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Did you know that Dick Grayson's birthday is December 1st? Or at least it is in Young Justice issue 20 (2011 series). He reflects upon a time when a young Flash tells Zatanna about Grayson's birthday and so she rewards him with a peck on the cheek. Five years later we see him at age 19 as a full grown adult on his birthday again. He's at Mount Justice with the usual team members such as Batgirl, Wonder Girl, Beast Boy, Superboy, etc. But what about Zatanna? Did she remember about the birthday boy? Do Nightwing and Zatanna kiss?
Zatanna in this story is part of the Justice League. She and Rocket are supposed to be at the Watchtower but they come to visit Nightwing "on a mission". Zatanna then puts her hand on his neck and Nightwing and Zatanna kiss. A nice romantic one it seems, which comes with implications. The other members of the team cringe in awkwardness. Except for Batgirl, who gives a sly look of interest. Zatanna then wishes him a happy birthday into his ear, but Grayson is not satisfied just yet. he asks her to say it backwards to lock it in and she obliges. Rocket kisses him on the cheek and Zatanna can't help but to ask how he is able to stay friends with all his exes. He says that's his super-power.
If there is one thing to notice here, it's that Zatanna probably dated Nightwing. From the looks of it, Batgirl has taken a keen interest. We also now know that Grayson used to date Rocket. It appears that no woman can resist this guy. So what's the plot of Young Justice 20? Aliens infiltrating the Earth. Again. On the last page we see Brainiac. But you didn't care about that, did you? To check out all the action be sure to pick up (Affiliate Link) Young Justice 20. So what do you think about Nightwing and Zatanna kissing? Let me know in the comments.


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Thursday September 9, 2021
Today's Reading: Psalm 127
Unless the Lord builds a house, its builders labor over it in vain; unless the Lord watches over a city, the watchman stays alert in vain.
Psalm 127:1
Reflection: Men and women can toil with all of their best efforts around something, but unless the LORD brings it to fruition by His Will, their labor is in vain. This speaks to our own frailty as people. We may toil day and night, we may consume ourselves with how our actions affect outcomes, we may even try to rely completely on our own abilities. But this is all vanity when we neglect the LORD's influence over every situation: that He is sovereign over it. People can only build what will one day either turn to dust or become forgotten history. But the work that God accomplishes is everlasting. By His power, He builds what matters.
Why, then, do we work if the LORD is the One Who brings all lasting work to fruition? It is becuase He has commanded us to do so. Our God directs us to act and speak on His behalf, to spread His Gospel of Truth, and to labor for the sake of His Kingdom. But none of what we do for Him can be fruitful if we go forth into the world without Him. Even as we act in obedience to the LORD, we are completely dependent on His power to bear everlasting fruit.
Do not stop working as a servant of God! It is His desire for You to be a part of His plan on earth. But do not persevere for the cause of Christ in your own strength. All that you will do for Him will only be fruitful as you rely on His power and might. Stay strong in the LORD as you do the work that honors Him and He will make use of it for His glory.
Prayer: Almighty God, You are strong and powerful beyond compare. All the work on earth which glorifies You can be credited to Your strength and Your goodness. Thank You for Your grace to include us in Your Will. We know that You do not need any of us to accomplish it, but choose to bring us into Your work anyway. Please help me to honor You in all that You call me to do. Teach me to rely increasingly on Your power and might, that I would not act in my own strength but instead learn to rest in Your power. I pray all of these things in Jesus' Name, AMEN.
Bible-in-a-Year Reading Plan (credit: Bible, studytools.com): Titus 3; Jeremiah 17-18; Psalm 127

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Retail pods and refreshment vans could be introduced at Broughton Shopping Park
New retail pods and refreshments vans could be introduced at Broughton Shopping Park to improve the experience of visitors.
The temporary structures are planned to be used to house 'pop-up' shops as well as a places for shoppers to have their lunch.
Broughton Unit Trust, which runs the retail park on behalf of parent company British Land PLC, said the aim was to boost the existing services on offer for a period of up to five years.
In total the units would take up a space measuring close to a thousand square metres.
In planning documents submitted to Flintshire Council, the company said: "British Land Plc across all their assets, aim to create buildings and environments which offer the highest quality of design in both form and function with engaging architecture and a fully integrated public realm.
"The 'pop-up' retail pod initiative is a way of looking beyond individual buildings to think about the spaces around them.
"The units provide attractive places to rest or have lunch outside while people are shopping to create a greener, more pedestrian friendly environment.
"The general principle is to improve and enliven empty or underused spaces by creating variety and interesting structures with integrated landscaping, to make their retail centres look and feel more unique and distinctive."
The company said similar temporary units were already in existence in other parts of the retail park.
Officials added that many of the pods would be made from reused shipping containers, causing less harm to the environment than building more permanent shops.
Comments are currently being invited on the application via the Flintshire Council website.
The local authority is aiming to make a decision on the proposals by mid-September.
By Liam Randall – Local Democracy Reporter (more here).
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The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
"It's clear from Burns that the execution of foreign policy requires a deep understanding of geopolitical history, a grasp of complex policies, a long strategic view, and almost endless patience and restraint."
Diplomat Williams Burns' memoir, The Back Channel, is much like the author himself: thorough, measured, articulate, and, above all, diplomatic. Burns began his career in the foreign service during President Reagan's administration and retired as deputy secretary of state during President Obama's second term. He picked as his areas of specialty the world's trickiest locales: the Middle East and Russia.
Burns cut his teeth at the embassies in Jordan and Russia. His first ambassadorship took him back to Jordan, where he witnessed the last months of King Hussein's life and the shifting of power from the king's brother to his son, Prince Abdullah. Back in Washington, he worked as assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs under Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Burns clearly had the right stuff to advance quickly in the State Department. Interested in complex issues and patient with the process, he had an intellect and temperament that endeared him to bosses from Colin Powell to President Obama, who personally asked him to postpone retirement.
His book offers a policy-heavy, comprehensive look at the toughest challenges and biggest crises during his career, including the Iraq War, the Arab Spring, the attack on Benghazi, the Iran nuclear deal, and Russia's pivot to become a power player on the world stage.
Burns describes the momentum for the Iraq War as a runaway train. Led by Vice President Cheney, the core group at the top had made up their minds, and nothing would dissuade them—certainly not strongly worded memos, which was the Burns' primary contribution. Burns wishes his efforts to steer the administration away from the war option had been stronger, calling this his biggest regret.
A career triumph was the Iran nuclear deal, which actually did involve a back channel to the Iranians through a contact in Oman. Taking place in secret under the direction of President Obama, the deal involved intense, person-to-person negotiations over many months. It reads like a case study in a diplomacy textbook.
The most interesting anecdotes deal with Vladimir Putin, with whom Burns had regular occasion to meet during his time in Russia and in his capacity at the State Department. Although Putin's disdain for Hillary Clinton is now well known, Burns tells a story about a happier time at Putin's dacha with Clinton and himself.
During a somewhat contentious meeting, Clinton asked Putin about his efforts to protect Siberian tigers. The question animated the usually steely Putin, who walked them down to his office to show them maps of his conservation work with tigers and polar bears. He even invited Clinton and her husband on his next trip.
After graciously promising to mention the invitation to her husband, Clinton offered Burns a dry assessment afterward in the car. "She smiled and said that neither she nor the former president would be spending their summer vacation with Putin near the Arctic Circle."
Burns' front row seat at so many pivotal events in American foreign policy has an almost Forrest Gump quality. He was in the situation room when Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden, and he flew from Benghazi back to Washington with the remains of Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Unfortunately, his portrayal of events often lacks compelling details. In the case of the bin Laden mission, he fails to describe his colleagues' mood or reactions as they watched the drama unfold in the Situation Room. We learn only that Admiral Bill McCraven announced over the line, "E-KIA," enemy killed in action. Even in retirement, Burns apparently keeps his diplomatic cover, remaining the soul of discretion.
Of diplomacy, Burns writes, "It is among the oldest of professions but also the most misunderstood, and the most unsatisfying to describe." In some ways, the book bears out the unsatisfying part. However, it succeeds in conveying the art and science of statecraft in very real terms. The book is filled with excerpts from real memos, briefs, and emails Burns wrote to his superiors.
By the time Burns gets to President Trump, his opinions about the current president are foregone conclusions. Diplomacy is anathema to Trump. His administration lacks the sense of history, the good judgment, the strategy, or the patience to do the job.
It's clear from Burns that the execution of foreign policy requires a deep understanding of geopolitical history, a grasp of complex policies, a long strategic view, and almost endless patience and restraint. American diplomacy has taken hits from major missteps like the Iraq War and President Trump's gutting of the State Department. Whether an increasingly impatient America, fueled by real-time reporting and the 24-hour news cycle, can preserve our rich diplomatic tradition remains to be seen.


