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PTSD can't be eradicated, but it can be mitigated. We are fighting a war in the U.S. If our soldiers come back with PTSD, then the citizens also are dealing with PTSD. It's as simple as that and Americans should no longer put their heads in the sand and pretend that they are not being impacted by the war abroad. It is here and we feel it as our soldiers and wounded warriors return home and attempt to deal.
For those with PTSD, sometimes it seems hopeless and worthless to even try to get to the next day. There is always hope and despite what it "seems," many people care. Do not believe those lies the mind sometimes screams out about aloneness and loneliness. If you reach out there is always help and you will find those who will listen. First, you have God. Second, you have yourself. If you don't believe in God, that's OK. You have a wonderful person, yourself. Third, there is a tremendous network of helpers. They are listed in my previous blog post about PTSD.
One of the listings was the Omega Institute. Check out this press release about an upcoming conference that is going to make a difference in the lives of all who attend it. Hope you can make it or send someone there to hear the speakers. If this conference doesn't fit into your schedule, check their website. They will have other offerings.
The following PRESS RELEASE is from Chrissa J. Pullicino, Public Relations Manager for Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - October 8, 2013
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Reaches Epidemic Levels Among Veterans
Omega Offers Alternative Treatment Options for Health-Care Professionals
RHINEBECK, NY – According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 20 percent of Iraqi War veterans, and 11 percent of those returning from the war in Afghanistan, suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Mental health issues among service members have reached a crisis level. The Department of Defense and the Veterans Administration have recognized the gravity of this epidemic and are now actively supporting mind-body modalities, from yoga to mindfulness practice, as a complement to traditional drug and talk therapies for veterans.
"The number of veterans suffering from PTSD is alarmingly high, and growing on a daily basis. Suicide, homelessness, drug use, and spousal abuse are just a few of the ways that PTSD affects veterans and their loved ones. For more than 20 years, Omega has provided programs to support the healing of veterans and affected family members," said Carla Goldstein, chief external affairs officer. "Our Veterans, Trauma & Treatment conference helps provide new tools for treatment so more veterans can experience healing."
Veterans, Trauma & Treatment is an unprecedented gathering of experts in resiliency, trauma, and the treatment of trauma for veterans using complementary and alternative medicine. Health-care professionals, psychologists, social workers, caregivers, and counselors working with veterans suffering with PTSD and their families are welcome.
The Veterans, Trauma & Treatment conference begins on Friday, October 18 at 8:00 p.m., with an opening keynote by Tracy Gaudet, director of the Department of Veterans Affairs' Office of Patient-Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, followed by a keynote from Dr. Peter Levine, whose international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into twenty-two languages. Throughout the weekend, conference participants will explore the best ways to use mind-body modalities to treat veterans who suffer with trauma.
In addition to hearing keynote talks from ten expert presenters, participants can choose from a variety of workshops, including mindfulness-based stress reduction, adaptive yoga for traumatically injured service members, the Social Resilience Model for healing communities with trauma, and attachment-based family interventions. Each workshop and keynote presentation has distinct learning objectives for the participants. The conference will end with a keynote address by Col. Richard R. Petri, MD, the chief of Physical Medicine and Integrative Health Services at William Beaumont Army Medical Center at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Omega welcomes anyone who seeks professional information on the mind-body modalities that the military is currently exploring. Continuing education credits are available.
For more details or to register, please visit eOmega.org or call 800.944.1001.
A limited number of media passes are available. Photography restrictions may apply. To apply for a media pass, visit eOmega.org/press.
About Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Founded in 1977, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies is the nation's most trusted source for wellness and personal growth. As a nonprofit organization, Omega offers diverse and innovative educational experiences that inspire an integrated approach to personal and social change. Located on 200 acres in the beautiful Hudson Valley, Omega welcomes more than 23,000 people to its workshops, conferences, and retreats in Rhinebeck, New York, and at exceptional locations around the world. eOmega.org
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WASHINGTON, Mar 5 2014 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama released a 3.9-trillion-dollar budget proposal for the coming fiscal year, shaping an ideological battle over the role of government in reducing poverty that will likely define the coming election year.
In addition to conventional support for the economically vulnerable, such as extending unemployment insurance, Obama's proposal, released Tuesday, seeks to expand tax credits for moderate- and low-income earners while replacing any revenue losses by closing tax loopholes on high-income earners.
"At a time when our deficits are falling at the fastest rate in 60 years," Obama said, "we've got to decide if we're going to keep squeezing the middle class, or if we're going to continue to reduce the deficits responsibly, while taking steps to grow and strengthen the middle class."
