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COVID-19 vaccine developers are making ever bolder assertions that the world will need yearly booster shots, or new vaccines to tackle concerning coronavirus variants, but some scientists question when, or whether, such shots will be needed.
In interviews with Reuters, more than a dozen influential infectious disease and vaccine development experts said there is growing evidence that a first round of global vaccinations may offer enduring protection against the coronavirus and its most worrisome variants discovered to date.
Some of these scientists expressed concern that public expectations around COVID-19 boosters are being set by pharmaceutical executives rather than health specialists, although many agreed that preparing for such a need as a precaution was prudent.
They fear a push by wealthy nations for repeat vaccination as early as this year will deepen the divide with poorer countries that are struggling to buy vaccines and may take years to inoculate their citizens even once.
“We don’t see the data yet that would inform a decision about whether or not booster doses are needed,” said Kate O’Brien, director of the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organization (WHO).
O’Brien said the WHO is forming a panel of experts to assess all variant and vaccine efficacy data and recommend changes to vaccination programs as needed.
Pfizer Inc. Chief Executive Albert Bourla has said people will “likely” need a booster dose of the company’s vaccine every 12 months—similar to an annual flu shot—to maintain high levels of immunity against the original SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants.
“There is zero, and I mean zero, evidence to suggest that that is the case,” countered Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It’s completely inappropriate to say that we’re likely to need an annual booster, because we have no idea what the likelihood of that is,” Frieden, who now leads the global public health initiative Resolve to Save Lives, said of Pfizer’s assertions on boosters.
Pfizer, responding to the criticism, said it expects a need for boosters while the virus is still circulating widely. That could change once the pandemic is more firmly under control, a company spokeswoman said.
Moderna Inc. CEO Stephane Bancel aims to produce a vaccine by the fall that targets a variant first identified in South Africa and expects regular boosters will be needed.
The United States is preparing to have such doses on hand for Americans, while the European Union, Britain, and Israel have ordered new supplies of COVID-19 vaccines to deploy as protective boosters.
Some health experts, including Richard Hatchett, chief executive of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) that has funded many vaccine projects, say vaccine makers are right to plan ahead for boosters given the uncertainty over what will be needed in the long run.
Governments can then decide for themselves whether to buy the products, he said.
‘A Little Evidence’
Pfizer and German partner BioNTech SE have so far found that their shot remains more than 91 percent effective for six months after people received their second dose, compared with nearly 95 percent demonstrated in their clinical trial. The companies will track how robust the protection remains over time.
Dr. William Gruber, Pfizer’s senior vice president of vaccine clinical research and development, told Reuters earlier this month the prediction for yearly boosters was based on “a little evidence” of a decline in immunity over those six months.
Pfizer expects the COVID-19 vaccine to be a major revenue contributor for years, and has forecast sales of $26 billion from the shot in 2021. Global spending on COVID-19 vaccines and booster shots could total $157 billion through 2025, according to U.S. health data firm IQVIA Holdings.
Moderna President Stephen Hoge expects boosters will be needed to keep immunity levels high, due in part to vaccine hesitancy, as an estimated 30 percent of the U.S. population may not agree to be vaccinated. As long as the virus is circulating widely, people at high risk of severe illness may need to boost their immune protection, Hoge said.
“All governments are in conversations with (Moderna) and other companies about boosters,” he said.
Late last year, scientists were optimistic that highly effective vaccines could quickly curb the global pandemic that has battered economies and killed more than 3.4 million people.
Those hopes dimmed by February with evidence that mutant versions of the virus might evade protection offered by vaccines. Laboratory studies showed that the South African variant could produce six to eight-fold reductions in antibody levels among people vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Clinical trial data also showed that vaccines from AstraZeneca Plc., Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax Inc. were less effective at preventing infections in South Africa, where the variant is widespread.
These studies spurred drug companies to start testing booster doses of their vaccines and to develop shots that target specific variants of the virus.
However, more recent research suggests that the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines produce high levels of protective antibodies to create a “cushion effect” against the known variants, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a top White House adviser.
And antibodies—which block the coronavirus from attaching to human cells—do not tell the whole story. Several studies suggest that T cells—a type of white blood cell that can target and destroy already infected cells—may help prevent severe COVID-19 and hospitalization.
NIAID researchers found that T cells in the blood of people who recovered from the original virus could still fight off infections caused by the concerning variants found in the UK, South Africa, and Brazil.
“It’s quite possible” that boosters would not be needed, Fauci told Reuters. “It is conceivable that the variants will not be as much a problem with a really good vaccine as we might have anticipated.”
Nevertheless, health authorities in the United States, Britain, and Europe are assuring their populations that a new round of shots will be available if needed, with many nations still desperate for vaccine supplies.
“It’s a huge concern that … wealthy countries would begin administering booster doses and further constraining supply of people’s first dose of vaccine,” said Rajeev Venkayya, head of global vaccines for Takeda Pharmaceutical Co.
Dr. Monica Gandhi, an infectious disease doctor at the University of California, San Francisco, said ultimately, decisions on whether boosters will be needed “will best be made by public health experts, rather than CEOs of a company who may benefit financially.”
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A sobering new report circulating in the
Kremlin today prepared by the Minister of Defense (MoD)
says that President Putin has ordered an immediate deployment to “combat status” of “all currently operational” RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile
systems ahead of what is described to be a “terror
spectacular” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh)
attack upon the European Union and/or United States.
The RS-26, this report explains, is
categorized as a “doomsday
weapon” packing a frightening 1,2 megatons into its four 300 kiloton warheads,
is able to hit targets throughout the US with its 11,000 kilometer (6,835 mile)
range, the US missile defense system is “absolutely
useless” against it, and whose booster stage is down to under five
minutes that means NATO radars in Europe will have no time to register the
launch, thus making the Federation “100%
safe” unlike any other nation in the world.
President Putin’s order to deploy this
fearsome “doomsday weapon”, this
report continues, is due to the “erratic/puzzlingly”
Obama regime response to secret Islamic State documents turned over last week
to both the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
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plans, including personal
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NX-OS is the name of Cisco operating system for the company's new equipment. Cisco has designed a dedicated operating system for some of its telecommunications equipment, such as switches and routers, so that the network administrator can easily configure and use it. In physical equipment, the operating system, in the role of a soft interface, simplifies the task of hardware configuration, such as the BIOS of computer systems, in which various system configurations and configurations can be applied. People who deal with such equipment should definitely be familiar with this operating system in order to be able to properly configure and set up routers or switches and other hardware.
NX-OS is based on Linux and can communicate as a middle layer with the size of the company's operating systems. The command line of this operating system is the same as the previous operating system of this company, ie IOS (do not confuse it with Apple IOS!). Key features of this powerful operating system include sysmgr or system management, pss or continuous data storage service and mts or messaging service and transactions. There are other specialized features that you should consider yourself.
But one of the questions that can be asked is what is the difference between this operating system and the old Cisco operating system, IOS? You see, NX-OS does not support the login command to switch between users, it does not differentiate between standard and extended access lists, it does not support scp server lower than version 5.1, it uses copy instead of write command, when a user enters this system The agent accesses, the user is set directly to the set access level, and finally the SSH server is enabled by default but the talent is disabled.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued its updated forecast on the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the U.S. and predicted that additional 29,600 deaths related to COVID-19 will occur in the U.S. by February 6.
