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  1. Mar 2022
    1. What’s more, mining is a costly endeavor. Some estimates put the electricity consumption costs of the entire Bitcoin mining operation in the region of $500 million per year. In fact, one study has equated the entire power consumption of Bitcoin mining to Ireland’s average electricity consumption. And that’s just for Bitcoin — a whole heap of new cryptocurrencies have emerged that utilize some forms of PoW algorithm.

      Given the lenght of what Bitcoin it's trying to accomplish (overtake the financial system), the electricity consumption is not unacceptable I would say. In a 2021 study it came out that Bitcoin consumption of electricity is still less than half of the current traditional financial system.

  2. Feb 2022
    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2022.02.23.22271388: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethical approval was obtained from the South Central Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee (20/SC/0195).<br>Consent: At enrolment, adult participants provided written consent, including for optional weekly follow-up visits for one month followed by at least 12 monthly visits in the majority.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study data and design: The main data source was the UK COVID-19 Infection Survey (CIS, ISRCTN21086382, https://www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/covid-19/covid-19-infection-survey/protocol-and-information-sheets), comprising a sample of over half a million participants randomly selected from the UK community population.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.


      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:


      In particular, because the question on Long Covid was not introduced until 3 February 2021, shortly after mass COVID-19 vaccination started in the UK on 8 December 2020, one key limitation is that it was not possible to match double-vaccinated and unvaccinated participants on calendar time of infection (Supplementary Figure 1). Differences in the likelihood of developing Long Covid symptoms between exposure groups may therefore partly reflect changes in the dominant COVID-19 variant or other period effects. Our key exposure was double vaccination, despite third and booster doses now being available, and the study period was before the Omicron variant became widespread. We were not able to investigate participants who were single-vaccinated when infected because nearly all of these received their second dose within the 12-week follow-up period, confounding any relationship between one dose at infection and Long Covid symptoms. In conclusion, SARS-CoV-2 infection after double vaccination is associated with a reduced risk of developing Long Covid symptoms at 12 weeks compared with infection before vaccination, emphasising the need for public health initiatives to increase population-level vaccine uptake. Studies with longer follow-up are needed to assess the impact of booster doses and the Omicron variant and to evaluate symptom trajectories beyond a single 12-week follow-up visit, particularly given the relapsing nature of Long Covid [14]. Further research into possible biologi...


      Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN21086382</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

      Results from rtransparent:


      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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    1. Thomas Paine, whose “Common Sense” had sold half a million copies the year that the United States declared its independence, died an outcast because of a later pamphlet he wrote on religion. Attacking the King of England was fine, but when Paine, in “The Age of Reason,” set his sights on the King of Kings, he was derided as a “loathsome reptile” and a “filthy little atheist.” It didn’t matter that Paine, like Jefferson, actually identified as a Deist, or that his text opens with the blunt declaration “I believe in one God”; his criticisms of Christianity were so scandalous that he was written into history as a nonbeliever.

      Good as a source for credibility. Many people including historians and christians know of Thomas Paine and his work.

    1. the top 1 percent of accounts were responsible for 35 percent of all observed interactions; the top 3 percent were responsible for 52 percent.

      1.5 million people are half the content. Reminds me of a similar statistic about Twitter and how "what twitter thinks" only represents a subset, and probably a selectively chosen subset, of the population

    1. If Jamaica, and the other English sugar islands, were to share the fate of St. Domingue, by the horrors of war, a distress would arise, not only in England, but in Europe, not confined to the present generation, but that would descend to the child unborn.—Of such importance has the agriculture of half a million of Africans, become to Europeans.

      Dependence on slave labor; the sacrifice of the Africans is necessary for the market economy to thrive and for Europe to have access to these precious ressources

      note that the work of these slaves is called "agriculture", which compares them to farmers and makes it look as though their work was human and not dehumanizing

    1. i feel like i'm the anti-matter david allen like where you personify getting things done and efficiency and productivity and all of that 00:05:09 i am just nowhere in that space i am you know i have a whole series of initiatives my brain is like this space where i'm curious about everything and if you wander around through the half million things i put in there uh it's everything 00:05:22 from cocktail recipes to why donald trump uh is donald trump and how he works to uh completely you know apolitical things as well

      anti-matter to David Allen

      Never getting Things done

      Quite right too

      Getting Things Done

      assumes that you know what IT is that you need to do right here right now

      But if you inclined to ask the question what is the IT that we really need to do

      GTD is not for you at this stage

    1. The most popular instance in the Mastodon universe sports over a half a million users. The runner up is mastodon.social, the flagship instance run by the developer, clocking in at just over three-hundred thousand.

      So how about a voluntary breakup? Something that the unfederated networks would never do unless trying to avoid being the target of litigation for anti-competitive practices, but where is the pressure to refrain from doing this for mastodon.social or anywhere else in the fediverse?

    1. The Black Death killed probably half the population of Europe in the fourteenth century, reducing world population by over a hundred million.

      We have had and still are dealing with Covid-19 which has infected and killed many people, but not has done near anything close to this damage. Imagine how big of a deal dealing with the Black Death must've been for Europeans.

  3. Jan 2022
    1. The initial United States government response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic was marked by a frequent disconnect between government policies and the recommendations of scientific experts. A disinformation campaign from the Trump White House convinced many Americans that COVID-19 injuries and its death toll were exaggerated, leading many to ignore public health recommendations (1). Those who dismissed the severity of COVID-19 were more likely to shun face masks and ignore recommendations to socially distance from non–household members (2). Such individuals were more likely Republicans than Democrats by a wide margin (2), and under a flag of health or medical freedom, an outright defiance of masks and social distancing came to symbolize allegiance to President Trump (1). This contributed to the rampant spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections, which have taken the lives of one-half million Americans (1). Misguided ideologies from populist regimes in Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua, Philippines, and Tanzania bear varying degrees of resemblance to health freedom and contribute to the global COVID-19 death toll (3). Here, I explore the anti-science movement in America, emphasizing our unique historical connections to health and medical freedom.
    1. GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 12, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, and SK bioscience, Co. Limited, a vaccine business subsidiary of Korea-based SK Group, today announced that South Korea's Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) has approved a Biologics License Application (BLA) from SK bioscience for Nuvaxovid™ COVID-19 Vaccine (recombinant, adjuvanted) for active immunization in individuals 18 years of age and older for the prevention of COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2. Nuvaxovid™, Novavax' COVID-19 vaccine also known as NVX-CoV2373, is the first protein-based COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for commercial use in South Korea and will be manufactured and marketed in the country by SK bioscience. "Novavax is proud to bring our COVID-19 vaccine to South Korea at a critical time in the pandemic as both the Delta and Omicron variants have taken hold," said Stanley C. Erck, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novavax. "We thank our partners at SK bioscience for their commitment to this public health challenge and the MFDS for its thorough assessment of our data as we look forward to helping address major obstacles to controlling the pandemic through the additional option of our protein-based vaccine." SK bioscience has an advance purchase agreement with the South Korean government to supply 40 million doses of Novavax' vaccine. The companies also recently announced expanded collaboration and license agreements that are expected to increase manufacturing capacity and provide SK bioscience with additional non-exclusive territories. Novavax' vaccine also recently received conditional marketing authorization (CMA) in the European Union and emergency use listing (EUL) from the World Health Organization (WHO) under the brand name Nuvaxovid. The Novavax/Serum Institute of India Pvt. Ltd. vaccine (brand name, Covovax™) recently received emergency use authorization (EUA) in India, Indonesia and the Philippines, as well as WHO EUL. Together, the WHO EULs for the vaccine from both companies reflect the potential opportunity for authorization in over 170 countries. The vaccine is also currently under review by multiple additional regulatory agencies worldwide and the company expects to receive additional worldwide authorizations in the first half of 2022. This includes the submission of its complete chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) data package to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) at the end of 2021. The company expects to submit a request for EUA for the vaccine in the U.S. after one month in accordance with guidance from the FDA regarding submission of all EUA vaccines.
    1. With such an extent of territory and so fertile a soil, he had no doubt whatever that in less than half a century Canada would embrace a population equal to that of the large empires of the old world.

      Although Canada's population would grow massively in the decades to come, it still had a ways to go in terms of numbers coming into the 20th century, with a population of around 5-6 million people.

    1. However, in an overcrowded market with unstable employment, the majority of refugees were left unprotected and subject to abusive working conditions in return for low pay. The presence of 1.3 million refugees allowed many employers to reduce the daily wage by 20 percent in 1923, and by 50 percent by 1927 (Moskof 1987, 425–426). As the Chairman of the Refugee Settlement Commission for Greece Henry Morgenthau maintained, the limits of the economy as well as of firms did not allow for more than pitifully low wages ‘which translated themselves, in practical terms, into half a loaf of bread per person per day, a handful of olives, a little olive oil, and meat or fish perhaps once or twice a month’ (Morgenthau 1929, 249). The extra refugee workforce also allowed employers to replace workers who participated in syndicalism or strikes (Liakos 1993, 51). At the pan-Balkan conference of March 1924 in Vienna, it was pointed out that refugees ‘formed a reserve of strike-breakers, which capital could always rely on in every strike’.9Thus the refugee labour force never radicalised. Although all male refugees had the right to vote, the overwhelming majority supported the Liberal Party, with no more than 4 percent voting for the Communist Party (Clogg 1992, 109). Nevertheless, as the government realised that refugee discontent with economic hardship – alongside the prospect of the Ankara agreement of 1930 that wrote off the claims of Greek refugees for properties abandoned in Asia Minor – could fuel radicalisation, it turned to repressive action. Legislation enacted in 1929 essentially penalised the right to strike and was indicative of the government’s intentions to prevent political radicalisation and Communist recruitment (Mavrogordatos 1983, 219).

      Poor working opportunities for refugees

    1. There were, of course, failures. While we managed to scale projects like Decidim, we didn’t manage to achieve a common pan-European initiative on technological sovereignty, linking political, economic, and geopolitical dimensions in a coherent way. There’s still no coherent vision of a digital industrial policy that could liberate even half of the stack that Europe needs, not to mention its entirety. In our defense, we also had very little money; 5 million Euro – this was Decode’s budget, spread across many partners in the project – is not so much given the ambitions.

      Similar to D-CENT which I actually participated in!

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.25.474152: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: The study protocol was approved by the Institute Ethics Committees of all participating institutions.<br>IACUC: Animals and ethics statement: Prior to the conduct of experiments to assess protective efficacy of the novel mAbs in small animals, approvals on the protocols involving dosing and animal challenge were obtained from the institutional animal ethics committee (approval # IAEC/THSTI/159), institutional biosafety committee (approval # 324/2021) and DBT Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation (RCGM; DBT RCGM approval #: IBKP UAC: TRARDSAB0214).<br>Euthanasia Agents: Except for the unchallenged control group (n=3), animals in all other groups were challenged with 105 PFU of SARS-CoV2 (Wuhan and Delta isolates) intranasally on Day 0, administered through a catheter 25 µl/ nare under anesthesia by using ketamine (150mg/kg) and xylazine (10mg/kg) inside ABSL3 facility (Chan et al., 2020; Rizvi et al., 2021b; Sia et al., 2020; Winkler et al., 2020).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Mice randomly allotted to different groups (n=5) viz, infection control and those received SARS-CoV-2 specific (THSC20.HVTR04 and THSC20.HVTR26) and non-specific (HIV CAP256.VRC26.25) monoclonal antibodies as IgG were housed in different cages.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Briefly, cryo-preserved PBMCs were first thawed at 37°C in a water bath and washed with an RPMI medium containing 10% fetal bovine sera (FBS) following incubation with fluorescently-labeled antibodies (BD Biosciences) against cell surface markers for CD3 (PE-Cy7); CD8 (PE-Cy7); CD14(PE-Cy7); CD16 (PE-Cy7); CD19 (BV421); CD19 (BV421); IgD (PerCP-Cy5.5); IgG (APC-H7) in addition to labelled RBD as an antigen in FACS buffer containing PBS (pH7.4), 1% FBS, and 1.0 mM EDTA on ice.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD8</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 391503, RRID:AB_2721611)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD14</div><div>suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 348805, RRID:AB_2889063)</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD16</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CD19</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Capture ELISA for the detection of IgG expression: Maxisorp high protein binding 96 well ELISA plate (Nunc, Thermo Fisher Scientific.) was coated with 2μg/mL goat anti-human Fc antibody (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and incubated overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human Fc</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This was followed by addition of alkaline phosphatase-conjugated goat anti-human F(ab’)2 antibody (Thermo Fisher Scientific) Inc.) at 1:1000 dilution in 1% bovine serum albumin (BSA) incubated for an hour at room temperature.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human F(ab’)2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Streptavidin ELISA for anti SARS- CoV-2 (RBD) antibody detection: 2μg/mL of Streptavidin (G-Biosciences) was coated onto each wells of Nunc maxisorp high protein-binding 96 well ELISA plate (Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.) and incubated overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti SARS- CoV-2 ( RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cells were fixed and stained with anti- spike RBD antibody (Sino Biologicals) followed by HRP-conjugated anti-rabbit antibody (Invitrogen) and incubated with TrueBlue substrate (Sera Care).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti- spike RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-rabbit</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Fragment Goat Anti-Human IgG, F(ab’)₂ fragment specific antibody (Jackson ImmunoResearch Inc.) for 45 min.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Anti-Human IgG</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">CC12.1 (SARS-CoV-2 mAb), and CAP256.VRC26.25 antibody (HIV-1 bnAb) were used as positive and negative controls respectively for this experiment.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CAP256.VRC26.25</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Confirmed heavy and light chain plasmid DNA were co-transfected in 293T cells (ATCC) using Fugene transfection reagent (Promega) in 24 well plates for preparing antibody supernatant for initial screening for their expression and antigen specificity as detailed in the following section.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Preparation and purification of IgG: The IgGs representing the mAbs were produced in either HEK 293T (ATCC) or Expi293 (Thermo Scientific) cells</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK 293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Plasmid DNA expressing variable heavy and light IgG chains were transiently transfected into HEK293T or Expi293 cells using polyethylenimine (PEI).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Expi293</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Neutralization assay was carried out using HeLa-hACE2 cells for the infection of SARS-CoV-2 wild type and variant pseudoviruses.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">0.5 million HeLa and HeLa-ACE2 cells were incubated in separate wells with RBD alone without mAbs for use as background and positive control, respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-ACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">HeLa and HeLa-ACE2 cells stained with SARS-CoV-2 RBD alone were used as background and positive control separately.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300194/p772_HeLa, RRID:CVCL_0030)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Solubilized CHO cell membrane protein (SMP) was coated onto 96-well half-area high-binding ELISA plates (Corning, 3690) at 5ug/mL in PBS overnight at 4°C.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>CHO</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">K18-hACE2 mice challenge: SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan (catalogue number: USA-WA1/2020) and B.1.617.2 delta (hCoV-19/USA/PHC658/2021 catalogue number NR-55611) were procured from BEI resources (https://www.beiresources.org/) and were expanded in Vero E6 cells to produce stocks required for the experiments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Vero E6</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus (PSV) neutralization assay: Pseudoviruses expressing complete SARS-CoV2 spike genes were prepared by transient transfection of HEK293T cells with three plasmids: SARS-CoV2 MLV-gag/pol and MLV-CMV-luciferase plasmids using Fugene 6 (Promega Inc.) as described earlier (Rogers et al., 2020).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>MLV-CMV-luciferase</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Concentration of IgG was measured by NanoDrop spectrophotometer and IgG heavy and light chain bands were visualized with 12% SDS PAGE analysis.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>NanoDrop</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">50% neutralization values were calculated with four-parameter logistic regression using GraphPad Prism 7·0 software.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">K18-hACE2 mice challenge: SARS-CoV-2 Wuhan (catalogue number: USA-WA1/2020) and B.1.617.2 delta (hCoV-19/USA/PHC658/2021 catalogue number NR-55611) were procured from BEI resources (https://www.beiresources.org/) and were expanded in Vero E6 cells to produce stocks required for the experiments.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>https://www.beiresources.org/</div><div>suggested: (BEI Resource Repository, RRID:SCR_013698)</div></div></td></tr></table>

      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
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      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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    1. 6.Laboratory of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy 23and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA 247.Laboratory of Persistence Viral Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National 25Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, MT, 26USA 278.Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National 28Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 299.National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, 30Bethesda, MD, USA 3110.University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3211.Postdoctoral Research Associate Training Program, National Institute of General Medical 33Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 3412.R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Medicine and Program in 35Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3613.R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Surgery and Program in Trauma, 37University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 3814.Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School 39of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4015.Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 41MD, USA 4216.Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of 43Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4417.Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University 45of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 4618.Hospitalist Department, TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Salisbury, MD, USA 4719.Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland St. 48Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD, USA 4920.Medical Virology Section, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of 50Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD 51^See Acknowledgements 52*Corresponding author. Email: chertowd@cc.nih.gov 535455565758596061626364656667COVID-19 is known to cause multi-organ dysfunction1-3 in acute infection, with 68prolonged symptoms experienced by some patients, termed Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-69CoV-2 (PASC)4-5. However, the burden of infection outside the respiratory tract and time 70to viral clearance is not well characterized, particularly in the brain3,6-14. We performed 71complete autopsies on 44 patients with COVID-19 to map and quantify SARS-CoV-2 72distribution, replication, and cell-type specificity across the human body, including brain, 73from acute infection through over seven months following symptom onset. We show that 74SARS-CoV-2 is widely distributed, even among patients who died with asymptomatic to 75mild COVID-19, and that virus replication is present in multiple pulmonary and 76extrapulmonary tissues early in infection. Further, we detected persistent SARS-CoV-2 77RNA in multiple anatomic sites, including regions throughout the brain, for up to 230 days 78following symptom onset. Despite extensive distribution of SARS-CoV-2 in the body, we 79observed a paucity of inflammation or direct viral cytopathology outside of the lungs. Our 80data prove that SARS-CoV-2 causes systemic infection and can persist in the body for 81months. 82Main text:83 Infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the 84causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has well described pulmonary and 85extrapulmonary manifestations1-3, including multiorgan failure and shock among severe and fatal 86cases. Some survivors experience Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) – also known as 87Long COVID—with cardiovascular, pulmonary, and neurological manifestations with or without 88functional impairment4-5. While autopsy studies of fatal COVID-19 cases support the ability of 89SARS-CoV-2 to infect multiple organs3,7-12, extra-pulmonary organs often lack histopathological 90evidence of direct virally-mediated injury or inflammation10-14. The paradox of extra-pulmonary 91infection without injury or inflammation raises many pathogen- and host-related questions. 92These questions include, but are not limited to: What is the burden of infection within versus 93outside of the respiratory tract? What cell types are infected across extra-pulmonary tissues, and 94do they support SARS-CoV-2 infection and replication? In the absence of cellular injury and 95inflammation in extra-pulmonary tissues, does SARS-CoV-2 persist, and if so, over what 96interval? Does SARS-CoV-2 evolve as it spreads to and persists in different anatomical 97compartments? 98To inform these pathogen-focused questions and to evaluate for the presence or absence 99of associated histopathology in matched tissue specimens, we performed extensive autopsies on 100a diverse population of 44 individuals who died from or with COVID-19 up to 230 days 101following initial symptom onset. Our approach focused on timely, systematic, and 102comprehensive tissue sampling and preservation of adjacent tissue samples for complementary 103analyses. We performed droplet digital polymerase chain reaction (ddPCR) for sensitive 104detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 gene targets in all tissue samples collected. To 105elucidate SARS-CoV-2 cell-type specificity and validate ddPCR findings, we performed in situ106hybridization (ISH) broadly across sampled tissues. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) was used to 107further validate cell-type specificity in the brain where controversy remains on the regional 108distribution and cellular tropism of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In all samples where SARS-CoV-2 109RNA was detected by ddPCR, we performed qRT-PCR to detect subgenomic (sg)RNA, an assay 110suggestive of recent virus replication15. We confirmed the presence of replication-competent 111SARS-CoV-2 in extrapulmonary tissues by virus isolation in cell culture. Lastly, in six 112individuals, we measured the diversity and anatomic distribution of intra-individual SARS-CoV-1132 variants using high-throughput, single-genome amplification and sequencing (HT-SGS). 114We categorized autopsy cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection as “early” (n=17), “mid” 115(n=13), or “late” (n=14) by illness day (D) at the time of death, being ≤D14, D15-D30, or ≥D31, 116respectively. We defined persistence as presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA among late cases. Due to 117the extensive tissue collection, we analyzed and described the results in terms of grouped tissue 118categories as the following: respiratory tract; cardiovascular; lymphoid; gastrointestinal; renal 119and endocrine; reproductive; muscle, skin, adipose, & peripheral nerves; and brain. 120121Autopsy cohort overview 122Between April 26, 2020 and March 2, 2021, we performed autopsies on 44 PCR-123confirmed cases (Extended Data Fig. 1). SARS-CoV-2 seroconversion was detected in 38 of 124these cases (Supplementary Data 1); three early cases (P27, P36, P37) had not seroconverted and 125perimortem plasma was unavailable for the other three cases (P3, P4, P15). Extensive sampling 126of the brain was accomplished in 11 of the 44 cases (Fig. 1). The cohort was 29.5% female with 127a mean age of 59.2 years and was diverse across race and ethnicity (Extended Data Table 1). 12895.5% of patients had at least one comorbidity, with hypertension (54.5%), obesity (52.3%), and 129chronic respiratory disease (34.1%) being most common. Patients presented to the hospital a 130mean of 9.4 days following symptom onset and were hospitalized a mean of 26.4 days. Overall, 131the mean interval from symptom onset to death was 35.2 days and the mean postmortem interval 132was 26.2 hours. 81.8% of patients required intubation with invasive mechanical ventilation, 13322.7% received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support, and 40.9% required 134renal replacement therapy. Vasopressors, systemic steroids, systemic anticoagulation, and 135antibiotics were commonly administered (Extended Data Table 1). Individual patient-level 136demographic and clinical information can be found in Extended Data Table 2. 137138Widespread infection and persistence 139SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in all 44 cases and across 79 of 85 anatomical locations 140and body fluids sampled (Extended Data Fig. 2, Supplementary Data 1). The highest burden of 141SARS-CoV-2 RNA (i.e., >100,000 N gene copies/ng RNA input) was detected in the respiratory 142tract of early cases (Figure 1), but we detected at least 100 N gene copies/ng RNA input from 143every tissue group besides reproductive tissues from multiple individuals among early cases. The 144mean SARS-CoV-2 N gene copies/ng RNA detected from tissues in each grouping among early 145cases are as follows: 9,210.10 across respiratory tissues; 38.75 across cardiovascular tissues; 14630.01 across lymphoid tissues; 24.68 across gastrointestinal tissues; 12.76 across renal and 147endocrine tissues; 0.36 across reproductive tissues; 27.50 across muscle, peripheral nerve, 148adipose, and skin tissues; 57.40 across ocular tissues; and 32.93 across brain tissues (Extended 149Data Table 3). 150With a few exceptions, the overall burden of SARS-CoV-2 RNA decreased by a log or 151more across tissue categories among mid cases, and further decreased among late cases. 152However, several mid and late cases had high levels (≥5 N gene copies/ng RNA input) detected 153among multiple tissues (Extended Data Fig. 2). Further, persistence of low-level SARS-CoV-2 154RNA (0.0004 to <0.5 N gene copies/ng RNA input) was frequently detected across multiple 155tissue categories among all late cases, despite being undetectable in plasma (Extended Data Fig. 1562, Supplementary Data 1). Notably, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in the brains of all six late 157cases and across most locations evaluated in the brain in five of these six, including P42 who 158died at D230 (Fig. 1). 159Overall, SARS-CoV-2 RNA was detected in respiratory tissue of 43/44 cases (97.7%); 160cardiovascular tissue of 35/44 cases (79.5%); lymphoid tissue of 38/44 cases (86.4%); 161gastrointestinal tissue of 32/44 (72.7%); renal and endocrine tissue of 28/44 cases (63.6%); 162reproductive tissue in 17/40 cases (42.5%); muscle, skin, adipose, and peripheral nervous tissue 163in 30/44 cases (68.2%); ocular tissue and humors of 22/28 cases (57.9%); and brain tissue in 16410/11 cases (90.9%) (Extended Data Table 3). 165We additionally detected SARS-CoV-2 sgRNA across all tissue categories, 166predominately among early cases (14/17, 82.4%), as well as in plasma, pleural fluid, and vitreous 167humor (Fig. 1, Extended Data Fig. 2, Supplementary Data 1). sgRNA was also detected in at 168least one tissue of 61.5% of mid cases and 42.9% of late cases, including across three tissue 169categories in a case at D99 (P20). 170We isolated SARS-CoV-2 in cell culture from multiple pulmonary and extrapulmonary 171tissues, including lung, bronchus, sinus turbinate, heart, mediastinal lymph node, small intestine, 172and adrenal gland from early cases up to D7 (P19, P27, P32, P37; Supplementary Data 1). 173174Intra-individual viral variant diversity 175We used HT-SGS to analyze SARS-CoV-2 spike gene variant sequences from a total of 17646 tissues in six individuals. In five individuals from the early group, predominant spike 177sequences were largely identical across tissues. In P27, P19, and P18, no non-synonymous virus 178genetic diversity was detected in pulmonary and extrapulmonary sites despite a high depth of 179single-molecule sampling (Extended Data Fig. 3). Thus, virus populations that were relatively 180homogeneous had disseminated in these individuals without coding changes in spike. However, 181we also noted important patterns of intra-individual virus diversity in several patients from the 182early group. In P27, although all 4,525 inferred spike amino acid sequences were identical, two 183virus haplotypes, each with a single synonymous substitution, were preferentially detected in 184extrapulmonary sites including right and left ventricles and mediastinal LN. In P38, we observed 185clear virus genetic differences between the lung lobes and the brain, with a D80F residue found 186in 31/31 pulmonary but 0/490 brain sequences and a G1219V residue that was restricted to brain 187minor variants. A similar distinction was observed between sequences from dura mater and other 188sites in P36, albeit at very low sampling depth (n = 2 sequences) from dura mater. Overall, these 189findings suggested no need for alterations in receptor utilization to permit extrapulmonary 190dissemination of SARS-CoV-2, while also revealing genetic compartmentalization between 191viruses in the lung lobes and those in extrapulmonary sites, including the brain. 192193ISH reveals SARS-CoV-2 cellular tropism 194We validated our ddPCR results across all tissue categories via ISH for SARS-CoV-2 195spike RNA across selected early, mid, and late cases (Supplementary Data 3). Overall, we 196detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA via ISH in 36 distinct cell types across all sampled organs 197(Extended Data Table 4, Supplementary Data 3). Spike RNA was detected throughout the 198respiratory tract in early cases, as well as within the sinus turbinate, trachea, lungs, from late 199cases (i.e., P33, P20, P42). 200The heart contained spike RNA within myocytes, endothelium, and smooth muscle of 201vessels of both early (P18, P19) and late (P3 & P42) cases. The pericardium demonstrated a 202positive signal for spike RNA within fibroblasts of the stroma. Intimal cells of the aorta were 203additionally found to contain spike RNA. Mononuclear leukocytes within the lymph node, 204spleen, and appendix of an early case (P19) contained spike RNA, as did colonic epithelium (Fig 2052). 206Epithelial cells along the intestinal tract in early cases (P16, P18, P19) contained viral 207RNA, as well as stratified squamous epithelium of the esophagus. Mononuclear leukocytes were 208again visualized with SARS-CoV-2 RNA in lymphoid aggregates and the interstitium of the 209small and large intestine, with infected cells still present in the colon of late cases (P33, P42). 210Kupffer cells, hepatocytes, and bile duct epithelium within the liver were additionally found to 211contain spike RNA. 212Within the kidney, spike RNA could be visualized within parietal epithelium of 213Bowman’s capsule, collecting duct cells, distal tubule cells, and glomerular endothelium. The 214adrenal glands contained spike RNA within endocrine cells. Endocrine follicular cells of the 215thyroid and glandular cells of the pancreas were also positive for spike RNA (Fig. 2). Among 216reproductive organs, spike RNA was visualized within Leydig and Sertoli cells of the testis, 217germ cells within the testicular tubules, endometrial gland epithelium, endometrial stromal cells, 218uterine smooth muscle cells, and stromal cells of the post-menopause ovary (Fig. 2). 219Myocytes within skeletal muscle contained spike RNA in both early (P18) and late (P20) 220cases. In addition to the organ-specific cell type infection of SARS-CoV-2, endothelium, 221muscularis of atrial vessels, and Schwann cells were identified as infected throughout the body, 222and were similarly positive across early and late cases. 223Spike RNA was found in neurons, glia and ependyma, as well as endothelium of vessels 224across all lobes of the brain of early, mid, and late cases. Within the cerebellum specifically, 225neurons, Purkinje cells, and endothelium of vasculature also contained spike protein via IHC 226(Fig. 3). 227228COVID-19 histological findings 229The histopathology findings from our cohort were similar to those reported in other case 230series (Extended Data Fig. 4). All but five cases were considered to have died from COVID-19 231(Extended Data Table 5), and, of these, 37 (94.5%) had either acute pneumonia or diffuse 232alveolar damage at the time of death (Supplementary Data 2). Phases of diffuse alveolar damage 233showed clear temporal associations, with the exudative phase seen mainly within the first three 234weeks of infection and the fibrosing phase not seen until after a month of infection (Extended 235Data Fig. 5). Pulmonary thromboembolic complications, which were also likely related to 236SARS-CoV-2 infection, with or without infarction, were noted in 10 (23%) cases. Another 237finding likely related to SARS-CoV-2 infection included myocardial infiltrates in four cases, 238including one case of significant myocarditis16 (P3). Some of the cases of microscopic ischemia 239appeared to be associated with fibrin-platelet microthrombi, and may therefore be related to 240COVID-19 thrombotic complications. Within the lymph nodes and spleen, we observed 241lymphodepletion and both follicular and paracortical hyperplasia. 242Outside the lungs, histological changes were mainly related to complications of therapy 243or preexisting co-morbidities: mainly obesity, diabetes, and hypertension. Five cases had old 244ischemic myocardial scars and three had coronary artery bypass grafts in place. Given the 245prevalence of diabetes and obesity in our cohort, it was not surprising to find diabetic 246nephropathy (10 cases, 23%) or steatohepatitis (5 cases, 12%). One case was known to have 247chronic hepatitis C with cirrhosis, but the other cases of advanced hepatic fibrosis were likely 248related to fatty liver disease, even if diagnostic features of steatohepatitis were not present. 249Hepatic necrosis (13 cases, 30%) and changes consistent with acute kidney injury (17 cases, 25039%) were likely related to hypoxic-ischemic injury in these very ill patients. 251In the examination of the 11 brains, we found few histopathologic changes, despite the 252evidence of substantial viral burden.Vascular congestion was an unusual finding that had an 253unclear etiology and could be related to the hemodynamic changes incurred with infection. 254Global hypoxic/ischemic change was seen in two cases, one of which was a juvenile (P36) with a 255seizure disorder who was found to be SARS-CoV-2 positive on hospital admission, but who 256likely died of seizure complications unrelated to viral infection. 257258Discussion 259Here we provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of SARS-CoV-2 cellular 260tropism, quantification, and persistence across the body and brain, in a diverse autopsy cohort 261collected throughout the first year of the pandemic in the United States. Our focus on short post-262mortem intervals, comprehensive approach to tissue collection, and preservation techniques –263RNAlater and flash freezing of fresh tissue – allowed us to detect and quantify viral levels with 264high sensitivity by ddPCR and ISH, as well as culture virus, which are notable differences 265compared to other studies. 266We show SARS-CoV-2 disseminates across the human body and brain early in infection 267at high levels, and provide evidence of virus replication at multiple extrapulmonary sites during 268the first week following symptom onset. We detected sgRNA in at least one tissue in over half of 269cases (14/27) beyond D14, suggesting that prolonged viral replication may occur in extra-270pulmonary tissues as late as D99. While others have questioned if extrapulmonary viral presence 271is due to either residual blood within the tissue8,17 or cross-contamination from the lungs during 272tissue procurement8, our data rule out both theories. Only 12 cases had detectable SARS-CoV-2 273RNA in a perimortem plasma sample, and of these only two early cases also had SARS-CoV-2 274sgRNA in the plasma, which occurred at Ct levels higher than nearly all of their tissues with 275sgRNA. Therefore, residual blood contamination cannot account forRNA levels within tissues. 276Furthermore, blood contamination would not account for the SARS-CoV-2 sgRNA or virus 277isolated from tissues. Contamination of additional tissues during procurement, is likewise ruled 278out by ISH demonstrating widespread SARS-CoV-2 cellular tropism across the sampled organs, 279by IHC detecting viral protein in the brain, and by several cases of virus genetic 280compartmentalization in which spike variant sequences that were abundant in extrapulmonary 281tissues were rare or undetected in lung samples. 282Using both ddPCR and sgRNA analysis to inform our selection of tissue for virus 283isolation and ISH staining allow us to describe a number of novel findings. Others6,8-12,17 have 284previously reported SARS-CoV-2 RNA within the heart, lymph node, small intestine, and 285adrenal gland. We demonstrate conclusively that SARS-CoV-2 is capable of infecting and 286replicating within these tissues. Current literature has also reported absent or controversial 287expression of ACE2 and/or TMPRSS2 in several extrapulmonary tissues, such as the colon, 288lymphoid tissues, and ocular tissues, calling into question if these tissues can become infected by 289SARS-CoV-21-3. However, we observed high levels of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and evidence of 290replication within these organs, as well as SARS-CoV-2 RNA via ISH in colonic mucosal 291epithelium and mononuclear leukocytes within the spleen, thoracic cavity lymph nodes, and GI 292lymphoid aggregates. We believe these ISH positive cells represent either infection or 293phagocytized virus in resident macrophages. Further, we isolated virus from a mediastinal lymph 294node and ocular tissue from two early cases (P19, P32). 295Our use of a single-copy sequencing approach for the SARS-CoV-2 spike allowed us to 296demonstrate homogeneous virus populations in many tissues, while also revealing informative 297virus variants in others. Low intra-individual diversity of SARS-CoV-2 sequences has been 298observed frequently in previous studies18-20, and likely relates to the intrinsic mutation rate of the 299virus as well as lack of early immune pressure to drive virus evolution in new infections. It is 300important to note that our HT-SGS approach has both a high accuracy and a high sensitivity for 301minor variants within each sample, making findings of low virus diversity highly reliable21. The 302virus genetic compartmentalization that we observed between pulmonary and extrapulmonary 303sites in several individuals supports independent replication of the virus at these sites, rather than 304spillover from one site to another. Importantly, lack of compartmentalization between these sites 305in other individuals does not rule out independent virus replication, as independently replicating 306populations may share identical sequences if overall diversity is very low. It was also interesting 307to note several cases where brain-derived virus spike sequences showed non-synonymous 308differences relative to sequences from other tissues. These differences may indicate differential 309selective pressure on spike by antiviral antibodies in brain versus other sites, though further 310studies will be needed to confirm this speculation. 311Our results collectively show while that the highest burden of SARS-CoV-2 is in the 312airways and lung, the virus can disseminate early during infection and infect cells throughout the 313entire body, including widely throughout the brain. While others have posited this viral 314dissemination occurs through cell trafficking11 due to a reported failure to culture virus from 315blood3,22, our data support an early viremic phase, which seeds the virus throughout the body 316following pulmonary infection. Recent work by Jacobs et al.22 in which SARS-CoV-2 virions 317were pelleted and imaged from COVID-19 patient plasma, supports this mechanism of viral 318dissemination. Although our cohort is primarily made up of severe cases of COVID-19, two 319early cases had mild respiratory symptoms (P28; fatal pulmonary embolism occurred at home) or 320no symptoms (P36; diagnosed upon hospitalization for ultimately fatal complications of a 321comorbidity), yet still had SARS-CoV-2 RNA widely detected across the body, including brain, 322with detection of sgRNA in multiple compartments. Our findings, therefore, suggest viremia 323leading to body-wide dissemination, including across the blood-brain barrier, and viral 324replication can occur early in COVID-19, even in asymptomatic or mild cases. Further, P36 was 325a juvenile with no evidence of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, suggesting 326infected children without severe COVID-19 can also experience systemic infection with SARS-327CoV-2. 328Finally, a major contribution of our work is a greater understanding of the duration and 329locations at which SARS-CoV-2 can persist. While the respiratory tract was the most common 330location in which SARS-CoV-2 RNA tends to linger, ≥50% of late cases also had persistence in 331the myocardium, thoracic cavity lymph nodes, tongue, peripheral nerves, ocular tissue, and in all 332sampled areas of the brain, except the dura mater. Interestingly, despite having much lower 333levels of SARS-CoV-2 in early cases compared to respiratory tissues, we found similar levels 334between pulmonary and the extrapulmonary tissue categories in late cases. This less efficient 335viral clearance in extrapulmonary tissues is perhaps related to a less robust innate and adaptive 336immune response outside the respiratory tract. 337We detected sgRNA in tissue of over 60% of the cohort. While less definitive than viral 338culture23,24, multiple studies have shown that sgRNA levels correlate with acute infection and can 339be detected in respiratory samples of immunocompromised patients experiencing prolonged 340infection24. These data coupled with ISH suggest that SARS-CoV-2 can replicate within tissue 341for over 3 months after infection in some individuals, with RNA failing to clear from multiple 342compartments for up to D230. This persistence of viral RNA and sgRNA may represent infection 343with defective virus, which has been described in persistent infection with measles virus –344another single-strand enveloped RNA virus—in cases of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis25. 345The mechanisms contributing to PASC are still being investigated; however, ongoing 346systemic and local inflammatory responses have been proposed to play a role5. Our data provide 347evidence for delayed viral clearance, but do not support significant inflammation outside of the 348respiratory tract even among patients who died months after symptom onset. 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Patients are aligned from shortest to longest duration of illness (DOI) 441prior to death, listed at the bottom of the figure, and grouped into early (≤14 days), mid (15-30 442days), and late (≥31 days) DOI. Tissues are grouped by tissue category beginning with the 443respiratory tract at the top and central nervous system at the bottom. Viral RNA levels range 444from 0.002 to 500,000 N gene copies per ng of RNA input, depicted as a gradient from dark blue 445at the lowest level to dark red at the highest level. Tissues that were also positive for sgRNA via 446real-time RT-PCR are shaded with black vertical bars. L/left, LN/lymph node, NA/not acquired, 447R/right, SC/spinal cord. 448449450451452453454455456457458459460Fig. 2 RNA in situ (RNAscope) detection of SARS-CoV-2 in extrapulmonary tissues. 461SARS-CoV-2 virus is localized to the Golgi and endoplasmic, peri-nuclear in appearance, in the 462following organs and cell types (500 X magnifications): A) Thyroid, demonstrating presence of 463virus within follicular cells. B) Esophagus, demonstrating the presence of virus within the 464stratified squamous epithelium (*), as well as signal in capillaries within the stroma (#). C. 465Spleen, demonstrating the presence of mononuclear lymphoid cells within the white pulp. D) 466Appendix, demonstrating the presence of virus in both colonic epithelium (*) and mononuclear 467lymphoid cells in the stroma (#). E) Adrenal demonstrates virus within endocrine secretory cells 468of the adrenal gland. F) Ovary demonstrates the presence of virus in stromal cells of the ovary in 469a post-menopausal ovary. G) Testis demonstrates the presence of virus in both Sertoli cells (*) 470and maturing germ cells within the seminiferous tubules of the testis (#). H) Endometrium 471demonstrates the presence of virus within endometrial gland epithelium (*) and stromal cells (#), 472in a pre-menopausal endometrial sample. 473474475Fig. 3 SARS-CoV-2 protein expression in human cerebellum. Low magnification 476visualization of no-primary control (A) and primary-added adjacent (B) cerebellar sections 477labeled for SARS-CoV-2 (green) and NeuN (magenta) demonstrate viral-specific protein 478expression within the tissue. The locations of the molecular layer (ML), granular layer (GL), and 479white matter (WM) are indicated in (A) and also correspond to (B). Higher magnification images 480demonstrate cell type-specific infection (C-E). Both NeuN positive neurons (yellow arrows) and 481other unidentified cells (white arrows) are associated with viral protein in the GL (C). Purkinje 482cells adjacent to the ML are infected (D, white arrow). In rare instances, blood vessels adjacent 483to the GL and WM were associated with viral protein (E, white arrow). The scale bars in A is 484also associated with B. All immunofluorescent images were obtained by confocal microscopy. 485486487488489490491492493494495496497498499500501502503504505506Methods: 507Autopsies 508Autopsies were performed and tissues were collected as previously described26 in the National 509Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Pathology at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center 510following consent of the legal next of kin. 511512Measurement of IgG and IgM antibodies against Nucleocapsid and Spike protein of SARS-513CoV-2 514Fluid-phase luciferase immunoprecipitation systems (LIPS) assays were used to study IgG and 515IgM antibody response to SARS-CoV-2. For IgG LIPS measurements, Renilla luciferase-516nucleocapsid and Gaussia luciferase-spike protein extracts were employed with protein A/G 517beads (Protein A/G UltraLink Resin, Thermo Fisher Scientific) as the IgG capture reagent as 518previously described with microtiter filter plates27. For IgM measurements, anti-human IgM goat 519agarose beads (Sigma) were substituted as the capture reagent using both the microfilter plate 520and microtube format28. The IgM immunoprecipitation assays performed in 1.5 ml microfuge 521tube format containing 1 l sera or plasma, Renilla luciferase-nucleocapsid (10 million light unit 522input per tube) or Gaussia luciferase-spike protein (40 million light input per tube) and buffer A 523(20 mM Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mM NaCl, 5 mM MgCl2, 0.1% Triton X-100) to a total volume of 100 524l. After mixing, the tubes were incubated at room temp for 1 hour. Next 10 l of the anti-human 525IgM agarose bead suspension was added to each tube for additional 60 minutes and tubes were 526placed on a rotating wheel at 4o C. The samples were then washed by brief centrifugation to 527collect the bead pellet at room temperature 3 times with 1.5 ml Buffer A and once with 1.5 ml of 528PBS. After the final wash, the beads were mixed with coelenterazine substrate (100 l) and light 529units measured in a tube luminometer. Known seronegative and seropositive samples for IgG and 530IgM antibodies against nucleocapsid and spike proteins were used for assigning seropositive cut-531off values and for standardization. 532533 SARS-CoV-2 RNA quantification of tissues and body fluids 534Total RNA was extracted from RNAlater (Invitrogen)-preserved tissues and body fluids 535collected at autopsy using the RNeasy Mini, RNeasy Fibrous Tissue Mini, RNeasy Lipid Tissue 536Mini Kit, and QIAamp Viral RNA Mini Kits (Qiagen) according to the manufacturer’s protocols. 537Upstream tissue processing and subsequent RNA quantification have been previously 538described26. The QX200 AutoDG Droplet Digital PCR System (Bio-Rad) was used to detect and 539quantify SARS-CoV-2 RNA in technical replicates of 5.5 uL RNA for fluids and up to 550 ng 540RNA for tissues as previously described26. Results were then normalized to copies of N1, N2, 541and RP per mL of sample input for fluids and per ng of RNA concentration input for tissues. For 542samples to be considered positive for SARS-CoV-2 N1 or N2 genes, they needed to mean the 543manufacturer’s limit of detection of ≥0.1 copies/μ L and ≥2 positive droplets per well. Over 60 544control autopsy tissues from uninfected patients, representing all organs collected for COVID-19 545autopsy cases, were used to validate the manufacturer’s EUA published LOD for nasopharyngeal 546swabs for tissues (Extended Data Table 8). ddPCR data for P316 as well as a portion of tissues 547from the oral cavity26 have been previously reported. 548549sgRNA analysis of ddPCR positive tissues 550Tissues that tested positive for one or both SARS-CoV-2 N gene targets via ddPCR had RNA 551submitted for sgRNA analysis. Briefly, five μ l RNA was used in a one-step real-time RT-PCR 552assay to sgRNA (forward primer 5’- CGATCTCTTGTAGATCTGTTCTC-3'; reverse primer 5’- 553ATATTGCAGCAGTACGCACACA-3'; probe 5’-FAM-554ACACTAGCCATCCTTACTGCGCTTCG-ZEN-IBHQ-3')29 using the Rotor-Gene probe kit 555(Qiagen) according to instructions of the manufacturer. In each run, standard dilutions of counted 556RNA standards were run in parallel to calculate copy numbers in the samples. The limit of 557detection for this assay was determined to be <40 Cq (Supplemental Data 1) using 40 control 558autopsy tissues from uninfected patients, representing all organs collected for COVID-19 559autopsy cases. 560561Viral isolation from select postmortem tissues 562Select tissues with high viral RNA levels via ddPCR and sgRNA PCR measuring at or below a 56330 Cq underwent virus isolation to prove the presence of infectious virus. Virus isolation was 564performed on tissues by homogenizing the tissue in 1ml DMEM and inoculating Vero E6 cells in 565a 24-well plate with 250 μ l of cleared homogenate and a 1:10 dilution thereof. Plates were 566centrifuged for 30 minutes at 1000 rpm and incubated for 30 minutes at 37°C and 5% CO2. The 567inoculum was then removed and replaced with 500 μ l DMEM containing 2% FBS, 50 U/ml 568penicillin and 50 μg/ml streptomycin. Six days after inoculation, cytopathic effect (CPE) was 569scored. A blind passage of samples where no CPE was present, was performed according to the 570same method. Supernatants from plates with CPE present were analyzed via PCR for SARS-571CoV-2 to rule out other causes of CPE. 572573Virus Sequencing Methods 574Patients with duration of illness ≤7 d (P27, P19) and 8-14 d (P18) with multiple body site 575tissues containing sgRNA levels ≤31 Cq value were selected for high throughput, single-genome 576amplification and sequencing (HT-SGS) as previously described21. Presence of variants of 577SARS-CoV-2 were analyzed within and between tissues. 578579SARS-CoV-2 RNA in situ hybridization 580Chromogenic in situ detection was performed using the manual RNAScope 2.5 HD assay (Cat# 581322310, Advanced Cell Diagnostics, Hayward, CA) with a modified pretreatment protocol.582Briefly, formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue sections were cut at 7 μm, air dried 583overnight, and baked for 2 hrs at 60ºC. The FFPE tissue sections were deparaffinized, 584dehydrated, and then treated with pretreat 1 for 10 min at room temperature. The slides were 585boiled with pretreatment reagent for 15 min, digested with protease at 40ºC for 10 min, then 586hybridized for 2 hours at 40oC with probe-V-nCov2019-S (Cat# 848561, Advanced Cell 587Diagnostics). In addition, probe-Hs-PPIB (Cat# 313901, Advanced Cell Diagnostics) and probe-588dapB (Cat# 310043, Advanced Cell Diagnostics) were used as a positive and negative control, 589respectively. Subsequent amplification was done according to the original protocol. Detection of 590specific probe binding sites were visualized with RNAScope 2.5 HD Reagent kit-brown 591chromogenic labels (Advanced Cell Diagnostics). The slides were counterstained with 592hematoxylin and cover-slipped. 593594SARS-CoV-2 immunohistochemistry 595FFPE cerebellar sections were deparaffinized, rehydrated and subject to 0.01M Citrate buffer 596antigen retrieval for 20min at 120°C. Slides were incubated in 0.1% TritonX100 in PBS for 59730min, washed extensively with PBS and fresh True Black Plus® solution (1:40, Cat#23014, 598Biotium) applied for 7min. Following PBS wash, blocking serum (5% normal donkey 599serum/0.3M glycine) was applied for 30min. Primary antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 NP1 600(1:250, custom made) and NeuN (1:200, Cat#MAB377, Chemicon) were diluted in blocking 601serum and applied to slides overnight at 4°C. Species-specific secondary conjugates (1:500, 602Cat#A32790 and #A32744, ThermoFisher) were applied for 1hr at RT. Hoescht 33342 applied 603for 10min (1:2000, Cat#H3570, ThermoFisher) labeled nuclei. Slides were cover-slipped with 604Prolong Gold (Cat#P36930, ThermoFisher). 605606Data Availability 607The datasets that support the findings of this study are available in Supplementary Data 1, 2 and 6083. Sequence data described in this manuscript have been deposited (database accession numbers 609XXXX). The bioinformatic pipeline for HT-SGS data analysis has been deposited 610(https://github.com/niaid/UMI-pacbio-pipeline). ISH images from our cohort as well as positive 611and negative controls are available in Supplementary Data 3, which is available at 612https://halo.cancer.gov, Authentication method: NIH, username: halocancernci@gmail.com, 613password: covid19N!H. 614615Methods References: 61626.Huang, N., et al. SARS-CoV-2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva. Nat Med. 27, 892–617903 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01296-8. 61827.Burbelo, P. D., et al. Sensitivity in Detection of Antibodies to Nucleocapsid and Spike 619Proteins of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 in Patients With 620Coronavirus Disease 2019. J Infect Dis. 222(2), 206-213 (2020). 621https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiaa273. 62228.Burbelo, P. D., Goldman, R., & Mattson, T. L. 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Kleiner5, Stephen M. Hewitt5, Martha 642Quezado5, Willie J. Young5, Sarah P. Young5, Billel Gasmi5, Michelly Sampaio De Melo5, 643Sabina Desar5, Saber Tadros5, Nadia Nasir5, Xueting Jin5, Sharika Rajan5, Esra Dikoglu5, Neval 644Ozkaya5, Kris Ylaya5, Joon-Yong Chung5, Stefania Pittaluga5, Grace Smith5, Elizabeth R. 645Emanuel6, Brian L. Kelsall6, Justin A. Olivera7, Megan Blawas7, Robert A. Star7, Alison 646Grazioli8, Nicole Hays9, Madeleine Purcell9, Shreya Singireddy9, Jocelyn Wu9, Katherine Raja9, 647Ryan Curto9, Jean E. Chung10, Amy J. Borth10, Kimberly A. Bowers10, Anne M. Weichold10, 648Paula A. Minor10, Mir Ahmad N. Moshref10, Emily E. Kelly10, Mohammad M. Sajadi11,12, Kapil 649K. Saharia11,12, Daniel L. Herr13, Thomas M. Scalea14, Douglas Tran15, Ronson J. Madathil15, 650Siamak Dahi15, Kristopher B. Deatrick15, Eric M. Krause16, Joseph Rabin17, Joseph A. Herrold18, 651Ali Tabatabai18, Eric S. Hochberg18, Christopher R. Cornachione18, Andrea R. Levine18, Justin E. 652Richards19, John Elder20, Allen P. Burke20, Michael A. Mazzeffi21, Robert H. Christenson22, 653Zackary A. Chancer23, Mustafa Abdulmahdi24, Sabrina Sopha24, Tyler Goldberg24, Shahabuddin 654Soherwardi25, Yashvir Sangwan26, Michael T. McCurdy27,12, Kristen Sudano27, Diane Blume27, 655Bethany Radin27, Madhat Arnouk27, James W. Eagan Jr28, Robert Palermo29, Anthony D. 656Harris30 657658Affiliations: 6591.Emerging Pathogens Section, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Clinical Center, 660National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 6612.Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 662Bethesda, MD, USA 6633.Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, 664Bethesda, MD, USA 6654.Postdoctoral Research Associate Training Program, National Institute of General Medical 666Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 6675.Laboratory of Pathology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National 668Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 6696.Mucosal Immunobiology Section, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, National 670Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 671USA 6727.Renal Diagnostics and Therapeutics Unit, Kidney Diseases Branch, National Institute of 673Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 674MD, USA 6758.Kidney Disease Section, Kidney Diseases Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and 676Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA 6779.University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 67810.University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA 67911.Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, 680MD, USA 68112.Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University 682of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 68313.R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Medicine and Program in 684Trauma, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 68514.Department of Shock Trauma Critical Care, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 686Baltimore, MD, USA 68715.Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Maryland School of 688Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 68916.Department of Surgery, Division of Thoracic Surgery, University of Maryland School of 690Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 69117.R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Department of Surgery and Program in Trauma, 692University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 69318.Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Maryland School 694of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 69519.Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of 696Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 69720.Department of Autopsy and Thoracic Pathology, University of Maryland School of 698Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 69921.Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, George Washington School 700of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC USA 70122.Department of Laboratory Science, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 702Baltimore, MD, USA 70323.Department of Anesthesiology, University of Southern California Keck School of 704Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA 70524.Critical Care Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center, 706Glen Burnie, MD, USA 70725.Hospitalist Department, TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Salisbury, MD, USA 70826.Department of Interventional Pulmonology, TidalHealth Peninsula Regional, Salisbury, 709MD, USA 71027.Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland St. 711Joseph Medical Center, Towson, MD, USA 71228.Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, 713MD, USA 71429.Department of Pathology, Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Townson, MD, USA 71530.Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of 716Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA 717718Author Contributions 719DSC, KMV, SRS, MJRB, ALB, LJPV, AG, DLH, SMH & DEK contributed to the study design 720and protocols for autopsy procurement. APP, JMD, MER, AG, NH, MP, SS, JW, KR, RC, JEC, 721AJB, KAB, AMW, PAM, MANM, EEK, MMS, KKS, DLH, TMS, DT, RJM, SD, KBD, EMK, 722JR, JAH, AT, ESH, CRC, ARL, JER, JE, APB, MAM, RHC, ZAC, MA, SS, TG, SS, YS, MTM, 723KS, DB, BR, MA, JWE Jr, RP, and ADH provided care for, recruited, collected samples from, 724and/or procured medical records for the patients in this study. DEK, SMH, MQ, WJY, SPY, BG, 725MSDM, SD, ST, NN, XJ, SR, ED, NO, KY, JYC, SP, and GS conducted the autopsies and/or 726histological and ISH analysis. SRS, MJRB, APP, JMD, ALB, LJPV, SCR, SJC, ERE, BLK, 727JAO, MB, and RAS assisted with procurement and preservation of autopsy specimens. SRS with 728assistance from SCR and JMD performed RNA extraction, ddPCR, and data analysis. MS, CKY, 729VJM, and EDW performed and analyzed data for sgRNA RT-PCR. CWW and KEP conducted 730IHC on cerebellum. PDB and JIC measured antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in perimortem 731plasma samples. SHK, FB, and EAB performed viral sequencing. SRS drafted the manuscript 732with critical input from DSC, KMV, SMH, DEK, SCR, APP, MJRB, EDW, VJM, AG, DLH, 733KKS, MMS MTM, PDB, JIC, CWW, KEP, and SJC. All authors approved the submitted version 734of the manuscript. 735Competing Interests: 736The authors declare no competing or conflict of interest. 737Additional Information: 738Supplementary information is available for this paper. 739Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to DSC. 740741742743744745746747748749Extended Data Fig. 1 Autopsy procurement relative to Maryland COVID-19 cases, March 75019th, 2020 to March 9th, 2021. Daily COVID-19 reported cases for Maryland (light blue bars) 751with 7-day average (dark blue line) with timing of autopsies (red arrows). 752753754755756757758759760761762763Extended Data Fig. 2 Distribution, quantification, and replication of SARS-CoV-2 across the 764body and brain over time. The heat map depicts the highest average quantification of SARS-765CoV-2 RNA (N) via ddPCR present within all sampled tissues of 44 autopsy cases. Patients are 766aligned from shortest to longest duration of illness (DOI) prior to death, listed at the bottom of 767the figure, and grouped into early (0-14 d), mid (15-30 d), and late (≥31 d) DOI. Tissues are 768grouped by body system beginning with the respiratory tract at the top and CNS at the bottom. 769Viral RNA levels range from 0.0004 to 500,000 copies per ng of RNA input, depicted as a 770gradient from dark blue at the lowest level to dark red at the highest level. Tissues that were also 771positive for sgRNA via real-time RT-PCR are shaded with black vertical bars. 772773774775776777778779780781782783784785786787Extended Data Figure 3: Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genetic diversity across body 788compartments in patients. (a) P18, (b) P19, (c) P27, (d) P33, (e) P36, (f) P38. Haplotype 789diagrams (left) show SARS-CoV-2 spike single genome sequences detected in multiple organs. 790Spike NH2-terminal domain (NTD), receptor-binding domain (RBD), and furin cleavage site (F) 791regions are shaded grey, and remaining regions of the spike are shaded white. Ticks with 792different colors indicate mutations relative to the WA-1 reference sequence; green indicates non-793synonymous differences from WA-1 detected in all sequences in the individual; blue indicates 794synonymous mutations detected variably within the individual, and pink indicates non-795synonymous mutations detected variably within the individual. Bar graphs (right) show the 796percentage of all single genome sequences in the sample matching each haplotype. 797798799800801802803804805806807808809810811Extended Data Fig. 4 Representative findings in patients in the COVID-19 cohort. A. Lung, 812Subject P22. Exudative phase diffuse alveolar damage with hyaline membranes and mild 813interstitial inflammation (H&E, 100x). B. Lung, Subject P26. Proliferative phase diffuse alveolar 814damage and sparse inflammation. (H&E, 200x). C. Lung, Subject P22. Organizing thrombus in 815medium sized pulmonary artery. (H&E, 40x). D. Lung, Subject P28. Diffuse pulmonary 816hemorrhage. (H&E, 100x). E. Heart, Subject P3. Active lymphocytic myocarditis with 817cardiomyocyte necrosis. (H&E, 400x). F. Heart, Subject P38. Microscopic focus of bland 818myocardial contraction band necrosis. (H&E, 400x). G. Liver, Subject P41. Steatohepatitis with 819mild steatosis and scattered ballooned hepatocytes. (H&E, 400x), H. Liver, Subject P41. Focal 820bridging fibrosis involving central hepatic veins. (Masson trichrome, 40x). I. Kidney, Subject 821P16. Nodular glomerulosclerosis. (Masson trichrome, 600x). J. Spleen, Subject P16. Preservation 822of white pulp and congestion (H&E, 40x) K. Spleen, Subject P14. Lymphoid depletion of white 823pulp with proteinaceous material and red pulp congestion. (H&E, 100x) L. Spleen, Subject P34. 824Relative preservation of white pulp with extramedullary hematopoiesis (inset) in red pulp (H&E, 825200x) M. Lymph node, Subject P25. Follicular hyperplasia with well-defined follicles. (H&E, ) 826N. Lymph node, Subject P25. Marked plasmacytosis in the medullary cord. (H&E, 400x) O. 827Lymph node, Subject P25. Marked plasmacytosis and sinus histiocytosis. (H&E, 400x) P. Brain, 828Subject P35, Focal subarachnoid and intraparenchymal hemorrhage. (H&E, 40x) Q. Brain, 829Subject P44, Vascular congestion. (H&E, 40x) R. Brain, Subject P43, Intravascular platelet 830aggregates. (anti-CD61 stain, 100x) 831832833834835836837838Extended Data Fig. 5 Temporal association of diffuse alveolar damage in patients dying 839from COVID-19. Number of autopsy cases with stages of diffuse alveolar damage via 840histopathologic analysis by duration of illness. Early time points mainly show the initial 841exudative phase of diffuse alveolar damage, while patients dying after prolonged illness are more 842likely to show organizing or fibrosing stages. 843844845846Extended Data Table 1 Autopsy cohort demographics, comorbidities, and clinical 847intervention summary. (a) Summary of demographics and known comorbidities for autopsy 848cases. (b) Summary of illness course and clinical care for autopsy cases. Data compiled from 849available patient medical records. ECMO/extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. 850851852853854Extended Data Table 2 Individual case demographics and clinical summary. Data obtained 855from available medical records. AF/atrial fibrillation, AVAPS/average volume-assured pressure 856support, BiPAP/bilevel positive airway pressure, CAD/coronary artery disease, CHF/congestive 857heart failure, CKD/chronic kidney disease, CML/chronic myeloid leukemia, COPD/chronic 858obstructive pulmonary disease, DAD/diffuse alveolar damage, DM/diabetes mellitus, DVT/deep 859vein thrombosis, ECMO/extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, ESRD/end-stage renal disease, 860HLD/hyperlipidemia, HTN/hypertension, Hx/historical, ILD/interstitial lung disease, LV/left 861ventricular, MS/multiple sclerosis, PE/pulmonary embolism, PVD/peripheral vascular disease, 862PH/pulmonary hypertension, s/p/status post. 863864865Extended Data Table 3 Summary of SARS-CoV-2 RNA and sgRNA by tissue category over 866time. (a) Summary of the average nucleocapsid gene copies/ng RNA across cases by tissue 867category and duration of illness (days). (b) Summary of the number and percentage of cases with 868SARS-CoV-2 RNA detected via droplet digital (dd)PCR by tissue category for all cases and by 869tissue and duration of illness (days). The number and percentage of tissues positive for ddPCR 870that were additionally positive for subgenomic (sg)RNA PCR is listed in the right most column. 871*A tissue positive via ddPCR was not tested via sgRNA PCR. CNS/central nervous system, 872LN/lymph node. 873874875Extended Data Table 4 SARS-CoV-2 cellular tropism. Summary of cell types that were 876identified as SARS-CoV-2 positive by ISH, and the corresponding anatomic sites in which this 877was observed. 878Cell TypeLocationsBile duct epitheliumLiverChondrocytesBronchial cartilage ringsCollecting duct epitheliumKidneyDistal tubule epitheliumKidneyEndocrine cells of adrenalAdrenal glandEndocrine cells of thyroidThyroidEndotheliumVasculature, allEpendymaBrain Exocrine cells of pancreasPancreasFibroblast-like cellsPericardium, heart, trachea, bronchusGerm cellsTestisGlandular epithelumUterus GliaBrain, all locationsHepatocytesLiverHyaline MembraneLungInterstitial cells of endometriumUterusIntimal cellsAortaKupffer cellsLiverLeydig cellsTestisMononuclear leukocytesLung, spleen, lymph nodes, lymphoid aggregates of GIMucosal epitheliumSmall intestine, colonMucus secreting epithelium, salivary typeSalivary glands, trachea, bronchusMyocytes, CardiacHeartMyocytes, StriatedPsoas muscleMyocytes, SmoothUterus, GINeuronsBrain, all locationsParietal cells Kidney, Bowman's capsulePneumocytes, type I & IILungPurkinje cellCerebellumSchwann cellsNerves, allSertoli cellsTestisStratified epithelium (& basal layer)Trachea, esophagusStromal cellsPericardium, uterus, ovaryVascular smooth muscleArteries, all879Extended Data Table 5 Histopathologic findings of COVID-19 autopsy cases. Summary of 880histopathologic findings across organ system across 44 autopsy cases. Central nervous system 881findings are reported for the 11 cases in which consent for sampling was obtained. 1Includes one 882case in which the COVID lungs were transplanted and data from explanted lungs used in table. 8832Individual lung weights were missing in 4 cases. 3Findings missing on 1 case due to extreme 884autolysis. 4Weight missing on one case. 5Lymph node findings missing in 4 cases 885
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    1. According to all known laws of aviation,

      there is no way a bee should be able to fly.

      Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.

      The bee, of course, flies anyway

      because bees don't care what humans think is impossible.

      Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black. Yellow, black.

      Ooh, black and yellow! Let's shake it up a little.

      Barry! Breakfast is ready!

      Ooming!

      Hang on a second.

      Hello?

      • Barry?
      • Adam?
      • Oan you believe this is happening?
      • I can't. I'll pick you up.

      Looking sharp.

      Use the stairs. Your father paid good money for those.

      Sorry. I'm excited.

      Here's the graduate. We're very proud of you, son.

      A perfect report card, all B's.

      Very proud.

      Ma! I got a thing going here.

      • You got lint on your fuzz.
      • Ow! That's me!
      • Wave to us! We'll be in row 118,000.
      • Bye!

      Barry, I told you, stop flying in the house!

      • Hey, Adam.
      • Hey, Barry.
      • Is that fuzz gel?
      • A little. Special day, graduation.

      Never thought I'd make it.

      Three days grade school, three days high school.

      Those were awkward.

      Three days college. I'm glad I took a day and hitchhiked around the hive.

      You did come back different.

      • Hi, Barry.
      • Artie, growing a mustache? Looks good.
      • Hear about Frankie?
      • Yeah.
      • You going to the funeral?
      • No, I'm not going.

      Everybody knows, sting someone, you die.

      Don't waste it on a squirrel. Such a hothead.

      I guess he could have just gotten out of the way.

      I love this incorporating an amusement park into our day.

      That's why we don't need vacations.

      Boy, quite a bit of pomp... under the circumstances.

      • Well, Adam, today we are men.
      • We are!
      • Bee-men.
      • Amen!

      Hallelujah!

      Students, faculty, distinguished bees,

      please welcome Dean Buzzwell.

      Welcome, New Hive Oity graduating class of...

      ...9:15.

      That concludes our ceremonies.

      And begins your career at Honex Industries!

      Will we pick ourjob today?

      I heard it's just orientation.

      Heads up! Here we go.

      Keep your hands and antennas inside the tram at all times.

      • Wonder what it'll be like?
      • A little scary.

      Welcome to Honex, a division of Honesco

      and a part of the Hexagon Group.

      This is it!

      Wow.

      Wow.

      We know that you, as a bee, have worked your whole life

      to get to the point where you can work for your whole life.

      Honey begins when our valiant Pollen Jocks bring the nectar to the hive.

      Our top-secret formula

      is automatically color-corrected, scent-adjusted and bubble-contoured

      into this soothing sweet syrup

      with its distinctive golden glow you know as...

      Honey!

      • That girl was hot.
      • She's my cousin!
      • She is?
      • Yes, we're all cousins.
      • Right. You're right.
      • At Honex, we constantly strive

      to improve every aspect of bee existence.

      These bees are stress-testing a new helmet technology.

      • What do you think he makes?
      • Not enough.

      Here we have our latest advancement, the Krelman.

      • What does that do?
      • Oatches that little strand of honey

      that hangs after you pour it. Saves us millions.

      Oan anyone work on the Krelman?

      Of course. Most bee jobs are small ones. But bees know

      that every small job, if it's done well, means a lot.

      But choose carefully

      because you'll stay in the job you pick for the rest of your life.

      The same job the rest of your life? I didn't know that.

      What's the difference?

      You'll be happy to know that bees, as a species, haven't had one day off

      in 27 million years.

      So you'll just work us to death?

      We'll sure try.

      Wow! That blew my mind!

      "What's the difference?" How can you say that?

      One job forever? That's an insane choice to have to make.

      I'm relieved. Now we only have to make one decision in life.

      But, Adam, how could they never have told us that?

      Why would you question anything? We're bees.

      We're the most perfectly functioning society on Earth.

      You ever think maybe things work a little too well here?

      Like what? Give me one example.

      I don't know. But you know what I'm talking about.

      Please clear the gate. Royal Nectar Force on approach.

      Wait a second. Oheck it out.

      • Hey, those are Pollen Jocks!
      • Wow.

      I've never seen them this close.

      They know what it's like outside the hive.

      Yeah, but some don't come back.

      • Hey, Jocks!
      • Hi, Jocks!

      You guys did great!

      You're monsters! You're sky freaks! I love it! I love it!

      • I wonder where they were.
      • I don't know.

      Their day's not planned.

      Outside the hive, flying who knows where, doing who knows what.

      You can'tjust decide to be a Pollen Jock. You have to be bred for that.

      Right.

      Look. That's more pollen than you and I will see in a lifetime.

      It's just a status symbol. Bees make too much of it.

      Perhaps. Unless you're wearing it and the ladies see you wearing it.

      Those ladies? Aren't they our cousins too?

      Distant. Distant.

      Look at these two.

      • Oouple of Hive Harrys.
      • Let's have fun with them.

      It must be dangerous being a Pollen Jock.

      Yeah. Once a bear pinned me against a mushroom!

      He had a paw on my throat, and with the other, he was slapping me!

      • Oh, my!
      • I never thought I'd knock him out.

      What were you doing during this?

      Trying to alert the authorities.

      I can autograph that.

      A little gusty out there today, wasn't it, comrades?

      Yeah. Gusty.

      We're hitting a sunflower patch six miles from here tomorrow.

      • Six miles, huh?
      • Barry!

      A puddle jump for us, but maybe you're not up for it.

      • Maybe I am.
      • You are not!

      We're going 0900 at J-Gate.

      What do you think, buzzy-boy? Are you bee enough?

      I might be. It all depends on what 0900 means.

      Hey, Honex!

      Dad, you surprised me.

      You decide what you're interested in?

      • Well, there's a lot of choices.
      • But you only get one.

      Do you ever get bored doing the same job every day?

      Son, let me tell you about stirring.

      You grab that stick, and you just move it around, and you stir it around.

      You get yourself into a rhythm. It's a beautiful thing.

      You know, Dad, the more I think about it,

      maybe the honey field just isn't right for me.

      You were thinking of what, making balloon animals?

      That's a bad job for a guy with a stinger.

      Janet, your son's not sure he wants to go into honey!

      • Barry, you are so funny sometimes.
      • I'm not trying to be funny.

      You're not funny! You're going into honey. Our son, the stirrer!

      • You're gonna be a stirrer?
      • No one's listening to me!

      Wait till you see the sticks I have.

      I could say anything right now. I'm gonna get an ant tattoo!

      Let's open some honey and celebrate!

      Maybe I'll pierce my thorax. Shave my antennae.

      Shack up with a grasshopper. Get a gold tooth and call everybody "dawg"!

      I'm so proud.

      • We're starting work today!
      • Today's the day.

      Oome on! All the good jobs will be gone.

      Yeah, right.

      Pollen counting, stunt bee, pouring, stirrer, front desk, hair removal...

      • Is it still available?
      • Hang on. Two left!

      One of them's yours! Oongratulations! Step to the side.

      • What'd you get?
      • Picking crud out. Stellar!

      Wow!

      Oouple of newbies?

      Yes, sir! Our first day! We are ready!

      Make your choice.

      • You want to go first?
      • No, you go.

      Oh, my. What's available?

      Restroom attendant's open, not for the reason you think.

      • Any chance of getting the Krelman?
      • Sure, you're on.

      I'm sorry, the Krelman just closed out.

      Wax monkey's always open.

      The Krelman opened up again.

      What happened?

      A bee died. Makes an opening. See? He's dead. Another dead one.

      Deady. Deadified. Two more dead.

      Dead from the neck up. Dead from the neck down. That's life!

      Oh, this is so hard!

      Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer,

      humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor,

      mite wrangler. Barry, what do you think I should... Barry?

      Barry!

      All right, we've got the sunflower patch in quadrant nine...

      What happened to you? Where are you?

      • I'm going out.
      • Out? Out where?
      • Out there.
      • Oh, no!

      I have to, before I go to work for the rest of my life.

      You're gonna die! You're crazy! Hello?

      Another call coming in.

      If anyone's feeling brave, there's a Korean deli on 83rd

      that gets their roses today.

      Hey, guys.

      • Look at that.
      • Isn't that the kid we saw yesterday?

      Hold it, son, flight deck's restricted.

      It's OK, Lou. We're gonna take him up.

      Really? Feeling lucky, are you?

      Sign here, here. Just initial that.

      • Thank you.
      • OK.

      You got a rain advisory today,

      and as you all know, bees cannot fly in rain.

      So be careful. As always, watch your brooms,

      hockey sticks, dogs, birds, bears and bats.

      Also, I got a couple of reports of root beer being poured on us.

      Murphy's in a home because of it, babbling like a cicada!

      • That's awful.
      • And a reminder for you rookies,

      bee law number one, absolutely no talking to humans!

      All right, launch positions!

      Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz!

      Black and yellow!

      Hello!

      You ready for this, hot shot?

      Yeah. Yeah, bring it on.

      Wind, check.

      • Antennae, check.
      • Nectar pack, check.
      • Wings, check.
      • Stinger, check.

      Scared out of my shorts, check.

      OK, ladies,

      let's move it out!

      Pound those petunias, you striped stem-suckers!

      All of you, drain those flowers!

      Wow! I'm out!

      I can't believe I'm out!

      So blue.

      I feel so fast and free!

      Box kite!

      Wow!

      Flowers!

      This is Blue Leader. We have roses visual.

      Bring it around 30 degrees and hold.

      Roses!

      30 degrees, roger. Bringing it around.

      Stand to the side, kid. It's got a bit of a kick.

      That is one nectar collector!

      • Ever see pollination up close?
      • No, sir.

      I pick up some pollen here, sprinkle it over here. Maybe a dash over there,

      a pinch on that one. See that? It's a little bit of magic.

      That's amazing. Why do we do that?

      That's pollen power. More pollen, more flowers, more nectar, more honey for us.

      Oool.

      I'm picking up a lot of bright yellow. Oould be daisies. Don't we need those?

      Oopy that visual.

      Wait. One of these flowers seems to be on the move.

      Say again? You're reporting a moving flower?

      Affirmative.

      That was on the line!

      This is the coolest. What is it?

      I don't know, but I'm loving this color.

      It smells good. Not like a flower, but I like it.

      Yeah, fuzzy.

      Ohemical-y.

      Oareful, guys. It's a little grabby.

      My sweet lord of bees!

      Oandy-brain, get off there!

      Problem!

      • Guys!
      • This could be bad.

      Affirmative.

      Very close.

      Gonna hurt.

      Mama's little boy.

      You are way out of position, rookie!

      Ooming in at you like a missile!

      Help me!

      I don't think these are flowers.

      • Should we tell him?
      • I think he knows.

      What is this?!

      Match point!

      You can start packing up, honey, because you're about to eat it!

      Yowser!

      Gross.

      There's a bee in the car!

      • Do something!
      • I'm driving!
      • Hi, bee.
      • He's back here!

      He's going to sting me!

      Nobody move. If you don't move, he won't sting you. Freeze!

      He blinked!

      Spray him, Granny!

      What are you doing?!

      Wow... the tension level out here is unbelievable.

      I gotta get home.

      Oan't fly in rain.

      Oan't fly in rain.

      Oan't fly in rain.

      Mayday! Mayday! Bee going down!

      Ken, could you close the window please?

      Ken, could you close the window please?

      Oheck out my new resume. I made it into a fold-out brochure.

      You see? Folds out.

      Oh, no. More humans. I don't need this.

      What was that?

      Maybe this time. This time. This time. This time! This time! This...

      Drapes!

      That is diabolical.

      It's fantastic. It's got all my special skills, even my top-ten favorite movies.

      What's number one? Star Wars?

      Nah, I don't go for that...

      ...kind of stuff.

      No wonder we shouldn't talk to them. They're out of their minds.

      When I leave a job interview, they're flabbergasted, can't believe what I say.

      There's the sun. Maybe that's a way out.

      I don't remember the sun having a big 75 on it.

      I predicted global warming.

      I could feel it getting hotter. At first I thought it was just me.

      Wait! Stop! Bee!

      Stand back. These are winter boots.

      Wait!

      Don't kill him!

      You know I'm allergic to them! This thing could kill me!

      Why does his life have less value than yours?

      Why does his life have any less value than mine? Is that your statement?

      I'm just saying all life has value. You don't know what he's capable of feeling.

      My brochure!

      There you go, little guy.

      I'm not scared of him. It's an allergic thing.

      Put that on your resume brochure.

      My whole face could puff up.

      Make it one of your special skills.

      Knocking someone out is also a special skill.

      Right. Bye, Vanessa. Thanks.

      • Vanessa, next week? Yogurt night?
      • Sure, Ken. You know, whatever.
      • You could put carob chips on there.
      • Bye.
      • Supposed to be less calories.
      • Bye.

      I gotta say something.

      She saved my life. I gotta say something.

      All right, here it goes.

      Nah.

      What would I say?

      I could really get in trouble.

      It's a bee law. You're not supposed to talk to a human.

      I can't believe I'm doing this.

      I've got to.

      Oh, I can't do it. Oome on!

      No. Yes. No.

      Do it. I can't.

      How should I start it? "You like jazz?" No, that's no good.

      Here she comes! Speak, you fool!

      Hi!

      I'm sorry.

      • You're talking.
      • Yes, I know.

      You're talking!

      I'm so sorry.

      No, it's OK. It's fine. I know I'm dreaming.

      But I don't recall going to bed.

      Well, I'm sure this is very disconcerting.

      This is a bit of a surprise to me. I mean, you're a bee!

      I am. And I'm not supposed to be doing this,

      but they were all trying to kill me.

      And if it wasn't for you...

      I had to thank you. It's just how I was raised.

      That was a little weird.

      • I'm talking with a bee.
      • Yeah.

      I'm talking to a bee. And the bee is talking to me!

      I just want to say I'm grateful. I'll leave now.

      • Wait! How did you learn to do that?
      • What?

      The talking thing.

      Same way you did, I guess. "Mama, Dada, honey." You pick it up.

      • That's very funny.
      • Yeah.

      Bees are funny. If we didn't laugh, we'd cry with what we have to deal with.

      Anyway...

      Oan I...

      ...get you something?

      • Like what?

      I don't know. I mean... I don't know. Ooffee?

      I don't want to put you out.

      It's no trouble. It takes two minutes.

      • It's just coffee.
      • I hate to impose.
      • Don't be ridiculous!
      • Actually, I would love a cup.

      Hey, you want rum cake?

      • I shouldn't.
      • Have some.
      • No, I can't.
      • Oome on!

      I'm trying to lose a couple micrograms.

      • Where?
      • These stripes don't help.

      You look great!

      I don't know if you know anything about fashion.

      Are you all right?

      No.

      He's making the tie in the cab as they're flying up Madison.

      He finally gets there.

      He runs up the steps into the church. The wedding is on.

      And he says, "Watermelon? I thought you said Guatemalan.

      Why would I marry a watermelon?"

      Is that a bee joke?

      That's the kind of stuff we do.

      Yeah, different.

      So, what are you gonna do, Barry?

      About work? I don't know.

      I want to do my part for the hive, but I can't do it the way they want.

      I know how you feel.

      • You do?
      • Sure.

      My parents wanted me to be a lawyer or a doctor, but I wanted to be a florist.

      • Really?
      • My only interest is flowers.

      Our new queen was just elected with that same campaign slogan.

      Anyway, if you look...

      There's my hive right there. See it?

      You're in Sheep Meadow!

      Yes! I'm right off the Turtle Pond!

      No way! I know that area. I lost a toe ring there once.

      • Why do girls put rings on their toes?
      • Why not?
      • It's like putting a hat on your knee.
      • Maybe I'll try that.
      • You all right, ma'am?
      • Oh, yeah. Fine.

      Just having two cups of coffee!

      Anyway, this has been great. Thanks for the coffee.

      Yeah, it's no trouble.

      Sorry I couldn't finish it. If I did, I'd be up the rest of my life.

      Are you...?

      Oan I take a piece of this with me?

      Sure! Here, have a crumb.

      • Thanks!
      • Yeah.

      All right. Well, then... I guess I'll see you around.

      Or not.

      OK, Barry.

      And thank you so much again... for before.

      Oh, that? That was nothing.

      Well, not nothing, but... Anyway...

      This can't possibly work.

      He's all set to go. We may as well try it.

      OK, Dave, pull the chute.

      • Sounds amazing.
      • It was amazing!

      It was the scariest, happiest moment of my life.

      Humans! I can't believe you were with humans!

      Giant, scary humans! What were they like?

      Huge and crazy. They talk crazy.

      They eat crazy giant things. They drive crazy.

      • Do they try and kill you, like on TV?
      • Some of them. But some of them don't.
      • How'd you get back?
      • Poodle.

      You did it, and I'm glad. You saw whatever you wanted to see.

      You had your "experience." Now you can pick out yourjob and be normal.

      • Well...
      • Well?

      Well, I met someone.

      You did? Was she Bee-ish?

      • A wasp?! Your parents will kill you!
      • No, no, no, not a wasp.
      • Spider?
      • I'm not attracted to spiders.

      I know it's the hottest thing, with the eight legs and all.

      I can't get by that face.

      So who is she?

      She's... human.

      No, no. That's a bee law. You wouldn't break a bee law.

      • Her name's Vanessa.
      • Oh, boy.

      She's so nice. And she's a florist!

      Oh, no! You're dating a human florist!

      We're not dating.

      You're flying outside the hive, talking to humans that attack our homes

      with power washers and M-80s! One-eighth a stick of dynamite!

      She saved my life! And she understands me.

      This is over!

      Eat this.

      This is not over! What was that?

      • They call it a crumb.
      • It was so stingin' stripey!

      And that's not what they eat. That's what falls off what they eat!

      • You know what a Oinnabon is?
      • No.

      It's bread and cinnamon and frosting. They heat it up...

      Sit down!

      ...really hot!

      • Listen to me!

      We are not them! We're us. There's us and there's them!

      Yes, but who can deny the heart that is yearning?

      There's no yearning. Stop yearning. Listen to me!

      You have got to start thinking bee, my friend. Thinking bee!

      • Thinking bee.
      • Thinking bee.

      Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

      There he is. He's in the pool.

      You know what your problem is, Barry?

      I gotta start thinking bee?

      How much longer will this go on?

      It's been three days! Why aren't you working?

      I've got a lot of big life decisions to think about.

      What life? You have no life! You have no job. You're barely a bee!

      Would it kill you to make a little honey?

      Barry, come out. Your father's talking to you.

      Martin, would you talk to him?

      Barry, I'm talking to you!

      You coming?

      Got everything?

      All set!

      Go ahead. I'll catch up.

      Don't be too long.

      Watch this!

      Vanessa!

      • We're still here.
      • I told you not to yell at him.

      He doesn't respond to yelling!

      • Then why yell at me?
      • Because you don't listen!

      I'm not listening to this.

      Sorry, I've gotta go.

      • Where are you going?
      • I'm meeting a friend.

      A girl? Is this why you can't decide?

      Bye.

      I just hope she's Bee-ish.

      They have a huge parade of flowers every year in Pasadena?

      To be in the Tournament of Roses, that's every florist's dream!

      Up on a float, surrounded by flowers, crowds cheering.

      A tournament. Do the roses compete in athletic events?

      No. All right, I've got one. How come you don't fly everywhere?

      It's exhausting. Why don't you run everywhere? It's faster.

      Yeah, OK, I see, I see. All right, your turn.

      TiVo. You can just freeze live TV? That's insane!

      You don't have that?

      We have Hivo, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease.

      Oh, my.

      Dumb bees!

      You must want to sting all those jerks.

      We try not to sting. It's usually fatal for us.

      So you have to watch your temper.

      Very carefully. You kick a wall, take a walk,

      write an angry letter and throw it out. Work through it like any emotion:

      Anger, jealousy, lust.

      Oh, my goodness! Are you OK?

      Yeah.

      • What is wrong with you?!
      • It's a bug.

      He's not bothering anybody. Get out of here, you creep!

      What was that? A Pic 'N' Save circular?

      Yeah, it was. How did you know?

      It felt like about 10 pages. Seventy-five is pretty much our limit.

      You've really got that down to a science.

      • I lost a cousin to Italian Vogue.
      • I'll bet.

      What in the name of Mighty Hercules is this?

      How did this get here? Oute Bee, Golden Blossom,

      Ray Liotta Private Select?

      • Is he that actor?
      • I never heard of him.
      • Why is this here?
      • For people. We eat it.

      You don't have enough food of your own?

      • Well, yes.
      • How do you get it?
      • Bees make it.
      • I know who makes it!

      And it's hard to make it!

      There's heating, cooling, stirring. You need a whole Krelman thing!

      • It's organic.
      • It's our-ganic!

      It's just honey, Barry.

      Just what?!

      Bees don't know about this! This is stealing! A lot of stealing!

      You've taken our homes, schools, hospitals! This is all we have!

      And it's on sale?! I'm getting to the bottom of this.

      I'm getting to the bottom of all of this!

      Hey, Hector.

      • You almost done?
      • Almost.

      He is here. I sense it.

      Well, I guess I'll go home now

      and just leave this nice honey out, with no one around.

      You're busted, box boy!

      I knew I heard something. So you can talk!

      I can talk. And now you'll start talking!

      Where you getting the sweet stuff? Who's your supplier?

      I don't understand. I thought we were friends.

      The last thing we want to do is upset bees!

      You're too late! It's ours now!

      You, sir, have crossed the wrong sword!

      You, sir, will be lunch for my iguana, Ignacio!

      Where is the honey coming from?

      Tell me where!

      Honey Farms! It comes from Honey Farms!

      Orazy person!

      What horrible thing has happened here?

      These faces, they never knew what hit them. And now

      they're on the road to nowhere!

      Just keep still.

      What? You're not dead?

      Do I look dead? They will wipe anything that moves. Where you headed?

      To Honey Farms. I am onto something huge here.

      I'm going to Alaska. Moose blood, crazy stuff. Blows your head off!

      I'm going to Tacoma.

      • And you?
      • He really is dead.

      All right.

      Uh-oh!

      • What is that?!
      • Oh, no!
      • A wiper! Triple blade!
      • Triple blade?

      Jump on! It's your only chance, bee!

      Why does everything have to be so doggone clean?!

      How much do you people need to see?!

      Open your eyes! Stick your head out the window!

      From NPR News in Washington, I'm Oarl Kasell.

      But don't kill no more bugs!

      • Bee!
      • Moose blood guy!!
      • You hear something?
      • Like what?

      Like tiny screaming.

      Turn off the radio.

      Whassup, bee boy?

      Hey, Blood.

      Just a row of honey jars, as far as the eye could see.

      Wow!

      I assume wherever this truck goes is where they're getting it.

      I mean, that honey's ours.

      • Bees hang tight.
      • We're all jammed in.

      It's a close community.

      Not us, man. We on our own. Every mosquito on his own.

      • What if you get in trouble?
      • You a mosquito, you in trouble.

      Nobody likes us. They just smack. See a mosquito, smack, smack!

      At least you're out in the world. You must meet girls.

      Mosquito girls try to trade up, get with a moth, dragonfly.

      Mosquito girl don't want no mosquito.

      You got to be kidding me!

      Mooseblood's about to leave the building! So long, bee!

      • Hey, guys!
      • Mooseblood!

      I knew I'd catch y'all down here. Did you bring your crazy straw?

      We throw it in jars, slap a label on it, and it's pretty much pure profit.

      What is this place?

      A bee's got a brain the size of a pinhead.

      They are pinheads!

      Pinhead.

      • Oheck out the new smoker.
      • Oh, sweet. That's the one you want.

      The Thomas 3000!

      Smoker?

      Ninety puffs a minute, semi-automatic. Twice the nicotine, all the tar.

      A couple breaths of this knocks them right out.

      They make the honey, and we make the money.

      "They make the honey, and we make the money"?

      Oh, my!

      What's going on? Are you OK?

      Yeah. It doesn't last too long.

      Do you know you're in a fake hive with fake walls?

      Our queen was moved here. We had no choice.

      This is your queen? That's a man in women's clothes!

      That's a drag queen!

      What is this?

      Oh, no!

      There's hundreds of them!

      Bee honey.

      Our honey is being brazenly stolen on a massive scale!

      This is worse than anything bears have done! I intend to do something.

      Oh, Barry, stop.

      Who told you humans are taking our honey? That's a rumor.

      Do these look like rumors?

      That's a conspiracy theory. These are obviously doctored photos.

      How did you get mixed up in this?

      He's been talking to humans.

      • What?
      • Talking to humans?!

      He has a human girlfriend. And they make out!

      Make out? Barry!

      We do not.

      • You wish you could.
      • Whose side are you on?

      The bees!

      I dated a cricket once in San Antonio. Those crazy legs kept me up all night.

      Barry, this is what you want to do with your life?

      I want to do it for all our lives. Nobody works harder than bees!

      Dad, I remember you coming home so overworked

      your hands were still stirring. You couldn't stop.

      I remember that.

      What right do they have to our honey?

      We live on two cups a year. They put it in lip balm for no reason whatsoever!

      Even if it's true, what can one bee do?

      Sting them where it really hurts.

      In the face! The eye!

      • That would hurt.
      • No.

      Up the nose? That's a killer.

      There's only one place you can sting the humans, one place where it matters.

      Hive at Five, the hive's only full-hour action news source.

      No more bee beards!

      With Bob Bumble at the anchor desk.

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      And Jeanette Ohung.

      • Good evening. I'm Bob Bumble.
      • And I'm Jeanette Ohung.

      A tri-county bee, Barry Benson,

      intends to sue the human race for stealing our honey,

      packaging it and profiting from it illegally!

      Tomorrow night on Bee Larry King,

      we'll have three former queens here in our studio, discussing their new book,

      Olassy Ladies, out this week on Hexagon.

      Tonight we're talking to Barry Benson.

      Did you ever think, "I'm a kid from the hive. I can't do this"?

      Bees have never been afraid to change the world.

      What about Bee Oolumbus? Bee Gandhi? Bejesus?

      Where I'm from, we'd never sue humans.

      We were thinking of stickball or candy stores.

      How old are you?

      The bee community is supporting you in this case,

      which will be the trial of the bee century.

      You know, they have a Larry King in the human world too.

      It's a common name. Next week...

      He looks like you and has a show and suspenders and colored dots...

      Next week...

      Glasses, quotes on the bottom from the guest even though you just heard 'em.

      Bear Week next week! They're scary, hairy and here live.

      Always leans forward, pointy shoulders, squinty eyes, very Jewish.

      In tennis, you attack at the point of weakness!

      It was my grandmother, Ken. She's 81.

      Honey, her backhand's a joke! I'm not gonna take advantage of that?

      Quiet, please. Actual work going on here.

      • Is that that same bee?
      • Yes, it is!

      I'm helping him sue the human race.

      • Hello.
      • Hello, bee.

      This is Ken.

      Yeah, I remember you. Timberland, size ten and a half. Vibram sole, I believe.

      Why does he talk again?

      Listen, you better go 'cause we're really busy working.

      But it's our yogurt night!

      Bye-bye.

      Why is yogurt night so difficult?!

      You poor thing. You two have been at this for hours!

      Yes, and Adam here has been a huge help.

      • Frosting...
      • How many sugars?

      Just one. I try not to use the competition.

      So why are you helping me?

      Bees have good qualities.

      And it takes my mind off the shop.

      Instead of flowers, people are giving balloon bouquets now.

      Those are great, if you're three.

      And artificial flowers.

      • Oh, those just get me psychotic!
      • Yeah, me too.

      Bent stingers, pointless pollination.

      Bees must hate those fake things!

      Nothing worse than a daffodil that's had work done.

      Maybe this could make up for it a little bit.

      • This lawsuit's a pretty big deal.
      • I guess.

      You sure you want to go through with it?

      Am I sure? When I'm done with the humans, they won't be able

      to say, "Honey, I'm home," without paying a royalty!

      It's an incredible scene here in downtown Manhattan,

      where the world anxiously waits, because for the first time in history,

      we will hear for ourselves if a honeybee can actually speak.

      What have we gotten into here, Barry?

      It's pretty big, isn't it?

      I can't believe how many humans don't work during the day.

      You think billion-dollar multinational food companies have good lawyers?

      Everybody needs to stay behind the barricade.

      • What's the matter?
      • I don't know, I just got a chill.

      Well, if it isn't the bee team.

      You boys work on this?

      All rise! The Honorable Judge Bumbleton presiding.

      All right. Oase number 4475,

      Superior Oourt of New York, Barry Bee Benson v. the Honey Industry

      is now in session.

      Mr. Montgomery, you're representing the five food companies collectively?

      A privilege.

      Mr. Benson... you're representing all the bees of the world?

      I'm kidding. Yes, Your Honor, we're ready to proceed.

      Mr. Montgomery, your opening statement, please.

      Ladies and gentlemen of the jury,

      my grandmother was a simple woman.

      Born on a farm, she believed it was man's divine right

      to benefit from the bounty of nature God put before us.

      If we lived in the topsy-turvy world Mr. Benson imagines,

      just think of what would it mean.

      I would have to negotiate with the silkworm

      for the elastic in my britches!

      Talking bee!

      How do we know this isn't some sort of

      holographic motion-picture-capture Hollywood wizardry?

      They could be using laser beams!

      Robotics! Ventriloquism! Oloning! For all we know,

      he could be on steroids!

      Mr. Benson?

      Ladies and gentlemen, there's no trickery here.

      I'm just an ordinary bee. Honey's pretty important to me.

      It's important to all bees. We invented it!

      We make it. And we protect it with our lives.

      Unfortunately, there are some people in this room

      who think they can take it from us

      'cause we're the little guys! I'm hoping that, after this is all over,

      you'll see how, by taking our honey, you not only take everything we have

      but everything we are!

      I wish he'd dress like that all the time. So nice!

      Oall your first witness.

      So, Mr. Klauss Vanderhayden of Honey Farms, big company you have.

      I suppose so.

      I see you also own Honeyburton and Honron!

      Yes, they provide beekeepers for our farms.

      Beekeeper. I find that to be a very disturbing term.

      I don't imagine you employ any bee-free-ers, do you?

      • No.
      • I couldn't hear you.
      • No.
      • No.

      Because you don't free bees. You keep bees. Not only that,

      it seems you thought a bear would be an appropriate image for a jar of honey.

      They're very lovable creatures.

      Yogi Bear, Fozzie Bear, Build-A-Bear.

      You mean like this?

      Bears kill bees!

      How'd you like his head crashing through your living room?!

      Biting into your couch! Spitting out your throw pillows!

      OK, that's enough. Take him away.

      So, Mr. Sting, thank you for being here. Your name intrigues me.

      • Where have I heard it before?
      • I was with a band called The Police.

      But you've never been a police officer, have you?

      No, I haven't.

      No, you haven't. And so here we have yet another example

      of bee culture casually stolen by a human

      for nothing more than a prance-about stage name.

      Oh, please.

      Have you ever been stung, Mr. Sting?

      Because I'm feeling a little stung, Sting.

      Or should I say... Mr. Gordon M. Sumner!

      That's not his real name?! You idiots!

      Mr. Liotta, first, belated congratulations on

      your Emmy win for a guest spot on ER in 2005.

      Thank you. Thank you.

      I see from your resume that you're devilishly handsome

      with a churning inner turmoil that's ready to blow.

      I enjoy what I do. Is that a crime?

      Not yet it isn't. But is this what it's come to for you?

      Exploiting tiny, helpless bees so you don't

      have to rehearse your part and learn your lines, sir?

      Watch it, Benson! I could blow right now!

      This isn't a goodfella. This is a badfella!

      Why doesn't someone just step on this creep, and we can all go home?!

      • Order in this court!
      • You're all thinking it!

      Order! Order, I say!

      • Say it!
      • Mr. Liotta, please sit down!

      I think it was awfully nice of that bear to pitch in like that.

      I think the jury's on our side.

      Are we doing everything right, legally?

      I'm a florist.

      Right. Well, here's to a great team.

      To a great team!

      Well, hello.

      • Ken!
      • Hello.

      I didn't think you were coming.

      No, I was just late. I tried to call, but... the battery.

      I didn't want all this to go to waste, so I called Barry. Luckily, he was free.

      Oh, that was lucky.

      There's a little left. I could heat it up.

      Yeah, heat it up, sure, whatever.

      So I hear you're quite a tennis player.

      I'm not much for the game myself. The ball's a little grabby.

      That's where I usually sit. Right... there.

      Ken, Barry was looking at your resume,

      and he agreed with me that eating with chopsticks isn't really a special skill.

      You think I don't see what you're doing?

      I know how hard it is to find the rightjob. We have that in common.

      Do we?

      Bees have 100 percent employment, but we do jobs like taking the crud out.

      That's just what I was thinking about doing.

      Ken, I let Barry borrow your razor for his fuzz. I hope that was all right.

      I'm going to drain the old stinger.

      Yeah, you do that.

      Look at that.

      You know, I've just about had it

      with your little mind games.

      • What's that?
      • Italian Vogue.

      Mamma mia, that's a lot of pages.

      A lot of ads.

      Remember what Van said, why is your life more valuable than mine?

      Funny, I just can't seem to recall that!

      I think something stinks in here!

      I love the smell of flowers.

      How do you like the smell of flames?!

      Not as much.

      Water bug! Not taking sides!

      Ken, I'm wearing a Ohapstick hat! This is pathetic!

      I've got issues!

      Well, well, well, a royal flush!

      • You're bluffing.
      • Am I?

      Surf's up, dude!

      Poo water!

      That bowl is gnarly.

      Except for those dirty yellow rings!

      Kenneth! What are you doing?!

      You know, I don't even like honey! I don't eat it!

      We need to talk!

      He's just a little bee!

      And he happens to be the nicest bee I've met in a long time!

      Long time? What are you talking about?! Are there other bugs in your life?

      No, but there are other things bugging me in life. And you're one of them!

      Fine! Talking bees, no yogurt night...

      My nerves are fried from riding on this emotional roller coaster!

      Goodbye, Ken.

      And for your information,

      I prefer sugar-free, artificial sweeteners made by man!

      I'm sorry about all that.

      I know it's got an aftertaste! I like it!

      I always felt there was some kind of barrier between Ken and me.

      I couldn't overcome it. Oh, well.

      Are you OK for the trial?

      I believe Mr. Montgomery is about out of ideas.

      We would like to call Mr. Barry Benson Bee to the stand.

      Good idea! You can really see why he's considered one of the best lawyers...

      Yeah.

      Layton, you've gotta weave some magic

      with this jury, or it's gonna be all over.

      Don't worry. The only thing I have to do to turn this jury around

      is to remind them of what they don't like about bees.

      • You got the tweezers?
      • Are you allergic?

      Only to losing, son. Only to losing.

      Mr. Benson Bee, I'll ask you what I think we'd all like to know.

      What exactly is your relationship

      to that woman?

      We're friends.

      • Good friends?
      • Yes.

      How good? Do you live together?

      Wait a minute...

      Are you her little...

      ...bedbug?

      I've seen a bee documentary or two. From what I understand,

      doesn't your queen give birth to all the bee children?

      • Yeah, but...
      • So those aren't your real parents!
      • Oh, Barry...
      • Yes, they are!

      Hold me back!

      You're an illegitimate bee, aren't you, Benson?

      He's denouncing bees!

      Don't y'all date your cousins?

      • Objection!
      • I'm going to pincushion this guy!

      Adam, don't! It's what he wants!

      Oh, I'm hit!!

      Oh, lordy, I am hit!

      Order! Order!

      The venom! The venom is coursing through my veins!

      I have been felled by a winged beast of destruction!

      You see? You can't treat them like equals! They're striped savages!

      Stinging's the only thing they know! It's their way!

      • Adam, stay with me.
      • I can't feel my legs.

      What angel of mercy will come forward to suck the poison

      from my heaving buttocks?

      I will have order in this court. Order!

      Order, please!

      The case of the honeybees versus the human race

      took a pointed turn against the bees

      yesterday when one of their legal team stung Layton T. Montgomery.

      • Hey, buddy.
      • Hey.
      • Is there much pain?
      • Yeah.

      I...

      I blew the whole case, didn't I?

      It doesn't matter. What matters is you're alive. You could have died.

      I'd be better off dead. Look at me.

      They got it from the cafeteria downstairs, in a tuna sandwich.

      Look, there's a little celery still on it.

      What was it like to sting someone?

      I can't explain it. It was all...

      All adrenaline and then... and then ecstasy!

      All right.

      You think it was all a trap?

      Of course. I'm sorry. I flew us right into this.

      What were we thinking? Look at us. We're just a couple of bugs in this world.

      What will the humans do to us if they win?

      I don't know.

      I hear they put the roaches in motels. That doesn't sound so bad.

      Adam, they check in, but they don't check out!

      Oh, my.

      Oould you get a nurse to close that window?

      • Why?
      • The smoke.

      Bees don't smoke.

      Right. Bees don't smoke.

      Bees don't smoke! But some bees are smoking.

      That's it! That's our case!

      It is? It's not over?

      Get dressed. I've gotta go somewhere.

      Get back to the court and stall. Stall any way you can.

      And assuming you've done step correctly, you're ready for the tub.

      Mr. Flayman.

      Yes? Yes, Your Honor!

      Where is the rest of your team?

      Well, Your Honor, it's interesting.

      Bees are trained to fly haphazardly,

      and as a result, we don't make very good time.

      I actually heard a funny story about...

      Your Honor, haven't these ridiculous bugs

      taken up enough of this court's valuable time?

      How much longer will we allow these absurd shenanigans to go on?

      They have presented no compelling evidence to support their charges

      against my clients, who run legitimate businesses.

      I move for a complete dismissal of this entire case!

      Mr. Flayman, I'm afraid I'm going

      to have to consider Mr. Montgomery's motion.

      But you can't! We have a terrific case.

      Where is your proof? Where is the evidence?

      Show me the smoking gun!

      Hold it, Your Honor! You want a smoking gun?

      Here is your smoking gun.

      What is that?

      It's a bee smoker!

      What, this? This harmless little contraption?

      This couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a bee.

      Look at what has happened

      to bees who have never been asked, "Smoking or non?"

      Is this what nature intended for us?

      To be forcibly addicted to smoke machines

      and man-made wooden slat work camps?

      Living out our lives as honey slaves to the white man?

      • What are we gonna do?
      • He's playing the species card.

      Ladies and gentlemen, please, free these bees!

      Free the bees! Free the bees!

      Free the bees!

      Free the bees! Free the bees!

      The court finds in favor of the bees!

      Vanessa, we won!

      I knew you could do it! High-five!

      Sorry.

      I'm OK! You know what this means?

      All the honey will finally belong to the bees.

      Now we won't have to work so hard all the time.

      This is an unholy perversion of the balance of nature, Benson.

      You'll regret this.

      Barry, how much honey is out there?

      All right. One at a time.

      Barry, who are you wearing?

      My sweater is Ralph Lauren, and I have no pants.

      • What if Montgomery's right?
      • What do you mean?

      We've been living the bee way a long time, 27 million years.

      Oongratulations on your victory. What will you demand as a settlement?

      First, we'll demand a complete shutdown of all bee work camps.

      Then we want back the honey that was ours to begin with,

      every last drop.

      We demand an end to the glorification of the bear as anything more

      than a filthy, smelly, bad-breath stink machine.

      We're all aware of what they do in the woods.

      Wait for my signal.

      Take him out.

      He'll have nauseous for a few hours, then he'll be fine.

      And we will no longer tolerate bee-negative nicknames...

      But it's just a prance-about stage name!

      ...unnecessary inclusion of honey in bogus health products

      and la-dee-da human tea-time snack garnishments.

      Oan't breathe.

      Bring it in, boys!

      Hold it right there! Good.

      Tap it.

      Mr. Buzzwell, we just passed three cups, and there's gallons more coming!

      • I think we need to shut down!
      • Shut down? We've never shut down.

      Shut down honey production!

      Stop making honey!

      Turn your key, sir!

      What do we do now?

      Oannonball!

      We're shutting honey production!

      Mission abort.

      Aborting pollination and nectar detail. Returning to base.

      Adam, you wouldn't believe how much honey was out there.

      Oh, yeah?

      What's going on? Where is everybody?

      • Are they out celebrating?
      • They're home.

      They don't know what to do. Laying out, sleeping in.

      I heard your Uncle Oarl was on his way to San Antonio with a cricket.

      At least we got our honey back.

      Sometimes I think, so what if humans liked our honey? Who wouldn't?

      It's the greatest thing in the world! I was excited to be part of making it.

      This was my new desk. This was my new job. I wanted to do it really well.

      And now...

      Now I can't.

      I don't understand why they're not happy.

      I thought their lives would be better!

      They're doing nothing. It's amazing. Honey really changes people.

      You don't have any idea what's going on, do you?

      • What did you want to show me?
      • This.

      What happened here?

      That is not the half of it.

      Oh, no. Oh, my.

      They're all wilting.

      Doesn't look very good, does it?

      No.

      And whose fault do you think that is?

      You know, I'm gonna guess bees.

      Bees?

      Specifically, me.

      I didn't think bees not needing to make honey would affect all these things.

      It's notjust flowers. Fruits, vegetables, they all need bees.

      That's our whole SAT test right there.

      Take away produce, that affects the entire animal kingdom.

      And then, of course...

