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Entry into force of the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention after ratification by Albania
On 13 September 2012, Albania deposited its instrument of ratification of the Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance. The instrument was accompanied by reservations and a declaration.
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The Five Vincentian Virtues
This is the virtue St. Vincent loved most. "It is my gospel," he says. Listen to how St. Vincent describes simplicity: "Jesus, the Lord, expects us to have the simplicity of a dove. This means giving a straightforward opinion about things in the way we honestly see them, without needless reservations. It also means doing things without any double-dealing or manipulation, our intention being focused solely on God. Each of us, then, should take care to behave always in this spirit of simplicity, remembering that God likes to deal with the simple, and that he conceals the secrets of heaven from the wise and prudent of this world and reveals them to little ones. But while Christ recommends the simplicity of a dove he tells us to have the prudence of a serpent as well. What he means is that we should speak and behave with discretion. We ought, therefore, to keep quiet about matters which should not be made known, especially if they are unsuitable or unlawful … In actual practice this virtue is about choosing the right way to do things." (CR 11, 4-5.)
Jesus said "Learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart." Humility is basic to gospel spirituality. The kingdom of God belongs to the poor in spirit. God resists the proud; he raises up the humble. We must stand before God humbly in our daily prayer, and have the attitude of a servant.
Jesus says that the meek shall be happy. St. Vincent believed this word of the Lord and won the hearts of the poor because his meekness developed as warmth, approachability, openness, deep respect for the person of others. Although he tells us that he was irritable by nature, he asked God to change his heart: "Grant me a kindly and benign spirit…" (see Abelly, U. 111, 177-178.)
Jesus calls us to follow him even unto death. He asks us to die to sin daily. St. Vincent knew these gospel imperatives very well. We must be faithful to our duties of serving the poor, and prefer them when they conflict with other more pleasurable things.
Vincent loved, with a burning love. "Let us beg God to enkindle in our hearts a desire to serve him…" (SV XI, 75.) We must labor long as servants of the poor– while remembering that although the Lord asks us to cooperate in his work, it still remains His work. So we must strive to live a balanced life, so that we might have the energy that nourishes zeal.
Elements of the Vincentian Charism
Vincentian Christology: Jesus, Evangelizer of the Poor
The Christ of St. Vincent came to preach good news to the poor. We Vincentians, both clergy and lay, are called be the bearers of this good news today; to share His sensitivity toward the poor, join with Him in his labor, and feel the compassion that throbbed in His heart as he reached out to those who were wandering and aimless like sheep without a shepherd.
The Blessed Virgin Mary in Vincentian Tradition
According to the words of St. Vincent, Our Blessed Mother, more than all other believers, penetrated the meaning and lived out the teaching of the gospel. We believe that The Lady of the Miraculous Medal appeared to Catherine Labouré in 1830 as a way of reaching out to suffering, discouraged and abandoned persons– as a great symbol of the graces she obtains for those who ask for them.
Spirituality of St. Louise de Marillac
The centrality of Jesus crucified in Louise's spiritual evolution is evident from her earliest writings. Life had taught her that her vocation was to unite herself to Jesus on the cross. "I am going to follow you to the foot of Your Cross which I choose as my cloister." Louise often wrote that the Daughter of Charity must strive throughout her life to know and to carry out God's will for her. Louise turned to Jesus to provide the exemplar for the fundamental virtues of the Daughters: humility, simplicity, and charity. Also, Louise, as a mother, turns daily to Mary as the Mother of God, intimately united to her son in the accomplishment of the divine plan.
Setonian Spirituality
St. Elizabeth had a deeply reflective and remembering life, awake and attentive to the God whom she met in the grace of each moment. Hers was a life of hope amid adversity; trust in a God of provident care became her lifelong practice. Psalm 23, which she learned as a child, remained her favorite consolation throughout her life of suffering and loss. Sustained and freed by her experience of God's relational presence, Elizabeth was led to extend her love beyond her family to include all who came into her life.
Spirituality of Frederic Ozanam
Bl. Frederic was intensely aware of his contemporaries' need to nourish and deepen their faith, and of the urgent need to translate this faith into action: to evangelize not merely in words but through authentic charity. He was convinced that the personal meeting between those who have and those who have not is the best guarantee of mutual understanding. One of the forerunners of social Catholicism, he wrote: "You must not be content with tiding the poor over the poverty crisis: You must study their condition and the injustices which brought about such poverty, with the aim of a long term improvement." and "It is truth which will always rise up to judge political systems."
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Twitter puts Infowars' Alex Jones in the 'read-only' sin bin for 7 days https://ift.tt/2BaDa4x Twitter has finally taken action against Infowars creator Alex Jones, but it isn't what you might think. While Apple, Facebook, Google/YouTube, Spotify and many others have removed Jones and his conspiracy-peddling organization Infowars from their platforms, Twitter has remained unmoved with its claim that Jones hasn't violated rules on its platform. That was helped in no small way by the mysterious removal of some tweets last week, but now Jones has been found to have violated Twitter's rules, as CNET first noted. Twitter is punishing Jones for a tweet that violates its community standards but it isn't locking him out forever. Instead, a spokesperson for the company confirmed that Jones' account is in "read-only mode" for up to seven days. That means he will still be able to use the service and look up content via his account, but he'll be unable to engage with it. That means no tweets, likes, retweets, comments, etc. He's also been ordered to delete the offending tweet — more on that below — in order to qualify for a fully functioning account again. That restoration doesn't happen immediately, though. Twitter policy states that the read-only sin bin can last for up to seven days "depending on the nature of the violation." We're imagining Jones got the full one-week penalty, but we're waiting on Twitter to confirm that. The offending tweet in question is a link to a story claiming President "Trump must take action against web censorship." It looks like the tweet has already been deleted, but not before Twitter judged that it violates its policy on abuse: When you consider the things Infowars and Jones have said or written — 9/11 conspiracies, harassment of Sandy Hook victim families and more — the content in question seems fairly innocuous. Indeed, you could look at President Trump's tweets and find seemingly more punishable content without much difficulty. But here we are. The weirdest part of this Twitter caning is one of the reference points that the company gave to media. These days, it is common for the company to point reporters to specific tweets that it believes encapsulate its position on an issue, or provide additional color in certain situations. In this case, Twitter pointed us — and presumably other reporters — to this tweet from Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson: WTF, Twitter… Social Media via Twitter – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com August 15, 2018 at 12:19AM Leave a Reply. |
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Is the description-experience gap in risky choice limited to rare events?
Psychology researchers at the University of Alberta have found an interesting wrinkle in the decision- making process people use when gambling: People confronted with risky choices respond differently when they rely on past experiences, rather than when they just focus on the odds of winning or losing.
The research team gave people two kinds of choices. One was a choice between a sure win versus a double-or-nothing win. The other choice was between a sure loss versus a double-or- nothing loss. In some cases the odds were explained to the volunteer gamblers, and sometimes the players were just left to learn their chances through their experience playing the game.
Surprisingly, most people made the exact opposite choices when they were told the odds, opposed to when they learned about them on their own. With experience, the test subjects started to gamble on the double–or-nothing for wins and they avoided the risky choice for losses. Their gambling tendencies were reversed when they were told the odds.
"We think that people choose in fundamentally differently ways when they are remembering their past wins and losses than when they are thinking about abstract future possibilities," said U of A researcher Marcia Spetch. "When basing choices on memory, people may focus more on the bigger wins and the bigger losses."
Beyond this novel finding, this research provides a new task for studying gambling behaviour that may one day help in understanding risky choice behaviour and gambling addictions. A follow-up study is being conducted by the same research group using the same gambling task, and participants will be hooked up to MRI equipment to identify areas of the brain involved in risky decision making.


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When historian Robin D. G. Kelley began work in the 1980s on what would become his classic work of radical history, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression, he was surrounded by activism. There was an uprising against police violence in Liberty City, Florida; multiracial coalitions propelled Harold Washington to the mayor's office in Chicago; and the presidential campaign of Jesse Jackson was gathering steam. As a young activist and campus organizer, Kelley was part of the movement that pushed the University of California system to divest from its holdings in South Africa, but he was also discovering a tradition of black radical organizing closer to home—that of the Communist Party in Alabama.
