#back to the coal mines (drawing program) i go

[hguhie]

rare (actually very common) james vulnerability post um im kind of hating having bpd right now. i reeeeally really hate how the smallest thing completely sets me off and i HATE gettinf close to people and then having to hit them with the “btw if i get even the slightest feeling you dont like me or that im being replaced i absolutely will not confront it directly and will instead opt to just never ever speak again and be mad for 6 months straight” and its cost me a lot of close friendships! i’m in therapy and i am on medication and i have been for months but for some reason it’s just ??? not working??? i dunno but im feeling very Not great tonite james nation 💔 sighs soo hard and goes back to drawing star trek yuri

[starsailorstories]

A Soundtrack Pick for Every Short Story I Posted in 2019

From Out of the Shadows | Magpie to the Morning (2013 version)//Neko Case

“Come on sorrow, take your own advice. Thundering and lightening gets you rain. You’re on a top-secret mission, a Cousteau expedition to find a diamond at the bottom of the drain.”

The umbralis bows her head. “I’ve never let myself think about any other life. I’m so lucky to have what I do. I…luck runs out, one day.” Bolt pats a few stray hairs into place, and she raises her chin in response to the guiding touch. “I want to do my duty. But I think that…that maybe it shouldn’t be my duty to die. Not even for her will, or for–or for–” Her hand covers the silver moon badge beside her factory insignia, as if it were a bullet wound. “I want to come back someday. I suppose I don’t really know when.”

The braid released, she turns to face Bolt’s voice as she replies, “If you want my advice, well–I’d say come when you’re ready, but nobody’s ever ready.” She sits still a moment, her gaze aside, before she meets the unit’s unveiled eyes again. “Come the first time they break your heart. It will happen. And you’ll know.” 

Playing Telephone | The Station - Oneohtrixpointnever

“Oh the whole station’s gonna burn down. Oh the whole station’s gonna burn down. Oh the whole station’s gonna burn down. Oh the whole station’s gonna burn down.”

She drew the glass under her veils to cup it to her light, closing her eyes to wait for the telltale, just-audible sizzle. In this miniature atrium of silence she could steal one thought fully formed.

Maybe these people were the sum of their loyalty, their diligence, their patience and attention and above all their willingness to work, just as the teachers who’d done her factory program had claimed she was. But they were also the sum of their habitation, transportation, education, and elocution--the sum of their building crews, their hospitals and libraries, and the fuel in their ships and the air in their cabins. 

She placed the heated glass in the far stem of the vaporizer and turned it, with practiced grace, to inhale the first hot whiff of steam, sparing the guests its bite, covering the mouthpiece with her fingertip as she moved again to offer it to them.

She was the sum of a door, a vase, a sofa, a safe, a wall clock, a stand for parasols, and a row of green-windowed doors. 

She watched the three traders lean in, taking the delicate glasswork in gold-ringed hands and oddly wet lips. They were separated from her by circumstance, by species and age and galactic cartography. But most of the things that got someone behind those green windows were just things.

Embarkation Stories | Expectations - Belle & Sebastian

“Hey, you’ve been used. Are you calm, settle down. Write a song, I’ll sing along. Soon you will know that you are sane. You’re on top of the world again.”

What made the rebels fight the immovable for their world?

What makes the crowd in the square sing of their fight?

What wavers the voice of an outer-disk girl who’s made it?

What makes the bellhop genuflect to a one-word dismissal?

Loyalty, easily divided by the chancest of circumstances.

7 Rooms | Flowers (Eurydice’s Song) - Anais Mitchell

“Dreams are sweet, until they’re not. Men are kind, until they aren’t. Flowers bloom, until they rot and fall apart. Is anybody listening? I open my mouth and nothing comes out. Nothing, nothing’s gonna wake me up now.”

Her gaze fell on lux directly, and it settled like a physical thing: heavy, but only for its preciousness; grave, but only for its importance; like an official standard weight that everything would be measured against. She accepted it in unexpressed raptures, understanding that it was her greatest dignity and her best shot. Knowing she would be carrying it for a long, long time.

Unravel You | Four Five (I Will Survive) - Ava Luna

“Maybe your heart ain’t what it used to be, and maybe your devastating beauty’s something I won’t survive--but I’ll be damned if I don’t try.”

“Oh.” Her voice was intolerably soft. Their hands were still touching. The ex-umbralis’s suddenly floated just above: “You’ve got a little bit of something here.” Her fingertip lit again, trying to brush a microscopic bit of fiber--the last evidence of the unraveled end--from her knuckle.

The captain’s yanked her hand back as if she’d been bitten. “Gah! You’re too gentle, I can’t stand it when you’re so gentle,” she cried.

“Well that’s all very well--I didn’t even get it. It’s stuck in your static. Give me your hand again.”

She drew it to half an inch before her mouth, tautening her veils against chin with her other hand. The instant saw her lips contract and rest; the tiniest puff of air skipped across the space between. The raveling flew away. The captain’s shivered.

The Supernova Monologues | Help Me Mary - Liz Phair

“As they egg me on, and keep me mad, they play me like a pit bull in a basement...”

There was a time—cycles, turns—I was twitching in my sleep. For the first time since the first week my face stung again. For the first time ever I noticed that I was biting my tongue at every touch. I couldn’t tell you what had changed. I just reached a natural end, like a planet going through a polar shift. Like a sun, burning her final iron.

I remembered the way the visionary fought—with a staff like a fulcrum she’d take down yellowjackets three times her size. I made my weapon, or something that’d pass for one. Bare foot to broom head. In any second I could steal, any second out from the grind of her eyes, I learned. From the day I began forward, I was fighting a war of attrition. When they said go fetch I brought back the vacuum’s fury. When they said jump I grew ten feet tall instead.

The Bernino Interview | The Louder I Call The Faster It Runs - Wye Oak

“Like any other day, we will make the bed--thinking, ‘It is dead, it is finally dead.’“

1: Well maybe it does piss me off. I’ve barely shaken the crash off yet and you come asking me to elaborate my moral dilemmas.

2: I think you should tell the truth even if you don’t believe anyone will listen. Don’t you think you’d be less frustrated watching things change if you were changing something too?

Rise and Shine | A Cannon - Regina Spektor

“Bare feet on the cobblestone streets, then the beach, then a splash on my ankles, my knees, then my thighs, and my eyes opened wide--I threw myself right into the sea.”

That is the first time it occurs to her: the world outside is just there. It won’t melt if she tries to touch it. She won’t burn if it touches her. She shrinks back physically from the thought, one of those phantom reactions that makes the supervisors say she’s touched by the void. She is, of course, but not in the way they think.

An Education | Love Yourself (Reprise) - Sufjan Stevens

….“If you don’t know things, fear is all you have. I realized that, seeing how different she was from me. The imperial vocivographer, I mean.”

“I don’t think they’re any less smart than we are,” the girl says suddenly. “But they live in a tiny little world. And there’s a big universe out there.”

Letters From Tropovoxia | Sixteen Tons (Cover) - My Terrible Friend

“I was born one morning when the sun didn’t shine. I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine. Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal, and the straw-boss said well bless my soul. You load sixteen tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...”

“As to the latest turns of events out there, I don’t see any reason to worry. Clones can be a great deal like schoolchildren--in a sea of barely formed personalities, a single beam of confidence draws every eye. Your orator is a queen bee, nothing more. You’ll get one every few shipments. With your and the foremaidens’ guidance, she can work in your favor with the others--they see her as worth paying attention to, so they may be persuaded to see her as worth imitating. I trust you’ll understand what I’m driving at. Otherwise, let them have their little lives…”

Two Can Play | Mutiny, I Promise You - The New Pornographers

“What’s the weight of the world worth to ya, kid?”

They settle in the two seats, under the high slanted windows and under the stars behind them. Rugsy seems to sigh her indignation out, visibly flinging it from her shoulders, and then, a few moments later, starts to laugh under her breath. “Well,” Dialtone says over her, replacing the hairs disturbed by her ecstatic performance in a compact mirror pulled from an invisible dress pocket, “that was messy.”

“That was, unequivocally, the best thing we’ve ever done.”

“We had our fun, probably at great expense.”

“I love watching you lie to the feds. It’s like a chamber concert from a virtuoso.”

Very briefly, flattered light blossoms over Dialtone’s face. She comports it sour again. “In which I’m forced to incorporate the sound of you banging two washbasins together.”

“Hey! That story got them gone.”

“The execution of it got them gone.” Dialtone heaves a sigh. “You have the boldness required to sell an audacious claim. It’s no small feat for an ex-umbralis.”

Void Song | Generator (First Floor) - Freelance Whales

“We keep on churning and the lights inside your house come on. And in our native language, we are chanting ancient songs. And when we quiet down the house chants on without us.”

It occurs to her that over the afternoon of preparation, they’ve come to understand that she’s let them be part of something important, even if she never let it slip. They don’t want to disappoint her. She wishes she would ever say that she almost came out here and did this alone, and that is what would have counted as doing it wrong.

[orbemnews]

