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[Sexual dysfunction in torture victims]. Sexual dysfunction is seen in up to 51% of torture victims. The torture victim seldom reports anything about having been tortured but often consults the health care system because of a somatic problem which may seem unrelated to torture. Therefore, it is important that doctors are aware of the possible correlation. Symptoms and findings may be both physical and psychical. The torture may be both sexual and non-sexual as well as physical and non-physical. Social, cultural and individual factors also influence the development of sexual dysfunction in a torture victim. The factors that cause sexual dysfunction and the identification of any direct causal relations are discussed. There are indications that sexual torture has a greater impact on the development of sexual dysfunction than other types of torture and it seems that sexual dysfunction is a result of many factors.

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Q: Silverlight checks above the website root for 'clientaccesspolicy.xml' We have a strange issue with a silverlight app which seems to centre around the 'clientaccesspolicy.xml' file. We have a website, which is the default website on IIS7. In the root of this website we have the 'clientaccesspolicy.xml' file. We also have a web service defined in a 'http://thewebsite/asubdirectory/service.asmx' which handles some of the silverlight requests to the website. What seems to happen, is that when we try to load the silverlight component, there is an http request for 'http://asubdirectory/clientaccesspolicy.xml' which is clearly wrong. What's odd, is that if I setup the default website to be blank, and setup this particular website as an application/virtual directory below the default website. e.g. http://thewebsite/subdomain/ then the request for clientaccesspolicy goes to http://thewebsite/clientaccesspolicy.xml and assuming I keep a copy of the file at the root of the default website, things work ok. What I'd like to know, is how silverlight/IIS is determining that it needs to look further up that the root for the clientaccesspolicy when the website is defined as the default. Could it be the service location or the service references in silverlight? Is there a sensible way round this? Many thanks, Doug A: Silverlight needs to ask target site for cross-domain policy if it is not the same domain. So based on your "http://asubdirectory" I think somewhere your code is wrong and actually tries to use service at http://asubdirectory/someservice location instead of http://thewebsite/asubdirectory/someservice.

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In cell-based design, various types of logic cells that are designed in advance and registered as libraries are combined to design an LSI (large-scale integrated) circuit. Logic cells prepared in advance are called standard cells, which may include basic circuit gates and more complex logic circuits such as flip flops. Cells incorporated in cell-based design may also include macro-cells or the like defining larger-scale circuits such as a ROM, a RAM, and an AD converter. FIG. 1 is a drawing illustrating a standard-cell-placement area used in cell-based design. In a standard-cell-placement area 10, Vdd lines 12 for supplying a power supply potential Vdd and Gnd lines 13 for supplying a ground potential Gnd are arranged alternately at constant intervals. An area between a Vdd line 12 and an adjacent Gnd line 13 constitutes a cell-placement row 11 having a constant height (and width). Each cell-placement row 11 has an N well 14 and a P well 15 formed therein that extend in the same direction as the direction in which the cell-placement row 11 extends. The N well 14 is electrically connected to the corresponding Vdd line 12 through a contact, and the P well 15 is electrically connected to the corresponding Gnd line 13 through a contact. In an example illustrated in FIG. 1, a standard cell 16 has the same height as the cell-placement row 11, and a standard cell 17 has a height twice as large as the cell-placement row 11. In this manner, the height of a standard cell is restricted to the same height as the cell-placement row 11 or an integer multiple of the height of the cell-placement row 11. This ensures that an orderly cell arrangement is naturally obtained upon placing a plurality of standard cells, thereby simplifying the task of placing cells. A general standard cell includes one or more P-channel-type transistors (i.e., PMOS transistors) and one or more N-channel-type transistors (i.e., NMOS transistors). PMOS transistors are formed in the N well 14, and NMOS transistors are formed in the P well 15. As was previously described, the N well 14 is connected to the corresponding Vdd line 12. Because of this, it is preferable for the N well 14 to extend along and in parallel to the Vdd line 12 (i.e., in parallel to the cell-placement row 11). Similarly, the P well 15 is connected to the corresponding Gnd line 13. Because of this, it is preferable for the P well 15 to extend along and in parallel to the Gnd line 13 (i.e., in parallel to the cell-placement row 11). Further, with a premise that the N well 14 and the P well 15 are formed in parallel to the cell-placement row 11 as illustrated in FIG. 1, a standard cell that is designed based upon this premise can be placed anywhere in the cell-placement row 11 without modifying the design of the wells. In this manner, a standard cell is typically designed based upon a premise that the N well 14 and the P well 15 are formed in parallel to the cell-placement row 11 as illustrated in FIG. 1. FIG. 2 is a drawing illustrating a configuration in which a plurality of latches for storing a plurality of bits are arranged in line on the cell-placement row. In FIG. 2, six latches 20, each of which is a standard cell, are arranged in the cell-placement row 11 without having any gaps therebetween. The six latches 20 can store 6 bit data. One of the six latches 20 may store a parity bit that is generated from the 5-bit data stored in the five remaining latches 20. Nine latches 20 may be arranged instead of six latches. Such nine latches can store one-byte data and one parity bit. As the size of semiconductor elements such as transistors is reduced, a critical charge amount (i.e., the amount of electric charge needed to invert stored data) decreases because of reduction in the power supply voltage and internal capacitance of a memory element such as a latch. This results in an increase in the probability of soft error by which stored data is inverted due to an arrival of α ray or neutron ray. Entry of α ray into an N well or P well, for example, results in a large number of electron-hole pairs being generated in the well. These electron-hole pairs are then scattered in every direction within the well. Electrons generated by an arrival of α ray into an N well tend to be collected by Vdd since the N well is coupled to the power supply potential Vdd. Also, electrons are the majority carrier in the N well. Because of this, these electrons have little effect on P-type diffusion regions existing in the N well. Holes generated together with these electrons, however, end up changing the potential of the P-type diffusion regions existing in the N well upon being collected by these regions. Especially when the P-type diffusion regions are coupled to the ground voltage Gnd, the above-noted change occurs as a change toward higher potentials, thereby causing soft error. Holes generated by an arrival of α ray into a P well tend to be collected by Gnd since the P well is coupled to the ground potential Gnd. Also, holes are the majority carrier in the P well. Because of this, these holes have little effect on N-type diffusion regions existing in the P well. Electrons generated together with these holes, however, end up changing the potential of the N-type diffusion regions existing in the P well upon being collected by these regions. Especially when the N-type diffusion regions are coupled to the ground voltage Gnd, the above-noted change occurs as a change toward lower potentials, thereby causing soft error. When latches are formed in the common N well 14 and P well 15 as illustrated in FIG. 2, electrons and holes generated by an arrival of α ray into a well are scattered in the well, thereby causing soft error in the plurality of latches in some cases. An error occurring only with respect to one bit among the plurality of bits stored in the latches 20 can be detected by a parity check. Further, the use of a mechanism for correcting error by use of error correction code makes it possible to detect and correct an error in the case of one-bit error. However, errors occurring with respect to two bits among the plurality of bits stored in the latches 20 cannot be correctly detected by a parity check. Further, the mechanism for correcting error by use of error correction code can detect two-bit errors, but cannot correct these errors. Moreover, errors occurring with respect to three or more bits cannot be correctly detected even by use of error correction codes. Occurrence of errors in a plurality of bits may thus result in a performance drop due to a need for an extra action such as an instruction retry, or may result in a failure to perform correct circuit operations. Measures for preventing soft error may be taken as follows. The number of transistors may be increased and a new latch structure may be devised such as in the case of DICE (i.e., Dual Interlocked Storage Cell), for example, thereby increasing a tolerance level of a latch against soft error. Also, the size of transistors in a latch may be increased to increase the critical charge amount, thereby increasing a tolerance level of the latch against soft error. Moreover, the distance between adjacent latches for storing adjacent bits may be increased to reduce the possibility of electrons reaching the adjacent bit upon being generated by an arrival of α ray. Further, a dummy P-well region (or N-well region) may be provided on a memory-cell border in the common N-type well region (or P-type well region) shared by adjacent memory cells as disclosed in Patent Document 1, thereby reducing soft error. In cell-based design, however, the above-noted methods of increasing a soft-error tolerance level are faced with problems as follows. Devising a latch structure such as a DICE latch or increasing a critical charge amount by enlarging transistor size give rise to a problem in that power consumption and circuit size significantly increase. Further, an increase in the soft-error tolerance of a latch does not completely remove the possibility of soft error. When error occurs, therefore, plural bits may suffer errors if a common well region is used as in the previously-described cell-based design. An increase in the distance between adjacent latches for storing adjacent bits also gives rise to a problem of a size increase. If the distance is not sufficiently increased due to consideration to the problem of a size increase, the possibility of plural bit errors is not sufficiently lowered. If the configuration in which a dummy well region is provided between adjacent memory cells as disclosed in Patent Document 1 is applied to the well structure illustrated in FIG. 2, N wells and P wells end up being arranged in a checkerboard pattern. Namely, dummy P-well regions are inserted into the N well 14 between adjacent latches 20 illustrated in FIG. 2, and, also, dummy N-well regions are inserted into the P well 15 between adjacent latches 20, so that the dummy P-well regions and the dummy N-well regions are opposed to each other. Each dummy well region is isolated, and needs to satisfy the minimum size requirement of a well as defined by the process used. This requirement causes the size of a dummy well region to be relatively large. The fact that each well region is isolated also gives rise to a problem in that an area for coupling each well to the corresponding potential may need to be newly provided. Moreover, an actual process involves manufacturing error. Because of this, the same-conduction-type wells may be connected to each other in a diagonal direction at the corners of wells. It may thus be the case that the wells cannot be completely separated from each other between adjacent latches 20. [Patent Document 1] Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2002-353413 [Patent Document 2] Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2010-4019

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There are various items in Destiny Child. They range from 1-star to 5-star, all with different types of stats, even on the same level depending on the type of item. The same item can also be categorized into 3 grades; A, B, and C, with each grade affecting the stats of each item. With such a large variety of items, you’ll likely wonder which items are best to equip and enhance. As each Child’s main stats are different depending on their class, it is vital to understand what gear is proper and where you can use them in order to complete an efficient gear set. ▲ Proper gear choice can change the outcome of almost all battles Step 1. What gear should I equip? The standards of choosing gears Although there are many ways to obtain equipment in Destiny Child, you will naturally obtain them as you progress the game. More important than knowing where to get them is which ones to use. All the equipment have a variety of stats. One item may only increase one stat while another boosts two stats. Some items have a stat that is increased more than others. However, your main focus should be on finding gear that increases two stats and investing in A-grade 5-star equipment. Item enhancement allows stats to be increased at a certain rate. For example, a B-grade Shuriken generally increases ATK by 390 while a 3-star B-grade Stand-Up Mic increases ATK by 415 and AGL by 125. A Shuriken receives +18 ATK upon leveling up while a Stand-Up Mic receives both +26 ATK and +8 AGL. The difference becomes larger as you enhance the item further. You don’t need to invest too much in other equipment apart from the A-grade 5-star ones. You may need a couple of enhancements to complete a few stages in the beginning, but the ultimate goal is to equip all Childs with A-grade 5-star gear. You may end up with an insufficient amount of resources to enhance them if you spend it all on low-tier items. Enhancements in Destiny Child require relatively more resources than you may anticipate, so it is important that you don’t waste them. ▲ Although the same grade, a dual-stat item is more efficient than a single-stat one ▲ It is best to enhance low-tier gear to the minimum extent and save resources for A-grade 5-star equipment Step 2. Equip the most appropriate gear to change the tide of battle - Stat choices Each class; Attacker, Defender, Debuffer, Supporter, and Healer have different stat priorities. It is crucial to understand how these stats actually work for each class, as some of them become inefficient when you increase it over a certain threshold. ATK affects the amount of damage dealt against enemies or the amount of healing for Healers; DEF reduces the amount of incoming damage from opponents; HP is the total amount of health; AGL impacts Attack Chance/Evasion and CC Chance/Evasion, while CRT influences the Critical Chance. The damage reduction of additional DEF becomes drastically inefficient when it’s increased over a certain threshold, thus it is best to secure more HP past a certain point. In regards to CRT, it only increases the Critical Chance, not the damage itself; results are rather disappointing if you invest a lot in this stat. One player tested AGL and found out that AGL impacts Slide and Drive damage, but this has not been officially confirmed. ▲ Understand the features of each stat and equip the corresponding item Let’s have a look at stats for each class. With Attackers, you actually have a few elements to consider. Although the most important stat without question is ATK, Attackers are usually lacking when it comes to the other stats. You should supplement these lower stats with equipment in order to bring them to their full potential. The most recommended stat combination is ATK and AGL. Attackers are generally low on AGL, and it’s a major loss every time they miss their powerful attacks. This is why they need to have additional AGL to prevent that from happening. When they are used in Rumble, in particular, it is crucial to have more AGL equipment to kill Debuffers and Supporters who usually have higher AGL than Attackers. You can also secure more ATK and CRT to increase the amount of burst damage, but that is not as efficient. More Critical Chance doesn’t mean that it will always activate whenever you wish, and the damage itself doesn’t change much either. With armor, you can equip anything you prefer. You’re unlikely to hit that DEF inefficiency threshold since Attackers have low base DEF, so you can just equip anything that has high DEF. ▲ Attackers need ATK and AGL to increase their chances of hitting enemies Gear choice is considerably easy and low-priority for Defenders. Though their DEF stat can hit the inefficiency wall, Defenders don’t really need anything aside from HP and DEF. There’s no need to worry about other stats affecting abilities either, since taunt is not affected by AGL, and barrier strength is only affected by skill levels. While they are low-priority, you shouldn’t skip out on Defender equipment. They may have strong base stats, but they can all fall if hit with enough burst damage at once. This is especially true for Defenders with taunt. So if your Defender keeps falling in Dungeons or Devil Rumble, you need to enhance their armor. In summary, you can equip Defenders with leftover gear after giving equipment to the other classes. Once you start getting better items mid-late game, you can replace the old ones with those that boost HP with DEF as a sub stat. ▲ Defenders don’t really gain much from attack-related stats; just increase HP and DEF A Debuffer’s main objective is to inflict debuffs on enemies and intercept their movements. While Attackers use their firepower to suppress enemies, Debuffers restrain enemies and deal damage over time (DoT) with debuffs that slowly lead them to their demise. This class is heavily reliant upon CC skills, so AGL items are the best items for this class. The amount of debuff damage is fixed regardless of the caster’s ATK or the enemy’s DEF, therefore a combination of AGL and HP or DEF is perfect for the class, especially if the battle becomes longer than anticipated. Debuffers who are often used for their DEF reduction and weakness DEF reduction debuffs in the World Boss help to immensely increase the survivability and overall firepower of the team. The Critical Chance has no priority over other stats since it doesn’t affect the amount of DoT damage. ▲ Debuffers need AGL in order to increase the hit chance of CC skills Supporters have a wide range of items they can choose from depending on what type of skillset the Child possesses. They can equip attack-based items to add more firepower or survival items to focus more on backing up the team. More AGL for Childs such as Chang’e and Melpomene increases the CC hit chance as well as attack evasion, so go for that if you want to enhance their survivability. Buffs, the cornerstone of the Supporter class, are not impacted by stats, so you can still benefit from them without strong equipment. You can usually equip other classes first and then Supporters. Note that you still need to equip Supporters with survivability items since the overall firepower of a team drops significantly when the Supporter dies. ▲ Supporters have more freedom when it comes to their equipment. Equip armor first for survivability CRT is the most crucial stat for Healers. The amount of healing generally increases when ATK is increased, but the incremental gap of Attackers and Debuffers’ firepower is much bigger than the Healers’. However, it becomes a completely different story when Healers cast critical healing skills. The amount is multiplied when CRT is activated. Of course, CRT itself is reliant on RNG so you won’t always benefit from it, but many players say that it is much more beneficial to invest in CRT rather than ATK. In addition, Healers usually possess the second-highest HP and DEF after Defenders, making it easier for them to survive. Since their survivability is already fairly good, it’s better to focus on increasing their heal potential through ATK and CRT.

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A step-down DC-to-DC voltage converter regulates a load voltage, where the load voltage is less in value than an input voltage provided by a power source. A buck converter topology denotes a class of DC-to-DC voltage converters with switching devices to control current through an inductor (and usually also a capacitor) to regulate the load voltage. A buck converter includes a high-side switching device to couple the inductor to the power source, and a low-side switching device to provide a current path from ground to the inductor when the high-side switching device is switched off. In some buck converters, the high-side switching device is a Field-Effect Transistor (FET), referred to as a high-side FET, and the low-side device is an FET, referred to as a low-side FET, or a diode, sometimes referred to as a flyback diode.

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The Most Aero Tour de France in History The 2016 Tour de France is on its way and we felt the need to explore what made last year’s Tour, the most aero Tour in history! If you were closely following the Tour last year, you probably noticed a rather unorthodox display of aero techniques and strategies. This was mostly due to the sharp increase in data and analytics throughout the industry that is aimed to help cyclists be more aero. It is no secret that if two riders have the same power output, the one with less drag will be faster. You are probably wondering what are some of the ways teams have attempted to optimize their riders’ aerodynamics in the last few years? We will look at some of these factors and highlight how a small firm from Montreal, Alphamantis Technologies has led this data revolution by developing next-generation aero testing products. 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In modern competitive cycling, optimal aerodynamics will provide an edge over other racers, as the same power will help you achieve a greater speed. The biggest example of this at last year’s Tour was Rohan Dennis of the BMC Team. You could see him taking his eyes off the road ahead and looking straight down while pedaling with tremendous force on the first stage of the Tour. What was the result? He got the fastest individual time trial in the Tour de France history. We definitely do not encourage many of the techniques used by the pros to obtain the lowest coefficient of drag possible, as they can be dangerous and sometimes hard to sustain for long periods of time. William Elliot at the 2016 Tour de Beauce. Cycling Canada (http://www.cyclingcanada.ca/) Another example of riders looking to achieve the most aerodynamic position was seen during the descents on the mountain stages at the Tour. One peculiar case comes to mind, French rider Warren Barguil from Team Giant-Alpecin. As he descended the Col du Tourmalet sitting on the frame of his bike with horizontally aligned feet on the pedals achieving great speed, a group of cows decided to cross the road at the same time. Since maneuverability is impaired while riding in this position there could have been a not-so-happy-ending to that very rapid descent. Cycling has become all about aero (OK, we know that power is a huge factor, but it is hard to change it over time), and Alphamantis holds the key to maximizing any athlete’s performance. This small tech start-up has put together years of research, development, data and analytics, to create an aero testing software that outputs a rider’s drag coefficient in real time while riding. With this disruptive technology, some teams have redesigned their entire racing strategies, by understanding what positions work best for each rider and making changes in real time. This way teams and athletes have benefited from this revolutionary technology to craft the most effective strategies. Alphamantis helped several teams at the 2015 Tour and now again for this year’s Tour. Rafal Majka of the Tinkoff-Saxo team looking for an aero advantage on a descent on Stage 11 Competitive cycling is changing and Alphamantis is spearheading this evolution with their futuristic aerodynamic testing tool (the Track Aero System: http://alphamantis.com/tas/). Alphamantis has the best team of scientists, aerodynamicists, partners, and cycling fanatics working to make sure their data helps athletes around the world to maximize their performance. Aerodynamic optimization is no longer just for the pros, Alphamantis provides an affordable service to cyclists of any level who want to increase their performance. Up to 90% of the drag a cyclist faces comes from the cyclist itself, so it makes sense to optimize your bike positioning and become more aero. Now that you know what to look at, and how Alphamantis has worked with the best teams in the world to help identify the most optimal position for each rider, you are ready to see what will be the most aero Tour in recorded history: Tour de France 2016.

