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Recent Scranton News
- Marywood, Lackawanna College plan more cooperation
- Scranton council asks mayor to pursue legal action over leachate line
- Judge: AG Kane can't present vindictive prosecution defense
- Scranton again grabs political limelight
- Woman charged with child endangerment
- City stores to take part in backpack giveaway
- Streets closed for basketball tourney, arts event
Locks changed after theft of keys
The recent theft of a set of master keys at Marywood University prompted the changing of hundreds of locks on the campus this week.
Dave Elliot, Marywood's senior director of safety, security and environment compliance, said the campus experienced a series of office break-ins over the last two weeks, one of which netted a set of the campus's master keys.
Though no burglaries have happened on campus since, Mr. Elliot said the school began changing locks in dormitories as a measure to ensure students' safety.
"That's our first priority - where the students are staying," he said.
Going forward, though, Mr. Elliot said the school plans to overhaul its building-access infrastructure and policies on access to keys.
Mr. Elliot said Marywood plans to transition to a primarily card-access system in its buildings, which some buildings on campus already use.
In the interim, Mr. Elliot said campus security has "stepped up" its patrols, which are performed round the clock seven days a week.
Locksmiths have been at the school all week changing locks in campus buildings, an effort that includes "hundreds" of lock changes, said Juneann Greco, a spokeswoman for Marywood.
Mr. Elliot said that Marywood's security is working in conjunction with the Dunmore Police Department to investigate the burglaries.
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A Nebraskan woman recently exhausted her appeals for Social Security Disability benefits in federal court. Christina Nelson applied for Social Security Disability Insurance (“SSDI”) and Supplemental Security Income (“SSI”) benefits in February of 2007. The Social Security Administration denied her application, and Nelson requested a hearing before an administrative law judge (“ALJ”). Guidance on navigating the disability benefits process is available from a Tulsa Social Security Disability lawyer.
Nelson claimed disabilities since 1998 stemming from multiple afflictions – bipolar disorder, epilepsy, schizoaffective disorder, dyslexia, dissociative disorder, anxiety, hearing loss and back and foot pain. In the fall of 2009, Nelson appeared before the judge along with a vocational expert and her attorney. The ALJ ultimately decided against Nelson because the judge found her not credible, citing the lack of medical evidence supporting Nelson’s claims that she’s completely unable to work. Several of her physicians also had remarked that she was unreliable and inconsistent in discussing her medical problems. In one instance, Nelson claimed to be unable to drive since a car accident in 2002, but then admitted that, at some point after 2002, police did charge her with a DUI.
Nelson then appealed this denial to the federal courts, but a federal judge recently upheld the denial of her application. The judge found that ALJ had appropriately weighed the evidence against Nelson. In general, once a disability appeal reaches the federal court level, a federal judge will defer to the judgment of the ALJ from the lower level. Expert assistance with applying for disability benefits and appealing denials is available from a Tulsa Social Security Disability attorney.

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Who are the Black Copts? What do we believe?
There are some similarities between the Black Coptic Church and the Coptic Church of Egypt, the Black Coptic Church as founded by Prophet Cicero is not the Coptic Church of Egypt and, therefore, the church seeks to create its own identity in naming itself ―The Coptic Church after the order of Melchizedek.
To be sure, Prophet Cicero was aware of the existence of the Coptic Church of Egypt. In his booklet, Black I am that I am God, Prophet Cicero mentions, among other things, ancient Egypt and its influence upon early Christianity. Thus, the naming of this community as the Coptic Church was intentional and part and parcel of the church‘s liberative theological program. The naming of this community as Coptic expressed the idea of a church that seeks to resurrect the ancient heritage of black persons through the construction of a link between North American blacks and the oldest black Christian community. The church highlights the degree of disconnectedness that happened as a result of the slave trade, kidnapped Africans‘ sojourn in North America, and the lasting legacy of the North American institution of slavery. Therefore, the naming of this community as Coptic expresses the attempt of Prophet Cicero to reconnect African- Americans to an ancient heritage of ancient Egypt, in which black life, black culture, and black religion flourished and were celebrated. The naming of this community, then, as Coptic creates a cultural, psychological, and religious link between the descendants of North American slaves as authentic descendants of ancient Egyptian kings and queens, and blacks in North America.
In the North American context, where the Black Coptic Church found its origin, the notion of connectedness plays a crucial role in the church‘s history and foundation.
During the slave trade, we were not allowed to take our God with us, and therefore, ―we had lost our connection to our God, and so Prophet Cicero connected us back to the image of God so that we would not allow ourselves to be cut off from the root again. By naming us as Copts, Prophet Cicero took the tree back to its roots. Egypt is the beginning of civilization. So, by naming the organization as Coptic, Prophet Cicero connected us to the origin of God’s creation.‖
It is suggested that Prophet Cicero found in Egypt a civilization in which black men and women governed themselves independently, created science, math, and religion, which eventually converted to Christianity because they saw a connection between the principles of Jesus and their ancient ideas. As black Copts, we claim that same heritage.
Prophet Cicero’s decision to identify this organization as Coptic represented a paradigm shift in the history of black religion in North America. To be sure, however, the paradigmatic shift in which Prophet Cicero operated was a paradigm shift that was burgeoning in the Urban North during the 1930s.
Consequently, in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1930s, one saw the emergence of several black religious institutions that sought to make a correlation between one’s religious identity and the longing for black emancipation.
Prophet Cicero’s organization, coincidentally, was one of several religious organizations in 1930s Chicago, which included the nation of Islam, the Moorish Science Temple, and the Black Jews, whose religious program was part and parcel of its program of identity formation.
In naming his organization as Coptic, Prophet Cicero made a decisive break with the established black churches, and created a relationship between the adherents of the Black Coptic Church and the Coptic Church of Egypt, which traces its ancestry to the ancient Egyptian dynasties that were led by black kings in queens.
Upon leaving Atlanta in 1928, Prophet Cicero relocated his ministry to Chicago, Illinois, where he established the first Black Coptic Church, called the Universal Prayer House and Training School, located at 4724 S. Cottage Grove Avenue. As founder of the Black Coptic Church, Prophet Cicero was primarily responsible for laying the foundation of the church‘s Theology, its structure, its organization, and its early mission as a black church in North America.
It is suggested that Prophet Cicero named himself ―prophet ―because it was different than what black people had been used to. They were used to their church leaders being called teachers, missionaries, mothers, etc. However, Prophet Cicero knew he was a prophet because of the revelation that God had given him to give to men and women. No one could do that except a prophet.
At the Universal Prayer House and Training School, Prophet Cicero organized the Black Coptic Church as a black monarchy, which would consist of queens and prophets. The organization of the Black Coptic Church is directly reflective of the church‘s liberation Theology, which, since its inception, concerned itself with the ways in which the world viewed African-Americans, and the negative perceptions which African-American had internalized.
Prophet Cicero‘s desire was to transform the black church experience so that it would not simply be a place of religiosity, but also an organization in which the identity of blacks would be reshaped and fashioned in a manner which instills a sense of dignity and pride in being black.
Therefore, Prophet Cicero introduced a new ecclesiastical structure in which adherents would be known by royal titles to reflect an ancient royal culture. This invention is one of the foundations for a liberative ecclesiology.
In middle 1930s North American society, black Americans were viewed as absolutely less than human. In public, private and religious spheres, outside of black church traditions, black Americans were relegated to the margins of society. In realms of education, government, social progress, in the workplace, and in mainline white church Theology and practice, black Americans were seen as sub-par, lacking intelligence, and in most cases were simply referred to as ―niggers,―Negroes, or ―colored people. However, in the Black Coptic Church, the same people who were the janitors, the factory workers, the domestic workers, and the nobodies throughout the week, were known as queens, prophets, and monarchs on Sunday mornings.