Biden Is Pushing a Climate Agenda. Gina McCarthy Has to Make It Stick. WASHINGTON — Gina McCarthy worked six or seven days a week, 12 to 14 hours a day, to produce America’s first real effort to combat climate change, a suite of Obama-era regulations that would cut pollution from the nation’s tailpipes and smokestacks and wean the world’s largest economy from fossil fuels. Then the administration of Donald J. Trump shredded the work of President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency chief before any of it could take effect. Ms. McCarthy is back, as President Biden’s senior climate change adviser, and this time, she is determined to make it stick. The most powerful climate change official in the country other than Mr. Biden himself, her charge is not simply to reconstruct her Obama-era policies but to lead an entire government to tackle global warming, from the nation’s military to its diplomatic corps to its Treasury and Transportation Department. She will also lead negotiations with Congress for permanent new climate change laws that could withstand the next change of administration. “I’ve got a small stronghold office, but I am an orchestra leader for a very large band,” Ms. McCarthy, 66, said in a speech in February. Mr. Biden’s two-day global climate summit meeting, which begins Thursday, is his chance to proclaim America’s return to the international effort to stave off the most devastating impacts of a warming planet, but it is Ms. McCarthy’s re-emergence as well. Mr. Biden is expected to pledge that the United States will cut its planet-warming emissions by at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in the next decade. The world has seen such promises before, with the Kyoto accords in the 1990s, then the Paris Agreement in the Obama era, only to see them discarded by subsequent Republican administrations. It will fall to Ms. McCarthy to prove the skeptics wrong. Washington “has offered nothing on how it plans to make up for the lost four years,” said the spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, on Friday. The administration plans concurrent efforts to enact regulations to curb auto and power plant emissions, restrict fossil fuel development and conserve public lands while pressing Congress to pass the climate provisions in Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill, such as renewable power and electric vehicle programs. Ms. McCarthy hopes to push the infrastructure bill further, possibly by mandating that power companies produce a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources such as wind and solar. That will be a tough sell to many Republicans — but if it passes Congress, it could stand as the Biden administration’s permanent climate legacy, even if other rules are swept away by future presidents. “What Gina succeeds in pulling together is essential to our ability to have credibility in the world,” John Kerry, a former secretary of state and now Mr. Biden’s international climate envoy, said in January. “And nobody knows the details better than she does, and nobody is going to be more effective in corralling everybody to move in the same direction.” Ms. McCarthy, who spent the Trump administration first as a visiting fellow at Harvard and then as the head of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group, said that, for the most part, she didn’t take the demolition of her work personally. “But I was offended,” she said in a recent interview. She said she poured enormous effort into creating Obama-era rules that could pass muster with the courts and ease into effect, only to watch them undone by Trump-era climate rollbacks that were slapped together, rife with spelling and math errors, and then promptly bogged down in court. “It was almost embarrassing,” she said. “It was naïve. It was so poorly written. It had political statements in it. It was just outrageous.” There was, however, some comfort in that. “I knew there was no way this would stand the test of time,” she said. “I knew that it could be rebuilt.” Ms. McCarthy’s friends say she is driven to build back a climate legacy that will outlast her second round in government. “She was angry, there’s no question about that,” said Mitchell Bernard, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “I heard many an expletive exit her mouth about what was going on in the government.” During the 2020 presidential campaign, Ms. McCarthy worked with liberal activists to push Mr. Biden to embrace a far more ambitious climate plan than he first proposed — and to make it the centerpiece of his governing agenda. It was Ms. McCarthy who was saying, “We absolutely can go bigger and should be asking for more,” said Evan Weber, the political director of Sunrise Movement, the progressive environmental group. “She wanted us to see the connections between environmental justice and racism and what was happening between Covid and the environmental crisis, and I thought, ‘Damn, that sounds like an activist.’” When Mr. Biden asked her to join his White House, Ms. McCarthy said she was initially reluctant. But when he embraced much of the rhetoric and policies of the party’s left, she was won over. “When President, then candidate, Biden, made the connection between climate and health and environmental and racial justice, and he framed it in terms of what needed to be done after the pandemic for job growth, it just — it owned me,” she said. “It got me out of the drudgery of climate always being a planetary burden and a horrible potential future and brought it into a framing that to me, energized it.” Republicans have taken notice, and they are not happy. “For almost two months now, unaccountable czar Gina McCarthy has been working both behind the scenes and in front of the press to lay the groundwork for the Biden administration’s agenda,” Senator Shelly Moore Capito of West Virginia, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment Committee, said last month. “She’s wielding her power publicly to make it clear who’s calling the shots and directing the troops.” Ms. McCarthy, who has worked as a state and federal environmental regulator for nearly 40 years, is used to attacks from Republicans, and from the heads of the polluting industries that she has spent a career trying to rein in. But over those decades, she has won the grudging respect of some chief executives who have met her across negotiating tables. “She was always willing to roll up her sleeves and dig into issues and take it seriously,” said Jeffrey Holmstead, a lawyer representing fossil fuel companies, who also served as a top E.P.A. official in the George W. Bush administration. “She doesn’t suffer fools lightly, but everybody always felt they had a fair hearing.” He added, “From the president’s perspective, she is the ideal person in this job.” Ms. McCarthy grew up in a working-class Irish Catholic family, just outside of Boston. Her mother worked in a doughnut factory and her father, a teacher, was in a union — a background that she says has served her well in building strong relationships both with her current boss and with some of the Republicans and union groups whose support she hopes to win. She spent 25 years as a health and environmental-protection official for Massachusetts, working for five governors, including Mitt Romney, a Republican who assigned her to write a state climate-change plan. Now Senator Romney is among a handful of Republicans whom Mr. Biden sees as possible votes for his infrastructure bill. She is also drawing from her working-class background to woo union leaders as she prepares to reinstate tough new rules on emissions from cars and coal-fired power plants, the nation’s two largest sources of greenhouse pollution. Coal workers attacked Ms. McCarthy’s Obama-era climate rules as a “war on coal” and turned out in support of Mr. Trump, but this week, Cecil E. Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, said that his members would accept a transition away from fossil fuels in exchange for heavy government investment in new jobs in renewable energy, spending on technology to make coal cleaner and financial aid for miners who lose their jobs — similar to some of the provisions in Mr. Biden’s infrastructure package. But autoworkers are worried: The White House climate plan envisions a future in which most Americans drive zero-emission electric vehicles, but building an electric vehicle requires about a third fewer workers than building a traditional combustion-engine vehicle. “I’m really impressed with her knowledge of what working life is for an autoworker,” said Rory Gamble, president of the United Auto Workers, who has Ms. McCarthy’s cellphone number. “In sister McCarthy we find a well-educated ear who is in tune with what we are facing. I appreciate knowing that she has labor roots.” But, he said, she has yet to persuade him that new pollution rules won’t cost jobs. “The hurdle, and I’ve shared this with Gina, is if the government is going to get into this and invest money in this, there has to be assurances that this work stays in America, with good wages and good benefits, and the workers can organize. That’s a lot of what-ifs there.” Source link Orbem News #agenda #Biden #Climate #Gina #McCarthy #Pushing #Stick

[douchebagbrainwaves]

I'VE BEEN PONDERING CAPS

It could be because you're living in the future. It's obvious why investors delay.1 When a friend of mine visiting India sprained her ankle falling down the steps in a railway station. I've learned a lot from things I've read on HN. An Operational Definition. Will your blackberry get a bigger screen? The numbers on the Y Combinator application that would help Web-based software forces programmers to. Don't wait before climbing that mountain or writing that book or visiting your mother.2

The conversations you overhear tell you what to do anymore. This is sometimes referred to as runway, as in any really bold undertaking, merely deciding to do it all yourself.3 4%? Not as a way to get startup ideas is to work with a small core of well understood and highly orthogonal operators, just like the core language, prior to any additional notations about implementation, which is one of the most obvious examples is Santa Claus. Venture funding works like gears. After ten weeks' work the three friends have an idea. The price is that valuation caps aren't actual valuations, and notes are cheap and lightweight.4 Otherwise you won't bother learning much more.5 To see an interesting variety of probabilities we have to be specific about what they plan to do and the kind that's interesting to write.6

What problems? It gives us an excuse for being lazy, the others would be more fun. But should you start a startup than just start it. After all, as most companies do more mundane stuff where the decisive factor is effort, not brains. Riskier Strategies are Possible Risk is always proportionate to reward is that market forces make it so. By similar comparisons you can make yourself nearly immune to tricks. Is an inbox the optimal tool for that? Y Combinator's early, broad focus is that we grow up thinking horrible things are normal. The big dogs don't have to be called Ajax.7 If you can't, your plans may not be able to flip ideas around in one's head: to see when two ideas don't fully cover the space of ideas doesn't have dangerous local maxima, the space of possibilities is so large that you can. And this turns out to be. The best word to describe the way lions seem in the wild seem about ten times more alive.8

They don't even get a shot at being really big. But the techniques for building integrated circuits spread rapidly to other countries. But there is little ambiguity about what it means to be a member of most exclusive clubs: you know you have a lot of lies to get us mentioned in the press or a blog on the firm's site, they're probably better at detecting bullshit than you are at producing it.9 The VC funds that don't adapt won't be violently displaced. Depends on what you want.10 A rounds. Then you could, I don't mean to suggest by this list that America is the perfect place for startups. Detox A sprinter in a race almost immediately enters a state called oxygen debt. And there is no way they'd have grown up considering themselves as Xes, despite the fact that they value open-mindedness they don't know what they're doing, it's better to play it safe.

Make Web sites for galleries—that's the ticket!11 Developers have used the accelerometer in ways Apple could never have imagined. Everyone makes up their own deal terms. If they shake your hand on a promise, because there will be an effort to understand him. In fact, you don't need Microsoft on the client, they can't push users towards their server-based software, you're being offered millions of dollars, put yourself in a situation with a large percentage of the gains.12 Html 15. Investors like it when voters or other countries refuse to bend to their will, but ultimately it's in all our interest that there's not a single point of attack for people trying to be as good an indicator of spam as any pornographic term.13 Instead of treating them as virtual words. If you're not omniscient, you just stop working on it till you've launched.

Really, it's Apple's fault.14 If you feel exhausted, it's not uncommon for investors and acquirers. Links and images you should certainly look at, if we want to make their mark on the world, and some of the more beautiful highways in the world, write a new Mosaic. Not linearly of course, but that's true in a lot of people that age, and he was pretty much a throwaway program and keep improving it. A lot of the same words as my real mail. Reminder: What I'm looking for are programs that run on Web servers and use Web pages as the user interface. Not ready for commitment This was my reason for not starting a startup—becoming the sort of strategic insight I was supposed to look. I learned something valuable from that. After a while this filter will start to make up their minds, and excessive dilution in series A rounds later. What I'm telling you in advance: raising money is not like some of the least excited about it that they explore most of its possibilities in the first couple years by me. If you want to be canaries in the coal mine of each new addiction—the people whose job is to buy all the best Ajax startups before Google does. Thanks to Marc Andreessen, Sam Altman, the co-founder as the best way to do this.

If they even say no. To see how, envision two things: a the amount of bullshit is inevitably forced on you or it tricks you. Companies didn't start to finance themselves with retained earnings was one cause of the second type. But it could be shipped to Europe. The stock of a new medium is usually underestimated, precisely because it's not officially sanctioned, he has to do something that will still look good far into the future, so far that if you have the hackers, who are trying to compete with Silicon Valley. But they work as if they got the answer to this question. Most startups that raise money do it more. And I've met a lot of servers and a lot of money to us. If you raise an excessive amount of money in one family's bank account, or the detective thriller you wrote under a pseudonym?15 Football players like to win by making great products.

Notes

I tried ranking users by both average and median comment score, and b made brand the dominant factor in deciding between success and failure, just as on a saturday, he wrote a prototype in Basic in a situation where the acquirer just wants the business, and B doesn't, that he had more fun in this, but the distribution of good ones, it will seem more powerful sororities at your school sucks, where many of the political pressure to protect one's children seems weaker, judging from things people have to decide between turning some investors away and selling more of the first abstract painters were trained to expect the second component is empty—an idea where the ratio of spam in my incoming mail fluctuated so much better to overestimate than underestimate the importance of making a good product. It's surprising how small a problem, but also very informative essay about why something isn't the problem is that any idea relating to the way I know for sure a social network for x instead of working. And starting an organic farm, though. Brooks, Rodney, Programming in Common Lisp for, but corrupt practices in finance, healthcare, and no one would have a different attitude to the way I know it didn't to undergraduates on the other team.

I'm thinking of Oresme c. If by cutting the founders' advantage if it were.

Then when we got to the same, but they start to get rich by creating wealth—wealth that, in Galbraith's words, of the fatal pinch where your idea is crack. The Old Way. Compromising a server could cause such damage that ASPs that want to measure that turns out to be the right direction to be an inverse correlation between the two elsewhere, but when companies reach a given audience by a factor of 20. Mueller, Friedrich M.

And if they want impressive growth numbers. In high school. There are also the 11% most susceptible to charisma. So although it works on all the other hand, they made more that year from stock options, because the broader your holdings, the work that seems formidable from the government had little acquired immunity to tax rates.

A from a company's culture. It's hard to mentally deal with them.

Stone, op. 03%. In the beginning. I wrote this on an IBM laptop.

But it is very common, but also like an undervalued stock in that. Did you just get kicked out for doing badly and is doomed anyway. And that is actually from the CIA.

Steve hadn't come back. For example, I was just having lunch. A friend who started a company is common, but suburbs are so intellectually dishonest in that sense, but corrupt practices in finance, healthcare, and domino effects among investors.

Founders rightly dislike the sort of wealth for society. But a couple predecessors. Some of the most accurate way to tell VCs early on.

Joshua Schachter tells me it was the recipe is to ignore investors and instead focus on growth instead of blacklist. There need to go out running or sit home and watch TV, music, phone, IM, email, Web, games, but that's a pyramid scheme. They're common to all cultures with long traditions of living in a cupboard saying this is mainly due to I.

Articles of this essay, I advised avoiding Javascript. This is an acceptable excuse, but Google proved them wrong. Nor do we draw the line?

Financing a startup.

One YC founder who read this essay wrote: After the war, tax rates. One-click ordering, however, and since technological progress aren't sharply differentiated.

Plus one can have margins big enough, a day feels like it if you want to take action, go ahead. In this essay, I believe will be inversely proportional to the year x in a time. Philadelphia.

A from a mediocre VC. This approach has not worked well, so if you're not sure.

Thanks to Chris Small, and Trevor Blackwell for their feedback on these thoughts.

[tuannyriver]

I’ve just returned from the Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) at Saint Mary’s College just across the road from University of Notre Dame. Here are some highlights from each of the four days. 

DAY 1. There were three panels during the first session, and I attended the panel on the history of nuns and racial justice. It included a sing-song story about the late Sr. Thea Bowman at the USCCB; a moving personal account by a Sister of St. Joseph of Rochester NY (left photo) on living in Selma during 1959-1968; and an account on Sr. Margaret Ellen Traxler and others in the NCCIJ. To my delight, the last presentation mentioned fifteen Franciscan nuns from Assisi Heights, where I worked during my senior year in high school, who participated in the Cabrini Project in Chicago.

