The Rutgers Scarlet Knights (2-7, 0-6), led by quarterback Johnny Langan, running back Isaih Pacheco and interim head coach Nunzio Campanile, will host the No. 2-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes (9-0, 6-0), led by quarterback Justin Fields, running back J.K. Dobbins and head coach Ryan Day, in a Big Ten Conference college football Week 12 game on Saturday, November 16, 2019 (11/16/2019) at SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Here’s what you need to know:
What: Week 12 of the 2019 college football season.
Where: SHI Stadium in Piscataway, New Jersey.
When: Saturday, November 16, 2019.
Time: 3:30 p.m. ET.
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TV broadcast crew: Brandon Gaudin will handle play-by-play duties. James Laurinaitis will serve as the analyst. Elise Menaker will be the field reporter.
Radio: WCTC 1450-AM, WOR 710-AM, WENJ 97.3-FM, WNJE 920-AM, Sirius 111, XM 196.
Radio broadcast crew: Chris Carlin will handle play-by-play duties. Eric LeGrand and Ray Lucas will serve as the analysts. Anthony “Fooch” Fucilli will be the field reporter.
Student radio: WRSU 88.7-FM.
All-time series: Ohio State leads, 5-0.
Campanile on Ohio State: “The mindset just has to be, ‘Be at our best here.’ You can listen to all the stuff outside that says, ‘Hey, you’re going to get killed,’ or the point spread. None of that stuff matters. The only thing that matters is how hard and how well we go out and play and if we take steps forward.
“I keep telling them these reps matter for the future. If you’re a senior and you have three games left here, you want to leave your mark to be at your best and never take your foot off the gas. If you’re a young guy, these reps really matter for next year. They matter going into the spring, they matter going into next season. Every chance you get to play against great competition is an opportunity for you to grow as a player and for us to grow as a team. That’s the biggest message about these games to me.”
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Watching Tatiana Maslany play different clones so perfectly and seemingly effortlessly makes it easy to forget just how much work has to go into multi-clone scenes. It’s something of a technical fright just filming a two clone scene, but it’s nothing short of a technical nightmare to film a four clone scene. When you add in all the peripheral characters who really round out the show, it seems like a near impossible task, but the wizards behind Orphan Black somehow manage to put together these truly intricate scenes and make them seamless.
Last year’s four clone dance party was an amazing scene, especially after watching how much work was actually put into it. Now, we’ve got an inside look at the big family dinner party where the four sestras, sestra brother, and all the rest were gathered to celebrate their lost sestra, Beth Childs. Once you watch the video, you’ll come away with a much greater appreciation for the raw talent and incredible effort that goes into making this wonderful show.
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Alfred James Band ~ Cello-driven acoustic rock twists classical pop.
by Louise Uznanski; photography by Richard Uznanski and Louise Uznanski
Alfred James Band at the Kimmel Center
Needing a photo op like a chocolate addict needs a bag of M & M’s, I scoured the internet and newspapers for something new to fill the memory cards. It was a cool March night in 2010, and this photographer/music fan had been assigned to find a venue within a short car ride from home. ‘Hmmm. This sounds like it could be interesting.’ I’d found a new name and a different kind of entertainment on the internet. The Alfred James Band seemed just the ticket for a unique night of music and possible photo ops. Classically trained, the Band boasted the only live performance use of a 5 string carbon fiber electric cello in the world.
The Alfred James Band was scheduled to play at the Home Grown Cafe that evening. Located along the main commercial drag on the University of Delaware campus in Newark, the venue was within easy striking distance. A telephone reservation also yielded a pass to photograph the Band’s set. The campus was on spring break, but plenty of students and locals were familiar with the Home Grown and the Band; Alfred had been playing there consistently for years.
Set on a postage stamp sized stage, the band’s backpacks, drinks, drums, didgeridoo, carbon fiber cello, guitars, amps and assorted clothing filled every square inch. The wall behind the stage was painted red and filled by artwork. There were no functioning lights to showcase the Band with the exception of a single neon sign in the window that extolled the virtues of Michelob Light. Photography would be a challenge.
The Band’s manager and sound technician, Hilary Ward, rigged the soundboard and taped the cords to the floor. After a short soundcheck and a quick dinner, the Band took the stage around 10 pm. The first notes played to a nearly full room and an attentive crowd. At first listen, the Dave Matthews Band came immediately to mind, or maybe Dave Matthews crossed with a string quartet. The Band used instruments that were unfamiliar. The didgeridoo is an ancient Australian wind instrument that, despite many years and many concerts, I’d not seen played before. The 5 string carbon fiber electric cello was a revelation. The two instruments played together was a mind bending experience.
The didgeridoo with the band’s name sticker
Bandleader Alfred James Goodrich has led a music focused life. A member of the Philadelphia Boys Choir in his youth, Alfred then joined the Men’s Chorale and now sits on the Choir’s Board. At live Band performances, Alfred sings lead vocals. He also plays the electric cello like he was born with it attached to his chest. He writes and produces the Band’s music with Chris Despo, acoustic guitarist and vocalist for the band.
Lead guitarist Avery Coffee is the Philadelphia version of ‘slow hand’. Just amazing. And funny. Newly added violinist extraordinaire Brian Fitzgerald beautifully blends his stringed instrument’s emotional sounds with those of the carbon fiber cello. Bassist Pat Brennan skillfully lays down percussive lines while Alfred, Chris and Avery blend their voices and instruments like a well-oiled machine. On that March 2010 evening, a song written by Alfred for his then girlfriend and now wife, Hilary Ward, was the highlight of the night. “Better Days” was written as a gift to Hilary; it demonstrates the earthiness and compassion embodied by the music of the Band.
After their first set, we introduced ourselves and exchanged cards with the manager, Hilary. As the years have moved on, so too has the band. From Burlap and Bean in Newtown, PA, to coffeehouses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and back to Home Grown, to the PSALM salon and recently the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, the Alfred James Band has given us not only a new musical direction to follow, but good friends who are generous, funny and all about the music and family. Their journey in the last two years has become our journey. Learning new music, new instruments and inventing ways to shoot photographs in the dark has brought us all to the point where we are on the threshold of new musical directions.
The last two concerts at the PSALM Salon and The Kimmel Center have been the absolute best music we have heard from the Alfred James Band. We look forward to their upcoming new album, and to finding new ways to enjoy the music and find the light. Seeing this band play is like eating those M & M’s: you cannot stop at just one.
Please enjoy the following live performance photographs of the Alfred James Band and the concert video that follows the photo gallery. In Part 2 of this blog (coming soon!), we’ll share a brief interview and updated news from the Band.
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Pat Brennan and Alfred James at Burlap and Bean
Avery Coffee, Pat Brennan, Alfred James, Chris Despo
Chris Despo, Brian Fitzgerald
Avery Coffee at the Kimmel Center
Alfred James at the Kimmel Center
Alfred James Band before the Kimmel Center show in Philadelphia
Afred James at the PSALM Salon, Ardmore, PA
Chris Despo at the Kimmel Center
Above: Alfred James at the PSALM. Below: Avery Coffee at the PSALM
Pat Brennan at Burlap and Bean
Pat Brennan, Alfred James, Chris Despo at Burlap and Bean
Brian Fitzgerald at the Kimmel CenterAlfred James plays the didgeridoo along with the carbon fiber cello at the PSALM Salon
Brian Fitzgerald at the Kimmel Center
The following video was recorded at the PSALM Salon on February 4, 2012. The music begins at approximately the 2:15 minute mark.
What a great find you made on the internet! Thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for the Alfred James Band, and as always, thanks for the wonderful media that accompanies the description. I truly enjoyed my first listen to the Band as well, and am looking forward to seeing them in concert again soon.
Pretty! This was an incredibly wonderful article.
