of Queensland, Tasmania, NSW and Western Australia,” she said.
But it’s the nation’s regions that have been hit hardest. The catastrophic floodwaters that tore through the northern rivers of NSW earlier this year had devastating impacts on rental affordability across the region, too. Lismore, for example, saw rental affordability plummet some 10 percent over the last year.
The Mid-North Coast town of Bellingen, where catastrophic flooding similarly took hold earlier this year, also saw a devastating drop of 14 percent in affordability over the same period.
As a result, National Shelter’s chief executive, Emma Greenhalgh, has joined growing calls on the federal government to start establishing controls in the private market, like capping rent increases and boosting Commonwealth Rent Assistance.
“Rental Increases mean individuals and families are forced to move away from family and friends, driving disconnection at the same time they are struggling to find money to pay for essentials like food, utilities and healthcare,” Greenhalgh said.
“Key workers, including nurses and teachers, often can’t afford to live in the communities they serve.”
But hospitality workers, students, minimum wage workers, pensioners and those living on income support unsurprisingly face the worst odds.
For those living in “student sharehouses”, for example, the working assumption is that your estimated gross annual income is about $84,000, which will not get you an affordable home in any of Australia’s capital cities.
The criteria here assumes that each person living in the home is on income support of some kind—whether Youth Allowance or Austudy—and that everyone is working the maximum additional income allowable before support payments start to take a hit.
According to the index, a student sharehouse generally houses three students between the ages of 18 and 35 looking to rent a three-bedroom home.
To meet that 30 percent rule, the index found that affordable homes for this cohort will only be found in Greater Melbourne, regional Victoria, Greater Adelaide, Greater Perth, Regional Western Australia, and Regional Tasmania.
For those trying to rent a home on a low income, or paid for solely with income support payments, it’s close to impossible.
Rental affordability for people on JobSeeker payments, for instance, remained poor over the last year, even when the rate was temporarily increased by the federal COVID-19 supplement. As payments have dropped significantly, rents have started to skyrocket.
The latest rental affordability index tracks with various other indicators released throughout the year, too.
In April, Anglicare released its most recent annual rental affordability snapshot, which found that only 2 percent of the rental properties on the market through March, across the entire country, were classified as “affordable” to workers on the minimum wage.
For those who rely on Centrelink for income support of any kind, matters were even worse.
Someone on the age pension, for instance, would only have been able to afford 312 rental properties across the entirety of Australia in March—that’s less than 1 percent of the market.
Shortly after Tuesday’s index was published, Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather called on prime minister Anthony Albanese to hold a national cabinet meeting to consider urgent rental market “intervention”.
“Australia desperately needs national tenancy standards that include an emergency two year freeze on rent increases, followed by ongoing rent caps and end to no grounds evictions,” Chandler-Mather said.
“It’s no wonder we’ve seen families living in cars and tents, when renting in cities around Australia is severely unaffordable for those on JobSeeker, single pensioners and single parents working part-time, with rents surging over 60 percent in many cities,” he said.
“Millions of Australians are struggling to pay the rent and it’s only getting worse—it’s time for the Government to intervene and give renters some immediate relief.”
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If your job caused an illness, disorder, or disability, you may be entitled to occupational disease benefits. These claims are often based on things like exposure to asbestos or other hazardous substances, or problems related to repetitive physical strain. However, without proper documentation by a lawyer experienced in this field, your claim may be turned down.
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McGraw Hill, a leading global education company, today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2024 with $473 million in revenue. The company continues to excel in the education sector, offering innovative solutions to enhance the learning experience for both educators and students.
PRNewswire/ -- McGraw Hill, a leading global education company, today reported financial results with $1.4 billion in year-to-date billings. The company's commitment to providing high-quality education resources has contributed to its success and continued growth in the market.
The landmarked McGraw-Hill Building in Midtown Manhattan will undergo a partial residential conversion, adding 224 apartments on its upper floors. While the company expands its physical presence, its focus remains on transforming the digital landscape of education through platforms like McGraw Hill Connect.


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Atomspheric physicists have actually discovered that the method wildfire smoke from Africa engages with clouds over the Atlantic Ocean leads to a net cooling result, which contrasts previous understanding and has ramifications for international environment designs.
Clouds play a popular function in moderating Earth’s environment, however their function is still badly comprehended. Typically, clouds cool the Earth by showing inbound sunshine back out intospace Decreasing the clouds’ reflectivity– with a layer of contamination, for instance– lowers the cooling result. Nevertheless, brand-new research study in Procedures of the National Academy of Sciences by physicists at UMBC and partners includes an unexpected twist to this design.