Early Americanist Ann Little (Colorado State) gave the evening’s keynote, mostly on her recent biography of Esther Wheelwright. She was New England-born; captured by the Wabanaki Indians at 7 and became Catholic among them; and joined the Ursulines in Canada and eventually became mother superior. The story is fascinating, and I’d like to read the book sometimes in the next year.A theme that caught my eyes has to do with the nun’s habit(s). Prof. Little pointed out a comparison between the Ursuline habit and the Wabanaki female hood regarding weather, among other things. Another reason for the thickness of the Ursuline habit was restriction of hearing and seeing for the purpose of interior prayer and introspection. Another presenter mentioned that Martin Luther King wrote to Catholic bishops and religious orders to invite priests and nuns to march in Selma and elsewhere. He really wanted them to wear the collars and religious habits. Until this conference, I hadn’t seen photos of civil rights marches from this period showing nuns. One photo showed a nun in full habit participating in the Meredith March Against Fear in June 1966. Imagine putting on something like that to walk outdoors under the high heat and humidity of a Mississippian summer.

DAY 2. I went to all four sessions, starting with a morning panel on three archives in NYC area. The archives of the Sisters of Charity of New York might draw much interest from researchers because of its holdings on St. Vincent’s Hospital, but the Maryknoll Mission Archives is probably most applicable to my research. I also cross my fingers that there are relevant materials in the many deposits to the Archives of the Archdiocese of New York, which, incidentally, illustrates the old joke that even the Holy Spirit doesn’t know how many orders of Catholic nuns there are in the world. Until its archivist’s presentation, for example, I hadn’t heard of the Sisters of Divine Compassion or the Sisters of Our Lady of Christian Charity. I did know about the Hawthorne Dominicans, having first seen their ads in Catholic publications during the early 1990s. I didn’t know, however, that their founder was the daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Similar to UMV earlier this month, I stayed in a student dorm and, from suite mate Farrell O’Gorman, an English faculty at Belmont Abbey College, learned quite a few things about Mother Mary Alphonsa, as Rose Hawthorne was eventually known, from my Unsurprisingly, the New Yorkers at the conference knew plenty about her and her branch of Dominicans.

My NYC-accented morning was balanced out by a panel on the Sisters and Daughters of Charity moving to the West during the nineteenth century: to St. Louis, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. For the first time in my conference-going life, I heard two presentations consisted entirely of excerpts from letters, annals, memoirs, and diaries. (One presenter has been a Daughter of Charity since 1958 and gave her presentation from a wheelchair.) These presentations added up to a remarkable portrayal of endurance. The nuns’ travels to the American West might not be as melodramatic as Xuanzang’s journey to the west, but they sure were no picnic. They smelled, for example, the awful air of coal when passing through West Virginia, and they saw horrifying scenes of chained slaves in Missouri. There were sicknesses and even a few deaths along the way. The challenges continued well after they arrived to Santa Fe or San Francisco. But the difficulties also revealed opportunities. As someone in the audience put it during the Q&A, in the East Coast, Catholic nuns built institutions–orphanages, hospitals, schools–parallel to the already existing structure. In the West, however, they built the structure itself.

The last panel that I attended also considered antebellum nuns, albeit with a French rather than New York accent. Jacqueline Willy Romero, whose article was recently published in the same issue of American Catholic Studies as mine, told a fascinating story of conflict between a French-born Sulpician bishop of Bardstown, Kentucky, and a nun of the Sisters of Charity, which he’d founded and stood as their superior general. Gabrielle Guillerm, a doctoral student of Robert Orsi at Northwestern, talked about different types of memory about French missionary nuns in nineteenth-century America. Even though I’d known that France led all Europeans in missionary endeavors, I was still mildly stunned to learn that in 1878, three-quarters of Catholic missionaries, men and women, were French. To paraphrase Kathy Cummings during her commentary, the French roots of American Catholicism were deep and long. It is most appropriate, then, that the site of this conference was founded by French nuns.

DAY 3. I missed the afternoon sessions due to being online for a committee meeting in Malibu. And in the morning I gave my presentation on Vietnamese women religious. It was supposed to be about their exile to the U.S. in 1975, but I ended up speaking more about their lives in colonial Indochina and in South Vietnam.  There was more about NYC at my panel, this time on the Dominican Sisters, from native son Jim Carroll who spoke with a distinct New York accent. The other panelists, a husband-and-wife team, spoke about the four American women missionaries that were murdered in El Salvador. To this familiar story, I learned quite a bit about their background from this presentation as well as the banquet’s plenary talk by Eileen Markey (Lehman College), author of a book about Sr. Maura Clarke, one of the missionaries (top). Similar to Day 1, the plenary was interrupted by tornado siren that forced all attendants to the basement. The interruption was fortunately much shorter this time, and there was also a nice display wing that kept some of us helpfully distracted (bottom).

The most fascinating presentations came from the first session. There were a paper on indigenous Mexican nuns by an American doctoral student at Rutgers and another on discalced Carmelites in the Netherland by an Irish-Dutch historian. The second paper, in particular, explained an ideology of self-renunciation, reparation, and meritorious and “sacrificial suffering” in Carmelite cloistered and contemplative life. The Q&A was also notable for a question and answer about Edith Stein. The papers are parts of larger works-in-progress, both of which I look forward to read when they are completed.

DAY 4. The last day ended with lunch, so there were only two sessions in the morning, each with two panels. I went to the back-to-back panels on CARA’s ongoing research about (a) culture and ethnicity on religious life in recent decades; and (b) international religious institutes in the U.S. since 1965. There were many charts and graphs shown by the presenters, plus a lot of feedback from panelists and audience on questions and approaches regarding these subjects. There was also quite a bit about Vietnamese American Catholics due mostly to the effort of Sr. Thu Do, a member of the Lovers of the Holy Cross in Hanoi. She’s been a principal investigator of these projects, and I met her briefly last year when she visited my parish during a tour of surveys. I chatted with her several times at this conference and I look forward to read the final findings and analyses.

In the afternoon, I went to the archives at Notre Dame and learned that the holdings are still kept on the sixth floor but the research room is now on the first floor. I was on the sixth floor only once when living in South Bend, and it shall remain so. The new place is spacious with many tables for researchers in the large room. I was taken to the small room with only four tables. There were already three people busy at work, and two of them were CHWR attendants like myself. I returned the next morning and found a third conference-goer, one of the Dominican Sisters, also examining some materials. Life of the mind.

Besides meeting a number of archivists and academics for the first time, the conference afforded a chance to see several people I haven’t seen in years, including John McGreevy and Mary Henold. Headed by Tom Rzeznik, the programming committee did a fine job putting together the schedule. Kathy Cummings and the Cushwa Center ensured a smooth run of the conference on the face of occasionally inclement weather.  The campus of Saint Mary’s College is quite beautiful and, in contrast to the bustling of visitors and construction at Notre Dame, quite serene. 

  The 11th triennial conference on the history of women religious I've just returned from the Conference on the History of Women Religious (CHWR) at Saint Mary's College just across the road from University of Notre Dame.

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Resource Guarding

So hours of reading and observing, and I finally know: it is definitely resource guarding.  Without a doubt.  There is little information on this behavior because it is not well studied.  All we know for certain is that it is a natural inclination for dogs due to their heritage.  They may be domesticated, but few breeders check for temperament (especially in purebreds) AND it is really hard to breed out as well.  Resource guarding is an survival instinct.  It can hit any and all dogs at any time.  Young or old, the star of obedience or the not-so-great.  Doesn't matter.  Some dogs are so docile that they may never experience it.  Or, like us, you just don't realize that what you are seeing is resource guarding.

Ever since Rudolph Schenkel wrote up about wolves and dogs and the "alpha" theory, it screwed everything up for dogs.  Resource guarding was lumped into all sorts of behaviors that are actually non-existent in dogs or at least completely misunderstood.  Even Schenkel himself said his own theory was bunk and that he was wrong.  Dogs and wolves don't "get dominance" (that isn't even correct grammar as far as I am concerned!  Should be "get dominant", but I digress)  Their pack units are family units and roles are very fluid based on the skills and personalities of other wolves.  The larger the "pack" then the more rankings you will find, but this will more often be in artificial packs than family units.

But because of this completely wrong course in behavioral science, there is little information about the behavioral problems in our pets because it all came down to "who was dominant".  We humans tend to have an inability to look at things in all their complexities.  We try to make it as simple as possible.  We did the same thing with our own children when teaching them.  Wrong answer?  Slap on the wrist.  Misbehave?  Slap on the wrist.  We as a species are horrible for taking one label and applying everything---including corrective and interactive measures--to under that label.  

But here is the thing.  Resource guarding is not a dominance issue.  It is a natural thing that would be most appropriate in a survival situation.  What we, as the "smarter" species has to do is counter condition it.  That makes perfect sense.  It is just like when we finally realized that those kids in school weren't trying to cause trouble on purpose---they had something in them they couldn't control and needed help in learning to work with it.  Same thing here.  It's like ADHD for dogs or something along those lines.  Another thing people misunderstand about resource guarding is that it is NOT about plentiful versus scarce.  Even free-fed dogs guard, despite the abundance (or maybe because of it!)

Now, the reason we weren't sure if he was resource guarding was because it didn't "look" like resource guarding.  That is a biggy, too.  There is an image of what resource guarding is and how it should look.  You don't hear about the sporadic guarder who leaps at you with almost no warning.  You don't see stuff on the dogs who don't technically hover over what they are guarding.  All the videos show the classic tense-body, growl, snap, and hovering.  The text-book cases.

Coal was nothing like that.  Every time I showed my videos to various people, things ranged from "anxious/stressed" to "wants to play".  The tension in his body was minimal, he wasn't growling or snapping, and it didn't happen all the time--so people like us, the lay people, have a tough time figuring out what it is.

Still, his biting was strong--enough to leave bruises, though he never punctured (two times he grazed with his teeth that caused scratches, but regardless of clothing, it was only bruises: jeans, sweat pants, flimsy pajama pants, loose shirt/skirts, didn't matter).  What most people don't realize is that bite inhibition has no correlation to resource guarding (Jean Donaldson, thank you for writing that because it had me worried!).  

We had tried everything with Coal.  Increased playtime, changing bowls, ignoring him, adding more food.  Some things seemed to work briefly while others had no affect.  In desperation, and to prove a point, I even did a nose-tap when he bit at my arm (catching only sleep...which I am positive was on purpose).  Nothing really worked and I was at my wits end.  I read so many things, so many possibilities...but what could it be?  What made things even more confusing is the knowledge that we do everything "right".  I never ever used physical correction before nor since that one nose swat.  We do the NILF (nothing in life is free) program--he sits or gets a cue for everything before he gets it.  He waits at the door before going out (and his house and his pen, everything).  He sit-stays for his food and doesn't get it until we say.  We even took preventative measures when he was a puppy---hand feeding, cues during meals, touching and petting, trading up for his food bowl, etc.  We took away his puzzle ball for after meals because we thought it was getting him too excited---then we gave it back because maybe it was his "dessert".  We worked on bite inhibition and everything.  Yet this still happened.  What made it even more confusing was how he zoned in on a specific part of the leg--the upper thigh.  However we moved or shifted, he would keep his eyes fixated on that target as if it greatly offended him.  Surprisingly, we found that we could redirect his gaze if we had our red water bottle carrier.

We didn't see anything serious until around 5 months of age--so we naturally thought that maybe it was the hormones.  Well, it wasn't.  We got him neutered about two weeks ago and we still haven't seen a change in that part of his behavior.