The CDC also stated that it anticipates between 440,000 to 477,000 COVID-19 deaths will be reported by this date.
The prediction comes as countries across the globe report new variants and mutations of the novel coronavirus. While the new strains discovered in the United Kingdom, South America and the U.S. are not believed to be deadlier than the virus that initially spread across the globe, health officials say the new mutations are more infectious — which poses the threat of increased hospitalizations and deaths.
The World Health Organization’s emergency committee met Thursday to discuss the new variants, which have already spread to at least 50 countries.
Scientists have also expressed worry that a future mutation might not respond at all to current vaccine efforts and are currently researching the variant first discovered in South Africa as mutations have created changes to some to the virus’ spike protein.
Spike proteins are the site targeted by antibodies humans produce to control the viral infection.
COVID-19 is on the way to infecting over 100 million people, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. As of early Friday, the virus has infected 92 million people worldwide.
The U.S. remains the worst-affected country, with more than 23.3 million infections, which is more than the entire population of Florida based on 2019 census estimates. Florida accounts for 6.47 percent of the country’s population.
In addition, Johns Hopkins University reports that the nation has suffered more than 388,000 deaths, which is more than the total number of Union Army deaths in the Civil War.
Los Angeles Country remains the worst affected region in the country, with nearly 1 million cases reported as of early Friday, in addition to 13,000 deaths — the highest death toll out of any county in America.

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Sustainability-linked funds: A strong ESG union or a motor vehicle getting greenwashing?
Of the Sehoon Kim and Nitish Kumar, College or university out-of Florida; Jongsub Lee, Seoul National College or university, and you may Junho Oh, Hankuk School out-of Overseas Knowledge
Financial support preparations ranging from buyers and you can agencies is actually even more delivering environment, social, and you may governance (ESG) inquiries under consideration, reflecting an evergrowing request of financial stakeholders and you will wider society you to they are doing thus.
Even with bank loans being the primary way to obtain obligations financial support to have organizations all over the world, absolutely nothing is famous about their role on the quickly changing ESG-contingent money area.
Within analysis, i document and you may characterise the organization from renewable credit around the world, investigate the new character of financing contracts inside incentivising borrowers’ durability duties and you may focus on the importance of clear disclosures to alleviate greenwashing questions.
An upswing from renewable lending
Nowadays, the fresh sustainable mortgage sector has expanded exponentially, driven mostly because of the prevalent entry to standard-mission durability or ESG-connected finance, having words contractually tied to new sustainability overall performance out-of borrowing from the bank companies.
Worldwide sustainable financing hobby increased from You$six million for the . At the time of that day, alternative financing illustrated several-10th of around the globe corporate syndicated financing business, while ninety% was durability-linked fund (look for Profile step one).
The new growth of them standard-purpose fund features greeting sustainable lending in order to bequeath around the opportunities beyond simply resources, in which an increased part of eco-friendly loans and you can bonds will still be focused (Profile dos).
While durability-connected fund came from Western european economic climates with increased stakeholder-well worth situated regulations and rules, he is today flourishing in america and you can around the really-setup individual borrowing areas a whole lot more fundamentally.
Just what shows you the growth from ESG lending?
This type of fund enable individuals so you can credibly laws its ESG requirements to outside stakeholders, exactly who even more require transparency on firms’ in control financial support practices.
Lenders are incentivised to offer sustainability-connected funds by the downside defense you to an excellent ESG strategies also provide, or perhaps in reaction to regulatory and political tension towards banking companies in order to make their credit companies a great deal more sensibly.
However, enterprises and banking institutions also can take part in sustainability-linked borrowing and you may lending to have greenwashing motives so you can reveal a blank emphasis on ESG in order to stakeholders.
Sustainability-linked money become large – that have the typical deal sized Us$937 mil, almost 80% larger than normal funds. They tend as provided to help you big, safe, and in public places listed borrowers, consistent with the idea that higher and economically extremely important businesses keeps good incentives to show ESG-friendly methods, considering the higher profile and you can scrutiny off stakeholders.
Particularly funds is actually structured generally as a consequence of rotating borrowing from the bank facilities and generally are expected to getting syndicated from the huge sets of loan providers (tend to global financial institutions) with prior dating on borrower and then have previous renewable credit sense.
He or she is valued much like normal financing within issuance, recommending that individuals that satisfy coming ESG efficiency needs get enjoy lower advances, centered on their ESG show costs contracts.
Sustainability-connected funds can be used to effectively monitor, impose, and renegotiate ESG contingencies in financing deals – banking institutions, at all, specialise within the screening and payday loans in Colorado keeping track of its loan portfolio.
But not, an important matter you to definitely undermines it potential is the fact higher and obvious companies and banking institutions against stakeholder tension may use its relationship to help you support greenwashing.
Contractual disclosure quality and you can greenwashing
I yourself reviewed the borrowed funds disclosures provided by Refinitiv and discovered the disclosure from durability-linked financing contractual information can be reasonable, that have big type regarding the quantity of advice uncovered.
So it shows the challenge out of verifying this new authenticity off ESG loan brands otherwise gauging just what actual impact they may features inside ruling consumers to the sustainability items.
To raised learn these also to lost significantly more white towards greenwashing concerns, i have a look at borrowers’ ESG overall performance to renewable financing issuances and you can look at the just how which results may vary having revelation high quality.

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Captain Christopher Pike gets his “Motion Picture” moment in the first clip from Paramount+’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds beams onto Paramount+ screens in the United States next week. And fans the world over are already getting more animated than a Tribble at a Klingon banquet. And while the wait continues for an official UK release date, today’s reveal of the nostalgic opening titles has dialed our excitement to eleven. But if that isn’t enough to have you getting ready to run a diagnostic on the warp core; Paramount+ has shared a new clip from the series, and it reveals Captain Pike getting his iconic “Motion Picture” moment.
Much like James T. Kirk in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the clip reveals the moment when Captain Pike first lays eyes on U.S.S Enterprise in drydock – refitted and ready to set off on her five-year mission. It’s a glorious sight. One that will have fans of The Original Series reliving the iconic moments of yesteryear, and rightly so. But don’t take my word for it. Opening hailing frequencies and hit the play button below.
Make no mistake, this is pure unadulterated Star Trek at its finest. And if this is a taste of things to come, Strange New Worlds will easily become the most successful series of the modern era. And that is an exciting prospect!
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount as Captain Pike, Rebecca Romjin as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Spock. Joining them are Jess Bush as Nurse Christine Chapel, Christina Chong as La’an Noonien-Singh, Celia Rose Gooding as Cadet Nyota Uhura, Melissa Navia as Lt. Erica Ortegas, Babs Olusanmokun as Dr. M’Benga and Bruce Horak as Hemmer.
The series premieres on Paramount+ in the US on May 5, 2022.
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In the gorgeous new book "Seeing Seeds," award-winning photographer Robert Llewellyn and prolific nature writer Teri Dunn Chace delve into the fascinating world of seedheads, pods and fruit — ensuring you'll never look at these important plant parts the same way again.
