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Diabetes is one of the most deadly diseases in this world that usually attacked people in every age. Diabetes can be a chronic disease that makes your blood containing glucose or sugar. However, diabetes usually divided into 2 main types, type 1 and type 2. Many people still thinking these types are the same, but there several basics difference of type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
Did you know exactly the difference of type 1 and type 2 diabetes because they look the same? If you don't know that difference yet, it will be better if you searching for more. On the other hand, there also available other types of diabetes like gestational and MODY. But in this article, we will try to explain you diabetes type 1 and type 2 only. Here we go!
1. What is Happening?
Type 1 and type 2 have a different cause of symptoms that almost the same. On type 1, it is the hereditary disease from your parents. grandfather or grandmother. This hereditary makes your body can't produce any insulin, an enzyme that can prevent glucose in the blood.
On the other hand, in diabetes type 2, it wasn't a hereditary disease. It's all about your fault that caused your body can't produce enough insulin. Besides, your body can produce insulin but the insulin doesn't work properly. Diabetes type 2 shows that your blood filtering in the kidney was broken.
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A big difference between diabetes type 1 and type 2 is the risk factor. In diabetes type 1, your lifestyle won't affect the risk even you are thin and eat a portion of healthy food. However, diabetes type 1 is usually attacked people on more than 40 in age, but it can also attack the children. Your age doesn't affect this type because it is a hereditary disease.
Next, the risk factors on diabetes type 2 are much more than type 1. Your family history can make you facing this disease too. Besides, something else that puts you in this disease is your age and your weight. People with an overweight body or obese can have a bigger risk than thin ones. You can start a healthy living by eating nutritional food in the right portion and do exercise regularly.
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That two types of diabetes can be caused by the same symptoms even the causes of both of them are different. They can cause your urination in excessive conditions, especially when the night comes. Also, you can be thirsty so fast, getting tired more than usual and losing weight awfully.
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These are some difference of type 1 and type 2 diabetes that you should know. Your health can be under control as long as you want to try to take care of it. Make sure you have a healthy lifestyle because it can be more expensive when you had diabetes. Hope this article can help and wake you up to start more care for your health.


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The day of my 18th birthday can't be beat. After a humiliating fiasco involving the police the previous night, I woke up ready for the day, my first full one in Edinburgh, Scotland. I recall that I wore some really unfortunate outfit (nu rave was in again, sue me), and Chris arrived at my hotel bright and early. He brought me a birthday card with a 1920s flapper on it (which I still have). I had bought him a bouquet of white daisies, just because he was cute. He brought with him 3 CDs as gifts: Wild Young Hearts by The Noisettes, Lungs by Florence & the Machine, and the self-titled Friendly Fires album. It's impossible not to think of him whenever I hear these songs, especially that Noisettes album.
I'm listening to it now as my best friend and I drive the 2 hours north from Phoenix to Flagstaff. We're going on a short camping trip in honor of Chris. It seems appropriate, considering that this is the last place we went together when we saw each other last, almost 3.5 years ago. We're on the I-17 North, the same highway we drove on, on a short trip to stay with my friend Jess, the same friend we stayed with when he and I drove north.
After I got the news that Chris had died, I didn't really know what to do with that information. We had never lived near each other, so I was used to not hearing from him for sometimes months at a time. In retrospect, we only saw each other in person 4 times over the course of our 13 years of knowing each other. Over those years we dated, broke up, dated again, broke up again, but between it all, the love remained. It was the kind of friendship where you could go for months without talking, only to pick up right where you left off. He was more than a friend, and more than an ex-boyfriend. He was something else entirely.
We had never gone camping together, but he was a fan of the outdoors so I thought a camping trip was fitting. Chris and I always said, from when we met, that we would be at each other's funerals. I couldn't be at the funeral service in Scotland, so I decided to do my own kind of service for him. It was important to me that I go with people who had also known Chris, my dear friends Hunter and Jess. Both of them had loved him, as everyone who had ever met him loved him. The night we set up camp, we busted out the beers and I placed a photo of Chris down under the stars. I sat between Hunter and Jess by the fire as I read a letter he had written to me while I was in Korea, the only handwritten letter of his that I still have. Then I read a letter I had written to him after his death. It was long, and at some points hard to get through, but they were things that needed to be said aloud. After all of those years, I didn't get the chance to say goodbye to him, which is something that I struggle with, so I read it aloud, hoping that somewhere he was listening to me.