The organization of the Black Coptic Church is directly reflective of the church‘s that this transformation of identity which took place in the church-house resonated into the daily lives of the churchgoers. In this regard, although adherents of the Black Coptic Church were socially marginalized by the dominant society, their entry into the Black Coptic Church and their subsequent taking on of a royal title fostered a sense of agency among the churchgoers, such that ―they were psychologically able to transcend all that the world had said about them.
The genius, then, of Prophet Cicero in naming his organization as Coptic, brought an ancient African culture to North America, which eradicated the false identity that had been given to blacks in North America, and established a new identity that linked blacks in America to a royal ancestry.
Class School of Wisdom
While leading the Universal Prayer House and Training School, Prophet Cicero taught the converts in the tradition of the new faith. The Universal Prayer House and Training School was organized in the following way: a teacher, who was one of several queens in the church, taught new converts in the ―School of Wisdom (Bible class, new members‘ class) for a term of no less than one year.
In the School of Wisdom, new converts learned the church’s history, its Theology, its structure, and its rules and regulations. After such time, new converts were baptized according to a Trinitarian formula, and finally were sealed with the promise of the Holy Spirit, which took place on the pinnacle of the church’s liturgical calendar, known as the Day of Pentecost.
Prophet Cicero led the Universal Prayer House and Training School until his death on February 11, 1961.
Although Prophet Cicero had not directly installed a leader to assume the leadership of the organization upon his death, his final words before his passing were, ― ‘If you have any questions, see Peter’.
Prophet Peter Banks was one of the prophets in the church who worked alongside Prophet Cicero. However, although these were the final instructions of Prophet Cicero, ―after his passing, there was a battle in the church concerning who would assume the leadership.
His sister-in-law, Queen Rebekah Armstrong (d. 2005), had first introduced Prophet Peter Banks to the Black Coptic Church. Queen Rebekah recounts that, during the life of Prophet Cicero Patterson, he informed her that he was looking for a man whom he could train to lead the church upon his passing. Queen Rebekah thought of her brother-in-law, whose birth name was Eddie Banks. In her own words, Queen Rebekah maintained, ―Prophet Cicero told me to find him a man. I told Eddie Banks that prophet Cicero wanted to see him, so he came and met the prophet. Prophet Cicero [then] taught Eddie Banks in his office and laid hands on him many times.
Eddie Banks was already an ordained minister in the spiritualist Tradition, and therefore already had possessed a foundation in the church and biblical knowledge.
Upon joining, Eddie Banks exhibited zeal and a desire to learn more about the Black Coptic tradition. Soon after joining the Universal Prayer and Training School, Prophet Cicero changed Eddie‘s named to Peter. This was done in order to ―remove the slave name, and bestow upon Eddie a ―biblical name that had meaning.
As a result of his dedication, humility, and love for the people of God, ―Prophet Cicero handed down the Black Coptic teachings to Prophet Peter in the same way that Moses handed down the law to Joshua.
Queen Rebekah suggests that Prophet Cicero‘s role was to lead the people out of oppression, and it was Prophet Peter‘s role to lead them into the Promised Land. Not everyone, however, accepted Prophet Peter as the legitimate successor of Prophet Cicero.
Queen Capernaum Banks, wife of Prophet Peter, because of apparent disrespect shown toward her husband, who was leading the church, eventually left the Universal Prayer House and Training School, and established her own prayer group in her home.
Approximately one year after the death of Prophet Cicero, the community remained in chaos. Many congregants left the church and established their own churches. The Universal Prayer House and Training School was seemingly dismantled. Unsuccessful at garnering the support of the congregants, Prophet Peter resigned as leader of the Universal Prayer House and Training School, joined with his wife, and together they established the True Temple of Solomon Coptic Church in Chicago, in August, 1965.
Shortly thereafter, the Universal Prayer House and Training School slowly faded away as members dispersed and formed their own communities. Prophet Peter and his wife, Queen Capernaum, founded the True Temple of Solomon Coptic Church, which, until the death of Prophet Peter would serve as the flagship and headquarters of the Black Coptic Church.What We Believe

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Arellano U eyes solo lead; Perpetual, LPU begin quest
Mark Escarlote on Jan 06, 2018 10:45 PM
Arellano University shoots for its second straight win and solo lead.
(FilOil Flying V Centre, San Juan)
8:00 a.m. –- LPU vs. Perpetual (jrs)
9:30 a.m. -- LPU vs. Perpetual (m)
11 a.m. –- LPU vs. Perpetual (w)
12:30 p.m. -- EAC vs. Arellano (w)
2:00 p.m. -- EAC vs Arellano (m)
3:30 p.m. – EAC vs. Arellano (jrs)
After a dominating win to open its title-retention bid, Arellano University looks to take an early solo lead on Sunday when the Lady Chiefs take on Emilio Aguinaldo College in the 93rd NCAA women’s volleyball competition.
Game time is at 12:30 p.m. at the FilOil Flying V Centre in San Juan.
Behind Regine Arocha’s 12-point outing and superb debut of transferee setter Sarah Verutiao, the Lady Chiefs easily hurdled Mapua University, 25-10, 25-17, 25-13, Thursday that extended Arellano U’s winning streak to 13 since their championship run last season.
Although the Lady Chiefs are heavily favored to prevail over the Lady Generals, who lost to an eight-woman San Sebastian College, 16-25, 19-25, 16-25, in the season-opener, head coach Obet Javier is not taking EAC lightly.
“Sa EAC ganoon din bago ang coach nakita ko medyo may konting adjustments sila. Kasi nakita ko noong liga namin sa Founder’s Cup, nakita ko na rin ang position ng player,” said Javier, who steered Arellano to its second title in three years last season in a Finals sweep of the thrice-to-beat Grethcel Soltones-led Lady Stags.
“Nakita ko kanina (against San Sebastian College) na mayroon silang kaunting adjustments ng player so sinabi ko sa team na kailangang paghandaan namin,” he added.
Verutiao, who had 28 excellent sets as backup to injured playmaker Rhea Ramirez, is expected to deliver the same numbers to utilize the firepower of Arocha, Jovelyn Prado, Mary Anne Esguerra and middle Andrea Marzan.
The Lady Generals will pin their hopes on Ladeisheen Magbanua, Jaylene Lumbo and Yvette Tongco.
Meanwhile, Perpetual Help will try to give new coach Macky Carino a good welcome gift when the Lady Altas clash with Lyceum of the Philippines University at 11:00 a.m.
Carino, who resigned from his post as College of St. Benilde coach a few months back, will bank on Lourdes Clemente, Cindy Imbo and setter Necelle Gual.
The Lady Pirates will have to look for other scoring options with top hitter Cherilyn Sindayen skipping this season because of academics.
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Art & Literacy Day
The information below is from the 2018 Fair, and it will give you an idea of what to expect in 2019. Please check back!
Meet local authors, illustrators, poets and artists of some of your children’s favorite books. Not only can the audience hear them read their stories, they will get to do an activity about the book the presenter is sharing.
Find out what it takes to inspire our youth to become authors and much more.

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An Alabama inmate set to die on Thursday asked the governor for clemency, arguing his age at the time of the quadruple slaying he was convicted of should prohibit him from being executed.
Michael Samra, 42, is set to die by lethal injection at William C. Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore for his role in the 1997 slayings of two adults and two children at their Pelham home. He has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court for a stay of execution and a review of his case, but the nation’s highest court has not yet ruled.
Last week, one of Samra’s attorneys sent a letter to Gov. Kay Ivey asking for a reprieve until another state’s supreme court can decide whether offenders who committed their crimes under the age of 21 should be eligible for the death penalty.
Samra was 19 when he and his co-defendant, then 16-year-old Mark Duke, were charged with killing Mark Duke’s father Randy Duke, his fiancée Dedra Mims Hunt, and her two daughters, 6-year-old Chelisa Nicole Hunt and 7-year-old Chelsea Marie Hunt. Samra was convicted of capital murder in 1998 and was sentenced to death for his role in the killings.
