U.S. Congress Must Maintain Global Health Security Agenda Investments
Slate: Trump Is Putting Us on Course for a Global Health Disaster
Patrick Adams, freelance journalist, and Cameron Nutt, student at Harvard Medical School
“…Presidential budget requests may be little more than political messaging, but funding for the CDC efforts [under the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA)] … is, in fact, very much in peril. … The Global Health Security Agenda has registered important early achievements during its first four years, and CDC leaders had planned to build on those gains with renewed funding for the program in 2020. … While Congress could certainly appropriate additional funding on its own, CDC officials’ private discussions with House and Senate Republicans have evidently given them little reason to believe that this will occur; well before Trump’s budget request was made public, they sent out internal guidance to begin the closure of 39 of the 49 GHSA programs started since 2014. … Unless enough members of Congress can be convinced to reverse the course President Trump has charted, [the cycle of neglect] will surely continue, with consequences for us all” (3/9).
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If you didn’t know better, the CEO’s work station at one of Australia’s largest companies and household names could be your everyday front office enquiry desk. On the other hand, in the corporate equivalent of a showground ride, not too many workers can spend their lunch hour dangling high out over a busy city street.
When Managing director and chief executive John Ellice-Flint and his board committed to moving Santos from the big old State Bank building into something brand spanking new, the view was that the major oil and gas exploration and production company needed a whole fresh approach to the way it went about its business.
Where the Santos people were on King William St seemed closed and compartmentalised, and could even involve two different lift rides, like changing trains, just to get things done. As well, the technical complexity of Santos’ operations in the 21st century meant that 700 odd employees could no longer sit on their own particular proficiency. It was time to bring working knowledge out of confined spaces and into the open. If that quest for shared expertise required some artistic licence, came with a little fun attached, so much the better.
The fulfillment of the vision is the Santos Centre at 60 Flinders St, more than $100 million worth of moving, fitting out and leasing. There are 12 storeys around an atrium, each floor themed for Santos activities around the globe, dedicated to staff familiarity and cohesion, and targeted to be as green as can be.
On the ground floor, a coffee shop is open to anyone, and at the bottom of the atrium Santos’s core values – discovers, cares, collaborates, delivers – are depicted in steel pipe interpretations of down-hole tools by sculptor Trevor Wren. At the other end of the atrium, on the 12th floor, a notional rainforest is the setting for flexible meeting spaces. The CEO’s patch is in the south-west of the 10th floor, limestone themed with colours and layers like fault lines.
John Ellice-Flint’s humble personal space has been known to draw gasps of surprise from politicians for its lack of pretence, because it flies in the face of the perception that the size of the job dictates the size of the office. True, the man in charge has a small lounge room behind his desk for quiet conversations. But for the bigger moments he books the meeting rooms just like anyone else.
With an open kitchen on almost every floor providing a home away from home element, gathering around the watercooler on Monday mornings to discuss the footy is taken to a new level. Santos wants much more than Mondays and the AFL, and says that more advanced interaction already is happening, with people even using the atrium’s stairs to move between floors for work exchanges where once the phone or the lift would have been the go. That’s if there was any human connection at all in the past. Now there is exercise to boot.
There are similar communal or campus style approaches to everyday working life in other parts of Australia, such as the MLC building in Sydney and the NAB branch in Melbourne’s Docklands. But there is nothing quite like it in Adelaide, and according to vice president Martyn James, who managed the move with project director Jo Brennan, the difference “could not be any larger” between the old Santos offices and the new Santos Centre, with exterior design by Hassell and interiors by Bligh Voller Nield Architecture.
Jo says the staired atrium is the “connecting heart” of the building, bringing people closer together and disseminating the message of sharing ideas and experiences. If so, the “crystal boxes” are the brains of the outfit. Glass meeting rooms, with overlays such as Asian patterns, dot paintings, seismic waves and forest trees, are where the conversation moves when privacy is required. After only 14 weeks, already the crystal boxes have proved a hit. Some provide links between floors, and the crystal box on the sixth, or “Ocean”, floor is a deep, calm blue glass.
Not surprisingly, the aquarium in the nearby kitchen is an absolute crowd favourite and talking point that attracts people from other departments on other floors. “People like being near something that is alive,” says Jo, and in support of that there are 2.5 plants to every person in the building. Other floors are themed Discovery, North America, Outback Australia, Contemporary Australia, South-East Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, Asia and Desert. Some are clearly what they claim to be; others are more subtle and require a Santos mind.
The themes extend to materials, furniture, timbers, plantings. The Asia level has black stained wood and a cherry blossom plant. On the Central Australia level, the operations control centre provides a continuous feed from Santos operations around the world, some in real time. This day, the North-West Shelf seemed to be ticking over nicely. Picture the wall size navigation panel of a James Bond submarine. At the Discovery level a working “wet” biostratigraphy laboratory looks into the atrium, visible to the public.
On the ground floor is the core workshop, with real dirt and real rocks. This is where detailed analysis is carried out and again, its purpose is visible to all. “When the building was designed we were conscious of first impressions,” says Martyn. “We wanted people to be drawn to our unpretentious foyer entrance by its energy and vibrancy, and I think we’ve done that with the coffee shop. “But then we wanted to say “Here’s an oil and gas company”. We are not accountants or lawyers. We are a science organisation.”
The themes were decided by a workplace review group made up of Santos staff, who also had a hand in the Centre’s targeting of a Green Building Council of Australia 5-star Green Star rating and a 4.5-star Australian Building Greenhouse rating. Paper has been reduced from the equal of stretching from the front door to Adelaide Airport to only halfway to the airport. “This building is for people, not paper,” says Jo.
Further green cred is earned by the re-use of the timbers of an 80-year-old Queensland bridge around the kitchens, lift landings and bridges, and 95 per cent recycled car tyre flooring with a sprinkling of glitter in utility rooms and corridors. Eco-core, a kind of plywood made from birch, is incorporated in the design of tea areas, meeting rooms and door and window frames. “No old wood has been used,” says Jo, and all paints, carpets, glues, adhesives and sealants have been selected to minimise the use of volatile organic compounds, or VOCs.
As is to be expected from a company that is both high-tech and aggressively moving away from a desk bound culture to one that promotes human contact, the Santos Centre’s meeting places give the building many focal points. From the ground floor’s massive screen displaying all things Santos and the soundproof room with adjustable light sensitive glass wall opposite it, these spaces are seriously adaptable, and at technology’s leading edge. “You can come in here and just go bam, bam, bam,” Jo says of such rooms’ audio-visual capacity and readiness. The west facing meeting rooms even have automated louvres that help control the heat load on the building without human intervention.
For the building’s design, Santos allowed itself to be pushed in certain directions, says Martyn. But through out the process, from John Ellice-Flint to everyone else involved, the company wanted “this style where collabor- ation and high-tech combined”. One of the outcomes was the gently tapering “pop out” from the fifth level up to the top. This is the glassed section extending from the front of the Santos Centre where the impression of walking on air or swinging in space can be experienced.
In the end, Martyn James says, “it was Santos’s vision that counted” in the creation of the Santos Centre. The sensation of being suspended high over Adelaide is a statement of exactly that.

