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By Mark Clarkson
The life cycle analysis summary of an assembly, generated by PTC InSight, shows the estimated embodied energy and emissions.
There is no such thing as a green product, asserts Sustainable Minds’ CEO Terry Swack. “All products use materials and energy, and create waste. The best we can do is make products ‘greener.’”
It’s natural to think of green design in terms of end-of-life recycling, or maybe the use of recycled materials, but it goes a little deeper than that. To make products greener, designers must become eco-designers, paying particular attention to the environmental impact of a product throughout its entire lifecycle—from procurement through manufacturing, use and disposal.
Eco-design is bound with life cycle analysis (LCA), which attempts to compute what a product’s environmental impact is in all its manifestations, from the discharge of toxic chemicals through to noise, vibration and social disruptions. The problem is, LCAs can be difficult, costly and time-consuming. They require plenty of obscure scientific expertise, and are somewhat ambiguous.
If you want to calculate the environmental impact of your product, you have to know where the parts and materials come from and what, exactly, is in them. You also need to know:
• how—and where—everything will be manufactured;
• how much electricity and water the processes use;
• how much pollution (and what types) is released;
• how and where the product will be used;
• how it will be packaged for shipment;
• how it will be transported, and
• what will become of that packaging once the customer unwraps it.
We haven’t even gotten to the product’s actual use phase, let alone what happens to it at the end of its life.
You might also want to add in any special tariffs your products will incur based on the materials they’re made from and packaged in, and make special note of upcoming changes to pertinent government regulations.
Case in Point: Nucor Steel
When Nucor built a new reactor, it used National Instruments’ LabVIEW software and Compact FieldPoint hardware to create a new scale. The device lets the team know exactly how much steel they’re putting in, and how much electricity they’ll need to cook it properly.
They can also now change voltage based on operator input using the software and field-programmable gate arrays without having to first take the load off the reactor. This eliminates the fluctuations in power that previously caused problems within the plant.
Nucor has also gained the ability to monitor and record the process in real time, allowing the team to react much more quickly to changing conditions. The end result is they’re making a better product by using less energy, producing less waste and saving more money.
That’s a lot to ask of a designer who already has to worry about cost, strength, durability, safety and a thousand details inherent in their particular business and manufacturing processes—all the while trying to design a sexy new toothbrush.
Time to Move up Front
Of course, software already exists that could help out, but it is mostly employed by management and special costing engineers. The results haven’t been visible to the designer.
“Frequently, individual contributors go through the product development process largely unaware of how their decisions impact key performance criteria that ultimately determine the success of the product when it hits the field,” says Howard Heppelmann, vice president of Product Analytics solutions for PTC.
In addition, analyses that are done are often done too late, he says.
“Most companies today are measuring and monitoring these activities once they get into production,” he adds. “The designer finishes the design and passes it over the wall, and then somebody analyzes the production ]bill of material, or BOM] for REACH compliance, or carbon footprint. That process needs to happen up front. Rather than managing risk once a product is designed and released into production, prevent risk.”
Everybody’s Doing It
Moving LCA up front requires that designers and engineers have access to LCA tools as they’re designing. And those tools are indeed appearing. In fact, LCA capability is becoming common in design software. Consider what are probably the Top three on the desktop: PTC, Autodesk and SolidWorks.
PTC, for example, acquired Planet Metrics (and its Rapid Carbon Modeling program) in January 2010. Planet Metrics adds LCA capability to the PTC’s existing Product Analytics software, InSight, allowing designers to model the environmental cost of their product—carbon dioxide emissions, water used, etc.—along with its capital costs.
Autodesk has been in a special strategic relationship with the previously mentioned Sustainable Minds since late 2008. Sustainable Minds provides a Web-based LCA application that reads your BOM. With a little help, it models your product’s environmental impact—complete with an Okala number (a measure of environmental impact derived from the Okala LCA methodology) and an assortment of graphs and tables that deconstruct your product’s environmental impact.
Autodesk and materials information technology company, Granta Design Ltd., recently announced a new partnership, combining Autodesk’s digital prototyping vision with Granta’s materials information and eco design technology to help enable sustainable product design. The companies are co-developing software that will integrate Granta’s eco design methods into Autodesk software, helping designers estimate the environmental impact of a product and make more sustainable design decisions.
With SolidWorks 2010, Dassault Systèmes incorporates SustainabilityXpress, the light version of its Sustainability LCA modeler, directly into the SolidWorks application. Sustainability evaluates the environmental impact of parts and assemblies (Xpress only works on parts) and displays the results in four simple numbers: carbon emissions, energy consumed, and air and water pollution. Accompanying pie charts break down each metric into material, manufacturing, region of use and end of life.
Each of these applications allows you to evaluate, in some way, the environmental impact of your product while you’re still in the design stage. They also allow you to try different materials and manufacturing processes, to really dig down into your design and compare your options before actually committing to anything. It’s often the case that 80% of your opportunity to improve rests in 20% of your components. Even a very basic LCA will identify which 20% this is. You can focus your efforts where they’ll do the most good, looking for alternative materials and processes for the most problematic components.
Mountains of Data
These applications rely on one or more huge databases of relevant life cycle data to perform their LCAs. There are several, but the largest is maintained and licensed by ecoinvent Centre of Switzerland, which has thousands of datasets on everything from metals processing to waste treatment.
Beyond that, each application works its own magic to transform your product’s relationship to that mountain range of data into a few numbers and some easy-to-read graphics. The problem of reducing so much data to a few numbers is prodigious. And, it can be argued, it’s oversimplified and misleading to do so.
On the other hand, there’s a limit to how much data a product designer can process. It’s important to be able to see, at a glance, the difference in environmental impact between an aluminum part and a plastic one, for example. But it’s also important not to lose track of other important targets—consumers are generally unwilling to pay more for a product just because it’s green.
“Designers need to be able to see across dimensions, and have some visual indicators of how a decision in one area complements or contradicts a desired outcome in other, equally important areas,” says Heppelmann. “ If someone has myopia toward only improving the carbon footprint, there’s a chance they’re going to veer off target on other things like cost, reliability or safety.”
There are a lot of reasons to go green: It looks good to your customers; your company gets credit for innovating and becoming more sustainable; and such deep analysis of your product’s life will probably lead to cost savings. And if that those reasons aren’t good enough, well, you’ve probably got no choice. Your customers and their governments may demand it. Companies have legal obligations to make sure they’re managing the presence of toxic substances in their products. Failure to comply can cost you customers or even get you banned from the marketplace.
So since you probably don’t have a choice, why not take this opportunity to make the world a better place? After all, there’s an app for that.
Contributing Editor Mark Clarkson is DE’s expert in visualization, computer animation, and graphics. His newest book is “Photoshop Elements by Example.” Visit him on the web at markclarkson.com or send e-mail about this article to DE-Editors@deskeng.com.


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In a BBC news report on the death of Miep Gies last week, the reporter decided to cite the fact that Gies’s name was among the days “trending topics” on Twitter as evidence of how she helped keep the story of the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis alive.
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I’m not railing against this, but I am slightly uneasy with the idea that just because a serious story about something important made it into the top ten most drivelled about things for a few hours, means that we really “care”.
Currently trending are #waystoannoypeople, #getwellgaga and #omgfacts. In other news, 300,000 people were made homeless in Haiti the other day. Apparently there was some sort of earthquake or something.