Kelley's dissertation on that subject became Hammer and Hoe, a book that explores what might have seemed to be a fairly esoteric topic yet offered lessons that activists have been drawing on for twenty-five years. Throughout that time, the book has remained in print, winning awards and, more important to Kelley, a place in the hearts and strategic thinking of decades of young organizers struggling with the questions of race, gender, class, and solidarity.
In Hammer and Hoe, Kelley details in wonderfully vivid prose how black workers in Alabama made communism their own, blending the teachings of Marx and Lenin with those of the black church and the lessons of decades of resistance to slavery, segregation, and racist terrorism. They were sharecroppers and domestic workers, relief recipients and factory workers. They were men and women who had been denied access to "skilled" positions so that white men could take the jobs instead, and, through those experiences, had found their way to a radicalism that was international in scope but deeply local in practice.
Those Alabama communists, Kelley notes, did not see their struggles for voting rights as separate from their struggles against economic exploitation by property owners, factory bosses, or the ostensibly progressive leaders of an unequal New Deal order. To be able to fight either of those struggles they had to challenge the racist terror of the Ku Klux Klan, often in collusion with the police, and to escape the clutches of a criminal legal system that locked up and executed black people based on the thinnest shreds of evidence. The trials of the Scottsboro Nine are in Hammer and Hoe, but so are the stories of many people who have been forgotten, who dared to stand up to injustice and paid with their lives.
This summer, the University of North Carolina press published an updated, 25th-anniversary edition of the book. With a nod to the present moment, this edition comes with a new preface and a dedication to the young activists of recent years, whose fights against austerity, racism, militarism, and capitalism itself have echoed, consciously or unconsciously, the struggles of Kelley's subjects.
Kelley is currently the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. He sat for an interview with The Nation's Sarah Jaffe over this summer. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
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Sarah Jaffe: You write in the new preface that more people have reached out to you about this book than any other in the past few years. Why do you think that is?
Robin Kelley: The book does a few things that interest readers today. It is about a radical social movement that really was trying to shift the paradigm—it wasn't about making better reforms, it wasn't operating within the Democratic Party—in a very unlikely place like Alabama, where the conditions of repression were so enormous. [In doing so], it links two [contemporary] movements that we now think of as separate. One is anti-capitalism and its roots in the Occupy movement and elsewhere, the other is what has now been identified as Black Lives Matter, the struggle against police violence and the carceral state. It just so happens that the Communist party in Alabama focused on these two things directly. And for them these were inseparable.
SJ: You write about the end of the Cold War and how anti-capitalism has begun to rise again since the 2008 financial crisis. Do you think this country is finally ready to understand the contributions of socialists and Communists to its history and to its present?
RK: The Cold War has been so thoroughly suppressed in the public consciousness that there are whole generations of people who don't have a clue. I have students who don't even know what the Cold War is.
That kind of erasure creates a blank space. That's the good news. The bad news is that the frame of reference has become so slim that the key debates even among some of the most vocal advocates for Occupy has been how to reform capitalism, and that really is about returning to the welfare state or imposing regulation, thinking capitalism is going to be with us forever, it's just the way it is. But unless we can actually break paradigmatically with the structure of capitalism itself we're not going to come up with good alternatives.
I think Naomi Klein's book is important because she's saying that capitalism itself is the problem. The question is, when can activists have the time and luxury to sit down and say, "How do we actually rebuild our new society?"
There's a sense that we're in a state of emergency. You've got home foreclosures and you've got death. You've got dispossession. You've got people who don't have access to water. But then, to be honest, all those models of trying to create the alternative to capitalist living in indigenous communities, whether it's the Zapatistas or elsewhere, have actually come out of states of emergency.
How does Hammer and Hoe relate to that? No one's going to read that book and say the Communists of Alabama were able to create socialism. But they were functioning in a state of emergency and they were able to surmount differences that today, in today's identity politics, people think are insurmountable. They got white people from the Klan to join their organization. Not all of them. But if you can get one, I'm applauding you!
The fact that they were able to make those leaps, that's not tolerance of difference. That's a transformational identity in a transformational movement that says we're comrades.
SJ: You write about the way the Alabama communist party grew from the cultures and ideas of the people it served—particularly Alabama's black working class—and the way that the white left has trouble sometimes seeing and understanding the black left. How are white progressives still misreading the black left?
RK: This is a mantra that has been repeated since the 19th century at least: that issues of race or issues of gender, that those issues are somehow a distraction from the real issues. But history has proven that these things are inseparable, because creating hierarchies of difference is essentially an ideological and economic project.
Slavery and dispossessing Indians and making sure that women are being paid wages that could allow them to buy hats, these are ideologies that actually structure capitalism. Anyone who's serious about socialism, or some kind of non-capitalist path for development, must address them not as separate issues but as issues that help us have a deeper analysis of how political economy works. Again I come back to Hammer and Hoe, because part of the critique of the New Deal was to say this great welfare state expansion was built on a racial hierarchy in which they were allowed to pay black workers in public works programs less money, or pay southern workers less money than northern. In other words, it's a hierarchy structured by race, by class, by gender. Unless we understand how the structure works we'll never be able to address the economic problems.
Is making a revolution simply about having a fairer state? Making sure that everyone has decent housing? Or is it about changing our relationships to one another so that you don't need state violence to keep the machine operating? How do you actually create a culture in which you can actually have something like a beloved community, where the struggle for the community is part of the project of making change?
That's part of what I think the best elements of Occupy were trying to do, the best elements of Black Lives Matter: create new community.
SJ: You also wrote about the way white people's fear of "social equality" for black people was a fear of interracial sex—a fear we heard echoed in Dylann Roof's statement to his victims as he pulled the trigger in Charleston. Can you talk a bit about that, and the way the Alabama Communists organized against it?
RK: From the very inception of the Communist Party's presence in the south, anticommunists used sex as a way to mobilize fear and opposition. "What Communists want to do is nationalize your daughters"—I love that line. It's the combination of sexual depravity associated with Communism and the fact that black rights was a central position. This is one of the ways they were able to keep people away from the Party. It didn't quite work because, of course, in the south, then and now, there's never been any real barriers to interracial sex. Especially if you're talking about white men and women of color. Ask Strom Thurmond about that.
The issue is ultimately about the white supremacy's treatment of women as property. It's about women as property, masked in the form of security. For Dylann Roof to make the statement and kill six black women, out of nine, is to also repeat the notion that white women are mere property and that his job is to protect that property from being sullied by black men. That black men are natural rapists is such an old but ingrained myth that I can't imagine what it's going to take to uproot it.
SJ: Hammer and Hoe takes place during the Great Depression; we're still living with the effects of the Great Recession. Can you compare and contrast the organizing that was happening then around jobs and labor and the unemployed, and what's happening now?
RK: Nothing in the New Deal was a gift, it was all struggled over and fought for. The best parts of the New Deal weren't so much relief. It was Section 7 of the National Industrial Recovery Act that said workers have the right to organize. Then in 1935 it became stronger. The fact that in most places, industrial trade unions could organize with some limited protections from the state allowed unions to grow.
Strong community-based organizing really matters. Nowadays there's so much mobility, so much displacement that the notion of an established community, those days are over. So what takes its place? Virtual organizing. And I'm not criticizing it at all because I think it's played a very important role in being able to mobilize huge numbers of people for different events. The problem is that virtual organizing, while successful at mobilizing for events, it's very hard to sustain the day-to-day organizational structure that is required for long-term struggles.
People are trying to figure out how we develop stronger organizations—not bigger organizations, because, even in the days of the New Deal, some of the most effective movements were never huge mass movements, but they were movements that were able to sustain themselves, and they were movements that were able to put forward what we think of as transformative demands.
Transformative demands are those demands that, on the one hand, attend to a particular crisis, whether it's we need relief or we need housing, etc. But then those demands are ratcheted up and ultimately question the very logic of the prevailing system. If you say we need housing then the state could respond and say, "We're going to have a market system providing housing," and they're like, "no, that's not going to work, we're going to demand something different than a market-based system."