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My project…did not turn out how I wanted it to. My vision was a digital narrative centered in a blog format that danced into ARG territory through links to both real and staged events. The narrative would be about a family trying to find, then rescue their missing son from this creepy academy that’s super mysterious and definitely interests the reader. It would culminate with a twine game that gave the reader multiple endings based on how they chose to go about the finale. Unfortunately…my project ended up as more of a hollow shell of this well-filled dream. A pale shadow of the bright light of my imagination. A cheap knock off of my designed designer product. This is due to a number of things, but I think the one that most effected me and my progress was the actual writing itself.
I’ve written short stories before, and while I’m not super good or skillful, I’ve definitely done better than I did here. In a regular short story, something good to remember is that because you don’t have as much time to tell your story you should focus your plot around a main character or a central event. You should structure the story to a “crux”, and that crux should be what you want to reveal about your main character or event that is hinted at, but not told to the reader beforehand.
Because of the format, I think I spent much more time on attempting to develop a sense of realism and not trying to craft an especially inspired narrative. I don’t know who my main character is–It should be Bonnie, but I think she ended up more as a storytelling vessel than a real character. I wanted her to have a progression from sweet to ferocious the more desperate and confused she became, but her mannerisms are all over the place and I don’t think there is a real way to track her progress between posts.
As I was writing this story I knew this, and spent a lot of time trying to fix it to no avail. I really should have asked for help or asked someone to review it, because I got in my head and ended up stressing out for a lot of time I could have been doing actually productive work.
As for Alexander’s themes, here are the main ones I was focusing on and how I implemented them.
- Personal Presence–I think the way I incorporated personal presence and audience into this project is pretty interesting, even if it’s not amazing. In the beginning, the audience is addressed by Bonnie as readers of the blog. However, throughout the story they’re given a character to control that’s addressed in second person. I think it’s interesting to give the reader a character that represents them. I could see some people love being explicitly brought into the story, and some people feeling like their sense of immersion was broken.
- Serial Structure–Ideally, my project would have been broken up into serial updates. I think if I was actually doing this, I would have asked for like a blog subscription list so posts (and games, but we’ll get to that) could be sent to readers inboxes. Now that I think about that more, that could be a really interesting way to tell a story. Even if it’s something more silly, like a food blogger who posts recipes and just keeps oversharing in the vamping for each recipe. Something for next time!
- Social Framework–I didn’t really make a super large use of social framework. This is something I’d want to make a larger use of if I had more time, diffusing the story across multiple websites. I think that “scavenger hunt” aspect of Digital Narratives is really, really cool and I’m kind of kicking myself for not taking a bigger advantage of it.
- Multiple Proscenia–Again, I dropped the ball on this theme too. Sorry to Multiple Proscenia.
- Platform affordances–I used the backdating feature of WordPress to make the story look like it was released in a longer time span than it actually was. I was writing it late April/through May, and made it look like was released earlier this year. That was fun! I also briefly flirted with the idea of making a more lively comment section on Bonnie’s posts, but ended up scrapping the idea because it felt a little gimmicky. I posted like two comments from my account to foreshadow a plot point, but I think using the WordPress comment section could have been a lot of fun.
When working on this project, I was really inspired by Digital Stories like The Dionaea House and A Witch’s Word.
- The Dionaea House was written by Eric Heisserer, and began in 2004. What’s super interesting to me about it and what I tried to replicate is that the story doesn’t pretend to be real through appearance. What I mean by that is, it isn’t posted on social media and presented as real. It is (or rather, was) housed within its own blog site and pretty much declares itself a story with the stylized texts that appears above every post. However, it still tried to capture the style of social media/blogging websites. I really liked this, because readers knew it wasn’t real but found themselves doubting due to the awesome writing. I wanted to emulate this, but I think I relied a little bit too much on presenting realism through my website. I included a whole page dedicated to make it look like Ben was a real person who had gone missing, which I think went a little too far in presenting fiction as reality and didn’t contribute very much to the story.
- The Dionaea House never hit the mainstream, but was still very popular within internet culture. The way people found it was largely through sharing the link with friends and family. Today, its impacts can be seen in the large number of “creepypasta” stories that use the blurring of realism on the internet to create little snippets of horror.
- How my project is similar: both use blog formats to tell stories, present a sense of realism on the internet to engage readers, are (meant to be) serial in update style
- How my project is different: My project uses twine games, The Dionaea House uses multiple blogs, and The Dionaea House is just written a lot better.
- A Witch’s Word is a short twine game by Mary, an Itchio user with the screen name RainbowStarbird. It was made last year, and while not extremely popular received a warm reception on the Itchio website. In the game’s comment section one person posted a poem they’d wrote a poem about it, they enjoyed the game so much. Mary hasn’t specifically stated her reasons for making it, and it is currently still the only game she has posted to Itchio.
- A Witch’s Word uses Twine to tell a short story about a woman trying to pay back her debt to a witch. The player clicks through all the options until the true ending is revealed.
- How my project is similar: Both make use of interactivity through Twine without really giving the reader much choice.
- How my project is different: A Witch’s Word makes use of audio to create immersion, and has a better, more concise story that is rooted in the Twine game itself.
I think despite these similarities and differences, my project fits into a tradition of blending narrative and gameplay, and seeking to experiment with how the two can overlap. Digital Networked Narratives naturally foster this due to their inclination towards audience interactivity, and my pieces does add something new in this regard. It’s an original, if not overly inspired story that causes the reader to question how gameplay and story can be used to enrich the audience’ experience.
In my piece, I draw from the ideas of Raph Koster and Janet Murray in my. And, when I say I draw from their ideas, I wouldn’t say that I necessarily implemented them well. Koster talks about how narrative’s involvement in gameplay usually isn’t the forefront. Gameplay is presented as a challenge, and narrative is the reward for that challenge. However, he notes how Digital Stories have the potential to alter that and bring narrative in as a form of gameplay. Murray talks about how cyberdramas differ from traditional narratives through their branching, nonlinear way to storytelling that still holds weight through tonally appropriate sequencing.
Both of these authors have amazing ideas. The little puzzle that I made at the end was where I wanted to involve what they were saying. However, my story is still pretty linear. There’s only two real endings, and one “true” ending. It’s not really one of the vast, postmodern story-games Koster and Murray bring attention to. However, Murray writes that
“The first signs of this new storytelling are in the linear media, which seem to be outgrowing the strictures of the novel and movie in the same way that we might imagine a painting outgrowing the frame and morphing into a three-dimensional sculpture” (Murray).
This is where I think my project fits in. While the story is mostly linear, it shows a growth from beyond the traditional format of the short story through its involvement with cyberdrama elements and digital storytelling themes.
That’s it for my author’s statement. 🙂 Thanks for reading!
Also, here are the Student pings where I have
ridden the coattails given constructive feedback to my fellow students.
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Coattails Ahoy! 😉 I kid. Solid work this semester, especially given the circumstances. 🙂


I picked up a few LG incubators for cheap. 2 have wafers, 1 is a solid-state...otherwise they are alike. If the primary issues with the LG are thermostat related, would replacing the LG therm with a better one do the trick?
It might not be easy though, and might also cost more than the incubator. Wafers do work, and have worked for a long time. If you are upgrading the wafer incubators, check to see if the solid state device will fit in the others. If it fits ok you can probably just buy the partd as spares.
With the LG ..... as far as I am aware, it is not the wafer specifically that is the problem, but the method of adjusting it.
I was thinking more along the lines of swapping out the LG thermostats (wafers and solid) for a more accurate type. I found some posts on a snake/reptile page from people who have used "ReptiTemp" thermostats and Ranco thermostats to control the temps in their habitats...someone built an incubator out of a refrigerator and used heat tape and a ReptiTemp for the thermostat. The Ranco is set digitally, the ReptiTemp is manually set, but both are supposed to be very stable.
I haven't been able to find any mention of anyone swapping one of these thermostats into a foam incubator, though. The pics I saw of the Ranco look like it would fit fine on the outside with the wires running through to the heat element. Considering they have a bit more at stake than "just eggs", either seem more reliable than any LG thermostat.
May just have to give it a try. The 3 LG bators, including 2 turners, set me back $30 total, so there's not much to lose by trying, I suppose.