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Organic Vegetable Gardening Webinar with Wasatch Community Gardens
Gardening Season is almost here! We are partnering with Wasatch Community Gardens to offer an on-demand webinar. It's a two-hour class that you can watch on your own time. This class is designed to help get you started growing some vegetables, whether it's on a balcony or patio, in raised beds, or an in ground garden. We'll touch on the basics of soil, fertilizer, and crops, with a deep dive into how to start a new garden and which crops to plant when. We'll be taking a full-year perspective with an emphasis on succession planting, so that you'll come away with an understanding of how to grow food along the Wasatch Front 12 months a year.
Price is $17 with a 15% discount for the Junior League of Salt Lake City: ORGGARD15
This code is valid through 4/30/2021. You can view the webinar any time after purchase.
When moving through the registration form, simply enter the discount code where noted in the "Event Fees" section. Then click "Apply." Immediately underneath, there is a section titled "Workshop Fee," and participants should choose "Individual" rather than "Community Gardener".


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Author Shanita Allen Releases New Childrens Picture Book – What is a Dream?
Author Shanita Allen is pleased to announce the release of her new childrens book, What is a Dream? This is the second book in her Let's Go Dreaming book series. Book one, Sleep, Tiny Dreamer (ISBN: 978-1733373906) was released in September 2019.
Have you ever wondered just what exactly is a dream? What do dreams sound like? What do dreams feel like? How are dreams created? Well, this adorable bedtime story explains it all!
Join Little Ari and her talking dog, Pepper, as she reveals a magical formula for creating a dream and explains what dreams are, through the use of the 5 senses. This whimsical bedtime story will certainly ensure that your little one has the sweetest of dreams.
"What Is A Dream?" is a bedtime story for toddlers and young children ages 4-8. Your child will be sleeping peacefully after reading this, while venturing into the world of dreams. "What is a Dream?" is the second book in the Let's Go Dreaming series, written by author Shanita Allen.
What is a Dream? is available for purchase in print and ebook formats.
Book Details:
What is a Dream?
Let's Go Dreaming, Book 2
By Shanita Allen
Publisher: Infinity Plus Publishing
Published: June 2020
ISBN: 978-1733373951 (print)
ISBN: 978-1393628880 (ebook)
Pages: 30
Genre: Children's Book
About the Author:
Shanita Allen is the author of the Let's Go Dreaming children's book series, which inspires young minds to dream big and allows readers to see the world through the eyes of Little Ari and her talking dog, Pepper. The Let's Go Dreaming series is a collection of 9 books that teach lessons about acceptance, diversity, friendship, special needs, and bullying.
Shanita is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with a Master of Science degree in Applied Behavior Analysis from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Florida State University. She has 17 years of experience serving individuals with Developmental Disabilities.
Shanita is a native Floridian and loves to travel. She has visited several countries around the world including China, Spain, and Denmark. One of her books, Let's Go Dreaming: Journey to Paris, was inspired by her trip to France.
Website: http://www.letsgodreaming.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/letsgodreaming1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/letsgodreaming11
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/letsgodreaming11
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What is Local Story?
Local Story gives a snapshot from Wakefield communities to the response of the Coronavirus Pandemic and explores ideas for a greener future
Local Story started in March 2020 just as the UK went into Lockdown and has been gathering stories and insight into Wakefield's response to the crisis.
An interactive map of the District captures the effort of some organisations and groups who have actively responded to community need. Positive stories of resilience in how people are dealing with the challenges they have had to face include coordinated community action, people learning new skills and new finding new ways of working.
Local Story is exploring ideas for how local communities and people can address important issues around climate change, encouraging a greener more environmentally friendly way of life, and how the environment can help peoples physical and mental health.
Local Story is developed and run by arts organisation One to One Development Trust as the Director of Public Health Anna Hartley Annual Report 2020.
We would like to thank all the participants and organisations who have shared their stories and contributed to this important archive of Wakefield District during Covid-19.


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On 2nd February 2021, India and Nepal jointly inaugurated the newly constructed 108 kilometer road which connects the Indo-Nepal border with several areas of Himalayan Country. Nitesh Kumar, Consul General of the Consulate General of India, Birgunj and Binod Kumar Mauwar, division chief of Department of Roads, Chandranigahpur jointly inaugurated the road.
- The construction of the road was considered as a high impact community development project under the agreement between the Government of India and Nepal.
- The Government of India grant under 'Nepal-Bharat Development Cooperation' was utilized for construction of Blacktopped Road. It has two packages viz. Package –I of 4.46 Kms from Indian Border-Laxmipur-Balara-Mirzapur and Package – II of 1.62 Kms from Mirzapur to Gadahiya Road/Hulaki Road.
About the road:
i.The blacktopped road connecting India and Nepal was constructed with the Indian Grant assistance of NR.44.48 Million (~Rs.2,79,89,740).
ii.The road connects the Indian border Laxmipur-Balarawith to Gadhaiya in Sarlahi District Nepal.
To Improve daily Connectivity at Border.
Additional Info:
i.Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated an 80 km long road connecting the Lipulekh pass with Dharchula in Uttarakhand on May 8 2020.
ii.Nepal claimed that the road passes through the territories of Nepal where India rejected the claim and asserted that the road is within Indian territory.
Recent Related News:
On 12th November, 2020, India and Nepal launched the construction of 3rd Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Nepalgunj, Nepal which will bring customs and immigration facilities under one roof to smoothen cross-border movement of cargo trucks. The Portion on Indian side will be built at Rupaidiha (Uttar Pradesh).
About Nepal:
Prime Minister– K. P. Sharma Oli
Capital– Kathmandu
Currency-Nepalese Rupee (NPR)