One of the problems with so many exciting movements today is this tendency not to make transformative demands, not to make any demands, because somehow making a demand would formalize an organization in such a way where it would undermine democracy, it could be co-opted by the Democratic party or co-opted by the trade unions or whatever. So without those demands you don't have a space or a platform in which to have a debate over what the future looks like.
I'm not saying it's fixed like that. There are lots of organizations today that are making transformative demands, I name some in the book. But whatever we think about the problems of the Communist Party, and there are many, it was an international organization that was well-organized and put forward transformative demands.
I don't know whether the refusal to make demands can lead to something even better. But one of the consequences is that you end up having a segment of the movement embrace the Obama administration's agenda, which is that racial profiling is bad policing so we need more effective policing, body cameras for cops, better officer training, this sort of thing. We know from the history that none of that stuff really makes a difference. What we're looking for is transformative changes, eventually the elimination of state violence and the police force itself.
SJ: In Hammer and Hoe, there's a lot about the way violence was used specifically to quell labor and left organizing by black people in Alabama. You write, "Most scholars have underestimated the Southern Left and have underrated the role violence played in quashing radical movements…"
RK: State violence was necessary to suppress labor-based movements, any social justice movements. It was necessary to intimidate whole groups of people from even thinking about coming together. It was so embedded in the structure of everyday life that it became second nature. There was a constant distrust of working people who spoke up. A constant distrust of black people. And a capacity to transfer that distrust to white working people who gave up cooperation for the sake of security.
The security of whiteness is a very fragile security. You have these systems operating, and at the base of them all is violence. Violence also becomes endemic in the culture in which men and women and children and parents inside their own households embrace that violence as a way to maintain hierarchy within those structures. They mirror the violence of the state. Private violence is tied directly to public violence.
Violence is everywhere, so unless we see that and understand its relationship to the maintenance of the current political economy we're going to treat public violence separate from private violence, gendered private violence as a separate thing. You've got police violence, which is very much tied to economic justice issues, because where does that police violence take place for the most part? In places like Baltimore where you can have a black regime running a city but people whose lives depend on the good graces of their neighbors, on very low wages, whatever's left of the welfare state. People who live precarious lives are the ones who are most likely to experience that state violence.
That's why whenever we have exceptional cases, people who actually are not living precarious lives, they just happen to be black, those are the stories that are raised up. They are important, but to raise them up above all other stories of state violence is to basically produce an analysis that's devoid of class and that separates out the political economy from state violence.
We have to go back and make sure that we understand the relationship between all these forms of violence and their relationship to the economy, and not think of the economy as simply wages, housing, working conditions, consumerism, trade—economy is so much more than that. Economy is access to resources. Economy is being able to live a life that's not precarious. Economy is racial. Economy is gendered. Economy is not a separate category from race or gender.
SJ: You write about how law enforcement and the state were complicit in extralegal violence and lynching, how law enforcement would arrest some organizer and turn him over to the Klan. How should that inform our understanding of situations like the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman?
RK: One of the ways, at least in the 1930s and before that, that the state was able to avoid the expense of prosecution, the expense of detention and also allow for the reproduction of white supremacy on a mass basis was lynching. You think of lynching as terrorizing black communities, terrorizing Mexican communities, it definitely does that. But what it also does is consolidate a white working class investment in a notion of security in a juridical structure that allows them some semblance of citizenship. These are people who, when you really look at their daily life, barely have the privileges of citizenship except in lynching. They could participate even if it's just as observer.
Naomi Murakawa has this really important book called The First Civil Right, and she shows we had some changes: The Truman administration pushed forward civil rights legislation, more resources for policing to try to stop these kinds of acts of violence. Those resources then fed into a growing criminal justice system. What we end up getting is fewer lynchings—police shooting someone in the back isn't exactly a lynching, it doesn't function in the same way. Is it murder? Absolutely. Is it extrajudicial? Yes.
So the reduction of lynchings also means the expansion of a criminal justice system, which actually does detain live bodies and contain them and corrals them. It burgeons and burgeons. It also means that these extrajudicial killings take place with the sanction of the state. Now it's with police officers who are better armed than they ever were. What hasn't changed is the basic racial structure of the criminal justice process. The mechanisms change, the processes change, and those processes have enormous consequences, but the basic ideology over time, it's tweaked.
SJ: Related to both of those, what about the use of armed self-defense among the people you researched? What can we learn from them to apply to today's conversations about "riots" and how we're obsessed with particularly black resistance being nonviolent?
RK: One of the biggest myths that is still perpetuated today is that somehow the only natural and legitimate forms of black politics have to embrace nonviolence. No other political agenda or movement has to do the same.
Nonviolence as a political strategy was pretty common among progressive forces in the postwar period, for good reason. However, if you take the history of black freedom struggles, self-defense has been the first principle. It had to be—during Reconstruction something like 58,000 black people were killed. Akinyele Omowale Umoja has this great book called We Will Shoot Back where he proves that in every county in Mississippi where you had organized armed self-defense they had less violence, fewer killings.
Now there's a difference between armed self-defense and violence as a strategy of resistance. Riots are not necessarily violent strategies of resistance. Riots are oftentimes attacks on property. If you look at the body count of who dies in riots, it's mostly the people who live in the ghettos. If we look at the body count of the history of riots, even going back to the late 19th and early 20th century, Tulsa, these are racial pogroms where, again, it's mobs of white people reinforcing their citizenship and white privilege through the violence against the black bodies. Black people have been more the victims of violence than perpetrators of violence against the state.
These are the kind of mythologies that we have to contend with. The amazing thing about the Communist Party in Alabama is that they had dramatic moments and shootouts, yes, in the rural areas in particular you had these moments of militancy, but most of the activists, their strategy was more tricksterism, they wanted to avoid violence to live another day. They knew that they were outnumbered and they were outgunned and so they had to find strategies that were not nonviolent or proviolent but ones that were self-preserving and sustainable.
That's why every time the question is raised or people have to pronounce their nonviolent intent, that's about projecting the violence of the state onto the bodies of the very people who are the victims of violence. I am a supporter of nonviolence, but that's another story.
SJ: Why do you think all of this is happening now?
RK: I think that these movements had been bubbling under the surface, especially with the Clinton administration. Clinton was such a disappointment that a lot of the oppositional movements that have laid the foundation for Occupy were established in the '90s under Clinton, against welfare deform and all that. To me, the level of organization in preparation for Occupy means that Occupy wasn't spontaneous. It was an opportunity. The crisis of 2008 was an opportunity, the mobilization around Trayvon Martin and the wave of deaths and social media create opportunities for existing organizations to become visible. If we did not have organization, we wouldn't have this, that's my argument. It goes against some of the prevailing wisdom, which is that the conditions just made people so angry and so frustrated that they came out. There's some of that, but you can't get people out without organization. That's why, if there's a lesson in here, it's that you've got to always organize—whether it's the optimal time or the non-optimal time, you've got to be ready, always.


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ESO Astronomy Camp for Secondary School Students
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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and its Science Outreach Network is collaborating with the science communication event organiser Sterrenlab to arrange the first ESO Astronomy Camp. The camp will take place from 26-31 December 2013 at the Astronomical Observatory of the Aosta Valley, located in Saint-Barthelemy, Nus, Italy. Several partners, including ESO, are providing for a total of, so far, five bursaries that will be awarded to the winning applicants.
The camp will explore the theme of the visible and the invisible Universe through lectures, hands-on activities, and nighttime observations with the telescopes and instruments at the observatory. Social activities, winter sports, and excursions will contribute to making the camp a memorable experience for the participants. ESO will be responsible for the scientific programme for the ESO Astronomy Camp, and will, together with other partners, provide lecturers and material.
Sterrenlab specialises in the organisation of international science camps for children and teenagers, and offers a variety of services in consultancy, and in the design, and implementation of projects and events in the areas of science education and communication.
The camp will be available for a maximum of 55 secondary school students aged between 16 and 18 from the ESO Member States and ESO Science Outreach Network countries. Students wishing to apply should fill out the form on the Camp website before 15 October 2013. The selection of the candidates will take place on 31 October 2013. Final confirmation from the participants is due by 8 November 2013. The selection criteria and other instructions for participation are given on the Camp website.