If I had had a final talk with you, I don't think I would have been able to say all of this. But I know what I would have said. I would have thanked you for being the greatest love of my life. For going through this world and showing me how to appreciate the quirks and differences of other people. For showing me what real, true, honest love for another human, without expectations, looks like. Thank you for all of your music, sad boy tunes included. Thank you for every single moment shared between us. Breakups, good times, bad times, and so much love that I can't even begin to quantify it. It's endless really. Thank you for loving me, despite my flaws. Thank you for everything, and I will always be with you, and you will always be with me. I love you.
A few cans of PBR helped me wash away the tears. Sitting with my friends around the campfire, crying, venting, laughing, was probably the most therapeutic thing I've done since Chris died. I think there is a reason humans create these rituals around major life events. Without them, they seem intangible. It's hard to wrap your head, and your heart, around them. Sometimes I feel like if I just wish hard enough, that none of this will be true. I always snap out of that thought, disappointed that it will always be true. I left his picture, my letter, and a funeral bouquet I had made, out overnight under the clear sky. In the morning, we woke up and I gently put all of it into the fire, my version of a funeral pyre.
The rest of the activities for that day were part of a larger plan. Hunter and I drove up to the Grand Canyon, and stopped for photo ops of places Chris and I had stopped or gotten photos of. Being in the same places that he had physically been was painful, but mostly it made me feel nice. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I do think that while people may not physically be present anymore, they take on some other kind of life after they die – yours. I think that the people who knew and loved them are now charged with their life, and have a duty to live life in their memory. To honor them. In the words of Rainer Maria Rilke, in a letter to a grieving friend:
You must continue his life inside of yours insofar as it was unfinished; his life has now passed onto yours. You, who quite truly knew him, can quite truly continue in his spirit and on his path. Make it the task of your mourning to explore what he had expected of you, had hoped for you, had wished to happen to you.
Someone once said that when people die, it's best to think like a physicist. All of the atoms and particles that ever touched that person are still floating around in the universe, and they are touching you too. It's what I like to call death particles. It's what I think of when I touch his CDs or cards. It's what I thought of at the Grand Canyon. If you've never been to the Grand Canyon, it can be hit or miss. Sometimes the vastness of it can't be appreciated with your eyes; it can seem like one big matte painting. Other times, if you go at the right time of day, it can be truly breathtaking. It's one of those places where you have to resist the urge to jump. I stood there, in a place where we had both been together, laughing and walking, sharing lunch together. I thought of the particles, and how some of his particles had to be there, right where he left them.
When Chris and I drove back from Flagstaff, we stopped at the Rock Springs Cafe in Rock Springs to try some of their pie (which claims to be the best in the state). He had the coconut cream, and I the chocolate cream. He ate half of it, and then promptly asked for us to go get something with vegetables because damn is it sweet. We sat there in that booth, and I remember thinking how handsome he was and how happy I felt just to sit there looking at him, seeing him smile. I snapped a quick photo of that moment.
Hunter and I stopped at the Rock Springs Cafe on our way home. When we walked in, I asked if I could choose my seat. I went straight to the same booth we had sat in, and sat where he had sat. By doing this, I had hoped to feel something. I did. I felt supremely melancholy. But in a weird way, it felt good to touch something he had touched, to be somewhere that he had been. When I sat there on that bench, I thought again of the particles, and how surely they had to be there still.
In Rock Springs, we were treated to a waitress that was everything you'd want in a roadside waitress. She was probably in her 60s and called herself Grandma Wendy. She had an arm covered in faded tattoos and the deepest blue eyes I had ever seen. She called me sugar – the same thing I used to call Chris. When she saw me all weepy at the table, she asked what was wrong. I told her that I had come here once with one of my best friends, and that he had died recently.
"Oh sweetie, it happens," she said with an empathetic look in her eye, "I love you." And she gave me a hug.