As you flip through the book, it doesn't take long to understand how unique seeds are from one other, despite being united in the pursuit of their ultimate function — reproduction.
"There is a lot of diversity among seeds, but there are also identifiable patterns or types," Chace explains in the book. "Even some truly weird-looking novelty seeds conform to categorization, even if it doesn't seem so at first glance."
What makes "Seeing Seeds" really stand out is Llewellyn's
crisp macro photography, which masterfully combines a deep appreciation
for the beauty of the natural world with an unyielding fascination for
the science that makes it all possible.
Based out of his studio in Earlysville, Virginia, Llewellyn (pictured below) has spent his life photographing the natural, and in the last several years, he's focused his lens on bark, leaves, flowers and — more recently — seeds.
While challenging at times, the journey has proved well worth the effort, as Chace writes in the introduction of the book:
"Photographing seeds, pods and fruits requires a far amount of inventiveness and flexibility. Sometimes [Llewellyn] had to carefully slice open a fruit to reveal its hidden contents. Sometimes he had to search a room for seeds that had flung out in his absence. Sometimes he had to soak, dry, coax, pry or pin plant bits to expose seeds. He went down the rabbit hole into a wonderland."
Learn more about his inspiration and process in the interview below.
MNN: 'Seeing Seeds' is the third installment of a book series that also includes 'Seeing Trees' and 'Seeing Flowers.' What inspired this multi-book journey?
Robert Llewellyn: I published a book called "Remarkable Trees of Virginia" and traveled the state photographing trees. There was a sudden realization that trees were alive. They were another civilization living with us on Earth. They were born and they died. They made flowers and seeds and sent their children out into the world. I wanted to know more, so I studied and photographed parts on the tree. I started looking at Earth as if I was visiting another planet for the first time. I was amazed at what was hiding in plain sight.
I found it worked better to study them in the studio. So the next book was looking at the life of trees. "Seeing Trees" got me interested in flowers, so I did "Seeing Flowers" I realized the flower was only there to be pollinated and produce seeds and seed pods — the plant children. So, continuing the journey, I did "Seeing Seeds."
It is a never-ending journey since there are 400,000 flowering plants in the world.
What role do you think art plays in the pursuit of scientific understanding?
The old watercolor botanical drawings were made with great detail on white paper. They were intended to be educational and often came out beautiful. The artist started with a blank white sheet of watercolor paper. They could light and arrange anything they wanted.
In my studio, I put plants on a white light table under my camera. I looked to see what called out to me. A part would wave at me, "over here" I always went "wow" with this array of color, texture, and shape. Humans say "wow" when they see something new. Usually what called out to me as a photograph also became the most revealing of the botany.
What techniques do you use to capture such uniformly crisp and detailed photographs of these tiny subjects?
With macro photography, I did not get everything in focus like the painters did in the botanical paintings. I discovered a technique called "focus stacking."
I would make a series of the same images but each with a different focus point. Sometimes I had a stack of more than 100 frames. I then added these frames to "stacking" software and clicked on "render." Everything sharp in each frame would be added to a single final image. I had infinite focus.
I photographed a larkspur seed (above) with 150 frames. It is the size of the period at the end of this sentence. When the final image was rendered, I went "wow". It had jellyfish-like fins. I have searched but have never found out why. The more I journey, the more I find things that are still unknown.
Were there any particular seedheads, pods or fruits that were a challenge to document?
I wanted to photograph the osage orange seed pod in the early spring when it had long stigmas, like light green hair, all over it. I climbed the tree, cut one, and brought it back to the studio to put on the light table. The "hair" had completely wilted in a few minutes. So I guessed that the osage orange, with its milky sap, must be "pressurized", and lost pressure when I cut the stem. I went back with a blow torch, climbed the tree, cut another one and immediately burned the end of the stem. It stayed un-wilted for an hour for its photograph (below).
Of all the specimens you photographed, which ones did you find most fascinating? Most beautiful?
The most fascinating has to be the castor bean (below). I was working in my studio one day and heard a loud pop, following by brown seeds ricocheting around the room. The pod had fired three seeds 30 feet.
I photographed the seed and noticed a yellow glob on the end. I researched it and found that the seed is picked up by ants and taken underground where the young ants feed on the high-fat glob. The glob is not internally connected to the seed, which is actually highly poisonous. The remaining seed is "disposed of" in the ants underground refuse pile, thus "planting" the seed for the castor bean. What a plan.
My favorite to photograph was the devil's claw (below). It has two giant extremely sharp (talking drawing blood here) claws that are designed to catch on large animals and be transported distances and then finally trampled, releasing four seeds. This pod was a beautiful piece of sculpture no matter which way you looked at it.
What's next for you? Is there another 'Seeing ...' book in the works?
Yes — "Seeing the Forest." So I [will be] out of the studio and into the woods. I have tried photographing animals on my light table but they hop off or fly away. So I am photographing in the forest, and yet again visiting another planet. (Also one where many things are trying to bite me or sting me or poison me.) The book is about who lives there and how they are interdependent. My
favorites so far are ring snakes, turkey vultures and old-growth trees.
Lots of "wow" moments.
Photos are from "Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit," Copyright 2015 by Robert Llewellyn and Teri Dunn Chace. Published by Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.

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BBES helps create landmark sustainable building for University of Nottingham
Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has secured a contract to create a sustainable new landmark building at the University of Nottingham. The 2500 m2 Energy Technologies Building is designed for continuing and developing the university’s world-leading energy research. The £6.4 million facility designed by architects Maber will be an exemplar of low-carbon technology by minimising its demands for heating, cooling, lighting and ventilation from non-sustainable sources.
The building is also designed to maximise energy from renewable and ambient sources. Its design includes earth-duct passive cooling using the thermal mass of the surrounding ground to provide passive heating and cooling of ventilation air.


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In many rural parts of Kenya, smallholder farmers have lacked financing options that would allow them to purchase a milk cow or other tools and inputs that could make their agribusinesses more profitable. The sources of credit available to them, if any, often risked pushing them further into debt, rather than helping to lift them out. In response, the founders of Juhudi Kilimo, with their backgrounds in rural agriculture in East Africa, designed a new approach. The enterprise provides financing to livestock and poultry farmers in the form of loans based on income-generating assets, which can offer lower interest rates than general loans, and accommodate staggered or longer repayment periods. As a result, farmers are able to expand their agri-business and access improved markets for greater wealth creation.
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Where They Raced...
the world for its sunshine, oranges, bathing beauties and Hollywood
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else in the world. In fact Los Angeles and the automobile really grew
up together, each leaving its mark on the other. However the city is
moving on and much of its racing history is being lost, or at least
paved over for more parking! The documentary film WHERE THEY RACED will give this history a victory lap by preserving and exposing these fading memories for future generations.

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Black Women are Battling Two Pandemics, Femicide Being One of Them
Are Black women in partnership with men who delight in their oppression? It sure seems that way.