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text: Henry, a two-year-old, 700 pound polar bear will be moving into his new home in Cochrane today. The Polar Bear Habitat will be welcoming Henry from the Gold Coast in Australia. The habitat’s manager Karen Cummings says logistically, moving the bear across the world is an incredibly coordinated effort. Cummings says Henry will be in a 30-day quarantine as he acclimates to his new home. She says Henry and Ganuk, the other polar bear in the habitat, have similar personalities and she’s hoping they’ll interact well.

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Patricia Robbins Beatty, an award-winning author of 50 children`s books, died Tuesday at the Riverside Community Hospital in California. She was 68 and lived in Riverside.
She died of lung cancer, a spokeswoman for the family said.
Mrs. Beatty`s books were admired for their evocation of both the humor and the harsh realities of the American West in the 19th Century. Her more recent novels dealt with the U.S. Civil War.
She was born in Portland, Ore., and spent much of her childhood in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes living on Indian reservations. She graduated from Reed College in Portland and became a children`s librarian and a high school teacher of English and history.
She began to write when her children were small and drew on her knowledge of the Quileute Indians for her first book, ''The Indian Canoe Maker,''
published in 1960.
Eleven books that followed were written with her first husband, Dr. John L. Beatty, a professor of history at the University of California at Riverside, who died in 1975.
In 1974, she received an award for a distinguished body of work from the Southern California Council on Children`s Literature. In 1988, she established the John and Patricia Beatty Award through the California Library Association to encourage authors in writing children`s books about the culture and heritage of California.
A forthcoming book, ''Jayhawker,'' the story of a young abolitionist during the Civil War, is to be published by Morrow Junior Books in October.
She is survived by her second husband, Dr. Carl Uhr, a professor of economics at the University of California at Riverside; a daughter, Alexandra Beatty, and two grandchildren.

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BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) – China’s exports rose unexpectedly in March as authorities boosted demand for electric vehicles, analysts warned, an improvement that suppliers caught up with unfulfilled orders after last year’s COVID-19 disruptions.
Exports in March rose 14.8% from a year earlier, snapping five months of declines, surprising economists who had forecast a 7.0% drop in a Reuters poll.
But analysts said that was related to exporters rushing to fulfill a backlog of orders disrupted by the pandemic in recent months, and warned of a subdued global demand outlook.
“The wave of Covid outbreaks in December and January may have reduced factory inventories. Now that factories are operating at full capacity, they are holding orders accumulated from the past,” said Shiwei Zhang, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.
“Strong export growth is unlikely to be sustained given the weak global macro outlook,” he added.
Meanwhile, imports fell less than expected, with economists pointing to an acceleration in purchases of agricultural products, particularly soybeans, as providing some support.
Imports fell just 1.4%, smaller than the 5.0% decline forecast and a 10.2% contraction in the previous two months.
LV Daliang, spokesman for the General Administration of Customs, attributed the upside surprise to strong demand for electric vehicles, solar products and lithium batteries.
However, he warned that conditions could worsen in the future.
Lv told reporters in Beijing on Thursday that the external environment is currently more severe and complex. “Slow external demand and geopolitical factors will bring more challenges to China’s trade growth,” he added.
China’s strong performance contrasts with other Asian exporters such as South Korea and Vietnam, both of which saw export declines in the first few months of 2023, contributing to doubts about whether this would be sustainable.
“We do not believe this rebound will continue given an even bleaker outlook for foreign demand,” Capital Economists said in a note.
“We expect most advanced economies to slip into recession this year, and we think the decline in Chinese exports has some way to run before bottoming out later this year.”
China’s newly appointed Premier Li Keqiang told a cabinet meeting last week that authorities should “try every method” to boost trade with developed economies and push companies to explore more emerging market economies such as Southeast Asia.
Beijing has set a growth target of 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) this year, after strict pandemic restrictions last year pushed the economy to one of its slowest rates in decades. Last year GDP rose by only 3%.
Joe Cash and Ellen Zhang report; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Sam Holmes
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Urban Mapping and Growth Prediction using Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques, Pune, India
Keywords: Remote Sensing, GIS, land use, Markov Chain model, Urban
Abstract. This study aims to map the urban area in and around Pune region between the year 1991 and 2010, and predict its probable future growth using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The Landsat TM and ETM+ satellite images of 1991, 2001 and 2010 were used for analyzing urban land use class. Urban class was extracted / mapped using supervised classification technique with maximum likelihood classifier. The accuracy assessment was carried out for classified maps. The achieved overall accuracy and Kappa statistics were 86.33 % & 0.76 respectively. Transition probability matrix and area change were obtained using different classified images. A plug-in was developed in QGIS software (open source) based on Markov Chain model algorithm for predicting probable urban growth for the future year 2021. Based on available data set, the result shows that urban area is expected to grow much higher in the year 2021 when compared to 2010. This study provides an insight into understanding of urban growth and aids in subsequent infrastructure planning, management and decision-making.