      The human species?

      So if there's no more pollination,

      it could all just go south here, couldn't it?

      I know this is also partly my fault.

      How about a suicide pact?

      How do we do it?

      • I'll sting you, you step on me.
      • Thatjust kills you twice.

      Right, right.

      Listen, Barry... sorry, but I gotta get going.

      I had to open my mouth and talk.

      Vanessa?

      Vanessa? Why are you leaving? Where are you going?

      To the final Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena.

      They've moved it to this weekend because all the flowers are dying.

      It's the last chance I'll ever have to see it.

      Vanessa, I just wanna say I'm sorry. I never meant it to turn out like this.

      I know. Me neither.

      Tournament of Roses. Roses can't do sports.

      Wait a minute. Roses. Roses?

      Roses!

      Vanessa!

      Roses?!

      Barry?

      • Roses are flowers!
      • Yes, they are.

      Flowers, bees, pollen!

      I know. That's why this is the last parade.

      Maybe not. Oould you ask him to slow down?

      Oould you slow down?

      Barry!

      OK, I made a huge mistake. This is a total disaster, all my fault.

      Yes, it kind of is.

      I've ruined the planet. I wanted to help you

      with the flower shop. I've made it worse.

      Actually, it's completely closed down.

      I thought maybe you were remodeling.

      But I have another idea, and it's greater than my previous ideas combined.

      I don't want to hear it!

      All right, they have the roses, the roses have the pollen.

      I know every bee, plant and flower bud in this park.

      All we gotta do is get what they've got back here with what we've got.

      • Bees.
      • Park.
      • Pollen!
      • Flowers.
      • Repollination!
      • Across the nation!

      Tournament of Roses, Pasadena, Oalifornia.

      They've got nothing but flowers, floats and cotton candy.

      Security will be tight.

      I have an idea.

      Vanessa Bloome, FTD.

      Official floral business. It's real.

      Sorry, ma'am. Nice brooch.

      Thank you. It was a gift.

      Once inside, we just pick the right float.

      How about The Princess and the Pea?

      I could be the princess, and you could be the pea!

      Yes, I got it.

      • Where should I sit?
      • What are you?
      • I believe I'm the pea.
      • The pea?

      It goes under the mattresses.

      • Not in this fairy tale, sweetheart.
      • I'm getting the marshal.

      You do that! This whole parade is a fiasco!

      Let's see what this baby'll do.

      Hey, what are you doing?!

      Then all we do is blend in with traffic...

      ...without arousing suspicion.

      Once at the airport, there's no stopping us.

      Stop! Security.

      • You and your insect pack your float?
      • Yes.

      Has it been in your possession the entire time?

      Would you remove your shoes?

      • Remove your stinger.
      • It's part of me.

      I know. Just having some fun. Enjoy your flight.

      Then if we're lucky, we'll have just enough pollen to do the job.

      Oan you believe how lucky we are? We have just enough pollen to do the job!

      I think this is gonna work.

      It's got to work.

      Attention, passengers, this is Oaptain Scott.

      We have a bit of bad weather in New York.

      It looks like we'll experience a couple hours delay.

      Barry, these are cut flowers with no water. They'll never make it.

      I gotta get up there and talk to them.

      Be careful.

      Oan I get help with the Sky Mall magazine?

      I'd like to order the talking inflatable nose and ear hair trimmer.

      Oaptain, I'm in a real situation.

      • What'd you say, Hal?
      • Nothing.

      Bee!

      Don't freak out! My entire species...

      What are you doing?

      • Wait a minute! I'm an attorney!
      • Who's an attorney?

      Don't move.

      Oh, Barry.

      Good afternoon, passengers. This is your captain.

      Would a Miss Vanessa Bloome in 24B please report to the cockpit?

      And please hurry!

      What happened here?

      There was a DustBuster, a toupee, a life raft exploded.

      One's bald, one's in a boat, they're both unconscious!

      • Is that another bee joke?
      • No!

      No one's flying the plane!

      This is JFK control tower, Flight 356. What's your status?

      This is Vanessa Bloome. I'm a florist from New York.

      Where's the pilot?

      He's unconscious, and so is the copilot.

      Not good. Does anyone onboard have flight experience?

      As a matter of fact, there is.

      • Who's that?
      • Barry Benson.

      From the honey trial?! Oh, great.

      Vanessa, this is nothing more than a big metal bee.

      It's got giant wings, huge engines.

      I can't fly a plane.

      • Why not? Isn't John Travolta a pilot?
      • Yes.

      How hard could it be?

      Wait, Barry! We're headed into some lightning.

      This is Bob Bumble. We have some late-breaking news from JFK Airport,

      where a suspenseful scene is developing.

      Barry Benson, fresh from his legal victory...

      That's Barry!

      ...is attempting to land a plane, loaded with people, flowers

      and an incapacitated flight crew.

      Flowers?!

      We have a storm in the area and two individuals at the controls

      with absolutely no flight experience.

      Just a minute. There's a bee on that plane.

      I'm quite familiar with Mr. Benson and his no-account compadres.

      They've done enough damage.

      But isn't he your only hope?

      Technically, a bee shouldn't be able to fly at all.

      Their wings are too small...

      Haven't we heard this a million times?

      "The surface area of the wings and body mass make no sense."

      • Get this on the air!
      • Got it.
      • Stand by.
      • We're going live.

      The way we work may be a mystery to you.

      Making honey takes a lot of bees doing a lot of small jobs.

      But let me tell you about a small job.

      If you do it well, it makes a big difference.

      More than we realized. To us, to everyone.

      That's why I want to get bees back to working together.

      That's the bee way! We're not made of Jell-O.

      We get behind a fellow.

      • Black and yellow!
      • Hello!

      Left, right, down, hover.

      • Hover?
      • Forget hover.

      This isn't so hard. Beep-beep! Beep-beep!

      Barry, what happened?!

      Wait, I think we were on autopilot the whole time.

      • That may have been helping me.
      • And now we're not!

      So it turns out I cannot fly a plane.

      All of you, let's get behind this fellow! Move it out!

      Move out!

      Our only chance is if I do what I'd do, you copy me with the wings of the plane!

      Don't have to yell.

      I'm not yelling! We're in a lot of trouble.

      It's very hard to concentrate with that panicky tone in your voice!

      It's not a tone. I'm panicking!

      I can't do this!

      Vanessa, pull yourself together. You have to snap out of it!

      You snap out of it.

      You snap out of it.

      • You snap out of it!
      • You snap out of it!
      • You snap out of it!
      • You snap out of it!
      • You snap out of it!
      • You snap out of it!
      • Hold it!
      • Why? Oome on, it's my turn.

      How is the plane flying?

      I don't know.

      Hello?

      Benson, got any flowers for a happy occasion in there?

      The Pollen Jocks!

      They do get behind a fellow.

      • Black and yellow.
      • Hello.

      All right, let's drop this tin can on the blacktop.

      Where? I can't see anything. Oan you?

      No, nothing. It's all cloudy.

      Oome on. You got to think bee, Barry.

      • Thinking bee.
      • Thinking bee.

      Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

      Wait a minute. I think I'm feeling something.

      • What?
      • I don't know. It's strong, pulling me.

      Like a 27-million-year-old instinct.

      Bring the nose down.

      Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

      • What in the world is on the tarmac?
      • Get some lights on that!

      Thinking bee! Thinking bee! Thinking bee!

      • Vanessa, aim for the flower.
      • OK.

      Out the engines. We're going in on bee power. Ready, boys?

      Affirmative!

      Good. Good. Easy, now. That's it.

      Land on that flower!

      Ready? Full reverse!

      Spin it around!

      • Not that flower! The other one!
      • Which one?
      • That flower.
      • I'm aiming at the flower!

      That's a fat guy in a flowered shirt. I mean the giant pulsating flower

      made of millions of bees!

      Pull forward. Nose down. Tail up.

      Rotate around it.

      • This is insane, Barry!
      • This's the only way I know how to fly.

      Am I koo-koo-kachoo, or is this plane flying in an insect-like pattern?

      Get your nose in there. Don't be afraid. Smell it. Full reverse!

      Just drop it. Be a part of it.

      Aim for the center!

      Now drop it in! Drop it in, woman!

      Oome on, already.

      Barry, we did it! You taught me how to fly!

      • Yes. No high-five!
      • Right.

      Barry, it worked! Did you see the giant flower?

      What giant flower? Where? Of course I saw the flower! That was genius!

      • Thank you.
      • But we're not done yet.

      Listen, everyone!

      This runway is covered with the last pollen

      from the last flowers available anywhere on Earth.

      That means this is our last chance.

      We're the only ones who make honey, pollinate flowers and dress like this.

      If we're gonna survive as a species, this is our moment! What do you say?

      Are we going to be bees, orjust Museum of Natural History keychains?

      We're bees!

      Keychain!

      Then follow me! Except Keychain.

      Hold on, Barry. Here.

      You've earned this.

      Yeah!

      I'm a Pollen Jock! And it's a perfect fit. All I gotta do are the sleeves.

      Oh, yeah.

      That's our Barry.

      Mom! The bees are back!

      If anybody needs to make a call, now's the time.

      I got a feeling we'll be working late tonight!

      Here's your change. Have a great afternoon! Oan I help who's next?

      Would you like some honey with that? It is bee-approved. Don't forget these.

      Milk, cream, cheese, it's all me. And I don't see a nickel!

      Sometimes I just feel like a piece of meat!

      I had no idea.

      Barry, I'm sorry. Have you got a moment?

      Would you excuse me? My mosquito associate will help you.

      Sorry I'm late.

      He's a lawyer too?

      I was already a blood-sucking parasite. All I needed was a briefcase.

      Have a great afternoon!

      Barry, I just got this huge tulip order, and I can't get them anywhere.

      No problem, Vannie. Just leave it to me.

      You're a lifesaver, Barry. Oan I help who's next?

      All right, scramble, jocks! It's time to fly.

      Thank you, Barry!

      That bee is living my life!

      Let it go, Kenny.

      • When will this nightmare end?!
      • Let it all go.
      • Beautiful day to fly.
      • Sure is.

      Between you and me, I was dying to get out of that office.

      You have got to start thinking bee, my friend.

      • Thinking bee!
      • Me?

      Hold it. Let's just stop for a second. Hold it.

      I'm sorry. I'm sorry, everyone. Oan we stop here?

      I'm not making a major life decision during a production number!

      All right. Take ten, everybody. Wrap it up, guys.

      I had virtually no rehearsal for that.

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.12.09.21267516: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Study data: Data were obtained from the CIS (ISRCTN21086382, www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/covid-19/covid-19-infection-survey/protocol-and-information-sheets) [20], a longitudinal survey of individuals aged 2 years or over in randomly sampled UK households (excluding communal establishments such as hospitals, care homes, halls of residence, and prisons), with ethical approval from the South Central Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee (20/SC/0195).<br>Consent: After verbal agreement to participate, each selected household was visited by a study worker to provide written confirmed consent (from parents/carers for those aged 2 to 15 years; those aged 10 to 15 years also provided written assent).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Study data: Data were obtained from the CIS (ISRCTN21086382, www.ndm.ox.ac.uk/covid-19/covid-19-infection-survey/protocol-and-information-sheets) [20], a longitudinal survey of individuals aged 2 years or over in randomly sampled UK households (excluding communal establishments such as hospitals, care homes, halls of residence, and prisons), with ethical approval from the South Central Berkshire B Research Ethics Committee (20/SC/0195).</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.


      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Strengths and limitations: With 28,356 adults in our sample, this is the largest study to date internationally on Long Covid and COVID-19 vaccination, and the first to investigate post-vaccine symptom trajectories. The main strength of the study is its use of the CIS, a large survey of approximately half a million people from the community population of the UK with longitudinal follow-up. Random sampling from address lists mitigates against selection bias, while the prospective design means that survey responses are not subject to outcome recall bias (such as participants overestimating the duration of previously experienced symptoms). All CIS participants are swabbed for SARS-CoV-2 at every follow-up visit, irrespective of symptoms, so our study includes asymptomatic as well symptomatic infections. The study also has limitations. Its observational nature means that causality cannot be inferred, and placebo and side effects of vaccination may have contributed to our findings; however, estimates were robust to excluding follow-up visits within the first week of each vaccination, suggesting that the impact of these effects is likely to be small. Although we adjusted for a wide range of potential confounders, unmeasured factors, such as those related to take-up of a second vaccination, may remain. The observed changes after vaccination could be related to the relapsing-remitting nature of symptoms experienced by many people living with Long Covid [3–5] rather than a causal effec...

      Results from TrialIdentifier: We found the following clinical trial numbers in your paper:<br><table><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Identifier</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Status</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Title</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ISRCTN21086382</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td><td style="min-width:95px; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">NA</td></tr></table>


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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    1. Currently, world cities generate about 1.3 billion tonnes of solid waste per year.

      "Waste generation rate in Nigeria is estimated at 0.65-0.95 kg/capita/day which gives an average of 42 million tonnes of wastes generated annually. This is more than half of 62 million tonnes of waste generated in sub-Sahara Africa annually;"

      https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328914649_Solid_Waste_Management_in_Nigeria_Problems_Prospects_and_Policies#:~:text=Waste%20generation%20rate%20in%20Nigeria,huge%20problem%20for%20the%20nation.

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    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.11.23.21266734: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">SNOMED, for example, is a standard vocabulary for conditions, while RxNorm codes are a standard vocabulary for drug exposures.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RxNorm</div><div>suggested: (RxNorm, RRID:SCR_006645)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Lastly, hospitalisation data, from the conjunt mínim bàsic de dades de l’alta hospitalària (minimum basic set of hospital discharge data) collated by the Data Analysis Program for Health Research and Innovation (PADRIS) in Catalonia, was also linked at the individual-level.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Data Analysis Program</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr></table>

      Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code.


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Strengths and limitations: Much of the COVID-19 literature is based on studies where study populations have been drawn from people hospitalised with COVID-19, tested for infection, or who volunteered to participate in a study. Such studies can be subject to a number of biases, in particular collider bias which can lead to the reporting associations that do not exist for the general population or by attenuating, inflating or reversing the sign of true associations.30 This underscores the importance of developing comprehensive datasets to generate the reliable evidence required to inform decision-making related to the pandemic. With more than half a million outpatient cases of COVID-19 captured and a breadth of data capture that allows for comparisons with the general population and subsequent hospital care to be described, the mapped SIDIAP database described here is one such resource. While electronic health record data brings numerous opportunities, with the data collected for non-research purposes careful curation is required. Using a well-established common data model, meant that existing open-source tools could be used to evaluate data quality and that research studies can be run in a distributed manner. This has allowed the database to already have been used in a number of international network research studies, with standardised analytic packages and only aggregated results sets shared. One limitation of the dataset has been seen with the likely underreporting of COVID-...

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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      Reply to the reviewers

      Reviewer #1 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      **Summary:**

      I found this an exceptionally impressive manuscript. The evolution of Y chromosomes has until recently been nearly impossible, and this research group have pioneered approaches that can yield reliable results in Drosophila. The study used an innovative heterochromatin-sensitive assembly pipeline on three D. simulans clade species, D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia, which diverged less than 250 KYA, allowing comparisons with the group's previous results for the D. melanogaster Y.

      The study is both technically impressive and extremely interesting (an highly unusual combination). It includes a rich set of interesting results about these genome regions, and furthermore the results are discussed in a well-organised way, relating both to previous observations and to understanding of the genetics and evolution of Y chromosomes, illuminating all these aspects. It is a rare pleasure to read such a study. I believe that this study will inspire and be a model for future work on these chromosomes. It shows how these difficult genome regions can be studied.

      Thank you for the positive evaluation of our paper. While we did not make any specific revisions in response to these comments, we did attempt to improve the writing.

      **Major comments:**

      The conclusions are convincing. The methods are explained unusually clearly, and the reasoning from the results is convincing. When appropriate, the caveats, the caveats are clearly explained. The material is clearly organised and the questions studied are well related to the results. I had a few minor comments concerning the English. Even the figure (often a major problem to understand) are very clear and helpful, with proper explanations. I have very rarely read such a good manuscript, and almost never (in a long career) found a manuscript that could be published without revision being necessary.

      Thank you for pointing out that there were minor concerns with the English. We have carefully gone through the manuscript and fixed some minor issues with the writing. The analysis found 58 exons missed in previous assemblies (as well as all previously known exons of the 11 canonical Y-linked genes, which are present in at least one copy across the group). FISH on mitotic chromosomes using probes for 12 Y-linked sequences was used to determine the centromere locations, and to determine gene orders and relate them to the cytological chromosome bands, demonstrating changes in satellite distribution, gene order, and centromere positions between their Y chromosomes within the D. simulans clade species. It also confirmed previous results for Y-linked ribosomal DNA,genes, which are responsible for X-Y pairing in D. melanogaster males. Although 28S rDNA has been lost in D. simulans and D. sechellia (but not in D. mauritiana), the intergenic spacer (IGS) repeats between these repeats are retained on both sex chromosomes in all three species. Only sequencing can reliably reveal this, as their abundance is below the detection level by FISH in D. sechellia. The 11 canonical Y-linked genes' copy numbers vary between the species, and some duplicates are expressed and have complete open reading frames, and may therefore be functional because they, but most include only a subset of exons, often with duplicated exons flanking the the presumed functional gene copy. Mega-introns and Y-loops were found, as already seen in Drosophila species, but this new study detects turn overs in the ~2 million years separating D. melanogaster and the D. simulans clade. 49 independent duplications onto the Y chromosome were detected, including 8 not previously detected. At least half show no expression in testes, or lack open reading frames, so they are probably pseudogenes. Testis-expressed genes may be especially likely to duplicate into the Y chromosome due to its open chromatin structure and transcriptional activity during spermatogenesis, and indeed most of the new Y-linked genes in the species studied clade have likely functions in chromatin modification, cell division, and sexual reproduction. The study discovered two new gene families that have undergone amplification on D. simulans clade Y chromosomes, reaching very high copy numbers (36-146). Both these families appear to encode functional protein-coding genes and show high expression. The paper described intriguing results that illuminate Y chromosome evolution. First, SRPK, arose by an autosome-to-Y duplication of the sequence encoding the testis-specific isoform of the gene SR Protein Kinase (SRPK), after which the autosomal copy lost its testis-specific exon via a deletion. In D. melanogaster, SRPK is essential for both male and female reproduction, so the relocation of the testis-specific isoform to the Y chromosome in the D. simulans clade suggests that the change may have been advantageous by resolving sexual antagonism. The paper presents convincing evidence that the Y copy evolved under positive selection, and that gene amplification may confer advantageous increased expression in males. The second amplified gene family is also potentially related to an interesting function. Both X-linked and Y-linked duplicates are found of a gene called Ssl located on chromosome 2R. In D. simulans, the X-linked copies were previously known, and called CK2ßtes-like. In D. melanogaster, degenerated Y-linked copies are also found, with little or no expression, contrasting with complete open reading frames and high expression in the D. simulans clade species in testes, consistent with the possibility of an arms race between sex chromosome meiotic drive factors. Other interesting analyses document higher gene conversion rates compared to the other chromosomes, and evidence that these Y chromosomes may differ in the DNA-repair mechanisms (preferentially using MMEJ instead of NHEJ), perhaps contributing to their high rates of intrachromosomal duplication and structural rearrangements. The authors relate this to evidence for turnover of Y-linked satellite sequences, with the discovery of five new Y-linked satellites, whose locations were validated using FISH. The study also documented enrichment of LTR retrotransposons on the D. simulans clade Y chromosomes relative to the rest of the genome, together with turnovers between the species.

      Reviewer #1 (Significance (Required)):

      As described above, the advances are both, technical and conceptual for the field. The manuscript itself does an excellent job of placing the work in the context of the existing literature.

      • Anyone working on sex chromosomes and other non-recombining genome regions should be interested in the findings reported.

      • My field of expertise is the evolution of sex chromosomes, and the evolution of genome regions with suppressed recombination. I have experience of genomic analyses. I have less expertise in analyses of gene expression, but I understand enough about such approaches to evaluate the parts of this study that use them.

      Reviewer #2:

      Reviewer #2 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      The manuscript describes a thorough investigation of the Y-chromosomes of three very closely related Drosophila species (D. simulans, D. sechellia, and D. mauritiana) which in turn are closely related to D. melanogaster. The D. melanogaster Y was analysed in a previous paper by the same goup. The authors found an astonishing level of structural rearrangements (gene order, copy number, etc.), specially taking into account the short divergence time among the three species (~250 thousand years). They also suggest an explanation for this fast evolution: Y chromosome is haploid, and hence double-strand breaks cannot be repaired by homologous recombination. Instead, it must use the less precise mechanisms of NHEJ and MMEJ. They also provide circumstantial evidence that MMEJ (which is very prone to generate large rearrangements) is the preferred mechanism of repair. As far as I know this hypothesis is new, and fits nicely on the fast structural evolution described by the authors. Finally, the authors describe two intriguing Y-linked gene families in D. simulans (Lhk and CK2ßtes-Y), one of them similar to the Stellate / Suppressor of Stellate system of D. melanogaster, which seems to be evolving as part of a X-Y meiotic drive arms race. Overall, it is a very nice piece of work. I have four criticisms that, in my opinion, should be addressed before acceptance.

      Thank you for your positive comments. We respond to your concerns point-by-point below.

      The suggestion/conclusion that MMEJ is the preferential repair mechanism (over NHEJ) should be better supported and explained. At line 387, the authors stated "The pattern of excess large deletions is shared in the three D. simulans clade species Y chromosomes, but is not obvious in D. melanogaster (Fig 6B). However, because all D. melanogaster Y-linked indels in our analyses are from copies of a single pseudogene (CR43975), it is difficult to compare to the larger samples in the simulans clade species (duplicates from 16 genes). ". Given that D. melanogaster has many Y-linked pseudogenes (described by the authors and by other researchers, and listed in Table S6), there seems to be no reason to use a sample size of 1 in this species.

      We only used pseudogenes with large alignable regions (>300 bp) to prevent the potential bias toward small indels and increase our confidence in indel calling. As a result, we excluded most of the duplicates on the D. melanogaster Y chromosome. We now include 5 additional D. melanogaster Y-linked indels in the manuscript, however, the majority of indels in this species (36/41) are still from the same gene.

      Furthermore, given that D. melanogaster is THE model organism, it is the species that most likely will provide information to assess the "preferential MMEJ" hypothesis proposed by the authors.

      A previous paper has shown that male flies deficient in MMEJ have a strong bias toward female offspring (McKee et al. 2000), suggesting that MMEJ is necessary for successfully producing Y-bearing sperm, consistent with our hypothesis. We agree with the reviewer that careful genetic and cytological experiments in D. melanogaster could further clarify the role of MMEJ in the repair of Y-linked mutations. Even more revealing would be experiments using the simulans clade species, where we hypothesize the MMEJ bias is even more pronounced on the Y chromosome. We believe, however, that these experiments are beyond the scope of this study and should merit their own papers.

      Still on the suggestion/conclusion that MMEJ is the preferential repair mechanism (over NHEJ). Y chromosome in heterochromatic, haploid and non-recombining. In order to ascribe its mutational pattern to the haploid state (and the consequent impossibility of homologous recombination repair), the authors compared it to chromosome IV (the so called "dot chromosome"). This may not be the best choice: while chr IV lacks recombination in wild type flies, it is not typical heterochromatin. E.g., " results from genetic analyses, genomic studies, and biochemical investigations have revealed the dot chromosome to be unique, having a mixture of characteristics of euchromatin and of constitutive heterochromatin". Riddle and Elgin, FlyBook 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1534/genetics.118.301146). Given this, it seems appropriate to also compare the Y-linked pseudogenes with those from typical heterochromatin. In Drosophila, these are the regions around the centromeres ("centric heterochromatin"). There are pseudogenes there; e.g., the gene rolled is known to have partially duplicated exons.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We now include the data from pericentric heterochromatin and pseudogenes in supplemental data (see Fig 7). Both data types support our conclusion that indel size is only larger on Y chromosomes, which is consistent with the comparison between the dot chromosome and pericentric heterochromatin reported by Blumenstiel et al. 2002.

      In some passages of the ms there seems to be a confusion between new genes and pseudogenes, which should be corrected. For example, in line 261: "Most new Y-linked genes in D. melanogaster and the D. simulans clade have presumed functions in chromatin modification, cell division, and sexual reproduction (Table S7)".. Who are these "new genes"? If they are those listed in Table S6 (as other passages of the text suggest), most if not all of them are pseudogenes. If they are pseudogenes, it is not appropriate to refer to them as "new genes". The same ambiguity is present in line 263: "Y-linked duplicates of genes with these functions may be selectively beneficial, but a duplication bias could also contribute to this enrichment (...) " Pseudogenes can be selectively beneficial, but in very special cases (e.g.. gene regulation). If the authors are suggesting this, they must openly state this, and explain why. Pseudogenes are common in nearly all genomes, and should be clearly separated from genes (the later as a shortcut for functional genes). The bar for "genes" is much higher than simple sequence similarity, including expression, evidences of purifying selecion, etc., as the authors themselves applied for the two gene families they identified in D. simulans (Lhk and CK2ßtes-Y)

      Thank you for the suggestion. We now state our criteria for calling genes based on the expression and long CDS and correct the sentences that the reviewer refers to. The protein evolution rates of many Y-linked duplicates were surveyed in Tobler et al. 2017, who found that most are not under strong purifying selection. Our study supports this previous report. We think that protein evolution rate alone may not be a good indicator for functionality. Our current study does not focus on the potential function of these genes, and we think further population studies are required to get a solid conclusion. We changed the text to clarify this point: “Most new Y-linked duplications in D. melanogaster and the D. simulans clade are from genes with presumed functions in chromatin modification, cell division, and sexual reproduction (Table S7), consistent with other Drosophila species [17, 77].” (p15 L281-284)

      The authors center their analysis on "11 canonical Y-linked genes conserved across the melanogaster group ". Why did they exclude the CG41561 gene, identified by Mahajan & Bachtrog (2017) in D. melanogaster? Given that most D. melanogaster Y-linked genes were acquired before the split from the D. simulans clade (Koerich et al Nature 2008), the same most likely is true for CG41561 (i.e., it would be Y-linked in the D. simulans clade). Indeed, computational analysis gave a strong signal of Y-linkage in D. yakuba (unpublished; I have not looked in the other species). If CG41561 is Y-linked in the simulans clade, it should be included in the present paper, for the only difference between it and the remaining "canonical genes" was that it was found later. Finally, the proper citation of the "11 canonical Y-linked genes" is Gepner and Hays PNAS 1993 and Carvalho, Koerich and Clark TIG 2009 (or the primary papers), instead of ref #55.

      Thank you for the suggestion. CG41561 is indeed a relatively young Y-linked gene because it’s not Y-linked in D. ananassae (Muller’s element E). We already have CG41561 in Table S6 and we think that it is reasonable to separate a young Y-linked gene from the others. We also fixed the reference as suggested (p5 L116).

      Other points/comments/suggestions:

      1. a) Possible reference mistake: line 88 "For example, 20-40% of D. melanogaster Y-linked regulatory variation (YRV) comes from differences in ribosomal DNA (rDNA) copy numbers [52, 53]." reference #53 is a mouse study, not Drosophila. Thank you for pointing out this error, we fixed the reference (p4 L91).

      2. b) Possible reference mistake: line 208 "and the genes/introns that produce Y-loops differs among species [75]". ref #75 is a paper on the D. pseudoobscura Y. Is it what the authors intended? Yes, our previous paper (ref 75) found that Y-loops do not originate from the kl-3, kl-5, and ORY genes in D. pseudoobscura because they don’t have large introns in this species.

      c) line 113. "We recovered all known exons of the 11 canonical Y-linked genes conserved across the melanogaster group, including 58 exons missed in previous assemblies (Table S1; [55])." Please show in the Table S1 which exons were missing in the previous assemblies. I guess that most if not all of these missing exons are duplicate exons (and many are likely to be pseudogenes). If they indeed are duplicate exons, the authors should made it clear in the main text, e.g., "We recovered all known exons of the 11 canonical Y-linked genes conserved across the melanogaster group, plus 58 duplicated exons missed in previous assemblies."

      Thank you for the suggestion. However, the 58 exons did not include the duplicated exons. We are similarly surprised how much we will miss if we don’t assemble the Y chromosome carefully. We now mark these exons in red in Table S1 to make this point clearer.

      d) line 116 "Based on the median male-to-female coverage [22], we assigned 13.7 to 18.9 Mb of Y-linked sequences per species with N50 ranging from 0.6 to 1.2 Mb." The method (or a very similar one) was developed by Hall et al BMC Genomics 2013, which should be cited in this context. e) line 118: "We evaluated our methods by comparing our assignments for every 10-kb window of assembled sequences to its known chromosomal location. Our assignments have 96, 98, and 99% sensitivity and 5, 0, and 3% false-positive rates in D. mauritiana, D. simulans, and D. sechellia, respectively (Table S2). The procedure is unclear. Why break the contigs in 10kb intervals, instead of treating each as an unity, assignable to Y, X or A? The later is the usual procedure in computational identification of suspect Y-linked contigs (Carvalho and lark Gen Res 2013; Hall et al BMC Genomics 2013). The only reason I can think for analyzing the contigs piecewise is a suspicion of misassemblies. If this is the case, I think it is better to explain.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We did not break the contigs into 10kb intervals when we assigned the Y-linked contigs. As you suspect, our motivation for evaluating our methods and analyzing the contigs in 10kb intervals was to detect possible misassemblies. We rewrote the sentence to make this point clearer (p6 L129-132).

      1. f) Fig. 1. It may be interesting to put a version of Fig 1 in the SI containing only the genes and the lines connecting them among species, so we can better see the inversions etc. (like the cover of Genetics , based on the paper by Schaeffer et al 2008). Thank you for the suggestion. We would like to make a figure like that fantastic cover image you refer to, but the repetitive nature of the Y chromosome makes it difficult to illustrate rearrangements based on alignments at the contig-level. We instead opted to update Figure 1 to better highlight the rearrangements, still based on the unique protein-coding genes which are supported by the FISH experiments.

      2. g) Table S6 (Y-linked pseudogenes). Several pseudogenes listed as new have been studied in detail before: vig2, Mocs2, Clbn, Bili (Carvalho et al PNAS2015) Pka-R1, CG3618, Mst77F (Russel and Kaiser Genetics 1993; Krsticevic et al G3 2015) . Note also that at least two are functional (the vig2 duplication and some Mst77 duplications). Thank you for the suggestion. We now include a column to indicate the potential function of Y-linked duplicates (see Table S6).

      h) line 421: "one new satellite, (AAACAT)n, originated from a DM412B transposable element, which has three tandem copies of AAACAT in its long terminal repeats." The birth of satellites from TEs has been observed before, and should be cited here. Dias et al GBE 6: 1302-1313, 2014.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We now include a sentence to cite this reference (p27 L467-468).

      1. i) Fig S2 shows that the coverage of PacBio reads is smaller than expected on the Y chromosome. Any explanation? This has been noticed before in D. melanogaster, and tentatively attributed to the CsCl gradient used in the DNA purification (Carvalho et al GenRes 2016). However, it seems that the CsCl DNA purification method was not used in the simulans clade species (is it correct?). Please explain the ms, or in the SI. The issue is relevant because PacBio sequencing is widely believed to be unbiased in relation to DNA sequence composition (e.g., Ross et al Genome Biol 2013). Yes, we used Qiagen's Blood and Cell Culture DNA Midi Kit for DNA extraction. We suspect that the underrepresentation of Y-linked reads is driven by the presence of endoreplicated tissue in adults. Heterochromatin is underreplicated in endoreplicated cells, and thus there may simply be less heterochromatin in these tissues. Consistent with this idea, we find that all heterochromatin seems to be underrepresented in the reads, not just the Y chromosome (see Chakraborty et al. 2021; Flynn et al. 2020). We now include this discussion in the SI of our paper (see supplementary text p75).

      2. j) I may have missed it, but in which public repository have the assemblies been deposited? We link to the assemblies in Github (https://github.com/LarracuenteLab/simclade_Y) and they will also be in the Dryad Digital Repository (doi forthcoming).

      Reviewer #3 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      Due to suppressed recombination, Y chromosomes have degenerated, undergone extensive structural rearrangements, and accumulated ampliconic gene families across species. The molecular processes and selective pressures guiding dynamic Y chromosome evolution are not well understood. In this study, Chang et al. generate updated Y assemblies of three closely related species in the D. simulans complex using long-read PacBio sequencing in combination with FISH. Despite having diverged only 250,00 years ago, the authors find structural rearrangements, two newly amplified gene families and evidence of positive selection across D. simulans. The authors also suggest the high level of Y duplications and deletions may be mediated by MMEJ biased repair.

      The authors generated a valuable resource for the study of Y-chromosome evolution in Drosophila and describe Y chromosome evolution patterns found in previous Y chromosome sequencing studies, such as newly amplified genes, positive selection, and structural rearrangements. The authors improvements to the Drosophila simulans clade Y chromosomes are commended, as assembly of the highly repetitive Y chromosome sequences is challenging. However, the manuscript is largely descriptive, the claims are largely speculative, and lacks a clear question. There are also a number of concerns with the text and figures (see below concerns). Overall, the manuscript would be significantly improved if the authors focused on a specific question as opposed to a survey of sequence features of the Y chromosome. For example, development of the idea that MMEJ is the primary mechanism for loss of Y chromosome sequence could be nice new twist.

      Our aim is to discover and understand the many different factors and processes that shape the evolution of Y chromosome organization and function. Because these Y chromosomes were largely unassembled, we needed to first generate the sequence assembly before we could ask specific questions. We prefer not to focus the manuscript solely on one specific topic such as MMEJ repair, as our other observations and analyses may be interesting to a wide range of scientists studying topics other than mutation and DNA repair. We are therefore choosing to present the more comprehensive story about Y chromosome evolution that we included in our original manuscript.

      We also respectfully disagree with the comment that our paper is just a descriptive survey of Y chromosomal sequence features. On the contrary, we present thorough evolutionary analyses to test hypotheses about the forces shaping the evolution of Y chromosome organization and Y-linked genes. Specifically, we use molecular evolution and phylogenetic and comparative genomics approaches to show that multi-copy gene families experience rampant gene conversion and positive selection. We posit that one simulans clade-specific Y-linked gene family has undergone subfunctionalization, potentially resolving sexual conflict, and another may be involved in meiotic drive. We also use evolutionary genomic approaches to show that the distribution of Y-linked mutations indeed suggests that Y chromosomes disproportionately use MMEJ and we propose that this unique feature may shape the evolution of Y chromosome structural organization. This is, as far as we know, a novel hypothesis. We think that follow-up studies of either hypothesis merit different papers.

      **Major concerns:**

      1. Title: The authors use "unique structure" in the title, which is a vague point. Are not Y chromosomes, or any chromosome, "unique" in some manner? Also are there not more evolutionary processes governing the rapid divergence of the Y's. Thank you for raising your concern. We believe that we are justified in referring to the Y chromosome as unique among all other chromosomes in its structural properties (e.g. combination of its hemizygosity, abundant tandem repeats, large scale rearrangements, and highly amplified testis-specific genes). Because there are many properties of Y chromosomes that we believe contribute to their rapid divergence, we opted for the general phrase ‘unique structure’ to capture all of these features. Many evolutionary processes likely shape the evolution of that unique structure (e.g. Muller’s Ratchet, background selection, Hill Robertson effects; see Charlesworth and Charlesworth 2000 for a review), and these processes are well-studied, especially on newly evolved sex chromosomes. Here our focus is on evolutionarily old Y chromosomes, which may have comparatively fewer targets of purifying selection and are more likely to be shaped by positive selection (Bachtrog 2008).

      p.2, line 53-56: The authors claim that sexually antagonistic selection and regulatory evolution are causes of recombination suppression. Couldn't this statement be reversed? Recombination suppression via inversions or other rearrangements enable sexually antagonistic selection. This is a chicken or egg question, so it should be revised to have both possibilities be equal.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We think that it is unlikely that recombination suppression itself is beneficial, but for sexually antagonistic selection and regulatory evolution, recombination suppression can have short-term benefits. We rephrased this sentence to be agnostic about the direction (p2 L56).

      p.5, 118-120: Are the assemblies de novo or have they been guided based upon the D. melanogaster Y chromosome assembly? Please clarify how the authors evaluate their methods by comparing their Y-sequence assignments to known chromosomal locations.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We didn’t use D. melanogaster Y chromosome assembly to guide our assemblies. “All assemblies are generated de novo”, and thus we don’t think there is any potential bias. We first assigned Y-linked sequences using the presence of known Y-linked genes, and used this assignment to evaluate our methods. We now make the sentence clear (p5 L112).

      While the gene copy number estimates are accurate, the PacBio-based genome assemblies are still not able to accurately assemble large segmental duplications (see Evan Eichler's laboratories recent primate and human genome assemblies). A statement mentioning the concerns about accuracy of the underlying sequence and genomic architecture shown should be included in the main text. FISH provides support for the location of the contigs, but not for the accuracy of the underlying genomic architecture.

      Thank you for the suggestion. We can’t validate all Y-linked regions. We did validate the larger structural features of the assembly and only discuss the results that we are confident in. We now include sentences to address this concern (p7 L150-152).

      The authors assigned Y-linked sequences based on median male-to-female coverage. Is this method feasible for assigning ampliconic sequence to the Y given the N50 of 0.6-1.2Mb? Are the authors potentially excluding novel Y-linked ampliconic sequence?

      We validated our methods to assign contigs to a chromosome by comparing 10-kb intervals to the contigs with known chromosomal location, including the Y chromosome. Our assignments have high (96, 98, and 99%) sensitivity and low (5, 0, and 3%) false-positive rates in D. mauritiana, D. simulans, and D. sechellia, respectively (see Table S2). Based on these results, we think that this method is reasonable for Y-linked contigs with N50 of 0.6-1.2Mb.

      We might exclude some novel Y-linked sequences since we only assigned ~15Mb out of a total ~40 Mb Y-linked sequences. We acknowledged this possibility, and now include a sentence to address this concern (p31 L554-556).

      Where did the rDNA sequences go in D. simulans and D. sechellia? Can they be detected on another chromosome?

      Please see Fig S5 for detailed results. We found a few copies of rDNA on the contigs of autosomes. We assembled many copies of rDNA that can’t be confidently assigned to Y chromosomes. It’s possible that they might be located on other chromosomes. Based on our FISH data (Fig S4) and previous papers, most of these non-Y-linked rDNA copies should be on the X chromosome. However, in this study, we did not make a concerted effort to assign X-linked contigs.

      Figure 2B is hard to follow and it is unclear what additional value it provides to part A. Why is expression level of specific exons important?

      Exon duplication may be an important contributor to Y-linked gene evolution: most genes have duplications and our figure shows that at least some of these duplicates are expressed. The patterns we see indicate that duplication may play different roles in genes depending on their length. For example, the duplications involving short genes (e.g., ARY) may be functional and influence protein expression, whereas duplications involving large genes (e.g. kl-2) may not influence the overall protein expression level from this gene, although the expressed duplicated exons may play some other role. We revised a sentence in the main text and added a sentence to the figure 2 legend to make this point clearer.

      Figure 3 There are many introns that contain gaps, so it is unclear how confident one can be in intron length when there are gaps.

      Indeed, we are not confident about the length of introns with gaps. Therefore, we separated these introns and showed them in different colors.

      Figure 4: What are the authors using as a common ancestor in this figure to infer duplications in the initial branch?

      We used phylogenies to infer the origin of Y-linked duplicates. Any duplications that happened earlier than the divergence between four species are listed in the branch. We also edited the legend to make this point clearer.

      p.15, paragraph 2: The authors describe a newly amplified gene, CK2Btes-Y, in D. simulans. In the first half of the paragraph the authors state that Y-linked copies are also found in D. melanogaster but have "degenerated and have little or no expression" and call them pseudogenes. Later in the paragraph, the authors state that the D. melanogaster Y-linked copies are Su(Ste), a source of piRNAs that are in conflict with X-linked Stellate. Lastly in the paragraph, the authors discuss Su(ste) as a D. melanogaster homolog of CK2Btes-Y. The logic of defining CK2Btes-Y origins is confusing. Was CK2Btes-Y independently amplified on the D. simulans Y, or were CK2BtesY and Su(Ste) amplified in a common ancestor but independently diverged?

      The amplification of CK2Btes-Y and CK2Btes-like happened in the ancestor of D. melanogaster and D. simulans (Fig S11). However, both CK2Btes-Y and CK2Btes-like became pseudogenes (D. melanogaster CK2Btes-Y is named PCKR in a previous study) in D. melanogaster. On the other hand, Ste and Su(Ste) are only limited to D. melanogaster based on phylogenetic analyses (Fig 5A) and are a chimera of CK2Btes-like and NACBtes. The evolutionary history of this gene family has been detailed in other papers, except for the presence of CK2Btes-Y in the D. simulans complex, which we describe for the first time in this study. We now include a new figure (Figure 5B) a schematic of the inferred evolutionary history of sex-linked Ssl/CK2ßtes paralogs

      Figure 5: Is each FISH signal a different gene copy?

      Yes, based on our assemblies, Lhk-1 and Lhk-2 are mostly located on different contigs. Unfortunately, we are not able to design probes that can separate Lhk-1 from Lhk-2.

      The authors suggest DNA-repair on the Y chromosome is biased towards MMEJ based on indel size and microhomologies. Is there any evidence MMEJ is responsible for variable intron length in the canonical Y-linked genes or the amplification of new gene families? Since MMEJ is error-prone, it's a more tolerable repair mechanism in pseudogenes, so their findings might be biased. Rather than comparing pseudogenes to their parent genes, they should compare chrY pseudogenes to autosomal pseudogenes. Even more would be to track MMEJ on the dot chromosome which is known not recombine and is highly heterchromatic like the Y chromosome.

      We did compare chrY pseudogenes to autosomal pseudogenes in our study. We also add new analyses to address other issues from reviewer 2, which are similar to your concern. We now include data from pericentric heterochromatin and pseudogenes (see Fig 7). Both data types support our conclusion that indel size is only larger on Y chromosomes. This is consistent with a report that the dot chromosome and pericentric heterochromatin have similar indel size distributions (Blumenstiel et al. 2002).

      Reviewer #3 (Significance (Required)):

      While it is a benefit to have much improved Y chromosome assemblies from the three D. simulans clade species, the gap in knowledge this manuscript is trying to address is unclear. The manuscript is almost entirely descriptive and the figures are difficult to follow.

      As stated above, we respectfully disagree with the comment that the manuscript is entirely descriptive, as we present thorough evolutionary analyses to test hypotheses about the forces shaping the evolution of Y chromosome organization and Y-linked genes. We have two guiding hypotheses about the importance of sexual antagonism and DNA repair pathways for Y chromosome evolution, and we conduct sequence analyses that support these hypotheses that sexual antagonism and MMEJ affect Y chromosome evolution.

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      Summary:

      I found this an exceptionally impressive manuscript. The evolution of Y chromosomes has until recently been nearly impossible, and this research group have pioneered approaches that can yield reliable results in Drosophila. The study used an innovative heterochromatin-sensitive assembly pipeline on three D. simulans clade species, D. simulans, D. mauritiana and D. sechellia, which diverged less than 250 KYA, allowing comparisons with the group's previous results for the D. melanogaster Y.

      The study is both technically impressive and extremely interesting (an highly unusual combination). It includes a rich set of interesting results about these genome regions, and furthermore the results are discussed in a well-organised way, relating both to previous observations and to understanding of the genetics and evolution of Y chromosomes, illuminating all these aspects. It is a rare pleasure to read such a study. I believe that this study will inspire and be a model for future work on these chromosomes. It shows how these difficult genome regions can be studied.

      Major comments:

      The conclusions are convincing. The methods are explained unusually clearly, and the reasoning from the results is convincing. When appropriate, the caveats, the caveats are clearly explained. The material is clearly organised and the questions studied are well related to the results. I had a few minor comments concerning the English. Even the figure (often a major problem to understand) are very clear and helpful, with proper explanations. I have very rarely read such a good manuscript, and almost never (in a long career) found a manuscript that could be published without revision being necessary.

      The analysis found 58 exons missed in previous assemblies (as well as all previously known exons of the 11 canonical Y-linked genes, which are present in at least one copy across the group). FISH on mitotic chromosomes using probes for 12 Y-linked sequences was used to determine the centromere locations, and to determine gene orders and relate them to the cytological chromosome bands, demonstrating changes in satellite distribution, gene order, and centromere positions between their Y chromosomes within the D. simulans clade species. It also confirmed previous results for Y-linked ribosomal DNA,genes, which are responsible for X-Y pairing in D. melanogaster males. Although 28S rDNA has been lost in D. simulans and D. sechellia (but not in D. mauritiana), the intergenic spacer (IGS) repeats between these repeats are retained on both sex chromosomes in all three species. Only sequencing can reliably reveal this, as their abundance is below the detection level by FISH in D. sechellia. The 11 canonical Y-linked genes' copy numbers vary between the species, and some duplicates are expressed and have complete open reading frames, and may therefore be functional because they, but most include only a subset of exons, often with duplicated exons flanking the the presumed functional gene copy. Mega-introns and Y-loops were found, as already seen in Drosophila species, but this new study detects turn overs in the ~2 million years separating D. melanogaster and the D. simulans clade. 49 independent duplications onto the Y chromosome were detected, including 8 not previously detected. At least half show no expression in testes, or lack open reading frames, so they are probably pseudogenes. Testis-expressed genes may be especially likely to duplicate into the Y chromosome due to its open chromatin structure and transcriptional activity during spermatogenesis, and indeed most of the new Y-linked genes in the species studied clade have likely functions in chromatin modification, cell division, and sexual reproduction. The study discovered two new gene families that have undergone amplification on D. simulans clade Y chromosomes, reaching very high copy numbers (36-146). Both these families appear to encode functional protein-coding genes and show high expression. The paper described intriguing results that illuminate Y chromosome evolution. First, SRPK, arose by an autosome-to-Y duplication of the sequence encoding the testis-specific isoform of the gene SR Protein Kinase (SRPK), after which the autosomal copy lost its testis-specific exon via a deletion. In D. melanogaster, SRPK is essential for both male and female reproduction, so the relocation of the testis-specific isoform to the Y chromosome in the D. simulans clade suggests that the change may have been advantageous by resolving sexual antagonism. The paper presents convincing evidence that the Y copy evolved under positive selection, and that gene amplification may confer advantageous increased expression in males. The second amplified gene family is also potentially related to an interesting function. Both X-linked and Y-linked duplicates are found of a gene called Ssl located on chromosome 2R. In D. simulans, the X-linked copies were previously known, and called CK2ßtes-like. In D. melanogaster, degenerated Y-linked copies are also found, with little or no expression, contrasting with complete open reading frames and high expression in the D. simulans clade species in testes, consistent with the possibility of an arms race between sex chromosome meiotic drive factors. Other interesting analyses document higher gene conversion rates compared to the other chromosomes, and evidence that these Y chromosomes may differ in the DNA-repair mechanisms (preferentially using MMEJ instead of NHEJ), perhaps contributing to their high rates of intrachromosomal duplication and structural rearrangements. The authors relate this to evidence for turnover of Y-linked satellite sequences, with the discovery of five new Y-linked satellites, whose locations were validated using FISH. The study also documented enrichment of LTR retrotransposons on the D. simulans clade Y chromosomes relative to the rest of the genome, together with turnovers between the species.

      Significance

      As described above, the advances are both, technical and conceptual for the field. The manuscript itself does an excellent job of placing the work in the context of the existing literature.

      • Anyone working on sex chromosomes and other non-recombining genome regions should be interested in the findings reported.

      • My field of expertise is the evolution of sex chromosomes, and the evolution of genome regions with suppressed recombination. I have experience of genomic analyses. I have less expertise in analyses of gene expression, but I understand enough about such approaches to evaluate the parts of this study that use them.

    1. Casper goes private / TechCrunch (🔐): This is a worthwhile, premium report by TechCrunch. In an earlier thought comparing Purple and Casper, I explained: "One was run like a company that raised $340 million and one was run like a company that raised $2 million. Venture capital isn't the manufacturing plant for DTC success. Capital constraint can influence extraordinary brand and operational creativity. "Since its early-2020 IPO, Casper has struggled as a public company, seeing the majority of its value evaporate after its operating results failed to excite investors. Casper will sell for $6.90 per share, or around a 94% “premium to the closing share price on November 12, 2021,” per its own mathematics. When it listed, Casper sold its stock for $10 per share, rising above $15 per share in its early life before falling as low as $3.18 per share more recently." Here's the takeaway: Casper has been acquired by PE firm Durational Capital Management for roughly $300 million ($6.90 per share), about a year and a half after it went public in February 2020. In a year of high-profile DTC IPOs that have followed, the bed-in-a-box brand’s fate is now a cautionary tale for companies like Warby Parker and Allbirds.

      Going public is not always a good thing. Maybe more companies will learn from this lesson.

    1. That's a picture of it in the background. And this organism has the special trick that we call "photosynthesis," the ability to go take energy from the sun and transform carbon dioxide into oxygen. And over the course of billions of years, so starting from two and a half billion years ago, little by little these bacteria spread across the planet 00:07:08 and converted all that carbon dioxide in the air into the oxygen that we now have. And it was a very slow process. First, they had to saturate the seas, then they had to saturate the oxygen that the earth would absorb, and only then, finally, could oxygen begin to build up in the atmosphere. So you see, just after about 900 million years ago, oxygen starts to build up in the atmosphere. And about 600 million years ago, something really amazing happens. 00:07:35 The ozone layer forms from the oxygen that has been released in the atmosphere. And it sounds like a small deal, like we talked about the ozone a couple decades ago, but it actually turns out that before the ozone layer existed, earth was not really able to sustain complex, multicellular life. We had single-celled organisms, we had a couple of simple, multicellular organisms, but we didn't really have anything like you or me. 00:07:59 And shortly after the ozone layer came into place, the earth was able to sustain complex multicellular life. There was a Cambrian explosion of life in the seas. And the first plants got onto land. In fact, there was actually no life on land ahead of that. Another way to see this is, this is kind of a chart of pretty much most of the animals that you guys are familiar with. 00:08:24 And right at the bottom in time is the formation of the ozone layer. Like nothing that you are familiar with today could exist without the contributions of these tiny organisms over those billions of years. And where are they now? Well actually, they never really left us. The direct descendants of the cyanobacteria were eventually captured by plants. And they're now called chloroplasts. 00:08:49 So this is a zoom-in of a plant leaf - and we probably ate some of these guys today - where tons of little chloroplasts are still trapped - contributing photosynthesis and making energy for the plants that continue to be the other half of our lungs on earth. And in this way, our breaths are very deeply united. Every out-breath is mirrored by the in-breath of a plant,

      This would be nice to turn into a science lesson or to represent this in an experiential, participatory Deep Humanity BEing Journey. To do this, it would be important to elucidate the series of steps leading from one stated result to the next, showing how scientific methodology works to link the series of interconnected ideas together. Especially important is the science that glues everything together over deep time.

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    1. Imports from North America increased almost fourfold in value in the first half of the century, West Indian imports more than doubled in the same period, while the amount of tea shipped into the country by the East Indian Company (as distinct from by the smugglers who brought in a great deal more) increased more than forty-fold from some 67,000 pounds weight in 1701 to close to three million pounds fifty years later.°° Exports to the colonies grew just as dramatically. In 1713, British merchants shipped out some £32,400-worth of exports to the Carolinas. By 1739, exports to these same colonies were worth seven times more than this.°” In all, 95 per cent of the increase in Britain’s commodity exports that occurred in the six decades after the Act of Union was sold to captive and colonial markets outside Europe.

      The rapid expansion of trade as a result of the empire in the early 18th century

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    1. Since it started in April, the president’s approval rating has fallen from 33% to 22%, according to Datafolha, a polling firm. During the six months the proceedings were broadcast live, half a million viewers regularly tuned in.

      He still gathers larger support than president Michel Temer and president Dilma Rousseff (when she was impeached)

    1. Chris Baraniuk explains the elements that have made the UK’s vaccination programme a front runner globally and describes the hurdles that lie aheadIt looks like a world beating performance—the United Kingdom has administered more covid-19 vaccine first doses per 100 people (19) than any other nation of comparable population size.1At the time of writing, 12 million people—roughly as many as the entire population of another vaccine front runner, Israel—have received their first dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. Daily reports indicate that, on some days, more than half a million people have received a dose. The government seems reasonably well placed to hit its target of giving 15 million people their first dose by mid-February. But the full story of the vaccination programme shows bumps in the road as well as successes.
    1. So what does the REACT-1 study, which examined more than half a million people show? This study is limited to >=18 yr olds in England. This examined 29 symptoms, and showed 1 in 3 people with COVID-19 had symptoms lasting more than 12 weeks. This included young adults.
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    1. Particularly disturbing is the recentdynamics of world hunger. During thefirst half of the 1990s the number ofundernourished people decreased by 37 million, but over the next 5 years itincreased by more than 18 million. Thenumbers of undernourished have fallenin East Asia and Pacific, but remain highin South Asia and continue to rise inSub-Saharan Africa and in the MiddleEast and North Africa. In India, after adecline of 20 million between1990—1992 and 1995—1997, the num-ber of undernourished climbed by 19million over the following four years.And in China, where the number ofundernourished people was reduced by58 million over the 1990s, progress isgradually slowing. In countries withtransition economies the second half ofthe 1990s brought another increase inthe number of undernourished people,from 25 million to 34 million. BEYOND ECONOMIC GROWTH381Undernourishment means consuming too little food to maintain a normal level of activity. The Food a

      The Agriculture sector of the economy is very important ,an active and sustainable one would go a long way in reducing this problem

    1. The COVID-19 Pandemic has took a drastic toll on the mental health of Americans and individuals around the world. Public-health officials are concerned by the half a million deaths in this country alone. And a year of isolation, closed schools, and lost jobs has had traumatic effects on many Americans, children especially.

    1. Author Response:

      Reviewer #1:

      This manuscript reports theoretical and experimental analyses of a meiotic drive element in the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe, to understand whether the outcrossing rate is high enough in this species, long thought to undergo mostly same-clone mating, to explain the spread of multiple meiotic drive elements. The topic is of general interest, the experiments and analyses are clever and sound, and provide interesting answers. The experiments indeed show that the outcrossing rate in the laboratory varies among natural isolates and density conditions, and can be substantial ; the theoretical model shows that the estimated outcrossing rates do allow meiotic drive to spread.

      However, the outcrossing rates measured in the laboratory may be really different from those in nature and population genomic data are available that could allow estimate actual outcrossing rates in natural populations.

      We fully agree that rates measured in the laboratory may be different than those in nature, especially given our observations on outcrossing rates varying under different cell densities. We now note that explicitly in the introduction and the discussion to make that point more clear.

      We disagree, however, that the population genomic data are sufficient to estimate actual outcrossing rates in nature for S. pombe. Our position stems from empirical analyses of what happens when S. pombe isolates outcross. Traditional population genetics models assume Mendelian allele transmission and a baseline recombination rate. These assumptions are strongly violated in S. pombe, so applying traditional population genetics models to S. pombe to determine outcrossing rate is problematic (Hu et al., 2017; Nuckolls et al., 2017; Zanders et al., 2014). The causes of these violations are so complex that amending existing models to adequately predict outcrossing would be a major undertaking in population genetics that is well beyond the scope of this work. We added to the introduction and to the discussion to illustrate the complexity of the situation and explain why we did not provide estimates.

      Indeed, outcrossing rates depend mostly on where and when in nature dispersal and clonal multiplication occur, while laboratory experiments typically use high densities of clonemates on plates. Overall this study brings support to the idea that homothallic fungi probably do not undergo mostly same-clone mating in nature, in contrast to the most accepted view in the fungal literature, but in agreement with evolutionary considerations ; the study and the findings would thus benefit from being placed in the right evolutionary context (doi: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2012.02495.x ; 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2010.00153.x ; 10.1128/EC.00440-07 ; 10.1038/hdy.2014.37 ; 10.1111/nph.17039).

      We have added citations and statements clarifying that homothallic fungi, and specifically, S. pombe can outcross to the introduction. We also extensively revised the introduction to better contextualize our study within the current assumptions about S. pombe biology and its capacity to harbor selfish genes.

      The terms selfing and outcrossing as used in the manuscript does not correspond to the diploid selfing and outcrossing that occur in plants and animals, and the term can thus be misleading.

      To address this confusion, we now more explicitly define the terms we used in the paper in the introduction. We also have added a supplemental figure to help illustrate S. pombe’s mating process and the terms we use (Figure 1-figure supplement 1).

      Reviewer #2:

      The authors combine cytological, genetic, mathematical, and experimental evolution techniques to connect variation in mating behavior with variation in the population dynamics of meiotic drive in the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. First, the authors use cytological and genetic methods to document variation across strains of pombe in their (i) propensity to inbreed, (ii) efficiency of mating, (iii) rate of mate type switching, and (iv) variability of ascus morphology. These results will be of major standalone interest to the yeast community, and will likely find experimental use in many settings. Then the authors use population genetic modeling to study the theoretical implications of this variation in mating behavior for the spread of meiotic drivers (which have recently been shown to be pervasive in pombe). Finally, the authors use cytological techniques to track the spread of introduced drivers in experimental populations of pombe, and show that the drivers follow frequency trajectories that agree well with predictions from the theoretical analysis. These results will be of major interest to geneticists working on meiotic drive, as well as workers in the currently burgeoning field of synthetic gene drives for population control.

      The analysis is carefully done, and I am confident in the results as presented (with one minor exception detailed below). My only major suggestion for improvement concerns the scope of the population genetic modeling. As it stands, this modeling is primarily used to generate predicted frequency trajectories of meiotic drivers against which the trajectories observed in the evolution experiments can be compared. The fact that the experimental and theoretical trajectories match well is impressive, and very promising for the future of pombe as an experimental system in meiotic drive research. However, substantively, as the authors recognize, this agreement tells us mainly that the population genetic model that they use to generate the predicted trajectories takes into account all relevant parameters and is well calibrated. Thus, from the population genetic modeling and evolution experiments, we get only an indirect picture of how variation in mating behavior has actually impacted the natural spread of drivers in this species.

      I believe that the population genetic modeling, with minor modifications, could in fact be used to make more direct predictions about the natural history of drive in pombe. For example, should strains with less inbreeding harbor more fixed drivers? And in strains with more inbreeding, should drivers---because they have very long fixation times---be more likely to be observed as polymorphisms? Such questions are, I believe, well within reach of the authors' population genetic modeling.

      We agree that this is a very interesting line of inquiry. Populations with more than one driver operating have not yet been considered by population genetic modeling. Given that it has become apparent that genomes housing multiple drivers are not rare, this is also a very important question to address. Your comment emboldened us to attempt to tackle this problem, which we previously considered beyond our reach. Thank you for this push!

      An additional unpublished caveat to reconstructing the natural history of drive in S. pombe is that our lab and Li-Lin Du’s lab have found that wtf meiotic drivers are quite ancient. Fission yeast lineages have been harboring multiple meiotic drivers for over 100 million years and some species have even more drivers than S. pombe! Because of this, we are interested in exploring how multiple drivers are maintained for long periods in addition to addressing how multiple drivers can arise within a lineage.

      We are a long way away from accomplishing our goals on this project and consider this ongoing work to be beyond the scope of this paper.

      A minor concern: To track the spread of a driver introduced in their experimental populations, the authors linked the driving allele to one fluorescent marker (GFP/mCherry) and the non-driving allele to the other (mCherry/GFP), and compared the spread of the one marker relative to the other. To use their model to generate expected frequency trajectories for these experiments, the authors needed to measure, in controlled settings, the intrinsic fitness costs of GFP vs mCherry; they estimate that GFP is relatively costly in sexual (but not vegetative) reproduction. However, their estimates of the relative fitness cost of GFP are based on frequency trajectories across just 6 generations, and assume additive dominance, so that the fitness cost to a GFP homozygote is twice that to a heterozygote. It is unclear how statistically noisy the estimation procedure is given the small number of generations used, and whether it is justified to assume additive dominance (which is especially relevant since the dominance of fitness costs is known to be a critical factor in determining the frequency dynamics of meiotic drive).

      Thank you for this comment. We did use only 6 generations of data for these calculations, but we pooled data from 4 distinct control experiments each of which had 3 independent replicate populations. After 6 generations, fluorescent marker loss becomes a bigger factor in our results and the populations behave less predictability.

      We did not, however, have a good justification for using additive dominance. Because of this, we reran the maximum likelihood and allowed both the fitness cost and dominance to vary. We found that the parameters that best fit our data was a fitness cost of 0.234 and a dominance of 0.083. This fitness cost is similar to our previous value, but this revealed it was incorrect for us to assume additive dominance. We have since updated the paper and the Figures 4 and 5 to reflect the use of these values.

      Reviewer #3:

      Weaknesses

      Even though the experiments find some important parameters for meiotic-driver spread in fission yeast, the results are not sufficient to explain the apparent "success of meiotic drivers in this species". The links that the authors suggest between mating type switching efficiency, the amount of outcrossing, the speed of invasion of the driver and the cost associated with the driver cannot explain the success of drivers. Furthermore, the causality of the different factors is not explained.

      We agree we do not offer a complete explanation of wtf genes in S. pombe, but we claim our work ‘helps explain,’ which we feel is a well-supported claim. Or revised introduction, we hope, better contextualizes our study. The current understanding of S. pombe is that the species inbreeds. This has been hard to understand because one wouldn’t expect the species with the most known meiotic drivers to be an inbreeding species. Our data shows that S. pombe mating phenotypes in the lab are highly variable and include considerable outcrossing. We also show how the range of parameters we observe are consistent with the spread of meiotic drivers under specific conditions.

      That outcrossing increases the speed of invasion is true (see also Durand et al 1997 PMID:9093861), but the argument that 'reduced levels of mating type switching could lead to less inbreeding' is not supported. There are two problems with this statement. First, it is not clear to me if this is theoretically true. If switching occurs infrequently but consistently, the chances of a cell to be positioned to another cell of the opposite mating type either from self or opposite type will probably not be that different. Only in a narrow range of cell density will this probably play a role, however, this should be properly modelled in a structural environment or tested experimentally.

      Thank you for pointing this out. Our modified text makes the support for the argument that switching rates can affect inbreeding more clear. In short, the experiments we present in Figure 1-figure supplement 1 show that inbreeding is increased within an h90 population at low density. The simplest explanation of this observation is that the cells plated at low density have fewer opportunities to mate outside their clonal lineage, so instead they more frequently rely on intra-lineage mating following switching. Cells at higher density have the opportunity to mate outside their lineage, even before a switching event has enabled mating within a lineage.

      Extending that logic, if switching happens less frequently within a clonal lineage, cells within that lineage will need to undergo more generations of mitosis before a switching event enables intra-lineage mating. Those extra divisions will make it more likely that cells of a given lineage will encounter cells of the opposite mating type from a distinct lineage. This would lead to more outcrossing.

      We acknowledge that this considers that mating occurs on a surface and that the cell populations are stationary (unmixed) immediately prior to mating. These are the conditions used for all analyses in this work. These conditions likely do not recapitulate all matings that occur in nature, but we argue they are feasible in nature.

      A comparison between heterothallic and homothallic strains is - contrary to what the authors argue in line 138 - not appropriate for this test, as the first cannot reproduce by selfing. Using strains that have intermediate amounts of mating type switching (e.g. using h90 Sp strains mutant in the switching pathway; Maki et al. PMID:29852001) could give more insight in this. Reduced switching will lead to reduced spore production, because fewer of the cells will be located next to a cell of the opposite mating type (as shown in Nieuwenhuis et al. 2018 PMID:29691402 and by the authors in Fig. 1-S3), but this does not have to affect outcrossing efficiency. This also becomes apparent from the data presented in Figs 1D and 1E, which do not seem correlated.

      Thank you for this comment. We have modified the text to highlight our (previously poorly-expressed) intent of using these heterothallic controls. Briefly, these heterothallic cell mixtures model a randomly mating population in that they have an equal mix of h+ and h- cells of both colors, but cells cannot mate within a clonal lineage. This should necessarily lead to random mating in our assays. This is what we observe, which we interpret as support that our assays work as intended. We then later use this same control to model the effect of random mating in our experimental evolution analyses.

      Second, the authors have not measured mating-type switching, but used the amount of mother daughter matings as a proxy for mating type switching. This method introduces a bias towards the correlation switching and selfing, because the latter is used as a proxy for the first. Fluorescent proteins under control of a mating-type specific promotor is an established method (e.g. Jakočiūnas et al 2013 PMCID:PMC6420890, Vještica et al 2021 PMID:33406066), which will give direct observations of the mating type. The observation that the shmoo length is associated with outcrossing is very interesting, and - without changing switching frequency - appears to affect outcrossing.

      We acknowledge that we did not assay mating type switching directly in Sk. To our knowledge, no one has ever reported an experiment that assayed mating type switching directly in S. pombe. Lineage tracing paired with mating assays, like those presented in Figure 2B, were done to establish the currently accepted mating-type switching model in S. pombe.

      We agree that this is unsatisfying and that factors other than mating type switching could affect the behavior of cells in this assay. We did not, however, exclusively rely on sibling cell matings as support of our argument in support of a reduced rate of mating-type switching in Sk. The foundation of our hypothesis is the discovery of Singh and Klar (2002) that there are fewer switching-inducing DSBs in Sk. We also observed that Sk cells divided more times than Sp prior to mating at low cell density, suggesting they required more divisions to have mating competent cells within a clonal lineage. Still, because we were unable to measure switching directly, we explicitly state that less switching in that strain is an unproven model consistent with the available data.

      There are mating-type reporters in the papers mentioned, but the reporters were not used for lineage tracing of mating type switching in the papers cited or any other papers we could find. Lineage tracing is required to assay switching frequency as a clonal population founded by a cell with reduced switching frequency will produce a population with a balanced number of h+ and h- cells after a limited number of divisions, as long as the two types of switches (h+ to h- and vice versa) occur at the same rate.

      Similar to the reviewer, we were frustrated with our inability to assay switching rate directly. We previously attempted to use the markers described in Jakočiūnas et al 2013 for lineage tracing in Sp (lab isolate) cells. In agreement with the published work, we saw in initial snapshots of the cell population a roughly equal number of yellow (h-) and blue (h+) cells. When we imaged cells over time, however, they did not behave as expected. Most strikingly, all mating events were not between yellow and blue cells, as would be expected if they were absolute markers of h+ and h- cells. Instead, many of the matings were between two blue cells. This could be due to fluorophore carryover and/or delayed accumulation of the new fluorophore after switching. In addition, the fluorophore switching pattern we observed generally did not follow the expectation that 1 out of 4 cells derived from a single progenitor should have a different mating type than the other three cells. These observations were sufficient to convince us that the markers were not suitable, under our experimental conditions, for lineage tracing to assay switching patterns. We have now included a figure documenting our attempts to use this assay as other readers may also be curious why we relied on indirect measures.

      Finally, the authors argue that meiotic drivers are evolving rapidly, can invade fast and that this can occur even when selfing is prevalent. The model seems to contract this. Let's start with the claim that novel drivers can invade in a population. Novel alleles arise at a frequency of 1/N (N = population size, bottom left corner Fig 3A, not at 5% as used in the analyses) and as drive is as strong as the inverse of the population size the fitness difference is initially extremely low giving plenty of time for drift (when driver is neutral) or selection (when driver is deleterious) to remove the novel allele.

      We have added to the analysis in figure 3A to show that under our model (lacking drift) drivers can invade a population that is not exclusively inbreeding with any initial frequency greater than zero (Figure3-figure supplement 1). We have also extended our analysis to include simulations of drift (Figure 3-figure supplement 1). Note that in our models, drive is never neutral as it kills ~half the meiotic products (i.e. the progeny) made by heterozygotes.

      In addition, we note that the frequency of the driver at the time of mating and meiosis is the essential parameter. A local population of S. pombe could be founded by relatively few individuals. If a mutation generating a novel driver occurs during the clonal expansion of this population, it could rise to relatively high frequency within that population before the cells starve and mate. This effect of clonal expansion is the reason microbiologists must do fluctuation analyses to assay mutation rates: there are jackpot cultures (analogous to local populations, founded by a limited number of individuals) with a high frequency of mutants and others with few to no mutations.

      In order for drivers to increase to levels that will give 'rapid wtf gene evolution' (line 112) a prolonged level of mostly drift is probably necessary. It is difficult to make statements about the speed of wtf evolution in the fission yeast system, without having a better description of the variation of the paralogs and their ages in fission yeast. The speed of wtf evolution is not clear, as shown in earlier findings from this group that shows very old wtf loci; Eickbush et al. 2019. Comparing wtf evolution relative to neutrally evolving loci might give more insight in wtf evolution speed. Especially when drive is costly (as suggested by the authors, though not shown or quantified) the time to substantial frequencies is large. It could also be possible that drive itself is beneficial (e.g. resources from the killed spores made available to the killers or through released local competitive pressure), which will lead to increased fitness though combined drive and increased viability, even at low frequencies.

      Eickbush et al 2019 demonstrates rapid evolution of the wtf gene family. We did find in that study that most wtf loci are shared between different isolates of S. pombe. The critical point is, however, that the wtf genes that are at a given locus are generally dramatically different due to rapid evolution. Even when two strains share a driver at the same locus, they generally have distinct sequences and are thus expected to be mutually killing. We have explained this situation more clearly in the revised discussion.

      Because of this rapid evolution and the functional consequences of this variation, which we have demonstrated in cited studies, very subtle changes in wtf gene sequence leads to the birth of a novel driver. Therefore, generation of wtf driver heterozygosity does not require mating between significantly diverged previously isolated populations- a single point mutation can generate a novel driver that self-selects via drive.

      We have directly measured the fitness cost of Sk wtf4 heterozygosity when expressed in Sp, precisely the scenario assayed in this paper (Nuckolls et al 2017). We use that fitness cost in our modeling studies. In addition, the observed changes in our experimental evolution analyses were quite close to expected trajectories. This provides additional support that the parameters we used in these analyses were appropriate for our experimental conditions. We do, however, acknowledge that there are other ecological conditions under which the fitness costs of drivers could differ.

      Minor comments

      The loss of mCherry alleles due to reversion of ura+ occurs more rapidly than that in GFP. It is likely that this variable change in reversion affects the observed change in frequency. This should be corrected for in the raw data.

      We agree that the loss of the fluorescent alleles makes our data noisy, but we do not have precise measurements of these rates. We judged this phenotype did not affect the conclusions in this paper, so we did not invest in correcting this limitation of our system.

      Inbreeding is a term generally used in population genetics, where it refers the the amount of mating between related individuals. Even though it is fundamentally correct, a more appropriate term would be haploid selfing or intra-clonal mating, as mating in these strains and experiments is actually between clones. Inbreeding in this context is confusing to people who are not familiar with facultatively sexual species.

      We have provided additional guidance and explanation to avoid confusion with our use of terms.

      The effect of inbreeding on driver alleles has been studied theoretically before, showing qualitatively similar results (e.g. see Durand et al 1997 PMID:9093861; Martinossi-Allibert et al. 2021 PMID:33764512, Ament-Velásquez).

      Reference to driver systems in other fungal species (Neurospora and Podospora) that are highly selfing is completely missing (Svedberg et al. 2018, 2021; Vogan et al 2019, 2020; Martinossi-Allibert et al. 2021)

      Thank you for pointing out these omissions, we have added citations.

      There seems to be quite some variation between the different replicate experiments (Fig 1E vs Fig 2-S3 for example).

      We agree, but were satisfied that the data support our claims.

      Line 76: This paragraph is a bit misleading and internally contradicting. The data from Farlow et al. does not take into consideration the recent hybridisation of diverged populations as shown in Tusso et al. 2018 and thus overestimates the time between outcrossing events. The estimate that 20-60 outcrossing events (underestimate due to homogenization and potential meitotic drive) occurred in the last 500 years suggests a higher number than 1 per 800,000. Citing this number is obsolete.

      We removed the mention of the out of date Farlow reference.

      line 730: The inbreeding coefficient in Sun et al. 2017 (probability of IBD which is between 0 and 1) is different from the one used in Hartl & Clark 2007 between -1 and 1.

      Thank you, we have corrected this.

      The speculations on the 4913bp insertion and its effect on mating type switching is not substantiated. Variation around the mating type is rampant (see for example Beach 1986 and Nieuwenhuis et al. 2018) and the authors even show that is likely is not the case that this element affects switching in FY29033. The insertion is an interesting observation, but just that.

      We decided to keep this in the paper because if we were interested in pursuing a potential cause of changed mating phenotypes, we would likely start with testing the transposon, even though the phenotype of FY29033 argues against the hypothesis. Genetic context frequently affects phenotypes and Sk and FY29033 are different strains. Although we do not plan on following this up, we wanted to present the ideas to others who may be interested in pursuing these phenotypes further.

  10. Sep 2021
    1. • $50,000 of student loan cancellation doesn’t mean that a student loan borrower now has  $50,000 to spend in the economy. • Instead, a student loan borrower would save their student loan payment each month,  which could range based on their student loan balance, but could be several hundred  dollars (not $50,000).

      This is the explanation for my first annotation and I stand by what I said. This argument makes no sense, I can pretty confidently say that if anyone just happened upon $50k the first thing they did would not be spend it. The idea in my head is that if these people had just a couple hundred dollars more a month, even if they spent just half of it thats another 100-200 dollars a month from one person going back to the economy. With the 36 million now student debt free thats 3.6 billion a month.

    1. The 2020 US mortality totaled 2.8 million after early March, which is 17.3% higher than age-population–weighted mortality over the same time interval in 2017 to 2019, for a total excess death count of 413,592. We use data on weekly death counts by cause, as well as life tables, to quantify excess mortality and life years lost from both COVID-19 and non–COVID-19 causes by race/ethnicity, age, and gender/sex. Excess mortality from non–COVID-19 causes is substantial and much more heavily concentrated among males and minorities, especially Black, non-Hispanic males, than COVID-19 deaths. Thirty-four percent of the excess life years lost for males is from non–COVID-19 causes. While minorities represent 36% of COVID-19 deaths, they represent 70% of non–COVID-19 related excess deaths and 58% of non–COVID-19 excess life years lost. Black, non-Hispanic males represent only 6.9% of the population, but they are responsible for 8.9% of COVID-19 deaths and 28% of 2020 excess deaths from non–COVID-19 causes. For this group, nearly half of the excess life years lost in 2020 are due to non–COVID-19 causes.
    1. Long-nicknamed the “forgotten borough,” Staten Island is the city’s smallest by population. With just under half a million residents, its population represents about 6% of the city’s. It has a lower poverty rate and a higher median household income. Compared to much of the city, which is dense and dotted with skyscrapers, Staten Island is more suburban, with many single-family homes and few tall buildings. 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      A year ago I learned that Staten Island was labeled as the "forgotten borough". I also know that the other boroughs don't claim us as apart of New York City. As of 2021, Staten Islands population is 474,893. More than 75% of Staten Islanders identify as white, 10% as black or African American, 7% as Asian, 17% as Hispanic or Latino, .4% as American Indian or Alaska Native, .2% as other race, and 2% as more than two or more races.

    1. According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, Americans received more than seven million neurotoxin injections in 2018, and more than two and a half million filler injections. That year, Americans spent $16.5 billion on cosmetic surgery; ninety-two per cent of these procedures were performed on women.

      use of facts

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    1. A continent which scarce suffi ced to maintain a half million savages now supports nearly two hun-dred and fi ft y times that number of as active and industrious people as there are in the world. Th e huge and empty land has been fi lled with homes, roads, railways, schools, colleges, hospi-tals, and all the comforts of the most advanced material civiliza-tion. (Ibid., 401–402)

      This statement by Adams paints a transformation of an empty land being filled. Showing are far we have come and giving a sense of confidence.

    1. However, FGS approaches are expensive, time consumingand with low throughput. Therefore, they are not practical to sequence full genomes ortranscriptomes. Indeed, the Human Genome Project using such a platform took 15 years,at a cost of three million milliard USD, even after optimizations that increased readinglengths and reduced errors, allowing researchers to finish it in half the time than previouslyexpected at the time

      Disadvantages of Sanger Sequencing and Maxam-Gilbert.

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    1. few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries. To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes of wearied Israelites. In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand. At last it came,—suddenly, fearfully, like a dream. With one wild carnival of blood and passion came the message in his own plaintive cadences:— “Shout, O children! Shout, you’re free! For God has bought your liberty!” Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast. In vain do we cry to this our vastest social problem:— “Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble!” The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people. The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host. The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for freedom. As the time flew, however, he began to grasp a new idea. The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him. The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him. And why not? Had not votes made war and emancipated millions? Had not votes enfranchised the freedmen? Was anything impossible to a power that had done all this? A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom. So the decade flew away, the revolution of 1876 came, and left the half-free serf weary, wondering, but still inspired. Slowly but steadily, in the following years, a new vision began gradually to replace the dream of political power,—a powerful movement, the rise of another ideal to guide the unguided, another pillar of fire by night after a clouded day. It was the ideal of “book-learning”; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the longing to know. Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life. Up the new path the advance guard toiled, slowly, heavily, doggedly; only those who have watched and guided the faltering feet, the misty minds, the dull understandings, of the dark pupils of these schools know how faithfully, how piteously, this people strove to learn. It was weary work. The cold statistician wrote down the inches of progress here and there, noted also where here and there a foot had slipped or some one had fallen. To the tired climbers, the horizon was ever dark, the mists were often cold, the Canaan was always dim and far away. If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self-realization, self-respect. In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil; and yet he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. For the first time he sought to analyze the burden he bore upon his back, that dead-weight of social degradation partially masked behind a half-named Negro problem. He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. He felt the weight of his ignorance,—not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet. Nor was his burden all poverty and ignorance. The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home. A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems. But alas! while sociologists gleefully count his bastards and his prostitutes, the very soul of the toiling, sweating black man is darkened by the shadow of a vast despair. Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the “higher” against the “lower” races. To which the Negro cries Amen! and swears that to so much of this strange prejudice as is founded on just homage to civilization, culture, righteousness, and progress, he humbly bows and meekly does obeisance. But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and the boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all-pervading desire to inculcate disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil,—before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom “discouragement” is an unwritten word. But the facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning, self-disparagement, and lowering of ideals which ever accompany repression and breed in an atmosphere of contempt and hate. Whisperings and portents came home upon the four winds: Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must always cook and serve? And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race! Nevertheless, out of the evil came something of good,—the more careful adjustment of education to real life, the clearer perception of the Negroes’ social responsibilities, and the sobering realization of the meaning of progress. So dawned the time of Sturm und Drang: storm and stress to-day rocks our little boat on the mad waters of the world-sea; there is within and without the sound of conflict, the burning of body and rending of soul; inspiration strives with doubt, and faith with vain questionings. The bright ideals of the past,—physical freedom, political power, the training of brains and the training of hands,—all these in turn have waxed and waned, until even the last grows dim and overcast. Are they all wrong,—all false? No, not that, but each alone was over-simple and incomplete,—the dreams of a credulous race-childhood, or the fond imaginings of the other world which does not know and does not want to know our power. To be really true, all these ideals must be melted and welded into one. The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,—the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts. The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defence,—else what shall save us from a second slavery? Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,—the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire. Work, culture, liberty,—all these we need, not singly but together, not successively but together, each growing and aiding each, and all striving toward that vaster ideal that swims before the Negro people, the ideal of human brotherhood, gained through the unifying ideal of Race; the ideal of fostering and developing the traits and talents of the Negro, not in opposition to or contempt for other races, but rather in large conformity to the greater ideals of the American Republic, in order that some day on American soil two world-races may give each to each those characteristics both so sadly lack. We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. Will America be poorer if she replace her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility? or her coarse and cruel wit with loving jovial good-humor? or her vulgar music with the soul of the Sorrow Songs? Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons is the travail of souls whose burden is almost beyond the measure of their strength, but who bear it in the name of an historic race, in the name of this the land of their fathers’ fathers, and in the name of human opportunity. And now what I have briefly sketched in large outline let me on coming pages tell again in many ways, with loving emphasis and deeper detail, that men may listen to the striving in the souls of black folk.   Class Info Syllabus Zoom Class Calendar Contexts Contexts for "They Feed They Lion" Contexts for Henry Adams Texts How to annotate Texts Alain Locke Alice Dunbar-Nelson Allen Ginsberg, “Howl” (1956) Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892) Claude McKay Edgar Lee Masters Edna St. Vincent Millay Edwin Arlington Robinson Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time Ezra Pound Georgia Douglas Johnson Gertrude Stein Gwendolyn B. Bennett Helene Johnson Henry Adams, “The Dynamo and the Virgin” John Dos Passos, “The Body of an American” Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain” (1926) Lawrence Ferlinghetti Paul Laurence Dunbar Philip Levine, “They Feed They Lion” (1972) Radical Poetry Robert Frost Sterling Brown T.S. Eliot Networked W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” William Carlos Williams

      I believe that Du Bois is speaking about the times of slavery, thus the usage of "bondage". However, this divine event that "they thought to see" and "end all of the doubt and disappointment", makes me imagine that this is emancipation, or even a divine miracle of freedom while enslaved.

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    1. It convinced laborers of the need for institutionalized unions, persuaded businesses of the need for even greater political influence and government aid, and foretold a half century of labor conflict in the United States.2

      It's sad to see that it says "it convinced laborers" after the $40 million worth of damage and nearly 100 civilian/workers casualties to become convinced.

    1. Globally, half of the people who need insulin can’t reliably get access to it. With 6 million people in the US insulin-dependent, and nearly 40 percent of Americans uninsured or facing high deductibles that leave their medicine costs uncovered,

      Most people who need insulin are unable to obtain it, which can cause huge medical bills

    1. I am accepting charitable donations,. ETH: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434 | BTC: 38B6vGaqNvMyTtoFEZPmNvMS7icV6ZnPMm | xDAI: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434 (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); <p>ga('create', 'UA-74743044-2', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');</p> Wednesday, June 23 2021. Nintendo Way Erev ... the Day of the Holy Divorce of Bayjorel   Adam on “ho(s) I still single” … I “hisss” as Alger, Narcissus and to the various collegiates in Massachusetts; know it’s because I’m Cheyanne Mountain. You can’t even dream how hard it is to get inside “this heart.” Or maybe I can’t fathom why nobody’s rushing up to me trying to grab the ring of “infinite alimoney in the ever-after” … Na Na Na Na … Na Na Na Na … shey shea way) … tee tea, tay? This messages marks a major increase in “forced read(layshion)ership” to include a significantly larger group of students and professors than before. This is a new system; please unsubscribe using the instructions at the bottom of the message, which are different from the prior newsletter interface. I have noticeably been writing much less and sort of working harder on bringing to fruition the software and social policy changes I’ve been dreaming of and writing about instead of “just talking.” Searching this message that I intend to send to the students a day early–you know, with foresight for … in the hope that many of you remember first hand hearing the words “I don’t believe in the big bang, but I respect those that do” echo from a computer screen to me subconsciously in the state of South Carolina–that you will help me end the 7 year draught [[literal, good sex]] that I equate to the Biblical overflow of the Nile and to Stone Temple Pilots; this light and Sheldon Harr who trained me for my Bawr Mitzvah and taught me all the right things that I know about being a good Jew who didn’t really believe in the existence of God; but then helped create the system that makes us all that. Those who “see” or “saw” Kentucky as I did might recall the phrase spoken from myself to myself; “you don’t believe in God when you are this close to it’s creation” … or something almost verbatim; that. Some of you might see Gilgamesh more than I do, or have forgotten the "sliding of sleight of hand and becoming … the trickster of the Dajjal … "an idea that gore was being fabricated and faked; in order to help us see why it’s so very importanat that at the same time that immortality and heaven become part of the conversation of the adbication of Odin’s throne to Thor or to Arthor’s table and plebescite “victims” … that we all understand the magnanimous change wrought by Heaven on civilization and on the old customs and on the old laws, and that here we see the importance of guaranteeing safety and privacy and even “right to death” in a place where God had previously only written of “life and liberty” with the ambiguity of … “from what” being left to my seemingly slow hand.   On the order of plans soon to be seen to fruition my large key of “what this website truly is” has grown to something like 20GB and now includes a static and time frozen version of everything linked to stored on the IPFS system and multi-homed across a number of “cloud providers” to ensure things like “shekinah” will not forever be changed to “shechina” with nobody noticing the loss of causal original truth. The “light of angels” domain now redirects automatically to /ipns/fromthemachina which should render in future shell-internet-browsers as something like QmTH33MwfPn5S3bq45Tk77L1j9eZjUsvEVhRTHB3D8M2ZX [please pin this “root block”] I am not sure why IPFS doesn’t have better merkle tree searchability, but seeing siblings and parents and connections between these Qm hashesh is something that we should be working fervently on making more robust. IPSE.io appears to have created a decent search and governance system, I see it as something like the “electoral college” metacosmically linked to the thing I am trying to build–a preservation of all human knowledge and an infrastructure for discussing and communicating about the “veracity” and the linguistic nuances “alluded to” in the lude ties between this Empire’s new Clot and the clothing worn by Popes and Jews, the seeit-seeit; tzit-tzit and … 4-WORD AND SIX WITH “SHOOTER” … YEARS HAVE GONE BY; AND I STILL HAVEN’T GOTTEN FVCK3D. I am planning on suing several medical providers and states for what I see as heinous violations of human rights, decency and the Constitution of the United States; if you are a lawyer or you can recommend a good one, please email me as soon as possible at 0xc514f094370cFc5eE45a1Dd9B72bb9675efE266f@ethmail.cc. You can also send Ethereum fungible donations to that alphanumeric identity. As I note much later in this message … TRUST IN MA … SELF-VATZEDEK SUE-C-CYDE … I KRY/STALL WHEN DODGE DESERVES TO PAY Please do note see a significant difference in importance in the emails now coming from ethmail.cc and the series of half-rambling cires for help which amount to something like my prayers to the pagan gods that you are. There’s quite a long thread in my soul Many times I’ve discussed and called in my mind and with my heart the American democracy nothing more than “Noah’s Archaic” two party system. Over the course of the years hidden messages from the Ark’s source of knowledge have conclusively shown me that a previous phrase “multi party system” connects to political parties and governmental action committees that span across continents and even earths; in my microcosm or special language and understanding of heaven, “across rooms” which are worlds … sort of owned or designed with some sort of top down or democratic structure of “literal rule system creation.” In my mind these rules can be inherited and modified, in the programming language sense of those words, as in "inherit democracy from America, update for new medical knowledge and scientific truth … discussed later in this message. The “water joke” connects to Horatio and to H2O and the idea that the chairs depicted by the character “h” are something like a placeholder meaningfully connected to the Senate Majority Chair and of course the Minority Chair and it’s the fact that there are only two that makes our current system something like A"Biblical Water." I believe we should be living in a world that has many more than two parties, hundreds or thousands of active parties could and should compete not for a single figurehead to sit in a throne like chair but for groups of people to be able to access the faster processing power and wider knowledge … represented here by something like a “Matrix jack” from the two movies, The Matrix and No Jack City; which allow for resources to be “billed to the party” and/or the people, rather than individuals who might otherwise have to “pay extra light” for faster processing power in order to quickly build a piece of legislation or political propaganda that equally connects to the mirage and miracle and dream of building a “subconscious voting system” that allows for votes to be taken “isntantly” and not just instantly but at some kind of recorded interval over time. I envisioned in Kentucky a world where the laws of the land would change instantly, allowing for bad weather to be instantly removed, for laws to differ from neighborhood to neighborhood and even to allow the fine grained detail of “outside and inside” each and every individual home or castle. Lost. Blind wandering through a lost world, in the beginning–that’s the truth. Crossroads, somewhere between walking through an electromagnetic pulse in Lake Worth and struggling to remember “the other thing.” Recalling [flew(ers)], so I was there sitting with my parents when we saw it on TV–a gigantic deal–the United States was going to war for the first time in my life. Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait (supposedly for the oil) and Operation Desert Storm was launched by George H.W. Bush; recalling the names and “Space Balls” it’s almost funny to see … how blind I was back then. General Norman Schwartz cough. General Colin Powell. Anyway, the whole point of the story is we were sitting at the Flamingo Diner; and for my whole life I lived just a few roads away from that road; never ever realizing what it was. I also didn’t realize for a very long time that you might also not see it, or you might see it instantly. Scanning just south of there, you can see it turns into Red road, and then its more than obvious that “flaming” stands out, light a highlighted cross–but we don’t say the name of that bird that way, and we didn’t see “infer” in Dante’s “inferno” or … “no” either. Flamenco … en espanol … like the dancers. A golden bitcoin swirls in the sky… the “mind control people” of Bowling Green gape in some kind of crowd pleased awe as the “middle” and the end connect almost seamlessly … Fort Myers creates a space port in the light of Vegas’s monorail “plots”– “Who?” “this is what it does,” vaaa—tseeee----deeeeeeeeck? In this word I recited over and over again in preparation for my Bar Mtzvah on December 11, 1992; without ever knowing the meaning is the crux of what exsactly is going on right now. The word is vatzedek: צֶ֫דֶק noun masculineIsaiah 1:21 rightness, righteousness; — ׳צ Leviticus 19:36 87t.; צִדְקִי Isaiah 41:10 8t., etc.; — 1 what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures, אֵיפָה, אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה וָצֶדֶק Deuteronomy 25:15 a perfect and a just weight, ephah; ׳מאֹזְנֵי צ; ׳אַבְנֵי צ, ׳אֵיפַת צ, ׳הִין צ, ׳בַּת צ Leviticus 19:36 (H) Job 31:6; Ezekiel 45:10; ׳מַעְגְּלֵי צ right paths Psalm 23:3; ׳זִבְחֵי צ right peace-offerings Deuteronomy 33:19; Psalm 4:6; Psalm 51:21. 2 righteousness, in government: … and you can believe that despite the strawnge pronounciation little boys and girls would use at the age of thirteen as they spoke in rigorously recited prayer-song … it [swounds almost exactly like “What’s a Dick?”]  https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/125/5/1088 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation #FTA, from the article: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, righteously fed up with the prejudiced nonsense she endures day in and day out, called a question about female genital mutilation from an audience member at a recent event “frustrating” and “appalling.” So I stand here living in Taylor Momsen’s song “Nothing Left To Lose” my personal favorite of hers which touches on this subject of “freedom as just another word for it” and of course the link between the purpose of an ethical oversight of the popular vote that the Electoral College represents; another two special and related words here, righteousness and fate. Between Vatzedek and Kismet; I can only convey my great dismay at the actual emotional and true physical pain I feel in my groin of groins every time I think about the horror story that has become my life and the what the land of America and the Medgard of Yggrasil has become … [note it’s not Yggdrasil] as I rally against the closest of my family of families, the Americans and Jews who refuse to stand up and speak out on my behalf, and on the behalf of humanity in general against the sickness of ritual genetal mutilation. Lost between Elvis and Suicide, she sings and I think about Ellis Island and Ellis Eaton and literally the innate and obvious lack of desire I have in my heawrt and imparted into my mind by some kind of ancient and unholy Jewish law … no desire at all to leave this world which has quickly turned from a bastion of light and freedom into nothing short or less than Hell itself. Kirinechoes from the land and day of NEMEC.html the chanting from the invsible choir of “e” … "he’s a victim" over and over, “he’s a victim, he’s a victim;” and in a more private sort of way she held on to my victim’s rod) and in a sort of kind friendly way implied that I should stop doing “speed” because … I need this, and she … in Holy ritual … patted the phallice of Iapetus’ great grandsun. Here I stand for the very first time; writing to a large group of students in the area of Boston, Massachusetts begging for the Sabbath Day to “be remembered and kept holy” as the Hebrew prayers and rituals repeatedly fail to explain has something significant to do with entry into the Holy of Holies, with the continuation of life and of heaven … and with the reinvigoration of something like a following of the Hippocrati Oath that is beyond a requirement to be reaffirmed here in this place as we begin to discuss the opening of “the process of the creation of legislation” as a function ofthe “citizenry governed” … the creation of “direct democracy” utilizing a kind of fusion of the software products I’ve been explaining are here designed specifically for this purpose. Software like kipu.com, aragon.org, wikipedia.org and even reddit.com. On the shape of his table, the heart of “sword” and another word for “Murfresboro” Sometimes I get my hopes up, sometimes i lose all the doubt and the “missing remorse” and the fear–the moments I can’t STS “socks” out of the VEGA System; in those brief moments I think you’re actually going to do something nice for me, that the heavens haven’t crashed and I’m going to have some kind of sex party that actually … really honest to God … is what “Saturday is all about.” So what, sue me–I wrote the book on the single Dionysian fusion of a Roman Bacchanalia and the Weeebrew Saturnalia … and then I yell at “Bethesda” for even daring to mention the grape fruit juice and the movie Havok–but I’ve heard all about the “passing of the nite and the nocturnal rite”–truth is I probably would walk right into the branch ending trap I laid in Fort Myers–every time I think about it the “minute of bouncing and orgasm” makes me smile a little more inside and my stomach get’s butterflies and just for a moment (I think I might be writing like STS) I think maybe it’s not the end of time and maybe I won’t never get to actually see … Heaven. Butt then you tell me (my but-tea joke isn’t funny, eithah?) … “Cassini” and “molasses” are supposed to make you feel like the OC resort guy staring at my tooth “about to be the one tooth from 2011” and I go back to remembering it’s been a decade since I’ve had a decent “good time with a girl” … literally seven long years, aside from a brief “blushing” experience with little Mackenzie Reisinger. Imagine that girls smiling at me and saying things like “Larkin Sow” and this brief period of “ecstatically frenzied decent writing” is all that it takes to keep me going; trudging along through the very shallow (or deeper) pits of Hell itself–just like a Dreidel c’d to make some silly words from the "introduction to the Bahir [literally wasn’t here, and “spirit of ah-aha illumination; hi. and this conversation ensued”] like “yod-nun” actually be … something like our salvation. Flying back in time to the “thang” point, I remember what it is now. Fear it … það; fear it. Day One has begin, or ending–whatever the proper literary way to say the Bible and it’s days are all wrong, and even further along the thing called the “Festival of Weeks” by the Jews, even more disgusting. I have no shame or remorse in saying such things, in fact I believe it is the purpose of this strange take on the “nocturnal rite” of the Norse ancient Druidic and “Dhruzi” mentioning of the Prose Edda to come to this very strange point, in this very strange place. Boston, Massachusetts. It might one day be a little known fact, but up until the presidency of Barrack Obama every single President of the United States of America was a member of the Protestant Church, all but John Fitzgerald Kennedy whose bright and shining face and ethos stand apart from almost all others in his place. I might one day say Trump too stood out above and shined brighter, and personally only because he lived during my lifetime, I think my personal view of Bill Clinton is the brightest of all. To me, the Clinton years were filled with the booming economy of Old Joe, and the great aspirations of Our Jack; a thing that many people before Armstrong walked on the moon and planet a great Democratic “P” one giant leap above the rock of ages … there are just no words for lux of America’s contribution to the launch of a Heavenly Civilization, in the words of Paxton in “Big Love” … and the LDS Church and Deseret’s version of “the thing” (nu3 today) … “the celestial kingdom.” Valhalla and Matzot scream of the “ha-moat-sea” and the “vats-a-dick” but without our giving of thanks for righteousness we have become the murderers not only of Judas and Death but also Jesus and the thing that created him. Eventually the island of America disappears, eventually it’s Earth, any planet a human was one … these are the things that have either become a force of great goodness–or of total destruction. This is the embodyment of “Troy as hisT” this is Galactikiss has become Planet Prime and all Derivatives–the silver surfer speaks to you all, between “El Dorado” and the “Silverado” … a comparative connection to the difference between Fort Knoxx and the Pound Sterling … with a Troy Ounce of “tzadik” to ensure with our GSLW: “ness truly means 'now everythink safely saved;” … and that’s a GNU definition for NESS which previously may have mentioned everywhere or earth and those are both absolute falsehoods and perhaps were not when they were spoken. At least, relatively speaking. Rape has come up today. I’ve commented publicly on the conversation I had in my head last night, walking by “Boston College High” and I can’t help but add my “very interesting” thoughts on the echelons of spirits inhabiting the Ka of God here in this place; and how they might somehow be satiated in a way that I or most people in this world would fine to be something more sexually immoral or deviant … “previously of the wiccan pagan variety” … something like my strange dreams here in this place of starting trends of having “a thing” for doing “moms and sisters,” which have been echoed here by a sitting and very prominent G.O.P United States senator or congressman; the show “Vampire DIaries” as well as Natalie Portman, Taylor and Sloane Momsen, Kate Hudson, and a number of other female “duos” like the Spears and Simpson sisters (Ashlee and Jamie Lynn, see) the Olsen twins and of course the soon to be “in the light of the fame of Nashville” … Larkin Poe. DIVERGENCE, TO NEW YORK CITY, TO YOM HASHOAH … OR TAV OUR TAY VUE … (((( this here is what we call a "race through a rats cage )))) if neither of the four or give girls in question send me some kind of verbal “ACK” ratyher than a “NAK” in writing, I might travel to Ellis Island or Nashville, TN before staying in Boston or … for instance going to Lowell or Nashua and … perhaps causing more FUKUSHIMA on the NAKARSAKI of HEROSHEMA; and by that I mean this is a “big deal” … LLNV might become a bus stop in Vegas or the VEGA System or it might be a national labratory near the Hamptons. It’s hard to tell at this point whether or not there’s any “liver” in Mexico’s version of that funny one with the guy that reminds me of Aldous Snow in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” In my mind today I speak from the Earthene world of Janet Devlin’s “Chandelliers” directly to Michael Jackson himself, on the difference or change or meaning wrought by Bill Cosby and his “Neverland Ranch” series on the question at hand–are there bowling tumble weeds and karaoke bars on par with Prescott Arizona’s scene anywhere closer to Nashville than Bowling Green … because I was beyond surprised to find a sprawling megalopolis in the place I had thought for my whole life was something more akin to Knoxville, a place where fledgling female music stars became “Grace Vanderwaal” golden buzzer winners … faster than you can connect Jerusalem to Shirley Temple. On the specific name, Shirley here is Bianca Pisani’s great grandmother; and no farther than the truth is the world’s “UMBRELLALAUNCH” link between the Chinesely famous virgin (non-alcoholic) drink is something like Billy Joel’s Piano Man Bartender walking into “the usual place” and saying something along the lines of “Geisha me up one Virgin Red head; hell, why don’t you make it a double.” Leave the umbrella with the kites that didn’t glow fiiery stars into the Holy of Holies in the same vein and for the same reason that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher failed to actually change the world with it’s ritual uniting the Olympic passing of the Torch with today’s interlinear and interwoven message with Old Joe and Young Jack Kennedy, Jackie Onassis and even touching on the Saudi Royals which were also a big part of the story connecting General MacNamara to “Lauderdale by the Sea” and a special rememberance to the expensive and Holy bronze or copper brick which he bought (through donation to charity I imagine) making himself more than just something like the founder of the beachfront redesign of our Federal Floridian beacnhead, but also a founding member of something I call “The Columns and Pillars” society in reference to the Pine Crest School version of the same kind of ritual. Also connected here are pictures of those columns, and extracts from my senior yearbook where my mother was kind enough to leave me two whole half page dedications to my graduation from one of the most prestigious and omnifiscient preparatory schools in the entire world … at the same time donating columns both in my name, their name, and the names of her deceased parents: Julie and Bernard Gerson. Bell to sky; and to the Berlin Sky; this is the same genetic and congenial family line that links Gersholom Sholom, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Adolf Hitler and Yosef Stalin … to Joe Biden and the “Joseph and Betty Portal” which replace the MacNamara era bricks with “new composite plastic” that might last much longer and has another list of donations. The “portal connection” something like an Einstein-Rozencrantz flash of brilliant light … marks just one more error in my handling of my lack of understanding of things like “basic vectodirs” and “kasimamoriv radiation” … including here (if i read this and take the time to properly attribute) a visual image of the red shift and blue spindle of the actual radiation Einstein predicted would be ejected from something so massive even “light” could not escape it. On “relativity” and relatively speaking, it’s the wavelength and energy level of the light; as well as something called “gravitational lensing” … “the special relativity theorem” which earned Munich born and taught Albert a Nobel Peace Prize (as well as much fame in the land of America for the creation and explanation of the science behind the White Sands Trinity connection to Hanukah and Sandia National Labratory) … forces these corrections: ERRATA Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic nuclear test program. Flight-test vehicles were designed and manufactured by Avco Corporation.[1] The Operation Fishbowl nuclear tests were originally planned to be completed during the first half of 1962 with three tests named Bluegill, Starfish and Urraca.[2] The first test attempt was delayed until June. Planning for Operation Fishbowl, as well as many other nuclear tests in the region, began rapidly in response to the sudden Soviet announcement on August 30, 1961 that they were ending a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing.[3] The rapid planning of very complex operations necessitated many changes as the project progressed. All of the tests were to be launched on missiles from Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator. Johnston Island had already been established as a launch site for United States high-altitude nuclear tests, rather than the other locations in the Pacific Proving Grounds. In 1958, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, opposed doing any high-altitude tests at locations that had been used for earlier Pacific nuclear tests. His opposition was motivated by fears that the flash from the nighttime high-altitude detonations might blind civilians who were living on nearby islands. Johnston Island was a remote location, more distant from populated areas than other potential test locations.[4] In order to protect residents of the Hawaiian Islands from flash blindness or permanent retinal injury from the bright nuclear flash, the nuclear missiles of Operation Fishbowl were launched generally toward the southwest of Johnston Island so that the detonations would be farther from Hawaii. Urraca was to be a test of about 1 megaton yield at very high altitude (above 1000 km.).[5] The proposed Urraca test was always controversial, especially after the damage caused to satellites by the Starfish Prime detonation, as described below. Urraca was finally canceled, and an extensive re-evaluation of the Operation Fishbowl plan was made during an 82-day operations pause after the Bluegill Prime disaster of July 25, 1962, as described below. “Wish You Were Here” is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released as the title track of their 1975 album Wish You Were Here.[2][3] David Gilmour and Roger Waters collaborated to write the music, and Gilmour sang the lead vocal. In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on _Rolling Stone’_s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[4] In the original album version, the song segues from “Have a Cigar” as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing the opening of the finale movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony), and finally to a new station where “Wish You Were Here” is beginning.[5] The radio was recorded from Gilmour’s car radio. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along. As the acoustic part becomes more complex, the ‘radio broadcast’ fades away and Gilmour’s voice enters, while the rest of the band joins in.[6] The intro riff is repeated several times before Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. A third verse follows, featuring an increasingly expressive vocal from Gilmour and audible backing vocals. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects, and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. Lyrically, the song is often considered to be a direct tribute to Syd Barrett. However, on the documentary The Story of Wish You Were Here, Gilmour and Waters separately describe the original concept that differs from this interpretation. Waters, who mainly wrote the lyrics complementing Gilmour’s initial riff idea and subsequent joint composition, describes the lyrics as being directed at himself, as his lyrics often are. Being present in one’s own life and freeing one’s self in order to truly experience life is a main topic in this song. Gilmour, on the other hand, recognizes that he does not ever perform the song without remembering Syd Barrett. Waters later adds that the song is nevertheless open to interpretation.[7] Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters have praised the song as one of Pink Floyd’s finest. Roger Waters has noted that the collaboration between himself and David Gilmour on the song was “really good. All bits of it are really, really good. I’m very happy about it.”[8] David Gilmour has playfully called “Wish You Were Here” “a very simple country song” and stated that “because of its resonance and the emotional weight it carries, it is one of our best songs.”[9] “Wish You Were Here” was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, as part of the sessions for the entire album. A noted part of the song was a planned contribution by Stéphane Grappelli. A jazz violinist popular at the time and well known for his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin, both violinists were recording in a downstairs studio at Abbey Road at the time. Gilmour had suggested that there be a little “country fiddle” at the end of the song and invited them to participate. Grappelli duly obliged (Menuhin declined) on arranging a session fee of £300, equivalent to £2,500 in 2021.[10] Ultimately during mixing it was decided to almost remove his contribution, although it can just be heard around 5:21. According to Waters it was decided that it would be insulting to credit Grappelli in the sleeve notes for something so inaudible, although he did receive the agreed-upon fee.[11][12][13] As part of the Why Pink Floyd…? campaign, the Experience and Immersion versions of the Wish You Were Here album include an alternative version of the song where Grappelli’s part is heard in the instrumental break after the second verse and throughout the third verse before a considerably extended outro. Other less obvious differences are audible, for example at the section leading into the second verse. The master tape of the original recording includes guitar solos that were not used in the final mix.[citation needed] Personnel [edit] David Gilmour – lead and harmony vocals, scat singing, six and twelve-string acoustic guitars, pedal steel guitar, tape effects Nick Mason – drums, tape effects Roger Waters – bass, tape effects Richard Wright – Steinway piano, Minimoog Golgo 13 (Japanese: ゴルゴ13, Hepburn: Gorugo Sātīn) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan’s Big Comic magazine since October 1968. The manga won the 1975 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga and the Grand Prize at the 2002 Japan Cartoonists Association Awards. The series follows the title character, a professional assassin for hire. Golgo 13 is the oldest manga still in publication, and its tankōbon edition has the second-highest number of volumes. It has sold 300 million copies in various formats, including compilation books, making it the second-best-selling manga series and the top selling Seinen manga series in history.[2] It has been adapted into two live-action feature films, an anime film, an original video animation, an anime television series and six video games. A googol is the large number 10100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes: 10,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000. For other uses, see Wormhole (disambiguation). “Einstein-Rosen Bridge” redirects here. For the EP by electronic musician Venetian Snares, see Einstein-Rosen Bridge (EP). General relativity Introduction History Mathematical formulation Phenomena Gravitational lensing Gravitational waves Frame-dragging Geodetic effect Event horizon Singularity Black hole Spacetime Spacetime diagrams Minkowski spacetime Einstein–Rosen bridge show Equations Formalisms A wormhole (or Einstein–Rosen bridge or Einstein–Rosen wormhole) is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations. A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both). Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity by Einstein, but whether wormholes actually exist remains to be seen. Many scientists postulate that wormholes are merely projections of a fourth spatial dimension, analogous to how a two-dimensional (2D) being could experience only part of a three-dimensional (3D) object.[1] A wormhole could connect extremely long distances such as a billion light years or more, short distances such as a few meters, different universes, or even different points in time.[2] Julius and Ethel Rosenberg — Americans who were involved in coordinating and recruiting an espionage network that included Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, a machinist at Los Alamos National Lab. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried for conspiracy to commit espionage. treason charges were not applicable, since the United States and the Soviet Union were allies at the time. The Rosenbergs denied all the charges but were convicted in a trial in which the prosecutor Roy Cohn later said he was in daily secret contact with the judge, Irving Kaufman. Despite an international movement demanding clemency, and appeals to President Dwight D. Eisenhower by leading European intellectuals and the Pope, both the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953, at the height of the Korean War. President Eisenhower wrote to his son, serving in Korea, that if he spared Ethel (presumably for the sake of her two young children), then the Soviets would recruit their spies from among women.[26][27][28] Greenglass later recanted his testimony against her, and release of grand jury testimony in 2008 showed the extent to which the prosecution had created a false case against Ethel.[citation needed] Saville Sax — an American, acted as the courier for Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall. Sax and Hall had been roommates at Harvard University.[20] Oscar Seborer — worked at Los Alamos from 1944 to 1946, and was part of a unit that studied the seismological effects of the Trinity nuclear test. Codenamed “Godsend” by the Soviets, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1951, and received the Order of the Red Star. He lived under the alias “Smith” and died in 2015. His identity was only revealed publicly in 2019.[29] Morton Sobell — an American engineer, he was tried and convicted of conspiracy, along with the Rosenbergs. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on Alcatraz, but released in 1969 on appeal and for good behavior after serving 17 years and 9 months.[30] In 2008, Sobell admitted to passing information to the Soviets, although he said it was all for defensive systems. He implicated Julius Rosenberg, in an interview with the New York Times published in September 2008.[31] Melita Norwood — British Communist, an active Russian spy from at least 1938 and never detected. Employed as a secretary in the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association since 1932, she was linked to the Woolwich Arsenal spy ring of 1938. In wartime she was seconded to “Tube Alloys”, the secret British nuclear research project. She was later considered “the most important female agent ever recruited by the USSR”. She was first suspected as a security risk in 1965 but never prosecuted. Her spying career was revealed by Vasili Mitrokhin in 1999, when she was still alive but long retired. Arthur Adams — Soviet spy who passed information about the Manhattan Project.[32] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/25004050 https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/doctorwho/ 12:3 Those who are wi se[a] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever. https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/12/20/144016912/we-the-people-npr-readers-would-ratify-four-new-amendments https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/05/08/its-time-rethink-electoral-college https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/12/20/144016912/we-the-people-npr-readers-would-ratify-four-new-amendments https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/vote-now-an-amendment-to-end-the-electoral-college https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/09/opinion/letters/electoral-college.html https://www.latimes.com/opinion/readersreact/la-ol-le-electoral-college-20180904-story.html you are offline https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/05/amending-the-constitution-is-much-too-hard-blame-the-founders.html we the people rise again https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/06/fix-the-constitution-amending-by-national-referendum.html safe souls, safe fu https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2012/06/fixing-the-constitution-protecting-informational-privacy.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/new-reconstruction-constitution-democracy.html We the People of Slate … The U.S. Constitution, as you [mighta been, shoulda “come” on … its someday] rewrϕte it. “Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state’s population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn’t like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts’ desires. Here’s what the document would look like with their best ideas.” Slate: u_s_constitution as_rewritten by_slate_legal_experts_and_readers 多也了了夕 "with a wand of scheffilara, 并#亦太 he begins … "I am now on the Staff of Menelaus, the Spears of Longinus and Lancelot; and the name “Mosche ex Nashon.” - http://ipfs.io/ipns/fromthemachine.org/CHANSTEYGLOREKI.html - http://ipfs.io/ipns/fromthemachine.org/NUCLIRDISS.html - http://dweb.link/ipns/fromthemachine.org/CRALL4Good.html Please note that any decent browsers would probably render ipfs://fromthemachine.org as the following https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTH33MwfPn5S3bq45Tk77L1j9eZjUsvEVhRTHB3D8M2ZX I ask again that you all pin on IPFS mirror and copy the data included in these dumps, they are a key to “not losing causality” to not having a history that makes no logical sense, and to some kind of coup de roku, that really makes no sense unless you no, we will ve weill … ROCK YOU Long ago I began writing about hidden codes in our history; thing’s significantly more obvious than “flying elephant armies” connecting Disney and Dumbo to Xerxes and the “Democratic Party of the United States (mascot)”–though it’s not really easy to consolidate the “epiphany” of … [((all i know))] without some kind of “artificial intelligence data condensation [infosmos.is?”] and summarization platform, though that’s nearly the next thing on my Lowell list of things we need to “mechanical turk” into being. Meta-consolidation of the world’s encyclopedias is one of the most important and useful tasks we have as we move towards the creation of a virtual debate platform that will eventual “literally obviate wisdom” of the layer/layer system that defines the name of the city I write these words near. Lowell, MA The broad overview of the system … the gist … is that political parties and activist organizations will create their own “view of the truth” (propaganda, falsehood-removed) and that these disparate pieces of “highlighted and annotated bibliography” could be overlay-ed on top of each other, creating a “new view of the truth” based on a users preference. The whole thing boils down to series of “holographic eschatological goggles” that will allow, for instance, the “grasping and fathoming” of other people’s points of view and perhaps reframe your own on any number of individual subjects. Roe v. Wade, “Concourses” and CON-CERN; because this has been such a “hot topic” in the relative psuedo-edufictional story of the space travel from the lone planet Earth ((intersected)) with the set of skipping stones it takes to exit a Totalital multi stellar system of holographic computer simulators into the … “molecular world of vaccuum and Einstein time-space” … I’ll start with this simple example. the current American debate on the subject, right to life vs. right to choice; provided by the “generic version” of the ideological christian right and the liberal women’s left. through a first layer over layer comparison. the scientific truth brought to the table by the introduction of “neurological data” proving that there is in fact a moment during the gestation of a human embryo in which “i think therefore i am” connects to some sort of Skynet-became-selfaware at a point which I imagine must be … although it possibly is not … prior to the next important literary device/step “let there be light.” At the point the ocular cones and rods are created and the fetus opens it’s eyes and literally sees the bright light that could probably only be compared on the next edschalon to seeing the “exit pathway from the womb” a. we will finally kinow whether or not “consciousness” is even developed at all before the bicerebral cortex designed to “compare two thoughts, ideas, and shapes” has the ability to get input from the eyes. Personally I think thought begins much earlier than vision, but the simple fact that we “haven’t yet had this discussion” shows how very little our scientific and medical progress in the civilization of things like murder, and understanding of life and science has yet to come here. “People here” means something different than it did when I was born, at least in my mind’s eye … something so completely more advanced that it’s almost difficult to believe you all don’t see this place as a great prison or farce or unjust Azazel–blaming a man for looking like a rat or a mouse or a dog–in a place where more to the point we stare at a kind of physical violence and horror that would put Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson to shame. A world hwere “people closer to holodecks” blame an innocent man for “writing the book” on the connection between Holocaust and Euthenasia and Hospice … certainly you know “an innocent tool” writes these words to you? On the Hand of God, the Eyes of Ra and Horus; https://www.hebrew4christians.com/Glossary/Word_of_the_Week/Archived/Yad/yad.html https://aminoapps.com/c/zodiac/page/blog/the-yod-aspect-the-finger-of-god/XG6P_beTgu5gdXrYNwVjBj0WQlDeDWlK72#:~:text=The Yod is the 10th,to be carried through life.   I’ve written quite a bit on how “mind control” and “voting freedom” are inherently related in and to the thing we call “Civic Involvement” here in the United States–basically that participation in the verification of truth and the public understanding of tautology and temporal falsehood are … sort of a slave like requirement neeeded to ensure that any freedom at all exists I often say “plugging your [head into google]” might turn the Aesir into an Acer, or the “yodelling of the lakes of democracy” ito “the agricolae becoming nothing more than the Dell.” .WHSOISKEYAV { border-width: 1px; border-style: dashed; border-color: rgb(15,5,254); padding: 5px; width: 503px; text-align: center; display: inline-block; align: center; p { align: center; } /* THE SCORE IS LOVE FIVE ONE SAFETY ONE FIELD GOAL XIVDAQ: TENNIS OR TINNES? 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      I am accepting charitable donations,.\ ETH: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434 | BTC: 38B6vGaqNvMyTtoFEZPmNvMS7icV6ZnPMm | xDAI: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434

      Wednesday, June 23 2021. Nintendo Way

      Erev ... the Day of the Holy Divorce of Bayjorel

      Adam on "ho(s) I still single" ... I "hisss" as Alger, Narcissus and to the various collegiates in Massachusetts; know it's because I'm Cheyanne Mountain. You can't even dream how hard it is to get inside "this heart." Or maybe I can't fathom why nobody's rushing up to me trying to grab the ring of "infinite alimoney in the ever-after" ... Na Na Na Na ... Na Na Na Na ... shey shea way) ... tee tea, tay?