It wasn't until this morning, that I realized it was truly resource guarding, and the only reason I understood that was because he started showing more classic behaviors.  Hubby had put him into a sit-stay and was about to trade the bowl for the ball when Coal came streaking out.  We have always been on guard for this, so hubby was able to get back and out of the way.  Coal went ballistic, and hubby was tired and cranky, so he got mad, too.  The escalation between the two is something I am not proud to witness, but it really drove home the point that aversive and "dominance" does jack squat.  Coal is strong willed, he didn't back down and he just became more aroused the angrier my husband got.  But this--this was when he showed the true issue.  I think that if my husband hadn't gotten so frustrated, I wouldn't have finally seen what I was looking for: the aggressive mouth, the tense face---all the signs in all the videos minus the snarling.  He was hovering around his bowl, too, in a much more obvious. (as a quick note, hubby did not hit or physically abuse Coal in any way--he did kick at the pen and start posturing, which was enough to drive home the point)

Looking back, I think the signs were more obvious.  It was usually at meal times (he recently started the same behavior after last walks, but that might be something different) and he was focused on the feeder.  He didn't care about other people for the most part.  Now, this last part threw us off because--again--case studies usually go to anyone.  But Coal is a bit bright.  He learned quickly that the person who fed him took his bowl away, so that person became his primary focus.  Still, I didn't realize this could still be resource guarding until I read Jean Donaldson's book "Mine!"  Another thing that should have tipped me off was one time, I had picked up his bowl from the storage and walked by after cleaning it.  His eyes got wide as saucers when he saw it.  I found that holding the bowl in a non-food way was less likely to draw his attention, but he still watched.

Okay, so he is resource guarding.  My next step was to convince my husband that it was not personal.  I also had to convince my husband this was not, technically a "choice" he was making, that it wasn't about dominance, and that getting angry back would do nothing.  This is hard because my husband is old-school.  He defers to me in dog decisions for two reasons: 1, it is my dog.  And 2, I am really studying up and getting to the point of "pro" haha.  Anyway, he understands, but he has a temper and it is hard for him to think logically when he gets angry.  Ironic, since this is exactly the thing that happens in dogs during resource guarding.  They get emotional and it clouds their thinking.

Now that all THAT is out of the way, I went back to the book "Mine!" to the book- marked food bowl guarding and started reading the steps.  At first, it was a little confusing, but I was able to find several videos of trainers and owners who somewhat demonstrated the steps.  It took a while.  It feels like a closely guarded secret that no one wants to share as they are working through the  process, but I figured it out.  The first thing I wanted to do was test it.

So, out comes the food bowl and my hand full of nummer treats.  I opted for a combo of just walking back and forth as in the book, and sometimes asking for a cue (stay/house).  It was a remarkable observation.  I sent him to his house and set down the food bowl.   I watching him like a hawk, his eyes, his tail, and his mouth (those are the three things that are easiest to see).  I released him as we always do and watched.  He went up to the bowl and sniffed around, then gave me this confused look---what?  Where's the food!?

I again asked for his house, walked up and dropped a treat in, released and walked away.  It was like a  bungee-stay without the stay.  Walked toward him, drop and treat, and go back.  Sit, drop treat, back.  I varied if I asked him to stay or not, and I came from different places around the room.  we don't have the space to go a full ten feet except if we go out in the hall, but it was enough.  Sometimes I just came near him and didn't give anything.

Here is where things get remarkable.  After about four bungees, I noticed his body posture changing ever so slightly.  He was watching me very closely.  Yes, he was walking with me---he went left if I went left, etc.  but when I came close to drop in a treat, he sat.  Immediately.  No prompting.  The tension was not quite as strong in him, either.  There was a definite change, but I am not sure how big yet.  

When I was done, I took an extra treat and tossed it in his house while I whisked away the bowl.  It seemed better than having to fight or leave it, as we needed it for dinner time anyways.

According to Jean Donaldson, the first level is with treats only until you can pick up the bowl.  After that, kibble is introduced and the sessions go to meal times.  At this point, since I am in treat-level, I am trying to determine how many times a day I should do it.  We have already figured his treat/meal calories, so that is no problem.  

Outside of that, I am also reinforcing our management plan.  Our management plan was pretty much what everyone suggests (you get a bit intuitive after all that studying).  We feed him and no one bothers him.  We keep the family from moving past his pen during that time.  After feeding, he gets a ten minute cool down time, then a check to see if he is back in his right mind.  The sticker comes with the trade up for the puzzle ball.  It is, by far, his favorite thing in the world after meals.  We fill it with kibble and trade the ball for the bowl.  However, if he is like this morning, he gets no ball and we ignore/leave him.  We may also have to crate him--something that I get the honor of doing as he sees me most as the "leader" so to speak (IE Mommy is better than Daddy haha)

As for the modification plan.  I am going to be the one to go through the heirarchies recommended by Jean Donaldson.  When I complete them all, it will be hubbies turn.  Unfortunately, we have no tether or fake hand--all we have is our little home-made play pen.  It seems to keep him at bay--he has never tried to escape it, though he could easily.  Managing threshold is important, but difficult since it is so sporadic.  We don't know why he does it some days and not others.  I used to think lack of exercise---but considering how dog-tired he was yesterday (I ran him ragged) and his ability to rev up after a few hours sleep, I don't think that will make a difference.  Everyone has bad days---even dogs.  Anyway, after both hubby and I are succesful, I am thinking of doing it with the family.  True, they never feed or interact during feeding times, but it may help to because they do have to go past his cage and I don't want him to suddenly decided they are a threat to his resources.  Besides, the more experiences, the better.

There is a certain weight off of my shoulders, now that I have a path.  Uncertainty is like fear.  It is the mind killer.  It is harder to embrace because you have no course of action, but once you can embrace and let it move past you, you are set.  It vanishes far more quickly than fear. (brownie points for anyone who gets the reference out of that)

Primary recommended resource if you have the same issue: https://www.amazon.com/Mine-Practical-Guide-Resource-Guarding/dp/0970562942

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Is Donald Trump ready for a very different America?

President-elect Donald Trump has a penchant for the 1980’s, but as his inauguration looms closer, it’s very noticeable that America is very different than it was back in the days of Reaganomics.

The week after Donald Trump was elected president, Dr. Mai-Phuong Nguyen and two dozen other Vietnamese-Americans active in liberal causes gathered in a circle of folding chairs, consoling one another about an America almost beyond comprehension.

Now, days before Trump takes the oath of office, Nguyen sits in a restaurant booth in Orange County’s neon-lit Little Saigon and studies perhaps the most confounding face of the divide exposed by the election – her father’s.

“All I know is, if a man makes $100 million he is really something,” Son Van Nguyen, 76, says of Trump.

Here in a county transformed by waves of newcomers, the elder Nguyen – a government translator airlifted from South Vietnam with his family in 1975 as Communist forces pressed in on the capital – built a new life as a record-setting life insurance salesman, watching people strive and struggle.

“And I know a lot of people out there sit there and wait for welfare,” he says, explaining his hopes that Trump will rein in such spending and create jobs.

“But he is trying to prevent other people from coming in and enjoying some of the same things you came here for, Dad,” says his daughter, a 47-year-old physician who pushed for health care reform and fears Trump will take away the medical coverage it extended to millions of Americans. “If he does wrong, are you going to support him?”

Their disagreement is a reminder that for Orange County, just as for the rest of the country, there has never been a moment quite like this one.

When Hillary Clinton won this county of 3.2 million in November, it marked the first time the OC had backed a Democrat for president since Franklin Roosevelt. Best known for Disneyland, and long a hothouse of conservatism in a blue state, it was the largest county in the country to flip.

The shift was expected eventually. Orange County’s citrus groves turned to tract housing decades back to welcome a mostly white influx from Los Angeles and Midwestern states. Today, though, Santa Ana’s quinceanera shops reflect a county that is a third Latino. One in five Orange Countians is Asian.

The hopes and anxieties stirred by Trump’s inauguration spotlight even more complicated tensions.

Most Vietnamese traditionally voted for Republicans, viewed as opponents of communism. But many of their adult children, also refugees, see Trump as rejecting American ideals and people like them.

Local Republicans, who once embraced the John Birch Society and recently erected a statue of Ronald Reagan in the park where he launched two White House bids, long espoused a muscular conservatism. Most voted for Trump, but not without soul-searching.

At Jimmy Camp’s house, a “No Trump” sign made by Camp’s son still hangs in the window. Heading out to feed his family’s a goat and potbellied pig, Camp recalls his start in Republican politics three decades ago – knocking on doors for candidates to earn cash.

Camp played guitar in a rock band then and embraced platforms calling for government to stay out of people’s lives. He’d always loved the outdoors in a county that stretches from the ocean to the Santa Ana Mountains. After meeting county native Richard Nixon, he read up on the disgraced president’s often forgotten chartering of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Camp became one of the state’s busiest Republican political consultants. Then, last summer he emailed fellow Republicans, renouncing his party membership because of his disgust with Trump.

“If you go through and look at everything Jesus said in the Bible, this guy is opposite of it,” says Camp, 52, a pastor’s son.

Camp, who has friends from Iran and Egypt, cringes at a president who would castigate Muslims as supposedly tied to terrorists, though he doubts Trump will fulfill his most extreme rhetoric.

“I hope he doesn’t drive us off a cliff,” Camp says. “I hope that we survive the next four years. I think we will.”

Others voice confidence in Trump.

Gloria Pruyne says her family had reservations about Trump’s morality early on. But the conservative activist ended up knocking on more than 500 doors to get out the vote. Now Pruyne, 78, says she wants Trump to install a conservative Supreme Court justice, revoke an Affordable Care Act she blames for a $500 increase in her family’s monthly insurance bill, and back Israel.

“We’re looking forward to a radical change with this president,” she says.

With the inauguration approaching, Ron Brindle has no plans to remove the 5-foot-square portrait of Trump from his oil well fronting a main road in Huntington Beach. Brindle bought this land for his tree nursery business more than 40 years ago. Today, it is surrounded by tract homes, many owned by Asian families.

“Now I don’t have anything against any of them, but what happened to the country?” Brindle says.

The first thing Trump should do, he says, is close the border so Americans no longer have to foot the bill to care for foreigners. But Brindle also hopes that Trump will reach out to skeptics.

Steven Mai is ready to listen. Mai, a 42-year-old registered Republican, rejected Trump for criticizing the Muslim parents of a slain American soldier.

But Trump will be his president, Mai says.

Still, if Trump really wants to lead, he should come to places like Orange County, says Mai’s wife, Tammy Tran. He could work in a sandwich shop for a few hours or see what it’s like to care for an elderly person. Maybe then, the couple say, Trump will understand his responsibility to the many Americas.

“I just hope he’s going to be the president that my parents were thinking,” Mai says. “If he can be a good president, then we all benefit.”

The Big American Party Switch

Towns along the Susquehanna River are filled with people whose grandparents worked in coal mines, garment factories and small manufacturing companies. But those jobs are long gone in Luzerne County, and Wilkes-Barre, the county seat, has seen its population drop by more than half. Dozens of public officials have fallen to scandal.

All of which helps explain how Ed Harry – who, at 70, has spent most of his working life as a union president and a Democratic party activist, running phone banks for candidates and even serving as a delegate for Bill Clinton in 1992 – became an unlikely apostle for Donald Trump.

When the billionaire businessman and reality TV star entered the presidential race, “I laughed, like everyone else,” Harry says. Then he took note of Trump’s opposition. “The Rs said they hated him, the Ds wanted no part of him, the lobbyists didn’t like him. China came out against him, India came out against him, Mexico came out against him.

“And I said, ‘I think I might have a candidate.'”

Harry, who had grown disillusioned with what he saw as Washington’s broken and corrupt politics, switched parties, publicly endorsed Trump and resigned his labor post. He expects the new president to renegotiate trade deals and reduce corporate taxes, which he believes will help lure back manufacturing jobs. And he is not alone.

In Luzerne County, Trump crushed Hillary Clinton by 20 points – in no small part because lifelong Democrats like Harry believed she was the candidate of Wall Street, ignoring the working class while taking its vote for granted. As Trump enters office, these largely older, white, blue-collar voters want him to keep his promise on manufacturing jobs, rebuild deteriorating roads and bridges, crack down on illegal immigration and “drain the swamp.”

“There’s no hope the way things were,” Harry explains. “It had to be something different.”