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NASD OTC Securities Exchange Extends Gains by 0.11%
By Adedapo Adesanya
The NASD Over-the-Counter (OTC) Securities Exchange closed 0.11 per cent higher on Tuesday, August 23, after the value of the trading platform increased by N1.19 billion to N1.113 trillion from N1.112 trillion, and the NASD Unlisted Securities Index (NSI) rose by 0.85 points to end the day at 793.98 points as against 793.13 points it recorded at the previous session.
The positive momentum was sustained during the session due to the fortification of the prices of four securities at the NASD OTC securities exchange.
Aradel Holdings Plc improved its value by N31 yesterday to sell at N460.00 per unit compared with the previous day’s N429.00 per unit, Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Plc gained N1.50 to trade at N18.50 per share versus Monday’s closing price of N17.00 per share, Acorn Petroleum Plc appreciated by 1 Kobo to 27 Kobo per share compared with the previous day’s 26 Kobo per share, and Afriland Plc moved up by 1 Kobo to close at N3.36 per unit, in contrast to Monday’s closing price of N3.35 per unit.
The gains recorded by the four unlisted equities overshadowed the N2.20 loss reported by FrieslandCampina Wamco Nigeria Plc, which closed at N74.00 per unit as against the preceding day’s N76.20 per unit.
Yesterday, the volume of securities traded by investors surged by 1,182.8 per cent to 10.2 million units from 789,136 units, the number of deals carried out increased by 172.7 per cent to 30 deals from the 11 deals executed a day earlier, while the value of transactions decreased by 8.1 per cent to N173.9 million from N189.2 million.
CSCS Plc ended the session as the most traded stock by volume (year-to-date) with 1.1 billion units valued at N21.5 billion, Industrial and General Insurance (IGI) Plc was in second place with 636.2 million units worth N51.0 million, and Geo-Fluids Plc was in third place with 631.0 units valued at N1.1 billion.
CSCS Plc remained the most traded stock by value (year-to-date) with 1.1 billion units worth N21.5 billion, VFD Group was in the second spot with 26.4 million units valued at N5.9 billion, and FrieslandCampina Wamco Plc was in third place with 19.3 million units worth N1.4 billion.


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SHELTON — A downtown developer is defending his plan for downtown parking near some development projects, saying there is enough parking downtown to accommodate additional development. The city just needs to take steps to alert drivers to its existence, he said.
John Guedes’ plans to redevelop the former Chromium Process site — which sits between Canal Street East and Canal Street West — has become a lightning rod for those charging that downtown parking is already woefully inadequate.


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Coast Guard Sector New York shares a unique history with the New York City Marathon in that the race pre-stages its runners at Fort Wadsworth, which is co-located with the Sector in Staten Island. For 18 years, the Coast Guard has been behind the scenes, working to produce a functioning event and ensuring that every aspect of the start of the race runs smoothly for the athletes, spectators, and volunteers.
“Our crew used their unique capabilities and authorities as a military service, law enforcement agency, and member of the U.S. intelligence community to disrupt transnational organized crime networks in the Eastern Pacific and keep drugs from making it to the U.S.,” said Capt. Edward A. Westfall, commanding officer of Coast Guard Cutter Boutwell. “These illegal drug networks are dangerous breeding grounds for all types of trafficking and their immense profits fuel violence and instability.”
“All in all, it was just a great experience and most of all a learning experience and understanding how important it is for unit cohesion, for discipline, for the sense of integrity. All of those things were pounded home and I think they stuck with me really all of my career.”
This morning Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft signed the Coast Guard Western Hemisphere Strategy. It addresses transnational threats and maritime challenges that threaten the security of our Nation, markets and oceans over the next 10 years. The Coast Guard is globally deployed, but our primary operating area remains in the Western Hemisphere. As we engage future challenges we must think strategically to best position our resources to leverage our unique authorities, capabilities and partnerships to achieve national objectives across the range of Coast Guard missions.
With eight of the top 10 most violent nations residing in the Western Hemisphere and transnational organized crime networks acting as non-state actors, relationships between America’s military services and law enforcement agencies with their counterparts throughout the region are more important than ever. And, every Coast Guard port call is an opportunity to build and nurture those critical partnerships.
Sometimes a person gets a weird feeling in the pit of their stomach because there is more to a situation than meets the eye. This feeling is commonly referred to as a person’s “sixth sense.” Coast Guard boarding officers are trained to follow that “sixth sense” while they’re conducting counter narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean Basin. That’s exactly what happened to Petty Officer Matthew Baasch and a boarding team from the Cutter Bertholf when they climbed aboard the fishing vessel Goliat I off the coast of Colombia on June 28.
North Pacific nations are gathering this week to discuss the North Pacific Ocean, the body of water they all border that encompasses 21 percent of the world’s ocean area. The safety and economic security of these nations depends considerably upon the secure use of the ocean; for the large expanse of the North Pacific, this means strong relationships between nations with overlapping sovereignty, economic, security, emergency response and law enforcement concerns in the region. These relationships are bolstered each year through the North Pacific Coast Guard Forum.
Tuesdays week in the life of the Coast Guard 2014 features the work of Aids to Navagation team members, we honor a fallen shipmate in Long Beach, California, inventory of a new boat in Florida, ID card making in Honolulu and good ol’ hull maintenance on the Cutter Appleby
“Joshua James exhibited a commitment to excellence that permeates the Coast Guard to this day,” said Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger. “He embodied the Coast Guard’s core values of honor, respect and devotion to duty and the guiding principles articulated in our new Commandant’s Direction long before we ever wrote them down.”
Coast Guard cutters Charles Sexton and Paul Clark are two of the service’s new fast response cutters. Capable of speeds in excess of 28 knots and armed with one stabilized remotely operated 25-mm chain gun and four crew-served .50-caliber machine guns, their crews deliver superior law enforcement capabilities. It was this capability that led to a historic drug interdiction.