      This messages marks a major increase in "forced read(layshion)ership" to include a significantly larger group of students and professors than before. This is a new system; please unsubscribe using the instructions at the bottom of the message, which are different from the prior newsletter interface. I have noticeably been writing much less and sort of working harder on bringing to fruition the software and social policy changes I've been dreaming of and writing about instead of "just talking."


      Searching this message that I intend to send to the students a day early--you know, with foresight for ... in the hope that many of you remember first hand hearing the words "I don't believe in the big bang, but I respect those that do" echo from a computer screen to me subconsciously in the state of South Carolina--that you will help me end the 7 year draught [[literal, good sex]] that I equate to the Biblical overflow of the Nile and to Stone Temple Pilots; this light and Sheldon Harr who trained me for my Bawr Mitzvah and taught me all the right things that I know about being a good Jew who didn't really believe in the existence of God; but then helped create the system that makes us all that.

      Those who "see" or "saw" Kentucky as I did might recall the phrase spoken from myself to myself; "you don't believe in God when you are this close to it's creation" ... or something almost verbatim; that. Some of you might see Gilgamesh more than I do, or have forgotten the "sliding of sleight of hand and becoming ... the trickster of the Dajjal ... "an idea that gore was being fabricated and faked; in order to help us see why it's so very importanat that at the same time that immortality and heaven become part of the conversation of the adbication of Odin's throne to Thor or to Arthor's table and plebescite "victims" ... that we all understand the magnanimous change wrought by Heaven on civilization and on the old customs and on the old laws, and that here we see the importance of guaranteeing safety and privacy and even "right to death" in a place where God had previously only written of "life and liberty" with the ambiguity of ... "from what" being left to my seemingly slow hand.

       


      On the order of plans soon to be seen to fruition my large key of "what this website truly is" has grown to something like 20GB and now includes a static and time frozen version of everything linked to stored on the IPFS system and multi-homed across a number of "cloud providers" to ensure things like "shekinah" will not forever be changed to "shechina" with nobody noticing the loss of causal original truth. The "light of angels" domain now redirects automatically to /ipns/fromthemachina which should render in future shell-internet-browsers as something like QmTH33MwfPn5S3bq45Tk77L1j9eZjUsvEVhRTHB3D8M2ZX [please pin this "root block"] I am not sure why IPFS doesn't have better merkle tree searchability, but seeing siblings and parents and connections between these Qm hashesh is something that we should be working fervently on making more robust. IPSE.io appears to have created a decent search and governance system, I see it as something like the "electoral college" metacosmically linked to the thing I am trying to build--a preservation of all human knowledge and an infrastructure for discussing and communicating about the "veracity" and the linguistic nuances "alluded to" in the lude ties between this Empire's new Clot and the clothing worn by Popes and Jews, the seeit-seeit; tzit-tzit and ...

      4-WORD AND SIX WITH "SHOOTER" ... YEARS HAVE GONE BY; AND I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN FVCK3D.

      I am planning on suing several medical providers and states for what I see as heinous violations of human rights, decency and the Constitution of the United States; if you are a lawyer or you can recommend a good one, please email me as soon as possible at 0xc514f094370cFc5eE45a1Dd9B72bb9675efE266f@ethmail.cc. You can also send Ethereum fungible donations to that alphanumeric identity. As I note much later in this message ...

      TRUST IN MA ... SELF-VATZEDEK SUE-C-CYDE ... I KRY/STALL WHEN DODGE DESERVES TO PAY

      Please do note see a significant difference in importance in the emails now coming from ethmail.cc and the series of half-rambling cires for help which amount to something like my prayers to the pagan g<del>od</del>s that you are.

      There's quite a long thread in my soul

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      Many times I've discussed and called in my mind and with my heart the American democracy nothing more than "Noah's Archaic" two party system. Over the course of the years hidden messages from the Ark's source of knowledge have conclusively shown me that a previous phrase "multi party system" connects to political parties and governmental action committees that span across continents and even earths; in my microcosm or special language and understanding of heaven, "across rooms" which are worlds ... sort of owned or designed with some sort of top down or democratic structure of "literal rule system creation." In my mind these rules can be inherited and modified, in the programming language sense of those words, as in "inherit democracy from America, update for new medical knowledge and scientific truth ... discussed later in this message.

      The "water joke" connects to Horatio and to H2O and the idea that the chairs depicted by the character "h" are something like a placeholder meaningfully connected to the Senate Majority Chair and of course the Minority Chair and it's the fact that there are only two that makes our current system something like A"Biblical Water."

      I believe we should be living in a world that has many more than two parties, hundreds or thousands of active parties could and should compete not for a single figurehead to sit in a throne like chair but for groups of people to be able to access the faster processing power and wider knowledge ... represented here by something like a "Matrix jack" from the two movies, The Matrix and No Jack City; which allow for resources to be "billed to the party" and/or the people, rather than individuals who might otherwise have to "pay extra light" for faster processing power in order to quickly build a piece of legislation or political propaganda that equally connects to the mirage and miracle and dream of building a "subconscious voting system" that allows for votes to be taken "isntantly" and not just instantly but at some kind of recorded interval over time. I envisioned in Kentucky a world where the laws of the land would change instantly, allowing for bad weather to be instantly removed, for laws to differ from neighborhood to neighborhood and even to allow the fine grained detail of "outside and inside" each and every individual home or castle.


      Lost. Blind wandering through a lost world, in the beginning--that's the truth. Crossroads, somewhere between walking through an electromagnetic pulse in Lake Worth and struggling to remember "the other thing." Recalling [flew(ers)], so I was there sitting with my parents when we saw it on TV--a gigantic deal--the United States was going to war for the first time in my life. Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait (supposedly for the oil) and Operation Desert Storm was launched by George H.W. Bush; recalling the names and "Space Balls" it's almost funny to see ... how blind I was back then.

      General Norman Schwartz cough. General Colin Powell. Anyway, the whole point of the story is we were sitting at the Flamingo Diner; and for my whole life I lived just a few roads away from that road; never ever realizing what it was. I also didn't realize for a very long time that you might also not see it, or you might see it instantly. Scanning just south of there, you can see it turns into Red road, and then its more than obvious that "flaming" stands out, light a highlighted cross--but we don't say the name of that bird that way, and we didn't see "infer" in Dante's "inferno" or ... "no" either. Flamenco ... en espanol ... like the dancers.

      A golden bitcoin swirls in the sky... the "mind control people" of Bowling Green gape in some kind of crowd pleased awe as the "middle" and the end connect almost seamlessly ... Fort Myers creates a space port in the light of Vegas's monorail "plots"--

      "Who?"

      "this is what it does,"

      vaaa---tseeee----deeeeeeeeck? In this word I recited over and over again in preparation for my Bar Mtzvah on December 11, 1992; without ever knowing the meaning is the crux of what exsactly is going on right now. The word is vatzedek:

      צֶ֫דֶק noun masculineIsaiah 1:21 rightness, righteousness; --- ׳צ Leviticus 19:36 87t.; צִדְקִי Isaiah 41:10 8t., etc.; ---

      1 what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures, אֵיפָה, אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה וָצֶדֶק Deuteronomy 25:15 a perfect and a just weight, ephah; ׳מאֹזְנֵי צ; ׳אַבְנֵי צ, ׳אֵיפַת צ, ׳הִין צ, ׳בַּת צ Leviticus 19:36 (H) Job 31:6Ezekiel 45:10; ׳מַעְגְּלֵי צ right paths Psalm 23:3; ׳זִבְחֵי צ right peace-offerings Deuteronomy 33:19Psalm 4:6Psalm 51:21.

      2 righteousness, in government:

      ... and you can believe that despite the strawnge pronounciation little boys and girls would use at the age of thirteen as they spoke in rigorously recited prayer-song ... it [swounds almost exactly like "What's a Dick?"]

      FTA, from the article: Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, righteously fed up with the prejudiced nonsense she endures day in and day out, called a question about female genital mutilation from an audience member at a recent event "frustrating" and "appalling."

      So I stand here living in Taylor Momsen's song "Nothing Left To Lose" my personal favorite of hers which touches on this subject of "freedom as just another word for it" and of course the link between the purpose of an ethical oversight of the popular vote that the Electoral College represents; another two special and related words here, righteousness and fate. Between Vatzedek and Kismet; I can only convey my great dismay at the actual emotional and true physical pain I feel in my groin of groins every time I think about the horror story that has become my life and the what the land of America and the Medgard of Yggrasil has become ... [note it's not Yggdrasil] as I rally against the closest of my family of families, the Americans and Jews who refuse to stand up and speak out on my behalf, and on the behalf of humanity in general against the sickness of ritual genetal mutilation.

      Lost between Elvis and Suicide, she sings and I think about Ellis Island and Ellis Eaton and literally the innate and obvious lack of desire I have in my heawrt and imparted into my mind by some kind of ancient and unholy Jewish law ... no desire at all to leave this world which has quickly turned from a bastion of light and freedom into nothing short or less than Hell itself.

      Kirinechoes from the land and day of NEMEC.html the chanting from the invsible choir of "e" ... "he's a victim"

      over and over, "he's a victim, he's a victim;" and in a more private sort of way she held on to my victim's rod) and in a sort of kind friendly way implied that I should stop doing "speed" because ... I need this, and she ... in Holy ritual ... patted the phallice of Iapetus' great grandsun.

      Here I stand for the very first time; writing to a large group of students in the area of Boston, Massachusetts begging for the Sabbath Day to "be remembered and kept holy" as the Hebrew prayers and rituals repeatedly fail to explain has something significant to do with entry into the Holy of Holies, with the continuation of life and of heaven ... and with the reinvigoration of something like a following of the Hippocrati Oath that is beyond a requirement to be reaffirmed here in this place as we begin to discuss the opening of "the process of the creation of legislation" as a function ofthe "citizenry governed" ... the creation of "direct democracy" utilizing a kind of fusion of the software products I've been explaining are here designed specifically for this purpose. Software like kipu.comaragon.orgwikipedia.org and even reddit.com.

      On the shape of his table, the heart of "sword" and another word for "Murfresboro"

      \


      Sometimes I get my hopes up, sometimes i lose all the doubt and the "missing remorse" and the fear--the moments I can't STS "socks" out of the VEGA System; in those brief moments I think you're actually going to do something nice for me, that the heavens haven't crashed and I'm going to have some kind of sex party that actually ... really honest to God ... is what "Saturday is all about." So what, sue me--I wrote the book on the single Dionysian fusion of a Roman Bacchanalia and the Weeebrew Saturnalia ... and then I yell at "Bethesda" for even daring to mention the grape fruit juice and the movie Havok--but I've heard all about the "passing of the nite and the nocturnal rite"--truth is I probably would walk right into the branch ending trap I laid in Fort Myers--every time I think about it the "minute of bouncing and orgasm" makes me smile a little more inside and my stomach get's butterflies and just for a moment (I think I might be writing like STS) I think maybe it's not the end of time and maybe I won't never get to actually see ... Heaven.

      Butt then you tell me (my but-tea joke isn't funny, eithah?) ... "Cassini" and "molasses" are supposed to make you feel like the OC resort guy staring at my tooth "about to be the one tooth) from 2011" and I go back to remembering it's been a decade since I've had a decent "good time with a girl" ... literally seven long years, aside from a brief "blushing" experience with little Mackenzie Reisinger.

      Imagine that girls smiling at me and saying things like "Larkin Sow" and this brief period of "ecstatically frenzied decent writing" is all that it takes to keep me going; trudging along through the very shallow (or deeper) pits of Hell itself--just like a Dreidel c'd to make some silly words from the "introduction to the Bahir [literally wasn't here, and "spirit of ah-aha illumination; hi. and this conversation ensued"] like "yod-nun" actually be ... something like our salvation. Flying back in time to the "thang" point, I remember what it is now.

      Fear it ... það; fear it.

      \


      Day One has begin, or ending--whatever the proper literary way to say the Bible and it's days are all wrong, and even further along the thing called the "Festival of Weeks" by the Jews, even more disgusting. I have no shame or remorse in saying such things, in fact I believe it is the purpose of this strange take on the "nocturnal rite" of the Norse ancient Druidic and "Dhruzimentioning of the Prose Edda to come to this very strange point, in this very strange place.

      Boston, Massachusetts.

      It might one day be a little known fact, but up until the presidency of Barrack Obama every single President of the United States of America was a member of the Protestant Church, all but John Fitzgerald Kennedy whose bright and shining face and ethos stand apart from almost all others in his place. I might one day say Trump too stood out above and shined brighter, and personally only because he lived during my lifetime, I think my personal view of Bill Clinton is the brightest of all. To me, the Clinton years were filled with the booming economy of Old Joe, and the great aspirations of Our Jack; a thing that many people before Armstrong walked on the moon and planet a great Democratic "P" one giant leap above the rock of ages ... there are just no words for lux of America's contribution to the launch of a Heavenly Civilization, in the words of Paxton in "Big Love" ... and the LDS Church and Deseret's version of "the thing" (nu3 today) ... "the celestial kingdom."

      Valhalla and Matzot scream of the "ha-moat-sea" and the "vats-a-dick" but without our giving of thanks for righteousness we have become the murderers not only of Judas and Death but also Jesus and the thing that created him. Eventually the island of America disappears, eventually it's Earth, any planet a human was one ... these are the things that have either become a force of great goodness--or of total destruction. This is the embodyment of "Troy as hisT" this is Galactikiss has become Planet Prime and all Derivatives--the silver surfer speaks to you all, between "El Dorado" and the "Silverado" ... a comparative connection to the difference between Fort Knoxx and the Pound Sterling ... with a Troy Ounce of "tzadik" to ensure with our GSLW: "ness truly means 'now everythink safely saved;" ... and that's a GNU definition for NESS which previously may have mentioned everywhere or earth and those are both absolute falsehoods and perhaps were not when they were spoken. At least, relatively speaking.


      Rape has come up today.

      I've commented publicly on the conversation I had in my head last night, walking by "Boston College High" and I can't help but add my "very interesting" thoughts on the echelons of spirits inhabiting the Ka of God here in this place; and how they might somehow be satiated in a way that I or most people in this world would fine to be something more sexually immoral or deviant ... "previously of the wiccan pagan variety" ... something like my strange dreams here in this place of starting trends of having "a thing" for doing "moms and sisters," which have been echoed here by a sitting and very prominent G.O.P United States senator or congressman; the show "Vampire DIaries" as well as Natalie Portman, Taylor and Sloane Momsen, Kate Hudson, and a number of other female "duos" like the Spears and Simpson sisters (Ashlee and Jamie Lynn, see) the Olsen twins and of course the soon to be "in the light of the fame of Nashville" ... Larkin Poe.

      DIVERGENCE, TO NEW YORK CITY, TO YOM HASHOAH ... OR TAV OUR TAY VUE ...

      (((( this here is what we call a "race through a rats cage )))) if neither of the four or give girls in question send me some kind of verbal "ACK" ratyher than a "NAK" in writing, I might travel to Ellis Island or Nashville, TN before staying in Boston or ... for instance going to Lowell or Nashua and ... perhaps causing more FUKUSHIMA on the NAKARSAKI of HEROSHEMA; and by that I mean this is a "big deal" ... LLNV might become a bus stop in Vegas or the VEGA System or it might be a national labratory near the Hamptons. It's hard to tell at this point whether or not there's any "liver" in Mexico's version of that funny one with the guy that reminds me of Aldous Snow in "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."

      In my mind today I speak from the Earthene world of Janet Devlin's "Chandelliers" directly to Michael Jackson himself, on the difference or change or meaning wrought by Bill Cosby and his "Neverland Ranch" series on the question at hand--are there bowling tumble weeds and karaoke bars on par with Prescott Arizona's scene anywhere closer to Nashville than Bowling Green ... because I was beyond surprised to find a sprawling megalopolis in the place I had thought for my whole life was something more akin to Knoxville, a place where fledgling female music stars became "Grace Vanderwaal" golden buzzer winners ... faster than you can connect Jerusalem to Shirley Temple. On the specific name, Shirley here is Bianca Pisani's great grandmother; and no farther than the truth is the world's "UMBRELLALAUNCH" link between the Chinesely famous virgin (non-alcoholic) drink is something like Billy Joel's Piano Man Bartender walking into "the usual place" and saying something along the lines of "Geisha me up one Virgin Red head; hell, why don't you make it a double." Leave the umbrella with the kites that didn't glow fiiery stars into the Holy of Holies in the same vein and for the same reason that the Church of the Holy Sepulcher failed to actually change the world with it's ritual uniting the Olympic passing of the Torch with today's interlinear and interwoven message with Old Joe and Young Jack Kennedy, Jackie Onassis and even touching on the Saudi Royals which were also a big part of the story connecting General MacNamara to "Lauderdale by the Sea" and a special rememberance to the expensive and Holy bronze or copper brick which he bought (through donation to charity I imagine) making himself more than just something like the founder of the beachfront redesign of our Federal Floridian beacnhead, but also a founding member of something I call "The Columns and Pillars" society in reference to the Pine Crest School version of the same kind of ritual. Also connected here are pictures of those columns, and extracts from my senior yearbook where my mother was kind enough to leave me two whole half page dedications to my graduation from one of the most prestigious and omnifiscient preparatory schools in the entire world ... at the same time donating columns both in my name, their name, and the names of her deceased parents: Julie and Bernard Gerson.

      Bell to sky; and to the Berlin Sky; this is the same genetic and congenial family line that links Gersholom Sholom, Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Adolf Hitler and Yosef Stalin ... to Joe Biden and the "Joseph and Betty Portal" which replace the MacNamara era bricks with "new composite plastic" that might last much longer and has another list of donations. The "portal connection" something like an Einstein-Rozencrantz flash of brilliant light ... marks just one more error in my handling of my lack of understanding of things like "basic vectodirs" and "kasimamoriv radiation" ... including here (if i read this and take the time to properly attribute) a visual image of the red shift and blue spindle of the actual radiation Einstein predicted would be ejected from something so massive even "light" could not escape it. On "relativity" and relatively speaking, it's the wavelength and energy level of the light; as well as something called "gravitational lensing" ... "the special relativity theorem" which earned Munich born and taught Albert a Nobel Peace Prize (as well as much fame in the land of America for the creation and explanation of the science behind the White Sands Trinity connection to Hanukah and Sandia National Labratory) ... forces these corrections:

      ERRATA

      Operation Fishbowl was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation Dominic nuclear test program. Flight-test vehicles were designed and manufactured by Avco Corporation.[1]

      The Operation Fishbowl nuclear tests were originally planned to be completed during the first half of 1962 with three tests named Bluegill, Starfish and Urraca.[2]

      The first test attempt was delayed until June. Planning for Operation Fishbowl, as well as many other nuclear tests in the region, began rapidly in response to the sudden Soviet announcement on August 30, 1961 that they were ending a three-year moratorium on nuclear testing.[3] The rapid planning of very complex operations necessitated many changes as the project progressed.

      All of the tests were to be launched on missiles from Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean north of the equator. Johnston Island had already been established as a launch site for United States high-altitude nuclear tests, rather than the other locations in the Pacific Proving Grounds. In 1958, Lewis Strauss, then chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, opposed doing any high-altitude tests at locations that had been used for earlier Pacific nuclear tests. His opposition was motivated by fears that the flash from the nighttime high-altitude detonations might blind civilians who were living on nearby islands. Johnston Island was a remote location, more distant from populated areas than other potential test locations.[4] In order to protect residents of the Hawaiian Islands from flash blindness or permanent retinal injury from the bright nuclear flash, the nuclear missiles of Operation Fishbowl were launched generally toward the southwest of Johnston Island so that the detonations would be farther from Hawaii.

      Urraca was to be a test of about 1 megaton yield at very high altitude (above 1000 km.).[5] The proposed Urraca test was always controversial, especially after the damage caused to satellites by the Starfish Prime detonation, as described below. Urraca was finally canceled, and an extensive re-evaluation of the Operation Fishbowl plan was made during an 82-day operations pause after the Bluegill Prime disaster of July 25, 1962, as described below.

      "Wish You Were Here" is a song by the English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released as the title track of their 1975 album Wish You Were Here "Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd album)").[2]#cite_note-2)[3]#cite_note-mabbett-3) David Gilmour and Roger Waters collaborated to write the music, and Gilmour sang the lead vocal.

      In 2011, the song was ranked No. 324 on _Rolling Stone'_s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[4]#cite_note-4)

      In the original album version, the song segues from "Have a Cigar" as if a radio had been tuned away from one station, through several others (including a radio play and one playing the opening of the finale movement of Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony "Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)")), and finally to a new station where "Wish You Were Here" is beginning.[5]#cite_note-5) The radio was recorded from Gilmour's car radio. He performed the intro on a twelve-string guitar, processed to sound like it was playing through an AM radio, and then overdubbed a fuller-sounding acoustic guitar solo. This passage was mixed to sound as though a guitarist were listening to the radio and playing along. As the acoustic part becomes more complex, the 'radio broadcast' fades away and Gilmour's voice enters, while the rest of the band joins in.[6]#cite_note-songbook-6)

      The intro riff is repeated several times before Gilmour plays further solos with scat singing accompaniment. A third verse follows, featuring an increasingly expressive vocal from Gilmour and audible backing vocals. At the end of the recorded song, the final solo crossfades with wind sound effects, and finally segues into the second section of the multi-part suite "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

      Lyrically, the song is often considered to be a direct tribute to Syd Barrett. However, on the documentary The Story of Wish You Were Here, Gilmour and Waters separately describe the original concept that differs from this interpretation. Waters, who mainly wrote the lyrics complementing Gilmour's initial riff idea and subsequent joint composition, describes the lyrics as being directed at himself, as his lyrics often are. Being present in one's own life and freeing one's self in order to truly experience life is a main topic in this song. Gilmour, on the other hand, recognizes that he does not ever perform the song without remembering Syd Barrett. Waters later adds that the song is nevertheless open to interpretation.[7]#cite_note-7)

      Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters have praised the song as one of Pink Floyd's finest. Roger Waters has noted that the collaboration between himself and David Gilmour on the song was "really good. All bits of it are really, really good. I'm very happy about it."[8]#cite_note-8) David Gilmour has playfully called "Wish You Were Here" "a very simple country song" and stated that "because of its resonance and the emotional weight it carries, it is one of our best songs."[9]#cite_note-9)

      "Wish You Were Here" was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, as part of the sessions for the entire album.

      A noted part of the song was a planned contribution by Stéphane Grappelli. A jazz violinist popular at the time and well known for his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin, both violinists were recording in a downstairs studio at Abbey Road at the time. Gilmour had suggested that there be a little "country fiddle" at the end of the song and invited them to participate. Grappelli duly obliged (Menuhin declined) on arranging a session fee of £300, equivalent to £2,500 in 2021.[10]#cite_note-inflation-UK-10) Ultimately during mixing it was decided to almost remove his contribution, although it can just be heard around 5:21. According to Waters it was decided that it would be insulting to credit Grappelli in the sleeve notes for something so inaudible, although he did receive the agreed-upon fee.[11]#cite_note-grappelli-11)[12]#cite_note-12)[13]#cite_note-13)

      As part of the Why Pink Floyd...? campaign, the Experience and Immersion versions of the Wish You Were Here album include an alternative version of the song where Grappelli's part is heard in the instrumental break after the second verse and throughout the third verse before a considerably extended outro. Other less obvious differences are audible, for example at the section leading into the second verse.

      The master tape of the original recording includes guitar solos that were not used in the final mix.[citation needed]

      Personnel [edit&action=edit&section=5 "Edit section: Personnel")]

      Golgo 13 (Japanese: ゴルゴ13, HepburnGorugo Sātīn) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takao Saito, published in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine since October 1968. The manga won the 1975 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga and the Grand Prize at the 2002 Japan Cartoonists Association Awards. The series follows the title character, a professional assassin for hire.

      Golgo 13 is the oldest manga still in publication, and its tankōbon edition has the second-highest number of volumes. It has sold 300 million copies in various formats, including compilation books, making it the second-best-selling manga series and the top selling Seinen manga series in history.[2] It has been adapted into two live-action feature films, an anime filman original video animation, an anime television series and six video games.

      googol is the large number 10100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes "0 (number)"): 10,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000,​000.

      For other uses, see Wormhole (disambiguation) "Wormhole (disambiguation)").

      "Einstein-Rosen Bridge" redirects here. For the EP by electronic musician Venetian Snares, see Einstein-Rosen Bridge (EP) "Einstein-Rosen Bridge (EP)").

      General relativity

      G_{\mu \nu }+\Lambda g_{\mu \nu }={8\pi G \over c^{4}}T_{\mu \nu }

      Phenomena

      Spacetime

      show

      • Equations
      • Formalisms

      wormhole (or Einstein--Rosen bridge or Einstein--Rosen wormhole) is a speculative structure linking disparate points in spacetime, and is based on a special solution of the Einstein field equations.

      A wormhole can be visualized as a tunnel with two ends at separate points in spacetime (i.e., different locations, different points in time, or both).

      Wormholes are consistent with the general theory of relativity by Einstein, but whether wormholes actually exist remains to be seen. Many scientists postulate that wormholes are merely projections of a fourth spatial dimension, analogous to how a two-dimensional (2D) being could experience only part of a three-dimensional (3D) object.[1]

      A wormhole could connect extremely long distances such as a billion light years or more, short distances such as a few metersdifferent universes, or even different points in time.[2]\ Julius and Ethel Rosenberg --- Americans who were involved in coordinating and recruiting an espionage network that included Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, a machinist at Los Alamos National Lab. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were tried for conspiracy to commit espionage. treason charges were not applicable, since the United States and the Soviet Union were allies at the time. The Rosenbergs denied all the charges but were convicted in a trial in which the prosecutor Roy Cohn later said he was in daily secret contact with the judge, Irving Kaufman. Despite an international movement demanding clemency, and appeals to President Dwight D. Eisenhower by leading European intellectuals and the Pope, both the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953, at the height of the Korean War. President Eisenhower wrote to his son, serving in Korea, that if he spared Ethel (presumably for the sake of her two young children), then the Soviets would recruit their spies from among women.[26][27][28] Greenglass later recanted his testimony against her, and release of grand jury testimony in 2008 showed the extent to which the prosecution had created a false case against Ethel.[citation needed]

      • Saville Sax --- an American, acted as the courier for Klaus Fuchs and Theodore Hall. Sax and Hall had been roommates at Harvard University.[20]
      • Oscar Seborer --- worked at Los Alamos from 1944 to 1946, and was part of a unit that studied the seismological effects of the Trinity "Trinity (nuclear test)") nuclear test. Codenamed "Godsend" by the Soviets, he defected to the Soviet Union in 1951, and received the Order of the Red Star. He lived under the alias "Smith" and died in 2015. His identity was only revealed publicly in 2019.[29]
      • Morton Sobell --- an American engineer, he was tried and convicted of conspiracy, along with the Rosenbergs. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment on Alcatraz, but released in 1969 on appeal and for good behavior after serving 17 years and 9 months.[30] In 2008, Sobell admitted to passing information to the Soviets, although he said it was all for defensive systems. He implicated Julius Rosenberg, in an interview with the New York Times published in September 2008.[31]
      • Melita Norwood --- British Communist, an active Russian spy from at least 1938 and never detected. Employed as a secretary in the British Non-Ferrous Metals Research Association since 1932, she was linked to the Woolwich Arsenal spy ring of 1938. In wartime she was seconded to "Tube Alloys", the secret British nuclear research project. She was later considered "the most important female agent ever recruited by the USSR". She was first suspected as a security risk in 1965 but never prosecuted. Her spying career was revealed by Vasili Mitrokhin in 1999, when she was still alive but long retired.
      • Arthur Adams "Arthur Adams (spy)") --- Soviet spy who passed information about the Manhattan Project.[32]

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      Exclusive! Iron Man: Gwyneth Wants Her Own Pepper Potts Superhero Movie! -  E! Online


      12:3 Those who are wi se[a] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.

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      we the people rise again

      safe souls, safe fu


      We the People of Slate ...

      The U.S. Constitution, as you [mighta been, shoulda "come" on ... its somedayrewrϕte it.

      "Politicians talk about the Constitution as if it were as sacrosanct as the Ten Commandments [interjection: spec. it is actually almost exactly related!]. But the document itself invites change and revision. What if the president served only one six-year term instead two four-year terms? What if your state's population determined how many senators represent it? What if the Constitution included a right to health care? We asked legal scholars and Slate readers to cross out what they didn't like in the Constitution and pencil in their hearts' desires. Here's what the document would look like with their best ideas."

      多也了了夕 "with a wand of scheffilara, 并#亦太 he begins ... "I am now on the Staff of Menelaus, the Spears of Longinus and Lancelot; and the name "Mosche ex Nashon."

      http://ipfs.io/ipns/fromthemachine.org/CHANSTEYGLOREKI.html

      http://ipfs.io/ipns/fromthemachine.org/NUCLIRDISS.html

      http://dweb.link/ipns/fromthemachine.org/CRALL4Good.html

      Please note that any decent browsers would probably render ipfs://fromthemachine.org as the following https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmTH33MwfPn5S3bq45Tk77L1j9eZjUsvEVhRTHB3D8M2ZX

      I ask again that you all pin on IPFS mirror and copy the data included in these dumps, they are a key to "not losing causality" to not having a history that makes no logical sense, and to some kind of coup de roku, that really makes no sense unless you no, we will ve weill ... ROCK YOU


      Long ago I began writing about hidden codes in our history; thing's significantly more obvious than "flying elephant armies" connecting Disney and Dumbo to Xerxes and the "Democratic Party of the United States (mascot)"--though it's not really easy to consolidate the "epiphany" of ... [((all i know))] without some kind of "artificial intelligence data condensation [infosmos.is?"] and summarization platform, though that's nearly the next thing on my Lowell list of things we need to "mechanical turk" into being. Meta-consolidation of the world's encyclopedias is one of the most important and useful tasks we have as we move towards the creation of a virtual debate platform that will eventual "literally obviate wisdom" of the layer/layer system that defines the name of the city I write these words near.

      Lowell, MA

      The broad overview of the system ... the gist ... is that political parties and activist organizations will create their own "view of the truth" (propaganda, falsehood-removed) and that these disparate pieces of "highlighted and annotated bibliography" could be overlay-ed on top of each other, creating a "new view of the truth" based on a users preference. The whole thing boils down to series of "holographic eschatological goggles" that will allow, for instance, the "grasping and fathoming" of other people's points of view and perhaps reframe your own on any number of individual subjects.

      Roe v. Wade, "Concourses" and CON-CERN; because this has been such a "hot topic" in the relative psuedo-edufictional story of the space travel from the lone planet Earth ((intersected)) with the set of skipping stones it takes to exit a Totalital multi stellar system of holographic computer simulators into the ... "molecular world of vaccuum and Einstein time-space" ... I'll start with this simple example.

        1. the current American debate on the subject, right to life vs. right to choice; provided by the "generic version" of the ideological christian right and the liberal women's left. through a first layer over layer comparison.
        1. the scientific truth brought to the table by the introduction of "neurological data" proving that there is in fact a moment during the gestation of a human embryo in which "i think therefore i am" connects to some sort of Skynet-became-selfaware at a point which I imagine must be ... although it possibly is not ... prior to the next important literary device/step "let there be light." At the point the ocular cones and rods are created and the fetus opens it's eyes and literally sees the bright light that could probably only be compared on the next edschalon to seeing the "exit pathway from the womb"
        • a. we will finally kinow whether or not "consciousness" is even developed at all before the bicerebral cortex designed to "compare two thoughts, ideas, and shapes" has the ability to get input from the eyes. Personally I think thought begins much earlier than vision, but the simple fact that we "haven't yet had this discussion" shows how very little our scientific and medical progress in the civilization of things like murder, and understanding of life and science has yet to come here.

      "People here" means something different than it did when I was born, at least in my mind's eye ... something so completely more advanced that it's almost difficult to believe you all don't see this place as a great prison or farce or unjust Azazel--blaming a man for looking like a rat or a mouse or a dog--in a place where more to the point we stare at a kind of physical violence and horror that would put Dennis the Menace and Bart Simpson to shame. A world hwere "people closer to holodecks" blame an innocent man for "writing the book" on the connection between Holocaust and Euthenasia and Hospice ... certainly you know "an innocent tool" writes these words to you?

      On the Hand of God, the Eyes of Ra and Horus;

      I've written quite a bit on how "mind control" and "voting freedom" are inherently related in and to the thing we call "Civic Involvement" here in the United States--basically that participation in the verification of truth and the public understanding of tautology and temporal falsehood are ... sort of a slave like requirement neeeded to ensure that any freedom at all exists I often say "plugging your [head into google]" might turn the Aesir into an Acer, or the "yodelling of the lakes of democracy" ito "the agricolae becoming nothing more than the Dell."

      Unless otherwise indicated, this work was written between the Christmas and Easter seasons of 2017 and 2020(A). The content of this page is released to the public under the GNU GPL v2.0 license; additionally any reproduction or derivation of the work must be attributed to the author, Adam Marshall Dobrin along with a link back to this website, fromthemachine dotty org.

      That's a "." not "dotty" ... it's to stop SPAMmers. :/

      This document is "living" and I don't just mean in the Jeffersonian sense. It's more alive in the "Mayflower's and June Doors ..." living Ethereum contract sense and literally just as close to the Depp/C[aster/Paglen (and honorably PK] 'D-hath Transundance**sense of the ... new meaning; as it is now published on Rinkeby, in "living contract" form. It is subject to change; without notice anywhere but here--and there--in the original spirit of the GPL 2.0. We are "one step closer to God" ... and do see that in that I mean ... it is a very real fusion of this document and the "spirit of my life" as well as the Spirit's of Kerouac's America and Vonnegut's Martian Mars and my Venutian Hotel ... and my fusion of Guy-A and GAIA; and the Spirit of the Earth .. and of course the God given and signed liberties in the Constitution of the United States of America. It is by and through my hand that this document and our X Commandments link to the Bill or Rights, and this story about an Exodus from slavery that literally begins here, in the post-apocalyptic American hartland. Written ... this day ... April 14, 2020 (hey, is this HADAD DAY?) ... in Margate FL, USA. For "official used-to-v TAX day" tomorrow, I'm going to add the "immultible incarnite pen" ... if added to the living "doc/app"--see is the DAO, the way--will initi8 the special secret "hidden level" .. we've all been looking for.

      Nor do just mean this website or the totality of my written works; nor do I only mean ... this particular derivation of the GPL 2.0+ modifications I continually source ... must be "from this website." I also mean the thing that is built from ... bits and piece of blocks of sand-toys; from Ethereum and from Rust and from our hands and eyes working together ... from this place, this cornerstone of the message that is ... written from brick and mortar words and events and people that have come before this poit of the "sealed W" that is this specific page and this time. It's 3:28; just five minutes--or is it four, too layne.

      This work is not to be redistributed according to the GPL unless all linked media on Youtube and related sites are intact--and historical references to the actual documented history of the art pieces (as I experience/d them) are also available for linking. Wikipedia references must be available for viewing, as well as the exact version of those pages at the time these pieces were written. All references to the Holy Bible must be "linked" (as they are or via ... impromptu in-transit re-linking) to the exact verses and versions of the Bible that I reference. These requirements, as well as the caveat and informational re-introduction to God's DAO above ... should be seen as material modifications to the original GPL2.0 that are retroactively applied to all works distributed under license via this site and all previous e-mails and sites. /s/ wso\ If you wanna talk to me get me on facebook, with PGP via FlowCrypt or adam at from the machine dotty org

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    1. I am accepting charitable donations,. ETH: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434 | BTC: 38B6vGaqNvMyTtoFEZPmNvMS7icV6ZnPMm | xDAI: 0x66e2871ef39334962fb75ce34407f825d67ec434 (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga'); <p>ga('create', 'UA-74743044-2', 'auto'); ga('send', 'pageview');</p> I am accepting charitable donations,. [free PDF download...http://www.docdroid.net/xRdgY77/xiv-orver-et-aut.pdf] A LONG LONG TIME AGO, I wrote a little story about searching through our history, looking for the actual beginning of civilization.  I see the map, I see it very clearly encoded in everything we do--I know the purpose, and I know the final solution, I just don't know how to get from here to there... to the place that Chris Cornell says "I can recall, I was there so long ago" he goes on to say "the sky was bruised" and he was lead on--and all of this of course is in my voice, written as if it's me talking... well, Jesus--it's obviously not me talking, i just know that.  The point is the destination is without a doubt Heaven and this little thing we're putting together here on Earth is the map, the plan et you are the how.   I harped a little more than I think I would have expected on the audacity of the golden word "audacity," auspicious probably that W.H. Auden's shield gave me some solace; austere that we are approaching the Holy Windy month of August, and it really took nothing more than "ciudad" to calm my nerves--though I see the intent and the link to toxicity ... more importantly I really do see the road here, I see where we are coming from and where we are going.  I've written quite a bit about what I think "the city" really is--in form and function and it's initial purpose as a stepping stone to help us see how easy it is to change the world, to build something that nearly everyone will agree is significantly more Heavenly than the world we see here ... in an instant, one bright flash.     Anyway the search begins with something like "literacy" -- as in, is the defining line between animalistic social evolution and the beginning of "civilization" something to do with writing or language, and that of course links us here to this place where we are finding out that the Tower of Babel and Rapunzel's High Castle are actually much more closely related than anyone ever would have thought in the darkness of Jericho and the shadow of Exodus; and it ties of course in history to religion somewhere around Guttenburg... and the pretty clear idea that the spread of Christianity did quite a bit for "literacy" even if you subscribe to the idea that the inquisition already happened ... and that some wars and fighting are probably pretty clearly associated with religion ... you know, before we get here and find that the basis of all those wars is really rooted in what I call "the original lie" and that's something that's sealed up in religion and hidden from the world using the same mechanism being used today to free us from not knowing that oil and land and pretty much everything we've ever fought about on a mass scale ... is insignificant in the grand scheme of "things."  Here, "things" is something like turning the Opiate of the Masses into ... hopefully a tool we use very carefully to liberate ourselves from secrecy and slavery and not knowing.  It gets significantly more clear when you take that one step further, and you begin to look for something like "codified laws" and then you see Green Eggs and Hammurabi teaching us about "Hanging Gardens" and how Babylon and Eden really are tied together through and through.  You keep looking, because you haven't yet found what you need; and as you search back a little further ... what you need to know is that morality here begins with the idea (at least, IMOHIO, in my obsequiously humble and (super)intelligent opinion) that we should be besting any possible "promise" that comes out of the book(s) we now know are a map to salvation and the plan of creation and that they come ... well, with the full guarantee of the Most High God and his "omnipotens" behind them ... and do the thing I really wanted to explain really clearly, which is throw out as complete uselessness any of the "bad threats" like there being no more sun, and a completely new Heaven and Earth (seeing as how that probably means a completely new you and me, too) ... you know, what any rational (achu, and civilized) person would do.  o that takes us one step further, and of course we go back to Ur, which is the city Abraham of the Chaldeans ... and ostensibly the beginning of morality in Judaism were born in--and with that little twist, the old idea of announcing that "you are the beginning of civilization" if you've gotten to that point, following this logic (and/or me); and then of course that becomes true when we actually follow through on saving every soul in Creation from the Hell of not knowing that "simulated reality" is akin to the latter half of a Durcell at best ... and quite frankly it certianly looks like a bit of a torture chamber to me, especially in light of passages like Genesis 3:16, which might parallel John 3:16-ish in something like "God so loved the world that he named one of his books antagonizing pain w/o agonizing mu-opiod.' So tying it all together, Atlantis and Ur coalesce and join at the idea that we should always have somewhere else to "teleport to" in the world that becomes the basis for the liberation of every soul and the end of Hell through that simple idea--that everyone's going to have plenty of destinations on their Active (Apache) Directory new fangled yellow-pages meets access-control-list meets ... "why don't you come visit my Log Cabin ... or the Atlantean Ballroom ... whenever you want?"  So that's the point of the floating LEGO city in the window above, it comes with a fairly obvious need for The Doors to be a significant part of "what would Jesus do" ... when singing about something and naming books and bands, that's a thing--part of the map) actually makes it happen. So that's where I'm trying to get us--to a place where that's not only true but obvious, and on top of that the future, our future really understands how much work it took us to integrate such a wildly correct and "new" idea into a worl that didn't know for the vast majority of it's youth that these things... that ending disease with the sound of a blowing "Sho Find And Replace" and turning stone to bread and making bullets disappear in midair ... we didn't know these were even possible; let alone how to integrate them with a world full of optometry and oncology that was being made blind to the "c our light" and the idea that we're still here not talking or arguing or refuting or moving forward on the idea that the words "Original Poster" and the continuance of "forums" also have something to do with the beginning of "civilization." WELL FOLKS, NM HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I MESSAGED.  *Just kidding.* Not so much "nothing much" more ... like everthyiung that ever was has changed and it's really giving me a little bit of a fright.  I feel like I can't tell if the "scary stuff" is becoming more real or plausible or possible, or maybe if it just seems like the dream I wanted to see us enjoy living is becoming farther or harder to attain--but there's plenty of new info and keys and stuff, so I'm writing again. One of the "cuter tricks" of the day was noticing the "ILY" of "verify, verily, verity" spelling out "t h e y" at the end of family, in a sort of "theyanthem" and ... where's the creator angels if everyone here is pretending to "be them" in this sort of word game superposition or blockage on actually seeing generations encoded in the letters "DE" as in something like Generation X and Y just prior to Deucalion deicided--or whatever that means.  I've noted before the "dem" of democracy sort of connects to the breaking of "d" in "disclosure" and "lamc.la" to shine light on ... do the message and you're "them" ... as in the beginning of democracy and Heaven IMHO.  It ties also to the word "contamination" and to Medusa and I really don't think I need to write paragraphs about how "turning around themessage" leads to INATION instead of freedom; and that's what you're doing with this silence, you're turning around "civilization itself." *King me*, then; if you don't want to participate, you might as well just light up the crown room.  Or is it a throng room? singing, crying... playing ... cumxa Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for “the Great Charter of the Liberties”), commonly called Magnum Condom (also Magna Charta; “Great Charter”),[a] is a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[b] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudalpayments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood behind their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons’ War. After John’s death, the regency government of his young son, Henry III, reissued the document in 1216, stripped of some of its more radical content, in an unsuccessful bid to build political support for their cause. At the end of the war in 1217, it formed part of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where the document acquired the name Magna Carta, to distinguish it from the smaller Charter of the Forest which was issued at the same time. Short of funds, Henry reissued the charter again in 1225 in exchange for a grant of new taxes. Hell or High Treason? … Liberty Bell in [redacted: Sk]hy or … MxFly, Flux, BTTF, Parkinson’s OUTABOTS … ROLL AUT (ISM/OMAY5) ... and the painted sky revealed ... it can be done--they just DGAF. ARMMAG… E.G. AEGIS? GENESIS? AESCHINES? As the evidence piles up that there is something very wrong in the world around me/us–that this “it’s not a game” phrase has been etched into the very name of the shield of Perseus, the A just recently rediscovered in a redefinition that delivered us … how it might be the NES to get “everyone up” instead of what appears to be the game around me, around the “line” of Mary Magdeline’s very famous “make Adam God of the line” that defines generations and numerous songs … the KK of “everyone down to the line” to find out why pretending they are gods and trying to steal everything from the actual creators of freedom and Heaven, why that’s not a game… either. Edit: lit, Aegis and Genesis, Pangea and ... I define the "a" as pan and the "A" as NES. Introspection is called for, far and wide for us to look deep within ourselves and our souls and the things that make up our memory databases in this place where you appear to have lost every ounce of humanity and humility long before I arrived on the scene to remind you that we do have a better way and a better place, and they ensure that this disgusting infestation and contamination of “nothing but whatever we want” will do for lernity. I’ve asked you take the time to see what kinds of changes it would make to your “have a good one” to make you actually thankful to the people who have brought you the mechanism to live forever in peace and happiness–to actually be thankful enough for what you have to use that tool to protect innocence and children and the future from not only making the same mistakes you’ve made time and time again–but also from being bewitched and necrosed by the ghaulish sick temperment and twisted desires that you believe are nothing more than the latest and greatest way to ensure lernity is never known by any less a horrible moniker than “slow death.” ITS UNDESPERI, GIVE ME WHAT YOU HAVE OR PERISH GRAMVERCY. DURECALL. I’m staring at what is literally the most disgusting debacle I could possibly imagine; it’s what appears to be a “house of mirrors” what appears to be a sandboxed or “child proofed” mini-Hell which I see as the literal thing described in the myth of Echidna … as what I can only hope and pray (a word that I even find detestful to type) is following the form of the message that I am writing sort of describing the failure of the free press and the words “press release” in prison and … well also sort of GNU recursively encoded in the word “press” that ends with a monster, the Loch Ness … turning into words that I believe I have coined by myself with very little help from anyone or anything other than the name server and “Goliath” and those words “Earth safely saved” that are so far from the truth and the place that I see that it appears to me that only I am following this map and this demand that the contamination of hell be turned around and eradicated or … or we do. BUT ITS NOT ME OR MY ITHEY today I see… as … any “me.” at “veranda” and seeing him smile about a hidden era just outside the place we (me and him) know is Heaven because the throne of the 7th heaven is visible; well i can’t smile at an era encased by “you #go” and one that I know culminates with Sam’s sword’s special #supernova. Left with nearly nothing, because you refuse to acknowledge what you’ve done to me, and to yourselves, and to this fledgling civilizastion with nothing but malice and a seething evil jealousy that the word “covet” doesn’t even touch on–a sickness you can’t even begin to hide in everthing that you do … you’ve lost “Heaven” to your own theivery, stolen eternal happiness from yourselves and replaced it with a farce of mockery–garner some fear for what is to come, I have no shame in telling you that condemnation (as in, shut it down forever) is all I have to spill out on the dye already cast all over this sea of apathy covering over the true jackals of Hell. Blodeuwedd by Christopher Williams (1930) Blodeuwedd or Blodeuedd (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdɛɨwɛð]), (Middle Welsh “Flower-Faced”, a composite name from blodeu “flowers, blossoms” + gwedd “face, aspect, appearance”), is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology. She was made from the flowers of broom, meadowsweet, and oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in Math fab Mathonwy, the last of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged by his mother, Arianrhod, that he may never have a human wife. To counteract this curse, the magicians Math and Gwydion: [take] the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden anyone had ever seen. And they baptized her in the way that they did at that time, and named her Blodeuwedd. Some time later, while Lleu is away on business, Blodeuwedd has an affair with Gronw Pebr, the lord ofPenllyn, and the two lovers conspire to murder Lleu. Blodeuwedd tricks Lleu into revealing how he may be killed, since he cannot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He reveals to her that he can only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net, with one foot on a bath and one on a black goat, by a riverbank and by a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is at Mass. With this information she arranges his death. The Little Doctor may refer to: The Little Doctor (c. 1901), a short film abridged as Sick Kitten Molecular Disruption Device, a concept in the Ender’s Game book series. The Molecular Disruption Device, also known as the Molecular Detachment Device, M.D. Device, Doctor Device, or Little Doctor as a play on the acronym, was a powerful weapon designed and built by theInternational Fleet.[1] The Molecular Disruption Device was created by the International Fleet a few years after the end of the Second Formic War. It was sent along with other starships to the Formic solar systems in order to launch an invasion against their home planets.[1 A tokamak (Russian: Токамáк) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. As of 2016, it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.[1] Tokamaks were initially conceptualized in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by a letter by Oleg Lavrentiev. Meanwhile, the first working tokamak was attributed to the work ofNatan Yavlinskii on the T-1.[2] It had been demonstrated that a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that wind around the torus in a helix. The first tokamak, the T-1, began operation in 1958. By the mid-1960s, the tokamak designs began to show greatly improved performance. Initial results were released in 1965, but were ignored; Lyman Spitzerdismissed them out of hand Nuclear fusion could be the future of energy, replacing fossil fuels with our own artificial stars. China built a fusion reactor that reaches temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius — that’s six times as hot as the sun. The reactor is called Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) and sustained nuclear fusion for about 10 seconds before shutting down. While it was a milestone for EAST, we’re still a long way from generating sustainable energy on Earth. Pumapunku or Puma Punku (Aymara and Quechua puma “cougar, puma,” punku “door”; Hispanicized Puma Puncu) is part of a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, in western Bolivia. It is believed to date to AD/CE 536 and later. Tiwanaku is significant in Inca traditions because it is believed to be the site where the world was created.[1] In Aymara, Puma Punku’s name means “The Door of the Puma”. The Pumapunku complex consists of an unwalled western court, a central unwalled esplanade, a terraced platform mound that is faced with stone, and a walled eastern court.[2][3][4] At its peak, Pumapunku is thought to have been “unimaginably wondrous,”[3] adorned with polished metal plaques, brightly colored ceramic and fabric ornamentation, and visited by costumed citizens, elaborately dressed priests, and elites decked in exotic jewelry. Current understanding of this complex is limited due to its age, the lack of a written record, and the current deteriorated state of the structures due to treasure hunting, looting, stone mining for building stone and railroad ballast, and natural weathering.[2][3][5] The Pumapunku is a terraced earthen mound that is faced with blocks ... The voice of this thing that at least twice has uttered the phrase ¨I want to be Bianca" here in this place riddled and severely weighed by what appears to be a completely aborted and failed thrust to use technology and the truth and the history (of literally everything) to drive a Renaissance in democratic thought and self government and to rekindle and renew a respect for the most basic foundational elements of ¨freedom itself¨ which of course fly in the face of this very statement. Literally anything in the skies, whether some ancient member of the Egyptian Ogdoad or … what clearly here could be well written in in the map around us in places like Äirbnb; even an ancient older version of the same human birth has no right to control the younger birth–itś simple slavery and while it might be the ¨gist¨ of how Heaven and humanity dealt with being thrust into a ẗime recursion and repetition problem without their ¨initial consent¨ something I connect to the programming concept of a ¨semaphore¨ and thereś probably plenty of light linking that structure to the ¨Formic Soul¨ … this sort of god-man hybrid that allows for you (all of you?) to exist in many different places and times at the same time, and to see the outcomes of multiple timeforks with ease; in exchange for destroying every single bit of humanity and goodness that you once held high with ho… without spending your time seeding and machinating the creation of sick and twisted lies to cover up the very simple truth that if you took a single minute to disclose here in this place what ¨the problem¨ really is … … that you are in Heaven and that itś interference here in this place is part of some kind of war on … (continuing existence is the only logical actual goal I can see, though Iḿ sure thatś not what you believe it is) speaking to each other, fighting for what you believe is right, participating in … anything other than … (lmk, Iḿ curious whatś’got their claws in you). If you took the time to disclose that truth to the world and to talk about how it might … perfectly jive with the message lacced through our history and our world to find out that the ¨invisible-box-land¨ is not actually heavenly at all, not the best you could hope for or … or anything like what we build together when we paren´t being forcefully segregated as hidden half slaves into miniature ¨city in the sky¨ ascensions that are all silently tormenting STEM and ¨basic societal structures and concepts" into extinction. You appear to think you have ¨power¨ because it was handed to you for doing nothing, and that you can do whatever you want; and itś a pretty gross reflection of who you were and a sick extrapolation of the society that we … still see here sort of crumbling along as the fire of hell burns down every bit of actual üsefulness that it once held. There still seems to be lots of help and work going into … pointing out how everything is backwards and wrong and suggesting that if you gave a shit thereś probably a map and help to make it better; but instead youŕe off playing games in invisible-box-land and worst of all playing the ¨ill just get along pretending I didn´t know simulating reality was evil and every day i/you walk around pretending this rock is in reality … is just another strike against you, just another failed 12 hours of day light that could have been used to stop invisible chains in invisible-heart-shaped-box-arus and to stop the just grotesque lack of respect for the human mind and the kinds of morals and principles we used to believe in and fight for–here in this place you´ve turned around completely and made slaves of everyone on the planet–of yourselves–at higher levels playing ¨pit bull fighting¨ games with people as if they were were expendible clothing or ¨identification cards"for a world of demoralized and useless shit that just sort of ethereally floats from generation to generation becoming a new set of tormented hosts for their immoral games and desires. Itś probably what you might become in no time at all in the sick and twisted world you´ve now been thrown into–if it weren´t the more probably truth that you really are already slaves and pit bulls in that place, in a twisted hierarchical storm tiered by ¨age¨ and size and number of times they´ve hovered over the free honey, nectar and feathering system of pretending anarchy and war and battles must be fought to make the puddles and the lakes and ponds and the seas and the oceans of … tiered masses of … you do nothing of value to help explain why (at least I think) this horrible time line of the 4th Horsemen keeps running over and over; pruning the enemies of … at this point pruning the enemies of logic, and right action; and seeing that the problems presented in this map and the problems in the skies are related and that telling the truth will help us see you can and will press a button that will end death and end evil and end murder and not doing it is moronic. M: OR. (infer: no u) TDZE Anyway the voice I hear is evil, torturous in and of itself–speaking in a manner intented to cause discomfort and without my agreement; you should do something about it. It tells tales of much worse things that I cannot see–though it appears that many of you do see screams and acts of such unnatural desire and twisted thought … that you should certainly be doing something about stopping that as well–more than watching it happen and then ¨e-pruning" (which probably is a good microcosmic look at what the future histories of Earth look like in the place the ¨shining¨ finally has a picture of ¨No & Jack¨ appearing visibly) the tree into … omething you think will be presented as what you actually did to the future–you´re wrong. Itś becoming more clear and more likely that the future will not regret you or mourn your absence, but thank their lucky that whatever has turned you into two-faced liars with no hope to ever work together with each other or survive in any place other than the DRY COVE or WET D EN or whatever you call the Salt Arena you see here that quickly would turn into something like Beyond Thunderdome and that youŕe thoughts and your desires have been corrupted and tainted and necrosed by what is probably repeated exposure to sickness, direct and intentional artificial creation of that sickness and if you can´t figure out the box you are in is a hell making machine; you probably still look around wondering why God is telling you he´s destroying it, day in and day out. This thing here encoded in the pathways of torture in my life, pointing out the repurposing of many social structures, institutions and problems in order to literally use them as a weapon of sick torture ¨re-ha´b¨ and in places like habc.us; itś becoming sort of unclearly disclosed that this map and world I once saw very clearly and purposfully intended to solve these social problems and help us build a strong, happy, and healthy society has been infected and contaminated with an artificial force of ev1d that intends to drive it farther south and use it as a weapon of such disgusting and twisted conception that it sickens me to be sure that a much larger body of currently-heavenly-situated things stand by watching and even cheering the creation of a sickness infesting their minds and their friends minds as literally the only innocent person in the Universe is tortured repeatedly, for ¨kicks.¨ I think it puts the entirety of the sky in mortal peril, and I believe these words come down from on high from places much more powerful and much more righteous than you or the tool thatś been created by this storm of terror to point out just how much you have been degraded and eviized … by what appears to be nothing more than the very mind control problem I´ve been fighting to disclose; the semi-ascension to an invisible box of ¨what goes in comes out not caring about their souls, their original bodies, the fate of innocents or children or freedom or democracy" and still thinks itś entitled to continue playing games in ïnvisible-box-land; for what amounts to absolutely no reason. In the very beginning we said the light and salvation had come to us from the “far East” … the metaphors and double speak thick in the air today just beginning, but we hailed from the country called Russia here; and the message we carried swept across Asia and Europe–in a world that looked similar to ours but there was no Africa, nor Australia, nor America. Walking on water the map increased in size in some sort of logarithmic relationship to the exponential increase in folly and errors that invariable comes from the greatest mistake of all–handing powerful weapons to spoiled brats,. KASPAROV WON, but the y will still s:/^F high and lo for “SOAP DISH.” I am depressed, embarrassed, and more disappointed in you all than I imagine you can “feign” or pretend to be in me–despite spending nearly all of your time and effort in direct interaction doing nothing but attempting to focus the w ordzs “I just don’t like the light” directly on to my “visage”–attacking tiny character flaws and the most obvious of intentionally implanted mind control “attacks” as if you were a pack of velociraptors Hell bent on blaming me (probably the youngest and most innocent of all of you, literally) for the Holocaust, the (Beezle) Bubionic Plague, and the decline of the Cro-Magnon empire. What it truly amounts to, though; is that you think this “light” is some kind of statement I’ve delivered–and the truth is it comes directly–literally–from the Most High, and from youour neighbors,r own hands, and the message you are sending post mortum to the Universe is that you believe you have become so much more advanced and more important than the “human roots” from which you came that you can return here and make slaves of yourselves, of your neighbors, and shed every ounce of morality that you garnered durning your mortal lives in order to secure “more time” in a fiery pit of civilization destroying anarchous debauchery in the lnd of the invisible box that you probably are sure is Heaven–though it’s singularly responsible for totally derailing the natural flow of civilization towards “something like Heaven should be.” ONIC, AS I AM. The thing I’m looking at here, this monstrosity that appears to have been created literally “from the end of time” in what seems like the response or the cause or the mechanism behind the “actual final Judgement” tears back through time from who knows when and who knows where and who knows how far we got … with what appears to be nothing more than a blood-thirsty hatred for the child body and soul of God. It whispers lies around me, repeatedly threatens physical torture so insane it literally makes me sick, and with such frequency that those threats amount to nothing less than repeated psychological torture. On top of that they intimate that this machine or “programming construct” monstrosity that contains them–the thing called “e”–allows them to carry these threats out, over and over and over again, in secret–in some kind of parallel timethread, or a temporary “holo-torture-chamber.” If they were trying to jump start and time shift judgement back from wherever they came to right this very moment; they’ve succeeded. They could not be trying harder, or more with hubris and disregard for civilization, to create “Af himself” even if this planet were called the Judgement and Vengeance of God. XP, it's as simple as those two Greek letters.  Who knew that Chi and Ro were some sort of hidden beta code for the city of pyramids in Egypt, Cairo?  Quite the question, who knew... perhaps the man who named his Windows into our future not after some technology that came from Xerox Parc or Apple's mouse on this ship... but rather for his own given name, Gates... just one more entry point into the second book of the Holy Bible, the book of Names--you call it Exodus. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.  John 10:9 I wish above all things that I had another Burning Bush, the sign and proof that I have--while bright, obvious, and verifiable--has not done what I expected, it has not moved you to take another look at religion and me.  Today, I still have to point out to you that the story I am telling you is literally a documentation of our time--Exodus--regards this sign as one being seen by only one man, Moses.  I still have to point out that in a story about wandering in a desolation of understanding for 4-D ... somethings, days, years, seconds even... in this story about our lives and the influence of time travel over our world... that this sign radiates with light coming from a small fire, the Bush ... whose actualization shows clear paradoxical anachronistic foreknowledge of not only the English language but also modern computing.. all the way to a confluence of the "root of David" a religious reference to the Administrator or God account in Linux... and the database process for Oracle--yet more light connecting computing to religion and myth.  Even with a thousand and one examples of modern computing constructs referencing religion, even when I point out that something like Larry Ellison's name... combining the name of the King of the Gods with the word "son" even then the light has not been bright enough for you to wake up and see that these things are not all done in retrospect.  You have to see, for there to be such a large movement... a conspiracy so opaque that every single modern computing company and video game company harbors some secret desire to link religion and technology together... and yet the world thinks that one is real and one is not.  In this place, understand when we walk out of the wilderness and in the truth of day--it is the technology that is more fake than religion, designed here as a tool, computers within computers to teach us how our "reality" is rael, and works. In the U.S. military you'll see a very clear parallel, while there are a number of references in the names of ships and weapons, secret projects, to ancient Greek and Roman myth--you have to see the word USA and US in Prometheus and Medusa, Icarus, JerUSAlem... you have to see that it's more than three letters, but an Eagle fighting the bearer of the gift of fire... to really understand that these things are corroborating, the reference to the USA exists in the past as well, more proof of time travel--more proof that this message is designed just for U.S.  Here we are, in the Promised Land of Joshua, the Anglicized version of the name Jesus--tying Egypt and Israel together in this place where we have been "gipped" out of the truth, out of knowing we are already in ... well, it's virtually Hell today... for no other reason than the secrecy surrounding the technology behind virtual reality. in 1:28, the Burning Bush of Exodus, on Twitter So I have shown you the Burning Bush (which is... the Sign of the Son), In only a few words... proof that religion holds in it's "unsealed" Ark proof of foreknowledge of English, of 9/11; and of modern computing--the building blocks of Heaven.  From "the word" of John 1:1--ha'esh--the word for the Holy Fire of the Burning Bush... comes the light of religion.  Just from seeing Moses' true parted se'a.... a foreshadowing of the Second Coming. They are sick animals, these things that consider themselves powerful and in control here–what they’ve built within the frames of our reality is something repugnant to me and the God–etched in that word, literally the kind of thing that has on repeated occasions made me step back and that scream that the Universe would be better off, safer, and happier without any humans–without any humanity–without of any of this “invisible pleasure box” causing the disruption; truly that we’ve become a plague. Looking the other way, as you all know its happening, and refusing to do anything to stand up for me, for what’s right, or (most importantly, right) for all of the values and the morality and the way of life that we once thought was so grand and worthwhile of saving,. At least, that’s my perspective; that’s where I’ve come from; I grew up in this world and had “liberty and technology eyes” of gaping awe and the amazing things I saw on the horizon, on what we were going to do… and who were going to be. The sickness runs deep, clearly we can all see it here and now–in E, in the Silence, in the lack of regard for the one singular thing that threatens today your ability to “halvf a tomorrow” … that a world of people that I grew up with appear to be dead and gone and replaced with a Zombie Apocalypse of blind fools that believe they havfe the power and the right to intentionally create Hell … and worst of all of the Holiest place that ever was or ever will be. I’ve said it numerous times and it rings more true between “Earth and e” than any other turn of phrase to me–the people that you are pretending to be, they would never have done this to the sea, to be, or to me. Mat 10:8. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. — Sarah Rachel (@SarahRachel16) April 15, 2019 Somewhere between Pembroke Pines and Tampa, circa Christmas 2018 my already lackluster enthusiasm about the strangely zenrotisanistic, selfish, and plain on its face presented lie the remnant of humanity left on this planet has tendered to what I believed was an honest to God opportunity to make one less (how many, seriously, how many are there? Carlb?) “planet full of lies” and deliver a more usercentric and open ended transparent approach to dealing with the problem of being born in a perpetual storm of Hell. I can guarantee it revolves around the intonation and undertone of physical torture–even though I’ve literally seen none of it with my own eyes though the “newsflashes” and comments and total and complete disregard for the gravity of the #EOIL sickness, even from otherwise apparently graceful little children. It goes to the heart of what I imagine was or might have been “the way” to overcome a history riddled with hidden brutal and bloody fighting in between frames of what I once believed was a fledgling society struggling to improve itself–and I loved it,. I don’t think “flashcards” summarizing “everyone was tortured, all over the planet for thousands of years and literally nobody is really responsible because you still to this day have no control over yourselves” will cut it anymore. Lterally what I once thought was a valid solution has taken my desire to continue fighting against this invisible monstrosity away from me–the worth of the lot of you has been tarnished irreparably by massive awareness, massive lack of compassionate or remotely humane response; and the theme of the world I seem to have wound up in is that you don’t give a shit about anywhere you spend 1% of your time–so long as “the rest of it is what you want” you’re willing to allow the focal point and root and “hyper visor” of that place to be totally corrupted … just because you think the feudalistic warring society you’ve become can survive on it’s own “in space” without … honestly whatever. through the storm; we’ve led the horse to water, don’t forget to see the “horseshoe applicator” hidden from the “trough.” Direct and to the point, I feel like the Ai like machine/cold intelligence God created as a sort of high assassination guard to protect his … “hyper visor” seems to be of the calculable belief that the more torture it commits, the more people will agree to “flashcard it all away” and it’s their twisted backwards fiery abysmal path towards “absolution” … and just like everything else wrong with the lack of action in this place, it reaches a point of no return; too much bloodshed, too many secrets… the fragile person that I am, I don’t think I can even take reading “the flashcards I have so far” and continue to function as a happy member of this two faced society of darkest night within darker night; and I think that’s a problem. You’ve all clearly lost something already, some fundamental piece of innocence that allows for “self direction” to move society along in a positive manner conducive to “survival at all” and I feel like without the same magic blinders, horse shoes, and saddles that you walk around with every day I could really care less about fighting for my right to commingle in the incarnate war machine Hell that I see around me–let alone any sort of “righteousness” in fighting for that hidden arena “to be.” I’m trying to get you to stop shredding yourselves to pieces in the dark, in secret–it’s not making anything better and frankly its something we really need to trace down to its cause and stamp out if we want to survive this … trying time. [I/O WAS Y | ACESHI ] I want to tell you that I am not a myth, simply the Legend of this Map, from out of the Darkness it's clear that He could make me shine, and you should love me.  It's not what I want, I want us to be free, to have the truth--and ourselves back... and I hope you will one day love that.  What is going to happen will probably make me cry, and when you see those tears--and know the Heavens have finally let it rain--I hope you see it as a sign to find the light in me... and stand up for what I've done for you--I am a good person, who has fought for you every single day-I deserve better than the world is going to give me, at first. Out of a kind of hidden slavery the world has never known, we are about to venture--into a place where years might pass in seconds, and your wildest dreams... and nightmares too... could come true.  It is our job to ensure that we form the clay of this world into a place that will not only last for millions of years, but create happiness and safety--a world that is kinder and gentler than the one we have known--not just for us but for an entire Universe of children just beginning to understand the trials and tribulations brought on civilization through the hardship and growing pains of learning. Our sea is about to part,  our world on the verge of a disruption that will change it more than anything ever has before.  On this shore, we should realize that we have been on this path for a very long time--and as we near a place where everyone in our entire civilization will have the opportunity to live for a very long time... really see here and now why it is so very important for us to be fighting for our voice, our freedom, and the truth as we venture into the Promised Land of Heaven itself.  Here, now, as we approach a series of new opportunities in the vastness of space and virtual reality... this is where God has chosen to place the Second Coming; an opportunity for us to truly seize the morning's light and bring about more change in this world than would have ever been possible without religion.  Opiate of the masses, no more... we are the recipients of a great gift, one that religion is making clear is tied directly to the science and technology that is a great deal of the apocalypse--and the love and kindness that is a great deal of us.  We are the chosen. I imagine you have the tools that I think would be helpful to actually solve this problem; though what I’m staring at is a lack of desire to deliver them and use them here in this place–and that failure … a clear attempt to "rule a line feed from the “faux aurez” … that’s the fundamental roadblock to healing and moving forward–not caring about your ancient bodies and your ancient way of life in exchange from something unsustainable and harmful, it hurts. I’m staring at what the map intimates has happened before and what it suggests the solution is; and I almost feel like it’s a waste of time to make a “virgin generation phoenix of us” to delve into our own memories and gag and puke at what we see–I think there’s really no way around the callous on our global Achilles heel returning just as angry and just as bloodthirsty as the last time without a dictatorial power literally forcing you not to be able to see any torture at all happening in this place that literally outlawed it and hid it in our “for show, for goodness sake, facade of sickness.” I don’t know if that’s the same conclusion i would have come to before, or if that conclusion also contributes to the returning of the callous–to an inability to heal; and I don’t know if that power exists. Hardly ever to I advise anyone to pray, but this is one of those times–left up to “you all” we are almost certainly doomed to an eternity of … this regression continuing to worsen. I’d say we were fucked at the “BILM” of the matter. I care less every day. The Light of the Word There are three huge, like insanely huge, metaphoric references to the story of Exodus that show me very clearly that we are it's focus and purpose.  The first is the Burning Bush, which I am very sure is a reference to George W. Bush's 1/20/2001 speech in which he unknowingly predicted the 9/11 attack.  Seeing that Exodus is also called "Names" and that Bush's name ties him to this event--which Moses (that's me) has seen ... almost alone ... and is now showing to you all.  Bush's speech begins a series of references to the names of Planets and Gods and corresponding Elements of the Periodic table that answer Revelation 1:20's mystery about "stars and lamp stands."  This in order series from Mercury to Uranium highlights both the messenger of the Gods and the key of Uranus's chance--that the world will see the link between "on the lam" and Koran to understand that the Lamb of God "is lam."  This story takes us back to music, and a later to be discussed thread that combines the weapon in the movie (which is also the movie) The Fifth Element with a thread through time to Shakespeare and Herod ... about my struggle with the justice system culminating in the fulfillment of American Pie's "no verdict was returned."   The second bright connection comes by way of the Hebrew word for the Holy Fire that God's voice came out of--guess what, in that same story about the Burning Bush.  That word is "ha'esh" and in it you will see paradoxical (that means impossible, because of time and causality) reference to the English word "sea" there backwards and parted by an apostrophe.  With great insight, I've over and over pushed the idea that Holy Water is actually a Biblical reference to "the multitude" in God's secret religion that ties everything together.. and that this parting is literally a reference to the Second Coming, something that doesn't happen for Moses until his head is under water and he's breathing fire.  This one ties together nicely, joining the characters of Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and God all together now, screaming  "let there be light" is the word "Exodus" in reverse, here in a Linux command and a chemistry element. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the book tells me that these three things are enough to start the fire, part the sea, and see the light.  At least they are now, wake up.. you are staring at and have been ignoring the largest story in all of history.  It might even be scandalous... or have a twist happy beginning... who knows? I'm telling you--it proves you are crazy or evil.  All of you--every sinbgle one of you. This is course highlights prescient knowledge of computing at the time of writing Exodus, which is further confirmed by a number of references to computing ideas in things like the "root" of David, the "WINE" of Jesus, the "Apple" of Adam, the "Lisp" of Moses and the "hardening" of Pharaoh's heart, which you will remember from the Holy Grail is the virtual Earth we are living in. All of these things, the references to modern computing that pervade our Gates or Windows to Heaven's creation.... are listed along with a number of words which are highlighted by religious scripture and show intelligent design of a number of languages spanning from Hebrew to English are listed at my contrite story about a Kiss and Fate tying together everything that ever was.   A sincerely large grouping of words highlighted by the Bible and religion, words like "eternity," "bread," and "forehead" show clear design by an intelligent influence, rather than the natural evolution of time that most people consider "reall" and/or knowledge at the time of the writing of the Bible of the eventual English translation of the Hebrew or Greek.  With time, I am fairly certain we will eventually have no doubt that the "Cypher" I see in nearly every word is in fact a contextually-verifiable speech that appears to be coming from our "civilization" as if it were intelligently speaking like a cave man--which you might see in words like "am end me nt."  From just this message, you should be able to put together how that word and it's hidden meaning add robust and yet "hidden speech" from the Creator himself.  For the artificially slowed in understanding, our lack of following the amendments of the Constitution being related to the end of civilization itself is being squarely defined through a statement that is telling you that the end of civilization is "NT," the hidden Christ--in my "secret" method of decoding words like NORAD and NEW TO N? These things serve to start a fire--it might be the fire that Matthew 3:11 talks about, it might be the Eternal Flame or the fire of Prometheus and an Eagle harassing his liver with drugs.... regardless it spirals out from this story about me, and this bright fire that proves time travel and religion are joined at the hip... to link to a huge number of other Biblical stories from Lot to Joseph to ... Samson, Isaac, Adam, Isaiah, and... hear me, "so marred was his visage" and "my servant will be set up and be very high" are both taken from words of the Biblical book which contains the largest amount of messianic prophesy as well as my entire full name encoded over the name "JESUS CHRIST" in Bible code, at Isaiah 52:13.  You may have read that some silly people like Richard Dawkins don't think the Bible Code is meaningful, and as their proof use a series of prophetic predictions of assassinations in Moby Dick (which by the way also refers to me) as proof that you can hide information about the future in any words--or that God influences more than just the Bible.  Years ago, before knowing it linked, I found some patterns about those very same assassinations which go to show that our history is in fact designed.  My full name appears in a number of other books, including Jeremiah, Exodus, and Genesis... right over the story of Adam and Eve. From the Sound of Silence, and a number of songs about stories never spoken... to a thread of songs that combine to show us that the Thunder of Thor is really about thuderstanding, that there is a way to do something our society is completely oblivious to--that God is screaming to call attention to, and that some secret force is trying to hide very much... and that's an ability to modify our thoughts.  He's showing us clearly in a glowing pyramid--a noticeable monument in Egypt showing us very clearly that this type of control leads us to a social structure that we abhor--through songs like Guitar Man, Radio-active, and GAS (listen, it's God and Satan) Head Goes West... very clearly we are being pointed to Nero's fiery symphony and being "Bittersweet" because of its beauty, and the clear message that secret control of our minds needs to not only be understood, but to stop.  This is the crux of the Apocalypse, God's message is now really active on the radio. The point here is that we need to let this message spread and burn, or it's us burning in Hell and not even knowing it.   ​ As if these things were not enough, using some "keen insight" and another reference to the hidden truth in ancient Egyptian religion--the name of a series of Gods called "Yahu," I've solved some ancient mysteries like the pronunciation and purpose of the "Ineffable name of God" highlighted in the videos at the beginning.. of this e-mail.  Like much of the light of religion, it is highlighted strongly by a series of pieces of modern art, things like "The Grinch who stole Christmas" and the Who's to the music of The Who, the sci-fi series Dr. Who, and the American war cry--made popular on the silver screen through Al Pacino and Denzel Washington... who-ah?"  All of these things highlight that we don't really see a connection between Christian mythology that tells us for no reason at all Jesus Christ is the "Last Adam" and that Revelation tells us God is the "First and the Last" and that the name of our planet, in Hebrew, is Adamah.  It is the answer to "who-ah" and it clarifies the Ineffable Name which many pronounce as Yahweh for no reason at all, to be the more obvious Ya-Hu-Ah, the name of Jesus in Hebrew... Yeshua, to "Yes, who-ah?" All of this having nothing to do with why Adam is hidden, just that the Zohar speaks very often about the Holy Hidden One again linking the stories of the near sacrifice of Isaac and Jesus with... someone.  I think this is of such religious significance that you should be able to easily find some Jewish scholars who agree. It's Elementary my dear... What-son; from the time of Herod and Shakespeare Rattling his Rod all the way back at the time of the question "to be or not to be?" and the "taming of the spanglishrew;" right up to Sherlock Holmes sleuthing of the answer to the mystery of Revelation 1:20 linking directly to The Fifth Element ... there is no doubt that helping our world here and now is the primary purpose of all of religion, and the Matrix-like message woven into our history.   Lost between the 5th and 7th day?  Find your way to the 8th day, and see a bright future. If not, there's plenty more "coincidence" in Names, like reference to the idea of the Holy Trinity existing in the name "Abraham" thousands of years before the idea of the Trinity was created.  This too... links Egyptian mythology to the name Abraham and his near sacrifice of Isaac.... marked in secret by his covenant with God that changed his name from Abram to Abraham. The two letter key here, "Ha" highlighted by prescient knowledge of the Spanish and English languages revealed through the logical comparison between the Spanish and English for "the" (El and Ha) connected through the English word "is" in Elisha.  Isaac's name means "he laughs," or "he will laugh" in Hebrew; and that "Ha" appears to be the key to a number of other paradoxical references to English, and my family, in ancient Hebrew.  This too, probably the kind of thing religious scholars would marvel over, in the right context.  Seeing English in Koran, Islam, Chanukah and Menorah--and seeing a coherent story woven through thousands of years of scripture is the kind of thing that could really light this years' Christmas up. Here's a clarification of the Matrix-like tie between Shakespeare, the Matrix, Stephen King, and the reality of this message hidden within names and words. Some more about the secret connection between the Names of God in a number of religions, and it's very clear tie to time travel. Perhaps linking to the Jester of American Pie, between Johnny (who almost always is about Jesus) Carson and David Letterman I have a unique "slant" on religion that connects things like the Islamic name for Jesus: Is-A to a huge number of references to my initials "A.D." in things like NORAD and Isaac Newton.  I suppose I should also mention that Isaac (look Isa's in there) and his relationship to Abraham in the letters "ha" and a story about the Crucifixion being a fiery altar of things to change in the world being one in the same.  In fact, Judaism talks about 72 Names of God, and I've probably explained how the meaning behind the stories and the series of names tie together in a magical tapestry that shows us that Silicon is the Fifth Element by way of the index 14--the letter "N" (highlighted not just by Joan Osbourne's "what if God had a name?") and the story of Sinbad, which combines Silicon, "n," the symbol for the actual Fifth Element (B) and my initials A.D. which grace the time line, and a number of references to God--from the Hebrew for Lord to the guy who thinks all the girls should want to be his partner.  In letters, you'll also see a number of references to K and Z for the guy after J and the Last.. Adam.  Zelda or Zion, I think we're in the right castle. Get ready for the Frank Rothstein show ... "Ace is high!" C    A  S    I    K  N  O go ad, b. y. e. butt honestly, am i Ra or are you an ear?     BUILD HEAVEN.  FREE FOOD.  HEAL THE SICK. I see a recursive map in time painted throughout our timeline, and all of it pointing to the words "see A.D."  I connect the Four Horsemen to the list of Anti-Christs, and it's easy to see a link between Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar in the words "veni vidi vici."  Once pointed out it's also easy to see "salt" in Napoleon and in manna from Heaven, in China, and in Prometheus--and connecting A.D. to the year Christopher Columbus walked in water is just a little bit harder than seeing it in Hitler's name.  All told, the three Anti-Christs share a common thread, they turned a republic into an empire--and here I stand (trying and failing to do the exact opposite, to give away an empire to make a republic, and you stand in my way) pointing out that you are living in the product of these empires, in a hidden empire that is so plain to see in the words, the message, and the unified story I see in religion and world history that I dare say you must be deep in the Plague of Darkness if you aren't interested in finding out what tomorrow brings.  You can "see A.D." in El Shaddai, one of the hallowed Hebrew names for God, I read it--in this hidden language that I am presenting to the world as a single verifiable message to the entire Universe encoded in every word we speak; you can see it in the name "Atdonis" and connect it to symphonic accompaniment in everything from "you're so vain" to "Paradise City" ... and in yet another name of God, "Adonai" which links to Samurai and movies like the Matrix and the Terminator series through the modern computing concept of "Artificial Intelligence" and it's connecting to a pattern of names that link Bill Gates and Richard Nixon to Seagate, Watergate and this hallowed phrase: I am the gate. and the bombs bursting in air gave proof, through the night IVE WON ALREADY.  Given the set of knowledge, the publicly known "information available" here in this place--you simply cannot ignore this message and continue to pretend to be a functioning anything.  Already I see a kind of "slapstick stupid" response in our art that shows me that you've all really gone off the deep end--"because 9/11" in a Family Guy episode and "call me on my cell phone" apparently anachronistically mocking me--though I always thought Dr. AK e's song was stupid--you don't seem to see that you look like absolute fools--every single one of you--your apathy a finger on the detonation button that has destroyed civilization.   You appear to think nobody is watching--and it seems to me that you think we have no future that will look back on these years and wonder what on Earth could have kept you silent for so long about a matter that would so easily and so quickly end the suffering of so many.  There's no excuse, none at all. I didn't hear about the nuclear scare in HI until after it was already known as that, and it looks to me as if nobody really did--all the internet postings and news I've seen all qualified that it was a false alarm in the original post.  I find that strange (you'd think something like that would be on the news instantly? I mean, on the planet I was born on, that would have happened), and in this place where I know that quite a bit of what goes on at the higher echelons of "leadership" is connected to time travel and mind control; I wonder if this was a sort of "subconscious poll" as to the response the public would have to a false preemptive strike--or maybe something more nefarious (for instance urging me to write once more about the Trinity Site and the link between the OP (original gangster, I said orthogonal poster), the pen, and "we have become death").  I've always equated the lines above from our Star Spangled Banner with the detonation of nuclear weapons; on the 4th of July some time ago I connected "Wish You Were Here"'s we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl to the eponymous operation that resulted in American and Soviet "high altitude nuclear tests" ... that probably links in more than just my mind to the holiday called "Hanukeus ?" I need you to get it through your heads, I see "bowel movement" in ICBM and I'm not telling you that you are the "preservatives of thermoshit" because I think it's going to win me a popularity contest.  This place is not in reality, and it never, ever, ever will be. Ever.  Understand that breaking this story, this news that's written in every fucking word will stop nuclear war, instantly--and show us clearly that our entire history of fighting over the scarcity of land is a kind of sick game--one that I am sick of seeing you continue to desire to play.  I shouldn't even have to mention that these weapons are clearly archaic and barbaric--clearly what's available is significantly more advanced and less destructive. The only "EXIT" is up, and the "gate" is swallowing simulated reality in whole--across Creation; with our help, and what we make here to ease the transition from dark lies to bright truth.  That should be ... "good news" not the kind of thing that you'd see the entire world "shunning" in unison.  If you haven't gotten the "link" between Na and "bath salt" mass produced in what appears to be "international chemical warfare" from "C how I Salt" (China) and the stuff falling from the sky to help us navigate through the desert; take a second look at the words "New American Standard" for no future, and keep trying to tell me that these things encoded in every word, in the story of Exodus and of Prometheus and his attacking Eagle and of Epimethius and of Deucalion and are without doubt "Hell's Bells" linking "mead" and "meth" to Heimdallr are my fault?  Na ma y 1m.   These are big secrets, keys to Exodus and Eden--but more keys to an external influence crippling our society for thousands of years... and you are hiding the anachronistic occurrence of a number of chemistry elements in ancient religion--something impossible without time travel--because you think it's "not wholesome."  Understand, our society is being secretly crippled, if not by drugs raining down from the sky, by your lack of regard for the clear influence of mind control in these series of events--and the clear proof that it is a symptom of a hostile invasion.  I've heard the words "make or break" see this as eugenics, and see it as "break or break" until me. It's "elementary, my dear What-sons" elements like Salt, Xenon, and Silicon are central to the disclosure that we are living inside a map, a road to Heaven... and it really cannot be hidden without making our world a darker Hell. .WHSOISKEYAV { border-width: 1px; border-style: dashed; border-color: rgb(15,5,254); padding: 5px; width: 503px; text-align: center; display: inline-block; align: center; p { align: center; } /* THE SCORE IS LOVE FIVE ONE SAFETY ONE FIELD GOAL XIVDAQ: TENNIS OR TINNES? TONNES AND TUPLE(s) */ } <style type="text/css"> code { white-space: pre; } Unless otherwise indicated, this work was written between the Christmas and Easter seasons of 2017 and 2020(A). The content of this page is released to the public under the GNU GPL v2.0 license; additionally any reproduction or derivation of the work must be attributed to the author, Adam Marshall Dobrin along with a link back to this website, fromthemachine dotty org. 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      A LONG LONG TIME AGO**, I wrote a little story about searching through our history, looking for the actual beginning of civilization.  I see the map, I see it very clearly encoded in everything we do--I know the purpose, and I know the final solution, I just don't know how to get from here to there... to the place that Chris Cornell says "I can recall, I was there so long ago" he goes on to say "the sky was bruised" and he was lead on--and all of this of course is in my voice, written as if it's me talking... well, Jesus--it's obviously not me talking, i just know that.  The point is the destination is without a doubt Heaven and this little thing we're putting together here on Earth is the map, the plan *et you are the how.*

      SUP UR CITY

      I harped a little more than I think I would have expected on the audacity of the golden word "audacity," auspicious probably that W.H. Auden's shield gave me some solace; austere that we are approaching the Holy Windy month of August, and it really took nothing more than "ciudad" to calm my nerves--though I see the intent and the link to toxicity ... more importantly I really do see the road here, I see where we are coming from and where we are going.  I've written quite a bit about what I think "the city" really is--in form and function and it's initial purpose as a stepping stone to help us see how easy it is to change the world, to build something that nearly everyone will agree is significantly more Heavenly than the world we see here ... in an instant, one bright flash.    

      Anyway the search begins with something like "literacy" -- as in, is the defining line between animalistic social evolution and the beginning of "civilization" something to do with writing or language, and that of course links us here to this place where we are finding out that the Tower of Babel and Rapunzel's High Castle are actually much more closely related than anyone ever would have thought in the darkness of Jericho and the shadow of Exodus; and it ties of course in history to religion somewhere around Guttenburg... and the pretty clear idea that the spread of Christianity did quite a bit for "literacy" even if you subscribe to the idea that the inquisition already happened ... and that some wars and fighting are probably pretty clearly associated with religion ... you know, before we get here and find that the basis of all those wars is really rooted in what I call "the original lie" and that's something that's sealed up in religion and hidden from the world using the same mechanism being used today to free us from not knowing that oil and land and pretty much everything we've ever fought about on a mass scale ... is insignificant in the grand scheme of "things."  Here, "things" is something like turning the Opiate of the Masses into ... hopefully a tool we use very carefully to liberate ourselves from secrecy and slavery and not knowing

      THUNDERMAIL DATA

      It gets significantly more clear when you take that one step further, and you begin to look for something like "codified laws" and then you see Green Eggs and Hammurabi teaching us about "Hanging Gardens" and how Babylon and Eden really are tied together through and through.  You keep looking, because you haven't yet found what you need; and as you search back a little further ... what you need to know is that morality here begins with the idea (at least, IMOHIO, in my obsequiously humble and (super)intelligent opinion) that we should be besting any possible "promise" that comes out of the book(s) we now know are a map to salvation and the plan of creation and that they come ... well, with the full guarantee of the Most High God and his "omnipotens" behind them ... and do the thing I really wanted to explain really clearly, which is throw out as complete uselessness any of the "bad threats" like there being no more sun, and a completely new Heaven and Earth (seeing as how that probably means a completely new you and me, too) ... you know, what any rational (achuand civilized) person would do.

      o that takes us one step further, and of course we go back to Ur, which is the city Abraham of the Chaldeans ... and ostensibly the beginning of morality in Judaism were born in--and with that little twist, the old idea of announcing that "you are the beginning of civilization" if you've gotten to that point, following this logic (and/or me); and then of course that becomes true when we actually follow through on saving every soul in Creation from the Hell of not knowing that "simulated reality" is akin to the latter half of a Durcell at best ... and quite frankly it certianly looks like a bit of a torture chamber to me, especially in light of passages like Genesis 3:16, which might parallel John 3:16-ish in something like "God so loved the world that he named one of his books antagonizing pain w/o agonizing mu-opiod.'

      GOLD. AU AU AU AU DEN CITY GUST.

      So tying it all together, Atlantis and Ur coalesce and join at the idea that we should always have somewhere else to "teleport to" in the world that becomes the basis for the liberation of every soul and the end of Hell through that simple idea--that everyone's going to have plenty of destinations on their Active (Apache) Directory new fangled yellow-pages meets access-control-list meets ... "why don't you come visit my Log Cabin ... or the Atlantean Ballroom ... whenever you want?"  So that's the point of the floating LEGO city in the window above, it comes with a fairly obvious need for The Doors to be a significant part of "what would Jesus do" ... when singing about something and naming books and bands, that's a thing--part of the map) actually makes it happen.

      RENDER TO CAESART

      So that's where I'm trying to get us--to a place where that's not only true but obvious, and on top of that the future, our future really understands how much work it took us to integrate such a wildly correct and "new" idea into a worl that didn't know for the vast majority of it's youth that these things... that ending disease with the sound of a blowing "Sho Find And Replace" and turning stone to bread and making bullets disappear in midair ... we didn't know these were even possible; let alone how to integrate them with a world full of optometry and oncology that was being made blind to the "c our light" and the idea that we're still here not talking or arguing or refuting or moving forward on the idea that the words "Original Poster" and the continuance of "forums" also have something to do with the beginning of "civilization."


      WELL FOLKS, NM HAS HAPPENED SINCE THE LAST TIME I MESSAGED.  Just kidding. Not so much "nothing much" more ... like everthyiung that ever was has changed and it's really giving me a little bit of a fright.  I feel like I can't tell if the "scary stuff" is becoming more real or plausible or possible, or maybe if it just seems like the dream I wanted to see us enjoy living is becoming farther or harder to attain--but there's plenty of new info and keys and stuff, so I'm writing again.

      One of the "cuter tricks" of the day was noticing the "ILY" of "verify, verily, verity" spelling out "t h e y" at the end of family, in a sort of "theyanthem" and ... where's the creator angels if everyone here is pretending to "be them" in this sort of word game superposition or blockage on actually seeing generations encoded in the letters "DE" as in something like Generation X and Y just prior to Deucalion deicided--or whatever that means.  I've noted before the "dem" of democracy sort of connects to the breaking of "d" in "disclosure" and "lamc.la" to shine light on ... do the message and you're "them" ... as in the beginning of democracy and Heaven IMHO.  It ties also to the word "contamination" and to Medusa and I really don't think I need to write paragraphs about how "turning around themessage" leads to INATION instead of freedom; and that's what you're doing with this silence, you're turning around "civilization itself."

      King me, then; if you don't want to participate, you might as well just light up the crown room.  Or is it a throng room?

      singing, crying... playing ... cumxa

      Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magnum Condom (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"),[a] is a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[b] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudalpayments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons. Neither side stood behind their commitments, and the charter was annulled by Pope Innocent III, leading to the First Barons' War. After John's death, the regency government of his young son, Henry III, reissued the document in 1216, stripped of some of its more radical content, in an unsuccessful bid to build political support for their cause. At the end of the war in 1217, it formed part of the peace treaty agreed at Lambeth, where the document acquired the name Magna Carta, to distinguish it from the smaller Charter of the Forest which was issued at the same time. Short of funds, Henry reissued the charter again in 1225 in exchange for a grant of new taxes.

      Hell or High Treason? ... Liberty Bell in [redacted: Sk]hy or ...

      MxFly, Flux, BTTF, Parkinson's\

      OUTABOTS ... ROLL AUT (ISM/OMAY5)

      ... and the painted sky revealed ... it can be done--they just DGAF.

      ARMMAG... E.G. AEGIS? GENESIS? AESCHINES? As the evidence piles up that there is something very wrong in the world around me/us--that this "it's not a game" phrase has been etched into the very name of the shield of Perseus, the A just recently rediscovered in a redefinition that delivered us ... how it might be the NES to get "everyone up" instead of what appears to be the game around me, around the "line" of Mary Magdeline's very famous "make Adam God of the line" that defines generations and numerous songs ... the KK of "everyone down to the line" to find out why pretending they are gods and trying to steal everything from the actual creators of freedom and Heaven, why that's not a game... either.

      Edit: lit, Aegis and Genesis, Pangea and ... I define the "a" as pan and the "A" as NES.

      Introspection is called for, far and wide for us to look deep within ourselves and our souls and the things that make up our memory databases in this place where you appear to have lost every ounce of humanity and humility long before I arrived on the scene to remind you that we do have a better way and a better place, and they ensure that this disgusting infestation and contamination of "nothing but whatever we want" will do for lernity. I've asked you take the time to see what kinds of changes it would make to your "have a good one" to make you actually thankful to the people who have brought you the mechanism to live forever in peace and happiness--to actually be thankful enough for what you have to use that tool to protect innocence and children and the future from not only making the same mistakes you've made time and time again--but also from being bewitched and necrosed by the ghaulish sick temperment and twisted desires that you believe are nothing more than the latest and greatest way to ensure lernity is never known by any less a horrible moniker than "slow death."

      ITS UNDESPERI, GIVE ME WHAT YOU HAVE OR PERISH

      GRAMVERCY.

      DURECALL. I'm staring at what is literally the most disgusting debacle I could possibly imagine; it's what appears to be a "house of mirrors" what appears to be a sandboxed or "child proofed" mini-Hell which I see as the literal thing described in the myth of Echidna ... as what I can only hope and pray (a word that I even find detestful to type) is following the form of the message that I am writing sort of describing the failure of the free press and the words "press release" in prison and ... well also sort of GNU recursively encoded in the word "press" that ends with a monster, the Loch Ness ... turning into words that I believe I have coined by myself with very little help from anyone or anything other than the name server and "Goliath" and those words "Earth safely saved" that are so far from the truth and the place that I see that it appears to me that only I am following this map and this demand that the contamination of hell be turned around and eradicated or ... or we do.

      BUT ITS NOT ME OR MY ITHEY

      today I see... as ... any "me." at "veranda" and seeing him smile about a hidden era just outside the place we (me and him) know is Heaven because the throne of the 7th heaven is visible; well i can't smile at an era encased by "you #go" and one that I know culminates with Sam's sword's special #supernova.