Every fall, fires race throughout main and southern Africa, producing a lot smoke that it’s plainly noticeable fromspace Wind sweeps the smoke westward over the Atlantic Ocean, where it increases above the biggest semi-permanent event of clouds worldwide. For several years, researchers thought that general, the smoke lessens the clouds’ cooling result by soaking up light that the clouds below otherwise would show. The brand-new research study by Zhang and coworkers does not contest this result, however presents a brand-new system that neutralizes it by making the clouds more reflective.
” The function of this paper is to take a look at these contending procedures. Which one is more crucial?” asks Zhang. Utilizing information from a LiDAR system on the International Space Station, current UMBC research study discovered that the smoke and cloud layers are much closer to each besides formerly observed. That indicates the smoke, which remains in the kind of small particles referred to as aerosols, can physically engage with the clouds, impacting how they form at the tiny level. Previous research studies normally ignored these microphysical modifications due to aerosols’ interactions with the clouds.
Clouds require “seeds” to grow. A seed can be any small particle around which cloud beads condense. Aerosols are best for seeding clouds, and with more seeds, lots of little cloud beads change less big beads, which then jointly show more light and increase the cooling result.
The group discovered that in smoky conditions, there are nearly two times as lots of “seeds” per cubic centimeter. By running computer system simulations under various conditions, they figured out that general, “The seeding result is winning,” Zhang states. So, contrary to long-held understanding, the general result of the hovering smoke on the clouds near Africa seems a cooling one.
Zhang fasts to explain that this outcome is not an argument in favor of fires. “Aerosols are an extremely regional phenomenon, and they are likewise brief,” he states, so their cooling impacts are brief, too. “The life time of co2 and other greenhouse gases,” which are launched in abundance when plant product burns, “is centuries.”
The group’s supreme objective is to improve international environment designs by enhancing how they represent clouds. Zhang’s other Ph.D. trainee and another co-author, Zhifeng Yang, has actually added to that effort by examining information gathered by a satellite that sits tight in the sky (instead of orbiting Earth) to obtain a more precise sense of how cloud cover modifications in everyday cycles.
The next action is to examine existing environment designs versus the group’s brand-new finding. “Now that we understand there are 2 contending systems, and the seeding result is winning, we can see whether environment designs think about these procedures appropriately when they forecast the weather condition and environment in this location,” describes Zhang.
A brand-new NASA objective called SPEED anticipated to release in 2020 will assist their efforts. It will have the ability to discover polarized light, in addition to whatever LiDAR can do. “With the brand-new satellite you can take a look at things from various point of views,” states Zhang, and establish three-dimensional designs of the interactions in between aerosols and clouds. “Ideally we can take a look at this phenomenon even much better.”
Beyond the upcoming NASA objective, what truly thrills Zhang and his group is the chance to contribute in ensuring neighborhoods worldwide have the very best details offered as they get ready for the impacts of environment modification.
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Terry Brooks is the world's second-best-selling living author of fantasy fiction.
At 64, Brooks, who has sold 50 million books, says he has a lot of stories left to tell. But he's not likely to reclaim the No. 1 spot from British author J.K. Rowling, who has sold more than 325 million volumes in her "Harry Potter" series.
The Potter phenomenon started 20 years after the debut of Brooks' own ground-breaking 1977 debut novel, "The Sword of Shannara," the first fantasy book to appear on The New York Times best-seller list, where it perched for five months.
Brooks was at Carpe Librum Booksellers on Kingston Pike this past Monday to promote "The Gypsy Moth," the 20th "Shannara" novel and the final volume of "The Genesis of Shannara" trilogy. The epic "Shannara" series - which spans centuries and is subdivided into trilogies mostly, though there is also a tetratology and a stand-alone prequel - is set on a postapocalyptic Earth where magic rules and the setting is medieval. Brooks' inspiration came from J.R.R. Tolkien and the adventure novels of Alexander Dumas and company.
Brooks' other writing includes the "Magic Kingdom of Landover" series and the novelization of "Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace."
Currently, Warner Brothers is set to finally bring the world of "Shannara" to movie screens. "The Elfstones of Shannara" is scheduled to start filming in 2009 and will be directed by Mike Newell, the film director of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire."
Sitting as he does on a throne between Tolkien and Rowling, Brooks said the enormous boost the Potter series gave to fantasy fiction as a whole hasn't really affected his own book sales. But he says the Potter novels did something that even Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" series couldn't.
"They made reading fantasy finally acceptable," the author said during a post-event chat at the independent West Knoxville bookstore, where he had read a 20-minute selection from an unfinished and as yet unnamed novel, answered questions from fans who had traveled from as far away as Virginia to see him, and spent more than two hours signing books, posing for photos and offering advice to aspiring writers.
Brooks spent seven years writing "The Sword of Shannara," a period that included his entry into law school; the book finally seeing print when he was a practicing lawyer. He said writing rescued him from the "terminal boredom" of studying law.