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CHAMPAIGN – IllinoisVentures, a University of Illinois program designed to help technology-related businesses get a start, is considering investing in a company that's seeking management help from UI President James Stukel's son, Paul.
The UI's Board of Trustees will be asked Thursday to approve a "conflict-of-interest management plan" that would pave the way for an investment in PRZM Technologies.
URBANA – A flag that flew over the Pentagon will be raised Thursday to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001.
The flag is one of 161 flags that flew over the Pentagon a year ago to mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and four airliners.
When Professor Janet Keller began teaching, Jimmy Carter was elected president, the Apple computer made its way to the market and a movie about a boxing underdog named Rocky took the viewing audience by storm. That was 1976, almost 10 years before the incoming University of Illinois freshmen were born.
Since then, four presidents have taken office, the once state-of-the art Apple computers are now relics and Sylvester Stallone has made four additional Rocky movies, making him far less of an underdog. There is an obvious generation gap between Keller and her students.
CHAMPAIGN – When Champaign police hired Kevin Crum, a Champaign-Urbana native who had grown up to become a cop in Kentucky, they thought they knew what they were getting.
A background check, psychological testing and references were all good, so Crum, 31, was hired under Champaign's experienced officer program. Crum's Aug. 30 arrest in Harrodsburg, Ky., on charges of attempted murder and carrying deadly weapons shocked people in both Champaign and Kentucky.
Viruses are adept at delivering their genetic material to the inside of our cells.
And while it often makes us sick, there's nothing personal about it. The viruses do it to replicate and survive.
URBANA – Champaign County's presiding judge is suggesting a rather sweeping change in the way poor people accused of felony crimes are represented.
Judge J.G. Townsend has proposed hiring two more full-time public defenders and doing away with the contracts now held by four local attorneys to represent indigent clients.
Mother and daughter Hope and Holly Labisky of Champaign have been photographing and researching cemeteries in Illinois for seven years, and they are sharing their findings in a new book called "Cemeterying with Hope."
Holly Labisky also started her own publishing business called For More than Pavement to bring out the 200-page book, for which she and her mother are taking orders and offering delivery.
SAVOY– Bill Smith is a longtime Eastern Illinois University professor, an avid cross-country skier, a published author and a three-term member of the Savoy Village Board, but he says he is just happy to be alive.
Smith is on the road to recov-
CHAMPAIGN – While Motorola has been shrinking worldwide, its software design center in Champaign-Urbana has been growing.
So far this year, the company has added about 40 employees at its facility in the University of Illinois Re-search Park.
HARRODSBURG, Ky. ? The security guard noticed Kevin Crum right away.
It was just after 2 a.m., and Don Barnett was tired. He chugged some coffee and "slapped my face a couple times."
By the time he saw Crum's weapon and bulletproof body armor, Barnett was wide awake and on the phone to the police.


Following a three-way pitch, LGS Partnership has been appointed by construction group Morgan Sindall to redesign its corporate website. The site launches in July and will include a live share-price feed and a media centre.
The illustrator, who has four books under his belt and clients like Little Mix and Drag Race UK, talks brands during Pride, developing his style and the importance of drawing
The new look for the two leagues has been developed by Turquoise branding studio, and will be used across broadcast, communications, stadiums and more.
From recharge days to Fridays off and flexible hours, we speak to studios about how they are rethinking the working week.
Design studio Koto has rebranded the social media platform – intended for those aged between 12-25 – with a focus on community.


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Yesterday at noon, the first list of acts was revealed for this year’s Electric Picnic festival:
I’m particularly looking forward to seeing The Pretenders, Band Of Horses, Pond, A Tribe Called Quest, and, of course, Duran Duran.
I was invited on to Matt Cooper’s show The Last Word on Ireland’s Today FM to talk about the festival. Have a listen here
Electric Picnic 2017 takes place at Stradbally, Co. Laois, from September 1st to 3rd, and is Sold Out


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COLLEGE STATION Police are looking for two suspects who allegedly robbed a man near the Texas A&M campus.
It happened a around 1:30 Friday morning in the 500 block of Cross Street near College Avenue in the Northgate Area.
The victim told police he was walking home from the A&M campus when he was approached by two males, who knocked him unconscious, stole his wallet and fled the scene.
The suspects are described as males who are six feet tall, with muscular builds.
If you have any information call College Station police.
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Ian Kemp enriched the world of music in a variety of ways. A distinguished academic who helped mould the careers of many of Britain's most eminent practitioners, he was also one of the leading musicologists of his generation. Amid a lifetime's devotion to Hector Berlioz came equally authoritative studies of Michael Tippett, Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
Born in Scotland, Ian Kemp spent his formative years in Essex. He was educated at Felsted School, his prodigious talents taking him to St John's College, Cambridge. There, amid regular trips to the New Music Courses at Darmstadt, he benefited from the stern but benevolent tutelage of two musical heavyweights, Robin Orr and Patrick Hadley, who instilled in him the academic rigour that so characterised his later career.
He had a brief flirtation with musical criticism for the New Statesman. Finding his feet with the publishing house of Schott and Co, he enjoyed a most productive decade as a music editor, establishing productive friendships with many of leading composers, most notably Michael Tippett.
Erudite and persuasive, Kemp proved to be a fine writer, his articles appearing in many academic journals as well as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. His early reputation, forged with a stylish 60th birthday tribute to Michael Tippett, published in 1965, was eventually followed in 1984 by the more magisterial Tippett: the Composer and his Music. In the interim came less expansive volumes on Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill.
An equally enduring legacy will be his contribution to our understanding of the music of the French composer, Hector Berlioz. Proving a pivotal figure in the establishment of the New Berlioz Edition, he took responsibility for the 1975 volume of Songs for Voice and Orchestra. His painstaking study of Les Troyens, published in 1988, also attracted widespread critical acclaim. After leaving music publishing, Kemp moved into higher education. Lecturing at Aberdeen University and then Cambridge, in 1977, he succeeded his friend Alexander Goehr as Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. Three years later he moved to Manchester University.
He was seen too rarely as a conductor with professional orchestras but led student and amateurs with humour and inexhaustible enthusiasm. At Cambridge in 1973 he was responsible for the University Opera Society production of Verdi's rarely heard I Due Foscari. Particularly memorable was his shaping in 1980 of the first performance of the elegiac Cello Concerto by his Leeds colleague James Brown. He wore his distinction lightly but his scholarly mind and a high musical intellect were apparent. Many were the lives he enriched and the minds he engaged.
Ian Manson Kemp, musician and scholar: born Edinburgh 26 June 1931; married firstly Gillian Turner (one son, three daughters), secondly Sian Edwards (one son); died Lewes, East Sussex 16 September 2011.Reuse content

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Parental mediation of internet use from a gender perspective
The aim of this research was to know parents’ perceptions of their children’s use of Internet, and the mediation strategies they used to promote the benefits and avoid the risks of online activity. This is a descriptive study based on a survey of 186 parents whose children were in the third and sixth year of primary school education. Most parents questioned tended to use “pure” mediation strategies that were instructive in nature, followed by shared and restrictive approaches; one third of parents surveyed said they applied a mix of mediation strategies; parents adapted their interventions according to the perception of the type of Internet activity their children were engaged in, and age. Although altogether no significant differences were found in parental mediation of the use of the Internet depending on the sex of the parents or that of the children, some trends that could have implications for the process of gender socialization in the media and familiar context are indicated.
For more information:
Bartau-Rojas, I., Aierbe-Barandiaran, A., & Oregui-González, E. (2020). Mediación parental del uso de Internet desde una perspectiva de género. Revista Electrónica De Investigación Educativa, 22(e02), 1-14.
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AbstractIt can often appear to Police officers that they are damned if they do make decisions, and damned if they don’t in mental health cases. A culture has evolved that triggers decision apathy and defensive decisions that arguably do not benefit the Police, public, or the mental health arrestee. Decisions of this presenting complexity in whatever profession must be made and firmly rooted within the current evidence base, lawful, and also be reasonable in the given situation. It is therefore not unreasonable to expect officers to explain and account for how and why they acted as they did, and the frameworks (statutes/ codes) which should underpin such practice decisions. It is of paramount importance that Police officers are kept appraised of developments in mental health cases and how this crucially will inform, and sometimes correct custom and practice. This article in three parts aims firstly to refresh officer’s knowledge. Second, inform current practice and address practice from recent cases involving the police and mental health patients. Thirdly, and perhaps the most crucial through case examples offer a decision making framework to support operational staff in the right direction for mental health practice and defend practice challenges that may arise at all levels.
CitationWilliams, B. & Jones, S. (2012) Mental Health Decisions; what every officer should consider. Police Professional., July executive feature, 20-24
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Lived experiences of negative symptoms in first-episode psychosis: A qualitative secondary analysisGee, Brioney; Hodgekins, Jo; Lavis, Anna; Notley, Caitlin; Birchwood, Max; Everard, Linda; Freemantle, Nick; Jones, Peter B.; Singh, Swaran P.; Amos, Tim; et al. (Wiley, 2018-03-24)
Cashing in on curiosity and spectacle: The forensic patient and news mediaMorley, Sharon; Taylor, Paul J.; University of Chester (Taylor & Francis, 2016-05-24)Health and social care professionals are gatekeepers to, and custodians of, confidential service user information. In the United Kingdom (UK), police investigations have unveiled cases of payments being made to public service officials by journalists in return for service user information. The purpose of this discussion is to investigate such cases in the context of high security forensic care. This paper provides a discussion drawing upon two UK-based case studies of prosecutions of public service workers relating to the sale of confidential information. The analysis presented here illuminates upon the salient and connected issues at work that have led to the transgression of legal obligations and professional responsibilities/principles of confidentiality. A fuller reading of the context in which these transgressions occur, and motivations that exist, may well serve to inform policy, training, guidance or vigilance in relation to the preserving of service user information in the future.
Decision making for refusals of treatment—a framework to considerJones, Steven; Monteith, Paul; Williams, Barry (Journal of Paramedic Practice, 02/05/2014)Challenges to practice are encountered on a daily basis by paramedics that often share many common recurring themes around consent or refusal to treatment. The benefits of training and open debate acknowledge the often complex decisions relating to consent and mental capacity and reduce opportunities for future legal challenge. How the law should be integrated into everyday decision making will be examined and a framework proposed to assist practice for defendable decision making. This article was inspired following joint training undertaken with paramedics and local critical incident managers from the police, which highlighted a need for a practical decision-making framework to be available for application during incidents and for use as an analytical tool to aid post-decision reflection and learning at debrief.