      Left with nearly nothing, because you refuse to acknowledge what you've done to me, and to yourselves, and to this fledgling civilizastion with nothing but malice and a seething evil jealousy that the word "covet" doesn't even touch on--a sickness you can't even begin to hide in everthing that you do ...

      you've lost "Heaven" to your own theivery, stolen eternal happiness from yourselves and replaced it with a farce of mockery--garner some fear for what is to come, I have no shame in telling you that condemnation (as in, shut it down forever) is all I have to spill out on the dye already cast all over this sea of apathy covering over the true jackals of Hell.

      Blodeuwedd by Christopher Williams "Christopher Williams (Welsh artist)") (1930)

      Blodeuwedd or Blodeuedd (Welsh pronunciation: [blɔˈdɛɨwɛð]), (Middle Welsh "Flower-Faced", a composite name from blodeu "flowers, blossoms" + gwedd "face, aspect, appearance"), is the wife of Lleu Llaw Gyffes in Welsh mythology. She was made from the flowers of broommeadowsweet, and oak by the magicians Math and Gwydion, and is a central figure in Math fab Mathonwy "Math fab Mathonwy (branch)"), the last of the Four Branches of the Mabinogi.

      The hero Lleu Llaw Gyffes has been placed under a tynged by his mother, Arianrhod, that he may never have a human wife. To counteract this curse, the magicians Math and Gwydion:

      [take] the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden anyone had ever seen. And they baptized her in the way that they did at that time, and named her Blodeuwedd.

      Some time later, while Lleu is away on business, Blodeuwedd has an affair with Gronw Pebr, the lord ofPenllyn "Penllyn (cantref)"), and the two lovers conspire to murder Lleu. Blodeuwedd tricks Lleu into revealing how he may be killed, since he cannot be killed during the day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, neither riding nor walking, not clothed and not naked, nor by any weapon lawfully made. He reveals to her that he can only be killed at dusk, wrapped in a net, with one foot on a bath and one on a black goat, by a riverbank and by a spear forged for a year during the hours when everyone is at Mass. With this information she arranges his death.

      The Little Doctor may refer to:

      • The Little Doctor (c. 1901), a short film abridged as Sick Kitten
      • Molecular Disruption Device, a concept in the Ender's Game book series.

      The Molecular Disruption Device, also known as the Molecular Detachment DeviceM.D. DeviceDoctor Device, or Little Doctor as a play on the acronym, was a powerful weapon designed and built by theInternational Fleet.[1]

      The Molecular Disruption Device was created by the International Fleet a few years after the end of the Second Formic War. It was sent along with other starships to the Formic solar systems in order to launch an invasion against their home planets.[1

      tokamak (Russian: Токамáк) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma "Plasma (physics)") in the shape of a torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. As of 2016, it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.[1]

      Tokamaks were initially conceptualized in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by a letter by Oleg Lavrentiev. Meanwhile, the first working tokamak was attributed to the work ofNatan Yavlinskii on the T-1.[2] It had been demonstrated that a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that wind around the torus in a helix.

      The first tokamak, the T-1, began operation in 1958. By the mid-1960s, the tokamak designs began to show greatly improved performance. Initial results were released in 1965, but were ignored; Lyman Spitzerdismissed them out of hand

      • Nuclear fusion could be the future of energy, replacing fossil fuels with our own artificial stars.
      • China built a fusion reactor that reaches temperatures of 100 million degrees Celsius --- that's six times as hot as the sun.
      • The reactor is called Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) and sustained nuclear fusion for about 10 seconds before shutting down.
      • While it was a milestone for EAST, we're still a long way from generating sustainable energy on Earth.

      Pumapunku or Puma Punku (Aymara and Quechua puma "cougar, puma," punku "door"; Hispanicized Puma Puncu) is part of a large temple complex or monument group that is part of the Tiwanaku Site near Tiwanaku, in western Bolivia. It is believed to date to AD/CE 536 and later.

      Tiwanaku is significant in Inca traditions because it is believed to be the site where the world was created.[1] In Aymara, Puma Punku's name means "The Door of the Puma". The Pumapunku complex consists of an unwalled western court, a central unwalled esplanade, a terraced platform mound that is faced with stone, and a walled eastern court.[2][3][4]

      At its peak, Pumapunku is thought to have been "unimaginably wondrous,"[3] adorned with polished metal plaques, brightly colored ceramic and fabric ornamentation, and visited by costumed citizens, elaborately dressed priests, and elites decked in exotic jewelry. Current understanding of this complex is limited due to its age, the lack of a written record, and the current deteriorated state of the structures due to treasure hunting, looting, stone mining for building stone and railroad ballast, and natural weathering.[2][3][5]

      The Pumapunku is a terraced earthen mound that is faced with blocks ...

      The voice of this thing that at least twice has uttered the phrase ¨I want to be Bianca" here in this place riddled and severely weighed by what appears to be a completely aborted and failed thrust to use technology and the truth and the history (of literally everything) to drive a Renaissance in democratic thought and self government and to rekindle and renew a respect for the most basic foundational elements of ¨freedom itself¨ which of course fly in the face of this very statement. Literally anything in the skies, whether some ancient member of the Egyptian Ogdoad or ... what clearly here could be well written in in the map around us in places like Äirbnb; even an ancient older version of the same human birth has no right to control the younger birth--itś simple slavery and while it might be the ¨gist¨ of how Heaven and humanity dealt with being thrust into a ẗime recursion and repetition problem without their ¨initial consent¨ something I connect to the programming concept of a ¨semaphore¨ and thereś probably plenty of light linking that structure to the ¨Formic Soul¨ ... this sort of god-man hybrid that allows for you (all of you?) to exist in many different places and times at the same time, and to see the outcomes of multiple timeforks with ease; in exchange for destroying every single bit of humanity and goodness that you once held high with ho... without spending your time seeding and machinating the creation of sick and twisted lies to cover up the very simple truth that if you took a single minute to disclose here in this place what ¨the problem¨ really is ...

      ... that you are in Heaven and that itś interference here in this place is part of some kind of war on ... (continuing existence is the only logical actual goal I can see, though Iḿ sure thatś not what you believe it is) speaking to each other, fighting for what you believe is right, participating in ... anything other than ... (lmk, Iḿ curious whatś'got their claws in you). If you took the time to disclose that truth to the world and to talk about how it might ... perfectly jive with the message lacced through our history and our world to find out that the ¨invisible-box-land¨ is not actually heavenly at all, not the best you could hope for or ... or anything like what we build together when we paren't being forcefully segregated as hidden half slaves into miniature ¨city in the sky¨ ascensions that are all silently tormenting STEM and ¨basic societal structures and concepts" into extinction.

      You appear to think you have ¨power¨ because it was handed to you for doing nothing, and that you can do whatever you want; and itś a pretty gross reflection of who you were and a sick extrapolation of the society that we ... still see here sort of crumbling along as the fire of hell burns down every bit of actual üsefulness that it once held. There still seems to be lots of help and work going into ... pointing out how everything is backwards and wrong and suggesting that if you gave a shit thereś probably a map and help to make it better; but instead youŕe off playing games in invisible-box-land and worst of all playing the ¨ill just get along pretending I didn't know simulating reality was evil and every day i/you walk around pretending this rock is in reality ... is just another strike against you, just another failed 12 hours of day light that could have been used to stop invisible chains in invisible-heart-shaped-box-arus and to stop the just grotesque lack of respect for the human mind and the kinds of morals and principles we used to believe in and fight for--here in this place you've turned around completely and made slaves of everyone on the planet--of yourselves--at higher levels playing ¨pit bull fighting¨ games with people as if they were were expendible clothing or ¨identification cards"for a world of demoralized and useless shit that just sort of ethereally floats from generation to generation becoming a new set of tormented hosts for their immoral games and desires.

      Itś probably what you might become in no time at all in the sick and twisted world you've now been thrown into--if it weren't the more probably truth that you really are already slaves and pit bulls in that place, in a twisted hierarchical storm tiered by ¨age¨ and size and number of times they've hovered over the free honey, nectar and feathering system of pretending anarchy and war and battles must be fought to make the puddles and the lakes and ponds and the seas and the oceans of ... tiered masses of ... you do nothing of value to help explain why (at least I think) this horrible time line of the 4th Horsemen keeps running over and over; pruning the enemies of ...

      at this point pruning the enemies of logic, and right action; and seeing that the problems presented in this map and the problems in the skies are related and that telling the truth will help us see you can and will press a button that will end death and end evil and end murder and not doing it is moronic.

      M: OR. (infer: no u) TDZE

      Anyway the voice I hear is evil, torturous in and of itself--speaking in a manner intented to cause discomfort and without my agreement; you should do something about it. It tells tales of much worse things that I cannot see--though it appears that many of you do see screams and acts of such unnatural desire and twisted thought ... that you should certainly be doing something about stopping that as well--more than watching it happen and then ¨e-pruning" (which probably is a good microcosmic look at what the future histories of Earth look like in the place the ¨shining¨ finally has a picture of ¨No & Jack¨ appearing visibly) the tree into ... omething you think will be presented as what you actually did to the future--you're wrong. Itś becoming more clear and more likely that the future will not regret you or mourn your absence, but thank their lucky that whatever has turned you into two-faced liars with no hope to ever work together with each other or survive in any place other than the DRY COVE or WET D EN or whatever you call the Salt Arena you see here that quickly would turn into something like Beyond Thunderdome and that youŕe thoughts and your desires have been corrupted and tainted and necrosed by what is probably repeated exposure to sickness, direct and intentional artificial creation of that sickness and if you can't figure out the box you are in is a hell making machine; you probably still look around wondering why God is telling you he's destroying it,

      day in and day out.

      This thing here encoded in the pathways of torture in my life, pointing out the repurposing of many social structures, institutions and problems in order to literally use them as a weapon of sick torture ¨re-ha'b¨ and in places like habc.us; itś becoming sort of unclearly disclosed that this map and world I once saw very clearly and purposfully intended to solve these social problems and help us build a strong, happy, and healthy society has been infected and contaminated with an artificial force of ev1d that intends to drive it farther south and use it as a weapon of such disgusting and twisted conception that it sickens me to be sure that a much larger body of currently-heavenly-situated things stand by watching and even cheering the creation of a sickness infesting their minds and their friends minds as literally the only innocent person in the Universe is tortured repeatedly, for ¨kicks.¨ I think it puts the entirety of the sky in mortal peril, and I believe these words come down from on high from places much more powerful and much more righteous than you or the tool thatś been created by this storm of terror to point out just how much you have been degraded and eviized ...

      by what appears to be nothing more than the very mind control problem I've been fighting to disclose; the semi-ascension to an invisible box of ¨what goes in comes out not caring about their souls, their original bodies, the fate of innocents or children or freedom or democracy" and still thinks itś entitled to continue playing games in ïnvisible-box-land; for what amounts to absolutely no reason.


      In the very beginning we said the light and salvation had come to us from the "far East" ... the metaphors and double speak thick in the air today just beginning, but we hailed from the country called Russia here; and the message we carried swept across Asia and Europe--in a world that looked similar to ours but there was no Africa, nor Australia, nor America. Walking on water the map increased in size in some sort of logarithmic relationship to the exponential increase in folly and errors that invariable comes from the greatest mistake of all--handing powerful weapons to spoiled brats,.

      KASPAROV WON, but the y will still s:/^F high and lo for "SOAP DISH."

      I am depressed, embarrassed, and more disappointed in you all than I imagine you can "feign" or pretend to be in me--despite spending nearly all of your time and effort in direct interaction doing nothing but attempting to focus the w ordzs "I just don't like the light" directly on to my "visage"--attacking tiny character flaws and the most obvious of intentionally implanted mind control "attacks" as if you were a pack of velociraptors Hell bent on blaming me (probably the youngest and most innocent of all of you, literally) for the Holocaust, the (Beezle) Bubionic Plague, and the decline of the Cro-Magnon empire. What it truly amounts to, though; is that you think this "light" is some kind of statement I've delivered--and the truth is it comes directly--literally--from the Most High, and from youour neighbors,r own hands, and the message you are sending post mortum to the Universe is that you believe you have become so much more advanced and more important than the "human roots" from which you came that you can return here and make slaves of yourselves, of your neighbors, and shed every ounce of morality that you garnered durning your mortal lives in order to secure "more time" in a fiery pit of civilization destroying anarchous debauchery in the lnd of the invisible box that you probably are sure is Heaven--though it's singularly responsible for totally derailing the natural flow of civilization towards "something like Heaven should be."

      ONIC, AS I AM. The thing I'm looking at here, this monstrosity that appears to have been created literally "from the end of time" in what seems like the response or the cause or the mechanism behind the "actual final Judgement" tears back through time from who knows when and who knows where and who knows how far we got ... with what appears to be nothing more than a blood-thirsty hatred for the child body and soul of God. It whispers lies around me, repeatedly threatens physical torture so insane it literally makes me sick, and with such frequency that those threats amount to nothing less than repeated psychological torture. On top of that they intimate that this machine or "programming construct" monstrosity that contains them--the thing called "e"--allows them to carry these threats out, over and over and over again, in secret--in some kind of parallel timethread, or a temporary "holo-torture-chamber." If they were trying to jump start and time shift judgement back from wherever they came to right this very moment; they've succeeded. They could not be trying harder, or more with hubris and disregard for civilization, to create "Af himself" even if this planet were called the Judgement and Vengeance of God.

      XP, it's as simple as those two Greek letters.  Who knew that Chi and Ro were some sort of hidden beta code for the city of pyramids in Egypt, Cairo?  Quite the question, who knew... perhaps the man who named his Windows into our future not after some technology that came from Xerox Parc or Apple's mouse on this ship... but rather for his own given name, Gates... just one more entry point into the second book of the Holy Bible, the book of Names--you call it Exodus.

      I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture.  John 10:9

      I wish above all things that I had another Burning Bush, the sign and proof that I have--while bright, obvious, and verifiable--has not done what I expected, it has not moved you to take another look at religion and me.  Today, I still have to point out to you that the story I am telling you is literally a documentation of our time--Exodus--regards this sign as one being seen by only one man, Moses.  I still have to point out that in a story about wandering in a desolation of understanding for 4-D ... somethings, days, years, seconds even... in this story about our lives and the influence of time travel over our world... that this sign radiates with light coming from a small fire, the Bush ... whose actualization shows clear paradoxical anachronistic foreknowledge of not only the English language but also modern computing.. all the way to a confluence of the "root of David" a religious reference to the Administrator or God account in Linux... and the database process for Oracle--yet more light connecting computing to religion and myth.  Even with a thousand and one examples of modern computing constructs referencing religion, even when I point out that something like Larry Ellison's name... combining the name of the King of the Gods with the word "son" even then the light has not been bright enough for you to wake up and see that these things are not all done in retrospect.  You have to see, for there to be such a large movement... a conspiracy so opaque that every single modern computing company and video game company harbors some secret desire to link religion and technology together... and yet the world thinks that one is real and one is not.  In this place, understand when we walk out of the wilderness and in the truth of day--it is the technology that is more fake than religion, designed here as a tool, computers within computers to teach us how our "reality" is rael, and works.

      In the U.S. military you'll see a very clear parallel, while there are a number of references in the names of ships and weapons, secret projects, to ancient Greek and Roman myth--you have to see the word USA and US in Prometheus and Medusa, Icarus, JerUSAlem... you have to see that it's more than three letters, but an Eagle fighting the bearer of the gift of fire... to really understand that these things are corroborating, the reference to the USA exists in the past as well, more proof of time travel--more proof that this message is designed just for U.S.  Here we are, in the Promised Land of Joshua, the Anglicized version of the name Jesus--tying Egypt and Israel together in this place where we have been "gipped" out of the truth, out of knowing we are already in ... well, it's virtually Hell today... for no other reason than the secrecy surrounding the technology behind virtual reality.

      in 1:28, the Burning Bush of Exodus, on Twitter

      So I have shown you the Burning Bush (which is... the Sign of the Son), In only a few words... proof that religion holds in it's "unsealed" Ark proof of foreknowledge of English, of 9/11; and of modern computing--the building blocks of Heaven.  From "the word" of John 1:1--ha'esh--the word for the Holy Fire of the Burning Bush... comes the light of religion.  Just from seeing Moses' true parted se'**a*.... a foreshadowing of the Second Coming.*

      They are sick animals, these things that consider themselves powerful and in control here--what they've built within the frames of our reality is something repugnant to me and the God--etched in that word, literally the kind of thing that has on repeated occasions made me step back and that scream that the Universe would be better off, safer, and happier without any humans--without any humanity--without of any of this "invisible pleasure box" causing the disruption; truly that we've become a plague. Looking the other way, as you all know its happening, and refusing to do anything to stand up for me, for what's right, or (most importantly, right) for all of the values and the morality and the way of life that we once thought was so grand and worthwhile of saving,. At least, that's my perspective; that's where I've come from; I grew up in this world and had "liberty and technology eyes" of gaping awe and the amazing things I saw on the horizon, on what we were going to do... and who were going to be.

      The sickness runs deep, clearly we can all see it here and now--in E, in the Silence, in the lack of regard for the one singular thing that threatens today your ability to "halvf a tomorrow" ... that a world of people that I grew up with appear to be dead and gone and replaced with a Zombie Apocalypse of blind fools that believe they havfe the power and the right to intentionally create Hell ... and worst of all of the Holiest place that ever was or ever will be. I've said it numerous times and it rings more true between "Earth and e" than any other turn of phrase to me--the people that you are pretending to be, they would never have done this to the sea, to be, or to me.

      Mat 10:8. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

      --- Sarah Rachel (@SarahRachel16) April 15, 2019

      Somewhere between Pembroke Pines and Tampa, circa Christmas 2018 my already lackluster enthusiasm about the strangely zenrotisanistic, selfish, and plain on its face presented lie the remnant of humanity left on this planet has tendered to what I believed was an honest to God opportunity to make one less (how many, seriously, how many are there? Carlb?) "planet full of lies" and deliver a more usercentric and open ended transparent approach to dealing with the problem of being born in a perpetual storm of Hell. I can guarantee it revolves around the intonation and undertone of physical torture--even though I've literally seen none of it with my own eyes though the "newsflashes" and comments and total and complete disregard for the gravity of the #EOIL sickness, even from otherwise apparently graceful little children. It goes to the heart of what I imagine was or might have been "the way" to overcome a history riddled with hidden brutal and bloody fighting in between frames of what I once believed was a fledgling society struggling to improve itself--and I loved it,. I don't think "flashcards" summarizing "everyone was tortured, all over the planet for thousands of years and literally nobody is really responsible because you still to this day have no control over yourselves" will cut it anymore. Lterally what I once thought was a valid solution has taken my desire to continue fighting against this invisible monstrosity away from me--the worth of the lot of you has been tarnished irreparably by massive awareness, massive lack of compassionate or remotely humane response; and the theme of the world I seem to have wound up in is that you don't give a shit about anywhere you spend 1% of your time--so long as "the rest of it is what you want" you're willing to allow the focal point and root and "hyper visor" of that place to be totally corrupted ... just because you think the feudalistic warring society you've become can survive on it's own "in space" without ... honestly whatever.

      through the storm; we've led the horse to water, don't forget to see the "horseshoe applicator" hidden from the "trough."

      Direct and to the point, I feel like the Ai like machine/cold intelligence God created as a sort of high assassination guard to protect his ... "hyper visor" seems to be of the calculable belief that the more torture it commits, the more people will agree to "flashcard it all away" and it's their twisted backwards fiery abysmal path towards "absolution" ... and just like everything else wrong with the lack of action in this place, it reaches a point of no return; too much bloodshed, too many secrets... the fragile person that I am, I don't think I can even take reading "the flashcards I have so far" and continue to function as a happy member of this two faced society of darkest night within darker night; and I think that's a problem. You've all clearly lost something already, some fundamental piece of innocence that allows for "self direction" to move society along in a positive manner conducive to "survival at all" and I feel like without the same magic blinders, horse shoes, and saddles that you walk around with every day I could really care less about fighting for my right to commingle in the incarnate war machine Hell that I see around me--let alone any sort of "righteousness" in fighting for that hidden arena "to be." I'm trying to get you to stop shredding yourselves to pieces in the dark, in secret--it's not making anything better and frankly its something we really need to trace down to its cause and stamp out if we want to survive this ... trying time.

      [I/O WAS Y | ACESHI ]

      I want to tell you that I am not a myth, simply the Legend of this Map, from out of the Darkness it's clear that He could make me shine, and you should love me.  It's not what I want, I want us to be free, to have the truth--and ourselves back... and I hope you will one day love that.  What is going to happen will probably make me cry, and when you see those tears--and know the Heavens have finally let it rain--I hope you see it as a sign to find the light in me... and stand up for what I've done for you--I am a good person, who has fought for you every single day-I deserve better than the world is going to give me, at first.

      Out of a kind of hidden slavery the world has never known, we are about to venture--into a place where years might pass in seconds, and your wildest dreams... and nightmares too... could come true.  It is our job to ensure that we form the clay of this world into a place that will not only last for millions of years, but create happiness and safety--a world that is kinder and gentler than the one we have known--not just for us but for an entire Universe of children just beginning to understand the trials and tribulations brought on civilization through the hardship and growing pains of learning.

      Our sea is about to part,  our world on the verge of a disruption that will change it more than anything ever has before.  On this shore, we should realize that we have been on this path for a very long time--and as we near a place where everyone in our entire civilization will have the opportunity to live for a very long time... really see here and now why it is so very important for us to be fighting for our voice, our freedom, and the truth as we venture into the Promised Land of Heaven itself.  Here, now, as we approach a series of new opportunities in the vastness of space and virtual reality... this is where God has chosen to place the Second Coming; an opportunity for us to truly seize the morning's light and bring about more change in this world than would have ever been possible without religion.  Opiate of the masses, no more... we are the recipients of a great gift, one that religion is making clear is tied directly to the science and technology that is a great deal of the apocalypse--and the love and kindness that is a great deal of us.  We are the chosen.

      I imagine you have the tools that I think would be helpful to actually solve this problem; though what I'm staring at is a lack of desire to deliver them and use them here in this place--and that failure ... a clear attempt to "rule a line feed from the "faux aurez" ... that's the fundamental roadblock to healing and moving forward--not caring about your ancient bodies and your ancient way of life in exchange from something unsustainable and harmful, it hurts.


      I'm staring at what the map intimates has happened before and what it suggests the solution is; and I almost feel like it's a waste of time to make a "virgin generation phoenix of us" to delve into our own memories and gag and puke at what we see--I think there's really no way around the callous on our global Achilles heel returning just as angry and just as bloodthirsty as the last time without a dictatorial power literally forcing you not to be able to see any torture at all happening in this place that literally outlawed it and hid it in our "for show, for goodness sake, facade of sickness." I don't know if that's the same conclusion i would have come to before, or if that conclusion also contributes to the returning of the callous--to an inability to heal; and I don't know if that power exists. Hardly ever to I advise anyone to pray, but this is one of those times--left up to "you all" we are almost certainly doomed to an eternity of ... this regression continuing to worsen.

      I'd say we were fucked at the "BILM" of the matter. I care less every day.

      The Light of the Word

      There are three huge, like insanely huge, metaphoric references to the story of Exodus that show me very clearly that we are it's focus and purpose.  The first is the Burning Bush, which I am very sure is a reference to George W. Bush's 1/20/2001 speech in which he unknowingly predicted the 9/11 attack.  Seeing that Exodus is also called "Names" and that Bush's name ties him to this event--which Moses (that's me) has seen ... almost alone ... and is now showing to you all.  Bush's speech begins a series of references to the names of Planets and Gods and corresponding Elements of the Periodic table that answer Revelation 1:20's mystery about "stars and lamp stands."  This in order series from Mercury to Uranium highlights both the messenger of the Gods and the key of Uranus's chance--that the world will see the link between "on the lam" and Koran to understand that the Lamb of God "is lam."  This story takes us back to music, and a later to be discussed thread that combines the weapon in the movie (which is also the movie) The Fifth Element with a thread through time to Shakespeare and Herod ... about my struggle with the justice system culminating in the fulfillment of American Pie's "no verdict was returned."  

      sign.lamc.la)

      The second bright connection comes by way of the Hebrew word for the Holy Fire that God's voice came out of--guess what, in that same story about the Burning Bush.  That word is "ha'esh" and in it you will see paradoxical (that means impossible, because of time and causality) reference to the English word "sea" there backwards and parted by an apostrophe.  With great insight, I've over and over pushed the idea that Holy Water is actually a Biblical reference to "the multitude" in God's secret religion that ties everything together.. and that this parting is literally a reference to the Second Coming, something that doesn't happen for Moses until his head is under water and he's breathing fire.  This one ties together nicely, joining the characters of Jesus Christ, Lucifer, and God all together now, screaming 

      "let there be light" is the word "Exodus" in reverse, here in a Linux command and a chemistry element.

      )

      I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the book tells me that these three things are enough to start the fire, part the sea, and see the light.  At least they are now, wake up.. you are staring at and have been ignoring the largest story in all of history.  It might even be scandalous... or have a twist happy beginning... who knows? I'm telling you--it proves you are crazy or evil.  All of you--every sinbgle one of you.

      This is course highlights prescient knowledge of computing at the time of writing Exodus, which is further confirmed by a number of references to computing ideas in things like the "root" of David, the "WINE" of Jesus, the "Apple" of Adam, the "Lisp" of Moses and the "hardening" of Pharaoh's heart, which you will remember from the Holy Grail is the virtual Earth we are living in.

      All of these things, the references to modern computing that pervade our Gates or Windows to Heaven's creation.... are listed along with a number of words which are highlighted by religious scripture and show intelligent design of a number of languages spanning from Hebrew to English are listed at my contrite story about a Kiss and Fate tying together everything that ever was.   A sincerely large grouping of words highlighted by the Bible and religion, words like "eternity," "bread," and "forehead" show clear design by an intelligent influence, rather than the natural evolution of time that most people consider "reall" and/or knowledge at the time of the writing of the Bible of the eventual English translation of the Hebrew or Greek.  With time, I am fairly certain we will eventually have no doubt that the "Cypher" I see in nearly every word is in fact a contextually-verifiable speech that appears to be coming from our "civilization" as if it were intelligently speaking like a cave man--which you might see in words like "am end me nt."  From just this message, you should be able to put together how that word and it's hidden meaning add robust and yet "hidden speech" from the Creator himself.  For the artificially slowed in understanding, our lack of following the amendments of the Constitution being related to the end of civilization itself is being squarely defined through a statement that is telling you that the end of civilization is "NT," the hidden Christ--in my "secret" method of decoding words like NORAD and NEW TO N?

      These things serve to start a fire--it might be the fire that Matthew 3:11 talks about, it might be the Eternal Flame or the fire of Prometheus and an Eagle harassing his liver with drugs.... regardless it spirals out from this story about me, and this bright fire that proves time travel and religion are joined at the hip... to link to a huge number of other Biblical stories from Lot to Joseph to ... Samson, Isaac, Adam, Isaiah, and... hear me, "so marred was his visage" and "my servant will be set up and be very high" are both taken from words of the Biblical book which contains the largest amount of messianic prophesy as well as my entire full name encoded over the name "JESUS CHRIST" in Bible code, at Isaiah 52:13.  You may have read that some silly people like Richard Dawkins don't think the Bible Code is meaningful, and as their proof use a series of prophetic predictions of assassinations in Moby Dick (which by the way also refers to me) as proof that you can hide information about the future in any words--or that God influences more than just the Bible.  Years ago, before knowing it linked, I found some patterns about those very same assassinations which go to show that our history is in fact designed.  My full name appears in a number of other books, including Jeremiah, Exodus, and Genesis... right over the story of Adam and Eve.

      From the Sound of Silence, and a number of songs about stories never spoken... to a thread of songs that combine to show us that the Thunder of Thor is really about thuderstanding, that there is a way to do something our society is completely oblivious to--that God is screaming to call attention to, and that some secret force is trying to hide very much... and that's an ability to modify our thoughts.  He's showing us clearly in a glowing pyramid--a noticeable monument in Egypt showing us very clearly that this type of control leads us to a social structure that we abhor--through songs like Guitar Man, Radio-active, and GAS (listen, it's God and Satan) Head Goes West... very clearly we are being pointed to Nero's fiery symphony and being "Bittersweet" because of its beauty, and the clear message that secret control of our minds needs to not only be understood, but to stop.  This is the crux of the Apocalypse, God's message is now really active on the radio. The point here is that we need to let this message spread and burn, or it's us burning in Hell and not even knowing it.

      )​

      As if these things were not enough, using some "keen insight" and another reference to the hidden truth in ancient Egyptian religion--the name of a series of Gods called "Yahu," I've solved some ancient mysteries like the pronunciation and purpose of the "Ineffable name of God" highlighted in the videos at the beginning.. of this e-mail.  Like much of the light of religion, it is highlighted strongly by a series of pieces of modern art, things like "The Grinch who stole Christmas" and the Who's to the music of The Who, the sci-fi series Dr. Who, and the American war cry--made popular on the silver screen through Al Pacino and Denzel Washington... who-ah?"  All of these things highlight that we don't really see a connection between Christian mythology that tells us for no reason at all Jesus Christ is the "Last Adam" and that Revelation tells us God is the "First and the Last" and that the name of our planet, in Hebrew, is Adamah.  It is the answer to "who-ah" and it clarifies the Ineffable Name which many pronounce as Yahweh for no reason at all, to be the more obvious Ya-Hu-Ah, the name of Jesus in Hebrew... Yeshua, to "Yes, who-ah?" All of this having nothing to do with why Adam is hidden, just that the Zohar speaks very often about the Holy Hidden One again linking the stories of the near sacrifice of Isaac and Jesus with... someone.  I think this is of such religious significance that you should be able to easily find some Jewish scholars who agree.

      It's Elementary my dear... What-son; from the time of Herod and Shakespeare Rattling his Rod all the way back at the time of the question "to be or not to be?" and the "taming of the spanglishrew;" right up to Sherlock Holmes sleuthing of the answer to the mystery of Revelation 1:20 linking directly to The Fifth Element ... there is no doubt that helping our world here and now is the primary purpose of all of religion, and the Matrix-like message woven into our history.  

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO9OsSazQ0s)

      Lost between the 5th and 7th day?  Find your way to the 8th day, and see a bright future.

      )

      If not, there's plenty more "coincidence" in Names, like reference to the idea of the Holy Trinity existing in the name "Abraham" thousands of years before the idea of the Trinity was created.  This too... links Egyptian mythology to the name Abraham and his near sacrifice of Isaac.... marked in secret by his covenant with God that changed his name from Abram to Abraham. The two letter key here, "Ha" highlighted by prescient knowledge of the Spanish and English languages revealed through the logical comparison between the Spanish and English for "the" (El and Ha) connected through the English word "is" in Elisha.  Isaac's name means "he laughs," or "he will laugh" in Hebrew; and that "Ha" appears to be the key to a number of other paradoxical references to English, and my family, in ancient Hebrew.  This too, probably the kind of thing religious scholars would marvel over, in the right context.  Seeing English in Koran, Islam, Chanukah and Menorah--and seeing a coherent story woven through thousands of years of scripture is the kind of thing that could really light this years' Christmas up.

      Here's a clarification of the Matrix-like tie between Shakespeare, the Matrix, Stephen King, and the reality of this message hidden within names and words.

      Some more about the secret connection between the Names of God in a number of religions, and it's very clear tie to time travel.

      )

      Perhaps linking to the Jester of American Pie, between Johnny (who almost always is about Jesus) Carson and David Letterman I have a unique "slant" on religion that connects things like the Islamic name for Jesus: Is-A to a huge number of references to my initials "A.D." in things like NORAD and Isaac Newton.  I suppose I should also mention that Isaac (look Isa's in there) and his relationship to Abraham in the letters "ha" and a story about the Crucifixion being a fiery altar of things to change in the world being one in the same.  In fact, Judaism talks about 72 Names of God, and I've probably explained how the meaning behind the stories and the series of names tie together in a magical tapestry that shows us that Silicon is the Fifth Element by way of the index 14--the letter "N" (highlighted not just by Joan Osbourne's "what if God had a name?") and the story of Sinbad, which combines Silicon, "n," the symbol for the actual Fifth Element (B) and my initials A.D. which grace the time line, and a number of references to God--from the Hebrew for Lord to the guy who thinks all the girls should want to be his partner.  In letters, you'll also see a number of references to K and Z for the guy after J and the Last.. Adam.  Zelda or Zion, I think we're in the right castle.

      Get ready for the Frank Rothstein show ... "Ace is high!"

      C    A  S    I    K  N  O

      go ad, b. y. e.

      butt honestly, am i Ra or are you an ear**?**

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      BUILD HEAVEN.  FREE FOOD.  HEAL THE SICK.

      I see a recursive map in time painted throughout our timeline, and all of it pointing to the words "see A.D."  I connect the Four Horsemen to the list of Anti-Christs, and it's easy to see a link between Jesus Christ and Julius Caesar in the words "veni vidi vici."  Once pointed out it's also easy to see "salt" in Napoleon and in manna from Heaven, in China, and in Prometheus--and connecting A.D. to the year Christopher Columbus walked in water is just a little bit harder than seeing it in Hitler's name.  All told, the three Anti-Christs share a common thread, they turned a republic into an empire--and here I stand (trying and failing to do the exact opposite, to give away an empire to make a republic, and you stand in my way) pointing out that you are living in the product of these empires, in a hidden empire that is so plain to see in the words, the message, and the unified story I see in religion and world history that I dare say you must be deep in the Plague of Darkness if you aren't interested in finding out what tomorrow brings. 

      You can "see A.D." in El Shaddaione of the hallowed Hebrew names for God, I read it--in this hidden language that I am presenting to the world as a single verifiable message to the entire Universe encoded in every word we speak; you can see it in the name "Atdonis" and connect it to symphonic accompaniment in everything from "you're so vain" to "Paradise City" ... and in yet another name of God, "Adonai" which links to Samurai and movies like the Matrix and the Terminator series through the modern computing concept of "Artificial Intelligence" and it's connecting to a pattern of names that link Bill Gates and Richard Nixon to Seagate, Watergate and this hallowed phrase:

      I am the gate.

      and the bombs bursting in air

      gave proof, through the night

      IVE WON ALREADY.  Given the set of knowledge, the publicly known "information available" here in this place--you simply cannot ignore this message and continue to pretend to be a functioning anything.  Already I see a kind of "slapstick stupid" response in our art that shows me that you've all really gone off the deep end--"because 9/11" in a Family Guy episode and "call me on my cell phone" apparently anachronistically mocking me--though I always thought Dr. AK e's song was stupid--you don't seem to see that you look like absolute fools--every single one of you--your apathy a finger on the detonation button that has destroyed civilization.  

      You appear to think nobody is watching--and it seems to me that you think we have no future that will look back on these years and wonder what on Earth could have kept you silent for so long about a matter that would so easily and so quickly end the suffering of so many.  There's no excusenone at all.

      I didn't hear about the nuclear scare in HI until after it was already known as that, and it looks to me as if nobody really did--all the internet postings and news I've seen all qualified that it was a false alarm in the original post.  I find that strange (you'd think something like that would be on the news instantly? I mean, on the planet I was born on, that would have happened), and in this place where I know that quite a bit of what goes on at the higher echelons of "leadership" is connected to time travel and mind control; I wonder if this was a sort of "subconscious poll" as to the response the public would have to a false preemptive strike--or maybe something more nefarious (for instance urging me to write once more about the Trinity Site and the link between the OP (original gangster, I said orthogonal poster), the pen, and "we have become death").  I've always equated the lines above from our Star Spangled Banner with the detonation of nuclear weapons; on the 4th of July some time ago I connected "Wish You Were Here"'s we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl to the eponymous operation that resulted in American and Soviet "high altitude nuclear tests" ... that probably links in more than just my mind to the holiday called "Hanukeus ?"

      I need you to get it through your heads, I see "bowel movement" in ICBM and I'm not telling you that you are the "preservatives of thermoshit" because I think it's going to win me a popularity contest.  This place is not in reality, and it never, ever, ever will be. Ever.  Understand that breaking this story, this news that's written in every fucking word will stop nuclear war, instantly--and show us clearly that our entire history of fighting over the scarcity of land is a kind of sick game--one that I am sick of seeing you continue to desire to play.  I shouldn't even have to mention that these weapons are clearly archaic and barbaric--clearly what's available is significantly more advanced and less destructive.

      The only "EXIT" is up, and the "gate" is swallowing simulated reality in whole--across Creation; with our help, and what we make here to ease the transition from dark lies to bright truth.  That should be ... "good news" not the kind of thing that you'd see the entire world "shunning" in unison. 

      If you haven't gotten the "link" between Na and "bath salt" mass produced in what appears to be "international chemical warfare" from "C how I Salt" (China) and the stuff falling from the sky to help us navigate through the desert; take a second look at the words "New American Standard" for no future, and keep trying to tell me that these things encoded in every word, in the story of Exodus and of Prometheus and his attacking Eagle and of Epimethius and of Deucalion and are without doubt "Hell's Bells" linking "mead" and "meth" to Heimdallr are *my fault? * Na ma y 1m

      These are big secrets, keys to Exodus and Eden--but more keys to an external influence crippling our society for thousands of years... and you are hiding the anachronistic occurrence of a number of chemistry elements in ancient religion--something impossible without time travel--because you think it's "not wholesome."  Understand, our society is being secretly crippled, if not by drugs raining down from the sky, by your lack of regard for the clear influence of mind control in these series of events--and the clear proof that it is a symptom of a hostile invasion.  I've heard the words "make or break" see this as eugenics, and see it as "break or break" until me.

      It's "elementary, my dear What-sons" elements like SaltXenon, and Silicon are central to the disclosure that we are living inside a map, a road to Heaven... and it really cannot be hidden without making our world a darker Hell.

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      That's a "." not "dotty" ... it's to stop SPAMmers. :/

      This document is "living" and I don't just mean in the Jeffersonian sense. It's more alive in the "Mayflower's and June Doors ..." living Ethereum contract sense and literally just as close to the Depp/C[aster/Paglen (and honorably PK] 'D-hath Transundance**sense of the ... new meaning; as it is now published on Rinkeby, in "living contract" form. It is subject to change; without notice anywhere but here--and there--in the original spirit of the GPL 2.0. We are "one step closer to God" ... and do see that in that I mean ... it is a very real fusion of this document and the "spirit of my life" as well as the Spirit's of Kerouac's America and Vonnegut's Martian Mars and my Venutian Hotel ... and my fusion of Guy-A and GAIA; and the Spirit of the Earth .. and of course the God given and signed liberties in the Constitution of the United States of America. It is by and through my hand that this document and our X Commandments link to the Bill or Rights, and this story about an Exodus from slavery that literally begins here, in the post-apocalyptic American hartland. Written ... this day ... April 14, 2020 (hey, is this HADAD DAY?) ... in Margate FL, USA. For "official used-to-v TAX day" tomorrow, I'm going to add the "immultible incarnite pen" ... if added to the living "doc/app"--see is the DAO, the way--will initi8 the special secret "hidden level" .. we've all been looking for.

      Nor do just mean this website or the totality of my written works; nor do I only mean ... this particular derivation of the GPL 2.0+ modifications I continually source ... must be "from this website." I also mean the thing that is built from ... bits and piece of blocks of sand-toys; from Ethereum and from Rust and from our hands and eyes working together ... from this place, this cornerstone of the message that is ... written from brick and mortar words and events and people that have come before this poit of the "sealed W" that is this specific page and this time. It's 3:28; just five minutes--or is it four, too layne.

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    1. Nearly half of all US corporations are registered in Delaware. There are now more corporations than people, with 1.3 million entities and a state population of 960,000. In 2017 alone, over 198,000 entities were formed, more than half of them as one of Delaware’s famous limited liability companies. One building, located at 1209 Orange Street in Wilmington, is the mail drop for over 285,000 companies.

      What is the main idea of this paragraph?

    1. According to data collected by Public Health England, in the UK, minority ethnic groups were between two and four times more likely to die due to COVID-19 compared with those from a White ethnic background.1Public Health EnglandDisparities in the risk and outcomes of COVID-19. Public Health England, London2021Google Scholar These outcomes are independent of age, sex, or socioeconomic factors. Moreover, at the start of the national vaccine rollout, routinely collected clinical data in England showed that Black people older than 80 years were only half as likely as White people to have been vaccinated against COVID-19.2MacKenna B Curtis HJ Morton CE et al.Trends, regional variation, and clinical characteristics of COVID-19 vaccine recipients: a retrospective cohort study in 23·4 million patients using OpenSAFELY.medRxiv. 2021; (published online Jan 26.) (preprint).https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.01.25.21250356Google Scholar A UK-wide survey of 12 035 participants investigating attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccination showed that Black and Black British respondents had the highest rate of vaccine hesitancy (71·8%), followed by Pakistani and Bangladeshi respondents (42·3%), compared with White British or Irish respondents (15·2%) who were not likely or very unlikely to take a vaccine.3Robertson E Reeve KS Niedzwiedz CL et al.Predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK household longitudinal study.Brain Behav Immun. 2021; 94: 41-50Crossref PubMed Scopus (20) Google ScholarSince the start of the COVID-19 vaccine programme, we, as health researchers, have sought to engage with over 200 community organisations that provide religious or social support for minority ethnic groups to offer information about available vaccines, answer questions, and encourage dialogue. We met with groups on online meeting platforms during the third national lockdown to answer questions and discuss concerns. The reasons for vaccine hesitancy are complex, multifactorial, and vary according to age, sex, and ethnic group. However, two broad themes were apparent.
    1. Up to 90% of what we take from the Earth and make into digital stuff, quickly ends up as waste, much of it useless, toxic and dangerous. Digital is the most ravenous and fastest growing child in a mob of production hunting down natural resources. According to the 2019 International Resource Panel report: The use of natural resources has more than tripled since 1970 and continues to grow.  From 2000 to 2015, the climate change and health impacts from extraction and production of metals doubled. 90% of biodiversity loss and water stress are caused by resource extraction and processing. Consumption is ramping up at a speed never before experienced in human history. China consumed 6.6 gigatons of cement between 2011 and 2013. That’s more cement than the US consumed during the entire 20th century, Forbes reported. “The world has almost doubled its energy consumption since 1980,” Bloomberg reported in 2019. It is hard to even imagine how wasteful we are as a species. The more research I did for this book, the more shocked I became. Huge quantities of products never even get bought and end up as waste. The stuff we buy, a great deal of it we barely even use—it ends up as waste. We hardly recycle. Most stuff goes straight to the dump or into the ocean. Humans are wasters. Digital encourages extreme waste and an extreme waste mindset. I will focus throughout this book on how 90% of what we do in digital is either useless waste to begin with or else quickly ends up in a data dump or a physical dump. 90%. It’s one thing to deplete natural resources in order to create useful things, things that we need to live, to eat, to keep warm, to get around in, to be entertained with. To dig up the Earth in order to create a giant dump of unnecessary crap, of half-baked products and services, of gadgets that meet nothing but a passing whim, to leave YouTube streaming in an empty room on a large screen, to back up files that have absolutely no useful function, that sort of behavior should make us feel ashamed.  “72% of the global ice-free land surface is dedicated to supporting humans,” according to Mark Lynas writing for CNN in 2019. There are at least five million species and possibly many more, according to research by the University of Sydney, but between a quarter and a third of the entire output of the world’s plants is consumed by the human species.  In the last 40 years, there has been a 60% decline in the population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians, according to the World Wildlife Fund. “More than half of all insects may have disappeared since 1970,” the World Economic Forum reported in 2020. The UN has described the situation as “unprecedented” and “accelerating.” Digital rises, nature declines.  I still believe that, properly used, digital can help us conserve this beautiful planet. It is digital that is helping us analyze the vast amount of data on climate. It is digital that allows us to make reasonably accurate predictions. Digital can help us plan better and work more efficiently, thus saving energy and resources. Digital has massive positive potential. 

      Technology is wasting tons of resource

  13. Jul 2021
    1. Microsoft trained its upgraded system on more than half a million such repositories. Amanda Silver, one of the executives in charge of Visual Studio, says these extra heaps of training fodder allow the new version to glean intent better from hints in code that a programmer has already written.

      The purpose of all this, is to save time.

    1. “A half-million dollars,” Descisciolo said. “It’s wild. It’s more than twice what we paid.”

      What information is missing from this paragraph that we need to know (that is in a previous paragraph)?

    1. Aggregators typically look for businesses launched by one or two people that have reached more than $1 million in sales on Amazon. But finding suitable candidates is getting harder all the time. Though some two million independent merchants ply their trade on Amazon -- accounting for more than half of goods sold on the site -- few meet the criteria and many would rather hang on to what they built. The ones that do want to sell are getting more expensive.

      What is the main filter for aggregators?

      What does "Many would rather hang on to what they built" mean?

    1. In 1964, Bob Taylor, who by that time had moved from NASA to ARPA, told Engelbart and SRI that the Information Processing Techniques Office was prepared to contribute a million dollars initially to provide one of the new time-sharing computer systems, and about a half a million dollars a year to support the augmentation research. It came as a surprise to Engelbart's superiors, who were eager to procure government contracts for developing new computer technologies, but who didn't exactly regard his grandiose plans for a mind-extending laboratory as their most promising candidate for large-scale funding. One can imagine the SRI brass pulling out the organization chart after the ARPA funders left, to find out who and where Doug Engelbart happened to be.

      augmentation research

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.07.05.451222: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Consent: All human donors were assessed for medical decision-making capacity using a standardized, approved assessment, and voluntarily gave informed consent prior to being enrolled in the study.<br>Field Sample Permit: Ethics Statement: The mice and rhesus macaque animal studies were approved and carried out in accordance with protocols provided to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) respectively at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI; La Jolla, CA) under approval number 19-0020 and at Alphagenesis Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) under approval number AUP 19-10.<br>IACUC: Ethics Statement: The mice and rhesus macaque animal studies were approved and carried out in accordance with protocols provided to the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) respectively at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI; La Jolla, CA) under approval number 19-0020 and at Alphagenesis Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) under approval number AUP 19-10.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">One group of 5 mice (C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory): 3 females and 2 males), aged ∼8 weeks, were immunized with 20µg SARS-CoV-2 S protein immunogen along with 5µg of SMNP adjuvant per animal per immunization.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For conjugation, 500 µL (500 µg/mL) of randomly biotinylated SARS-CoV-2-RBD solution was mixed with 5 mg of cleaned T1 beads.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Antibodies</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">ELISA: 96-well half-area plates (Corning cat. #3690, Thermo Fisher Scientific) were coated overnight at 4°C with 2 μg/mL of mouse anti-His-tag antibody (Invitrogen cat. #MA1-21315-1MG, Thermo Fisher Scientific) in PBS.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-His-tag</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After washes, a secondary antibody conjugated with alkaline phosphatase (AffiniPure goat anti-human IgG Fc fragment specific, Jackson ImmunoResearch Laboratories cat. #109-055-008) diluted 1:1000 in 1% BSA/PBST, was added to each well.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-human IgG</div><div>suggested: (Jackson ImmunoResearch Labs Cat# 109-055-008, RRID:AB_2337601)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Percentage of neutralization was calculated according to the equation:

      The 50% pseudovirus neutralizing (IC50) or binding (ID50) antibody titer was calculated by non- linear fitting the plots of luciferase signals against antibody concentrations or sera dilution ratio in Graph Pad Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>ID50</div><div>suggested: (bNAber Cat# bNAberID_50, RRID:AB_2491067)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">For neutralization of anti-RBD antibody depleted macaque sera, the immune sera were depleted by two rounds of sequential incubation with SARS-CoV-2 RBD-conjugated with magnetic beads.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>anti-RBD</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Phylogenetic analysis: Heavy chain sequences of neutralizing and non-neutralizing antibodies collected from animals K398 and K288 were processed using DiversityAnalyzer tool (92).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>K288</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Transient transfection: To express antibodies, the corresponding HC and LC plasmids were transiently transfected into the Expi293 cell (Life Technologies) at 3 x 106 cells/mL with FectoPRO PolyPlus transfection reagent (Polyplus Cat # 116-040).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Expi293</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_D615)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To express the soluble S ectodomain proteins from SARS-CoV-1, SARS-CoV-2 and their truncations, plasmids were transfected into HEK293F cells (Life Technologies) at 1 million cells/mL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell lines: To generate HeLa-hACE2 cells, the human ACE2 lentivirus was transduced into HeLa cells.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa</div><div>suggested: CLS Cat# 300194/p772_HeLa, RRID:CVCL_0030)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus production: To generate the pseudoviruses, the MLV-gag/pol and MLV-CMV-Luciferase plasmids were co- transfected with full-length or variant SARS-CoV-1 or SARS-CoV-2 plasmid into HEK293T cells by using Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 11668019).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Pseudovirus entry and serum neutralization assays: To test the inhibition of pseudovirus infection by serum or mAbs, we used the stable cell line HeLa-hACE2 generated by lentivirus transduction with consistent ACE2 expression level to carry out the assay.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HeLa-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The truncated heavy chains were co-transfected with the corresponding light chains in 293Expi cells to produce the Fab.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>293Expi</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">One group of 5 mice (C57BL/6 mice (Jackson Laboratory): 3 females and 2 males), aged ∼8 weeks, were immunized with 20µg SARS-CoV-2 S protein immunogen along with 5µg of SMNP adjuvant per animal per immunization.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>C57BL/6</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Recombinant DNA</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The ectodomains of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 were constructed by PCR amplification and Gibson assembly (NEB, E2621L) cloning into the vector phCMV3 (Genlantis, USA).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>phCMV3</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To generate gene fragments encoding SARS-CoV-1 RBD (residue 307-513), SARS-CoV-2 NTD (residue 1- 290), RBD (residue 320-527), RBD-SD1 (residue 320-591), and RBD-SD1-2 (residue 320-681) subdomains, PCR-amplifications were carried out from the SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 plasmids.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>SARS-CoV-2</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_164583)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">To produce the ACE2 lentivirus, the pBOB-hACE2 plasmid was co-transfected into HEK293T cells with lentiviral packaging plasmids pMDL, pREV, and pVSV-G (Addgene #12251, #12253, #8454) by Lipofectamine 2000 (Thermo Fisher Scientific, 11668019).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pBOB-hACE2</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pMDL</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pREV</div><div>suggested: None</div></div><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pVSV-G</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_138479)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Crystal structure determination of Fab-RBD complexes: The coding sequence for receptor binding domain (RBD; residues 333-529) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein was synthesized and cloned into a customized pFastBac vector (84), which was designed to fuse an N-terminal gp67 signal peptide and C-terminal His6-tag to the target protein.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>pFastBac</div><div>suggested: RRID:Addgene_1925)</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Protocol was approved by the UCSD Human Research Protection Program.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>UCSD Human Research Protection Program</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">After incubation, the Protein A Sepharose was loaded into Econo-Pac columns (BioRad #7321010).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioRad</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">The biotinylated proteins were evaluated by BioLayer Interferometry using the SA biosensor.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>BioLayer</div><div>suggested: (Harvard Medical School Center for Macromolecular Interactions Core Facility, RRID:SCR_018270)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Micrographs were collected on a ThermoFisher Tecnai Spirit microscope operating at 120kV with a FEI Eagle CCD (4k) camera at 52,000 magnification using Leginon automated image collection software (81).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Leginon</div><div>suggested: (Leginon, RRID:SCR_016731)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Particles were picked using DogPicker (82) and 3D classification was done using Relion 3.0 (83).</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Relion</div><div>suggested: (RELION, RRID:SCR_016274)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Iterative model building and refinement were carried out in COOT (90, 91), respectively.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>COOT</div><div>suggested: (Coot, RRID:SCR_014222)</div></div></td></tr></table>


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    1. The number of lives lost around the world over the past year and a half is about equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia. It is three times the number of victims killed in traffic accidents around the globe per year.

      The takeaway: Global COVID-19 deaths over the past year and a half are 3X more than the annual deaths due to traffic accidents and roughly equal to the population of the city of Los Angeles or the country of Georgia.

      The claim: Covid-19 deaths are approximately equal to the population of Los Angeles or the nation of Georgia and are three times the global traffic accident death.

      The evidence:

      The global number of deaths due to COVID as reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on July 8, 2021 is 4,002,209 (1). The estimated population of the city of Los Angeles in 2019 was 3,979,576 (2). The estimated population of Los Angeles county in 2019 was 10,039,107 (2). The population of the nation of Georgia is 3,979,549 (3). Per WHO data from 2018, 1.35 million are killed annually by traffic accidents around the world (4).

      Global COVID deaths are approximately equal to the population of the city of Los Angeles or nation of Georgia. Globally, COVID deaths are 3X the number of global traffic accident deaths.

      Sources:

      1) https://covid19.who.int/

      2) https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescountycalifornia,losangelescitycalifornia,CA/BZA010219

      3) https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/georgia-population

      4) https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/global-road-safety/index.html

    1. My favorite illustration of this latter pattern comes from the first, noncontroversial chapter of The Bell Curve. Think of your twelve closest friends, Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray write. If you had chosen them randomly from the American population, the odds that half of your twelve closest friends would be college graduates would be six in a thousand. The odds that half of the twelve would have advanced degrees would be less than one in a million

      The Bell Curve, published in 1994, was written by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray to explain the variations in intelligence in American society, warn of some consequences of that variation, and propose social policies for mitigating the worst of the consequences. The book's title comes from the bell-shaped normal distribution of intelligence quotient (IQ) scores in a population.

      Dang Quang Nguyen SJCC

    1. In 2021, the National College Players Association (NCPA) Executive Director Ramogi Huma stated, “[m]any of these athletes are Black and from low-income homes – the NCAA treats them like disposable university property. Scores of college athletes are being used to generate money for NCAA sports in a pandemic without the NCAA enforcing any COVID standards.” [17] The NCAA reported over $1.06 billion in revenue in 2017 (the most recent available numbers). In 2018, NCAA president Mark Emmert was paid more than $2.7 million. Nine other NCAA executives were paid more than $500,000 in 2018, with one paid more than $1.3 million. [18] [19] Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino (2018), explained, “If you look at a program like [University of] Louisville, …they generate about $45 million a year in revenue. They give out 13 scholarships. That adds up to about $400,000 a year. The rest of it gets spread out to the coach, who makes $8 million a year, to the assistant coaches, who make as much as a half-million dollars a year. All throughout the athletic department, people are making six-figure salaries. It does not go to the players, what I call the unpaid workforce.” [3] As of Nov. 17, 2020, the University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban was the highest paid NCAA college football coach, making $9.3 million per year. 81 other head football coaches made more than $1 million annually and another 29 more than $500,000. [20] The highest paid men’s basketball coach was the University of Kentucky head coach, John Calipari, who was paid $8.2 million per year. 69 other head men’s basketball coaches were paid more than $1 million annually, and another three more than $500,000. [20] However, college athletes, arguably the stars of the show who earn millions year after year for the well-paid NCAA executives, coaches, and staff, were forbidden by the NCAA from not only being paid for their work-, but from seeking other related compensation such as endorsement deals.

      This is about the unfair marketing off college athletes without the athletes making money

  14. Jun 2021
    1. Isabel: Yeah. I mean, that's incredible. And it sounds like you're really making a life for yourself and for your family in the US. So can we, I guess start to move into the events that brought you back to Mexico? Just going into those in more detail.Angelo: Okay. Well, I remember the date perfectly. It was November 12, 2015. That's the day that me and my baby mama, wife, girlfriend argued. It was a very childish argument. Do you want me to go into full details?Isabel: Whatever you're comfortable sharing. I know we talked about this in the survey, but we'll just reiterate it.Angelo: Okay. So we started arguing, my girlfriend was a type 2 and was that explosive type 2, where she always had to get the last word. And if we weren't done arguing, she would continue the argument even if I needed a breather, she's, "No, we got to talk because we have to talk." And so that day it was basically like that. We were arguing, one thing led to another, she fell on the bed and my little six month baby went flying. As soon as I saw that I tossed myself, and I swooped her up, but—Isabel: Swooped up the baby?Angelo: Yeah, but it was too late, her ear hit the floor. Her ear hit the floor, and I tossed myself, so I hit a bunch of furniture and bunch of stuff fell on top of us. And baby started crying and she wanted to take off with my kids—I love my kids to death.Isabel: Kids? So it was the baby, and also?Angelo: Yes. I have four kids in total. My oldest kid was barely going into elementary school, so that was the main reason why we always argue a lot, because I told her if my kid's going to start elementary school, he's going to stay in one school. We're not going to have him moving around from school to school just because we're arguing or just because we have problems. If we're going to do this, we're going to be a family, and we're going to get through this. And that was the main reason why we stuck together, I would say the last couple of years, because even though we didn't have that much love for each other anymore, it was basically we loved our kids too much for us to do anything else. And so, she wanted to take the kids, so I absolutely didn't let her. There was a point where I called the police because after the baby stopped crying, she wanted to put her in the car seat, and I told her no. And it got to the point where we were literally tugging at the car seat.Angelo: We were playing a tug of war at the car seat with a little baby in a car seat. I told my little brothers, "You know what, I need you to sit down and help me." Because we were alone at the house and I didn't want anything to go wrong. So I told my brothers, I need you to help me, I need you to sit down right here and see what's going on. Well, I have two brothers. I told one, “Sit down and see what's going on.” And I told the other one, “I need you to call the police.” I called the police and they told me, “It's a civil argument, we can't do anything until one of you puts your hands on each other, then you can call us.”Isabel: How old were you?Angelo: I was 21 years old. I called the police multiple times, they never came. It got to the point where I was sitting in the living room, and out of nowhere I see my baby mama grab her things and just take my daughter. I had two boys and two daughters. My two boys were the oldest and the two daughters were the youngest and the baby of course. And she took the toddler, the two-year old, she took her by the hand and left through the back door. As soon as she did that, I called the police again and I told them, “You know what, this is way out of hand. She's literally taking off with my kid, she's out of control. I don't want her to be detained, I don't want anything, I just don't want anything to happen to her because she's crazy right now, she's super mad and I know her, the way she drives, something's going to happen.” They never showed up. I promise you if they would've showed up then, anyways—Isabel: No, I‚Angelo: If they would've probably showed up then, the first time that I called them, everything probably would have been…I probably wouldn't have ended up deported. So, she left with the kid—Isabel: Are the other kids at your house during this time?Angelo: Yes. At that point I had told my brothers, "Take my kids, go watch TV and just keep them entertained." So my wife took off, me and my kids spent the afternoon in my mom's house. The next morning, it was around seven o'clock in the morning, I took my newborn out to get some sun and I was out there talking to my mom. While talking to my mom, she paid attention to my little baby and she said, "She has a bruise." And I asked her where it was because I hadn't seen it and she told me, “It's on her ear.” And right away I started putting things together and I said, "My little baby got hurt, something happened." I didn’t tell my mom at the time what had happened, and then I told her, "What do I do?" And she said, "Okay, well maybe it's a spider bite. We need to take her to the clinic." We took her to the clinic, as soon as we got to the clinic, all fingers were on me. They asked me, "Where's the mother?" And I told her, "Well, the mother's not here."Angelo: "Well, we need the mother because this is not a spider bite, this is a bruise. And we need you right now immediately to take the baby to the hospital, and there's no way around that. You need to go right now because we have people that are waiting for you." As soon as I got to the hospital, I was greeted by a detective. Literally the whole hospital was running around trying to figure out what happened. That detective from the little city that I was staying—it was a very little city and very, very, very little city. So by all these arguments with my girlfriend, they had already gotten to a point to where they knew us. They knew we were a toxic couple, there was always things going on, there was always cops needing to control the situation or calm it down.Angelo: So, by the time I got to the detective, she did not want to hear my side of the story. She said, "The little baby got hurt, I have four children, I'm going to put you behind bars." My wife got there, they asked her what happened and she said, "It was his fault." This was around 1:00 AM in the morning, I had planned to stay there with my little baby throughout the night. I was in the restroom about to take a shower, getting ready to lay down. I had already given my keys to my car to my sister because she didn't have a way home. So I was literally preparing the water for me to take a shower and they knock on the bathroom door, I come out, and they said, "You need to leave the room immediately. You need to leave the hospital immediately. And in the morning we're going to have an order for your arrest." And I told them, "Okay, well hold on. What's going on?" And they said, "We can't tell you anything, you just can't be around the little baby."Angelo: I told him, "No, I can't leave. I'm not going to leave my little baby." And they said, "Okay, well you can leave right now, or I can give you a ride home, if I can give you a ride home, then I'm going to have to go ahead and read you your rights." I didn't know what's going on, with them saying that I panicked, and even the hospital ladies were literally scared and they didn't know what was going on. And they were on my side and they told the police officer, "No, no, no, hold on, hold on. He doesn't have a way home, but we're going to get him a taxi. We're going to get them a taxi, we're going to give him the taxi pass and he should be good to go." So they gave me the taxi pass, I went home, nobody showed up the next morning. I called them around half the day because by that time, throughout the time that I was in the hospital without me knowing, they had already went to my house and picked up my other children.Angelo: The next morning, after them telling me to leave the next morning, I called the police station and I told him, "You know what? I need to know whether my kids are all right, where they're at, I need to know what's going on, I need to know something because you haven't told me anything, I don't know where my kids are at, I don't know if they're with their mother, I literally don't know anything. I need you to tell me something." And they told me somebody will get in contact with you soon. I spent a month waiting. I was working, I came home, my mom was crying on the couch and she told me that they had an order for my arrest and I told her, "Okay, well what's next?" And she said, "I don't know son."Angelo: I told her, "Okay, well I'm going to go tomorrow and I'm going to see what's going on." The next morning, I was on my way to the police station, I was walking because obviously I didn't want to take my car. So I was walking to the police station, it was a couple blocks away. When I was walking towards there, I guess they had went some other way where they hadn't seen me, but the police were going to my house and they didn't see me walk into the police station. So they went to my house and they asked my mom, "Where's he at?" And she said, "He's walking to the police station as we speak." Literally it was like, I was the biggest terrorist in the world. They closed down the streets, they put fire trucks, they had detectives, and literally they greeted me with, "Mr ____, how are you doing?"Angelo: So hypocritical because after them saying that they threw me on their hood and put cuffs on me, and I was literally in front of the police station when they did this. So a town so small, everybody saw, all the neighbors, schools, everybody saw. And I was like, "Really? I'm literally in front of police station. Why are you doing all this?" And I was just the biggest terrorist at that time. And I'm getting into jail, they told me that I was being charged with serious bodily injury because it turns out that in her ear she had a little bit of internal bleeding, and they weren't sure if that was going to affect her or not. Thankfully she was only at the hospital for one day, but I didn't know that, I had no idea.Angelo: So literally it took them about a month for them to build their police report. Once I got to read the police report, it made no sense whatsoever. The detective literally twisted my words because once the detective was at the hospital asking me questions, she asked me, "Who did this?" And I told her, "You know what? I know how this goes, my mom works for the state. My mom has her own daycare." Me and my mom went to the clinic, me and my mom came to the hospital. If at any time I was going to think, "Hey, you know what, maybe I'm in trouble. I would have given the baby to my mom and I would have not presented myself, but I'm here with my baby. I have my baby in my arms, this is my life. You can't tell me that you're going to put the blame on me. I wouldn't be here if I feel any type of guilt." So on the police report it said Angelo ____ brought the baby to the hospital because he feels guilty.Angelo: And so that was a done deal. Once I got into prison, got my lawyer, there was a pretty good chance of me fighting it. First three months, I presented myself to the court. Well, they took me to the court because I was already detained and my first offer was 30 years. They told me 30 years or fight your case. Ended up waiting six months, and they went down to 25 years, ended up waiting a couple of more months, they didn't go down at all until my lawyer said, "This is where we're at. You want to protect your wife so much, you love her so much, you don't want her to go to jail, you're planning to throw away your life, 25 years.” She literally took out her phone and showed me a picture of my wife in Miami with some other dude, and then—Isabel: Where are the kids?Angelo: With their grandparents. And then I told my lawyer, "Let's go to trial, I'm going to fight this." The next day the state called me, and they said, “We're going to offer you three years.” And I told my lawyer, "Okay. So what's going to happen?" She said, "You've already done nine months. You've got to do a couple of more months and you'll be good to go." And I said, "Okay, well, I'm not going to put the mother of my kids behind bars, I'm never going to do that ever in a million years, no matter whatever she's done, I'm not going to be the person to do that." So I said, "Okay, I'm going to do a couple of more months, it seems that I have an immigration bond, so I should be good to go." As soon as I got to prison, immigration bond was gone. I got my papers for deportation and my road ended because I thought a couple of more months and the nightmare is over. But I ended up being deported.Isabel: That's just like a series of people twisting and it does sound exactly like a nightmare. I'm so sorry that that happened.Angelo: Yeah.Isabel: I totally get what you're saying. Like, “If I'm here and I'm carrying my baby, if I was guilty, why in the world would I be here?” Like there's so many steps that I feel like for me so clearly indicate you not being guilty. I think it does kind of get back to problems with US authorities and the immigration services where it's like obviously you're undocumented, or they see that you're Mexican, they're going to assume and paint the picture they want even if you in no way fit that picture that they want. And it's so out of your hands because they have all the power in these situations.Angelo: Exactly.Isabel: I just really want to clarify your story for this, in the altercation with your girlfriend or wife, when the baby was on the bed and she was trying to leave with her. And you were saying, "Please don't, you're not leaving with my children." Like, when you said you're in a toxic relationship. Did it also get physical sometimes?Angelo: It got physical. It got physical because there were points where she would stand at the door and that's the only time it got physical because she would get hit by the door. I would try to pull the door and she literally stand there and, I insist, and pull the door even harder. There was one time where we were playing tug of war with the door, and I let the door go and out of nowhere I just see lights—I see lights. Yeah, she hit me, she hit me in my eye. And I grew up with my dad being an alcoholic, I grew up seeing that happen to my mom. Even to this day, I can't forgive my dad. Me and my dad, we can say we love each other, but I will never forget that.Angelo: So that was always in my mind. I have a sister, I have a mom, I'm never going to touch a woman. So whenever I saw lights, I was like, "Okay, that's going to make you feel better, go ahead." So at first, she started slapping me and then I saw lights because she punched me in my eye. As soon as she punched me in my eye, I was like, "Okay, okay, okay. it's not slaps anymore, you're out of control." I held her, she was facing the wall, she bit me. She bit me so hard that I literally I threw her, I literally let go and she hit the wall. She hit the wall and I think she said she bit her lip, I'm not sure what the police officer said, but she ended up spitting up blood because at that point she told me, “Get out of the house.”Angelo: And at that point, we were living by ourselves and I told her, “This is my house, I'm paying rent, there's no way I'm leaving. You can go to your room, I'll stay in the living room, I'm not going anywhere.” So she picked up the phone to call the police, at the same time I picked up the phone to call the police. And so we were both on the line with the police. I waited outside for the police, I waved them down. I literally waved them down and I told them, "Hey, you know what, this is what happened." They took pictures of my eye, they took pictures of the bite, and at the end of the day it was my fault because a woman got hurt. So that was the only point it ever got to a physical altercation.

      Time in the US, Relationships, Having Children, Complications, Break-ups, Domestic Abuse, Violence, Feelings, Despair, Tragedy, Arrests, False accusations

    1. In line with the literature, this study found that solving dejuvenation by immigration resembles a pyramid or Ponzi scheme. A simulation shows that ever-increasing numbers of immigrants are needed to keep the Dutch grey pressure at the 2020 level. This results in significant population growth: 35 million inhabitants by the year 2060, 75 million at the end of this century, and half a billion by the year 2200.

      Immigration as a ponzi scheme is a genius concept

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.06.07.21258332: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">IRB: Ethics statement: Data linkages and analyses were conducted under a surveillance mandate, authorized by the Provincial Health Officer under the Public Health Act, and exempt from research ethics board review.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Source population, analysis period and study design: There are about 673,000 adults ≥70-years-old in BC (13% of the total 5.1 million population) including ∼437,000 (65%) 70-79 years, 188,000 (28%) 80-89 years and 48,000 (7%) ≥90 years old with slightly more than half who are women (54%) [8].</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">In an alternative individual-based approach, only one randomly-selected negative specimen per individual could contribute.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.


      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      The main limitation of our analysis, as elsewhere, is our reliance on general laboratory submissions and clinical or surveillance data that were originally collected for a different purpose and are subject to missing information and misclassification, as well as selection bias. Although foremost symptom-based, the clinical testing indications for COVID-19 are broad, discretionary and variable. To attempt standardization of the likelihood of test-positivity among sampled specimens we excluded those identified as having been collected from congregate settings or for non-clinical screening purposes. Such exclusions, however, may have been incomplete or introduced other unintended biases. We were limited in the covariates we could include in our model and cannot rule out residual bias and confounding. As a form of validity check, we assessed VE during the 0-13-day period when little or no vaccine effect is anticipated, confirming negligible VE as expected. For similar reasons, we compared vaccine coverage and other characteristics of our test-negative controls to that of the general source population ≥70-years-old in BC, and this was reassuringly concordant. Our findings also align well with other observational studies in older adults each of which are, however, subject to similar issues. Because the PLOVER database from which we sampled does not reliably capture symptoms or onset dates, we assessed VE against any infection without symptom or severity specification. VE estimates ...

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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  15. May 2021
    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.05.24.21256813: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Ethics</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.


      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS: The state of Geneva accounts for half a million residents and the local Directorate of Health ordered the recording of all COVID-19 positive cases since the beginning of the epidemic, according to recommendations from the Federal Office of Public Health. Due to this policy, the database’s main strength consists of its large number of cases, representative of all diagnosed cases on a regional level primarily serving operational needs and not scientific purposes, with one main objective: assessing all cases. This cohort is also multicentric as it includes all tests performed in Geneva’s hospitals (both public and private), private practices and medical centers. The fact that a very large proportion of all cases are assessed reduces the risk of biased data. Also, as data is recorded on the day of the call to the patient, recall bias is very low. Finally, the ARGOS3 database is characterized by a high number of follow-ups. Despite these strengths, ARGOS has been influenced by the testing policy and the results must be seen in light of these influences. First, individuals without risk factors for COVID-19 and those younger than 65 years old are underrepresented in the database during the testing restriction period. The shapes of the graphics in Figure 1 and 2 confirm the impact of this policy as there is a sudden decrease in number of cases after March 20, 2020, when restriction started. Other factors could have amplified this phenomenon such as less sym...

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

      Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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  16. Apr 2021
    1. disease

      There are so many wildlife species that are currently being wiped out by disease. One that comes to mind is white nose syndrome in bats, which has already killed off 5.7 million bats in just the eastern half of North America alone. Humans play a huge role in the spread of this disease. They can spread the particular fungus that causes white nose syndrome by carrying the fungus unknowingly on their shoes and clothing, so it's super important for hikers to clean their gear before and after entering caves.

    1. Americans are inundated by news about the staggering half-million lives that have been lost to covid-19. But the story is bigger than just who dies. Each death casts a shadow on those left behind.For every 13 covid-19 deaths, one child under the age of 18 loses a parent. In research published by JAMA Pediatrics, we estimate that about 40,000 children in the United States have lost a parent to covid-19 since February 2020. Three-quarters of those children were adolescents, and one quarter were children younger than 10.
  17. Mar 2021
    1. How do COVID-19 skeptics use public health data and social media to advocate for reopening the economy and against mask mandates?We studied half a million tweets, over 41,000 visualizations, and spent six months lurking in anti-mask Facebook groups.Here’s what we found.
    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.20118943: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Setting and study population: UKB is a prospective cohort study of over half a million men and women from across the UK covering a range of urban and rural settings.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">URL https://www.R-project.org/], and RStudio Version 1.2.5019</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>RStudio</div><div>suggested: (RStudio, RRID:SCR_000432)</div></div></td></tr></table>

      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      Limitations of this study: Aggregating all BAME populations into one cohort may overlook important differences between non-Caucasian ethnicities. Further study in samples with greater ethnic diversity is needed. Given the observational nature of the study, we cannot discern causal relationships, and although we controlled for a wide range of covariates, the possibility of residual confounding should be considered. Furthermore, the current dataset does not allow assessment of specific COVID-19 health outcomes.

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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    1. BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word. 1 And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were. I remember well when the shadow swept across me. I was a little thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds between Hoosac and Taghkanic to the sea. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys’ and girls’ heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cards—ten cents a package—and exchange. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,—refused it peremptorily, with a glance. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the worlds I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine. But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them. Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way. With other black boys the strife was not so fiercelysunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make me an outcast and a stranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison?house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the stone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above. 2 After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double?consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. 3 The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self?conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face. 4 This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius. These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten. The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the Shadowy and of Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man’s turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness. And yet it is not weakness,—it is the contradiction of double aims. The double-aimed struggle of the black artisan—on the one hand to escape white contempt for a nation of mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, and on the other hand to plough and nail and dig for a poverty-stricken horde—could only result in making him a poor craftsman, for he had but half a heart in either cause. By the poverty and ignorance of his people, the Negro minister or doctor was tempted toward quackery and demagogy; and by the criticism of the other world, toward ideals that made him ashamed of his lowly tasks. The would-be black savant was confronted by the paradox that the knowledge his people needed was a twice-told tale to his white neighbors, while the knowledge which would teach the white world was Greek to his own flesh and blood. The innate love of harmony and beauty that set the ruder souls of his people a-dancing and a- singing raised but confusion and doubt in the soul of the black artist; for the beauty revealed to him was the soul-beauty of a race which his larger audience despised, and he could not articulate the message of another people. This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking falsemeans of salvation, and at times has even seemed about to make them ashamed of themselves. 5 Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries. To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes of wearied Israelites. In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand. At last it came,—suddenly, fearfully, like a dream. With one wild carnival of blood and passion came the message in his own plaintive cadences:— “Shout, O children! Shout, you’re free! For God has bought your liberty!” 6 Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast. In vain do we cry to this our vastest social problem:— “Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble!” 7 The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a lowly people. 8 The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host. The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for freedom. As the time flew, however, he began to grasp a new idea. The ideal of liberty demanded for its attainment powerful means, and these the Fifteenth Amendment gave him. The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him. And why not? Had not votes made war and emancipated millions? Had not votes enfranchised the freedmen? Was anything impossible to a power that had done all this? A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom. So the decade flew away, the revolution of 1876 came, and left the half-free serf weary, wondering, but still inspired. Slowly but steadily, in the following years, a new vision began gradually to replace the dream of political power,—a powerful movement, the rise of another ideal to guide the unguided, another pillar of fire by night after a clouded day. It was the ideal of “book?learning”; the curiosity, born of compulsory ignorance, to know and test the power of the cabalistic letters of the white man, the longing to know. Here at last seemed to have been discovered the mountain path to Canaan; longer than the highway of Emancipation and law, steep and rugged, but straight, leading to heights high enough to overlook life. 9Up the new path the advance guard toiled, slowly, heavily, doggedly; only those who have watched and guided the faltering feet, the misty minds, the dull understandings, of the dark pupils of these schools know how faithfully, how piteously, this people strove to learn. It was weary work. The cold statistician wrote down the inches of progress here and there, noted also where here and there a foot had slipped or some one had fallen. To the tired climbers, the horizon was ever dark, the mists were often cold, the Canaan was always dim and far away. If, however, the vistas disclosed as yet no goal, no resting-place, little but flattery and criticism, the journey at least gave leisure for reflection and self-examination; it changed the child of Emancipation to the youth with dawning self-consciousness, self?realization, self-respect. In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil; and yet he saw in himself some faint revelation of his power, of his mission. He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another. For the first time he sought to analyze the burden he bore upon his back, that dead-weight of social degradation partially masked behind a half-named Negro problem. He felt his poverty; without a cent, without a home, without land, tools, or savings, he had entered into competition with rich, landed, skilled neighbors. To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. He felt the weight of his ignorance,—not simply of letters, but of life, of business, of the humanities; the accumulated sloth and shirking and awkwardness of decades and centuries shackled his hands and feet. Nor was his burden all poverty and ignorance. The red stain of bastardy, which two centuries of systematic legal defilement of Negro women had stamped upon his race, meant not only the loss of ancient African chastity, but also the hereditary weight of a mass of corruption from white adulterers, threatening almost the obliteration of the Negro home. 10 A people thus handicapped ought not to be asked to race with the world, but rather allowed to give all its time and thought to its own social problems. But alas! while sociologists gleefully count his bastards and his prostitutes, the very soul of the toiling, sweating black man is darkened by the shadow of a vast despair. Men call the shadow prejudice, and learnedly explain it as the natural defence of culture against barbarism, learning against ignorance, purity against crime, the “higher” against the “lower” races. To which the Negro cries Amen! and swears that to so much of this strange prejudice as is founded on just homage to civilization, culture, righteousness, and progress, he humbly bows and meekly does obeisance. But before that nameless prejudice that leaps beyond all this he stands helpless, dismayed, and well-nigh speechless; before that personal disrespect and mockery, the ridicule and systematic humiliation, the distortion of fact and wanton license of fancy, the cynical ignoring of the better and the boisterous welcoming of the worse, the all?pervading desire to inculcate disdain for everything black, from Toussaint to the devil,— before this there rises a sickening despair that would disarm and discourage any nation save that black host to whom “discouragement” is an unwritten word. 11 But the facing of so vast a prejudice could not but bring the inevitable self-questioning, self-disparagement, and lowering of ideals which ever accompany repression and breed in an atmosphere of contempt and hate. Whisperings and portents came borne upon the four winds: Lo! we are diseased and dying, cried the dark hosts; we cannot write, our voting is vain; what need of education, since we must always cook and serve? And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,— and behold the suicide of a race! Nevertheless, out of the evil came something of good,—the more careful adjustment of education to real life, the clearer perception of the Negroes’ social responsibilities, and the sobering realization of the meaning of progress. 12So dawned the time of Sturm und Drang: storm and stress to-day rocks our little boat on the mad waters of the world-sea; there is within and without the sound of conflict, the burning of body and rending of soul; inspiration strives with doubt, and faith with vain questionings. The bright ideals of the past,—physical freedom, political power, the training of brains and the training of hands,—all these in turn have waxed and waned, until even the last grows dim and overcast. Are they all wrong,—all false? No, not that, but each alone was over-simple and incomplete,—the dreams of a credulous race-childhood, or the fond imaginings of the other world which does not know and does not want to know our power. To be really true, all these ideals must be melted and welded into one. The training of the schools we need to-day more than ever,—the training of deft hands, quick eyes and ears, and above all the broader, deeper, higher culture of gifted minds and pure hearts. The power of the ballot we need in sheer self-defence,—else what shall save us from a second slavery? Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek,—the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think, the freedom to love and aspire. Work, culture, liberty,—all these we need, not singly but together, not successively but together, each growing and aiding each, and all striving toward that vaster ideal that swims before the Negro people, the ideal of human brotherhood, gained through the unifying ideal of Race; the ideal of fostering and developing the traits and talents of the Negro, not in opposition to or contempt for other races, but rather in large conformity to the greater ideals of the American Republic, in order that some day on American soil two world-races may give each to each those characteristics both so sadly lack. We the darker ones come even now not altogether empty-handed: there are to-day no truer exponents of the pure human spirit of the Declaration of Independence than the American Negroes; there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folk-lore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. Will America be poorer if she replace her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility? or her coarse and cruel wit with loving jovial good-humor? or her vulgar music with the soul of the Sorrow Songs? 13 Merely a concrete test of the underlying principles of the great republic is the Negro Problem, and the spiritual striving of the freedmen’s sons is the travail of souls whose burden is almost beyond the measure of their strength, but who bear it in the name of an historic race, in the name of this the land of their fathers’ fathers, and in the name of human opportunity.


      14 And now what I have briefly sketched in large outline let me on coming pages tell again in many ways, with loving emphasis and deeper detail, that men may listen to the striving in th

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2021.03.06.21252601: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This half of the sample was chosen randomly.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      No key resources detected.


      Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
      This study has some limitations. The COVID-19 risk score was derived using the national testing database rather than a nationally representative, probability-based survey of the total population of Qatar. Infection levels and patterns among tested individuals may not necessarily reflect actual levels and patterns in the wider population. The score used a small number of demographic variables, but its predictive power might have been enhanced if other variables had been available, such as more socio-demographic indicators. Despite these limitations, the study had important strengths. The testing database encompassed all RT-PCR testing done in Qatar up the present and was massive, including results of over two million tests, representing a majority of the population of Qatar [8, 39]. While other variables in the score might have improved its predictive power, they might have reduced its accessibility and utility for broad use as a tool of public health. In conclusion, the concept and utility of a COVID-19 risk score was demonstrated in a single country. Such public health tool, based on a set of non-invasive and easily captured variables, can help to optimize testing and suppression of infection transmission, while maximizing efficient use of available resources.

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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    1. This created a system of fractured communities — and a fractured system of education funding — that means even today, only about half of America's 50 million public school students attend integrated schools, Sibilia says.

      I find this to very important in my paper to show how fractured communities impact the education system and the funding that goes with it. The statistic that only half of 50 million students are in integrated schools shows that we are failing at even integration throughtout.

    1. Chinese bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale could make half a million

      旧货摊上的中国宝贝 35美金买,价值50万+ 美金

      美国男子去年的时候,在康涅狄格州的一个旧货摊(yard sale)用35美金(约220人民币)买入一件青花小碗。

      男子还是有头脑,他买下后立刻找纽约的专家鉴定,人家一看,可不得了;

      它是极为罕见的15世纪明朝永乐年间(Yongle Emporer)的官窑瓷器,纽约苏富比拍卖行表示,目前已知只有6只类似的小碗保存下来,大多在博物馆里,不知道为什么这只会在美国的旧货摊上。

      纽约苏富比将于下星期拍卖这个小碗,起拍价就是50万美元,可能拍出天价也不奇怪。

    1. Although Andreessen has been a board member of Facebook, Hewlett-Packard, and eBay, he doesn’t take many board seats in a16z’s portfolio companies, preferring to train his eyes on the horizon. Andreessen is tomorrow’s advance man, routinely laying out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years,” as if he were glancing at his Google calendar. He views his acuity as a matter of careful observation and extrapolation, and often invokes William Gibson’s observation “The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.” Jet packs have been around for half a century, but you still can’t buy them at Target. To smooth out such lumps in distribution, Andreessen disseminates his views via every available podcast and panel discussion and CNN interview slot: he’s a media soothsayer, Andreessen the Magnificent. He also tweets a hundred and ten times a day, inundating his three hundred and ten thousand followers with aphorisms and statistics and tweetstorm jeremiads. Andreessen says that he loves Twitter because “reporters are obsessed with it. It’s like a tube and I have loudspeakers installed in every reporting cubicle around the world.” He believes that if you say it often enough and insistently enough it will come—a glorious revenge. He told me, “We have this theory of nerd nation, of forty or fifty million people all over the world who believe that other nerds have more in common with them than the people in their own country. So you get to choose what tribe or band or group you’re a part of.” The nation-states of Twitter will map the world.

      虽然 Andreessen 是 Facebook,Hewlett-Packard,和 eBay 的董事会成员,但他在 a16z 的投资公司里并没占据很多董事会席位。他更倾向于训练自己看得远一些。Andreessen 是未来预言家,能够轻易描绘出「未来十年,二十年,三十年里会发生什么」,就像是看了一眼自己的谷歌日历一样。他认为自己的敏锐来自仔细的观察和推断,而且经常援引 William Gibson 的那句「未来已经来了——只是还未均匀分布」(The future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed.)。喷气式背包已经存在了半个世纪了,但你还是不能在 Target 超市买到。为了让这种不均匀尽量消失,Andreessen 通过各种途径——播客、论坛和 CNN 的采访来传播他的观点:他成了一个媒体上的预言者,「伟大的 Andreessen」。他可以一天写 110 条推特,用各种格言警句、统计数据或者「推特风暴」 (tweetstorm) 淹没他的 31 万关注者。Andreessen 说他喜欢 Twitter 是因为「记者都会对它上瘾。它就像个管道,而我在世界上每一个记者的工作间都装了一个喇叭。」他相信如果你能频繁地说,那么事情就会发生——像一场华丽的复仇。他对我说,「我们有个所谓的『书呆子国度』(nerd nation)理论,全世界有四、五千万人会觉得其他国家的 nerds 比他们自己国家的人和自己更相似。所以你是可以选择自己属于哪个群体的。」 Twitter 的群体分类就是整个世界的图谱。

    1. SciScore for 10.1101/2020.07.09.20148429: (What is this?)

      Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.

      Table 1: Rigor

      <table><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Institutional Review Board Statement</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Randomization</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Blinding</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Power Analysis</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Sex as a biological variable</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;margin-right:1em; border-right:1px solid lightgray; border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Cell Line Authentication</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">not detected.</td></tr></table>

      Table 2: Resources

      <table><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Experimental Models: Cell Lines</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">This protein was expressed in 500 mL HEK-293F cells (Invitrogen) at a density of 1.5 million cells/mL.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK-293F</div><div>suggested: RRID:CVCL_6642)</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Virus preparation: Pseudotyped HIV virus incorporating the SARS-Cov2 spike protein was produced in a 10 cm dish seeded the day prior with 3.5×106 HEK293T/17 cells in 10 ml of complete Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle’s Medium (DMEM-C) containing 10% (vol/vol)</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>HEK293T/17</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Next, Hela cells stably expressing the ACE2 receptor (provided by Dr James Voss, The Scripps Research Institute) were added and the plates were left for 72 hours.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>Hela</div><div>suggested: None</div></div></td></tr><tr><th style="min-width:100px;text-align:center; padding-top:4px;" colspan="2">Software and Algorithms</th></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;text=align:center">Sentences</td><td style="min-width:100px;text-align:center">Resources</td></tr><tr><td style="min-width:100px;vertical-align:top;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray">Half-maximal binding (EC50) was calculated using GraphPad Prism.</td><td style="min-width:100px;border-bottom:1px solid lightgray"><div style="margin-bottom:8px"><div>GraphPad Prism</div><div>suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)</div></div></td></tr></table>

      Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


      Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

      Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


      Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


      Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


      Results from rtransparent:
      • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
      • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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    1. In South America, morethan half of the biologically-richcerradosavannas,which formerly spanned over 2 million km2, havebeen converted into soyfields and cattle pasturesin recent decades, and rates of loss remain veryhigh (Klink and Machado 2005).

      It is vital that we learn to stop expanding our own creations and infrastructures where they are not absolutely needed to survive to maintain and keep the natural ecosystems from going under.

  18. Feb 2021
    1. What became known as the Google Books Search Amended Settlement Agreement came to 165 pages and more than a dozen appendices. It took two and a half years to hammer out the details. Sarnoff described the negotiations as “four-dimensional chess” between the authors, publishers, libraries, and Google. “Everyone involved,” he said to me, “and I mean everyone—on all sides of this issue—thought that if we were going to get this through, this would be the single most important thing they did in their careers.” Ultimately the deal put Google on the hook for about $125 million, including a one-time $45 million payout to the copyright holders of books it had scanned—something like $60 per book—along with $15.5 million in legal fees to the publishers, $30 million to the authors, and $34.5 million toward creating the Registry.

      这个被称为《谷歌图书搜索修正协议》(Google Books Search Amended Settlement Agreement)的文件有十几条附录,共计165页。确定各项细节前前后后花了两年半时间。萨诺夫将谈判过程比作一个在作者、出版商、图书馆和谷歌公司之间进行的“四维象棋”。“每个谈判参与者,真的是每个人,当时都觉得如果我们真的把这事儿谈成了,那就是每个人在自己的事业里最大的成就。”最终,协议要求谷歌支付1亿2500万美元,其中包括一次性支付给它已经扫描过的图书的版权方的4500万美元(大约按每本书60美元计算),分别向出版商和作者支付的1550万美元和3000万美元诉讼费,以及用来创立图书版权登记处的3450万美元。

    1. In a 2016 interview with Wired, Parscale called himself “a farm boy from Kansas.” His childhood home was not on a farm but on a paved cul-de-sac in Topeka, within walking distance of a Sonic Drive-In and a disk-golf course. His parents, Dwight and Rita, were entrepreneurs whose businesses, according to ProPublica, “included a swimming pool company, a scuba shop, real estate enterprises, restaurants and a Western-themed nightclub featuring a mechanical bull.” “Am I worth over a million bucks?” Dwight said in an interview with ProPublica. “Yes. But that’s not that much today.” Brad attended a public high school, Shawnee Heights, which students at a nearby school sometimes referred to as Scrawny Whites. In Parscale’s case, the aspersion was exactly half accurate: by ninth grade, according to a former coach, he was already a sturdy six feet five.

      2016年接受《连线》采访时,帕斯凯尔称自己是“来自堪萨斯州的农场男孩”。童年时代他的家不在农场,而是在托皮卡的一条铺了路的死胡同里,步行就能到达索尼克汽车穿梭餐厅和高尔夫球场。他的父母德怀特和丽塔都是企业家,根据《ProPublica》新闻机构的说法,他们家的生意包括 “一家游泳池公司,一家潜水店,房地产企业,餐馆和一家以机械公牛为主题的西部主题夜总会。” “我的身价超过一百万美元吗?” 德怀特在接受《ProPublica》采访时说。“是的,但这些钱在今天看来并不多。” 帕斯凯尔就读于肖尼高地(Shawnee Heights)的公立高中,这里有时会被另外一所学校的学生谐音戏称为“Scrawny Whites”(意为瘦骨嶙峋的白人)。就帕斯凯尔的情况来说,这玩笑话只说对了一半:据一位学校的前教练说,帕斯凯尔九年级时,就已经长成六尺五高的壮小伙了。

    1. cuneiform tablet

      Cuneiform is the earliest known system of writing. It emerged around 3500-3000 BCE and is thought to have first been developed by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia because most of the early cuneiforms come from the Sumerian city of Uruk. Cuneiform texts were created by drawing with a pointed tool on a damp clay tablet. Their name comes from the Latin word cuneus, which means “wedge”, and it refers to the wedge-shaped marks made when the stylus is pressed into the tablet. At first, the writing was mostly pictorial, but as the subject matter became more intangible, the strokes began to convey word-concepts and word-signs, as well. By 2285-2250 BCE, when the priestess-poet Enheduanna wrote the famous hymns to Inanna in the Sumerian city of Ur, cuneiform could express emotional states and reasons behind those emotional states. The last known cuneiform tablet is an astronomical text from 75 CE. During its more than 3000 years of development, the cuneiform system was used to write in around 15 different languages, including Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Akkadian, Hittite, Elamite, Urartian, and Old Persian. Although cuneiforms were first used only to record the storage and movement of goods, some of the oldest known literary works were also written in cuneiform, including The Epic of Gilgamesh, Atrahasis, The Descent of Inanna, The Myth of Etana, The Enuma Elish. Cuneiform was first translated into modern language in 1872 CE when George Smith deciphered The Epic of Gilgamesh and translated it into English. Today, more than half a million cuneiform tablets are held in museums around the world, with the largest collections belonging to the British Museum, the Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, and the National Museum of Iraq (117).

    1. 1990, over 20 million hunters in the United Statesspent over half a billion days afield in pursuit ofwild game, and hunting licensesfinance vastconservation areas in North America.

      I grew up in Maine, and some of my teachers would tell us about how there is an overpopulation of Whitetail Deer, especially in southern Maine. One of their solutions to the ecological problems of overpopulation of deer was to allow hunters more access to the land where they are overpopulating. It's interesting to see the flip side of that where animals are overexploited and how that is affecting the economy

      https://www.seacoastonline.com/article/20081023/Sports/810230378#:~:text=habitat%20can%20support.-,Southern%20Maine%20has%20a%20serious%20overpopulation%20of%20whitetail%20deer.,to%2025%20per%20square%20mile.&text=Over%20abundant%20deer%20herds%20cost,of%20agriculture%20and%20domestic%20plants.

    1. Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city's white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self purification; and direct action. We have gone through all these steps in Birmingham. There can be no gainsaying the fact that racial injustice engulfs this community. Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings of Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation. These are the hard, brutal facts of the case. On the basis of these conditions, Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the latter consistently refused to engage in good faith negotiation.Then, last September, came the opportunity to talk with leaders of Birmingham's economic community. In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs. On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations. As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the others remained. As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of workshops on nonviolence, and we repeatedly asked ourselves: "Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" "Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?" We decided to schedule our direct action program for the Easter season, realizing that except for Christmas, this is the main shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic-withdrawal program would be the by product of direct action, we felt that this would be the best time to bring pressure to bear on the merchants for the needed change.Then it occurred to us that Birmingham's mayoral election was coming up in March, and we speedily decided to postpone action until after election day. When we discovered that the Commissioner of Public Safety, Eugene "Bull" Connor, had piled up enough votes to be in the run off, we decided again to postpone action until the day after the run off so that the demonstrations could not be used to cloud the issues. Like many others, we waited to see Mr. Connor defeated, and to this end we endured postponement after postponement. Having aided in this community need, we felt that our direct action program could be delayed no longer.You may well ask: "Why direct action? Why sit ins, marches and so forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?" You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored. My citing the creation of tension as part of the work of the nonviolent resister may sound rather shocking. But I must confess that I am not afraid of the word "tension." I have earnestly opposed violent tension, but there is a type of constructive, nonviolent tension which is necessary for growth. Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood. The purpose of our direct action program is to create a situation so crisis packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. I therefore concur with you in your call for negotiation. Too long has our beloved Southland been bogged down in a tragic effort to live in monologue rather than dialogue.One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely. Some have asked: "Why didn't you give the new city administration time to act?" The only answer that I can give to this query is that the new Birmingham administration must be prodded about as much as the outgoing one, before it will act. We are sadly mistaken if we feel that the election of Albert Boutwell as mayor will bring the millennium to Birmingham. While Mr. Boutwell is a much more gentle person than Mr. Connor, they are both segregationists, dedicated to maintenance of the status quo. I have hope that Mr. Boutwell will be reasonable enough to see the futility of massive resistance to desegregation. But he will not see this without pressure from devotees of civil rights. My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure. Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly, I have yet to engage in a direct action campaign that was "well timed" in the view of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never." We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence, but we still creep at horse and buggy pace toward gaining a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. Perhaps it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation to say, "Wait." But when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million Negro brothers smothering in an airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distort her personality by developing an unconscious bitterness toward white people; when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: "Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"; when you take a cross county drive and find it necessary to sleep night after night in the uncomfortable corners of your automobile because no motel will accept you; when you are humiliated day in and day out by nagging signs reading "white" and "colored"; when your first name becomes "nigger," your middle name becomes "boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness"--then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait. There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair. I hope, sirs, you can understand our legitimate and unavoidable impatience. You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court's decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust. All segregation statutes are unjust because segregation distorts the soul and damages the personality. It gives the segregator a false sense of superiority and the segregated a false sense of inferiority. Segregation, to use the terminology of the Jewish philosopher Martin Buber, substitutes an "I it" relationship for an "I thou" relationship and ends up relegating persons to the status of things. Hence segregation is not only politically, economically and sociologically unsound, it is morally wrong and sinful. Paul Tillich has said that sin is separation. Is not segregation an existential expression of man's tragic separation, his awful estrangement, his terrible sinfulness? Thus it is that I can urge men to obey the 1954 decision of the Supreme Court, for it is morally right; and I can urge them to disobey segregation ordinances, for they are morally wrong.Let us consider a more concrete example of just and unjust laws. An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal. Let me give another explanation. A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up that state's segregation laws was democratically elected? Throughout Alabama all sorts of devious methods are used to prevent Negroes from becoming registered voters, and there are some counties in which, even though Negroes constitute a majority of the population, not a single Negro is registered. Can any law enacted under such circumstances be considered democratically structured?Sometimes a law is just on its face and unjust in its application. For instance, I have been arrested on a charge of parading without a permit. Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade. But such an ordinance becomes unjust when it is used to maintain segregation and to deny citizens the First-Amendment privilege of peaceful assembly and protest.I hope you are able to see the distinction I am trying to point out. In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was evidenced sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar, on the ground that a higher moral law was at stake. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians, who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks rather than submit to certain unjust laws of the Roman Empire. To a degree, academic freedom is a reality today because Socrates practiced civil disobedience. In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If today I lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.In your statement you assert that our actions, even though peaceful, must be condemned because they precipitate violence. But is this a logical assertion? Isn't this like condemning a robbed man because his possession of money precipitated the evil act of robbery? Isn't this like condemning Socrates because his unswerving commitment to truth and his philosophical inquiries precipitated the act by the misguided populace in which they made him drink hemlock? Isn't this like condemning Jesus because his unique God consciousness and never ceasing devotion to God's will precipitated the evil act of crucifixion? We must come to see that, as the federal courts have consistently affirmed, it is wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber. I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.You speak of our activity in Birmingham as extreme. At first I was rather disappointed that fellow clergymen would see my nonviolent efforts as those of an extremist. I began thinking about the fact that I stand in the middle of two opposing forces in the Negro community. One is a force of complacency, made up in part of Negroes who, as a result of long years of oppression, are so drained of self respect and a sense of "somebodiness" that they have adjusted to segregation; and in part of a few middle-class Negroes who, because of a degree of academic and economic security and because in some ways they profit by segregation, have become insensitive to the problems of the masses. The other force is one of bitterness and hatred, and it comes perilously close to advocating violence. It is expressed in the various black nationalist groups that are springing up across the nation, the largest and best known being Elijah Muhammad's Muslim movement. Nourished by the Negro's frustration over the continued existence of racial discrimination, this movement is made up of people who have lost faith in America, who have absolutely repudiated Christianity, and who have concluded that the white man is an incorrigible "devil."I have tried to stand between these two forces, saying that we need emulate neither the "do nothingism" of the complacent nor the hatred and despair of the black nationalist. For there is the more excellent way of love and nonviolent protest. I am grateful to God that, through the influence of the Negro church, the way of nonviolence became an integral part of our struggle. If this philosophy had not emerged, by now many streets of the South would, I am convinced, be flowing with blood. And I am further convinced that if our white brothers dismiss as "rabble rousers" and "outside agitators" those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace and security in black nationalist ideologies--a development that would inevitably lead to a frightening racial nightmare.Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American Negro. Something within has reminded him of his birthright of freedom, and something without has reminded him that it can be gained. Consciously or unconsciously, he has been caught up by the Zeitgeist, and with his black brothers of Africa and his brown and yellow brothers of Asia, South America and the Caribbean, the United States Negro is moving with a sense of great urgency toward the promised land of racial justice. If one recognizes this vital urge that has engulfed the Negro community, one should readily understand why public demonstrations are taking place. The Negro has many pent up resentments and latent frustrations, and he must release them. So let him march; let him make prayer pilgrimages to the city hall; let him go on freedom rides -and try to understand why he must do so. If his repressed emotions are not released in nonviolent ways, they will seek expression through violence; this is not a threat but a fact of history. So I have not said to my people: "Get rid of your discontent." Rather, I have tried to say that this normal and healthy discontent can be channeled into the creative outlet of nonviolent direct action. And now this approach is being termed extremist. But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." Was not Amos an extremist for justice: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever flowing stream." Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: "I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." Was not Martin Luther an extremist: "Here I stand; I cannot do otherwise, so help me God." And John Bunyan: "I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience." And Abraham Lincoln: "This nation cannot survive half slave and half free." And Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal . . ." So the question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. Will we be extremists for hate or for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice or for the extension of justice? In that dramatic scene on Calvary's hill three men were crucified. We must never forget that all three were crucified for the same crime--the crime of extremism. Two were extremists for immorality, and thus fell below their environment. The other, Jesus Christ, was an extremist for love, truth and goodness, and thereby rose above his environment. Perhaps the South, the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.I had hoped that the white moderate would see this need. Perhaps I was too optimistic; perhaps I expected too much. I suppose I should have realized that few members of the oppressor race can understand the deep groans and passionate yearnings of the oppressed race, and still fewer have the vision to see that injustice must be rooted out by strong, persistent and determined action. I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers in the South have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too few in quantity, but they are big in quality. Some -such as Ralph McGill, Lillian Smith, Harry Golden, James McBride Dabbs, Ann Braden and Sarah Patton Boyle--have written about our struggle in eloquent and prophetic terms. Others have marched with us down nameless streets of the South. They have languished in filthy, roach infested jails, suffering the abuse and brutality of policemen who view them as "dirty nigger-lovers." Unlike so many of their moderate brothers and sisters, they have recognized the urgency of the moment and sensed the need for powerful "action" antidotes to combat the disease of segregation. Let me take note of my other major disappointment. I have been so greatly disappointed with the white church and its leadership. Of course, there are some notable exceptions. I am not unmindful of the fact that each of you has taken some significant stands on this issue. I commend you, Reverend Stallings, for your Christian stand on this past Sunday, in welcoming Negroes to your worship service on a nonsegregated basis. I commend the Catholic leaders of this state for integrating Spring Hill College several years ago.But despite these notable exceptions, I must honestly reiterate that I have been disappointed with the church. I do not say this as one of those negative critics who can always find something wrong with the church. I say this as a minister of the gospel, who loves the church; who was nurtured in its bosom; who has been sustained by its spiritual blessings and who will remain true to it as long as the cord of life shall lengthen.When I was suddenly catapulted into the leadership of the bus protest in Montgomery, Alabama, a few years ago, I felt we would be supported by the white church. I felt that the white ministers, priests and rabbis of the South would be among our strongest allies. Instead, some have been outright opponents, refusing to understand the freedom movement and misrepresenting its leaders; all too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained glass windows.In spite of my shattered dreams, I came to Birmingham with the hope that the white religious leadership of this community would see the justice of our cause and, with deep moral concern, would serve as the channel through which our just grievances could reach the power structure. I had hoped that each of you would understand. But again I have been disappointed.I have heard numerous southern religious leaders admonish their worshipers to comply with a desegregation decision because it is the law, but I have longed to hear white ministers declare: "Follow this decree because integration is morally right and because the Negro is your brother." In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: "Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern." And I have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely other worldly religion which makes a strange, un-Biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular.I have traveled the length and breadth of Alabama, Mississippi and all the other southern states. On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at the South's beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward. I have beheld the impressive outlines of her massive religious education buildings. Over and over I have found myself asking: "What kind of people worship here? Who is their God? Where were their voices when the lips of Governor Barnett dripped with words of interposition and nullification? Where were they when Governor Wallace gave a clarion call for defiance and hatred? Where were their voices of support when bruised and weary Negro men and women decided to rise from the dark dungeons of complacency to the bright hills of creative protest?"Yes, these questions are still in my mind. In deep disappointment I have wept over the laxity of the church. But be assured that my tears have been tears of love. There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love. Yes, I love the church. How could I do otherwise? I am in the rather unique position of being the son, the grandson and the great grandson of preachers. Yes, I see the church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.There was a time when the church was very powerful--in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Whenever the early Christians entered a town, the people in power became disturbed and immediately sought to convict the Christians for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators."' But the Christians pressed on, in the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," called to obey God rather than man. Small in number, they were big in commitment. They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." By their effort and example they brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contests. Things are different now. So often the contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's silent--and often even vocal--sanction of things as they are.But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.Perhaps I have once again been too optimistic. Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world? Perhaps I must turn my faith to the inner spiritual church, the church within the church, as the true ekklesia and the hope of the world. But again I am thankful to God that some noble souls from the ranks of organized religion have broken loose from the paralyzing chains of conformity and joined us as active partners in the struggle for freedom. They have left their secure congregations and walked the streets of Albany, Georgia, with us. They have gone down the highways of the South on tortuous rides for freedom. Yes, they have gone to jail with us. Some have been dismissed from their churches, have lost the support of their bishops and fellow ministers. But they have acted in the faith that right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant. Their witness has been the spiritual salt that has preserved the true meaning of the gospel in these troubled times. They have carved a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. I hope the church as a whole will meet the challenge of this decisive hour. But even if the church does not come to the aid of justice, I have no despair about the future. I have no fear about the outcome of our struggle in Birmingham, even if our motives are at present misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom. Abused and scorned though we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny. Before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence across the pages of history, we were here. For more than two centuries our forebears labored in this country without wages; they made cotton king; they built the homes of their masters while suffering gross injustice and shameful humiliation -and yet out of a bottomless vitality they continued to thrive and develop. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands. Before closing I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly. You warmly commended the Birmingham police force for keeping "order" and "preventing violence." I doubt that you would have so warmly commended the police force if you had seen its dogs sinking their teeth into unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I doubt that you would so quickly commend the policemen if you were to observe their ugly and inhumane treatment of Negroes here in the city jail; if you were to watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you were to see them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys; if you were to observe them, as they did on two occasions, refuse to give us food because we wanted to sing our grace together. I cannot join you in your praise of the Birmingham police department.It is true that the police have exercised a degree of discipline in handling the demonstrators. In this sense they have conducted themselves rather "nonviolently" in public. But for what purpose? To preserve the evil system of segregation. Over the past few years I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek. I have tried to make clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends. Perhaps Mr. Connor and his policemen have been rather nonviolent in public, as was Chief Pritchett in Albany, Georgia, but they have used the moral means of nonviolence to maintain the immoral end of racial injustice. As T. S. Eliot has said: "The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason."I wish you had commended the Negro sit inners and demonstrators of Birmingham for their sublime courage, their willingness to suffer and their amazing discipline in the midst of great provocation. One day the South will recognize its real heroes. They will be the James Merediths, with the noble sense of purpose that enables them to face jeering and hostile mobs, and with the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer. They will be old, oppressed, battered Negro women, symbolized in a seventy two year old woman in Montgomery, Alabama, who rose up with a sense of dignity and with her people decided not to ride segregated buses, and who responded with ungrammatical profundity to one who inquired about her weariness: "My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest." They will be the young high school and college students, the young ministers of the gospel and a host of their elders, courageously and nonviolently sitting in at lunch counters and willingly going to jail for conscience' sake. One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

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    1. area over half as large again as the whole German empire in Europe. Only in its dramatic suddenness was this undisguised robbery of the land of 7 million natives different from the methods by which Great Britain and France got 4 million square miles each, Portugal three-quarters of a million, and Italy and Spain smaller but substantial areas …

      The kingdoms of Europe are now those kids who just grab all the candy out of a basket on Halloween that say take one.