This is one I built using a Ranco. I was lucky, I have an old freezer that I use to brew beer and I had the Ranco to control it. I have the two stage version.
The problem is that the Ranco costs more than the incubator
The other problem is that better can be had cheaper. I used the Ranco because I had it, and results were excellent, but in my never-ending quest for perfection I have found better, cheaper.
The Ranco, like all the other electronic thermostats is an on/off controller. It just happens to be a very high quality one that is highly adjustable. For incubator purposes it is just fine, but the 2 stage is overkill.
Better would be a PID process controller from Ebay, with a T-Type thermocouple. That's what I plan on trying next.
The contoller will be around $50 shipped, and the thermocouple about $15
The benefit is in the method of control. PID controllers have 3 settings. On/Off, proportional and PID. The proportional is a burst controller that aims to replace measured heat-loss by rapidly cycling the heater. Brinsea uses them, as do R-Com. They are very stable, esp. in stable ambient temps.
PID goes a step further, and uses proportional control while, at the same time, measuring the change in ambient temperature and allowing for it.
It's probably the ultimate control, and would allow an incubator to be used in a barn or shed (not the LG, the heater isn't big enough)
Food for thought, come on back if you have more input.
Well the discussion is around *what is a good thermostat*.
The size of heater has to be matched to the expected rate of heat loss from the cabinet. So 200W would suit some and not others.
I believe a Sportsman has a 200 or 250W heater, but it's a big cabinet, and the older ones prefer reasonably stable ambient conditions as they use wafer thermostats. The modern ones are probably much more tolerant of external conditions.
One would expect an incubator would simply hold an internal temp. according to the setting, almost regardless of the external temp, if the heater is big enough. In practise, however, it doesn't seem to work that way.
The problem with a styrofoam incubator is simply that too big a heater would melt it, as they give off a fair amount of heat locally.
The heater I put in mine is 125W .... I wouldn't want it in a Hovabator, but it's great in the wooden cabinet.
Bigger cabinets also have a great deal more thermal mass than a small table-top. That in itself probably helps the heat control enormously when ambient temps vary.


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References: Tom Lancaster and Stephen J. Blundell, Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur, (Oxford University Press, 2014) – Section 1.4.
A fundamental application of functional derivatives is in the derivation of the principle of least action and the Euler-Lagrange equation. A particle with mass following some trajectory will have a potential energy and a kinetic energy at each point on the trajectory. If the particle follows the trajectory between times and , then these energies have averages given as functionals
From example 1 in the earlier post, we have
From example 2 in the same post, we have
In classical physics, all forces are ultimately represented by conservative forces (gravity and electromagnetism), so a force can be represented by the gradient of a potential: . Newton’s law then says
so in terms of functional derivatives
That is, the variation in the average kinetic energy over the path is equal to the variation in the average potential energy. This suggests that the quantity
known as the Lagrangian, is in some sense fundamental, since the variation in its integral over a path is zero. To give a name to this integral, we define the action as
giving rise to the condition
Technically, this means that the action is stationary when the trajectory is the actual trajectory followed by a particle. In pracitice, the action nearly always turns out to be a minimum, so this is known as the principle of least action. Varying the trajectory slightly causes the action to increase and gives a path that is not followed by the particle.
If we know the Lagrangian for a particle (or more generally, for a system of particles), we can work out the equation(s) of motion by applying the principle of least action. To do this, we consider the Lagrangian as a function of a generalized coordinate and its first derivative :
We can then apply the principle of least action:
This has the same form as example 2 from the earlier post that we used above, so we get
Thus we get the Euler-Lagrange equation for a single particle moving in one dimension
Example As a simple example, suppose we have a particle whose potential and kinetic energies are given by
the equation of motion is given by
This is just the equation of motion for a mass on a spring with spring constant .


Researches of mathematical models of temperature fields with the internal sources of heat are conducted . The numeral solution of problems are found at finite-dimensional space with the use of Krank–Nicolson algorithm. Numeral calculations are executed and the temperature distributing is built. Measurements of temperatures are conducted during the thermocyclic treatment process of construction elements and built temperature distribution. The calculation of uncertainty of measurement of temperatures is executed by a pyrometer. Consideration the uncertainty of measurement the comparative analysis of calculation values of temperatures, got by model approach and apparatus measurements is conducted.
mathematical model, numeral experiment, temperature fields, uncertainty of measurement
“Otsenivanie neopredelennosti izmerenii temperaturnykh polei”,
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- Expansion module
- Gigabit Ethernet x 48 + 4 x SFP+
The Cisco Nexus 2248TP-E Fabric Extender is a 1 Gigabit Ethernet fabric extender with enhancements that target workloads such as large-volume databases, distributed storage, and video editing. The Cisco Nexus 2248TP-E supports 48 100/1000BASE-T host facing ports and four 10 Gigabit Ethernet fabric interfaces.


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today announced the launch of Big Match Striker
, a free-to-play downloadable PC football game where fans battle head to head in the ultimate championship of tactics and trivia. The aim of the game is to take your team from lower division minnows to global super-club in a dynamic battle for titles and silverware. During each match, players are challenged on their knowledge of the latest facts and news surrounding the top four tiers of English football, as well as famous footballing moments and goings-on from the wider football world. Eight more screenshots
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Kirstie Alley recently did a Jenny Craig commercial with a “Cheers” theme. Not a bad commercial but it opened her mind up to doing a “Cheers” reunion. After shooting the commercial she said, “When we walked on that set, it was like a cross between The Twilight Zone and we were in a time machine! To see those guys sitting there, just as funny as ever …I thought, ‘Why don’t we just do this again?’ It would be fun!” So now, she’s pushing a reunion.
My vote? I’m in!
Check out the commercial below:

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Woman’s body found at Arches National Park
GRAND COUNTY, Utah — Authorities in Grand County recovered a woman’s body in Arches National Park on Saturday.
According to the Grand County Sheriff’s Office, Arches National Park staff located a dead woman’s body in the Devils Garden area. A team of park staff and county officials recovered the body at approximately 6:45 p.m.
Rangers said they had not identified the body as of Sunday, and no cause of death had been determined. The body will be transferred to the Utah Office of the Medical Examiner, and Grand County deputies are investigating.
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The core of this story is Matt.
I just can’t continue on with telling you all about this little baby without explaining the intricacy of my love for this man. My story for Matt is special and full of love.
He is the one I could never have seen coming. A love that completely caught me by surprise.
We actually have different tales of how we met; if you were to ask him, he’d say he met me one night early 2015 in a semi-popular club in Palmerston North and that the pair of us (quite intoxicated) danced briefly before I turned up my nose at him and left.
-I don’t agree with this recollection and refuse to admit I would have ever done that, perhaps I was more drunk than I remember…
My side of the story goes a little differently. My two best friends in late 2015 were always so much more outgoing and social than I was, so when they told me they met a group of guys who worked in the army and that they were pretty cool I wasn’t all that interested in meeting them. Eventually I met two of them who were incredibly lovely and bubbly and quickly my best friends and myself became quite fond of the two and started to spend a lot more time with them. They said they had another friend who they wanted to meet us and after a few weeks we were introduced to Matt. instantly the 6 of us became quite close and spent most weekends partying and getting to know one another really well.
It wasn’t love at first sight, in fact at the time I was caught in a toxic cycle with an ex boyfriend who refused to let me go. So there was no immediate connection or fling. However the two boys would always tease me when Matt wasn’t with us, saying that he liked me a lot. Mostly I would ignore them and secretly I thought to myself, “Well if this guy likes me, why does he not have the guts to tell me or ask me out sometime?”. So began the saga of me knowingly “friend-zoning” Matt.
-WHY DID I DO THAT?!
The boys left for a big overseas trip and our friendship didn’t fault, though I do believe Matt’s affections for me finally did. I was completely fine with that as again I was back on with my boyfriend at the time (idiot). That simmered out as of course it eventually would and then a few months later a huge tragedy struck my life.
My best friend text me one day while I was walking around a warehouse.