The registration fee of 480 euros covers full board accommodation at the hostel of Saint Barthelemy, supervision by professional staff, all astronomical and leisure activities, materials, excursions, internal transport, and insurance. Bus transport between the observatory and the airport of Milan Malpensa will be provided.
The applicant with the best entry will win a free trip sponsored by ESO. This bursary will cover the complete cost of the camp and transport to the camp, and will go to the best application from a student residing in one of ESO's Member States. Four national partners are also providing free Camp registrations to the best applications from a student residing in their respective countries (but not travel funding):
- Italy: Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and University of Milan
- Poland: Polish Astronomical Society and Urania — Postępy Astronomii and Urząd Marszałkowski Województwa Kujawsko-Pomorskiego
- Spain: Sociedad Española de Astronomía
- Switzerland: Université de Gèneve
The ESO Astronomy Camp has so far been endorsed by the following institutions:
- Austrian Planetarium Society
- Planétarium de l'Observatorire Royal de Belgique
- Tähtitieteellinen yhdistys Ursa (Ursa Astronomical Association)
- Haus der Astronomie
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica
- Società Astronomica Italiana
- University of Milan – COSMO group
- Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA)
- Polish Astronomical Society
- Urania — Postępy Astronomii
- Astronomical Observatory of the University of Coimbra
- Observatorio Astronómico — Universidad de Valencia
- Sociedad Española de Astronomía
- Onsala Space Observatory
- University of Geneva
- University of Cag — Space Observation & Research Centre
- Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
- UK National STEM Centre
Follow the Camp website for updates.
- Camp website
- Sterrenlab
- Osservatorio Astronomico della Val d'Aosta
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- Hostel of Saint Barthelemy
- ESO Science Outreach Network
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One who is shraddhA, dhAraNA, medhA, divinity of speech and dear to the Creator BrahmA, who resides on the tip of the tongue of the devotee and gives many virtues such as self-control (peace) etc.
Shloka as is:
या श्रद्धा धारणा मेधा वाग्देवी विधिवल्लभा ।
भक्तजिह्वाग्रसदना शमादिगुणदायिनी ॥
yā shraddhā dhāraṇā médhā vāgdévī vidhi_vallabhā |
bhaktajihvāgrasadanā, shamādiguṇadāyinī || (IAST+)
yA shraddhA dhAraṇA medhA vAgdevI vidhi_vallabhA |
bhaktajihvAgrasadanA, shamAdiguNadAyinI || (ITRANS)
Simplified for reading:
या श्रद्धा धारणा मेधा वाग्देवी विधिवल्लभा । yā shraddhā dhāraṇā médhā vāgdévī vidhi_vallabhā | yA shraddhA dhAraṇA medhA vAgdevI vidhi_vallabhA | भक्त -जिह्वाग्र -सदना शमादि -गुण -दायिनी ॥ bhakta -jihvāgra -sadanā, shamādi -guṇa -dāyinī || bhakta -jihvAgra -sadanA, shamAdi -guNa -dAyinI || (ITRANS)
Anvaya (अन्वय)/prosification and sandhi-break:
या श्रद्धा धारणा मेधा वाक्-देवी विधिवल्लभा । yā shraddhā dhāraṇā médhā vāk-dévī vidhi_vallabhā | yA shraddhA dhAraṇA medhA vAk-devI vidhi_vallabhA | भक्त -जिह्वा-अग्र -सदना शम-आदि -गुण -दायिनी ॥ bhakta -jihvā-agra -sadanā, shama-ādi -guṇa -dāyinī || bhakta -jihvA-agra -sadanA, shama-Adi -guNa -dAyinI || (ITRANS)
One who is shraddhA, dhAraNA, medhA, divinity of speech and dear to the Creator BrahmA, who resides on the tip of the tongue of the devotee and gives many virtues such as self-control (peace) etc.
This describes the process of learning. How do we learn?
shraddhA. absorbing, reading to receive the knowledge.
First we must have shraddhA. The mindset to absorb, learn from the guru, book, speaker, experience, whatever that we are trying to learn from. If we don't trust the teacher to be knowledgeable, even he or she reads from a standard textbook, we will doubt. But if we believe in a palm reader, we will trust any prediction made. Children grow because they trust their parents. Every single moment is learning for them in early years. They won't survive if they didn't have the shraddhA in their parents, that whatever parents are doing is for my good.
This also means one is attentive and alert to receive.
All of a sudden many traditional practices make sense - respect for teacher and books, early morning bath (fresh and alert), sitting appropriately while studying etc.
Then we must have the ability to retain what we have heard or read or experienced. This is the memory part.
Whatever we learn, must remain with us, else it is no use listening from one ear and letting go out from the other, as mothers scold their kids in India who don't listen to her sometimes. Attention and retention. This memory power can also be helped by certain foods, regular practice of being still in body and thought.
After that we must be able to process it, analyze it with our intellect. What use is it to absorb and retain if we can't process it? This too can be helped by certain foods, regular practice of being still in body and thought. But even as modern science proves, one is born with one's IQ, intellect, and there is not much that can change it.
And finally, once we have learned, solved the problem that we were having (whether to cook, build a road, find why I am on this planet, any kind of problem that caused us to sit up and search an answer by learning), once we have solved that, we must communicate it to others for their benefit as well. That is vAk. Communication. Oratory. Teaching ability. Transmitting the knowledge. The power that is knowledge.
Then the other will start a new circle of 'absorb, retain, analye, communicate'.
And thus, learning is a cyclic process, a paramparA.
Notice how this is what a computer does as well. Input device (absorb), RAM (retain), CPU (process) and output device (communicate).
It is not that everyone has all the four abilities, actually very few have all the four. But those who do, they shine anywhere, no matter what field.
After a devotee (student) has followed this process thoroughly, what happens? A person who has all four abilities, and has used them appropriately, what happens to that person? Saraswati herself packs her bags and shifts her house. She builds a tiny little house on the tip of the tongue of such a devotee, student, learner. Whatever this person then speaks is truth, elegant, easily understood, and communicated. There is a very common saying in India 'Saraswati sits on his/her tongue', specially said for the great poets.
And what else happens to the student, learner?
After knowing there is so much to know, first things happens to a true student is humbleness. And then knowing how the 'show' works, how things interconnect, and world is interconnected, the person becomes calm. Fear comes from the unknown. Once you know, the fear is not there. You can avoid it, you can accept it, you can embrace it. After knowing the transient nature of everything, the desire quenches. One doesn't run after this and that. One becomes self-content. If this doesn't happen, one has not yet learned truly. The knowledge is shallow.
This lack of disturbance is called sham, the control suppression of. Of what? Of the chaos? Which chaos? The chaos of fluctuating mind-variations (chitta-vRitti). Hence a positive word like peace (shanti) has a negative word like suppress in it. Because, you natural state is peaceful and healthy (svastha). Most animals are peaceful in their own except when driven with body needs. We have created most of the un-peace due to our own mind variations, our own wanton, uncontrolled, ever multiplying desires.
When we know, we control them. We attain peace. So she is the giver of virtues like self-control and peacefulness as well.
[ There are many shlokas, aShTakamas, mantras of divinities. Many would simply think of them as religious talk, with no other value than to the devotee of that religious form. The beauty of most Indian forms is that the form is there to help you, interest you, hold your attention, inspire you. But the real value, wisdom is equally applicable to anyone. There are two layers to everything. For a gyAna-yogI (j~nAna-yogI), one who is only interested in knowledge and not the form, they too can gain. But none should deny the other. That is a gyAna, karma and bhakti are multiple ways to move forward, and most of us have all three types of tendencies in us. ]
And now the language aspects -
yā = she who [is]
shraddhā = the mindset of, being worthy to receive the truth, ready to receive the truth
dhāraṇā = retention, holding.
médhā = intellect, mental vigor or power, intelligence
vāk-dévī = speech-divinity. vAk = speech, voice.
vidhi_vallabhā = dear (vallabhā) to the creator brahma (vidhi)
bhakta = devotee
jihvā-agra = tongue-tip
sadanā = resider. sadana = house, abode. sadanā = one who resides (fem)
shama-ādi = control-etc.
guṇa = virtues
dāyinī = giver (fem)
(c) shashikant joshi । शशिकांत जोशी । ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः ।
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Unguilded by Jane Glatt published by Tyche Books
Mage Guild wants to enslave her. Can Kara survive among the Unguilded?