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WEST COAST 4.2 7.4 7.5 9.6 12.6 (78)
PORT ADELAIDE 1.0 5.2 6.8 8.12 10.16 (76)
GOALS - Eagles: Darling, Kennedy 3, Shuey 2, Petrie, Cripps. Port: Dixon 3, S. Gray , Wines 2, Wingard, Ebert, Powell-Pepper.
BEST - Eagles: McGovern, Mitchell, Priddis, Gaff, Hurn, Shuey. Port: Dixon, R. Gray, Ebert, Wines, Hartlett, Wingard.
UMPIRES C. Donlon, C. Deboy, J. Schmitt.
CROWD 41,172 at Adelaide Oval.
West Coast won a sensational first elimination final against Port Adelaide after the scores were tied at the end of regular time at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night.
Having gone to extra-time, and with 18 seconds remaining, Luke Shuey was awarded a free after high contact from Jared Polec, and goaled after the siren from 35 metres. The Eagles prevailed in a pulsating 12.6 (78) to 10.16 (76) win.
There were amazing scenes after the Eagles won by two points, with the Port players and fans shocked. The Power had had it won – and lost. The Eagles simply never gave up in the dying seconds, and will now play the GWS Giants next Saturday.
With Port 8.12 (60) and the Eagles 9.6 (60), and players fatigued, cramping and desperate to win the hard ball, this was an epic contest and one Sam Mitchell, Matt Priddis and Drew Petrie, in their final season, will never forget.
There were heroes all round, especially Jeremy McGovern who took some amazing marks in defence to deny Port scoring when the pressure was right on before the additional five-minute halves.
After trailing by 31 points midway through the second term, Port had clawed their way back to a 10-point lead in the last term only for the Eagles to delve into their greatest depths of grit.
It was a magnificent battle of coaching tactics, resilience from both sides and remarkable will to win. The third quarter delivered just one goal to Port – which the Eagles seemed unlucky not to have reversed after a review – but it was tense, pressure football with neither side prepared to work the ball inside in fear of giving the other an easy run to goal.
The coaches also played a huge part with a battle of tactics. Ken Hinkley started with a different move by playing Justin Westhoff as a sweeper, well behind the last Eagles forward in an effort to lessen the threat of their superior height in attack.
It stopped the Eagles from just "bombing" the ball in, but they still found a way early as there were wide cracks in Port's defence. While the Westhoff move seemed to have impact, playing regular wingman or midfielder Hamish Hartlett on Jack Darling had its concerns.
We're talking about an inexperienced Port backline overall. It worked incredibly hard, but just lacked the ability to shut down the Eagles completely. In the process, Port was unable to compensate the deficiency moving forward.
There were worrying signs early and Port were desperately searching for composure. Compounding the issues was the fact the Eagles were dominating the midfield and clearances.
But Hinkley was prepared to make moves. Westhoff went to a wing and later up forward, and this coincided with a change in the tide.
Adam Simpson also juggled the magnet board and, at one stage, both sides had a player roaming loose in defence, a tactic which made scoring tough.
Port's Charlie Dixon continued to be the most dominant forward on the ground and at one stage had kicked 3.2 of their 3.3.
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The remarkable thing about these changing fortunes was that the Eagles were ahead because of their overall midfield strength coming from Brownlow medallists Mitchell and Priddis.
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All-Australian Paddy Ryder was expected to dominate the ruck, but Nathan Vardy gave a huge account of himself, and Ryder had just two disposals to three-quarter-time.
It was tough going in the packs, players throwing themselves at everything, and both teams had players fearing nothing.