According to Black Femicide-US, an organization that tracks homicide and violence towards Black women and girls in the United States, every 6 hours in this country, a black woman or girl is killed. As of November 5th, 2021, the number of deaths to date was 1,237. To offer context, as of the same date, 111 Black men and women had been killed by police in this country. Femicide, as a practice, is nothing new. In April 2020, the United Nations called for urgent action to “end femicide and violence against women”. The same year, Liberia declared rape a national emergency; Nigeria’s governors called for action in combatting gender-based violence; and over 10,000 rape cases were recorded in South Africa’s second quarter alone. Five Latin American countries topped last year’s list of most recorded femicides by population percentage, with El Salvador and Honduras leading the list. Since the dawn of written history, where societies have implemented systems of male supremacy, women and children have suffered the malice of male oppression. Modern-day dynamics mirror this phenomenon, not just in the United States, but literally, all around the world.
Femicide, or the intentional and targeted killing of women and girls because they are female, is one of the leading causes of death for Black women and girls globally. Yes, you read that right. The only thing more disturbing than the international collective of Black women sharing in this statistic is the statistic that fingers a familiar culprit, Black men. With a direct correlation found between domestic violence and the prevalence of female homicides, another category Black women lead-in, it’s no wonder that many feel backed against unbeatable odds. And to make matters worse, little, if anything, has been done to address the issue; some going as far as to deny its existence. However, Black women’s lived experiences paint a different portrait, as the imperfect union of skin color and sex creates an immeasurable objection to their wellbeing, we call this misogynoir, a word that describes the ways racist and sexist representations shape public opinions about Black women. Depictions of us as hypersexual, aggressive, unattractive, and masculine mixed with the…

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Judgements of the Supreme Court of India aim to set right the many inordinate wrongs done over the years and have in the process resolved some crucial issues concerning Death Row individuals. Though convicted in some heinous crimes, the Court acknowledged in the last few days that these individuals too have some rights as far as their due process is concerned and in doing so, India has taken a big step towards fulfilling its obligations from International Conventions.
The judgement given by the full bench headed by the Chief Justice of the Indian Supreme Court overturned a judgement passed last year which made a false distinction for persons convicted of political violence related crimes in that they have no rights at all and should not be given any due process of law, even if they are terminally ill or suffering from mental ill-health. The news has been widely welcomed and is more progressive as it has upheld the importance of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution which governs the right to life and liberty. In writing the statement, the present Chief Justice Mr P Sathesivam has acknowledged the basic tenets of humanity and justice which have been overlooked for decades, and human rights bodies and civil society groups who have for such a long time advocated for upholding the rights of condemned persons see some reward for their efforts.
The judgement is still being fully understood published across 157 pages, but it is clear that it has set the path for due process before execution. This provides ample time for persons who are to be executed to meet family, clear due formalities and prepare themselves – courtesy that was not afforded in a recent high profile execution of Kashmiri Afzal Guru. He was not given time to meet with his family one last time and his body was not given to his family for any last rights. His case set back India in World forums and invited criticism for one which prides itself as a democratic state.
Some key conclusions from the judgement are that all decisions concerning mercy petitions will now be subjected to judicial review at any time; mental health has to be considered and a mentally ill person cannot be executed even if convicted of heinous or political violence crime; distinctions between political violence crimes and other crimes have been overturned; solitary confinement of individuals on Death Row awaiting decisions of their mercy petitions has been declared unconstitutional.
Though this judgement has only been passed in the cases of 15 individuals currently on Death Row, it is going to benefit the Sikh activist Devinderpal Singh Bhullar who has been on Death Row for close to 11 years. Professor Bhullar’s mercy petition has been rejected as has his appeal against the rejection of the mercy petition. After years of agonising wait and being kept in solitary confinement which has impacted his mental well-being, the present judgement has given a ray of hope to he and his family who have undergone extreme hardships and torture by the State themselves – his father was suspected to have been killed in state custody in the 1990s during the Sikh struggle. This can be considered a positive fulfilling step for Sikhs worldwide too who have been fighting for his release for a long period of time.
It seems Professor Bhullar is standing on the steps of eminent release and hopefully for the last time Sikhs in a united way should urge the present State Government of Punjab headed by the main Sikh party, the Akali Dal to take his case to finality. It is time Devinderpal Singh Bhullar was back in Punjab and his home which has been waiting eagerly for his return for almost two decades.


A couple of days ago in the House of Commons Ed Miliband, Labour’s Shadow Climate Secretary, gave a pithy summary of Chancellor Rishi Sunak, comparing him to cryptocurrency: “how similar they are … came out of nowhere, the value surged, looked like the future, but it’s all turned out to be one giant Ponzi scheme.”
This week inflation hit nine per cent – almost three times the rate at which benefits and pensions have increased this year – yet so far the Chancellor has failed to adequately act. People are struggling to put food on the table, heat their homes and fill up their cars. Even taking into account measures such as the £150 council tax rebate (less than £3 per week, and only available to those in Band D or lower properties), Sunak’s help is barely touching the sides.
The Chancellor, once depicted as Superman during the pandemic, has fallen to Earth and it’s clear that the cost of living crisis is his Kryptonite.
In his speech on Wednesday evening to the CBI annual dinner, it became even clearer that we have the worst possible Chancellor at the worst possible time. Sunak said, “I have always been clear, we stand ready to do more”, which is about as helpful as a surgeon standing over a dying patient, and saying “I could do more”.
Sunak pleaded impotence, “There is no measure that any government could take, no law we could pass, that can make these global forces disappear overnight”. Let me help stiffen the Chancellor’s resolve…
Labour’s proposal for a windfall tax on oil and gas companies – the proceeds of which would provide £600 for the poorest households – would have brought some welcome respite, but it was voted down by MPs on Wednesday. However, a windfall tax alone is not enough. People are feeling inflation in their bills, their rents, at the petrol pump, and in their weekly shop. And what happens when energy bills rise, as expected, by another £600 in October? Do we impose another windfall tax? We would need to go further.
Figures this week show that rents are rising at their fastest rate for nearly 15 years, equivalent to an £88 a month increase since the start of the pandemic. That annual increase of over £1,000 eclipses the energy bill increase (to date). It’s no wonder that Labour’s London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has called for a rent freeze. A cost of living crisis could easily evolve into a homelessness crisis if action isn’t taken. Elsewhere, West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin has capped bus fares at £2 across her region.
The one place the public are not feeling inflation is in their incomes. The Government has disapplied the triple lock and only increased pensions and benefits by 3.1 per cent. Public sector pay settlements are not being funded to meet inflation (which is believed to peak at over 10 per cent). Even the six per cent increase in the national minimum wage this year is a real-terms cut.
Inflation-proofing benefits, pensions and incomes would be an important first step. But Sadiq Khan is right to talk about controlling prices too. Not just rents, but energy bills themselves. In France, energy is nationalised and the French Government has capped increases at four per cent. As a result inflation there is not nine per cent but 4.8 per cent.
His CBI speech was not the first time the Chancellor has said “there is no measure that any government could take”. But there are several. Control energy bill rises, freeze rents, and inflation-proof benefits, pensions and wages – and yes, claw some of that back with a windfall tax. These are all measures that any government could and should take to protect people.