Samra’s attorneys Steven Sears and Alan Freedman have argued in court filings that the Eighth Amendment bans the execution of offenders- like Samra- who were under the age of 21 at the time of their crimes.
Sears wrote in a letter to Ivey, “The question of whether the U.S. Constitution permits the execution of 18-to-21-year-old offenders is percolating in the courts and is currently pending in the Kentucky Supreme Court. The Kentucky case arose after a trial court judge ruled that the reasoning supporting the U.S. Constitution’s ban on executing juvenile offenders extends to those over the age of 21. To prevent a miscarriage of justice and ensure that Alabama does not carry out an unconstitutional execution, Samra respectfully requests a reprieve until the Kentucky Supreme Court has ruled on the question that would determine whether Samra is categorically eligible for the death penalty.”
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court banned execution for people who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes. Sears has said this ruling should be modified due to “evolving standards of decency.”
In his latest petition to the U.S. Supreme Court, Samra’s attorneys argue the 2005 rule should be extended to 21 and again mention the Kentucky case. “The mitigating qualities of youth do not dissipate the day a youthful offender turns 18 years old,” the petition states. “Since [the 2005 decision], scientific studies have shown that during a person’s late teens and early 20’s, the brain continues growing and undergoes rapid changes in self-regulation and higher-order cognition.”
The petition continues, “Also, there is a burgeoning national consensus against executing young adult offenders. Since [the 2005 ruling] was decided, only 13 states have handed down 4 new death sentences to offenders under 21, and a majority of states, 30, would not permit the execution of a youthful offender. Notably, one Kentucky court, surveying the scientific research and national consensus, has concluded that Eighth Amendment line drawn in Roper must now be drawn at 21.”
“In the 14 years since this Court decided [case law], society’s standards have evolved rapidly to the point that the line drawn [in the 2005 case] can no longer be justified. Accordingly, Samra has shown a reasonable likelihood that he will prevail on his Eighth Amendment claim... Before it is too late, this Court should ensure that the Eighth Amendment does not categorically preclude him from receiving the law’s most severe and irreversible penalty.”
The state has replied to the petition in the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing about the high court’s jurisdiction over the claim and calling Samra’s argument “meritless.”
“Finally, to the extent that Samra relies on a supposed national consensus against imposing capital punishment on persons who were under the age of twenty-one when they committed capital murder, his claim is meritless. There is no such consensus, which is made most obvious by Samra’s failure to point to a single state that has specifically eliminated the death penalty for defendants who are between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one when they murder their victims,” the Alabama Attorney General’s Office wrote.
“Simply put, Samra’s allegation does not withstand scrutiny. His ‘national consensus’ and ‘clear and growing trend’ are made up out of whole cloth. Rather than citing to any instance in which any state has adopted his position, Samra points to two red herrings… What Samra ignores is that all of the states that fall in these categories still retain the death penalty as a sentencing option for persons who committed capital murder between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one. At bottom, Samra has failed to show a ‘clear and growing trend’ because there is none.”
According to a spokesperson, the governor has received the request and “is carefully reviewing it.”
The execution is set to take place at 6 p.m. Thursday.


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New Delhi: State-owned Coal India (CIL) is likely to file a draft prospectus next week for its initial public offering (IPO), billed to be India's biggest issue, through which the government expects to raise about Rs15,000 crore, reports PTI.
"The company's board is meeting on 5th August to finalise the draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) and in all probability, papers will be filed with market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) within the first week of August," a person in-the-know of the development told PTI today.
Last month, the Union Cabinet had cleared the proposal to divest 10% of the government's stake in the world's largest coal miner through an IPO. The Centre holds 100% equity in the company.
Earlier, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal had said the share sale could be launched in October, terming the month "auspicious", as it coincides with the Durga Puja celebrations.
Sources said the IPO is expected to be launched on 18th October and will close on 21st October. The government is looking to raise between Rs12,000 crore to Rs15,000 crore through the share sale.
Although CIL's IPO was originally planned for August-September, it was delayed due to opposition from trade unions and political parties to the government's proposed 10% stake sale.
Coal India produced 431.5 million tonnes of coal in the last fiscal. The country's coal output stood at 531.5 million tonnes in 2009-10. The company is one of the cheapest suppliers of the raw material in the world, selling its coal at 50% cheaper rates than its global rivals.
Anil Ambani Group firm Reliance Power's (R-Power) IPO in January, 2008, is the biggest IPO in India so far. R-Power had raised Rs11,500 crore through its IPO.
The government aims to raise Rs40,000 crore through disinvestment of PSUs this fiscal.
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to increase key policy rates by at least 25 basis points (bps) in its first quarterly review of the monetary policy tomorrow to tame inflationary expectations, reports PTI.
"I think there could be a small hike in the repo and reverse repo rate of say 25 basis points," HDFC managing director Renu Sud Karnad told PTI.
High inflation may prompt the RBI to tighten money supply by raising short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse repo) rates tomorrow, say bankers.
"There is a clear bias for policy rates to move up for the reason that inflation is still very high and inflationary expectation is to be contained. The bias is going to be upward," Union Bank of India chairman M V Nair said.
"At that point in time, if the funding cost goes up, then the base rate will also go up. During the year, there is a clear bias for interest rates to move up," he added.
Punjab National Bank chairman K R Kamath said whatever decision the RBI takes, the banks will respond accordingly.
Mr Kamath further said that if the RBI raises the cash reserve ratio, that would put pressure on the cost of funds.
Earlier this month, RBI had raised the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 bps to tame inflation. Inflation is still in double-digits, led by high food prices, and stood at 10.55% in June. But food inflation eased marginally to 12.47% for the week ended 10th July from 12.81% in the previous week.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Committee (PMEAC) has also pitched for tightening money supply, as current inflation rate is more than double the comfort level and can hurt high economic growth in the medium-term. "A bias towards (monetary) tightening is necessary," the PMEAC said.
PMEAC head C Rangarajan said that if the RBI does not take strong monetary action to contain inflation, it can opt for a series of "baby steps" after its 27th July monetary review. "Evidence on the funds flow side, as well as on the output side, clearly shows a strong economic recovery.
In the backdrop of inflation rates that are more than twice the comfort-zone, it is important that monetary policy completes the process of exit and move towards a bias on tightening," he said.
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) managing director and head of markets Ramit Bhasin said the RBI is likely to hike its short-term lending rate by 0.5% to 6% and the short-term borrowing rate by 1% to 5% through 2010.
"As we go forward, there would be higher capital inflows and the current liquidity crunch will ease much sooner than expected. According to our estimates, the RBI is likely to up the repo by 0.5% and reverse repo by 1% by December," Mr Bhasin said.
Kotak Mahindra MF's Lakshmi Iyer said it is widely expected that RBI is going to hike rates by 25 bps.
Echoing similar view, Crisil chief economist D K Joshi said the focus for the RBI in the near-term would remain on curbing inflation. "We expect the RBI to hike the repo and reverse repo rates by 25 bps at on 27th July," Joshi said.
We have an Anti-collision Device network called ‘Raksha Kavach’ for rail-guided systems. But we deny it to the people, says the inventor of the device.
Anti-collision devices (ACDs) are microprocessor-based, communication-capable, GPS-enabled compact devices with special world-recognised intelligent self-deducing capability, requiring no human inputs, but draw strength from networking with each other - mounted on locomotives, stations, the last vehicle, level crossing gates and any other vulnerable locations.
They can detect any condition of two trains likely to get endangered seriously by colliding with each other either at the front or at the rear end or sideways on double tracks, in all station sections, block sections; automatically initiate braking action to control the speed profiles of both the trains to avoid any serious consequences. (For more, see: atrilab.com; videos at www.youtube.com/atrilab).
In the railways, while station masters are provided enough electronic protections against wrong doing and unsafe things, for drivers and guards - except for a badly-working voice communication system and visible signals - there is no automatically-acting protecting system against human errors.