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Category: Memories In the summer of ’79, I came to live with my grandparents. The Greens owned 1/3rd of an acre in the small Limestone Township in Illinois. They had bought a tiny house with three rooms in the mid-1940’s. Over the years, my grandfather, the oldest of 12 children from a rural Kentucky family, added a large kitchen, am indoor bathroom and a back bedroom. The houses in the neighborhood were mostly larger with two stories and nearly all of them had large families. My mother was one of the few little girls on the block and held her own with the gang of boys who ran and played and shot arrows and bb guns. My mom with the neighborhood kids, second from left. Every house also had a backyard vegetable garden. While the neighbors to the immediate right had corn and beans, my grandparents had a brilliant, strong nightshade patch. Bell peppers, okra, eggplant and some of the largest and sweetest beefsteak tomatoes on the Earth. That summer we also added cucumbers. My grandfather could grow anything he put in the ground. He worked at it, he watered and weeded and whistled parts of songs. Grandpa Alvie Green with my uncle and my mom. And in late June, we would walk back to the further edge of the yard, across the swath of thick, Kentucky bluegrass. We’d pick one of the 3 to 4 pound scarlet gem tomatoes, rinse it with the garden hose and bite right in. There was a magic in the ritual of it, to the true reward of working with nature, There was a bliss and comfort to it. A heaven that did not come from some store. It came from the dirt where you grew up. It came from the plot of land chosen by a WWII veteran who decided to migrate from his home in Kentucky and make a life for his wife and children. That tomato was a manifestation of love and home and family. We’d make glorious sandwiches of Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip and thick tomato slices. We’d make pepper relish. My grandmother would marinate the cucumbers with onions in vinegar, salt and sugar. When I was sunburnt or started to break out, she would pulverize a cucumber and put the juice on my skin. We would trade our extras with neighbors. There was an unspoken connection and wealth in the ability to share. That summer, my grandmother asked my grandfather for a meat grinder. And he bought it for her. It was huge. It was supermarket-deli huge. It had a lot of sharp, shiny parts which I was told not to touch. It was loud. I immediately hated it. She bought it for one thing: Imperial ham. Not to grind beef or make sausage. We raised no animals except the baby squirrels that my grandfather trained to come and take walnuts from his shirt pockets. They were friends, not food. Imperial ham. What is Imperial ham? Well… It’s baloney. And mayonnaise. And onion. And sweet pickles. And it’s somehow suddenly a royal delicacy. Apparently, if you put baloney through a meat grinder and add these things in the proper amounts, a certain kind of alchemy occurs in which it is now both Imperial and Ham. There is nothing like it. It smells weird and it tastes like summer and it’s amazing on white bread. And especially magical topped with a tomato slice. And a side of marinated cucumbers. We would put it all on white paper plates, sit outside in the big swing together, watching neighbors and squirrels. I remember it clear and precious, because we have had nothing like it for so long. Everyone I shared that with has died. My grandfather in 1997, grandmother in 2001 and my mother in 2010. I am heartened because I am seeing a renewal in the importance of local family gardening. Small farms that have grown to bring their organic bounty to market. People who can grow anything and what they produce is beautiful and healthy, fresh and practical food to share, tokens and totems of home and family and love. My mother and my son are both Geminis. Her birthday was June 13th and his is June 20th. They were, for a time, my twins. I watched my mother become the best grandmother and friend a boy could have. Like me, Connor has Asperger’s Syndrome. He does not open up to many people and he is very quiet. Mom was only 4’10” and she would get right down on the floor with him. Their connection was deep and true and full of laughter. I moved back home in 2008 when my mom’s breast cancer had returned. She had had a radical mastectomy in 2006, followed by chemo. Although she had somewhat accepted all the accoutrements of the disease, she never really embraced them. She had wigs, hats, shirts with allowances for drains, post-mastectomy bras, and even weighted falsies. She had all the necessary crap that they dole out to women who lose a breast in an attempt to make them acceptably normal to society. It wasn’t her and it wasn’t comfortable. And it all ended up stuffed in her sock drawer while she sat bald, braless and comfortable binge=watching The Sopranos. One day though, one special day of birthday magic smack in the middle of June, a miracle happened. We always celebrated their birthdays together. I had brought Connor over for his 8th birthday, Boston cream pie, candles, flowers, little gifts for both. The oven was on, and the air conditioner was going full blast. Although she was sweating, her tiny feet were like blue ice. She asked Connor to go grab a pair of socks for her. He headed into her bedroom. “HEY!” he exclaimed. “HEY!” “What is it, Sugar Booger?” “Granny! I found a belly!” “WHAT?!” “I found a belly!” Connor darted out of her room and ran into the kitchen with his shirt hiked up and a heavy flesh-colored false boob slapped on his stomach. He pushed his stomach out proudly. My mom and I burst out laughing. Neither one of us ever would have thought of it. Connor wore the magic “belly” the rest of the evening. He fell asleep on her couch full of lasagna and cake, clutching a stuffed Pikachu with one hand and the “belly” with the other. It was magic indeed. This was love, laughter and true imagination holding fast against loss, pain and the precious knowledge that life is finite. When the cancer came back, it came back everywhere. My son was 10. He was so open and caring and happy with her. He would stay with her while I ran out to get her groceries. When she was hospitalized, I would watch them walk down the corridor together. Both blonde, the same height, sharing knock-knock jokes. Because between them nothing was about cancer or autism. It was about love. No labels, no expectations, no prognosis. Just love in its most honest, accepting expression. And I was in the middle, watching in awe, as both their halos shone bright. My mom passed in late July 2010. My son turns 19 on Tuesday. He has grown into a wonderful, smart, and loving human being. He’s a responsible young man who has a good job, attends school and takes good care of himself. He is a brilliant artist in the middle of producing his own comic book. He is a grown version of that child who sees people without limits and finds laughter in unexpected places. I am still in the middle of a great love. And so incredibly grateful to be his mom. Text Widget This is a text widget, which allows you to add text or HTML to your sidebar. You can use them to display text, links, images, HTML, or a combination of these. Edit them in the Widget section of the Customizer.

Tumors manifesting mainly at the pediatric age or manifesting only at this stage are known as childhood tumors. For this reason, they are also sometimes referred to as pediatric tumors. In the context of the present invention, the term childhood tumor or pediatric tumor will be used interchangeably. The group of childhood tumors includes neuroblastomas (NBs), ganglioneuroblastomas (GNBs) and ganglioneuromas (GNs), forming the group of neuroblastic tumors (NTs). Neuroblastic tumors are the most common solid extracranial childhood tumors that develop from neural crest cells which have already been compromised during peripheral nervous system formation, so they are localized in the adrenal medulla or in the ganglia of the paravertebral sympathetic chain. Most localized NBs, GNBs and GNs have excellent survival rates, but today metastatic NBs have survival rates of about 40% despite being subjected to intensive multimodal therapies. Neuroblastic tumors are a group of highly heterogeneous tumors from the clinical, anatomopathological, genetic and biological viewpoint. The biological bases responsible for the clinical diversity of NTs are only partially known, but they are without a doubt behind the different ways in which tumors respond to treatment protocols. Among them, ploidy alterations, unbalanced translocations, recurrent chromosome region deletions or additions and MYCN oncogene amplification, stand out. These genetic-molecular alterations can hardly be modified therapeutically although they are crucial for the biological behavior of NTs. Before describing them further, it was already known that highly differentiated NTs with a higher proportion of Schwann-type stromal component (NB in differentiation, GNB and GN) were associated with a better prognosis than undifferentiated NBs. Some of the molecular pathways responsible for cell differentiation processes in NT have been discovered. These pathways are of great therapeutic importance since they can be pharmacologically modulated. Therefore, for example, retinoic acid induces differentiation in NB cell lines and in patient tumors, improving overall survival of a patient sub-group. Some NBs are resistant to the action of this drug, but the lack of in-depth knowledge about the molecular mechanisms responsible for NT differentiation complicates the design of new differentiating agents that can benefit a large number of patients. The calcium sensor receptor gene (CASR) was cloned in 1993 from bovine parathyroid cells and is part of the C family of the G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) superfamily, along with eight glutamate receptors, two GABA-B receptors, some taste receptors and GPRC6A amino acid sensor. This family of receptors detects signals from ions, amino acids and nutrients, among others, and transmits them to the intracellular medium. They all share a similar structure consisting of a large extracellular amino-terminal domain, seven transmembrane helices and an intracellular carboxyl-terminal tail. In the case of CASR, its main function is to detect the fluctuations of extracellular Ca2+ and accordingly regulate the secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH) in parathyroid glands and calcitonin in thyroid C cells, which hormones are responsible for normalizing calcemia. In the context of the parathyroid, CASR activation by calcium translates into a drop in parathyroid hormone (PTH) regulation and production, which will in turn reduce plasma calcium concentration to keep it within a narrow margin (1.1-1.3 mM). CASR expression has been found in different neoplasias with the particularity that they attribute very different, even opposing functions, thereto in different tumor contexts. Therefore, for example, it has been described that CASR activation promotes prostate carcinoma proliferation and metastasis, whereas data seems to support that it participates in colon carcinoma differentiation processes. There are direct CASR agonists (or type 1 agonists) and allosteric activators of CASR (or type 2 agonists). Direct CASR agonists such as Ca2+, Mg2+, Gd3+, neomycin, L-amino acids, activate CASR by means of direct interaction with the extracellular domain thereof. In contrast, allosteric activators do not activate the receptor per se but rather change its three-dimensional structure, such that it becomes more sensitive to the calcium stimulus. Cinacalcet is an allosteric activator of the calcium sensor receptor. U.S. Pat. No. 5,688,938 describes several CASR agonists, such as NPS R-467 and NPS R-568, NPS R-568 (also referred to as R-568) being the most active. Likewise, U.S. Pat. No. 6,296,833 describes the use of calcium agonists or antagonists for the treatment of cancer. The present application describes the use of cinacalcet for the preparation of a pharmaceutical product for the treatment of neuroblastic tumors. Surprisingly, the use of cinacalcet results in significant advantages because it is capable of inducing tumor cell apoptosis at a lower concentration than other CASR agonists.

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1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to the field of transliterating one writing system into another writing system and vice versa. More in particular, the invention relates to the field of transliterating one writing system into a complex character-based writing system, preferably a Chinese character-based writing system, and vice versa. 2. Description of Related Art Languages using Chinese characters as at least part of their writing system suffer from the difficulty in memorizing the large number of characters that are need for daily use. Examples of such languages comprise Sinitic languages, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese, although Korean and Vietnamese are today rarely written with Chinese characters. The number of Chinese characters is large, and no accurate account has been made for determining the exact number. However, the number of Chinese characters included in the Kangxi dictionary, which acts as a reference, is approximately 47,035. As reading teaching/learning and reading helps, several Romanization systems have been developed over the years. The most widely used today are Hanyu Pinyin for the official Chinese language of China, Hepburn Romanization for Japanese, McCune-Reischauer Romanization and Revised Romanization of Korean for Korean. Vietnamese is today officially writing in a version of the latin alphabet, which can be used to Romanize Chinese characters into Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation thereof. Furthermore, the phonological nature of the languages that use Chinese characters results in that there are numerous homophonous characters, what makes it difficult for the learner to know which character to use. For example, when using Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) developed for writing in simplified Chinese characters via Hanyu Pinyin, there are 124 characters corresponding to “yi” (tone non discriminating Hanyu Pinyin). When using Microsoft Input Method Editor (IME) developed for writing in traditional Chinese characters via Hanyu Pinyin, there are 369 characters corresponding to “yi”. As for Japanese, with Microsoft IME 2002, there are 71 characters for “shi”. As a matter of fact, all characters used in one language do not have the same prevalent. Some are more commonly used than others. But still, the number of homophonous characters can exceed 100. Also, most of the Chinese characters carry a hint on their meaning. For example, many characters relating to feeling have a component (called radical) bearing the meaning of “heart”, many characters relating to action made using hands have a radical bearing the meaning of “hand”, etc. This hint on meaning are lost when the characters are romanized, thus it is difficult for the learner to find out the meaning of a transcribed word. Then, there exist no tool to reliably transliterate one text written in a Romanization system, i.e. in a writing system conveying pronunciation, into Chinese characters bearing text, i.e. conveying meaning.

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Mattias Saari Mattias Saari (born September 15, 1994) is a Swedish ice hockey player. He is currently playing with Timrå IK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Saari made his Elitserien (now the SHL) debut playing with Timrå IK during the 2012–13 Elitserien playoffs. References External links Category:1994 births Category:Living people Category:Swedish ice hockey forwards Category:Timrå IK players

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Modern urban planning first came about to improve industrial cities that had become unsafe, unhealthy and essentially unliveable. However, new policies in Australia and New Zealand view planning as a cause of urban problems, not a solution. Both treat urban planning as a hindrance, which supposedly slows down economic growth and is the main reason for unaffordable housing. But what might this approach mean for future development of Antipodean cities? While urban planning may have fallen short of its goals over recent decades, policy that marginalises urban planning exposes us to long-term social and environmental risks. Cities in Australia and New Zealand do face particular challenges: both countries are highly urbanised, 89% and 86% respectively. A closer look at land use patterns and infrastructures show they are mostly suburban – closer to Houston than Hong Kong. Therefore, urban policy faces the challenge of governing suburbia. Why did urban planning fall out of favour? Several underlying factors explain this aversion to planning. First, many urban areas developed under the current planning system haven’t produced a very liveable environment. It is difficult to make a case for the value of planning with few good examples. In some cases this isn’t bad planning; rather, traffic engineering has taken precedence. Many areas of Auckland, for instance, are designed in such a way that residents have little choice but to drive everywhere. They are unsafe for children or seniors to navigate. And vast amounts of space are allocated to parking for private vehicles. This is the cumulative result of decades of infrastructure decision-making that prioritises private vehicle movement over safer and more efficient public transport. Residents are living with the consequences of this, and current policy risks more of the same for future residents. New shared spaces, cycle lanes and frequent transit services are a dramatic improvement. However, greater change is needed to make an impact on everyday life for those who live and work outside the city centre. Second, delays in planning approvals are notorious for adding significant cost and uncertainty to property development. But inefficient delivery of planning services should not be confused with overly stringent planning rules. Planning rules are intended to mitigate environmental damage and improve the quality of development. Rather than getting rid of planning, delays can be reduced through better resourcing, training and management of planning departments. Also, approvals are only one step in delivering new housing. Fast-tracked consenting in Auckland’s special housing areas resulted in 30,000 consented dwellings, but only 1,300 new homes were built over almost three years. This shows that other factors slow down the pace of development. These include capacity in the construction sector, local construction labour and delays due to land banking. Putting affordability claims to the test Poor urban planning is claimed to be the primary cause of unaffordable housing. It is said to be linked to higher house prices and lower economic performance. Evidence to support these claims shows a correlation – but not a causal link – between the restrictiveness of planning regulations and housing affordability. The simple correlation ignores other factors driving house prices: speculative investment behaviour, incentives for land banking, record-low mortgage rates and strong cultural biases toward home ownership. Looking to land supply as the primary policy lever to fix this may do little to moderate house prices. It also overlooks more important causes. Urban expansion also has implications for transport: it is expensive and inefficient to leave transport authorities playing catch-up to serve new growth areas. The politics of growth further complicate expansion of land supply and tend to distribute new growth haphazardly. Most residents agree that cities need to allow for future growth, but deciding where this should go is contentious. Recent growth in New Zealand and Australian cities has been accommodated mostly in the city centre and at the urban fringe. David Crosling/AAP Only a small share of growth is in existing suburbs. Suburban residents (or at least a vocal contingent) often oppose new growth. This is unsurprising since intensification counters the very reason for living in the suburbs – more space and fewer people. Regardless, urban policy needs to acknowledge the political tensions in accommodating growth. Good planning involves citizens National urban policy is important to manage land use and infrastructure differently in cities. Policies don’t have to be prescriptive. They can also enable local authorities to govern better with greater devolution of power and fundraising capabilities. Scaling back urban planning is an understandable but disappointingly short-term response. In many cases planning hasn’t delivered what it promised. Measures to reduce delays and improve the quality of the built environment are needed. However, policy that simply reduces the role of planning may result in significant long-term costs. Such an approach risks environmental damage, as well as uncoordinated land and transport development. The next generation living in our cities will pay for it. Informed citizens are essential to support good planning and infrastructure decisions. For the general public, however, local regulations on urban planning, infrastructure and environmental quality are painfully dull. But they are also fundamental in shaping your everyday life: where you can afford to live, your daily commute, and the chance of air pollution shortening your lifespan. For those without time to go through lengthy consultation documents and plans, local advocacy groups are leading the way to translate these concisely to the public. Auckland’s Generation Zero is a good example. This organisation is advocating for inter-generational equity and environmental sustainability in local planning and transport, with targeted campaigns on important projects and planning decisions. Negotiating the trade-offs and politics of urban growth is always a challenge for policy, but quality public engagement is crucial to build cities that are liveable, affordable and environmentally sustainable over the long term.