Andrew Fisher was Executive Director of Policy for the Labour Party from 2016 to 2019. He is the author of The Failed Experiment – a book about UK economic policy and the financial crash of 2007/08


If you are paying attention to Occupy Wall Street—and by now most people are—the anti-corporate message is coming through loud and clear. Most participants at the events now spreading across the country say they are no longer willing to let powerful corporate interests determine the course of their lives. These Americans realize that a participatory democracy is essential.
As it stands today, 75 percent of the population are obese or overweight and many are chronically ill with diet-related diseases. They are also largely dependent on an increasingly unhealthful and contaminated food supply that is heavily controlled by corporate interests. It’s obvious that this is our moment to drive a very important point home: Upending corporate control of the food supply is a fundamental change that must occur if the “99 percent” are to be healthy participants in a true democracy.
This could be a catalyzing moment for the food movement with a real chance for average Americans to see and hear the connection between corporate control of the food supply and our nation’s health crisis. Indeed, the declaration of Occupy Wall Street (available on its Facebook page), addresses issues the food movement has been working on for years. The declaration states, “They have poisoned the food supply through negligence, and undermined the farming system through monopolization.”
Author and activist Naomi Klein has been an outspoken advocate and participant in Occupy Wall Street. When asked how it connects to the food movement she said, “The protest is about the corporate takeover of democracy of our lives in every way. The food movement is inherently anti-corporate and it is inherently about rebuilding a real economy.” She continued, “The food movement is where a lot of the leadership is. Occupy Wall Street is not just about banking legislation. The food movement is paving the way for what needs to happen in manufacturing and I think it’s all connected.”
Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University agrees. “Of course Occupy Wall Street connects to the food movement,” she said. “If we had a healthier financial system, we might be able to fund better food assistance, universal school meals, a rational and effective food safety system, and production agriculture that promotes sustainability and affordable food that is healthier for people and the planet. The food movement needs to be there and its voices heard.”
While powerful players like Goldman Sachs and Fannie Mae were on the lips of nearly every American after the 2008 financial crisis, the names of industrial agriculture corporations remain largely unknown. But consider how much power they wield. Take Monsanto as an example. When Monsanto began selling its genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans in 1996 only two percent of soybeans in the U.S. contained their patented gene. By 2008, over 90 percent of soybeans in the U.S. contained Monsanto’s gene. This is especially alarming given that soybeans account for the largest source of protein feed and the second largest source of vegetable oil in the world. According to the USDA, in 2008-09, the farm value of soybean production was $29.6 billion, the second highest among U.S. produced crops—and soy is ubiquitous in processed foods. It ends up in the meat, milk, eggs, and farmed fish many Americans consume (as a result of it being in animal feed) as well as thousands upon thousands of packaged foods usually in the form of soy protein isolate, soy isoflavones, textured vegetable protein, and soy oils. Soy accounts for a fifth of the calories in the American diet.
Monsanto has also produced genetically modified seeds for corn, canola, and cotton with many more products being developed including seeds for sugar beets and alfalfa. (To see how ferociously Monsanto protects its patented seeds watch the Oscar-nominated documentary Food, Inc.) As for corn, the highest valued U.S. produced crop, 93 percent of it is genetically engineered. Physicist and internationally renowned activist Dr. Vandana Shiva points out that the notion that genetically engineered food will improve the food supply and improve nutrition is a myth. “These are illusions that are being marketed in order for people to hand over the power to decide what to eat to a handful of corporations,” she said in an interview on her Web site.
Another corporation with broad reach and control over the foods we eat is Cargill, which rivals Monsanto in its control of the food supply. It is the largest privately held corporation in the nation, owning Cargill Pork and Cargill Beef, the second largest beef producer in North America. According to Anna Lappe’s book Diet for a Hot Planet, Cargill also owns dozens of subsidiary businesses, is one of the largest commercial cattle feeders in the U.S., the world’s biggest processor, marketer, and distributor of grains, oilseeds, and other agricultural commodities, and controls 80 percent of the European market for soybean crushing with a similar share for animal feed manufacturing.


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Here the culture-destroying Secular Progressives have chosen the side of Jihad as well. They are nothing if not consistent.
THINK TANK: ISRAEL FACES GLOBAL DELEGITIMIZATION CAMPAIGN
Israel is facing a global campaign of delegitimization, according to a report by the Reut Institute, made available to the cabinet on Thursday. The Tel Aviv-based security and socioeconomic think tank called on ministers to treat the matter as a strategic threat.
The report cites anti-Israel demonstrations on campuses, protests when Israeli athletes compete abroad, moves in Europe to boycott Israeli products, and threats of arrest warrants for Israeli leaders visiting London.
Reut says the campaign is the work of a worldwide network of private individuals and organizations. They have no hierarchy or overall commander, but work together based on a joint ideology – portraying Israel as a pariah state and denying its right to exist.
The “delegitimizers” cooperate with organizations engaging in legitimate criticism of Israel’s policy in the territories such as Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, blurring the line between legitimate censure and delegitimization. They also promote pro-Palestinian activities in Europe as “trendy,” the report says.
The network’s activists are not mostly Palestinian, Arab or Muslim. Many of them are European and North American left-wing activists. The Western left has changed its approach to Israel and now sees it as an occupation state, the report says. To those left-wing groups, if in the 1960s Israel was seen as a model for an egalitarian, socialist society, today it epitomizes Western evil.
Israel’s diplomats overseas, meanwhile, must counter the attempts to delegitimize the country. “The combination of a large Muslim community, a radical left, influential, English-language media and an international university center make London fertile ground for Israel’s delegitimization,” says Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador in London.
“What is now happening in London universities will happen, at most, in five years at all the large universities in the United States,” he says. The Reut report says Israel is not prepared at all to deal with the threat of delegitimization. The cabinet has not defined the issue as a threat and sees the diplomatic arena as marginal compared to the military one.
The rest, here.
Remember how completely nuts the Left went when Bush declared against the “axis of evil”? Remember how “shocking” that was? lol. The Left and radical islam share their own axis of evil, and it includes Israel. Tiny Israel’s biggest crime by far is that it is pro-U.S. and a staunch ally. She is also perceived as “Western” and “white”, and that too is unforgiveable. Israel is seen as “strong”, her enemies as “weak.” Strong=evil, Weak=good. White=evil, Brown=good, you get the picture. That’s all you need to know about the dumbed-down morality of the Secular Progressives.


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Leading actor and actress reunite after nearly two decades - viral romantic video!
By Vivek Raj | Galatta | June 16, 2021 21:45 PM IST
Hollywood superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been spotted together over the past couple of months, with their latest time outside now seemingly confirming their rekindling of their romance that made headlines almost 20 years back. Several paparazzi photos made it to the New York Post on Monday, with videos of Affleck and Lopez at the posh Nobu sushi restaurant in Malibu, Los Angeles on Sunday showing them kissing and having a good time now trending on social media as well.
Dubbed as "Bennifer", Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck's relationship was a subject of massive interest to the media and the fans during the early 2000s when the couple were set to get married after their highly-publicized engagement. The duo, however, called off their wedding in 2003 and decided to part ways a few months later. Since then, Affleck and Lopez have been seen over the past few weeks in Los Angeles and Miami, after the singer-turned-actress-turned-producer and her former baseball superstar fiance Alex Rodriguez called off their engagement in mid-April, after being together for four years.