ACDs provide this protective layer, and that is why I named it as 'Raksha Kavach'. An ACD network only ensures that trains are automatically brought to a safe halt if any serious consequences are visualised by the trains running, following existing signals as perceived by the drivers, without the driver's co-operation, the halt is forced. That is protection for drivers, guards and passengers.
ACDs are like having additional lookout electronic drivers travelling with existing drivers and guards and also posted with the station masters, who have electronic eyes to "see" more than 4-5 km and built-in intelligence to do the limited job of assuring within 3 km of range, no event of serious consequence will occur, whatever be the signals' indication or drivers' perception.
There is no scope for human error in this system.
(For complete description of operations see: http://anticollisionsystems.blogspot.com/2006/02/raksha-kavach.html).
Out of sheer anguish at the loss of lives in train collisions during 1999 the idea took shape and I produced the first prototype in collaboration with the private sector. No international technology is even now available for the kind of spectrum of possible train collisions that ACDs can effectively protect.
International patents were obtained specifically because of the deviation count theory incorporated as invented by me in those stressful days, which make ACDs detect their own position on the railway network with the least inputs from ground-based equipment. That led to cost savings.
And it is a non-signal equipment, making it economical to produce. But as it evolves further, it can run trains too, eliminating the need for current expensive fixed-signal systems. That has created enemies for ACD.
It is a sophisticated intelligent device and involves complex reliable communications and short-term bridging algorithms to take care of GPS blackouts. Knowledge levels available in government railway personnel are woefully inadequate to create the technology and suitable private enterprise with will to innovate and invest own intellectual capital becomes necessary.
The risk of dealing with rigid government departments usually tied in too much red tape. It needed some enthusiastic NRIs to get into this effort. Actually, being a government man, I had to put in place a process for selecting such a technology delivery company, that too at an economic price. An invention has to be nurtured and scaled up to work to get benefits. Out of three competitors, one succeeded in producing the prototype within low costs and time-frame in 1999. That happened to be a non-resident Indian (NRI) group supported company Kernex Microsystems, Hyderabad.
Maybe they had a dream to see one Indian company competing in the technology space rivalling Europeans instead of remaining cyber-coolies.
On the basis of bartering mutual IP rights, with Konkan Railway (to whom I donated my rights of personal research work in the public interest) having royalty and marketing rights for Indian Railways and Kernex to have exclusive development and manufacturing rights, the total costs of development were kept low with long-term interests factored in. The sophisticated knowledge base needed for continuing such development of technology can be better managed in the private sector if only long-term stakes are created. Else they would have demanded higher costs to cover the risk of short-term engagements and refused to invest their own intellectual property rights necessarily involved in manufacturing and development of firm-ware. This is not like construction of an airport. We are talking of innovation.
The costs also are kept fair for which mechanisms were incorporated, and the relationship constructed so that together Konkan Railway and Kernex will benefit but if anyone falls out wrongly, penal financial costs will be heavy.
The entire relationship was designed keeping in view the public interest.
But strong forces are working overtime to kill the ACD project from the inception, foreseeing a danger to their fiefdom.
ACD is a non-signal system, but performed better than signals in the area of preventing collisions.
After failing to stop the successful performance review of the working of ACDs in the toughest railway (NF Railway), the department took it upon itself to keep playing the game of misplacing the files in the board, revising the norms again and again and also suddenly introducing a multi-vendor concept, which is not tenable in such development efforts. For patent products, a proprietary article certificate can be issued which is a standard process. In fact, the railways procure even non-patented items using the proprietary article certificate, saying others are not producing the said items. But when it comes to the ACD, this is conveniently forgotten.
After agreeing to freeze specifications and performance norms, with a promise that once these are satisfied, full commercial scale implementation would start, it is unethical to again insist to prove against freshly revised norms. Not enough, revisions and testing and proving did not take place. Over a decade, innumerable changes were made and development done to satisfy the same before freezing the product finally. No one can keep on investing his or her intellectual capital without returns eternally. As part of commercial project implementation, improvements can continue - and should continue - but not as a mere research project with heavy investments but not returns.
So knowing the same, this strategy is now adopted to kill any spirit left in the private company, which stood by and worked over a decade on this project with 500 Indian software and hardware specialists investing in the hope of future returns. The NRI group is a disillusioned lot now.
All the accidents in which lives are getting lost now can be easily prevented by the level of ACD technology developed and proven in 2002 itself. But since then more features have been incorporated to prevent even remotely imagined situations with least probability. Fundamentally, ACDs do not replace existing signals, but add an additional safety layer. Trying to make it an alternative to signals is truly ridiculous and also mischievous.
As they get ACD implementation delayed, all-out efforts to somehow get very expensive foreign technology-based signal projects continue, despite the accidents. But they wilfully hide the fact that the non-signal device ACD, does more than what the expensive foreign technology can do. The rub is non-signal device ACDs cost one-fifth compared to inferior performing foreign signal equipment. That seems to justify the angst.
The system of administration is clever and spins yarns well. So long as I was part of the group, I could fight within but it was not a joke. Actually intellectual work took hardly 2% of time in ACD development, but the rest 98% was only to fight the self-interest groups driven by interests in foreign companies' technologies. Once I left Konkan Railway in 2005, there appears to be no one with enough grit to keep the fight on within the system.
So step by step, thousands of ACDs installed are being disabled, denying them maintenance. Refusing to own up the equipment is one simple way of allowing it to rot. Then there is this fear of the vigilance process instilled in officers to fall in line and help kill the ACD using the Konkan Railway organisation itself.
Slowly, the situation is developing for forced legal recourse to be taken by the private company partner who is getting ditched in the process. Loss to Konkan Railway will not be a problem for officers, because the rules of the game of survival dictate that one protects his own skin and should bury things in thick files of inaction.
Soon after an accident, the Railway Board has a wonderful, fail-safe method of putting off pressure from the public, talking technical gibberish. The innocent non-technical ministers faithfully repeat the same. For example, with the public outrage now, suddenly another trial to prove ACD on multiple-line sections (that is, more than two lines) is being talked about. This is a matter of getting the correct track ID, using the patented deviation count algorithms, which has been tested and proven a number of times. Local customisation is a built-in process for the ACDs, where checks and balances are built in to allocate the correct track ID. The second point is if too many ACDs are present in a small region (like 10 or 20), will it cause a communication black-out? This has been suspected by the Research Design and Standards Organisation (RDSO) and they already quietly tried out with 20 ACDs within one kilometre, which never happens, trying to get a reason to condemn the system, in NF railway trials. But they found to their surprise that ACD communications remained sound. So they kept the results to themselves.
When I hear the minister speaking of doing multi-track trials and Konkan Railway officials singing the same song, I only tell myself, here they go again to take the heat off and avoid allowing the implementation in other zonal railways. When there is a will to sabotage the project at any cost at the Railway Board level, ministers will become helpless. The technical mumbo-jumbo will keep them off track. Unfortunately, accountability is blurred in our systems.
But innocents pay the price.
The Railway Board says that Konkan Railway has to come forward to continue to test further and prove further. The goalposts keep shifting. It has been repeated in Parliament that the ACD is successful and will be implemented. Every budget speech since 2003 has been saying that, of course. So the ministry is not at fault. Then Konkan Railway refuses to release dues and starves the partner company of funds, saying orders are not forthcoming. Papers fly around and meetings continue. Another spoke is driven in by the Railway Board to force Konkan Railway to find another vendor, quoting that single bids cannot be accepted due to the 'rule of vigilance'. Of course it is not applicable in this case. But a rule is a rule.
There are good people also in the Railway Board, who sit mutely, as innocent commuters are crushed by colliding trains, because everything is as per proper procedure. We order inquiries after rushing to the site and offering tearful condolences.
It looks like we are waiting for another collision to happen, given the weakest link is that of a driver's human failure - a constant feature of our present train-control systems.