“Danny is dead”.
I was so confused and rang her, it turns out our good friend had been shot in a hunting accident and had passed away a day earlier. We were devastated and heartbroken and really felt for our other friend who had the closest relationship with him of all.
Out of the blue not long after Danny’s funeral I received a message from Matt saying that he was always here for me if I needed a friend and that I was welcome to come around and hang out if I wanted a distraction. Usually I would have said no, as Matt and I weren’t really the closest of friends but something inside of me just told me to just go over and hang out.
So I did.
It turned out to be the best decision I have made in my life to date.
I will never forget that first time, walking into his little sleep-out with an expectation of what the afternoon would bring and having that expectation completely blown out of the water. We chatted for hours, until the sun went down and the time just seemed to melt away. We talked about so much, every opinion he had, every little fact he told me, or joke he told I was utterly captivated.
Had I never looked at him properly before? It seemed like I had somehow missed how insanely attractive he was. Had I ignored every word he spoke? He managed to become the most interesting person in just the space of a few hours. I knew it after only a short time, he was incredibly smart and driven. It was like my eyes had somehow just been opened. I felt that he really wanted to cheer me up knowing what I had just gone through, so I found out he we was a sweetheart too.
I didn’t want it to end, and later that week I went and spent more time with him again. I think he felt what I was feeling too. That somehow the year before we had missed something in each other, and that it was nice finding out who the other person really was. And that is where it began.
With the tragedy in my life hitting me really hard, I found a connection with Matt that bloomed immediately. From that first visit we saw each other at least twice a week for months. We would text all day, look forward to hanging out and laugh constantly. I had never been around another person who made me feel like I could entirely be myself, but also gave me those nervous butterflies every single time we were together.
A few months went by and I knew my attraction to him was increasing, it wasn’t the way he looked (although I felt like he was way out of my league) It was everything else. His dedication to his job, his loyalty, his kindness, his humor. I looked at him and I swear I turned into the heart-eyed emoji. It wasn’t like he even had to try!
I could tell he was interested in me too but something changed about 4 months after we first started seeing each other. I somehow managed to pluck up the courage to tell him how I was feeling about him. I was SO NERVOUS. I think it took about a week for me to psych myself up for the conversation and many pep-talks from my friends who assured me that he liked me.
I confessed my feelings and got ultimately rejected.
He told me, he enjoyed hanging out with me but wasn’t ready to commit to anything or anyone because of the uncertainty in his future and whether he was going to stay in the same city as me for the rest of the year.
I was so heartbroken. I was frustrated because I couldn’t even be mad at him for what he told me! Simultaneously I felt so led on, I thought he knew how much I liked him and i wondered why he let that continue if he had no intention of starting something more serious with me.
Straight after that he left to go to Australia for about 4 weeks with work. He wouldn’t be able to contact me and it was probably for the best as I realised I needed to get over him. I tried to distract myself for that month with flings with other guys and honestly I felt like nothing could quite match up to the connection I knew I had with Matt.
He came home from his trip and we were back on. I still don’t really know why he decided to contact me again. I hope it’s because he missed me, realised we had something really cool between us, but really I think it was because he has spent a month surrounded by hundreds of dudes in the Australian wilderness and wanted some female company. I think I should ask him about that one some time…
Either way, what we had only became stronger and by the time the end of the year had rolled around we were pretty inseperable. He had met my family and he wanted me to come down to his hometown over the summer holidays to meet his family.
I think it was at his point I thought to myself: why on earth are we not together? We are basically a couple and you want me to meet your family! I put all the cards on the table and said I wasn’t going to come down to his home as just a “friend”. I remember so clearly that he flinched when I said it, but he agreed and on December the 2nd we decided to make it a real thing.
I was over the moon!
I knew that we would have something that lasted, I knew that starting this relationship it wouldn’t be a short one. I’m so happy that we had that real friendship before we ever started to see one another. It feels like I’ve known him my whole lifetime.
Now comes the soppy stuff by the way guys.
I’m so in love with him. Undeniably, uncontrollably and unconditionally in love with him. One minute I was living my life completely for myself. Then the next minute I’d find myself smiling, helplessly, wondering how I could even imagine a world without him in it. Love overwhelms your body, it shoots heart-shaped arrows flying through your core. Infecting every living cell with the feeling of certainty, with the feeling of finally, the feeling of wanting something greater than you’ve ever had before.
Love comes easily but in the process of falling in love, I’ve learnt that love does not stay as it once started. Love only stays if you want it to stay.
We are, two human beings, two people coming from a completely different family. A different past, his past that didn’t include me. Two different people who deal with problems a lot differently. You are all not cut with the same cookie cutter and everyone has their own flaws, their own scars, and their own stories.
In the last year, I’ve learned to fight for what I want but I do not fight against him. He can be hard headed, tough, always on edge, but I’ve learned to agree to disagree and move on. In the last year, I’ve learned the foods he does not like and the foods that make him feel comfort. I’ve learned that he will more than likely not react to certain scenarios in the same manner that I would, and that’s okay, because I love him, and his perspective often balances out my own. I have learned the importance of communication. We might be in love but that does not mean we will reach the same agreement every single day.
We are two different people who have fallen so deeply for one another. I am so in love, that I’ve learned to wait, to just wait, wait for him when he goes off on a tangent. I’ve learned to wait when he gets so deep into a poker tournament that it feels like I’ve lost him to the screen . To wait, when he can’t find something for work, or Alan keys to fix the bed. I’ve just learned to wait because that’s what love is. Patience.
Love is loving the flaws, the ticks, the habits, that annoy you the most but still you can find beauty in them. In one year of being with him, I’ve learned so much. Love is not easy and that is okay. We are all going at our own pace.
He’s learned to hold my hand when we walk into a crowded room because I’ll feel solace knowing he is right there to protect me. He’s learned to cuddle with me, even on hot nights. He’s learned to not yell or get impatient, to just sit there until I’m ready to go or talk or just be. He’s learned to love my family as his own and to pet my dogs every time you walk down the driveway because if you don’t they’ll be sad and pester you for the rest of the night. He’s learned to stay out of the kitchen while I cook or bake because I’ve got it and I don’t need someone looking over my shoulder.
And honestly that is what love is. It’s blending your way of life with one another and finding the happiness that the other person adds when they’re in it with you.
So to my Matty I say this:
I did not love you at first sight, nor you me. In fact, I barely even saw you the first time as you wobbled around the club. You barely saw me through the blurred vision and slurred movements, I know.
It was not passion or lust that drew us to one another. My heart was broken and cold. You with flint and no kindling, me with logs and no matches, both of us having given up hope of finding warmth.
But we spoke casually, and discovered that we had something the other lacked- that there was potential. We took the time to sit and work with these new, foreign materials and slowly built our little flame.
And it grew startlingly fast to our astonishment and grows even still everyday. It continues to shock me when I wake up in the night expecting the cold to affront my senses, but finding it doesn’t touch me anymore. It can’t reach its frosty tendrils to my heart enveloped in fire light.
Our love was not upon first glace, it’s built on much sturdier stuff. Solid wood that crackles and flexes it’s muscles to show that it always has more to offer. I admire you, and you me, but I also am proud of this love that we built with our own hands. Respect is our base and appreciation is our fuel- it is the materials that never run dry.
I’m lucky enough to believe I’ve found my person.
He is my favourite person.

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Multinational Meat Farms Could Be Making Us Sick
In the last two weeks, there have been two coronavirus outbreaks at Smithfield Foods facilities in South Dakota and Wisconsin, with charges of cover-ups and bad handling practices. Among other issues, this exposes the inherent risk of handing control of our meat supply to the multinational agribusiness cartel. Late last year, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker introduced legislation that would fix just that.
The bill’s most important provision limits the construction of large metal sheds called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) that house at least 2,500 hogs, 1,000 beef cattle, 700 dairy cattle, 125,000 meat chickens, or 82,000 laying hens. The bill would phase out these facilities in the next 20 years. These changes are a powerful tool for revitalizing rural America, but they’re also critical for our climate, environment, and public health.