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Pierpoint Landing Pierpoint Landing was a sportfishing, eating and entertainment complex located at the end of Pier A in Long Beach, California, and what is now Pier F. In operation from 1948 to 1972, it was at one time the largest sportfishing operation in the world, attracting two million anglers annually. The facility comprised several kiddie rides, a seal tank, souvenir shops, entertainments such as a spin art concession, and a 6,000-car parking lot. It housed restaurants and bars, as well as picnic tables where customers could consume food from on-site seafood vendors such as the Fish and Shrimp Shanty. The name Pierpoint Landing survives today as that of a sportfishing company located across the channel near the Long Beach Aquarium. References http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/2011/01/remembering-pierpoint-landing.html http://irememberlongbeach.com/html/pierpoint_landing.html Video http://polb100.com/05/pierpoint-landing/ Category:History of Long Beach, California Category:Defunct amusement parks in the United States Category:Defunct amusement parks in California Category:1948 establishments in California Category:1972 disestablishments in California Category:Amusement parks opened in 1948 Category:Amusement parks closed in 1972

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Teaching Industrial Relations in Vietnam: a US Labor Academic at a Union-sponsored Universityhttps://helenaworthen.net In order to translate the core assumptions of collective bargaining for Vietnamese undergraduates, I have had to turn my attention to the way democracy is actually practiced in our own country. Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:02:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/69388da51b2cf90d5d99bbb2442570f7?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.pngTeaching Industrial Relations in Vietnam: a US Labor Academic at a Union-sponsored Universityhttps://helenaworthen.net Protected: LA teachers out, Gov’t shuthttps://helenaworthen.net/2019/01/21/la-teachers-out-govt-shut/ https://helenaworthen.net/2019/01/21/la-teachers-out-govt-shut/#respondMon, 21 Jan 2019 08:54:39 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8092This post is password protected. You must visit the website and enter the password to continue reading. ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2019/01/21/la-teachers-out-govt-shut/feed/0binhduong bdghelenaworthenGood news, overallhttps://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/28/good-news-overall/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/28/good-news-overall/#respondWed, 28 Nov 2018 18:19:50 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8079&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]>I am writing this on November 15, nine days after the mid-term election. Ballots are still being counted. There are still 7 contests for seats in the House of Representatives that are “too close to be called,” two in California, two in New York, one in Texas, one in Mississippi, and one in Utah. Both are leaning Democrat. In Mississippi and Florida they are still counting ballots for Senate contests. The ballots for Governor in Georgia and Florida are still being counted. How state-level elections are run is a matter of state law (http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/election-administration-at-state-and-local-levels.aspx). The person who is accountable for how an election is run can be elected or appointed, and if they are appointed, it may be by the Governor, by the legislature, or by some commission whose members are themselves appointed. This person has a lot of leeway in how they run the election. Deadlines, for example — they vary from state to state. Ballots that aren’t counted by whatever deadline the state decides may not get counted at all. Lawyers can go to court and get judges to move the deadlines, however. Some states have requirements that a contest be close within a certain percent in order to trigger a run-off. There are laws about when to use machine counting and when you have to use hand-counting. One state has poll workers eyeballing the signatures on the outside of ballot mailing envelopes and determining if they match a sample signature in some other record. To say nothing of old ballot-counting machines and new ballot-counting machines. Right now, Florida has one manual recount and six machine recounts going. It is Florida again where the Governor has tried to have all the election equipment and processes impounded by the police. Florida, of course, is the state where Bush vs Gore, the 2000- election, was decided. Here is a parody of what the right has done with our electoral system. It’s five of the weirdest old white guys you ever saw, wearing wigs, and singing Beach Boys songs: Nonetheless, in many places, state and local level, Democrats have already won or appear to be leading in the un-called races, as mail-in and provisional ballots get counted. Races that appeared to be lost on Nov 7 now are flipping. Josh Harder out in Stockton, for example, whom we supported, has won. Four California districts flipped to blue and one more seems to be coming along. In Florida, Andrew Gillum conceded first, and then as the count continued, withdrew his concession. In Georgia, Stacy Abram’s numbers are climbing. Overall, in the House of Representatives the Democrats gained 35 seats and hold 230. The Republicans lost 35 to hold 198. In the Senate, the Democrats lost 1 to hold 47 and the Republicans gained 1 to hold 52, but two races are still uncalled, so it may turn out to be 49-52. The Democrats won seven Governorships to have 23 and the Republicans lost 6 to have 25. Again, two races (Florida and Georgia) are undecided. As more and more major policies (like Medicare expansion, unemployment compensation, public sector labor laws, school funding) are enacted at the state level as compared to the federal level, people figure out that they have to think about holding state leadership to account and not vote a nationalist “patriotic” ticket on the state and local level. This is some pretty good news, and the best part of it is that many of the wins for the Democrats are people who are not the old-style corporate liberal Democrats. Many of the candidates who won were endorsed by OR, Our Revolution – the organization that spun off of the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign. This is in spite of our Electoral College process, the 2-senators-per-state rule for the Senate, and then a 60-plus year (post Brown vs Board of Education) strategy on the part of the right wing to bring back the Confederacy. (See Nancy McLean’s Democracy in Chains.) In spite of failing to re-authorize the Voting Rights Act, permitting massive gerrymandering, and voter suppression down to closing polling places or moving them at the last minute, and on and on, so that the old “3/5ths” rule pretty much is back in place, with only 3/5s of those who could vote being able to vote. It looks as if we have in fact been able to make a lot of our battered machinery of democracy work anyway. Amazingly. Yes, it has taken a lot of money (individual donations by people who don’t have much extra to begin with) and a whole lot of time. It’s not something you can keep doing forever. But it does look like it happened. I wrote about his before the election and said, in response to the question, “What would a revolution look like?” — that maybe, if we could make our democracy work, it would look like a shift of the basis of power from the few with bottomless pocketbooks to the many like us. That hasn’t really happened but this is a warning. ____________ Ultimately, Andrew Gillum in Florida, Stacy Abrams in Georgia and Mike Espy in Mississippi (all Black candidates) lost, but lost by a handful of votes. Now (two weeks later) Barbara Lee is contesting Nancy Pelosi’s candidacy for Speaker of the House. And in between, the hills and mountains northeast of us, up above the Central Valley, went up in flames. A town called Paradise was completely burnt to the ground. Years of alternating drought and heavy rains created thousands of square miles of flourishing forest that would dry out and wither and become kindling. People moved up into these hill towns because land is cheap and living is relatively simple, but if you live way out along a narrow two-lane road and a massive wind-borne wildfire comes pouring down the mountain, and you get stuck behind your neighbors in a traffic jam on that two-lane road, you die. So far there are 80 or more identified deaths and several hundred people simply missing. The smoke from the wildfires rolled down towards the Bay Area which acted like a basin and collected it. For two weeks the sky was black. According to the air quality index, we had the worst air quality in the world, worse than Beijing on a bad day. Schools were closed and people stayed indoors. If you went outdoors, you work a N95 mask (if you could get one — stores ran out). At last it rained. The water in the creek running through John Hinkel Park and in the street gutters was thick and black and sudsy. We’ve washed the floors, curtains and other surfaces. But we’ll keep our masks and our new air purifier. There are thousands more square miles of forest to burn, just in Northern California, and it will all pool down into the Bay. ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/28/good-news-overall/feed/0helenaworthenNew Beach is gone; new New Beach will show up when the river goes downhttps://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/06/new-beach-is-gone-new-new-beach-will-show-up-when-the-river-goes-down/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/06/new-beach-is-gone-new-new-beach-will-show-up-when-the-river-goes-down/#commentsTue, 06 Nov 2018 03:33:57 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8068&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]> It has rained on and off and then on again, hard, and the ground is saturated so the water runs right into the river. This is what the Old Swimming Hole looks like. We told Lorenzo about this and he asked if the New Beach was gone. We said we would go look, as soon as it stopped raining so hard. The path to New Beach used to go through a low, open wooded area. That is now a pond. Our old path would go along the right side of what is now under water. You can see the river itself in the distance. The whitecaps are the water pouring over the rocks. In order to get to where we could look at New Beach, we had to cross some streams. We went past a pile of crushed metal left over from the flood. It looked like part of an RV. The flood, which was named Irene, picked up whole RVs, trailers and at least four houses in the town and pushed them downstream, wrecking them and twisting them up into little pieces. This was in 2011, seven years ago. Everyone who was in the town then remembers. If you look closely here you can see a bicycle. Somebody lost their bicycle. Finally we got to where we could look and see where New Beach used to be. See that white pole hanging out over the water? That used to be up on top of a sand pile and people would hang towels on it or sit near it. You can see the pale yellow of the sand under the shallower parts of the water. That’s how high the water is now. This is not a real flood, like Irene. This is just a lot of rain. This happens a lot. So New Beach, which was created along the West River below the State Park, is gone. However, it was a flood that created the first New Beach so when there is the next flood, we will probably get another on the same way. Maybe the sand will be there. Or maybe not. Maybe it will be down the river a ways. On the way back, we passed this lovely group of trees. There should be a special word for a group of young trees all standing together. Then we came out at the bottom of the field below the Tewksbury house. Still there. ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/06/new-beach-is-gone-new-new-beach-will-show-up-when-the-river-goes-down/feed/2helenaworthenriver-high-e1541460967134.jpgfloodedpath.jpgjoe-crosses-brook.jpgdebris.jpgoldbike.jpgnew-beah-gone.jpgpath-uprivier.jpgtweks.jpgTuesday Nov 6: no matter what happens, we will be fighting on different groundhttps://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/05/tuesday-nov-6-no-matter-what-happens-we-will-be-fighting-on-different-ground/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/11/05/tuesday-nov-6-no-matter-what-happens-we-will-be-fighting-on-different-ground/#respondMon, 05 Nov 2018 03:06:04 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8066&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]>The election is day after tomorrow. I remember how I felt after the 2016 election. In 2018, I am much better prepared. I think a lot of people are better prepared. I have never seen mobilization like what I have seen in the last year. Never — not even in the 1970s against the Vietnam War. But no matter what happens on Tuesday, it’s not going to let up. If anything, the conflict will only get sharper. I think people on both sides know this. They’re not thinking of Tuesday as the end of the story. Nobody’s going to take time off. If the bad guys win, we’re still stuck in a life and death struggle because global warming has given us a deadline: get it together, or get out. If the bad guys win we just keep moving towards the world we have seen in movies, with deserts, continents of toxic waste, and then islands or even mini-moons of luxury. If that’s what happens, people like us just keep fighting. On the other hand, if the good guys win, the conflict will move to Congress. This doesn’t mean that people at the base on either side can cool it. The good guys had better not cool it; if we have actually succeeded in electing people we want to represent us, we need to keep them on course and make them make the wheels turn. The bad guys will have a heightened romantic identity as underdogs and flag-wavers; they’ll keep themselves busy. William Berkeley, the colonial governor of Virginia at the time of Bacon’s Rebellion, said, “Woe be it to a governor, three quarters of whose citizens are indebted, discontented, and armed.” The key races are all so close that wins, either way, are going to be by a handful of votes. It’s going to be 49.9% against 49.8%. That leaves a lot of unhappy, angry people out there. No one who loses by a thousand votes, or four hundred votes, or ten votes, is going to just walk away and say, “Never mind.” There will be re-counts, lawsuits, ugly name-calling. More pipe bombs, probably. There will be stunning examples of good leadership, too. Although I believed Bernie could have won – and would have won, if the Democratic National Committee had not screwed with him – I always also trusted that he would show us what losing with dignity looks like. I will never forget the speech he gave at the Convention when he handed Vermont’s electoral votes to Hilary. That was a mind-blowingly gracious and grown-up act. He rose to the occasion. But maybe 2016 was too soon for a Social Democrat to win the presidency. Maybe the cleft down the middle of our country had to break wide open, maybe each side had to see more clearly exactly what the other side looks like. Maybe we had to actually see Jeff Sessions, the Proud Boys, Charlottesville, Kavanaugh…… Tuesday night we’ll be in Brattleboro at the bi-weekly meeting of the Vermont Workers Center Organizing Committee, a good group of people to be with on a night like that. There’s going to be those maps again, as House representatives who have 2-year terms and the 33 Senators who are up for election show up as columns of red or blue.Then the Governor’s races check in. The VWC meetings take place at a non-profit center called TheRoot, a comfortable building that is part artists’ studios and part community enter. It has parking, heat, a bathroom, a lot of comfortable chairs and books and posters. It also has internet. I’ll go on line and try to see what’s happening in California, Pacific Standard Time. I’m prepared to cry. I didn’t cry after 2016; I was just scared. This year, if we lose big, I’ll cry for pity for the human race. But intellectually – in my harder-headed side — I expect that I’m going to hear a big cracking noise, like a beam splitting or – come to think of it — like the 1989 earthquake which I remember vividly: a deep grinding noise way below eardrum-audible, but body-audible, as the East Bay Hills groaned and tried to turn over. When the noise is over, I think I’ll see a country split apart as it hasn’t been since the Civil War. This beautiful old house, perhaps the most elegant in the town, once looked out through three majestic maples across a sloping field down to the West River. There is an el in the rear that you can’t see, so the house is even bigger than it looks. It was owned by the Tewskburys. Mrs. Tewksbury, who was a pianist who taught many children in the village, was widowed some time in the 1950s, leaving her alone with her developmentally disabled daughter Anne. When Mrs. Tewksbury died, a rich man from Connecticut, Jack Raymond, bought the house with the condition that Anne’s housing would be taken care of. For a while Anne lived in this house, but then moved into a room in the village. Eventually she was taken to an assisted living accommodation in the next town where she died, only a few years ago. In the meantime, Jack Raymond had purchased some of the other well-constructed, well-sited and historic houses in the village. One of them was at the top of a steep dirt road and ended in an apple orchard beyond which, in a kind of saddle between mountaintops, he built an airstrip. There are people in the village who remember planes landing on that airstrip. All the houses he bought were notable for either their good, classic construction or their stunning locations. The house at the top of the long dirt road, for example, looks out over miles of sloping mountainside into the deep river valley. Jack Raymond’s plan, apparently, was to create a New England tourist destination and link his properties together with horse-drawn carriages that would take guests from one venue to another. However, he was mostly in the buying mode, not the fixing-up or finishing-the-job mode, and the starkest evidence of this was the Tewksbury house, where he did make a stab at “improvements” by starting to build cement squash courts off the rear el of the house. No one I have talked with knows what Anne thought about this. She would walk through the village wearing her blue wool coat with the fur collar (I remember her mainly in the fall and winter seasons). She must have walked past her house a thousand times over the years, so she saw her family home slowly weather, be partly demolished by the squash court construction, and then bit by bit become an adventure destination for teenagers who explored the inside, broke windows and tore out the curtains and wallpaper. We would see her at church. She was always smiling and friendly to us. In the midst of all this, Jack Raymond got divorced. My father told me that they had had long conversations about his life and that he was often depressed and immobilized. Apparently he is still live, somewhere in Connecticut. The house at the top of the long dirt road, the one with the fabulous view (now blocked by a growth of pines and birches) and the airstrip, got a new foundation and secure locks a few years ago, so someone is interested in preserving it. Another one of his properties is the “green house” known as the Gladys Wolf house because Gladys, a friend of my parents, lived in it for many years in another housing arrangement after Jack bought it. This house is within sight of ours. It is occasionally occupied by a couple who come up from Connecticut for a weekend. However, that house had its barn and kitchen el torn away when Irene came through in 2014: With the November 6 election two weeks away, we went to a Select Board Meeting at the town offices. The item on the agenda that attracted what for the village is a big crowd (10 people) was getting the agreement of the town to go ahead with spending the insurance money to repair the roof of the Cheney Mill, a post-and-beam building that is the last one standing of the many mills that stood along the Ball Mountain Brook (see the flood video) in the old days. A high wind last year tore part of the metal roof off the mill, distributing it around the town, and insurance would cover the repair and replacement of the roof. After considerable discussion, the Select Board agreed to allow the Jamaica Historical Society (which wants to turn the mill into a community space for exhibits, concerts, etc) to oversee and go ahead with the repair. The Chair of the Select Board proposed selling the old mill to the Historical Society for $1.98 and letting them undertake the repairs, using the insurance money, or, if they wanted, “sell the wood and take the money and run.” Antique barn wood is in high demand by decorators. The word about the Select Board is that under this leadership, “the town doesn’t like to own anything.” The JHS declined the offer. Which led to the next discussion, which is relevant to my self-assigned task of trying to capture moments of grassroots democracy. After the issue of the repair of the mill was taken care of, the majority of the attendees left. The next item was the transfer station. A transfer station is a location where people bring their trash, which is in turn “transferred” to a bigger place. Vermont itself has only one ultimate landfill for trash, somewhere “way up north.” Apparently much of our trash — at least the electronic debris, which can be recycled — gets sold, or used to get sold, to China, although China has now decided not to accept any more. At any rate: after the Roads Department, the Transfer Station is the single biggest operation in the town. It accepts food garbage, electronics, hazmats and metal from three other villages. It also has big bins for paper, plastic and glass and a squisher for “real trash,” which village residents (people with a special card) can deposit trash into using special bright green and yellow plastic bags which we have to purchase at $3 each. Apparently this requirement has reduced the amount of “real trash” that we send down to the next step in the trash chain from an amount we used to pay $14,000 for to an amount that we pay $9,000 for. That was the only hard number that the Select Board seemed to have at its fingertips, however. The problem is the “gaylords,” which are used to contain the electronic waste. Ours are rusted or rotten through and the toxins in the waste are probably leaking into the soil. The transfer station is located halfway up a mountainside, on a flattened out terrace, but it is above the Ball Mountain Brook a few hundred yards below. Ball Mountain Brook right next to the Cheney Mill and a few hundred yards below the transfer station The reason this has come to the attention of the Select Board is that the State of Vermont inspected our transfer station and gave us until November 17 to come into compliance. The Select Board member, Polly Flowers (the only woman on the Board, and possibly in her 70s) had researched possible remediations such as buying a shed that could be set on gravel, etc, which would cost $3,500 to $4,000. The Select Board did not know at that moment, nor did it have any way of finding out, exactly what kinds of money were going into and coming out of the Transfer Station. Everyone knows that the new bags cost $3 each (or $2 for small ones), but what about the checks to the town that people write when they drop off old TVs and other “chargeable” junk? Did the transfer station actually make money, or lose money? What kind of a liability was it? The town treasurer appeared to not be at the meeting, and no one seemed to be able to refer to a handy document that would break out the various activities of the town into budget categories with revenue, costs, projections, etc. The problem is that if we do not meet the November 17 deadline for fixing the rotten, leaking gaylord, we will lose the license to run a general transfer station (meaning no longer accepting garbage, hazmats such as electronics, and at least one other type of refuse). Since three other villages rely on our transfer station to accept garbage and hazardous waste, that would be inconvenient for more than just people who are village residents. Nonetheless, one of the members of the Select Board seriously moved that we simply run out the deadline and stop providing the hazardous waste disposal function. That would reduce the number of things the town was responsible for. He also said that pretty soon all the old TVs with “those big square backs” will be gone anyway, and everyone will have these new smart TVs, and the need for so much disposal will be over. Someone else, however, pointed out that if you don’t have a hazmat disposal option, people will simply toss their cell phones, old TVs, tape recorders, play stations, iPads et etc into the woods as they drive around. The Select Board did not vote on this motion, but instead agreed to set aside or postpone making a decision on the issue of getting new containers for the hazardous waste until the next meeting which is in early November. By then surely, someone would know something about what happens to the money taken in by and spent on the transfer station. The woman who had brought the information to the Board pointed out that this would make it impossible to meet the deadline, but she was gently assured that the Vermont agency in charge could be reasoned with and would not shut the transfer station down if they understood that the Board was under “a time framework”. Small government in action. Last night I watched the debate in Georgia that included Stacy Abrams, the Black woman who is getting national attention and may actually win. Her main opponent, who is named Kemp, I think, has put at least 53,000 people on a “pending” list because of some problem with their registration, or perhaps because they did not vote in previous elections, or whatever. They way you get off the “pending list”, he said, is by coming in and showing your government-issued ID. He scolded Abrams for not voting for on-line registration, but she pointed out that lots of rural Georgia does not have good internet. Seventy percent of the people on the “pending” list are minority. These folks are running for Governor. Stacy Abrams was brilliant. I actually had a dream about her! Kemp was low-key Kavanaugh, doing his best to discredit Abrams by calling her a liar, tax cheat, etc etc. The third candidate was a friendly goofball Libertarian who proposes saving Georgia’s economy by farming “industrial hemp,” but his presence as a wild card forced the other two candidates to deal with some sharp issues, and also made the panelists and mediator, in the name of equal treatment, enforce the rules with energetic civility. He finished up by defining Libertarianism as “Don’t bother me, don’t tell me what to do, and don’t steal my stuff.” He argued that since “this is going to be a run-off,” people should vote for him as a protest vote. In the meantime, we had a lovely discussion of important issues at the regional meeting of the Vermont Workers Center last Sunday. It was scheduled from 9-5 and we got there late (about 10:30). I had not expected to want to stay the whole day but I was having so much pleasure — not exactly fun – listening to people that I didn’t suggest leaving until it was over. The readings (from Gramsci) were well-chosen and the discussions were informative, stimulating, friendly and supportive. There was also plenty of food and good coffee. Besides which, last Tuesday was my birthday. I invited the ladies of the Benefit over for lunch. ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/24/small-government/feed/4helenaworthenTewksburyhouseRiver near millVWC reading exBirthdaySo How Would a Revolution Actually Start in the US?https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/08/so-how-would-a-revolution-actually-start-in-the-us/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/08/so-how-would-a-revolution-actually-start-in-the-us/#commentsMon, 08 Oct 2018 21:27:40 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8046&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]>So how would a revolution actually start? Our daughter, an ER nurse who thinks ahead, has been reading the New York Times Op Eds post-Kavanaugh. She asked this question. I don’t think it will start before the election on November 6. Everyone is too busy. But first, a word from our sponsor: This is not me.This is my friend and she said it was OK to use this. After the mid-term election, if the Democrats pick up some seats – enough to make some difference at the national level – there will continue to be a period while people are waiting to see what happens next. If there is good stuff at the local level – like, if Jovanka (a democratic socialist and DSA member) wins for California Assembly District 15 – then people will take a breath and focus locally. People will get behind the more do-able parts of her Bernie-esque agenda and try to move it forward. That’s all. But if people feel that this is just another election that has been stolen like Bush vs Gore in 2000 or 2004 and Hilary vs Bernie vs Trump in 2016, then the rope that ties things together will start to shred visibly, like in a movie where the hero is hanging off the side of a cliff and people up above on the top and down below can all equally see what’s about to happen. We will all agree: We’ll say: “You stole it!” and they’ll agree, “Yes, we stole it! Ha ha!” Like Samuel Jackson in the Instagram mashup, yelling at Kavanaugh: “You did it!! Yes, you did, Brett!” There are two clocks ticking. One, obviously, is climate change. There will be increasing wildfires, hurricanes, floods, new diseases, etc. The price of food will go up (it already has; I used to be able to buy everything I wanted at the Monterey Market for $35. Now it’s more like $70.) It will probably take a year or two for us here in the Berkeley bubble to feel the big changes, so we will just sit like the frogs in the pot while other parts of the world burn and drown and people put what they can carry on their backs and leave home. The other clock is the economy. There is another crash coming, and this time the ruling class will not even pretend to put a cushion under those who fall to the bottom. We will all be Puerto Rico while the top .01% sweeps up whatever shakes loose and stashes it away. Note that in the wake of the vote for Kavanaugh, the stock market went up. These people are placing bets. The economic crisis clock is ticking faster than climate change because the people placing their bets will want to get out with their winnings before it all blows up. These two clocks will run out no matter what happens on November 6. There is no Planet B, no Westward Expansion, no Darkest Africa to claim, raid and rob. At the point I called Joe to come and help me think about this. What follows includes his ideas. A Real Revolution Requires a Power Shift A revolution in America would not be guerilla warfare like Cuba or Vietnam, despite the millions of guns that are out there. If the civil institutions of our limited and distorted but persisting democracy can survive an electoral transition, a revolution in America could start using these existing institutions. That sounds like Bernie’s agenda: free public higher education, rebuilding infrastructure, tax the rich, jobs in a reclaimed public sector, Medicare for all. But that agenda is the outcome of a power shift, not the power shift itself. A real revolution is, by definition, a shift in class power, in our case from the present ruling class of capital to the working class, the vast majority. Not all so-called “revolutions” really involve a power shift. When there is just a replacement of one ruling group by another, but no fundamental change in class power and therefore social institutions, that’s not a real revolution. Examples of this are the Philippines and the “color revolutions” in Eastern Europe and former USSR republics, etc. There have only been a few real revolutions, maybe five, in the last 100 years. They can also be reversed and/or distorted nearly beyond recognition. If a revolution in the US actually began electorally, or looked like it might, at some point the current ruling class would either fix the election, deny the results or attack the new government, eventually by force if necessary. The key example for comparison might be Chile. We would have to be prepared to defend the gains by force, as Allende was not prepared to do in Chile, despite the movement, and many workers, asking him to do so. There is also the possibility of international action against a revolutionary USA from Europe, Japan, even a capitalist China. From the point of view of the EU, a revolutionary USA might look like a Venezuela. On the other hand, it is possible that if we are prepared, and much of the military refuses to fight us, then it might be fairly peaceful, as it was in 1917 in Russia. Remember that one of the reasons we eventually pulled out of Vietnam was because the soldiers themselves were starting to refuse orders. There still might be a civil war later, with or without foreign intervention. The point is that in order to achieve a real power shift, there would have to be mass support clearly demonstrated for radical changes. The best way to minimize violence is to be prepared, openly and publicly, and have a big strong mass movement with a leadership that can be trusted. In this we can think of it as a super strike on a much bigger level. We are light-years away from that now, but things can change very fast, even in our lifetimes. What are the Obstacles? Racism, Police, Lack of Leadership We can’t just think of a revolution as voting in the good guys and re-writing laws. There will be opposition. One way to evaluate the likelihood of a successful power shift is to look at what would stand in the way. The profoundly racialized structure of our society is a major obstacle. Racism has power over us white people through our weakness and fear, which can make us impotent in this fight. The House of Kavanaugh is big and well-built (and like the White House in Washington, was built with slave labor). It will be easier to empty it than to knock it down, but one way or another, it has to go. Exiting the House of Kavanaugh onto level ground where people are equal means leaving behind all the little perks and privileges that it enables. Outside the House of Kavanaugh, a white man has no more points than a Black man or a woman. He doesn’t get to talk more or eat more or walk in front. He doesn’t necessarily get the job if he’s applying for one. People inside the House of Kavanaugh are aware of what will happen if they really exit. No matter where their sympathies lie, they will find it hard to do. “I can’t afford it,” they’ll say. But outside the House of Kavanaugh, gains can be made even for white men that they could never win on their own. We have seen this happen in strikes, when by uniting across race and gender lines, major gains were won. Second, our police system is embedded in our racist culture. There may be individual good guys, but as an institution, they are on the wrong side. Today in America, their job is to protect property. They are now equipped with military-grade weapons. Their system feeds the prisons, where one out of three Black men spend some time during their lives. Then there’s the pseudo-military civilian armed forces that operate with government approval, like ICE, which feed the detention centers and the tent camps in the Texas desert where a thousand children are held captive. There is also a huge force of non-governmental security guards and private armed personnel. These entities also have guns, helicopters, trucks, drones, etc. Their power is force. They might prove unreliable politically at some point, since they are basically mercenaries, and some are unionized now, but that’s a far stretch. The lack of real leadership is third obstacle. There are voices rising, and new faces that are getting familiar, but no one, no group of people who represent a major movement, has emerged. For that matter, there is no overall movement right now that includes everyone who wants a revolution. Instead, we have dozens or hundreds of campaigns. We have no revolutionary organization. If history is any judge, a revolutionary organization is needed. Even here, the recent growth of the explicitly socialist left, largely due to the Bernie campaign, and outrage over Trump, suggests that both a mass socialist movement and even a core revolutionary leadership might soon emerge. Some of the real leaders may come from the prisons. Prisons have been opened before: the Bastille, for example. And remember Mandela who was released after 27 years? There is movement inside our prison system, too: they just had a mass strike. Again, racism is our key obstacle here. Are there some hopeful signs? Hopeful signs include the fact that the public sector itself is still large and a site of struggle, the teachers especially. Under Hitler, all the teachers just became Nazis or shut up overwhelmingly. The Nazis did not have to do mass purges in the schools or the public sector generally. We think, and hope, that would be different today in the USA. The teachers’ strikes of last spring are a something to be very proud of. West Virginia, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Arizona teachers went on statewide strikes, without the leadership of the teacher’s unions telling them to – or even supporting them, until it was clear that they were going ahead with it. The public sector is important. The right wing Supreme Court was not confused when they came down with the Janus vs AFSCME Council 31 decision! The progressive organizing among nurses and other health care workers, both into unions and for the welfare of their patients (Medicare for All) is also suggestive for the future. Other activity in the world of labor is also hopeful. The Fight for Fifteen started as a ridiculous pipe dream; now Amazon boasts it will pay its workers $15 an hour. Right now there is a national strike going against Marriott Hotels, led by workers in UNITE HERE. David Bacon (dbaccon.igc.org) has some wonderful photos posted of workers on the picket lines in the Bay Area. Based on what we know about internal organizing within UNITE HERE, especially among the housekeeper staff, preparation for this huge action has occupied at least 10, probably 15 years. Not overnight, in other words! That’s a lot of hard work. Finally, the country might actually split geographically. It happened once already, although the immediate causes were primarily economic, competition against unpaid slave labor, and only secondarily the moral outrage of, and against, the slavers. Also important to remember that what began as a war to save the Union against secession became, of necessity, a war to end slavery, with the action of the Black people themselves, enslaved an d free, absolutely essential to both the change in the war goals and in the final victory. Things can change a whole lot. What is the comparable issue today? Maybe the two ticking clocks – climate change and the economic meltdown – will force a revolution, but they won’t split the country by themselves probably; we are all in both of those together (only in the final analysis is that strictly true, and as Keynes said, in the final analysis, we are all dead.) But the sharper the differences between the states, in terms of minimum wage, unemployment benefits, environmental regulations, public education, labor protections, Medicaid expansion and public services generally, the more you wonder if we even know that we belong to the same country. In Illinois, speaking of workers’ compensation laws, we used to say, “If you’re injured in Indiana, crawl to Illinois!” But it looks as if people move to where jobs are, or given the price of housing, where they can get a roof over their heads. So, when? An optimistic view, therefore, may be no revolution in our lifetime, but a discernable movement toward socialism or at least toward a post-capitalist future where working people have the greatest say-so over what happens. But it could happen sooner. Some famous revolutionary (maybe a Russian?) once said that in an actual revolutionary situation people learn in a week what would take them a lifetime in normal times. Things can change very fast. Our job is to try to both move them and get ready for the unexpected. ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/08/so-how-would-a-revolution-actually-start-in-the-us/feed/2helenaworthenNJThe Mansion of the Kavanaughshttps://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/03/the-mansion-of-the-kavanaughs/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/03/the-mansion-of-the-kavanaughs/#commentsWed, 03 Oct 2018 18:32:01 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8044&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]>It’s been nearly two months since I’ve posted. What could I say that wasn’t bad news? But now the Brett Kavanaugh hearings have happened and all hell has broken loose. Women protesting all over the place, occupying offices in government buildings, clamoring for the white boys in charge to listen to their stories and pay attention. The best quickie is the Instagram mashup that has Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction leaning over Kavanaugh and shouting, “You did it!! You know you did it!” Here is what I wrote on September 29, 2018. I was responding to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Lindsay Ellis, from September 27: As Kavanaugh Allegations Widen, Elite-College Alumni Recall Harassment From Decades Past Students, by Lindsay Ellis. She has said she wants to post it in various places so I figured I’d post it here, too. The Mansion of the Kavanaughs As a 1965 graduate of Radcliffe (which was then still in the process of becoming Harvard), I am being urged by family and husband to write something about all this. I have a slightly different take on the #MeToo stories. I would tell three kinds of stories, not one. First and foremost and overwhelmingly important is naming and describing the patriarchal social structure that we all lived in back then, men and women together. It still exists, as we saw displayed in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings yesterday, but I am going to talk about it in the past tense for now. Picture it as a mansion made of marble, with columns and twenty wide steps leading up to the front doors. How you inhabited it depended on your gender. At Harvard when I was a student, there was a whole undergraduate library just for “men.” There was one – only one – women’s “lounge” Harvard Yard, in a basement. Walking through the Yard, women could wear trousers only if the snow was a certain number of inches deep. A prominent professor, beloved by many, responded to my request that he be my thesis tutor with “I don’t do girls.” Women professors for role models of how to survive in the mansion? To my knowledge, there were two: one was a poet who committed suicide. And there was the white-coated, silver-haired Cambridge doctor to whom I went seeking birth control — a diaphragm – who said, “Educated women make wonderful mothers.” Did he actually assault me? No — but I nearly died of a back street abortion the week before I graduated. This is at a time when the ratio of men to women if you include the graduate schools was about 20 to 1 and getting hit on was as certain as getting rained on if you went outdoors in March. None of what I’m talking about here constitutes sexual assault in and of itself. It’s not individual, it’s the whole structure — the famous professor, the kindly doctor, the library that did not admit women — these are just people occupying rooms in this mansion, but it is designed and run to make all men the masters of all women. Women trying to walk around in that mansion? Well, if you didn’t take the back stairs you had to wear a maid’s outfit or just accept the idea that they assume you were a slut. I can’t begin to touch how this was racialized, at least not in this letter. But it wasn’t all the men, of course. When I connect with old classmates, men especially, my strongest feeling is affection and I want to ask, “You were there too, how was it for you?” This house of patriarchy was great for bullies like Brett Kavanaugh, for whom a drunken party with girls was normal, but it was awful for young men who watched with shame and fear as their women friends and sisters got hurt or bashed around psychologically. What’s more, the roaring of the bullies was as much directed at other young men as it was at us, the women. They suffered right along with us, although we didn’t have a way to talk about it. The house of patriarchy was a totality and occupied all possible space, but there were some safe places tucked away within it — a theater group, a lab, a civil rights organization that had some politics, a chess club where a guy who wasn’t a bully could be undisturbed and actually study. They also might find a partner, a woman who wasn’t attracted to bullies, who could help keep both of them safe. But other young men got dragged or dazzled into the magic circle of the jerks for whom the patriarchy was designed, the football guys and other athletes. During my years at Harvard I could spot those jerks a mile away: they were the B-School guys, the Law School guys, and some of Government majors who aspired to be law school guys. Not so much the Medical school guys, who were usually nerds. (And these grad schools were overwhelmingly male; 50 years later, I probably have to explain that.) If those who were dragged in weren’t Kavanaugh themselves, they hung out with him and basked in the glow, and did what he dared them to do or else. Him renting a bus to take his buddies to Fenway Park and drinking themselves silly both ways would be typical. The mansion itself is just a place, although it’s a place with rules. But it doesn’t in itself perform sexual assault. It has rooms where Harvey Wienstein can be left undisturbed for a few hours after lunch, and someone at the front desk who will call him when the girl shows up, and someone else who will walk her to the elevator, but the mansion itself doesn’t do anything. If it was a workplace, we would call it “hostile environment,” but it’s not a workplace, it’s the world. Or it wants to be the world. So that’s the first way I’d like to see the #MeToo stories told: the mansion. The second way I’d want to see them told is through the eyes of the people who were men but not bullies. I was lucky enough to know quite a few of them. These were my friends. I told my husband that these were guys who would stop when I said “Stop,” but many of them I had no sexual relationship with at all. Today I am still friends with some of them. I have also been to reunions where a guy or two has come up to me, someone I didn’t know, and apologized — not for himself, necessarily, but on behalf of his cohort. It brings tears to my eyes right now to remember this. There have also been suicides and long depressions and mental illness among some of these guys, I want to say, whereas others have done fine (but none are rich lawyers, by the way). Some of the men who were not bullies themselves were undoubtedly sexually abused, just to show who’s boss. Mark Judge’s depression and alcoholism might be the price he paid for hanging out with Brett Kavanaugh. These guys, the good guys who are not natural bullies and who hesitate to become members of the Kavanaugh gang get hurt in many ways that are not getting headlines these days. Living around bullies can make you crazy; maybe it’s like PTSD. Of course, neither the victims nor the witnesses could talk about their experience out loud. It was worse than forbidden, it was unspeakable. There were no words for it. You couldn’t name it because there was no vocabulary for it. Lacking practice, we none of us knew what to say or how. That will make you crazy. Doing what Christine Blasey Ford did was an act of sanity in the face of that prohibition. Apparently her just saying those forbidden words out loud in public was so powerful that Brett Kavanaugh has decided that it has destroyed his family, his reputation, his career. No wonder it was forbidden! The third story, then is the experience that Christine Blasey Ford recounted. I want to say first off that her story was so familiar to me that I felt that I could have told it myself. This, and things like this, is what happened not just once or twice but all the time back when I was at Harvard. Maybe not exactly that way, and maybe not to me, but the banal normality of her experience was so absolute that I felt I could have walked right up those stairs and heard those boys laughing— giggling, really, keeping up a running commentary on the challenges of peeling a girl out of a one-piece bathing suit. Maybe the best way to communicate how banal and normal it was to experience sexual assault at Harvard is to say that there were lists of abortionists that circulated among the girls in my dorm. There was one famous one, in Ashland, Pennsylvania, whose name had been mentioned in a poem by Anne Sexton, but there were others, in Montreal and Switzerland and Puerto Rico, and it was not unusual for someone to say, “Hey, can I get a look at that list, please?” I heard it referred to as “the cost of doing business.” You could stay in the dorm, wear your fuzzy slippers and hair curlers, and be pretty sure of staying a virgin, or you could go out into the world and try to live the same kind of life the guys were leading, going places, meeting people, coming back late in a taxi, in which case you took a whole set of risks that the boys did not take and those risks were with you all the time, with payday coming once a month when you did or did not get your period. Yesterday I was so upset (both upset and awed) by what I was hearing during Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony that I took my iPhone, left the house and walked down to the bus stop near our house and just rode the Number 18 bus for a few hours, listening, from Berkeley into Oakland and back, making myself invisible in the company of the other bus riders. A bus is a nice alternative to the mansion. I did notice that quite a few other riders were women my age and they were all listening intently to something on their phones. Then the Senators went to lunch and came back home and now Kavanaugh was being questioned. I do not want to pay him the respect of saying a lot about him. Instead, I want to say what happened to me while I listened to him. I was shocked to find that I was watching him re-build the mansion of patriarchy, brick by brick, log by log, marble column by column, right in front of my eyes. While listening to Christine Blasey Ford testify, it had been like being in some plain flat place like an open field, just plain reality. She and I were both in the world I recognize, the world I live in now, where girls can get birth control and marriage is not necessary and gay couples are no big deal, and where we can and should talk about bad things and call them by their name and send bullies and jerks and rapists to prison, not put them on the Supreme Court. Blasey Ford sat there under the lights being stared at by millions of people and she said out loud things that were true in 1982 and true today, and millions of people listened to her and nodded their heads and agreed that she was telling her story the right way, at the right time, to the right people. “Credible,” everyone agreed. And then Kavanaugh got started. He was told that he could make his opening statement as long as he wanted, and it was long. First, he seemed to be occupying the same reality that Christine Blasey Ford and I inhabit, on that same flat plain. I think he expressed sorrow for her, while also insisting that he didn’t do it: he himself had never met her, he didn’t know her. Then he talked about his family, his father (seeming to stifle sobs while mentioning his father) and his daughter. Then as he talked, his tone got louder and he seemed to puff up with air. At about this point I suddenly felt a chill: I could see the mansion start to rise before me. I could see what he was doing. He was building it right in front of us by listing all its rooms and telling us what went on in each one. He listed his jobs mowing lawns, his summer athletic camps, his “captain’s workouts,” the football team, the basketball team, lifting weights, working his tail off, going to church (which for him is automatic “like brushing my teeth”), the private Catholic boys’ schools he and his buddies went to and the matching private Catholic girl’s schools where the girls that were socially OK went. Then it was Yale and Yale Law School and clerking and working for George Bush, flying on Air Force One. Room by room, he was reconstructing the mansion with all its many rooms, painting it clearly for us, every single room full of regular guys like him leading lives like his. He was building a different “normal”, not the normal that Christine Blasey Ford and I live in, but the normal of himself, the normal in which he is the top dog. By the time he had pretty much listed just about every kind of elite male privilege (boy or man) that a white guy can get in this country, he had passed from calm to sorrowful to a little sniffly to mad, then really full-on pissed off and loud, making threats and finally in a white bully rage, leaning forward with his face blown up, saying things like “You will reap the whirlwind!” At the climax he was up high in the mansion, standing on the very balcony, his arms wide to the world, suffering like Jesus on the cross because this woman had “ruined his life, his family, his reputation,” etc etc etc. — a victim, but also he had rebuilt the mansion, built an establishment around himself of which he was the exemplary deserving occupant. My husband was also watching Kavanaugh on TV and he asked, “Is that Shakespeare?” My sister in law was there and she said, “No, the Bible.” But there’s a way in which Kavanaugh’s rage was something out of Shakespeare, in the sense of mad Lear on the heath, wild and raging that he has had his crown grabbed out of his hands. However, when Shakespeare builds up a character like this — usually someone who has lost something and tries to get the universe to converge on him and get it back for him – Shakespeare makes sure we can see the other characters on the stage gaping at the guy who has gone off the rails. In Shakespeare, someone will survive to pick up the pieces when this guy blows up. It will be a tragedy, but someone will survive. Not so with Kavanaugh, who finally stopping bloviating leaving everyone clearly exhausted. Diane Feinstein, who although she has a lot of money nevertheless grew up in that mansion, was probably having a hard time focusing on what is real and what is not. She seemed to fumble the first question. Kavanaugh then managed to filibuster his way through most of the ensuing questions. Ultimately, of all the Democratic Senators, only Cory Booker, the Black ex-mayor of Newark and now Senator from New Jersey, was able to bring the jerk to heel and keep him from interrupting. In fact, it seemed as if it was faintly possible that Kavanaugh was afraid of Booker. Which makes sense, especially if you believe as I do that the reason white policemen shoot Black men is because white bullies are afraid of Black men generally, and should be, because they owe them nothing and have nothing to lose. Now I’ll bring this around to the #MeToo movement, which has brought out into the light the stories of what it is like for women in the mansion where most of us still live. #MeToo stories are usually individual stories. We need to go past that. I’m saying there are two other stories without which the stories of individual assaults and violence are incomplete. One of these is the story of the mansion itself, by which I mean all the activities in all the different rooms, closets, hallways, basements and ballrooms where people who may think they play