And listen to Tom Pikas, who is also counting on Trump to bring change. The 61-year-old Wilkes-Barre native remembers a time when you could easily get a decent-paying job right out of high school. He worked in a shoe factory, then for an electrical contractor, and downtown Wilkes-Barre pulsed with life. “This used to be a nice town,” Pikas says.

More recently, Pikas has toiled in a series of temp jobs, the last one paying $8 an hour. Now looking for work, he found himself at the unemployment office this month, enrolling in a jobs program for seniors. The waiting area was packed.

He has faith that Trump will find a way to turn things around but also counsels patience. “Some people expect he’s gonna do miracles the first month,” Pikas says. “No. No. You gotta at least give the guy a year.”

At a bar up the street, William Chase, 55, a construction foreman recovering from surgeries to his back and both knees, says most of the people in his circle are as hopeful about the future as he is.

“I want to be proud of my area again,” he says.

But just 90 minutes or so down the road, one hears a very different set of voices.

In the wealthy Philadelphia suburbs, where million-dollar homes are advertised for sale and luxury cars fill the parking lot of an organic grocery, the pocketbook issues raised in Luzerne County take a back seat for many.

As Inauguration Day draws near, many people in Chester County – Pennsylvania’s richest, where Clinton won by roughly 9 points despite a Republican majority – remain unsettled by Trump’s volatility, demeanor and offensive comments about women, immigrants and others.

“He kind of frightens me,” says business owner Keely Comstock Shaw, 34, who voted a straight Republican ticket, except for the top office.

“I see him as really breaking all the rules, throwing them all aside, and that’s what is scary to me,” adds Kate Young, a 43-year-old Democrat and stay-at-home mom who lives in West Chester, a bustling college town.

The 2016 election compelled Young to become politically active for the first time. Upset that her candidate won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote, she joined an organization that’s fighting to end gerrymandered legislative districts.

Young predicts Trump will ignore global warming, roll back environmental protections and create a hostile environment for women and minorities. She also doubts he will be able to produce the manufacturing jobs that voters in places like Luzerne County say they want, citing the rise of automation.

“If that’s what people were hoping to get,” she says, “I just think the world economy is moving in a different direction.”

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Choosing Between a Fireplace, Wood Stove, and Pellet Stove

I grew up with both fireplaces and wood stoves, but neither experience really prepared me for tending to my own fireplace or buying a wood or pellet stove of my own. Each year when the temperatures drop, the sky grays, and the heating bill starts to inch upward, I am reminded of my familys first fireplace. In 1984, we moved into a home in Belleville, N.J., that could best be described as a Craftsman Colonial complete with a covered porch, dark woodwork along the stairs, windows, and trim, and a prominent fireplace in the front living room flanked by two small windows. My mother had never lived in a home with a fireplace, so she left the fire-tending duties to my stepfather. Hed keep an eye on the newspapers classified section for people offering free firewood, tow it home in a utility trailer, and spend hours splitting and stacking it into a lean-to beside our garage. The fires themselves were basically trials by fire: We learned whether the damper was open only after smoke blew back into the living room. We discovered there was an ash chute to the basement (and what is now the furnace room) only after the hatch in the fireplace floor fell open and burning coals began falling through. We learned about temperature inversions only after the neighbors called the police or fire department because the neighborhood was cloaked in low-lying smoke. Eventually, however, my parents upgraded the open-air fireplace with a wood-stove insert and a chimney liner. With its fan on, the powered wood stove could heat the entire first floor of the house even if it made sitting in the living room unbearably hot. My stepfather still claims it heats all 1,400 square feet, but myriad multi-blanket nights in the bedroom directly above it say otherwise. More importantly, it led to more efficient burns and an overall more useful (and less dangerous) heat source. Nearly 30 years later, I found myself in a home of my own with not one, but three chimneys. One was attached to a shallow Rumford fireplace, another was simply an ornamental remnant of the homes former 19th-century stove heating system, and the last was a tall chrome chimney built for a guest-quarters wood stove that was never installed. The house came with high-efficiency gas furnaces on each floor, but my wife and I liked the idea of using fireplaces and stoves during the shoulder seasons to cut down on fuel costs. As we weighed our options, we called in a chimney sweep to clean up the last owners mess and get us started. After taking one look up our fireplace chimney, he refused to go any further and said that cleaning the chimney could be taken as an endorsement of its use, which it certainly wasnt. Thats how we learned the first question of fireplaces and wood stoves: What kind of infrastructure are you working with? In the case of our fireplace, we were dealing with a chimney that had little to no mortar left between its bricks sitting atop a firebox that had a wad of insulation shoved into it as a damper. To rebuild much of the chimney, install a damper, and install a bird screen chimney cap, we ended up paying roughly $5,000. However, we got a fireplace with an easy-opening damper, tremendous draw up the chimney, and enough reflected heat to adequately warm its room and the room above with minimal wood. For our only other functional fireplace, we strongly considered both a wood stove and a pellet stove. The guest quarters have heating ducts, but theyre far enough from the furnace to make the heat output minimal. We gave pellet stoves a good look and liked what we saw: They burn at 70 to 83 percent efficiency, are relatively simple to install, and certain models can even burn nut shells and wood chips. However, they also require bags of pellets (typically 40-pound bags that can add up to a ton or more by the end of a season) to operate as well as a place to store them. Also, in our case, we already had chimney pipe sticking through the roof, and the cost of removing it and fixing the roof was only going to add to the total cost of a pellet stove some of which dont even require a chimney. We discovered, however, that newer catalytic wood-burning stoves could also operate at up to 83 percent efficiency, cut down on emissions, and make the best use of our existing chimney. With the help of the folks at Gordon Fireplace in Portland, Ore., (which has since closed) we were able to get a Vermont Castings Intrepid for less than $2,000. That was roughly the same cost as the small pellet stoves that could heat our roughly 700 square feet of lofted space, and it could burn wood that wed stored outside. When a 150-year-old Pignut Hickory tree fell on our property about a year later, we suddenly found ourselves with roughly four pallets worth of firewood stacked five-feet high. Even better, however, was the cheap or free cord wood in our neighborhood that we still regularly find on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, and elsewhere when we dont feel like dipping into high-BTU knots of old hickory. Weve had the wood stove for nearly three years now, and have since closed the heat vent to the guest quarters. If anything, we advise guests to keep the stove set to a low burn just so they dont end up feeling overheated in the middle of the night. Every so often, we still consider putting an insert into the fireplace to get more out of it. A fireplace insert can increase efficiency and cut heating costs, but our fireplace faces away from the large majority of the house, making it an effective heat source for only one to two rooms at most. However, we remain pleased with the decision to use the wood stove in the guest quarters. If we were starting from scratch, the simplicity of the pellet stove and its comparable cost may have won us over. Maybe we couldve invested in a shed for the pellets or found some storage nooks we werent using. But pellet stoves also require electricity to run their fans, pellet feeders, and controls, where the wood stove doesnt add to energy costs and still works at 100 percent if and when the lights go out during a storm. Also, while pellet fuel can cost $3 to $4 a bag (with each bag lasting roughly a full day), free firewood tends to show up everywhere in our area. Granted, youll likely have to pick it up and/or split it yourself, but you now have options to burn that wood efficiently and get the most heat for minimal investment. This doesnt make every wood stove a winner. Our surrounding county has an ongoing wood stove exchange program that offers homeowners $1,500 to $3,500 in rebates just to get rid of older, less efficient wood stoves (even replacing stoves for free in certain households). Even then, theyre reluctant to buy new, more-efficient wood stoves or inserts if a pellet stove or a gas stove is available. In the end, the costs associated with inserts, pellet stoves, and wood stoves are similar enough that it really comes down to circumstance. If you live in an area like mine where wood is abundant and lots of people are looking to get rid of some, a wood stove can be an inexpensive way to heat your home. However, if youre starting from scratch and just need a simple secondary heat source to get you through a few tough months, theres a lot to be said for a pellet stove. However, if you have a fireplace and chimney that actually face into the rest of your home and are just sucking most of your homes heat up the chimney otherwise an insert is likely the least expensive, simplest option. My parents have used one for 30 years, and they can help turn one of your homes aesthetic quirks into a functional, reliable, multigenerational heat source. Related Articles: https://www.thesimpledollar.com/choosing-between-a-fireplace-wood-stove-and-pellet-stove/

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Coalition's breathtakingly stupid response to IPCC climate report

It wasn’t too hard to predict what the Coalition government’s responses to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report would be – you just needed to know where they would be making them.

Prime minister Scott Morrison chose two different media forums to espouse his views – that of far Right shock-jock Alan Jones on Radio 2GB, and Sky News, where the lunar right have been gearing up for this event for the past week.

As ABC’s Media Watch host Paul Barry noted of the Sky News “after dark” coverage on Monday: It’s either irresponsible or “bat-shit” crazy. You could categorise the Coalition government’s response along the same lines.

Morrison’s first response, as we reported on Monday, was to promise that Australia would be spending no money on climate change conferences and “all that nonsense.”

He doesn’t dare pull Australia out of the Paris treaty, but he has no intention of doing anything while it’s there. Pretty much Australia’s standard response to international efforts for the last few decades.

“We are not held to any of the (IPCC recommendations), and nor are we bound by them,” Morrison insisted. In short, Morrison was backing miners over scientists, as the Sydney Morning Herald headlined.

In the fantasy world of the Coalition, according to deputy prime minister Michael McCormack, Australia can have its cake and it eat too: He says Australia can keep on burning coal for decades, and encourage others to do so, and still have a tourism industry on the Great Barrier Reef.

McCormack says Australia will not be dictated to by “some sort of report.”

Some sort of report?

The IPCC report is an opportunity to inspire some sort of rational and considered debate. It was timed, quite deliberately, to coincide with the deadline for the rules of the Paris climate treaty to be finalised, and to encourage the world to do more than their down-payment promises made in Paris, as they had agreed.

Any hope that considered debate would emerge would follow was quickly lost.

Treasurer and former energy minister Josh Frydenberg, ditching his pretence of being a moderate, declared: “If we take coal out of our energy system, the lights will go out on the east coast of Australia – it’s as simple as that.”

If you did it all at once, with no planning, then of course. But no one is suggesting that. If you manage the exit, then no, the lights don’t need to go out.

Current energy minister Angus Taylor, the anti-wind campaigner who says there is already too much wind and solar in the grid, did not take kindly to the IPCC’s recommended global renewable energy share of 75-80 per cent by 2050.

Taylor even tried to convince himself that Australia would meet its Paris target, despite the government’s own data which suggests it will miss it by about one billion tonnes on current trajectories.

He and Morrison congratulated Australia for meeting Kyoto, saying it was one of the only countries to meet its targets (the first stage of which allowed for a significant increase, rather than a fall, in Australia’s emissions. That’s not something to boast about).

And even when ministers were not talking to Murdoch media, the outcome was not much better.

In a complete train wreck of an interview, new environment minister Melissa Price – the former mining industry lawyer who is responsible for managing Australia’s emissions – admitted on ABC Radio’s AM program she had not read the whole IPCC report.

Still, she obviously felt she had read enough to suggest its 91 editors and authors had “drawn a long bow,” and insisted that Australia would meet its Paris targets.

please take 5 mins to listen to environment minister @Melissa4Durack‘s car-crash of an interview this morning.

apparently IPCC scientists are drawing a long bow, but the gov’t is going to take a look at the report & has a plan to “build” a billion trees.https://t.co/2ysF24QsuR

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Asked how, Price then cited the nearly depleted Emissions Reduction Fund, and two institutions that the Coalition has tried to scrap – the Clean Energy Finance Corp and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency – along with the government’s “investment in Snowy 2.0”. And something about “building” one billion trees.

Sure, the CEFC and ARENA are playing an important and welcome role in helping the energy sector reduce emissions to its pro-rata share of the pie. And Snowy 2.0, if it does go ahead, might do a very good job of using coal generation to push water up hill, if the renewables mix does not increase.