Animals used to be raised on diversified family farms with other livestock and row crops, but the popular image of Old McDonald’s farm doesn’t reflect the reality of today’s broken food system. Today, CAFOs predominate: In 2017, three-quarters of the egg-laying hens in America were owned by just 320 farms, each averaging about 900,000 birds in annual inventory and 95 percent of American hogs were raised by farms that sold 5,000 hogs in a year. (In the same time frame, independent farmers sold on average 43 hogs each.) Forty percent of the beef cattle lived out their final months of fattening in lots of 32,000 cattle or more. All of this happens in CAFOs.
These corporate farms are new, and they’ve transformed the American farm economy. Since the start of the Second Gilded Age (most would say 1980), America has lost 50 percent of its cattle farms, 80 percent of its dairies, and 90 percent of its hog farms—mostly small, independent, family operations. The replacement of family farms with CAFOs has greatly contributed to a decline in rural well-being and opportunity.
CAFOs are not farms in the traditional sense. They look and operate more like factories, with poorly paid staff doing the work. The animals spend their entire lives in a confined space, rarely seeing the light of day. They can’t naturally survive under these conditions without being pumped full of drugs, incubating resistance that poses major threats to human health. They have also been found to amplify a pandemic. Most of these operations are owned by a few huge corporations, meaning that the profits flow outside the community and, very often, outside of the country. In fact, the single largest owner and slaughterer of pigs in America is now a Chinese company called WH Group, which acquired Smithfield Foods in 2013.
Senator Booker’s proposed legislation would make a huge difference in the lives of rural Americans, whose farm economies have been decimated in recent decades by the invasion of massive corporate hog, dairy, and cattle operations. A recent survey by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for a Livable Future found that nearly two-thirds of Iowans want a moratorium on CAFOs. It’s easy to understand why. While the profits rarely stay in the community, the consequences of these operations certainly do.
For starters, there’s the smell that results from cramming so many pigs into such a small space, a suffocating odor that can drift for miles from its origin and destroys surrounding home values. An article in the Des Moines Register in November 2018 was entitled: “Why does Des Moines smell like ‘dog poo’ today?.” Manure from hog factories, of course, was to blame. Sure, all animal farms stink sometimes, but CAFOs are a special case. The environment simply cannot handle such massive populations of animals in such condensed space. The 25 million hogs in Iowa produce as much waste as 65 million humans—equivalent to the populations of Texas and California combined.
The waste is ruining America’s water. Pigs in a CAFO typically defecate into a lagoon below them. During heavy rainfall, such as the recent catastrophic flooding in Western Iowa, these lagoons overflowed into nearby creeks, causing massive environmental devastation and threatening human health and well-being. Manure is spread indiscriminately on field crops, and the result is that over half of waterways in Iowa are “impaired.” The drinking water treatment facility in the capital city of Des Moines is the most expensive of its kind ever built. A family farm with 100 hogs on it simply cannot pose a threat to its neighbors like these corporate factories.
Senator Booker’s legislation understands that rural areas are healthier in every sense when ten family farms are raising hogs, instead of one CAFO owned by a foreign corporation, staffed with poorly paid workers. CAFOs are a creation of the Second Gilded Age and put Americans at risk. It’s time to put them out to pasture.
Austin Frerick is Deputy Director at Yale University’s Thurman Arnold Project, an antitrust initiative. Charlie Mitchell is a fellow with Data For Progress.


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Nicolas Jäckel, Patrice Simon, Yury Gogotsi, Volker Presser
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Increase in Capacitance by Subnanometer
Pores in Carbon
Electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs, also known as supercapacitors or ultracapacitors) store energy by electrosorption of ions at the electrode/electrolyte interface.1To achieve a high-energy storage capacity, electrodes with a high surface area and well-developed pore structure in the range from several Angstroms to several tens of nanometers are required.2 However, neither natural precursor-derived carbons nor templated carbon materials present an ideal, inﬁnitesimally narrow pore size dispersion.3
In EDLCs, the use of salt dissolved in an organic or aqueous solvent makes it important to consider the solvation shell around the ions. The bare ion size is usually below 1 nm, whereas the solvation shell can increase the size signiﬁcantly.3 Several studies have provided strong evidence of ion desolva-tion during electrosorpdesolva-tion, which is the only way to explain why carbon materials with pore sizes smaller than the solvated ion but larger than the bare ion have high charge storage capacities.4−8 A maximized capacitance (normalized by the
surface area) was found in experimental and theoretical studies when matching the pore size with the ion size.9 This eﬀect seems to be universally applicable for solvent-containing and solvent-free electrolytes (ionic liquids), while important secondary diﬀerences are to be considered for the latter. For example, the oscillatory dependency of capacitance on pore size predicted for neat ionic liquids and ideal carbons with slit pores is lost when introducing a solvent, where a single maximum is observed when the ion size and the pore size are identical.10,11 This Viewpoint clariﬁes the correlation between capacitance and pore size, which is of high practical importance for the design of advanced carbon electrode materials. Two extreme cases are obvious: excessively large pores, accompanied by large pore volumes and limited speciﬁc surface area, will lead to a low energy storage capacity, whereas very small pores will limit the ion access due to steric eﬀects (Figure 1), in addition to imposing obstacles to ion transport.12,13 Yet, for the
intermediate range, down to the point when the pores are too small for the bare ion to ﬁt, there is no consent in the literature about the correlation between the pore size and the corresponding area-normalized capacitance. For example, there has been criticism about the method of surface area determination and normalization, especially considering the inadequacy of the Brunauer−Emmett−Teller (BET) model for microporous carbons.14,15 Benchmarking various kinds of carbons, including carbon monoliths, a “regular pattern” was presented, suggesting that the area-normalized capacitance does not depend on the pore size.14,16This lack of dependence can
be explained by neither the ab initio or molecular dynamics models17,18 nor geometric considerations as when the pore
diameter increases by 50−90%, there is still just one ion in each pore contributing to charge storage and the remaining surface area and pore volume remain unused, decreasing the capacitance normalized by the pore surface or volume.
Recently, we developed a model for understanding the capacitance of microporous carbons, taking into account the entire measured pore size distribution, and have established a comprehensive data set of electrochemical measurements.6 Density functional theory (DFT) kernels were used, which are currently the most advanced methodology to extract porosity data from gas sorption isotherms for meso- and microporous carbons and eﬀectively avoid the fundamental limitations of the BET theory.19 Activated carbon showed the highest speciﬁc
surface area (SSA), followed by two diﬀerent titanium carbide-derived carbons (CDCs),20 activated carbon black (CB), and carbon onions.21 Yet, when normalizing electrochemical performance data on porosity values, we ﬁrst have to consider diﬀerences between dry powder and ﬁlm electrodes.6Then, we have to assess the diﬀerences in pore size distributions; these are shown in Figure 2A normalized to 100% for the aforementioned carbon materials. Many carbons display a signiﬁcant dispersion width; this is why the often-used volume-weighted average pore size d50does not fully capture the pore
size distribution width, as we show by adding values for d25and
d75, representing the pore width encompassing 25 and 75% of
the total pore volume, respectively (Table 1,Figure 2A). More diﬀerences in the surface area of the diﬀerent electrode materials become evident when we calculate the electrochemi-cally active surface, that is, the ion-accessible surface area (Table 1,Figure 2B). Taking into account the bare ion size of BF4−(0.45 nm) and TEA+(0.67 nm), pores smaller than these
Figure 1. Electrosorption of speciﬁc ions with a ﬁnite size is only possible if the pore size is at least equal to the ion size. Therefore, the speciﬁc surface area of pores smaller than the bare ion size is inaccessible for energy storage. Larger pores can adsorb more than one ion per pore.
values are inaccessible to the ions.7 The result is a further reduction of the speciﬁc surface area, and we have to consider diﬀerent cutoﬀ values for the positively (cutoﬀ pore size of 0.4 nm) and negatively (cutoﬀ at 0.6 nm) polarized electrodes. In
the case of CDC, only about 40−50% of the total SSA is accessible to TEA+compared to about 70% for activated carbon
and carbon black (Figure 2A).