(Mr Rajaram Bojji or B Rajaram as known popularly, is former managing director of the Konkan Railway and also inventor of ACD Technology.)

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State of Diversity at Carnegie Mellon. McConomy Auditorium. 12:30 p.m.
Community Conversation. McConomy Auditorium. 2:30 p.m.
Candlelight procession. Purnell Center Lobby. 4 p.m.
Pittsburgh Presidential Inauguration Celebration. Pittsburgh Athletic Association. 6:30 p.m.
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The Answer is Blowin’ in the Wind. Talk by Jen Saffron. University of Pittsburgh. 6 p.m.
Curry and Cumin: A Night of South-Asian Entertainment. Khalil’s II Restaurant. 8 p.m. 412.683.4757. $20.
International Guitar Night. PNC Recital Hall (Duquesne University). 8 p.m.
Abraham.in.Motion. Kelly-Strayhorn Performing Arts Center. 7 p.m. 412.363.300, ext. 107.
The Eastside Poetry Gathering. Borders Books and Music (East Liberty). 7 p.m.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Mr. Small’s Theatre and Funhouse. 7 p.m.
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The Dru Heinz Lecture: Devra Davis. Carnegie Music Hall. 7:30 p.m. 412.622.8866.
Keep It Slick: Infiltrating Capitalism with the Yes Men. The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon. Through Jan. 19.
In Sisterhood. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Through Jan. 25.
The Body Beautiful. Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse and World Lounge. Jan. 21–25.
Street Scene. Philip Chosky Theater. Jan. 22–25.
Absence of Body. Pittsburgh Glass Center. Through Jan. 25.
Menopause: The Musical. Byham Theater. Through Jan. 25.
History Remembered as an Image. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Through Jan. 25.
Hot L Baltimore. Pittsburgh Playhouse. Jan. 22–Feb. 8.
Sworn In. Future Tenant. Through Feb. 13.
Metamorphoses. O’Reilly Theater. Through Feb. 15.
The Seafarer. City Theatre. Jan. 22–Feb. 15.
Guns, Women, Phalluses.Trinity Gallery. Through Feb. 28.
A Map of Latin-American Dreams. Silver Eye Center for Photography. Through March 7.
Signs of Change. Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University. Jan. 23–March 8.
PreDrive: After Technology. Mattress Factory. Through March 22.
Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk. Carnegie Mellon University. Through March 28.

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In 2012 I speculated that the election of Leung Chun-Ying as chief executive on 25 March that year ‘went down as the day Beijing put another nail in the democratic aspirations of Hong Kong. Two years on, and in light of the current demonstrations in this city of 7.2 million people, it is very tempting to suggest that nail represented the end of democracy in Hong Kong.
Over the last 20 years, every time Hong Kong people have heard some ‘menacing’ messages from Beijing, they have responded and become politically active. This time, the menacing message was the one I heard two years ago in the office of Leung Kwok-hung — better known as ‘Long hair’ — in the Legislative Council or Legco — not far from the epicentre of the protests.
‘Beijing won’t honour its pledge that would allow Hong Kong to elect in 2017 its political leaders, including the Chief Executive,’ he told me then. And unfortunately, he was correct. China won’t allow the free and popular election in 2017 that Hong Kong people were hoping for. This disturbing message has sparked anger in this ‘gentle society’ — as described to me by veteran Hong Kong writer and journalist Nury Vittachi.
Leung Chun-Ying, who was sworn in in July 2012, is the third chief executive of Hong Kong since the handover to China in 1997. Under the Beijing sword of Damocles, a minuscule selection committee has elected all of them. Unwavering individuals loyal to the Communist Party. There is an old story that wonderfully illustrates Hong Kong’s chief executive allegiance to Beijing.
For most of his life, Donald Tsang — the predecessor of Leung — was famously a pro-democracy politician. He was also very pro-British, and when the Queen offered him a knighthood, Sir Donald was pleased. But soon, the ‘Sir’ quietly disappeared from his title. He wanted the top job in Hong Kong, and he needed Beijing’s blessing.
The nonconforming ‘Long hair’ — founder of the League of Social Democrats and a member of the Legislative Council representing the New Territories East — told me two years ago that ‘any leader who comes with the blessing of Beijing won’t ever serve the people of Hong Kong.’
Two years on, and Leung has catastrophically failed to serve the people of Hong Kong. He is not a leader but a technocrat who makes the subway trains run on time. But he can’t reflect and respond to the political aspirations of the people. And it is not only about their democratic demands, but their economic and social aspirations.
Unaffordable housing resulting from a housing shortage, the horrendous wealth gap, and the ferocious property appetite of Mainland Chinese over Hong Kong some of the other causes of the protests. Behind it, all is Beijing’s interference in Hong Kong affairs, including the evident erosion of the semi-democratic structure embodied by the ‘one country two systems.’
Despite his antics, Kwok-hung has had the political clarity to see Beijing’s so-called democratic road map for Hong Kong — free and direct election of the next chief executive in 2017 — all along as a massive cock-up. A cock-up that has put Hong Kong ‘on a collision course,’ as Nury Vittachi told me in a café at the bunker-looking Hong Kong Polytechnic University. That was two years ago, and his gloomy assessment — in light of the current events in Hong Kong — resonates louder than ever.
Despite the massive protests, not everyone is convinced they will last longer. While the shout for full democracy is loud and genuine, Hong Kong is — as Professor Anthony Cheung Bing Leung told me — a ‘practical and rational’ place. As soon as the financial district — the heart of the current unrest — starts counting losses, the most likely result is that the sympathy for this youthful and laudable uprising will start to disappear. In this context, it is possible to speculate that the so-called ‘umbrella revolution’ — one of the many catchy media-constructed identifiers of recent social uprisings — might slowly subside.
This is what Beijing is counting on. It has played down the whole affair. And while the Communist Party will keep on tightening its control over Hong Kong’s limited liberties, curbing freedom of speech and introducing school history books with the Tiananmen massacre chapter ripped out, it won’t send the tanks. Too much to lose — including face.
The 6000 strong People’s Liberation Army (PLA) presence in Hong Kong has been lying low for many years. And while seeing the garrison with the red flag waving used to send shivers up my spine, the PLA will keep lying low.
On the other hand — and to make matters more complex — Beijing can’t afford to ignore the fact that historically Hong Kong has been the cradle of some of the key events that have shaped China's modern history. These include Dr Sun Yat-sen’s revolutionary thoughts and plans for an uprising to oust the Qing Dynasty and to set up the Republic of China.
Also, it was Hong Kong’s underground Communist activists who helped forge the People’s Republic of China. The last thing China wants to see is Hong Kong give rise to a fully-fledged democracy within a one-party dictatorial system. Unthinkable.
Currently Director of Journalism at RMIT University Melbourne, Antonio Castillo taught at Hong Kong Baptist University 2010–12.Photos by Sam Wong, a Melbourne freelance photographer who has just completed an internship at Magnum Photos in New York. More at his blog.


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Hometown: Long Island, NY
Matt Hogan started playing guitar over 15 years ago when his Father (also a guitar player) taught him his first two chords and introduced him to the likes of Johnny Cash, John Denver and the Everly Brothers. But it wasn’t until Matt saw Steve Vai in concert that he really got into rock music and became a die-hard guitarist.
Ultimately Matt received a degree in Music from The State University of New York. Throughout his schooling, Matt’s found he was most at home during the time that he was practicing and/or taking lessons with his guitar teachers who included Rich Kern, Dave Fiuczynski, and John Petrucci. It was the sanctuary that he found with his mentors that inspired him to impart the knowledge they gave him to his own students when he began teaching over 5 years ago.
Some of the Artists that Matt has been influenced by include, in no particular order, everything from Van Halen to The Beatles to Credence Clearwater and even some of the newer bands like Story of the Year. “I’ve seen Story of the Year live at both The Downtown in Long Island and on Taste of Chaos at Continental Arena in New Jersey, and their live show is killer.”