At sixteen Kara Fonti still has no magic. But Mage Guild, the most powerful of all the Guilds in Tregella, has a use for her – they will force her to bear children for men who do have magic. Arabella Fonti, to protect her own status within the guild, pushes her daughter to do the unthinkable – run away to live outside the guild system.
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Trump approval rating sinks to new low
It's the lowest of any commander-in-chief at this point in his presidency.
— -- President Trump's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent -- the lowest of his fledgling presidency, according to Gallup. His disapproval rating rose correspondingly, hitting 58 percent.
At this point in his first term, President Obama's approval rating was hovering in the low 60s, while President George W. Bush's was in the mid-50s. (Obama's approval rating would later sink to a low of 40 percent, while Bush bottomed out at 25 percent.)
In fact, Trump's current approval rating is lower than any other commander-in-chief at this point in his first term since Gallup started tracking the issue in 1945, the year Harry Truman took office.
President Bill Clinton hit the 37 percent rating about five months into his first term, in June 1993, and Ronald Reagan dipped below it in January 1983, about a year after he took the oath of office. It took George H.W. Bush more than three years to fall to 37 percent, which he did in June 1992. And Richard Nixon, who resigned at 24 percent, first sunk below 37 percent in the first year of his second term, in August 1973, as the Watergate scandal raged.
The lowest job approval ever recorded by Gallup was 22 percent, the public's assessment of Harry Truman's performance in February 1952, nearly 7 years into his presidency.
Gallup's latest analysis of Trump comes on the heels of a turbulent first 50+ days, which saw the sudden resignation DIA Director Michael T Flynn amid rumors of Trump campaign collusion with Russia, an unsubstantiated allegation of wiretapping, and a litany of complications for both of the president's travel bans.


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Ajax Evangelist/Pattern Curator
As Ajax Evangelist I have been a frequent speaker at numerous conferences, workshops and tuturials. Internally within Yahoo! I have worked with a large number of various Yahoo! sites to consult in design & engineering best practices. Projects include My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! Home Page, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Teachers as well as others. Additionally, I have worked closely with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) team on early design and review of the library.
Launched, edited and curated the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library in Feb, 2006. The library was the first company-sponsored interaction pattern library to go public. Received much acclaim and was recognized as a good resource for understanding rich interaction on the web.
The pattern library is based on the the work from the internal pattern library (Matt Leacock, Erin Malone, Kiersten Lammerding, Chanel Wheeler and others) with a number of new patterns I created to express the rich interaction of Ajax style applications.
The main purpose of the site is to create a vocabulary around the most common interactions, document the best practices within Yahoo! and relate the patterns to the YUI code library.
For an early version of Yahoo! Teachers I created the carousel component. This is a DHTML component based on the YUI library that generalizes managing lists of items.
An integral part of the idea behind Yahoo! Teachers was a tool that could be used on any web site to gobble content.
Based on this original idea I created a rapid prototype of the gobbler over a weekend, refined it for a week or so and we launched it initially to the first Yahoo! Teachers of Merit workshop at the Yahoo! Sunnyvale campus.
The gobbler was a hit with the teachers.
Recently, we publicly announced the site at the NSTA (National Science Teachers Association) conference in St. Louis, MO. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive. The gobbler is now part of the upcoming Yahoo! Teachers product.
Rico - Open Source Project
Rico is an open source JavaScript library that provides rich internet utilities like: Ajax, cinematic effects, behaviors (components) and drag & drop
As an offshoot of the reusable web components at Sabre, we obtained permission to release a portion of the technology under the banner of Rico at the openrico.org site. Rico is spanish for Rich denoting rich internet support. As such we strongly disavow any relationships to Uncle Rico, RICO the racketeering act or Rico Suave the open-shirted entertainer!
I designed and developed the site to be very simple and straightforward, the spirit we tried to capture in the framework itself.
In order to sell Rico, it was necessary to create two types of demos. First, clean, simple and straightforward examples that illustrated one concept. Darren James created these with some stylistic input from me. The second set of demos needed to pull various pieces together and illustrate more of a real world solution: Weather Widget and Rico Y! Search were created by me to illustrate what can be done with rich DHTML and Ajax technologies.
The Weather Widget illustrated using Ajax to pull in weather information from the Weather Channel's weather.com site, using cinematic effects to show the transitions and a good use of the accordian widget for showing multiple pages of information.
The Rico Search is powered by the wonderful Yahoo! Developer Services APIs. Rico Search illustrates the powerful LiveGrid concept that Darren James & Richard Cowin developed as a refactoring of the Sabre grid component. Live Grid turns an HTML table into a scrolling table that gets its data from the server just-in-time. With LiveGrid you can contine to scroll instead of paging through the data. The Rico Search demo illustrates using the LiveGrid with Yahoo! Search results.
You can check out my blogs about Rico and user experience at looksgoodworkswell.com
Sabre Airline Solutions
At Sabre, I led the User Experience Team for Airline Solutions and am involved in all aspects of product design for around 40 products. The User Experience team is responsible for looks good, works well.
The products manage flight planning & scheduling, crew planning & scheduling, revenue optimization, fare pricing, flight dispatch, flight operations control, market data analysis, airport services, and dining & cabin services.
These products span both the desktop and the web. In the latest set of web products we have incorporated Ajax for a rich internet experience.
While the web based products do have a standard look and feel, most of the time they are styled with the specific airline's branding (as pictured here.)
One of the advantages of working with so many products is that you get to see a set of solutions repeat themselves again and again. These solutions are called Interaction Design Patterns.
This work builds on the excellent work of Tidwell, Welie and Laakso as well as what we have learned along the way. Our internal UX Site (pictured here) hosts our pattern library.
Designers and business stakeholders can locate patterns by browsing by user needs, design principles or by a goal-oriented approach.
Some of the common patterns we use on a daily basis are: Step-by-Step Process, Overview Plus Detail, Search/Result, Information in Context and the Workbench pattern. Our pattern library is similar to the Yahoo!User Experience Team's Pattern Library
One of the first things I did when arriving at Sabre was to initiate a full-scale heuristic evaluation of our products. The project included training 35 evaluators, providing workshops on design principles and pouring over 3000 screens across 21 of our major products. During the height of the work I was learning a new product every 3 days!
The presentation of the evaluations was a study in user experience design. I researched various ways to visualize application structure as well as usability metrics.
I borrowed ideas for formatting the reports from Jacob Nielsen's book Homepage Usability and the book Mapping Websites.
Each report was produced in a book format. The sections covered the ground rules for the evaluation, high level visualization of the issues, business and product primer, short synopsis of the systemic issues and finally a screen-by-screen accounting of the interface. Formatting, graphics, and layout were all elements that made the reports accessible for executives, marketing and development. The reports were a major contributing factor to creating the User Experience Team and funding millions of dollars into enhancing the usability of our products.
Sabre funded a large investment project to create a suite of common desktop and web user interface components. I was the designer (as well as original technical architect for the web components) for this suite.
These are not your Father's interface controls! Rich tree, table, calendar, multi-select combo drop downs, toolbars, tab + menu controls just to name a few. Of particular note is the editable table component that features inline editing, paging, sorting and a couple of dozen additional features.
The latest, greatest cool thing we were doing with these components is making them Ajax-aware. Our table now can scroll through 100's of thousands of records with each page scroll happening in less than a hundred milliseconds! Of interest is the design changes we are discovering as web events are more fine-grained and data is sometimes a hundred times faster to work with.
One of the frustrating things an interface designer faces is how to simulate the interface as early as possible and as realistic as possible. Over the 2004 holidays I dove into Visio and learned all about automation, scripting, layers, backgrounds, shape libraries, connections and a host of other features.
The tools include:
- smart connections
- complete set of interface controls
- storyboard stencils
- animated interaction
- code generation
- requirements generation
The result is a really cool set of tools for Microsoft Visio to simulate a web, desktop or plain wireframe interface. It's cool, fast and fun to create wireframes!