The reported electrochemical measurements using a three-electrode conﬁguration (for experimental methods see the
Supporting Information) showed a nonlinear correlation of SSA and gravimetric capacitance measured in F·g−1(Table 1)
for 1 M TEA-BF4in acetonitrile (ACN) or propylene carbonate
(PC).6 A very high Coulombic eﬃciency (up to 99%) underlines the absence of signiﬁcant Faradaic reactions in the chosen potential window (Table 1). When we normalize the measured electrode capacitance by the surface area accessible to cations or anions at +1 and −1 V vs carbon, respectively, we see a clear diﬀerence between positive and negative polarization (Figure 3, Table 1). Instead of just discussing the electro-chemical data in the context of average pore width (d50), we
added error bars for the x-axis, which spread between d25 and
d75(Figure 3). Even when considering pore size dispersity, we
still see a clear trend of increased normalized capacitance in subnanometer pores, which is signiﬁcantly larger for negative polarization (i.e., electrosorption of the larger TEA+ cation).
The more eﬀective use of available pores in the case of matching sizes results in a strong increase in capacitance, which was already shown by a geometric model of Huang et al. (ref
22; see also the data line inFigure 3). For larger pore sizes, in
Figure 2. (A) The cumulative pore size distribution of electrodes was derived by combining CO2and N2sorption and normalizing all data to
100%. (B) Porosity analysis of diﬀerent carbon electrode materials using a DFT model. Data are normalized for SSA of electrodes containing 10 mass% PTFE as 100% and the calculated accessible surface area for BF4−anions (0.4 nm, BF4−accessible) and TEA+cations (0.6 nm, TEA+
Table 1. Combined NLDFT Model for CO2Sorption for Pores Smaller than 0.9 nm and QSDFT Model for N2Sorption for
Pores Larger than 0.9 nma
Material DFT SSA (m2· g−1) d50(dwidth (nm)25−d75) pore capacitance at +1 V in ACN (F·g−1) Coulomb eﬃciency (%) capacitance at +1 V in PC (F·g−1) Coulomb eﬃciency (%) capacitance at −1 V in ACN (F·g−1) Coulomb eﬃciency (%) capacitance at −1 V in PC (F·g−1) Coulomb eﬃciency (%) AC 1839 1.3 (0.8−1.8) 113 96 115 99 103 99 102 99 CB 1097 15 (5−19) 99 99 99 99 88 99 87 99 OLC 232 9.5 (6−14) 20 98 20 99 16 99 16 99 CDC600 934 0.64 (0.53−0.93) 127 97 132 98 121 98 119 99 CDC1000 967 0.90 (0.62−1.4) 101 97 100 98 98 98 96 99 a
The average pore size relates to the volume-weighted arithmetic mean value d50with the standard deviation from d25to d75. Capacitance values were
recorded at +1 V vs carbon and −1 V vs carbon in a three-electrode setup (half-cell).
Figure 3. Capacitance of porous carbons normalized to the accessible surface area for each ion in both solvents. The regular pattern average of 0.95 F m−2from ref15is added, and data for the
particular, for mesopores, the capacitance converges toward an average value below 0.1 F·m−2, which aligns well with the “regular pattern” value reported by Centeno et al. (ref15) and with the calculated value limiting the double-layer capacitance at the planar carbon interface (or larger than the few-nm pores; ref17).
For electrolytes with signiﬁcant diﬀerences between the size of anions and cations, our data clearly show the importance of diﬀerentiating between ion electrosorption during positive or negative polarization with use of half-cell measurements (Figure 3). With a larger size of TEA+, and smaller corresponding
surface area accessible to the cations, the values of areal capacitance during negative polarization are signiﬁcantly larger than those for BF4−electrosorption (i.e., positive polarization).
Accordingly, advanced EDLC cell design could achieve performance enhancement by developing nanoporous carbon with slightly diﬀerent pore sizes for the positive and negative electrodes.23,24
In summary, our data analysis clearly supports the increase in surface-normalized capacitance when most of the pores are below 1 nm, in agreement with previous studies (e.g., see refs7
and25). This was shown for carbons with very diﬀerent pore structures considering the complexity of pore size dispersity and for two diﬀerent solvents (i.e., PC and ACN). This eﬀect is seen at diﬀerent amplitudes for positive and negative polarization, with a smaller increase for BF4−within the range
of investigated pore sizes.
INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Saarland University, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Université Paul Sabatier, CIRIMAT UMR, CNRS 5085, 5085, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 4, France
Réseau sur le Stockage Electrochimique de l′Energie, RS2E FR CNRS 3459, 80039 Amiens Cedex, France
⊥Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and A. J.
Drexel Nanotechnology Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
The authors thank Dr. Weingarth, Dr. Aslan, Anna Schreiber, Jeon Jeongwook (all at INM), and Katherine Van Aken (Drexel University) for their technical support and helpful discussion. N.J. and V.P. also thank Prof. Eduard Arzt (INM) for his continuing support. Y.G. was supported by the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Oﬃce of Science, Oﬃce of Basic Energy Sciences.
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Augusta National has sent letters to all honorary invitees to inform them that their traditional opportunity to play practice rounds, hit balls and participate in the annual Par 3 Contest before The Masters has been revoked.
Only those playing in The Masters and former champions will be able to have those privileges.
For many years, honorary invitees – any U.S. Open, Open Championship, PGA Championship or U.S. Amateur winner – were treated like anyone else until The Masters began on Thursday. With a recent increase in interest in the Par 3 Contest, those invitees are being asked to step aside.
“As a person and an honorary invitee, I’m disappointed because it was my favorite day of the year,” past Open Championship winner Ian Baker-Finch told the Associated Press. “I loved it. I’ll still be there, though, and I’ll watch like everyone else.”
The Masters has given all major champions and U.S. Amateur victors special access, including two clubhouse badges, a $1,000 honorarium and a commemorative gift. While the chance to play practice rounds and the Par 3 Contest are no longer an option, everything else will remain.
Augusta National’s Par 3 Course was built in 1958 with Sam Snead winning the first Par 3 Contest in 1960. No player has won the contest and then won The Masters.

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House passes bill aimed at stopping future Trump travel ban
The House passed legislation on Wednesday that would limit executive authority to issue future travel bans like the one imposed by former President Trump against several Muslim-majority countries.
Lawmakers passed the bill along party lines, 218-208, with only one Republican joining with Democrats in support.
The legislation, titled the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants (NO BAN) Act, would explicitly prohibit religious discrimination in immigration-related decisions. Any immigration restrictions could only be issued by the executive branch if there is a “compelling government interest.”
The State Department and Department of Homeland Security would have to consult with Congress and provide specific evidence justifying the immigration restriction and its proposed duration before imposing it.
“We must make sure no president is ever able to ban people from coming to the U.S. simply because of their religion,” said Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.), the bill’s author and chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.
Republicans warned that the legislation would unnecessarily undermine executive authority and called for action to address the current surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border instead.
“It is the president in whom all executive power vests, who should determine whether to suspend entry and not just in consultation, with the permission, with State and Homeland Security,” said Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.).
The House also passed legislation later Wednesday by a 217-207 party-line vote to ensure that citizens and other people with legal status who are detained at U.S. ports of entry can consult with an attorney to help understand their rights.
Trump signed an executive order during his first week in office in 2017 which limited visas from several predominantly Muslim countries. The travel ban was revised numerous times to eventually include five countries with majority-Muslim populations — Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Somalia — as well as North Korea and Venezuela before the Supreme Court upheld it in 2018.
The ban came after Trump called in 2015 during his presidential campaign for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.”
President Biden rescinded the ban on his first day in office in a fulfillment of one of his campaign pledges.