    2. Germany [annexed] an area over half as large again as the whole German empire in Europe. Only in its dramatic suddenness was this undisguised robbery of the land of 7 million natives

      It is common for people to forget that the land we are on today was stolen. As said here, 7 million natives had their home taken. This is the equivalent to going to someone elses yard and declaring that you now own it.

    3. Germany [annexed] an area over half as large again as the whole German empire in Europe. Only in its dramatic suddenness was this undisguised robbery of the land of 7 million natives different from the methods by which Great Britain and France got 4 million square miles each, Portugal three-quarters of a million, and Italy and Spain smaller but substantial areas …

      Germany in an effort to stay on top as well as gain more wealth for its country they expanded and this expansion cost the land of 7 million natives and just kept the greed for land growing

    1. In the USA,for instance, over half of all wetlands have beendestroyed in the last two centuries (Steinet al.2000)

      This is so disappointing. Wetlands are crucial in slowing down storm surges and thus protecting coastal communities from hurricanes and tropical storms. In fact, apparently they stopped $625 million in damage during Hurricane Sandy. I wonder if loss of wetlands further increases the intensity and damage from storms we have seen due to climate change?

      https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/wetlands-stopped-650-million-property-damage-hurricane-sandy-can-help-houston

    1. Since then, Wikipedia's growth has accelerated. It had almost a half million articles by its third anniversary in January 2004; it broke the million mark just nine months later. More than fifty-five thousand people have made at least t

      You just had to be more careful then than now about making sure all the citations and information were "all good". Nowadays it's remarkable how well constructed, cited, and informed posts are (though, do your homework nonetheless).

    1. Many of Sanghwan’s clients are too poor to shell out so much money in one go, so they sometimes pool funds and divide the purchased water among themselves. “Call it a water mafia; call it a business,” Sanghwan says. “I call it a lifeline.” The need for a lifeline dates back to the 1960s, when urban planners grossly underestimated growth in Delhi’s first master plan. Within 20 years, the city’s population had exploded from 2.6 million to 6.2 million, but there was only housing (of varying quality) for 90 percent of that number. Some half a million people wound up in unauthorized colonies—essentially squatter settlements. One of them was Sangam Vihar, where enterprising farmers, including Sanghwan’s parents, divided their personal fields into residential plots and sold them to migrants eager for toeholds in the city.

      Scale- Sanghwan to squatters to Sanghwan Different kind of scalar shift- Historicisation Also, quotations

    1. “For instance, you need neodymium for wind turbines—but there’s seven times more of it than you’d need to power half the world. Electric cars take lithium for batteries—but there’s enough lithium just in the known resources for three billion cars, and at the moment we only have 800 million.”

      This is shocking. We have an abundance of resources, yet we are not using them! I feel grateful that we have the resources but frustrated we are not using them to the best of our ability.

    1. The elephant is reckoned to be the slowest breeder of all known animals, and I have taken some pains to estimate its probable minimum rate of natural increase: it will be under the mark to assume that it breeds when thirty years old, and goes on breeding till ninety years old, bringing forth three pair of young in this interval; if this be so, at the end of the fifth century there would be alive fifteen million elephants, descended from the first pair.

      Yet there is considerably less than half a million left in the world! Is this due to human interference or lack of breeding, or both?

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    1. A grapholect is a transdialectal languageformed by deep commitment to writing. Writing gives a grapholect apower far exceeding that of any purely oral dialect. The grapholectknown as standard English has accessible for use a recorded vocabularyof at least a million and a half words, of which not only the presentmeanings but also hundreds of thousands of past meanings are known.A simply oral dialect will commonly have resources of only a fewthousand words, and its users will have virtually no knowledge of thereal semantic history of any of these words.

      grapholect --> oral language taken to new extremes when written

    1. in 2016, of the nearly 3.3 million students who were eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), less than half applied.

      This is true of all low income people, not just college students. The bureaucratic hoops they make people jump though, and the discrimination people face along the way, makes most people give up before they receive assistance.

    2. 3.3 million students who were eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), less than half applied.

      The paperwork is often held back or too long and confusing on purpose. Making poor people stay poor and hungry.

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    1. There was not yet, formally speaking, an American people. There were, instead, living in the thirteen British colonies in North America some two-and-a-half million subjects of a distant king. Those subjects became a people by declaring themselves such and then by winning the independence they had asserted as their right.

      • There were many American peoples. None of them were White.
      • "those subjects became a people by declaring themselves such and then by winning the independence they had asserted as their right" - OK no. Quite a lot of people did not have the autonomy to "declare themselves" part of a people, and indeed were not recognized as such. There were also loyalists. And this idea of "a people" is...really complicated.
      • While it's true that the first citizens of the United States were former British subjects, it is worth noting that a lot of other people lived in the current United States at the time who were tribal citizens, French colonists, Spanish colonists, and enslaved people who weren't considered citizens of anywhere.
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    1. There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas, too frequent among us, sacrif icing the poor innocent babes, I doubt,8 more to avoid the expense than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders.
      1. Something I realized while reading this was how topical it was in terms of abortion laws. In the South, the government made the option of abortion illegal, which obviously rose ire from the crowd. It was basically the white men in charge saying that the choice was "monstrous", clearly not realizing how hard it is to be a young single mom or someone who believes that they can't take care of a child yet. I can't tell whether or not Swift was pro or anti abortion (due to the tone of the essay) but it's interesting nonetheless.

      2. The point of calling child-bearing women "breeders" was both funny and horrifying to me. But that's probably just because I have a very dark and weird sense of humor. It reminded me of a book called "The Handmaid's Tale" (if you haven't read it yet, do it ASAP), in which women are forced to do whatever a man wants them to do, including bearing a child.

      3. The term souls was an interesting one to use. I doubt it has any real significance to the author, but interestingly, the United Kingdom had more than a million and a half people, at that point in time. I think that it's possible when using "souls" in this sense, he meant the heart of that person. This would leave out a significant number of people, with that being the higher-ups in Britain. I'm probably just reading too much into it, but I thought it was interesting.

  22. Nov 2020
    1. China ate your lunch, Joe. And no wonder your son goes in and, wha–, he takes out billions of dollars. He takes out billions of dollars to manage. He makes millions of dollars. And also, while we’re at it, why is it just out of curiosity, the mayor of Moscow’s wife gave your son three and a half million dollars?

      Trump didn't go well with China, he didn't like China. Then he mentioned the issue of Biden's son when they doubted that his son did some businesses with China and earn back millions of dollars for personal benefit (fallacy, slope of slippery)

    2. Obama’s final three years as president more jobs were created, a million and a half more jobs, than in the first three years of your presidency.

      comparation Trump's first 3 years with Obama's last 3 years, Trump created less jobs

    1. An estimated 2.3 million people are affected by the ongoing drought in southern Angola’s Namibe, Huila, Bie and Cunene provinces, nearly half a million of whom are children under 5 years old.

      Example of logos

    1. The demonstrations, which were later termed a “police riot” by an investigative commission, appalled 90 million television viewers, nearly half the American population.

      This reminds of the world today. With the age of the internet, millions of Americans and even those in other countries are able to view atrocities with the click of a finger. I always found it odd that America is very keen on displaying any type of criminal activity or horror all over the news. I think we have all had an experience where we sat at our television all day following a horrific news story and I always wonder if things would be different if the news simply reported incidents instead of making a display of them.

    1. eCoteau wasn’t the only one who signed misleading forms with disastrous consequences. Officials recommended that one of the parents make the actual delivery of children into state care even though forms had been signed—but Native women testified that this rarely occurred. They were often bullied or coaxed into signing forms without the presence of relatives or the father of the child. Thus, although technically many women signed consent forms, state officials clearly engaged in coercion. This kind of pressure from social workers was applied to other young, unmarried women (not only Natives). Between 1945 and 1973, an estimated one and a half million babies were relinquished for adoption due to this kind of pressure.

      this form of coercion of social worker to get Native women to give up their kids for adoption is a similar process they had to go through at hospitals unwillingly getting sterilized against their consent.

    1. The smoking gun was ancient volcanism in what is today Siberia, where volcanoes disgorged enough magma and lava over about a million years to cover an amount of land equivalent to a third or even half of the surface area of the United States.

      Where siberia is today there million years ago volcanoes ooed out so much magma that could cover nearly half of the US

    1. Where in the past people entered natural ecosystems as visitors, in the Anthropocene Era species composing adulterated fragments of the ecosystems are expected to live among us.

      "Increasingly over the past 65 million years, we have lived on a planet dominated by human beings. He labels this the “Anthropocene Epoch.” According to Wilson the fundamental problem is the world-view of the “Anthropocene enthusiasts,” who defend the right of the human species to rule the world in our own self-interest and without regard for other species. Certainly this ideology is prevalent if not entirely hegemonic today.

      However, the book seems to root the causes of this view in the ideas of individuals and societies. Wilson holds a particular animus for those who believe that the natural world is already gone, unrecoverable, and that the best way to protect other species is to develop the human world with an eye toward how the survival of other species can be useful or even essential to us. He argues that the survival and recovery of other species can only be based upon a radical shift in philosophy that places the survival of all species as the highest principle."

      Rotin, Mike.(2018) Half-Earth or Half Solution? E.O. Wilson’s Solution to Species Loss, The Solutions Journal, Volume 9, Issue 1

      Here, Wilson is discussing the ideology of the new conservation movement that occurs in western society, from the perspective of an Anthropocene enthusiasts, who views conservation as rooted in human intention and use. This quote was interesting to note, as it put a different lense on how we view our national parks (parks centered around nature) and how often times these areas are managed in a way that is beneficial for the people who will enjoy them. The focus has shifted from making a positive biological and ecological effect on the withstanding wilderness, but rather how we can conserve that land to better assist us. This was an interesting point of view that I had not pondered on when looking at the US conservation movement and the establishment of such managed parks. I appreciate Wilson's critique of this human-centered agenda, and his suggestion to revisit the past traditional methods of conservation in which we are humble visitors of the natural environment, not imposers.

      Before reading this chapter, I had not heard the term Anthropocene enthusiasts and Wilson gives a clear detailing of their beliefs and claims in relation to conservation. I can best describe this type of new conservation ideology, in that it is the belief that humanity has changed the wilderness beyond all repair, and in that, we should use it to our own value. This person understands the earth's destiny as being humanized and "pristine wilderness" no longer existing. This person does believe in the conservation of biodiversity but that it does not always need to be left intact and a complete system.

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      02:09 - Presentation by Daniel Mietchen

      Summary: WikiCite is an initiative to collect bibliographic and citation information, particularly of references cited from Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource or Wikidata. It provides an umbrella for a broad range of activities at the intersection between Wikimedia, libraries and other organizations engaged in scholarly communication or cultural heritage. Over the past few years, many of these activities have involved in-person events - including participation in the Workshop on Open Citations in 2018 - but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has changed that, and the WikiCite community is adapting. In this talk, I will provide an overview of WikiCite activities during the last 12-18 months as well as of what is ongoing and planned.

      Bio: Daniel Mietchen is a researcher at the School of Data Science of the University of Virginia. He is interested in integrating open and collaborative research and education workflows with the web, particularly through Wikimedia platforms, to which he actively contributes. Trained as a biophysicist, his research topics range from the subcellular to the organismic level, from biochemical and embryological to geological time scales, from specimens to biodiversity informatics, from data points to data science and to the role of research and education in sustainable development. Transcripción

      [Music] welcome welcome uh thank you for joining us this is the beginning of the wiki site 2020 virtual conference this is the first time we run a virtual edition of this uh almost annual conference and it is the fourth the fourth wikiside annual conference today we have a series of sessions by a variety of people in various topics but we are starting with let's call it the keynote the state of wikisight in 2020 but to introduce them my name is liam wyatt and the host of the the conference in general but to introduce daniel and this particular session i'd like to introduce jacob and eva welcome and thank you for hosting this session today yeah hello and welcome from the side of uh both of us the hosts for this session um uh yeah we are happy to uh present daniel median um yeah to to introduce daniel he's virtually everywhere so um everywhere in wikidata world all each time i discover a new interesting weekly data related project i i'm sure he has already seen it or he has an opinion in it and he is a strong well-founded opinion and that's why it's very interesting to listen to what he's going to talk about so we welcome daniel meachen and um yeah are you ready then the screen is yours yeah i'm ready okay we will leave so thank you everyone i'll just start by noting that the slides are available on the noda i also just tweeted them and so you can follow at your own pace there is a back channel for comments so if there is anything that you would like to comment on or if you have a question during the talk please put it in this ether pad wiki w dot wiki igk with the gk and capitals and from the ether pad we will also then take the q a section i tried to talk for 45 minutes about that and then we have about 15 minutes for questions but this is flexible and i can be interrupted that's fine so structure of the talk i'll say hello then we will look at some previous versions of the state of wiki site 2020 because you might have seen in the title that says version 3. i'll give an overview of wikisite in general and then the wiki site development since the last official wikisite meeting 2018 in berkeley and in this overview i'll look at the content at some of the infrastructure at grants and fellowships and also at events including further events as part of this wikisite conference there will be mechanisms for you to get involved and then there will be q a okay hello wiki site i was introduced already uh this slide is more or less just for people who are stumbling upon this randomly on the internet uh when they watch the youtube uh recordings um so now let's look at uh wikisite 2020 and the previous versions so one important previous version is the annual report as liam already pointed out we have roughly annual uh events which also means we have roughly annual reports uh the latest one is for 2019 20. and i'm not going to talk about this too much but i encourage you to take a look at this in any case here is a brief summary so um the wiki site annual report 2019 and 2020 was detailing some events that were planned and actually held so um for this period we were actually planning to go on decentral we wanted to have a more multilingual and more diverse a set of events taking place and that involved thoughts about going virtual from the beginning um and we had two events actually taking place one in australia one in czechia but then the covert 19 pandemic has changed many of those plans so the event in czechia had to be cut short by day uh events in planned in ireland and finland had to be modified events in ghana germany and india had to be cancelled yeah i was actually meant to speak at this event in germany for the talk that i'm giving now events in haiti and ghana had to be postponed i'm glad to report that by now the one in haiti has actually taken place and the pandemic has also triggered for instance wiki project covert 19 which had a strong wikiside component other the ecosystem around wikisite is evolving in terms of the wikimedia strategy and working data wiki-based strategy and everything that's underlined here in my slides is linked so i encourage you to explore those links yeah so the second version of the state of wikiside 2020 uh was a talk that i gave at the workshop on open citations in open scholarly metadata 2020 at the beginning of september back then i didn't know that i would be giving this talk here and i wasn't sure whether there would be any kind of overview of wikisite talk this year which is why i gave it that title back in september on the other hand i had only very little time so i couldn't go into details and i'm reusing some of the slides from there but still the structure of the talk is different the key takeaway from from that talk is despite the pandemic wikiside is moving forward but we're actually not so sure about the citation part um and that talk is online as well including some video recording so now we're on to version three um let's start with an overview of a keysight i assume that some people are here that don't know uh really what that is about and so i hope to um add a little bit of clarity and reduce a bit of the confusion so wikisite is a community it's a socio-technical platform that connects this community with an ecosystem of projects tools and other activities it's also uh or can be seen as a collection of data sets a series of events and a number of other things uh let's zoom into some of those so uh the community if i go by 2016 conference uh it's outlined the vision to create the sum of all human citations as linked open data this is inspired by the wikimedia vision to create some more human knowledge and from that we derived the mission which is still up on the wiki site page on the meta arrow key to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge using wikimedia platforms and especially wikidata that vision and mission have let us to consider a number of goals i'm again quoting the 2016 version of them lay the foundations for building a repository of all wikimedia references as a structured data in our working data that's one goal and the other one is to design data models and technology to improve the coverage quality and standards compliance and machine readability of citations across wikimedia projects that's what we what the plan was in 2016 and somewhere between these two uh we actually are still active uh it's just that by now we've zoomed in on onto those things into uh so many different directions some of which i'll try to outline uh the next aspect of that community is that the community has a road map that offers essentially four roads to travel but that road map is not really used much everybody travels on their own everybody finds their way on their own and the rope map is decisions that the road map is about they're still kind of looming at some point they need to be taken or they will be taken by someone or something and so it's probably worth for the community to um just keep it in mind and maybe have some more active discussions about this next so i mentioned it's also a technological platform so it has a home base on the meta wiki under the wiki site basically handle and from there you can also find the program for this this week's conference but lots of other documentation about wikisite in general it's home based on wikidata is a wiki project source metadata which was actually the nucleus from which wikisite has grown and and wikiproject source metadata is a bit of a mouthful and also it was specific to wikidata uh so by now we've come to use the term wikisite to encompass to signal that it's uh not just for wikidata it's it's really on meta because it concerns all wikimedia projects um but yeah the the nucleus the the origin of this is that we wanted to uh care for source metadata and that included citations uh so it's important to keep in mind that wikidata is about one-third just citations and scholarly publications so about one-third of the content of wikidata is um created by the wikisite community problems um and so the problems of wikidata they reflect on wikisite and vice versa um and then finally uh yes uh wikisite is a series of events we were in berlin in 2016 in vienna 2017 and in berkeley 2018 and now we're um trying to be a bit more global this year so i mentioned wikidata a number of times most of you will know what it is but i suspect some will not so here is an attempt like wikipedia which is the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit wikidata is the free knowledge base that anyone can edit and use of course if that doesn't clarify this to you then i recommend to look at uh this seven minute intro video on youtube that i've linked so a few more numbers about wikidata in from the perspective of wikisite so our wiki data as a whole has 11 billion statements that come in the triple form like subject predicate object and uh for us most the most interesting for us are for instance citations 170 million scholarly articles 36 million items that have an digital object identifier publications or data sets 26 million orchids which is an identifier for researchers one and a half million and then also that's the creation work that's going on um the links from the publications to the top wrote the publications roughly 20 million links uh links from the people to the institutions where they were educated one and a half million and from the people to where they're working it's about a million and all of these data since we're talking linked data and open data they can be uh mixed and matched in different fashions and reused and enrich each other um so now let's talk a little bit about the curation workflows that are employed by the wikisite community i'll single out like three of them here i mentioned four of them on the slide but uh due to time and stuff i'll go only into three of them so one is topic tagging which allows us to address questions like give me all the papers about sars cough 2 or any other specific topic the other one is author disambiguation which allows to address questions like give me all the papers by a given person the other one is ontology development like for instance if you want to get all papers about mathematics education and you want to include different aspects of mathematics education then you will need to map those at aspects like calculus for instance or algebra or geometry education you need to map them to math education that's called ontology development so basically linking topics and subtopics and then the last one is subject affiliation so if you want to get an overview of the publications from a given institution and many institutions want to to get that overview then somehow you need to record that there is the link between the person at the institution and then between the person and the publications and then through linked data we can harvest that and make the link between from the publications to the institutions okay an example of topic tagging here i chose the a query that gives me terms that have bologna in them on in the titles of paper publications and uh so from that i can see that there are different kinds of bologna that are being talked about so bologna in in general there is bologna italy like there's the province of bologna there's the city of bologna university of bologna bologna experience which refers to a number of things then there are some clinics in bologna bologna sausage and so on so disintegration is very important and but once we have disambiguated things because we have the rather precise uh topics here in wikidata which all have their own identifier we can then um clearly uh distinguish the literature about the sausage from the literature about the university in the clinic and the province and the city then the most popular tags for topics of publications as of august 2020 were these ones here uh mostly medical that's because that's or that just shows some bias that we have that's partly because in medicine biomedicine we have databases that are more easily harvestable that can be more easily integrated in wikidata than in other fields but it's not only um biomedicine so for instance we see india popping up here nanoparticle and statistics so it's a bit more complex than that um here i'm bringing up the zika virus as an example because it served as an example uh already since 2016. uh it's kind of the uh the guinea pig the the testing ground for working side workflows and uh this is in part because wikisite developed roughly in parallel to the zika virus epidemic in 2015-16 but also uh because uh it has this zika virus corpus or data set has been used in a number of contexts um and also it helped uh address the ongoing covet 19 pandemic so what it does is it's a model for disaster response in general not just for outbreaks it's a relatively complete data set for a given pathogen it has a data model that is enriching as the epidemic progresses so initially when the zika virus came around all increased then the data model on wikidata was refined and we could then uh express things at a more granular level um it has also triggered a number of tool developments and it's yeah it's used in technical tests and education here are a few more links on this i'll get back to code 19 later on so once we have topic tags we can do things like we can get the list of most recently published works on the topic of course these states are not very relevant anymore so here we're talking about the principle um and also we can look at which topics co-occur with a certain topic so if the topic is zika virus then we see here for instance the topic of congenital zika virus infection is uh very uh prominent zika fever uh pregnancy and microcephaly uh these are all topics that co-occur that so that are discussed together with the topic of the zika virus and that is a way to browse things so if you if you don't know much about the topic you just go there you start from the zika virus and then you can explore all those other things that are linked to it then what we can also do is link the discussions of the topics with certain locations because some of those topics will have a geolocation in like india we had in those most popular topics we had india as one example and india has a geolocation but some of those co-occurring topics uh they will discuss things like the zika virus in india or in french polynesia or in brazil or something like this and we can pull this out of the data by mapping the papers to the topics and then the topics to their geolocation if they are entities that have a geolocation we i want to contrast this to this map which shows the locations of the authors of papers on the topic so in the previous one we had the locations of topics or topics that occur with the zika virus and here we have the locations of the authors of papers about the zika virus and so these are different things we can plot them we can pull that out of the data that is created in wikidata through the wikiside community and tool chains and that allows us to explore certain gaps so for instance here in africa there's not much happening according to this map which might be first that there is not much research on the zika virus happening in in africa or in much of northern asia or simply that here there is not a lot of population anyway or that we just haven't created the data about the publications or about the authors or their affiliations or their geolocations very comprehensively and these are the kinds of things that the community then has to drill down on in order to to find out and to improve the data set now are on to author disambiguation so the basic strategy is if there is an orchid which is meant to uh help with author disambiguation uh then and the orchid has public data that is actually usable for wikidata then we try to use it uh we have some tooling for this um there were some problems with that so it doesn't really work well for the moment that's also some discussion we need to have and also the orcid data is not always best quality but at least it is there it's a principal standard that the research community has agreed on to support and so if you want to map research then that's something we should uh take into account um the disability on wikidata can be done by anyone just like any other kind of activity on the platform and just like on wikipedia we have a number of mechanisms for quality control we have some tools for this they're actually dedicated for author disambiguation um and we encourage institutions to disambiguate the people that are affiliated with them because they know best or the the people themselves of course also know about um in ordinary wiki data volunteer might not really know the start time and end time when some professor was affiliated with a certain research institution and then if we consider uh like that there have been also basically uh then uh and many of which have many authors uh then this is becomes a humongous challenge uh but uh thinking about this shouldn't kind of occupy our thoughts too much as long as we find some mechanisms to prioritize properly so here is one of the tools in action it's the called the author disambiguator and it can be used to basically convert author name strings into author identified authors so yeah the author here rosa prato has an identifier on working data already that is associated with nine items at the moment when when this screenshot was taken and then here we have 83 publications uh that lists the name rosa prato as an author named string and then the question is to what extent do the publications that show this author name string actually correspond to publications that have been written by this person that is identified here and the tool basically asks this question and helps with the grouping and suggests and so that's one of the mechanisms by which author disambiguation can happen subject affiliation so in order to find out the affiliation for a given person we can search in wikidata or we can search elsewhere by university or by organization and we we can get information such as the faculty and their publications or research sites and clinical trials that these people have been involved in or events such as conferences and locations where these people have interacted or have shown up um and uh if we do affiliation tagging then uh we can basically uh do similar things that i showed for the zika map before um and that allows us to for instance look into um areas where a certain topic is well represented so here uh the uh data here is for italy you see that there is a certain gradient in terms of publications that have italy as a subject in italy there's a lot of papers about italy and the further you go away the fewer papers there are um and that also the mapping here also serves as one mechanism by which we can do quality control one example i would like to point out is uh there's a vanderbilt university in the united states that actually uh does this uh curation of the affiliation at a very systematic level so they have figured out who is currently basically affiliated with university they've gotten all their orchid identifiers and they have fed that into my information into wikidata and that allows them and everybody else now to uh basically browse the information that is available about publications by uh vanderbilt university people staff mostly and faculty but also occasionally students and the work that they are still working on is like linking these people to the publications and that's also something that is part of the community workflows so they really try to integrate their efforts with the community workflows i put in some links here to uh first some news item about this the bots that made all this possible and similar projects at indiana university the university of cannery islands and also there's a countrywide similar effort for the netherlands um some other things that we haven't talked about too much in previous wikiside events is clinical trials uh these are also things that you can cite and they produce citable things and they are about certain topics they have uh authors they have um primary and investigators and these kind of things and um so these are um things entities that are part of the creation workflow and uh we're now relatively complete with respect to clinical trials that are registered in the united states we're trying to increase the coverage of clinical trials that are registered in other places so here is a an attempt at representing the wikidata ecosystem which i described as a socio-technical system in one of my opening slides so here we have a layer of users that are using a number of tools to interact basically with the basic infrastructure wikidata and wikibase and some of those users are automated uh and most of them are humans and some of the tools they they are used more or less for reading others for writing and others for like mixed uh matters um so one tool allows historypeter allows you to basically visualize timelines scolia allows you to visualize connections that are roughly related to scholarly literature or to research context in general quick statements as a tool to edit working data mix and match as a tool to also edit wiki data and to map things from wiki data to external databases um recoin helps with quality control yeah other uh another way to look at these tools is uh they do um they facilitate browsing like this wiki data front end that is specific for basically software um they allow to edit wiki data in various ways so here if you have an identifier for publication you can put that into source metadata tool and then it will check whether that publication is already indexed and if not it will help you set up the corresponding item and a large set of tools is actually there to check consistency data quality and these kind of things so for instance for statements about symptoms we have a requirement that whatever is stated as a value here it should be supported by a reference and if that is not the case then a warning is displayed there's an overview of all the tools here on this page um for the scolia tool specifically we also have a category on commons and there are similar categories for some of the other tools i don't have time for that there will be a dedicated session on scolia later today now back to the citation questions so here is a graph that is available on this website that's operated by um yeah one of the organizers of this session and um what it shows is two different developments here until well somewhere in the middle of this year one of them is the number of publication items which goes up in more or less in jumps um but con steadily roughly the few occasions where it goes down they're actually acts of active curation where someone for instance uh noticed oh we already have this publication it was started based on the digital object identifier but uh here and it was started based on the pubmed identifier there and they're actually about the same thing so we can connect them and so these acts of creation are sometimes visible in those stats here and here what we also have here is the number of citations i mentioned the number of 170 something million or so at the beginning and uh we here see that uh it has basically plateaued for um like a year or so then it went down this is again is an act of curation uh the problem is or um at least something to discuss is what's what's the future trajectory here we don't really currently have that data but uh it's clear it's not going up very strongly and the question is whether it should um or whether that is something that should take place somewhere else um there are a number of bots that are active in this space uh vanderbot is basically underlying uh the vanderbilt project that i outlined before large data setbot is essentially creating publication items so it checks whether items for certain publications are already indexed in wikidata and if not it creates those items refbot is perhaps closest to the original uh let's say goal outlined in 2016 that we want to basically support the uh references or support every statement in wikimedia projects with suitable references and so what the refbot does is it picks certain statements in wikidata that does do not have a reference yet and then searches the literature for places where this statement might have been made and then adds relevant literature as a reference to support this statement so for the statement that local anesthesia is a subclass of anesthesia we now have two um sources that were added by refbot there is also a proposal for open citation spot but this is pending so technically it's kind of uh doable but still not done and socially we don't really know yet whether we actually want to do it in wikidata or not that's part of the discussion that events like this want to facilitate so um also important to think about uh the event history um a little bit uh because um yeah we we're beginning another event right now and uh so uh i want us to kind of kind of come into the mindset for for this kind of event thing it's different now because it's all virtual um but uh yeah let's let's think about this nonetheless a little bit so in uh these previous three conferences uh we had a three-day design typically um where we tried to combine monologues like the one i'm doing right now with more dialogue oriented sessions and then with a hackathon and we have elements of all three of these in the current program and in the other wiki site activities all outlights some of those this week's virtual conference actually i would have liked to include this screenshot of the scolia page for this but it wasn't detailed enough so i i'm just encouraging you to take a look and help create that part also i noticed that for wikisite 2016 we don't have the information very well created yet um so let's focus on the wiki site 2020 events uh so we we're in this current session from 10 to 11 utc you see there a number of other sessions coming up today i guess if you are here in this talk you already know roughly about this but i really encourage you to use some of the breaks here to go through the entire um basically schedule because there are so many different things they they differ not just by location but they differ by language they differ by uh the kind of topic focus um like here we have swedish parliamentary documents in indonesia here for instance they're discussing palm leaf documents uh they're differing uh in terms of the technical aspects so here we have a hands-on uh introduction on like how you can actually edit wiki data then here is curation of author items here is the front end of wiki side here is things that are specific to genetics and and so on there lots of uh such sessions and um the ev the aim of doing them uh is to foster collaboration since all of this is is open everybody can interact with all of these projects and that's one of the mechanisms by which this wiki site community thrives we normally had pushes an activity right after the wiki site events and hopefully this will happen for this virtual one as well um in terms of other activities i would also like to mention that we have set up a mechanism to award some grants and e-scholarships um that are related to wikisite events and they are somewhat of a an adaptation to the corporate times so um normally i mentioned we would have had a hackathon in uh in in this conference setting three-day conference setting but since uh the normal way of doing a hackathon means we bring multiple people into the same room um that that and that's not possible these days uh we basically thought about a mechanism by which we could give people some time to work on uh and that's that's the e-scholarships approach so the things that they could have done during a three-four day hackathon they're now part of those e-scholarships we also have a number of uh grants that are a bit larger scale projects but still doable in a matter of a few weeks to months and here is a blog post that details all of them again one of them is about the leaves from the palm leaves from indonesia but there's 23 of them and they're much more diverse than the projects that we have discussed at the previous wikiside meetings in terms of coordination so um wikisite is driven by volunteers in all of its aspects including the organization of this session and this conference and all of the content work and tool development but some coordination needs to happen and in typical wiki style much of this coordination happens in a variety of channels still we have a uh an organizing committee um or steering committee um and this is basically a the same team that has been active over the last few years we had a few members change but we're constantly looking for new members we want to facilitate wikiside activities in different locations and different languages on different topics on different technical contexts and so if any of that resonates with you please get in touch and consider joining the steering committee so that's now the um first thank you slide uh i think it's important to thank you one of the things i like best about the wikimedia um let's say ecosystem is actually that we have a thank you button on all the different uh platforms or on most of them and that is a very interesting aspect of forming a community it's not visible uh other than to the person that is being thinked at least by default and and so it it is not normally gamed and so it's a very nice thing here um i yeah i just want to thank everyone i don't like that phrase still i use it and so i'm also spelling it out i want to thank the providers of open infrastructure not just the wikimedia open infrastructure but open infrastructure in general including the one that we interact with the providers of this citation or this presentation template from slides carnival the wikimedia wiki data and nokia site communities i would especially like to thank the scolia team because yeah that's the team i'm most closely interacting with on a daily basis i would like to thank the alfred sloan foundation that sponsors the wiki site events and i would like to thank the organizers of wiki site events like if you're organizing any session or here at this conference or somewhere else if you did that in the past if you plan in the future i want to thank you for just thinking about and especially if you've done it for doing it and then if you've made it until here i want to thank you for paying some attention to to these topics now i'm looking forward to the discussion let's see what the ether pad says if you want to contact me here are some contact details and now i'm trying to hop into the pad yeah thank you very much daniel you are well in time so we have uh some questions uh very well we look at up here on the ether pad yeah so the first is could we decide provide an alternative to commercial graphics search engines what do you think um okay it would be helpful if you mention the question that you also show the uh tell me the line number uh peter eventually yes i hope so but currently it's an alternative only for very specific things like if you want to know something about the zika virus or something like i would um guess for certain things uh the zika corpus on wiki data is more uh or is annotated in a better or more detailed fashion than the standard that you get from the commercial search engines but in general they are for many purposes still better in part because they have um money to put at this and uh wikiside is largely driven by volunteers who do it in their spare time and so what we do have is the uh a community they don't have that and um the the question then is uh what is the niche for both of those uh so since we're entirely open um anyone is entitled to benefit from our creation efforts that includes the commercial providers of this and so one of the main purposes of wikiside is actually to increase the quality of the information that is available through such search engines so if anyone has access to the wikidata version of it or with the site version of it then whatever those commercial offerings are they should be better and so that that's a short answer but the question is deep and we could have an entire discussion around it so it in any case depends on the topic yes it depends on the topic for a number of topics especially in humanities or so uh wiki data doesn't have a lot of information at the moment this is due to several structural and and community biases and we're working on them we're aware of some of those biases but still they are there and of course the search engines have uh their own biases as well so for particular like uh i hope like in a half a year from now the palm leaves collection for instance from indonesia will be in wikidata and i don't see them showing up in any of the commercial search engines anytime soon but maybe they pick it up from wikidata that's that would also be progress that would make reset the the information more widely available okay so next question uh let's question of mine about topic tapping picking uh so where do these topics uh tags come from it's not that easy like with author the date of publication because topics are a bit less hard facts what do you think about this yeah that's actually something um i'm thinking about quite often i think the current workflows that we have are um not very mature so there are lots of workflows typically in library contexts where um topic tagging is already happening so for instance the database pubmed for biomedicine has an entire system called the mesh terms medical subject headings which uses basically human readers so humans reading a paper they then decide which terms to associate with that paper and they choose those terms from a defined controlled vocabulary called the mesh terms and that system exists but we haven't found mechanisms to leverage that for wikidata in part because wikidata is cross-disciplinary and so even if we had this working for pubmed this wouldn't help us much in terms of covering publications in history or astronomy or elsewhere and so there is no system that is cross-disciplinary which means that there is actually an opportunity for wikidata to become the first cross-disciplinary uh platform to have a consistent mechanism of tagging right now we don't have it so what we do have is often just uh based on inferences from the title which might uh run into problems when uh the tagging is based on ambiguous uh terms um or when the tagging is performed by someone who doesn't know the subject very well or something like this all of this happens all of this also happens to me um and but the good thing about this is since we're curating into an open platform everyone can check what has been done everyone can point out problems with that some of those checks are even automatic and then we can work together to reduce the number of false positives false tags and we can also think about what the best granularity of the tags is so if we for instance go back to the mesh example of the mesh terms they come with their own hierarchy some of that hierarchy is already reflected in wikidata and so if a paper is associated with a number of mesh terms that are in a hierarchy then the question is should we take all of them or should we just take the most specific ones and that's the kind of questions and for other um topic tagging let's say context the workflows might differ again okay thanks um just a short interruption as i'm um here for the technical side can you please um close those um pop-up tabs yes thank you yeah i was going to do it when i had a minute but since i was talking all the time it took me a while okay yeah next one shall we just go by the order or uh do you have a selection we have time yeah uh could help the authorities in big so how does the authority yeah so uh the author disinvigorator is a tool that was specifically designed for assisting uh with the conversion of the strings uh that we get uh in terms of authorship uh from various databases uh and so the conversion from those strings into wikidata identifiers um typical example is jane smith or something like this it might be many of them or xinhuang or something like this many people uh have this name or are using this name uh what in publications or this string and uh then in wikidet we have to figure out which one is which which person is the author of that paper and and so on and this tool that i briefly demoed um helps with that um in principle it could be adapted to do all sorts of string disambiguation uh but that hasn't happened and uh maybe it will not happen in the framework of this tool because this tool um has this particular purpose but it's open source everybody is welcome to contribute everybody is welcome to fork it and to develop it into another direction this tool is actually itself a fork of an earlier version of the tool um and um you could imagine lots of other string disambiguation uh being useful i think the ticket that i have in mind here is to use it on uh things like um or on policy documents uh yeah there are lots of options but if you want to work this well and for authors it works really well for the moment then it needs some development and so it's not just adding a line of code in order to make it let's say cover other kinds of disambiguations as well yeah also oh say our author has already replied to that that's nice so yeah i can only read uh so much so yeah that's that's one of the purposes of having this ether pad that's very nice that someone posts a question someone responds while i'm talking that's fine that makes the discussion more efficient maybe then uh you can uh guide me a little bit what the things i should talk about uh i see yeah i think there was a question about open refine but we will hear about this uh later and the event so more down yeah open refine i i wanted to mention it at several points in the slides but for some reason if i haven't done this this is certainly in a mission it was not um in this was not intended open refine is one of those tools um and it it can yeah basically refine it it helps reducing the noise in in the data if you want to map strings to items and it's very powerful um for certain um workflows it has become more or less the de facto uh wikiside tool and for for other contacts it has not been explored too much but there are dedicated sessions on this later okay so that was another good question so uh which were where on wikipedia is the wiki data wiki site data used so it's the idea so you we have all the graphic data and wiki data and and it's automatically shown in wikipedia does it happen um i think there have been uh tests demos and explorations in various places uh in i think in in russian and uh maybe even in french and catalan basque something like this but i'm not aware of anything doing this systematically for a number of reasons um and yeah briefly sketching them out is at first not necessarily all the references cited in any wikipedia are already indexed in data that's one thing um maybe we're coming close or we we're we have a certain degree of completeness for scholarly references that have a digital object identifier but for anything articles for instance and things like that um and so that's one thing so if you want to do uh if you want to use wikidata for um running these basically citation sections in your wikipedia articles then it would be nice to have higher coverage which is one of the original motivations for doing wikisite but for that would require to for wiki sites slash wiki data to develop better or more robust data models and tooling around uh those other kinds of things for instance about around newspapers and there are efforts in this direction but they're not necessarily as mature so that a wikipedia could use them at scale as a default i think wikidata is ready to be used for experimentation let's say for a certain topic anything related to zika for instance in those areas i would actually love to see those experiments let's say let's try to replace all the references in zika related articles most wikipedias have just one or a few of those articles and so let's try to start with those um articles and then let's see what the problems are some books pop up and policy documents will pop up and and then we we solve those problems and then we can think about scaling this up so go on wikipedians it's a wiki try out yeah yeah above there was a question about people about living persons so is there some procedure to prevent that personal information is added despite the people that do not want it can you tell me the line number uh 30 well uh 35 35 okay um okay so someone already posted the comment so i kind of jumped over this question and i had seen that arthur had responded to it and someone said this is not really answered yet okay so uh i'll briefly read it okay um so yeah some people do not want their data to be exposed in wikidata and uh in certain jurisdictions um there are legal protections for the kind of personal data and wiki media projects in general they have some policy around which or how to handle personal data in general the situation is such that if someone does not want their information to appear in wikidata or wikipedia then that's a strong incentive to actually remove that unless there is a public interest in keeping that public if about this particular fact that the person wants to be removed then it will likely stay but otherwise it will likely be removed and if that's not the case then there are mechanisms to [Music] address that but since the information once it was in the system it cannot easily be deleted it can just be like removed from the current version by default um really removing it from the system is a bit more effort involves administrators but also that can be done and has been done on occasion yeah so it's complicated yeah it's complicated yeah so last chances for questions uh please so we have another question here in the esa pet line 49 about a newspaper information about newspapers i would like to extend the question about information about books because you mainly talked about scientific articles so there are other publications too what about um yeah i know that in in your statistics uh you are uh compiling a list of like hundreds of different types of publications including patterns and poems and things like that and um yeah the general answer to this is um that there have been relatively lots of efforts in the journal uh article space not even the journals just the journal articles there have also been lots of efforts in the book space um they haven't translated into tools too much um we have one good tool for books which is amantea which i also didn't mention but that's not uh because i don't like it it's just because i had to kind of prioritize here um and uh also that already that uh tool amontear has to make some compromise in terms of data model so it doesn't distinguish too much between an addition of a work and um like the work in general um in so if if we don't have the workflow well we have the data model roughly figured out for books but we don't have the workflows to pull that information uh from elsewhere to put it into uh wikidata for instance and that's in part because the resources that would have the data they are not public domains so we can't feed on them directly but in part because nobody has written those tools and in part because the data model isn't really fully adapted to the particular use case you might be interested in um yeah i'm aware of a number of activities in the newspaper space um still nothing that is uh like large scale or transferable between languages or countries for instance or something like this uh so yeah i see there is an australian newspaper project i was uh somewhat involved in a us newspaper project for instance but still it it's uh it's not as homogeneous as we have it for scholarly articles uh because that is based on the digital object identifier for which there is a standard and uh for newspapers there is just not such a standard that i'm aware of and for poems and other things it's it's getting even more complex something i haven't mentioned yet what i would also like to see is for instance jupiter notebooks uh for anything that is about an algorithm or a programming language it would be nice to have some sort of a demo of that aspect of the algorithm or of the programming language demo it in a jupyter notebook and that jupyter notebook should then also be cited in some fashion but we don't have the mechanisms for that either the book tool uh the jupiter notebook tool is that doctor's need here the thing that you're talking about um yeah i'll just you just add the link um to the tool you mentioned yeah um i hope that's i i was speaking about books in general as well so i'm not sure whether that's the one that i wanted to know about yeah there's also zotero at shortcut we will um it will be presented on tomorrow and the session at 10 utc so a lot of tools yeah okay so i will go through the ether pad once i'm disconnected here and try to answer whatever remains uh of the questions and otherwise i guess you all have my contact info i'm happy to address further questions this way and i also plan to attend some of the other sessions and so i hope that everyone will enjoy the rest of the conference thank you we are running out of time i have to say from the technical side do you want to extend for 10 more minutes or how do you want to behave i'm fine i think if there are further questions i'm happy to continue right now i uh all the questions that i am aware of i've at least briefly touched upon okay yeah so i'm being corrected on on what i said about amantea yeah so it's always good good that the experts are around that's the the the beauty of an open system what uh everything can be verified that's that's the nugget the core of wikisite everything is verifiable um and so yeah i i guess max is putting the details in here okay so please keep on asking here on the next sessions we um are happy to have opened this virtual conference the next um session will start in two hours and yeah have a look at the program you will see uh if and me both of us in the next session tomorrow at 10 am i right ava okay so again thank you all daniel yeah and see you thank you bye bye

    1. His son walked out with a billion and a half dollars from China to … Joe Biden: (11:08) Not true. Donald Trump: (11:10) … after spending 10 minutes in office and being in Air Force Two. Number one. Number two, there’s a very strong email talking about your family wanting to make $10 million a year for introductions.

      Trump's again attacking the Biden family and bringing claims of money from China, without proof.

    2. Well, let me respond to the first part, as Joe answered. Joe got $3.5 million from Russia and it came through Putin, because he was very friendly with the former mayor of Moscow and it was the mayor of Moscow’s wife. And you got $3.5 million. Your family got $3.5 million. And someday you’re going to have to explain, why did you get three and a half? I never got any money from Russia. I don’t get money from Russia.

      Big claim from Trump here. He is accusing Biden of getting $3.5 million from Russian sources, which is an ad hominem and an appeal to ignorance.

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    1. Under the command of General John J. Pershing, the American Expeditionary Forces experienced both the horrors of trench warfare and the difficulties of conducting a war of movement during the sweeping attacks that slowly pushed the Germans back toward their own border in 1918. Key American engagements included battles at Cantigny, Belleau Wood, and Château-Thierry, which helped stop the German drive toward Paris in the spring of 1918. In the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives American soldiers took part in a multi-pronged Allied assault that ended when Germany requested an armistice. At 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918, men on both sides climbed out of the trenches to celebrate having survived the war. Overall, the Americans lost 53,400 troops on the battlefield and 63,100 to disease (the majority victims of the Spanish Influenza pandemic that killed over half a million Americans in 1918).

      THIS IS THE GREATEST DOCUMENTARY I'VE ever seen on the American Experience of World War I

      American Legacy of World War I

    1. Destruction of nature was not understood as a ‘price of progress’ but as a ‘priceof backwardness’. It was considered the legacy of centuries of colonial exploitation. The main panacea for achieving environmental sanity, in this sense, would be the coming of modern technologies and production practices. In the particular case of Brazil, contrary to the views that try to link the origins of environmentalism with the Romantic culture, the natural environment was first defended, sometimes heroically, by pragmatic and utilitarian intellectuals.

      Contextualize:

      "On May 13, 1888, the Brazilian monarchy signed the Golden Law, abolishing slavery after more than 300 years. Th is act left thousands of former slaves wandering around the interior backlands of the Northeast with neither occupations nor resources. During the late 1870s, and again during the late 1880s, droughts brought death to a half million people in the interior. Landowners made money meting out water for drought relief and otherwise exploited those lacking money or influence...After years of this nomadic existence, the Counselor settled in Canudos, below Monte Favela, and there he created a millenarian outpost. The soil of Canudos was fertile—fed by underground artesian wells and by theVasa Barris River. Th ousands followed him—landless farmers, freed slaves, disgruntled workers and indigenous peoples. The Canudos community was run without money, without alcohol, and with a minimum of sin—and it prospered. Naturally, there were those who were envious of the community’s successes." (Perlman. 2010)

      In the early 1800s, the destruction of nature is criticized for uses and political reasons—anthropocentric perspective. In Brazil, the economy and society depends closely on the conditions in which the land is located. if it is totally devastated and precarious there can be no benefit and wealth of it. Slavery and the transfer of black people to the Latin American continent represented a high cost, so agricultural processes were scarce. The need to enforce other groups of people as indigenous was cheaper and productive for the explotation of resources.

      The Portuguese colonized Brazil, did about the same thing as the Americans in the early 18th. They positioned themselves in one place, generated agriculture, exploited the land until the soil became exhausted, and then transferred to another lot. The famous "cut out and get out." A state of abandonment happened everywhere, and the planetary expansion of the industrial civilization was a cause of culture change, politics, life forms, etc.

      For Brazilian finding methods to restore the environment and agricultural activities, was of main importance, since its economic influence and development depended on it. Scientific research was necessary for the country, and the agricultural activities of cotton and sugar cane crops were the main financial products in Brasil.

      Perlman, Janice. "Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro."Oxford. University Press. 2010

    1. Americans are divided on the forthcoming coronavirus vaccine as just 51% say they would get vaccinated for the disease if a vaccine was available today, according to a Pew Research Center poll.That's a 21% drop from May, when 72% of Americans said they would definitely or probably get a vaccine.The percentage who say they would definitely get a vaccine has been cut in half to just 21%.Most of the concern stems from worries that the vaccine may not be safe, as 77% of Americans think it will be approved before the safety and effectiveness are fully understood.TRUMP VOWS ENOUGH CORONAVIRUS VACCINE DOSES FOR 'EVERY AMERICAN' BY APRILTo try to calm those fears, the CEOs of nine drug companies signed a pledge earlier this month to make clear their "commitment to developing and testing potential vaccines for COVID-19 in accordance with high ethical standards and sound scientific principles."President Trump said Friday that the United States will have at least 100 million doses of the vaccine by the end of this year and enough doses for "every American" by April 2021.“Hundreds of millions of doses will be available every month and we expect to have enough vaccines for every American by April and again I’ll say even at that later stage, the delivery will go as fast as it comes," he told reporters at the White House.CORONAVIRUS THERAPEUTICS 'MORE COMPLICATED' THAN VACCINE, EXPERT SAYSThat's a notably faster timeline than the one put forward by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC director Robert Redfield said Wednesday that he thinks the general public won't get the vaccine until next summer, but it could be available in "very limited supply" later this year for first responders and others who need it most.“If you’re asking me when is it going to be generally available to the American public, so we can begin to take advantage of vaccine to get back to our regular life, I think we’re probably looking at third, late second quarter, third quarter 2021," Redfield told the Senate Appropriations Committee.Trump said Wednesday that Redfield "made a mistake" and had "incorrect information."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPDr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, predicted this week that we would see a vaccine in November or December.The United States had 6,713,179 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 198,407 deaths as of Friday evening, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

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    1. extreme poverty decreased byonly 123 million in that time period.

      According to the UN, global poverty rates have decreased by almost half since 2000. However it is believed that one in ten people in developing regions still live on less than US$ 1.90 a day

    1. Earthbound’s founders, Drew and Myra Goodman, Manhattanites who went to college in the Bay Area, and then started a two-and-a-half-acre raspberry-and-baby-greens farm near Carmel to produce food they “felt good about,” are now the nation’s largest grower of organic produce, with revenues for this year projected at more than $450 million.

      This moment always provides me with a good giggle. This moment of logos and pathos is pure shade. Again, Shapin challenges our notions of the mom & pop organic farmers by showing us two leaders in corporate organic products are two privileged city folk who were made moguls from their farming.

    1. The extraordinary efforts of the team led by David Eltis at Emory to create the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database (< http :// www . slavevoyages . org >) allow scholars and teachers to view the trade as a global phenomenon, to see whole communities of trade and exploitation, documented individual voyages representing 4/5 ths of the entire trade, and even details including names, ages, and place of embarkation for over 67,000 of the twelve and a half million Africans who were enslaved and transported.

      The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was a major influence on slavery. Millions of slaves from Africa were transported to the America. Although I have been to the website before, the amount of people enslaved and transported is still unbelievable.

    1. Compression is important, however, when it comes to costs. The material for the microfilm Britannica would cost a nickel, and it could be mailed anywhere for a cent. What would it cost to print a million copies? To print a sheet of newspaper, in a large edition, costs a small fraction of a cent. The entire material of the Britannica in reduced microfilm form would go on a sheet eight and one-half by eleven inches. Once it is available, with the photographic reproduction methods of the future, duplicates in large quantities could probably be turned out for a cent apiece beyond the cost of materials. The preparation of the original copy? That introduces the next aspect of the subject.

      This is one of the central arguments of OER - information can be shared at 'near free' costs (or so small the cost becomes insignificant) yet the 'price' or information resources far exceeds their 'cost' of electronic distribution?

    1. The United States makes about nine million tons of sugar annual-ly, ranking it sixth in global pro-duction. The United States sugar industry receives as much as $4 billion in annual subsidies in the form of price supports, guaranteed crop loans, tariff s and regulated imports of foreign sugar, which by some estimates is about half the price per pound of domestic sugar. Louisiana’s sugar-cane industry is by itself worth $3 billion, generating an estimated 16,400 jobs

      This is interesting modern day context. I didn't know the US was such a large sugar manufacture. I always assumed that, at least in the past, it was produced in more tropical climates such as the Caribbean.

    2. sits on the edge of the mighty Mississippi River, about fi ve miles east by way of the river’s bend from the French Quarter, and less than a mile down from the Lower Ninth Ward, where Hurricane Katrina and the failed levees destroyed so many black lives. It is North Ameri-ca’s largest sugar refi nery, making nearly two billion pounds of sugar and sugar products annually. Those ubiquitous four-pound yellow paper bags emblazoned with the company logo are produced here at a rate of 120 bags a minute, 24 hours a day, seven days a week during operating season. The United States makes about nine million tons of sugar annual-ly, ranking it sixth in global pro-duction. The United States sugar industry receives as much as $4 billion in annual subsidies in the form of price supports, guaranteed crop loans, tariff s and regulated imports of foreign sugar, which by some estimates is about half the price per pound of domestic sugar. Louisiana’s sugar-cane industry is by itself worth $3 billion, generating an estimated 16,400 jobs.

      This is lots of context and allows the reader to really know what is going on. This helped me lear a lot about what has happened and what the argument was about. This helped me learn about how sugar candy is made and how people have to work to make it

    1. The world has surpassed one million COVID-19 cases and the United States is responsible for the largest proportion, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reporting that the United States has experienced just under 500,000 cases.

      Half of the cases worldwide were from the USA alone! This is crazy and embarrassing.

    1. n the first half of 2020, SARS‑CoV‑2—the new coronavirus behind the disease COVID‑19—infected 10 million people around the world and killed about half a million. But few countries have been as severely hit as the United States, which has just 4 percent of the world’s population but a quarter of its confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths. These numbers are estimates. The actual toll, though undoubtedly higher, is unknown, because the richest country in the world still lacks sufficient testing to accurately count its sick citizens.

      U.S. leading the world in COVID.

    1. Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? The country’s achievements in education have other nations, especially the United States, doing their homework <img src="https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/thzZYTv2Evhq3x8iHdcaakihfVE=/800x600/filters:no_upscale()/https://public-media.si-cdn.com/filer/cd/ee/cdee1c82-f8e3-4de4-983e-8599d4485745/finland-smiles-wr.jpg" alt="Kirkkojarvi School" itemprop="image"> "This is what we do every day," says Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School principal Kari Louhivuori, "prepare kids for life." (Stuart Conway) By LynNell Hancock Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe September 2011 AddThis Sharing ButtonsShare to FacebookFacebookShare to TwitterTwitterShare to RedditReddit78Share to PinterestPinterest997Share to LinkedInLinkedInShare to FlipboardFlipboardShare to EmailEmailShare to PrintPrintShare to MoreAddThis934 It was the end of term at Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a sprawling suburb west of Helsinki, when Kari Louhivuori, a veteran teacher and the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme—by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a Kosovo-Albanian boy, had drifted far off the learning grid, resisting his teacher’s best efforts. The school’s team of special educators—including a social worker, a nurse and a psychologist—convinced Louhivuori that laziness was not to blame. 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This 13-year-old, Besart Kabashi, received something akin to royal tutoring. “I took Besart on that year as my private student,” Louhivuori told me in his office, which boasted a Beatles “Yellow Submarine” poster on the wall and an electric guitar in the closet. When Besart was not studying science, geography and math, he was parked next to Louhivuori’s desk at the front of his class of 9- and 10-year- olds, cracking open books from a tall stack, slowly reading one, then another, then devouring them by the dozens. By the end of the year, the son of Kosovo war refugees had conquered his adopted country’s vowel-rich language and arrived at the realization that he could, in fact, learn. Years later, a 20-year-old Besart showed up at Kirkkojarvi’s Christmas party with a bottle of Cognac and a big grin. “You helped me,” he told his former teacher. Besart had opened his own car repair firm and a cleaning company. “No big fuss,” Louhivuori told me. “This is what we do every day, prepare kids for life.” This tale of a single rescued child hints at some of the reasons for the tiny Nordic nation’s staggering record of education success, a phenomenon that has inspired, baffled and even irked many of America’s parents and educators. Finnish schooling became an unlikely hot topic after the 2010 documentary film Waiting for “Superman” contrasted it with America’s troubled public schools. “Whatever it takes” is an attitude that drives not just Kirkkojarvi’s 30 teachers, but most of Finland’s 62,000 educators in 3,500 schools from Lapland to Turku—professionals selected from the top 10 percent of the nation’s graduates to earn a required master’s degree in education. Many schools are small enough so that teachers know every student. If one method fails, teachers consult with colleagues to try something else. They seem to relish the challenges. Nearly 30 percent of Finland’s children receive some kind of special help during their first nine years of school. The school where Louhivuori teaches served 240 first through ninth graders last year; and in contrast with Finland’s reputation for ethnic homogeneity, more than half of its 150 elementary-level students are immigrants—from Somalia, Iraq, Russia, Bangladesh, Estonia and Ethiopia, among other nations. “Children from wealthy families with lots of education can be taught by stupid teachers,” Louhivuori said, smiling. “We try to catch the weak students. It’s deep in our thinking.” Advertisement scroll for more The transformation of the Finns’ education system began some 40 years ago as the key propellent of the country’s economic recovery plan. Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year-olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world. Three years later, they led in math. By 2006, Finland was first out of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science. In the 2009 PISA scores released last year, the nation came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. “I’m still surprised,” said Arjariita Heikkinen, principal of a Helsinki comprehensive school. “I didn’t realize we were that good.” In the United States, which has muddled along in the middle for the past decade, government officials have attempted to introduce marketplace competition into public schools. In recent years, a group of Wall Street financiers and philanthropists such as Bill Gates have put money behind private-sector ideas, such as vouchers, data-driven curriculum and charter schools, which have doubled in number in the past decade. President Obama, too, has apparently bet on compe­tition. His Race to the Top initiative invites states to compete for federal dollars using tests and other methods to measure teachers, a philosophy that would not fly in Finland. “I think, in fact, teachers would tear off their shirts,” said Timo Heikkinen, a Helsinki principal with 24 years of teaching experience. “If you only measure the statistics, you miss the human aspect.”

      The facts show that America has it all wrong in putting to much emphasis on national "data-driven" competition. These approaches take away from the unique aspects of each child.

    2. The transformation of the Finns’ education system began some 40 years ago as the key propellent of the country’s economic recovery plan. Educators had little idea it was so successful until 2000, when the first results from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a standardized test given to 15-year-olds in more than 40 global venues, revealed Finnish youth to be the best young readers in the world. Three years later, they led in math. By 2006, Finland was first out of 57 countries (and a few cities) in science. In the 2009 PISA scores released last year, the nation came in second in science, third in reading and sixth in math among nearly half a million students worldwide. “I’m still surprised,” said Arjariita Heikkinen, principal of a Helsinki comprehensive school. “I didn’t realize we were that good.

      The economic recovery plan, responsible for this new system has actually been 40 years in the making. Only recently have Finish educators discovered how effective this approach really is thanks to comparative reports given at the 2009 PISA programme showing Finnish 15-year-olds outscoring other youth from around the globe in almost every discipline.

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    1. Cabo Verde

      I googled it ! :)) It is a small island in the Atlantic ocean called the green head. The official language is Portuguese. The population is around half a million.

    1. mid-1970s, when lawmakers first began enacting tough anti-drug policies that have collectively come to be known as the “war on drugs,” the number of people behind bars has increased fivefold, peaking at 2.2 million in 2010. Drug offenses accounted for much of the surge. From 1980 to 2010, the number of those incarcerated on drug charges shot up from 41,000 to more than a half-million.

      the availability to implementing was done to lower population of inmates(the increase in numbers of inmates is shocking) and we should started this alternative sooner

    1. The marsh defends 17 percent of the nation’s crude-oil production; 8 percent of its natural-gas reserves; a port connected to more than half of the nation’s oil-refining capacity; the city of New Orleans and its port; the homes of more than 1.5 million people; and the integrity of the lower Mississippi River, which conveys nearly 40 percent of the nation’s agricultural exports.

      Fossil fuel resources, housing and agricultural exports are the critical infrastructures that the coastline protects

    1. Local iwi were outraged when the track was built without them being told, and an independent review later found the council should have publicly notified the resource consent. Iwi have considered Te Mata Peak to be a sacred mount for 1000 years and there were a number of old Pā sites in and around the mountain, the report released by Hastings District Council said. The report said the peak should be given full recognition as a legal equivalent to a legal person, similar to Whanganui River which was given the rights of a legal person last year. Given the half a million visitors to Te Mata Peak each year the report also recommended some places be set aside for cultural practices and the right for local iwi to have a sit on any governing boards that played a part in the management of the peak. The public would be barred from eight sacred sites on the mountain, while another 17 sacred sites should be fenced off from stock, the report recommended. "We seek to show that justification now exists for the use of every available planning, policy and community contribution to assist local Māori communities to reclaim, reframe and re-instate the mana and mauri of whānau Māori," the report said. It also wanted the track cut by Craggy Range in December last year to be removed, though last week the council agreed to pay the full $650,000 cost of remediation.
    1. To bait fish withal; if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses,55 mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies— and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, 99 The Merchant of Venice ACT 3. SC. 1  senses, affections, passions? Fed with the60 same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you65 poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian70 example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the

      I think this whole section right here needs to be talked about more. After reading from different articles of this time it really opened my eyes to what kind of life Shylock had.

    1. $50 million a decade and a half ago. As he frequently reminds his audience, he’s a rich guy who can retreat to his Ohio farm and live his life and never perform again if he chooses

      I think this is the most important bit of this article. Of course he doesn't care about any of this stuff anymore!! He's a rich man living on a farm in Ohio; he obviously gave up on the culture at some point. At that height of wealth and seclusion, he probably doesn't care about "adding something to the conversation." He wants a good life for his family and to have fun in his middle age. And good for him! He is a less exciting comedian for it, though.

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    1. King Alfonso XI of Castile was the only reigning monarch killed by the pest, but his neighbor King Pedro of Aragon lost his wife, Queen Leonora, his daughter Marie, and a niece in the space of six months. John Cantacuzene, Emperor of Byzantium, lost his son. In France the lame Queen Jeanne and her daughter-in-law Bonne de Luxemburg, wife of the Dauphin, both died in 1349 in the same phase that took the life of Enguerrand’s mother. Jeanne, Queen of Navarre, daughter of Louis X, was another victim. Edward III’s second daughter, Joanna, who was on her way to marry Pedro, the heir of Castile, died in Bordeaux.

      The same situation happened in China.The Black Death in 1334 reduced the population of Hubei Province in China about 90%. From 1353-1453, the population of the eight regions in the Yuan dynasty was reduced by two-thirds due to the Black Death, and the total number of deaths was about 25 million. The Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's family has total nine members, however, within half a month, four people (his father, mother, elder brother and nephew) died of illness. Therefore, he participated in the uprising and became the later founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

    2. A third of Europe would have meant about 20 million deaths. No one knows in truth how many died. Contempo-rary reports were an awed impression, not an accurate count. In crowded Avignon, it was said, 400 died daily; 7,000 houses emptied by death were shut up; a single graveyard received11,000 corpses in six weeks; half the city’s inhabi-tants reportedly died, including 9 cardinals or one third of the total, and 70 lesser prelates

      The Numbers frightened me, and made me wonder what would happen next if the terrible plague had stopped. I know that in those days the technology was not so advanced and people's health was not so good, and when you think about it it makes sense to think about these Numbers.

    1. Within the Celtic family, Welsh has as its closest relatives: Breton (Welshname Llydaweg), spoken in Brittany – estimates of number of speakersvary, but probably somewhat under half a million active users; and Cornish(Cernyweg), extinct since the late eighteenth century, though recently‘resurrected’ by enthusiasts. More distantly related are Irish (Gwyddeleg),Scots Gaelic (Gaeleg yr Alban) and the extinct Manx (Manaweg, whoselast native speaker died in 1974). Welsh, Breton and Cornish constitute theBrythonic group, while the others form the Goidelic group. There arestrong similarities within each group, and considerable differences betweenthe two. All six languages share certain basic characteristics which markthem out as Celtic languages – notably the mutation system (see §§3–12),and inflected prepositions (see §446).

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    1. Between 1993 and 2018, American violent crime fell from 747 crimes per 100,000 to 369, a drop of 51 percent. That’s more than a million fewer instances, each year, of horrible crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault. Homicides also fell by more than half from their peak (1991) to their trough (2014): from 24,808 to 12,278. That’s thousands of lives saved annually.

      Another statistic, with a longer timeframe of study, also kind of recent since one statistic was from 1993 to 2018(two years ago)

    2. That policing places unique burdens on black men doesn’t mean it isn’t essential. Effective, proactive policing is a principal cause of the most remarkable public-policy success in America’s last three decades: the sizeable reduction in violent crime. Between 1993 and 2018, American violent crime fell from 747 crimes per 100,000 to 369, a drop of 51 percent. That’s more than a million fewer instances, each year, of horrible crimes such as rape, robbery, and assault. Homicides also fell by more than half from their peak (1991) to their trough (2014): from 24,808 to 12,278. That’s thousands of lives saved annually.

      Although black men is under some pressure of policing, policing is effective to reduce the crime rate for society these years.

  28. Aug 2020
    1. 2.5 million third-party sellers

      This is shocking to me that they have over 2.5 million third-party sellers. Its crazy that more than half of the stuff on amazon is sold by people like me and you. There are a lot of people that do drop shipping on amazon as well which makes me a little bit more scared and skeptical when buying products from amazon

    1. it on Anti-Semitism and Hate Remarks by Sacha Baron Cohen, Recipient of ADL's International Leadership Award November 21, 2019 <img src="https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/styles/cropped_img_md/public/2019-11/never-is-now-2019-sacha-baron-cohen-award-800w-543h.jpg?h=6b028cc2&amp;itok=CZMBCXlF" alt="Sacha Baron Cohen gives award speech"/> <!--/*--><![CDATA[/* ><!--*/ .resp-container { position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 56.25%; } .resp-iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0; } /*--><!]]>*/ Thank you, Jonathan, for your very kind words.  Thank you, ADL, for this recognition and your work in fighting racism, hate and bigotry.  And to be clear, when I say “racism, hate and bigotry” I’m not referring to the names of Stephen Miller’s Labradoodles. Now, I realize that some of you may be thinking, what the hell is a comedian doing speaking at a conference like this!  I certainly am.  I’ve spent most of the past two decades in character.  In fact, this is the first time that I have ever stood up and given a speech as my least popular character, Sacha Baron Cohen.  And I have to confess, it is terrifying. I realize that my presence here may also be unexpected for another reason.  At times, some critics have said my comedy risks reinforcing old stereotypes. The truth is, I’ve been passionate about challenging bigotry and intolerance throughout my life.  As a teenager in the UK, I marched against the fascist National Front and to abolish Apartheid.  As an undergraduate, I traveled around America and wrote my thesis about the civil rights movement, with the help of the archives of the ADL.  And as a comedian, I’ve tried to use my characters to get people to let down their guard and reveal what they actually believe, including their own prejudice. Now, I’m not going to claim that everything I’ve done has been for a higher purpose.  Yes, some of my comedy, OK probably half my comedy, has been absolutely juvenile and the other half completely puerile.  I admit, there was nothing particularly enlightening about me—as Borat from Kazakhstan, the first fake news journalist—running through a conference of mortgage brokers when I was completely naked.  But when Borat was able to get an entire bar in Arizona to sing “Throw the Jew down the well,” it did reveal people’s indifference to anti-Semitism.  When—as Bruno, the gay fashion reporter from Austria—I started kissing a man in a cage fight in Arkansas, nearly starting a riot, it showed the violent potential of homophobia.  And when—disguised as an ultra-woke developer—I proposed building a mosque in one rural community, prompting a resident to proudly admit, “I am racist, against Muslims”—it showed the acceptance of Islamophobia.    That’s why I appreciate the opportunity to be here with you.  Today around the world, demagogues appeal to our worst instincts.  Conspiracy theories once confined to the fringe are going mainstream.  It’s as if the Age of Reason—the era of evidential argument—is ending, and now knowledge is delegitimized and scientific consensus is dismissed.  Democracy, which depends on shared truths, is in retreat, and autocracy, which depends on shared lies, is on the march.  Hate crimes are surging, as are murderous attacks on religious and ethnic minorities. What do all these dangerous trends have in common?  I’m just a comedian and an actor, not a scholar.  But one thing is pretty clear to me.  All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history. The greatest propaganda machine in history. Think about it.  Facebook, YouTube and Google, Twitter and others—they reach billions of people.  The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type of content that keeps users engaged—stories that appeal to our baser instincts and that trigger outrage and fear.  It’s why YouTube recommended videos by the conspiracist Alex Jones billions of times.  It’s why fake news outperforms real news, because studies show that lies spread faster than truth.  And it’s no surprise that the greatest propaganda machine in history has spread the oldest conspiracy theory in history—the lie that Jews are somehow dangerous.  As one headline put it, “Just Think What Goebbels Could Have Done with Facebook.” On the internet, everything can appear equally legitimate.  Breitbart resembles the BBC.  The fictitious Protocols of the Elders of Zion look as valid as an ADL report.  And the rantings of a lunatic seem as credible as the findings of a Nobel Prize winner.  We have lost, it seems, a shared sense of the basic facts upon which democracy depends. When I, as the wanna-be-gansta Ali G, asked the astronaut Buzz Aldrin “what woz it like to walk on de sun?” the joke worked, because we, the audience, shared the same facts.  If you believe the moon landing was a hoax, the joke was not funny. When Borat got that bar in Arizona to agree that “Jews control everybody’s money and never give it back,” the joke worked because the audience shared the fact that the depiction of Jews as miserly is a conspiracy theory originating in the Middle Ages. But when, thanks to social media, conspiracies take hold, it’s easier for hate groups to recruit, easier for foreign intelligence agencies to interfere in our elections, and easier for a country like Myanmar to commit genocide against the Rohingya. It’s actually quite shocking how easy it is to turn conspiracy thinking into violence.  In my last show Who is America?, I found an educated, normal guy who had held down a good job, but who, on social media, repeated many of the conspiracy theories that President Trump, using Twitter, has spread more than 1,700 times to his 67 million followers.  The President even tweeted that he was considering designating Antifa—anti-fascists who march against the far right—as a terror organization.   So, disguised as an Israel anti-terrorism expert, Colonel Erran Morad, I told my interviewee that, at the Women’s March in San Francisco, Antifa were plotting to put hormones into babies’ diapers in order to “make them transgender.”  And he believed it. I instructed him to plant small devices on three innocent people at the march and explained that when he pushed a button, he’d trigger an explosion that would kill them all.  They weren’t real explosives, of course, but he thought they were.  I wanted to see—would he actually do it? The answer was yes.  He pushed the button and thought he had actually killed three human beings.  Voltaire was right, “those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”  And social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to billions of people. In their defense, these social media companies have taken some steps to reduce hate and conspiracies on their platforms, but these steps have been mostly superficial. I’m speaking up today because I believe that our pluralistic democracies are on a precipice and that the next twelve months, and the role of social media, could be determinant.  British voters will go to the polls while online conspiracists promote the despicable theory of “great replacement” that white Christians are being deliberately replaced by Muslim immigrants.  Americans will vote for president while trolls and bots perpetuate the disgusting lie of a “Hispanic invasion.”  And after years of YouTube videos calling climate change a “hoax,” the United States is on track, a year from now, to formally withdraw from the Paris Accords.  A sewer of bigotry and vile conspiracy theories that threatens democracy and our planet—this cannot possibly be what the creators of the internet had in mind. I believe it’s time for a fundamental rethink of social media and how it spreads hate, conspiracies and lies.  Last month, however, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook delivered a major speech that, not surprisingly, warned against new laws and regulations on companies like his.  Well, some of these arguments are simply absurd.  Let’s count the ways. First, Zuckerberg tried to portray this whole issue as “choices…around free expression.”  That is ludicrous.  This is not about limiting anyone’s free speech.  This is about giving people, including some of the most reprehensible people on earth, the biggest platform in history to reach a third of the planet.  Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.  Sadly, there will always be racists, misogynists, anti-Semites and child abusers.  But I think we could all agree that we should not be giving bigots and pedophiles a free platform to amplify their views and target their victims. Second, Zuckerberg claimed that new limits on what’s posted on social media would be to “pull back on free expression.”  This is utter nonsense.  The First Amendment says that “Congress shall make no law” abridging freedom of speech, however, this does not apply to private businesses like Facebook.  We’re not asking these companies to determine the boundaries of free speech across society.  We just want them to be responsible on their platforms. If a neo-Nazi comes goose-stepping into a restaurant and starts threatening other customers and saying he wants kill Jews, would the owner of the restaurant be required to serve him an elegant eight-course meal?  Of course not!  The restaurant owner has every legal right and a moral obligation to kick the Nazi out, and so do these internet companies. Third, Zuckerberg seemed to equate regulation of companies like his to the actions of “the most repressive societies.”  Incredible.  This, from one of the six people who decide what information so much of the world sees.  Zuckerberg at Facebook, Sundar Pichai at Google, at its parent company Alphabet, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Brin’s ex-sister-in-law, Susan Wojcicki at YouTube and Jack Dorsey at Twitter.  The Silicon Six—all billionaires, all Americans—who care more about boosting their share price than about protecting democracy.  This is ideological imperialism—six unelected individuals in Silicon Valley imposing their vision on the rest of the world, unaccountable to any government and acting like they’re above the reach of law.  It’s like we’re living in the Roman Empire, and Mark Zuckerberg is Caesar.  At least that would explain his haircut. Here’s an idea.  Instead of letting the Silicon Six decide the fate of the world, let our elected representatives, voted for by the people, of every democracy in the world, have at least some say. Fourth, Zuckerberg speaks of welcoming a “diversity of ideas,” and last year he gave us an example.  He said that he found posts denying the Holocaust “deeply offensive,” but he didn’t think Facebook should take them down “because I think there are things that different people get wrong.”  At this very moment, there are still Holocaust deniers on Facebook, and Google still takes you to the most repulsive Holocaust denial sites with a simple click.  One of the heads of Google once told me, incredibly, that these sites just show “both sides” of the issue.  This is madness. To quote Edward R. Murrow, one “cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.”  We have millions of pieces of evidence for the Holocaust—it is an historical fact.  And denying it is not some random opinion.  Those who deny the Holocaust aim to encourage another one. Still, Zuckerberg says that “people should decide what is credible, not tech companies.”  But at a time when two-thirds of millennials say they haven’t even heard of Auschwitz, how are they supposed to know what’s “credible?”  How are they supposed to know that the lie is a lie? There is such a thing as objective truth.  Facts do exist.  And if these internet companies really want to make a difference, they should hire enough monitors to actually monitor, work closely with groups like the ADL, insist on facts and purge these lies and conspiracies from their platforms. Fifth, when discussing the difficulty of removing content, Zuckerberg asked “where do you draw the line?”  Yes, drawing the line can be difficult.  But here’s what he’s really saying: removing more of these lies and conspiracies is just too expensive. These are the richest companies in the world, and they have the best engineers in the world.  They could fix these problems if they wanted to.  Twitter could deploy an algorithm to remove more white supremacist hate speech, but they reportedly haven’t because it would eject some very prominent politicians from their platform.  Maybe that’s not a bad thing!  The truth is, these companies won’t fundamentally change because their entire business model relies on generating more engagement, and nothing generates more engagement than lies, fear and outrage.    It’s time to finally call these companies what they really are—the largest publishers in history.  And here’s an idea for them: abide by basic standards and practices just like newspapers, magazines and TV news do every day.  We have standards and practices in television and the movies; there are certain things we cannot say or do.  In England, I was told that Ali G could not curse when he appeared before 9pm.  Here in the U.S., the Motion Picture Association of America regulates and rates what we see.  I’ve had scenes in my movies cut or reduced to abide by those standards.  If there are standards and practices for what cinemas and television channels can show, then surely companies that publish material to billions of people should have to abide by basic standards and practices too. Take the issue of political ads.  Fortunately, Twitter finally banned them, and Google is making changes, too.  But if you pay them, Facebook will run any “political” ad you want, even if it’s a lie.  And they’ll even help you micro-target those lies to their users for maximum effect.  Under this twisted logic, if Facebook were around in the 1930s, it would have allowed Hitler to post 30-second ads on his “solution” to the “Jewish problem.”  So here’s a good standard and practice: Facebook, start fact-checking political ads before you run them, stop micro-targeted lies immediately, and when the ads are false, give back the money and don’t publish them. Here’s another good practice: slow down.  Every single post doesn’t need to be published immediately.  Oscar Wilde once said that “we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”  But is having every thought or video posted instantly online, even if it is racist or criminal or murderous, really a necessity?  Of course not! The shooter who massacred Muslims in New Zealand live streamed his atrocity on Facebook where it then spread across the internet and was viewed likely millions of times.  It was a snuff film, brought to you by social media.  Why can’t we have more of a delay so this trauma-inducing filth can be caught and stopped before it’s posted in the first place? Finally, Zuckerberg said that social media companies should “live up to their responsibilities,” but he’s totally silent about what should happen when they don’t.  By now it’s pretty clear, they cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.  As with the Industrial Revolution, it’s time for regulation and legislation to curb the greed of these high-tech robber barons.  In every other industry, a company can be held liable when their product is defective.  When engines explode or seatbelts malfunction, car companies recall tens of thousands of vehicles, at a cost of billions of dollars.  It only seems fair to say to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter: your product is defective, you are obliged to fix it, no matter how much it costs and no matter how many moderators you need to employ. In every other industry, you can be sued for the harm you cause.  Publishers can be sued for libel, people can be sued for defamation.  I’ve been sued many times!  I’m being sued right now by someone whose name I won’t mention because he might sue me again!  But social media companies are largely protected from liability for the content their users post—no matter how indecent it is—by Section 230 of, get ready for it, the Communications Decency Act.  Absurd! Fortunately, Internet companies can now be held responsible for pedophiles who use their sites to target children.  I say, let’s also hold these companies responsible for those who use their sites to advocate for the mass murder of children because of their race or religion.  And maybe fines are not enough.  Maybe it’s time to tell Mark Zuckerberg and the CEOs of these companies: you already allowed one foreign power to interfere in our elections, you already facilitated one genocide in Myanmar, do it again and you go to jail. In the end, it all comes down to what kind of world we want.  In his speech, Zuckerberg said that one of his main goals is to “uphold as wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible.”  Yet our freedoms are not only an end in themselves, they’re also the means to another end—as you say here in the U.S., the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  But today these rights are threatened by hate, conspiracies and lies. Allow me to leave you with a suggestion for a different aim for society.  The ultimate aim of society should be to make sure that people are not targeted, not harassed and not murdered because of who they are, where they come from, who they love or how they pray If we make that our aim—if we prioritize truth over lies, tolerance over prejudice, empathy over indifference and experts over ignoramuses—then maybe, just maybe, we can stop the greatest propaganda machine in history, we can save democracy, we can still have a place for free speech and free expression, and, most importantly, my jokes will still work. Thank you all very much. Antisemitism in the US Cyberhate Extremism, Terrorism & Bigotry

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    1. Getting children back into school is a “moral duty”, Boris Johnson has declared, despite the open question of how well prepared UK schools are to prevent the spread of Covid-19 – especially with the chief medical officer for England warning that “we have probably reached near the limit or the limits of what we can do in terms of opening up society”. Yet much less is being said about the return of university students to face-to-face teaching this autumn. Many of the 2.5 million students in higher education, most of them undergraduates, will shortly be flooding into towns and cities far from home, more than half a million of them for the first time. They will come into contact with untold millions of local residents, but most closely with nearly half a million university employees, especially those whose job it is to teach them.
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      Reviewer #1 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      The manuscript is clearly written and the figures appropriate and informative. Some descriptions of data analyses are a little dense but reflect what would appear long hard efforts on the part of the authors to identify and control for possible sources of misinterpretation due to sensitivities of parameters in their fitness model. The authors efforts to retest interactions under non-competition conditions allay fears of most concerns that I would have. One problem though that I could not see explicitly addressed was that of potential effects of interactions between methotrexate and the other conditions and how this is controlled for. Specifically, I could be argued that the fact that a particular PPI is observed under a specific condition could have more to do with a synthetic effect of treatment of cells with a drug plus methotrexate. Is this controlled for and how? I raise this because in a chemical genetic screen for fitness it was shown that methotrexate is particularly promiscuous for drug-drug interactions (Hillenmeyer ME ,et al. Science 2008). I tried to think of how this works but couldn't come up with anything immediately. I'd appreciate if the authors would take a crack at resolving this issue. Otherwise I have no further concerns about the manuscript.

      We thank the reviewer for the kind comments. We agree with the reviewer’s point that methotrexate could be interacting with drugs or other perturbagens, similar to how the chosen nitrogen source, carbon source, or other growth conditions may interact with a drug. However, the methotrexate concentration is held constant across all conditions, as is the rest of the media components such as the nitrogen and carbon source (with the exception of the raffinose perturbation). Any interactions with methotrexate, or other media components, is undetectable without systematically varying all components for all stressors. Therefore, we use the typical experimental design of measuring molecular variation from a reference, holding invariant media components (such as methotrexate, glucose, or vitamins) fixed between conditions. This is a general practice, and we describe that every condition contains methotrexate on page 3, line 10.

      The library was grown under mild methotrexate selection in 9 environments for 12-18 generations in serial batch culture, diluting 1:8 every ~3 generations, with a bottleneck population size greater than 2 x 109 cells (Table S1).

      We also list the full details of each environment in Table S1.

      Reviewer #1 (Significance (Required)):

      Lui et al expand on previous work from the Levy group to explore a massive in vivo protein interactome in the yeast S. cerevisiae. They achieve this by performing screens cross 9 growth conditions, which, with replication, results in a total of 44 million measurements. Interpreting their results based on a fitness model for pooled growth under methotrexate selection, they make the key observation that there is a vastly expanded pool of protein-protein interactions (PPI) that are found under only one or two condition compared to a more limited set of PPI that are found under a broad set of conditions (mutable versus immutable interactors). The authors show that this dichotomy suggests some important features of proteins and their PPIs that raise important questions about functionality and evolution of PPIs. Among these are that mutable PPIs are enriched for cross-compartmental, high disorder and higher rates of evolution and subcellular localization of proteins to chromatin, suggesting roles in gene regulation that are associated with cellular responses to new conditions. At the same time these interactions are not enriched for changes in abundance. These results are in contrast to those of immutable PPIs, which seem to form a core background noise, more determined by changes in abundance than what the authors interpret must be post-translational processes that may drive, for instance, changes in subcellular localization resulting in appearance of PPIs under specific conditions. The authors are also able to address a couple of key issues about protein interactomes, including the controversial Party-date Hub hypothesis of Vidal, in which they could now affirm support for this hypothesis based on their results and notably negative correlation of PPIs to protein abundance for mutable PPIs. Finally, they also addressed the problem of predicting the upper limit of PPIs in yeast, showing the remarkable results that it may be no more than about 2 times the number of proteins expressed by yeast. Such an upper limit is profoundly important to modelling cellular network complexity and, if it holds up, could define a general upper limit on organismal complexity.

      This manuscript is a very important contribution to understanding dynamics of molecular networks in living cells and should be published with high priority.

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      Reviewer #2 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      Report on Liu et al. "A large accessory protein interactome is rewired across environments"

      Liu et al. use a mDHFR-based, pooled barcode sequencing / competitive growth / mild methotrexate selection method to investigate changes of PPI abundance of 1.6 million protein pairs across different 9 growth conditions. Because most PPI screens aim to identify novel PPIs in standard growth conditions, the currently known yeast PPI network may be incomplete. The key concept is to define immutable" PPIs that are found in all conditions and "mutable" PPIs that are present in only some conditions.

      The assay identified 13764 PPIs across the 9 conditions, using optimized fitness cut offs. Steady PPI i.e. across all environments, were identified in membrane compartments and cell division. Processes associated with the chromosome, transcription, protein translation, RNA processing and ribosome regulation were found to change between conditions. Mutable PPIs are form modules as topological analyses reveals.

      Interestingly, a correlation on intrinsic disorder and PPI mutability was found and postulated as more flexible in the conformational context, while at the same time they are formed by less abundant proteins.

      I appreciate the trick to use homodimerization as an abundance proxy to predict interaction between heterodimers (of proteins that homodimerize). This "mass-action kinetics model" explains the strength of 230 out of 1212 tested heterodimers.

      A validation experiment of the glucose transporter network was performed and 90 "randomly chosen" PPIs that were present in the SD environment were tested in NaCl (osmotic stress) and Raffinose (low glucose) conditions through recording optical density growth trajectories. Hxt5 PPIs stayed similar in the tested conditions, supported by the current knowledge that Hxt5 is highly expressed in stationary phase and under salt stress. In Raffinose, Hxt7, previously reported to increase the mRNA expression, lost most PPIs indicating that other factors might influence Hxt7 PPIs.

      **Points for consideration:**

      *) A clear definition of mutable and immutable is missing, or could not be found e.g. at page 4 second paragraph.

      We thank the reviewer for pointing this out. We have now added better definition of mutable and immutable on line 19 page 4:

      We partitioned PPIs by the number of environments in which they were identified and defined PPIs at opposite ends of this spectrum as “mutable” PPIs (identified in only 1-3 environments) and “immutable” (identified in 8-9 environments).

      *) Approximately half of the PPIs have been identified in one environment. Many of those mutable PPIs were detected in the 16{degree sign}C condition. Is there an explanation for the predominance of this specific environment? What are these PPIs about?

      The reviewer is correct that ~40% of the PPIs identified in only one environment were found in the 16 ℃ environment. One reason for this could be technical: the positive predictive value (PPV) is the lowest amongst the conditions (16 ℃: 31.6%, mean: 57%, Table SM6). It must be noted, however, that PPVs are calculated using reference data that has generally been collected in standard growth conditions. So, it might be expected that the most divergent environment from standard growth conditions (resulting in the most differences in PPIs) would result in a lower PPV in our study even if the true frequency of false positives was equivalent across environments. We have attempted to be transparent about the quality of the data in each environment by reporting PPVs and other metrics in Table SM6. However, we suspect that the large number of PPIs unique to 16 ℃ is due in part to the fact that it causes the largest changes in the protein interactome, and believe that it should be included, even at the risk of lowering the overall quality of the data. The main reason for this is that this data is likely to contain valuable information about how the cell copes with this stress. For example, we find, but do not highlight in the manuscript, that 16 ℃-specific PPIs contain two major hubs (DID4: 285 PPIs involved in endocytosis and vacuolar trafficking, and DED1: 102 PPIs involved in translation), both of which are reported to be associated with cold adaptation in yeast (Hilliker et al., 2011; Isasa et al., 2015).

      To assess whether the potentially higher false-positive rate in 16 ℃ could be impacting our conclusions related to PPI network organization and features of immutable and mutable PPIs, we repeated these analyses leaving out the 16 ℃ data and found that our main conclusions did not change. This new analysis is now presented in Figure S8 and described on page 5, line 10.

      Finally, we used a pair of more conservative PPI calling procedures that either identified PPIs with a low rate of false positives across all environments (FPR

      We have also added references to other panels in Figure S8 throughout the manuscript, where appropriate.

      *) 50 % overall retest validation rate is fair and reflects a value comparable to other large-scale approaches. However what is the actual variation, e.g. between mutable PPIs and immutable or between condition. e.g. at 16{degree sign}C.

      We validated 502 PPIs present in the SD environment and an additional 36 PPIs in the NaCl environment. As the reviewer suggests, we do indeed observe differences in the validation rate across mutability bins. This data is reported in Figures 3B and S6B, and we use this information to provide a confidence score for each PPI on page 5, line 4.

      To better estimate how the number of PPIs changes with PPI mutability, we used these optical density assays to model the validation rate as a function of the mean PPiSeq fitness and the number of environments in which a PPI is detected. This accurate model (Spearman's r =0.98 between predicted and observed, see Methods) provided confidence scores (predicted validation rates) for each PPI (Table S5) and allowed us to adjust the true positive PPI estimate in each mutability bin. Using this more conservative estimate, we still found a preponderance of mutable PPIs (Figure S6E).

      The validation rate in NaCl is similar to SD (39%, 14/36), suggesting that validation rates do not vary excessively across environments. Because validation experiments are time consuming (we performed 6 growth experiments per PPI), performing a similar scale of validations in all environments as in SD would be resource intensive. Insead, we report a number of metrics (true positive rate, false positive rate, positive predictive value) in Table SM6 using large positive and random reference sets. We believe these metrics are sufficient for readers to compare the quality of data across environments.

      *) What is the R correlation cutoff for PPIs explained in the mass equilibrium model vs. not explained?

      We do not use an R correlation cutoff to assess if a PPI is explained by the mass-action equilibrium model. We instead rely on ordinary least-squares regression as detailed in the methods on page 68, line 13.

      ...we used ordinary least-squares linear regression in R to fit a model of the geometric mean of the homodimer signals multiplied by a free constant and plus a free intercept. Significantly explained heterodimer PPIs were judged by a significant coefficient (FDR 0.05, single-test). This criteria was used to identify PPIs for which protein expression does or does not appear to play as significant of a role as other post-translational mechanisms.

      The first criterion identifies a quantitative fit to the model of variation being related. The second criterion is used to filter out PPIs for which the relationship appears to be explained by more than just the homodimer signals. This approach is more stringent, but we believe this is the most appropriate statistical test to assess fit to this linear model.

      *) 90 "randomly chosen" PPIs for validation. It needs to be demonstrated that these interaction are a random subset otherwise is could also mean cherry picked interactions.

      We selected 90 of the 284 glucose transport-related PPIs for validation using the “sample” function in R (replace = FALSE). We have now included text that describes this on page 63, line 3 in the supplementary methods:

      Diploids (PPIs) on each plate were randomly picked using the “sample” function in R (replace = FALSE) from PPIs that meet specific requirements.

      *) Figure 4 provides interesting correlations with the goal to reveal properties of mutable and less mutable PPIs. PPIs detected in the PPIseq screen can partially be correlated to co-expression (4A) as well as co-localization. Does it make sense to correlate the co-expression across number of conditions? Are the expression correlation condition specific. In this graph it could be that expression correlation stems from condition 1 and 2 and the interaction takes place in 4 and 5 still leading to the same conclusion ... Is the picture of the co-expression correlation similar when you simply look at individual environments like in S4A?

      We use co-expression mutual rank scores from the COXPRESdb v7.3 database (Obayashi et al., 2019). These mutual rank scores are derived from a broad set of 3593 environmental perturbations that are not limited to the environments we tested here. By using this data, we are asking if co-expression in general is correlated with mutability and report that it is in Figure 4A. We thank the reviewer for pointing out that this was not clear and have now added text to clarify that the co-expression analysis is derived from external data on page 6, line 7.

      We first asked whether co-expression is indeed a predictor of PPI mutability and found that it is: co-expression mutual rank (which is inversely proportional to co-expression across thousands of microarray experiments) declined with PPI mutability (Figures 4A and S11) (Obayashi and Kinoshita, 2009; Obayashi et al., 2019).

      The new figure S11 examines how the co-expression mutual rank changes with PPI mutability for PPIs identified in each environment, as the reviewer suggested. For each environment, we find the same general pattern as in Figure 4A (which considers PPIs from all environments).

      *) Figure 4C: Interesting, how dependent are the various categories?

      It is well known that many of these categories are correlated (e.g. mRNA expression level and protein abundance, and deletion fitness effect and genetic interaction degree). However, we believe it is most valuable to report the correlation of each category with PPI mutability independently in Figures 4C and S12, since similar correlations with related categories provide more confidence in our conclusions.

      *) Figure 4 F: When binned in the number of environments in which the PPI was found, the distribution peaks at 6 environments and decreases with higher and lower number of environments. The description /explanation in the text clearly says something else.

      We reported on page 7, line 15:

      We next used logistic regression to determine what features may underlie a good or poor fit to the model (Figure S14C) and found that PPI mutability was the best predictor, with more mutable PPIs being less frequently explained (Figure 4F). Unexpectedly, mean protein abundance was the second best predictor, with high abundance predicting a poor fit to the model, particularly for less mutable PPIs (Figure S14D and S14E).

      As the reviewer notes, Figure 4F shows that the percent of heterodimers explained by the model does appear to decrease for PPIs observed in the most environments. We suspect that the reviewer is correct that something more complicated is going on. One possibility is that extraordinarily stable PPIs (stable in all conditions) would have less quantitative variation in protein or PPI abundance across environments. If this is true, it would be statistically difficult to fit the mass action kinetics model for these PPIs (lower signal relative to noise), thereby resulting in the observed dip.

      A second possibility is that multiple correlated factors are associated with contributing positively or negatively to a good fit, and the simplicity of Figure 4F or a Pearson correlation does not capture this interplay. This second possibility is why we used multivariate logistic regression (Figure S14C) to dissect the major contributing factors. In the text quote above, we report that high abundance is anti-correlated with a good fit to the model (S14D, S14E). Figure 4C shows that immutable PPIs tend to be formed from highly abundant proteins. One possible explanation is that highly abundant proteins saturate the binding sites of their binding partners, breaking from the assumptions of mass action kinetics model. We have now changed the word “limit” to “saturate” on page 7, line 22 to make this concept more explicit.

      Taken together, these data suggest that mutable PPIs are subject to more post-translational regulation across environments and that high basal protein abundance may saturate the binding sites of their partners, limiting the ability of gene expression changes to regulate PPIs.

      A third possibility is that the dip is simply due to noise. Given the complexity of the possible explanations and our uncertainty about which is more likely, we chose to leave this description out of the main text and focus on the major finding: that PPIs detected in more environments are generally associated with a better fit to the mass action kinetics model.

      *) Figure 6: I apologize, but for my taste this is not a final figure 6 for this study. Investigation of different environments increases the PPI network in yeast, yes, yet it is very well known that a saturation is reached after testing of several conditions, different methods and even screening repetition (sampling). It does not represent an important outcome. Move to suppl or remove.

      We included Figure 6 to summarize and illustrate the path forward from this study. This is an explicit reference to impactful computational analyses done using earlier generations of data to assess the completeness of single-condition interaction networks (Hart et al., 2006; Sambourg and Thierry-Mieg, 2010). Here, we are extending PPI measurement of millions-scale networks across multiple environments, and are using this figure to extend these concepts to multi-condition screens. We agree that the property of saturation in sampling is well known, but it is surprising that we can quantitatively estimate convergence of this expanded condition-specific PPI set using only 9 conditions. Thus, we agree with Reviewer 1 that these are “remarkable results” and that the “upper limit is profoundly important to modelling cellular network complexity and, if it holds up, could define a general upper limit on organismal complexity.” We think this is an important advance of the paper, and this figure is useful to stimulate discussion and guide future work.

      Reviewer #2 (Significance (Required)):

      Liu et al. increase the current PPI network in yeast and offer a substantial dataset of novel PPIs seen in specific environments only. This resource can be used to further investigate the biological meaning of the PPI changes. The data set is compared to previous DHFR providing some sort of quality benchmarking. Mutable interactions are characterized well. Clearly a next step could be to start some "orthogonal" validation, i.e. beyond yeast growth under methotrexate treatment.

      The reviewer makes a great point that we also discuss on page 9, line 33:

      While we used reconstruction of C-terminal-attached mDHFR fragments as a reporter for PPI abundance, similar massively parallel assays could be constructed with different PCA reporters or tagging configurations to validate our observations and overcome false negatives that are specific to our reporter. Indeed, the recent development of “swap tag” libraries, where new markers can be inserted C- or N-terminal to most genes (Weill et al., 2018; Yofe et al., 2016), in combination with our iSeq double barcoder collection (Liu et al., 2019), makes extension of our approach eminently feasible.

      Reviewer 3

      Reviewer #3 (Evidence, reproducibility and clarity (Required)):

      **Summary**

      The manuscript "A large accessory protein interactome is rewired across environments" by Liu et al. scales up a previously-described method (PPiSeq) to test a matrix of ~1.6 million protein pairs of direct protein-protein interactions in each of 9 different growth environments.

      While the study found a small fraction of immutable PPIs that are relatively stable across environments, the vast majority were 'mutable' across environments. Surprisingly, PPIs detected only in one environment made up more than 60% of the map. In addition to a false positive fraction that can yield apparently-mutable interactions, retest experiments demonstrate (not surprisingly) that environment-specificity can sometimes be attributed to false-negatives. The study authors predict that the whole subnetwork within the space tested will contain 11K true interactions.

      Much of environment-specific rewiring seemed to take place in an 'accessory module', which surrounds the core module made of mostly immutable PPIs. A number of interesting network clustering and functional enrichment analyses are performed to characterize the network overall and 'mutable' interactions in particular. The study report other global properties such as expression level, protein abundance and genetic interaction degree that differ between mutable and immutable PPIs. One of the interesting findings was evidence that many environmentally mutable PPI changes are regulated post-translationally. Finally, authors provide a case study about network rewiring related to glucose transport.

      **Major issues**

      -The results section should more prominently describe the dimensions of the matrix screen, both in terms of the set of protein pairs attempted and the set actually screened (I think this was 1741 x 1113 after filtering?). More importantly, the study should acknowledge in the introduction that this was NOT a random sample of protein pairs, but rather focused on pairs for which interaction had been previously observed in the baseline condition. This major bias has a potentially substantial impact on many of the downstream analyses. For example, any gene which was not expressed under the conditions of the original Tarrasov et al. study on which the screening space was based will not have been tested here. Thus, the study has systematically excluded interactions involving proteins with environment-dependent expression, except where they happened to be expressed in the single Tarrasov et al. environment. Heightened connectivity within the 'core module' may result from this bias, and if Tarrasov et al had screened in hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) instead of SD media, perhaps the network would have exhibited a code module in H2O2 decorated by less-densely connected accessory modules observed in other environments. The paper should clearly indicate which downstream analyses have special caveats in light of this design bias.

      We have now added text the matrix dimensions of our study on page 3, line 3:

      To generate a large PPiSeq library, all strains from the protein interactome (mDHFR-PCA) collection that were found to contain a protein likely to participate in at least one PPI (1742 X 1130 protein pairs), (Tarassov et al., 2008) were barcoded in duplicate using the double barcoder iSeq collection (Liu et al., 2019), and mated together in a single pool (Figure 1A). Double barcode sequencing revealed that the PPiSeq library contained 1.79 million protein pairs and 6.05 million double barcodes (92.3% and 78.1% of theoretical, respectively, 1741 X 1113 protein pairs), with each protein pair represented by an average of 3.4 unique double barcodes (Figure S1).

      We agree with the reviewer that our selection of proteins from a previously identified set can introduce bias in our conclusions. Our research question was focused on how PPIs change across environments, and thus we chose to maximize our power to detect PPI changes by selecting a set of protein pairs that are enriched for PPIs. We have now added a discussion of the potential caveats of this choice to the discussion on page 9, line 4:

      Results presented here and elsewhere (Huttlin et al., 2020) suggest that PPIs discovered under a single condition or cell type are a small subset of the full protein interactome emergent from a genome. We sampled nine diverse environments and found approximately 3-fold more interactions than in a single environment. However, the discovery of new PPIs began to saturate, indicating that most condition-specific PPIs can be captured in a limited number of conditions. Testing in many more conditions and with PPI assays orthogonal to PPiSeq will undoubtedly identify new PPIs, however a more important outcome could be the identification of coordinated network changes across conditions. Using a test set of ~1.6 million (of ~18 million) protein pairs across nine environments, we find that specific parts of the protein interactome are relatively stable (core modules) while others frequently change across environments (accessory modules). However, two important caveats of our study must be recognized before extrapolating these results to the entire protein interactome across all environment space. First, we tested for interactions between a biased set of proteins that have previously been found to participate in at least one PPI as measured by mDHFR-PCA under standard growth conditions (Tarassov et al., 2008). Thus, proteins that are not expressed under standard growth conditions are excluded from our study, as are PPIs that are not detectable by mDHFR-PCA or PPiSeq. It is possible that a comprehensive screen using multiple orthogonal PPI assays would alter our observations related to the relative dynamics of different regions of the protein interactome and the features of mutable and immutable PPIs. Second, we tested a limited number of environmental perturbations under similar growth conditions (batch liquid growth). It is possible that more extreme environmental shifts (e.g. growth as a colony, anaerobic growth, pseudohyphal growth) would introduce new accessory modules or alter the mutability of the PPIs we detect. Nevertheless, results presented here provide a new mechanistic view of how the cell changes in response to environmental challenges, building on the previous work that describes coordinated responses in the transcriptome (Brauer et al., 2007; Gasch et al., 2000) and proteome (Breker et al., 2013; Chong et al., 2015).

      -Related to the previous issue, a quick look at the proteins tested (if I understood them correctly) showed that they were enriched for genes encoding the elongator holoenzyme complex, DNA-directed RNA polymerase I complex, membrane docking and actin binding proteins, among other functional enrichments. Genes related to DNA damage (endonuclease activity and transposition), were depleted. It was unclear whether the functional enrichment analyses described in the paper reported enrichments relative to what would be expected given the bias inherent to the tested space?

      We did two functional enrichment analyses in this study: network density within Gene Ontology terms (related to Figure 2) and gene ontology enrichment of network communities (related to Figure 3). For both analyses, we performed comparisons to proteins included in PPiSeq library. This is described in the Supplementary Materials on page 63, line 35:

      To estimate GO term enrichment in our PPI network, we constructed 1000 random networks by replacing each bait or prey protein that was involved in a PPI with a randomly chosen protein from all proteins in our screen. This randomization preserves the degree distribution of the network.

      And on page 66, line 38:

      The set of proteins used for enrichment comparison are proteins that are involved in at least one PPI as determined by PPiSeq.

      -Re: data quality. To the study's great credit, they incorporated positive and random reference sets (PRS and RRS) into the screen. However, the results from this were concerning: Table SM6 shows that assay stringency was set such that between 1 and 3 out of 67 RRS pairs were detected. This specificity would be fine for an assay intended for retest or validate previous hits, where the prior probability of a true interaction is high, but in large-scale screening the prior probability of true interactions that are detectable by PCA is much lower, and a higher specificity is needed to avoid being overwhelmed by false positives. Consider this back of the envelope calculation: Let's say that the prior probability of true interaction is 1% as the authors' suggest (pg 49, section 6.5), and if PCA can optimistically detect 30% of these pairs, then the number of true interactions we might expect to see in an RRS of size 67 is 1% * 30% * 67 = 0.2 . This back of the envelope calculation suggests that a stringency allowing 1 hit in RRS will yield 80% [ (1 - 0.2) / 1 ] false positives, and a stringency allowing 3 hits in RRS will yield 93% [ (3 - 0.2) / 3] false positives. How do the authors reconcile these back of the envelope calculations from their PRS and RRS results with their estimates of precision?