Bath have moved Andy Williams to outside centre to try to counteract the threat of England hero Jamie Noon in tomorrow's Zurich Premiership match against Newcastle Falcons at Kingston Park.
The Wales international scrum half, who signed for Bath in December, has played all his rugby this season on the wing as injuries have taken their toll, but said he is looking forward to his first start in the No. 13 shirt against the Falcons.
"I am enjoying my rugby at the moment and that is the same whether I am at 13, 14 or nine," he said.
"I played a few minutes at outside centre against Leicester last month but since I have been back have started all the matches on the wing.
"It has been a big week in terms of learning the position, but I have enjoyed it and I am looking forward to facing Jamie Noon tomorrow."
Head coach John Connolly has been forced into bringing Williams inside due to an injury crisis in the backs division that has ravaged the side over the past couple of months.
All of the club's outside centres are currently sidelined, with Mike Tindall (foot), Robbie Fleck (calf), Andy Higgins (hamstring), Frikkie Welsh (thigh) and Alex Crockett (hernia) all injured, while Nick Abendanon (England Under- 19) and Tom Cheeseman (Wales Under-19) are involved in the Under-19 World Cup in South Africa.
Inside centres Ryan Davis and Spencer Davey are also out of action at present.
Unable to field the same back line on consecutive weekends, Connolly knows that tomorrow's game will be extremely tough as Newcastle welcome back one or two players from injury for the game.
"Newcastle are a very good side and it is always tough to play them," he said. "We do have a lot of injuries at the moment, but we have great strength in depth within this squad and we are looking for a result."
All the England internationals return to a starting place in the Bath side, as does Brendon Daniel after recovering from a back problem, while Martyn Wood is preferred to Nick Walshe at scrum half and Gareth Delve makes his first Zurich Premiership start of the season at blindside flanker.
Geraint Lewis moves to the bench where young Academy centre Pete Murchie is included for the first time this season.
BATH: Matt Perry; Steve Booth, Andy Williams, Olly Barkley, Brendon Daniel; Chris Malone, Martyn Wood; Matt Stevens, Lee Mears, Duncan Bell, Steve Borthwick (capt), Danny Grewcock, Gareth Delve, James Scaysbrook, Zak Feaunati.
Reps: Jonathan Humphreys, David Barnes, Geraint Lewis, Rob Fidler, Ramiro Pez, Nick Walshe, Pete Murchie.


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How racism exists in our community
Published Thursday, 20-Nov-2008 in issue 1091
Keith Boykin has been double marginalized.
The black New York Times best-selling author, host of Black Entertainment Television’s “My Two Cents” and editor of The Daily Voice, has reported on cases of racism in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.
“There is something wrong when we as an oppressed people in the LGBT community are oppressing our own who are also fighting in the struggle of equality and freedom,” Boykin wrote in 2005, responding to incidents of discrimination in San Francisco’s Castro district.
Despite the fact GLBT people know the impact of discrimination they aren’t precluded from showing prejudice.
According to the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, “An individual’s racial or ethnic identity plays a powerful role in social belonging and group affiliation. LGB individuals who are black, Latino, Asian, Pacific Islander or Native American are members of a ‘double minority.’”
When California’s voters passed Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage on Nov. 4, gay bloggers and columnists made much ado about the black, Latino and Asian Pacific Islanders role in pushing the initiative through.
According to exit polls, 70 percent of black voters voted “yes” on Proposition 8, 53 percent of Latino voters passed it, and 49 percent of Asian Pacific Islanders voted “yes.”
While Proposition 8 has focused some activists’ attention on outreach to communities of color, some question what’s being done to reach out to black, Latino and Asian members of our community.
“I think what we’re dealing with here in light of Proposition 8 passing is issues of race and the LGBT community surfacing,” said Ramon Johnson, the Guide to Gay Life on About.com. “It’s something that has been longstanding in the community – a disconnect with diversity within the community.”
“In light of Proposition 8, one of our faults is, we haven’t embraced enough our own differences,” Johnson said. “We’re assumed to be gay first and then our other identity second. But, there are LGBT people of all ethnic backgrounds and all religious identities. There is not one face of the LGBT community, or one voice.”
Johnson said for too long there’s been one image of the GLBT community; which, he says, is particularly interesting considering a diverse crowd, including a number of ethnic backgrounds, took part in the Stonewall Riots in 1969.
Bar nights that cater to one race, and racial tension in the GLBT community can be attributed, Johnson said, to the disconnect diverse communities feel from the GLBT population at large.
“You talk about separate entertaining nights, or separate Pride events, and that’s a result of the feeling of disconnection, of being invisible within the larger LGBT community,” he said.
While some recognize the division in the community, others simply choose to ignore race as an issue among GLBT people.
“Many gay activists want to believe that there aren’t issues of racism within the gay community,” wrote Temple University Sociology Professor Chong-suk Han in a 2006 article titled “A Different Shade of Queer: Race, Sexuality, and Marginalizing by the Marginalized.” “As members of an oppressed group, they like to think that they are above oppressing others. Yet, looking around any gayborhood, something becomes blatantly clear to those of us on the outside looking in. Within the queer spaces that have sprung up in once neglected and forgotten neighborhoods, inside the slick new storefronts and trendy restaurants, and on magazine covers, gay America has given a whole new meaning to the term ‘whitewash.’”
As Boykin says, “Let’s face it – racism is still a problem in the LGBT community.”
‘Whiteness in the gay community is everywhere’
Racism among GLBT people can be implicit or explicit – from the online ads that read “no fems, no fats, no Asians” to the documented cases of discrimination at bars and clubs.
In the 1980s, non-white GLBT patrons at bars were asked for multiple forms of identification to be allowed in. It was documented most widespread in San Francisco, and on the other coast, the “Boston Bar Study” showed black gay men faced similar treatment at bars that welcomed gay white men.
According to a survey in 2000 conducted with black GLBT people in nine U.S. cities, a third of the respondents reported negative experiences in predominantly white GLBT organizations and with white GLBT persons in bars and clubs.
In 2005, Les Natali, the owner of the San Francisco gay bar Badlands, was cited by the city’s Human Rights Commission, which documented 13 incidents of racial discrimination by the staff. Examples of discrimination included refused entry for black patrons, and white patrons being served first despite black patrons being first in line. Natali has denied the accusations, and a settlement, which was not made public, was reached in mediation after a 19-month dispute.
In 2006, there were also reports of verbal attacks on gay Latinos by gay whites in San Francisco’s Castro district.
John Mendoza, who protested in the Castro against racism in the GLBT community, said he was told by a gay white male to “go back to Mexico you fucking wetback where you belong.”
When we talk about race dynamics in the LGBT community, it mirrors race dynamics in general culture. Just because people identify a particular sexuality does not make them void of any other societal influences, or societal impacts on their lives. This is nothing new. No one should be surprised. Race relations have been passed on through society. — Ramon Johnson, the Guide to Gay Life on About.com
In Dallas, Adrian Harris, a member of the Abe Lincoln Black Republican Caucus, a civic group of gay and bisexual men, said predominantly white gay clubs in Dallas still host “Negro nights.”
“Whiteness in the gay community is everywhere, from what we see, what we experience, and more importantly, what we desire,” Han wrote in “A Different Shade of Queer …” “Media images now popular in television and film such as ‘Will & Grace,’ My Best Friend’s Wedding, In & Out, ‘Queer as Folk,’ ‘Queer Eye for the Straight Guy,’ ‘The L-Word,’ etc. promote a monolithic image of the ‘gay community’ as being overwhelmingly upper-middle class – if not simply rich – and white.
“Even the most perfunctory glance through gay publications exposes the paucity of non-white gay images. It’s almost as if no gay men or women of color exist outside of fantasy cruises to Jamaica, Puerto Rico, or the ‘Orient.’ And even there, we apparently only exist to serve the needs of the largely gay white population seeking an ‘authentic’ experience of some kind. To the larger gay community, our existence, as gay men and women of color, is merely a footnote, an inconvenient fact that is addressed in the most insignificant and patronizing way. Sometime between Stonewall and ‘Will & Grace,’ gay leaders, along with the gay press, have decided that the best way to be accepted was to mimic upper middle-class white America.”
Johnson also attributed disconnects in the community to the notion the GLBT community must present one face, or have one voice to present a united front.
GLBT people of color lose a connection with their community, he said, when they don’t seem themselves represented on television or in media.
Johnson said, similar to the diversity in the black, Latino, or Asian communities, for example, there are liberal and conservative members of the GLBT community, religious and non-religious members – and those who are less accepting of diversity.
“Every community is equally diverse,” he said. “When we talk about healing, the first step, A., is recognizing not all black people or Latino people are the same; and B., is realizing we can’t win this battle on our own. We need our straight allies, we need healing within our own community.”
In regards to Proposition 8, Johnson said, opponents of the same-sex marriage ban didn’t do enough to target communities of color.
“There are thousands of same-sex couples of color, but very few were in advertisements for No on 8,” he said. “The opponents soliciting support, very few of them went to people of color; the Yes on 8 people did. It’s not really a surprise. As long the LGBT community of color remains invisible within the LGBT community, so does the heterosexual community of color.”
‘No fems, no fats, no …”
Much has been said of online profiles that specify, for example, “no blacks,” “no Asians,” or “white only.” The debate is heated, at times, with some calling the limits racist.
So, when someone specifies a preference for one race, is it racism? Or, is it an issue of sexual compatibility?
There are two sides to the argument Johnson sees debated in his online forums. Some think requirements, such as “no Asians, no blacks” etc., reflect sexual preference, not underlying tension between races; others think the blatant limits reflect internalized racism. Johnson says he doesn’t subscribe to one view or the other – but he encourages readers online to keep open minds and not limit the possibility for love.
“The more we narrow down our options, the more we limit ourselves, the more we limit the possibility for bringing love into our lives,” he said. “Personally, I don’t believe in limits to love or connection.”
Han takes a more pointed view, identifying the behavior in online profiles as racist, and potentially damaging to people within the community.
“‘No fems, no fats, and no Asians,’ is a common quote found in many gay personal ads, both in print and in cyberspace,” Han writes. “Gay white men routinely tell us that we are lumped with the very least of desirable men within the larger gay community. To many of them, we are reduced to no more than one of many characteristics that are considered undesirable. Rather than confronting this racism, many of these gay Asian brothers have become apologists for this outlandish racist behavior. We damage ourselves by not only allowing it, but actively participating in it. We excuse their racist behavior because we engage in the same types of behavior. When seeking sexual partners for ourselves, we also exclude ‘fems, fats, and Asians.’ We hope that we are somehow the exception that proves the rule. ‘We’re not like other Asians,’ we tell ourselves. I’m sure that similar thoughts go on in other minds, only, Asian might be replaced with black, Latino, Native American, etc. In our minds, we are always the exceptions.”
It’s not likely we’ll see an end to users on dating or hookup sites specifying preferences for one race over another, but some dating sites are eliminating fields that ask users’ race or ethnic background or preference. They’re replaced with questions about compatibility, likes and dislikes, goals and interests.
“That’s significant,” Johnson said. “There are a significant number of people thirsting for a connection beyond a checkbox.”
‘We’ve identified the elephant in the room’
Where do we go from here? Conversations about race relations in the community are just beginning. Online, Johnson’s forums on race in the gay community reflect the issue of race relations in society as a whole. “When we talk about race dynamics in the LGBT community, it mirrors race dynamics in general culture,” he said. “Just because people identify a particular sexuality does not make them void of any other societal influences, or societal impacts on their lives. This is nothing new. No one should be surprised. Race relations have been passed on through society.”
“There’s this misconception that sexuality somehow makes us these intangible beings, or this intangible identity that media has defined for us,” he said noting GLBT people are as capable of feeling division between races as other communities.
Johnson said we’ve taken the first steps to healing the divides among diverse GLBT people.
“We’ve identified the elephant in the room,” Johnson said. “Now we need to begin a dialogue. It’s starting to happen. We’re starting to reach out to each other. We start by starting a dialogue that’s inclusive of all voices. We need to start having town hall meetings, online dialogues, groups – all to make the connection between people.”