With a very conservative, Republican-dominated House of Representatives, it is unlikely that Congress will cooperate with the White House's proposal. Indeed, Obama's proposal is all the more striking in just how diametrically opposed it is to a recent Republican report on U.S. anti-poverty efforts, itself released on Monday.
As the 2014 election approaches, conservatives seem determined to reemphasise their opposition to welfare programmes. On Monday, Paul Ryan, a member of the House of Representatives and the Republicans' lead budget expert, released a report criticising social safety net programmes stemming from the "War on Poverty," a 1960s-era initiative designed to combat the effects of poverty.
Ryan suggests that key War on Poverty programmes have had the perverse impact of keeping poor people poor.
"The president's budget is yet another disappointment, because it reinforces the status quo," Ryan, the party's vice-presidential candidate in 2012, said Tuesday. "It would demand that families pay more so Washington can spend more."
Ryan also accused Obama of proposing a 1.8-trillion-dollar tax increase.
The White House says the budget calls for ending "inefficient and unfair tax breaks that benefit the wealthiest". During his speech Tuesday, Obama supported "closing tax loopholes that right now only benefit the well-off and the well-connected."
Obama's budget does seek to expand certain tax credits, such as the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), both of which give low-income workers a greater return on their tax refunds.
Under the proposal, the EITC's maximum refund for childless workers would double to 1,000 dollars. The credit would also become available to young workers between the ages of 21 and 24 as well as older workers up to the full retirement age.
The proposal seeks to balance this expansion of the EITC by closing "tax loopholes" for high-income earners. As in previous years, the proposal also stipulates that millionaires must not pay less than 30 percent of their income, in order to prevent them from taking advantage of tax preferences that have allowed some high-income earners to pay less in taxes than middle-class workers.
While Ryan and fiscal conservatives have voiced their support for the EITC in the past, some conservative analysts are arguing against Obama's proposal to make the EITC more accessible to younger workers and workers without children.
"[The EITC] is an effective measure that has encouraged work," Rachel Sheffield, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, told IPS.
"What the president is proposing is expanding the EITC to individuals who don't have children, so single adults, and that's problematic because it's likely … to have marriage penalties. It would potentially reward fathers who don't marry or support their children. When the person marries the subsidy would be eliminated."
Sheffield considers an expansion of the EITC equivalent to expanding welfare programmes, long a target of conservative ire.
"It's simply adding to our massive welfare programme that federally funds 80 means-tested welfare programmes at a cost that's nearing one trillion [dollars] a year," she said.
How to measure poverty
The proposals from both President Obama and Paul Ryan state that they have the best interests of the poor at heart. But on Tuesday, Democrats struck back at Ryan's budget, suggesting that years' worth of proposals from the Republicans would have negatively impacted poor communities.
"For several years now, Chairman Ryan has proposed annual budgets that would deeply cut programmes for the poor," Sharon Parrott, a vice-president at the Centre on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank, wrote Tuesday. "The Ryan budgets have consistently secured between 60 and 67 percent of their budget cuts from programmes for low- or moderate-income people."
Ryan's report argues that under the War on Poverty, the poverty rate in the United States has only decreased by 2.3 percent. But Parrot argues that Ryan misrepresents important statistics regarding poverty reduction.
Parrot contends that because the report relies on the official measure of poverty, rather than a calculation known as the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), it ignores the role of certain social safety net programmes in fighting poverty, including the EITC, the Child Tax Credit and various low-income housing assistance programmes.
Under the SPM, the rate of poverty has fallen by 10 percent since 1967, rather than 2.3 percent.
"Ryan buries this fact, failing to note the deep reductions in poverty under the SPM since the 1960s until page 201 of his report," Parrot wrote.
Nonetheless, conservative analysts warn that the SPM has its own set of problems.
"The traditional poverty measure gauges how much people can buy, whereas the SPM turns the poverty measure into a relative poverty measure – how much a person can buy compared to their neighbour," Sheffield told IPS.
"By making it a relative poverty measure, even if the incomes of all Americans tripled over night, you'd still have poverty with this measure. The official poverty measure is a good measure of self-sufficiency, such as how many individuals are relying on government assistance."
Meanwhile, economists cited by Ryan's report have been claiming that their findings have been misconstrued.
For instance, the Columbia Population Resource Center's Jane Waldfogel notes that Ryan only used the group's data starting from 1969. In ignoring data between 1967 and 1969, she says, Ryan ignored 36 percent of the decline in poverty.