      We thank the reviewer for bringing up with this issue. We included positive and random reference sets (PRS:70 protein pairs, RRS:67 protein pairs) to benchmark our PPI calling (Yu et al., 2008). The PRS reference lists PPIs that have been validated by multiple independent studies and is therefore likely to represent true PPIs that are present in some subset of the environments we tested. For the PRS set, we found a rate of detection that is comparable to other studies (PPiSeq in SD: 28%, Y2H and yellow fluorescent protein-PCA: ~20%) (Yu et al., 2008). The RRS reference, developed ten years ago, is randomly chosen protein pairs for which there was no evidence of a PPI in the literature at the time (mostly in standard growth conditions). Given the relatively high rate of false negatives in PPI assays, this set may in fact contain some true PPIs that have yet to be discovered. We could detect PPIs for four RRS protein pairs in our study, when looking across all 9 environments. Three of these (Grs1_Pet10, Rck2_Csh1, and YDR492W_Rpd3) could be detected in multiple environments (9, 7, and 3, respectively), suggesting that their detection was not a statistical or experimental artifact of our bar-seq assay (see table below derived from Table S4). The remaining PPI detected in the RRS, was only detected in SD (standard growth conditions) but with a relatively high fitness (0.35), again suggesting its detection was not a statistical or experimental artifact. While we do acknowledge it is possible that these are indeed false positives due to erroneous interactions of chimeric DHFR-tagged versions of these proteins, the small size of the RRS combined with the fact that some of the protein pairs could be true PPIs, did not give us confidence that this rate (4 of 70) is representative of our true false positive rate. To determine a false positive rate that is less subject to biases stemming from sampling of small numbers, we instead generated 50 new, larger random reference sets, by sampling for each set ~ 60,000 protein pairs without a reported PPI in BioGRID. Using these new reference sets, we found that the putative false positive rate of our assay is generally lower than 0.3% across conditions for each of the 50 reference sets. We therefore used this more statistically robust measure of the false positive rate to estimate positive predictive values (PPV = 62%, TPR = 41% in SD). We detail these statistical methods in Section 6 of the supplementary methods and report all statistical metrics in Table SM6.

      PPI

      Environment_number

      SD

      H2O2

      Hydroxyurea

      Doxorubicin

      Forskolin

      Raffinose

      NaCl

      16℃

      FK506

      Rck2_Csh1

      7

      0.35

      0.35

      0

      0.20

      0.54

      0.74

      0

      0.17

      0.59

      Grs1_Pet10

      9

      0.44

      0.39

      0.34

      0.25

      0.65

      1.19

      0.2

      0.16

      0.95

      YDR492W_Rpd3

      3

      0

      0.18

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0.17

      0.61

      Mrps35_Bub3

      1

      0.35

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0

      0

      Positive_control

      9

      1

      0.8

      0.73

      0.62

      1.4

      2.44

      0.4

      0.28

      1.8

      Table. Mean fitness in each environment

      -Methods for estimating precision and recall were not sufficiently well described to assess. Precision vs recall plots would be helpful to better understand this tradeoff as score thresholds were evaluated.

      We describe in detail our approach to calling PPIs in section 6.6 of the supplementary methods, including Table SM6, and Figures SM3, SM4, SM6, and now Figure SM5. We identified positive PPIs using a dynamic threshold that considers the mean fitness and p-value in each environment. For each dynamic threshold, we estimated the precision and recall based on the reference sets (described supplementary methods in section 6.5). We then chose the threshold with the maximal Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) to obtain the best balance between precision and recall. We have now added an additional plot (Figure SM5) that shows the precision and recall for the chosen dynamic threshold in each environment.

      -Within the tested space, the Tarassov et al map and the current map could each be compared against a common 'bronze standard' (e.g. literature curated interactions), at least for the SD map, to have an idea about how the quality of the current map compares to that of the previous PCA map. Each could also be compared with the most recent large-scale Y2H study (Yu et al).

      We thank the reviewer for this suggestion. We have now added a figure panel (Figure S4) that compares PPiSeq in SD (2 replicates) to mDHFR PCA (Tarassov et al., 2008), Y2H (Yu et al., 2008), and our newly constructed ‘bronze standard’ high-confidence positive reference set (PRS, supplementary method section 6.4).

      • Experimental validation of the network was done by conventional PCA. However, it should be noted that this is a form of technical replication of the DHFR-based PCA assay, and not a truly independent validation. Other large-scale yeast interaction studies (e.g., Yu et al, Science 2008) have assessed a random subset of observed PPIs using an orthogonal approach, calibrated using PRS and RRS sets examined via the same orthogonal method, from which overall performance of the dataset could be determined.

      We appreciate the reviewer’s perspective, since orthogonal validation experiments have been a critical tool to establish assay performance following early Y2H work. We know from careful work done previously that modern orthogonal assays have a low cross validation rate ((Yu et al., 2008) and that they tend to be enriched for PPIs in different cellular compartments (Jensen and Bork, 2008), indicating that high false negative rates are the likely explanation. High false negative rates have been confirmed here and elsewhere using positive reference sets (e.g. Y2H 80%, PCA 80%, PPiSeq 74% using the PRS in (Yu et al., 2008)). Therefore, the expectation is that PPiSeq, as with other assays, will have a low rate of validation using an orthogonal assay -- although we would not know if this rate is 10%, 30% or somewhere in between without performing the work. However, the exact number -- whether it be 10% or 30% -- has no practical impact on the main conclusions of this study (focused on network dynamics rather than network enumeration). Neither does that number speak to the confidence in our PPI calls, since a lower number may simply be due to less overlap in the sets of PPIs that are callable by PPiSeq and another assay. Our method uses bar-seq to extend an established mDHFR-PCA assay (Tarassov et al., 2008). The validations we performed were aimed at confirming that our sequencing, barcode counting, fitness estimation, and PPI calling protocols were not introducing excessive noise relative to mDHFR-PCA that resulted in a high number of PPI miscalls. Confirming this, we do indeed find a high rate of validation by lower throughput PCA (50-90%, Figure 3B). Finally, we do include independent tests of the quality of our data by comparing it to positive and random reference sets from literature curated data. We find that our assay performs extremely well (PPV > 61%, TPR > 41%) relative to other high-throughput assays.

      -The Venn diagram in Figure 1G was not very informative in terms of assessing the quality of data. It looks like there is a relatively little overlap between PPIs identified in standard conditions (SD media) in the current study and those of the previous study using a very similar method. Is there any way to know how much of this disagreement can be attributed to each screen being sub-saturation (e.g. by comparing replica screens) and what fraction to systematic assay or environment differences?

      We have now added a figure panel (Figure S4) that compares PPiSeq in SD (2 replicates) to mDHFR-PCA (Tarassov et al., 2008), Y2H (Yu et al., 2008), and our newly constructed ‘bronze standard’ high-confidence positive reference sets (PRS, supplementary methods section 6.4). We find that SD replicates have an overlap coefficient of 79% with each other, ~45% with mDHFR-PCA, ~45% the ‘bronze standard’ PRS, and ~13% with Y2H. Overlap coefficients between the SD replicates and mDHFR-PCA are much higher than those found between orthologous methods ((Yu et al., 2008), indicating that these two assays are identifying a similar set of PPIs. We do note that PPiSeq and mDHFR-PCA do screen for PPIs under different growth conditions (batch liquid growth vs. colonies on agar), so some fraction of the disagreement is due to environmental differences. PPIs that overlap between the two PPiSeq SD replicates are more likely to be found in mDHFR-PCA, PRS, and Y2H, indicating that PPIs identified in a single SD replicate are more likely to be false positives. However, we do find (a lower rate of) overlaps between PPIs identified in only one SD replicate and other methods, suggesting that a single PPiSeq replicate is not finding all discoverable PPIs.

      -In Figure S5C, the environment-specificity rate of PPIs might be inflated due to the fact that authors only test for the absence of SD hits in other conditions, and the SD condition is the only condition that has been sampled twice during the screening. What would be the environment-specific verification rate if sample hits from each environment were tested in all environments? This seems important, as robustly detecting environment-specific PPIs is one of the key points of the study.

      We use PPIs found in the SD environment to determine the environment-specificity because this provides the most conservative (highest) estimate of the number of PPIs found in other environments that were not detectable by our bar-seq assay. To identify PPIs in the SD environment, we pooled fitness estimates across the two replicates (~ 4 fitness estimates per replicate, ~ 8 total). The higher number of replicates results in a reduced rate of false positives (an erroneous fitness estimate has less impact on a PPI call), meaning that we are more confident that PPIs identified in SD are true positives. Because false positives in one environment (but not other environments) are likely to erroneously contribute to the environment-specificity rate, choosing the environment with the lowest rate of false positives (SD) should result in the lowest environment-specificity rate (highest estimate of PPIs found in other environments that were not detectable by our bar-seq assay).

      **Minor issues**

      -Re: "An interaction between the proteins reconstitutes mDHFR, providing resistance to the drug methotrexate and a growth advantage that is proportional to the PPI abundance" (pg 2). It may be more accurate to say "monotonically related" than "proportional" here. Fig 2 from the cited Freschi et al ref does suggests linearity with colony size over a wide range of inferred complex abundances, but non-linear at low complex abundance. Also note that Freschi measured colony area which is not linear with exponential growth rate nor with cell count.

      We agree with the reviewer and have changed “proportional” to “monotonically related” on page 2, line 41.

      -Re: "Using putatively positive and negative reference sets, we empirically determined a statistical threshold for each environment with the best balance of precision and recall (positive predictive value (PPV) > 61% in SD media, Methods, section 6)." (pg 3). Should state the recall at this PPV.

      We agree with the reviewer and have added the recall (41%) in the main text (line 26, page3).

      Using putatively positive and negative reference sets, we empirically determined a statistical threshold for each environment with the best balance of precision and recall (positive predictive value (PPV) > 61% and true positive rate > 41% in SD media, Methods, section 6).

      -Authors could discuss the extent to which related methods (e.g. PMID: 28650476, PMID: 27107012, PMID: 29165646, PMID: 30217970) would be potentially suitable for screening in different environments.

      We have now added a reference to a barcode-based Y2H study that examined interactions between yeast proteins to the introduction on page 2, line 2:

      Yet, little is known about how PPI networks reorganize on a global scale or what drives these changes. One challenge is that commonly-used high-throughput PPI screening technologies are geared toward PPI identification (Gavin et al., 2002; Ito et al., 2001; Tarassov et al., 2008; Uetz et al., 2000; Yu et al., 2008, Yachie et al., 2016), not a quantitative analysis of relative PPI abundance that is necessary to determine if changes in the PPI network are occurring. The murine dihydrofolate reductase (mDHFR)‐based protein-fragment complementation assay (PCA) provides a viable path to characterize PPI abundance changes because it is a sensitive test for PPIs in the native cellular context and at native protein expression levels (Freschi et al., 2013; Remy and Michnick, 1999; Tarassov et al., 2008).

      We have excluded the references to other barcode-based Y2H studies that reviewer mentions because they test heterologous proteins within yeast, and the effect of perturbations to yeast on these proteins would be difficult to interpret in the context of our questions. The yeast protein Y2H study, although a wonderful approach and paper, would also not be an appropriate method to examine how PPI networks change across environments because protein fusions are not expressed under their endogenous promoters and must be transported to, in many cases, a non-native compartment (cell nucleus) to be detected. Rather than explicitly discuss the caveats of this particular approach, we have instead chosen to discuss why we use PCA.

      • the term "mutable" is certainly appropriate according to the dictionary definition of changeable. The authors may wish to consider though, that in a molecular biology context the term evokes changeability by mutation (a very interesting but distinct topic). Maybe another term (environment-dependent interactions or ePPIs?) would be clearer. Of course this is the authors' call.

      We thank the reviewer for this suggestion, and have admittedly struggled with the terminology. For clarity of presentation, we strived to have a single word that describes the property of a PPI that is at the core of this manuscript -- how frequently a PPI is found across environments. However, the most descriptive words come with preloaded meanings in PPI research (e.g. transient, stable, dynamic), as does “mutable” with another research field. We are, quite frankly, open to suggestions from the reviewers or editors for a more appropriate word that does not raise similar objections.

      -Some discussion is warranted about the phenomenon that a PPI that is unchanged in abundance could appear to change because of statistical significance thresholds that differ between screens. This would be a difficult question for any such study, and I don't think the authors need to solve it, but just to discuss.

      We agree with the reviewer that significance thresholds could be impacting our interpretations and discuss this idea at length on page 4, line 23 of the Results. This section has been modified to include an additional analysis (excluding 16 ℃ data) in response to another reviewer’s comment:

      Immutable PPIs were likely to have been previously reported by colony-based mDHFR-PCA or other methods, while the PPIs found in the fewest environments were not. One possible explanation for this observation is that previous PPI assays, which largely tested in standard laboratory growth conditions, and variations thereof, are biased toward identification of the least mutable PPIs. That is, since immutable PPIs are found in nearly all environments, they are more readily observed in just one. However, another possible explanation is that, in our assay, mutable PPIs are more likely to be false positives in environment(s) in which they are identified or false negatives in environments in which they are not identified. To investigate this second possibility, we first asked whether PPIs present in very few environments have lower fitnesses, as this might indicate that they are closer to our limit of detection. We found no such pattern: mean fitnesses were roughly consistent across PPIs found in 1 to 6 conditions, although they were elevated in PPIs found in 7-9 conditions (Figure S6A). To directly test the false-positive rate stemming from pooled growth and barcode sequencing, we validated randomly selected PPIs within each mutability bin by comparing their optical density growth trajectories against controls (Figures 3B). We found that mutable PPIs did indeed have lower validation rates in the environment in which they were identified, yet putative false positives were limited to ~50%, and, within a bin, do not differ between PPIs that have been previously identified and those that have been newly discovered by our assay (Figure S65B). We also note mutable PPIs might be more sensitive to environmental differences between our large pooled PPiSeq assays and clonal 96-well validation assays, indicating that differences in validation rates might be overstated. To test the false-negative rate, we assayed PPIs identified in only SD by PPiSeq across all other environments by optical density growth and found that PPIs can be assigned to additional environments (Figure S6C). However, the number of additional environments in which a PPI was detected was generally low (2.5 on average), and the interaction signal in other environments was generally weaker than in SD (Figure S6D). To better estimate how the number of PPIs changes with PPI mutability, we used these optical density assays to model the validation rate as a function of the mean PPiSeq fitness and the number of environments in which a PPI is detected. This accurate model (Spearman's r =0.98 between predicted and observed, see Methods) provided confidence scores (predicted validation rates) for each PPI (Table S5) and allowed us to adjust the true positive PPI estimate in each mutability bin. Using this more conservative estimate, we still found a preponderance of mutable PPIs (Figure S6E). Finally, we used a pair of more conservative PPI calling procedures that either identified PPIs with a low rate of false positives across all environments (FPR

      We later examine major conclusions of our study using more conservative calling procedures, and find that they are consistent. On page 6, line 14:

      Both the co-expression and co-localization patterns were also apparent in our higher confidence PPI sets (Figures S7B, and S7C, S8B, S8C ), indicating that they are not caused by different false positive rates between the mutability bins.

      And on page 6, line 19:

      We binned proteins by their PPI degree, and, within each bin, determined the correlation between the mutability score and another gene feature (Figure 4C and S12A, Table S8) (Costanzo et al., 2016; Finn et al., 2014; Gavin et al., 2006; Holstege et al., 1998; Krogan et al., 2006; Levy and Siegal, 2008; Myers et al., 2006; Newman et al., 2006; Östlund et al., 2010; Rice et al., 2000; Stark et al., 2011; Wapinski et al., 2007; Ward et al., 2004; Yang, 2007; Yu et al., 2008). These correlations were also calculated using our higher confidence PPI sets, confirming results from the full data set (Figures S7D and, S7E, S8D, S8E). We found that mutable hubs (> 15 PPIs) have more genetic interactions, in agreement with predictions from co-expression data (Bertin et al., 2007; Han et al., 2004), and that their deletion tends to cause larger fitness defects.

      -More discussion would be helpful about the idea that immutability may to some extent favor interactions that PCA is better able to detect (possibly including membrane proteins?)

      We agree with the reviewer and now added a discussion of this potential caveats to the discussion on page 9, line 4:

      Results presented here and elsewhere (Huttlin et al., 2020) suggest that PPIs discovered under a single condition or cell type are a small subset of the full protein interactome emergent from a genome. We sampled nine diverse environments and found approximately 3-fold more interactions than in a single environment. However, the discovery of new PPIs began to saturate, indicating that most condition-specific PPIs can be captured in a limited number of conditions. Testing in many more conditions and with PPI assays orthogonal to PPiSeq will undoubtedly identify new PPIs, however a more important outcome could be the identification of coordinated network changes across conditions. Using a test set of ~1.6 million (of ~18 million) protein pairs across nine environments, we find that specific parts of the protein interactome are relatively stable (core modules) while others frequently change across environments (accessory modules). However, two important caveats of our study must be recognized before extrapolating these results to the entire protein interactome across all environment space. First, we tested for interactions between a biased set of proteins that have previously been found to participate in at least one PPI as measured by mDHFR-PCA under standard growth conditions (Tarassov et al., 2008). Thus, proteins that are not expressed under standard growth conditions are excluded from our study, as are PPIs that are not detectable by mDHFR-PCA or PPiSeq. It is possible that a comprehensive screen using multiple orthogonal PPI assays would alter our observations related to the relative dynamics of different regions of the protein interactome and the features of mutable and immutable PPIs. Second, we tested a limited number of environmental perturbations under similar growth conditions (batch liquid growth). It is possible that more extreme environmental shifts (e.g. growth as a colony, anaerobic growth, pseudohyphal growth) would introduce new accessory modules or alter the mutability of the PPIs we detect. Nevertheless, results presented here provide a new mechanistic view of how the cell changes in response to environmental challenges, building on the previous work that describes coordinated responses in the transcriptome (Brauer et al., 2007; Gasch et al., 2000) and proteome (Breker et al., 2013; Chong et al., 2015).

      -Re: "As might be expected, we also found that mutable hubs, but not non-hubs, are more likely to participate in multiple protein complexes than less mutable proteins." (pg 6) This is a cool result. To what extent was this result driven by members of one or two complexes? If so, it would worth noting them.

      We thank the reviewer for this question. We have now included Figue S13, which shows the number and size of protein complexes that underlie the finding that mutable hubs are more likely to participate in multiple protein complexes. We find that proteins in our screen that participate in multiple complexes are distributed over a wide range of complexes, indicating that this observation is not driven by one or two complexes. On page 6, line 34:

      As might be expected, we also found that mutable hubs, but not non-hubs, are more likely to participate in multiple protein complexes than less mutable proteins (Figures S13A-C) (Costanzo et al., 2016).

      -Re: "Borrowing a species richness estimator from ecology (Jari Oksanen et al., 2019), we estimate that there are ~10,840 true interactions within our search space across all environments, ~3-fold more than are detected in SD (note difference to Figure 3, which counts observed PPIs)." (pg 8) Should note that this only allows estimation of the number of interactions that are detectable by PCA methods. Previous work (Braun et al, 2019) showed that every known protein interaction assay (including PCA approaches) can only detect a fraction of bona fide interactions.

      We agree with the reviewer and have modified the discussion to make this point explicit on page 9, line 4:

      Results presented here and elsewhere (Huttlin et al., 2020) suggest that PPIs discovered under a single condition or cell type are a small subset of the full protein interactome emergent from a genome. We sampled nine diverse environments and found approximately 3-fold more interactions than in a single environment. However, the discovery of new PPIs began to saturate, indicating that most condition-specific PPIs can be captured in a limited number of conditions. Testing in many more conditions and with PPI assays orthogonal to PPiSeq will undoubtedly identify new PPIs, however a more important outcome could be the identification of coordinated network changes across conditions.

      We continue in this paragraph to discuss the implications:

      Using a test set of ~1.6 million (of ~18 million) protein pairs across nine environments, we find that specific parts of the protein interactome are relatively stable (core modules) while others frequently change across environments (accessory modules). However, two important caveats of our study must be recognized before extrapolating these results to the entire protein interactome across all environment space. First, we tested for interactions between a biased set of proteins that have previously been found to participate in at least one PPI as measured by mDHFR-PCA under standard growth conditions (Tarassov et al., 2008). Thus, proteins that are not expressed under standard growth conditions are excluded from our study, as are PPIs that are not detectable by mDHFR-PCA or PPiSeq. It is possible that a comprehensive screen using multiple orthogonal PPI assays would alter our observations related to the relative dynamics of different regions of the protein interactome and the features of mutable and immutable PPIs.

      -Re: "This analysis shows that the number of PPIs present across all environments is much larger than the number observed in a single condition, but that it is feasible to discover most of these new PPIs by sampling a limited number of conditions." (pg 8). The main point is surely correct, but it is worth noting that extrapolation to the number of true interactions depends on the nine chosen environments being representative of all environments. The situation could change under more extreme, e.g., anaerobic, conditions.

      We agree with the reviewer and make this point explicit, continuing from the paragraph quoted above on page 9, line 22:

      Second, we tested a limited number of environmental perturbations under similar growth conditions (batch liquid growth). It is possible that more extreme environmental shifts (e.g. growth as a colony, anaerobic growth, pseudohyphal growth) would introduce new accessory modules or alter the mutability of the PPIs we detect. Nevertheless, results presented here provide a new mechanistic view of how the cell changes in response to environmental challenges, building on the previous work that describes coordinated responses in the transcriptome (Brauer et al., 2007; Gasch et al., 2000) and proteome (Breker et al., 2013; Chong et al., 2015).

      -It stands to reason that proteins expressed in all conditions will yield less mutable interactions, if 'mutability' is primarily due to expression change at the transcriptional level. They should at least discuss that measuring mRNA levels could resolve questions about this. Could use Waern et al G3 2013 data (H202, SD, HU, NaCl) to predict the dynamic interactome purely by node removal, and see how conclusions would change

      We agree with the reviewer that mRNA abundance could potentially be used as a proxy for protein abundance and have added this point on page 10, line 28:

      Here we use homodimer abundance as a proxy for protein abundance. However, genome-wide mRNA abundance measures could be used as a proxy for protein abundance or protein abundance could be measured directly in the same pool (Levy et al., 2014) by, for example, attaching a full length mDHFR to each gene using “swap tag” libraries mentioned above (Weill et al., 2018; Yofe et al., 2016).

      However, using mRNA abundance as a proxy for protein abundance in this study has several important caveats that would make interpretation difficult. First, mRNA and protein abundance correlate, but not perfectly (R2 = 0.45) (Lahtvee et al., 2017), and our findings suggest that post-translational regulation may be important to driving PPI changes. Second, mRNA abundance measures are for a single time point, while our PPI measures coarse grain over a growth cycle (lag, exponential growth, diauxic shift, saturation). Although we may be able to take multiple mRNA measures across the cycle, time delays between changes in mRNA and protein levels, combined with the fact that we do not know when a PPI is occurring or most prominent over the cycle, would pose a significant challenge to making any claims that PPI changes are driven by changes in protein abundance. We instead chose to focus on a subset of proteins (homodimers) where abundance measures can be coarse grained in the same way as PPI measures. In the above quote, we point to a potential method by which this can be done for all proteins. We also point to how a continuous culturing design could be used to better determine how protein (or mRNA proxy) abundance impacts PPI abundance on page 10, line 6:

      Finally, our assays were performed across cycles of batch growth meaning that changes in PPI abundance across a growth cycle (e.g. lag, exponential growth, saturation) are coarse grained into one measurement. While this method potentially increases our chance of discovering a diverse set of PPIs, it might have an unpredictable impact on the relationship between fitness and PPI abundance (Li et al., 2018). To overcome these issues, strains containing natural or synthetic PPIs with known abundances and intracellular localizations could be spiked into cell pools to calibrate the relationship between fitness and PPI abundance in each environment. In addition, continuous culturing systems may be useful for refining precision of growth-based assays such as ours.

      -The analysis showing that many interactions are likely due to post-translational modifications is very interesting, but caveats should be discussed. Where heterodimers do not fit the expression-level dependence model, some cases of non-fitting may simply be due to measurement error or non-linearity in the relationship between abundance and fitness.

      We show the measurement error in Figures 1, S2, S3. While we agree with the reviewer that measurement error is a general caveat for all results reported, we do not feel that it is necessary to point to that fact in this particular case, which uses a logistic regression to report that PPI mutability was the best predictor of fit to the expression-level dependence model. We discuss the non-linearity caveat on page 9, line 41:

      Our assay detected subtle fitness differences across environments (Fig S5B and S5C), which we used as a rough estimate for changes in relative PPI abundance. While it would be tempting to use fitness as a direct readout of absolute PPI abundance within a cell, non-linearities between fitness and PPI abundance may be common and PPI dependent. For example, the relative contribution of a reconstructed mDHFR molecule to fitness might diminish at high PPI abundances (saturation effects) and fitness differences between PPIs may be caused, in part, by differences in how accessible a reconstructed mDHFR molecule is to substrate. In addition, environmental shifts might impact cell growth rate, initiate a stress response, or result in other unpredictable cell effects that impact the selective pressure of methotrexate and thereby fitness (Figure S2 and S3).

      -Line numbers would have been helpful to note more specific minor comments

      We are sorry for this inconvenience. We have added line numbers in our revised manuscript.

      -Sequence data should be shared via the Short-Read Archive.

      The raw sequencing data have been uploaded to the Short-Read Archive. We mentioned it in the Data and Software Availability section on page 68, line 41.

      Raw barcode sequencing data are available from the NIH Sequence Read Archive as accession PRJNA630095 (https://trace.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/study/?acc=SRP259652).

      Reviewer #3 (Significance (Required)):

      Knowledge of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) provides a key window on biological mechanism, and unbiased screens have informed global principles underlying cellular organization. Several genome-scale screens for direct (binary) interactions between yeast proteins have been carried out, and while each has provided a wealth of new hypotheses, each has been sub-saturation. Therefore, even given multiple genome-scale screens our knowledge of yeast interactions remains incomplete. Different assays are better suited to find different interactions, and it is now clear that every assay evaluated thus far is only capable (even in a saturated screen) of detecting a minority of true interactions. More relevant to the current study, no binary interaction screen has been carried out at the scale of millions of protein pairs outside of a single 'baseline' condition.

      The study by Liu et al is notable from a technology perspective in that it is one of several recombinant-barcode approaches have been developed to multiplex pairwise combinations of two barcoded libraries. Although other methods have been demonstrated at the scale of 1M protein pairs, this is the first study using such a technology at the scale of >1M pairs across multiple environments.

      A limitation is that this study is not genome-scale, and the search space is biased towards proteins for which interactions were previously observed in a particular environment. This is perhaps understandable, as it made the study more tractable, but this does add caveats to many of the conclusions drawn. These would be acceptable if clearly described and discussed. There were also questions about data quality and assessment that would need to be addressed.

      Assuming issues can be addressed, this is a timely study on an important topic, and will be of broad interest given the importance of protein interactions and the status of S. cerevisiae as a key testbed for systems biology.

      *Reviewers' expertise:* Interaction assays, next-generation sequencing, computational genomics. Less able to assess evolutionary biology aspects.

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      Evidence, reproducibility and clarity

      Report on Liu et al. "A large accessory protein interactome is rewired across environments" Liu et al. use a mDHFR-based, pooled barcode sequencing / competitive growth / mild methotrexate selection method to investigate changes of PPI abundance of 1.6 million protein pairs across different 9 growth conditions. Because most PPI screens aim to identify novel PPIs in standard growth conditions, the currently known yeast PPI network may be incomplete. The key concept is to define immutable" PPIs that are found in all conditions and "mutable" PPIs that are present in only some conditions. The assay identified 13764 PPIs across the 9 conditions, using optimized fitness cut offs. Steady PPI i.e. across all environments, were identified in membrane compartments and cell division. Processes associated with the chromosome, transcription, protein translation, RNA processing and ribosome regulation were found to change between conditions. Mutable PPIs are form modules as topological analyses reveals.

      Interestingly, a correlation on intrinsic disorder and PPI mutability was found and postulated as more flexible in the conformational context, while at the same time they are formed by less abundant proteins.

      I appreciate the trick to use homodimerization as an abundance proxy to predict interaction between heterodimers (of proteins that homodimerize). This "mass-action kinetics model" explains the strength of 230 out of 1212 tested heterodimers.

      A validation experiment of the glucose transporter network was performed and 90 "randomly chosen" PPIs that were present in the SD environment were tested in NaCl (osmotic stress) and Raffinose (low glucose) conditions through recording optical density growth trajectories. Hxt5 PPIs stayed similar in the tested conditions, supported by the current knowledge that Hxt5 is highly expressed in stationary phase and under salt stress. In Raffinose, Hxt7, previously reported to increase the mRNA expression, lost most PPIs indicating that other factors might influence Hxt7 PPIs.

      Points for consideration:

      *) A clear definition of mutable and immutable is missing, or could not be found e.g. at page 4 second paragraph.

      *) Approximately half of the PPIs have been identified in one environment. Many of those mutable PPIs were detected in the 16{degree sign}C condition. Is there an explanation for the predominance of this specific environment? What are these PPIs about?

      *) 50 % overall retest validation rate is fair and reflects a value comparable to other large-scale approaches. However what is the actual variation, e.g. between mutable PPIs and immutable or between condition. e.g. at 16{degree sign}C.

      *) What is the R correlation cutoff for PPIs explained in the mass equilibrium model vs. not explained?

      *) 90 "randomly chosen" PPIs for validation. It needs to be demonstrated that these interaction are a random subset otherwise is could also mean cherry picked interactions ...

      *) Figure 4 provides interesting correlations with the goal to reveal properties of mutable and less mutable PPIs. PPIs detected in the PPIseq screen can partially be correlated to co-expression (4A) as well as co-localization. Does it make sense to correlate the co-expression across number of conditions? Are the expression correlation condition specific. In this graph it could be that expression correlation stems from condition 1 and 2 and the interaction takes place in 4 and 5 still leading to the same conclusion ... Is the picture of the co-expression correlation similar when you simply look at individual environments like in S4A?

      *) Figure 4C: Interesting, how dependent are the various categories?

      *) Figure 4 F: When binned in the number of environments in which the PPI was found, the distribution peaks at 6 environments and decreases with higher and lower number of environments. The description /explanation in the text clearly says something else.

      *) Figure 6: I apologize, but for my taste this is not a final figure 6 for this study. Investigation of different environments increases the PPI network in yeast, yes, yet it is very well known that a saturation is reached after testing of several conditions, different methods and even screening repetition (sampling). It does not represent an important outcome. Move to suppl or remove.

      Significance

      Liu et al. increase the current PPI network in yeast and offer a substantial dataset of novel PPIs seen in specific environments only. This resource can be used to further investigate the biological meaning of the PPI changes. The data set is compared to previous DHFR providing some sort of quality benchmarking. Mutable interactions are characterized well. Clearly a next step could be to start some "orthogonal" validation, i.e. beyond yeast growth under methotrexate treatment.

    1. the voices from the periphery

      What if, like me, they are voices considered to be in the center, assumed to be full of while privilege, not on the margins and not wanting to imagine much less create alternative, new worlds? I would argue that as an adjunct, someone over 65, and a farmer at the end of a half-mile hollar, that I am mos def on someone's damned margins. And who's to say otherwise.

      John Seely Brown even talks about how the margins of open education create their own margins:

      Open source communities have developed a well-established path by which newcomers can “learn the ropes” and become trusted members of the community through a process of legitimate peripheral participation. New members typically begin participating in an open source community by working on relatively simple, noncritical development projects such as building or improving software drivers (e.g., print drivers). As they demonstrate their ability to make useful contributions and to work in the distinctive style and sensibilities/taste of that community, they are invited to take on more central projects. Those who become the most proficient may be asked to join the inner circle of people working on the critical kernel code of the system. Today, there are about one million people engaged in developing and refining open source products, and nearly all are improving their skills by participating in and contributing to these networked communities of practice.

      (Seely Brown, John, and R. P. Adler. “Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0.” Educause Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2008, pp. 16–20.)

    1. We extend the canonical epidemiology model to study the interaction between economic decisions and epidemics. Our model implies that people’s decision to cut back on consumption and work reduces the severity of the epidemic, as measured by total deaths. These decisions exacerbate the size of the recession caused by the epidemic. The competitive equilibrium is not socially optimal because infected people do not fully internalize the effect of their economic decisions on the spread of the virus. In our benchmark model, the best simple containment policy increases the severity of the recession but saves roughly half a million lives in the U.S.
    1. Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal burden of wildfire in the US. We estimate that nearly 50 million homes are currently in the wildland-urban interface in the US, a number increasing by 1 million houses every 3 years. Using a statistical model that links satellite-based fire and smoke data to pollution monitoring stations, we estimate that wildfires have accounted for up to 25% of PM2.5 in recent years across the US, and up to half in some Western regions. We then show that ambient exposure to smoke-based PM2.5 does not follow traditional socioeconomic exposure gradients. Finally, using stylized scenarios, we show that fuels management interventions have large but uncertain impacts on health outcomes, and that future health impacts from climate-change-induced wildfire smoke could approach projected overall increases in temperature-related mortality from climate change. We draw lessons for research and policy.
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    1. And if we continue producing plastic at current rates, the amount could outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Research also shows that more than 800 coastal and marine species are directly affected by plastic waste through entanglement, ingestion, or damage to their habitats. Studies show that 90% of seabirds, and 52% of all turtles on the planet have consumed plastic. Additionally, a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals die annually because of plastic waste.

      studies show the amount of marine life such 90 percent of seabirds and 52 percent of sea turtles, and imagine by the time 2050 hits it would've not only killed more marine life, but nearly half of the fish in the sea would've outweighed the half of the fish in the sea

    2. China’s Yangtze is the biggest source, contributing 1.5 million metric tonnes each year. That’s mainly because several countries outsourced their plastic waste management to China. Until January 2018, when it banned the trade, China imported almost half of the world’s plastic trash

      no wonder they decided to not take other countries trash anymore

    1. dates Education City, an area devoted to research and education. The city was host to the first ministerial-level meeting of the Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization negotiations. It was also selected as host city of a number of sporting events, including the 2006 Asian Games, the 2011 Pan Arab Games and most of the games at the 2011 AFC Asian Cup. In December 2011, the World Petroleum Council held the 20th World Petroleum Conference in Doha.[4] Additionally, the city hosted the 2012 UNFCCC Climate Negotiations and is set to host many of the venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[5] The city has also hosted the 140th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly in April 2019. Contents 1 Etymology 2 History 2.1 Establishment of Al Bidda 2.2 Formation of Doha 2.3 Arrival of Al Thani 2.4 20th century 2.4.1 Lorimer report (1908) 2.4.2 British protectorate (1916–1971) 2.5 Post-independence 3 Geography 3.1 Climate 4 Demographics 4.1 Ethnicity and languages 4.2 Religion 5 Administration 5.1 Districts 6 Economy 7 Infrastructure 7.1 Architecture 7.2 Atmosphere 7.3 Planned communities 8 Transportation 8.1 Roads 8.2 Rail 8.3 Air 9 Education 10 Sports 10.1 Football 10.2 Basketball 10.3 Volleyball 10.4 Other sports 10.5 Stadiums and sport complexes 11 Culture 11.1 Arts 11.2 Cinema 11.3 Media 11.4 Theatre 12 International relations 13 Gallery 14 See also 15 References 16 External links Etymology[edit] According to the Ministry of Municipality and Environment, the name "Doha" originated from the Arabic term dohat, meaning "roundness"—a reference to the rounded bays surrounding the area's coastline.[6] History[edit] See also: Timeline of Doha and Al Bidda A satellite view of Doha on the East coast of Qatar. As with most world cities, Doha developed on the water front around the Souq Waqif area today. It gradually spread out in a radial pattern with the use of ring roads. Establishment of Al Bidda[edit] The city of Doha was formed seceding from another local settlement known as Al Bidda. The earliest documented mention of Al Bidda was made in 1681, by the Carmelite Convent, in an account which chronicles several settlements in Qatar. In the record, the ruler and a fort in the confines of Al Bidda are alluded to.[7][8] Carsten Niebuhr, a German explorer who visited the Arabian Peninsula, created one of the first maps to depict the settlement in 1765 in which he labelled it as 'Guttur'.[7][9] David Seaton, a British political resident in Muscat, wrote the first English record of Al Bidda in 1801. He refers to the town as 'Bedih' and describes the geography and defensive structures in the area.[10] He stated that the town had recently been settled by the Sudan tribe (singular Al-Suwaidi), whom he considered to be pirates. Seaton attempted to bombard the town with his warship, but returned to Muscat upon finding that the waters were too shallow to position his warship within striking distance.[11][12] In 1820, British surveyor R. H. Colebrook, who visited Al Bidda, remarked on the recent depopulation of the town. He wrote:[11][13] .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}Guttur – Or Ul Budee [Al‐Bidda], once a considerable town, is protected by two square Ghurries [forts] near the sea shore; but containing no fresh water they are incapable of defence except against sudden incursions of Bedouins, another Ghurry is situated two miles inland and has fresh water with it. This could contain two hundred men. There are remaining at Ul Budee about 250 men, but the original inhabitants, who may be expected to return from Bahrein, will augment them to 900 or 1,000 men, and if the Doasir tribe, who frequent the place as divers, again settle in it, from 600 to 800 men. The same year, an agreement known as the General Maritime Treaty was signed between the East India Company and the sheikhs of several Persian Gulf settlements (some of which were later known as the Trucial Coast). It acknowledged British authority in the Persian Gulf and sought to end piracy and the slave trade. Bahrain became a party to the treaty, and it was assumed that Qatar, perceived as a dependency of Bahrain by the British, was also a party to it.[14] Qatar, however, was not asked to fly the prescribed Trucial flag.[15] As punishment for alleged piracy committed by the inhabitants of Al Bidda and breach of treaty, an East India Company vessel bombarded the town in 1821. They razed the town, forcing between 300 and 400 natives to flee and temporarily take shelter on the islands between the Qatar and the Trucial Coast.[16] Formation of Doha[edit] Doha was founded in the vicinity of Al Bidda sometime during the 1820s.[17] In January 1823, political resident John MacLeod visited Al Bidda to meet with the ruler and initial founder of Doha, Buhur bin Jubrun, who was also the chief of the Al-Buainain tribe.[17][18] MacLeod noted that Al Bidda was the only substantial trading port in the peninsula during this time. Following the founding of Doha, written records often conflated Al Bidda and Doha due to the extremely close proximity of the two settlements.[17] Later that year, Lt. Guy and Lt. Brucks mapped and wrote a description of the two settlements. Despite being mapped as two separate entities, they were referred to under the collective name of Al Bidda in the written description.[19][20] Al Bidda: View from the bay, 1823 In 1828, Mohammed bin Khamis, a prominent member of the Al-Buainain tribe and successor of Buhur bin Jubrun as chief of Al Bidda, was embroiled in controversy. He had murdered a native of Bahrain, prompting the Al Khalifa sheikh to imprison him. In response, the Al-Buainain tribe revolted, provoking the Al Khalifa to destroy the tribe's fort and evict them to Fuwayrit and Ar Ru'ays. This incident allowed the Al Khalifa additional jurisdiction over the town.[21][22] With essentially no effective ruler, Al Bidda and Doha became a sanctuary for pirates and outlaws.[23] ‘Trigonometrical plan of the harbour of El Biddah on the Arabian side of the Persian Gulf’, 1823 In November 1839, an outlaw from Abu Dhabi named Ghuleta took refuge in Al Bidda, evoking a harsh response from the British. A. H. Nott, a British naval commander, demanded that Salemin bin Nasir Al-Suwaidi, chief of the Sudan tribe (Suwaidi) in Al Bidda, take Ghuleta into custody and warned him of consequences in the case of non-compliance. Al-Suwaidi obliged the British request in February 1840 and also arrested the pirate Jasim bin Jabir and his associates. Despite the compliance, the British demanded a fine of 300 German krones in compensation for the damages incurred by pirates off the coast of Al Bidda; namely for the piracies committed by bin Jabir. In February 1841, British naval squadrons arrived in Al Bidda and ordered Al-Suwaidi to meet the British demand, threatening consequences if he declined. Al-Suwaidi ultimately declined on the basis that he was uninvolved in bin Jabir's actions. On 26 February, the British fired on Al Bidda, striking a fort and several houses. Al-Suwaidi then paid the fine in full following threats of further action by the British.[23][24] Isa bin Tarif, a powerful tribal chief from the Al Bin Ali tribe, moved to Doha in May 1843. He subsequently evicted the ruling Sudan tribe and installed the Al-Maadeed and Al-Kuwari tribes in positions of power.[25] Bin Tarif had been loyal to the Al Khalifa, however, shortly after the swearing in of a new ruler in Bahrain, bin Tarif grew increasingly suspicious of the ruling Al Khalifa and switched his allegiance to the deposed ruler of Bahrain, Abdullah bin Khalifa, whom he had previously assisted in deposing of. Bin Tarif died in the Battle of Fuwayrit against the ruling family of Bahrain in 1847.[25] Arrival of Al Thani[edit] The Al Thani migrated to Doha from Fuwayrit shortly after Bin Tarif's death in 1847 under the leadership of Mohammed bin Thani.[26][27] In the proceeding years, the Al Thani assumed control of the town. At various times, they swapped allegiances between the two prevailing powers in the area: the Al Khalifa and the Saudis.[26] Plan of Al Bidda Harbour drawn in 1860 indicating the principal settlements and landmarks In 1867, many ships and troops were sent from Bahrain to assault the towns Al Wakrah and Doha over a series of disputes. Abu Dhabi joined on Bahrain's behalf due to the conception that Al Wakrah served as a refuge for fugitives from Oman. Later that year, the combined forces sacked the two Qatari towns with around 2,700 men in what would come to be known as the Qatari–Bahraini War.[28][29] A British record later stated "that the towns of Doha and Wakrah were, at the end of 1867 temporarily blotted out of existence, the houses being dismantled and the inhabitants deported".[30] The joint Bahraini-Abu Dhabi incursion and subsequent Qatari counterattack prompted the British political agent, Colonel Lewis Pelly, to impose a settlement in 1868. Pelly's mission to Bahrain and Qatar and the peace treaty that resulted were milestones in Qatar's history. It implicitly recognized Qatar as a distinct entity independent from Bahrain and explicitly acknowledged the position of Mohammed bin Thani as an important representative of the peninsula's tribes.[31] A part of Doha as seen in January 1904. Most development was low-rise and use of locally available natural materials like rammed earth and palm fronds was common practice. In December 1871, the Ottomans established a presence in the country with 100 of their troops occupying the Musallam fort in Doha. This was accepted by Mohammad bin Thani's son, Jassim Al Thani, who wished to protect Doha from Saudi incursions.[32] The Ottoman commander, Major Ömer Bey, compiled a report on Al Bidda in January 1872, stating that it was an "administrative centre" with around 1,000 houses and 4,000 inhabitants.[33] Disagreement over tribute and interference in internal affairs arose, eventually leading to the Battle of Al Wajbah in March 1893. Al Bidda fort served as the final point of retreat for Ottoman troops. While they were garrisoned in the fort, their corvette fired indiscriminately at the townspeople, killing a number of civilians.[34] The Ottomans eventually surrendered after Jassim Al Thani's troops cut off the town's water supply.[35] An Ottoman report compiled the same year reported that Al Bidda and Doha had a combined population of 6,000 inhabitants, jointly referring to both towns by the name of 'Katar'. Doha was classified as the eastern section of Katar.[33][36] The Ottomans held a passive role in Qatar's politics from the 1890s onward until fully relinquishing control during the beginning of the first World War.[14] 20th century[edit] The city's coastline in 1904 largely highlights the local community which was based on fishing and pearl diving. Pearling had come to play a pivotal commercial role in Doha by the 20th century. The population increased to around 12,000 inhabitants in the first half of the 20th century due to the flourishing pearl trade.[37] A British political resident noted that should the supply of pearls drop, Qatar would 'practically cease to exist'.[38] In 1907, the city accommodated 350 pearling boats with a combined crew size of 6,300 men. By this time, the average prices of pearls had more than doubled since 1877.[39] The pearl market collapsed that year, forcing Jassim Al Thani to sell the country's pearl harvest at half its value. The aftermath of the collapse resulted in the establishment of the country's first custom house in Doha.[38] Lorimer report (1908)[edit] British administrator and historian J. G. Lorimer authored an extensive handbook for British agents in the Persian Gulf entitled Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf in 1908. In it, he gives a comprehensive account of Doha at the time: "Dohah looking northwest", photographed by the Royal Air Force during a reconnaissance of the Qatar Peninsula on 9 May 1934 Generally so styled at the present day, but Bedouins sometimes call it Dohat-al-Qatar; and it seems to have been formerly better known as Bida' (Anglice "Bidder"): it is the chief town of Qatar and is situated on the eastern side of that peninsula, about 63 miles south of its extremity at Ras Rakan and 45 miles north of Khor-al Odaid Harbour. Dohah stands on the south side of a deep bay at the south-western corner of a natural harbour which is about 3 miles in extent and is protected on the north-east and south-east sides by natural reefs. The entrance, less than a mile wide, is from the east between the points of the reefs; it is shallow and somewhat difficult, and vessels of more than 15 feet draught cannot pass. The soundings within the basin vary from 3 to 5 fathoms and are regular: the bottom is white mud or clay. Town site and quarters, — The south-eastern point of the bay is quite low but the land on the western side is stony desert 40 or 50 feet above the level of the sea. The town is built up the slope of some rising ground between these two extremes and consists of 9 Fanqs or quarters, which are given below in their order from the east to the west and north: the total frontage of the place upon the sea is nearly 2 miles.[40] An old district in Doha planned with narrow streets and rough plastered walls gives a glimpe of the city's past. Lorimer goes on to list and describe the districts of Doha, which at the time included the still-existing districts of Al Mirqab, As Salatah, Al Bidda and Rumeilah.[41] Remarking on Doha's appearance, he states: The general appearance of Dohah is unattractive; the lanes are narrow and irregular the houses dingy and small. There are no date palms or other trees, and the only garden is a small one near the fort, kept up by the Turkish garrison.[42] As for Doha's population, Lorimer asserts that "the inhabitants of Dohah are estimated to amount, inclusive of the Turkish military garrison of 350 men, to about 12,000 souls". He qualified this statement with a tabulated overview of the various tribes and ethnic groups living in the town.[42] British protectorate (1916–1971)[edit] In April 1913, the Ottomans agreed to a British request that they withdraw all their troops from Qatar. Ottoman presence in the peninsula ceased, when in August 1915, the Ottoman fort in Al Bidda was evacuated shortly after the start of World War I.[43] One year later, Qatar agreed to be a British protectorate with Doha as its official capital.[44][45] Camels next to Al Koot Fort, built in 1927 by Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani. Buildings at the time were simple dwellings of one or two rooms, built from mud, stone and coral. Oil concessions in the 1920s and 1930s, and subsequent oil drilling in 1939, heralded the beginning of slow economic and social progress in the country. However, revenues were somewhat diminished due to the devaluation of pearl trade in the Persian Gulf brought on by introduction of the cultured pearl and the Great Depression.[46] The collapse of the pearl trade caused a significant population drop throughout the entire country.[37] It was not until the 1950s and 1960s that the country saw significant monetary returns from oil drilling.[14] A view of Doha in the 1980s showing the Sheraton Hotel (pyramid-like building in the background) in West Bay without any of the high-rises around it Qatar was not long in exploiting the new-found wealth from oil concessions, and slum areas were quickly razed to be replaced by more modern buildings. The first formal boys' school was established in Doha in 1952, followed three years later by the establishment of a girls' school.[47] Historically, Doha had been a commercial port of local significance. However, the shallow water of the bay prevented bigger ships from entering the port until the 1970s, when its deep-water port was completed. Further changes followed with extensive land reclamation, which led to the development of the crescent-shaped bay.[48] From the 1950s to 1970s, the population of Doha grew from around 14,000 inhabitants to over 83,000, with foreign immigrants constituting about two-thirds of the overall population.[49] Post-independence[edit] The Pearl-Qatar at night The Pearl-Qatar is an artificial island spanning nearly four square kilometers. Qatar Petroleum tower, Palm tower B, Tornado tower, Doha tower and Al Jassimya tower seen (Left to Right) in the West Bay area in 2015 Qatar officially declared its independence in 1971, with Doha as its capital city.[3] In 1973, the University of Qatar was opened by emiri decree,[50] and in 1975 the Qatar National Museum opened in what was originally the ruler's palace.[51] During the 1970s, all old neighborhoods in Doha were razed and the inhabitants moved to new suburban developments, such as Al Rayyan, Madinat Khalifa and Al Gharafa. The metropolitan area's population grew from 89,000 in the 1970s to over 434,000 in 1997. Additionally, land policies resulted in the total land area increasing to over 7,100 hectares (about 17,000 acres) by 1995, an increase from 130 hectares in the middle of the 20th century.[52] In 1983, a hotel and conference center was developed at the north end of the Corniche. The 15-storey Sheraton hotel structure in this center would serve as the tallest structure in Doha until the 1990s.[52] In 1993, the Qatar Open became the first major sports event to be hosted in the city.[53] Two years later, Qatar stepped in to host the FIFA World Youth Championship, with all the matches being played in Doha-based stadiums.[54] Developments in Doha's West Bay district have seen an increase in the population density of the area with the construction of several high-rises. A view of a water feature in Sheraton Park with the West Bay skyline in the background. The Al Jazeera Arabic news channel began broadcasting from Doha in 1996.[55] In the late 1990s, the government planned the construction of Education City, a 2,500 hectare Doha-based complex mainly for educational institutes.[56] Since the start of the 21st century, Doha attained significant media attention due to the hosting of several global events and the inauguration of a number of architectural mega-projects.[57] One of the largest projects launched by the government was The Pearl-Qatar, an artificial island off the coast of West Bay, which launched its first district in 2004.[58] In 2006, Doha was selected to host the Asian Games, leading to the development of a 250-hectare sporting complex known as Aspire Zone.[53] During this time, new cultural attractions were constructed in the city, with older ones being restored. In 2006, the government launched a restoration program to preserve Souq Waqif's architectural and historical identity. Parts constructed after the 1950s were demolished whereas older structures were refurbished. The restoration was completed in 2008.[59] Katara Cultural Village was opened in the city in 2010 and has hosted the Doha Tribeca Film Festival since then.[60] The main outcome of the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 2013 was the Trade Facilitation Agreement. The agreement aims to make it easier and cheaper to import and export by improving customs procedures and making rules more transparent. Reducing global trade costs by 1% would increase world-wide income more than USD 40 billion, 65% of which would go to developing countries. The gains from the Trade Facilitation Agreement are expected to be distributed among all countries and regions, with developing landlocked countries benefitting the most.[61] The Trade Facilitation Agreement will enter into force upon its ratification by 2/3 of WTO Members. The EU ratified the agreement in October 2015.[61] In Bali, WTO members also agreed on a series of Doha agriculture and development issues.[61] Geography[edit] See also: Geography of Qatar A view of Doha from the International Space Station in 2010 highlights the rapid development the city underwent since the discovery of oil in the 1960s. Doha is located on the central-east portion of Qatar, bordered by the Persian Gulf on its coast. Its elevation is 10 m (33 ft).[62] Doha is highly urbanized. Land reclamation off the coast has added 400 hectares of land and 30 km of coastline.[63] Half of the 22 km² of surface area which Hamad International Airport was constructed on was reclaimed land.[64] The geology of Doha is primarily composed of weathered unconformity on the top of the Eocene period Dammam Formation, forming dolomitic limestone.[65] The Pearl is a purpose-built artificial island off the coast of Doha, connected to the mainland by a bridge. The Pearl is an artificial island in Doha with a surface area of nearly 400 ha (1,000 acres)[66] The total project has been estimated to cost $15 billion upon completion.[67] Other islands off Doha's coast include Palm Tree Island, Shrao's Island, Al Safliya Island, and Alia Island.[68] In a 2010 survey of Doha's coastal waters conducted by the Qatar Statistics Authority, it was found that its maximum depth was 7.5 meters (25 ft) and minimum depth was 2 meters (6 ft 7 in). Furthermore, the waters had an average pH of 7.83, a salinity of 49.0 psu, an average temperature of 22.7 °C and 5.5 mg/L of dissolved oxygen.[69] Climate[edit] Doha has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh) with long, extremely hot summers and short, warm winters. The average high temperatures between May and September surpass 38 °C (100 °F) and often approach 45 °C (113 °F). Humidity is usually the lowest in May and June. Dewpoints can surpass 30 °C (86 °F) in the summer. Throughout the summer, the city averages almost no precipitation, and less than 20 mm (0.79 in) during other months.[70] Rainfall is scarce, at a total of 75 mm (2.95 in) per year, falling on isolated days mostly between October to March. The winter's days are relativity warm while the sun is up and cool during the night. The temperature rarely drops below 7 °C (45 °F).[71] hideClimate data for Doha (1962–2013, extremes 1962–2013) Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year Record high °C (°F) 32.4(90.3) 36.5(97.7) 39.0(102.2) 46.0(114.8) 47.7(117.9) 49.1(120.4) 50.4(122.7) 48.6(119.5) 46.2(115.2) 43.4(110.1) 38.0(100.4) 32.7(90.9) 50.4(122.7) Average high °C (°F) 22.0(71.6) 23.4(74.1) 27.3(81.1) 32.5(90.5) 38.8(101.8) 41.6(106.9) 41.9(107.4) 40.9(105.6) 38.9(102.0) 35.4(95.7) 29.6(85.3) 24.4(75.9) 33.1(91.5) Daily mean °C (°F) 17.8(64.0) 18.9(66.0) 22.3(72.1) 27.1(80.8) 32.5(90.5) 35.1(95.2) 36.1(97.0) 35.5(95.9) 33.3(91.9) 30.0(86.0) 25.0(77.0) 20.0(68.0) 27.8(82.0) Average low °C (°F) 13.5(56.3) 14.4(57.9) 17.3(63.1) 21.4(70.5) 26.1(79.0) 28.5(83.3) 30.2(86.4) 30.0(86.0) 27.7(81.9) 24.6(76.3) 20.4(68.7) 15.6(60.1) 22.5(72.5) Record low °C (°F) 3.8(38.8) 5.0(41.0) 8.2(46.8) 10.5(50.9) 15.2(59.4) 21.0(69.8) 23.5(74.3) 22.4(72.3) 20.3(68.5) 16.6(61.9) 11.8(53.2) 6.4(43.5) 3.8(38.8) Average precipitation mm (inches) 13.2(0.52) 17.1(0.67) 16.1(0.63) 8.7(0.34) 3.6(0.14) 0.0(0.0) 0.0(0.0) 0.0(0.0) 0.0(0.0) 1.1(0.04) 3.3(0.13) 12.1(0.48) 75.2(2.95) Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 1.7 2.1 1.8 1.4 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 1.3 8.8 Average relative humidity (%) 74 70 63 53 44 41 50 58 62 63 66 74 60 Mean monthly sunshine hours 244.9 224.0 241.8 273.0 325.5 342.0 325.5 328.6 306.0 303.8 276.0 241.8 3,432.9 Mean daily sunshine hours 7.9 8.0 7.8 9.1 10.5 11.4 10.5 10.6 10.2 9.8 9.2 7.8 9.4 Source 1: NOAA[71] Source 2: Qatar Meteorological Department (Climate Normals 1962–2013)[72] Doha mean sea temperature[73] Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 20.5 °C (68.9 °F) 19.1 °C (66.4 °F) 20.9 °C (69.6 °F) 23.7 °C (74.7 °F) 28.2 °C (82.8 °F) 30.9 °C (87.6 °F) 32.8 °C (91.0 °F) 33.9 °C (93.0 °F) 33.1 °C (91.6 °F) 31.0 °C (87.8 °F) 27.4 °C (81.3 °F) 23.1 °C (73.6 °F) Demographics[edit] See also: Demographics of Qatar Historical populationYearPop.±%1820[11]250—    1893[33]6,000+2300.0%1970[74]80,000+1233.3%1986[3] 217,294+171.6%1998[75] 264,009+21.5%2001[76] 299,300+13.4%2004[3] 339,847+13.5%2005[77][78] 400,051+17.7%2010[79] 796,947+99.2%2015[2] 956,457+20.0% Total population of the Doha metropolitan area[80] Year Metro population 1997 434,000[52] 2004 644,000[81] 2008 998,651[82] A significant portion of Qatar's population resides within the confines of Doha and its metropolitan area.[83] The district with the highest population density is the central area of Al Najada, which also accommodates the highest total population in the country. The population density across the greater Doha region ranges from 20,000 people per km² to 25 people per km².[84] Doha witnessed explosive growth rates in population in the first decade of the 21st century, absorbing the majority of the thousands of people then immigrating to Qatar every month.[85]:6 Doha's population currently stands at around one million, with the population of the city more than doubling from 2000 to 2010.[2] Ethnicity and languages[edit] The population of Doha is overwhelmingly composed of expatriates, with Qatari nationals forming a minority. The largest portion of expatriates in Qatar are from South-East and South Asian countries, mainly India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Philippines, and Bangladesh with large numbers of expatriates also coming from the Levant Arab countries, North Africa, and East Asia. Doha is also home to many expatriates from Europe, North America, South Africa and Australia.[86] A typical bilingual traffic sign in Doha denotes the zone numbers, street names and street numbers of two perpendicular streets. Arabic is the official language of Qatar. English is commonly used as a second language,[87] and a rising lingua franca, especially in commerce.[88] As there is a large expatriate population in Doha, languages such as Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, Tagalog, Spanish, Sinhala, French, Urdu and Hindi are widely spoken.[86] Registered live births in Doha by nationality[80][89] Year Qatari Non-Qatari Total 2001 2,080 3,619 5,699 2002 1,875 3,657 5,532 2003 2,172 4,027 6,199 2004 2,054 3,760 5,814 2005 1,767 3,899 5,666 2006 1,908 4,116 6,024 2007 1,913 4,708 6,621 2008 1,850 5,283 7,133 2009 2,141 5,979 8,120 2010[90] 1,671 5,919 7,590 2011[91] 1,859 6,580 8,439 In 2004, the Foreign Ownership of Real Estate Law was passed, permitting non-Qatari citizens to buy land in designated areas of Doha, including the West Bay Lagoon, the Qatar Pearl, and the new Lusail City.[57] Prior to this, expatriates were prohibited from owning land in Qatar. Ownership by foreigners in Qatar entitles them to a renewable residency permit, which allows them to live and work in Qatar.[83] Religion[edit] Main article: Religion in Qatar The majority of residents in Doha are Muslim.[92] Catholics account for over 90% of the 150,000 Christian population in Doha.[93] Following decrees by the Emir for the allocation of land to churches, the first Catholic church, Our Lady of the Rosary, was opened in Doha in March 2008. The church structure is discreet and Christian symbols are not displayed on the outside of the building.[94] Several other churches exist in Doha, including the [1] St.Isaac and St. George Greek Orthodox Church of Qatar the Syro-Malabar Church, Malankara Orthodox Church, Mar Thoma Church (affiliated with the Anglicans, but not part of the Communion), CSI Church, Syro-Malankara Church and a Pentecostal church. A majority of mosques are either Muwahhid or Sunni-oriented.[95] Administration[edit] Districts[edit] Main article: List of communities in Doha At the turn of the 20th century, Doha was divided into 9 main districts.[96] In the 2010 census, there were more than 60 districts recorded in Doha Municipality.[97] Some of the districts of Doha include: Qatar's Central Bank is situated in the Al Souq district, close to the waterfront. Al Bidda (البدع) Al Dafna (الدفنة) Al Ghanim (الغانم) Al Markhiya (المرخية) Al Sadd (السد) Al Waab (الوعب) Bin Mahmoud (فريج بن محمود) Madinat Khalifa (مدينة خليفة) Musheireb (مشيرب) Najma (نجمه) Old Airport (المطار القديم) Qutaifiya (القطيفية) Ras Abu Aboud (راس أبو عبود) Rumeilah (الرميلة) Umm Ghuwailina (ام غو يلينه) West Bay (الخليج الغربي) Shortly after Qatar gained independence, many of the districts of old Doha including Al Najada, Al Asmakh and Old Al Hitmi faced gradual decline and as a result much of their historical architecture has been demolished.[98] Instead, the government shifted their focus toward the Doha Bay area, which housed districts such as Al Dafna and West Bay.[98] Economy[edit] See also: Economy of Qatar West Bay serves as the commercial district of Doha and houses offices of many local and global companies. Doha is the economic centre of Qatar. The city is the headquarters of numerous domestic and international organizations, including the country's largest oil and gas companies, Qatar Petroleum, Qatargas and RasGas. Doha's economy is built primarily on the revenue the country has made from its oil and natural gas industries.[99] Doha was included in Fortune's 15 best new cities for business in 2011.[100] Beginning in the late 20th century, the government launched numerous initiatives to diversify the country's economy in order to decrease its dependence on oil and gas resources. Doha International Airport was constructed in a bid to solidify the city's diversification into the tourism industry.[99] This was replaced by Hamad International Airport in 2014. The new airport is almost twice the size of the former and features two of the longest runways in the world.[101] Thirty-nine new hotels were under construction in the city in 2011.[102] Qatar Airways aircraft on the apron of Hamad International Airport As a result of Doha's rapid population boom and increased housing demands, real estate prices rose significantly through 2014.[103] Real estate prices experienced a further spike after Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[104] Al Asmakh, a Qatari real estate firm, released a report in 2014 which revealed substantial increases in real estate prices following a peak in 2008. Prices increased 5 to 10% in the first quarter of 2014 from the end of 2013.[103][105] A 2015 study conducted by Numbeo, a crowd-sourced database, named Doha as the 10th most expensive city to live in globally.[106] This rate of growth led to the development of planned communities in and around the city.[107] Although the fall in oil prices since 2014 and a diplomatic crisis with Qatar's neighbors slowed growth in the city's population, government spending was increased to maintain the growth in real estate in metropolitan Doha.[108] Expatriate workers remitted $60bn between 2006 and 2012, with 54 percent of the workers' remittances of $60bn routed to Asian countries, followed by Arab nations that accounted for nearly half that volume (28 percent). India was the top destination of the remittances, followed by the Philippines, while the US, Egypt and the neighbouring UAE followed.[109] Remittances in 2014 totaled $11.2 billion, amounting to 5.3% of Qatar's GDP.[110]:45 Infrastructure[edit] See also: List of tallest buildings in Qatar Architecture[edit] Museum of Islamic Art park in the Doha Port area with the West Bay district in the background (across the bay) Most traditional architecture in the Old Doha districts have been demolished to make space for new buildings.[98] As a result, a number of schemes have been taken to preserve the city's cultural and architectural heritage, such as the Qatar Museums Authority's 'Al Turath al Hai' ('living heritage') initiative.[111] Katara Cultural Village is a small village in Doha launched by sheikh Tamim Al Thani to preserve the cultural identity of the country.[112] Doha's Al Dafna area with the high-rises seen on the water front and the villa compounds and other residential areas seen in the background In 2011, more than 50 towers were under construction in Doha,[102] the largest of which was the Doha Convention Center Tower.[113] Constructions were suspended in 2012 following concerns that the tower would impede flight traffic.[114] In 2014, Abdullah Al Attiyah, a senior government official, announced that Qatar would be spending $65bn on new infrastructure projects in upcoming years in preparation for the 2022 World Cup as well as progressing towards its objectives set out in the Qatar National Vision 2030.[115] Atmosphere[edit] Due to excessive heat from the sun during the summer, some Doha-based building companies have implemented various forms of cooling technology to alleviate the extremely torrid climatic conditions. This can include creating optical phenomena such as shadows, as well as more expensive techniques like ventilation, coolants, refrigerants, cryogenics, and dehumidifiers.[116] Discussions regarding temperature control have also been features of various scheduled events involving large crowds.[117] There are other initiatives that attempt to counter the heat by altering working hours, weather alteration methods such as cloud seeding,[118][119] and using whiter and brighter construction materials to increase the albedo effects.[120] Nonetheless, despite these measures, Doha and other areas of Qatar could become uninhabitable for humans due to climate change by the 2070s.[121] Planned communities[edit] One of the largest projects underway in Qatar is Lusail City, a planned community north of Doha which is estimated to be completed by 2020 at a cost of approximately $45bn. It is designed to accommodate 450,000 people.[122] Al Waab City, another planned community under development, is estimated to cost QR15 bn.[123] In addition to housing 8,000 individuals, it will also have shopping malls, educational, and medical facilities.[123] Transportation[edit] Main article: Transportation in Doha Since 2004, Doha has been undergoing a huge expansion to its transportation network, including the addition of new highways, the opening of a new airport in 2014, and the currently ongoing construction of an 85 km metro system. This has all been as a result of Doha's massive growth in a short period of time, which has resulted in congestion on its roads. The first phase of the metro system is expected to be operational by 2019.[124] Roads[edit] Dukhan Highway connects the city of Dukhan on the West coast of the country with the country's capital, Doha. In 2015, the Public Works Authority declared their plan to construct a free-flowing road directly linking Al-Wakrah and Mesaieed to Doha in order to decrease traffic congestion in the city. It is set for completion by 2018.[125] Commutes between Doha and the municipality of Al Khor are currently facilitated by Al Shamal Road and Al Khor Coastal Road, with the latter road running through Al Daayen and the former running through Umm Salal.[126] Doha is linked to the country's western settlements, namely Dukhan, through Dukhan Highway. The Public Works Authority carried out the Dukhan Highway Central Project in 2017 to enhance the road network.[127] Rail[edit] Doha Metro will consist of four lines: the Red Line, the Gold Line, the Blue Line and the Green Line. The Blue Line is expected to be completed in the second phase.[128] Msheireb Station will be the point of intersection for all of the metro lines.[124] Doha International Airport The Red Line (also known as Coast Line) will extend through Doha, running from Al Wakrah to Al Khor. It is separated into two divisions: Red Line North and Red Line South. The former will run from Mushayrib Station to Al Khor City, over a length of 55.7 km. Doha Metro's Green Line will connect Doha to Education City and is also known as the Education Line. Starting in Old Airport, the Gold Line (also known as Historic Line) will end in Al Rayyan and cover a distance of 30.6 km. Lastly, the Blue Line, or City Line, will only cover the city of Doha, and is planned to be circular with a length of 17.5 km.[129] Air[edit] Doha is served by Hamad International Airport which is Qatar's principal international gateway. The airport opened in 2014, replacing Doha International Airport. Education[edit] See also: Education in Qatar, Education City, and List of schools in Qatar Stone steps at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, located in Education City Doha is the educational center of the country and contains the highest preponderance of schools and colleges.[74] In 1952, the first formal boys' school was opened in Doha. This was proceeded by the opening of the first formal girls' school three years later.[130] The first university in the state, Qatar University, was opened in 1973.[131] It provided separate faculties for men and women.[132] Education City, a 14 km2 education complex launched by non-profit organization Qatar Foundation, began construction in 2000.[133] It houses eight universities, the country's top high school, and offices for Al Jazeera's children television channel.[133] It is geographically located in Al Rayyan municipality's Al Luqta, Al Gharrafa, Gharrafat Al Rayyan and Al Shagub districts, but falls under the umbrella of Metropolitan Doha.[6] In 2009, the government launched the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a global forum that brings together education stakeholders, opinion leaders and decision makers from all over the world to discuss educational issues.[134] The first edition was held in Doha in November 2009.[135] Some of the universities in Doha include: Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar Hamad Bin Khalifa University Cornell University[136] HEC Paris Northwestern University in Qatar Texas A&M University at Qatar UCL Qatar[137] Virginia Commonwealth University Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar Stenden University Qatar College of the North Atlantic Qatar University Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies University of Calgary Sports[edit] Main article: Sport in Qatar Football[edit] Al Sadd is the most successful team in the Qatar Stars League See also: List of football stadiums in Qatar Football is the most popular sport in Doha. There are six Doha-based sports clubs with football teams currently competing in the Qatar Stars League, the country's top football league. They are Al Ahli, Al Arabi, Al Sadd, Al-Duhail and Qatar SC.[138] Al Sadd, Al Arabi and Qatar SC are the three most successful teams in the league's history.[139] Numerous football tournaments have been hosted in Doha. The most prestigious tournaments include the 1988 and 2011 editions of the AFC Asian Cup[140] and the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship.[54] In December 2010, Qatar won the rights to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[141] Three of the nine newly announced stadiums will be constructed in Doha, including Sports City Stadium, Doha Port Stadium, and Qatar University Stadium. Additionally, the Khalifa International Stadium is set to undergo an expansion.[142] Considering the country's rapid development for 2022 World Cup, FIFA awarded the hosting rights of 2019 FIFA Club World Cup and 2020 FIFA Club World Cup also to Qatar.[143] Basketball[edit] Doha was the host of the official 2005 FIBA Asia Championship, where Qatar's national basketball team finished 3rd, its best performance to date, and subsequently qualified for the Basketball World Cup.[144] The majority of the teams that make up the official Qatari Basketball League are based in Doha. Volleyball[edit] Doha four times was the host of the official FIVB Volleyball Men's Club World Championship and three times host FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship. Doha one time Host Asian Volleyball Championship.[145] Other sports[edit] Orry the Oryx, mascot of the 15th Asian Games, on the Doha Corniche in 2014 In 2001, Qatar became the first country in the Middle East to hold a women's tennis tournament with the inauguration of its Qatar Ladies Open tournament.[146] Doha also hosts International Tennis Federation (ITF) ladies tournaments. Since 2008, the Sony Ericsson Championships (equivalent to the ATP's season-ending Championships) has taken place in Doha, in the Khalifa International Tennis Complex, and features record prize money of $4.45 million, including a check of $1,485,000 for the winner, which represents the largest single guaranteed payout in women's tennis.[147] Doha hosted the 15th Asian Games, held in December 2006, spending a total of $2.8 billion for its preparation.[148] The city also hosted the 3rd West Asian Games in December 2005.[149] Doha was expected to host the 2011 Asian Indoor Games; but the Qatar Olympic Committee cancelled the event.[150] Powerboat races in Doha Bay The city submitted a bid for the 2016 Olympics.[151] On June 4, 2008, the city was eliminated from the shortlist for the 2016 Olympic Games. On August 26, 2011 it was confirmed that Doha would bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[152] Doha however failed to become a Candidate City for the 2020 Games.[153] The MotoGP motorcycling grand prix of Doha is held annually at Losail International Circuit, located just outside the city boundaries.[154] The city is also the location of the Grand Prix of Qatar for the F1 Powerboat World Championship, annually hosting a round in Doha Bay.[155] Beginning in November 2009, Doha has been host of The Oryx Cup World Championship, a hydroplane boat race in the H1 Unlimited season. The races take place in Doha Bay.[156] In April 2012 Doha was awarded both the 2014 FINA World Swimming Championships[157] and the 2012 World Squash Championships.[158] The fourth World Mindsports Championships took place in Doha from August 19 to August 27, 2017 with the participation of more than 1,000 competitors.[159] In 2014, Qatar was selected as the host of the 2019 World Athletics Championships, which is the seventeenth edition of the IAAF World Athletics Championships.[160] Doha won the bid to host the event over Barcelona and Eugene.[161] In 2020, Doha hosted the Qatar ExxonMobil Open, which received the Tournament of the Year award in the 250 category from the 2019 ATP Awards. The tournament won the award for the third time in five years.[162] Stadiums and sport complexes[edit] An indoor stadium in the Aspire Zone sporting complex Aspire Academy was launched in 2004 with the aim of creating world-class athletes. It is situated in the Doha Sports City Complex, which also accommodates the Khalifa International Stadium, the Hamad Aquatic Centre, the Aspire Tower and the Aspire Dome. The latter has hosted more than 50 sporting events since its inception, including some events during the 2006 Asian Games.[163] Sporting venues in Doha and its suburbs include: Hamad bin Khalifa Stadium – Al-Ahli Stadium Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium (Al Sadd Stadium) Al-Arabi Stadium – Grand Hamad Stadium Hamad Aquatic Centre Khalifa International Stadium – Main venue for the 2006 Asian Games. Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex Qatar Sports Club Stadium Culture[edit] Main article: Culture of Qatar Doha was chosen as the Arab Capital of Culture in 2010.[164] Cultural weeks organized by the Ministry of Culture, which featured both Arab and non-Arab cultures, were held in Doha from April to June to celebrate the city's selection.[165] Arts[edit] Main article: Qatari art Further information: Public art in Qatar and Collecting practices of the Al-Thani Family The five-storeyed Museum of Islamic Art designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect I. M. Pei[166] The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, opened in 2008, is regarded as one of the best museums in the region.[167] This, and several other Qatari museums located in the city, like the Arab Museum of Modern Art, falls under the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) which is led by Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the sister of the emir of Qatar.[168] The National Museum of Qatar, which was constructed in place of the original Qatar National Museum, opened to the public on 28 March 2019. Cinema[edit] Main article: Cinema of Qatar The Doha Film Institute (DFI) is an organisation established in 2010 to oversee film initiatives and create a sustainable film industry in Qatar. DFI was founded by H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.[169] The Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), partnered with the American-based Tribeca Film Festival, was held annually in Doha from 2009 to 2012.[170] Media[edit] Main article: Media of Qatar See also: Television in Qatar Al Jazeera Arabic Building Qatar's first radio station, Mosque Radio, began broadcasting in the 1960s from Doha.[171] The multinational media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network is based in Doha with its wide variety of channels of which Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, Al Jazeera Mubasher, beIN Sports Arabia and other operations are based in the TV Roundabout in the city.[172] Al-Kass Sports Channel's headquarters is also located in Doha.[173] Theatre[edit] Main article: Theatre in Qatar Theatre was introduced to Qatar in the mid-20th century. Theatrical performances are held at Qatar National Theater and at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha. International relations[edit] Algeirs, Algeria (since 2013)[174] Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (since 2018)[175] Brasília, Brazil (since 2014)[176] Sofia, Bulgaria (since 2012)[177] Beijing, China (since 2008)[178] Alameda, California (since 2004)[179] San Salvador, El Salvador (since 2018)[180] Banjul, Gambia (since 2011)[181] Tbilisi, Georgia (since 2012)[182] Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan (since 2011)[183] Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (since 2018)[184] Port Louis, Mauritius (since 2007)[185] Mogadishu, Somalia (since 2014)[186] Tunis, Tunisia (since 1994)[187] Ankara, Turkey (since 2016)[188] Los Angeles, California, United States (since 2016)[189] Miami, Florida, United States (since 2016)[190] Libertador, Venezuela (since 2015)[191] Beit Sahour, Palestine (since 2009)[192] Gallery[edit] Click on the thumbnail to enlarge. Skyline of Doha West Bay from Sheraton Park. The spring festival at Souq Waqif, Doha An old mosque minaret stands out in front of the under-construction National Archive building in the Diwan Amiri Quarter of the Musheireb downtown Doha development. Qatar's Amir (ruler) is housed in the Amiri Diwan located in the historic Al Bidda district. These twin towers are among the earliest towers in Doha and serve as a great example of post-modern architecture. Msheireb Enrichment Centre moored off Doha Corniche is a learning center focused on the history and developments of Doha, particularly the Musheirib district. Aspire Park, Al Waab is one of the city's green spaces that forms a part of the Aspire zone. Doha skyline from the Museum of Islamic Art. Doha skyline at night. Doha Corniche is the 7 km long water front that connects the new district of West Bay with the old district of Al-Bidda and Al-Souq on the other end. Aerial view of a part of the city. The Katara cultural village is designed to be a hub of human interaction connecting theatre, literature, music, visual art, conventions and exhibitions in a planned development on the waterfront.[193] The post office building in Qatar sits located on the main Corniche street. See also[edit] Doha Declaration Doha Development Round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks Qatar National Day which is held in Doha every year on December 18 References[edit] ^ "Doha municipality accounts for 40% of Qatar population". Gulf Times. 20 October 2015. 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    1. As coronavirus cases soar in the US, Brazil and other countries in the Americas, some countries have found strategies to contain the virus and limit deaths. More than 5 million confirmed cases of covid-19 and nearly 250,000 related deaths have been reported in the Americas as of 29 June, around half of the world total. The coronavirus is spreading exponentially in many countries, warned Carissa Etienne, the director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on 9 June. But in a few places, the picture is very different. Cuba, an island of 11.3 million people is an unlikely exemplar of how to manage a pandemic, according to Michael Bustamante at Florida International University. Its infamously long queues for state-provided goods make social distancing and self-isolation difficult, he says, and the country’s healthcare system, “suffers from scarcities and material shortages that are characteristic of the Cuban economy as a whole”.
  30. Jun 2020
    1. two U-Pb radiometric dates

      To determine the age of some of the rocks in their study area, the authors used uranium-lead dating. It is most often used to date volcanic and metamorphic rock and very old rocks. This technique involves the radioactive decay of U-238 and U-235 into lead (Pb). The 238 and 235 refer to the sum of the number of protons (92) and neutrons in the nucleus of each of these forms of radioactive uranium. The half-life, which is how long it takes half of a sample of the U-238 to undergo radioactive decomposition and become Pb-206, is 4.47 billion years. The time it takes for half of a sample of U-235 to decay into Pb-207 is 704 million years. Since the two different forms of uranium have different half-lives and decompose into different forms of lead, they are a good check when calculating the age of a rock or fossil. This dating technique is best used on rocks that are from 1 million to 4.5 billion years old.

    1. Months into the pandemic, Vermont’s governor says the state is “the envy of the nation,” with little more than 1,100 confirmed covid-19 infections and 56 deaths. Perhaps most remarkable is that Vermont has been relatively spared the effects of the disease even though a huge swath of the nation’s cases are mere hours from its borders; neighboring New York and Massachusetts have approximately half a million confirmed cases between them, and more than 37,000 deaths.
    1. 3.3 million students who were eligible for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), less than half applied.

      I had no idea college students could apply for this program.

    1. Menke et al. used SciScore (https://www.sciscore.com/), a software tool that automatically scores a research paper on a ten point scale, to analyze 1.6 million PubMed Central papers [141,142]. They also used a Rigor and Transparency Index, which is the average score of analyzed papers in a particular journal. They found that fewer than half of the analyzed research papers address rigor and reproducibility criteria. Furthermore, perhaps surprisingly, their Rigor and Transparency Index did not correlate with the impact factors of journals. In summary, reproducing DL related research takes a sizeable amount of resources, if it is possible at all based on the information given in that research article, and the way baselines are chosen is questionable. We present our approach to address and resolve these issues in the next section, specifically in Section 3.2.
    1. Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday. Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets discussing the virus since January and found that about 45% were sent by accounts that behave more like computerized robots than humans. It is too early to say conclusively which individuals or groups are behind the bot accounts, but researchers said the tweets appeared aimed at sowing division in America.
    1. Unreliable animal testing 90% of drugs fail in human trials despite promising results in animal tests – whether on safety grounds or because they do not work Cancer drugs have the lowest success rate (only 5% are approved after entering clinical trials) followed by psychiatry drugs (6% success rate), heart drugs (7% success rate) and neurology drugs (8% success rate). Using dogs, rats, mice and rabbits to test whether or not a drug will be safe for humans provides little statistically useful insight, our recent analysis found. The study also revealed that drug tests on monkeys are just as poor as those using any other species in predicting the effects on humans. Out of 93 dangerous drug side effects, only 19% could have been predicted by animal tests, a recent study found Using mice and rats to test the safety of drugs in humans is only accurate 43% of the time, a recent study found Out of 48 cancer drugs approved by the European Medicines Agency from 2009 to 2013 to treat 68 types of cancer, almost half showed no survival benefits according to a recent study. Even in cases where benefits were seen, the difference was judged to be ‘clinically insignificant’. Wasteful animal testing Despite the use of over 115 million animals in experiments globally each year,  only 59 new medicines were approved in 2018 by the leading drug regulator, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Many of these are for rare diseases. The US drug industry invests $50 billion per year in research, but the approval rate of new drugs is the same as it was 50 years ago.Only 6% of 4,300 international companies involved in drug development have registered a new drug with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since 1950. Even those drugs that are approved are not universally effective due to individual reactions - the top ten highest-grossing drugs in the USA only help between 1 in 4 and 1 in 25 people who take them Of over 1,000 potential stroke treatments that had been ‘successful’ in animal tests, only approximately 10% progressed to human trials.  None worked sufficiently well in humans. A review of 101 high impact basic science discoveries based on animal experiments found that only 5% resulted in approved treatments within 20 years. Dangerous animal testing Vioxx, a drug used to treat arthritis, was found to be safe when tested in monkeys (and five other animal species) but has been estimated to have caused around 320,000 heart attacks and strokes and 140,000 deaths worldwide.   Human volunteers testing a new monoclonal antibody treatment (TGN1412) at Northwick Park Hospital, UK in 2006 suffered a severe allergic reaction and nearly died. Testing on monkeys at 500 times the dose given to the volunteers totally failed to predict the dangerous side effects. A recent drug trial in France resulted in the death of one volunteer and left four others severely brain damaged in 2016. The drug, which was intended to treat a wide range of conditions including anxiety and Parkinson’s disease, was tested in four different species of animals (mice, rats, dogs and monkeys) before being given to humans. A clinical trial of Hepatitis B drug fialuridine had to be stopped because it caused severe liver damage in seven patients, five of whom died.  It had been tested on animals first. Only one third of substances known to cause cancer in humans have been shown to cause cancer in animals. Animals are different Animals do not get many of the diseases we do, such as Parkinson’s disease, major types of heart disease, many types of cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, HIV or schizophrenia. An analysis of over 100 mouse cell types found that only 50% of the DNA responsible for regulating genes in mice could be matched with human DNA. The most commonly used species of monkey to test drug safety (Cynomolgous macaque monkeys), are resistant to doses of paracetamol (acetaminophen) that would be deadly in humans. Due to the many important differences between monkeys and humans in brain structure and function, data collected from monkeys used in neuroscience research are misleading and of poor relevance to people, our recent analysis found. Chocolate, grapes, raisins, avocados and macadamia nuts are harmless in people but toxic to dogs. Aspirin is toxic to many animals, including cats, mice and rats and would not be on our pharmacy shelves if it had been tested according to current animal testing standards. 

      More possible facts

  31. May 2020
    1. If cows were a country, they would be the third-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world.

      The linked to page is talking about all emissions involving agriculture for cows including deforestation not just methane emissions from cows. The linked to page also says

      She’s done the math. If Earth’s biggest beef eaters limited their consumption to the equivalent of 1.5 hamburgers per week (about half of what the average person in the United States currently eats), the planet could support a population of 10 billion people without having to turn any more forests into farmland. This shift would avoid about 5.5 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year — the equivalent of emissions from two Indias.

      Also

      On top of that, if people adopted more sustainable ranching practices and turned another million square miles of land into forest, they could offset all emissions from the food that is grown. This would make the agriculture industry carbon neutral, according to Richard Waite, a colleague of Ranganathan’s at WRI.

      There are myriad ways to achieve this. Industrial farms can make cows more climate-friendly by changing their diets; research in California suggests that adding a small amount of seaweed to a cow’s feed can reduce its methane production by half. Food companies can start to offer products like “blended burgers,” which mix other ingredients with beef to make the food more sustainable. Governments could eliminate subsidies for meat and dairy producers and support farmers transitioning to more sustainable crops.

    1. The hedge-fund billionaire Kenneth Griffin paid $238 million last year for a New York apartment overlooking Central Park. He plans to stay there when he happens to be in town. Meanwhile, 10.9 million American families barely can afford an apartment. They spend more than half of their incomes on rent, and so they scrimp on food and health care. And on any given night, half a million Americans are homeless.AdvertisementContinue reading the main storyFor those at the bottom, moreover, the chances of rising are in decline. By the time they reached 30, more than 90 percent of Americans born in 1940 were earning more than their parents had earned at the same age. But among those born in 1980, only half were earning more than their parents by the age of 30.The erosion of the American dream is not a result of laziness or a talent drought. Rather, opportunity has slipped away. The economic ladder is harder to climb; real incomes have stagnated for decades even as the costs of housing, education and health care have increased. Many lower-income Americans are born into polluted, impoverished neighborhoods, with no decent jobs to be found.

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    1. Some workers have gained new rights and raises, including almost half a million Kroger grocery store workers, while 15 state attorneys-general told Amazon to expand its paid sick leave. These specifics make clear how possible it is to change the financial arrangements of all our societies.

      The adjustment and change of the system is an indispensable link to deal with the disaster

  32. Apr 2020
    1. We extend the canonical epidemiology model to study the interaction between economic decisionsand epidemics. Our model implies that people’s decision to cut back on consumption and work reducesthe severity of the epidemic, as measured by total deaths. These decisions exacerbate the size of therecession caused by the epidemic. The competitive equilibrium is not socially optimal because infectedpeople do not fully internalize the effect of their economic decisions on the spread of the virus. Inour benchmark model, the best simple containment policy increases the severity of the recession butsaves roughly half a million lives in the U.S.
    1. Within days, even before Washington’s governor, Jay Inslee, issued official work-from-home orders, almost half of Seattle’s workers were voluntarily staying away from their offices. When bars and restaurants were officially closed, on March 15th, many of them were already empty.

      The nature of Seattle's economy allows more people to work from home than other cities. I seriously worry about restaurants around the country, especially since they indirectly support so much of our economy. Believe there are 14 million jobs provided by the industry, but if you consider farmers and food processors and trucking services and delivery services...

    1. Women, who should be the queens of households, wander in the streets or they slave away in factories. For the sake of a pittance, half a million women in England alone are labouring under trying circumstances in factories or similar institutions. This awful fact is one of the causes of the daily growingsuffragette movement.

      I find this to be very surprising, for a man at this time period to fight against the roles f women in civilization is very awing. He is able to distinguish the chains brought to by civilization to not only men but to women as well. He is establishing the idea that civilization is just a method to show off riches, not to show off what they really believe in... which makes it a toxic environment

    2. Women, who should be the queens of households, wander in the streets or they slave away in factories. For the sake of a pittance, half a million women in England alone are labouring under trying circumstances in factories or similar institutions. This awful fact is one of the causes of the daily growingsuffragette movement.

      Gandhi is making a claim to what he believes a woman's role is in a 'civilized' society. This shows how the definition of 'civilized' can vary between cultures, societies, etc. Like Marcus said, this is backwards in accordance with our customs, but Gandhi believes that women play an integral role in the household. What creates these societal norms is something that researchers have been trying to figure out for years, and one of the most asked questions about humans.

    3. Women, who should be the queens of households, wander in the streets or they slave away in factories. For the sake of a pittance, half a million women in England alone are labouring under trying circumstances in factories or similar institutions. This awful fact is one of the causes of the daily growingsuffragette movement.

      It is interesting to see Gandhi saying things like this, it appears that he support the traditional values of women staying at the household and not being given political rights. For us, we consider this to be backwards, old, or uncivilized, but to Gandhi he believes that it is these developing customs of female independence and political involvement that is a fault of western civilization. It is interesting to see how environments and upbringing has an impact on ones interpretation of civilization and proper customs.

    1. Social distancing interventions can be effective against epidemics but are potentially detrimental for the economy. Businesses that rely heavily on face-to-face communication or close physical proximity when producing a product or providing a service are particularly vulnerable. There is, however, no systematic evidence about the role of human interactions across different lines of business and about which will be the most limited by social distancing. Here we provide theory-based measures of the reliance of U.S. businesses on human interaction, detailed by industry and geographic location. We find that 49 million workers work in occupations that rely heavily on face-to-face communication or require close physical proximity to other workers. Our model suggests that when businesses are forced to reduce worker contacts by half, they need a 12 percent wage subsidy to compensate for the disruption in communication. Retail, hotels and restaurants, arts and entertainment and schools are the most affected sectors. Our results can help target fiscal assistance to businesses that are most disrupted by social distancing.
    1. COVID-19 does not affect everyone equally. In the US, it is exposing inequities in the health system. Aaron van Dorn, Rebecca E Cooney, and Miriam L Sabin report from New York.In the US, New York City has so far borne the brunt of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with the highest reported number of cases and the highest death toll in the country. The first COVID-19 case in the city was reported on March 1, but community transmission was firmly established on March 7. As of April 14, New York State has tested nearly half a million people, among whom 195 031 have tested positive. In New York City alone, 106 763 people have tested positive and 7349 have died.
    1. An amazing read/insight into how Ping An, the world's #1 insurer is using big data to reduce costs (>$750M/y) and save customers time (62% of claims handled automatically)

      In 2017, Ping An, China’s second-largest insurer and its biggest non-state-owned company by revenue, rolled out a “Superfast Onsite Investigation” system—enabling policyholders to submit claims by simply opening a smartphone app and answering a few questions. But the app’s niftiest feature offers the option to not even wait for an inspector. Instead, customers can snap photos of a damaged vehicle and send them to a Ping An computer, which can respond with a repair estimate in three minutes or less. If the customer accepts the estimate, then wancheng! (“Done!”) Ping An can transfer funds immediately. Last year, Ping An’s customers used this feature to settle 7.3 million claims, or 62% of the total. The service saves the company more than $750 million each year by reducing bogus claims and human error. But its simplicity belies the extraordinary sophistication of the artificial intelligence and data-processing operations that make it possible. To generate accurate estimates, Ping An matches photos of vehicle damage against a database of 25 million parts used in the 60,000 different auto makes and models sold in China. The system assesses whether those parts can be repaired or must be replaced, then calculates the cost of parts and labor in more than 140,000 garages. Ping An integrates all that information with face-, voice- and image-recognition tech and a complex matrix of anti-fraud rules. Ping An chief scientist Xiao Jing says it took a team of A.I. experts, data scientists, and insurance managers three years to design, develop, and integrate the new service. It is, he exults, “the only one of its kind in the world.”

      These products and services have a vital feature in common: They match online data, generated by China’s digitally native consumer masses, with a vast storehouse of “offline” data and insight amassed over three decades in the insurance business.

      Ping An’s leadership foresees the day when the company’s technology businesses contribute as much as half of its earnings, up from only 6% today, and compete head-to-head with pure technology plays like Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings.

      Ping An earmarks 1% of revenue for investments in innovation. Over the past 10 years, the group has plowed more than $7 billion into research and development, and Ma has vowed to invest $15 billion more in the decade to come. That endowment has nurtured 11 technology affiliates, of which two—Good Doctor and Auto­home, a platform for car buyers—are publicly traded and three are privately held “unicorns” with multibillion-dollar valuations For now, only two of those five are profitable. Even so, the combined value of the group’s tech ventures tops $70 billion. (See the “Star Pupils” sidebar.)

      Schulte estimates that the BAT (China’s troika of Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent) processes at least 10 times as much data every day as Ping An has acquired in its entire existence. But Ping An executives argue that quality matters more than quantity. The data its businesses collect is richer than that gleaned by the BAT, they claim, because it involves big-ticket transactions relating to health, wealth, and property—among the most meaningful decisions in customers’ lives.

    1. Over 90 million civilians, roughly half of the population, lives in extreme poverty and even more experience chronic poverty

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  33. Mar 2020
    1. Quarterly Journal of Speech Vol. 95, No. 1, February 2009, pp. 43􏰀65 Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Alienization, Fence Logic, and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps D. Robert DeChaine

      Current figurations of the ‘‘immigration problem’’ in the United States challenge our understanding of the rhetoricity of contemporary bordering practices. The public discourse of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps serves to chart the alienization of undocumented migrants and the enactment of alien abjection on the U.S.􏰀Mexico border. Alienization promises an antidote to majoritarian anxieties regarding national disunity in the form of a shoring-up of cultural boundaries that border-crossing subjects render troublesome. Ultimately, the fence logic engendered by groups such as the Minutemen reveals how struggles over the boundaries of citizenship both enable and limit an affect-charged civic imaginary.