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Climate and Biota of the Nez Perce Reservation
The climate in the Clearwater Plateau is arid to semi-arid with hot dry summers and moderately cold winters. Winters are dominated by cool air masses from the Gulf of Alaska and summers by a stationary high-pressure zone over the Pacific Northwest coast. Temperature and precipitation vary significantly across the plateau due to differences in elevation and topography. Average annual precipitation, based on precipitation records from the years 1971 through 2000, ranges from just less than 13 inches in the Lewiston area to more than 50 inches along the Mount Idaho Escarpment south of the City of Grangeville. On the Plateau, the average annual precipitation is approximately 24 inches, with almost one-half the precipitation occurring during March through June. The 30-year average (1971-2000) annual temperature for the Lewiston area is 52.7°F. By comparison, the 30-year average annual temperature for Grangeville is 46.7° F (Haggen, IDWR 2000-2002).
To further investigate the climate of the Nez Perce reservation, follow the links below.
Resources about the Climate of North Central Idaho
The physiographic diversity existent in the Nez Perce region provides for a wide variety of biota ranging from aquatic to terrestrial. River gorges, being the main source of water, account for much of the biodiversity in the area, while another major area providing suitable habitat is the mountainous terrain. Common terrestrial plants naturally found in the area include Achnatherum hymenoides (Indian ricegrass), Camassia quamash (camas plant), and Artemisia tridentata (big sagebrush). Such plants provide habitats for terrestrial animals such as the threatened Centrocercus urophasianus (greater sage-grouse). Nearly 80% of Idaho's native terrestrial wildlife species are considered non-game and consist of about 502 species. Two species that are of major concern for both the Nez Perce and conservation groups are the gray wolf (Canis lupus) and Snake River spring/summer chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha).
To further investigate the biota of the Nez Perce reservation, follow the links below.
Resources about the Biota of North Central Idaho


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Enjoy SXSW 2014, in Austin or Elsewhere, with These Flipboard Magazines
MagMaker / March 10, 2014
The South by Southwest (SXSW) conference is underway right now in Austin, Texas. For the next few days, tens of thousands of attendees will immerse themselves in the unique mix of art, technology, film, music, food and Texas charm that has made SXSW a haven for trendsetting cool.
If you're attending SXSW 2014 or just following along from home, our friends at the Flipboard Club have launched an impressive series of co-curated magazines to cover all the action:
SXSW 2014, a digest of news about all facets of the SXSW, by Flipboard Club and Aida B.
SXSW Speakers by Aida B. and Linda Bernstein
SXSW Interactive by Amy Vernon, Gary J. Nix and Marilyn Zayfert
SXSW Music by Linda Bernstein, Carla Zanoni, Dana Conroy and Gary J. Nix
SXSW Film by Beki Winchel and Scott Nash
SXSW Guide to Austin by Aida B., Stacy Teet, Terry Porter and Colleen Pence
SXSW Food by Andrea Folsom, Derek Evans and Linda Bernstein
SXSW Art by Andrea Folsom, Derek Evans and Linda Bernstein
SXSW Selfies by The Flipboard Club, Aida B., Derek Evans, Andrea Folsom and Linda Bernstein
Please do check them out.
Meanwhile, special thanks to the Flipboard Club and all the MagMakers who bring these magazines to life!
IMAGE: Cover montage by Aida B.


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This year – 2018 – will be The Year of Perry Block.
That's because this year will see the publishing of my very first book, the eponymously named – as is my blog – Perry Block, Nouveau Old Formerly Cute.
One thing is for sure about The Year of Perry Block: I am going to promote the living shit out of my book in order to maximize the number of folks who might buy it. And I began it all at the small get-together I attended on New Year's Eve ….
"Happy New Year, Mark. Did you know that this year I am publishing my first ever book?"
"That's great, Perry! I knew you could do it."
"You know, Mark, when you write a book …"
"Excuse me, Perry, did you happen to notice if they have any dip here?"
"No, I didn't. But getting back to my book, I had the idea to…"
"I'm going to go look for dip. Maybe they got hummus even! See you later."
Well, I guess not everyone is interested in literary matters. Just then I saw my good friend Ellen come through the front door. The two of us have gone through quite a lot together, and I even helped her quit smoking.
"Ellen, great to see you!"
"Same here, Perry. Have you bumped into Ralph yet?"
"No, I haven't. But I wanted to tell you about my book. It's called …"
"Excuse me, but I've got to find Ralph! I understand he's had a bad case of athlete's foot and I just have to see how he's doing!"
"But you barely know Ralph! He just moved here from Cleveland!"
"There he is! OMG, he might even have cellulitis! I'll talk to you later."
Yeah, athlete's foot can be kind of painful and I've only known Ellen some 35-40 years. Now there's our genial host, my good buddy Farbman!
"Thanks for having me, Farbman. I don't often get invited out on New Year's Eve so I was happy to pass up both Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper for you."
"Glad you could come! I understand you're publishing a book this year."
"I sure am! it's been quite an experience too."
"I'll bet. Well, I have to attend to my other guests, got to put out more dip. Maybe hummus. And I have to see Ralph, our new friend from Cleveland; he's got a bad case of athletes' foot, it might even be cellulitis!"
"But, Farbman, this is my whole life wrapped up in …"
"There's Ralph, talking to Ellen. Oh, he looks terrible!"
Yeah, just like I'm feeling.
"Hi, Perry. I'm Bob. Heard you wrote a book."
"Want dip, Bob? It's in the kitchen, Bob! Ralph from Cleveland is eating it, Bob! He can't be that bad if he's standing up eating hummus, Bob!"
I guess marketing a book is going to be a bit tougher than I thought.


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Saturday August 13th the tradition of celebrating our great United States of America continues at Riverhead Raceway with Connie Partridge & Tom Gatz presenting I Love America Night. A good ole county fair atmosphere will fill the air with a huge Fireworks spectacular, 4/6-Cylinder Demolition Derby and a Kids Big Wheel Race complementing the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series stock car action.
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Patience Pays Off For Kyle Soper En Route To Triumph At Riverhead Raceway Saturday
It was a night of high emotion, nostalgia and some good old school NASCAR Modified racing Saturday at Riverhead Raceway and when the dust settled on the annual Baldwin, Evans & Jarzombek 77 for the second year in a row Kyle Soper of Manorville sat in the winners circle. Soper using a perfect balance of patience and aggression took the lead with just five laps left in the contest from Timmy Solomito of Islip to pocket his 4th win of 2022, 28th of his career.
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Being "renowned" for something is not the same as being "memorable" for something. The latter is way better.
This was the debate that I had with my buddy Mitch Feinman at the San Francisco meal cited in yesterday's post, where we debated the dulling "fine-ness" of our experience.
Let's continue using the aforementioned--and mercifully anonymous--restaurant as our example. An eatery can be "renowned" for its cuisine, its signature dish, its wine list, its clientele, its scene, and so on. That's what gets you through the door. The first time.
"Renowned" establishes your baseline.
It's your oxygen, your lifeline, your constant.
Its what you do on top of that baseline that makes you "memorable." Or not. "Memorable" is the one-time special, the event, the Surprise offer.
It's your nitrous oxide...
...the gaseous mix that makes people giddy and talkative. "Memorable" needs to be renewed. Constantly.
Problem is that most people stop at "renowned." It becomes the laurel that is lazily rested upon.
"Renowned" is what gets you in business. "Memorable" is what keeps you there.
"Renowned" are the reviews that hang on your walls. "Memorable" are the reviews that are spread by your customers.