It's these kinds of small incidents that make me a believer in the innate goodness of humans; that we shouldn't be inherently scared of strangers. Sometimes you need to tell your truth to a stranger. I posted about my upcoming solo travels in an all-female solo traveler group that I'm a member of. I asked what others had done when faced with the loss of a loved one right before you go off out into the world with just yourself, no support. The outpouring of messages and kindness shocked me. Other women so easily shared their own stories of grief, loss, and heartache. For some, travel had helped them immensely to process their grief; others still found themselves only more fully immersed in heartache.
When I first planned this trip, I thought it would be a physical thing I could do that would make me feel okay with all of this. While it did give me some semblance of closure, I now know that grief will be chronic in some way, forever. I will always miss Chris. There will always be a piece of me missing, a place that my soulmate filled, that can never again be replaced. Some days will be fine, and other days will be great, and some will be horrendous, and that's just going to be one aspect of my life now. Still, having his things near me, interacting with those particles, getting the matching tattoo we had always planned to get, comforts me some going forward. I will continue to write his name, to speak about him, to relish in him, for as long as I've got life to do so. I will always be with him, and he will always be with me.
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The cloud, and smoke, and flame, though they were symbols of heavenly glory, nevertheless curbed men's minds as with a bridle, that they might not attempt to penetrate farther
Consideration of an objection taken from various passages in Moses. The Cherubim and Seraphim show that images are not fit to represent divine mysteries. The Cherubim belonged to the tutelage of the Law.
It is true that the Lord occasionally manifested his presence by certain signs, so that he was said to be seen face to face; but all the signs he ever employed were in apt accordance with the scheme of doctrine, and, at the same time, gave plain intimation of his incomprehensible essence. For the cloud, and smoke, and flame, though they were symbols of heavenly glory, (Deuteronomy 4:11,) curbed men's minds as with a bridle, that they might not attempt to penetrate farther. Therefore, even Moses (to whom, of all men, God manifested himself most familiarly) was not permitted though he prayed for it, to behold that face, but received for answer, that the refulgence was too great for man, (Exodus 33:20.) The Holy Spirit appeared under the form of a dove, but as it instantly vanished, who does not see that in this symbol of a moment, the faithful were admonished to regard the Spirit as invisible, to be contented with his power and grace, and not call for any external figure? God sometimes appeared in the form of a man, but this was in anticipation of the future revelation in Christ, and, therefore, did not give the Jews the least pretext for setting up a symbol of Deity under the human form. The mercy-seat, also, (Exodus 25:17,18,21,) where, under the Law, God exhibited the presence of his power, was so framed, as to intimate that God is best seen when the mind rises in admiration above itself: the Cherubim with outstretched wings shaded, and the veil covered it, while the remoteness of the place was in itself a sufficient concealment. It is therefore mere infatuation to attempt to defend images of God and the saints by the example of the Cherubim. For what, pray, did these figures mean, if not that images are unfit to represent the mysteries of God, since they were so formed as to cover the mercy-seat with their wings, thereby concealing the view of God, not only from the eye, but from every human sense, and curbing presumption? To this we may add, that the prophets depict the Seraphim, who are exhibited to us in vision, as having their faces veiled; thus intimating, that the refulgence of the divine glory is so great, that even the angels cannot gaze upon it directly, while the minute beams which sparkle in the face of angels are shrouded from our view. Moreover, all men of sound judgment acknowledge that the Cherubim in question belonged to the old tutelage of the law. It is absurd, therefore, to bring them forward as an example for our age. For that period of puerility, if I may so express it, to which such rudiments were adapted, has passed away. And surely it is disgraceful, that heathen writers should be more skillful interpreters of Scripture than the Papists. Juvenal (Sat. 14) holds up the Jews to derision for worshipping the thin clouds and firmament. This he does perversely and impiously; still, in denying that any visible shape of Deity existed among them, he speaks more accurately than the Papists, who prate about there having been some visible image. In the fact that the people every now and then rushed forth with boiling haste in pursuit of idols, just like water gushing forth with violence from a copious spring, let us learn how prone our nature is to idolatry, that we may not, by throwing the whole blame of a common vice upon the Jews, be led away by vain and sinful enticements to sleep the sleep of death.
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About 200 people filled Austin's Scottish Rite Theater on April 27, 2018, to attend "An Evening on Texas Water," a unique event exploring the past, present and future of water in Texas sponsored by the Jackson School of Geosciences and organized by graduate students.