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TAMPA, Fla. – New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone is into his second full week on the bench after having a pacemaker inserted and says he's feeling “awesome.” Boone had the procedure done at St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on March 3 and was back on the job after missing just three games. “Just a lot different, honestly,” Boone said before Sunday’s road game against the Toronto Blue Jays. “Energy.
Even cardio-vascular workout capabilities. Done some (Peloton) rides I haven’t done in a few months that I didn’t even realize, oh, this is what it’s supposed to be like.” Boone’s pacemaker is to keep his heart rate from dropping below 50-60 beats per minute or from rising too high. “Still have some arm restrictions,” Boone said. “So I


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Shardul Thakur, the Indian fast bowler, going by reports, has travelled 700 kilometres by car to play for Mumbai in the ongoing edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy. The speedster, reportedly, travelled by car from Ahmedabad to Jaipur to join Mumbai’s bio-secure bubble ahead of the match against Rajasthan in Jaipur on Saturday, February 27 at the KL Saini Ground.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been several travel restrictions in the country. Thakur could have commuted in a flight in no more than 80 minutes. But because of the current situation, he had to take the 10-hour road trip to be present for the One Day domestic tournament.
Shardul Thakur took the car at 5 am on February 22
“We are helpless, we cannot do anything else in the current situation,” Sanjay Naik, the secretary of the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA), was quoted as saying to The Independent.
Had he taken a flight, he would have been needed to serve a three-day quarantine period, which would have denied him an opportunity to play for Mumbai in the Pink City.
“He will take the car at 5 am (on February 22) and should reach by evening in Jaipur. If we had chosen to fly him down he would have had to take three-day quarantine in Jaipur. This way he will be ready to play on Tuesday itself if he feels ok,” he added.
“To go from the Indian team’s bio-bubble to Mumbai’s bio-bubble directly and avoid quarantining, he couldn’t have taken a flight. So, he chose to travel by road. It speaks about his commitment to the Mumbai team,” a source near Shardul told The Times of India.
Back in December-January, Shardul played for India in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Australia. He wasn’t a first-choice bowler for the hosts, but due to a series of injuries, he got his chance.
He got a chance in the final Test at the Gabba in Brisbane. In that game, he picked up three wickets and scored a sparkling 67 in the first innings. In the second, he returned with four wickets, guiding India to a series victory.
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Recently the last farm on the road has been retired to revert to native bush and plants. The owners have had the whole farm convented with the Banks Peninsula Conservation Trust.
The farm road to the crater Rim Walkway is now open to the public to walk right up the last part of the valley to the Crater Rim. The Crater Rim Walkway follows the southern edge of a long extinct volcano. The sea now comes into part of this to form Lyttleton Port of Christchurch.
here are some photographs taken on our walk last week.
Dacrycarpus dacrydioides - Kahikatea
Kaituna Reserve before the start of the walk
Kahiatea at ground level showing the base of this tree probably 4-500 years old.
Kahikatea tree above the surround forest
Kahikatea on the right and Matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) on the left
Podocarpus totara - Totara
Looking up to the Crater Rim from about 75% of the way there
At the top looking down on Te Waihora (Lake Ellesmere) and Kaitorete Spit
Totara Logs left to weather after many years - an erie but interesting sight
Panorama of Kaituna Valley
Totara trees sculptured by the southerly wind
Totara trees still standing guard over the valley.