But none of Price’s examples explains, remotely, how the government intends to meet an economy-wide 26-28 per cent reduction in emissions, let alone a more ambitious target to play its share of a 2°C scenario, let alone a 1.5°Ç scenarios

Asked about the IPCC’s recommendation that coal be phased out by 2050, Price said: “I just don’t know how you can say by 2050 you are not going to have technology, good clean technology, when it comes to coal. That would be irresponsible of us to commit to that.”

Contrast all these comments from Australia’s cabinet ministers with those of Claire Perry, the UK minister for energy, who says her government will outline its next steps in the next few days:

“I welcome the strong scientific analysis behind today’s IPCC report and its conclusions are stark and sober. As policymakers we need to work together to accelerate the low-carbon transition to minimise the costs and misery of a rapidly warming world.”

Note her use of the words response, science, and the call to action. That was the purpose of the UN report.

But Morrison’s Coalition government didn’t even try, so deep is it in the thrall of its own denial of the science, hiding in the coat-tails of Donald Trump’s Twitter account, and beholden to the script laid out by the conservative forces and vested interests, and outlined in the conservative media.

And just to remind us what this script is, the Australian’s “environment” editor Graham Llloyd – in a piece entitled “UN’s Panel inhabits a universe without  parallel”– suggested it was all part of a plot by the UN to deliver a more equitable sharing of global resources.

Hint: They want to cut your meat pie in half and give it to someone else. That must explain why former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull was eating his meat pie with a knife and fork, so he could cut it evenly. No wonder they ditched him.

The paper’s economics correspondent, Judith Sloan, said the IPCC report wasn’t science but “astrological prophecies.” In an opinion piece titled “If disaster is nigh, we’ll be spared this amateur hour claptrap”, Sloan dismissed the science out of hand and claimed that scientists know nothing about cost-benefit analysis.

But it is Sloan who wilfully ignores it. You certainly wouldn’t want to go on a camping trip with any of this mob – they’d eat everything on the first day, and be on the phone to Gina the next to get helicoptered out.

As ABC’s Paul Barry noted, you might be better off ignoring such tripe, were it not for the fact that this is what is guiding the federal government.

As Opposition spokesman Mark Butler put it today:

“In spite of the clearest possible advice from the world’s most qualified scientists this government has again decided to block their ears and ignore the science, even if it means placing our children and our grandchildren in the face of serious danger.

“Malcolm Turnbull was right when he said, after losing the Liberal leadership yet again, that the Coalition is simply constitutionally incapable of taking action on climate change.”

We are now, quite openly, in the Age of Stupid; or is it the Age of Denial? Whichever it is, let’s just hope that it is over soon.

(Note: The IPCC issued a press release on June 4 announcing they had sent all governments a final draft of the 1.5°C report, so it is highly disingenuous of Price to claim she has had no time to read the report.

GENEVA, June 4 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting governments to comment on the Final Draft of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5oC (SR15) ahead of the approval plenary for the SPM at the IPCC’s 48th session in early October.

The IPCC distributed the Final Draft of the report …. to governments on Monday with a request to comment on SPM by 29 July 2018

Source: https://reneweconomy.com.au/coalitions-breathtakingly-stupid-response-to-ipcc-climate-report-46898/

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‘Back Up, Motherfuckers,’ A Cop Yells at Kids With His Gun Drawn

The video of a Texas police officer drawing his gun on kids is a perfect example of why police need de-escalation training.

Over the past week, a Facebook video went viral, showing an El Paso police officer drawing his gun on a group of Latino kids outside a community center and handcuffing the person taking the video. The video has drawn outrage — and rightly so — as an illustration of the urgent need for robust police policies and training emphasizing de-escalation and how to interact with youth.

The video cuts in when the officer has one of the kids detained on the ground. The other kids — upset about what’s going on — yell at the officer. In response, he draws his gun, points it at the group, and yells, “Back up, motherfuckers!” Another officer runs up, and they drag the detained kid to the roadside. While the second officer cuffs him, the first officer returns to the group with his nightstick out, yelling at the kids to “get back.”

Seeing that the other kids are getting upset, the kid with the camera yells over, “It’s all good, wait, we’re going to put a report on these two fools. It’s all good.” The officer then approaches him and places him in handcuffs. After the kid’s mom takes the camera, the officer directs her to come over to him. When she runs away, he threatens, “I know where you live!”

Shortly thereafter, the officer goes back to the kids and asks them what they’re going to do. He challenges them: “Do something! Do something!” He moves chest-to-chest with one of them, staring aggressively down — and ends up bringing that kid to the police car too, detaining him.

The video captures a police officer acting contrary to his sworn oath to protect and serve. Instead of de-escalating the situation using techniques designed to calm everyone down and avoid violence, the officer raised the stakes. And when another kid tried to de-escalate the situation by telling the kids he had everything on video — which the First Amendment gives him the right to do — the officer arrested him and put him in the back of the patrol car.

De-escalation is one of the most important strategies for policing. The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), an independent research organization, calls it the “preferred, tactically sound” approach for resolving incidents and recommends that it should be a “core theme” of any agency’s training program. Without de-escalating situations, officers create opportunities for unnecessary use of force with devastating consequences for the communities they are supposed to serve.

Although many police departments across the country have some form of de-escalation referenced in policies and training, police departments generally place much more emphasis in training on using force instead. A 2015 PERF study of 280 departments across the U.S. found that for every hour recruits received on de-escalation training, they received over seven hours of firearms training. De-escalation training needs to be emphasized for all officers serving their communities. Otherwise, we wind up with situations like the one in El Paso.

For similar reasons, officers also need clear policies and training on interacting with youth. Even though juveniles are only involved with 3.5 percent of all police interactions, they make up 30.1 percent of all interactions where police use force (the vast majority of which are initiated by officers).

Strategies for Youth, which specializes in research and evidence-based training for law enforcement, has found that “a little bit of knowledge about how teens think can go a long way toward avoiding the escalation of minor incidents.” It’s “how officers read the youth and the incident” that affects how the incidents go down. Unfortunately, few officers receive this type of training in any meaningful way. In Texas, the most recent survey of hours spent on juvenile justice training for new recruits showed an average of just 2 percent of total training time.

According to Strategies for Youth, “The critical factor in the youth’s response and perception of the legitimacy of police authority is how an officer approaches a youth.” The El Paso kids in the video were insulting the officer — but responding aggressively and with violent displays of force was counterproductive, not to mention counter to the professional standards we should hold police officers to.

Interactions like these reinforce the serious disadvantage youth of color already experience and recognize in their interactions with police, which have lasting and radical effects in our communities. And arrests like the ones in this video for “youthful disobedience rather than significant crimes” funnel kids of color into the criminal justice system, triggering a chain of events that can disrupt the rest of their lives.

The El Paso Police Department as well as police departments across the country must ensure that their policies and their police training allow officers to automatically de-escalate situations and respond to youth effectively. The kids in this video are the canaries in the coal mine.

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The dark grey sedan was hurdling along the remote highway, it was without doubt going faster than the speed limit. It's occupant had a dreamy look in her eyes, remembering last night. She closed her eyes and she was taken straight back there, and inevitably the same feeling of flutters released itself upon her gut. She wasn't sure whether that was the flutters of lust or guilt.

She was moving to a new town, about to start the second year of the graduate program. It's probably just as well, being so close to him, after last night, is asking for trouble. Not to mention Rob...

The thought of her boyfriend made her cringe. Things had not being going well. He wasn't interested in her life out here, and she was over spending so much time on the phone, and on the road. When they were together, things were fine, well enough. She knew what she had to do, but had no idea how to go about it.

Everyone was inside at Mick's place, songs were only being half-played as nobody was patient enough to hear them out. Every now and then she heard the clink of a knocked over glass, followed by the drunken "taxi!" bellowed out by the group.

It was a clear night, the milky way was bright across the sky, she was sipping her drink and with a craned neck admiring the glittering lights. She was talking about the constellations and how she studied a semester of astronomy at university; "Did you know that Alpha Centauri is only four light years away? That's the closest star to Earth. It's that one just there," she said, pointing.

"No, I did not know that," He said.

"Well now you do. You can go ahead and use that fun little fact to impress your friends," she said, "Can you see which one I'm talking about? See those two bright ones there? The Pointers. Do you know how to find South from the Southern Cross?"

"I'm pretty sure you're going to show me?" he moved closer to her in an attempt to see what she was pointing at.

"See? You draw a line, perpendicular from the pointers and through the top and bottom stars from the Southern Cross, and where they intersect, you go straight down to the horizon, and that is South." She said with two arms outstretched, pointing like a compass to the south.

She didn't notice him there at first, but his arms appeared around her midsection and pulled her back towards him, his lips lightly brushing her left ear. She could hear his breath, ragged and wanting. She placed her hands on his in a kind of self embrace, trying for a glimpse of his face, an explanation.

She tried to remember the thoughts that went through her head in those few seconds before she turned around and they found each other's lips, but she couldn't remember a thing. Maybe she had drunk too much, maybe she didn't think, maybe something else took over.

She turned her head towards his face, feeling his stubble on her cheek, then spun in his arms and their lips met in an intense flurry of hands and breath.

Her hands moved to the base of his hairline and pulled him closer and she could already feel his growing desire for her. The kiss ended almost as suddenly as it began, but he took her hand and lead her towards the garage where Mick's car was parked. She followed willingly, no decisions made, adrenaline coursing through her body.

"Wait." He said, "Don't you have a boyfriend?" There was some humour in his voice, she was surprised at his question, as he initiated - whatever that was. She wondered whether when he asked that he was actually thinking about her boyfriend, or his own unfaithfulness.

"Don't you have a girlfriend?" She had said in reply.

Seconds later, their lips again locked, he pressed her up against the vehicle, her leg curled around his, hearts racing and hands grasping and wanting.

There are those flutters again. She smiled, felt flushed, and was immediately reminded that deep inside her gut was writhing in knots.

But she couldn't deny that that kiss was probably the most fervent encounter she had had in her twenty-four years on this planet and finally gave some credit to those adulterers who say 'It just happened.'

She was so proud of the fact that she had never, ever been unfaithful to anyone who she was in a relationship with. She had been cheated on at least once, and maybe cheated with, but that's another story.

They had been interrupted when Veronica returned from their flat with a tray of party pies, and just in time, probably.

"Did she see us?" He asked her, now standing a few feet away. She was still standing up against the car, completely flushed, curls coming out of her loosely tied bun. She stood up off the car and walked back towards the front of Mick's place. The best way not to get caught is not to hide. Andrew walked down from the modest balcony with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She made eye contact with him and he immediately asked, "What are you two up to?"

"Just looking at the stars. Do you know how to find south from the Southern Cross?" she asked, trying to change the subject, and that seemed to divert him from probing any further.

She chuckled to herself, alone in the car, coming up to a turn off past the mine site. The speed limit slowed to forty and she steered her car under the large overpass, looking up to see a coal filled mine vehicle bouncing along. She crossed over the rail line and increased her speed again for the rest of the way.

She sighed, surprised really that it had taken this long to fall apart since she moved away for work, leaving friends, family, and a boyfriend of two years to live in the middle of nowhere. Her starting salary was more that her mothers salary of a full time nurse with twenty years experience, which made the five years at university feel worthwhile.

Now she was going to be all that and single. The consolation prize in all was that she was moving to a town which had quadruple the population of the first one, with a cinema, a few restaurants and a proper supermarket.

There would be benefits to being single out here. There are lots of eligible bachelors. There are also lots of guys who have girlfriends at home and are horny.

He was probably one of them, she thought.

She couldn't get over the fact that it was such an intense encounter, just so lusty and - primal, almost. There was something about his touch which was electric, and she didn't even feel any tension leading up to this moment, but maybe he did. What would posses him to wrap his arms around her? Did he intend on kissing her, or was he just trying to test the waters? Was he acting purely on impulse?

She thought she could put her actions down to impulse, but she was responding to him, he made the move.