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Excuse us. We're sleep deprived. We don't know why we started making Little and Fierce garments. We don't really know who we are making these outfits for. Maybe for the nurses in the premature ward who need a practical option for all those cords. Or for the babies themselves who need something especially soft, gentle and with no scratchy tags on their fragile skin. Possibly we did it for the mums and dads who want to fill their camera roll with their baby wearing an outfit that is cool, fashionable and ridiculously cute. It could have even been for the aunts, uncles and friends who wanted to give something beautiful, special, useful and normal to a premature baby they love.
We know that our son Boston, born at 28 weeks was our inspiration, but we can't put our finger on what exactly our motivation was. It could have been a practical decision. He was miles off fitting a 0000 and the prem outfits we found just didn't work with the monitoring cords and breathing apparatus. Or perhaps it was something more emotional. Boston was four weeks old before we took the seemingly small step to put him in his own clothes and shuffled closer to being able to take him home. In a prem ward, the little steps are the big steps. We looked for the perfect celebratory outfit to celebrate our fierce little guy. One that said "look how adorable I am" while having easy access to his tiny feet to put on his monitoring probe. You know what? It didn't exist when we were in NICU, but we wanted it to exist for others.
Having a premature baby can leave parents in a fog of confusion. When the time comes to dress a Little and Fierce, it should be simple.


text: PopCultArt has dropped its latest release, the Raiders of the Lost Ark screen print "The Ark is Open" by artist Cristian Eres. It is a 20"x30" hand numbered Indiana Jones screen print, which includes a Certificate of Authenticity. Limited to 250 pieces, it can be purchased now at PopCultArt.com for £60.


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The first SEC matchup is finally here as the Missouri Tigers travel to Lexington to face off the Kentucky Wildcats. Both teams won their openers against Group of 5 teams and are looking to start off conference play on a strong note.
Last year these teams played a 20-10 game in Columbia which saw the Tigers end a five-game losing streak against the Cats. The Tigers held UK to just 145 total yards, while Larry Rountree III ran the ball 37 times for 126 yards and two scores. This year will bring new challenges for both teams as they look to gain some momentum and move up the ladder in the SEC East.
How to watch Kentucky vs. Mizzou
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
TV: SEC Network
Watch Online: ESPN App
Betting Odds
(via DraftKings Sportsbook)
Spread: Kentucky -5.5 | Mizzou +5.5
Moneyline: Kentucky - 225 | Mizzou +185
Total: 57.5
The new challenge for the Tigers will be Kentucky's new scheme on offense. Gone is Eddie Gran's conservative schemes that had become stagnant in recent years. In steps Liam Coen and a more modern-day scheme with new weapons at his disposal. Whether it was Joey Gatewood or Terry Wilson, the Wildcats couldn't get anything going offensively last year. Mark Stoops recognized that and brought Will Levis in at QB from Penn State. He also brought in receiver Wan'dale Robinson from Nebraska, and while ULM isn't exactly the best team in the world (0-10 in 2020) the offense looked like it took steps forward.
Levis went for 367 yards and three touchdowns while Robinson caught five passes for 125 yards. Longtime receiver Josh Ali also caught five passes for 136 yards, so suffice to say the Tiger defense will need to stop explosive plays. The good news is in the second half against Central Michigan, the secondary picked it up while the defense managed nine sacks against the Chippewas. The bad news? The Tiger run defense remained atrocious at times and the improved Chris Rodriguez Jr. could take full advantage.
For the Tigers, the offense looked more like the one Mizzou fans thought they would see under Eli Drinkwitz. There was more motion and misdirection and that led to Tyler Badie having a career day. Quarterback Connor Bazelak also added two touchdowns through the air. Last season against Kentucky, Bazelak was able to be the ultimate game manager. That's something he won't be able to do Saturday against what appears to be another typical Mark Stoops defense. Smart, persistent and disciplined has been the name of the game since Stoops got to Lexington. After Week 1, there is no reason to think otherwise.
Bazelak will have to be able to push the ball down the field and at least provide the threat of a deep passing game. He is at his best when he's cool under pressure and he will see a lot from a Kentucky team that had six sacks against ULM. Despite the career day from Badie, the Tiger offensive line was porous against CMU, allowing 13 tackles for a loss. If the Tigers have any hopes of winning this game, they will have to be better on the line.
Now I know throughout this preview it seems that I think Kentucky should win by a comfortable margin. In actuality, I think this will be a great kickoff to league play. Kentucky won't have the same success on big plays they did against ULM and the Tigers will provide a much stiffer test for their offensive lines.
On the flip side, the Tiger offense should be better as Mookie Cooper gets healthy and finally able to run routes. The key for the Tigers is when they send blitzes and try to force Levis into mistakes. If the secondary does their job and doesn't allow a couple of shot plays then they will succeed. There were times last year against some Power 5 competition at Penn State that Levis had his struggles. But ultimately, Kentucky should power to a win behind their strong offensive line.
Prediction: Kentucky 28, Mizzou 23