Likewise, Barbara Wolfe, an economist at the University of Wisconsin, says the report outright misstated her research on housing assistance and labour outcomes, while ignoring another of her studies that found that "the housing programme has more benefits than costs".
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BUCHAREST, Romania, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Romania views the Nabucco gas pipeline a priority but hasn't taken a formal stance against the alternate South Stream project, the country's president said.
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Romania supported European energy policies and viewed the proposed Nabucco natural gas pipeline as a priority.
"But we will never be against the South Stream project," he told Voice of Russia. "And when we received an offer from Russia to make the first exploration tests in Romania's economic zone, our answer was positive."
Nabucco West, a scaled-down version of an original concept, is part of the Southern Corridor network of transit projects meant to break Russia's grip on the regional natural gas sector. The planned 807-mile pipeline through Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria has an 813 billion cubic feet design capacity.
South Stream is Russian energy company Gazprom's alternative to the project and would follow a similar route.
"We preserve our wish to remain Gazprom's partner," Basescu said.
Basescu survived an impeachment effort last month.


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By Jadon Frank
Briercrest basketball hosts Red Deer College Feb. 1-2 to begin the final two weekend homestand of the 2012-13 regular season, hockey hosts Concordia and volleyball travels to Red Deer. For timely information on all Briercrest teams be sure to "like" Briercrest Athletics on facebook.
Briercrest basketball begins the final homestand of the ACAC season with a two weekend, four game run as the playoffs approach.
After a weekend sweep over SAIT, coupled with a Sheridan Bruins loss in the OCAA, Briercrest men's basketball find themselves at the top of the CCAA rankings and the ACAC standings with a 13-1 record. Red Deer College, currently sitting second in the ACAC with a record of 12-2 and a CCAA ranking of third, will pose the greatest test to the the Briercrest team this season.
After two tough weekends against the two top ranked teams in the ACAC South Briercrest women's basketball will be looking forward to facing a Red Deer team that is just above them in the ACAC standings. With a 2-12 record Briercrest is in fifth place in the ACAC South right behind 4-10 Red Deer.
All games will be played at the Margaret P. Reimer Memorial Gymnasium in Caronport. The women will hit the floor at 6:00 pm on Friday and 1:00 pm on Saturday, while the men will follow at 8:00 pm and 3:00 pm. Games will also be broadcast online at http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/briercrest-clippers. Also, be sure to "like" Briercrest Basketball for photos and updates.
After obtaining their first win of the season last time they were home, Briercrest looks to put more points on the board against fifth place Concordia Feb 1-2.
Briercrest will be looking to continue their momentum and get their first road win of the season.
Game times are 7:30 pm on Friday and 2:00 pm Saturday. Both games will be played at the Barkman Arena. Games will also be broadcast online at http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/briercrest-clippers-hockey. Also, be sure to "like" Briercrest Hockey for photos and updates.
Coming off of an exciting weekend where the Briercrest volleyball teams won three of four games against strong SAIT teams, the competition stays intense as they travel to Red Deer to play the top ranked team in the ACAC for both men and women.
After an emotional weekend split with SAIT the Briercrest men's volleyball team (12-2) faces arguably the stiffest challenge of the ACAC regular season by traveling to CCAA third ranked Red Deer College. Coming off their first loss of the ACAC season Red Deer (13-1) is ranked number one in the ACAC standings, one win ahead of second place Briercrest. Briercrest moved up five spots to a season best sixth rank in the CCAA.
The women are in a tight playoff race, and this weekend will be another strong test on their way to the playoffs as they face an ACAC first place and CCAA fifth ranked Red Deer College squad that is on a 14 game winning streak, with their only losses coming the first weekend of the ACAC season. Briercrest (8-8) is currently in riding a 5-1 record since Christmas and are in ninth place in the ACAC, only two wins outside of fourth place and two wins up on tenth place. The top six teams get a bye to the ACAC Championship, so a strong weekend can bring that dream a little bit closer to reality for the women.
Follow the games online at http://www.sportscanada.tv/index.php/ccaatv/acactv. Also, be sure to "like" Briercrest Volleyball for photos and updates.


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This certificate prevents your council from taking the following actions from the date of issue of the certificate:
A building is a temporary or permanent structure (not including manufactured homes, moveable dwellings or associated structures). This certificate may apply to a part of or the whole of a structure.
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One of the most appreciated conveniences of Isuzu vehicles is their impressive towing ability. With the proper equipment on your Isuzu vehicle, you've got built-in towing power useful for a multitude of activities -- from taking the camper to the lake for the weekend to hauling your brother's old jalopy around the corner.