The author said his fantasy fiction has found admirers outside the usual realms of comic book conventions and the role-play gaming community (though Brooks has contributed to both with a "Shannara" graphic novel and computer game).
""My fans are middle-of-the-road," Brooks said. "My books are read by whole families. They pass them down, or they pass them up."
The truth of that is found in the tattered paperback copies of "The Sword of Shannara" presented to Brooks for his signature. "I first read it in ninth grade," said a middle-aged fan, who waited in line with his young daughter, a second-generation "Shannara" fan.
Brooks does an annual book tour, and says he prefers the small independent shops like Carpe Librum. The Illinois-born writer, who now lives in Seattle, travels with his wife, Judine.
"You need the faces," he said in answer to why he still hits the road to meet his fans. "People appreciate you, and they want to tell you. How can you not go out and talk to them?
"It makes me want to go back and write a better book."
Doug Mason may be reached at 865-342-6441.


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STORMY SKIES BUT A RECORD PROFIT
Written on the 25 February 2015 by Laura Daquino
A BRISBANE-BASED automotive group has come through a stormy season for retail and in a literal sense to post a record full year underlying NPBT of $102.8 million.
A.P. Eagers Limited (ASX: APE) has posted an underlying NPAT of $79 million, an increase of 22 per cent from the 2013 full year, and an EBITDA increase of 12.9 per cent to $138.1 million.

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Google ‘mumsnet’, ‘infertility’ and ‘confused’, and up pops a whopping 19 pages of online discussion – women, new to the world of IVF who complain of treatment discussions that leave them feeling ‘rushed’, ‘going around in circles,’ and ‘in need of reassurance’ that they’ve chosen the right course.
The miraculous technology of IVF is now part of our ordinary lives. In the UK alone, more than 70,000 treatments take place every year resulting in the birth of around 20,000 babies. But for the women who would otherwise remain involuntarily childless, if not for an array of reproductive options, the pathway is far from simple.
Last month, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) teamed up with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) to host the first ever non-commercial fertility information event. Their research had highlighted that many women struggle with confusing and contradictory fertility advice.
The ‘Fertility Forum’ was an opportunity for women and their partners to speak to experts and take away evidence-based, unbiased information. The need was highlighted by a RCOG survey, which found that four out of five women found information from different sources contradictory. Three out of five are overwhelmed by the mass of information on offer.
It’s no surprise.
IVF Culture Change
Last year, the HFEA – which acts as the government’s fertility regulator – called for a ‘culture change’ among IVF clinics. Practises were accused of putting profits before patient care by charging clients for expensive extras that have no proven effectiveness – add-ons like time-lapse imaging of embryos, drug treatments that suppress a mother’s immune system, techniques like assisted hatching that thin the protein-coating from which an embryo must break out before it can implant in the womb. The upshot is that private patients (who represent 60 per cent of the market) often pay double or triple the watchdog’s benchmark of £3-£5,000, as a reasonable fee for a single cycle of IVF.
The need, the HFEA concluded, was for ‘an open and honest conversation’ to help couples cut through the confusion. But who should participate in the conversation and how do we prevent treatment for a condition that the World Health Organization formally recognises as a ‘disease of the reproductive system’ from being principally approached as a commercial opportunity?
Partnering with Patients
Here at Aurora, our expertise in women’s health ranges from contraception to fertility, from heavy menstrual bleeding to pregnancy wellbeing and to menopause, as well as cancers – including ovarian, breast and cervical. At every step, our approach is to involve patients as partners and co-create programmes based on their insights. To this end, Aurora has formed an exclusive collaboration with PIPHealth, a patient research company whose vision is to make the world more ‘patient intelligent’©. Through this involvement, Aurora becomes the first and only strategic communications agency with their own patient panel to consult. It gives us and our clients access to thousands of patients in Europe and the UK so we can carry out quantitative and qualitative patient research and gather rapid insights.
Some of the intelligence relates to the mindset of women undergoing protracted infertility treatment. Often times couples abandon treatment – not because they’ve depleted financial resources or treatment options – but because the psychological toll is too great. They can’t face the emotional roll of ‘one more try’.
According to the HFEA, patient complaints are increasing, but simple steps could greatly improve how they are dealt with.
Here are some thoughts
o Patient concerns should be addressed promptly and thoroughly to provide support to the patient which is necessary for high quality care
o Doing this will also resolve the issue, so it doesn’t go on to become a full complaint requiring investigation
o Clinics can improve by making their complaints process clear and accessible to patients and regularly ask for feedback
o Many complaints begin with a seemingly small mistake on behalf of the clinic, often down to miscommunication. A slow or poor response can lead to a breakdown of trust and a poor quality of experience for the patient
If you’d like to find out more about how to increase your patient understanding further, contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org