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Historical records matching Lt. General Jubal Early (CSA)
About Lt. General Jubal Early (CSA)
Jubal Anderson Early (November 3, 1816 – March 2, 1894) was a lawyer and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He served under Stonewall Jackson and then Robert E. Lee for almost the entire war, rising from regimental command to lieutenant general and the command of an infantry corps in the Army of Northern Virginia. He was the Confederate commander in key battles of the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including a daring raid to the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The articles written by him for the Southern Historical Society in the 1870s established the Lost Cause point of view as a long-lasting literary and cultural phenomenon.
Early was born in Franklin County, Virginia, third of ten children of Ruth Hairston and Joab Early. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1837, ranked 18th of 50. During his tenure at the Academy he was engaged in a dispute with a fellow cadet named Lewis Addison Armistead. Armistead broke a mess plate over Early's head, an incident that prompted Armistead's resignation from the Academy. After graduating from the Academy, Early fought against the Seminole in Florida as a second lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Artillery regiment before resigning from the Army for the first time in 1838. He practiced law in the 1840s as a prosecutor for both Franklin and Floyd Counties in Virginia. He was noted for a case in Mississippi, where he beat the top lawyers in the state. His law practice was interrupted by the Mexican-American War from 1846–1848. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1841–1843.
Early was a Whig and strongly opposed secession at the April 1861 Virginia convention for that purpose. However, he was soon aroused by the actions of the Federal government when President Abraham Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers to suppress the rebellion. He accepted a commission as a brigadier general in the Virginia Militia. He was sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, to raise three regiments and then commanded one of them, the 24th Virginia Infantry, as a colonel in the Confederate States Army.
Early was promoted to brigadier general after the First Battle of Bull Run (or First Manassas) in July 1861. In that battle, he displayed valor at Blackburn's Ford and impressed General P.G.T. Beauregard. He fought in most of the major battles in the Eastern Theater, including the Seven Days Battles, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and numerous battles in the Shenandoah Valley. During the Gettysburg Campaign, Early's Division occupied York, Pennsylvania, the largest Northern town to fall to the Rebels during the war.
Early was trusted and supported by Robert E. Lee, the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee affectionately called Early his "Bad Old Man," because of his short temper. He appreciated Early's aggressive fighting and ability to command units independently. Most of Early's soldiers referred to him as "Old Jube" or "Old Jubilee" with enthusiasm and affection. His subordinate generals often felt little affection. Early was an inveterate fault-finder and offered biting criticism of his subordinates at the least opportunity. He was generally blind to his own mistakes and reacted fiercely to criticism or suggestions from below.
Early was wounded at Williamsburg in 1862, while leading a charge against staggering odds.
He convalesced at his home in Rocky Mount, Virginia. In two months, he returned to the war, under the command of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, in time for the Battle of Malvern Hill. There, Early demonstrated his career-long lack of aptitude for battlefield navigation and his brigade was lost in the woods; it suffered 33 casualties without any significant action. In the Northern Virginia Campaign, Early was noted for his performance at the Battle of Cedar Mountain and arrived in the nick of time to reinforce Maj. Gen. A.P. Hill on Jackson's left on Stony Ridge in the Second Battle of Bull Run.
At Antietam, Early ascended to division command when his commander, Alexander Lawton, was wounded. Lee was impressed with his performance and retained him at that level. At Fredericksburg, Early saved the day by counterattacking the division of Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, which penetrated a gap in Jackson's lines. He was promoted to major general on January 17, 1863. At Chancellorsville, Lee gave him a force of 5,000 men to defend Fredericksburg at Marye's Heights against superior forces (two corps) under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick. Early was able to delay the Union forces and pin down Sedgwick while Lee and Jackson attacked the remainder of the Union troops to the west. Sedgwick's eventual attack on Early up Marye's Heights is sometimes known as the Second Battle of Fredericksburg.
During the Gettysburg Campaign, Early commanded a division in the corps of Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell. His troops were instrumental in defeating Union defenders at Winchester, capturing a number of prisoners, and opening up the Shenandoah Valley for Lee's oncoming forces. Early's division, augmented with cavalry, eventually marched eastward across the South Mountain range in Pennsylvania, seizing vital supplies and horses along the way. He captured Gettysburg on June 26 and demanded a ransom, which was never paid. Two days later, he entered York County and seized York, the largest Northern town to fall to the Confederates during the war. Here, his ransom demands were partially met, including a payment of $28,000 in cash. Elements of Early's command on June 28 reached the Susquehanna River, the farthest east in Pennsylvania that any organized Confederate force would penetrate. On June 30, Early was recalled as Lee concentrated his army to meet the oncoming Federals.
Approaching Gettysburg from the northeast on July 1, 1863, Early's division was on the leftmost flank of the Confederate line. He soundly defeated Brig. Gen. Francis Barlow's division (part of the Union XI Corps), inflicting three times the casualties to the defenders as he suffered, and drove the Union troops back through the streets of town, capturing many of them. In the second day at Gettysburg, he assaulted East Cemetery Hill as part of Ewell's efforts on the Union right flank. Despite initial success, Union reinforcements arrived to repulse Early's two brigades. On the third day, Early detached one brigade to assist Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's division in an unsuccessful assault on Culp's Hill. Elements of Early's division covered the rear of Lee's army during its retreat from Gettysburg on July 4 and July 5.
Early served in the Shenandoah Valley over the winter of 1863–64. During this period, he occasionally filled in as corps commander during Ewell's absences for illness. On May 31, 1864, Lee expressed his confidence in Early's initiative and abilities at higher command levels, promoting him to the temporary rank of lieutenant general.
Upon his return from the Valley, Early fought in the Battle of the Wilderness and assumed command of the ailing A.P. Hill's Third Corps during the march to intercept Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Spotsylvania Court House. At Spotsylvania, Early occupied the relatively quiet right flank of the Mule Shoe. At the Battle of Cold Harbor, Lee replaced the ineffectual Ewell with Early as commander of the Second Corps.
Early's most important service was that summer and fall, in the Valley Campaigns of 1864, when he commanded the Confederacy's last invasion of the North. As Confederate territory was rapidly being captured by the Union armies of Grant and Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Lee sent Early's corps to sweep Union forces from the Shenandoah Valley and to menace Washington, D.C., hoping to compel Grant to dilute his forces against Lee around Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia.
Early delayed his march for several days in a futile attempt to capture a small force under Franz Sigel at Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry. He rested his men from July 4 through July 6. Although elements of his army would eventually reach the outskirts of Washington at a time when it was largely undefended, his delay at Maryland Heights prevented him from being able to attack the capital.
During the time of Early's Maryland Heights campaign, Grant sent two VI Corps divisions from the Army of the Potomac to reinforce Union Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace. With 5,800 men, he delayed Early for an entire day at the Battle of Monocacy, allowing more Union troops to arrive in Washington and strengthen its defenses. Early's invasion caused considerable panic in Washington and Baltimore, and he was able to get to the outskirts of Washington. He sent some cavalry under Brig. Gen. John McCausland to the west side of Washington.
Knowing that he did not have sufficient strength to capture the city, Early led skirmishes at Fort Stevens and Fort DeRussy. The opposing forces also had artillery duels on July 11 and July 12. Abraham Lincoln watched the fighting on both days from the parapet at Fort Stevens, his lanky frame a clear target for hostile military fire. After Early withdrew, he said to one of his officers, "Major, we haven't taken Washington, but we scared Abe Lincoln like hell."
Early crossed the Potomac into Leesburg, Virginia, on July 13 and then withdrew to the Valley. He defeated the Union army under Brig. Gen. George H. Crook at Kernstown on July 24, 1864. Six days later, he ordered his cavalry to burn the city of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in retaliation for Maj. Gen. David Hunter's burning of the homes of several prominent Southern sympathizers in Jefferson County, West Virginia earlier that month. Through early August, Early's cavalry and guerrilla forces attacked the B&O Railroad in various places.
Realizing Early could easily attack Washington, Grant sent out an army under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan to subdue his forces. At times outnumbering the Confederates three to one, Sheridan defeated Early in three battles, starting in early August, and laid waste to much of the agricultural properties in the Valley. He ensured they could not supply Lee's army. In a brilliant surprise attack, Early routed two thirds of the Union army at the Battle of Cedar Creek on October 19, 1864. In his post-battle dispatch to Lee, Early claimed that his troops were hungry and exhausted and fell out of their ranks to pillage the Union camp. This allowed Sheridan critical time to rally his demoralized troops and turn their morning defeat into victory over the Confederate Army that afternoon. One of Early's key subordinates, Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon, in his 1904 memoirs, attested that it was Early's decision to halt the attack for six hours in the early afternoon, and not disorganization in the ranks, that led to the rout that took place in the afternoon.
Most of the men of Early's corps rejoined Lee at Petersburg in December, while Early remained in the Valley to command a skeleton force. When his force was nearly destroyed at Waynesboro, Early barely escaped capture with a few members of his staff. Lee relieved Early of his command in March 1865, because he doubted Early's ability to inspire confidence in the men he would have to recruit to continue operations. He wrote to Early of the difficulty of this decision:
"While my own confidence in your ability, zeal, and devotion to the cause is unimpaired, I have nevertheless felt that I could not oppose what seems to be the current of opinion, without injustice to your reputation and injury to the service. I therefore felt constrained to endeavor to find a commander who would be more likely to develop the strength and resources of the country, and inspire the soldiers with confidence. ... [Thank you] for the fidelity and energy with which you have always supported my efforts, and for the courage and devotion you have ever manifested in the service ..."
– Robert E. Lee, letter to Early
.When the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered on April 9, 1865, Early escaped to Texas by horseback, where he hoped to find a Confederate force still holding out. He proceeded to Mexico, and from there, sailed to Cuba and Canada. Living in Toronto, he wrote his memoir, A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence, in the Confederate States of America, which focused on his Valley Campaign. The book was published in 1867.
Early was pardoned in 1868 by President Andrew Johnson, but still remained an unreconstructed rebel. In 1869, he returned to Virginia and resumed the practice of law. He was among the most vocal of those who promoted the Lost Cause movement. He criticized the actions of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet at Gettysburg. Together with retired General P.G.T. Beauregard, Early was involved with the Louisiana Lottery.
At the age of 77, after falling down a flight of stairs, Early died in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was buried in the local Spring Hill Cemetery.
Tablet honoring Jubal Early, Rocky Mount, VirginiaEarly's original inspiration for his views on the Lost Cause may have come from General Robert E. Lee. In Lee's published farewell order to the Army of Northern Virginia, the general spoke of the "overwhelming resources and numbers" that the Confederate army fought against. In a letter to Early, Lee requested information about enemy strengths from May 1864 to April 1865, the period in which his army was engaged against Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant (the Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg). Lee wrote, "My only object is to transmit, if possible, the truth to posterity, and do justice to our brave Soldiers." Lee requested all "statistics as regards numbers, destruction of private property by the Federal troops, &c." because he intended to demonstrate the discrepancy in strength between the two armies. He believed it would "be difficult to get the world to understand the odds against which we fought." Referring to newspaper accounts that accused him of culpability in the loss, he wrote, "I have not thought proper to notice, or even to correct misrepresentations of my words & acts. We shall have to be patient, & suffer for awhile at least. ... At present the public mind is not prepared to receive the truth." All of these were themes that Early and the Lost Cause writers would echo for decades.
Lost Cause themes were also taken up by memorial associations, such as the United Confederate Veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. To some degree, this concept helped the (white) Southerners to cope with the dramatic social, political, and economic changes in the postbellum era, including Reconstruction.
Early's contributions to the Confederacy's final days were considered very significant. Some historians contend that he extended the war six to nine months because of his efforts at Washington, D.C., and in the Valley. The following quote summarizes an opinion held by his admirers:
"Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now".
– James I. Robertson, Jr., Alumni Distinguished Professor of History, Virginia Tech; Member of the Board, Jubal A. Early Preservation Trust
Lt. General Jubal Early (CSA)'s Timeline
November 3, 1816
Gills Creek, Franklin County, Virginia, United States
March 2, 1894
Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
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Some people say that words are cheap, that they mean nothing if not backed by action and that’s true- to some extent. Words alone are not enough. But they are a powerful, invisible entity. To say that they mean nothing is to strip the victims who have suffered under their duress of dignity. Words carry the power to kill, the power to heal. They contain in them the power to live.
I recall a day in elementary school when a girl in my class named Crystal told me that I don’t know how to dress- that I don’t have style. Those words hurt. They made me feel less. So I moped all day and went home and cried. For hours. Finally my mom took me to Marshalls and a hundred dollars later I felt accomplished enough to go back out into the world and face the ‘Crystals’ of life.
In all this, I was never hit. I was never bullied. I was never threatened. I had no reason to feel the pain I did but to this day, some 20 years later I can still recall the hollow pain in my chest from that day. Words. They matter! Words are the place where worlds collide. Why? Who instigated power-filled words?
It started in the beginning… the beginning of EVERYTHING.
“In the beginning God created… He said ‘let there be’…and there was.”( Genesis chapter 1.)
God didn’t dance; he didn’t paint in blood; he didn’t sing…He spoke. His word created. We creatures of free will, created in His image, and endowed with power beyond our wildest comprehensions. We have the power to speak and be heard.
What we say matters. What we feel counts. What we make others feel with our words matters. Whether inadvertently or purposefully, we hold the place where worlds collide in our very mouths.
So use what you have carefully!
Speak hope. Speak truth. Speak life.
You matter, therefore your words matter.