“Make no mistake: Where there are threats to our nation, we will address them. Where there are opportunities to strengthen information-sharing with partners, we will pursue them. And when visa applicants request entry to the United States, we will apply a rigorous, individualized vetting system. But we will not turn our backs on our values with discriminatory bans on entry into the United States,” Biden said in a proclamation reversing Trump’s actions.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the chairwoman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, first introduced the bill to ensure people detained at ports of entry have access to counsel in response to Trump’s travel ban, which sparked confusion at airports across the U.S. as refugees and people with visas were detained by Customs and Border Protection.
“It brings us one step closer to upholding our country’s principles of due process and fairness,” Jayapal said.
But Republicans expressed concern that the measure would restrict law enforcement’s ability to screen people flagged for additional scrutiny.
“This bill does nothing to enhance our border security and furthermore hampers their ability to carry out their mission,” said Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.).
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Writing An Excellent Native American Culture Essay
Most modern students would find it difficult to freely compose an essay on native Americans. The explanation to this is simple; even though there are several native tribes and ethnic groups still living in America, few students have an idea about them. Those who were born in the post-colonial era can barely tell much of what was happening before. They just woke up to a whole new world that was almost completely robbed of the past. Therefore, unless you study well to know who was born in America, it is difficult to tell between the natives and those who came in later. However, studying American nativity is one of the most interesting things that a student can do. This will not only equip you for discourse writing, but will give you a different and broader view of things. America has not always been the way you know it. There are natives whose ancestors first dwelt within the borders and still exist to date even though are rarely spoken about. So, in a nutshell what exactly should you know about Native American culture? Below are a few incentives
- In the United States, there are over 550 native Alaska and Indian villages and tribes
- The Native American tribes have different lifestyles in terms of food, dress and other aspects
- Despite the many changes and evolvement that America has undergone, most of the natives have survived as sovereign nations
- Over history, the Native Americans have held on to their special artworks and ceremonies
- Before stabilization, the European immigrant diseases caused the Natives to suffer before they acquired immunity against the same. Most fatal of them all was small pox that claimed most lives. After successfully revolting against the Great Britain, that is when the idea to civilize Natives was conceived.
- To date, there s still some tension between the Natives and the immigrant Americans due to differences in culture and the fast evolution of the Unites States
- The Native Americans now have their own media stations and newspapers in the bid to preserve more and strengthen their culture
- In the bid to accommodate European-American immigrants, many tribes were brutally cleansed. Nevertheless, a good number has stood the test of time and are even stronger to date.
- The archeological record in America is divided into phases in order to accommodate different timings of events. In some states, different cultures have made significant earthworks to represent their diversities.
- Some of the Natives lived like nomads where they constructed seasonal family dwellings
You realize that information is everything. After digesting the points above, you should have the confidence to write a top ranking essay on Native American cultures.

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A neighborhood's walkability can make a significant difference in the selling price of otherwise similar homes, according to a new study by by the advocacy group CEOs for Cities.
Just consider this example as you take your next stroll: In two suburbs outside Charlotte, N.C., two homes are built the same year, with the same square footage and the same bedroom and bathroom count. These two houses also are located in places with the same neighborhood income level and the same distance to Charlotte's central business district.
But these two homes are not equal on the market. In one neighborhood, the house sells for $280,000 while its counterpart goes for $314,000. The difference, according to CEOs for Cities' research, is the homes' relative walkability.
The study's Charlotte finding isn’t a fluke relegated to one market. Similar price differentials were uncovered in 13 out of 15 metro markets examined in the study, “Walking the Walk: How Walkability Raises Housing Values in U.S. Cities,” which analyzed data from 94,000 real estate transactions provided by Zip Realty. In the majority of locales, pedestrian access to restaurants, schools, parks, grocery stores, jobs, libraries, and more translated directly into higher home values.
“Even in a turbulent economy, we know that walkability adds value to residential property just as additional square footage, bedrooms, bathrooms, and other amenities do,” said study author Joseph Cortright. “It’s clear that consumers assign a tangible value to the convenience factor of living in more walkable places with access to a variety of destinations.”
For research purposes, “walkability” was defined by the Walk Score algorithm, which calculates the proximity of various amenities to any U.S. address and assigns a “walk score” to that address on a scale of zero to 100, with 100 being the most walkable and zero being completely car-dependent. A neighborhood with a walk score of 70-plus is one in which it’s possible to live without a car.
So what’s a walk score worth from a marketability perspective? According to study findings, a one point increase in walk score can translate into a property value increase of $700 to $3,000, depending on the market. The gains were larger in denser, urban areas such as Chicago and San Francisco and lower in smaller markets like Tucson and Fresno.
Overall, the study concluded that houses in pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods with superior walk scores could command premiums anywhere from $4,000 to $34,000.
"There are a number of trends that are reshaping the American Dream," said Carol Coletta, President and CEO of CEOs for Cities, "and the value home buyers now place on living close to more daily destinations is one of the most important. Now, planning, zoning, and development decisions have to catch up to consumers."
Jenny Sullivan is a senior editor for BUILDER covering architecture and community planning.
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Usually, young designers amass their portfolios with residences and work their way up to commercial and institutional buildings. Not Lori Bork Newcomer, whom Cesar Pelli named an associate at 25 and whose vastly sized projects at the New Haven–based firm included the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Orange County, California. So when her husband was appointed director of the University of Georgia’s Costa Rica campus, Bork Newcomer viewed the move to college town Athens, Georgia, as an opportunity to relive a small-scale youth.
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Her first project, the Pulaski Street Residence, was located directly around the corner from her converted-factory studio. The neighborhood is sandwiched between central Athens and several active rail lines to the north; in addition to industrial buildings, modest foursquares were constructed in the early 20th century to house the labor force of a now-defunct American Cottonseed Oil factory. “I think it started a reinvestment trend,” Bork Newcomer says of the Pulaski Street commission. “It showed that there was good value in the neighborhood and that interesting design was possible without worrying about the cookie-cutter subdivision covenants of other places in Athens.” Currently five nearby sites are under development, two of them according to the transplanted designer’s schemes.
In the midst of this positive transformation, one of Bork Newcomer’s fellow factory tenants mentioned that she was interested in selling a quarter-acre not far from the old American Cottonseed warehouses. Bork Newcomer and her husband had been a renting a newly built 900-square-foot cabin located 45 minutes from town. With a teenage stepdaughter needing a private bedroom for visits and plans for a baby of their own, the couple agreed to purchase property. “Our decision to build new versus looking for existing housing stock mostly stemmed from the desire to feel safe about the environment in which we would be raising our children. Here it is affordable to guarantee energy efficiency and healthy indoor air by building new.” The project also would allow a customized solution for combining professional life and parenthood much nearer the lively downtown.
The infill site did include a 28-by-28-foot storage barn that once housed a Model T Ford collection, and husband, wife, and two carpenters dismantled the structure in a weekend. What wood framing and cladding that was not recycled immediately was saved for interior accent paneling and barn-style sliding doors.
In addition to paying homage to the former garage, Bork Newcomer’s design borrows the wisdom of the surrounding bungalows. The new three-bedroom house is just slightly wider than a traditional shotgun to take advantage of natural ventilation, and the stairwell’s open risers and operable skylight enhance airflow.
Most of the older homes in the neighborhood have large porches. Bork Newcomer’s faces south and spans the full building width: “I also installed large triangular glass in the gable above the porch, and the 24-inch roof overhang works perfectly to keep the sun out in the summer and allow it deep into the interior in wintertime.” The second-floor master bedroom opens to a screened sleeping porch, which also provides shade and improves natural ventilation.
The 2,600-square-foot design paid particular attention to the historic mill house to its east, which belongs to one of the first families to reinvest in the neighborhood. “We didn’t want to be the new monster structure that dwarfs the existing homes,” Bork Newcomer says. Decisions motivated by respect for context further worked in concert with sustainability. For instance, the glazed gable was placed above the porch to maintain the same one-story-high street frontage as the house next door, though it also permitted Bork Newcomer to vault the living-room ceiling and enhance daylight penetration.