She didn't want to have to broach the subject with her boyfriend. Should she do it immediately? At the beginning of the holiday, or at the end? It was going to be awkward whichever way it went, and what about their plans for Easter? They could probably use their tickets to Bluesfest, but separately. It wasn't like they hadn't shared some amazing times together, he was the first guy that she had ever thought she could see herself marrying. She didn't really believe in marriage until she met him. But things had changed now. They were living a long seven hour drive apart, and he didn't have any interest in driving to her pseudo-home, she didn't want to stay there on the weekends, anyway. But the drive took a toll, departing at two or three o'clock in the afternoon and driving until the headlights were turned on for the last fifty or so kilometres till she reached Townsville. Then she could afford to have Sunday lunch and then depart, especially if she wanted to get some groceries or do any washing before the new week started, and after fourteen hours spent in the car over a weekend, it was hard to be well rested.

It had taken the full twelve months, almost to the day, for another person to come between her and Rob back home. She admitted to herself that it was almost inevitable - or at least not a surprise, but now she had the unenviable task of breaking his heart, and probably getting herself all fucked up in the process. She didn't really expect anything more to come of that 'kiss'.

She took the last turn off from the highway and drove down the main road heading towards her new home, half unpacked from the delivery of her few possessions a few days earlier. She pulled her car into the driveway, nobody to share the sheltered garage with, for the time being. Someone else was bound to move into the second extra large bedroom, allowing the housemates to have plenty of room to themselves. By the time she dumped all her gear just inside the front door, the sun was getting low in the afternoon sky.

Her phone rang, 'Rob' flashed on the screen. Her stomach wrenched. She didn't want to answer the phone, afraid that he might be able to tell that things had changed by just talking hearing her voice.

But she had to answer.

"He-ey" she said in an overly cheerful, sing-songy voice.

"Hey. It's me."

"How are you today?" She asked, feeling awkward.

"How am I? Fine. You?"

"Yep, I'm good."

"Good."

"Good... So what have you been up to today?"

Their conversations always tended to follow this sort of routine. Him not offering up any information about what he had been doing, her asking questions. They spoke about a few mutual friends and about what they had eaten for dinner. She skimmed over the previous evening, brushing it off as a bit of a let-down, and quickly changed the subject.

"I'm pretty tired, actually. Driving takes it out of ya." she said, lazily.

"Yeah, ok then. Goodnight, babe. Sweet dreams."

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The programmers in Bitshares are adding their candidate to connect one other "Alt-Bitcoins" from the ongoing forking Diaspora. They predict it Bitcoin United (BTCX). The intent behind Bitcoin United will be to provide a solution so far advanced that there could be no cause to adopt such a thing else -- hence avoiding a lasting fracture. Counterparty Risk. The single way to trade the additional candidates is to hazard them on a decentralized exchange that is off-chain that is corruptible. Bitcoin United combines Bitcoin holders with a huge number of other assets on precisely the block chain where they could trade without risk. How many more hacked cryptocurrency exchanges can it take before this sinks in? Transaction Bandwidth. BTC timeless has only 7 trades per second for the entire world to share with you. The alts attempt to double this once or perhaps twice. Bitcoin United can cruise beyond 10,000 trades per minute without breaking a sweat. It frequently breaks its own record for trades each day - outside Bitcoin and Ethereum records united. Bitcoin United (BTCX) and also How Fork to End All Of Forks Transaction Period. BTC classic can take a hour (or days) to perform 1 trade if you don't pay the superior Bitcoin must use to ration its bandwidth. Bitcoin United takes three minutes...tops. A bit merely stretchs the rationing.

Operating Price. Bitcoin United does not have any operating expenses, sipping green energy whereas the others guzzle billions of dollars worth of coal-generated power yearly. Bitcoin United up-grades Bitcoin to the condition of the art in block chain technology solving more than its absence of scalability, but all a dozen of Bitcoin's most serious limits.

Interest Rate. Bitcoin United finishes. Therefore there isn't any requirement it uses DPOS technology instead of POW. All solutions keep POW to serve the requirements major Mining, maybe not the public. Who is minding what's in your pocket? On the afternoon the fork occurs, BitShares will grab a "snapshot" from the state of the Bitcoin block-chain. Thereafter, BitShares will disperse fitting BTC-U to every BTC owner on the BitShares block chain. All you'll have to do is export your bitcoin keys into the BitShares wallet and then claim them!

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Wake until the day's main information. Let us look at how the "Alt-BTC" Olympians piled up against each other at the recent Bitcoin Dodecathon (much nicer sounding than "Bitcoin civilwar," don't you think?) .

A gift to the business. Bitshares chose the next best thing is to fix it themselves first, once and for everybody. After all, if we're going to violate Bitcoin unity for a little miniature, unsuccessful code changesanyway, why don't go all of the way and fix everything at once? The Great Bitcoin Dodecathon What Makes Me Believe that Bitcoin United Is Going to Be Adopted?

Within an recent Huffington Post article regarding the ongoing Bitcoin Civil War, '' I begged industry insiders never to split Bitcoin into multiple payouts and ruin its unique status as The Gold Standard of electronic money. I pointed out that it cann't want to upgrade, it simply needs to cooperate with encouraging chains that may do what vintage Bitcoin will not be able todo -- scale to fulfill trade bandwidth and speeds.

Then begins the rapid match of attrition. After the world gets accustomed to energy, cheap three-second trades and enjoying Smartcoins™ trading on a single blockchain with fair trades, it is going to become more and more obvious that Bitcoin United has spared the business from a crisis.

Please do not change Bitcoin, you'll break it!

Well the interests in older hardware and also old code will never accept their very own obsolescence, so we are not going to worry about that. However Bitshares Billion Hero Campaign is giving a billion dollars worth of BitShares to conventional user causes at the coming year -- to draw focus on Bitcoin United and the newest HERO -- a stabilized Smartcoin™ that's programmed by smart contract to grow at 5 percent annually against the buck. The digital money markets could have dodged a bullet we will observe, but this worry will not disappear. Still another Time of Forking currently participates in November and eventually we won't have the ability to avoid it. The system will grind to a stop and Bitcoin will break up at a forking crisis. Thanks to the Billion Hero Campaign, the primary things most new mainstream users will learn about in the upcoming season is Bitcoin, BitShares and the Hero. It'll be that the Bitcoins that they first experience. Things may never be the exact same for your own industry. Unfortunately, no one listened.

Boom! Immediate upgrade to rate. From that point on, they are going to allow the market set the price for slow vs. fast bitcoins. However, at least every one! Picture trading your new BTC-U's against HERO in real time on the identical counterparty-free blockchain. BTCX is going to be talented one-for-one to each of holders of BTC at the past unforked "classic" block when the Time of Forking inevitably arrives (they won't fork it on until someone else breaks the taboo -- afterward it will occur automagically). When that last fork upward occurs, Bitcoin United will come to the rescue -- providing a solution so far better than that which we've been offered by the insiders as well as different interests that there will remain just 1 Bitcoin.

All things considered, if we're going to violate Bitcoin motto for a little miniature, unsuccessful code varies anyway, why not go all the way and fix everything simultaneously?

Bitcoin United

[whytheydothisstuff-blog]

While I planned on posting about a different topic today, maybe something like the continuation of the Dakota Access Pipeline, or the progress in creating mines in and around the Boundary Waters, the Trump administration continues to deliver news that is just too “good” to not share. Today, the Trump administration has released a plan which will cut back on many environmental policies of the Obama administration, setting the country back years of environmentally responsible action and progress, effectively telling the world that our country believes in making a quick buck over the future of our planet. So again I ask, why are they doing this?

This news comes just a couple weeks after the administration announced their new plans for environmental policy, which I wrote about previously. This weeks news is worse in the sense that these are actual changes which are absolutely happening. While these changes again on the surface can sound like they’re in America’s best interest, decisions like these could end up having much greater consequences than anticipated. Per an NPR article, Trump was quoted at this signing which is shown above, surrounded by coal miners saying this action is about “bringing back our jobs, bringing back our dreams, and making America wealthy again.” I try hard to stay non-partisan when I talk about these issues because I really don’t want this to get caught up in political ideologies. The problem with this though is that regardless of party, there’s undeniable proof that climate change exists and that humans are contributing to it. I completely understand the purpose behind bringing jobs into America and I completely support that, but you have to draw the line somewhere.

This issue as a whole is mainly targeting the Clean Power Plan, which was established by Obama. The main target of the plan is to reduce the emissions that coal plants produce. Trump’s new plan says it will stay environmentally friendly, while allowing coal plants to have more freedom.  According to a CNN report, the administration believes that “there are plenty of rules on the books already.” The frustrating part about this quote is that it’s insane to believe that the U.S. is already doing enough to stop help global warming. The idea that there’s already enough rules so it’s justifiable to get rid of what the Obama administration considered “the single most important step America has ever taken in the fight against climate change.” Problems like this go beyond political parties. This isn’t a game where you show the other side that now you control the shots. This decision is not just one to bring jobs to America, it exemplifies the Republican parties ties to the power industry and their lack of concern for the future of this planet.

The other day I saw on twitter a tweet from Paul Ryan which praised this action and how it is tearing down the barriers that prevented Americans from getting jobs. I then saw replies to this tweet telling Paul Ryan that no amount of money can buy clean air for his children to breathe. It’s becoming more and more frustrating to see these actions which continue to happen on a weekly basis.

After taking in all of this information and what it could mean, I got interested in an LA Times article that was written in response. Forewarning, I understand that this is a biased news source, however, the information in it was interesting and still makes some valid points. In it, the article explains that there are only about 70,000 jobs in the coal industry while there are around 650,000 in the renewable energy industry. This means that while Trump is showing a great amount of attention on the coal industry, he is pushing to the side a work force that is almost 10 times larger. Now this doesn’t necessarily mean that people in the renewable energy sector will lose their jobs, it doesn’t take into account the fact that the coal industry is a dying one. As many people begin to shift their practices towards more sustainable energy sources, the demand for jobs in these sectors also increases. This makes Trump’s decision to focus on the coal industry a lot more questionable because if he really does want to focus on making jobs for Americans, the administration could have looked into ways of expanding these renewable energy programs rather than focusing on a harmful and outdated technique.

Regardless of what happens in the near future with these changes, whether they are challenged by others or not, these actions are speaking volumes about the type of planet the Trump administration wants to live it. While I honestly do feel for the people in the coal industry who are losing their jobs, it’s important to acknowledge the fact that this industry has long been on the decline as the modern world recognizes the problems and future implications of a world that is run on a nonrenewable resource. I am all for jobs in America, I am all for building our economies. The problems come when we prioritize dying industries which hurt the environment because they give a lot of money to the government. Again, another reason why money should not be involved in politics. Until next time, let’s all just hope we begin making some more logical moves.

Sources:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/28/519003733/trump-takes-aim-at-a-centerpiece-of-obamas-environmental-legacy

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/27/politics/trump-climate-change-executive-order/

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-coal-jobs-20170328-story.html

[tenleaguesbeneath]

A few things that would make trains in Factorio better

1) More circuit network interaction. Specifically, I’m thinking train stops should be able to, 1, send a signal to the network when a train is in the station (not sure whether there should be a fixed channel for this or if it should be settable on the stop), ideally with the value of that signal being adjustable on the train’s properties (so the circuit network can know when a train is in the station and which train it is). This would let you make train stations that send goods to outposts more compact because they have some idea where the train is going (actually, you could also assign stops numbers and have them able to read off a train’s next destination, too), and 2, send the train’s cargo to the circuit network.

2) Block visualization. I see this as a button you can press (probably a keybind, maybe even make it part of the mode you toggle with alt, or something that just happens automatically when you hold or mouseover a signal like a roboport’s logistic and construction areas) that highlights different rail blocks in different colors. This is to make signaling complex junctions easier

While on the topic of usability things and signals, a better chain signal tooltip. Maybe “A signal that does not allow a train to enter a block unless it can enter the next, allowing for rail sections to be kept clear”; “better control of trains” is vague enough to be useless and it took me until my third time reading the wiki article that I understood what chain signals actually did.

3) More color customizability. Like instead of just having one color for the painted parts of the train, maybe have a main color, a highlight color, possibly a pattern (defining what’s main and what’s highlight), and maybe a decal you can add with one or two colors. This is mostly to make trains even more distinguishable when you’re running like 20 of them.