At NextJet, I led the interface design for the web based Operations Management System (OMS). The application provided real-time tracking and management of same day shipping orders.
One of the fun design tasks was create a new way to visualize same-day shipping orders for the Operations Control Center. The ability to determine order status at a glance was critical due to time constraints airline schedule and courier availability volatility.
I created an order dashboard that shows the order status from courier pickup to drop off with all events in between. I then tied the dashboard to a workplan grid that had all of the steps to complete an order. The result was a one-page control panel for order management. This design was a contributing factor to UPS selecting NextJet for its service parts logistics software.
Since orders had to be managed on a minute-by-minute basis, I centered the main interface into a heads-up-display concept. The result: orders are easier to manage due to real-time status display and the ability to assign or edit orders from the HUD workbench.At Open Connect, I led the user interface design and was the development manager for the eXtreme Vista product.
eXtremeVista is a development tool that turns mainframe applications into web-based products.
The previous version 2.2 product had a very antiquated interface. I spent a good deal of time performing a usability analysis on the product and cleaning up layout, workflow and graphical problems.
The drab gray was courtesy of Java :-)
i2 Technologies
At i2, I was known as the User Interface Czar and later as the head of Common User Interface. The Supply Chain Planner (SCP) was the flagship product in the late 1990's.
One of my contributions was conceiving of a workflow based interface for SCP.
Originally, the product was designed around the internal planning model. The Visual Basic interface introduced supply chains and their factories, etc. This presented the information from a model perspective. I introduced workflow based tasks to create a workbench concept that could be tailored for each client and individual users.
DSC Communications (now Alcatel)
At DSC (now Alcatel), I was a lead interface designer and developer for real time monitoring of phone switching software.
Somewhere along the way I got involved in a open source project using an object-oriented version of the tcl language known as itcl. The work involved creating a set of user interface controls for the incr Widgets project.
I designed and created the tabbed notebook, menu and toolbar components. The tabbed notebook could be configured to have a Windows, Unix motif or Borland look & feel and appear either on the left, right, top or bottom sides of the notebook.
The Tcl/TK Tools book featured a chapter on the incr Widgets and credited my work.
E-Systems (now Raytheon)
Upon joining E-Systems I had a lucky break. Awaiting government clearance I was given the chance to build user interfaces for large-scale NATO & Naval War College wargaming.
After building the initial system for a Digital Equipment Corporation Workstation in the not so lovely VMS OS, I pitched a research project by prototyping what I thought a mapping system should be like. I used the public domain CIA world database of land boundaries, roads, railroads, lakes, etc. and built a mapping toolkit for OSF/Motif. Before long I had a team of about 10 people involved in producing two commercial products EsyView and EsyBrief. EsyView allowed you to connect a mapping display to a real-time system (like wargame simulation) and watch the war theatre animated on the map. EsyBrief allowed an offline version in which you could place a number of war-specific icons around on the map. This was around 1990 and here are the cool things it had:
- Scrollable mapping system
- Porthole/Panner controls
- Flicker-free animation
- Full complement of drawing tools to overlay on the map
- Beautifully rendered maps with shading
- Very rich mouse interaction
Sadly, I no longer have screenshots from these applications.
Shortly after the Macintosh arrived on the scene, several of us started working at the local Apple Computer store. One of the guys had become addicted to an IBM PC game, called GATO.
It was decided that we would design and write the game from scratch with a new completely new look for the Macintosh. Those were heady and fun days. 7 days a week, lots of fast food, programming and designing most days and nights. We were one of the first games for the Macintosh and the first simulation.
GATO was instantly successful and for a couple of months was #1 in the nation on the Softsell Mac list. It maintained a top ten status for a year.
I drew all of the screen controls with MacPaint and lots of FatBits (magnified mode.) The screws were complete with shadows. Remember that you are looking at 1985 graphics. One of the nice things that I came up with was the ability to see all the important controls at once. You could flip the small map view to a large map view and still see your periscope and guages. This was a huge improvement over the original IBM version.
Below is a screen shot from the game.
I also built a 3D graphics library to support Spectrum Holobyte's Space Shuttle simulation, Orbiter. The library was fairly primitive with limited shading but was a good study in how to design a graphics library.
Contact me at b DOT scott AT yahoo DOT com


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Scaling the Patent System
30 Pages Posted: 7 Mar 2012 Last revised: 25 Jan 2017
Date Written: March 6, 2012
Why do firms in some industries ignore patents when developing new products? This paper posits a simple but novel answer to this long-puzzling question: firms ignore patents because they are unable to discover the patents their activities might infringe. The costs of finding relevant patents, which we call discovery costs, are prohibitively high.
Not all industries face high patent discovery costs. Chemical patents are "indexable," meaning that relevant patents can be efficiently retrieved by chemical formula. As a result, discovery costs in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries are low, and inadvertent infringement by firms in these industries is rare. But many other patent categories are not indexable, and in some cases that makes avoiding infringement practically impossible. In software, for example, patent clearance by all firms would require many times more hours of legal research than all patent lawyers in the United States can bill in a year. The result has been an explosion of patent litigation.
This paper attacks two core premises of patent law — that parties are always able to respect each other's patent rights, and that firms should be punished for infringement even if they could not have avoided it. It concludes with several suggestions for how to change the patent system to alleviate the problems created by non-indexable patents.
Keywords: patent, patent infringement, patents, intellectual property, intellectual property infringement, big-O notation, scalability, Hayek
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From the Harvard Business Review
When I was in my late twenties, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. I returned to Japan, where I was working, and tried to forget about it. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver. After a long search, the surgeons found a new procedure to remove them, but I knew this was, again, perhaps only a temporary fix. I was a mess for the next six months. The hardest part of my illness was my constant anxiety about it coming back.
Then I met a man who changed my outlook. Dr. Derek Roger had spent 30 years researching why some people in difficult situations become overwhelmed, while others persevere. He taught me everything he'd learned, and as I started applying it, my anxiety subsided, even though my situation didn't change. In fact, the cancer came back about five years ago and remains relatively stable in my liver. But I no longer worry about it. Derek became my mentor, and over the past 10 years we have trained thousands of leaders to overcome their stress.
The process starts with understanding that stress is caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them. In the workplace, many people blame their high anxiety levels on a boss, job, deadlines, or competing commitments for their time. But peers who face the same challenges do so without stress. Derek and I often meet executives who have high levels of pressure but low levels of stress, and vice versa.
Pressure is not stress. But the former is converted to the latter when you add one ingredient: rumination, the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events, while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts. Of course, leaders must practice reflection — planning for the future or reviewing past lessons — but this is an analytical, short-term process, with positive fallout. Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being. Chronic worriers show increased incidence of coronary problems and suppressed immune functioning. Dwelling on the past or the future also takes us away from the present, rendering us unable to complete the work currently on our plates. If you ask ruminators how they are feeling, none will say "happy." Most feel miserable.
To break this stress-inducing habit, Derek and I recommend four steps:
Wake up. People spend most of their day in a state called "waking sleep." This is when you pull into the office parking lot but can't remember the drive there, or when someone in a meeting asks for your opinion but you've missed the last few minutes of conversation. Since all rumination happens during this state, the first step is to break out of it. You can do this physically: Stand or sit up, clap your hands, and move your body. Or you can do it mentally: Connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world.
Control your attention. When you ruminate, your attention gets caught in an unproductive loop, like a hamster on a wheel. You need to redirect yourself to areas in which you can take useful action. Here's one exercise we encourage executives to use: Draw a circle on a page, and write down all of the things you can control or influence inside of it and all of the things you cannot outside of it. Remind yourself that you can care about externalities — your work, your team, your family — without worrying about them.
Put things in perspective. Ruminators tend to catastrophize, but resilient leaders keep things in perspective for themselves and their teams. We tell people to try three techniques: contrasting (comparing a past stress to the current one, i.e., a major illness versus a missed sale), questioning (asking yourself "How much will this matter in three years' time?" and "What's the worst that could happen?" and "How would I survive it?") and reframing (looking at your challenge from a new angle: "What's an opportunity in this situation I haven't yet seen?" or even "What's funny about this situation?")