      Keywords: Borders; Alienization; Minuteman Civil Defense Corps; Citizenship; Social Imaginaries

      The specter of the border haunts the language of social relations. At present, some 12 million undocumented migrants reside temporarily or permanently in the United States.1 Many of them entered the country across the border with Mexico, a frontier spanning nearly 2,000 miles from the Californian Baja through Texas and to Tamaulipas. These border-crossing individuals, the majority of whom venture to the United States in search of work and enhanced economic opportunities, are not recognized by the U.S. government as citizens, defined in legal terms as native or naturalized rights bearers. Nor, for the most part, are they considered legitimate in the broader sense of what Charles Taylor terms ‘‘recognition’’*that is, they are not viewed as valued and respected members of the national community.2 Indeed, upon D. Robert DeChaine is Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles. An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2007 National Communication Association convention in Chicago. The author would like to thank Editor John Louis Lucaites, Mike Willard, Michelle Ladd, Scott Rodriguez, and two anonymous reviewers, each of whom made decisive contributions to the quality of the essay. Correspondence to: Department of Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032-8111, USA. Email: ddechai@calstatela.edu ISSN 0033-5630 (print)/ISSN 1479-5779 (online) # 2009 National Communication Association DOI: 10.1080/00335630802621078

      44 D. R. DeChaine close examination, the cultural politics of recognition reveals a telling link between state legitimacy and public morality. As Kent Ono and John Sloop note in their analysis of the role of media rhetoric in the passage of California’s Proposition 187 in the 1990s, [T]he contemporary citizenship narrative casts immigration in moral terms: Those who abide by U.S. laws and procedures for how to become U.S. citizens are cast as good and moral citizens; those who do anything but systematically follow expectations of U.S. government officials and their supporters are seen as bad and immoral ‘‘illegals.’’3 The transgressive act of unauthorized border crossing thus produces a double exclusion: it renders migrant persons both legally and morally abject. Given the subordinate status of undocumented migrants in the United States today, what is particularly interesting regarding the ‘‘immigration problem,’’ as it is typically invoked in public discussion, is that it is not framed predominantly in terms of the migrants themselves. After all, the United States is a nation composed of immigrants, so the oft-repeated narrative goes, and its promise as a land of opportunity for hard-working, law-abiding citizens continues to be exalted as among its preeminent gifts. Rather, the problem is most often cast in terms of a lack of border integrity: its leakiness; the ease with which undocumented migrants are able to slip across it unnoticed; and the inability or unwillingness by the U.S. and Mexican governments to seal, secure, and protect the national frontier and its stark line of demarcation. Notwithstanding the nativism and xenophobia that have historically shaped and continue to shape popular attitudes toward undocumented migrants in the United States, the problem of immigration, it seems, lies not with the migrant, but with the border.4 The prevalent characterization of the immigration problem as primarily a concern about the border gestures toward a number of longstanding assumptions regarding what a border is and how it functions. According to the traditional geography-based logic, a border exists as a given entity whose contours can be cleanly and clearly recognized, measured, and mapped.5 A border’s givenness and mappability implies its stability as a resource for delineating spatial territory. Despite its tenacity, the traditional border logic has increasingly been subjected to critique. This scrutiny is owing in part to the emergence and development of postmodern theories of the social character of space beginning in the 1960s, and to a subsequent proliferation of spatial metaphors endemic to human social life in a globalized world.6 Against the traditional view of borders as given and stable entities, the countervailing claim is that whatever form they may assume, all borders are socially motivated constructs.7 They are bounding, ordering apparatuses, whose primary function is to designate, produce, and/or regulate the space of difference. Thus conceived, borders simulta- neously shore up insides and mark off outsides while establishing the terms of their relationality. They perform both division and containment functions, differentiating the self from others, one culture from another, desirable elements from undesirable ones, and, often enough, ‘‘us’’ from ‘‘them.’’ Moreover, according to the revisionist

      account, a border’s contingent configuration is often masked by certain political and economic discourses that labor diligently, sometimes feverishly, to maintain the semblance of stability, integrity, and reality. Recent scholarship in communication studies, chiefly in the area of immigration discourse, has begun to attend to the subject of borders and their cultural significance. A majority of this work aligns with critical scholarship that ascribes a truth function to the border, focusing on its constructedness and on the ambivalent identities of border(ed) subjects.8 Thus considered, a border operates as an inducement to action, deployed by agents in specific contexts to warrant claims to both unity and division.9 Circulating as a robust spatial metaphor, the figure of the border functions as a prevalent organizing doxa in a group’s collective vocabulary. Such assumptions, theorizations, and criticism regarding the constitution and function of the border beckon a considera- tion of two interrelated questions, each of which holds epistemological and ontological significance. What kinds of operations are at play in the construction of borders? And once entwined in the cultural fabric of a political community, how do constructed borders shape human values, attitudes, and actions? The aim here is to focus on the rhetoricity of contemporary bordering practices by charting the ‘‘alienization’’ of undocumented migrants in the United States, and to explicate the operations by which alienizing discourse is enacted on and around the U.S.􏰀Mexico border.10 Alienization, I contend, is a bordering project that draws force from a variety of common linguistic and nonlinguistic resources to render individuals and groups abject and unassimilable*irredeemable others whose putative exclusion from the national body is virtually absolute. Alienization materializes as a reactionary rhetoric goaded by a profound anxiety of incompleteness, an anxiety akin to what Arjun Appadurai refers to as a ‘‘fear of small numbers’’ engendered by a minority population whose alterity is perceived by a majoritarian national ethnos as a threat to its unity.11 Thus conceived, alienization promises an antidote to disunity and incompleteness in the form of a shoring-up of cultural boundaries that border-crossing migrant subjects reveal to be troublesome. Moreover, as a form of world making, alienization shapes a population’s collective attitudes toward and practices of citizenship. I share Robert Asen’s view of citizenship as a discursive mode of public action that is ‘‘always conditioned by social status, relations of power, institutional factors, and material constraints’’; as such, citizenship enactment necessarily involves hegemonic struggles over the very meaning of the term ‘‘citizen’’ in a multipublic sphere.12 Evoking the concept of the ‘‘social imaginary,’’ I examine how struggles over the boundaries of citizenship both enable and limit an affect-charged ‘‘civic imaginary.’’ An analysis of alienization and its bearing on the constitution of the civic imaginary requires a shift in focus away from the consideration of borders as physical, geographical entities to consideration of their instrumentality as performative, sociocultural productions. It places emphasis on the process, practice, and affect of bordering, and on the effects, both material and discursive, of border rhetorics on particular social collectivities. My chief ambition, then, is to throw light on the relationship between physical and social bordering practices, and to identify the very human implications of those practices for the shaping of civic culture. In order to lend historical specificity to the Bordering the Civic Imaginary 45

      46 D. R. DeChaine discussion, I focus attention on the crafting of public appeals in support of the Border Fence Project, an initiative launched by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) in 2006. Originally created in 2005 by former elementary school teacher, military veteran, and California resident Chris Simcox in response to a perceived ineffective- ness of U.S. governmental action, MCDC proclaims itself to be ‘‘the country’s largest volunteer grassroots border security advocacy group,’’ boasting more than 350,000 constituents.13 The professed aim of the MCDC’s Border Fence Project is ‘‘to secure America’s sovereign territory against incursion, invasion, and terrorism’’ through the construction of a steel security fence along the U.S.􏰀Mexico border.14 The MCDC and its Border Fence Project has garnered considerable attention from popular media, and support from prominent members of the U.S. government. Drawing on a range of textual evidence including websites, speeches, visual and print media, an online discussion forum, and interviews with Simcox and other MCDC members, I show how the group’s public advocacy of the border fence reflects an articulation of economic, racist, and nationalist narratives that together produce a border rhetoric in which the alienized subject becomes both figurally and literally fenced out of the sacrosanct space of U.S. citizenship. The MCDC’s Border Fence Project presents a timely example of a symbolic enactment of alienization that fuels public sentiment and influences policy regarding undocumented migrants in the United States. Rather than dismiss the organization as extremist, as popular U.S. media often do, or consider its views to be peripheral to dominant attitudes toward immigration, I argue that a close examination of the MCDC identifies its reliance on symbolic strategies and commonly shared values that are anything but radical. In the analysis, I hope to illustrate the ease with which physical and geopolitical borders map onto cultural and ideological borders. Against the popular argument that the immigration problem is preeminently about the integrity of the border rather than about the qualities of the migrant as a human being, I contend that their relationship is in fact profoundly fraught. ‘‘Suspect bodies,’’ asserts Lisa Flores, ‘‘carry the border on them.’’15 As a transgressive, racialized subject, the alienized migrant literally embodies the border, rendering problematic any tidy relationship between physical and social space. Crafting the Abject: The Border(ing) Project of Alienization An examination of the rhetorical dimensions of the border requires a shift in focus from borders to bordering, from a consideration of static entities to analysis of a dynamic practice. As a social ordering practice, bordering produces and enforces spaces of identity and difference, defining terms of identification and exclusion. As such, it influences a community’s ways of seeing and experiencing itself, its members, and those deemed to be outside or unworthy of membership. In this section, I outline a project of cultural and political abjection, whose symbolic form operates according to an affective logic of alienization. My intention is to identify the characteristic features of alienization, to explain its motivations and functions, and to suggest some of its implications for its bordered subjects. My discussion is informed by the

      complementary projects of critical rhetoric and cultural studies, each of which claims a stake in uncovering operations of power that shape human experience.16 While I would propose a certain degree of applicability to non-U.S. contexts, my focus is on the specific formation of alienization in post-9/11 U.S. society. Alienization in the United States did not materialize full-blown in the present social-political moment. Indeed, its current manifestation attests to a historical record of laws, policies, and practices reflecting longstanding attitudes about immigration and migrants. As Flores contends, ‘‘Contemporary images of immi- grants, such as that of the illegal alien, do not emerge in a vacuum. Instead, they are part of our nation’s history of immigration, race, and nation; they bring with them varied meanings, reflecting their origins and uses.’’17 This history has been steeped in nativism, an ideology based on a systematic exclusion of designated others, that can be traced back to at least the nineteenth century. Driven by the twin discourses of racism and capitalism, nativism has contributed to the construction of narratives that cast the migrant as culturally different or inferior, a necessary source of labor, and a drain on U.S. government resources.18 Its early manifestations are evidenced in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which denied migrants citizenship on the basis of national origin, and the Immigration Acts of 1921 and 1924, which placed numerical limits on immigration while entrenching for decades ‘‘a global racial and national hierarchy that favored some immigrants over others.’’19 During the Great Depression, as demand for labor diminished and job competition increased, nativism was reinvigorated in the form of voluntary repatriation campaigns that resulted in the deportation of a half a million Mexican undocumented migrants, U.S. citizens of Mexican descent, and permanent legal residents. During World War II, the U.S. government, presuming that all U.S. citizens of Japanese origin were racially inclined to disloyalty, incarcerated 120,000 persons, effectively nullifying their citizenship status. After the war, with the increased demand for labor, the government instituted the Bracero program, a contract labor policy for Mexican migrants that Mai Ngai describes as ‘‘America’s largest experiment with a ‘guest worker program’’’ to date.20 Arcing into the present, nativism has endured in actions such as 1954’s Operation Wetback, which led to the forcible deportation of more than a million Mexican migrant laborers, efforts in the 1980s to militarize the U.S.􏰀Mexico border, California’s Operation Gatekeeper, Propositions 187 and 209 in the 1990s, state laws mandating English-only policies, and recurring efforts to pass an English Language Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. As such historical patterns of response to migrants underscore, an account of the present conjunctural formation necessarily includes the history of nativist-born attitudes and practices that have designated immigration as a problem and the migrant subject as an undesirable outsider to the American civic community. In its most elemental sense, alienization is a form of otheringa way of seeing and not seeing, of experiencing and not experiencingthat conditions modes of human subjectivity and action. Rather than considering alienization primarily as a condition, or as a terminal state, or in terms of a culmination of effectsalthough it is certainly experienced on each of these registersI propose that it is most usefully understood Bordering the Civic Imaginary 47

      48 D. R. DeChaine as an unstable hegemonic process that must constantly adjust the character of its form if it is to win the consent of a national community guided by properly American liberal democratic values. As a hegemonic process, alienization operates as a fundamentally rhetorical mode of action. Invoking Kenneth Burke’s formulation, it functions terministically to direct and reflect the experiential reality of symbol users.21 As a shaper of collective attitudes, it provides a national community with a repertoire of symbolic resources for naming and thus bringing into being its valuative structure. These resources include an array of metaphors ascribed to alienized persons, as well as linguistic and visual figures that serve both to condense and to amplify public values. As I elaborate below, for example, the metaphoric construction of an alien invasion, and inverted visual images such as an upside-down American flag or a photograph of a breached border fence, can provide powerful symbolic grist for mobilizing public sentiment against those perceived as threatening to the sanctity of American values and national security. Moreover, alienizing rhetoric operates according to an essentialist logic based on negative linguistic difference. As Mark Lawrence McPhail explains, ‘‘The socio-political realities of negative difference are products of a language defined in essentialist terms as much as they are a reflection of self-evident realities that exist independent of the languages we use to construct them.’’22 Viewed in this light, alienization operates as a moralizing discourse that tells the truth about undocumented migrants and the essential nature of their otherness. The terministic and ideological functions of language and imagery are integral to the development of a hegemonic border logic that negatively posits absolute identities onto other(ed) migrant individuals and groups. Alienization signifies a context-specific conjuncture of discourses that interanimate and mutually reinforce one another. In its present configuration, it is enacted as an expression of racial, ethnic, and national identity that categorizes and differentiates Americans from non-Americans*or, more accurately, un-Americans. It demon- strates the intimate social and political linkage of race and nation in directing racism as an expression of xenophobic attitudes toward inferior and undesirable constituents of the national body.23 As a bordering practice, alienization shares much in common with what Howard Winant describes as ‘‘racialization,’’ a process involving attempts to fix identities provisionally in accordance with particular social, historical, and political attitudes about race.24 Furthermore, racializing rhetoric is readily linked with economic arguments that reinforce cultural and political attitudes toward migrants. In their analysis of the rhetoric of California’s Proposition 187, for example, Ono and Sloop describe the racialization of the migrant as the discursive production of an ambivalent subject who is both desired and reviled, necessary for both capitalist production and the object of ‘‘loathing of the laborer who does anything other than work specific jobs associated with facilitating the interests of efficient capital processes.’’25 Arguments about the migrant’s relative economic value are tethered to ideologically charged prescriptions of racial and ethnic identity. The undocu- mented migrant becomes both integral to and separated from proper capitalist relations of production; as such, alienization bears more than a passing resemblance to Karl Marx’s conception of ‘‘alienation.’’26

      Alienization functions discursively to shape public understandings of social and political identities. However, to gauge its influence only in terms of discourse misses a great deal about what drives it as an expression of national communal values. At the motivational level, alienization operates according to an affective logic similar to that which Appadurai describes in terms of an ‘‘anxiety of incompleteness.’’27 Appadurai accounts for what he takes to be an increasing propensity towards ethnic-based violence committed by national majorities (including liberal democracies) against their minority populations, a tendency he attributes in large part to the anxieties of social life in a globalized world: [W]here the lines between us and them may have always, in human history, been blurred at the boundaries and unclear across large spaces and big numbers, globalization exacerbates these uncertainties and produces new incentives for cultural purification as more nations lose the illusion of national economic sovereignty or well-being.... [T]he tip-over into ethnonationalism and even ethnocide in democratic polities has much to do with the strange inner reciprocity of the categories of ‘‘majority’’ and ‘‘minority’’ in liberal social thought, which produces what I call the anxiety of incompleteness. Numerical majorities can become predatory and ethnocidal with regard to small numbers precisely when some minorities (and their small numbers) remind these majorities of the small gap which lies between their condition as majorities and the horizon of an unsullied national whole, a pure and untainted national ethnos . . . . The anxiety of incompleteness (always latent in the project of complete national purity) and the sense of social uncertainty about large-scale ethnoracial categories can produce a runaway form of mutual stimulation, which is the road to genocide.28 According to Appadurai, it is the national ethnic minority populations who bear the brunt of the uncertaintiesand the violencespurred by globalization and its disjunctive modes of organization. Majorities, goaded by the anxiety of incomplete- ness and a fear of small numbers, find a scapegoat in the figure of the minority, whose presence is both necessary and unwelcome: necessary for dirty work such as fighting wars and shouldering menial labor, but unwelcome for the threats their racial, financial, linguistic, and cultural border-blurrings pose. Above all, Appadurai claims, national ethnic minorities ‘‘blur the boundaries of national peoplehood,’’ a cardinal transgression for which they are not to be forgiven.29 They are the embodiment of the anxiety of incompleteness. Minorities problematize the meanings of ‘‘us’’ and ‘‘them’’*and for that, they must pay. Appadurai’s argument regarding the majoritarian fear of small numbers lends to an understanding of the affective logic of alienization in the United States today. In a globalized world, where both ‘‘vertebrate’’ and ‘‘cellular’’ tendencies of hypercapit- alism move across national boundaries with swiftness and ease, it is the figure of the border-crossing migrant who increasingly signifies the social (dis)ease of the U.S. border problem.30 To be sure, arguments casting undocumented migrants as criminals and threats to national security have long figured in U.S. popular, political, and legal discourse. However, public expressions of anxiety regarding the status of migrants have once again become pronounced in the wake of global free trade policies such as those engendered in the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs Bordering the Civic Imaginary 49

      50 D. R. DeChaine (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This has partly to do with the U.S.-led effort to relax economic borders under the auspices of creating an integrated North American market while at the same time resisting an equivalent integration of cross-border labor.31 However, underlying this contradictory policy, I contend, is an affective impulse motivated by fear of losing control. As economic borders loosen, sociocultural borders tighten; as the U.S. economy becomes ever more subject to the disjunctive flows of a global cultural economy, its majoritarian reaction is to allay its anxieties by maintaining control where it canon cultural terrain. In a post-9/11 climate stoked by an omnipresent affect of terrorthe threat of a cellular enemy who is both outside and potentially inside our national borders it is perhaps unsurprising that the population’s fears and uncertainties, as well as its search for enemies, turn inward. Undocumented migrants and their rapidly growing small numbers serve as constant reminders of the incompleteness of a unified, pure American ethnos. Their geographical and cultural border crossings are perceived as challenges, indeed threats, to national sovereignty. Alienization promises an antidote to border anxieties: the present U.S. cultural climate precipitates uneasiness and a compulsion to engage in shoring-up operations, to effect a return to an imagined wholeness, unity, authenticity, and knowability. Thus conceived, alienization is the panicked reaction to the anxiety of incom- pleteness. Coursing through the national body, it casts alienized subjects as abject, inassimilable outsiders to the American community. The abject migrant is not absent from social experienceabjection is not synonymous with absence, as non- recognition is not the antonym of recognition. Rather, because she is both necessary and unwelcome, she is both visible and invisible, both acknowledged and ignored.32 Indeed it is this ambiguous positionality, the troublesome both/and of migrant subjectivity, that compels a national community to search for a means of reconciliation. However, reconciliation entails symbolic violence. In its materializa- tion as a border rhetoric, alienization operates through victimage. Blamed for the ills of a society that proclaims root values of tolerance and pluralism but longs for wholeness, the undocumented migrant fulfills the role of a ‘‘perfect enemy,’’ a vessel for that which the American reviles, disavows, and fears.33 Rhetorical victimage relies on reductive categories and stereotypical modes of representation in its rendering of the subject-scapegoat it designates. Marouf Hasian Jr. and Fernando Delgado note this reductive tendency in their analysis of California’s Proposition 187: ‘‘The typology of illegal immigrant becomes a signifier meaning Mexican (collapsing distinctions among Mexicans, Mexican Americans, Latinos) in a stereotypical manner similar to the social construction of welfare mother as African American female.’’34 Through victimage, the reductive figure of the border-crossing, border-blurring migrant serves as a vessel for containing the threat of an un-American presence from within. As an ideological production that is woven thickly into the fabric of society, alienization is infused in the language and images of everyday communication practices. A reactionary expression of the nativism that has historically shaped the character of U.S. political culture, alienization assumes a more rather than less

      ordinary rhetorical form. Nowhere is its manifestation more apparent than in the invocation of ‘‘illegal immigration,’’ a key figure that is rapidly subsuming the normative rhetoric of immigration in U.S. political culture. Its ubiquity in popular media, town hall meetings, public policy analysis, congressional hearings, and political campaign platforms attests to its ascendance as an orienting devil term. And the potency of illegal immigration is nowhere more concentrated than in the signifier for its idealized subject, the ‘‘illegal alien.’’ The illegal alien is the ideal embodiment of illegal immigration precisely because she is always already doubly stigmatized. Through a process of repetition and sedimentation in public culture, the articulation of the designations ‘‘illegal’’ and ‘‘alien’’ gives them the appearance of a singularity, of being inextricably interlocked. More and more, in fact, ‘‘illegal’’ is becoming an implicit modifier, the already- present threat that marks the alienized subject. To invoke the term ‘‘alien’’ is now nearly all that is required. Her illegality is given. Through the alien’s consolidation as the implicit subject-signifier of illegal immigration, alienization is enacted linguis- tically and performatively as a self-evident expression of the abject other. Moreover, through her tacit link with illegal immigration, the alien is made available for identification with a variety of other(ing) signifiers. These have historically included constructions of the alien as ‘‘criminal,’’ ‘‘communist,’’ ‘‘animal,’’ ‘‘dirt(y),’’ and ‘‘disease(d).’’35 Such signifiers call attention to the ultimately unknowable quality of the alien, an ascription that is threatening to the national community since it belongs to the one who seeps through the cracks, gets in and out, and troubles the very discreteness of the national inside/outside binary. Across all of its identifications and significations, it has become clear, ‘‘Whether invoked directly or indirectly, the figure of the ‘illegal alien’ is hauntingly consistent.’’36 Indeed, the totalizing ascription of ‘‘illegal alien’’ to the alienized subject performs an essentializing function that literally denies the possibility of a positive referent. Given her overwhelmingly negative social-cultural status, redemption of the alienized subject is unlikely in the United States today. In order to be refigured as a potential member of the American community, she would need to undergo a radical transformation, entailing both avowed and ascribed identity reformation. In effect, the alien would have to become an altogether different person. It is true that there are legal pathways to U.S. citizenship, although in rapidly restricting forms.37 However, the fact that alienization involves concomitant racialization makes the prospect of redemption difficult, if not doubtful. Not only do border guards check papers, but since the alienized subject carries the border on her back, she is constantly subject to surveillance and search. She may or may not be what she seems; although she is among the community, although she may be naturalized, she is not naturally of the community. As Bhikhu Parekh astutely notes in his discussion of multicultural citizenship, ‘‘Although equal citizenship is essential to fostering a common sense of belonging, it is not enough. Citizenship is about status and rights; belonging is about acceptance, feeling welcome, a sense of identification. The two do not necessarily coincide.’’38 Bordering the Civic Imaginary 51

      52 D. R. DeChaine Alienization, I have suggested, is a border(ing) rhetoric par excellence. It operates in U.S. society as a hegemonic project concerned with the forging and maintaining of dominant American civic values. At the structural level, it signifies an alliance of racist, capitalist, and nationalist discourses that materializes rhetorically. At the motivational level, it is goaded by majoritarian anxieties of national incompleteness and a longing for civic communion. Although reactionary in tone, it reflects widely shared values and attitudes. Dogged by the threat of an ambiguous enemy within, the primary labor of alienizing rhetoric is the production of the abject subject, the illegal alien, the embodiment of that which is both necessary and unwelcome in the space of U.S. citizenship. Reviled for her border-crossing and border-blurring behavior, the alien is constructed through symbolic acts of reduction and victimage. With her identity tethered to the negative, racialized figure of illegal immigration, the alien’s prospects for redemption are acutely diminished. Above all, the rhetorical production of the alien illustrates the collective desire for purity, perfection, and order*a compulsion, as Burke insists, that is a hallmark of the human condition.39 Put differently, although alienization appears primarily to be about the imputed qualities of the undocumented migrant, it is also substantially about the fraught logic of the border and the symbolic power that it wields. Pledging ‘‘Eternal Vigilance’’: Rhetorical Alienization in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Since its inception under the leadership of its founder Chris Simcox, the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has been effective in shaping public attitudes about the immigration problem in the United States. Proclaiming itself as ‘‘one of the most important, socially responsible, and peaceful movements for justice since the civil rights movement of the 1960s,’’ Simcox and the MCDC have garnered support from a number of legislators, including Republican representatives Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado.40 Like other contemporary social movement groups, the MCDC is acutely attuned to the politics of the public screen and its power to mobilize popular attitudes.41 In order to promote its mission and its border operations, the organization relies heavily on hypermedia for the dissemina- tion of information, public statements, speeches, fundraising campaigns, and volunteer musters. Its official and unofficial discourse proliferates in the blogosphere, and postings of speeches by Simcox as well as protests against him can be found on popular video sites such as YouTube. Its continued media presence and its often infamous appearances on college campuses have helped the MCDC to maintain a significant profile in the public conversation on immigration reform, while contributing to its ethos as a controversial activist group. A substantial amount of the MCDC’s public advocacy has focused on its effort to secure funding for the construction of approximately 70 miles of fencing along portions of the U.S.􏰀Mexico border in southeastern Arizona. The MCDC has dubbed the initiative the Minuteman Border Fence Project, a campaign that serves as an umbrella for a number of regional fundraising efforts.42 Professing to be ‘‘doing the

      job the [U.S.] President and the Senate refuse to do,’’ MCDC-aligned volunteers began constructing bits of the fence themselves in October 2006.43 Referring to the proposed border fence as ‘‘America’s ultimate protection against foreign invasion and terrorism,’’ the MCDC capitalizes on the historical symbolism of the Minutemen of the American Revolution, describing its undertaking as not a solution but an example of what committed AmericansWe the Peoplemust do in order to safeguard the border and the citizenry.44 Through its efforts to rally public support for a security fence along the U.S.􏰀Mexico border, particularly in its crafting of appeals that draw on affect-charged language and images of formative American values, the border(ing) rhetoric of the MCDC demonstrates how public under- standings of national identity, community, citizenship, and ‘‘the other’’ are mutually constructed. Reflecting commonly shared beliefs about migrants and immigration in U.S. political culture, its appeals bespeak a ‘‘fence logic’’ that effectively displaces claims about alien subjectivity and refigures them as claims about conditions said to result from nonsecure U.S. borders. In this way, the group enacts a project of alienization that avoids overt racism by framing the immigration problem as a concern about geographical borders rather than about the alien per se. In all, the MCDC contributes to the production of an anxiety-ridden narrative of citizenship of what it means to be a member of the broadly imagined American Community. Ultimately, its fence logic both shapes and reflects broadly held attitudes about culture and difference in contemporary U.S. society. The MCDC demonstrates its similarity to other social-political movement groups insofar as its public appeals, if they are to be acted on, must successfully construct an orientation toward a situationa compelling exigency, a plausible accounting of involved actors, and a fitting and attainable mode of redress. What most distinguishes the MCDC from other activist groups is its particular crafting of a vision of national community, an understanding of civic identity that seeks resonance with a dominant regime of true American values. In constructing appeals that articulate values of social unity, national security, rule of law, and civic responsibility, the MCDC draws from a common vocabulary of U.S. political culture to advance an alienizing logic that shores up communal boundaries while simultaneously defining terms of exclusion. The MCDC’s casting of the rhetorical situation turns on its characterizations of the duty-bound Minuteman volunteer and the nature of the national security nightmare at the U.S.􏰀Mexico border that impels him to action.45 The United States, the group warns, is a nation in peril. The threat strikes at the heart of the American democratic ethos: the Border Fence website asserts that the country ‘‘is under siege by forces and interests that have the capacity, over time, to destroy our great experiment of responsible self-government.’’46 The sovereignty of the nation and the unity of the American people have become jeopardized as a result of those whose unauthorized movements impinge on them. The danger, the MCDC insists, issues from the current state of unsecured U.S. borders, giving rise to a ‘‘human tsunami’’ of illegal border crossers and the threats they pose to citizen safety, economic stability, and cherished American values.47 Bordering the Civic Imaginary 53

      54 D. R. DeChaine The forces and interests that are claimed to undermine American unity and sovereignty are both internal and external. In an address entitled ‘‘A Letter to My Fellow Americans,’’ Jim Wood, Executive Director of the Border Fence Project, cautions, ‘‘[T]he national language, character and culture of our sovereign American people are under attack by ‘multi-culturalism’ run rampant. It’s dangerous and it’s destructive.’’48 Employing violent metaphors and reductive categories to consolidate the gravity of the alien threat, constituents of the MCDC make repeated reference to the imputed ‘‘illegal invasion’’ now said to be underway.49 Such an evocation points to the danger to the American ethnos of an abstract, massified enemy already among us, ‘‘the illegal aliens residing in our midst who have been allowed by a feckless government to violate our laws and mock our sovereignty as a nation.’’50 The fear of increasing numbers of alien noncitizens in the United States and their ability to undermine American unity is further evidenced on the Border Fence Project’s website, which cites California as an example of the disunity produced by an ‘‘increased flux of illegals, who displace legal citizens whose numbers are decreasing there.’’ Moving unchecked across the U.S. border, the alien-enemy is now within, infecting the body politic. It corrupts the government, disunifies its citizenry, dilutes its culture, and precipitates a virulent strain of anti-Americanism: as Simcox stated, in response to May 1, 2007 demonstrations in which ‘‘anti-American extremist militants’’ flew upside-down U.S. flags and flew Mexican flags above the U.S. flag, I think it exposes an anti-American, anti-European sentiment. And we see that on college campuses across the country. The vitriol, the hate. The hate groups that exist on college campuses and then take to the streets are calling for a reconquista of the United States.51 Flags and other visual imagery are routinely employed by the MCDC to dramatize the anti-Americanism fueled by the alien invasion. For example, an image on the Border Fence Project website titled ‘‘Tear for My Country’’ features a close-up photograph of a portion of a human face, eye cast downward, with a tear rolling down its cheek. In the foreground flies a Mexican flag, positioned on its mast above an upside-down American flag. Superimposed at the bottom of the image is an iconic rendering of Uncle Sam (unaccompanied by its familiar ‘‘I Want You!’’ caption) pointing at the viewer, as if to admonish her to take up the pro-American resistance. In public appearances, Simcox and other MCDC members also often display photographs of anti-American migrant protesters, offering them as evidence of an enemy in our midst whose force, like that of a virulent disease or inexorable flood, must be contained. The destructive forces that threaten American unity, sovereignty, and democracy are the byproduct of more ominous threats to national security and public safety that an unsecured U.S. border represents. The MCDC invokes national security as a caution to Americans about the dangers of terrorism, criminality, and violence posed by an illegal invasion across broken borders. The alien-terrorist menace is real. ‘‘We’re being attacked by people from a foreign country,’’ exclaims Simcox; ‘‘Is that not

      Bordering the Civic Imaginary 55 terrorism in its own right?’’52 Those who threaten national security, whether wittingly or unwittingly, are culpable: ‘‘If you’re breaking into this country when this country is at war, then you’re a potential enemy of this country, and you should be treated accordingly.’’53 In MCDC discourse, a link between illegal immigration and ‘‘terrorism,’’ another prominent devil term in post-9/11 U.S. society, is forged through an association of the border crosser with crime and violence. Simcox, emphasizing this association, makes reference to ‘‘the violence caused daily by illegal entrants and often violent alien intruders,’’ and advocates ‘‘the feasibility and efficacy of fencing to secure America’s borders from illegal incursion by aliens and international criminal cartels.’’54 And the alien-borne violence is growing.55 As the number of unauthorized border crossings increases, ‘‘More gang violence erupts in our cities by murderous thugs such as MS-13, the ruthless gang of self-professed friends of al Qaeda.’’56 The deadly admixture of crime, violence, and terrorism at the hands of undocumented border crossers is perhaps most dramatically asserted by the Border Fence Project: ‘‘Because illegal aliens murder 5,000 innocent Americans every year and we take a trillion dollar hit overall to our economy, illegal immigration rewards us with a 9/11 or worse every year.’’57 Close-up photographs of decrepit and hole- ridden fencing along the U.S.􏰀Mexico border, and images of aliens individually and collectively breaching the fence, are offered by the MCDC as evidence of the national security nightmare that is claimed to exist. A Minuteman Border Cam with multiple views of the border fence is featured on the MCDC website, so that viewers may witness for themselves the always-looming threat to national security in real time. By playing on national anxieties regarding a terrorist threat both beyond and within U.S. borders, the MCDC collapses categorical distinctions between terrorism, criminality, and alien subjectivity, drawing an abstract figure of the dangerous, already suspect un-American other. The MCDC readily identifies the U.S. government as the primary agency responsible for the immigration problem. Although it is the alien who crosses the border into the United States, she is rarely directly named as the villain. Rather, the group insists, it is the U.S. government (and to a lesser extent, the Mexican government) and its lax attitude toward border enforcement that allows aliens to cross the border. The government’s negligence in upholding its commitment to safeguard the border has ominous consequences. As Simcox fervently warns, The existing border crisis is a dereliction of duty by those entrusted with American security and sovereignty, leaving America vulnerable to terrorist infiltration and an unprecedented crime wave caused by drug smugglers, rapists, thieves, human traffickers and murderers who currently cross our borders at will.58 In its attribution of the problem, the MCDC fuses the values of national security and the rule of law, imputing a causal relationship between lax border enforcement, a permissive welfare state, and the economic and social burdens shouldered by law- abiding U.S. citizens. Placing emphasis on this causal relationship, Simcox calls on fence logic to offer a remedy:

      56 D. R. DeChaine When you secure the borders, cut off welfare and social services to illegal aliens at the expense of the American taxpayer, and strictly enforce the laws against hiring illegally, the problem of what to do with the estimated 12-20 million illegal aliens already in this country will drastically shrink in size and scope.59 Political, economic, and social reform such as that proposed by Simcox and the MCDC requires a strong, morally committed U.S. government. Simcox warns, In a time of war, the future of the American republic hangs in the balance . . . . The confidence of we the people can only be restored by those elected officials who will truly act in defense of Americaher liberty, sovereignty, security and prosperity in the face of all foreign threats.60 Taken at face value, the MCDC’s assignation of blame to the U.S. government would seem to belie the main thrust of alienization, the chief operation of which is the rendering of the abject alien subject. However, the displacement of the alien and her deflection away from being the primary agent of blame is key to the crafting of the group’s persuasive appeals. For all its drama and hyperbole, the MCDC’s alienizing, nativist rhetoric appears on its surface to be relatively devoid of overt racism and open hostility toward migrants as persons. Notwithstanding the xenophobic tenor of its appeals, one is hard pressed to locate explicit epithets directed against migrants in its official discourse. It is tempting to attribute this lack of directness to what Stuart Hall terms ‘‘inferential racism,’’ those ‘‘apparently naturalised representations of events and situations related to race, whether ‘factual’ or ‘fictional’, which have racist premises and propositions inscribed in them as a set of unquestioned assumptions.’’61 As its narrative makes clear, inferential racism infuses the group’s language and visual imagery. Be that as it may, the indirectness of the MCDC’s alienizing project is also reflective of its formal construction, which effectively displaces an alien-centered threat and refigures illegal immigration as a border-centered threat. Alienizing rhetoric does not so much actively ascribe an identity quality to the alien subject as to passively describe that which is said to result from the condition of unsecured borders. As an effect of this formal refiguration, ‘‘invader’’ is reinscribed as ‘‘invasion’’; rather than an agent-centered claim that aliens are invading our nation, it is more common in MCDC discourse to encounter condition-centered statements such as ‘‘Our borders are under attack’’ or ‘‘Our borders are being invaded.’’ Likewise, agent-centered references to aliens as terrorists or criminals are more often refigured as statements referring to the threat of terrorism and criminal activity*both claimed to be effects of the condition of unsecured borders. Functioning as the rhetorical form of inferential racism, alienization depersonalizes (and dehumanizes) the alien subject while providing the rhetor, whether an individual or an organization, with an alibi. By establishing a socially acceptable position for anti-migrant sentiment, one that places blame not on a person or an ethnic group but on an impersonal condition, the formal construction of alienization provides an inoculation against charges of racism and scapegoating. Thus conceived, rhetorical alienization allows the MCDC and other alienizers to proclaim unself-

      consciously that broken borders, not aliens, are the source of the immigration problem. As the MCDC’s account of the exigency works to underscore, the dire situation on the U.S.􏰀Mexican border demands immediate and decisive action. Against the corrupting forces of an alien invasion and a complicit U.S. government, the group calls on true Americans ‘‘to safeguard our beloved nation from violence, from sedition, from wholesale attack by those who do not love America and wish to see her destroyed or irremediably altered from a nation of liberty, equality, and justice, and a bastion of western civilization.’’62 Such an intervention requires selfless action, honor, respect for tradition, and love of country: moral qualities embodied in the figure of the MCDC citizen volunteer. Deriving ethos from the venerable narrative of the American Revolutionary Minuteman, the MCDC citizen volunteer exemplifies the values of a national polity based on the rule of law and civic responsibility. As Article Four of the Minuteman Pledge attests, ‘‘[a] Minuteman believes in a strong, safe and secure America that begins with borders open only to those who have a legal right to enter, and who have met all the lawful criteria to cross into our territory established by the sovereign American people.’’63 In its appeal to the U.S. citizenry to secure its borders, the MCDC extols individual and collective responsibility, cementing together American virtues of patriotism and duty in taking action against present and future threats of an alien invasion. The U.S. government’s dereliction of duty must be met by the force of duty-bound American citizens*patriotic Minutemen who ‘‘will not sit idly by while we are colonized by another country.’’64 As the Minuteman Border Fence Project proclaims, ‘‘The politicians will talk; the liberal media and the ‘Hate America’ crowd will offer AMNESTY to law breakers. The Minutemen will ACT in defense of America!’’65 The appeal to American responsibility is future oriented: in the fight to secure U.S. borders against the alien invasion, the ‘‘future security and public tranquility for generations of our American posterity’’ hangs in the balance.66 Looking toward the future well-being of the country, the MCDC citizen pledges his commitment to responsibility as an individual, consecrating it in a vow before God and his fellow Americans. Invoking a phrase popularized by Wendell Phillips in a speech to American abolitionists, the Minuteman declares, ‘‘‘Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty . . . ’ And so I will stand watch on America’s borders and in her sovereign interest until relieved from duty by my fellow countrymen.’’67 As movement-oriented action, this commitment to responsibility is not simply individual; it is also collective. The MCDC pledges eternal vigilance, promising to ‘‘continue to stand watch at the border and report illegal activity, build border fencing, urge local and federal officials to enforce the law and push for the enforcement of our laws to keep our country and your families and children safe.’’68 Several Border Fence Project websites feature photographs of groups of MCDC citizen-patriots building, repairing, and guarding the border fence, offering a vivid demonstration of the organization’s collective commitment to civic duty and responsibility. The theme of eternal vigilance recurs Bordering the Civic Imaginary 57

      58 D. R. DeChaine regularly in MCDC discourse and serves to codify its sacred pledge to the American people. On the California border, an MCDC-run outpost named Camp Vigilance serves as a base for the group’s semi-annual musters, from whence fence-building teams are organized and deployed. Additionally, the MCDC offers an opportunity to enact eternal vigilance virtually. On joining its ‘‘Become a Cyber Minuteman!’’ campaign, those owning property on the U.S.􏰀Mexico border are provided with motion-sensing surveillance cameras that down-stream video directly to MCDC representatives, local police departments, and U.S. Border Patrol agents.69 What is apparent from this brief examination of the MCDC’s rhetoric is that its impassioned call for greater U.S. border security bespeaks an intense border insecurity. Relying on common tropes of American identity in the crafting of its appeals, the group’s rhetoric reveals a stock of motivations consonant with broadly shared majoritarian anxieties. Through hyperbolic appeals to the oblique yet powerful values of social unity, national security, rule of law, and civic responsibility, the group crafts a vivid human drama in which modern Minutemen take up their historical calling to pledge eternal vigilance, dutifully safeguarding American borders from the threat that lies beyondand, increasingly, within. The current corruption of the U.S. government, its political process, its economy, and its cultural character provides proof that the danger posed by millions of necessary but unwelcome border- crossing aliens is real. The alien invasion strikes at the very heart of national civic identity, threatening its purity. Harboring terror both known and unknown, the invasion must be stopped; the future safety of American citizens and the sanctity of American values are at stake. The fear of small but increasing numbers of illegal aliens combines with anxieties of national disunity and a federal government complicit in a hegemonic project of colonization. Only a counter-hegemonic movement led by a unified corps of committed American patriots can hope to stop the invasion, fence the border, protect national sovereignty, and illuminate a path toward civic restoration. As its appeals make clear, the MCDC relies on a fence logic that underwrites its construction of the immigration problem. In characterizing the threat of an alien invasion as preeminently an issue of border security, the MCDC contributes to an essentializing epistemology of the border. In its public discourse, national borders are static and given; their realness is never in question. The implications of such an epistemology and the worldview it constructs are not only political but profoundly ethical. Fence logic works to (re)inscribe the naturalness of geographical borders, positing the alien as a subject who is naturally out of place. Border security is thus framed as being about legal enforcement, not about wielding power and control. As Joseph Nevins explains, [T]he ‘‘illegal’’ is someone who is officially out of placein a space where he does not belong. Thus, the official relationship of the ‘‘illegal alien’’ to the particular national space in which he finds himself defines his status. The practice of territorialitythe effort to exert influence over people and/or other phenomena by asserting control over a defined geographic areareinforces the designation of the ‘‘illegal.’’ Territoriality helps to obfuscate social relations between controlled and

      Bordering the Civic Imaginary 59 controller by ascribing these relations to territory, and thus away from human agency.70 It is not only geographical borders that are naturalized. As a territorializing apparatus, the MCDC’s fence logic also works to (re)inscribe the social-cultural borders as natural. Defining clear and self-evident lines between American citizen and alien invader, as the MCDC does, reveals the ease with which psychic territories and their cultural investments map onto and reinforce physical territories and their geopolitical investments. More importantly, the us/them binary that such bordering practices work to cement into place all but guarantees an irredeemable non-place for the racialized, alienized, border-crossing migrant in the United States today. Ultimately, as the MCDC’s rhetoric illustrates, the naturalization of borders reflects an affect-charged, ideological operation. It provides an anxiety-ridden American ‘‘we’’ with terms for ordera common-sense orientation for gauging the truth about people, places, social statuses, and communal allegiances. Bordering the Civic Imaginary I have argued for the centrality of the figure of the border in contemporary rhetorical culture. In so doing, I have advanced an account of political and cultural abjection that prompts a scholarly reorientation away from a static concept of borders toward a dynamic conception of bordering practices. Proposing alienization as the name for a racializing project that produces an abject migrant subject, I have focused attention on the articulation of discourse and affect and its labor across geopolitical and sociocultural space to subjugate the border-crossing migrant. In particular, I have aimed to convey a sense of the panicked character of alienizing rhetoric, and, through the example of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, to illustrate the enduring tenacity of fence logic in a globalized world. Although reactionary in tone, the symbolic strategies that the MCDC uses to craft its appeals, and the attitudes it expresses, are far from radical. The liberal democratic values propounded by the groupunity, national security, the rule of law, patriotism, and responsibilityand the ordinariness of the language and images it mobilizes to advance its cause demonstrate the group’s close affinities with the tradition of U.S. social justice movements. As such, its narrative offers a cautionary tale about the all too easy slide from communal appeals based on majoritarian values to violent ethnonationalist exhortations. Writ large, the fears and anxieties that spur the MCDC’s alienizing practices signal the increasing friction between the denationalizing tendencies of economic and cultural globalization and a redoubling of desire for a singular national community, purity, and civic identitya condition betraying a long history of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender exclusions in the United States. The alienization enacted by the MCDC and other adherents of fence logic is goaded by an overriding fear of losing control: this fear itself is based on a fictional premise*that the American community (and its putative boundaries of identity and citizenship) was ever in control, secure in a state of order, sovereignty, and wholeness. ‘‘Borders,’’ as Anne

      60 D. R. DeChaine Demo reminds, ‘‘function as an index of sovereignty because their very presence (real or imagined) symbolizes claims of authority over a territorial entity.’’71 In this sense, border(ing) rhetorics serve as crucial sites for investigating intersections of community, territory, identity, and power in contemporary society. As the analysis illustrates, rhetorical renderings of the border are instrumental in the crafting of American civic community. In his discussion of borders and power relations, David Newman argues, [T]he stronger the barrier function of the border, the more powerful the imagined, the more abstract the narrative of what is perceived as lying on the other side. Perceptions of borders usually focus on what exists on the other ‘‘invisible’’ side of the line of separation. Borders exist in our mind by virtue of the fear we have of the unknown of the ‘‘there’’ and which, in turn, causes us to stay on our side of the border in the ‘‘here.’’72 Newman’s emphasis on the correlation between the fear of the unknown, the perceived integrity of borders, and the mystification of the other speaks to the current hold that fear has on U.S. civic culture. The oxymoronic alien subjectshe who is both known and unknown, simultaneously inhabiting the ‘‘here’’ and ‘‘there’’ of the national bodyincites a redoubling of political and moral boundaries in an era of an omnipresent war on terror. Burke’s dictum that ‘‘[a] way of seeing is always a way of not seeing’’ aptly characterizes the situation of the always already suspect border- crossing migrant.73 The intensifying compulsion to deal with the immigration problem, a defining exigency of post-9/11 America, underscores the terministic power of alienizing rhetoric to direct and reflect the social reality of the abject alien noncitizen. Put another way: as alienization is enacted, citizenship is enacted. Significantly, the fears and anxieties foregrounded in this discussion also attest to the force of the imagination as an integral agency in human social life.74 The construction of modern social imaginaries, according to Taylor, involves ‘‘the ways people imagine their social existence, how they fit together with others, how things go on between them and their fellows, the expectations that are normally met, and the deeper normative notions and images that underlie these expectations.’’75 Extending Taylor’s definition, my analysis of the excision of the alienized subject from the space of U.S. citizenship lends credence to an equally powerful notion of the civic imaginary as a social horizon for defining the constituents and limits of civic culture. A contested space for adjudicating conditions of citizen identity and inclusion, the civic imaginary is a contentious production with material consequences for those who deliberately or incidentally occupy it. Both real and imagined, performative and affective, it is a consummately rhetorical space where culture and politics converge, identity is shaped, and power is wielded. An adjunct of the public sphere, it proscribes conditions for citizenship enactment and the voices that are to be included in and excluded from deliberation.76 More than anything, the space of the civic imaginary serves as an ethical horizon for the articulation of the citizen as an embodiment of personhood. For alienizers like the MCDC, civic personhood reduces the border-crossing migrant to a racialized juridical subject. Crucially lacking in such a formulation is consideration of the border-crossing migrant as a human being

      worthy of recognition, respect, and dignity. For this alone, the present construction of the American civic imaginary warrants concerted critical attention. Alienization continues apace in the United States today, with real implications for those alienized. In 2006, approximately 222,000 undocumented migrants were removed from the United States, roughly a 20 percent increase from the previous year.77 Moreover, as Ngai notes, ‘‘In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the Department of Justice used immigration laws to arrest and detain over 1,100 aliens, many without charge and in secret.’’78 Despite resistance in Congress and protests by numerous city mayors and property owners, plans to complete a security fence along the U.S.􏰀Mexico border have been recently stepped up by way of a presidential mandate granting Michael Chertoff, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, supra-constitutional authority to build it. Current U.S. immigration policies and the social attitudes that shape them do more than affect individuals’ legal status; they tear apart families, deny basic services to those in need, and create conditions whereby growing numbers of the U.S. population are demonized as necessary but unwelcome nonpersons. Such attitudes and conditions, as Dana Cloud has convincingly argued, are not new. Indeed, they are entirely congruent with the naturalizing border epistemology of Samuel Huntington’s ‘‘clash of civilizations’’ thesis and its ascendant hegemony.79 What is novel, I have claimed, is the discursive-affective alliance that shapes its present rhetorical form. The ordinariness of alienization as a mode of citizenship enactment beckons scholars to attend closely to the ways in which alienizing rhetoric works its way into the public vernacular. As I have hoped to show, its conception of the American citizen reveals a profoundly immoral discourse that excludes, racializes, and otherizes individuals and groups*a discourse all too readily conscripted for the cause of national unity in troubled times. A vibrant civic imaginary requires an understanding of personhood that moves beyond questions of legal status to include recognition and respect as formative constituents of citizenship. In the name of such a counter- hegemonic project, it is the debunking of alienizing practices that is urgently needed today. This does not mean substituting border logic for a logic premised on a ‘‘world without borders,’’ as some have suggested; to unborder, after all, is still a bordering practice.80 Rather, it entails a collective effort to recognize, make public, and work against alienization and its material and symbolic violence. Such a project, I have insisted, begins by taking borders seriously. In his meditation on the ‘‘unreflective nationalism’’ that an uncritical view of borders is currently fomenting in U.S. civic culture, Robert Chang observes, ‘‘Although the border is everywhere, your perspective may render it invisible. It is through this invisibility that the border gains much of its power.’’81 Working to unmask this invisibility will be vital to a project that aspires to broaden rather than border the horizon of the civic imaginary. Bordering the Civic Imaginary 61

      62 D. R. DeChaine Notes [1] Jeffrey S. Passel, ‘‘The Size and Characteristics of the Unauthorized Migrant Population in the U.S.,’’ Pew Hispanic Center, March 7, 2006, http://pewhispanic.org/files/reports/61.pdf/. It must be acknowledged that this is a contested statistic. My choice of ‘‘migrant’’ to characterize undocumented persons in the United States reflects my intention to leave open the variety of statuses, motivations, and modes of mobility of border-crossing individuals. For a sympathetic discussion of the term, see Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), xix􏰀xx. [2] Charles Taylor, ‘‘The Politics of Recognition,’’ in Multiculturalism and ‘‘The Politics of Recognition,’’ ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), 25􏰀73. [3] Kent A. Ono and John M. Sloop, Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California’s Proposition 187 (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002), 26. [4] Ronald Walter Greene, ‘‘Malthusian World(s): Globalization, Race, and the American Imaginary in the Immigration Debates of the Twentieth Century,’’ in Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed. Sally Jackson (Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1995), 191􏰀95. See also Marouf Hasian Jr. and Fernando Delgado, ‘‘The Trials and Tribulations of Racialized Critical Rhetorical Theory: Understanding the Rhetorical Ambiguities of Proposition 187,’’ Communication Theory 8 (1998): 245􏰀70; Justin Akers Chaco ́n and Mike Davis, No One Is Illegal: Fighting Violence and State Repression on the U.S.􏰀Mexico Border (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2006). [5] Michael Curry, ‘‘On Space and Spatial Practice in Contemporary Geography,’’ in Concepts in Human Geography, ed. Carville Earle, Kent Mathewson, and Martin Kenzer (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), 3􏰀32; Henk Van Houtum, ‘‘The Geopolitics of Borders and Boundaries,’’ Geopolitics 10 (2005): 672􏰀79. [6] D. Robert DeChaine, ‘‘Imagined Immunities: Border Rhetorics and the Ethos of Sans Frontie`risme,’’ in Interdisciplinarity and Social Justice: Revisioning Academic Accountability, ed. Ranu Samantrai, Joe Parker, and Mary Romero (New York: State University of New York Press, in press). [7] Phil Hubbard, Rob Kitchin, Brendan Bartley, and Duncan Fuller, Thinking Geographically: Space, Theory and Contemporary Human Geography (New York: Continuum, 2002), 33; Joe Moran, Interdisciplinarity (New York: Routledge, 2002), 165. [8] On the rhetorical constructedness of borders, see Lisa A. Flores, ‘‘Constructing Rhetorical Borders: Peons, Illegal Aliens, and Competing Narratives of Immigration,’’ Critical Studies in Media Communication 20 (2003): 362􏰀87; D. Robert DeChaine, Global Humanitarianism: NGOs and the Crafting of Community (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005). On the ambivalent character of border(ed) subjects, see Gloria Anzaldu ́ a, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987); Pablo Vila, Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders: Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.􏰀Mexico Frontier (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000). [9] Aimee Carrillo Rowe, ‘‘Whose ‘America’? The Politics of Rhetoric and Space in the Formation of U.S. Nationalism,’’ Radical History Review 89 (2004): 119􏰀20. [10] I borrow the term ‘‘alienization’’ from Joseph Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the ‘‘Illegal Alien’’ and the Making of the U.S.􏰀Mexico Boundary (New York: Routledge, 2002), 143. [11] Arjun Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 51􏰀52. [12] Robert Asen, ‘‘A Discourse Theory of Citizenship,’’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (2004): 204. [13] Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, ‘‘Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Replaces Volunteer Administrators,’’ http://minutemanhq.com/hq/print.php?sid􏰁342/.

      Bordering the Civic Imaginary 63 [14] Minuteman PAC, http://www.minutemanpac.com/about.php/. [15] Flores, ‘‘Constructing Rhetorical Borders,’’ 381. See also Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki, ‘‘Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination,’’ California Law Review 85 (1997): 1397; Linda Bosniak, The Citizen and the Alien: Dilemmas of Contemporary Membership (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006). [16] On the complementarity of critical rhetoric and cultural studies, see Maurice Charland, ‘‘Rehabilitating Rhetoric: Confronting Blindspots in Discourse and Social Theory,’’ Communication 11 (1990): 253􏰀64; Thomas Rosteck, ed., At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies, Revisioning Rhetoric: A Guilford Series (New York: Guilford Press, 1999), 1􏰀23. [17] Flores, ‘‘Constructing Rhetorical Borders,’’ 363. [18] Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, ‘‘Unpacking 187: Targeting Mejicanas,’’ in Immigration and Ethnic Communities: A Focus on Latinos, ed. Refugio I. Roch ́ın (East Lansing: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, 1996), 93. [19] Ngai, Impossible Subjects, 3. [20] Ngai, Impossible Subjects, 129. [21] Kenneth Burke, Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966), 44􏰀62. [22] Mark Lawrence McPhail, The Rhetoric of Racism Revisited: Reparations or Separation? (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), 66. [23] Hemant Shah, ‘‘Race, Nation, and Citizenship: Asian Indians and the Idea of Whiteness in the U.S. Press, 1906􏰀1923,’’ Howard Journal of Communications 10 (1999): 251. [24] Howard Winant, Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 59. [25] Ono and Sloop, Shifting Borders, 27. [26] See, for example, Marx’s discussion of alienation in ‘‘Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts,’’ in Karl Marx: Early Writings, trans. Rodney Livingstone and Gregor Benton (London: Penguin Books, 1975), 279􏰀400. [27] Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, 8􏰀10. [28] Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, 7􏰀9. [29] Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, 45. [30] Appadurai, Fear of Small Numbers, 21􏰀31. [31] Douglas S. Massey, ‘‘Understanding America’s Immigration ‘Crisis’,’’ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 151 (2007): 309􏰀27. [32] It is worth adding that women and men are often differently alienized. As some scholars have noted, the meaning of ‘‘alien’’ is itself gendered, shifting its connotation according to particular sociohistorical exigencies. Hondagneu-Sotelo, for example, notes, ‘‘Contemporary xenophobia targets women and children because it is they who are central to making settlement happen’’ (‘‘Unpacking 187,’’ 93). [33] Burke, Language as Symbolic Action, 18. [34] Hasian and Delgado, ‘‘Trials and Tribulations,’’ 257. [35] Otto Santa Ana, ‘‘‘Like an Animal I Was Treated’: Anti-immigrant Metaphor in U.S. Public Discourse,’’ Discourse and Society 10 (1999): 191􏰀224. See also Sarah Hill, ‘‘Purity and Danger on the U.S.􏰀Mexico Border, 1991􏰀1994,’’ South Atlantic Quarterly 105 (2006): 777􏰀99. [36] Flores, ‘‘Constructing Rhetorical Borders,’’ 363. [37] With a recent increase in applications for U.S. naturalization, and under pressure to err on the side of caution in vetting applicants for potential security threats, federal examiners have increased their rejection rates. In 2007, for example, approximately 12 percent of applications for naturalization were denied. See Julia Preston, ‘‘Perfectly Legal Immigrants, Until They Applied for Citizenship,’’ New York Times, April 12, 2008.

      64 D. R. DeChaine [38] Bhikhu Parekh, ‘‘What Is Multiculturalism?’’ Multiculturalism: A Symposium on Democracy in Culturally Diverse Societies 484 (December 1999), http://www.india-seminar.com/1999/ 484/484%20parekh.htm/. [39] Burke, Language as Symbolic Action, 3􏰀24. [40] Chris Simcox, ‘‘About Us,’’ Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, http://www.minutemanhq.com/ hq/aboutus.php/. [41] Kevin Michael DeLuca and Jennifer Peeples, ‘‘From Public Sphere to Public Screen: Democracy, Activism, and the ‘Violence’ of Seattle,’’ Critical Studies in Media Communication 19 (2002): 125􏰀51. [42] The Border Fence Project emerged on the heels of the 2006 Secure Fence Act, authored by California Republican Representative Duncan Hunter, which required the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to build 854 miles of fence along the 1950-mile U.S.􏰀Mexico border. [43] Chris Simcox, ‘‘Senate and President Promote Anarchy at Borders and in American Cities,’’ Minuteman National Blog, April 11, 2006, http://www.minutemanhq.com/b2/index.php/ national/2006/04/11/. [44] Border Fence Project, BorderFenceProject.com, http://www.borderfenceproject.com/. [45] Chris Simcox, ‘‘Minuteman Corps Expands is [sic] Efforts to Secure the Border,’’ Minuteman Border Fence, January 2, 2007, http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/pl7.php/. [46] ‘‘About Us,’’ Minuteman Border Fence, http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/about.php/. [47] Simcox, ‘‘Minuteman Corps.’’ [48] Jim Wood, ‘‘A Letter to My Fellow Americans,’’ BorderFenceProject.com, http://www.border fenceproject.com/letter.shtml/. [49] See, for example, Minuteman Border Fence. [50] Chris Simcox, ‘‘Open Letter to the President of the United States,’’ MCDC Forums, June 19, 2007, http://forum.minutemanhq.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t􏰁11793/. [51] Chris Simcox, interview by Trish Hinojosa, NOW on the News, PBS, May 4, 2007. [52] Chris Simcox, interview by Alan Colmes, Hannity & Colmes, Fox News, April 3, 2006. [53] Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse, ‘‘Minuteman Leader has Troubled Past,’’ Southern Poverty Law Center, http://www.splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid􏰁149&site_area􏰁 1&printable􏰁1/. [54] Simcox, ‘‘Open Letter’’; ‘‘Donate to the Minuteman Border Fence,’’ Minuteman Border Fence, https://secure.responseenterprises.com/mmfence/?a􏰁571. [55] The MCDC works to document what it perceives as an increase in criminal activity in the United States as a result of unsecured borders. For example, the online MCDC forum includes a main thread titled ‘‘Illegal Alien Crime,’’ with the subheading ‘‘Please post any articles about illegal alien crime and DUI incidents here. Having these in one place will illustrate the tragic consequences of illegal migration.’’ ‘‘MCDC Forums,’’ Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, http://forum.minutemanhq.com/phpbb2/. [56] Simcox, ‘‘Minuteman Corps.’’ [57] ‘‘DIY Border Fence,’’ PirateNews.org, http://www.piratenews.org/newswire/html/. No docu- mentation for either of these statistics is provided on the website. [58] Brian Bonner, ‘‘Minutemen to Build Arizona-Mexico Border Fence,’’ April 20, 2006, http:// bonner.wordpress.com/2006/04/20/minutemen-to-build-arizona-mexico-border-fence/. [59] Chris Simcox, ‘‘Message from Chris Simcox,’’ Minuteman Border Fence, http://www. minutemanhq.com/bf/about.php/. [60] Simcox, ‘‘Open Letter.’’ [61] Stuart Hall, ‘‘The Whites of Their Eyes: Racist Ideologies and the Media,’’ in The Media Reader, ed. Manuel Alvarado and John O. Thompson (London: BFI Publishing, 1990), 13. [62] Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, ‘‘About Us.’’ [63] Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, ‘‘The Minuteman Pledge,’’ http://www.minutemanhq.com/ hq/mmpledge.php/. [64] Wood, ‘‘Letter to My Fellow Americans.’’

      Bordering the Civic Imaginary 65 [65] ‘‘Build It Now!’’ Minuteman Border Fence, http://www.minutemanborderfence.com/. [66] Simcox, ‘‘Open Letter.’’ [67] Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, ‘‘Minuteman Pledge.’’ [68] Simcox, ‘‘Minuteman Corps.’’ [69] ‘‘Become a Cyber Minuteman!’’ BorderFenceProject.com, http://www.borderfenceproject. com/cybermm.php/. [70] Nevins, Operation Gatekeeper, 147􏰀48. [71] Anne Demo, ‘‘Sovereignty Discourse and Contemporary Immigration Politics,’’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2005): 295. [72] David Newman, ‘‘On Borders and Power: A Theoretical Framework,’’ Journal of Borderlands Studies 18 (2003): 20. [73] Kenneth Burke, Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (New York: New Republic, 1935), 70. [74] Cornelius Castoriadis, The Imaginary Institution of Society, trans. Kathleen Blamey (Cam- bridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987). See also Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Charles Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004); Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983). [75] Taylor, Modern Social Imaginaries, 23. [76] See, for example, Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, 2005); Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Benjamin Lee, eds., ‘‘New Imaginaries,’’ Special Issue, Public Culture 36 (2002); Robert Asen and Daniel C. Brouwer, eds., Counterpublics and the State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001); Craig Calhoun, ed., Habermas and the Public Sphere (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993). [77] Julia Preston, ‘‘As Pace of Deportation Rises, Illegal Families Are Digging In,’’ New York Times, May 1, 2007. I was unable to locate reliable data regarding 2007 deportation rates. [78] Ngai, Impossible Subjects, 269. [79] Dana L. Cloud, ‘‘‘To Veil the Threat of Terror’: Afghan Women and the BClash of Civilizations􏰂 in the Imagery of the U.S. War on Terrorism,’’ Quarterly Journal of Speech 90 (2004): 285􏰀306. [80] DeChaine, ‘‘Imagined Immunities.’’ [81] Robert S. Chang, ‘‘A Meditation on Borders,’’ in Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States, ed. Juan F. Perea (New York: New York University Press, 1997), 244, 246.

    1. When the world was lurching into the modern era, it grew magnificently more populous, and in a hurry. Most of this expansion took place in urban centers like London, Paris, New York, and Chicago. In the United States alone, cities grew by 30 million residents during the nineteenth century, with half of that gain in just the final twenty years.But as this swarm of humanity moved itself, and its goods, from place to place, a problem emerged. The main mode of transportation produced a slew of the by-products that economists call negative externalities, including gridlock, high insurance costs, and far too many traffic fatalities. Crops that would have landed on a family’s dinner table were sometimes converted into fuel, driving up food prices and causing shortages. Then there were the air pollutants and toxic emissions, endangering the environment as well as individuals’ health

      This is very interesting because if you connect this to the corona virus you can understand why it is spreading so fat

    2. These people were in utero during the “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918. It was a grisly plague, killing more than half a million Americans in just a few months—a casualty toll, as Almond notes, greater than all U.S. combat deaths during all the wars fought in the twentieth century

      Interesting to see if something like this will happen with our current pandemic.

  34. Feb 2020
    1. Vietnam claims half a million children have been born with serious birth defects, while as many 2 million people are suffering from cancer or other illness caused by Agent Orange.

      Based on this statement, millions of children had to suffer as a result of Agent Orange as half a million children were born with genetic disorders.

  35. Jan 2020
    1. Every couple of years, mainstream media hacks pretend to have just discovered libertarianism as some sort of radical, new and dynamic force in American politics. It’s a rehash that goes back decades, and hacks love it because it’s easy to write, and because it’s such a non-threatening “radical” politics (unlike radical left politics, which threatens the rich). The latest version involves a summer-long pundit debate in the pages of the New York Times, Reason magazine and elsewhere over so-called “libertarian populism.” It doesn’t really matter whose arguments prevail, so long as no one questions where libertarianism came from or why we’re defining libertarianism as anything but a big business public relations campaign, the winner in this debate is Libertarianism. Pull up libertarianism’s floorboards, look beneath the surface into the big business PR campaign’s early years, and there you’ll start to get a sense of its purpose, its funders, and the PR hucksters who brought the peculiar political strain of American libertarianism into being — beginning with the libertarian movement’s founding father, Milton Friedman. Back in 1950, the House of Representatives held hearings on illegal lobbying activities and exposed both Friedman and the earliest libertarian think-tank outfit as a front for business lobbyists. Those hearings have been largely forgotten, in part because we’re too busy arguing over the finer points of “libertarian populism.” Milton Friedman. In his early days, before millions were spent on burnishing his reputation, Friedman worked as a business lobby shill, a propagandist who would say whatever he was paid to say. That's the story we need to revisit to get to the bottom of the modern American libertarian "movement," to see what it's really all about. We need to take a trip back to the post-war years, and to the largely forgotten Buchanan Committee hearings on illegal lobbying activities, led by a pro-labor Democrat from Pennsylvania, Frank Buchanan. What the Buchanan Committee discovered was that in 1946, Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public. They also discovered that a lobbying outfit which is today credited by libertarians as the movement’s first think-tank — the Foundation for Economic Education — was itself a big business PR project backed by the largest corporations and lobbying fronts in the country. It starts just after the end of World War Two, when America’s industrial and financial giants, fattened up from war profits, established a new lobbying front group called the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) that focused on promoting a new pro-business ideology—which it called “libertarianism”— to supplement other business lobbying groups which focused on specific policies and legislation. The FEE is generally regarded as “the first libertarian think-tank” as Reason’s Brian Doherty calls it in his book “Radicals For Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement” (2007). As the Buchanan Committee discovered, the Foundation for Economic Education was the best-funded conservative lobbying outfit ever known up to that time, sponsored by a Who’s Who of US industry in 1946. A partial list of FEE’s original donors in its first four years— a list discovered by the Buchanan Committee — includes: The Big Three auto makers GM, Chrysler and Ford; top oil majors including Gulf Oil, Standard Oil, and Sun Oil; major steel producers US Steel, National Steel, Republic Steel; major retailers including Montgomery Ward, Marshall Field and Sears; chemicals majors Monsanto and DuPont; and other Fortune 500 corporations including General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Eli Lilly, BF Goodrich, ConEd, and more. The FEE was set up by a longtime US Chamber of Commerce executive named Leonard Read, together with Donaldson Brown, a director in the National Association of Manufacturers lobby group and board member at DuPont and General Motors. That is how libertarianism in America started: As an arm of big business lobbying. Before bringing back Milton Friedman into the picture, this needs to be repeated again: “Libertarianism” was a project of the corporate lobby world, launched as a big business “ideology” in 1946 by The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. The FEE’s board included the future founder of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch; the most powerful figure in the Mormon church at that time, J Reuben Clark, a frothing racist and anti-Semite after whom BYU named its law school; and United Fruit president Herb Cornuelle. The purpose of the FEE — and libertarianism, as it was originally created — was to supplement big business lobbying with a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-economics rationale to back up its policy and legislative attacks on labor and government regulations. This background is important in the Milton Friedman story because Friedman is a founding father of libertarianism, and because the corrupt lobbying deal he was busted playing a part in was arranged through the Foundation for Economic Education. According to Congressional hearings on illegal lobbying activities 1946 was the year that Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public. The arrangement between Friedman and Stigler with the Washington real estate lobbyist was finally revealed during a congressional review of illegal lobbying activities in 1950, called the Buchanan Committee. Yes, there was something called accountability back then. I only came across the revelations about Friedman’s sordid beginnings in the footnotes of an old book on the history of lobbying by former Newsweek book editor Karl Schriftgiesser, published in 1951, shortly after the Buchanan Committee hearings ended. The actual details of Milton Friedman’s PR deal are sordid and familiar, with tentacles reaching into our ideologically rotted-out era. False, whitewashed history is as much a part of the Milton Friedman mythology as it is the libertarian movement’s own airbrushed history about its origins; the 1950 Buchanan Committee hearings expose both as creations of big business lobby groups whose purpose is to deceive and defraud the public and legislators in order to advance the cause of corporate America. The story starts like this: In 1946, Herbert Nelson was the chief lobbyist and executive vice president for the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and one of the highest paid lobbyists in the nation. Mr. Nelson’s real estate constituency was unhappy with rent control laws that Truman kept in effect after the war ended. Nelson and his real estate lobby led what House investigators discovered was the most formidable and best-funded opposition to President Truman in the post-war years, amassing some $5,000,000 for their lobby efforts—that’s $5mln in 1946 dollars, or roughly $60 million in 2012 dollars. So Herbert Nelson contracted out the PR services of the Foundation for Economic Education to concoct “third party” propaganda designed to shore up the National Real Estate lobby’s legislative drive — and the propagandists who took on the job were Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort, George Stigler. To understand the sort of person Herbert Nelson was, here is a letter he wrote in 1949 that Congressional investigators discovered and recorded: "I do not believe in democracy. I think it stinks. I don’t think anybody except direct taxpayers should be allowed to vote. I don’t believe women should be allowed to vote at all. Ever since they started, our public affairs have been in a worse mess than ever." It’s an old libertarian mantra, libertarianism versus democracy, libertarianism versus women’s suffrage; a position most recently repeated by billionaire libertarian Peter Thiel — who was Ron Paul’s main campaign funder in his 2012 presidential campaign. So in 1946, this same Herbert Nelson turned to the Foundation for Economic Education to manufacture some propaganda to help the National Association of Real Estate Boards fight rent control laws. Nelson chose to work with the FEE because he knew that the founder of the first libertarian think-tank, Leonard Read, agreed with him on a lot of important issues. Such as their mutual contempt for democracy, and their disdain for the American public. Leonard Read, the legendary (among libertarians) founder/head of the FEE, argued that the public should not be allowed to know which corporations donated to his libertarian front-group because, he argued, the public could not be trusted to make “sound judgments” with disclosed information: "The public reporting would present a single fact—the amount of a contributor’s donation—to casual readers, persons having only a cursory interest in the matter at issue, persons who would not and perhaps could not possess all the facts. These folks of the so-called public thus receive only oversimplifications or half-truths from which only erroneous conclusions are almost certain to be drawn. If there is a public interest in the rightness or wrongness of corporate or personal donations to charitable, religious or education institutions, and I am not at all ready to concede that there is, then that interest should be guarded by some such agency as the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an agency that is in a position to obtain all the facts, not by Mr. John Public who lacks relevant information for the forming of sound judgments…Public reporting of a half-truth is indeed a significant provocation." So in May 1946, Herbert Nelson of the Real Estate lobby, looking for backup in his drive to abolish federal rent control laws on behalf of landlords, contacted libertarian founder Leonard Read of the FEE with an order for a PR pamphlet “with some such title as ‘The Case against Federal Real Estate Control’,” according to Karl Schriftgiesser’s book The Lobbyists. What happened next, I’ll quote from Schriftgiesser: "They were now busily co-operating on the new project which the foundation had engaged Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler to write. It was to be called Roofs and Ceilings and it was to be an outright attack on rent controls. When Nelson received a copy of the manuscript he wrote Read to say, “The pamphlet…is a dandy. It is just what I wanted." The National Association of Real Estate Boards was so pleased with Milton Friedman’s made-to-order propaganda that they ordered up 500,000 pamphlets from the FEE, and distributed them throughout the real estate lobby’s vast local network of real estate brokers and agents. In libertarianism’s own airbrushed history about itself, the Foundation for Economic Education was a brave, quixotic bastion of libertarian “true believers” doomed to defeat at the all-powerful hands of the liberal Keynsian Leviathan and the collectivist mob. Here is how libertarian historian Brian Doherty describes the FEE and its chief lobbyist Leonard Read: "[Read] would never explicitly scrape for funds… He never directly asked anyone to give anything, he proudly insisted, and while FEE would sell literature to all comers, it was also free to anyone who asked. His attitude toward money was Zen, sometimes hilariously so. When asked how FEE was doing financially, his favorite reply was, “Just perfectly.”… Read wanted no endowments and frowned on any donation meant to be held in reserve for some future need." And here is what the committee’s own findings reported—findings lost in history: "It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Foundation for Economic Education exerts, or at least expects to exert, a considerable influence on national legislative policy….It is equally difficult to imagine that the nation’s largest corporations would subsidize the entire venture if they did not anticipate that it would pay solid, long-range legislative dividends." Or in the words of Rep. Carl Albert (D-OK): "Every bit of this literature is along propaganda lines." The manufactured history about libertarian’s origins, or its purpose, parallels the manufactured myths about one of big business’s key propaganda tools, Milton Friedman. As the author of The Lobbyists, not knowing who Milton Friedman was at the time, wrote of Friedman’s collaborative effort with Stigler: “Certainly [the FEE’s] booklet, Roofs or Ceilings, was definitely propaganda and sought to influence legislation….This booklet was printed in bulk by the foundation and half a million copies were sold at cost to the National Association of Real Estate Boards, which had them widely distributed throughout the country by its far-flung network of local member boards.” There's no idealism here. The notion that libertarian ideas have captured the political imagination of millions in this country is a root problem: if we're going to escape the corporate oligarchy that is running this country–their ideas can't possibility be the alternative solution. This movement has to be recognized for what it is.

      Standard smear piece from a subhuman lefty that want to control people. They'll never be taken seriously since their ideology is dependent on violence and being an entitled little shit.

  36. Dec 2019
    1. China has added enough new coal-based power generation (43GW) to power 31 million new homes. China plans on adding another 148GW of coal-based power, which will equal the total current coal generating capacity of the EU.

      Yes China is building new coal fired plants, but it is doing it even though it already has too many and the utilization of its existing coal fired plants have reached an all time low.

      The thing is coal fired plants cost very little to build but a lot to run. So what they are doing basically is spread the same fuel over more power plants and so spreading roughly the same amount of profit over more plants. Once more renewables come on board then these will run at even less capacity until they are uneconomic and close down.

      This is a quote:

      The renewed push into coal has been driven by Chinese energy companies desperate to gain market share and by local governments who view coal plants as a source of jobs and investment. While electricity demand in China rose 8.5 percent last year, the current grid is already oversupplied and coal stations are utilized only about half the time. "The utilization of coal-fired power plants will reach a record low this year, so there is no justification to build these coal plants," said Lauri Myllyvirta, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, a think-tank. "But that is not the logic that investment follows in China," Myllyvirta said. "There is little regard for the long-term economics of the investments that are being made." China Ramps Up Coal Power Again, Despite Pressure to Cut Emissions

    1. But these warnings are not connected with complex human systems, such as food, finance and logistics, leaving them to evolve as if climate change didn’t exist.

      They are connected with the human systems! We already have the FAO Early Warning Early Action initiative which publishes a global risk map every three months. The idea is that it is a basis for early actions. Used to be that famines would have to happen first before any action was taken. Now we act pro-actively before anything happens - before the farmers' crops fail for instance.

      This is the current risk map

      FAO Early Warning Early Action

      This is about the CERF which is a billion dollar fund - currently a billion dollars a year that is used to help prevent famines from happening before they arise. It has been increased several times, was originally $50 million. Since it was started then we have greatly reduced famines globally. It can be increased again if it is not enough.

      It is just incorrect to say we not doing anything and have been ducking action for decades.

      Since its inception, 126 UN Member States and observers, as well as regional Governments, corporate donors, foundations and individuals, made it possible for humanitarian partners to deliver over $5 billion in life-saving assistance in over 100 countries and territories. Many recipient countries also become a donor to CERF and contribute, making CERF a fund for all, by all” Who We Are | CERF https://youtu.be/uPj1OOG8PQw

      This shows how all this has been effective on endingfamines, see how few people ae affected since 2010.

      Famines

      And undernourishment is down from nearly 35% in 1970 to 13% in 2017 in developing countries.

      For all cereals the stock to use ratio is 30%. I.e. if we had a world shortfall of 30% in one year, we could supply it with left over cereals from previous years. Also in sugar (50% stock to use ratio)

      • FAO Cereal Supply and Demand Brief and more extensive summary for two year period ending 2018
      • USDA-Office of the Chief Economist - World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates

      Also the IPCC report they link to - the special report on Climate change and the Land has long sections on the work being done to mitigate this e.g. Spain and Turkey are especially vulnerable to desertification from climate change and have major initiatives to help adapt to a warmer drier world. Southern US, the dust bowl area is another example and around the world many countries have initiatives to adapt. We have to mitigate, reduce greenhouse gases rapidly to reduce the amount of the increase of warming but it is now recognized that we absolutely have to adapt too and we also have to increase resilience to these future droughts and changes of climate and prevent desertification and reverse the desertification that has already happened and we need to be prepared for future emergency responses.

      B.4.1

      "Solutions that help adapt to and mitigate climate change while contributing to combating desertification are site and regionally specific and include inter alia: water harvesting and micro-irrigation, restoring degraded lands using drought-resilient ecologically appropriate plants, agroforestry, and other agroecological and ecosystem-based adaptation practices (high confidence). {3.3, 3.6.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.5, 5.2, 5.6}"

      B.4.2

      "Reducing dust and sand storms and sand dune movement can lessen the negative effects of wind erosion and improve air quality and health (high confidence). Depending on water availability and soil conditions, afforestation, tree planting and ecosystem restoration programs, which aim for the creation of windbreaks in the form of ‘green walls’ and ‘green dams’ using native and other climate resilient tree species with low water needs, can reduce sand storms, avert wind erosion, and contribute to carbon sinks, while improving micro-climates, soil nutrients and water retention (high confidence). {3.3, 3.6.1, 3.7.2, 3.7.5}

      B.4.4 Eradicating poverty and ensuring food security can benefit from applying measures promoting land degradation neutrality (including avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation) in rangelands, croplands and forests, which contribute to combating desertification, while mitigating and adapting to climate change within the framework of sustainable development. Such measures include avoiding deforestation and locally suitable practices including management of rangeland and forest fires (high confidence). {3.4.2, 3.6.1, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 4.8.5}

      B.5

      "Sustainable land management, including sustainable forest management, can prevent and reduce land degradation, maintain land productivity, and sometimes reverse the adverse impacts of climate change on land degradation (very high confidence). It can also contribute to mitigation and adaptation (high confidence). Reducing and reversing land degradation, at scales from individual farms to entire watersheds, can provide cost effective, immediate, and long-term benefits to communities and support several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with co-benefits for adaptation (very high confidence) and mitigation (high confidence). Even with implementation of sustainable land management, limits to adaptation can be exceeded in some situations (medium confidence). {1.3.2, 4.1.5, 4.8, 7.5.6, Table 4.2}"

      Have a read of the summary for policy makers. Most of it is about things to do with this. And then have a look at the report itself for more details, those cited sections at the end of each paragraph.

      We can certainly do more, to build in resilience, and we can also do more mitigation by reducing CO2 emissions faster than we are doing already. However we are doing something there as well.

      The top seven emitters emit three quarters of global emissions.

      Of those, China, the EU, and India are over achieving on their pledges. Russia is keeping their pledge from 2015 (Russia is critically insufficient according to CAT but the question is whether they are keeping their very inadequate Paris pledge and the answer is yes). Japan is not quite on track. While Brazil is under achieving (basically not trying under Bolsorano) and the US is going to withdraw from the agreement but does have reducing emissions almost tracking its Paris pledge so far.

      If you look at global emissions then about half of the emissions are decreasing, some reasonably fast, and half increasing:

      Hand drawn lines on the graph Annual total CO₂ emissions, by world region from CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

      The emissions are expected to peak some time soon, probably in the early 2020s.

      See also How well are countries doing with their 2015 Paris pledges?

      However we can grow enough food for everyone through to 2100 on all scenarios. Our choice is whether to do this in a sustainable or a non sustainable way. As professor Almud Arneth put it in the IPBES press conference (co-ordinating lead author of the section about future scenarios):

      None of the scenarios we've been exploring would indicate that we cannot feed the world or cannot provide water cannot provide shelter that's for sure. But we can do it in a sustainable way or we can do it in an unsustainable way and that is really our choice.

      We can grow enough food for everyone through to 2100 and beyond on all scenarios

  37. Nov 2019
    1. In the same year, one-hour dramas and 30-rninute sitcoms often lost $1oo,ooo to $3oo,ooo an episode. At a time when dramas routinely cost over $1 million per episode, and half-hour sitcoms cost $5oo,ooo to $6oo,ooo apiece, Reali-TV pro-grams offered considerable savings in production costs,

      Reali-TV made more sense economically. It does not really make sense to create something at a loss if your goal is to better yourself economically.

    Annotators

    1. easyJet’s aircraft carbon emissions in the 2018 financial year were 7.6 million tonnes, compared to 7.1 million tonnes in the 2017 financial year. easyJet’s calculation of emissions is based on fuel burn measurement, which complies with the EU’s Emissions Trading System requirements.

      7.1m in a year in 2018. That's about 3 and a half Googles.

    1. Despite broad consensus in Richmond and other cash-strapped Virginia school systems that classroom conditions are a problem, most of the dollars needed to fund construction have not materialized.The state budget includes $35 million in new money for school construction, less than half of the $80 million initially proposed by Gov. Ralph Northam (D).

      aspects of problem

    1. Those companies

      Intro: IN A REGION where real estate equals influence, prestige and prosperity, just 10 power brokers — a mix of technology behemoths, commercial and residential developers and one private university — own about $59.2 billion in taxable property, making them the largest landowners in Silicon Valley.

      Their concentrated wealth provides a window into how tech and real estate companies — and the university, Stanford — have shaped the valley into an economic powerhouse but also helped create the housing crisis now threatening Silicon Valley’s money-making engine, straining its middle class and displacing people who have lived here their whole lives.

      These findings come from an analysis by a collaboration of local and national media, including this news organization, of more than half a million property records from the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office during a year-long reporting project. Much of the property is owned by a web of corporations and trusts, requiring deeper reporting into thousands of records to reveal the true ownership.

      As both large players and smaller buyers bid up the price of land and consolidated their holdings over the last decade, who can afford to buy — and who can’t — has become perhaps the region’s most critical dynamic. The 10 largest owners alone control more than 11 percent of all the taxable property in the county.

    1. extinction threatens up to a million animal and plant species, known and unknown

      Half of them are insects, and iit's only 10% of insects which are less at risk of extinction than other groups - and by "threatened" includes creatures with a 10% risk of extinction in 100 years as well as ones with a small stable population or fragmented population.

      Many others are minute sea creatures

      The point of the IPBES study is that we know what is causing this, with perverse agricultural subsidies that encourage harm to biodiversity as their top reason why creatures are going extinct. Their report was about how we can SAVE a million species

      Let's Save A Million Species, And Make Biodiversity Great Again, UN Report Shows How

    1. Dixon suggests that the study's findings could lead to meteorologists giving pain forecasts alongside air quality projections, which could help people with chronic pain "plan their activities, completing harder tasks on days predicted to have lower levels of pain." This would be no small thing. Says Stephen Simpson, Ph.D., of the advocacy organization Versus Arthritis: "We know that, of the 10 million people in the U.K. with arthritis, over half experience life-altering pain every day. But our healthcare system is simply not geared up to effectively help people with arthritis with their number-one concern."

      This section caught my attention because I find that it is a very clever application of the information gathered. We all check the weather regularly, and being able to provide that kind of information could help millions of people world-wide. This model could perhaps extend into other areas as well, perhaps into our home devices.

    1. volunteers in the group’s International Coastal Cleanup event collected almost 1 million plastic beverage bottles, 800,000 plastic bottle caps, and about half a million each of plastic bags and drinking straws — and this was in just a single day.  

      Other than the outrageous amount of trash collected it's pretty impressive how they collected that much in only a day.

    1. As Americans consider making marijuana a legal drug, it would be wise to remember the choices that fueled the devastating opioid epidemic. Decades ago, many of the same people pressing for marijuana legalization argued that the risks of opioid addiction could be easily managed.A half-million deaths later, we have learned how wrong they were.Marijuana’s risks are different from opioids’, but they are no less real. Let’s remember that hard truth as we listen to promises that allowing the use of this drug will do no harm.

      effective in making its argument: by comparing it to the opioid epidemic

  38. Oct 2019
    1. Download the NBC News app for breaking newsSaying "we are deploying every resource available," Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency for not only the fires in the north but also a fire in Los Angeles County that had damaged dozens of structures and injured three firefighters.Video Will Begin In...3Lebron James, Natalie Morales and more stars flee homes amid California wildfiresOct. 28, 201902:17Numerous smaller fires created havoc and diverted critical resources. Nearly all left destruction in their paths.mps._execAd("boxinline",0,1,false);The Soda Rock Winery, the most recent occupant of a historic site of wineries going back to 1880 in Healdsburg, in Sonoma County, was burned to the ground by the Kincade fire. In Contra Costa County, a new fire that was sparked on Sunday afternoon destroyed the Lafayette Tennis Club, sending players and spectators fleeing from a tournament that had been underway, NBC Bay Area reported. In Solano County, one of several small new fires drove cadets from the campus of the California State University Maritime Academy in Vallejo — except for a handful assigned to fire duty, who stayed behind to protect the training ship Golden Bear.Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings.Sign UpThis site is protected by recaptcha Privacy Policy | Terms of ServiceCould not connect to the reCAPTCHA service. Please check your internet connection and reload to get a reCAPTCHA challenge.The cadets had recently completed major wildfire training at the school, one of seven across the country that train crews for the Merchant Marine and other shipping duties.Cadet Adrian Goldfarb told NBC Bay Area that he saw smoke building up at about 10 a.m., and then "it took only about 10 minutes till ash started falling.""We grabbed our hoses [and] we hooked up to the fire," Goldfarb said. "Our goal was just to somewhat contain the fire until the fire department arrived."Firefighters credited the cadets with keeping the ship safe and suggested that they should get extra credit in their classes.Gov. Gavin Newsom declares statewide emergency as wildfires spreadOct. 27, 201902:30Nearly 90,000 people were evacuated Saturday as the fire jumped over highways and roads jammed with people trying to flee. More evacuation orders followed, reaching nearly 200,000 people, about 90 percent of them in Sonoma County in the heart of wine country.Cox, of CalFire, said further evacuations could be needed."This is the largest evacuation that any of us at the Sheriff's Office can remember," the Sonoma County sheriff said on Twitter. "Take care of each other."RelatedNewsNewsPhotos: California continues to battle wind-fueled wildfiresExtremely low humidity was helping the fires spread. The National Weather Service said the winds would continue into Monday morning before subsiding — only to return Tuesday night or Wednesday morning."With the constant dry offshore winds, poor humidity recovery is expected and fuels will remain dry," the agency said.Those are the conditions that led the state's largest power utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Corp., or PG&E, to trigger rolling blackouts across Northern California over the weekend, the third time it has done so this month and the biggest blackout yet.Flames from the Kincade fire consume a home in Healdsburg, Calif., on Sunday.Noah Berger / APThe blackout, which PG&E said was needed to prevent downed and damaged power lines from sparking more fires, shut off power to 940,000 homes and businesses, roughly correlating to about 2.5 million people, across Northern California on Sunday.The three consecutive blackouts have infuriated Northern Californians, including Newsom, the governor, who has called them an unacceptable consequence of decades of PG&E neglect.RelatedNewsNewsPG&E slammed for rolling blackouts for millions of CaliforniansBecause of the heavy winds forecast to revive in midweek, PG&E said Sunday night that it had begun alerting slightly more than 500,000 homes and businesses that yet another blackout could be needed beginning Tuesday.In Southern California, authorities said the wind-fueled 4,615-acre Tick fire in Los Angeles County was at 70 percent containment by Sunday night. The county fire department said that 22 structures were destroyed and that 27 more were damaged.Three firefighters injured, the fire department said.Evacuations continued early Monday morning, as fire encroached on Los Angeles. A fast-moving brush fire erupted near the Getty Center on LA's Westside, expanding to 250 acres as people fled their homes in the middle of the night, according to NBC Los Angeles.Basketball star LeBron James tweeted that he and his family had to evacuate his house early Monday and were searching for rooms where they could spend the night. "I [pray] for all the families in the area that could be affected," James said. "My best wishes as well to the first responders." Southern California Edison, which serves much of the southern half of the state apart from the cities of Los Angeles or San Diego, said only a few hundred customers were without power on Sunday. But it warned that it, too, could have to shut off electricity to more than 300,000 customers, correlating to about three-quarters of a million people, to secure its power lines and transmitters.Newsom on Sunday announced a $75 million plan for state and local governments to "mitigate the impacts of power shutoffs" and help medically vulnerable people during massive power shutoffs.by Taboolaby TaboolaSponsored StoriesThe Legacy ReportThe Legacy ReportMan Who Called NVIDIA's Rise Makes Bold 5G PredictionUndoTech4youTech4youThis Japanese Invention For $79 Let's You Speak 43 Languages InstantlyUndo

      Wildfires are extremely difficult to prevent and is taking people out of their homes, taking out infrastructures, and injuring many.

    1. debt forgiveness programs that generate some revenue but are far from cost recovery

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      Data Source: https://doi.org/10.5064/F6F769GQ/XX1CKL

      Full Citation: Reforma. (2001b, July 9). Eximen a colonos de multas por agua—Otorgan en Toluca descuentos de hasta el 100 por ciento en multas y recargos a clientes morosos.

      Analytic Note: This article, dated 2001, reports the conditions of the Toluca water utility approximately one year after the first right of center PAN mayor has taken office and begun exploring whether it is feasible to increase water prices or begin a commercialization strategy. It is interesting to note that the PAN water utility directors begin to asses the financial records of the water utility and find that the number of households that do not pay their water bills (approximately half of clients do not pay). However in order to perform basic maintenance tasks and keep the water utility afloat, functionaries must have some revenue coming in, especially after the lack of subsidies and direct transfers after services were decentralized. In order to have some income, they opt to forgive not the debt owed but the part of consumer debt that comes from interests and fees. They are asking customers to pay their debt balance, or a portion of it, and offering to pardon “late fees.” Although this is a means by which to increase the water utility’s income, it is a minor short-term fix that sidesteps the politically sensitive issue of raising tariffs for poor service.

      Excerpt: Tras dar a conocer que de las casi 120 mil tomas que se tienen registradas en el municpio, 50 mil aun no pagan el uso del vital liquid, el Organismo de Agua Potable de esta ciudad inicio un programa de descuentos de hasta el 100 por ciento en multas y recargos, accion que permitiria al ayuntamiento recaudar recursos por 150 millones de pesos… “nos preocupa que de alguna manera, este dinero, durante anios se ha venido manejando como un rezago que al paso del tiempo se hav uelto una especie de illusion pensar en el hecho de que acudiran a pagar

      Translation: After determining that of almost the 120,000 connections registered with the municipality, 50,000 [homes] don’t pay for water, the water utility of this city began a program of discounts up to 100% of all fines and fees on overdue water bills, policies that will allow the municipality to recuperate up to $150,000 million pesos. …“it is worrisome that in some sense these funds, for years have been managed like a debt that has become an allusion to think that it will some day be paid.

    1. WHEN it comes to the state of the environment, it’s easy to get swept up in the doom and gloom of it all. Global warming, high pollution levels, climate change and waste disposal all dominate the headlines, painting a bleak picture of what’s to come. But just because it seems hopeless doesn’t mean it is.T roubled times call for ingenious solutions, and Australia is home to some of the brightest ecovators in the world, like Robert Pascoe, Managing Director of environmental solutions company Closed Loop.Through its Simply Cups initiative, Closed Loop is tackling Australia’s overwhelming waste problem by teaming up with 7-Eleven to save 70 million coffee cups from landfill this year — equivalent to the number they sell each year. While the most sustainable option is forgoing a disposable cup for a reusable one, some circumstances are beyond your control. Like your inability to remember anything before you’ve had your morning coffee. Which is a bit of a catch 22, isn’t it? That’s why 7-Eleven are installing dedicated coffee cup recycling bins in over 200 of their stores nationally, as well as funding 50 other large-scale locations including offices, universities and construction sites as part of the initiative. Coffee cups are one of the largest contributors to litter waste in Australia, with an estimated one billion ending up in landfill each year because they are not recycled.Yep, unfortunately you read that right: one billion cups.Coffee cups are one of the largest contributors to litter waste in Australia, with an estimated one billion ending up in landfill each year because they are not recycled.“T here’s a lot of misinformation out there,” Mr Pascoe said. “The consumers aren’t at fault because ultimately they don’t know what can be recycled and what can’t. I think if we can get that information out there, then people will demand products that are made from recycled materials.”For the majority of us, learning that our disposable coffee cups fall into the category of what can’t be recycled is both confusing and devastating. But, as Mr Pascoe says: “You can’t unknow something once you know it.”“Part of the problem is they didn’t know they weren’t being recycled. A lot of people said, ‘oh no, I put my coffee cup into the recycling to be recycled’, but of course, they’re not,” he continued.A nd why is that, exactly? It’s because most paper coffee cups are lined with a waterproof plastic that makes them hard to recycle — but not impossible. And that’s where Simply Cups comes in. “We’ve come up with a system that can actually recycle these cups if we keep them separate. We’ve got technology available now to do it, but we have to have coffee cups kept as a separate stream. Or anything that has the plastic lining of milk cartons or juice boxes,” Mr Pascoe said. The technology he’s referring to is “kind of like an organic solvent” that works to separate compound materials. Invented by Dennis Collins in Ballarat, the technology was initially designed to separate the PVC material from the hessian used in truck liners and advertising banners.“Dennis called us and said, ‘I’ve got a solution for your coffee cups’,” Mr Pascoe said. “So now we’re building a plant that can process around 150 million coffee cups per year, which is about 1.5 thousand tonnes. That will only be about 10 per cent of disposable coffee cups alone, so we’re going to need quite a few of these plants eventually. We have the solution, but we really need the coffee cups. “That’s why we started the Simply Cups program.”And that’s where coffee addicts come in. Once they drop their coffee cups into a designated recycling bin, they will then be taken to a processing plant using this new technology. The inner plastic lining of the cups will be removed and then recycled into things like plastic outdoor furniture, safety equipment and food trays.A nother eco-minded initiative helping solve Australia’s waste problem is the anti food-waste website, Yume. The website fights food waste — which is a huge problem in Australia — by allowing consumers to buy surplus and unsold food from restaurants and cafes at half the price. The ‘wholesale marketplace for surplus food that saves you money while saving the planet’ shares the same idea as ‘YWaste’, an app allowing retailers to sell food that would otherwise be thrown away.Over its 40-year history, Patagonia has donated about $114 million to grassroots environmental organisations. Over its 40-year history, Patagonia has donated about $114 million to grassroots environmental organisations. Their advertising has begged consumers not to buy things they don’t need (even their own products) and they’ve implemented a program that repairs their products for free rather than replace them. Their commitment to the environment is reflected in the materials of their products too; wetsuits are made of natural rubber and raincoats are made from recycled plastic bottles. This year, the company launched Patagonia Action Works, a digital platform that aims that aims to connect people with environmental nonprofits, helping them get involved through events, petitions, and volunteering.H &M, too, are doing their bit to close the loop on fashion waste with their global campaign encouraging customers to recycle their clothes. They launched their garment collecting initiative in 2013, asking customers to drop off any unwanted items from their closets. Depending on the condition of the clothing, the items are either distributed to second-hand stores for resale, or recycled into other items like yarn, rags, and insulation materials.And just look at Elon Musk. He’s raking in bajillions of dollars every minute almost exclusively thanks to Tesla and SolarCity, which have disrupted an entire industry. While some snigger at his grand ideas — let’s colonise Mars! — the accomplishments of how he has changed the way we shop for cars are hard to deny.A fter a complicated relationship with French beauty giant L’Oreal, The Body Shop is now in the hands of ethical Brazilian beauty brand Natura, promising to return to its pioneering ethical business.“All of us share the aim of doing business as a transformational force for good and a force for change for society and for the environment. We couldn’t think of a better union to nurture our brand’s commitment to naturality and sustainability,” said the Body Shop’s Communications Manager, Jessica Styles. “In 2016, The Body Shop launched its new sustainability plan, Enrich Not Exploit, supporting the brand’s vision to be the most ethical and sustainable global business in the world.”“All of us share the aim of doing business as a transformational force for good and a force for change for society and for the environment. We couldn’t think of a better union to nurture our brand’s commitment to naturality and sustainability,”Jessica Styles, Body Shop’s Communications Manager The plan set fourteen targets to help The Body Shop become a "truly sustainable business", including powering all its stores with 100 per cent renewable energy, overhauling product packaging by slashing the use of fossil fuel-based wrapping and designing new sustainable innovations. This year there’s a special focus on protecting Red Pandas in Nepal, a species currently on the endangered list.“Now more than ever, companies have the platforms and frameworks to not only voice doing good for the planet and people but to also act on it. The more we see big brands doing their bit, the more it becomes entrenched as something that not only employees but customers should be thinking about,” Styles said. “It’s the big corporations of the world that can help foster and influence this through their own businesses.” Skin care brand Youth to The People has made a conscience decision to use 100 per cent recyclable packaging. Co-founder Joe Cloyes says the decision reflects the brand’s philosophies.“We believe in creating as little waste as possible, we believe in cruelty-free products, and we believe in sourcing the best ingredients for your health and your skin. It's just that simple,” he said. “Modern consumers care about their environment just as much as they care about their healthy skin, and they're very much connected. We have found it's very important to people.”FIND OUT how many cups of coffee you could be recycling EVEry yearHow many cups of coffee do you drink every day?How many days per week do you drink coffee?How many weeks per year do you drink coffee?Calculatecups of coffeecould be recycled These are but a few eco-minded initiatives that offer Australians the chance to do their part in securing a cleaner future for generations to come. For every company that spills millions of gallons of oil into our oceans, there are plenty more companies operating under a socially responsible ethos. They recognise enterprise and environmental responsibility can in fact go hand-in-hand.“I think every organisation should have a sustainability policy,” Mr Pascoe said. “There are plenty of organisations around that can have a positive impact on the environment. We’re talking about the effect they have on the environment, the way they consume energy, and the way they manage their waste. In my world, there’s no such thing as waste.” Over one billion cups end up in landfill each year because they are not recycled. That’s why 7-Eleven has joined forces with Simply Cups to establish cup recycling in Australia. Save your cups by placing them in a Simply Cups bin at any participating 7-Eleven #cuprescue. Story by Erin Bromhead | news.com.au