On the professional front, Jennifer Lopez, who was announced on Tuesday to star in Netflix's thriller Atlas, is also attached to the rom com, Marry Me, including the rom com action venture, Shotgun Wedding. Both projects will see Lopez star and co-produce and are currently in post-production stages. Ben Affleck, on the other hand, has co-written with Matt Damon, and is starring in the British-American historical drama, The Last Duel, under Ridley Scott's direction. He will also been seen in the erotic psychological thriller, Deep Water, under Adrian Lyne's direction, best known for films like Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal and Unfaithful. Affleck, who is currently filming for George Clooney's upcoming directorial, the coming-of-age drama The Tender Bar, will once again be reprising his role as the DC Comics superhero Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, and alongside the veteran Michael Keaton, who played the Prince of Gotham in Tim Burton's films in the early '90s.
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Such trees grow poorly and gradually become stunted; occasionally, their limbs may be girdled. The disease is most important on plum trees and, secondarily, on cherry trees.
The disease is present only in the woody parts of trees, occurring most frequently on twigs and branches and sometimes on trunks and scaffold limbs. The warty swellings first become visible in late summer or the following spring on new shoots. At first the knots are somewhat greenish and corky, but with age they become black and hard. They vary in length from an inch to nearly a foot. Many times they do not completely circle the branch. Those a year old or older may become covered with the pinkish white mold of another fungus and may become riddled with insects, especially lesser peach borers.
About the time new seasonal growth is ½ inch long, spores of the fungus are discharged from tiny sacs in the surface of the knots. These are spread by rain and wind to the new growth, where infection takes place. Spore discharge and infection are greatest during wet periods, at temperatures ranging from 55 to 75°F. Infections continue to occur until terminal growth stops. A few greenish, corky swellings may become visible the fall after infection occurs, but most will not be noticed until the following spring. Generally, the knots produce no spores until the second spring after they become visible. The fungus in woody tissues continues to grow in the spring and fall, increasing the knots' length. Their eventual size depends greatly on the host species and cultivar.
New plantings of plums should not be made next to old ones with black knot. Remove any wild plum and cherry trees from nearby woods and fencerows for at least 500 feet from the new orchard. Once the disease appears in the trees, remove the knots. When they occur on twigs and small branches, prune out the infected branches about 4 inches below the knot. On large branches and trunks the knots can be cut out. This is done most successfully during August when the fungus does not extend far beyond the visible swelling. Be sure to remove any infected branches in the winter if black knot returns after August. Remove the diseased wood and about 1 inch of clean wood around the knot. It is best to remove knots before growth begins in the spring and to take them away from the orchard, as they will continue to produce spores for several weeks after removal. Be sure to destroy infected tissue to limit spread of spores. Once the knots have been removed, fungicide sprays can be applied to control the disease. Sprays must be applied in early spring to protect young green shoots. Begin fungicide treatment when flower buds are just beginning to open. Repeat sprays according to label instructions (typically every 7-10 days) until shoots mature or weather is consistently warm and dry. Sprays are most effective when applied before a rain event when temperatures are warmer than 60°F. When spore levels are high because of an established black knot problem or a neighboring abandoned orchard, protection may be needed from bud break until early summer.

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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
by Franz Xaver Schönwerth,
translated with an introduction and commentary by Maria Tatar.
Penguin Classics, 2015.
Paperback, 288 pages, $17.
In 2012, in Regensburg, Germany, Erica Eichenseer, a cultural curator for Eastern Bavaria, opened “thirty dusty cardboard boxes” and discovered Franz Xaver von Schönwerth’s collection of five hundred Bavarian fairytales. Von Schönwerth, a high government official in Bavaria in the early nineteenth century, had been inspired by the Brothers Grimm, and set about his own task of collecting oral Bavarian tales in Munich and its surroundingarea. Unlike the Grimms, who were interested in recovering a global folklore, von Schönwerth focused intensely on his homeland. Paraphrasing the translator, Maria Tatar, these tales have a rough-hewn quality, lacking in literary flourishes but abounding in raw energy: “Oral narratives famously neglect psychology for plot, and these tales move with warp speed out of the castle and into the woods, generating multiple encounters with ogres, dragons, witches, and other villains, leaving almost no room for expressive asides or details explaining how or why things happen. The driving question is always ‘And then?’”
This attempt to get back to the stripped-down oral original also characterized Jack Zipes’s recent translation of the first edition of the Brothers Grimm folk and fairy tales, reviewed here in Winter 2015. It was not until later editions of their tales that the Brothers Grimm—mainly Wilhelm—revised them to be more palatable to a middle-class audience. I suspect this was not only due to the violent and sexually potent content of the tales, but also because the public had, by the nineteenth century, become so comfortable with novelistic narrative style that fairy tales seemed simplistic. However, where nineteenth-century readers may have found an impoverished lack of detail (alleviated somewhat by Wilhelm), listeners in an oral culture found an unrestricted arena of imaginative play. The question these tales pose to contemporary readers is whether we can drop our novelistic expectations and let the stories engage our imaginations.
“The Turnip Princess” is the first story in the collection and its bizarreness provides a good taste of the collection as a whole. A prince loses his way in a wood and finds shelter in a cave. Upon awaking he sees an old woman and her pet bear; by methods undisclosed, the prince is prevented from leaving the cave. One day when the prince and bear are alone, the bear tells him to pull a rusty nail from the wall and to put it under a turnip to be rewarded with a beautiful wife. The prince pulls the nail. At this point, a kaleidoscopic series of events enfold: thunder rolls and shakes the cave, the bear turns into a man with a crown on his head, and the prince sprints out of the cave with the nail to find a turnip. Just as the turnip is found a monster appears, the prince loses the nail, and he is then enveloped by a thorny hedge. He goes to sleep and wakes up with a beard. He finds a shrub with a red blossom, and then a white turnip; he breaks the branch with the blossom off the shrub and sticks it into the turnip (what else would one do?), resulting in a gardening miracle: the turnip turns into a giant bowl containing a beautiful maiden. The prince leaves the maiden (?) to look for the cave. He finds the cave, the rusty nail, the old woman, and the bear. He sticks the nail back into the wall and removes it, lifting a curse and turning the old woman into a beautiful maiden. Mission accomplished, they find the prince’s father and are married to live a long and happy life. What happened to the bear that had changed into a man? What about the maiden in the turnip bowl? Don’t ask.
“The Turnip Princess” has enough going on for two or three fairy tales, and many of the stories in the collection have this one thing after another structure, as if oral improvisation was used just to keep the story lasting a bit longer for the pleasure of the audience. Fairy godmothers do not abound in Bavaria. The protagonists of these stories are helped by talking cows, toads, dung beetles, wood sprites, and crows who donate feathers to be used as pens. Ice giants become allies who give the heroine golden apples and eventually marry her daughters; heroes are sometimes attacked by hordes of cats and three-legged goats. Witches are a problem. Curses are lifted by obeying strange directions but persist whenstrange directions, usually from wives to husbands, are not obeyed, ending many a happy marriage. The world is strange and requires one to do strange things, so it is often the fool of the family, invariably a younger brother, who makes out in the end.