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The private fitness studio, led by certified personal trainer and 20-year amateur athlete, Troy Tyrell, has introduced low-impact workout sessions designed for midlife women who want to increase their stamina, muscle tone, and endurance.
More information can be found at https://www.tsquaredvancouverpersonaltraining.com
Tsquared Personal Training, based in downtown Vancouver BC, has initiated the training program in response to client demand for safe, age-appropriate workouts for older women whose bodies are adjusting to aging transitions associated with a loss of bone density and therefore balance. Muscle loss might go unnoticed for decades, but as women lose fast-twitch muscle fibers, reaction speed slows down and minor accidents naturally increase.
Balance starts declining in midlife as muscle loss accelerates. Physical fitness experts have concluded that low-impact workouts serve to increase strength, reduce blood pressure, and lower stress while mitigating risk factors for musculoskeletal injury. On the other hand, standard HIIT workouts, which are power and speed-based and typically activate those fast-twitch fibers, often comprise exercises that put undue strains on certain demographics with health or body issues.
A new trend combines the well-recognized benefits of both HIIT and low-impact training to improve muscle strength while shielding participants from joint damage or injury.
Tsquared Personal Training, which provides morning, lunchtime, and after-work Small Group Personal Gravity Training System (GTS) sessions, offers small group and 1:1 fitness training programs. As everyone's body is unique, Mr. Tyrell works with clients to identify their goals and then the challenges ahead, focusing on the client's form, strengths and weaknesses, and frame of mind.
As statistics demonstrate, many people lack sustained motivation, which is precisely why Mr. Tyrell strives to help clients achieve visible results as quickly as possible, letting them power past fitness plateaus to reach higher levels of fitness, energy, and success.
The studio's fitness training programs are developed based on Mr. Tyrell's experience at INFOFIT, various other fitness professionals, and EnerChanges. The latter is a medically supervised exercise clinic, where he learned physio corrective techniques and postural analysis, key components of any fitness regime but especially critical for people over 40 who need to minimize the risk of injury. Mr. Tyrell's focus on safety provides clients with training that will sustain their fitness efforts for years to come.
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After three years of shooting notably attired people all over the city, our Street Scenes photographer Daniel Krieger is moving on. You'll still be able to find his work at our sister site Eater, as well as on his own website. He leaves the feature in the capable hands of Kristin Corman, photographer and trend forecaster (with an occasional assist this week and next from Molly Aaker.)
As a way of saying goodbye, Krieger has picked out some of his favorite photos from over the years. Check out the slideshow above, and get his explanations of why he chose each person after the jump.
1.) Karl Edwin Guerre: "I personally love the style of someone like Guerre who I happened to randomly stop on the street twice over the past 3+ years I've been photographing the feature. This second time, his outfit was more to my liking than the first. I just like how everything works together and that bag is awesome and the fact he made it is even cooler. He has originality and confidence, and is just overall pretty smooth."
2.) Elaine: "This is the type of woman I love to stop for Street Scenes, but she's also the type that normally says no when I ask to take a photo. When Elaine agreed to be photographed, I was excited and remember the comments were overwhelmingly positive. She's classic rich New York and just has incredible style and presence for a lady her age. I also love the fact that I got Bergdorf in the background."
3.) Scout: "I saw her in DUMBO and loved her pose, outfit, and overall beauty. The way her hair was blowing in the wind and the collar of her sweater just made for an engaging photo."
4.) Dwain: "When I saw Dwain I was just hoping he would agree to be photographed and he happily obliged. He was on his way to see a show at Lincoln Center, and I loved the fact that he got so dressed up for it, the way people used to do."
5.) Patrick: "Patrick is well known in the fashion world and was very friendly when I asked for a photo during Fashion Week two years ago. It was a cool moment as all the swarms of people near the entrance of the tents kinda stopped and watched while I was shooting him."
6.) Harold: "I saw Harold standing outside of Thom Browne wearing the label from head to toe. You definitely need a certain body type to pull it off this style, and I thought Harold looked pretty sharp. I've shot a few people wearing Browne and at one point heard that Thom Browne told his employees not to agree to be photographed for Street Scenes because of some of the negative commenters."
7.) Michael: "I met Michael a few years ago in Chinatown. I was out doing some street photography with a photographer friend and was shooting 35mm film (normally I shot 99% of Street Scenes with digital) but I really liked his style so I took a few shots with my film camera. I realized I had seen him somewhere before—he turns out to be Michael Arenella who is a talented band leader. Since then I've seen him perform a few times and managed to shoot him again for Street Scenes earlier this year."
8.) Jordan: "I was doing an editorial assignment for a story on freegans out in some loft space in Brooklyn. I had no idea what freegans were when I got there, and it was a dinner party so I had a bit to eat. The entire time I was wondering why all this amazing-looking food was free. I mean, giant wheels of parmigiano reggiano were stacked like 5 feet high in one corner. Finally someone told me that freegans take their food from the trash, and although it doesn't bother me so much now, at the time I kinda just put my food down and stopped eating and felt a little nauseous. Jordan was at that party and agreed to be featured. He was hit pretty hard in the comment section but I love the photo and find him somewhat angelic-looking."
9.) Amber: "I realize Amber's outfit wasn't groundbreaking, but it was the right outfit for her on that day and the way she carried herself was just lovely, and she obviously photographs well."
10.) Tony Lee: "I photographed Tony during my first year of Street Scenes. He was smiling and laughing and loving the fact I was asking about his outfit. I love cool old guys like this. The thing is that in the past three years of going back to Chinatown to find subjects, I haven't found an old cat as smooth as Tony again."
11.) Tremaine: "I saw Tremaine in Tribeca and I just liked his confidence and style. The photo itself is one of my favorites I've taken through the years. I believe Tremaine was working at the J.Crew shop in Tribeca not far from where the photo was taken."
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One such strategy doing the rounds is 'helicopter money'. It basically means non-repayable money transfer from the central bank to the government. It seeks to goad people into spending more and thereby boost the sagging economy.
Here we attempt to answer a few relevant questions about helicopter money.
- What is helicopter money?
This is an unconventional monetary policy tool aimed at bringing a flagging economy back on track. It involves printing large sums of money and distributing it to the public. American economist Milton Friedman coined this term. It basically denotes a helicopter dropping money from the sky. Friedman used the term to signify "unexpectedly dumping money onto a struggling economy with the intention to shock it out of a deep slump."Under such a policy, a central bank "directly increase the money supply and, via the government, distribute the new cash to the population with the aim of boosting demand and inflation." - Why is helicopter money in news now?
With the coronavirus-hit economy falling deeper and deeper into a chasm with each passing day, Telangana chief minister KC Rao today said helicopter money can help states comes out of this morass. He asked for the release of 5% funds from GDP by way of quantitative easing (QE).QE, a policy followed all over the world, is the only way to deal with the situation, Rao said. "To counter (economic crisis) this we need a strategic economic policy. RBI should implement quantitative easing policy. This is called Helicopter Money. This will facilitate the states and financial institutions to accrue funds. We can come out of the financial crisis. Release 5 percent of funds from the GDP through Quantitative Easing Policy," he suggested. - Is helicopter money the same as quantitative easing?
Quantitative easing also involves the use of printed money by central banks to buy government bonds. But not everyone views the money used in QE as helicopter money. It sure means printing money to monetise government deficits, but the govt has to pay back for the assets that the central bank buys.It's not the same as bond-buying by central banks "in which bank-owned assets are swapped for new central bank reserves."Helicopter money is also different from a central bank directly financing the debt of a government. - Is Japan deploying helicopter money?
According to some analysts, the yield curve control that Japan is resorting to is basically a type of helicopter money only. That is because this strategy lets the government spend more without having to worry about bond yields jumping.BoJ, however, rejects the allegation on the basis that the "BoJ still buys bonds from the market and does not directly underwrite debt from the government, something that could undermine confidence among investors."The line, however, is blurred as BoJ buys roughly the same or bigger amount of bonds issued by the government.
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Their mode of Cyberspace travel may be called a browser, but what they're doing at news sites on the Web is more than just browsing, according to findings released last week by the Poynter Institute.
Readers of news on the Web spend more time with stories they choose to eyeball than their counterparts reading printed newspapers, according to the research and education outfit for journalists.
The researchers at Poynter's EyeTrack07 project found that online readers of news read 77 percent of what they chose to read, while broadsheet newspaper readers read an average of 62 percent and tabloid readers 57 percent.
EyeTrack07's findings surprised even the project's director, Sara Quinn. "We assumed that people online were scanning a little more than they were," she told TechNewsWorld.
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Although the study didn't determine why online readers showed greater stickiness to stories than their offline counterparts, Quinn reasoned that news stories on Web pages contain fewer distractions than a newspaper page, where other stories compete for a reader's attention as they start to read a story.
"It's an eating-what's-on-your-plate sort of thing," she said of reading news on the Web. "Whatever's on your screen you focus on and absorb."
The study's findings suggest fears that the Web will cause a "dumbsizing" of the news may be overblown.
"Content rules," Quinn declared. "If you have good content, people will find it and read it.
"Long-form journalism has a place online and a lot of people are accessing it there," she added.
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It's good to see evidence that people will read longer stuff online, observed Dan Kennedy, an assistant journalism professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
"I certainly don't mind most of our journalism moving to the Web," he told TechNewsWorld, "but what drives me crazy sometimes is to hear people say, 'If you're going to do things on the the Web, then everything has to be in bite-sized chunks,' because I think that could result in a real dumbing-down of the news.
"The news has already gone a long way toward migrating to the Web," he added. "I just hope that we can keep long-form journalism when most or all the news is on the Web. Maybe this study is an indication that we can."
Nevertheless, the Poynter researchers found that "alternative" methods of presenting the news — questions and answer formats, timelines, sidebars and lists — were magnets for readers' attention and that readers retained more information about subjects given the alternative treatment.
"Shorter, alternative story forms are successful tools for people understanding and remembering what they have read," Quinn noted.
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The study involved almost 600 readers of news in four markets: Denver, St. Petersburg, Fla., Minneapolis and Philadelphia. The study sample — which included 200 online readers, 200 broadsheet readers and 200 tabloid readers — was chosen based on familiarity with the news outlets in the project, Quinn explained.
Forty-nine percent of the study sample were women; 51 percent men. They were asked to read a news publication every day for 30 consecutive days.
While reading their assigned publication, each participant wore a pair of goggles with two small cameras positioned over one of the eyes. One records the position of the eye; the other what the eye is looking at. when the images are married together, researchers can determine exactly what the subject is focusing on.
The camera recordings are then eyeballed manually to create quantifiable data that can be entered into a computer and analyzed.
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What may perplex many media observers about this study is its suggestion that news readers share similarities wherever they're getting their news, asserted Boyd Peterson, a senior vice president and media analyst at the Yankee Group.
"It appears that the behavior of news readers doesn't change as radically as some people thought," he told TechNewsWorld.
"The big difference between a print publication and an online publication is that the friction between Web sites is low, compared to reaching for another magazine or newspaper," he added. "At the end of the day, though, what people are doing is not that dissimilar."