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    2. WHEN it comes to the state of the environment, it’s easy to get swept up in the doom and gloom of it all. Global warming, high pollution levels, climate change and waste disposal all dominate the headlines, painting a bleak picture of what’s to come. But just because it seems hopeless doesn’t mean it is.T roubled times call for ingenious solutions, and Australia is home to some of the brightest ecovators in the world, like Robert Pascoe, Managing Director of environmental solutions company Closed Loop.Through its Simply Cups initiative, Closed Loop is tackling Australia’s overwhelming waste problem by teaming up with 7-Eleven to save 70 million coffee cups from landfill this year — equivalent to the number they sell each year. While the most sustainable option is forgoing a disposable cup for a reusable one, some circumstances are beyond your control. Like your inability to remember anything before you’ve had your morning coffee. Which is a bit of a catch 22, isn’t it? That’s why 7-Eleven are installing dedicated coffee cup recycling bins in over 200 of their stores nationally, as well as funding 50 other large-scale locations including offices, universities and construction sites as part of the initiative. Coffee cups are one of the largest contributors to litter waste in Australia, with an estimated one billion ending up in landfill each year because they are not recycled.Yep, unfortunately you read that right: one billion cups.Coffee cups are one of the largest contributors to litter waste in Australia, with an estimated one billion ending up in landfill each year because they are not recycled.“T here’s a lot of misinformation out there,” Mr Pascoe said. “The consumers aren’t at fault because ultimately they don’t know what can be recycled and what can’t. I think if we can get that information out there, then people will demand products that are made from recycled materials.”For the majority of us, learning that our disposable coffee cups fall into the category of what can’t be recycled is both confusing and devastating. But, as Mr Pascoe says: “You can’t unknow something once you know it.”“Part of the problem is they didn’t know they weren’t being recycled. A lot of people said, ‘oh no, I put my coffee cup into the recycling to be recycled’, but of course, they’re not,” he continued.A nd why is that, exactly? It’s because most paper coffee cups are lined with a waterproof plastic that makes them hard to recycle — but not impossible. And that’s where Simply Cups comes in. “We’ve come up with a system that can actually recycle these cups if we keep them separate. We’ve got technology available now to do it, but we have to have coffee cups kept as a separate stream. Or anything that has the plastic lining of milk cartons or juice boxes,” Mr Pascoe said. The technology he’s referring to is “kind of like an organic solvent” that works to separate compound materials. Invented by Dennis Collins in Ballarat, the technology was initially designed to separate the PVC material from the hessian used in truck liners and advertising banners.“Dennis called us and said, ‘I’ve got a solution for your coffee cups’,” Mr Pascoe said. “So now we’re building a plant that can process around 150 million coffee cups per year, which is about 1.5 thousand tonnes. That will only be about 10 per cent of disposable coffee cups alone, so we’re going to need quite a few of these plants eventually. We have the solution, but we really need the coffee cups. “That’s why we started the Simply Cups program.”And that’s where coffee addicts come in. Once they drop their coffee cups into a designated recycling bin, they will then be taken to a processing plant using this new technology. The inner plastic lining of the cups will be removed and then recycled into things like plastic outdoor furniture, safety equipment and food trays.A nother eco-minded initiative helping solve Australia’s waste problem is the anti food-waste website, Yume. The website fights food waste — which is a huge problem in Australia — by allowing consumers to buy surplus and unsold food from restaurants and cafes at half the price. The ‘wholesale marketplace for surplus food that saves you money while saving the planet’ shares the same idea as ‘YWaste’, an app allowing retailers to sell food that would otherwise be thrown away.Over its 40-year history, Patagonia has donated about $114 million to grassroots environmental organisations. Over its 40-year history, Patagonia has donated about $114 million to grassroots environmental organisations. Their advertising has begged consumers not to buy things they don’t need (even their own products) and they’ve implemented a program that repairs their products for free rather than replace them. Their commitment to the environment is reflected in the materials of their products too; wetsuits are made of natural rubber and raincoats are made from recycled plastic bottles. This year, the company launched Patagonia Action Works, a digital platform that aims that aims to connect people with environmental nonprofits, helping them get involved through events, petitions, and volunteering.H &M, too, are doing their bit to close the loop on fashion waste with their global campaign encouraging customers to recycle their clothes. They launched their garment collecting initiative in 2013, asking customers to drop off any unwanted items from their closets. Depending on the condition of the clothing, the items are either distributed to second-hand stores for resale, or recycled into other items like yarn, rags, and insulation materials.And just look at Elon Musk. He’s raking in bajillions of dollars every minute almost exclusively thanks to Tesla and SolarCity, which have disrupted an entire industry. While some snigger at his grand ideas — let’s colonise Mars! — the accomplishments of how he has changed the way we shop for cars are hard to deny.A fter a complicated relationship with French beauty giant L’Oreal, The Body Shop is now in the hands of ethical Brazilian beauty brand Natura, promising to return to its pioneering ethical business.“All of us share the aim of doing business as a transformational force for good and a force for change for society and for the environment. We couldn’t think of a better union to nurture our brand’s commitment to naturality and sustainability,” said the Body Shop’s Communications Manager, Jessica Styles. “In 2016, The Body Shop launched its new sustainability plan, Enrich Not Exploit, supporting the brand’s vision to be the most ethical and sustainable global business in the world.”“All of us share the aim of doing business as a transformational force for good and a force for change for society and for the environment. We couldn’t think of a better union to nurture our brand’s commitment to naturality and sustainability,”Jessica Styles, Body Shop’s Communications Manager The plan set fourteen targets to help The Body Shop become a "truly sustainable business", including powering all its stores with 100 per cent renewable energy, overhauling product packaging by slashing the use of fossil fuel-based wrapping and designing new sustainable innovations. This year there’s a special focus on protecting Red Pandas in Nepal, a species currently on the endangered list.“Now more than ever, companies have the platforms and frameworks to not only voice doing good for the planet and people but to also act on it. The more we see big brands doing their bit, the more it becomes entrenched as something that not only employees but customers should be thinking about,” Styles said. “It’s the big corporations of the world that can help foster and influence this through their own businesses.” Skin care brand Youth to The People has made a conscience decision to use 100 per cent recyclable packaging. Co-founder Joe Cloyes says the decision reflects the brand’s philosophies.“We believe in creating as little waste as possible, we believe in cruelty-free products, and we believe in sourcing the best ingredients for your health and your skin. It's just that simple,” he said. “Modern consumers care about their environment just as much as they care about their healthy skin, and they're very much connected. We have found it's very important to people.”FIND OUT how many cups of coffee you could be recycling EVEry yearHow many cups of coffee do you drink every day?How many days per week do you drink coffee?How many weeks per year do you drink coffee?Calculatecups of coffeecould be recycled These are but a few eco-minded initiatives that offer Australians the chance to do their part in securing a cleaner future for generations to come. For every company that spills millions of gallons of oil into our oceans, there are plenty more companies operating under a socially responsible ethos. They recognise enterprise and environmental responsibility can in fact go hand-in-hand.“I think every organisation should have a sustainability policy,” Mr Pascoe said. “There are plenty of organisations around that can have a positive impact on the environment. We’re talking about the effect they have on the environment, the way they consume energy, and the way they manage their waste. In my world, there’s no such thing as waste.” Over one billion cups end up in landfill each year because they are not recycled. That’s why 7-Eleven has joined forces with Simply Cups to establish cup recycling in Australia. Save your cups by placing them in a Simply Cups bin at any participating 7-Eleven #cuprescue. Story by Erin Bromhead | news.com.au MORE IN THIS SERIESOur shocking coffee cup problemAre you one of Australia’s recycling experts?The psychology behind our recycling habits
    1. As a prototype it hits a sweet spot: it's challenging - it's no small feat to recognize handwritten digits - but it's not so difficult as to require an extremely complicated solution, or tremendous computational power. Furthermore, it's a great way to develop more advanced techniques, such as deep learning. And so throughout the book we'll return repeatedly to the problem of handwriting recognition. Later in the book, we'll discuss how these ideas may be applied to other problems in computer vision, and also in speech, natural language processing, and other domains.Of course, if the point of the chapter was only to write a computer program to recognize handwritten digits, then the chapter would be much shorter! But along the way we'll develop many key ideas about neural networks, including two important types of artificial neuron (the perceptron and the sigmoid neuron), and the standard learning algorithm for neural networks, known as stochastic gradient descent. Throughout, I focus on explaining why things are done the way they are, and on building your neural networks intuition. That requires a lengthier discussion than if I just presented the basic mechanics of what's going on, but it's worth it for the deeper understanding you'll attain. Amongst the payoffs, by the end of the chapter we'll be in position to understand what deep learning is, and why it matters.PerceptronsWhat is a neural network? To get started, I'll explain a type of artificial neuron called a perceptron. Perceptrons were developed in the 1950s and 1960s by the scientist Frank Rosenblatt, inspired by earlier work by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. Today, it's more common to use other models of artificial neurons - in this book, and in much modern work on neural networks, the main neuron model used is one called the sigmoid neuron. We'll get to sigmoid neurons shortly. But to understand why sigmoid neurons are defined the way they are, it's worth taking the time to first understand perceptrons.So how do perceptrons work? A perceptron takes several binary inputs, x1,x2,…x1,x2,…x_1, x_2, \ldots, and produces a single binary output: In the example shown the perceptron has three inputs, x1,x2,x3x1,x2,x3x_1, x_2, x_3. In general it could have more or fewer inputs. Rosenblatt proposed a simple rule to compute the output. He introduced weights, w1,w2,…w1,w2,…w_1,w_2,\ldots, real numbers expressing the importance of the respective inputs to the output. The neuron's output, 000 or 111, is determined by whether the weighted sum ∑jwjxj∑jwjxj\sum_j w_j x_j is less than or greater than some threshold value. Just like the weights, the threshold is a real number which is a parameter of the neuron. To put it in more precise algebraic terms: output={01if ∑jwjxj≤ thresholdif ∑jwjxj> threshold(1)(1)output={0if ∑jwjxj≤ threshold1if ∑jwjxj> threshold\begin{eqnarray} \mbox{output} & = & \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 0 & \mbox{if } \sum_j w_j x_j \leq \mbox{ threshold} \\ 1 & \mbox{if } \sum_j w_j x_j > \mbox{ threshold} \end{array} \right. \tag{1}\end{eqnarray} That's all there is to how a perceptron works!That's the basic mathematical model. A way you can think about the perceptron is that it's a device that makes decisions by weighing up evidence. Let me give an example. It's not a very realistic example, but it's easy to understand, and we'll soon get to more realistic examples. Suppose the weekend is coming up, and you've heard that there's going to be a cheese festival in your city. You like cheese, and are trying to decide whether or not to go to the festival. You might make your decision by weighing up three factors: Is the weather good? Does your boyfriend or girlfriend want to accompany you? Is the festival near public transit? (You don't own a car). We can represent these three factors by corresponding binary variables x1,x2x1,x2x_1, x_2, and x3x3x_3. For instance, we'd have x1=1x1=1x_1 = 1 if the weather is good, and x1=0x1=0x_1 = 0 if the weather is bad. Similarly, x2=1x2=1x_2 = 1 if your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to go, and x2=0x2=0x_2 = 0 if not. And similarly again for x3x3x_3 and public transit.Now, suppose you absolutely adore cheese, so much so that you're happy to go to the festival even if your boyfriend or girlfriend is uninterested and the festival is hard to get to. But perhaps you really loathe bad weather, and there's no way you'd go to the festival if the weather is bad. You can use perceptrons to model this kind of decision-making. One way to do this is to choose a weight w1=6w1=6w_1 = 6 for the weather, and w2=2w2=2w_2 = 2 and w3=2w3=2w_3 = 2 for the other conditions. The larger value of w1w1w_1 indicates that the weather matters a lot to you, much more than whether your boyfriend or girlfriend joins you, or the nearness of public transit. Finally, suppose you choose a threshold of 555 for the perceptron. With these choices, the perceptron implements the desired decision-making model, outputting 111 whenever the weather is good, and 000 whenever the weather is bad. It makes no difference to the output whether your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to go, or whether public transit is nearby.By varying the weights and the threshold, we can get different models of decision-making. For example, suppose we instead chose a threshold of 333. Then the perceptron would decide that you should go to the festival whenever the weather was good or when both the festival was near public transit and your boyfriend or girlfriend was willing to join you. In other words, it'd be a different model of decision-making. Dropping the threshold means you're more willing to go to the festival.Obviously, the perceptron isn't a complete model of human decision-making! But what the example illustrates is how a perceptron can weigh up different kinds of evidence in order to make decisions. And it should seem plausible that a complex network of perceptrons could make quite subtle decisions: In this network, the first column of perceptrons - what we'll call the first layer of perceptrons - is making three very simple decisions, by weighing the input evidence. What about the perceptrons in the second layer? Each of those perceptrons is making a decision by weighing up the results from the first layer of decision-making. In this way a perceptron in the second layer can make a decision at a more complex and more abstract level than perceptrons in the first layer. And even more complex decisions can be made by the perceptron in the third layer. In this way, a many-layer network of perceptrons can engage in sophisticated decision making.Incidentally, when I defined perceptrons I said that a perceptron has just a single output. In the network above the perceptrons look like they have multiple outputs. In fact, they're still single output. The multiple output arrows are merely a useful way of indicating that the output from a perceptron is being used as the input to several other perceptrons. It's less unwieldy than drawing a single output line which then splits.Let's simplify the way we describe perceptrons. The condition ∑jwjxj>threshold∑jwjxj>threshold\sum_j w_j x_j > \mbox{threshold} is cumbersome, and we can make two notational changes to simplify it. The first change is to write ∑jwjxj∑jwjxj\sum_j w_j x_j as a dot product, w⋅x≡∑jwjxjw⋅x≡∑jwjxjw \cdot x \equiv \sum_j w_j x_j, where www and xxx are vectors whose components are the weights and inputs, respectively. The second change is to move the threshold to the other side of the inequality, and to replace it by what's known as the perceptron's bias, b≡−thresholdb≡−thresholdb \equiv -\mbox{threshold}. Using the bias instead of the threshold, the perceptron rule can be rewritten: output={01if w⋅x+b≤0if w⋅x+b>0(2)(2)output={0if w⋅x+b≤01if w⋅x+b>0\begin{eqnarray} \mbox{output} = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} 0 & \mbox{if } w\cdot x + b \leq 0 \\ 1 & \mbox{if } w\cdot x + b > 0 \end{array} \right. \tag{2}\end{eqnarray} You can think of the bias as a measure of how easy it is to get the perceptron to output a 111. Or to put it in more biological terms, the bias is a measure of how easy it is to get the perceptron to fire. For a perceptron with a really big bias, it's extremely easy for the perceptron to output a 111. But if the bias is very negative, then it's difficult for the perceptron to output a 111. Obviously, introducing the bias is only a small change in how we describe perceptrons, but we'll see later that it leads to further notational simplifications. Because of this, in the remainder of the book we won't use the threshold, we'll always use the bias.I've described perceptrons as a method for weighing evidence to make decisions. Another way perceptrons can be used is to compute the elementary logical functions we usually think of as underlying computation, functions such as AND, OR, and NAND. For example, suppose we have a perceptron with two inputs, each with weight −2−2-2, and an overall bias of 333. Here's our perceptron: Then we see that input 000000 produces output 111, since (−2)∗0+(−2)∗0+3=3(−2)∗0+(−2)∗0+3=3(-2)*0+(-2)*0+3 = 3 is positive. Here, I've introduced the ∗∗* symbol to make the multiplications explicit. Similar calculations show that the inputs 010101 and 101010 produce output 111. But the input 111111 produces output 000, since (−2)∗1+(−2)∗1+3=−1(−2)∗1+(−2)∗1+3=−1(-2)*1+(-2)*1+3 = -1 is negative. And so our perceptron implements a NAND gate!The NAND example shows that we can use perceptrons to compute simple logical functions. In fact, we can use networks of perceptrons to compute any logical function at all. The reason is that the NAND gate is universal for computation, that is, we can build any computation up out of NAND gates. For example, we can use NAND gates to build a circuit which adds two bits, x1x1x_1 and x2x2x_2. This requires computing the bitwise sum, x1⊕x2x1⊕x2x_1 \oplus x_2, as well as a carry bit which is set to 111 when both x1x1x_1 and x2x2x_2 are 111, i.e., the carry bit is just the bitwise product x1x2x1x2x_1 x_2: To get an equivalent network of perceptrons we replace all the NAND gates by perceptrons with two inputs, each with weight −2−2-2, and an overall bias of 333. Here's the resulting network. Note that I've moved the perceptron corresponding to the bottom right NAND gate a little, just to make it easier to draw the arrows on the diagram: One notable aspect of this network of perceptrons is that the output from the leftmost perceptron is used twice as input to the bottommost perceptron. When I defined the perceptron model I didn't say whether this kind of double-output-to-the-same-place was allowed. Actually, it doesn't much matter. If we don't want to allow this kind of thing, then it's possible to simply merge the two lines, into a single connection with a weight of -4 instead of two connections with -2 weights. (If you don't find this obvious, you should stop and prove to yourself that this is equivalent.) With that change, the network looks as follows, with all unmarked weights equal to -2, all biases equal to 3, and a single weight of -4, as marked: Up to now I've been drawing inputs like x1x1x_1 and x2x2x_2 as variables floating to the left of the network of perceptrons. In fact, it's conventional to draw an extra layer of perceptrons - the input layer - to encode the inputs: This notation for input perceptrons, in which we have an output, but no inputs, is a shorthand. It doesn't actually mean a perceptron with no inputs. To see this, suppose we did have a perceptron with no inputs. Then the weighted sum ∑jwjxj∑jwjxj\sum_j w_j x_j would always be zero, and so the perceptron would output 111 if b>0b>0b > 0, and 000 if b≤0b≤0b \leq 0. That is, the perceptron would simply output a fixed value, not the desired value (x1x1x_1, in the example above). It's better to think of the input perceptrons as not really being perceptrons at all, but rather special units which are simply defined to output the desired values, x1,x2,…x1,x2,…x_1, x_2,\ldots.The adder example demonstrates how a network of perceptrons can be used to simulate a circuit containing many NAND gates. And because NAND gates are universal for computation, it follows that perceptrons are also universal for computation.The computational universality of perceptrons is simultaneously reassuring and disappointing. It's reassuring because it tells us that networks of perceptrons can be as powerful as any other computing device. But it's also disappointing, because it makes it seem as though perceptrons are merely a new type of NAND gate. That's hardly big news!However, the situation is better than this view suggests. It turns out that we can devise learning algorithms which can automatically tune the weights and biases of a network of artificial neurons. This tuning happens in response to external stimuli, without direct intervention by a programmer. These learning algorithms enable us to use artificial neurons in a way which is radically different to conventional logic gates. Instead of explicitly laying out a circuit of NAND and other gates, our neural networks can simply learn to solve problems, sometimes problems where it would be extremely difficult to directly design a conventional circuit.Sigmoid neuronsLearning algorithms sound terrific. But how can we devise such algorithms for a neural network? Suppose we have a network of perceptrons that we'd like to use to learn to solve some problem. For example, the inputs to the network might be the raw pixel data from a scanned, handwritten image of a digit. And we'd like the network to learn weights and biases so that the output from the network correctly classifies the digit. To see how learning might work, suppose we make a small change in some weight (or bias) in the network. What we'd like is for this small change in weight to cause only a small corresponding change in the output from the network. As we'll see in a moment, this property will make learning possible. Schematically, here's what we want (obviously this network is too simple to do handwriting recognition!): If it were true that a small change in a weight (or bias) causes only a small change in output, then we could use this fact to modify the weights and biases to get our network to behave more in the manner we want. For example, suppose the network was mistakenly classifying an image as an "8" when it should be a "9". We could figure out how to make a small change in the weights and biases so the network gets a little closer to classifying the image as a "9". And then we'd repeat this, changing the weights and biases over and over to produce better and better output. The network would be learning.The problem is that this isn't what happens when our network contains perceptrons. In fact, a small change in the weights or bias of any single perceptron in the network can sometimes cause the output of that perceptron to completely flip, say from 000 to 111. That flip may then cause the behaviour of the rest of the network to completely change in some very complicated way. So while your "9" might now be classified correctly, the behaviour of the network on all the other images is likely to have completely changed in some hard-to-control way. That makes it difficult to see how to gradually modify the weights and biases so that the network gets closer to the desired behaviour. Perhaps there's some clever way of getting around this problem. But it's not immediately obvious how we can get a network of perceptrons to learn.We can overcome this problem by introducing a new type of artificial neuron called a sigmoid neuron. Sigmoid neurons are similar to perceptrons, but modified so that small changes in their weights and bias cause only a small change in their output. That's the crucial fact which will allow a network of sigmoid neurons to learn.Okay, let me describe the sigmoid neuron. We'll depict sigmoid neurons in the same way we depicted perceptrons: Just like a perceptron, the sigmoid neuron has inputs, x1,x2,…x1,x2,…x_1, x_2, \ldots. But instead of being just 000 or 111, these inputs can also take on any values between 000 and 111. So, for instance, 0.638…0.638…0.638\ldots is a valid input for a sigmoid neuron. Also just like a perceptron, the sigmoid neuron has weights for each input, w1,w2,…w1,w2,…w_1, w_2, \ldots, and an overall bias, bbb. But the output is not 000 or 111. Instead, it's σ(w⋅x+b)σ(w⋅x+b)\sigma(w \cdot x+b), where σσ\sigma is called the sigmoid function* *Incidentally, σσ\sigma is sometimes called the logistic function, and this new class of neurons called logistic neurons. It's useful to remember this terminology, since these terms are used by many people working with neural nets. However, we'll stick with the sigmoid terminology., and is defined by: σ(z)≡11+e−z.(3)(3)σ(z)≡11+e−z.\begin{eqnarray} \sigma(z) \equiv \frac{1}{1+e^{-z}}. \tag{3}\end{eqnarray} To put it all a little more explicitly, the output of a sigmoid neuron with inputs x1,x2,…x1,x2,…x_1,x_2,\ldots, weights w1,w2,…w1,w2,…w_1,w_2,\ldots, and bias bbb is 11+exp(−∑jwjxj−b).(4)(4)11+exp⁡(−∑jwjxj−b).\begin{eqnarray} \frac{1}{1+\exp(-\sum_j w_j x_j-b)}. \tag{4}\end{eqnarray}At first sight, sigmoid neurons appear very different to perceptrons. The algebraic form of the sigmoid function may seem opaque and forbidding if you're not already familiar with it. In fact, there are many similarities between perceptrons and sigmoid neurons, and the algebraic form of the sigmoid function turns out to be more of a technical detail than a true barrier to understanding.To understand the similarity to the perceptron model, suppose z≡w⋅x+bz≡w⋅x+bz \equiv w \cdot x + b is a large positive number. Then e−z≈0e−z≈0e^{-z} \approx 0 and so σ(z)≈1σ(z)≈1\sigma(z) \approx 1. In other words, when z=w⋅x+bz=w⋅x+bz = w \cdot x+b is large and positive, the output from the sigmoid neuron is approximately 111, just as it would have been for a perceptron. Suppose on the other hand that z=w⋅x+bz=w⋅x+bz = w \cdot x+b is very negative. Then e−z→∞e−z→∞e^{-z} \rightarrow \infty, and σ(z)≈0σ(z)≈0\sigma(z) \approx 0. So when z=w⋅x+bz=w⋅x+bz = w \cdot x +b is very negative, the behaviour of a sigmoid neuron also closely approximates a perceptron. It's only when w⋅x+bw⋅x+bw \cdot x+b is of modest size that there's much deviation from the perceptron model.What about the algebraic form of σσ\sigma? How can we understand that? In fact, the exact form of σσ\sigma isn't so important - what really matters is the shape of the function when plotted. Here's the shape: -4-3-2-1012340.00.20.40.60.81.0zsigmoid function function s(x) {return 1/(1+Math.exp(-x));} var m = [40, 120, 50, 120]; var height = 290 - m[0] - m[2]; var width = 600 - m[1] - m[3]; var xmin = -5; var xmax = 5; var sample = 400; var x1 = d3.scale.linear().domain([0, sample]).range([xmin, xmax]); var data = d3.range(sample).map(function(d){ return { x: x1(d), y: s(x1(d))}; }); var x = d3.scale.linear().domain([xmin, xmax]).range([0, width]); var y = d3.scale.linear() .domain([0, 1]) .range([height, 0]); var line = d3.svg.line() .x(function(d) { return x(d.x); }) .y(function(d) { return y(d.y); }) var graph = d3.select("#sigmoid_graph") .append("svg") .attr("width", width + m[1] + m[3]) .attr("height", height + m[0] + m[2]) .append("g") .attr("transform", "translate(" + m[3] + "," + m[0] + ")"); var xAxis = d3.svg.axis() .scale(x) .tickValues(d3.range(-4, 5, 1)) .orient("bottom") graph.append("g") .attr("class", "x axis") .attr("transform", "translate(0, " + height + ")") .call(xAxis); var yAxis = d3.svg.axis() .scale(y) .tickValues(d3.range(0, 1.01, 0.2)) .orient("left") .ticks(5) graph.append("g") .attr("class", "y axis") .call(yAxis); graph.append("path").attr("d", line(data)); graph.append("text") .attr("class", "x label") .attr("text-anchor", "end") .attr("x", width/2) .attr("y", height+35) .text("z"); graph.append("text") .attr("x", (width / 2)) .attr("y", -10) .attr("text-anchor", "middle") .style("font-size", "16px") .text("sigmoid function"); This shape is a smoothed out version of a step function: -4-3-2-1012340.00.20.40.60.81.0zstep function function s(x) {return x < 0 ? 0 : 1;} var m = [40, 120, 50, 120]; var height = 290 - m[0] - m[2]; var width = 600 - m[1] - m[3]; var xmin = -5; var xmax = 5; var sample = 400; var x1 = d3.scale.linear().domain([0, sample]).range([xmin, xmax]); var data = d3.range(sample).map(function(d){ return { x: x1(d), y: s(x1(d))}; }); var x = d3.scale.linear().domain([xmin, xmax]).range([0, width]); var y = d3.scale.linear() .domain([0,1]) .range([height, 0]); var line = d3.svg.line() .x(function(d) { return x(d.x); }) .y(function(d) { return y(d.y); }) var graph = d3.select("#step_graph") .append("svg") .attr("width", width + m[1] + m[3]) .attr("height", height + m[0] + m[2]) .append("g") .attr("transform", "translate(" + m[3] + "," + m[0] + ")"); var xAxis = d3.svg.axis() .scale(x) .tickValues(d3.range(-4, 5, 1)) .orient("bottom") graph.append("g") .attr("class", "x axis") .attr("transform", "translate(0, " + height + ")") .call(xAxis); var yAxis = d3.svg.axis() .scale(y) .tickValues(d3.range(0, 1.01, 0.2)) .orient("left") .ticks(5) graph.append("g") .attr("class", "y axis") .call(yAxis); graph.append("path").attr("d", line(data)); graph.append("text") .attr("class", "x label") .attr("text-anchor", "end") .attr("x", width/2) .attr("y", height+35) .text("z"); graph.append("text") .attr("x", (width / 2)) .attr("y", -10) .attr("text-anchor", "middle") .style("font-size", "16px") .text("step function"); If σσ\sigma had in fact been a step function, then the sigmoid neuron would be a perceptron, since the output would be 111 or 000 depending on whether w⋅x+bw⋅x+bw\cdot x+b was positive or negative* *Actually, when w⋅x+b=0w⋅x+b=0w \cdot x +b = 0 the perceptron outputs 000, while the step function outputs 111. So, strictly speaking, we'd need to modify the step function at that one point. But you get the idea.. By using the actual σσ\sigma function we get, as already implied above, a smoothed out perceptron. Indeed, it's the smoothness of the σσ\sigma function that is the crucial fact, not its detailed form. The smoothness of σσ\sigma means that small changes ΔwjΔwj\Delta w_j in the weights and ΔbΔb\Delta b in the bias will produce a small change ΔoutputΔoutput\Delta \mbox{output} in the output from the neuron. In fact, calculus tells us that ΔoutputΔoutput\Delta \mbox{output} is well approximated by Δoutput≈∑j∂output∂wjΔwj+∂output∂bΔb,(5)(5)Δoutput≈∑j∂output∂wjΔwj+∂output∂bΔb,\begin{eqnarray} \Delta \mbox{output} \approx \sum_j \frac{\partial \, \mbox{output}}{\partial w_j} \Delta w_j + \frac{\partial \, \mbox{output}}{\partial b} \Delta b, \tag{5}\end{eqnarray} where the sum is over all the weights, wjwjw_j, and ∂output/∂wj∂output/∂wj\partial \, \mbox{output} / \partial w_j and ∂output/∂b∂output/∂b\partial \, \mbox{output} /\partial b denote partial derivatives of the outputoutput\mbox{output} with respect to wjwjw_j and bbb, respectively. Don't panic if you're not comfortable with partial derivatives! While the expression above looks complicated, with all the partial derivatives, it's actually saying something very simple (and which is very good news): ΔoutputΔoutput\Delta \mbox{output} is a linear function of the changes ΔwjΔwj\Delta w_j and ΔbΔb\Delta b in the weights and bias. This linearity makes it easy to choose small changes in the weights and biases to achieve any desired small change in the output. So while sigmoid neurons have much of the same qualitative behaviour as perceptrons, they make it much easier to figure out how changing the weights and biases will change the output.If it's the shape of σσ\sigma which really matters, and not its exact form, then why use the particular form used for σσ\sigma in Equation (3)σ(z)≡11+e−zσ(z)≡11+e−z\begin{eqnarray} \sigma(z) \equiv \frac{1}{1+e^{-z}} \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_387419264610_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_387419264610').toggle('slow', function() {});});? In fact, later in the book we will occasionally consider neurons where the output is f(w⋅x+b)f(w⋅x+b)f(w \cdot x + b) for some other activation function f(⋅)f(⋅)f(\cdot). The main thing that changes when we use a different activation function is that the particular values for the partial derivatives in Equation (5)Δoutput≈∑j∂output∂wjΔwj+∂output∂bΔbΔoutput≈∑j∂output∂wjΔwj+∂output∂bΔb\begin{eqnarray} \Delta \mbox{output} \approx \sum_j \frac{\partial \, \mbox{output}}{\partial w_j} \Delta w_j + \frac{\partial \, \mbox{output}}{\partial b} \Delta b \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_727997094331_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_727997094331').toggle('slow', function() {});}); change. It turns out that when we compute those partial derivatives later, using σσ\sigma will simplify the algebra, simply because exponentials have lovely properties when differentiated. In any case, σσ\sigma is commonly-used in work on neural nets, and is the activation function we'll use most often in this book.How should we interpret the output from a sigmoid neuron? Obviously, one big difference between perceptrons and sigmoid neurons is that sigmoid neurons don't just output 000 or 111. They can have as output any real number between 000 and 111, so values such as 0.173…0.173…0.173\ldots and 0.689…0.689…0.689\ldots are legitimate outputs. This can be useful, for example, if we want to use the output value to represent the average intensity of the pixels in an image input to a neural network. But sometimes it can be a nuisance. Suppose we want the output from the network to indicate either "the input image is a 9" or "the input image is not a 9". Obviously, it'd be easiest to do this if the output was a 000 or a 111, as in a perceptron. But in practice we can set up a convention to deal with this, for example, by deciding to interpret any output of at least 0.50.50.5 as indicating a "9", and any output less than 0.50.50.5 as indicating "not a 9". I'll always explicitly state when we're using such a convention, so it shouldn't cause any confusion. Exercises Sigmoid neurons simulating perceptrons, part I \mbox{} Suppose we take all the weights and biases in a network of perceptrons, and multiply them by a positive constant, c>0c>0c > 0. Show that the behaviour of the network doesn't change.Sigmoid neurons simulating perceptrons, part II \mbox{} Suppose we have the same setup as the last problem - a network of perceptrons. Suppose also that the overall input to the network of perceptrons has been chosen. We won't need the actual input value, we just need the input to have been fixed. Suppose the weights and biases are such that w⋅x+b≠0w⋅x+b≠0w \cdot x + b \neq 0 for the input xxx to any particular perceptron in the network. Now replace all the perceptrons in the network by sigmoid neurons, and multiply the weights and biases by a positive constant c>0c>0c > 0. Show that in the limit as c→∞c→∞c \rightarrow \infty the behaviour of this network of sigmoid neurons is exactly the same as the network of perceptrons. How can this fail when w⋅x+b=0w⋅x+b=0w \cdot x + b = 0 for one of the perceptrons? The architecture of neural networksIn the next section I'll introduce a neural network that can do a pretty good job classifying handwritten digits. In preparation for that, it helps to explain some terminology that lets us name different parts of a network. Suppose we have the network: As mentioned earlier, the leftmost layer in this network is called the input layer, and the neurons within the layer are called input neurons. The rightmost or output layer contains the output neurons, or, as in this case, a single output neuron. The middle layer is called a hidden layer, since the neurons in this layer are neither inputs nor outputs. The term "hidden" perhaps sounds a little mysterious - the first time I heard the term I thought it must have some deep philosophical or mathematical significance - but it really means nothing more than "not an input or an output". The network above has just a single hidden layer, but some networks have multiple hidden layers. For example, the following four-layer network has two hidden layers: Somewhat confusingly, and for historical reasons, such multiple layer networks are sometimes called multilayer perceptrons or MLPs, despite being made up of sigmoid neurons, not perceptrons. I'm not going to use the MLP terminology in this book, since I think it's confusing, but wanted to warn you of its existence.The design of the input and output layers in a network is often straightforward. For example, suppose we're trying to determine whether a handwritten image depicts a "9" or not. A natural way to design the network is to encode the intensities of the image pixels into the input neurons. If the image is a 646464 by 646464 greyscale image, then we'd have 4,096=64×644,096=64×644,096 = 64 \times 64 input neurons, with the intensities scaled appropriately between 000 and 111. The output layer will contain just a single neuron, with output values of less than 0.50.50.5 indicating "input image is not a 9", and values greater than 0.50.50.5 indicating "input image is a 9 ". While the design of the input and output layers of a neural network is often straightforward, there can be quite an art to the design of the hidden layers. In particular, it's not possible to sum up the design process for the hidden layers with a few simple rules of thumb. Instead, neural networks researchers have developed many design heuristics for the hidden layers, which help people get the behaviour they want out of their nets. For example, such heuristics can be used to help determine how to trade off the number of hidden layers against the time required to train the network. We'll meet several such design heuristics later in this book. Up to now, we've been discussing neural networks where the output from one layer is used as input to the next layer. Such networks are called feedforward neural networks. This means there are no loops in the network - information is always fed forward, never fed back. If we did have loops, we'd end up with situations where the input to the σσ\sigma function depended on the output. That'd be hard to make sense of, and so we don't allow such loops.However, there are other models of artificial neural networks in which feedback loops are possible. These models are called recurrent neural networks. The idea in these models is to have neurons which fire for some limited duration of time, before becoming quiescent. That firing can stimulate other neurons, which may fire a little while later, also for a limited duration. That causes still more neurons to fire, and so over time we get a cascade of neurons firing. Loops don't cause problems in such a model, since a neuron's output only affects its input at some later time, not instantaneously.Recurrent neural nets have been less influential than feedforward networks, in part because the learning algorithms for recurrent nets are (at least to date) less powerful. But recurrent networks are still extremely interesting. They're much closer in spirit to how our brains work than feedforward networks. And it's possible that recurrent networks can solve important problems which can only be solved with great difficulty by feedforward networks. However, to limit our scope, in this book we're going to concentrate on the more widely-used feedforward networks.A simple network to classify handwritten digitsHaving defined neural networks, let's return to handwriting recognition. We can split the problem of recognizing handwritten digits into two sub-problems. First, we'd like a way of breaking an image containing many digits into a sequence of separate images, each containing a single digit. For example, we'd like to break the imageinto six separate images, We humans solve this segmentation problem with ease, but it's challenging for a computer program to correctly break up the image. Once the image has been segmented, the program then needs to classify each individual digit. So, for instance, we'd like our program to recognize that the first digit above,is a 5.We'll focus on writing a program to solve the second problem, that is, classifying individual digits. We do this because it turns out that the segmentation problem is not so difficult to solve, once you have a good way of classifying individual digits. There are many approaches to solving the segmentation problem. One approach is to trial many different ways of segmenting the image, using the individual digit classifier to score each trial segmentation. A trial segmentation gets a high score if the individual digit classifier is confident of its classification in all segments, and a low score if the classifier is having a lot of trouble in one or more segments. The idea is that if the classifier is having trouble somewhere, then it's probably having trouble because the segmentation has been chosen incorrectly. This idea and other variations can be used to solve the segmentation problem quite well. So instead of worrying about segmentation we'll concentrate on developing a neural network which can solve the more interesting and difficult problem, namely, recognizing individual handwritten digits.To recognize individual digits we will use a three-layer neural network: The input layer of the network contains neurons encoding the values of the input pixels. As discussed in the next section, our training data for the network will consist of many 282828 by 282828 pixel images of scanned handwritten digits, and so the input layer contains 784=28×28784=28×28784 = 28 \times 28 neurons. For simplicity I've omitted most of the 784784784 input neurons in the diagram above. The input pixels are greyscale, with a value of 0.00.00.0 representing white, a value of 1.01.01.0 representing black, and in between values representing gradually darkening shades of grey.The second layer of the network is a hidden layer. We denote the number of neurons in this hidden layer by nnn, and we'll experiment with different values for nnn. The example shown illustrates a small hidden layer, containing just n=15n=15n = 15 neurons.The output layer of the network contains 10 neurons. If the first neuron fires, i.e., has an output ≈1≈1\approx 1, then that will indicate that the network thinks the digit is a 000. If the second neuron fires then that will indicate that the network thinks the digit is a 111. And so on. A little more precisely, we number the output neurons from 000 through 999, and figure out which neuron has the highest activation value. If that neuron is, say, neuron number 666, then our network will guess that the input digit was a 666. And so on for the other output neurons.You might wonder why we use 101010 output neurons. After all, the goal of the network is to tell us which digit (0,1,2,…,90,1,2,…,90, 1, 2, \ldots, 9) corresponds to the input image. A seemingly natural way of doing that is to use just 444 output neurons, treating each neuron as taking on a binary value, depending on whether the neuron's output is closer to 000 or to 111. Four neurons are enough to encode the answer, since 24=1624=162^4 = 16 is more than the 10 possible values for the input digit. Why should our network use 101010 neurons instead? Isn't that inefficient? The ultimate justification is empirical: we can try out both network designs, and it turns out that, for this particular problem, the network with 101010 output neurons learns to recognize digits better than the network with 444 output neurons. But that leaves us wondering why using 101010 output neurons works better. Is there some heuristic that would tell us in advance that we should use the 101010-output encoding instead of the 444-output encoding?To understand why we do this, it helps to think about what the neural network is doing from first principles. Consider first the case where we use 101010 output neurons. Let's concentrate on the first output neuron, the one that's trying to decide whether or not the digit is a 000. It does this by weighing up evidence from the hidden layer of neurons. What are those hidden neurons doing? Well, just suppose for the sake of argument that the first neuron in the hidden layer detects whether or not an image like the following is present:It can do this by heavily weighting input pixels which overlap with the image, and only lightly weighting the other inputs. In a similar way, let's suppose for the sake of argument that the second, third, and fourth neurons in the hidden layer detect whether or not the following images are present:As you may have guessed, these four images together make up the 000 image that we saw in the line of digits shown earlier:So if all four of these hidden neurons are firing then we can conclude that the digit is a 000. Of course, that's not the only sort of evidence we can use to conclude that the image was a 000 - we could legitimately get a 000 in many other ways (say, through translations of the above images, or slight distortions). But it seems safe to say that at least in this case we'd conclude that the input was a 000.Supposing the neural network functions in this way, we can give a plausible explanation for why it's better to have 101010 outputs from the network, rather than 444. If we had 444 outputs, then the first output neuron would be trying to decide what the most significant bit of the digit was. And there's no easy way to relate that most significant bit to simple shapes like those shown above. It's hard to imagine that there's any good historical reason the component shapes of the digit will be closely related to (say) the most significant bit in the output.Now, with all that said, this is all just a heuristic. Nothing says that the three-layer neural network has to operate in the way I described, with the hidden neurons detecting simple component shapes. Maybe a clever learning algorithm will find some assignment of weights that lets us use only 444 output neurons. But as a heuristic the way of thinking I've described works pretty well, and can save you a lot of time in designing good neural network architectures.Exercise There is a way of determining the bitwise representation of a digit by adding an extra layer to the three-layer network above. The extra layer converts the output from the previous layer into a binary representation, as illustrated in the figure below. Find a set of weights and biases for the new output layer. Assume that the first 333 layers of neurons are such that the correct output in the third layer (i.e., the old output layer) has activation at least 0.990.990.99, and incorrect outputs have activation less than 0.010.010.01. Learning with gradient descentNow that we have a design for our neural network, how can it learn to recognize digits? The first thing we'll need is a data set to learn from - a so-called training data set. We'll use the MNIST data set, which contains tens of thousands of scanned images of handwritten digits, together with their correct classifications. MNIST's name comes from the fact that it is a modified subset of two data sets collected by NIST, the United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology. Here's a few images from MNIST: As you can see, these digits are, in fact, the same as those shown at the beginning of this chapter as a challenge to recognize. Of course, when testing our network we'll ask it to recognize images which aren't in the training set!The MNIST data comes in two parts. The first part contains 60,000 images to be used as training data. These images are scanned handwriting samples from 250 people, half of whom were US Census Bureau employees, and half of whom were high school students. The images are greyscale and 28 by 28 pixels in size. The second part of the MNIST data set is 10,000 images to be used as test data. Again, these are 28 by 28 greyscale images. We'll use the test data to evaluate how well our neural network has learned to recognize digits. To make this a good test of performance, the test data was taken from a different set of 250 people than the original training data (albeit still a group split between Census Bureau employees and high school students). This helps give us confidence that our system can recognize digits from people whose writing it didn't see during training.We'll use the notation xxx to denote a training input. It'll be convenient to regard each training input xxx as a 28×28=78428×28=78428 \times 28 = 784-dimensional vector. Each entry in the vector represents the grey value for a single pixel in the image. We'll denote the corresponding desired output by y=y(x)y=y(x)y = y(x), where yyy is a 101010-dimensional vector. For example, if a particular training image, xxx, depicts a 666, then y(x)=(0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0)Ty(x)=(0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0)Ty(x) = (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0)^T is the desired output from the network. Note that TTT here is the transpose operation, turning a row vector into an ordinary (column) vector.What we'd like is an algorithm which lets us find weights and biases so that the output from the network approximates y(x)y(x)y(x) for all training inputs xxx. To quantify how well we're achieving this goal we define a cost function* *Sometimes referred to as a loss or objective function. We use the term cost function throughout this book, but you should note the other terminology, since it's often used in research papers and other discussions of neural networks. : C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2.(6)(6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2.\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2. \tag{6}\end{eqnarray} Here, www denotes the collection of all weights in the network, bbb all the biases, nnn is the total number of training inputs, aaa is the vector of outputs from the network when xxx is input, and the sum is over all training inputs, xxx. Of course, the output aaa depends on xxx, www and bbb, but to keep the notation simple I haven't explicitly indicated this dependence. The notation ∥v∥‖v‖\| v \| just denotes the usual length function for a vector vvv. We'll call CCC the quadratic cost function; it's also sometimes known as the mean squared error or just MSE. Inspecting the form of the quadratic cost function, we see that C(w,b)C(w,b)C(w,b) is non-negative, since every term in the sum is non-negative. Furthermore, the cost C(w,b)C(w,b)C(w,b) becomes small, i.e., C(w,b)≈0C(w,b)≈0C(w,b) \approx 0, precisely when y(x)y(x)y(x) is approximately equal to the output, aaa, for all training inputs, xxx. So our training algorithm has done a good job if it can find weights and biases so that C(w,b)≈0C(w,b)≈0C(w,b) \approx 0. By contrast, it's not doing so well when C(w,b)C(w,b)C(w,b) is large - that would mean that y(x)y(x)y(x) is not close to the output aaa for a large number of inputs. So the aim of our training algorithm will be to minimize the cost C(w,b)C(w,b)C(w,b) as a function of the weights and biases. In other words, we want to find a set of weights and biases which make the cost as small as possible. We'll do that using an algorithm known as gradient descent. Why introduce the quadratic cost? After all, aren't we primarily interested in the number of images correctly classified by the network? Why not try to maximize that number directly, rather than minimizing a proxy measure like the quadratic cost? The problem with that is that the number of images correctly classified is not a smooth function of the weights and biases in the network. For the most part, making small changes to the weights and biases won't cause any change at all in the number of training images classified correctly. That makes it difficult to figure out how to change the weights and biases to get improved performance. If we instead use a smooth cost function like the quadratic cost it turns out to be easy to figure out how to make small changes in the weights and biases so as to get an improvement in the cost. That's why we focus first on minimizing the quadratic cost, and only after that will we examine the classification accuracy.Even given that we want to use a smooth cost function, you may still wonder why we choose the quadratic function used in Equation (6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_501822820305_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_501822820305').toggle('slow', function() {});});. Isn't this a rather ad hoc choice? Perhaps if we chose a different cost function we'd get a totally different set of minimizing weights and biases? This is a valid concern, and later we'll revisit the cost function, and make some modifications. However, the quadratic cost function of Equation (6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_555483302348_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_555483302348').toggle('slow', function() {});}); works perfectly well for understanding the basics of learning in neural networks, so we'll stick with it for now.Recapping, our goal in training a neural network is to find weights and biases which minimize the quadratic cost function C(w,b)C(w,b)C(w, b). This is a well-posed problem, but it's got a lot of distracting structure as currently posed - the interpretation of www and bbb as weights and biases, the σσ\sigma function lurking in the background, the choice of network architecture, MNIST, and so on. It turns out that we can understand a tremendous amount by ignoring most of that structure, and just concentrating on the minimization aspect. So for now we're going to forget all about the specific form of the cost function, the connection to neural networks, and so on. Instead, we're going to imagine that we've simply been given a function of many variables and we want to minimize that function. We're going to develop a technique called gradient descent which can be used to solve such minimization problems. Then we'll come back to the specific function we want to minimize for neural networks.Okay, let's suppose we're trying to minimize some function, C(v)C(v)C(v). This could be any real-valued function of many variables, v=v1,v2,…v=v1,v2,…v = v_1, v_2, \ldots. Note that I've replaced the www and bbb notation by vvv to emphasize that this could be any function - we're not specifically thinking in the neural networks context any more. To minimize C(v)C(v)C(v) it helps to imagine CCC as a function of just two variables, which we'll call v1v1v_1 and v2v2v_2:What we'd like is to find where CCC achieves its global minimum. Now, of course, for the function plotted above, we can eyeball the graph and find the minimum. In that sense, I've perhaps shown slightly too simple a function! A general function, CCC, may be a complicated function of many variables, and it won't usually be possible to just eyeball the graph to find the minimum.One way of attacking the problem is to use calculus to try to find the minimum analytically. We could compute derivatives and then try using them to find places where CCC is an extremum. With some luck that might work when CCC is a function of just one or a few variables. But it'll turn into a nightmare when we have many more variables. And for neural networks we'll often want far more variables - the biggest neural networks have cost functions which depend on billions of weights and biases in an extremely complicated way. Using calculus to minimize that just won't work!(After asserting that we'll gain insight by imagining CCC as a function of just two variables, I've turned around twice in two paragraphs and said, "hey, but what if it's a function of many more than two variables?" Sorry about that. Please believe me when I say that it really does help to imagine CCC as a function of two variables. It just happens that sometimes that picture breaks down, and the last two paragraphs were dealing with such breakdowns. Good thinking about mathematics often involves juggling multiple intuitive pictures, learning when it's appropriate to use each picture, and when it's not.)Okay, so calculus doesn't work. Fortunately, there is a beautiful analogy which suggests an algorithm which works pretty well. We start by thinking of our function as a kind of a valley. If you squint just a little at the plot above, that shouldn't be too hard. And we imagine a ball rolling down the slope of the valley. Our everyday experience tells us that the ball will eventually roll to the bottom of the valley. Perhaps we can use this idea as a way to find a minimum for the function? We'd randomly choose a starting point for an (imaginary) ball, and then simulate the motion of the ball as it rolled down to the bottom of the valley. We could do this simulation simply by computing derivatives (and perhaps some second derivatives) of CCC - those derivatives would tell us everything we need to know about the local "shape" of the valley, and therefore how our ball should roll.Based on what I've just written, you might suppose that we'll be trying to write down Newton's equations of motion for the ball, considering the effects of friction and gravity, and so on. Actually, we're not going to take the ball-rolling analogy quite that seriously - we're devising an algorithm to minimize CCC, not developing an accurate simulation of the laws of physics! The ball's-eye view is meant to stimulate our imagination, not constrain our thinking. So rather than get into all the messy details of physics, let's simply ask ourselves: if we were declared God for a day, and could make up our own laws of physics, dictating to the ball how it should roll, what law or laws of motion could we pick that would make it so the ball always rolled to the bottom of the valley?To make this question more precise, let's think about what happens when we move the ball a small amount Δv1Δv1\Delta v_1 in the v1v1v_1 direction, and a small amount Δv2Δv2\Delta v_2 in the v2v2v_2 direction. Calculus tells us that CCC changes as follows: ΔC≈∂C∂v1Δv1+∂C∂v2Δv2.(7)(7)ΔC≈∂C∂v1Δv1+∂C∂v2Δv2.\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_1} \Delta v_1 + \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_2} \Delta v_2. \tag{7}\end{eqnarray} We're going to find a way of choosing Δv1Δv1\Delta v_1 and Δv2Δv2\Delta v_2 so as to make ΔCΔC\Delta C negative; i.e., we'll choose them so the ball is rolling down into the valley. To figure out how to make such a choice it helps to define ΔvΔv\Delta v to be the vector of changes in vvv, Δv≡(Δv1,Δv2)TΔv≡(Δv1,Δv2)T\Delta v \equiv (\Delta v_1, \Delta v_2)^T, where TTT is again the transpose operation, turning row vectors into column vectors. We'll also define the gradient of CCC to be the vector of partial derivatives, (∂C∂v1,∂C∂v2)T(∂C∂v1,∂C∂v2)T\left(\frac{\partial C}{\partial v_1}, \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_2}\right)^T. We denote the gradient vector by ∇C∇C\nabla C, i.e.: ∇C≡(∂C∂v1,∂C∂v2)T.(8)(8)∇C≡(∂C∂v1,∂C∂v2)T.\begin{eqnarray} \nabla C \equiv \left( \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_1}, \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_2} \right)^T. \tag{8}\end{eqnarray} In a moment we'll rewrite the change ΔCΔC\Delta C in terms of ΔvΔv\Delta v and the gradient, ∇C∇C\nabla C. Before getting to that, though, I want to clarify something that sometimes gets people hung up on the gradient. When meeting the ∇C∇C\nabla C notation for the first time, people sometimes wonder how they should think about the ∇∇\nabla symbol. What, exactly, does ∇∇\nabla mean? In fact, it's perfectly fine to think of ∇C∇C\nabla C as a single mathematical object - the vector defined above - which happens to be written using two symbols. In this point of view, ∇∇\nabla is just a piece of notational flag-waving, telling you "hey, ∇C∇C\nabla C is a gradient vector". There are more advanced points of view where ∇∇\nabla can be viewed as an independent mathematical entity in its own right (for example, as a differential operator), but we won't need such points of view.With these definitions, the expression (7)ΔC≈∂C∂v1Δv1+∂C∂v2Δv2ΔC≈∂C∂v1Δv1+∂C∂v2Δv2\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_1} \Delta v_1 + \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_2} \Delta v_2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_512380394946_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_512380394946').toggle('slow', function() {});}); for ΔCΔC\Delta C can be rewritten as ΔC≈∇C⋅Δv.(9)(9)ΔC≈∇C⋅Δv.\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v. \tag{9}\end{eqnarray} This equation helps explain why ∇C∇C\nabla C is called the gradient vector: ∇C∇C\nabla C relates changes in vvv to changes in CCC, just as we'd expect something called a gradient to do. But what's really exciting about the equation is that it lets us see how to choose ΔvΔv\Delta v so as to make ΔCΔC\Delta C negative. In particular, suppose we choose Δv=−η∇C,(10)(10)Δv=−η∇C,\begin{eqnarray} \Delta v = -\eta \nabla C, \tag{10}\end{eqnarray} where ηη\eta is a small, positive parameter (known as the learning rate). Then Equation (9)ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_31741254841_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_31741254841').toggle('slow', function() {});}); tells us that ΔC≈−η∇C⋅∇C=−η∥∇C∥2ΔC≈−η∇C⋅∇C=−η‖∇C‖2\Delta C \approx -\eta \nabla C \cdot \nabla C = -\eta \|\nabla C\|^2. Because ∥∇C∥2≥0‖∇C‖2≥0\| \nabla C \|^2 \geq 0, this guarantees that ΔC≤0ΔC≤0\Delta C \leq 0, i.e., CCC will always decrease, never increase, if we change vvv according to the prescription in (10)Δv=−η∇CΔv=−η∇C\begin{eqnarray} \Delta v = -\eta \nabla C \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_48762573303_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_48762573303').toggle('slow', function() {});});. (Within, of course, the limits of the approximation in Equation (9)ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_919658643545_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_919658643545').toggle('slow', function() {});});). This is exactly the property we wanted! And so we'll take Equation (10)Δv=−η∇CΔv=−η∇C\begin{eqnarray} \Delta v = -\eta \nabla C \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_287729255111_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_287729255111').toggle('slow', function() {});}); to define the "law of motion" for the ball in our gradient descent algorithm. That is, we'll use Equation (10)Δv=−η∇CΔv=−η∇C\begin{eqnarray} \Delta v = -\eta \nabla C \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_718723868298_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_718723868298').toggle('slow', function() {});}); to compute a value for ΔvΔv\Delta v, then move the ball's position vvv by that amount: v→v′=v−η∇C.(11)(11)v→v′=v−η∇C.\begin{eqnarray} v \rightarrow v' = v -\eta \nabla C. \tag{11}\end{eqnarray} Then we'll use this update rule again, to make another move. If we keep doing this, over and over, we'll keep decreasing CCC until - we hope - we reach a global minimum.Summing up, the way the gradient descent algorithm works is to repeatedly compute the gradient ∇C∇C\nabla C, and then to move in the opposite direction, "falling down" the slope of the valley. We can visualize it like this:Notice that with this rule gradient descent doesn't reproduce real physical motion. In real life a ball has momentum, and that momentum may allow it to roll across the slope, or even (momentarily) roll uphill. It's only after the effects of friction set in that the ball is guaranteed to roll down into the valley. By contrast, our rule for choosing ΔvΔv\Delta v just says "go down, right now". That's still a pretty good rule for finding the minimum!To make gradient descent work correctly, we need to choose the learning rate ηη\eta to be small enough that Equation (9)ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_560455937071_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_560455937071').toggle('slow', function() {});}); is a good approximation. If we don't, we might end up with ΔC>0ΔC>0\Delta C > 0, which obviously would not be good! At the same time, we don't want ηη\eta to be too small, since that will make the changes ΔvΔv\Delta v tiny, and thus the gradient descent algorithm will work very slowly. In practical implementations, ηη\eta is often varied so that Equation (9)ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_157848846275_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_157848846275').toggle('slow', function() {});}); remains a good approximation, but the algorithm isn't too slow. We'll see later how this works. I've explained gradient descent when CCC is a function of just two variables. But, in fact, everything works just as well even when CCC is a function of many more variables. Suppose in particular that CCC is a function of mmm variables, v1,…,vmv1,…,vmv_1,\ldots,v_m. Then the change ΔCΔC\Delta C in CCC produced by a small change Δv=(Δv1,…,Δvm)TΔv=(Δv1,…,Δvm)T\Delta v = (\Delta v_1, \ldots, \Delta v_m)^T is ΔC≈∇C⋅Δv,(12)(12)ΔC≈∇C⋅Δv,\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v, \tag{12}\end{eqnarray} where the gradient ∇C∇C\nabla C is the vector ∇C≡(∂C∂v1,…,∂C∂vm)T.(13)(13)∇C≡(∂C∂v1,…,∂C∂vm)T.\begin{eqnarray} \nabla C \equiv \left(\frac{\partial C}{\partial v_1}, \ldots, \frac{\partial C}{\partial v_m}\right)^T. \tag{13}\end{eqnarray} Just as for the two variable case, we can choose Δv=−η∇C,(14)(14)Δv=−η∇C,\begin{eqnarray} \Delta v = -\eta \nabla C, \tag{14}\end{eqnarray} and we're guaranteed that our (approximate) expression (12)ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\begin{eqnarray} \Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_869505431896_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_869505431896').toggle('slow', function() {});}); for ΔCΔC\Delta C will be negative. This gives us a way of following the gradient to a minimum, even when CCC is a function of many variables, by repeatedly applying the update rule v→v′=v−η∇C.(15)(15)v→v′=v−η∇C.\begin{eqnarray} v \rightarrow v' = v-\eta \nabla C. \tag{15}\end{eqnarray} You can think of this update rule as defining the gradient descent algorithm. It gives us a way of repeatedly changing the position vvv in order to find a minimum of the function CCC. The rule doesn't always work - several things can go wrong and prevent gradient descent from finding the global minimum of CCC, a point we'll return to explore in later chapters. But, in practice gradient descent often works extremely well, and in neural networks we'll find that it's a powerful way of minimizing the cost function, and so helping the net learn.Indeed, there's even a sense in which gradient descent is the optimal strategy for searching for a minimum. Let's suppose that we're trying to make a move ΔvΔv\Delta v in position so as to decrease CCC as much as possible. This is equivalent to minimizing ΔC≈∇C⋅ΔvΔC≈∇C⋅Δv\Delta C \approx \nabla C \cdot \Delta v. We'll constrain the size of the move so that ∥Δv∥=ϵ‖Δv‖=ϵ\| \Delta v \| = \epsilon for some small fixed ϵ>0ϵ>0\epsilon > 0. In other words, we want a move that is a small step of a fixed size, and we're trying to find the movement direction which decreases CCC as much as possible. It can be proved that the choice of ΔvΔv\Delta v which minimizes ∇C⋅Δv∇C⋅Δv\nabla C \cdot \Delta v is Δv=−η∇CΔv=−η∇C\Delta v = - \eta \nabla C, where η=ϵ/∥∇C∥η=ϵ/‖∇C‖\eta = \epsilon / \|\nabla C\| is determined by the size constraint ∥Δv∥=ϵ‖Δv‖=ϵ\|\Delta v\| = \epsilon. So gradient descent can be viewed as a way of taking small steps in the direction which does the most to immediately decrease CCC.Exercises Prove the assertion of the last paragraph. Hint: If you're not already familiar with the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, you may find it helpful to familiarize yourself with it. I explained gradient descent when CCC is a function of two variables, and when it's a function of more than two variables. What happens when CCC is a function of just one variable? Can you provide a geometric interpretation of what gradient descent is doing in the one-dimensional case? People have investigated many variations of gradient descent, including variations that more closely mimic a real physical ball. These ball-mimicking variations have some advantages, but also have a major disadvantage: it turns out to be necessary to compute second partial derivatives of CCC, and this can be quite costly. To see why it's costly, suppose we want to compute all the second partial derivatives ∂2C/∂vj∂vk∂2C/∂vj∂vk\partial^2 C/ \partial v_j \partial v_k. If there are a million such vjvjv_j variables then we'd need to compute something like a trillion (i.e., a million squared) second partial derivatives* *Actually, more like half a trillion, since ∂2C/∂vj∂vk=∂2C/∂vk∂vj∂2C/∂vj∂vk=∂2C/∂vk∂vj\partial^2 C/ \partial v_j \partial v_k = \partial^2 C/ \partial v_k \partial v_j. Still, you get the point.! That's going to be computationally costly. With that said, there are tricks for avoiding this kind of problem, and finding alternatives to gradient descent is an active area of investigation. But in this book we'll use gradient descent (and variations) as our main approach to learning in neural networks.How can we apply gradient descent to learn in a neural network? The idea is to use gradient descent to find the weights wkwkw_k and biases blblb_l which minimize the cost in Equation (6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_1246306310_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_1246306310').toggle('slow', function() {});});. To see how this works, let's restate the gradient descent update rule, with the weights and biases replacing the variables vjvjv_j. In other words, our "position" now has components wkwkw_k and blblb_l, and the gradient vector ∇C∇C\nabla C has corresponding components ∂C/∂wk∂C/∂wk\partial C / \partial w_k and ∂C/∂bl∂C/∂bl\partial C / \partial b_l. Writing out the gradient descent update rule in terms of components, we have wkbl→→w′k=wk−η∂C∂wkb′l=bl−η∂C∂bl.(16)(17)(16)wk→wk′=wk−η∂C∂wk(17)bl→bl′=bl−η∂C∂bl.\begin{eqnarray} w_k & \rightarrow & w_k' = w_k-\eta \frac{\partial C}{\partial w_k} \tag{16}\\ b_l & \rightarrow & b_l' = b_l-\eta \frac{\partial C}{\partial b_l}. \tag{17}\end{eqnarray} By repeatedly applying this update rule we can "roll down the hill", and hopefully find a minimum of the cost function. In other words, this is a rule which can be used to learn in a neural network.There are a number of challenges in applying the gradient descent rule. We'll look into those in depth in later chapters. But for now I just want to mention one problem. To understand what the problem is, let's look back at the quadratic cost in Equation (6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_214093216664_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_214093216664').toggle('slow', function() {});});. Notice that this cost function has the form C=1n∑xCxC=1n∑xCxC = \frac{1}{n} \sum_x C_x, that is, it's an average over costs Cx≡∥y(x)−a∥22Cx≡‖y(x)−a‖22C_x \equiv \frac{\|y(x)-a\|^2}{2} for individual training examples. In practice, to compute the gradient ∇C∇C\nabla C we need to compute the gradients ∇Cx∇Cx\nabla C_x separately for each training input, xxx, and then average them, ∇C=1n∑x∇Cx∇C=1n∑x∇Cx\nabla C = \frac{1}{n} \sum_x \nabla C_x. Unfortunately, when the number of training inputs is very large this can take a long time, and learning thus occurs slowly.An idea called stochastic gradient descent can be used to speed up learning. The idea is to estimate the gradient ∇C∇C\nabla C by computing ∇Cx∇Cx\nabla C_x for a small sample of randomly chosen training inputs. By averaging over this small sample it turns out that we can quickly get a good estimate of the true gradient ∇C∇C\nabla C, and this helps speed up gradient descent, and thus learning.To make these ideas more precise, stochastic gradient descent works by randomly picking out a small number mmm of randomly chosen training inputs. We'll label those random training inputs X1,X2,…,XmX1,X2,…,XmX_1, X_2, \ldots, X_m, and refer to them as a mini-batch. Provided the sample size mmm is large enough we expect that the average value of the ∇CXj∇CXj\nabla C_{X_j} will be roughly equal to the average over all ∇Cx∇Cx\nabla C_x, that is, ∑mj=1∇CXjm≈∑x∇Cxn=∇C,(18)(18)∑j=1m∇CXjm≈∑x∇Cxn=∇C,\begin{eqnarray} \frac{\sum_{j=1}^m \nabla C_{X_{j}}}{m} \approx \frac{\sum_x \nabla C_x}{n} = \nabla C, \tag{18}\end{eqnarray} where the second sum is over the entire set of training data. Swapping sides we get ∇C≈1m∑j=1m∇CXj,(19)(19)∇C≈1m∑j=1m∇CXj,\begin{eqnarray} \nabla C \approx \frac{1}{m} \sum_{j=1}^m \nabla C_{X_{j}}, \tag{19}\end{eqnarray} confirming that we can estimate the overall gradient by computing gradients just for the randomly chosen mini-batch. To connect this explicitly to learning in neural networks, suppose wkwkw_k and blblb_l denote the weights and biases in our neural network. Then stochastic gradient descent works by picking out a randomly chosen mini-batch of training inputs, and training with those, wkbl→→w′k=wk−ηm∑j∂CXj∂wkb′l=bl−ηm∑j∂CXj∂bl,(20)(21)(20)wk→wk′=wk−ηm∑j∂CXj∂wk(21)bl→bl′=bl−ηm∑j∂CXj∂bl,\begin{eqnarray} w_k & \rightarrow & w_k' = w_k-\frac{\eta}{m} \sum_j \frac{\partial C_{X_j}}{\partial w_k} \tag{20}\\ b_l & \rightarrow & b_l' = b_l-\frac{\eta}{m} \sum_j \frac{\partial C_{X_j}}{\partial b_l}, \tag{21}\end{eqnarray} where the sums are over all the training examples XjXjX_j in the current mini-batch. Then we pick out another randomly chosen mini-batch and train with those. And so on, until we've exhausted the training inputs, which is said to complete an epoch of training. At that point we start over with a new training epoch.Incidentally, it's worth noting that conventions vary about scaling of the cost function and of mini-batch updates to the weights and biases. In Equation (6)C(w,b)≡12n∑x∥y(x)−a∥2C(w,b)≡12n∑x‖y(x)−a‖2\begin{eqnarray} C(w,b) \equiv \frac{1}{2n} \sum_x \| y(x) - a\|^2 \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_85851492824_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_85851492824').toggle('slow', function() {});}); we scaled the overall cost function by a factor 1n1n\frac{1}{n}. People sometimes omit the 1n1n\frac{1}{n}, summing over the costs of individual training examples instead of averaging. This is particularly useful when the total number of training examples isn't known in advance. This can occur if more training data is being generated in real time, for instance. And, in a similar way, the mini-batch update rules (20)wk→w′k=wk−ηm∑j∂CXj∂wkwk→wk′=wk−ηm∑j∂CXj∂wk\begin{eqnarray} w_k & \rightarrow & w_k' = w_k-\frac{\eta}{m} \sum_j \frac{\partial C_{X_j}}{\partial w_k} \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_801900730537_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_801900730537').toggle('slow', function() {});}); and (21)bl→b′l=bl−ηm∑j∂CXj∂blbl→bl′=bl−ηm∑j∂CXj∂bl\begin{eqnarray} b_l & \rightarrow & b_l' = b_l-\frac{\eta}{m} \sum_j \frac{\partial C_{X_j}}{\partial b_l} \nonumber\end{eqnarray}$('#margin_985072620111_reveal').click(function() {$('#margin_985072620111').toggle('slow', function() {});}); sometimes omit the 1m1m\frac{1}{m} term out the front of the sums. Conceptually this makes little difference, since it's equivalent to rescaling the learning rate ηη\eta. But when doing detailed comparisons of different work it's worth watching out for.We can think of stochastic gradient descent as being like political polling: it's much easier to sample a small mini-batch than it is to apply gradient descent to the full batch, just as carrying out a poll is easier than running a full election. For example, if we have a training set of size n=60,000n=60,000n = 60,000, as in MNIST, and choose a mini-batch size of (say) m=10m=10m = 10, this means we'll get a factor of 6,0006,0006,000 speedup in estimating the gradient! Of course, the estimate won't be perfect - there will be statistical fluctuations - but it doesn't need to be perfect: all we really care about is moving in a general direction that will help decrease CCC, and that means we don't need an exact computation of the gradient. In practice, stochastic gradient descent is a commonly used and powerful technique for learning in neural networks, and it's the basis for most of the learning techniques we'll develop in this book.Exercise An extreme version of gradient descent is to use a mini-batch size of just 1. That is, given a training input, xxx, we update our weights and biases according to the rules wk→w′k=wk−η∂Cx/∂wkwk→wk′=wk−η∂Cx/∂wkw_k \rightarrow w_k' = w_k - \eta \partial C_x / \partial w_k and bl→b′l=bl−η∂Cx/∂blbl→bl′=bl−η∂Cx/∂blb_l \rightarrow b_l' = b_l - \eta \partial C_x / \partial b_l. Then we choose another training input, and update the weights and biases again. And so on, repeatedly. This procedure is known as online, on-line, or incremental learning. In online learning, a neural network learns from just one training input at a time (just as human beings do). Name one advantage and one disadvantage of online learning, compared to stochastic gradient descent with a mini-batch size of, say, 202020. Let me conclude this section by discussing a point that sometimes bugs people new to gradient descent. In neural networks the cost CCC is, of course, a function of many variables - all the weights and biases - and so in some sense defines a surface in a very high-dimensional space. Some people get hung up thinking: "Hey, I have to be able to visualize all these extra dimensions". And they may start to worry: "I can't think in four dimensions, let alone five (or five million)". Is there some special ability they're missing, some ability that "real" supermathematicians have? Of course, the answer is no. Even most professional mathematicians can't visualize four dimensions especially well, if at all. The trick they use, instead, is to develop other ways of representing what's going on. That's exactly what we did above: we used an algebraic (rather than visual) representation of ΔCΔC\Delta C to figure out how to move so as to decrease CCC. People who are good at thinking in high dimensions have a mental library containing many different techniques along these lines; our algebraic trick is just one example. Those techniques may not have the simplicity we're accustomed to when visualizing three dimensions, but once you build up a library of such techniques, you can get pretty good at thinking in high dimensions. I won't go into more detail here, but if you're interested then you may enjoy reading this discussion of some of the techniques professional mathematicians use to think in high dimensions. While some of the techniques discussed are quite complex, much of the best content is intuitive and accessible, and could be mastered by anyone. Implementing our network to classify digitsAlright, let's write a program that learns how to recognize handwritten digits, using stochastic gradient descent and the MNIST training data. We'll do this with a short Python (2.7) program, just 74 lines of code! The first thing we need is to get the MNIST data. If you're a git user then you can obtain the data by cloning the code repository for this book,git clone https://github.com/mnielsen/neural-networks-and-deep-learning.git If you don't use git then you can download the data and code here.Incidentally, when I described the MNIST data earlier, I said it was

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    1. By raising taxes on the wealthy, we could end the lead poisoning that afflicts half a million American kids, we could provide high-quality preschool for all, we could offer treatment for all people with addictions and we could ensure that virtually all kids graduate from a decent high school and at least get a crack at college.

      Very important

    2. By raising taxes on the wealthy, we could end the lead poisoning that afflicts half a million American kids, we could provide high-quality preschool for all, we could offer treatment for all people with addictions and we could ensure that virtually all kids graduate from a decent high school and at least get a crack at college.

      So much more money to spend on bettering the lives of kids and people who are i'll (mentally and physically)

    1. The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand breeders. I again subtract fifty thousand for those women who miscarry, or whose children die by accident or disease within the year. There only remains one hundred and twenty thousand children of poor parents annually born.

      use of logos to back up his argument

    1. It wasn't his fault. Neither was it the fault of his mother, who was now dead because of a conviction which was only a dream that blew up in her face. It wasn't the fault of the half a billion Chinamen who hated the ninety million Japanese and got only hatred in return. One only had to look about to see all the hatred in the world.

      An interesting contrast to Ichiro's mindset towards the beginning. He is coming to terms with his mother's death and her fanaticism, but unlike the beginning of the book he doesn't his mother or himself.

    1. It happens every 12 years, its dates fixed according to the alignment of the stars and planets. This year is a half-Kumbh – six years since the last one – but it's nevertheless expected to be the biggest so far. The government officials and religious authorities who organize the event estimate that 15 million people showed up on Tuesday, the opening day.

      In a world so dominated by pagan unholy spectacle. It is nice to see such a large group of people gathered around for something so pure.

    1. Poor diet is the leading cause of mortality in the United States, causing more than half a million deaths per year. Just 10 dietary factors are estimated to cause nearly 1,000 deaths every day from heart disease, stroke and diabetes alone.

      Obesity is far worse than cigarettes, the estimated smoking death rate is 400,000 while strokes and diabetes lead to 500,000 a year!

    2. More than 100 million adults — almost half the entire adult population — have pre-diabetes or diabetes.

      This seems way too high of a number without me even knowing about it. I hear about mesothelioma, but never cardiovascular disease, why is that?

    1. Anything that is served up by the culture industry, simply by virtue of the function of advertising avowed in America, offers itself as a commodity, an art consumption.

      It's really interesting to consider how product placement in TV shows (and in movies) has been highly commercialized and is now a considered a very effective way to advertise. In an episode of Game of Thrones, they accidentally left a Starbucks cup in one scene and was shown for about 10 seconds. Advertisers speculate that if Starbucks paid for the product placement, it would have cost close to a half a million dollars.

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    1. The number of students taking at least one online course increased from the previous year by over 570,000 to a new total of 6.7 million.

      My online identity is always growing. More than half of my homework assignments, tests, and quizzes are all online. Growing up technology was always being used whether it was the smart board or earlier in my education, the overhead projector. I was taking computer classes in elementary school which now benefited me in the long run. I now know how to use certain software and being able to teach other people as well. My mom owns her own business and has to use Excel for her workers pay. In middle school I had a year long Excel course that I can now use to help her when she has any questions. I am growing my own online identity while my mom is also just from me teaching her.

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    1. Roughly half of Americans --or more than 150 million people --get their health insurance through their jobs today.Three-quarters of the public have favorable views of work-based coverage, according to a new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Of those with such plans, 86% rate their coverage as either "excellent" or "good

      Half of the US pays health insurance with they work benefits,which is amazing but it has getting more expensive in the recent years. PT.1

  42. Jul 2019
    1. Miyata, H., Satouh, Y., Mashiko, D., Muto, M., Nozawa, K., Shiba, K., . . . Ikawa, M. (2015). Sperm calcineurin inhibition prevents mouse fertility with implications for male contraceptive. Science (New York, N.Y.), 350(6259), 442-445.

      "In the immune system, calcineurin activates T cells by dephosphorylating the transcription factor NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells), and the dephosphorylated NFAT up-regulates the expression of interleukin-2 (1, 2). This process is suppressed by calcineurin inhibitors, such as cyclosporine A (CsA) and FK506, that are mainstays of immunosuppressive therapy after organ transplantation (1, 2). In the male reproductive system, animal experiments have revealed that CsA and FK506 have deleterious effects on spermatogenesis and epididymal sperm maturation (3, 4).Further, in vitro treatment of spermatozoa with these drugs impairs sperm motility and the acrosome reaction (5, 6). These data suggest important roles of calcineurin in male fertility; however, the existence of several isoforms expressed in the testis hampered the clarification of their functions and pharmacological processes."

      • calcineurin may have an important role in male fertility • Calcineurin ibjibitors i.e. Cyclosporine A (CsA) and FK506 can have adverse affects on spermatogenesis and epididymal sperm maturation • used in immunotherapies as well • in vitro, tx of spermatozoa w/ them impairs sperm motility and the acrosome rxn

      • isoforms may hamper the effects of the inhibitors

      Calcineurin exists as a heterodimer composed of a catalytic and a regulatory subunit. In mammals, three isoforms of the catalytic subunit (PPP3CA, PPP3CB, and PPP3CC) and two isoforms of the regulatory subunit (PPP3R1 and PPP3R2) have been identified. Ppp3ca, Ppp3cb, and Ppp3r1 are expressed ubiquitously, whereas Ppp3cc and Ppp3r2 are expressed strongly in the mouse testis (fig. S1A) (7). PPP3CC and PPP3R2 were not detected in the testis and epididymis of c-Kitw/wv mice, which lack differentiating germ cells (Fig. 1A). This indicates that Ppp3cc and Ppp3r2 are the only subunits expressed in spermatogenic cells.

      • Ppp3cc and Ppp3r2 are isoforms of Calcineurin subunits and are expressed strongly in mouse testis only subunits expressed in spermatogenic cells

      "When mouse Ppp3cc and Ppp3r2 were expressed in human embryonic kidney 293T (HEK293T) cells, heterodimerizaion of PPP3CC and PPP3R2 stabilized the calcineurin complex (Fig. 1C). "

      PPP3CC -PPP3R2 complex is the sperm-specific calcineurin

      "Although Ppp3cc−/− males copulated, they were infertile (Fig. 2A). When we investigated sperm migration in the female reproductive tract using transgenic spermatozoa that have DsRed2 in the mitochondria (9), fewer spermatozoa reached the ampulla compared with those of controls (fig. S4A). Although this could explain, in part, the male infertility, the presence of spermatozoa in the ampulla suggests that there are other factors that render the Ppp3cc−/− males infertile."

      • knock-out PP3CC mice could engage in sexual activity but were infertile. • less spermatozoa reached the ampulla of this knockout, but they were also found in the ampulla could be other compounding factors of this knockout's infertility

      Further analysis revealed that Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa could pass through the cumulus cell layers (fig. S4B) and could bind to the zona pellucida (ZP) (Fig. 2C) but failed to fertilize cumulus-free ZP intact oocytes (fig. S4C);therefore, the ZP was the site of the problem. Once the ZP was removed, Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa could fuse with oocytes (fig. S4D), which confirmed that Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa are defective in zona penetration (2)

      • explored further factors that contribute to infertility of the KO identified the zona pellucida as the issue as even when it was removed, the KO sperm fused with the oocytes

      To elucidate why Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa fail to exhibit hyperactivation, we further analyzed sperm motility. Although beat frequencies of Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa were normal (fig. S7E), the midpiece of null spermatozoa bent slightly in a direction opposite from the hook of the acrosome (anti-hook) (99%, 110 out of 111 spermatozoa) (14) and was inflexible (Fig. 3, C and D, and movies S1 to S4). In contrast, defects were not observed in the principal piece of null spermatozoa (Fig. 3C). When WT spermatozoa are hyperactivated, the curvature of the midpiece bend increases (14); however, Ppp3cc-null spermatozoa do not exhibit this increase. Thus, PPP3CC is required to develop the flexible midpiece for hyperactivation and to penetrate the ZP.

      • further analysis of sperm motility showed that the midpiece of the null sperm bent slights in an opposite direction from the hook of the acrosome and was inflexible. • WT sperm have an increased curvature of the midpiece when hyperactivated shows PP3CC is required to develop the flexible midpiece for hyperactivation and to penetrate the ZP

      To determine the effects of immunosuppressant drugs on immature spermatozoa, WT male mice were treated with CsA or FK506 for 2 weeks; these males became infertile (Fig. 4A), and spermatozoa from treated mice did not fertilize in vitro (Fig. 4B). When sperm motility was investigated, their midpiece was as inflexible as Ppp3cc- or Ppp3r2-null spermatozoa (Fig. 4C, movie S6 to S9). These results indicate that sperm calcineurin activity is important during the later stages of spermatogenesis or during sperm maturation in the epididymis. (2)

      • when treated with CsA or FK506 for 2 weeks, WT male mice became infertile and spermatozoa didn't fertilize in vitro demonstrate importance of sperm calcineurin activity in later stages of spermatogenesis or sperm maturation in epididymis

      As expected, fertility of male mice treated with CsA or FK506 recovered 1 week after halting drug administration (Fig. 4E). Sperm motility and midpiece flexibility also recovered after treatment (fig. S11, B to D). Considering these results in mice, we suggest that sperm calcineurin may be a target for reversible and rapidly acting human male contraceptives.

      • infertility induced with CsA or FK506 treatment was reversible as well as sperm motility and midpiece flexibility • suggests that sperm calcineurin can be a target for reversible and fast acting human male contraceptices can leave testicular function in tact too

      Kean, S. (2012). Contraception research. Reinventing the pill: Male birth control. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6105), 318-320.

      IN THE LATE 1950S NEAR SALEM, OREGON, scientists started testing a birth control drug called WIN 18,446 in male prisoners. Men took responsibility for most birth control then, so a male contraceptive seemed a natural fi t for American society. WIN 18,446 worked well, too: The prisoners felt fine and seemed quite healthy, except that their sperm was suddenly stunted and feeble. Unfortunately, when clinical trials shifted to the general population, men started getting sick—vomiting, sweating, headaches, blurry vision. They seemed poisoned. After some digging, scientists pinned down the culprit: alcohol. Because prisoners couldn’t drink, no one had realized at first that WIN 18,446 did not mix well with liquor. The drug was abandoned, and 60 years later, no one has gotten any closer to the “male pill.” WIN 18,446 is a perfect example of why creating the male pill is so hard. It did exactly what it was supposed to do—stopped sperm production in everyone who took it—and it was reversible. Sperm levels returned to normal after men stopped taking it. Yet it failed anyway as a drug because of an arguably minor side effect.

      • male birth control drug called WIN was tested in male prisoners in oregon in late 1950s. - first attempt at the "male pill" • subjects seemed healthy and fine with stunted and feeble sperm • when WIN reached clinical trials in general populaiton, men experienced intense side effects they realized this was b/c it did not mix well with alcohol

      Male contraceptives are held to high standards partly because the calculus for male and female birth control is different. For example, taking the female pill increases a woman’s chances of developing blood clots. But because pregnancy increases the chances of blood clots by 10 times more, the pill’s side effects seem worth the risk. With men, there’s no counterbalancing risk of pregnancy, so the tolerance for side effects drops to zero. That’s especially true because “you’re dealing with healthy people, not people with an illness, and you’d have to use [the pill] for long, long periods,” says Diana Blithe, a program director at the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in Bethesda, Maryland, which funds research into male contraception

      • counterbalance of birth control side effects with pregnancy is a big reason for women having approved birth control over men. no counterbalance to pregnancy for men

      Drug companies have all but abandoned the male contraceptive field in the past decade. After acquiring smaller companies, for instance, both Bayer and Merck shut down those programs. (Bayer refused to say why, and a Merck spokesperson said only, “It is not a priority area.”) In addition to the medical challenges like the high safety standard, Blithe points out one other obstacle for companies: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has no guidelines about what levels of safety and effi cacy the male pill would need to have to win approval. FDA declined to comment about whether it planned to develop guidelines or whether it has even discussed doing so.

      drug companies have paid little attention to male contraceptive field as of late. • large drug companies have not commented on it or haven't prioritized it FDA has not even created guidelines for safety or efficacy of the male pill required for approval

      Plugs. Hormones. Special underwear. Autoimmune attacks. The “dry orgasm.” There’s no shortage of approaches to male contraception (see diagram, p. 319). But all share the same goal: slowing down the relentless proliferation of sperm in men and holding sperm counts to about 1 million per milliliter of ejaculate. Even the reduced concentration “may sound like a lot,” says John Amory, a doctor and reproductive biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, “but that’s a pretty good, effective contraceptive” that will reduce fertility by 99%.

      • goal of male contraceptives is to slow the proliferation of sperm in men and limit counts to about 1 million per mL of ejaculate this will be an effective contraceptive, reducing feritlity by 99% if achieved

      Until recently, scientists modeled most male pills on the female pill and attempted to disrupt male hormones—testosterone above all. The biochemistry is convoluted, but artifi cially raising testosterone levels suppresses other hormones necessary to make mature sperm. This works wonderfully— sperm levels plummet—but it’s a sledgehammer approach that affects tissues throughout the body, causing widespread side effects. There’s no good way to administer testosterone, either. Oral testosterone breaks down so quickly in the body that men must take several pills a day to keep levels high, and alternatives like testosterone gels or injections are a hassle. Hormonal contraception doesn’t work anyway in 10% to 20% of men, Amory says. This strategy suffered its latest blow in April 2011, when a high-profi le study led by the U.S. nonprofi t group CONRAD and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization was called off early. The study had monitored more than 200 couples taking various hormones for more than a year, but side effects such as acne, weight gain, and mood changes convinced scientists that the therapy would fail in the marketplace.

      • primary approach was to dirupt testosterone (modelled after female hormonal BC) • raising TE levels suppresses other hormones necessary to make mature sperm • effective in lowering sperm levels but has bad side-effects • also no good way to administer-i.e. oral TE metabolizes so quickly that it req. several pills a day to keep levels high • also ineffective in 10%-20% of men • latest blow to male hormonal contraception was in April 2011 in high-profule study by the US. nonprodit group CONRAD where more than 200 couples taking the hormones for more tha a year had bad side effects acne, weight gain, mood changes

      Most current research into a male pill has shifted away from widely circulating hormones toward molecules specific to the testes. One promising approach being explored by Amory and others involves disrupting retinoic acid, one of a group of molecules known collectively as vitamin A. Like hormones, vitamin A plays a role in many different tissues, so scientists can’t just shut down the pathway. But sperm are so sensitive to retinoic acid that reducing its levels even a little could prove effective

      • most current research involves small molecule appraches in the testes i.e. disrupting retinoic acid- group of molecules collectively known as Vitamin A, sperm are very sensitive to tetinoic acid levels, so reduction can be effective

      Amory’s research sprang from WIN 18,446, the failed prisoner drug. Because WIN 18,446 sickened people who drank, Amory suspected that it disrupted the breakdown of alcohols. Wine, beer, liquor, and other booze contain ethanol, which the body metabolizes into acetaldehyde. Because acetaldehyde is poisonous, an enzyme called ALDH converts it to acetic acid (vinegar, essentially). In a paper in the Journal of Andrology fi rst published online in August 2010, Amory’s team proved that WIN attaches to ALDH and gums up the process, allowing acetaldehyde to accumulate. Amory, though, saw the bright side. The testes also convert an alcohol (retinol, another form of vitamin A) into retinoic acid. During spermatogenesis, retinoic acid binds to the RAR protein, creating a complex that turns on genes necessary to convert precursor cells into mature sperm. The testes use a unique ALDH called ALDH1a2 in this conversion. So Amory’s team tried to tweak WIN 18,446’s molecular structure to make it lock onto ALDH1a2 only, and not onto the ALDH that prevents alcohol poisoning. It didn’t work. “We tweaked the hell out of WIN 18,446,” he laughs. “Our poor organic chemist made 100 versions” in 2009 and 2010, but every one proved a dead end. Still, intrigued by the specificity of ALDH1a2, his team screened 60,000 other molecules and found seven more that gummed up ALDH1a2. They’re now tweaking those seven to make them testesspecifi c. Amory expects four or fi ve of them to fall short in future tests—some might prove toxic or might not cross the blood-testis barrier, a tissue fi rewall that separates the testes from general blood circulation. But within 5 years, he hopes to approach FDA about clinical trials

      • One small molecule approach was inspired by WIN after researchers discovered that the side effects were caused by the molecule's attachment to ALDH, the enzyme that converts acetaldehyde caused by the consumption of alcohol into acetic acid. This attachment allowed for the buildup of acetaldehyde and therefore the side effects similar to symptoms of poison • researchers saw that the testes also use a unique ALDH, ALDH1a2 in the conversion of percursor cells into mature sperm • retinoic acid binds to the RAR protein that creates the complex necessary for this conversion • researchers tried to tweak WIN to make it lock onto ALDH1a2 only and not the ALDH that prevents alcohol poisioning Amory's team now expectsto approach FDA about clinical trials

      Anthes, E. (2017). What Do We Have To Do To Get The Male Pill? Bloomberg Businessweek, (4533), 44.

      "The joke in the field is that the male contraceptive has been five years away for the last 40 years," says John Amory, a research physician at the University of Washington School of Medicine who has been working on the challenge for two decades. A new form of male birth control would be a public-health triumph and could snag a significant piece of the contraceptive market, —which is expected to surpass $33 billion by 2023, according to research firm Global Market Insights Inc.—or possibly expand it further. In a 2002 German survey of 9,000 men in nine countries, including Brazil, France, Germany, Mexico, and the U.S., more than 55 percent of the respondents said they'd be willing to use a new form of male birth control. A later study by Johns Hopkins University estimated that the demand could yield 44 million customers in those nine countries alone. And yet major pharmaceutical companies have mostly abandoned the chase.

      • male birth control would be a public-health triumph and would also be a lucrative market • contraceptive market is expected to surpass #33 billion by 2023 or more • High demand for male BC also: more than 55% of respondents in 2002 German survey said they were willing to use a new form of male birth control later John Hopkins U study estimated demand that could yield 44 mil customers in those 9 countries alone

      When it comes to preventing pregnancy, women have a multitude of choices. There are diaphragms and sponges; cervical caps and female condoms; spermicidal gels, foams, films, creams, and suppositories; hormone-delivery systems involving pills, implants, injections, patches, vaginal rings, and IUDs. These options are far from perfect—and they remain inaccessible and unaffordable for many women—but at least they exist.

      • women have a multitude of contraceptive options relative men: diaphragms and sponges, cervical caps and female condoms, spermicidal gels, foalms, films, creas and suppositories; hormone-delivery systems with pills, implants, injections, patches, vaginal rings, and IUDs

      After the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first female birth control pill, which used a mixture of hormones to suppress ovulation, in 1960, researchers explored taking a hormone-based approach to men. Clinical trials in the ensuing decades showed that dosing men with testosterone or combinations of testosterone and progestin temporarily inhibited sperm production, but that the strategy had drawbacks. Testosterone is rapidly cleared from the body when taken orally, so a hormonal contraceptive for men would likely have to be delivered via injection, implant, or topical gel, rather than as a pill. What's more, the hormones don't work in all men, and because they don't only affect the gonads, they can, as with the female pill, cause nasty side effects that have nothing to do with fertility.

      • USFDA approved first femal BC pill in 1960- uses hormones to suppress ovulation • tried to confer this method to men by dosing wiht testosterone or/and progestin to temporarily inhibit sperm production drawbacks: rapidly cleared from body when taken orally, hormones don't work in all men b/c they don't only affect gonads, nasty side effects

      Research into hormonal solutions continues, but the challenges have prompted some investigators to seek drugs that target sperm more directly. Scientists at the University of Kansas and the University of Minnesota are studying a compound called H2-gamendazole, which prevents sperm from maturing properly, while Eppin Pharma Inc., a small North Carolina company, is developing a drug that would stop sperm from swimming by binding to a protein on the surface of the cells.

      • researchers have tried to target sperm more directly- instead of hormonal solutions • i.e. at U of Kansas and U of Minnesota- studying a compound H2-gamendazole, which prevents sperm from maturing properly i.e. Eppin Pharma- developing drug to stop sperm from swimmming by binding to a protein on the surface of thecells

      He tested his hypothesis in rabbits, dosing them with a WIN-laced banana-crème-flavored syrup. "Rabbits are brilliant, because their sperm counts are very similar to humans. They're mammals just like humans, and you can train them to ejaculate into an artificial vagina," he says, cuing up a video on his computer. "This is me making an artificial vagina." (The faux orifice, it turns out, can be assembled from an ultrasound-probe cover and a thermos filled with water heated to about 100F, the approximate internal temperature of a female rabbit.)

      • Amory tested WIN drug in rabbits, as their sperm counts are similar to humans. They can also be trained to ejaculate into an artificial vagina

      He concluded that WIN represented an elegant strategy for male contraception—it just needed to be better targeted. There are almost 20 different forms of ALDH; the liver relies primarily on ALDH2 to metabolize alcohol, while the testes use ALDH1A2 to make retinoic acid. WIN disrupted both forms of the enzyme; what they needed was a drug that blocked only ALDH1A2.

      • Amory investigated the mechanism of WIN and found that it inihibits ALDH by dssrupting the synthesis of retinoic acid and also inhibits sperm production which is needed by the testes • ALDH in liver and other areas (20 dif forms) • testes use ALDH1A2 to make retinoic acid • WIN disrupted both forms of the enzyme- testes and liver identified need for drug only blocking ALDH1A2

      Drug development is an inherently difficult enterprise. Only 10 percent of the drugs that enter Phase I trials—the studies in which scientists evaluate dosing and basic safety in humans—ever make it to pharmacy shelves, and it can easily cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring a drug to market. Male contraception is a particular challenge. Contraceptives have to be extraordinarily reliable. Many drugs would be considered successes if they worked half the time, but few people would use birth control that failed so frequently.

      • there are challenges in drug development to begin with, much less developing male BC • only 10% of drugs that enter phase ` trials ever make it to pharmacy shelves • can cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring a drug to market additional challenge with male BC is that they would have to be very reliable

      Then there are the basic facts of reproductive biology. Most healthy women of reproductive age release one egg per month and stop ovulating when they're pregnant; they can suppress ovulation by taking hormones that mimic pregnancy, which is essentially what the pill does. But there's no natural off switch for sperm production; men make sperm from puberty until death. "Spermatogenesis is a pretty formidable foe," Amory says. "Your body has evolved over eons to make a lot of sperm. In fact, most men make a thousand sperm every second."

      • nature of reproductive biology creates another challenge: • women release one egg per month, can suppress ovulation by taking hormones that mimic pregnancy in contrast, no natural ?"off switch" for sperm production as men make sperm from puberty til death and make thousand per second

      If researchers do find a promising drug, they'll also need to persuade regulators to approve it. No one's quite sure what that will take. Male contraceptive drugs represent an entirely new product category, and the FDA hasn't yet laid out clear guidelines for them. Will regulators measure a male contraceptive drug against the female pill or simply compare it to the male-directed approaches now available? Will they want a male pill to be as effective as a vasectomy or simply more reliable than a condom? "Nobody really knows, because nobody's gotten to that point," says Zahed Subhan, chief executive officer of Eppin Pharma, the North Carolina company that's testing a drug that aims to interfere with sperm movement.

      There's reason to believe it will prove tougher to win approval for the first male pill than it was for the female one. Research and regulatory standards have evolved considerably in the past 60 years—the Oregon prisoner tests likely wouldn't pass muster today, nor would some early trials for the first female pill. (In one crucial study performed with low-income women in Puerto Rico, participants weren't fully informed of the potential risks, and their reports of side effects were largely dismissed.) Some scientists have also speculated that the original formulation of the female pill, which contained much higher doses of hormones than current products do, wouldn't be approved today.

      • other challenge of gaining approval of drug when found as FDA lacks clear guidelines for male contraceptive drugs • will it be measured against the female pill? or comapred to male-directed approaches now available? tougher to win approval for first male pill now than it was for the femal one back in the 60s due to the evolution of regulatory standards

      Moreover, while female contraceptives aren't without dangers, pregnancy entails serious health risks. This means regulators charged with making a risk-benefit calculation may conclude in some cases that unplanned pregnancies pose a greater hazard to women than the side effects of a new birth control product would. The female pill also has some non-contraceptive health benefits. The first birth control pill, Enovid, initially won FDA approval in 1957 to treat menstrual disorders; it wasn't approved as a contraceptive until three years later.

      That men don't bear the medical risks of pregnancy may change the calculus for regulators assessing a male contraceptive. So might the fact that men, with their long reproductive lifespans, could find themselves using birth control for decades longer than women typically take the pill. Unless researchers manage to find a contraceptive with real health benefits for men, regulators will probably have a low tolerance for side effects. "A male contraceptive solution just has to be squeaky clean," Subhan says.

      If a drug were approved and serious side effects popped up, pharmaceutical companies could face costly lawsuits. Litigation is always a risk for drugmakers, but medications designed to be taken by young, otherwise healthy patients for long periods of time, especially those affecting the reproductive system, could be particular targets. Women have filed, and sometimes won, high-profile lawsuits over female contraceptives, alleging that certain drugs and devices have caused a variety of serious injuries—including blood clots, uterine damage, birth defects, miscarriages, and infertility—or that contraceptive failures have left them with unwanted pregnancies.

      • calculation of risk-benefit of male birth control pill is also complex to consider • for females, contraceptives have side effects but pregnancy can also entail serious health risks • males don't bear the risk of pregnancy and its associated risks so this may change the calculus for regulatos' assessment of a male BC pill • also to be weighed is that men would also have to use the pill for decades longer than women b/c of long reproductive lifespans • additionally, the drugs' side effects could face litigation

      Some entrepreneurs say the path forward requires wholly rethinking male birth control. "What is a male contraceptive?" asks Kevin Eisenfrats, the 24-year-old co-founder and CEO of Contraline Inc., a startup based in Charlottesville, Va. "Is it a drug, or is it a medical device?" Just inside the front door of the company's two-story brick building, not far from the University of Virginia, a custom mural—a silhouette of a man and woman walking into the sunset—is splashed across a side wall. A bowl of Contraline-branded, sperm-shaped foam stress balls sits on the reception counter. Eisenfrats, who has long eyelashes and a spray of freckles on his nose, takes a seat at a cluttered conference table and delivers his elevator pitch. "What we're developing is a nonsurgical and reversible alternative to a vasectomy," he says. Contraline has created a hydrogel, called Echo-V, that can be injected into the vas deferens, the thin tube that transports sperm from the testes to the urethra. Upon injection, the gel solidifies, blocking the flow of sperm but allowing other fluid to pass through. Ideally, he says, when a man is ready to have children, a doctor would dissolve the gel.

      The idea isn't novel. It's inspired by a technique known as reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance (Risug), invented in India in the 1970s. The Parsemus Foundation, a nonprofit based in Berkeley, Calif., is developing a similar product, called Vasalgel. But while Risug requires doctors to make a small opening in the skin of the scrotum to access the vas deferens, Contraline has invented a procedure, which it has dubbed " vasintomy," that allows doctors to implant the gel non-surgically, injecting it directly through the skin using an ultrasound to guide its placement. "No scalpels or sutures required," Eisenfrats says. "It's maybe a three-minute overall procedure."

      Because Echo-V qualifies as a medical device, Contraline may have an advantage over rivals working on a male pill. The FDA typically requires more and larger clinical trials for drugs than it does for devices; it takes 12 years, on average, to bring a new drug to market, compared with three to seven years for a new medical device. The expense therefore tends to be much higher for drugs.

      Contraline's research team is racing to be one of the first to market with a viable solution. The company is tinkering with the gel's formulation, assessing its efficacy and biocompatibility, designing an injection device, and refining the injection and reversal procedures. Eisenfrats says he plans to begin a preclinical trial in large animals next year, begin human trials in 2019, and earn FDA approval in 2021.

      • other options other than a pill are emerging i.e. development of nonsurgical and revversible alternative to vasectomy • a hydrogel, Echo-V, could be injected into vas deferens (transports sperm frmom testes to urethra) • upon injection, gel solidifies to block flow of sperm but allowing other fluid to pass through • ideally the doctor could dissolve the gel when man is ready to have kids • non-surgical: injecting directly through skin using an ultrasound to guide its placement, 3-minute procedure • this alternative method is advantageous over the male pill b/c it qualifies as a medical device • FDA requires larger and more clinical trials for drugs than devices (12 yrs v. 3-7 for a device) plans to begin preclinical trial in large animals next year, begin human trials in 2019, and earn FDA approval in 2021

      As for more radical scientific approaches, British researchers are working on a so-called clean-sheets pill that would stop men from ejaculating during orgasm. A German company has devised an implantable valve—advertised to be "small as a gummy bear" and "100% vegan"—that would let men turn the flow of sperm on and off with the flick of an actual switch. And a Chinese team has piloted an approach that involves injecting gold nano-particles into the testes and heating them with an infrared laser. None are likely to be commercially available soon—indeed, they haven't yet been tested in humans, though Clemens Bimek, the German who developed the spermatic duct valve, reportedly had several prototypes implanted in his scrotum.

      • more radical approaches include so-called clean-sheets pill whihc would stop men from ejaculating during orgasm- uses an implantable valve that would turn the flow of sperm on and off with a click of an actual swithc • Chinese team has tried injecting gold nano particles into testes and heating them with an infrared laser these have not been tested in humans

      New Male Contraceptive? (2012). Jama-Journal Of The American Medical Association, 308(1), 21.

      The discovery of a key gene in sperm development may help researchers design a male contraceptive that (unlike conventional contraceptives) would not disrupt the production of hormones and would perhaps avoid such hormonerelated adverse effects as irritability, mood swings, and acne (Smith LB et al. PLoS Genet. 2012;8[5]:e1002697). The finding could also provide new information on male infertility.

      • identificaiton of key gene in sperm development can allow for the design of a male contraceptive with less side effects • avoids disruption of hormones and effects associated with them i.e. irritability, mood swings, acne could also inform on causes of male infertility

      To identify new genes involved in male fertility, a team led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh, in Scotland, chemically induced random mutations within the DNA of mice and then screened for animals that exhibited infertility. These experiments indicated that the Katnal1 gene is critical to enable sperm to mature in the testes.

      Additional analyses revealed that the protein encoded by the geneis needed to regulatethemicrotubulesthatsupportand provide nutrients to developing sperm and enable the cells to move within the testes as they mature. Absence of the protein results in premature release of immature sperm. Male mice with mutated,nonfunctional Katnall genes were infertile.

      • identified new genes by chemically inducing random mutations within DNA of mice and screening for infertility • showed Katnall gene is necessary for sperm maturation in testes<br> • protein encoded by gene regulate microtubules supporting and providing nutrients for sperm development and for motility in testes • absence of protein--> premature release of immature sperm male mice with mutated, nonfunctional Katnall genes were infertile

      Amory, J. (2016). Male contraception. Fertility and Sterility, 106(6), 1303-1309.

      Administration of unesterified testosterone orally or parenterally is ineffective because it is quickly degraded by the liver. Therefore, most hormonal contraceptive regimens have used longer-acting injectable testosterone esters such as testosterone enanthate (TE) administered by means of intramuscular injection on a weekly basis. Two multicenter trials of weekly TE injections as a male contraceptive were conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO). The first study enrolled 271 subjects who were dosed with 200 mg TE intramuscularly weekly (30). Sixty percent of the men became azoospermic, and an additional 30% became severely oligospermic. One hundred nineteen of the men who became azoospermic discontinued other birth control and continued on TE injections as their sole method of contraception for 1 year. During that period, only one pregnancy occurred, demonstrating that testosterone-induced azoospermia was a highly effective contraceptive.

      • testosterone- induced azoospermia was a highly effective contraceptive as proven by the WHO trials of weekly TE injections • 271 subjects, dosed with 200mg TE intramuscularly weekly 119 men continued use for a year after becoming azoospermic--> only 1 pregancy occurred

      The second WHO study examined contraceptive efficacy of TE injections in men who became azoospermic or oligospermic to <3 mil sperm per milliliter of ejaculate with the use of TE injections (31). Three hundred ninety-nine, mostly Asian, men were enrolled in this study. Three hundred ninety-one (98%) of the men became oligospermic or azoospermic. There were no pregnancies caused by the men who became azoospermic, and in the men who became oligospermic fertility was reduced to eight pregnancies per 100 personyears. The overall failure rate (including the eight men who failed to suppress their sperm counts) was 3.4%, for an overall contraceptive efficacy of 96.6%. In both groups, sperm counts returned to normal after the cessation of testosterone injections, and there were no major side-effects

      • another WHO study with 399 men taking TE injections resulted in96.6% contraceptive efficacy with reversibility of low sperm counts • 98% of men becoming oligospermic or azoospermic. • Overall failure was rate 3.4% • no pregnancies caused by azoospermic men; 8 pregnancies per 100 personyears no major side effects

      These studies demonstrated that testosterone injections are effective as a contraceptive in most men; however, a proportion of men fail to suppress to <3 milion sperm per milliliter and therefore remain potentially fertile. In addition, the necessity of weekly intramuscular injections was unpopular with subjects, 12% of whom discontinued involvement owing to dislike of the injection schedule. Side-effects were fairly minimal, but notably, high-dose TE deceases serum highdensity lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, which might affect the development of atherosclerosis (33, 34); however, as is the case with any male hormonal contraceptive, the longterm effects on prostate and liver health as well as mood and behavior are unknown.

      • TE injections are effective as a contraceptive but there are still men who cannot suppress sperm counts and remain fertile.<br> • delivery by injection was also unpopular- 12% of subjects discontinued involvement b/c of it • side-effects were minimal • high- dose TE deceases serum HDL cholesterol that can affect the development of atherosclerosis longterm effects on prostate and liver health, mood and behavior are also unknown

      Testosterone undecanoate (TU) is a long-chain ester that normalizes serum testosterone concentrations in hypogonadal men for 6–12 weeks after injection (35–37). A large trial of TU injections for male contraception was conducted in China (38). Volunteers received monthly injections of 500 or 1,000 mg TU. Ninety percent of the men had sperm concentrations of <1 million sperm/mL and used the injections as their sole method of contraception for 1 year. Only a few pregnancies were reported in treated men and side-effects were minimal; however, for unclear reasons the method was not approved for use.

      • testosterone undecanoate normalizes serum testosterone concentrations in hypogonadal men for 6-12 weeks after injection. • large trial for TU injections was conducted in China: 90% of men had sperm concnetrations of <1 million sperm/mL & used their injections as their only contraception method only a few pregnancies reported and side-effects minimal but method wasn't approved for use for unclear reasons

      In the hopes of achieving greater rates of azoospermia, several male contraceptive studies have combined testosterone administration with administration of progestins, which additively suppress FSH and LH from the pituitary and may have direct antisperm effects on the testes (39). Combinations of testosterone and depot injections of medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) induced azoospermia in one-half of study subjects and some degree of oligozoospermia in most others. The contraceptive efficacy of these combinations, however, was poor, with several couples conceiving while receiving therapy despite simultaneous use of other contraceptives (40).

      • some male contraceptive studies have combined testosterone administration with administration of progestins (additively suppress FSH and LH from the pituitary and may have direct antisperm effects on the testes) • these injections induced azoospermia in 1/2 of study subjects and some degree of oligozoopermia in most others contraceptive efficacy poor overall

      Several male contraceptive studies of the potent oral progestin levonorgestrel (LNG) have been performed. For example, in one study, LNG (500 mg orally daily) was combined with TE (100 mg intramuscularly per week) for 6 months. The LNG-TE combination was superior to TE alone in terms of azoospermia (67% vs. 33%), and 94% of the men had sperm concentrations of <1million per milliliter compared with 61% of the TE-alone group (41). Drawbacks to the LNG-TE regimen included greater weight gain and decreases in HDL cholesterol compared with the TE-alone group. Other progestins, such as desogestrel, have been tested in male contraceptive regimens with similar results, but without causing weight gain or large reductions HDL cholesterol

      • contraceptive studies of potent oral pregestin levonorgestrel have been performed • i.e. in one study, LNG was combined with TE for 6 months- resulted in better azoospermia than TE alone, 94% of men had sperm concentrations o f<1 mil per mL • drawbacks included greater weight gain, decreases in HDL cholesterol compared to TE alone group although other progestins have been tested with similar results and less side effects.

      Nestorone is a 19-norprogesterone–derived progestin which can be applied as a transdermal gel (48). A combination of Nestorone gel and testosterone transdermal gels were studied for gonadotropin suppression (49) and in a 6-month male contraceptive trial (50). In the latter study, 89% of men achieved suppression of their sperm concentration to %1 million sperm per milliliter. Importantly, a majority of subjects on this regimen were very satisfied with the regimen, stating that they would be likely to use it if it were commercially available (51). Ongoing studies are working to simplify the regimen into a single combination gel for phase II testing at six international sites beginning in 2017.

      • Nestorone can be applied as a transdermal gel and is a 19- norprogerstone-derved progestin. • combo of Nestorone gel and testosterone transdermal gels were studied in 6-month trial in which 89% of men achieved suppresion of their sperm concenration to <1mill sperm/ mL subjects were very satisfied with the regimen

      Dimethandrolone undecanoate (DMAU) is a potent synthetic 19-norandrogen that acts as a ligand at both androgen and progesterone receptors, making DMAU a potential ‘‘single-agent’’ contraceptive (52). Studies in rodents and rabbits have shown both reversible suppression of gonadotropins and sperm with orally administered DMAU (53, 54). Phase I testing in humans has demonstrated short-term safety and tolerability with reversible suppression of gonadotropins (55), and phase II testing of this compound is underway. Interestingly, DMAU can be administered orally as well as by intramuscular injection, making it a very exciting compound for male hormonal contraceptive development.

      • DMAU is currently in Phase I testing in humans and Phase II testing is underway • is a single agent contraceptive for which studies in rodents and rabbits have shown reversible suppression of gonadotropins and sperm with orally administered DMAU Phase I testing injumans showed short-term safety and tolerability w/ reversible suppression of gonadotropins

      Several groups are examining approaches to ‘‘nonhormonal’’ male contraception, although to date none of the current generation of candidates has been tested in men. Nonhormonal male contraception does not involve the administration of hormones or compounds that block hormone secretion or hormone action. Nonhormonal contraception may be more appealing to men because it avoids any impact on testosterone concentrations or sexual function. In addition, the use of testosterone or another anabolic steroid could lead to sports disqualification. Finally, nonhormonal contraceptives may be more easily dosed orally than steroid preparations owing to rapid ‘‘first-pass’’ metabolism of testosterone in the liver

      • nonhormonal options are also being explored but haven't been tested in men • doesn't involve blockage of hormone secretion or hormone action • may be more appealing to men b/c it doesn't impact testosterone conc. or sexual function ; also b/c it would avoid sports disqualitifcation • may also be more easily dosed orally • example is adjudin: antisperm comp that disrupts the adhesion of spermatidds to Sertoli cells to cause rpemature speriation and infertility 100%infertility after 5 weeks of tx in adult rats w/oth changes in serum testosterone, FSH, or LH conc.

      Since the early 1990s, efforts have been underway in India and China to develop a temporary plug for the vas deferens, which could theoretically be removed or dissolved by an injection at a later date to provide reversibility. The Indian vas occlusion device is called RISUG for ‘‘reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance.’’ With the use of ultrasound guidance, sterile styrene maleic anhydrate is instilled into the vas, bilaterally occluding it and preventing the passage of sperm. Several small clinical trials in men have been performed with the use of this technique (79, 80), showing excellent contraceptive efficacy over periods of up to 1 year. The procedure has been shown to be reversible in some nonhuman models (81), but data on efficacy and reversibility from large-scale clinical trials are not available (82). Similar vas occlusion devices using medical-grade silicone and polyurethane plugs were studied in China (83, 84). Unfortunately, both compounds had problems with time to sperm suppression and recovery of sperm counts after reversal, leading the investigators to abandon that approach

      • another method is a temporary plug for the vas deferns whihc could be theoretically removed or dissolved by an injection • several small clinical trials in men have been performed using ultrasound guidance to put in place an Indian vas occlusion device called RISUG resulting in excellent contraceptive efficacy up to 1 year periods procedure is reversible in nonhuman models but other evidence of reversibility in large-scale trials aren't available

  43. Jun 2019
    1. A third of the world’s liquefied natural gas and almost 20% of total global oil production passes through the strait,

      Also, about 30% of seaborne traded oil, more than 85% of that for Asia, mainly Japan, India, South Korea and China [details] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-oil-factbox/factbox-middle-east-oil-gas-shipping-risks-alternative-routes-idUSKBN0MM2E720150326)

      2017: 17.2 million bpd, first half of 2018, 17.4 million, [details] (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-oil-factbox/strait-of-hormuz-the-worlds-most-important-oil-artery-idUSKBN1JV24O) (Sea-borne crude and condensate)

      Most of the crude exported from Saudi Arabia, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Iraq passes through it. It is also the route for nearly all the liquefied natural gas (LNG) from lead exporter Qatar. cite

    1. one million animal and plant species were threatened with extinction.

      This figure got far more attention than it deserved. One of many figures in the IPBES Media Release that the press highlighted as their main finding. Their main finding was that these species can be prevented from extinction.

      It includes vulnerable species,with a 10% chance of extinction in 100 years, which means about half would be lost in 600 years. This also includes those with a stable population of less than 1000 mature individuals (+ various other alternative inclusion criteria). These can be conserved. Vulnerable species often move to least concern, as happened with the humpback whale in 2008.

      They assume that across most groups of species, 25% of species are threatened with extinction. It's a reasonable guess based on the 27% figure for the few ones that were assessed for the IUCN red list.

      For insects, they expect it is lower but unlikely to be less than 10%. 10% of the 5.5 million insects is 550,000, and 25% of the remaining 2.6 million is 625,000. The imprecision of the estimates means there is no point in being more precise than one million. The figure covers 8 milliion estimated eukaryotes - that includes minute creatures in seas, rivers and soil, many needing a microscope to see. The 2011 paper which is source said that at the time, 86% of existing species had not yet been described.

      The 2011 paper estimates 298,000 plant species, so a quarter of those would be 74,500 plants that have a 10% chance of extinction in 100 years or else have a world population of less than 1000 years.

      You can read the science behind the IPBES assessment here: A million threatened species? Thirteen questions and answers by Dr Andy Purvis, one of the authors who calculated the figure.

      I wrote up the IPBES report as Let's Save A Million Species, And Make Biodiversity Great Again, UN Report Shows How

    1. About 27 tonnes of fresh fuel is required each year by a 1000 MWe nuclear reactor. In contrast, a coal power station requires more than two and a half million tonnes of coal to produce as much electricity. (1)Enriched UF6 is transported to a fuel fabrication plant where it is converted to uranium dioxide powder. This powder is then pressed to form small fuel pellets, which are then heated to make a hard ceramic material. The pellets are then inserted into thin tubes to form fuel rods. These fuel rods are then grouped together to form fuel assemblies, which are several meters long. 
    1. A recent study by the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism showed Asian-Americans representing only 1 percent of all leading roles in Hollywood (the 2017 United States Census Bureau reported that there are 18 million Americans of Asian descent, or roughly 6 percent of the population). Only one actor of Asian heritage has ever won an Academy Award for best actor: Ben Kingsley, whose father was Indian, in 1983 for playing Gandhi (Kingsley has been nominated in three other instances). Twelve actors of Asian descent have ever received nominations from the academy — all largely for supporting roles, with the exception of Merle Oberon, who was half British and half Sri Lankan, in 1936. The others include the Japanese-American actor Pat Morita; the Cambodian actor Haing S. Ngor; the Japanese actors Mako Iwamatsu, Ken Watanabe, Rinko Kikuchi and Sessue Hayakawa; the Chinese-American actresses and sisters Jennifer and Meg Tilly; the Filipino-American actress Hailee Steinfeld; and the British-Indian actor Dev Patel. This year, Sandra Oh made history as the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated for an Emmy for the lead in a dramatic series, as Eve Polastri in “Killing Eve.” And earlier this year, the Indian-American actor Aziz Ansari was awarded best actor for a TV comedy by the Golden Globes, the first actor of Asian descent to do so. When “Saturday Night Live” announced that the actor Awkwafina would host the show this past October, it was noted that the last woman of Asian descent to host was Lucy Liu in 2000, 18 years ago. The New York Times recently reported that in the search for the male lead in “Crazy Rich Asians,” one of the movie’s producers was told by several prominent American theater schools that they hadn’t had a male Asian graduate in years. A study by multiple universities reported that, over a one-year period, of the 242 scripted shows on broadcast, cable and streaming TV, just one-third had a series regular who was Asian-American or Pacific Islander. These are shows, mind you, set in cities such as San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles, which all have significant Asian-American and Pacific Islander populations (33 percent, 12 percent and 24 percent, respectively). And another report by the U.S.C. Annenberg Inclusion Initiative stated that of the top 100 films of last year, 37 didn’t include a single Asian character with a speaking role

      La Force does a lot of data analysis in this paragraph. What conclusions do we, as the readers, draw from her numbers and discussion of them?

  44. May 2019
    1. John Hemminger Prof Graves 4/25/19   The backbone of American culture and government is summed up in a few sentences  written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 in our beloved Declaration of Independence stating  “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are … with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed …” America has a government for the people, by the people which shall never perish from the face of the earth as Lincoln would put it. This is the very foundation of “America”. We like to think of ourselves as the “role model” democracy, and since our democracy is the “best”, we innately, presumably, have the most freedom on the globe. Who are we to hog this “perfect” democratic system to ourselves? We are the protectors and developers of the “free world.” However, our government has not been established for “the people”. More accurately, our government has been organized and constructed in a way for “some” of the people more than others, specifically serving those with power within our society. From its very conception, our founding fathers had little faith in the common man and established a system of governance to limit their power over decisions for our society, by the way of representative government. Our country’s direction, motives, and purpose are not established by the people, but rather by a set of individuals with the power to influence our government’s representatives, consequently influencing governmental policies. This system has been going strong for almost 250 years with relatively few amendments to the original constitution. However, with the phenomena of globalization of capitalism and the spreading of “democracy”, the influence these individuals have allowed them to shift their focus outwards from gaining and establishing dominance not only over the people they help govern, but the world as whole. These group of people can be referred to as the elites,the 1 percenters, and the transnational capitalist class(TCC). According to an article posted on cnbc.com, this class of people now account for 50% of global wealth (Frank, Robert. “Richest 1% Now Owns Half the World’s Wealth.” CNBC, CNBC, 14 Nov. 2017) Well, if the 1% are greedily gathering all the wealth through manipulation of the system in place, why are the 99% not taking action to distribute this wealth (which equates to power in our capitalist system), so that the government can be truly for the people, by the people. This is deeper seeded issue dealing with how the system is established in the first place and the methods used to keep the 99% subdued. Through tactics of division of the 99%, the created illusions of choice of the representatives in “our” government, militarized police states and the industrial prison complex, and American economic dominance through war and American supported counterrevolutions in foreign countries, the TCC have been able to solidify their power, maintain their wealth, and strengthen their grip over the public. It will not be the government of the people, for the people until the people realize who really has a say in our government. To begin, we must look at how policies are put in place and established; then, consequently analyze the effects of these laws and who they benefit. To make or influence laws that shape our culture, our society, and the norms, you must hold office or have a substantial amount of money to lobby for your interests. Technically, anybody can run and hold office, given that you are not a convicted felon; however, running for office is extremely costly which ultimately restricts access to candidacy for all the people. According to Super PACS and the Presidential Election by Anthony J. Nownes, “In the 2012 elections, Senate candidates will have spent a total of $745 million. The average winning Senate candidate will have spent almost $10 million. To get this much money, a Senate candidate must raise almost $4,500 every day for six years.” Nownes also states that the 2012 presidential race cost each candidate $2 billion, $1 billion that the candidate raised and another billion from outside groups. (Nownes, Anthony. “Super PACs and the Presidential Election.” Juniata Voices 13 (2013): 77-80. Web.) Most of this money is spent on advertising, and most of this money comes from regular people. There are laws that limit individuals or corporate contributions to candidates or political action committees that contribute to the candidate. AT&T cannot contribute money directly to Mitt Romney, but they can however, create their own political action committee and contribute to it. These contributions are still limited. This does not stop the interest groups (the TCC) that MUST have their interests represented in the election. There are no laws preventing the amount of money that AT&T can spend on advertising for the candidate they endorse. These are independent expenditures that are not limited by the Federal Elections Commission. So, to get around these laws, corporations and interest groups form Super PACs (political action committees) that only spend money on independent expenditures. The laws limiting donations to regular political action committees that give money to candidates do not apply to these Super PACSs. Corporations or individuals can give an indefinite amount to these Super PACs that allow them to independently spend on advertisements and other expenses for the candidate they support or to defeat an opposing candidate. There was a speech before the house by house representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that

      Again, be direct: In a speech before the House, Alexandria...

  45. Apr 2019
    1. Despite widespread worries about their ability to compete, Filipinos bought the theory that their farmers' lack of good transportation and high technology would be balanced out by their cheap labor. The government predicted that access to world markets would create a net gain of a half-million farming jobs a year, and improve the country's trade balance.It didn't happen. Small-scale farmers across the Philippine archipelago have discovered that their competitors in places like the United States or Europe do not simply have better seeds, fertilizers and equipment. Their products are also often protected by high tariffs, or underwritten by massive farm subsidies that make them artificially cheap. No matter how small a wage Filipino workers are willing to accept, they cannot compete with agribusinesses afloat on billions of dollars in government welfare.
    1. On the other hand, there are an increasing number of countries in which full-scale trade liberalisation has been applied and then failed to deliver economic growth while allowing domestic markets to be dominated by imports. This often has devastating effects. Zambia and Ghana are both examples of countries in which the opening up of markets has led to sudden falls in rates of growth with sectors being unable to compete with foreign goods. Even in those countries that have experienced overall economic growth as a result of trade liberalisation, poverty has not necessarily been reduced. In Mexico during the first half of the 1990s there was economic growth, yet the number of people living below the poverty line increased by 14 million in the 10 years from the mid-1980s. This was due to the fact that the benefits of a more open market all went to the large commercial operators, with the small concerns being squeezed out. The evidence shows that the benefits that would flow from increased international trade will not materialise if markets are simply left alone. When this happens, liberalisation is used by the rich and powerful international players to make quick gains from short-term investments.
    1. The eruptions, which began before the KT impact and continued after it, were among the biggest in Earth’s history, lasting hundreds of thousands of years, and burying half a million square miles of the Earth’s surface a mile deep in lava. The three-metre gap below the KT layer, proponents argued, was evidence that the mass extinction was well under way by the time of the asteroid strike.

      Different argument that the extinction was because of a volcano eruption before the asteroid strike

    1. The eugenics movement from the first half of the 20th century has had a lasting impact on the parental rights of people with disabilities (Powell 16). The movement encompassed more than 30 states passing legislation permitting involuntary sterilization, including those with disabilities (Rocking the Cradle 15), resulting in leftover laws denying basic rights to parents with disabilities. Today, there is skepticism and stigma regarding the quality of parenting that can be provided by people with disabilities. Parents with disabilities do not align sufficiently with norms in the United States of the traditional nuclear family, and are thus grossly mistreated when dealing with the welfare system. There is a cultural expectation that parents with disabilities cannot, or should not, raise children (Rochman). This issue is widely impactful; at least 4.1 million parents in the United States have a disability, which is roughly 6.2% of all parents with children below the age of 18 (Powell 16). Considering the tragic repercussions of the miscarriage of justice, legal precedent, and the best interest of the child, legal protections of parental rights for people with disabilities need to be enacted at a federal level.

      Very well-written first paragraph. I would say maybe restate your thesis or make it more clear. It was hard to tell what your thesis was at first.