only a whisper or a shadow of a role nonetheless keep the building standing upright. Go back to the fine silver-haired doctor who didn’t give me a diaphragm; he was performing his role in the mansion, but you couldn’t exactly say he assaulted me, could you? The second is the story of the men and boys who can see what’s wrong, can see the blows falling on the woman or girl next to them, but who just eat their own pain and fear being singled out by a bully if they speak up. The structure of the mansion, visible to women, is probably invisible to them; they bump into its walls and don’t understand where the doors are. They must experience something that makes them question what the value of being a man might be. Ultimately, my husband and I calmed down last night by trying to figure out what could be done right now. He said, “Economic equality.” I said, “No, control over our bodies comes first.” Of course, that’s why the right wing wants Kavanaugh in the Supreme Court: to get rid of Roe versus Wade. So we agreed that the thing to do right now is to support Planned Parenthood. No wonder the Republicans want to de-fund it. Enough for now. Thanks for reading all this. Yours, Helena Worthen ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/10/03/the-mansion-of-the-kavanaughs/feed/19helenaworthenCan the Sun Rise in the West?https://helenaworthen.net/2018/08/11/can-the-sun-rise-in-the-west/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/08/11/can-the-sun-rise-in-the-west/#respondSat, 11 Aug 2018 21:56:23 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=8015&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]>That’s a line from Fan Shen — said by Kuomingtang reactionaries to scoff the idea that Mao’s revolution could ever really happen. First annual Tommyfest. Musicians from all over the area brought their instruments and jammed. Four men went off into a quiet place to play. Big wind, lightning, trees down; bursts of rain. The rivers come up fast. Out west, the wildfires are getting started three months early. I have not written much because I am so ashamed of my country. Children coming across the border are taken from their parents and sent to detention centers — some in other states. Huge demonstrations to protest this. A judge has declared that they have to be re-united, but they don’t have a process set up. I am not up to writing about grassroots democracy and how it can turn the tide. Maybe later. Here is the brook below Pikes’ Falls. Below, see if you can see the bird on the bird feeder. A red dinner napkin around its neck. John’s studio. He did the woodcuts a year ago, before the current publicity about the children at the border. Bean. Where are we? Joe said, “She wrote for the ages.” Winter after winter, she would sit in the living room with a small table set up with a typewriter and transcribe this manuscript. The writer, my great-great grandfather Joseph Goddard, was so angry about slavery that he couldn’t stop writing, fighting, preaching, traveling all over western New England to rage about it. This was 1838, thereabouts. The first version of this manuscript was stolen, along with his clothes, out of a trunk on a trip he took to New York State, so he wrote it again. This is it. Something else worth doing. Tiepolo. Feet as beautiful as hands. Ladora, Iowa. This building was built to be a bank. It functioned as a bank for about 8 years during the 1920’s, when Iowa was an agriculture-based boom economy. Then it went bust. Today it stands out in the town (most of the town is in the picture) like a mausoleum. Inside, it is a bistro, serving high end “small plates” of very good tasty food, lots of wine and beer, no coffee or tea. Inspirational homilies about thrift and integrity run around all four sides of the ceiling. Upstairs is a tiny “board room” where the decision to declare bankruptcy must have been made. Five men playing croquet on the lawn. Three of them are lawyers. One is a union activist. The fifth works in tech. Back in San Jose, the COCAL XII conference drew participants from Canada (Anglophone and Francophone) and Mexico as well as the US. Note headphones for translation. The equipment alone for translation cost $11,000 to rent. The Mexicans reported difficulties getting visas and additional surcharges when coming across the border in Tijuana. Posters at the Museum of Mexican American Art in San Jose. So this has been going on for a long time. In the meantime, reports from the primaries are coming in with results in some areas (Ohio, for example) that were sure-thing Trump areas now “too close to call.” And Missouri put down a right-to-work law 2 to 1. Here is Jovanka Beckles, who is running for the CA state legislature from our district. She is speaking at a fundraiser houseparty last week in Berkeley. She is a mental health caseworker from Richmond, CA and has been elected to the City Council there. Jovanka ran in a busy field against a stack of other local aspirants, and came in second in a very close vote, which enables her to run in the upcoming primary. Her opponent, also a Democrat (this is a top-two election) is a white woman named Buffy Wicks, who was an Obama staffer, very young and has never held public office. But Buffy has Obama’s endorsement. Jovanka got the endorsement of all of the people who ran in the primary against her and takes no corporate money. And then this, which I consider a good sign: ]]>https://helenaworthen.net/2018/08/11/can-the-sun-rise-in-the-west/feed/0helenaworthenboysinwoods.jpgtree-down2.jpgpikes-f.jpgred-breasted-bird-e1534022873300.jpgjohn-studio.jpgThe Beanabolitionst-msc.jpgmouthsandalsLAdora outsidebank-bistro.jpg5 men playing croqcocal-crowd.jpgPosters in SJJovanka2Czech Republic: More than castles and villageshttps://helenaworthen.net/2018/05/09/czech-republic-more-than-castles-and-villages/ https://helenaworthen.net/2018/05/09/czech-republic-more-than-castles-and-villages/#respondWed, 09 May 2018 15:20:38 +0000http://helenaworthen.net/?p=7943&ellipsis;Read the full post »]]> Our Lady of the Snows, in Prague Baroque cathedrals, castles, apple blossoms, lilacs, forsythia and quince, winding rivers and rolling hills, broad fields of rape, pronounced “rap,” which is that intense yellow flower that I thought was mustard; the countryside is beautiful and we came just as the apple trees were blossoming. Czechoslovakia was created out of the Versailles Treaty after WWI, as part of the strategy to break up the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After that came a series of national traumas: Munich, when the Sudetenland (the western part of Czech) was handed over to Germany under Hitler. Then the surrender of the Jewish population in Hitler’s Final Solution, first into concentration camps and then to Auschwitz. This included 95% of the Czech Roma population. At the end of WWII, the one-third of the population that was German was expelled back to Germany (no matter how many generations they had lived in CZ). Then came the Communist period. The period of opening after Khrushchev criticized Stalin, called “the Prague Spring,” was repressed in 1968 with Russian tanks rolling across the border into Prague. What a sequence of national traumas! But now the Czech Republic, which split off from Slovakia, is among the most healthy economies in the EU with low unemployment and relatively low levels of inequality, although there is a heavy load of apathy towards anything political, almost a feeling of a white wall of silence. The old people, we are told, vote Communist; the young either vote ANO, a new party, or do not vote at all. What is being displayed? What is the story? Who is telling it? For whom and why? I come from a country that has done much evil and good in the world and is still doing it, too much, in fact — both the good and the evil. Many people in the US are concerned with how the story of our past is told, for whom, and how it will shape our future. I wrote a post about Christian Appy’s important book, American Reckoning, which explains how the national trauma of the Viet Nam War has shaped our sense of who we are. Museums and monuments are also ways of telling a story that is not individual but social or collective. In the US, the critical stories for us right now are about our experience of slavery; you can see how the telling of this story re-surfaces in the news every day, in one way or another. So I am interested in museums (and in tourist attractions that do not pretend to be museums, but that perform a function that mimics a museum). For example, Disneyland is a tourist attraction that does not pretend to be a museum, but it tells a story about what America is and was, and it is a persuasive story.The White Tower in Prague, part of the Castle, with its displays of armor and torture instruments, is another example of an attraction that is not exactly a museum. At the other extreme are museums like the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, which is really an archive and teaching and research institution, that tells a story about the American/Vietnam War that is so bound up with my own history. These are the questions that I carry with me when I go to a new country and try to understand what is going on. Here is a castle, Karlstejn, 30 K west of Prague: View from the entrance to the castle of Karlstejn. The winding road below leads past restaurants and souvenir shops down to the railroad station, about 30 minutes from Prague. We are staying in Stranny, a village of 100 people near Benesov, where the Archduke Francis Ferdinand (the one who with his wife Sophia was assassinated in 1913, triggering the First World War) had his castle, Konopiste. We did not visit Konopiste: we were told, however, that it contains over 100 stuffed animals that the Archduke shot. But on the railroad platform there is a photo display about Ferdinand. The display includes photos of the Archduke as a boy, as a handsome young man (doe-eyed, with a handlebar mustache), with a gun and a pheasant, also lying in a hammock, playing tennis, and dressed in his hussar uniform, which has a nipped-in waist and a lot of gold braid. Everything is in Czech except for one placard. One photo shows Ferdinand walking along near the railroad platform with Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and the caption says that “the public believed they were planning to go to war.” Soon after that, came the assassination. Inside the railroad station is a special separate waiting room, unfortunately closed right now, where Ferdinand met with important visitors. On the platform there is a photo of Ferdinand and Sophie lying in state. In town there is a grand, castle-like brewery that makes Ferdinand beer. From this train station in Benesov we can be in Prague in an hour or less. Coming home, we sometimes catch a bus and sometimes a taxi. Not all castles and villages We went east by train — the Pandolino, a beautiful fast train with good food — to Ostravo and then made short trips to Opava and Olumoc. Ostravo was once known as the “Black City” because of the pollution. There were both coal mines and steel mills here. The mines were right under the city itself; there a football stadium that has sunk so much, because of the mines below it, that it can’t be repaired. The mines fed the steel mills which were basically coal gasification plants. Now all but one of the mills are closed. The air is clean, although you can still see the soot on the walls of some of the old buildings. These are apartment blocks in Ostravo; built in the 1970s to house workers who were coming to work in the big steel mills and in the growing public sector (teachers, office workers), many of these were put up for private purchase after 1989. Our relative, a teacher, lives in a two-bedroom flat in one of these. It has windows on both sides, all new windows and doors, carpets and appliances, an elevator. There are perhaps 30 or 40 apartment blocks like this one, separated by paths and green spaces. Public transportation, schools, pubs, restaurants, playgrounds and supermarkets are all right there. Looking out her window we could see the elementary, middle and high schools. So far, consensus from everyone we have talked with: taxes are high but healthcare is free, education is free, people have pensions, you get 3 years of maternity leave with a stipend from the state, everyone has paid vacations. Buses and trains go everywhere and are on time. What if you lose your job? You get unemployment benefits but you go to the social services and they have jobs for you. There are jobs. Everyone can get a job. To be evicted from your apartment the landlord must give two months notice; you also give two months notice if you plan to leave. Also, everyone we talk to — which means people who speak English and are willing to talk – says the same thing about the Roma. They don’t work, they take money from the government, they steal. These eastern cities have very spacious, dignified central areas. In both Opava and Olomouc the big central squares are surrounded by cafes and the cafes are full – although not the one in this picture! That particular cafe terrace did not open until later. The building in the rear is the Opera — they were doing Janacek’s The Little Vixen. Town Hall square in Opava Street in center city Opava, late afternoon These cities are dignified, quiet, and calm; very few western tourists if any. They feel old but clean and not deteriorated. Lilacs are in bloom along the streets that circle around the central pedestrian area. They are very serious about cakes and pastries. We walked through the university neighborhoods of both Ostravo and Opava. Of course, these are government-funded universities and we are told that they are “free” as far as tuition goes. So they do not try to attract fee-paying students or draw attention by building stunning Frank Gehry designs. This is true of Charles University in Prague, too, which is up on a hill south of the main railroad station: big, quiet, dark, maybe 5 floors high; gates leading into an interior courtyard. A Museum from a Steel Mill: Vitkovice Cylinders and Gearworks in Ostravo This tank, which used to contain gas, has been turned into a giant concert hall. Music festivals take place here. We were in Ostravo on May 1st, which is International Workers Day. In Czech it is celebrated as a national holiday. To celebrate, many people do not go to work. One of the enormous old steel mills in Ostravo has been turned into a park. People can walk through the mill along paths that are signed in Czech and English to explain the manufacturing process. There is also a science museum on the site; the whole thing is like the Exploratorium in San Francisco, only with a real steel mill. One of the mines that supplied coal to the mill was right under the mill itself. That mine is also now a museum. A giant tower is named the Bolt Tower for the runner, Usain Bolt. Just one small part of the giant steel mill that is now closed but re-invented as a park, with meeting places and restaurants and concert venues. Part of the mill is actually still in operation. Vitkovice Gearworks and Cylinders manufactures railroad ties, tubes, tanks and canisters that will hold things like oxygen or other gases under pressure, things that will be come fire extinguishers (for example) or supplies for hospitals or other industries. These are shipped all over the world, including the US. Joe saw the labels on the shipping platforms. On May 1 people can walk through this part of the mill and see workers making things out of molten steel. Kids can see where their fathers and grandfathers worked. Many of the older people in Ostravo worked in these mills; on this holiday they bring the grandchildren to see where grandpa worked. You are offered a hard hat at the entrance, but not many people take them. Inspecting cannisters; the guy on the right puts a torch into the opening; the guy on the left peers in from the bottom. The part of the mill that is still functioning is open to the visitors to the park today. You can walk along carefully marked paths through the factory and see people working. In one area you can see long steel rods being heated, chopped into small chunks, melted, formed into balls and then rolled through a smoothing and cooling sequence. These are used for breaking down coal or rocks into gravel or dust; they are poured into something like a giant washing machine and rolled around. At one end of the process, a giant jaw pulls a huge plug of molten steel out of a mold. Out of sight for me, this plug gets turns into long rods which are then chopped up into what will become balls. I am posting many pictures of this because of how sharp the contrast is between the public access to a live factory in Czech Republic and the US. I have visited two operating steel mills in the US (the Rouge in Detroit an the US Steel mill in Gary, Indiana) but both visits were as a guest of the union that represented workers there and in both cases, getting the invitation was difficult. Furthermore, private industry in the US often is behind fences and surrounded by a sea of parking, and may not even have a sign out saying what the name of the plant is. But in Ostravo you are invited to bring children within ten feet of a rube goldberg machine that is popping out molten balls of steel and cooling them in a sequence of tanks. Near Ostravo is a park called Landeck, which was the site of a mine. They have kept the miner’s changing room and the work clothes are still hanging there. I saw a space like this once in Sudbury, Ontario, at the site of an enormous copper mine. Another way the Czech celebrate May 1st is Walpurgisnacht; the night of burning witches, which would be the eve of May 1st. In Stranny the village men erected a high pole and then sat around on the terrace of our pension drinking beer. They were still awake and drinking when our host got up the next morning at 6;30 am. The idea is to keep watch so that the men from other villages do not steal your pole. Stranny’s pole was still there. It’s not really burning witches, apparently; it’s burning winter. Museums, cathedrals, more castles Yes, we went to the Castle in Prague. The Cathedral of St Vitus, which looms over not just the Castle but the whole city, is astounding. This is an instance of a museum that is a treasure house. All along the floor of the cathedral are chapels with elaborate religious sculpture and art. Every king or queen (or emperor) made a project of producing some fabulous contribution to the wealth and splendor of the cathedral. In the installation below, there are four flying angels lifting the curtains and they are all bigger than life-size. The Jewish Quarter This is the cemetery in the old Jewish Quarter, where some of the stone go back 400 years. The arched chambers of the lower floors of the old Synagogue are a memorial: the names of people who were killed during WWII under the Nazis are inscribed on the walls from floor to ceiling, arranged by family and region. Upstairs are more documents and a small narrow room dedicated to the drawings and notebooks created by the children at Theresienstadt, the model concentration camp that was shown to the Red Cross to demonstrate that the Jews were being well-taken care of. There are artifacts of the art teacher, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis. The Spanish Synagogue, nearby, has a museum with many documents displayed in glass cases. As I think about the line between a museum and a tourist attraction, this is a museum. Here is a picture of the roof of the inside: On the train to Benesov one night we sat across from a handsome young guy, about 17, who told us in pretty good English that he goes to the Jewish high school in Prague. It is connected to the museum and the old Jewish Quarter; they learn Greek and Latin as well as Hebrew. Right now he and some friends are translating a comic book into Yiddish for the fun of it. Their teachers are “the old people,” he said; the people who have memories and know history. They have done at least one trip to Israel. The Museum of Communism in Prague Of course we want to learn as much about the recent history of the country as possible, especially how it has managed since 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Union. We were already familiar with how that word “communism” is used in the US, including how it has changed over time during its long history and the ways in which it is confused with socialism. Then there is the way the word is used in Viet Nam, where the government is led by the Communist Party, which is entirely different from how the word is used here in the US by Vietnamese living here. Here, some of our conversations have made me think that the the word “communism” covers everything that is un-speakable and indicates a desire to forget. By contrast, for Vietnamese in the US, looking back on the years during and after the American war, there is a great deal of active memory about what living under communism meant. Here in Czech it seems as if a veil is pulled down over the whole period from the end of World War II through 1989 when the Soviet Union fell and the Velvet Revolution — the peaceful handover to the government under Vaclav Havel – took place. The Museum of Communism is not a research museum; it has a message to deliver. Most of the visitors in the museum were from the US or Europe. The written placards are in English and Czech and they refer to the years under Communism using words like “depravity” and “cruelty” but they do not document in detail the experience that lies behind them. They tell about the rise of communism in a very simplified way, with placards about Marx and about the lives of poor working class people, but the story as told by the placards swiftly turns into denunciations. This is in striking contrast to the Jewish Museum that is full of photographs and copies of original documents about both the historic Jewish community and the Holocaust. It is true that this Museum of Communism is still new. It moved into its new quarters only 6 months ago from its old location near the Post Office. (The guidebooks list the old address; we just happened to pick up a brochure that gave the new address but very little other information, as if it had been designed in haste, so we spent a lot of time poking around near the old address first before taking another look at the brochure.) Also, it is a private operation, not government-sponsored, and apparently the work of two Czech Americans cooperating with a Czech person. However, in comparison with the written placards posted on display boards, a much richer story is told in long video interviews with people who remember the period of communism. I did not count how many of these there are, but there must be 40 or 50, and it is quite possible that each screen could have more than one interview on it. The images on the screens are life-sized and there are subtitles in English. These interviews are each at least an hour long and they give space for all kinds of different people: there is a room, for example, of six women, women with various kinds of jobs from farm work to office work. At the time of the interviews these women were, from the looks of it, in their 70s or 80s, so they are talking about a period of time when they were young and middle-aged. Elsewhere there are interviews with poets, writers, film makers, young people. These are in-depth interviews about the life experience of individuals. One can sense that as time passes, these people will not be around any more, so that increases the value of the videos. The ones I watched told about the experiences of dissidents: people who were denied permission to travel, whose children were not allowed to go to school, people who spent many years in prison. In the ones I watched, the people all talked about forms of resistance: meetings at cabins in the forest, performing theater in living rooms, and lots of writing. As I have always been told, jokes and humor were a large part of the resistance. This made me think about what museums I have seen that address a national trauma. There is of course the War Remnants Museums in Ho Chi Minh City. There are the big Jewish museums in Washington DC, the famous one in Israel, and a number in Germany. Auschwitz itself is in Poland, only 2 hours east by car from Ostravo. There is a new museum in Montgomery, Alabama, that brings to life the lynchings of black people in the American South (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/a-new-lynching-memorial-confronts-americas-history-of-racial-terrorism.html). We visited a small museum of the Anasazi in Northern New Mexico that has glass cases displaying the letters written to the US government trying to explain how the Anasazi and Hopi used land. The creation of such a museum, that tries to carry the story of a national experience, is an enormous, collective task that should take years and has to be ongoing. From that light, the Museum of Communism is still very young. In Oakland, CA in the meantime, there is going to be a pop-up Museum of Capitalism in Jack London Square. https://portside.org/2017-06-17/new-museum-imagines-world-where-capitalism-dead. Based on the write-up, I’m afraid that the exhibits all seem to be ironic artifacts like WalMart shopping bags. We’ll see. Not an easy task. Although the Roma population in Czech was 95% wiped out, there is not, as far as I can tell, a museum of that culture and population. http://romove.radio.cz/en/clanek/18913. This is a museum that needs to be created. Walking up through the village of Stranny to the road. We’ll go a few hundred yards along the road and then turn off on the hiking path. Apple trees were just coming into bloom, along with lilacs and forsythia. Roads through the hills were planted with apple trees, one every 30 feet. We walked from Skranny to Neveklov, following a hiking path that led along the edges of fields and through well-managed forests. Sheep nibbled their way towards us. We went through a gate into the forest. Joe climbed up to a lookout. We passed what turned out to be a hospital or residence for developmentally disabled adults. This is the new part. The old part appeared to be an old mansion, certainly dating from the 1900s. There were greenhouses with people working in them and residents strolling around. It was fenced but the gates were open. One way we guessed how old the hospital was was because these chestnut trees are at least 100 years old, and there is a whole avenue of them leading up to the main building. The apex of our stroll was the town square of Neveklov, where there is an ATM, a movie theater, several restaurants, the town hall, a couple of markets and some other shops. there was also a small cucarna, or sweet shop (a coffee shop is a kavarna, and this one was both) that was selling black currant sherbert. We went in and had some. So did many other people; there was a constant stream of adults coming in for the sherbert, in cones. This man is showing us the cake with which he will celebrate his 71st birthday. He does both Alpine and cross country skiing, plays football, doesn’t speak a word of English, and this is his grandson Jacob eating a vanilla and black currant cone. The owner of the shop spoke some English; when we wanted to ask a question, the other clerks would call to the owner, who was a very lively and cheerful, outgoing person. The outside of the ice cream shop. We passed this old house on our way out of town. There were several things in this town that were marked on the map but which we couldn’t find; for example, the Jewish synagogue and also the Jewish cemetery. We found a cemetery near where the Jewish cemetery should have been but it was a Christian cemetery. Under the Nazi occupation, of course, Czechoslovakia rounded up Jews. Theresienstadt was in Czechoslovakia, Auschwitz only two hours east of Ostravo in what is now Poland. On our way back, we entered the forest again and crossed a brook. In one area, the trees lining the path were hawthorns, buzzing so loud with bees that you could hardly hear yourself talk. Here is where we stayed. The village of 100 people is called Stranny and this is the only inn.