Let go. The final step is often the hardest. If it was easy to let it go, we would have done it already. We find that three techniques help. The first is acceptance: Acknowledge that whether you like the situation or not, it is the way it is. The second is learning the lesson. Your brain will review events until it feels you've gained something from them, so ask yourself, "What have I learned from this experience?" The third is action. Sometimes the real solution is not to relax, but to do something about your situation. Ask yourself, "What action is required here?
While struggling with cancer, it took me a couple of years to train myself to follow these steps. But ultimately it worked. My stress levels went down, my health improved, and my career took off. More heartening, I discovered that everything Derek had taught me could be taught to others, with similar results.


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Under normal circumstances, it could take years — if not decades — to bring a new vaccine to market. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed all that. In May, the Trump administration launched Operation Warp Speed with the goal of delivering initial doses of a safe and effective vaccine by January 2021 — shortening the development time from years to months.
Some worry that to meet that ambitious schedule, the administration might cut important scientific corners. They fear that President Trump could announce an "October surprise" — declaring that a vaccine works before it has passed scientific muster in order to enhance his reelection chances.
After all, the president ballyhooed supposed virtues of hydroxychloroquine when most scientists thought the drug was not helpful, and maybe downright dangerous in treating or preventing coronavirus infections. This week, the FDA granted authorization for using convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19, a move some say was done under political pressure from the White House.
FDA officials have maintained that all their decisions are based on science, not politics.
In June, the agency released guidancefor what it would require before granting any kind of approval for the COVID-19 vaccine.
The guidance states that at a minimum, the FDA wants to see any vaccine tested in thousands of people so that any relatively rare side effects can be caught, and to see if the vaccine is actually preventing disease. The agency also says the vaccine doesn't have to prevent 100% of disease to get a green light; just 50% would be sufficient.
How long it would take to show that depends on several factors, including how fast volunteers can be enrolled in trials and how much virus is circulating where the trials are taking place. Certainly it's a process that would take months.
The Trump administration has vowed to cut red tape to speed the approval process, and the normal process does require a lot of data and a lot of paperwork.
But the FDA has also said it would consider granting something called an Emergency Use Authorization, or EUA, to the makers of a vaccine candidate that appeared to be safe and effective.
That's where critics worry political influence could creep in.
"The EUA rules are loose," says Paul Offit, a vaccine developer at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. Usually, the FDA would rely on the independent scientists on that committee to advise it about important decisions concerning new therapies and vaccines. Offit worries the FDA could be pressured into issuing an EUA with little or no scrutiny of that decision.
It's a concern echoed by the leadership of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and HIV Medicine Association. In a letter to the FDA, they write, "We want to underscore that it is critical that FDA ensures sufficient safety and efficacy data are available and have been reviewed by internal as well as independent experts prior to granting an EUA."
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has tried to assure skeptics that won't happen. He wrote an editorial dated Aug. 7 in the medical journal JAMA.
"The physician leadership of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (including the authors of this Viewpoint) unequivocally state that candidate COVID-19 vaccines will be reviewed according to the established legal and regulatory standards for medical products," Hahn wrote.
The editorial continues: "Given the widespread potential use of a COVID-19 vaccine, transparent discussion at FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee will be needed prior to vaccine authorization or licensure to ensure clear public understanding of the evidence supporting vaccine safety and efficacy."
Even if the evidence is made public, there could still be a robust scientific debate over whether a vaccine is ready for approval. Opinions will vary about just how convincing the data are, and whether the reported effectiveness is really adequate to rein in the pandemic.
The shorter the time allotted for testing, the less likely there will be ironclad evidence that a vaccine is effective. What's more, the fewer people in whom the vaccine is tested, the less likely the testing will reveal rare but fatal side effects. Shorter testing periods also mean there's less certainty about how long any protective effect from a vaccine will last.
So there are bound to be critics of any decision the FDA makes.
Offit says making the right decision is critical.
"We have two ways out of this pandemic. One is hygienic measures — which we don't seem very good at — and two is the vaccine," he says.
"Don't screw this up. The vaccine is our best way out of it at this point. And to shake the American confidence further with either an unsafe or ineffective vaccine would be, I think, a disaster."
At least two other countries seem to have slighted science in making decisions about vaccines. For example, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Aug. 11 that regulators in that country would approve a Russian-made vaccine — long before it had undergone the kind of evaluation scientists say is essential. China also reportedly began giving an unproven vaccine to its citizens in July.
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After the Fed's gold crash, what might India's Chaturmas mean for prices...?
After the import curbs came the Fed. Next will come Chaturmas. Might this 'closed season' for Indian weddings finally stem the subcontinent's frantic gold buying this summer?
It usually does. All Asian gold demand tends to ease off mid-year, but India goes dead quiet, thanks to the lack of auspicious days on the Hindu calendar. 2013's Chaturmas - literal meaning, "four months" - starts in mid-July. Although it starts later and is shorter than in 2012, the shutdown for Indian weddings will still run until early November as the Hindu gods and goddesses enjoy their Yogi Sleep.
Lord Vishnu deserves a rest after the frantic gift-giving and wedding demand for gold seen so far this year. Chaturmas should also enforce a truce between Indian households - the world's No.1 gold consumers - and their government, now one of the world's most anti-gold administrations.
Hiking gold import duty to 8% last month, and imposing strict new rules on how gold imports can be financed (no credit, in short), the government has still met record levels of gold demand. To their mind, that has only worsened a problem hitting emerging markets everywhere: a sudden outflow of foreign cash, spooked by chatter about the US Federal Reserve daring to slow its rate of money creation. Or maybe even raising interest rates from zero. At some point. Perhaps.
The effect on what were the world's hottest investment hotspots has been dramatic. Mass protests in former darlings Turkey and Brazil come as Western fund managers hold their lowest allocations to developing economies since the Lehmans' crash of 2008. China looks to have all but stopped buying US Treasury bonds, thanks to slowing inflows of cash needing a home, plus the sudden need to keep money at hand as Chinese credit dries up. India's latest curbs on gold imports were supposed to buoy the Rupee (everyone said so), but it has sunk to new all-time lows on the currency markets regardless.
Well, not quite regardless. The world's biggest gold buyers, Indian citizens boast zero mine output. So pretty much every ounce bought for weddings, festivals and the 10% of household savings which go into gold each year must come from abroad. The government warned time and again it wanted to curb those gold imports, because they dent India's current account deficit so badly that they hurt the Rupee. So mid-April's gold crash was already preceded by a sharp upturn in buying. Because people who love buying gold love buying it now if they know supply will be capped tomorrow.
The Rupee's slump has only made gold more expensive. But wholesalers, if not final consumers, kept buying gold anyway. Even the end of credit-paid imports failed to dent May's surge in demand. So far, all the new 8% duty has done is spark warnings (and reports) of increased smuggling, with Dubai only a short trip away by dhow overnight. Still, the Hindu wedding season - for which tradition demands heavy gift-giving in gold - is set to end mid-July. Thanks to Chaturmas, it won't resume until after the festival calendar starts again in September. A bit like Lent for vegans, it bans the eating of certain leaves, fruit and tubers as the gods take their rest. And all else being equal, India's summer vacation from bullion also helps to cap gold prices worldwide.
On a monthly basis, over the last 45 years, the Dollar gold price rose 2.2% annualized between June and September on average. The annualized rise between September and May was 14.8%. Sure, Western fund managers following the "Sell in May" motto also helps flatten the action. But internal to gold's supply and demand balance, Chaturmas removes the No.1 consumers.
From the Gregorian calendar, however, Chaturmas is a moveable marriage ban. And all told in 2013, Hindu observance allows nearly 25% more wedding days than it did in 2012 according to this chart from Kotak Mahindra Bank's Shekhar Bhandari, speaking last year at the LBMA conference in Hong Kong. The summer lull in Asian demand is delayed, in short, and wedding gift-giving will start again sooner. And failing to curb demand so far in 2013, India's government hasn't even managed to beat a rise in supply, thanks both to people's continued love (and need) for hard asset savings (Indian households have seen gold rise vs. Rupees in 30 of the last 39 years), and more recently to spring 2013's global gold discounts.