The free, public event mixed art, science and policy. It featured a screening of the multi-award winning film "Yakona" with music performed
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The 2018 Pittsburgh Steelers season hasn't gone light on the drama and one player is comparing it to another high-profile, ongoing dramatic saga.
The 2018 Steelers storylines
The Steelers opened on the Le'Veon Bell arc, in which the star running back held out and ended up not playing a down for the Steelers.
It included quarterback Ben Roethlisberger's radio show, a must-listen wherein he discussed whatever he pleased from calling out teammates, giving them love, or questioning coaches' play calls.
And it closed on another Antonio Brown chapter as the top wideout missed the team's final game for reasons that vary depending on who is talking. Honestly, no one knows what's going on in Pittsburgh right now but they have a chance to write a new script this offseason.
If this all sounds like a TV show — maybe, say, a reality show with huge personalities — you're on the same wavelength as Steelers tight end Jesse James.
"Ah man, we are — Kardashians. We have, I mean, we're something," James told Penn Live on Monday, less than 24 hours after the Steelers missed the playoffs. "It's Le'Veon Bell issues, you have more stuff popping up weekly, Jeremy Fowler's reporting stuff about Le'Veon every other week. There's just people calling people out.
"We were in the front of the ticker on ESPN too much for just reasons that weren't related to football and not for us playing great ball. It was more distractions."
James didn't specify any particular events, outside of the Bell situation, adding:
"Obviously there was many things," he said. "I'm not gonna point out individually each one, but there was a lot of things that went on that didn't need to."
Spoken like any viewer of the Kardashians. So, which Steelers player is which Kardashian family member in this top-notch comparison?
Welcome to 'Putting Up with the Pittsburgh Steelers'
Starring …
Art Rooney as Kris Kardashian
Kris is really the woman who runs the show. She manages, she gets her daughters in magazines, she throws parties and builds brands. Her position in the Kardashian clan, a family that for better or worse many look up to, is akin to Art Rooney II overseeing a franchise many want to become.
Ben Roethlisberger as Kim Kardashian
Kim is and has been the most well-known Kardashian in the group. She provides mentorship to her sisters when it comes to PR nightmares and serves as a sort of spokesperson for the family.
Roethlisberger is one of the older players on the offensive side of the ball, talks about the group on his radio show and has helped keep the Steelers going for 15 years.
They also both have pasts with prominent scandals.
Roethlisberger's waffling with retirement also connects him with Kanye, Kim's husband, and his public back-and-forth decisions with President Donald Trump.
Antonio Brown as Kourtney Kardashian
Brown's standing with the Steelers right now is bizarre. No one knows what exactly he's thinking or what he's really doing. He's long held a flair for the dramatic, likes to stir things up and doesn't seem to appreciate being in the shadows.
Those are some Kourtney moves right there.
Le'Veon Bell as Khloé Kardashian
Bell missed the entire season and essentially hid out in Florida teasing his return. He's made headlines more than once for Instagram comments and foreshadowing tweets.
Khloé is in Cleveland, away from her famous sisters in Los Angeles, while her partner Tristan Thompson plays for the Cavaliers. And after her own drama, she took to social media with subtweets/subsnaps to allude to stories circulating in the media.
JuJu Smith-Schuster as Kendall Jenner
Smith-Schuster just wants to play some video games, ride his bike, share his life on JuJu TV and score touchdowns. He's big time, but mostly stays out of the big picture drama.
Same for Kendall, who likes her business corner of the quiet fame and still hasn't said anything about her potential romance with Ben Simmons.
Alternative: JuJu is Travis Scott, Kylie Jenner's significant other, in that he's far cooler than the rest but no one quite feels comfortable saying it.
James Conner as Travis Scott
While Bell created distractions, Conner stepped into the primary running back role with few issues. Kind of like how Kanye spent 2018 creating a stir while Scott further built his music mogul status that could bring the family to the Super Bowl (where they will not be meeting the Steelers).
T.J. Watt as Kylie Jenner
Both shining in their own ways, but getting fewer eyeballs as the younger siblings.
Jesse James as Lamar Odom/Scott Disick/any of Rob Kardashians' significant others
Kind of just getting tangled into the entire tornado.
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In the busiest week of 2017 so far, you'll find a bunch of big PlayStation 4 games, including Resident Evil 7 biohazard, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Tales of Berseria, Yakuza 0, and Digimon World: Next Order (in Europe; North America is next week).