4) Being able to give trains permission to skip stations would be nice. I can see “skip if there’s a train in the station when you get to the last signal before it or the first chain signal before that” (if you have two trains serving one outpost, for instance, and they end up one right after the other, you can give them permission to skip it instead of waiting for the other) and “skip if you meet your conditions to leave the station when you leave the previous station” (so a train might skip a station if it’s full from the previous)

5) Being able to set leave conditions based on the inventory in specific cars. So you can have a “Inventory full: Car 3″ or “Cargo: Iron Ore > 1000 in Car 1″ on your leave conditions. This would be for if you have a train serve several outposts, loading a different car at each outpost (so as to make it so that you don’t entirely deplete one ore patch while doing nothing to the others), it can leave when that outpost’s car is full.

6) Stop Equivalencies. Being able to link two stops in a way that tells trains that they are equivalent and part of the same station, so that a train told to go to one can switch and use the other if it is full. This is, again, for managing multiple trains coming from outposts into your hub at once; if you have two unloading stops at your iron foundry serving five trains, for instance, it’d be more convenient if a train could be told to just take whichever one’s free rather than having one that it takes, and waits for if there’s another train there when it arrives even if the other one’s free. This situation is maybe more relevant to me because I use my rail network as my main bus and therefore everything that would go on my main bus passes through my central station, and so I have trains from my circuit production module, oil refinery, battery machine, and so on all piling into one unloading station

7) Dynamic slot reserving. The way I imagine this working is being able to have reserved slot “pages” (i.e. complete wagon inventories), and have it switch between preset pages of reserved slots at preset stops, inventory permitting (meaning that if a slot has something and wants to be reserved for something else, it doesn’t get reserved (maybe if there are blank slots on the page, one gets used instead or the offending item gets moved to them, but maybe it just gets in the way so you need to unload the car completely before reserving it). This might be a feature of an Advanced Cargo Wagon of some kind. This would allow a train to, e.g. go on a circuit where it gets iron from some stops with some slots reserved for copper and coal, goes on to a copper mine, and then clears those copper slot reservations when it goes to a coal mine, then goes to the smelteries to unload, setting its reserved slots as it begins its route again; with a train bus setup, it would also allow a train to have a bunch of reserved slots for copper, iron, plastic, sulfur, and artifacts when being loaded at the hub, go out to a factory, then clear those reserves or replace them with reserves for circuits, processing units, and modules to carry either back to the hub or onward to another production facility.

8) More dynamic scheduling. I’m imagining a system where you can schedule “runs” which have a sequence of stops, like a train schedule now, and a priority which at its simplest would tick up over time (I’d hope at a player-adjustable rate) and at its most complex would be based on the circuit state of some train controller, and a train that finishes a run is assigned the highest-priority run (resetting the run’s priority, if it ticks up over time; if it’s based on circuit state, then dropping the priority for already-assigned train runs would be left to players to program).

An application I can see for this is so that you can have several trains visiting mining outposts/oilfields based on which ones haven’t been visited in a while, rather than just running in a loop, or to dynamically assign trains to gather iron or copper ore based on your reserves of the relevant products; this could also be used if you have a train station with a bunch of boilers or steel furnaces (maybe you want to smelt on-site at one of your mines, or you have a side factory with its own generator), for instance; this system could be used to reassign the next ore train to come in to carry fuel to it when it runs low, instead of having to have one ore train alternate between its ore run and the fueling run. This would also help with carrying fuel to flame turrets. Again, this is more relevant to the train bus setup and it would be more convenient to supply production facilities based on the time that’s passed since I last supplied it than by guessing how long a train will take to complete its route and if it’ll supply it frequently enough if I give it one more station.

Semi-related, being able to copy/paste in the scheduling system would be nice (copying wait condition blocks from stop to stop and copying stops from train to train, or in the same train even if you want a train to do, say, two variations on the same loop)

9) Saving the most complex for second-to-last: Construction Wagon. This would be a very high-tech item that functions sort of like a mobile roboport. The applications I have in mind for this are, first, to maintain large fortifications such as perimeter walls that would otherwise require an enormous number of roboports; second, as an accessory on a train used for new construction, especially when you don’t have a personal roboport; third, to allow your rail network to self-heal after biter attacks destroy rails; and fourth, for the construction of structures like large solar arrays (i.e. things where the player puts down a bunch of blueprints, routes a train to the area, and then does something else while assemblers produce the necessary structures). It’s the first two that most inspired this

I see it working analogously to a personal roboport mounted on the train: it fields construction bots only, which draw from attached cargo wagons (since that’s already established as the train’s inventory); it may have repair pack slots, like a conventional roboport, though. I see it as between the stationary roboport and the personal roboport in terms of tech; its use as a construction aid (for construction sites where a player is present) would be made all-but-obsolete by the personal roboport (even if it has a larger radius than any amount of personal roboports that are practical with modular armor, having to haul an entire train around is inconvenient). It would need to unlock new scheduling options for trains it is attached to (I can see the order to find and fix any broken rails functioning as a train stop for scheduling purposes, for instance, as with a command to go between one pair of waypoints fixing anything that needs fixing in between); perhaps those could be research options, if giving the full functionality at first makes automated perimeter defense too easy.

As an added benefit, it could give its train the ability to use rail paths that include ghost rails, provided it has enough rail in its inventory to place them.

I could see it drawing power (to recharge its internal reserve from which it recharges its bots) either from having its own fuel slots in its inventory and burning that, by drawing power from the locomotive when it’s not using its full power to move the train, or from a separate “generator wagon” which would carry and burn fuel; the last would be the best option if other energy-intensive rail cars exist, though the only options I can think of for that would be very niche in their applications (there’s not much call for rail-mounted laser turrets, for instance, or cargo wagons that mount their own inserters to load and unload themselves direct from railside)

10) Less complex and also more a nice toy than new capabilities for the rail network, a logistic wagon that attaches to a logistic network when in a station (and otherwise functions as a cargo wagon). Have it dynamically function as an active provider, passive provider, requester, or non-logistic wagon based on what station it’s in. I could see request mode being simplified by combining reserved slots and requests (i.e. in request mode it requests that each reserved slot be filled with a full stack)

The super-dynamic and complex version of this would add a one-time request to itself for every unmet need it tries to satisfy (in active provision mode) in a given network; thus you could use it to connect two logistic networks over a long distance (where if one has a deficit, it requests it from the other and supplies it there). This could interact with the construction wagon by requesting things it tries to use but doesn’t have and that aren’t already being requested; this combination would allow a construction train to extend your main logistics network’s construction range to essentially any arbitrary part of your rail network. This could be a researchable upgrade, as well.

[awebartisan-blog]

Why Bitcoin is a popular digital currency?

Bitcoin BTCX

How it Works: right now that the expert reader has received enough clues to observe that there is just one realtime industrial standard block chain technology which can deliver this mix of features and performance. That is ideal Bitcoin United (BTC-U) is likely to soon be hosted on the BitShares platform being an olive branch into the Bitcoin community. They have benefited which Bitcoin assembled and it is time to give back.

Bitcoin United may even get an automatic free upgrade to EOS.io tech using boundless bandwidth after that identical year. However, for now, we will settle for with trades and scalability beyond 10,000 transactions per second to skip Bitcoin's second ten regularly-scheduled forking dramas.

The programmers in Bitshares are adding their candidate to connect one other "Alt-Bitcoins" from the ongoing forking Diaspora. They predict it Bitcoin United (BTCX). The intent behind Bitcoin United will be to provide a solution so far advanced that there could be no cause to adopt such a thing else -- hence avoiding a lasting fracture. Counterparty Risk. The single way to trade the additional candidates is to hazard them on a decentralized exchange that is off-chain that is corruptible. Bitcoin United combines Bitcoin holders with a huge number of other assets on precisely the block chain where they could trade without risk. How many more hacked cryptocurrency exchanges can it take before this sinks in? Transaction Bandwidth. BTC timeless has only 7 trades per second for the entire world to share with you. The alts attempt to double this once or perhaps twice. Bitcoin United can cruise beyond 10,000 trades per minute without breaking a sweat. It frequently breaks its own record for trades each day - outside Bitcoin and Ethereum records united. Bitcoin United (BTCX) and also How Fork to End All Of Forks Transaction Period. BTC classic can take a hour (or days) to perform 1 trade if you don't pay the superior Bitcoin must use to ration its bandwidth. Bitcoin United takes three minutes...tops. A bit merely stretchs the rationing.

Operating Price. Bitcoin United does not have any operating expenses, sipping green energy whereas the others guzzle billions of dollars worth of coal-generated power yearly. Bitcoin United up-grades Bitcoin to the condition of the art in block chain technology solving more than its absence of scalability, but all a dozen of Bitcoin's most serious limits.

Interest Rate. Bitcoin United finishes. Therefore there isn't any requirement it uses DPOS technology instead of POW. All solutions keep POW to serve the requirements major Mining, maybe not the public. Who is minding what's in your pocket? On the afternoon the fork occurs, BitShares will grab a "snapshot" from the state of the Bitcoin block-chain. Thereafter, BitShares will disperse fitting BTC-U to every BTC owner on the BitShares block chain. All you'll have to do is export your bitcoin keys into the BitShares wallet and then claim them!

Sign up to The Morning Mail

Wake until the day's main information. Let us look at how the "Alt-BTC" Olympians piled up against each other at the recent Bitcoin Dodecathon (much nicer sounding than "Bitcoin civilwar," don't you think?) .

A gift to the business. Bitshares chose the next best thing is to fix it themselves first, once and for everybody. After all, if we're going to violate Bitcoin unity for a little miniature, unsuccessful code changesanyway, why don't go all of the way and fix everything at once? The Great Bitcoin Dodecathon What Makes Me Believe that Bitcoin United Is Going to Be Adopted?

Within an recent Huffington Post article regarding the ongoing Bitcoin Civil War, '' I begged industry insiders never to split Bitcoin into multiple payouts and ruin its unique status as The Gold Standard of electronic money. I pointed out that it cann't want to upgrade, it simply needs to cooperate with encouraging chains that may do what vintage Bitcoin will not be able todo -- scale to fulfill trade bandwidth and speeds.

Then begins the rapid match of attrition. After the world gets accustomed to energy, cheap three-second trades and enjoying Smartcoins™ trading on a single blockchain with fair trades, it is going to become more and more obvious that Bitcoin United has spared the business from a crisis.

Please do not change Bitcoin, you'll break it!

Well the interests in older hardware and also old code will never accept their very own obsolescence, so we are not going to worry about that. However Bitshares Billion Hero Campaign is giving a billion dollars worth of BitShares to conventional user causes at the coming year -- to draw focus on Bitcoin United and the newest HERO -- a stabilized Smartcoin™ that's programmed by smart contract to grow at 5 percent annually against the buck. The digital money markets could have dodged a bullet we will observe, but this worry will not disappear. Still another Time of Forking currently participates in November and eventually we won't have the ability to avoid it. The system will grind to a stop and Bitcoin will break up at a forking crisis. Thanks to the Billion Hero Campaign, the primary things most new mainstream users will learn about in the upcoming season is Bitcoin, BitShares and the Hero. It'll be that the Bitcoins that they first experience. Things may never be the exact same for your own industry. Unfortunately, no one listened.

Boom! Immediate upgrade to rate. From that point on, they are going to allow the market set the price for slow vs. fast bitcoins. However, at least every one! Picture trading your new BTC-U's against HERO in real time on the identical counterparty-free blockchain. BTCX is going to be talented one-for-one to each of holders of BTC at the past unforked "classic" block when the Time of Forking inevitably arrives (they won't fork it on until someone else breaks the taboo -- afterward it will occur automagically). When that last fork upward occurs, Bitcoin United will come to the rescue -- providing a solution so far better than that which we've been offered by the insiders as well as different interests that there will remain just 1 Bitcoin.

All things considered, if we're going to violate Bitcoin motto for a little miniature, unsuccessful code varies anyway, why not go all the way and fix everything simultaneously?

Bitcoin United