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As the British crown struggles with a 'new' crisis related to the fallout from Prince Andrew's unfavorable television interview this week, about his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, 93-year-old Queen Elizabeth was supposed to be celebrating her 72nd wedding anniversary.
But 'lost' in worries over her second son's disgrace, if you are going to believe the British papers, and occupied with her official duties in London, she didn't celebrate the event with her 98-year-old husband, Prince Philip, who she reportedly has seen only twice in the last couple of months.
The couple speak every day on the phone "but it is understood that they have not had an extended spell under the same roof since Philip left Balmoral in early September," according to the Express.
Media articles speculate that the absence by her side of her husband – who retired from active duty in 2017 and lives a quiet life at Wood Farm on their Sandringham estate in Norfolk – is among the reasons Queen Elizabeth didn't stop Andrew's interview with the BBC, which has led to royalists, charitable partners and educational institutions scrambling to distance themselves from the whole mess.
While the queen is head of state in charge of the monarchy as an institution, Prince Philip has always been head of the family. "Friends say the monarch, who remains devoted to duty often at the expense of her own family, has missed Philip's steady hand at the tiller alongside her," writes the Express.
The interview was an effort to end rumors about the disgraced prince's relationship with the criminal financier, who committed suicide while in prison on sex-trafficking charges last summer as well as allegations that the eighth in line to the throne, who denies it, slept three times with a then-17-year-old girl who was a victim of sex trafficking by Epstein.
"Andrew's failure to show empathy for the young women exploited by Epstein earned him widespread derision — and made corporate backers and universities think twice about their ties to this senior member of the House of Windsor," reports Time.
Unfortunately, the backlash to the interview has shouldered what should be the happy celebration of a truly remarkable marriage into the background.
According to legend, Princess Elizabeth fell in love with the Greek-born Royal Navy officer, Philip, prince of Greece and Denmark, when she was a teenager and he was 18. They met at the 1934 wedding of his cousin, Princess Marina, to Prince George, Duke of Kent.
They met again at Dartmouth Royal Naval College in 1939, where Philip was able to impress her by 'jumping over tennis court nets'.
Their relationship flourished by letters and where, in writing, he declared his love.
"To have been spared in the war and seen victory, to have been given the chance to rest and to re-adjust myself, to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly, makes all one's personal and even the world's troubles seem small and petty," the prince wrote, according to Philip Eade, author of Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life.
The couple got married at a grand ceremony – a foreshadowing of the lavish celebrations the British royal house is now so well known for – at Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, when the country was rebuilding after the devastation of the war and millions of Britons were living in precarious circumstances and coping with food rations.
"Thousands lined the streets of London along the processional route between Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey; crowds thronged down the Mall, pressing against the Palace gates. Millions listened to the radio broadcast that was made. Post-war Britain took an enormous interest in the royal wedding and many thousands watched the film of the event which was later shown nationwide at cinemas; in point of fact, King George VI permitted the procession to be filmed and only still photographs to be made during the actual wedding ceremony," remembers Royal Central.
Since then the couple have lived a lifetime of milestones including the Jubilees to mark the anniversary of her Coronation. Queen Elizabeth has spent two-thirds of a century on the throne since she started her reign following the death of her father in 1952. Due to their longevity, they have seen other records broken. She is the world's longest reigning monarch, overtaking Queen Victoria who was on the throne for 23,226 days and the oldest Monarch in British history.
Naturally they also hold the record for the longest royal marriage and the only British royal couple to have celebrated their diamond and platinum wedding anniversaries.
To mark the 72nd anniversary the Royal Family Instagram account and its Twitter account, @KensingtonRoyal, posted celebratory photos of the couple. Various other members of the family like Prince Harry and Meghan Markle and Prince William and Kate Middleton also turned to social media to congratulate the couple's 72 years of marriage.
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NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf Coast tourism business needs more advertising money from BP PLC to bring back visitors staying away because of the oil spill, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said Monday.
Tourism recovery will "take a lot of time, a lot of work and a lot of money," and BP should be pressed to provide the money, Locke told the U.S. Tourism and Travel Advisory Board in New Orleans.
The oil company has given $25 million to Florida and $15 million each to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama for tourism promotion, but that money has run out.
Although the oil spill has directly hit only a small portion of the coastal tourist business, some Florida resorts nowhere near petroleum are seeing 60 to 70 percent of their reservations canceled, said Steven Perry, head of the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau and a member of the national tourism board.
Because it's seasonal business, the lost revenue cannot be made up, Perry said.
In a July 22 report, Oxford Economics, a worldwide economic analysis and forecasting group, said that the spill's effects on Gulf Coast travel likely will last up to three years and cost the region $22.7 billion.
The U.S. Travel Association has proposed a BP-funded $500 million marketing program — one that Oxford Economics said would reduce the toll by $7.5 billion.
The trade group also wanted an online site where travelers can learn which areas are safe and open for travel; tax deductions for travelers in the area; and low interest loans and tax incentives to encourage tourism businesses to remain open.
After the meeting, Locke said he would count on state and local tourism agencies to come up with a figure for a campaign much longer than the first one.
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Washington, DC – Today, Navient, one of the largest student loan servicers in the country, reached a $1.85 billion settlement with 39 states over predatory student loan practices.
In response, the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) released the following statement:
Navient's history of steering borrowers into high-cost, long-term forbearances instead of placing them in affordable income-driven repayment (IDR) plans harmed millions of borrowers nationwide—many of whom were borrowers of color and low-income students.
This settlement requires Navient to change its practices going forward, but what it doesn't do is credit borrowers with the years toward student loan cancellation through IDR that they missed out on as a result of poor loan servicing.
The Department of Education can and should do exactly that for all borrowers: give them back the time they should have earned toward IDR cancellation and restore the promise of IDR.
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- Joint Report "Restoring the Promise of Income-Driven Repayment: An IDR Waiver Proposal"
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It's a crisis that's been building for years: State social workers juggling high caseloads and high-stress environments for low pay.