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Commercial calcium cyanamide (CaNCN) is actually a mixture of several components formed during or remaining after production of the desired calcium cyanamide compound. Additional components found in commercial calcium cyanamide include calcium oxide (CaO), calcium carbide (CaC2), graphite carbon (C), dicyandiamide [(HNCN)2] and oxides of iron, aluminum, and silicon. Typically, for one reason or another, commercial calcium cyanamide is treated to alter the form of cyanamide or remove components remaining after manufacture. For example, because calcium cyanamide is a slow acting fertilizer that is sparingly soluble in water, it is often factory converted to water-soluble molecular cyanamide (H2NCN), which is faster acting and a higher analysis source of nitrogen. In this process, calcium cyanamide is forced to dissolve in water by precipitation of calcium ions (Ca2+) as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) and by acidification to convert initially formed cyanamide ions (NCN2−) into acid cyanamide ion (HNCN−) and then into molecular cyanamide, which predominates at a pH of 4.5-5.5. Insoluble calcium carbonate and graphite carbon, which may be entrained in the calcium carbonate, are then removed by filtration. The resulting solution must be kept cool, for example, refrigerated, because it is unstable above about 70° F. Calcium oxide and calcium carbide also are removed during the process used to provide molecular cyanamide from calcium cyanamide. Calcium oxide is converted to calcium hydroxide and further into calcium carbonate. In the case of calcium carbide, the carbide ion reacts with water to form acetylene that is lost as a gas to the atmosphere. Thus, many of the components originally in commercial calcium cyanamide are converted, removed, or lost. Since the various components of commercial calcium cyanamide also may benefit plants and soils, methods and compositions that maximize the utility of all of its various components are desirable. A. Calcium Calcium ions (Ca2+) are present in most organic matter and are necessary for many enzymatic reactions, including those that facilitate energy use by living organisms. Furthermore, calcium ions aid in soil reclamation by flocculating soil and permitting water percolation. Additionally, calcium tends to enhance the breakdown of organic matter through these and other actions. While calcium ions are abundant in nature in naturally occurring limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO3), they are not readily available for uptake because of the relative insolubility of calcium carbonate. From this is seen the need to stabilize calcium ions in soluble form to enhance the speed of calcium uptake into organic matter, both living and dead, to aid plant growth and soil reclamation. 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Such processes leave lime (CaCO3) and dicyandiamide (DiCy), formed as the initial calcium cyanamide solution is acidified through the pH range of 8-10, blackened by graphite carbon (C), in huge, now environmentally suspect piles, behind calcium cyanamide factories. Given the huge energy costs of initial calcium cyanamide production and subsequent analog production costs, it is unfortunate that a valuable nutrient such as calcium is left behind in piles of black lime for the sake of obtaining only nitrogen fertilizer from calcium cyanamide. The wastefulness of this practice is highlighted in that the major portion of commercial CaNCN is calcium. It is therefore desirable to stabilize and deliver the calcium component of calcium cyanamide for decomposition (composting) enhancement, odor and organism inhibition, plant nutrition, and soil flocculation. B. Nitrogen Nitrogen, in its molecular form (N2) comprises approximately 78% of the earth's atmosphere. Nitrogen is a component of all proteinaceous matter found in living organisms, but only a few organisms (such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria) are able to directly capture atmospheric nitrogen and add it to the biosphere. Proteinaceous matter, contained in dead and decaying organic matter and additionally in the excreta of animals represents a vast potential source of nitrogen for growth of living organisms. However, in proteinaceous form, nitrogen is insoluble and unavailable to living organisms except through the action of decomposers, which release nitrogen in the forms of gaseous NH3 and leachable NH4+, NO2−, and NO3−. These forms can be utilized by plants and allow nitrogen to reenter the living biosphere. In many instances the rate at which nitrogen becomes available from decomposing (composting) organic matter is insufficient to provide rates of plant growth that are desired by modern agriculture. Instead, synthetic nitrogen fertilizers have been utilized, leaving huge, unused stores of environmentally suspect animal excreta. Thus, there exists a need for an environmentally sound method that increases the rate at which nitrogen becomes available to plants from decomposing organic matter. Modern agriculture supplements plant available nitrogen by using high analysis nitrogen fertilizers, such as inexpensive urea, ammonia, ammonium compounds, and nitrates. Concurrently, use of calcium cyanamide, the first commercially available high analysis fertilizer, has declined due to the high cost of its manufacture and to the handling, shipping, and phytotoxicity problems it poses. While modern, low-cost, fast-acting high analysis nitrogen fertilizers can provide abundant nitrogen for rapidly growing plants, their use has produced some undesirable consequences, such as leaching of nitrates into groundwater and losses of volatile ammonia to the atmosphere. These are also problems associated with composting and applying animal excreta directly to soils. Thus, it is desirable to provide compositions and methods that promote release of nitrogen from proteinaceous materials, yet slow its loss to the atmosphere and from soil. It is also desirable to provide compositions and methods that stabilize and extend the residence time of high nitrogen analysis fertilizers in the plant root zone. C. Calcium and Nitrogen Plants deficient in calcium but provided with an abundance of nitrogen are prone to parasitic organisms. Conversely, plants with high ratios of calcium-to-nitrogen resist parasitic organisms. It is also known that it is difficult to provide plants with calcium in direct proportion to the rate at which they can absorb soluble nitrogen forms, even if calcium and nitrogen are provided as water-soluble calcium nitrate (CaNO3). Slow acting calcium sprays and expensive chelated forms of calcium have been reported not to cure calcium deficiencies observed during intensive nitrogen demanding vegetable production in California (Crop Notes, UC Extension, Salinas, Calif., July 2000). Therefore, it would be desirable to have compositions and methods that stabilize soluble calcium and promote calcium uptake by plants in proportion to nitrogen uptake, thereby conferring parasite resistance to the plants. D. Calcium Cyanamide (CaNCN) Calcium cyanamide which comprises 44% calcium and 24% nitrogen, was first made in the late 1800s, as part of a search for a high analysis nitrogen source for industry and agriculture to replace low analysis (1-<12%) excreta deposits. It is produced in 1000 to >3,000° C. electric arc furnaces by burning black coal and white limestone in the presence of atmospheric nitrogen. Energy costs represent the bulk of calcium cyanamide production costs. Because calcium cyanamide is slow acting, one application at a rate of 1000 to 2000 lbs/acre lasts all growing season long. However, when calcium cyanamide is applied at these typical season long rates, particularly in cool and or dry conditions, it is necessary to delay planting until the high concentrations of plant penetrating initial hydrolysis products of calcium cyanamide, which are toxic to seeds and seedlings (phytotoxic), dissipate. Furthermore, because calcium cyanamide in its noxiously dusty irregular granule form is difficult to calibrate, its application may be haphazard so that one part of a field may be ready for planting while others exhibit persistent phytotoxicity. The phytotoxic characteristics of calcium cyanamide also make even repeated dry applications at lower rates impractical. The observation that calcium cyanamide exhibits phytotoxicity led to its use as an herbicide. However, its use as an herbicide has largely been discontinued in favor of modern herbicides. For the reasons above, use of dry calcium cyanamide has decreased, and presently it is no longer used in the United States. Worldwide, its use is largely restricted to rice cultivation, where hot, wet conditions quickly degrade and remove other nitrogen fertilizers, such as urea, from the soil. Calcium cyanamide is more typically converted to faster acting and higher analysis forms of nitrogen. For example, calcium cyanamide may be aerobically hydrolyzed in the presence of carbon dioxide to provide calcium free urea (42% N). Other high analysis nitrogen forms which are produced from calcium cyanamide include calcium free, dicyandiamide ((HNCN)2, 66% N) and molecular cyanamide (H2NCN, 66% N). These forms have found use in both agriculture and the production of many of today's industrial polymer chemicals and medicines. However, plant beneficial calcium is not a part of these products. It would be a benefit to provide compositions and methods that exploit the slow acting nature of calcium cyanamide yet provide immediately available plant nitrogen without phytotoxic consequences. It also would be a benefit if such compositions and methods made it easier to calibrate applications of calcium cyanamide and facilitated repeated smaller applications throughout the growing season. Furthermore it would be an advantage if these benefits were achieved at more economical rates of application and enabled more of the components that exist in commercial calcium cyanamide to be utilized. These benefits have been partially realized by Hartmann, as described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,698,004 and 5,976,212, which are incorporated herein by reference. Contrary to teachings against fertilizing plants with the initial hydrolysis products of calcium cyanamide (because of their phytotoxicity), Hartmann has worked to provide easily deliverable, stable, hydrolyzed ionic CaNCN solutions, containing plant penetrating acid cyanamide anions directly to plants. Caustic is added to such ionic solutions to maintain a pH that favors the acid cyanamide ion. The calcium cyanamide solutions taught in these prior patents are sprayable if insolubles, such as calcium carbonate and residual carbon, are retained such as by a means of filtration. Balls and clumps of calcium carbonate that entrain otherwise sprayable carbon tend to plug pumping and spraying equipment. Because carbon is also beneficial to plants and soils it would be advantageous if methods existed to prevent formation of such balls and clumps, so that more calcium remained soluble, filtration was unnecessary, and the residual insoluble carbon found in commercial calcium cyanamide could be maintained in a sprayable slurry. Furthermore, it would be a benefit if it were possible to maintain a pH favorable to acid cyanamide ions without having to add caustic to overcome the tendency of these solutions to drop in pH. E. Urea Urea, today, is made in approximately 75 factories worldwide with a total capacity approaching 100,000,000 tons annually. Dry, water-soluble urea is a low cost, fast acting, and easily calibrated soluble nitrogen form. However, urea is recognized to undergo rapid hydrolysis, which may lead to ammonia gas release and/or losses due to nitrate leaching. Urea and excreta hydrolysis also contribute large amounts of the greenhouse gas CO2. In fact, urea and decomposed proteinaceous animal excreta containing urea are now considered so environmentally threatening that farmers using such fertilizers have already been subject to fines and judgments ($30,000 to $300,000) for violation of clean water laws that regulate nitrates. It therefore would be desirable to provide compositions and methods that allow urea and animal excreta to be utilized as fertilizers without ammonia loss or rapid leaching of nitrates. There are two basic prior approaches to simultaneously making urea-derived nitrogen available to plants for longer periods and reducing nitrate contamination. The first is to slow urea dissolution. The second is to slow the conversion of urea to nitrate by soil microorganisms, either by inhibiting the action of urease or inhibiting nitrification, or both. Urea dissolution control may be accomplished by coating urea with hydrophobic substances, such as sulfur, to produce slow release granules. U.S. Pat. No. 4,081,264 to Ali exemplifies this technology. Ali describes encapsulated slow release fertilizers prepared by coating a fertilizer substrate (e.g. urea) with molten sulfur. Sulfur coated urea particles are brittle so they are often coated with a plasticizing substance, such as bitumen, to increase their mechanical strength. Finally, another coating of an inorganic material, such as talc, may be required to provide a free flowing material. While slow release granules can extend nitrogen availability throughout the growing season and reduce nitrate leaching, they are too costly for general agricultural use, especially in light of their lower nitrogen content. Urease inhibitors serve to slow the conversion of urea to ammonium ions. Such inhibitors include phosphoric triamides, such as N-(n-butyl)thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) (see for example U.S. Pat. No. 4,530,714). Phosphoric triamides however are difficult to handle and susceptible to decomposition. Efficient incorporation of phosphoric triamides into granular urea-containing fertilizers may be accomplished using liquid amide solvents, but use of such solvents in the granulation process increases fertilizer costs. Nitrification inhibitors, when combined with urea, ammonia, and ammonium salt fertilizers, also can serve to reduce nitrate leaching. Known nitrification inhibitors include dicyandiamide (DD) and N-Halamine compounds. Dicyandiamide, which is made from calcium cyanamide, also functions as a nitrification inhibitor. It is however, short lived in hot soils. While calcium cyanamide is believed to function as both a urease and nitrification inhibitor, direct addition of calcium cyanamide to urea is dissuaded because the residual calcium oxide in commercial calcium cyanamide promotes ammonia volatilization, especially under wet conditions (Nianzu et al., Fertilizer Research, 41: 19-26, 1995). What is needed therefore are compositions and methods that make it possible to take advantage of calcium cyanamide's potential to mitigate nitrate leaching following application of urea. Furthermore it would be advantageous to provide compositions and methods that make it possible to combine commercial calcium cyanamide directly with urea, even in wet conditions, and preserve the calcium oxide component of the calcium cyanamide and/or its water dissolution products. F. Cyanamide Dissolution and Hydrolysis Products When calcium cyanamide first dissolves in water it produces calcium ions (Ca2+) and cyanamide ions (NCN2−) as products. The cyanamide ion is very basic and reacts with water to form the acid cyanamide ion (HNCN−). The acid cyanamide ion is amphoteric, i.e. it can act as either an acid or a base. If the acid cyanamide ion acts as an acid it will revert to the cyanamide ion, and if it acts as a base it will react to form molecular cyanamide (H2NCN). The form that cyanamide takes in solution will depend upon the pH of the solution, but molecular cyanamide is favored at pH's below 10.3, which are typical of soils. Molecular cyanamide may then undergo hydrolysis to form urea, which may further react to form ammonium ions, which may further be converted to volatile ammonia or to nitrate. As stated previously, the acid cyanamide ion is plant and organism penetrating. Once absorbed by plants, the acid cyanamide ion lasts only 2-4 hours before it forms urea, which lasts 4-8 hours. Both acid cyanamide and urea stimulate arginine production in plants; however, cyanamide stimulates arginine production 20-times more effectively than urea. Arginine production is related to activation of both plant reproductive responses and disease and pest resistance in plants. Such activation is termed “Systemically Activated Resistance” or SAR (see for example, Kunz et. al., Zeitschrift fur Plantzen Krankheiten und Flanzenschutz, 61: 481-521, 1954; Lovatt et. al., Proceedings California Plant and Soil Conference 1992 & 1995; Wunsch et. al., Zeitshrift fur Pflanzenphysiology, 72: 359-366, 1974; and Von Fishbeck et. al., Zeitschrifi fur Planzen Krankheiten, 71: 24-34, 1964). Therefore, compositions and methods that stabilize and provide acid cyanamide ions to plants over long periods of time are desirable for producing fruitful, parasite free plants. When CaNCN is applied at fertilizer rates, atop warm, wet soil, rapid uncontrollable aerobic hydrolysis occurs, moving initially soluble calcium to insoluble calcium forms and cyanamide ions to urea, then gaseous ammonia at that location. A need is thus seen to economically stabilize initial pre-hydrolysis soluble acid cyanamide ions and calcium ions in high dilutions so that they can rapidly percolate to target sites of choice where the ions can be absorbed by plants and aid in maintaining soil porosity. In addition, USDA geneticists have recently succeeded in placing the Cah gene from natural soil cyanobacteria into crop plants cells to make them resistant to the phytotoxicity of acid cyanamide (HNCN) ions. This gene permits a plant to rapidly convert acid cyanamide ions to non-phytotoxic urea. Using CaNCN fertilizer as a dual-use foliar herbicide and nitrogen source is envisioned as an attractive alternative to single-use herbicides (USDA Agricultural Research/July 1998). Thus, should crop plants with the Cah gene obtain regulatory approval, a need for target site delivery of a stabilized source of acid cyanamide ions will arise. Another product of calcium cyanamide dissolution and hydrolysis is dicyandiamide. Dicyandiamide is formed by polymerization of cyanamide in the presence of ammonia, alkaline earth hydroxides (e.g. Ca(OH)2), or other bases, and particularly at a pH between 8 and 10. G. Calcium Carbide Calcium carbide (CaC2), the initial product of arc furnace burning (>3,000 C) of ccal and lime, remains a residual in commercial calcium cyanamide. Hydrolyzing calcium carbide produces water-soluble acetylene gas (C2H2), which is about 50% as soluble in water as CO2 but less dense. Due to Department of Transportation regulations, the calcium carbide content of calcium cyanamide must be reduced below 0.1% before it can be shipped. Regardless, enough residual carbide exists in commercial calcium cyanamide to produce a noticeable carbide gas odor upon opening a sealed vessel of water in which calcium cyanamide has been mixed. Acetylene itself has been implicated as a nitrification inhibitor (“Improving the Efficiency and Predictability of Biological Inhibitors to Reduce Nitrogen Losses and Enhance Flooded Rice Productivity,” Termination Report for ACIAR Special Purpose Grant, by International Fertilizer Development Center, November 1997). However, encapsulated calcium carbide (ECC), was shown to significantly affect yield over urea only when applied with urease inhibitors; otherwise, yields with urea plus ECC were similar to urea. Because the residual calcium carbide content of calcium cyanamide is typically factory reduced for shipping by sprinkling it with water in the presence of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the soluble calcium content of commercial calcium cyanamide is effectively reduced by production of calcium carbonate. Therefore, compositions and methods that eliminate the need to remove calcium carbide prior to shipment would be desirable. Furthermore, methods and compositions that take advantage of the calcium carbide component of calcium cyanamide to provide nitrification inhibition, and/or provide an alternative to current methods of stabilizing calcium carbide for application to soils, are desirable. H. Calcium Oxide Calcium oxide, a by-product of calcium cyanamide production, is considered a nuisance for at least two reasons. First, calcium oxide readily absorbs carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to form calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate, has a density that is lower than calcium oxide and therefore occupies more space than the calcium oxide from which it forms. When calcium oxide reacts to form calcium carbonate within particles of commercial calcium cyanamide, the result is an expansion that leads to cracking and noxious dusting of the calcium cyanamide product. Second, calcium oxide reacts with water to form calcium hydroxide, a strong base. During production of molecular cyanamide from calcium cyanamide, the calcium oxide component of the commercial calcium cyanamide product makes it necessary to add additional acid to lower the pH to 4.5-5.5, thus adding expense to the molecular cyanamide product. As discussed previously, calcium oxide also is a potential source of calcium ions from commercial calcium cyanamide. Therefore, it is desirable to preserve the soluble calcium that is contained in the calcium oxide. Furthermore, as also discussed above, it is advantageous to prevent production of insoluble calcium carbonate from calcium oxide if spray application of calcium cyanamide is desired. I. Organics In recent years odorous “greenhouse gas” emissions, coliform bacteria, leachable nitrogen, and phosphate from concentrated animal feeding operations has become an environmental concern, both in the US and the throughout the world. Such concerns have prompted world-wide funding of livestock operations inspections for compliance with herd size and odor, disease and water nutrient level mitigation measures. For example, in the Netherlands, animal operations must account for and balance every single unit of input with output units. Aerobic composting that wastefully releases nitrogen and carbon into the atmosphere, and storage of animal wastes in vast aerobic, odorous lagoons still remain the principal available mitigation measures short of reducing herd size and suffering negative economic consequences. Thus there appears a vast urgent need to provide an economical, practical and rapid, non-gas releasing, composting alternative to animal feeding sites. Such an alternative method of composting would desirably reduce the odor and disease causing organisms associated with animal wastes while resulting in a fertilizer composition that contains stabilized nutrients which promote sustained growth and parasite resistance in plants and serve as effective soil amendments. J. Metals Metals are an essential to life. However, metals are increasingly being leached below plant root zones due to the increased use of soluble, acid forming nitrogen plant foods. One solution to this problem is to apply lime to soils because many metals are less likely to leach from soils of higher pH. Lime, albeit inexpensive, requires tons per acre and considerable application expenses to achieve modest increases in soil pH. As explained earlier, lime is virtually insoluble, thus slow to release soluble calcium and pH increasing carbonate ions. Thus, lime only slowly raises soil pH, especially at depth in the soil where it is desired to immobilize metals near plant roots so that they are available to the plants. What are needed are compositions and methods that can supply metal micro-nutrients quickly to plant root zones and stabilize them in the root zone by raising the pH of the soil at depth. Because commercial calcium cyanamide contains approximately 2% oxides of the elements iron, silicon, and aluminum, it would also be advantageous to make use of calcium cyanamide as a source of these micro-nutrients while simultaneously providing for their stabilization in the soil. Carbon dioxide and catalytic converter metal deposits from auto exhausts are apparently resulting in metal leaching into groundwater along roadsides. Acidic conditions develop along roadsides through carbon dioxide dissolution in rain water and decomposition of plant matter. These conditions foster leaching of deposited metals, some of which are toxic. For example, although lead is no longer a component of most gasoline products, lead contamination remains a problem where high concentrations of the metal were deposited in the past. Thus, there is a need to slow or prevent leaching of metals from soils along roadsides. Again, application of lime is one possible solution, but what are needed are compositions and methods that can provide metal stabilization in soils without the limitations of lime discussed previously.