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Are Government Workers Facing a Broken Promise? Public workers may not be getting the retirement pay they've traditionally been guaranteed by contracts, laws and state constitutions. Last week, a federal bankruptcy ruling declared that Detroit's pension plans for city workers could be modified , just like any other debts owed by the city. That has other cities threatening to declare insolvency, in part to cut pension payments. But some Democrats, as well as Republicans, are already saying that state and local governments can't afford to make contributions any more. What's in store for firefighters, police officers, trash collectors and teachers who've accepted modest pay knowing their old age would be taken care of?
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
The Trump agenda: where's the beef? President Trump says big things are happening. After celebrating a House bill on health care, he doesn’t yet have Senate agreement. With James Comey’s public testimony scheduled tomorrow, the President today tweeted his selection of a new FBI Director. Is the Chief Executive all style and no substance? Later, terror attacks in Iran and conflicting claims about who’s behind them.
Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.
What happens when America retreats from the world? Is President Trump taking his "America First" agenda to extremes, withdrawing the country from the international stage on trade and climate change, distancing America from its traditional allies across the Atlantic and even threatening to physically isolate the country through the building of a wall along its southern border? León Krauze guest hosts.


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What channel is the Rhode Island men's basketball game on? How to watch URI at Loyola Chicago
Loyola Chicago is looking to stop its three-game home slide with a win against Rhode Island. The Ramblers have gone 6-7 in home games. Loyola Chicago has a 7-13 record against teams over .500. The Rams are 4-12 in A-10 play. Rhode Island has a 3-6 record in games decided by at least 10 points. The Ramblers and Rams meet Wednesday for the first time in A-10 play this season.
Over the last 10 games: Ramblers: 3-7, averaging 66.1 points, 26.9 rebounds, 14.0 assists, 5.1 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.9 points per game. Rams: 2-8, averaging 65.7 points, 30.7 rebounds, 9.3 assists, 7.8 steals and 3.6 blocks per game while shooting 39.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.1 points.
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When and where does Rhode Island play Loyola Chicago?
Chicago; Wednesday, 9 p.m.
How to watch Rhode Island men's basketball at Loyola Chicago Ramblers?
The game will be televised on CBS Sports Network.
How to listen to Rhode Island men's basketball - Loyola Chicago?
The game will be broadcast locally on The Varsity Network.
Braden Norris is shooting 36.5% from beyond the arc with 2.2 made 3-pointers per game for the Ramblers, while averaging 10.8 points and 3.9 assists. Philip Alston is averaging 15.6 points and 5.2 rebounds over the past 10 games for Loyola Chicago. Ishmael Leggett is shooting 40.8% and averaging 16.6 points for the Rams.
What is the betting line for the URI-Loyola Chicago game?
Odds will be posted here on the day of the game.

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Local chefs and bakers “Friday Night Foodtique” invites community to taste and shop
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - The Renegade Bakery and Culinary Studio is a shared kitchen made up of vendors with all different specialties.
“We wanted to open our kitchen for other people to be able to say, “Hey, I have an opportunity to get out there in front of the public to see what demand there is for my product without a lot of upfront capital costs,’” said Isabel McPartlin, the studio owner.
“There’s some amazing food that people have no idea is out there,” said Kathy Johnson, Gumbeaux Cajun Catering Company owner.
For the last few months, businesses have participated in “Friday Night Foodtique.” Every Friday they open their doors for the public to come in, taste, and purchase their products.
“It started out really slow the first week but we’ve had people return and people bring their friends. So it’s really grown substantially in a little over a month. It’s been great,” said Johnson.
“Everybody here is contributing in some way, you know their outreach. That’s really what we’ve been doing. It’s all word of mouth and guerilla marketing,” said McPartlin.
McPartlin says as a small business owner herself, she’s hoping to help others thrive.
“I’ve always been a small business and I feel like we need places to support small business because that is the backbone of every community,” said McPartlin.
Foodtique happens every Friday from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Renegade Bakery and Culinary Studio located at 2606 Texas Ave in Bryan.
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Weber Shandwick Takes Home Seven APAC SABREs
BEIJING, November 11, 2011 – Weber Shandwick and its clients were recently honored with seven Asia Pacific SABRE Awards – the most awarded to any agency – at a ceremony in Singapore, sponsored by The Holmes Report. The awards recognized client work in Australia, China, India and Malaysia from a variety of industries, and also named the firm Asia Pacific Consumer Consultancy of the Year and India Consultancy of the Year.
“This latest recognition of is testament to the talent of our people, who continuously deliver exceptional, best-in-class work; and to our clients with whom we share these awards as always.” said Tim Sutton, chairman, Weber Shandwick Asia Pacific.
This year’s Weber Shandwick winning client campaigns are:
- Indian Sub-Continent: Save the Children, Every One (India)
- Consumer Products/Services: P&G Gillette, Shave Sutra: Shave India Movement (India)
- Marketing to Consumers – New Product: McDonald’s “Make Room for Happiness” (China) Employee Communications: Pfizer PawClub Internal Launch (Australia)
- Not for Profit: Youth Asia, YOUTH’10 – Malaysia’s Largest Youth Festival (Malaysia)
The APAC SABRE Awards are the latest in a series of industry accolades for Weber Shandwick, most recently named Agency of the Year in Hong Kong by Marketingmagazine and receiving 11 IPRA Golden World Awards – more than any other firm.