Matt’s accomplishments are many, but he cites his most memorable as being the first time he ever played in front of his family, as well as having played in front of thousands of people when opening for a variety of well-known Artists ranging from Dave Mathews Band to Snoop Dog.
When asked what he likes to do in his spare time, Matt stumbled before answering, “The truth is, I never do anything else. I’m never really NOT doing music. If I’m not playing, teaching, or practicing, I’m either going to see a band with friends, online looking at guitar websites, or sleeping.”
There is no doubt that Matt is a consummate professional in the field of music considering that, in addition to playing guitar in ScarlettsWeb, he is also a guitar teacher to many students, a Session/Studio Guitarist at various studios, a Song Writer, a Music Director, and has recently appeared playing the guitar on National Television.
The passionate musician and dedicated teacher really came out in Matt when he was put on the spot to answer what he learned from and hopes to communicate with his music: “What you put into it, you get out of it…


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What Is a Tax Loss Carryforward?
A tax loss carryforward (or carryover) is a provision that allows a taxpayer to move a tax loss to future years to offset a profit. The tax loss carryforward can be claimed by an individual or a business to reduce any future tax payments.
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Say an individual taxpayer has $400,000 in realized losses.
How long can those losses be carried forward? 10 years? 50 years? Indefinitely?
Question 2. Businesses can apply today’s losses retroactively to previous tax years - called “carryback”.
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) removed the 2-year carryback provision, extended the 20-year carryforward provision out indefinitely, and limited carryforwards to 80% of net income in any future year.
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Spurgin's 16 lead Southern Utah past N. Alabama in CBI 72-50
Spurgin added three blocks for the Thunderbirds (23-12). Cameron Healy added 15 points and Tevian Jones scored 14.
The Lions (18-15) were led in scoring by Dallas Howell, who finished with 13 points and two steals. North Alabama also got 11 points from Daniel Ortiz. Damien Forrest had 16 rebounds for the Lions.
Southern Utah will play Duquesne or Rice in the quarterfinals on Monday. Duquesne and Rice play a first-round game on Sunday.
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Mangos are a tropical plant that does not well in areas that dip down below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. While you may not live in a tropical and/or warm area, you can still have the fun of starting your own mango from a grocery store fruit.
The first step in this process is to go to the store and pick out a fresh mango. This step is very important because an old mango will house old seeds, which could produce nothing or inferior seedlings.
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Once the seeds germinate, move the container to a sunny window. Continue to care for until you can plant outside in a well-drained, sunny location.

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Ever since my carrot top salsa recipe was posted, suggesting that you can eat carrot tops, I’ve received tons of emails asking if (or even insisting that) carrot tops are poisonous.
So I’ll just get right to the point: No, they are not poisonous, and yes, carrot tops are edible.
Unfortunately, the popular myth of carrot tops being toxic has been perpetuated through continual hearsay and personal anecdotes. I have yet to find any scientific study that says, once and for all, carrot tops will kill us.
(After all, I’m still here despite making bottomless jars of carrot top salsa and using carrot tops in my salads and soups… as are my loved ones.)
Much of this ballyhoo originated from a 2009 New York Times blog post where the author (who even admitted to eating his own carrot tops but lived to tell about it) presented no actual evidence that they might be toxic, and whose sole source did not even claim that carrot tops were toxic.
To quote directly from the post, “The young greens I’d ingested may have been harmless […] But a few of the carrot’s close relatives are not to be trusted.”
(Emphases are mine.)
So there you have it. That post was not about the toxicity of carrot tops at all, despite having a sensationalist title of “The Toxic Salad.”
But the rumors persist, so I thought I’d bust the most common myths I’ve seen online in the hopes that people will share the knowledge and not be afraid of these delicious and underused greens!
Learn more about what you can eat from the plants you grow or buy.
My book, The No-Waste Vegetable Cookbook, is a great place to start to find out how you can go zero waste (or close to it) in the kitchen, simply by knowing what you can or cannot eat from common vegetables like carrots, squash, and beans.
(Would you be surprised if I told you bean leaves are also edible? They are—plus many more plants in your garden. In fact, knowing how to use the entire plant is one of my favorite lazy gardening strategies for getting more out of a garden with less work.)
Stop tossing out perfectly good food and start using it in your recipes!
Myth #1: Carrot greens contain alkaloids (which are toxic bitter compounds produced by a plant) and all alkaloids are bad because substances like caffeine and cocaine are alkaloids.
Surprise—all leafy greens (including “good for you” greens like spinach and kale) contain varying levels and types of alkaloids, some higher than others.
Alkaloids are chemical compounds believed to be part of a plant’s defense mechanisms.
Our beloved brassicas and nightshades all contain tropane alkaloids (a class of plants that includes cocaine) and you might be surprised to learn that nicotine is naturally present in cauliflower, tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants.
In fact, eggplants have some of the highest levels of nicotine in the nightshade family—but you needn’t panic, as you’d have to eat over 20 pounds of eggplants in one sitting to ingest the same amount of nicotine found in a cigarette.
If you’ve ever wondered why chocolate always makes you feel so good, that’s because it contains another alkaloid, theobromine, which works as a mild stimulant.
All said, alkaloids are found in many of our foods but not in amounts that are actually effective, and not all alkaloids are even toxic. But if consumed in gross quantities, anything—even water—can become “toxic.”
The key is consuming in moderation. Different bodies handle foods in different ways.
You can juice carrot tops and reap the benefits of all their nutrients. But, it’s probably not a good idea to juice an entire head of those carrot greens in your smoothie (and your tastebuds wouldn’t want you to), just as it’s not a good idea to eat spinach salads every day.
In fact, people who go on green juice diets are often advised to rotate their greens frequently in the rare event their bodies start accumulating the same alkaloids (which could lead to adverse reactions).
This is not to say you should stay away from greens at all; just eat a good variety of them so you get lots of different alkaloids in different quantities.
(In case you’re curious, the alkaloids found in carrot tops are pyrrolidine and daucine.)
As for the misconception that bitterness means it’s bad for you—quite the contrary. Carrot tops are indeed bitter, but that is not an indicator of them being good or bad health-wise.
Bitterness is a subjective taste that’s passed down in your genes. (And if bitterness equated to bad, I’d surely miss my collard greens, brussels sprouts, radicchio, and arugula!)
Let’s give this first myth a bust. Moving on…
Myth #2: Carrots are related to Queen Anne’s lace and hemlock, which are poisonous.
It’s true that the modern carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) was cultivated from Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota), an ancestor of the vegetable.
The lineage is most apparent when both plants are in bloom. Carrots and Queen Anne’s lace have delicate, umbel-shaped flower heads that look like umbrellas.
The taproot of today’s Queen Anne’s lace is actually edible, but it won’t taste anything like the carrot root you’re used to, which has been bred over centuries to be fleshier and sweeter.
Queen Anne’s lace is not poisonous, and you can eat the roots, leaves, flowers, and seeds (though they’re not likely to be tasty).
The problem here is that the foliage and flowers of carrots and Queen Anne’s lace closely resemble poison hemlock (Conium maculatum), which grows wild as a weed and contains toxins that can cause respiratory failure if eaten.
Since the olden days, Queen Anne’s lace has been used medicinally for everything ranging from urinary tract problems to experimental treatments for cancer.
Even today, some herbalists consider the seeds to be a potential natural contraceptive (though you would have to eat a certain amount of seeds every day for a specific period to see this effect).
Queen Anne’s lace also looks a lot like wild parsnip (Pastinaca sativa), another noxious weed. The leaves of wild parsnip contain chemical compounds in the sap called furocoumarins, which cause certain people’s skin to react in sunlight.
Some reactions are more severe than others, ranging from a mild itch in the sun to heavy blistering of the skin. (The root of wild parsnip, on the other hand, is safe and edible.)