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I asked a former RAW [Research and Analysis Wing, India's overseas intelligence organisation] official, who was well acquainted with Nepal’s affairs and even served as the organization’s head at one point, about India’s initial engagement with the Maoists. Sitting on the top floor of one of Delhi’s premium hotels, he said, ‘My organization’s engagement with the Maoists began in 2003. It was also the time when they were in talks with the king’s nominated government back in Nepal.’ But didn’t declaring the rebel group as terrorists and supporting Nepal’s security forces, yet keeping channels of communication open with the Maoists and allowing the top leaders to stay in India, reflect conflicting objectives at best and devious intent at worst? The Palace, generals of the army, and a dominant section of the NC [Nepali Congress party] saw Indian ‘doublespeak’ as the primary reason for the Maoists’ success, and blamed Delhi for covertly supporting the rebels. The former intelligence official responded, ‘This is not true at all. We had links, we had communication. But that is the nature of intelligence organizations. We keep in touch with the enemy and we establish channels so that if at any point, our policy-makers shift tracks, there is a pathway to implement it.’He may have been right, about agencies developing ties and relationships with actors across the ideological and political spectrum. But there was surely more to it if the engagement was happening with a group that was supposedly hostile to India’s interests. Analysts have long pondered the connection between India and the Maoists.[...]It was also a time when everyone was talking to everyone else in Nepal. The RAW official I spoke to emphasized this point and argued that India could not be behind the curve. ‘We knew the Palace and Maoists had been in touch in the early years of the war and still retained contact through intermediaries. We knew that both factions in the NC — Sher Bahadur Deuba and Koirala — kept channels open with the Maoists. We knew that various Left leaders had met Maoists in India. We had consistently asked all parties and the Palace to work together against the Maoists, but they just did not understand the gravity of the situation. It was clear to us that, eventually, a political solution would need to be found. In statecraft, you build up leverage when you can.’Those who were then serving in the Indian establishment take great pains to emphasize that being in touch could not be construed as support. And as proof, they point to how several Maoist leaders were arrested in India during that period. C. P. Gajurel ‘Gaurav’ was picked up in Chennai when he was travelling on a fake passport to England. The party’s ideologue, and Prachanda’s political guru, Mohan Vaidya ‘Kiran’, was arrested in Siliguri. The Maoist leader from the Madhes, Matrika Yadav, was arrested and handed over to Nepal. (Yadav’s arrest seems to have been a result of a difference in outlook between the IB [India's Intelligence Bureau] and RAW. The RNA [Royal Nepalese Army] had passed on information about Yadav to an IB official who was visiting Nepal with an Indian minister’s entourage; and a RAW functionary once mentioned to me how IB had ‘messed up’ by arresting a key source.) Upendra Yadav, who was known to be close to the Maoists, though his exact relationship with the party remained ambiguous, was picked up, but then mysteriously let off. Suresh Ale Magar, the ethnic theorist for the Maoist party, was arrested and so were Ram Karki, who had served as an important link of the party with India’s radical movements, and Bamdev Chhetri. Cases were filed against many Maoist cadres. It became a lot more difficult for the top leadership to travel in India as compared to the late 1990s.[...]The arrests caused a ripple within the Maoist organization. Despite the sporadic communication his party representatives had with Delhi, Prachanda was now convinced that the principal contradiction of the people was with the ‘expansionists’, meaning India. Worried about their safety, both he and Bhattarai returned to Rolpa in 2004 and began living in their base areas. Prachanda even announced that they would eventually have to fight a war with India, and called for trenches to be dug for that purpose. Bhattarai was uncomfortable with the rhetoric, for he continued to view the Palace and the monarchy as the key problem, the enemy which needed to be vanquished, not India. The tension had historical roots, with different schools of the Nepali Left prioritizing either ‘nationalism’ or ‘democracy’.* * *Like many other Nepalis, I was angered by India’s policy, actions and behaviour in that period. Having covered the political process day in and out, I had seen the depths to which the Indian establishment had plunged to isolate the Maoists, with little regard for the notions of sovereignty, democratic norms and processes, or political ethics. India’s actions appeared to confirm long-held apprehensions in Nepal that Delhi was not comfortable with any domestic force with a sizeable mass base, and one which refused to take dictation from the babus of South Block. Delhi’s desire to be in control of events and actors in Kathmandu has often preceded any other objective. In 1960, the Nehru-B. P. Koirala relationship had become uneasy when Koirala had struck out and asserted his strong and independent personality. In the 1990s, minor incidents disrupted India’s ties with the NC which eventually benefited the Palace. And now, India had a problem with the two forces who had been most successful in the 2008 elections—the Maoists nationally, and the Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) in the plains. It seemed India really wanted pliant agents, and was just not mature enough to deal with autonomous political agents in a neighbouring country.[...]I asked a thoughtful RAW official why they could not let go and allow domestic processes in Nepal to play out, irrespective of outcomes, without meddling. ‘If you have an open border, there has to be a special security relationship. We could have lived with a Maoist dictatorship if it was 5,000 miles away but, across an open border, we cannot risk it.’What India was attempting with the Maoists was not a simplistic strategy of isolation, though. It was emulating a highly sophisticated tradition of statecraft it had practiced, with mixed results, in Kashmir with the Hurriyat Conference and, in the Northeast, with the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah). Engage, coerce, divide, frustrate, exhaust, corrupt, lure, repeat the cycle, and give nothing. It had never stopped talking to the Maoists even when the war of words was at its worst. It had isolated them to show them the high costs of not listening to advice. It had encouraged Baburam Bhattarai as a counter to Prachanda in order to sharpen the divisions within the party.It had created a situation where the leadership could deliver nothing to the cadre, frustrating them and increasing the gulf between the top and the bottom. It offered inducements and showed the benefits of cooperating and playing along with the existing political-economic networks. And it kept up the strategies until the incentives for the other side changed, and caused a transformation in its behaviour which suited the establishment.[...] this time, India was intervening not in favour of universal values but to influence outcomes in a fragmented but democratic political landscape. There was no reason for Delhi to play favourites among Nepali politicians, for no one—including the Maoists—had harmed India’s security interests. They could have let domestic political processes take their own course instead of preventing a natural equilibrium from emerging. For a neighbour to actively intervene in order to try and kill another country’s elected institution, and target one political force, went beyond any acceptable norm of inter-state relations.But the Nepali Maoists, despite this baggage, had come around to the new political reality. They had participated in the elections and won legitimately. Despite sporadic incidents, they had allowed a free and extremely critical press to flourish. They had given up their base areas and opened it up to political competition so that other political parties could operate there. They had dissolved their parallel courts and had agreed to have their former army put into cantonments. Prachanda had resigned when faced with an uncomfortable political situation, and was making a bid to return to power by gaining a majority on the floor of the house.There was also a change of personnel in the Indian establishment. And as we had seen in 2005-06, individuals played a major role in shaping policy. Sanjeev Tripathi had taken over RAW in January 2011, and he was understood to be in favour of reengaging with the Maoists. Alok Joshi had taken over as special secretary who looked after key neighbouring countries. Joshi had served as the station chief in Nepal between 2008 and 2010. A product of JNU, and an Indian Police Service officer from the Haryana cadre, he had sharp political sense and knew the lay of the land in Nepal.RAW did not believe in giving the Maoists a blank cheque and recognized the importance of challenging them in order to get them to deliver on commitments. But it could also see that the experiment of keeping the Maoists out of power had perhaps outlived its utility, and the Indian position needed revision. It argued to the national security advisor, Shiv Shanker Menon, that the Maoists should be given ‘one final chance’.Rakesh Sood had left Kathmandu for Paris, and the new ambassador, Jayant Prasad, had not yet arrived in Kathmandu. A soft-spoken, brilliant diplomat, with uncanny political sense and a commitment to basic democratic ethos, Prasad had an old Nepal connection. His father, Bimal Prasad, a former professor in JNU [Jawaharlal Nehru University], had been India’s envoy to Kathmandu in the early 1990s and had a reputation of being close to the NC. But Jayant Prasad had visited Nepal only once during his father’s tenure and carried little baggage. A ‘free-thinker’ in his student days in JNU, where he distinguished himself academically, Prasad could empathize with broad socialist and Left political thinking, but carried no dogma. While Prasad did not take charge till August-end, Sood’s departure had already helped to partially detoxify the India-Maoist relationship.Prachanda had met senior Indian intelligence officials during his trips to various Southeast Asian cities through the summer of 2011. In early August, they met in Kuala Lumpur where Prachanda once again committed to completing the peace process as soon as the Maoists led the government. He briefed them on internal tensions within the party, and said that after Khanal resigned, the Maoists would put forward Baburam Bhattarai as the party’s prime ministerial candidate. Indian officials are learnt to have told him that they would not object if the Maoists observed all democratic processes and mustered a majority on the floor of the house. This was a significant meeting in rebuilding the relationship between the two sides. While the mistrust was deep, both sides were slowly inching back to the more nuanced approach they had with each other between 2005 and 2008. To borrow Prachanda’s metaphor, the warmth may not have returned, but there was a thaw. A rapprochement was on the horizon.Would it finally enable the successful accommodation of the Maoists into the formal power structure? Would it help integrate the Maoist combatants into the NA [Nepalese Army] — an issue which was at the heart of the tensions over the UN’s role in Nepal, over General Katawal’s dismissal, over the Maoists’ re-entry into government, and the yardstick for whether the rebels had indeed transformed into a democratic force? Would it finally push forward the Constitution-writing project, which had been in limbo as power games overwhelmed Kathmandu politics? Would the renewed engagement between India and the Maoists bring back the focus on the core political goal of restructuring the Nepali state and Nepali nationalism?* * *The NC was now in panic mode. Ambassador Sood had completed his tenure in Kathmandu and had left a few months earlier. This had weakened the voice of the MEA within the establishment, which was more averse to giving the Maoists a chance. RAW, on the other hand, had veered towards allowing the Maoists another chance. They had not encouraged the Madhesi parties—but the ‘agency’, as Kathmandu politicians called RAW, had not discouraged them either. Left to domestic factors, the NC realized that there was little that would stop the Madhesi parties from choosing the more attractive option.The NC now used all its political capital to get India involved on their side. The former party leader, and now President, Ram Baran Yadav, shared a personal equation with finance minister and old political warhorse Pranab Mukherjee—the only senior political leader in Delhi who really paid attention to Nepal. They spoke to each other in Bangla—Yadav had attended school in Calcutta. President Yadav warned Mukherjee that the Maoists’ return to power would be dangerous, and they must help stop the Madhesis from voting for Bhattarai.An Indian embassy official, upset with the [Nepali] President’s attempt to undercut the local mission and reach out directly to the political leadership, told me about this conversation and said that it had rattled Delhi. Surya Bahadur Thapa, the former prime minister who had excellent ties with Delhi’s political and bureaucratic elite, called up his interlocutors with a similar warning. Thapa’s grandson Siddhartha had become a close friend and, over coffee at Babar Mahal, Siddhartha expressed deep unease at the evolving Indian stance, as they saw it. Shekhar Koirala, G. P. Koirala’s nephew who had played an active role in the run-up to the signing of the 12-point Understanding, shared cordial ties with National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon. They had known each other since Menon’s time as a joint secretary handling Nepal in the mid-1990s. Koirala called up his old friend, urging India to get the Madhesis to support Poudel. He warned India that having the Maoists in power at this time would ensure that they remained in office if the CA ended without a Constitution having been finalized and that would have adverse consequences for Delhi. I met Koirala in the CA [Constituent Assembly] compound a few days later, and he confirmed to me that he had reservations about India’s position and felt that Delhi was making a mistake.Delhi seems to have become worried by the multiple messages from friendly interlocutors. The political section of the Indian embassy now got into the act. They warned the Madhesi parties that the Maoists would deceive them, that their commitment to federalism was opportunistic, and that the parties of the plains must reconsider their options. The pressure could either have been born out of a desire to show to the NC that India was doing its bit, or born out of a genuine policy line to block the Maoists once again. Delhi ordered RAW, which was more open to the Maoists, to step back from the process.Excerpted with permission from Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal, published by Aleph Book Company.