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UC Davis Health has again been named one of America's Best Employers for Diversity by the global media company Forbes. It is among the top 15 health systems in the nation with that honor this year.
Employees and UC Davis Health leadership gathered in 2019 to celebrate the university's Principles of Community.
Based in Sacramento, UC Davis Health has consistently been a leader in its hiring practices and its environment of inclusion for employees, students and the patients it serves throughout the Northern California region. Seventy-one percent of its workforce are women. More than 26% are Asian/Native Hawaiian. More than 14% are Hispanic/Latinx. Approximately 8% of its employees are Black/African American, and almost 1% (0.7%) identify as American Indian.
The 2020 designation was based on an independent survey that sampled a representative group of some 60,000 employees working for companies employing at least 1,000 people in their U.S. operations. Respondents were asked questions regarding age, gender equality, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQA+ and general diversity concerning their own employer.
'A crucial element in what makes UC Davis Health a best employer is a university-wide focus on cultivating a diverse and inclusive workforce,' said David Lubarsky, vice chancellor of Human Health Sciences and the CEO of UC Davis Health. 'Our Principles of Community, for example, provide all of us with a visionary guide for our goals in equity, justice, respect and understanding. We do it by building it into the fabric of our recruitment and retention. We don't just say it.'
Lubarsky pointed to a variety of programs and initiatives that undoubtedly informed the employee responses to the Forbes' survey. In addition to the Principle of Community, the health system includes:
For UC Davis Health, diversity of its workplace goes well beyond employee inclusion and satisfaction. It's a core element in improving the health and well-being of its patients, and in addressing health inequities, too.
'We're honored to be nationally recognized for our diverse workforce here at UC Davis Health,' said Hendry Ton, associate vice chancellor for Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 'We are strongly committed to advancing health equity, and this starts with care teams and staffing that truly reflect the communities we serve.'
UC Davis Health includes schools of nursing, medicine and health-related graduate degree programs. Its strategic goals include a continuing focus on recruitment pipelines that will create even more diverse classes in nursing and medicine, as well as more diverse faculty, administrative leaders, physicians, nurses and other clinical and research professionals.
The University of California, Davis (which includes the health system), also earned honors on Forbes' list of America's Best Employer for Diversity for 2020.

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The International Socialist Organization invites all solidarity-minded students and other members of the Berkeley community to the launch of the “Alt Right Delete” conference. Please join us at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue on April 27 at noon as we announce this conference and rally in defense of the oppressed majority. “Alt Right Delete” will take place at UC Berkeley on Aug. 19, at the beginning of the fall 2017 semester. It will be an important opportunity for new and returning members of the campus community who want to tackle the threat posed by the political right wing, which is growing emboldened from the White House to the streets of Berkeley.
In the past four months, Berkeley has witnessed and experienced the disturbing growth of a far right that is a threat to us all. We cannot depend on the campus administration to defend us. The absurd back and forth over whether the racist Ann Coulter will be allowed to speak at UC Berkeley proves this point. The administration, purposefully or not, has impeded Coulter’s visit through bureaucratic means such as declaring a lack of appropriate venue. This has allowed Berkeley College Republicans and its far-right allies to pretend they are carrying on the legacy of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley.
The reality is that BCR and the far right are antithetical to the FSM, which was led by militant civil rights activists and socialists. In the 1960s, the UC Berkeley administration cracked down on campus speech to snuff out civil rights activism by students, who were becoming a thorn in the side of the California ruling class. It is absurd for white supremacists such as Nathan Damigo, Ann Coulter and their BCR supporters to claim this legacy. Free speech is a necessary protection for the oppressed, whose rights are always first on the chopping block. The administration’s suspension of a student-led course on Palestine is proof of this. (The course was later reinstated after widespread criticism.)
This absurdity, however, has dominated mainstream discussions of the far right in Berkeley. And it has done so because there is no organized movement of the mass majority of solidarity-minded people that is pushing the truth. This is the problem with depending on the administration to defend us. Not only are its anti-free speech maneuvers dangerous to our side, but the administration is fundamentally incapable of mounting a consistent defense. Its record is clear: hostility toward Palestine solidarity activists, student workers and survivors of sexual violence. The only people who can defend us are ourselves.
Moreover, the fights on the streets of Berkeley on April 15 showed that we also can’t depend on a small group of anti-fascists to rebuff the far right alone. The Berkeley community rallied with us against Donald Trump on Jan. 20 and in defense of the campus against Milo Yiannopoulos on Feb. 1. But without an organized mass movement, those who want to confront the far right will conclude that the only available choice to fight back is property destruction and street fighting, while others will conclude that this is no choice at all.
“Alt Right Delete” will be dedicated to developing a new choice: a strategy that can actually win. This is the strategy of mass mobilization, organization and commitment to the politics of solidarity. The conference will consist of talks, discussions and workshops on understanding the growth of the far right, the left’s long history of anti-fascist organizing, free speech as a principle of the left and proposals for how we should move forward. We will proudly declare and defend UC Berkeley as an anti-fascist campus. This will be the first step in building an organized movement that will outnumber and out-mobilize the far right whenever it rears its ugly head.
Mukund Rathi is a law student at UC Berkeley and a member of the International Socialist Organization.