One of the charms of this collection is its earthiness. No magic wands but rather nails, turnips, and crow feathers. Enchanted animals there are aplenty, but never far from the barnyard. It is the coexistence of otherworldly strangeness with the mundane world of farms, forests, and commerce that gives many fairy tales their power, and that is especially true of this collection.
The book contains a very nice section of commentary by Maria Tatar with a short discussion of each fairy tale. These are usually a paragraph or two long, and do not provide explanation or interpretation so much as conversation. “Pulling a rusty nail from the wall of a cave seems an odd, somewhat surreal means of lifting a curse, but that is the action that leads to the final disenchantment of the old woman and the bear.” Indeed. It is reassuring to have an equally bewildered companion in fairy-land, and Tatar is easygoing about bewilderment, which makes her better company than a horde of explainers.
Craig Bernthal is a professor of English at California State University, Fresno. His books are The Trial of Man: Christianity and Judgment in the World of Shakespeare, and Perfection in Bad Axe, a collection of short stories.

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The Cradle of Forestry is a hidden gem in Pisgah Forest up near Brevard, NC. It’s a fascinating place and has lots of special events and both indoor and outdoor fun.
Sometimes there are cool places hidden in plain sight that you may drive by so many times and just never notice. We try to find these kinds of neat places and tell you about them so you can experience all the coolness we did! One such place is about 90 minutes from Greenville nestled in Pisgah Forest near Brevard, NC called the Cradle of Forestry. It’s amazing and totally worth the trip up there (plus, I’ll tell you some other neat things to do in the area).
The Cradle of Forestry
I only knew the Cradle of Forestry for its amazing Blue Ghost Firefly tours in late May and early June. You can read all about my incredible experience of the tour, which I highly recommend, in the Blue Ghost Firefly review. Let me say that I took my kids when they were just 4 and 7 years old and today, years later, they still talk about how amazing it was.
The Cradle sits on land donated by George Vanderbilt, who built the famous Biltmore in Asheville in the late 1880s. He had owned the land and was an avid supporter of forestry and conservation. His chief forester, Dr. Carl Schenck, founded the very first school of forestry in the country, the Biltmore Forest School in 1898. Today, the Cradle of Forestry sits on 6,500 acres and was built to “preserve, develop, and make available to this and future generations the birthplace of forestry and forestry education in America.”
The Cradle is run by FIND Outdoors, a 501c(c) nonprofit that helps to connect people with nature and runs several outdoor recreation sites, campsites, and buildings like the Cradle of Forestry.
The Indoor Exhibits
Walking through the exhibits at the Cradle of Forestry is a lot of fun, especially if you homeschool your kids (this place is a fantastic field trip) or are just interested in forestry and the microenvironment of Pisgah Forest.
You’ll start in a walkway through some of the history of the area with men working in a forest and cutting down trees. There’s a lot of information to digest so take your time.
Once you get through that area, it opens up into a replica forest with tunnels and trees and animals. Kids will love this part. You’ll learn about the various animals that inhabit the forest, plants, flowers, and trees.
There is a scavenger hunt you can do in this same area as well – look for the booklets past the forest and to the left – that deal with the different aspects of forestry and research.
There is also a replica helicopter that you can sit in and feel like you are flying above a forest fire. You’ll learn about this particular forest fire that happened in the area and about prescribed burns. Next to the helicopter is an exhibit about the climate. Outside of there is a giant spindle (my kids loved this for Disney princess reasons) and information about edible plants, medicinal plants and flowers, and insects.
We didn’t do this during our visit but you can watch a video about the Cradle and Pisgah Forest near the visitor’s desk. There are signs on the door when the showings are.
They also have a cafe that serves up sandwiches and snacks. It is open Friday – Sunday from 10 am – 4 pm.
There are three trails at the Cradle of Forestry. One is a mile-long trail that has seven historical buildings at the time of the Biltmore Forest School (1898-1914). My kids loved the schoolhouse, the closest one to the Cradle building. There are signs talking about the buildings and their history.
The Forest Festival Trail is 1.3 miles and goes in the opposite direction with a 1914 logging train engine. This path is paved and you can climb aboard the train, which most kids will definitely want to do! This trail also has a trout hatchery and sawmill available for guests to see.
The last trail, the Forest Discovery Trail, is also 1.3 miles and winds its way to a creek. You can pick up the Forest Festival trail along this same trail as well if you like.
During the spring and early summer, you can see a lot of wildflowers and some of them have plaques near them for easy identification.
Special Events and School Programs
The Cradle has several special events during their regular season, which runs from April – November (they are closed during the winter), including Family Fun Day, Community Science Day, the Blue Ghost Firefly tours, Smokey Bear’s Birthday, Forest Festival Day, Star Party with PARI, and National Get Outdoors Day.
The Cradle of Forestry has two school programs: a science-based one and a social studies-based one. Some of the programs are for all ages and others are grade-based. They also offer the Forestry Badge for Scouts. You can request a school field trip through their website.
Admission and Hours
Admission to the Cradle of Forestry is $6/ages 13+, $3/ages 4-12, $3/federal pass, and half price if you have the America the Beautiful Pass. For special events, sometimes there are extra fees and sometimes they are free. In the past, free admission was offered on National Get Outdoors Day in June and National Public Lands Day in September.
The Cradle of Forestry is open April – November. Hours are Wednesday – Monday 10 am – 5 pm. They open for the 2023 season on April 8, 2023.
Other Local Things to Do
The Cradle of Forestry is located just four miles from the Blue Ridge Parkway so you can easily jump on there to hike. Nearby trails that I personally love are Graveyard Fields, Black Balsam, and Frying Pan Tower.
You can also check out Moore Cove Falls, Pink Beds, or Looking Glass Falls, right on 276 just south of the Cradle of Forestry. Or you can do our North Carolina Waterfalls Driving Tour and add on the Cradle of Forestry as a stop.
The beautiful town of Brevard, NC is very close to the Cradle of Forestry and has wonderful shopping (don’t miss Poplar & Ash and Next Venture Outdoors), a gem mine, and restaurants.
On your way home to the Upstate, you can stop in Hendersonville, NC to see the goats at the Carl Sandburg Home or play at the fantastic playground at the Park at Flat Rock or see model trains for free at Apple Valley Model RR Club.
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The court arrested Alexei Navalny for 30 days
The Tverskoy district court of Moscow arrested Alexei Navalny, the policy of 30 days for violation of part 8 of article 20.2 (repeated violation of rules of organizing and holding public events) of the Code of administrative offences. The opposition sent under arrest for unauthorized protest “voters Strike”, which took place in January 2018.
Mr. Navalny and his defence filed ten motions. The court granted only the petition for interrogation of the witness from the defense side and attached to the administrative case the protest of the protection for too short a time of familiarization with the case (the defense asked to give them two days, as in the case 219 of the leaves, but the court gave 30 minutes).
Alexei Navalny was detained August 26, around the entrance to his house. The action “the strike of the voters” was held on 28 January 2018, its members called to boycott the presidential election.
We will remind, the city authorities refused to hold a September 9 rally of supporters of Alexei Navalny against raising the retirement age. Authorities explained the refusal by saying that the rally will be political and “propaganda” in nature, which is prohibited on election day (September 9, in a single day of voting elections of the mayor of Moscow).