Sexual Dynamics of Married Women with Interpersonal Dependency: A Qualitative Study on Iranian Women. Considering the lack of documented research on the sexuality of dependent persons, this qualitative study examined sexual dynamics among Iranian married women with excessive interpersonal dependency. Interviews with 18 married women with high interpersonal dependency were coded using thematic analysis. Three major areas emerged from the data under which the themes clustered. These were (1) intrapersonal level which included confused sexual cognitions, intrusive thoughts during sex, preoccupation by sexual thoughts, low tolerance for reduction or interruption of sexual activity, and emotional distress during sex, (2) interactional dynamics including imposing pressure on the husband to have sex and assuming a submissive and receptive role during sex, and (3) contextual processes including social stigma and the effects of social phenomena. These findings presented a relatively clear understanding of the impacts of interpersonal dependency on the sexuality of Iranian women. The majority of the women reported maladaptive sexual strategies, attitudes, and emotions. Moreover, there were several similarities between the sexual dynamics of the women and those of individuals with anxious attachment style. These findings suffer from some limitations in terms of generalization due to the small size of the sample and clinical and cultural considerations. The implications of these findings for practitioners are also considered.

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Syndrome of inappropriate ADH secretion concealed by hypokalaemia due to ectopic ACTH production. A case is described of a patient with an oat cell carcinoma of the bronchus with moderately elevated levels of plasma corticotrophin (ACTH) and antidiuretic hormone (ADH). Ectopic secretion of ACTH induced severe hypokalaemia and concealed the effects of concomitant ADH secretion on renal function. Normal renal responsiveness was restored following correction of hypokalaemia. The hypokalaemia was associated with evidence of a marked increase in corticosteroid secretion but plasma ACTH concentrations did not show a proportionate elevation. Chromatographic studies on tumour extracts suggest that the presence of a large fraction of high molecular weight ACTH in plasma could explain this discrepancy.

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Neurological evidence for dissociation of pursuit and optokinetic systems. Patients with neurological disease were examined for dissociations between the performance capabilities of pursuit, immediate onset passive and active optokinetic responses to determine whether these functions are subserved by separate mechanisms. We found a patient in whom pursuit was intact in the presence of severely impaired optokinetic responses and another in whom optokinetic responses were intact in the presence of severely deranged pursuit. These dissociations suggest that pursuit and immediate onset optokinetic responses are mediated, to some extent, by separate mechanisms as the results are not explicable in terms of a continuum of performance ability related to target size. Another patient, who had virtually no pursuit or passive optokinetic responses, produced high slow phase velocities of active optokinetic response, which demonstrates that the active form of optokinetic response can be more than a linear addition of pursuit and passive optokinetic responses.

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Dual-task performance involving hand dexterity and cognitive tasks and daily functioning in people with schizophrenia: a pilot study. This study investigated separate and concurrent performance on cognitive and hand dexterity tasks and the relationship to daily functioning in 16 people with schizophrenia and 16 healthy control participants. Participants performed the Purdue Pegboard Test and the Serial Seven Subtraction Test under single- and dual-task conditions and completed two daily functioning evaluations. The hand dexterity of all participants declined in the dual-task condition, but the discrepancy between single-task and dual-task hand dexterity was greater in the schizophrenia group than in the control group (p<.03, d>.70, for all). The extent of discrepancy in hand dexterity was negatively correlated with daily functioning in the schizophrenia group (rs=-.3 to -.5, ps=.04-.26). Ability to perform dual tasks may be an indicator of daily functioning in people with schizophrenia. Use of dual-task training may be considered as a therapeutic activity with these clients.

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1. Field of the Disclosure The disclosure relates to a seat device. 2. Description of Related Art As regards seats for automobiles, the following seat for an automobile including a wire exists, the wire being adapted to fix a child seat corresponding to International Standards Organization FIX (ISOFIX) to a seat for an automobile. In the seat for an automobile, an opening portion adapted to enable a hook portion of the child seat to engage with the wire is provided. To prevent a decrease in beauty of appearance, the seat for an automobile includes a covering portion for covering the opening portion. For example, Japanese Patent No. 3462142 discloses the following structure: a cover body (the covering portion) is provided, a mounting unit (the hook and loop fastener) is provided, the cover body (the covering portion) openably and closably covers a front opening (the opening portion) from a front side of the front opening (the opening portion) of a through passage provided with a block portion (the wire), and the mounting unit (the hook and loop fastener) enables a protruded end portion of the cover body for covering the opening of the through passage to be freely inserted into and removed from a gap between a rear end portion of a seat cushion and a lower end portion of a seat backrest, and enables the protruded end portion of the cover body inserted in the gap to be freely mounted onto and detached from the rear end portion of the seat cushion or the lower end portion of the seat backrest.

Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural examination of smooth muscle cells in aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts. In this study, phenotypic modulation and remodulation of smooth muscle cells and associated intermediate filament expression were demonstrated by means of immunohistochemistry and ultrastructure to understand the development of intimal hyperplasia in aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts. In nongrafted saphenous veins, all smooth muscle cells expressed vimentin and desmin and were of a contractile form. In saphenous vein grafts showing stenotic intimal hyperplasia (luminal stenosis < 75%), expression of desmin was notably lower, whereas that of vimentin was higher. The cells were shown to be of a synthetic phenotype, suggesting modulation from the original contractile form. In saphenous vein grafts showing occlusive intimal hyperplasia (luminal stenosis > 76%), desmin expression in smooth muscle cells was increased again, and such cells were of a contractile form, suggesting remodulation from the synthetic phenotype. Some of the smooth muscle cells of the synthetic phenotype were positive for an antibody against proliferation cell nuclear antigen. Smooth muscle cells of the contractile form were negative for this antibody. The study suggests that smooth muscle cells of synthetic phenotype are highly responsible for "growing" intimal hyperplasia of aortocoronary saphenous vein grafts.

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The Verdict Is In: Tackle Smaller Debts First Financial experts have long debated the best strategy for paying down debt. Some advise paying off debt in the order of APR, taking on the loan with the highest interest rate first. With this approach, you reduce the amount spent on interest charges every month and free that cash up to chip away at the rest of your debt. Others, including personal finance guru Dave Ramsey, advise tackling your smallest debt first, regardless of the interest rate; when that’s entirely paid off, you move on to the next smallest, and so on. Which approach is better? Well, Ramsey’s “snowball” method eliminates the total number of different debts faster, but in fact it is also likely to result in paying more in interest over the duration of the debt reduction plan. So the smarter approach, then, is to first pay off the debt with the highest interest rate, right? Actually, wrong. In light of the results of a new academic study, science has weighed in on the issue, and it turns out Ramsey is right. People who pay off the smallest debt first are more likely to be successful at eliminating all of their outstanding balances. This isn’t really logical. It make more sense, mathematically, to target your debts in descending APR order. But people aren’t logical. A new paper by two associate marketing professors in Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management explores the psychology of motivation that kicks in when we’re working towards a long-term goal like debt elimination. The two researchers, David Gal and Blake McShane, studied the records of thousands of people who participated in credit-card debt settlement programs and took a look at the results of their efforts to become debt-free. The study compared people who used the “snowball approach” recommended by Ramsey and others with those who took the “rational approach” of first paying off the cards with the highest interest rates. Consumers who utilized the less rational “snowball” method were more likely to actually eliminate credit-card debt. “You’re seeing the human element in this aspect of personal finance,” says the paper’s lead author, Gal, explaining why a strategy that theoretically should cost more money in the long run due to higher interest payments is more successful. “We conclude that there is evidence that the mere existence of achievable subgoals motivates early goal persistence,” the study says. To Ramsey and others, it doesn’t matter if a debt-payment strategy is entirely rational or not. What matters is if it works. “What I have learned is that personal finance is 20% head knowledge and 80% behavior,” Ramsey explains on his website. “You need some quick wins in order to stay pumped enough to get out of debt completely.” Motivation ebbs and flows throughout the process of striving for any accomplishment. Snagging a “small victory” by completing any distinct portion of your overall goal (in this case, paying off individual debts) acts as a sort of motivational “booster shot.” It gives us proof that our efforts are paying off, and instills confidence that we can accomplish what we’ve set out to do.

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Before practically every preseason game you get from a lot of NFL journalists stories and posts about what to expect in said upcoming game. You get five things to watch. Things to look for. I rarely give you that stuff because ... too easy. But today is different because ... too important. No, what follows is not five items. I'm going to tell you two things the Miami Dolphins absolutely, positively must do Thursday night when they play the Atlanta Falcons in their third preseason game that will definitely affect their chances of success in the regular season opener against Seattle. One of those is predictable. One is hasn't been mentioned anywhere else that I've seen. From the Dolphins defense, the coaching staff must get good tackling. A friend of mine, who happens to have no life, studied the third preseason game of all 32 NFL teams a couple of years back. And he counted the missed tackles. And he tells me the percentage of missed tackles in those games was 32 percent. So according to this non-scientific, one-time study, NFL players were missing nearly one out of every three tackles they attempted in the third preseason weekend of 2014. That is a lot. And apparently in continues. You've certainly seen it from the Miami Dolphins defense the past two preseason games. "That’s the whole NFL," Dolphins coach Adam Gase said of the misstacklitis that has become epidemic in the NFL preseason games. "You turn on tapes of a lot of other defenses too, this is what it is. It’s a race to see who becomes the best tackling teams in football as you go throughout the season, because the only live work you really get nowadays are in games. "Unless we want to start doing live out here and taking a chance of somebody getting hurt in practice, I mean it’s really not something that’s going to happen. We have to make sure we’re great on technique. We have to get tight to them. We got to run our feet. Those are some things that we have to do a better job of. I know the coaches are really trying to do a good job of correcting things on tape. We have some drills that we felt like were helping us. We’re not taking our drill work to the games and we just need to do that. That’s going to be a big emphasis for us this game.” So improved tackling is key for the Miami defenseThursday because this is the last opportunity many of the team's top defenders will get this preseason to improve their skills before playing Seattle Sept. 11. The reason it's the last chance is, barring an upset of the routine, most top Miami defenders will not play in the fourth and final preseason game. So this is it. Get it right now, or go into the season hoping to eventually get it fixed. On offense the goals are much more intriguing. Yes, the Dolphins want to improve their running game. That, by the way, gets better as the NFL season matures because practices rarely include live blocking drills. "The only way you get good at it is you do it in those preseason games," Gase said. "That’s why trying to run the ball when we get out there – we got a little pass happy there towards the end (at Dallas), but that will happen every once in a while in a preseason game – but we need to rep in live games. "This week, obviously, you try keeping it as balanced as you can so we can get it on tape, see where our deficiencies are and then correct them." And major goal No. 2 for the offense is perhaps the most important goal of this entire game for the Dolphins. And that is be as vanilla and boring and basic as possible. The Dolphins' offense must be, well, lame against the Falcons. And they know it. Indeed, Gase has gone through his playsheet and made certain that nothing he really, really likes will be run against the Falcons. Why? Falcons coach Dan Quinn was the defensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks in 2013 and 2014. The success his Seattle defenses had those years catapulted him to his current position. And in Atlanta Quinn runs a mirror image of what the Seahawks still run. Furthermore, the coaching connections that were forged during Quinn's time in Seattle are still strong. So the Dolphins don't want to put anything on tape that the Seahawks might see works against a scheme of defense they run. That would allow them to work on such a play over the next couple of weeks. Secondly, the Dolphins don't want to do anything on offense that might lead Quinn to suggest to his friends in Seattle any strategy for stopping the Dolphins. This isn't skullduggery stuff. I simply know the Dolphins have had internal conversations about not showing a lot to the Falcons in a game that doesn't count in the standings, and in so doing, could alert a team they open the regular season against. Where does that leave us? It'll be interesting seeing how basic and mundane the Dolphins can get on offense. It will be interesting seeing if that basic and mundane stuff works. And it will be important to keep perspective about what is before our eyes. You will not read from me Friday morning that the Miami offense didn't fly high (if it doesn't) because one of its goals was actually to be under the radar. So adjust your inner punditry accordingly in this regard.

During the travel of an unmanned vehicle, a decision needs to be made in real time according to acquired geographic information and external environment information. The decision includes braking, acceleration, lane change, turn, U-turn, and reversing and the like, and a travel state of the unmanned vehicle is controlled according to the decision-making result. In the prior art, decision-making may be performed based on some manually pre-edited rules. However, manually-edited rules usually cannot cover all road conditions, and there will be a large hidden safety risk on unknown road conditions which do not have corresponding rules. Furthermore, excessive manually-edited rules increase the editing and maintenance workload.

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Gender role beliefs at sexual debut: qualitative evidence from two brazilian cities. Culturally based beliefs about gender roles influence women's sexual behavior and their ability to protect themselves from unwanted sexual experiences. Studying the beliefs that influence women's behavior at sexual debut helps contextualize unwanted sexual intercourse. Twenty-four focus groups on women's beliefs about gender roles at sexual debut were conducted in 2002 with low- and middle-income women aged 18-21 and 30-39 who were recruited from public and private venues in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, and Belo Horizonte, capital of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The data were analyzed for common themes, and quotations were chosen to illustrate those themes. Focus group participants perceived that men have an urgent need for sex. This perception caused women to fear abandonment, anger or violence if they refused to have sex with their partner. The participants believed that women had to act passive the first time they had sex because taking the initiative (for example, by asking their partner to practice contraception) would lead him to accuse them of having previous sexual experience. Also, they believed they had to say no to sex under all circumstances to protect their reputation. To decrease the occurrence of unwanted intercourse, interventions must address the social expectations that influence men's and women's sexual behavior.

Standing 12 feet high in front of Providence’s Federal Courthouse is an unusual monument constructed out of steel, concrete, and used handguns. Dubbed the “Gun Totem” by its artist, Boris Bally, the imposing obelisk was constructed in 2001 with guns from a firearm buy-back program in Pittsburgh. Altogether, more than 1,000 guns went into the construction of the pillar, which was commissioned by the Providence Parks Department. All of the guns included in the project were disabled and fossilized beneath concrete, and bits of the pillar were chipped away so people could see the deadly layer beneath the its exterior. Bally has teamed up with the gun program in Pittsburgh again and has been working on a new project, a series of gun-arches, using disabled handguns in the area.

Creedyn Starblanket's great-grandfather has harsh words for the driver accused of killing the five-year-old boy last week near Big River, Sask. Adam Joseph had to bury his great-grandson this weekend. He also had to officiate the funeral, and find words for his family. "The stupidity of a drunken driver caused the death of my great-grandchild," Joseph said in an interview. "It was hard on me to see a young kid not enjoy the life like what we enjoy, how we enjoy our life." Police said the five-year-old boy was killed last week bicycling through the town of Big River, north of Saskatoon. The driver then fled the scene. The auto was found at a local business and a Big River man was arrested. The 43-year-old is charged with impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, criminal negligence causing death, failing to stop at the scene and several counts of breach of undertaking. He is scheduled to make his next court appearance in Prince Albert provincial court on Aug. 26. A 50-year-old woman is also charged with failing to remain at the scene. Joseph, who is a councillor on the Big River First Nation, said people came from surrounding First Nations to support his family. "It was very emotional, for my niece and my grandchild, and the rest of the family. It was very emotional," he said.

If they are Dutch, that explain the acceptability of the apparently topless pre-teen girl (second from the left). Europeans don’t seem to have the same hang up about women being casually topless as Americans do.

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Q: Impeachment and Removal from Office Is there any recourse should Congress protect President from impeachment and removal from office despite solid grounds for such actions? A: US voters have an opportunity to replace their House Representative every 24 months. If enough people in a district don't like what their representative is or isn't doing, they can elect a new one. This pressure from the people is what turned the House Reps against Nixon in 1974. Only when it became clear that the people would not support a Congress that supported Nixon did the impeachment process begin.