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And many of these people are guys looking to improve their health and their sexual well-being.
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Male mice treated that fed on fenugreek seeds lowered testosterone to 30% and male rabbits lowered testosterone to 65.8% of normal.
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I don’t think the doses that you’re going to get on a pizza or in some Indian food is going to hurt you.
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The U.S. economic system extra 517,000 work last thirty day period, significantly a lot more than payroll acquire of 188,000 expected by economists. The unemployment fee fell to 3.4%, the lowest considering that 1969.
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I knew from 12 weeks that there was a possibility that my son, Zephy, would have Down’s syndrome.
After my first scan, my husband and I were given a 1:29 chance, and offered a termination. It came as a huge shock, but we decided to carry on with the pregnancy as normal. At this stage, I don’t think either of us genuinely thought he would end up having Down’s syndrome. We were probably in denial – our attitude was: these kinds of things don’t happen to us.
Then at the 20 week scan, there were other markers present that indicated a possible chromosomal condition so we opted for an amniocentesis (where a needle is inserted through the stomach into the amniotic sac) for a definite diagnosis.
I was told it was positive a few days later via a telephone call – I remember that moment so clearly. I was alone at home, sitting on my daughter’s bed, and in the same breath as telling me my son had Down’s syndrome, I was asked, again, if I wanted to terminate the pregnancy.
My husband and I were scared, and heartbroken, and we wondered what it meant for both ours and our son’s future – but we never considered not having this baby. Our son was very much loved and wanted. I had a friend who had a son with Down’s syndrome and whilst we still had a fear of the unknown, knowing this little boy, seeing him play and interact alongside our daughter and other local children, was a huge encouragement and source of comfort to us.
Our friends and family all reacted so positively when we told them. Everyone accepted our decision to have Zephy and we didn’t receive any pressure from those close to us to consider a different choice.
For this reason, I felt very sad when I heard about the Emmerdale storyline in which Laurel Thomas (Charlotte Bellamy) and Jai Sharma (Chris Bisson) decide to terminate their baby because he has the condition. I think termination for medical reasons is a worthy story to tell but Emmerdale could have done this without mentioning Down’s syndrome specifically.
Instead, I fear that they are further fuelling the stigma and stereotypes surrounding Down’s syndrome that parents and self advocates are trying to dispel. There is a pervasive fear that a child with Down’s syndrome is a terrible burden or something undesirable – that the person will live a terrible life of suffering. That’s just not my experience and I don’t feel that the soap is representing this issue responsibly.
There is already a heavy bias towards termination that comes from the medical professionals and societal views, and little to no support for the continuation of the pregnancy.
It also really worries me that there may be people with Down’s syndrome who will be watching this storyline realising that this couple are terminating their much watched baby because they are like them. I can only imagine the pain and distress it could cause them.
As my pregnancy progressed I did my own research and found a few wonderful online support groups run by other parents but when I looked at the main antenatal organisations, it didn’t look like they offered the type of help I needed so I didn’t get in touch. I wanted someone to acknowledge that I wanted to have my baby, to give me information of what life could be like for him and to understand that my husband and I still needed support coming to terms with his diagnosis.
I felt very let down in terms of support offered from the hospital, too. Whilst the care for my baby and my physical health was wonderful, emotionally and practically there was nothing. I’d go as far to say I felt quite abandoned, and I ended up feeling lonely and frightened about health issues Zephy might have and how my daughter’s life would be impacted. I would have found it really helpful to have seen a positive representation of Down’s Syndrome on a mainstream TV show like Emmerdale.
Despite being induced at just over 36 weeks because my placenta was failing, I had a pretty straightforward labour and delivery with Zephy and he was born on Boxing Day in 2016. His dad and I were over the moon and both adored him and bonded with him straight away, which was something I had worried about.
In fact my whole experience of having a child with Down’s syndrome has been so much more positive than I was expecting. I felt like it would be something than loomed over us constantly but it really doesn’t. Zephy is just Zephy; yes he has Down’s syndrome but it’s just part of him.
He has faced a few challenges in his early years, mainly around using his gross motor skill and finding it harder to walk and talk. I don’t really see them as major hurdles though – he meets all his milestones, just a bit later than other children.
I have never felt different to any other parents, either. I took Zephy along to baby groups, he breastfed well, I carried him in a baby carrier and things were similar to how they were when my daughter was his age.
He has now grown into a wonderful three-year-old who enjoys going to the park, eating crisps and watching anything pirate-related. He is extremely healthy and has no other clinical conditions, which is a far cry from the list reeled off to us during the pregnancy that included problems with his heart, digestion, hearing and sight.
The biggest struggle we face has nothing to do with him, but getting the support he needs from the various agencies and local authorities. We frequently come up against barriers and hurdles of being told he isn’t disabled enough for one type of help – it’s quite ironic really – or doesn’t have the needs for another. We’ve recently been denied a blue badge for him despite his mobility not being great and him struggling to walk much distance outside.
But I could never ever imagine Zephy not being here, and not being the person that he is. He is a wonderful little boy and I’m so proud of all he achieves.
My advice to any parent who finds out their baby is going to have Down’s syndrome is to talk to real people who have been there and done it, and listen to the voices of those young people and adults who have Down’s syndrome. It’s vital to hear from people living it as they can offer the best perspective on how they feel about their own lives.
Organisations such as Positive about Down’s Syndrome and Wouldn’t Change a Thing feature blogs and vlogs of parents to children with Down’s syndrome and provide answers to questions about day to day life. I wish I’d known how normal life would be on a day to day basis. I expected our whole world to revolve around Down’s syndrome but it really doesn’t.
I’d also encourage parents not to be scared. You will love your child regardless, in the same way that I love Zephy. Both you, and they, will be happy.
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7 Lake District wildlife hotspots
From red squirrels and red deer to otters and ospreys, the Lake District is perfect for a weekend nature safari. Here is our pick of the best places to go.
Whinlatter Forest and Dodd Wood
These are ostensibly the two Forestry Commission sites for seeing ospreys. It’s also a good place for red squirrels, while the feeders at the visitor centre attract siskins, and otters are occasionally seen at the southern end of the lake. www.forestry.gov.uk/forestry/infd-7z8kn6
Wescoe and Burns Wood, Threlkeld
The woodland beside the disused railway line is good for red squirrels. Also look out for roe deer and rabbits, and birds such as nuthatches, coal tits and (in spring and summer) spotted flycatchers. Dippers and grey wagtails use the River Greta throughout the year.
Haweswater RSPB Reserve
Head here to stand a chance of seeing England’s only golden eagle. Another rare mountain bird is the ring ouzel, but it’s only a summer visitor. In summer the oak woods by the reservoir are good for redstarts and pied flycatchers. Red deer can be seen in the area all year round. www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/h/haweswater/
On the lake you can see species such as breeding goosanders, red-breasted mergansers, barnacle geese and otters. The woodlands of Borrowdale have important colonies of liverworts and mosses, and red squirrels. Peregrines nest at Falcon Crag. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/borrowdale
Home to an innovative rewilding project, Ennerdale has healthy numbers of both red and roe deer and red squirrels. You can see butterflies such as meadow browns, orange-tips, ringlets and marsh fritillaries, which have been reintroduced to Ennerdale valley. www.wildennerdale.co.uk
Home to Cumbria’s only population of red kites, Grizedale is also a good place to come for red deer. Brant Wetlands, near the visitor centre, has butterflies and dragonflies, and look out too for barn owls and buzzards. www.forestry.gov.uk/grizedale
Peatbog fauna include white-faced darters, large heath butterflies and bog bush-crickets. The site is also good for red deer, and, in summer, migrants such as ospreys, cuckoos and willow warblers.