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Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell has filed for divorce from his wife of 25 years.
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Campbell filed documents at Los Angeles County Superior Court citing irreconcilable differences as the reason behind his split from partner Julie.
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In the papers, obtained by TMZ.com, Campbell is asking for joint legal and physical custody of their two daughters Lily Rose, 13, and Una Marigold, 11.
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Campbell is also asking the judge to deny spousal support for Julie.
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"There's a reason that some of the smartest people I know read Eric Barker religiously. This book is a long time coming and I am glad it's here." (Ryan Holiday, author of The Obstacle is The Way and Ego is the Enemy)
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Much of the advice we’ve been told about achievement is logical, earnest . . . and downright wrong.
In Barking Up the Wrong Tree, Eric Barker reveals the extraordinary science behind what actually determines success and—most important—how anyone can achieve it. You’ll learn:
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- Whether nice guys finish last, and why the best lessons about cooperation come from gang members, pirates, and serial killers
- Why trying to increase confidence fails, and how Buddhist philosophy holds a superior solution
- The secret ingredient to “grit” that Navy SEALs and disaster survivors leverage to keep going
- How to find work-life balance using the strategy of Genghis Khan, the errors of Albert Einstein, and a little lesson from Spider-Man
By looking at what separates the extremely successful from the rest of us, we learn what we can do to be more like them—and find out in some cases why it’s good that we aren’t. Barking Up the Wrong Tree draws on startling statistics and surprising anecdotes to help you understand what works and what doesn’t so you can stop guessing at success and start living the life you want.
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Like Dale Carnegie, Eric Barker uses so many stories, book references and great quotations to make his points across. There are stories such as how a poor boy in Mexico can become a world class neuro surgeon, how a clinically crazy person can win the enduring Race Across America, or how can an illiterate person in a horrible time and place and without proper education can conquer more land in 25 years than the Romans ever did in 400 years. There are also eye opening stories of how trust is completely lost in a Moldovan culture, how crimes create street gangs (and not the other way around) for protection, and how surprisingly civilised and organised pirates were.
The author then back them up with numerous scientific findings to validate the points he is making, just like the approach of Daniel Kahneman. For example, there are scientific explanations on why some people never quit, why people have depression, and why people commit suicide. Moreover, there are explanations on why high achievers can sometimes have anxiety problem or even depression, why the number ones in high school (the valedictorians) so rarely become the number ones in real life, why beautiful people normally becomes more successful, why nice guys finish first and last (and not in the middle), and why high achievers are rarely active in their social media accounts.
Along the way we'll learn so many amusing facts, such as how an IQ of 120 does not make much difference than 180, 2 and a half to 4 hours after we wake up is when our brains is at its sharpest, how Hedonic Adaptation explains why after a brief change everything change back to baseline (e.g. on diet and clean behaviour), how viagra started out as a medicine for angina that had a serendipitous "side effect", that the US once had an (almost official) emperor, Emperor Norton I.
And we'll also gain some great wisdom like "sometimes an ugly duckling can be a swan if it finds the right pond" or "life is noisy and complex, and we don't have perfect information about others and their motives. Writing people off can be due to just lack of clarity", or "things aren't as scary when we have our hands on the wheels."
All of these wealth of information are then knitted nicely to become the central theme of the book: to discover the core determinants of success, through considering both sides of the argument with extreme stories and scientific facts.
In each individual chapters the book then provide concluding analysis, such as the importance of quiting something that is not good for you to make room and time for something good for you, the scientific explanation on luck as a function of choice, the disadvantages dreaming will cause on your wellbeing, effort and reality, the best predictor of our child's emotional well-being is whether they knew their family history, the importance of sleep and self-compassion, and many more.
The author also gives us so many practical tools for us to work out the determinant factors for succcess, on our own unique way, such as Shawn Anchor's "twenty second rule", Cal Newport's "shutdown ritual", how to skillfully and sincerely use our network, figuring out whether we're filtered or unfiltered leader, the importance of setting a parameter in a negotiation, and the findings of Robert Epstein research on how to reduce stress, among many others.
All in all, this book is the most complete analysis for its subject, using unorthodox approach and very amusing wide range of information that makes it very fun to read. What Freakonomics did for economics, Why Do Men Have Nipples? did for medicine, and Moonwalking With Einstein did with memory, Barking Up the Wrong Tree does it brilliantly with exploring the keys for success in the real world. I couldn't recommend it more.
What do I like about the book? First, it’s full of great stories that stay with you. There’s James Waters with his mental strategies that got him through Navy SEAL training, a Harvard MBA, and a White House job. There’s Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, the illegal Mexican migrant worker boy who became a world-renowned neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. There’s Spencer Glendon with the debilitating ulcerative colitis that became a world-class money manager anyway. Dozens of vivid, funny, inspiring stories of ingenuity, grit, and optimism here.
Second, Barker amply supports all recommendations with research findings. So you will learn fascinating, counterintuitive concepts from social psychology, behavioral economics, game theory, neuroscience, genetics and evolutionary biology. It reminds me of Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, another great book that's full of ingenious mindhacks.
Third, it's full of usable unconventional wisdom. Were pirates the progressives of their day? Why do so few valedictorians become millionaires? Why do jerks succeed? (Hint: they ask for what they want and self-promote to their bosses.) Reading no single book will turn you into an overnight success, but this one has a lot of signposts for living a happier, more fulfilling life. You'd be wise to read and share it.
-- Dr Ali Binazir, Happiness Engineer and author of The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible the #1-rated dating book on Amazon for 4+ years


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- The web 3.0 short video platform, Ziktalk, will be listed on LBank
- Ziktalk, an application with 700,000 users, will be listed on the 14th
TALLINN, Estonia, March 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Ziktalk, a web 3.0 short video platform with 700,000 users, has announced it will be listed on the global exchange, LBank, on the 14th. The trading pair ZIK/USDT will begin trading on March 14th at 6:00pm (UTC +9).
Ziktalk is a web 3.0 mobile platform that utilizes blockchain technology to allow users to share fun and memorable videos in short formats lasting 60 seconds at max. Ziktalk’s reward structure that immediately compensates not only the creators, but all ecosystem participants such as viewers for contributions such as clicking "like".
With a global user base over 700,000, Ziktalk is seeking to improve user accessibility and expand its ecosystem. ZIK is currently traded on Probit.
LBank is a global exchange that ranks under 20th on Coinmarketcap. Lbank was founded on 2015 and currently has 6.4 million users in 210 countries.
According to the statement by a ZIktalk representative, "ecosystem participants on social media platforms are being inadequately rewarded for their contribution to the growth of the platform" and "Ziktalk will create a web 3.0 platform that rewards all ecosystem participants form creators to viewers using its token economy".
Ziktalk has allocated 50% of its total token supply to "Social Mining Pool" (Activity Pool 30%, Sign-up Pool 15%, Referral Pool 5%) to create a vibrant ecosystem.
Abraham Shim, CEO of Ziktalk, stated that "users can share any video content such as cooking, dancing, comedy, sports and have fun as a part of their income source" and "Ziktalk has listing plans on more exchanges in order to improve its user accessibility."