To get the most benefit from your towing ability, get acquainted with the towing precautions and general tips highlighted here and explained in detail in your Isuzu owner's manual.
Don't enter the Paris-Dakar Rally while towing.
Additional care and cautious driving are essential when trailer towing. A vehicle will handle and respond differently while towing a trailer. Do not exceed the posted towing speed limit; higher speeds may cause loss of control.
Do ask the elephant to ride separately.
When towing a trailer, a gross trailer weight must be observed. This weight varies per Isuzu vehicle, so check your owner's manual to locate the maximum weight for your model.
Avoid buying towing equipment from the local garage sale or the "Any Car Auto Mart."
For your safety and the safety of others, use equipment specifically designed for your vehicle. Improper towing equipment and improper installation of such equipment can cause damage to your vehicle and may also result in personal injury. Your local Isuzu dealer can outfit you with the correct towing gear.
Do remember to make a few extra dates with your local Isuzu dealer.
Due to the extra load of a trailer, more frequent maintenance intervals will be required to ensure continued satisfaction with your vehicle. Consult your dealer for recommended maintenance and service.
Put a little light in your (trailer's) life.
Make sure the trailer you are towing is equipped with lights that conform to federal, state and local regulations. Only use equipment designed for your vehicle.
Do make sure your trailer ends up where you end up.
Always use a suitable safety chain between your vehicle and the trailer. Safety chains are used to retain connection between your vehicle and towed vehicle in the event the hitch disengages. For proper use and installation, consult your trailer manufacturer.
Don't overinflate yourself.
Always check the condition of your vehicle and trailer tires before operation. If they are worn or damaged, replace them. Inflate tire pressure to the recommended cold tire pressure indicated in the tire manufacturer's warranty booklet in the glove box packet. Underinflated tires get very hot and can lead to tire failure and possible loss of vehicle control. Overinflated tires can cause uneven tire wear.
Give your lift a brake.
Trailers with a total weight of 1000 pounds or more require trailer brakes that conform to federal, state and local regulations. Never connect a trailer braking system to your vehicle braking system. Braking efficiency and operation will be seriously affected.


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Handling Specialty custom engineered and designed a scissor lift that integrated into an automotive marriage station. This lift was designed for a well-known automotive assembly line integrator and was ultimately installed in a North American automotive assembly plant.
As the lift lowers, a slide on the lift indexes out approximately five (5) feet. A shot-pin system then locks the platform top to the base enabling the slide to cantilever and pick up a vehicle axle. The slide indexes in with the load over the center line of the lift, thus causing the shot pins to disengage. Rising approximately 10", springs on the lift begin to compress, and the axle is fixed into the vehicle.
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Sir Syed University Of engineering And Tech.
7th Semister Electronics Engineering
This is a programmable clock timer circuit that uses individual LEDs to indicate hours and minutes. 12 LEDs can be arranged in a circle to represent the 12 hours of a clock face and an additional 12 LEDs can be arranged in an outer circle to indicate 5 minute intervals within the hour. 4 additional LEDs are used to indicate 1 to 4 minutes of time within each 5 minute interval.
The circuit is powered from a small 12.6 volt center tapped line transformer and the 60 cycle line frequency is used for the time base. The transformer is connected in a full wave, center tapped configuration which produces about 8.5 volts unregulated DC. A 47 ohm resistor and 5.1 volt, 1 watt zener regulate the supply for the 74HCT circuits.
A 14 stage 74HCT4020 binary counter and two NAND gates are used to divide the line frequency by 3600 producing a one minute pulse which is used to reset the counter and advance the 4017 decade counter. The decade counter counts the minutes from 0 to 4 and resets on the fifth count or every 5 minutes which advances one section of a dual 4 bit binary counter (74HCT393). The 4 bits of this counter are then decoded into one of 12 outputs by two 74HCT138 (3 line to 8 line) decoder circuits. The most significant bit is used in conjunction with an inverter to select the appropriate decoder. During the first eight counts, the low state of the MSB is inverted to supply a high level to enable the decoder that drives the first 8 LEDs. During counts 9 to 12, the MSB will be high and will select the decoder that drives the remaining 4 LEDs while disabling the other decoder. The decoded outputs are low when selected and the 12 LEDs are connected common anode with a 330 ohm current limiting resistor to the +5 volt supply.