Despite all of them belonging to the same family (Apiaceae, known as the parsley family), a distant relation to poison hemlock does not make carrot tops, Queen Anne’s lace, or wild parsnip poisonous.
The lesson here? Don’t go picking wild plants that look like carrots.
Myth #3: Supermarkets don’t sell carrot tops, so they must be poisonous.
Many supermarkets do sell carrots with the leaves attached (though they usually don’t look attractive enough to eat) and most farmers’ markets sell them as well.
The reason we don’t find carrot tops more often is because even after they leave the ground, the leaves continue to draw moisture and energy from the root, so they’re removed to preserve the carrot.
(Side note: If you grow your own carrots at home, always cut the leaves off after harvest and store them the same way you’d store salad greens.)
Judging by the looks of supermarket carrot tops, this might be a packaging and transportation issue as well, since they tend to be a bit raggedy by the time they reach produce shelves.
In short: Don’t let a lack of commercial availability steer you away from eating carrot leaves.
Myth #4: There have been accounts of people getting sick from eating carrot greens.
This is entirely possible and probably even true. It’s also possible and probably true that these people have either an allergy or an intolerance to carrot greens.
There’s an important distinction between food allergy versus food intolerance.
Food allergy causes an immune system response to a particular food protein. The immune system overreacts and interprets the food as harmful, resulting in itching, swelling, trouble breathing, and even death in extreme cases.
Food intolerance occurs when the body lacks an enzyme to process a particular food, causing unpleasant symptoms like nausea, abdominal cramping, or acid reflux. These are not immune system responses and are not life-threatening.
Another reaction with similar symptoms is food poisoning, which is caused by bacteria or toxins. This may be possible with commercial carrots that have been heavily sprayed with pesticides (since the leaves are most affected), but likely not a problem with organic or homegrown carrots.
A true food allergy to carrots is uncommon, but an interesting reaction called oral allergy syndrome (OAS) can occur in people who are allergic to birch pollen and mugwort pollen.
The major allergen in carrots, a protein called Dau c 1, is so similar in structure to the molecules in birch pollen and mugwort pollen that the body can’t tell the difference.
That means if you have an allergy to either, eating carrots or carrot greens can trigger a reaction in the form of itching or swelling of the mouth or throat.
According to WebMD, the symptoms of OAS become less severe when you cook the trigger food because heat alters the offending protein.
All this basically means a person could have an unexpected cross-reactive allergy, food allergy, or food intolerance to carrot greens (as one might have with dairy or wheat)—but that does not make them poisonous.
Myth #5: But there has to be a good reason why we (as in we in the US) don’t eat carrot tops!
Why carrot tops are generally not eaten in our culture is a mystery to me (though they’re considered a market vegetable in many parts of Europe).
I’ve posed this same question when it comes to broccoli greens, which are very edible and delicious (but never seen in the store).
Just because these plants are not culturally popular in the kitchen does not mean they’re not nutritious or can’t be eaten.
In fact, the leaves of root vegetables tend to be loaded with more phytonutrients than the roots themselves, and I always encourage people to reduce their waste and learn how to cook the unusual (but edible) odds and ends of their produce.
I’d guess it has to do with taste, as the flavor and texture of carrot tops can take some getting used to… if all you’re used to are the tasteless, tender iceberg lettuces from the store.
(Even though icebergs are laughably low in flavor and low in nutritional value, they’re the most popular lettuce in the US—which says something about our society!)
I consider carrot tops to be more of an accent and use them that way to add depth to a recipe. Carrot tops taste like a very concentrated carrot: somewhat bitter, earthy, and herbaceous.
You can eat carrot tops raw in salads, wilt them into soups, braise them with a flavorful roast, saute the greens in a little oil and garlic with other vegetables, or stuff a few sprigs of carrot tops into sandwiches.
I especially like carrot tops in a rich, meaty stew or sprinkled over lighter dishes as a garnish, the way you’d use parsley. (Carrot tops do make a decent substitute for parsley in a pinch.)
To get past the texture, the leaves should be de-stemmed and chopped up finely. Beyond that, you can eat carrot tops however you’d like—and rest assured you’ll still be standing the next day!
Common questions about carrot leaves
What do carrot leaves taste like?
Carrot leaves (also known as carrot greens or carrot tops) have an earthy “root vegetable” type of flavor, not unlike carrots themselves. Depending on the variety (and other factors such as time of year harvested), carrot leaves might have a slight bitter or herbal flavor.
Personally, I think carrot leaves taste like a cross of carrots and parsley, and they’re especially delicious when paired with strong, savory or tangy sauces.
How do you store carrot leaves?
Like all other root vegetables, the leaves should be removed from the roots as soon as you bring your carrots home. That’s because after harvest, the roots continue to draw energy from the leaves, rendering them limp and lifeless. (This is mostly an aesthetic issue, however—limp greens are still perfectly okay to eat, especially if you plan to cook them anyway.)
To keep your greens nice and crisp, make sure you cut off the leaves (leaving an inch or so on the carrot) and store them in a plastic bag, tightly sealed, or wrapped in a damp kitchen towel in the fridge. The carrots themselves should be stored separately in the crisper drawer. Here’s my guide on best practices for vegetable storage at home.
How do you prepare carrot tops for cooking?
Strip the tender leaves from the carrot stem and use them the same way you’d use parsley in a recipe: as an accent or garnish, coarsely chopped or finely minced (depending on preference). Discard or compost any tough stems, or use them as flavoring when making vegetable stock.
View the Web Story on edible carrot tops.
This post updated from an article that originally appeared on July 11, 2013.


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The Ultra League division has returned to Pokémon Go. Players will have the chance to bring some of their favorite Pokémon to their league, so long as they do not exceed the 2,500 CP restriction. You’ll need to create a team of three Pokémon to use against your opponent. You can expect to see a variety of choices being featured in Season 7. The meta has changed slightly since the previous season, but not too much. Here’s what we’re looking at for the Ultra League meta for Season 7 in Pokémon Go.
Best Pokémon teams in the Ultra League
Cresselia, Gengar, and Obstagoon
Cresselia is one of the outstanding Psychic-type Pokémon that you’ll find plenty of trainers using in the Ultra League. It also has access to the incredible Grass-type move, Grass Knot, making it the perfect Pokémon to take down some of the notable Water-types that appear in this decision. To protect Cresselia against its several weaknesses, we recommend using Gengar and Obstagoon alongside it.
- Cresselia: Psycho cut (fast move), grass knot, and moonblast
- Gengar: Shadow claw (fast move), shadow ball, and shadow punch
- Obstagoon: Counter (fast move), night slash, and gunk shot
Talonflame, Skarmory, and Umbreon
Talonflame has made a name for itself since the start of Season 7. It was given the ability to learn how to use incinerate, the Fire-type fast move that has become a massive game-changer for several Fire-type Pokémon. When Talonflame was initially released, it was much lower on the brackets but has transformed into a must-have Pokémon for the Great and Ultra Leagues. When you add Skarmory and Umbreon to that roster, you’ll acquire plenty of victories moving forward.
- Talonflame: Incinerate (fast move), brave bird, and flame charge
- Skarmory: Air slash (fast move), brave bird, and sky attack
- Umbreon: Snarl (fast move), foul play, and last resort
Articuno, Muk (Alolan), and Swampert
Another legendary Pokémon you can expect to see throughout the Ultra League is Articuno. You might see the standard version or a shadow one, and both are fearsome opponents. When you pair it with other Pokémon, Swampert is a natural choice that has few weaknesses and is one of the best Pokémon in the PvP circuit. The final pairing we’d give to this roster is Muk (Alolan), to protect against Ghost, Grass, Poison, and Psychic-type opponents.