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Historic Sundial after Georg Brentel the Younger
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From the 15th to the 17th century, the heyday of science and instrument making took place. Hans Lipperhey, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei built the first telescopes. Georg Peuerbach and Regiomontanus introduced the earth-parallel gnomon in Europe. John Harrison solved with his precise chronometers the problem of calculating longitude while at sea.
During this time, the scholars Rudolf von Graffenried and Georg Brentel the Younger dealt with the timekeeping and especially sundials. They wrote books and articles about the timekeeping with the sundial and the necessary instruments they attached as cutting sheets to the textbooks. The dials had to be cut out by the customers, glued to a wooden plate and then tilted at a certain angle to the ground to be functional.
Exclusively at Helios sundials, the studied graphic designer Jens Schmitz-Scherzer now presents his hand-drawn, meticulously crafted cardboard kits based on the original dials of the two brilliant gnomonicians. Enclosed you find a well-understood construction manual (German), a detailed instruction manual and a small treatise on the time measuring. In addition, Prof. Dr. med. Karl G. Hofbauer wrote a biography of the designers. With a little craftsmanship come out of it fully functional sundials, equipped with a compass and a gnomon.
Sundial after Georg Brentel the Younger
This sundial with the original dial by Georg Brentel the Younger has dials inside! Namely, a south sundial flanked by a polar east and a polar west sundial. The gnomon is a ball in the center. The shadow of the ball indicates both the true solar time and the date.
The sundials are calculated for 47.5°N. With the help of prisms, the sundial can be tilted for different latitudes between 39.5°N and 55.5°N. The built-in compass allows you to align the sundial to the north.


text: Perhaps the speaker himself did not notice his erasure of our collective history. After all, our national zeitgeist, like that of a trauma burdened family, is to move forward, forgetting the past as soon as possible. Microaggression is subtle, riding beneath normative cultural messages, and stealthily attacking the hearts and souls of it's targets. Microaggressions do not only harm their intended targets, but, over time, also deaden the souls of their users. In the end, everyone is harmed.


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Welcome to beautiful Oxnard, California, where the weather is perfect (I'm writing this on a 70-degree morning while sitting on a bench overlooking the ocean) and the only thing that gets me more fired up than a Pacific Ocean breeze is this: football season is here.
The Dallas Cowboys will open training camp with their first official practice of the 2014 season Thursday, beginning the journey to what they hope is the franchise's first playoff season since 2009.
Here are three questions I'll be looking to find the answers to over the next three weeks following the team:
1. How's your back Tony... really? The Cowboys quarterback isn't given enough credit for the way he finished the 2013 season -- leading Dallas to a road win in our nation's capital while a back injury that would eventually require surgery barely allowed him to walk after the game (you should have seen him hobble to the podium for his postgame press conference). That said, with Kyle Orton now enjoying the early dinners and discounted green fees of retirement, I think it's safe to say -- the Cowboys season comes down to if Romo is able to play 16 games. Brandon Weeden may not have been given a fair shake with the problems in Cleveland while he was there, but that's not a theory the Cowboys are hoping to have to test at any point this season. I, and every other writer, photographer, and radio show host in Oxnard will be watching every move Tony Romo makes to see -- how's your back, Tony... really?
2. Who is William Wallace? Leadership is so important in professional sports (in life, really). So, when the Cowboys decided to allow DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher leave in free agency and then Sean Lee went down with a knee injury in offseason workouts, it left me wondering -- who is playing the role of Mel Gibson in Braveheart on this squad? You know, the guy rocking the blue face paint that every other person on the field is looking to when times are tough? Typically, that position on an NFL team is earned, and the training camp grind is fertile ground for a player looking to grow respect from his teammates. So, which of the Cowboys players wants to become William Wallace?
3. Is "the process" actually making progress? I've invented a fun little game here in Oxnard. I'm going to count the number of times Jason Garrett says the word, "process," in his press conferences during training camp. The over/under is 500. The Cowboys head coach has been preaching the "it's a process" message consistently since he took over as head coach. I think that philosophy, along with eating an elephant one spork bite at a time, makes for a a great speech and is logical. But speeches, messages and inspirational posters with pictures of lighthouses on the wall mean nothing if the recipients aren't really listening. It's no secret: this is a must-win year for Jason Garrett and the Cowboys. He's survived and advanced as Jerry Jones' head man in a way that would make the writers from the Fast and Furious series proud. But I want to see if players are listening during this training camp. I mean really listening. Because if they're not engaged and fired up by what Garrett's preaching in late July? That's a very bad sign for what's to come in November and beyond. So, is "the process" really making progress?


If you’re a driving in Arizona, it is more likely than not that
you’ll have to travel through school zones occasionally. When doing so,
it is important that you’re driving safely; if you don’t, you could be
pulled over and given harsh fines as well as other penalties. Help keep
Arizona’s children safe – learn about Arizona school zone laws.
State Speed Limits
In 1950, Phoenix was the first city, not just in Arizona, but also
in the entire country to establish a school zone where the speed limit
was 15 miles per hour. Today, this still holds true. The Arizona school
zone 15 mph limit might be in place all of the time, but often you’ll
find that there is a slightly higher limit when school is not in
In Arizona, if you are speeding in a school zone or otherwise breaking
the law in a school zone, you will most likely going to get an Arizona
school zone ticket. This state has a “zero tolerance” policy, which
means that you’ll get a ticket, even if you were only going a few miles
over the posted speed limit.
Fines for Speeding in a School Zone
Arizona has harsh laws for anyone caught speeding in an Arizona
school zone. In this state, all typical speeding citation fines are
doubled, with some of the proceeds going toward the Safe Routes to
School state-wide program.
According to this legislation, passed in 2006, if you commit a moving
traffic violation while the school zone lights are flashing or the
“Stop When Children in Crosswalk” signs are posted, your fine will be
an automatic minimum of $200. Depending on your offense, you might also
get two or three points on your license. You may or may not be eligible
to attend defensive driving school to erase your penalties.
Importance of Child Safety
It goes without saying that children are unpredictable. It is
important to drive safely in a school zone by following all laws
because kids, especially elementary school students, often don’t think
before they act. They may run into the street before looking both ways,
change directions quickly, or otherwise surprise you as you’re driving.
If you are speeding in a school zone, you might not have enough time to
stop before hitting the child.
The safer school zones are, the more likely it is that children will
walk to school instead of taking the bus or being driven. Walking to
and from school is healthy exercise for kids. In addition, it means
less traffic congestion around a school area and is a responsible
choice for the environment. By helping to keep school zones safe by
driving slowly and cautiously, you can encourage parents to allow their
children to walk to school.
School Zone Identifiers
School zones are also very clearly posted as such, with typical
speed limit signs showing drivers the law. Depending on the city or
town, you might also find a number of other safety measures in places
as well. These include:
- Flashing lights warning of the Arizona school zone
- Specific posted speeds during certain hours of the day
- Crossing guards with the authority to stop traffic
- Speed and red-light cameras to catch drivers breaking the law
- Crosswalk signs when lower speed limits are in effect
School zones are always very visibly posted, with signs, lights, and
painted roadways, so there’s no excuse for breaking the law. Other than
speeding and running red lights/stop signs, you can get a ticket in an
Arizona school zone for continuing to drive before people are
completely out of the crosswalk (even if they aren’t blocking your lane
anymore) and passing another car, even if they are going very slowly.
The focus here is driving safely.
Schools zones have specific rules for a reason – they are meant to keep
children protected. Do your part as an Arizona driver and work to keep
these areas safe for all who are walked to and from school.