The 5th output of the second decoder (pin 11) is used to reset the binary counter so that it counts to 11 and then resets to zero on the 12th count. A high reset level is required for the 393 counters, so the low output from the last decoder stage (pin 11) is inverted with one section of a 74HCT14 hex Schmitt trigger inverter circuit. A 10K resistor and 0.1uF cap are used to extend the reset time, ensuring the counter receives a reset signal which is much longer than the minimum time required. The reset signal is also connected to the clock input (pin 13) of the second 4 bit counter (1/2 74HCT393) which advances the hour LEDs and resets on the 12th hour in a similar manner.
Setting the correct time is accomplished with two manual push buttons which feed the Q4 stage (pin 7) of the 4020 counter to the minute and hour reset circuits which advance the counters at 3.75 counts per second. A slower rate can be obtained by using the Q5 or Q6 stages. For test purposes, you can use Q1 (pin 9) which will advance the minutes at 30 per second.
The time interval circuit (shown below the clock) consists of a SET/RESET flipflop made from the two remaining NAND gates (74HCT00). The desired time interval is programmed by connecting the anodes of the six diodes labeled start, stop and AM/PM to the appropriate decoder outputs. For example, to turn the relay on at 7:05AM and turn it off at 8:05AM, you would connect one of the diodes from the start section to the cathode of the LED that represents 7 hours, the second diode to the LED cathode that represents 5 minutes and the third diode to the AM line of the CD4013. The stop time is programmed in the same manner.
Two additional push buttons are used to manually open and close the relay. The low start and stop signals at the common cathode connections are capacitively coupled to the NAND gates so that the manual push buttons can override the 5 minute time duration. That way, you can immediately reset the relay without waiting 5 minutes for the start signal to go away.
The two power supply rectifier diodes are 1N400X variety and the switching diodes are 1N914 or 4148s but any general purpose diodes can be used. 0.1 uF caps (not shown on schematic) may be needed near the power pins of each IC. All parts should be available from Radio Shack with the exception of the 74HCT4017 decade counter which I didn't see listed. You can use either 74HC or 74HCT parts, the only difference between the two is that the input switching levels of the HCT devices are compatible with worst case TTL logic outputs. The HC device inputs are set at 50% of Vcc, so they may not work when driven from marginal TTL logic outputs.
You can use a regular 4017 in place of the 74HCT4017 but the output current will much lower (less than 1 mA) and 4 additional transistors will be required to drive the LEDs. Without the buffer transistors, you can use a 10K resistor in place of the 330 and the LEDs will be visible, but very dim.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
A Cuppa to revive...
Hope you all had a great weekend. Ours was hectic but fun. Now I need a cup of this and the time to drink it peacefully.
I love Twinings Earl Grey and dip a teabag in my regular Indian Chai. Weird ??? But that is how I like it.
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Before coming to milan , I never heard of this name...but here in the office earl grey tea is supplied, with wierd flavors...but suddenly I have taken a liking for this ..the plain one and the lemmon one..there is a 4 fruit flavored one too..will not try certainly..
Let me see if this is available in india..
bhalo thekoLovely looking teacups. I am loving it. Actually for past few years, I am having Twinings Earl Grey Lemon tea. But, thanks to Twinings promotions in India we have a good stock of Earl Grey, English Breakfast and English Afternoon tea at home.
The latest addition is Twinings Green Tea Jasmine. It is extremely refreshing and relaxing after a strenuous day.
Thanks for this ode to the cup of such a divine liquid- AN ARDENT FAN OF TEA!April 06, 2010 4:22 AM
I just LOVE TEA.... & my hubby keeps scolding me for having sooo many cups of tea... but who cares... the ambience & your tea cups are exotic..that adds upto the flavour!
ReplyDelete I don't drink tea (or coffee for that matter) so don't mind me :)
Hubby is a tea freak - not in the snob-value-I-will-only-drink-dahjeeling-type (wouldnt know a Darjeeling from a Pekoe I think!) but the "can't be overboiled, can't have adrak-elaichi,can't have too much milk, can't be too sugary like kheer" type of freak. So I watch as he fusses over his morning tea and cribs about not being able to have good tea when he is travelling "even in the Taj" and roll my eyes ;)
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To many, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was anxious to get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russians will not come as a surprise. It is but the latest example of the take-no-prisoners, anything-goes politics of our day. Sure, soliciting help from a hostile foreign power is exceptional, and it is certainly true that the Trumps have taken "unconventional" politics to new heights. But how we do politics in the United States, the boundaries of acceptable behavior, has been shifting for two decades.
The real surprise — the part of the story that we should be gravely concerned about — is that this disclosure will not matter to a great many American voters. After thinking and writing about politics for two decades, I have come to the conclusion that the real issue we face is not the conduct of public officials or their surrogates, but how nefarious acts are now sanctioned, and even applauded, by so many on both sides of the partisan fence.