Now the crisis is turning critical as more than 600 social workers have left the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) this year alone, according to recent testimony by Commissioner Marta Miranda-Straub. She told lawmakers last month that social workers could make more money tending bar or working in a bookstore.
The exodus has resulted in an 18 percent increase in the average case load carried by the remaining social workers. That's made an already difficult job even more demanding and puts Kentucky's abused and neglected children at greater risk.
"We just are starting to not have enough folks in the field," says Secretary Eric Friedlander of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS), which includes DCBS. "That impacts then our reports on abuse and neglect, [and] how quickly we can respond."
In a recent opinion piece in the Lexington Herald-Leader, social worker Devin Reul described the demands of his job in harrowing detail: The late-night emergency phone calls, the dangerous home visits to remove a child, last-minute court hearings, and exposure to the "soul-crushing weight of clients' trauma." Now with departures escalating, Reul says some of his peers are managing 40 ongoing cases and as many as 100 investigative cases – all for pay that is sometimes as low as $15 an hour.
And some of Kentucky's most vulnerable citizens will pay the price.
"If we continue to lose workers like this, the cases keep getting higher," says Reul. "If children don't get seen, then children can get hurt."
A Push for Higher Pay and Better Benefits
Kentucky House Speaker Pro Tem David Meade (R-Stanford) is sympathetic to the plight of social workers. He sponsored legislation in the 2018 session that enacted wide-ranging reforms to the state's child welfare systems. He admits many lawmakers simply don't understand how stressful and dangerous the job of a social worker can be.
"We heard a story here awhile back about one gentleman being held at gunpoint when he went in to take the children away," says Meade. "Those are situations where these folks deserve more pay, they deserve to be compensated for what they're doing."
Meade says there was a push in the last budget cycle to boost the pay of state social workers. But he adds that the idea was dropped after other CHFS staff complained about the disparity of giving some people raises but not others. Meade says the state can't afford across-the-board pay raises.
"So let's focus in on the situation that we can handle, let's take care of the need that we have in hand right now with those social workers," he says.
In addition to pay raises, Meade says social workers need more paid time off and mental health supports to help them process the stress and trauma they are exposed to.
State social workers are participating in a wellness initiative that's using biometric monitoring devices to measure their stress levels on the job. Austin Griffiths, director of the Center for Child Welfare Education and Research at Western Kentucky University, says this data is critical to understanding the amount of stress social workers carry. It can also inform policies to protect the health and wellbeing of these employees.
"This job is really out of sight and out of mind… Until you see or experience what's happening, you just don't know," says Griffiths, who worked for six years in child protective services for the state. "There are no boundaries on behalf what you're expected to do."
CHFS Secretary Friedlander says the cabinet has put more focus on providing support services for its social workers. He says employees should no longer fear speaking out about what they need.
"There will be no retaliation," says Friedlander. "If you can't advocate for yourself, who can you advocate for? I think that's the systemic piece that we've tried to change."
This combination of higher pay and more mental health supports are critical, says University of Kentucky College of Social Work Dean Justin Miller, who grew up in foster care and later worked as a child protective services investigator.
"If we value Kentucky's children and families, we will invest in a workforce that can keep them safe and protected," says Miller.
Funding for Preventative Measures
Another option to reduce the workload on social workers is to implement preventive strategies and family supports that help keep families together and children out of state care in the first place. But since the 2008 recession, many of those services have been scaled back due to funding cuts.
"There just wasn't money or resources to get in and help families that were in trouble and prevent bad situations from turning worse," says Louisville Courier-Journal reporter Deborah Yetter, who has covered the state social services system for years.
Family Drug Courts are an example of an effective program that faltered for a lack of funding. Yetter says these specialized courts worked intensively with drug offenders to help them break their addiction and address their family needs. She says the courts had good success rates but were largely discontinued in 2010 because of budget cuts. (Local leaders have mustered sufficient funding to revive the courts in Jefferson and Clay Counties, according to Yetter.)
Friedlander says he believes the preventive services the state is able to offer now are having an impact. He points to a decline in the number of children who need out-of-home care. But to build what state officials call the social services system of the 21st century, Friedlander says he wants to ensure that safety-net supports are readily available to families in need across the state.
"We have talked about prevention for years and years and years, and we have not funded it," says Friedlander. "We have to do that. We have to make a difference upstream before a child comes into the system."
Caseloads and Privatization
State officials are also considering ways to address the caseloads that social workers carry. During periods of low staffing, individual social workers have to take on more cases. But what actually constitutes a case?
Traditionally, a single case might comprise one child or it could involve an entire family or even multiple generations of a family. Griffiths says the best social workers tend to be assigned to the most challenging cases, a phenomenon that he says is called "performance punishment."
Social work officials are starting to consider the scope or "weight" of each case that an employee may be assigned. Miller says that would allow a more equitable and manageable distribution of complicated cases among social workers.
"Those cases take longer to work and they're much more intense, which can lead to more stress, vicarious trauma, etc. for the worker," says Miller. "There are a number of different factors that you have to not only asses but then find an adequate and appropriate response to… Trying to resource and put together a plan to deal with those can be difficult and time consuming."
Another option the General Assembly could pursue is privatizing some of the state's social service functions. Rep. Meade says lawmakers considered that as part of the 2018 child welfare reforms but didn't include that in that legislation. He says the idea is that CHFS and DCBS would continue to do child welfare investigations while moving the social service supports to the private sector.
"Many times when you do that, those public-private partnerships seem to work out a little bit better because the private side seems to have more resources," says Meade.
Miller says the state already contracts with private child care facilities for a range of services. He says such partnerships are promising, but must be carefully structured.
The question is, can any of these solutions be implemented fast enough to stem the current tide of departures among social workers employed by the commonwealth? Devin Reul says he and his fellow social workers are proud of the work they do and want to continue to do it, but he also warns that their employment situations must be improved, for the good of the employees and the children and families they serve.
"I can't imagine myself doing anything else. I'm very dedicated to what I do and all of us are," says Reul. But he warns, "at some point you have to decide as a worker whether or not you can do this."