How do turbulence and atomic cooling physics shape the circumgalactic medium and galaxy formation?
This figure from Pandya et al. (2022) illustrates a new time-dependent, two-zone model for connecting mass, metal, and energy flows between galaxies and their circumgalactic medium (CGM). Our approach involves setting up a system of coupled ordinary differential equations (ODEs) to predict the time evolution of eight state variables associated with each galaxy—CGM system: the total mass, metal mass, thermal energy, and turbulent kinetic energy of the CGM, and also the masses and metal masses of the interstellar medium (ISM) and long-lived stellar population of the central galaxy. The density and temperature structure of the CGM are assumed to follow power laws, and we envision that both cosmic accretion and supernova-driven winds stir large-scale turbulent eddies throughout the CGM. The turbulence accomplishes two things: (1) it provides pressure support for the CGM even when it has a very short cooling time, as in dwarfs and high-redshift galaxies, and (2) its dissipation leads to a heating term for the CGM that limits ISM accretion and star formation.
The right-hand side of our ODE system (see Equations 1-8 of the paper) has several individual terms that account for cosmic accretion, radiative cooling, turbulence dissipation, star formation, supernova-driven winds that heat and stir turbulence in the CGM, and large-scale outflows into the intergalactic medium when the CGM becomes overpressurized. Each of these terms has a physically-motivated functional form, and there are several free parameters that account for our ignorance of the relevant underlying physics. Our paper demonstrates that hydrodynamical simulations can constrain both the functional forms and values of our free parameters. A companion paper by Carr et al. (2022) shows that the stellar-to-halo-mass relation inferred from observations can also constrain the purely thermal limit of this model.
As an initial testbed, we use the FIRE-2 cosmological hydrodynamical “zoom-in” simulations (Hopkins et al. 2018) to calibrate our model parameters. Running our model on the merger trees of the individual FIRE-2 dark matter halos leads to predictions for mass assembly histories and baryon cycles that are in remarkable agreement with measurements of various bulk properties and gas flow rates directly from the simulation particle data.
The most striking prediction of our model is that the CGM should undergo a global “phase transition” from a cool, turbulence-supported phase at early times to a roughly virial-temperature, thermal pressure-supported phase at later times. Analyzing the equilibria of our ODE system reveals that the epoch of this “thermalization” is determined when CGM heating balances radiative cooling, with the former being sensitive to the specific energy of galactic winds and the largest eddy turnover time while the latter depends on the physics of atomic cooling and the ever-decreasing mean cosmic density (see the supplementary movies corresponding to Figure 14 of our paper). The CGM thermalizes at very early times for ultrafaint dwarfs and at very late times, if at all, for classical dwarfs, while Milky Way-mass halos undergo the CGM phase transition at z~0.5 with our assumed FIRE-2 parameters.
The novelty of our approach is in self-consistently tracking energy flows through the CGM and linking these directly to the galaxy formation process in a time-dependent way. It complements existing approaches for modeling the galaxy—CGM connection in two important ways: (1) it provides a framework for understanding hydrodynamical simulations whose growing complexity and computational cost demand simpler models like ours to help interpret, and (2) it predicts the time-dependent global conditions of the galaxy—CGM system, which can help inform instantaneous 1D physical models like steady-state cooling flow solutions and hydrostatic equilibrium and precipitation models that describe the detailed structure of the CGM at a single instant. Our successful initial application in reproducing the evolution of individual simulated galaxies and their CGM suggests that this approach will be a promising path to continue to build on.


Posted on June 25, 2018
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Magnitude 4 earthquake hits off Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental
MANILA, Philippines — A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck off Governor Generoso, Davao Oriental, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said.
The quake struck at 11:56 p.m. on Friday at 139 kilometers southeast of the municipality.
Phivolcs said the tremor was of tectonic origin and had a 110-kilometer depth of focus.
No aftershocks and damages were expected, Phivolcs added.
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Son Espases specialists are carrying out operations at the Gynecology & Obstetrics Unit at the Red Cross facilities in Palma to try to make a dent in waiting lists
"This option was a very good solution because activity in our department increased but all of the operating rooms were busy," explains Dr Octavi Córdoba, Head of Gynecology at Son Espases. “We had to go elsewhere to operate on outpatients or do the procedures in the afternoon which complicated things because the patients need to stay in the hospital for a few hours after the procedures, which means they have to be done in the morning to be sure they can go home,” he added.
The results are so good that other services are considering moving low complexity surgeries to the Centre in Carrer d’Alfons el Magnànim.
Hospitals in the Balearic Islands have put non-essential operations on hold to keep beds available for patients with Covid-19, so moving Outpatient operations to the Centre is helping to reduce waiting lists.
20% of Gynecological procedures are performed at the Centre, as well as laparoscopies and on one occasion surgeons performed a mastectomy.
"It was really special, the operation went very well and the patient was able to recover at home,” said Dr Córdoba.
Urgent, emergency and oncological operations are still being performed at Son Espases Hospital, but deliveries are done at the referral Centre and all pregnant women are given a PCR test before they give birth, for the safety of patients and Healthcare Personnel.
During the first wave of the pandemic, PCR tests were given to pregnant women even if they were asymptomatic and some of them tested positive for coronavirus.
"I must have about twenty female outpatients who have been diagnosed with Covid-19 and are quarantined in their homes, and they are all perfectly ok," says Dr. Córdoba. “We’ve never had so many Covid-19 patients, but thanks to Primary Care tracing, more infections in pregnant women are being identified.

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Nicola Sullivan takes a trip with the fully funded London Overground Pension Scheme
London Overground Rail Operation’s final salary pension scheme harks back to a bygone era for retirement provision. Unlike many other employers, the train operator, which runs the rail network across 20 of London’s 33 boroughs (including North London and East London lines), is not being forced to close the scheme to future accrual, exclude new employees from joining or offload its liability risk on to an insurer.
Despite challenging financial markets and increases in life expectancy – factors that blight many other defined benefit pensions – London Overground’s scheme boasted a surplus of £2.1m at its last actuarial valuation in December 2010.
London Overground’s scheme boasted a surplus of £2.1m at its last actuarial valuation in December 2010
When London Overground took over from Silverlink Metro in 2007, the fortunate scheme’s previous deficit was plugged by its owners, two stakeholder firms and Transport for London. Its improved funding position has meant that in July London Overground was able to reduce both employee and employer-funded pension contributions without affecting the value of members’ pension pots.
In July London Overground was able to reduce both employee and employer-funded pension contributions without affecting the value of members’ pension pots
Higher contributing members, who opted for preferential early retirement rights when British Rail was privatised, saw contributions fall from 10.6% to 9.76%. Other members, who lack these preferential rights, saw their contributions fall from 10.6% to 9.28%.
Employer contributions for these two groups fell from 15.9% to 14.64% and 13.92% respectively. The reduction in contribution levels has resulted in significant savings for London Overground. However, the deal has not jeopardised the scheme’s long-standing contribution ratio, whereby 40% of pension contributions are paid by employees and 60% by London Overground.
The scheme’s actuaries said it was financially viable to cut contribution levels further, but London Overground wanted to exercise prudence in the current economic climate. Darren Hockaday, HR director at London Overground, says: “Contribution rates are 1.5% above what they need to be as per the last actuaries’ recommendation for the 2010 evaluation.”
Providing a buffer zone strikes a balance between maintaining this surplus position, which we obviously hope to do, and acknowledging that a lot of what’s happening in the financial markets is out of our control
He adds: “Providing a buffer zone strikes a balance between maintaining this surplus position, which we obviously hope to do, and acknowledging that a lot of what’s happening in the financial markets is out of our control.”
London Overground is not underestimating the negative effect on the scheme of volatility in the financial markets. The full impact of the past three years will come to light during its next actuarial valuation in December.
Hockaday says that London Overground will be closely monitoring the impact of reducing contribution levels in what is a challenging environment for pension schemes. A full valuation of the scheme is conducted every three years to monitor fund performance, active membership and the number of scheme retirees.
Administration and trustee services are provided by RPMI, which is owned by the Railway Pensions Trustee Company.
It is even more important for London Overground to ensure the long-term sustainability of the scheme, considering its membership will increase as a result of auto-enrolment. Although the scheme is well prepared for its staging date in May, it already automatically opts in new joiners into the defined benefit scheme, around 15% of its workforce is not in the pension scheme and therefore will need to be auto-enrolled in May.
A lot of people would give their eye teeth to go into a final salary pension scheme
The train operator briefly considered giving employees who opted out of the final salary scheme the option to join a career-average revalued earnings (Care) scheme, which would allow them to make lower contributions. But Hockaday says: “A lot of people would give their eye teeth to go into a final salary pension scheme. We decided not to provide any cheaper options.”
We can demonstrate to unions that we are good custodians and stewards of the scheme
Hockaday also says that it was likely the unions would have “shown some resistance” if another, less generous scheme, was introduced alongside the final salary scheme. He says: “It’s a good opportunity to strengthen relations. We can demonstrate to unions that we are good custodians and stewards of the scheme.”
Despite the fact that the pension scheme is so highly cherished by the unions, London Overground has to work hard to ensure employees understand its full value. Hockaday is continually reminding people that there is no better time to be a member of the scheme because contributions have been reduced.
Another aspect of the scheme’s appeal is that pension members are entitled to life assurance worth four times their annual salary
Another aspect of the scheme’s appeal is that pension members are entitled to life assurance worth four times their annual salary. If London Overground can run its pension scheme as smoothly as it did its rail network during the Olympics, then everyone will be winners