So what's changed in our politics?
Fear and loathing
For one, the nature of partisanship is different. Until about a decade ago, one's attachment to a party was centered around policy disputes or cues from groups and associations. But today's version is grounded in the fear and loathing of the other side. Trunkloads of data, much of it from the Pew Research Center, suggest each side sees the other party as crazy and certainly dangerous. So it does not matter what your side does so long as it keeps the nut jobs on the other side at bay.
A new volume by political scientists Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels further helps to fine-tune our understanding how people vote and which party they identify with. Their book, "Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government," suggests "issue congruence [between voters and parties], in so far as it exists, is mostly a byproduct of other connections, most of them lacking policy content." In other words, we don't think through issues, policies and candidate characteristics, but instead see elections as "us versus them." These scholars argue voters tie themselves with racial, ethnic, occupational, religious, recreational and other groups, with partisanship as the byproduct. Our group identity, not policy concerns or ideology, determines vote choice. That is to say, we gather comfortably with our tribe and tune out other points of view.
A central force propelling hostility toward the "other" party is the partisan media. Many such outlets have figured out a sustainable business model. Smaller audiences can be profitable, so long as they remain loyal. Loyalty springs from "crisis" and, of course, "menace." This leads to treating every issue as a true threat to our existence or a usurpation of fundamental "rights." The other party is always the villain, and your side can do no wrong — so long as it is for the grand struggle.
And then there is the online world. Voters rarely explore new ideas and perspectives, but share, like and retweet concordant ones. We fence in and we fence out. As recently noted by journalist and author Megan McArdle, "Social media, of course, makes this problem worse. Even if we are not deliberately blocking people who disagree with us, Facebook curates our feeds so that we get more of the stuff we 'like.' What do we 'like'? People and posts that agree with us."
Sorting and filtering
Is the filtering of information really a new development? It is not at all clear that voters have ever absorbed a broad range of information or shifted though competing evidence. It is likely party bosses, elected officials, candidates and even media elites have always been able to manipulate mass opinion to a degree. Cognitive time-saving cues, especially party identification, have always been used to sort and filter.
But something very different is happening today. In the recent past, news was more widely viewed as objective, leading to a high degree of accepted facts and authority. When the news media unraveled the story of Watergate, for example, citizens of all partisan stripes accepted it as fact. What scholars dubbed "short-term influences" could override partisan leanings.
Which leads us to "alternative facts," the aggressive spinning of policies and arguments regardless of contrary verifiable information. This may be a game-changer in our politics. The barrier for evidence has, it seems, evaporated, and emotion-rich information is used to draw more viewers, readers and listeners. If we add the continual drive for fresh "news" and the high costs of creating traditional journalism, we are left with little consensus or authority. New York Times blogger Farhad Manjoo put it this way: "We are roiled by preconceptions and biases, and we usually do what feels easiest — we gorge on information that confirms our ideas, and we shun what does not."
Finally, popular culture has also probably contributed to our growing indifference to nefarious acts. We pick our reality show contestant and applaud every backhanded, despicable move that gets him across the finish line. There can't be two winners or a collective good, only a sole survivor. Or shall we say that only one apprentice can get the job? And the best part of the show — the segment that really gets the producers juiced — is when things get truly ugly.
Democratic accountability
The latest Trump team revelation is a shocker, but even more stunning is the meager impact it will likely have on his supporters. As noted in a recent USA Today story, in Trump country the Russia disclosure is no big deal.
As voters, citizens are called to judge those in power. But there must be an objective standard for the assessment, which is why the framers of the Constitution put so much stock in a free press. The governed in a democracy must be willing and able to fairly judge the acts of the governors. But today "your side" has always done a good job and the "other" party has always failed. Any contrary revelation can be explained away as fake news.
The key ingredient in the democratic accountability process — objectivity — is disappearing, and the foundation of our limited government has been shaken. In Federalist #51 and elsewhere, James Madison wrote, "A dependence upon the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government . . ." Many are starting to wonder if Americans are up to the job — and whether the fate of the grand experiment is at risk.
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This collection represents the extant records of the AAU since its inception. Due to the decentralized nature of the organization in its early years, documentation of the early years is sparse. It is possible that the personal papers of the early AAU secretaries or the archives of their universities might have more of the early AAU records. The records (1900-82) consist of correspondence, membership files, committee minutes and reports, annual conference materials, and general...