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President Bashar al-Assad's government has not confirmed its participation in peace talks with the Syrian opposition scheduled for this week in Geneva, the U.N. special envoy for Syria said Monday.
Staffan de Mistura told the U.N. Security Council the Assad government said it would not be sending representatives to Geneva on Monday. But de Mistura held out hope saying, "We know and indeed expect that the government will be on its way shortly, particularly in light of President Assad's commitment to [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin when they met in Sochi."
Putin hosted Assad last week for a meeting, during which Syria's president said he was "ready for dialogue with all those who want to come up with a political settlement".
Russia has bolstered Assad's rule with airstrikes since late 2015 against groups trying to overthrow his regime, with Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah fighters also supporting Damascus.
Tuesday's talks in Geneva will be the eighth on a political settlement in Syria after previous meetings achieved little progress to stop the war that has left at least 400,000 people dead and 13 million Syrians in need of humanitarian aid.


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Industrial Scientific Introduces Unlimited Runtime for Radius BZ1 Area Monitors and RGX Gateways
New Solar Power Supply provides portable, continuous power to area monitors in hazardous or remote locations.
Industrial Scientific, the global leader in gas detection and connected safety, is pleased to announce the new Solar Power Supply for the Radius® BZ1 Area Monitor and RGX® Gateway. The Solar Power Supply provides a portable, continuous power source for up to two devices simultaneously, eliminating the cost and risk of charging or rotating equipment in hazardous or remote locations.
The Solar Power Supply eliminates three critical area monitoring challenges: runtime, hazard certifications, and portability. Solar panels provide unlimited runtime for up to two Radius BZ1 Area Monitors, RGX Gateways, or a combination of the two, while a CSA Class 1 Div 2 certification ensures safety in even the most hazardous locations. A portable, modular design allows a single worker to transport and assemble the Solar Power Supply. By addressing these common challenges, the Solar Power Supply makes it easy and efficient to monitor gas hazards in any outdoor location.
“The Solar Power Supply offers unparalleled convenience by eliminating the time, expense, and risk of sending workers into remote or hazardous areas to rotate units or charge batteries,” said Jason Kettler, product manager at Industrial Scientific. “We’re excited to give users the unlimited runtime they need in a safe and portable package.”
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Joining the goth-rockers for their eight-date stint are Scottish pop-rockers Vukovi and rising New Grave stars Miss Vincent. Tickets are still available for the tour, which is set to kick-off on March 2 in Newcastle – head to the Kerrang! Ticket Store now to grab a pair or two!
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The Islamic State (ISIS) unleashed a series of complex attacks against advancing coalition forces in Mosul this weekend. The attacks combined car bombs, mortar fire, and snipers in order to drive back what reports variously described as “Iraqi special forces” and Kurdish peshmerga. The Iraqi units were driven back for a while, but managed to retake the urban areas through a combination of artillery fires and American-backed air support. Other forces, clearly Kurdish, moved on outlying villages.
While the coalition of Iranian-led Shia militias, official Iraqi army units — some flying Shia flags — and Kurdish irregulars seems to be making progress overall, the fight has been tougher than predicted. ISIS’s leadership has been firm so far in holding its troops to Mosul, committing beheadings and other terroristic violence in order to minimize its risks of either the flight of its own soldiers, or an uprising by those natives to the city who resent ISIS’s control. – READ MORE


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SPOKANE, Wash. -- A fire in North Spokane tangled traffic early Friday.
Fire crews rushed to the URM building on N. Freya, north of Francis, around 8 a.m. after a welding project started a fire.
All of the employees in the building quickly evacuated and there were no reports of any injuries. Fire crews said they were able to keep the flames away from a hazardous ammonia cooling system inside the warehouse.
Due to the location of the building, traffic was impacted while crews put out the fire. Trucks idled on nearby roads waiting to turn into the property’s parking lot.