- Articuno: Ice shard (fast move), icy wind, and hurricane
- Swampert: Mud shot (fast move), hydro cannon, and earthquake
- Muk (Alolan): Snarl (fast move), gunk shot, and dark pulse
Registeel (XL), Gyarados, and Charizard
When you want to use one of the most powerful Pokémon in the Ultra League, Registeel is your go-to option. If you have a standard Registeel, that should do fine, but one powered up using XL candy is even better. It’s a Steel-type, so it doesn’t have too many weaknesses, but we’ve found pairing it up with Gyarados and Charizard has been a worthwhile combination.
- Registeel: Lock on (fast move), focus blast, and flash cannon
- Gyarados: Dragon breath (fast move), aqua tail, and crunch
- Charizard: Dragon breath (fast move), blast burn, and dragon claw
Melmetal, Giratina (Altered), and Togekiss
Melmetal continues to be one of the strongest Pokémon for players to use in both the Ultra and Master League. You can almost always expect to see it in several rosters, and if legendary Pokémon are allowed in any category, someone has one with perfect IVs and the best attacks. If you have one, pair it up with Giratina (Altered) and Togekiss to take down most of the Ultra League meta.
- Melmetal: Thunder shock (fast move), rock slide, and superpower
- Giratina (Altered): Shadow claw (fast move), dragon claw, and shadow sneak
- Togekiss: Charm (fast move), ancient power, and flamethrower

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Opsani, a Redwood City, Calif. –based provider of AI-driven Continuous Optimization for cloud applications, secured $10m in Series A funding.
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Suddenly, the debate over climate change seems less shrill and a little bit more reasonable.
Two things have changed the debate: The IPCC and the weather.
Scientists have just got a lot better in explaining climate change in a more understandable, less frightening way. The risks, options and opportunities seem a lot clearer. Too often, the climate change narrative has been negative and filled with nightmarish scenarios, making it easy for sceptics and other climate foes to hijack the issue. In fact, there are positives in fighting climate change and we can all play a part.
Meanwhile, the weather has just got weirder and weirder. You might not be able to see carbon dioxide. But you can sure feel the weather and, admit it, the weather's been getting more extreme of late.
Depending on where you are, it's been getting hotter, colder, drier, wetter, stormier. Indeed, the changes, particularly the intensity of heatwaves and droughts, have been occurring faster than many scientists predicted. And that's made it a bit easier to feel there is something real about climate change.
And that means, perhaps, more people will take a closer look at what the scientists have been saying and also take a harder look at the arguments of the sceptics, particularly those from the energy and mining sectors.
Scientists have long called for urgent action, warned of more intense droughts, floods, rising seas and failed crops. They've tried to educate the public about climate science, and the policies needed to cut carbon pollution, though many people have struggled to really comprehend all of this. The science can seem complicated and, on the surface, vulnerable to sceptics picking holes in the evidence. Some of the climate-related disasters seemed to be too far into the future or likely to occur in other parts of the globe.
This gloomy narrative has been a real turn off for many people trying to make a living and raise their families, particularly when it seemed there was little the average person could do.
Thanks to the polar vortex, the droughts in Texas and California, heatwaves in Australia and extreme flooding in Britain, some of us are now paying a lot more attention to the weather. Even if you don't understand the science of climate change, we're listening a little harder to what the scientists are saying.
And over the past six months or so, they've been saying a lot.
The world's greatest assemblage of climate scientists has just given us the best guide to fighting climate change we've ever seen. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has delivered, like a marathon play over three acts, its fifth and finest update on climate change science, the risks of climate change, the impacts, the options to cut carbon and ways to adapt. The latest report, released on Sunday, examined the costs and options to cut carbon.
The three reports, involving hundreds of scientists from around the globe, contain alarming data and predictions but also hopeful investment and policy actions. The reports are meant to guide governments but are also meant for all of us to decide what sort of future we want. That's the point. Climate change is not a hopeless narrative. The work of the IPCC gives us honest, even brutal, choices and gives us all a more accurate sense of probabilities on outcomes depending on how, and how fast, we act. It also highlights likely costs (act now and the costs are pretty manageable) and the ethics of fighting climate change.
It shows us there are real opportunities from cutting carbon pollution and limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius or less. For example, greater investment in renewables and weaning ourselves off fossil fuels is affordable over the long-term and isn't a job killer.
Curbing deforestation, replanting and more efficient agricultural practices can also cut emissions and help soak up carbon. Trees are, after all, the best CO2-capturing device we have.
Greater energy efficiency in buildings and cities can also cut pollution and so can greener transport.
Denialists push back against some of these options, in part because they prefer to keep the status quo. But the status quo isn't an option any more. We're all heading for a climate-challenged future and what that future looks like should be decided by all of us, not just one or two governments or business sectors.
The author Tom Friedman recently asked what if the nightmare of the climate deniers came true. What would happen if, for example, the United States decided to seriously act against climate change? His vision:
Firstly, slash income and corporate taxes and replace them with a carbon tax to get companies to cut carbon and hire more workers.
Secondly, borrow money at almost zero percent and invest it in infrastructure to make U.S. cities not only more resilient, but more efficient.
Thirdly, make permanent the wind and solar and other renewable energy tax incentives to stimulate more innovation and secure a place in the global revolution for clean water and clean power.
Hardly a nightmarish vision, right? You would do these things anyway.
Moving away from coal means fewer destructive mines, less air pollution, fewer health costs - just ask China, which is battling air pollution and looking to limit the growth of coal.
A lot of the technology is available to reduce emissions and further R&D spending and policy support could speed up commercialisation of new forms of green energy. That opens up new industries and new job opportunities.
We need to keep pushing back at the sceptics and industry-funded denialists. For too long, the energy and mining sectors have been enjoying taxpayer-funded subsidies and avoiding responsibility for the true cost of their actions. Their constant push-back against climate policies is driven purely by short-term profits and a lack of long-term vision. Their lies and deceit are increasingly laid bare.
It backfired. Within hours, a huge Twitter campaign by angry Australians mocked the council with intense sarcasm via #Australiansforcoal. Many Australians just aren't buying the PR spin anymore and are tired of the coal industry's bullying tactics.
Suddenly, fighting climate change seems a little less gloomy and a bit more optimistic. And sometimes it can be fun.
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has announced that it has removed SpiceJet from its enhanced surveillance program. This move comes after the airline faced multiple challenges. In July 2022, the DGCA had asked SpiceJet to reduce its flight operations by 50% for eight weeks due to safety incidents. The airline was then placed under enhanced surveillance, which was lifted on October 30 of the same year.
Subsequently, SpiceJet faced financial difficulties, and
the DGCA placed the low-cost carrier under enhanced surveillance again in July 2023. The regulator conducted 51 spot checks at 11 locations on SpiceJet’s Boeing 737 and Bombardier DHC Q-400 aircraft to address concerns about maintenance following incidents during the previous year’s monsoon
season. During this recent surveillance, the DGCA made 95 observations, mostly routine in nature, which the airline addressed in compliance with DGCA guidelines.
As a result of SpiceJet’s actions and compliance, it has been removed from the enhanced surveillance program. The enhanced surveillance involved increased night monitoring
and spot checks to ensure safety and maintenance standards were met.


In Data News, 2019-12-04
This layer shows the percentage of land area covered by tree canopy based on data from the 2016 The National Land Cover Database (NLCD) Percent Tree Canopy Collection. The NLCD tree canopy imagery is a product of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), and is produced through a cooperative project conducted by the Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium (www.mrlc.gov). Tree canopy values range from 0 to 100 percent.
In order to generate percent tree canopy values for census geographies, the NLCD 2016 Percent Tree Canopy Analytical Dataset was processed using ESRI Zonal Statistics tools. Zones were based on US Census Block Group boundaries from the ESRI Map Data pack for ArcGIS 10.6. These figures were aggregated and mapped at the census block group, census tract and county levels. Census tract and county figures are also available as population weighted percentages based on 2010 Decennial Census figures.


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