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Mann et al 2009 reconstructs Atlantic tropical cyclone counts resulting in a curve that looks pretty much like every other Mannian curve. Atlantic tropical cyclone counts as a linear combination of reconstructed Atlantic SST in the east tropical Atlantic "main development region" (MDR), reconstructed El Nino and reconstructed North Atlantic Oscillation, using a formula developed in (3,16) - which surprisingly enough turn out to be articles by Mann himself (Mann and Sabatelli, 2007; Sabatelli and Mann 2007) previously discussed at Climate Audit here. This is summarized in the article as follows:
An independent estimate of past tropical cyclone activity was obtained using a statistical model for Atlantic tropical cyclone counts. This previously developed and validated 3,16 statistical model conditions annual Atlantic tropical cyclone counts on three key large-scale climate state variables tied to historical variations in Atlantic tropical cyclone counts: (1) the SST over the main development region (MDR) for tropical Atlantic tropical cyclones, which reflects the favourability of the local thermodynamic environment; (2) the El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which influences theamount of (unfavourable) vertical wind shear; and (3) the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), which affects the tracking of storms, determining how favourable an environment they encounter. The statistical model was driven by proxy-based reconstructions17,18 of these three state variables (Fig. 2), yielding a predicted history of Atlantic tropical cyclone counts for past centuries.One doesn't necessarily expect much clarification from Mannian methodology and this time Mann surpasses himself. Remarkably the Methods Summary is almost word-for-word the same as the article. It's actually a little less. Mann explains once again that they reconstructed hurricane counts by using reconstructions of the SST in the Atlantic Main Development Region, El Nino and the North Atlantic Oscillation, with the only new information being that they only used the North Atlantic Oscillation reconstruction over the past 500 years from Luterbacher (18), but it didn't matter. Mann again cites (3,16) Mann and Sabatelli; Sabatelli and Mann.
We used a statistical model of tropical cyclone counts as conditioned on3,16: the MDR SST, the ENSO (measured by the boreal winter Nino3 SST index), and the boreal winter NAO index The statistical model, which is trained on the modern historical record, has been shown in independent statistical validation experiments3,16 to resolve roughly 50% of the interannual and longer-term variations in Atlantic tropical cyclone counts. The model, in this study, was driven by decadally smoothed proxy reconstructions of the three required climate indices to yield predictions of tropical cyclone activity over past centuries. The MDR SST and Nino3 reconstructions were derived from proxy-based surface temperature patterns spanning the past 1,500 years17. Though an NAO reconstruction was available only for the past 500 years18, the NAO influence was found to be very minor (Supplementary Information).The Full Methods in the online version adds little additional information. Again we are told that they used a statistical reconstruction using Atlantic SST and El Nino from the enigmatic ref 17. Confidence intervals appear to be done using the recipes of Mann et al 2008 with lots of "decadally smoothed" series.
Statistical prediction of tropical cyclone counts using proxy reconstructions. Here the model was applied to decadally resolved reconstructions of MDR SST and Nino3 described by ref. 17 and the decadally smoothed winter NAO index of ref. 18. For the instrumental interval (1851 to present), standard errors due to uncertainties in the model coefficients were calculated from the residual decadal variance diagnosed from the validation residuals (standard errors were averaged for the early and late intervals of the split calibration/validation procedure). For the pre-1851 statistical model estimates, which are driven by reconstructed climate indices, there is an additional component of uncertainty due to the uncertainties in the climate indices themselves. This contribution was estimated by Monte Carlo simulations in which the statistical model was driven with an ensemble of 2000 randomly perturbed versions of the statistical predictors consistent with their estimated uncertainties17, and an additional random term due to the uncertainties in the model coefficients.The Supplementary Information sheds no light on the methodology or the proxies.
The Supplementary Information contained no data sets. The proxies used for the Mann et al submission are not even listed.
The edifice is built on the SST and Nino3 reconstructions, both of which are references to the enigmatic reference 17, which turns out to be an unpublished submission of Mann et al.
17. Mann, M. E. et al. Global signatures of the Little Ice Age and the medieval climate anomaly and plausible dynamical origins. Science (submitted).At the time that Nature published this article, there was precisely NO information available on what proxies were used in the reconstruction of Atlantic SST or El Nino or how these reconstructions were done. Did any of the Nature reviewers ask to see the other Mann submission? I doubt it. I wonder if it uses Graybill bristlecone pines.