All this is cold comfort, of course, to Western investors and savers watching gold prices plunge once more this week. Yes, Asian savers have hoovered up much of the gold sold from ETF trust funds, but the acceleration of gold's eastwards drift hasn't done enough to prevent a slump in prices. And it's that slump itself which really sparked the surge in Indian and Far Eastern demand. Still, thanks to these bargains, Asia is on track for record quarterly buying according to Marcus Grubb of the World Gold Council. Perhaps some 400 tonnes of gold will be sucked into India alone between April and June - "almost half of the total imports in the whole of 2012." And with Swiss refineries only now catching up with demand, that has led to record highs in the local premiums for 1-kilogram gold bars, over and above the international spot price for wholesale 400-ounce bars (12.5kg), in the Asian centers of Hong Kong, Singapore and Mumbai.
Again, it's important to note that - for now - this surge has come from price-wise consumers. First Indian dealers and households stocked up ahead of New Delhi's clearly flagged action against the drain on foreign currency holdings which imports require. Second, the price slump of mid-April (and now mid-June) has unleashed pent up demand which did not exist north of $1500 per ounce. Any bargain hunting this month might well prove to be consumption brought forward as well. Only once Chaturmas ends can we gauge the strength of India's peak demand for 2013, as Diwali draws near. Two months later, Chinese wholesalers will start getting ready for the Lunar New Year gold shopping spree. Between them, Indian and Chinese consumers now buy one gold ounce in every two sold worldwide. But the first faces 8% import duty, plus 4% sales tax, and smugglers will struggle to match the record levels of legal flows. China meantime faces a banking crisis all of its own. And no one can yet say how gold-loving households will act when the credit and economic growth of the last 20 years takes a pause, nevermind a dive.
Still, looking ahead, and with Western investors continuing to sell, "Gold [has been] passing from the clearly 'shaky' hands of [ETF trust fund] investors into 'strong' hands," reckons Commerzbank - "a trend that should lend support to the gold price in the medium to long term." And beyond there, don't miss where long-term economic power - and gold - is heading worldwide. If you fear a decline of the West, relative to fast-rising Asia, it makes sense to buy at least a little of their first choice for household savings. Not least at today's knock-down prices.


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Firstly - if women are experiencing depression or mood disorders for whatever reason and want those around them to know - they can tell them (y'know what with us being sentient adult beings and all that...). One would hope they would be treated with sympathy and support.
On a larger scale though - for centuries women have been told that their femininity renders them inferior. We've been assigned everything from "the vapors" and "consumption" to the insistence that we have "feeble minds" and claims that periods render us everything from "unclean" to "incapable of making sushi"(seriously - this is why in Japan sushi chefs are almost all male!).
All of these theories have emerged to be completely false and the notion that women are less capable of managing their emotions during certain times of the month seem likely to hold just as little water. Note that these wristbands have not actually been invented - because a wristband absolutely 100% could never tell what stage a woman's menstrual cycle is at. The suggestion by the company that has raised the idea is that it would respond to subtle temperature changes but fertility testing kits which work based on body temperature take that temperature orally or rectally so you would literally have to stuff your wristband up your arse!!
Instead this story just serves to continue to promote the idea that women's menstrual cycles are the source of some problem and that men need "warning" about the stage of the cycle a woman is in (not mentioning that she may be pre-pubescent, post-menopausal, pregnant, suffering amenorrhea, trans-gendered or for any number of medical reasons, not having periods). Two women a week are murdered in this country by their male partners. Perhaps men should wear wristbands that read "I'm a man, I might attack you"...**
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"Eco-tug" reduces nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions by nearly half
Seattle, March 2, 2007 – Foss Maritime Company announced that it plans to build the world's first true hybrid tug boat, a "green" vessel that will significantly reduce harmful nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, sulphur dioxide and carbon emissions. It will also consume less fuel and be quieter than its conventional predecessors.
Officials of the Seattle-based marine services company, which specializes in worldwide marine transportation and logistics, say the project must still gain final board approval.
But the decision to move forward with the hybrid tug got a boost earlier this week as the Port of Los Angeles pledged $850,000 to the project, in association with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners preliminarily approved a $500,000 contribution to the vessel's construction.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach , the nation's no. 1 and no. 2 container ports, have expressed interest in funding Foss' innovative hybrid tug as part of their San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan, a sweeping proposal aimed at significantly reducing the health risks posed by air pollution from port-related ships, trains, trucks, terminal equipment and harbor craft.
In exchange for funding, Foss would agree to homeport the new hybrid tug in Southern California for five years.
"Foss is proud to be working with the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on such an important project as the hybrid tug," said Gary C. Faber, president and COO of Foss. "This is just the latest example of how Foss sits at the leading edge of maritime technology, engineering and shipbuilding. As a company, we're committed to maintaining our natural environment. Foss anticipates there will be a growing market for our 'green' tugs in the years to come."
The Foss hybrid tug is scheduled to go into production later this year and will be delivered to Foss' Southern California operations in 2008. It is a new-build project, a continuation of the Dolphin-class tug boat series built at Foss' Rainier, Oregon shipyard.
The Foss hybrid tug will look almost identical to its sister Dolphin-class tug boats, but will be quieter, cleaner and more fuel efficient, using proven hybrid technology. The hybrid tug's drive units will be powered by batteries coupled with diesel generators and feature a modified engine room accommodating two 670 horsepower battery packs and two 335 horsepower generators. Although the main engines in the hybrid tug will have lower horsepower than the existing Dolphin engines, overall the tug will have the same total horsepower as its sister tugs.
The 5,000 horsepower Foss hybrid tug will be primarily used for harbor assist services—moving vessels such as tankers and container ships in and out of the harbor and into their berths.
"This is exactly what the Clean Air Action Plan was intended to do – challenge companies operating in the ports to come up with better, cleaner ways of doing business. And Foss has come up with a great plan that benefits all of us," said Geraldine Knatz Ph.D. executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.
There are many environmental and health-related benefits to building a hybrid tug, including:
- Reduced Emissions. The hybrid tug will reduce all emissions (nitrogen oxide, particulate emissions, sulphur dioxide and carbon emissions) due to design efficiencies and lower fuel consumption. Initial estimates show a 44 percent reduction in PM and NOx emissions for the same duty as the current Dolphin tugs in Los Angeles/Long Beach.
- Lower Fuel Consumption. The hybrid tug design minimizes fuel consumption by using a power management system to match the required power to the most efficient combination of batteries, generators and main engines for that particular power level. For example, instead of idling the main engines while in standby mode when alongside a customer vessel awaiting orders from the pilot, the hybrid tug will run on battery power with the main engines shut down. The lower fuel consumption results in reductions of carbon emissions, a contributor to greenhouse gas, as well as sulfur emissions.
- Noise Reduction. Overall, the hybrid tug will be much quieter than traditional tugs, running on battery power in standby mode and only bringing the generators and main engines online when higher power is required. This will reduce noise exposure, protecting crews from hearing loss and reducing noise pollution.
"The introduction of the hybrid tug reflects our company-wide commitment to safety and safeguarding the environment. We wanted to make a proactive move to introduce technology into the market that would reduce air emissions and help protect the health and safety of our employees and the communities in which we operate," said Susan Hayman, Foss' Vice President of Health, Safety, Quality and Environment.
The hybrid tug will be introduced in the Los Angeles/Long Beach market, as hybrid tug technology is best suited for harbor tugs that need high amounts of power for short periods of time. While performing tug assist jobs in this Californian harbor, tug boats spend little time at peak RPM, rarely utilizing each tug's full horsepower. Tugs at the Los Angeles/Long Beach spend up to 50 percent of their time idling, with the main engines on and ready to respond, but with no power actually being used for propulsion. With Foss' hybrid tug, energy is produced only on demand, so that idling of the main engines will no longer be necessary.
The hybrid tug design will make it adaptable for retrofit of existing harbor tugs. The flexible design of the tug also has the ability to take advantage of emerging technologies such as improved battery and fuel advances. This tug could also take advantage of cleaner, less expensive shore power to charge the batteries.


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