The roofline behind it cants toward the rear, creating north and east clerestory windows in the master bedroom, south-facing roofline for a solar hot water installation, and a channel for rainwater collection. “It does make for a taller second-story wall, so to soften its presence relative to the neighbors, I stepped the wall away from the neighboring house to the east, and I carved out a covered patio beneath the second story wall to break up its mass and scale a bit. This also happened to provide opportunity for large north-facing glazing and patio doors into the dining room and east-facing doors into my office,” Bork Newcomer points out.
A high-albedo roof as well as batt, blown-in cellulose, and spray-foam insulation ensure that breezes are cooling the interior as effectively as possible. A wall system that is breathable to vapor—the result of mineral-based interior paints, stucco exterior, and housewrap working in tandem with the cellulose-filled wall cavity—should enhance the house’s ability to regulate its interior climate passively. And should the residence ever come to the end of its usefulness, its reclaimed paneling and doors can be used again; newly sourced materials were chosen for their recyclability or safety to downstream outcomes.
In the meantime, Bork Newcomer says that she and her growing family will be enjoying this house indefinitely. It can even adapt to them. There is plenty of roof surface for photovoltaics, and conduit is in place already (the solar hot water is meeting 90 percent of demand currently). With roughed-in plumbing located in a storage closet, the 400-square-foot home office can be converted into a first-floor suite, too.


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Men with GCSE qualifications or below employed in certain manual occupations are more likely than other groups to work in industries at particular risk from new barriers to trade with the EU after Brexit. Historically, those in this group have struggled to find equally well-paid work elsewhere when job losses have occurred.
That is one of the key conclusions from detailed new analysis of trade data carried out by researchers at IFS and funded by the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe initiative.
The EU is the UK’s largest trading partner. It is the most important destination for UK exports and the most important source of imports to the UK. In new analysis, researchers at IFS have investigated which industries, regions and types of workers would be most and least affected by increased barriers to trade with the EU under different Brexit scenarios. The scenarios consider both potential new tariffs and higher non-tariff barriers (such as customs checks). Below are some of the main conclusions from our analysis.
Impacts will vary across industries
- Clothing manufacture, transport equipment (including car manufacturing) and the chemicals and pharmaceuticals sector are at particular risk from higher trade barriers. These industries sell a large fraction of their output to the EU. The transport equipment sector is particularly exposed because the EU is also the source of a quarter of its inputs; with increased trade barriers, the cost of its inputs from the EU would rise and demand for its outputs in the EU would fall.
- Finance is the most exposed services industry, as it currently exports a relatively large share of its output (12%) to the EU. Crucial here will be the scale of non-tariff barriers, including the potential loss of passporting rights, after Brexit.
- Industries such as agriculture may benefit from trade barriers if consumers substitute away from more expensive imports from the EU towards products made in the UK. However, the industries that could benefit make up only a small share of employment and the overall economy. These benefits would also come at the expense of consumers facing higher prices.

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The sixth annual Dillinger Block Party is on Saturday, and its organizer is anticipating it will be bigger than ever.
“Our main focus this year is enhancing the atmosphere,” said Tsvetelina Stefanova, entertainment director at The Dillinger Food and Drinkery. “We are stepping up our lighting game and including an art installation in the theme of this year’s flyer design. We’re also adding a new contest, ‘Best Dog on the Block,’ and instead of the standard footlong, this year we’re opting for a Teenie Weenie Hot Dog Eating Contest (mini hot dogs made from Australian Wagyu beef).”
The flyer features anthropomorphic party animals, and Tg Miller’s art was commissioned especially for people to take pictures with during the festivities.
Miller also is a member of the band Black Camaro that will be playing at the event.
A goal of the block party is to bring the community together, and Stefanova hopes this year will do that as well as exposing attendees to original music. Some of that new music will come from live bands, including Boulder City’s Junkyard Dogs, who have been part of the block party since it began.
The Junkyard Dogs was formed in 1980 by Steve Patton, Chris Long and Gerry Bletsch. Their name came from Bletsch’s family’s auto wrecking yard that was next to their rehearsal room.
In the next several years, Junkyard Dogs added two more members, Jason Holt and Andy Cattoir. Junkyard Dogs has had some personnel changes, leading to its current lineup of Bob Krause, John Kingbiel, Todd Wolter, Cattoir and Bletsch. Patton, who died about five years ago, was the uncle of the late Shane Patton, the Navy SEAL who was killed in action in 2005.
“The goal of JYD has always been, and remains so today, (to) perform all original music,” Bletsch said. “The Dogs have shared the stage with acts such as Blue Oyster Cult, The Marshall Tucker Band, Outlaws, Black Oak Arkansas and Montrose. The Dogs were heavily involved in the Las Vegas music scene in the ’80s and ’90s, being selected to appear on four of five KOMP (radio station that plays classic rock) albums, and finally inducted into the Las Vegas Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.”
“The Dogs love to play, and the Turners/Dillinger are great people to work with; also our performance fee is always donated to the Shane Patton Foundation,” he added.
The block party will also feature a raffle, with all proceeds going to the Shane Patton Scholarship Foundation, as well as games, vendors and food trucks.
Admission to the block party, to be held outside the bar/restaurant at 1224 Arizona St., is free, and the bands start playing at 4 p.m.
Contact reporter Celia Shortt Goodyear at email@example.com or at 702-586-9401. Follow her on Twitter @csgoodyear.
What: The Dillinger Block Party VI
When: Saturday, May 13. Bands start at 4 p.m.
Cost: Free. There is as a raffle for prizes. All proceeds go to Shane Patton Scholarship Foundation.
Contests: Best Dog on the Block Contest (first place wins a PBR doghouse), Teenie Weenie Hot Dog Eating Contest (mini hot dogs made with Australian Wagyu beef in a natural sheepskin casing), and a beer drinking contest.
This year’s lineup
■ The Junkyard Dogs
■ Lenguas Largas from Tucson, Arizona
■ Black Camaro
■ Sandy Nelson
■ Same Sex Mary
■ The Dirty Hooks
■ Fuzz SoLow
■ Bargain DJ Collective

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RobotRock performs live what - until now - DJ's only dared to do.
A live band who remix dance music's greatest anthems to create the ultimate floor filling experience.
Previously known as Elekrobank, RobotRock have garnered quite a cult following. The bombastic 4-piece consisting of Ruth Kennington (Interskalactic, Zealots), Mark Murphy (The Devlins, Autamata), Adrian Birney (Informatics, Indecent Cigar Emporium), and Mark Colbert (I'm your vinyl, Damien Dempsey, Sacred Animals) have brought their electrifying live experience to festivals and student events throughout the country.
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In anticipation of the groove making duo Dicslosure’s debut album, the UK brothers have been giving us small doses of what to expect. They have blessed us with a breath of fresh air in the electronic world by mastering this new and enriched UK garage sound. A few months back they gave us a dose of their goods with the dance floor ready “White Noise” ft. the sugary vocals of Aluna George. The track put the twosome’s talents on display through their skillful use of song arrangement and to put it simply, making a groove to make you move.
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The heat didn’t simmer for them as they dropped another awesome melody “You & Me” ft. smooth vocalist Eliza Doolitte the other day. Today they give us the extra love worthy video to accompany the track. Featuring a love struck couple with a serious attitude for travel and adventure, it is the perfect video for the garage bent jam. While Doolittle echoes, “home is where the heart is” we become engulfed in this adorable couples love affair through its ups and downs while traveling the world and dealing with all the trials that come with foreign places. While not your typical love story, it shows the wanderlust couple hopelessly in love, yet still dealing with reality. As they roll with the punches you want it to be everything it’s meant to be.
The album drops May 3rd on PMR Records. One half of the brotherly duo, Guy Lawarence, spoke with Mixmag about the album and admits, "It’s basically going to be what our sound has already been like…We want to make sure there’s a good balance of club tunes and vocal tunes." Their singles album, featuring the two tunes comes out April 30th to keep you satisfied while you wait. I don’t know about you guys, but I’m eagerly waiting on this one to drop.