UPDATE: Roger Pielke Jr observes below that Mann has provided a "grey" Supplementary Information at his website here holocene.meteo.psu.edu/~mann/Nature09/ , which commendably includes source code and data from the check-kited paper on i.e. we still don't know anything about the reconstruction proxies for Atlantic SST or El Nino. To my knowledge, there is no reference in the original article or Nature SI to the Supplementary SI at Mann's website; there is no link on Mann's website to the Supplementary SI and the directory hosting the Supplementary SI is not readable or searchable. Unless you know the precise name of the subdirectory, you can't there. Right now, I don't know how Roger found the Supplementary SI, but once located, the documentation looks at first glance to be very commendable.


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New York, March 11, 2010—An angry crowd of mourners attending a mass funeral in Dogo Nahawa, central Nigeria, assaulted state radio reporter Murtala Sani on Monday. Sani, a reporter for the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, was assigned to cover the funeral of more than 40 people killed during a bloody March 7 attack on four villages in central Nigeria.
Sani and other journalists told CPJ that the state governor's adviser on religious matters, Pastor Choji, demanded Sani hand over his identification card and told nearby men that the reporter was an ethnic Hausa-Fulani. One man struck Sani and enlisted the crowd to join in the assault. "He was inches from losing his life," said Wall Street Journal reporter Will Connors, who covered the funeral. "They wanted to kill him and throw his body in the mass grave with the others."
Police fired in the air to disperse the assailants and then took Sani to a military hospital in the nearby city of Jos, the journalist told CPJ. He was treated for multiple injuries to his head and body. He was moved to a secure location today, journalists said. Sani's car was destroyed and his equipment was stolen, they told CPJ.
Conflicts between Yoruba and Igbo Christians and Hausa-Fulani Muslims have occurred intermittently in central Nigeria for nearly a decade. Hundreds of Christians were killed on Sunday in four villages near Jos, Plateau state, in an attack seen as reprisal for a January assault on Muslims. Although the conflict has evident religious and ethnic dimensions, it is also centered on land, resources, and political posts, local journalists told CPJ.
"The terrible violence in central Nigeria needs in-depth local and international coverage," said CPJ Africa Program Coordinator
State Commissioner of Information Gregory Yenlong met Sani after the incident and pledged to cover his medical expenses. "[Sani] is a responsible, committed journalist. But he must take precautions in these tense times; he should ask for security coverage when covering these events."
The crowd at the funeral also accosted Agence France-Presse reporter Aminu Abdulla and demanded that he prove "that he was a Christian" by reciting the Lord's Prayer, the journalist told CPJ. Abdulla managed to escape with the help of other journalists but lost equipment that he had kept in Sani's car, he said.


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Workout of the Day
Back Squat 3, 3, 3+ @ 70, 80, 90% 1RM
Glute Ham Raise 10, 10, 10, 10
Plyo Pushup 15, 15, 15, 15
3 rounds for time
150 meter run
100 meter river swim
30 ring dips
50 air squats
I visited my friend Justin today at CrossFit East Sacramento excited to catch up on things since last summer. John and I headed over there in between classes at 11 and, I have to say, the place looked great. Justin has made some improvements, not the least cool of which were the eye bolts drilled into a couple of tractor tires. The guys run rope through them and run sprints dragging the tires plus extra weight behind. AMAZING idea. Can't wait to try it out.
The strength work went okay, but not great. Was hoping to get 5 repetitions @ 375 for my top set of squats but was only able to get 4. Only one more squat session before I taper for the games so I'm looking forward to bouncing back then.
In the afternoon John and I headed back up to Lake Natoma for a major outdoor challenge. The water up there is flowing out of the bottom of the Folsom Dam, making it extremely cold and fairly fast moving. Estimate water temperature was hovering around the mid 50's—NOT your childhood bathtub. Anyways, I loved this WOD because it really simulated something that you might have to be able to someday and I learned a lot. The first round I was amped up after the 30 foot cliff jump into the river that I barely felt the icey water. I freestyled through the current and made sizeable headway upstream before hitting the opposite bank and climbing up to the ring station. The second time around was a different story entirely. Now considerably more out of breath, freestyle was out of the question and breaststroke just wasn't getting it done. My lungs refused to expand in the cold water and my arms were getting heavier and heavier. I decided to ride the current down to a nearby rock and take a break. From there I side-stroked the rest of the way—much better plan. This enabled me to lengthen my body and get air to my lungs without going so slow as to be carried away by the river. I used this method on the final round as well to much success.
The dips, squats, running portion of the WOD were as expected, but the river proved much more difficult than anticipated. Huge learning experience that I'm grateful to have had. And… looking forward to doing it again soon, hopefully in warmer water. I attached a video of John and I doing this WOD below.