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Some of the most important luminaries in the HPC sector have spoken from on high, and their conclusions about the future of the HPC market are probably going to shock a lot of people.
In a paper called Reinventing High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities, written by Jack Dongarra at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory – Jack, didn't you retire? – and Dan Reed at the University of Utah and Dennis Gannon formerly of Indiana University and Microsoft, we get a fascinating historical view of HPC systems and then some straight talk about how the HPC industry needs to collaborate more tightly with the hyperscalers and cloud builders for a lot of technical and economic reasons.
Many in the HPC market have no doubt been thinking along the same lines. It is in the zeitgeist, being transported on the cosmic Ethernet. (And sometimes InfiniBand where low latency matters.) And by the way, we are not happy about any of this, as we imagine you are not either. We like the diversity of architectures, techniques, and technologies that the HPC market has developed over the years. But we also have to admit that the technology trickle down effect where advanced designs eventually make their way down into large enterprises and then everywhere else did not happen at the speed or to the extent that we had hoped it might over the decades we have been watching this portion of the IT space.
As usual, the details of the scenario painted in this paper and the conclusions that the authors draw are many and insightful, and we agree wholeheartedly that there are tectonic forces at play in the upper echelons of computing. Frankly, we founded The Next Platform with this idea in mind and used the same language, and in recent years have also wondered how long the market for systems that are tuned specifically for HPC simulation and modeling would hold out against the scale of compute and investment by the hyperscalers and cloud builders of the world.
The paper's authors have a much better metaphor for contrasting large-scale HPC system development, and that is to look at it like a chemical reaction. HPC investments, especially for capability-class machines, are endothermic, meaning they require infusions of capital from governments and academia to cover the engineering costs of designing and producing advanced systems. But investments in large-scale machinery at the hyperscalers and cloud builders are exothermic, meaning they generate cash – among the Magnificent Seven of Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, it is enormous amounts of money. We would go so far as to say that the reaction is volcanic among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, which is exothermic with extreme attitude. Enough to melt rock and build mountains.
The geography of the IT sector has been utterly transformed by these seven continents of compute, and we all know it, and importantly, so does the HPC community that is trying to get to exascale and contemplating 10 exascale and even zettascale.
"Economies of scale first fueled commodity HPC clusters and attracted the interest of vendors as large-scale demonstrations of leading edge technology," the authors write in the paper. "Today, the even larger economies of scale of cloud computing vendors has diminished the influence of high-performance computing on future chip and system designs. No longer do chip vendors look to HPC deployments of large clusters as flagship technology demonstrations that will drive larger market uptake."
The list of truisms that Dongarra, Reed, and Gannon outline as they survey the landscape is unequivocal, and we quote:
- Advanced computing of all kinds, including high-performance computing, requires ongoing non-recurring engineering (NRE) investment to develop new technologies and systems.
- The smartphone and cloud services companies are cash rich (i.e., exothermic), and they are designing, building, and deploying their own hardware and software infrastructure at unprecedented scale.
- The software and services developed in the cloud world are rich, diverse, and rapidly expanding, though only some of them are used by the traditional high-performance computing community.
- The traditional computing vendors are now relatively small economic players in the computing ecosystem, and many are dependent on government investment (i.e., endothermic) for the NRE needed to advance the bleeding edge of advanced computing technologies.
- AI is fueling a revolution in how businesses and researchers think about problems and their computational solution.
- Dennard scaling has ended and continued performance advances increasingly depend on functional specialization via custom ASICs and chiplet-integrated packages.
- Moore's Law is at or near an end, and transistor costs are likely to increase as features sizes continue to decrease.
- Nimble hardware startups are exploring new ideas, driven by the AI frenzy.
- Talent is following the money and the opportunities, which are increasingly in a small number of very large companies or creative startups.
There is no question that the HPC and hyperscaler/cloud camps have been somewhat allergic to each other over the past decade or two, although there has been some cross pollination in recent years, with both people and technologies from the HPC sector being employed by the hyperscalers and cloud – mostly to attract HPC simulation and modeling workloads, but also because of the inherent benefits of technologies such as MPI or InfiniBand when it comes to driving the key machine learning workloads that have made the hyperscalers and cloud builders standard bearers for the New HPC. They didn't invent the ideas behind machine learning – the phone company did – but they did have the big data and the massive compute scale to perfect it, and they are also going to be the ones building the metaverse – or metaverses – that are really just humungous simulations, driven by the basic principles of physics, done in real time.
What it comes down to is that standalone HPC in the national and academic labs takes money and has to constantly justify the architectures and funding for the machines that run their codes, and that the traditional HPC vendors – so many of them are gone now – could not generate enough revenue, much less profit, to stay in the game. HPC vendors were more of a public-private partnership than Wall Street ever wanted to think about or the vendors ever wanted to admit. And when they made any profits, it was never sustainable – just like being a server OEM is getting close to not being sustainable due to the enormous buying power of the hyperscalers and cloud builders.
We will bet a Cray-1 supercomputer assembled from parts acquired on eBay that the hyperscalers and cloud builders will figure out how to make money on HPC, and they will do it by offering applications as a service, not just infrastructure. National and academic labs will partner there and get their share of the cloud budget pool, and in some cases where data sovereignty and security are particularly high, the clouds will offer HPC outposts or whole dedicated datacenters, shared among the labs and securely away from other enterprise workloads. And moreover, the cloud makers will snap up the successful AI hardware vendors – or design their own AI accelerator chips as AWS and Google do – and the HPC community will learn to port their routines to these devices as well as CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs. In the longest of runs, people will recode HPC algorithms to run on a Google TPU or an AWS Tranium. No, this will not be easy. But HPC will have to ride the coattails of AI because otherwise it will diverge from the same hardware path and not be an affordable endeavor.
As they prognosticate about the future of HPC, Dongarra, Reed, and Gannon outline the following six maxims that should be used to guide its evolution:
Maxim One: Semiconductor constraints dictate new approaches. There are constraints from Moore's Law slowing and Dennard scaling stopping, but it is more than that. We have foundry capacity issues and geopolitical problems arising from chip manufacturing, as well as the high cost of building chip factories, and there will need to be standards of interconnecting chiplets to allow ease of integration of diverse components.
Maxim Two: End-to-end hardware/software co-design is essential. This is a given for HPC, and chiplet interconnect standards will help here. But we would counter that the hyperscalers and cloud builders limit the diversity of their server designs to drive up volumes. So just like AI learned to run on HPC iron back in the late 2000s, HPC will have to learn to run on AI iron of the 2020s. And that AI iron will be located on the clouds.
Maxim Three: Prototyping at scale is required to test new ideas. We are not as optimistic as Dongarra, Reed, and Gannon that HPC-specific systems will be created – much less prototyped at scale – unless one of the clouds corners the market on specific HPC applications. Hyperscalers bend their software to fit cheaper iron, and they only create unique iron with homegrown compute engines when they feel they have no choice. They will adopt mainstream HPC/AI technologies every time, and HPC researchers are going to have to make do. In fact, that will be largely what the HPC jobs of the future will be: Making legacy codes run on new clouds.
Maxim Four: The space of leading edge HPC applications is far broader now than in the past. And, as they point out, it is broader because of the injection of AI software and sometimes hardware technologies.
Maxim Five. Cloud economics have changed the supply chain ecosystem. Agreed, wholeheartedly, and this changes everything, even if cloud capacity costs 5X to 10X as much as running it on premises, the cloud builders have so much capacity that every national and academic lab could be pulling in the same direction as they modernize codes for cloud infrastructure – and where it is sitting doesn't matter. What matters is changing from CapEx to OpEx.
Maxim Six: The societal implications of technical issues really matter. This has always been a hard sell to the public, even if scientists get it, and the politicians of all the districts where supercomputing labs exist certainly don't want HPC centers to be Borged into the clouds. But, they will get to brag about clouds and foundries, so they will adapt.
"Investing in the future is never easy, but it is critical if we are to continue to develop and deploy new generations of high-performance computing systems, ones that leverage economic shifts, commercial practice, and emerging technologies. Let us be clear. The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up."
Welcome to the New HPC.
Author's Note: We read a certain amount of technical papers here at The Next Platform, and one of the games we like to play when we come across an interesting paper is to guess what it will conclude before we even read it.
This is an old – and perhaps bad – habit learned from a physics professor many decades ago, where he admonished us to figure out the nature of the problem and estimate an answer, in ours heads and out loud before the class, before we actually wrote down the first line to solve the problem. This was a form of error detection and correction, which is why we were taught to do this. And it kept you on your toes, too, because the class was at 8 am and you didn't know you were going to have to solve a problem until the professor threw a piece of chalk to you. (Not at you, but to you.)
So when we came across the paper outlined above, we immediately went into speculative execution mode and this popped out:
"Just like we can't really have a publicly funded mail service that works right or a publicly funded space program that works right, in the long run we will not be able to justify the cost and hassle of bespoke HPC systems. The hyperscalers and cloud builders can now support HPC simulation and modeling and have the tools, thanks to the metaverse, to not only calculate a digital twin of the physical world – and alternate universes with different laws of physics if we want to go down those myriad roads – but to allow us to immerse ourselves in it to explore it. In short, HPC centers are going to be priced out of their own market, and that is because of the fundamental economics of the contrast between hyperscaler and HPC center. The HPC centers of the world drive the highest performance possible for specific applications at the highest practical budget, whereas the hyperscalers always drive performance and thermals for a wider set of applications at the lowest cost possible. The good news is that in the future HPC sector, scientists will be focusing on driving collections of algorithms and libraries, not on trying to architect iron and fund it."
We were pretty close.


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The top number will be the mass number and the bottom number would be the atomic number. The mass number minus the atomic number will equal the number of neutrons. The atomic number is equivalent to the number of protons and therefore if can be determined that there are 16 protons. The number of protons equals the number of electrons in a neutral atom.