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“Canaveral Port Authority continues to strengthen its financial profile by developing our cruise and cargo business,” Port CEO Captain John Murray stated. “This A2 rating with a stable outlook designation is major endorsement of the Port’s financial direction and enables us to stay competitive in the global maritime market.”
Moody’s analysts noted that additional credit strengths for the Canaveral Port Authority include minimum annual guarantee revenue contracts that provide revenue visibility, a cargo segment that adds to revenue diversification, conservative financial policy and healthy financial metrics.
Moody’s reported that the Port’s Fiscal Year 2018 through 2022 foresees capital improvement expenditures of around $422 million. The capital plan will be funded from a combination of operating cash flow, existing reserves and new debt issuances.
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Samsung Mobile just announced another Dual Camera Android Smartphone in China after the launch of the Galaxy Note 8 and the Galaxy J7 Plus, which are of course, the two first Dual Camera phone of Samsung.
Is the Dual Camera the new thing for Samsung Mobile?
Recently, the Giant of Korea just launched the Samsung Galaxy C8 in September and its specifications are really amazing and quite impressive, inclusive with Facial and Fingerprint recognition scanner.
Well, the Galaxy C8 arrives with cute curves at its edges. It features some other cool specs, which includes the camera, the screen size and many others. Lets take a look at the Key Features.
*. Screen Size: 5.5-inch Super AMOLED
*. Resolution: 1920x1080px
*. Memory: 32GB or 64GB model expanded up to 256GB
*. RAM: 3GB and 4GB
*. Battery Capacity: 3300mAh capacity
*. Colors: Black, Gold and Rose Gold
*. Camera: There is a total of 3 Cameras;
– Rear: A duo of 13MP f/1.7 + 5MP f/1.9
– Front Facing: 16MP f/1.9 selfie snapper with a separate LED flash.
*. Dimensions: 152.4 x 74.7 x 7.9mm
*. Connectivity: 4G, VoLTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
*. Processor: 2.39Ghz Octa-core MediaTek Helio P20 processor
*. Bixby voice-assistant page: Yes
*. Facial recognition scanner: Yes
*. Fingerprint Sensor: Yes
Display and Design
The Galaxy C8 sports a clean curved and elegant designs at the sides. It features a pure 5.5-inch Super AMOLED of 1920x1080px resolution.
It is available in the Black, Gold and Rose Gold colors options. The fingerprint Sensor is on the rear side and it also comes with the Facial Recognition.
Camera and Connectivity
The Galaxy C8 arrives with three camera -which is the selling points of the Smartphone- on the front facing side, we have the 16MP with f/1.9 aperture and LED flash for selfies.
Meanwhile, on the rear side, you have Dual Camera -as seen on the Note 8 First and then on the Galaxy J7 Plus- the first is the 13MP with f/1.7 and the other is 5MP with f/1.9 making the images to be more clearer.
And also, the Galaxy C8 also features a 4G LTE Connectivity Network that browse more faster and also spots a VoLTE, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS as connectivity options.
Memory, OS and Battery
The Galaxy C8 arrives in different format, the first is the 32GB Internal Storage with 3GB of RAM while the other is the 64GB of internal Storage with 4GB of RAM meanwhile, both can be expandable to 256GB of MicroSD card.
The 32GB/64GB storage with 3GB/4GB of RAM respectively which is the big RAM, is enough to run your Applications without slowing down and also, you have enough of Storage with the insert of the MicroSD card to store up enough Applications, Medias such as Musics, Movies and many others.
The Galaxy C8 also runs Android 7.1.1 Nougat operating system out of the box and comes with dual SIM functionality and also powering the smartphone is an octa-core MediaTek Helio P20 processor.
On the Power house of the Galaxy C8, you have a huge capacity of 3300mAh battery is capable of staying up for hours/days without shutting down, huge talk time and many more.
For the Security aspect, the Galaxy C8 also comes with a fingerprint scanner which is embedded in the home button at the front, right below the display.
And also, it features a Facial Recognition to unlock the phone and the Galaxy C8 also comes with an always-on display.
Price and Availability
The Galaxy C8 was recently launched in China. However, the Samsung Galaxy C8 is now officially listed on the China website.
Well, the price is not yet out. In India, it is rumored to arrive after going on Sale in China, meanwhile the Pre-order for the Note 8 will begin sooner and later than expected.


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Italian Sausage and Pea Pasta Salad
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I love making this dish because it is extremely simple. You can add other vegetables too like corn, carrots, etc. This recipe features just orecchiette, peas and sausage. You can make this into two different ways; tossed in olive oil or tossed with sun dried tomato pesto.
This dish is perfect as a snack, side dish, light lunch or dinner. What's great about this recipe is that you can eyeball everything and it'll turn out fine.
Prep Time: 15-20 minutes for pasta
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 25-30 minutes
Yield: Depends how much pasta
- Italian sausage
- olive oil
- sun-dried tomato pesto with basil sauce
- Using your choice of pasta (I used orecchiette), follow the instructions to boil your water in a pot.
- I opened the Italian sausage casing and cooked the sausage in a pan until browned. You can add any additional seasonings if you would like.
- Right before finish cooking the meat, you can throw in your green peas.
- You can scoop pasta into a bowl. Add your sausage and pea mixture, and then toss with olive oil.
- Or you can toss with your choice of sauce or spaghetti sauce. I used sundried tomato pesto with basil.
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