*All games/content are releasing in North America and Europe, unless otherwise noted.
PlayStation 4 Games
- Arcade Archives NeoGeo World Heroes (PSN) – NA
- Digimon World: Next Order (Retail & PSN) – EU
- Earthlock: Festival of Magic (PSN in NA; Retail & PSN in EU)
- Enigmatis: The Ghosts of Maple Creek (PSN) – NA
- Firefighter 2017: The Simulation (PSN) – NA
- Hunter's Legacy (PSN)
- Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue (Retail & PSN)
- Lethal League (PSN) – NA
- Moto Racer 4 (Retail & PSN) – NA
- Pineview Drive (PSN) – NA
- Resident Evil 7 biohazard (Retail & PSN)
- Subterrain (PSN)
- Syndrome (PSN)
- Tales of Berseria (Retail & PSN)
- The Turing Test (PSN)
- Valhalla Hills: Definitive Edition (Retail & PSN) – EU
- Yakuza 0 (Retail & PSN)
PlayStation VR Games
- Resident Evil 7 biohazard (Retail & PSN)
PlayStation Vita Games
- Geki Yaba Runner (PSN) – NA
*Keep in mind that all release dates are subject to change, and more games/DLC will likely be added during the PlayStation Store updates in North America and Europe on Tuesday. For PlayStation VR game requirements, be sure to check out the product page before buying.
Check out our January 2017 and February 2017 release date pages to see what else is releasing soon, and feel free to let us know in the comments if you'll be picking up anything this week.
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It's been an emotional week here at our house.
We got a call from our agency on Tuesday and found out that Thailand is making major changes to their adoption program. They do not seem to be adopting out healthy children. Wait times are unpredictable.
We were encouraged to look into the China Waiting Child program. We did. Our hearts broke over the supposed "special needs" on that list of children. And we discovered the wait time for these kids is not as long as the healthy infant China program.
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We heard news today that our homestudy is going to be 3-5 months before it is ready to send in to USCIS. Our paperwork is on our social worker's desk, but 5 families are ahead of us. Once she finishes with it and does our training, it will take 6-12 weeks to get the approval of the one person in our state who needs to sign off on it.
It's hard to wait, but we are trusting the process, trusting that God will bring us directly to our son. We are encouraged and excited!!
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The Cryptoverse: Why Tether Is Now Dead for Good
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Tether, the token plagued with conspiracy and controversy, is dead for good. At least, that's what The Cryptoverse host Cris Coney thinks now that the Winklevoss' Gemini Dollar has received approval from US regulators.
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The Gemini Dollar: What It Is and What It Does
The Gemini Dollar is an ERC20 stablecoin, a blockchain-based token backed by a fiat currency — in this case the US dollar — as a way to keep the token value stable. According to Gemini, their token will maintain a 1-to-1 ratio with the US dollar, meaning one Gemini Dollar will always be equal to one US dollar.
What makes the Gemini Dollar unique from other stablecoins — mainly Tether — is that it is "the world's first regulated stablecoin," according to Gemini.
That means the token will have oversight from US regulators, which may make it seem more trustworthy and reliable in the eyes of some potential users.
Why Does the Gemini Dollar Mean Death for Tether?
There is one major reason why The Cryptoverse host Chris Coney believes the Gemini Dollar will bring about the end of Tether: accountability.
According to Coney, the Gemini Dollar will be subjected to monthly audits by New York regulators to ensure their supply remains equal to the amount of USD in Gemini's reserves.
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As fires obliterated large swathes of Australia, I was largely oblivious to the news — though tenuously connected to events as I travelled through oven-hot, tinder-dry national parks in Southern Africa. It was only when I reached the airport in Johannesburg that the extent of the catastrophe became apparent to me.
There are two laws for how to get out of a hole: the first is to acknowledge you are in one. The second is to stop digging. I suspect Peter Dutton won't care too much for this advice. He is clearly enjoying his job, playing the populist card with great aplomb, including recently in his advocacy for white South African farmers.
Louise, Aline and Kapinga are hardly household names in Australia. They are better known in Malawi, having received the prestigious Scientific and Technological Innovation Award at the Malawian National Schools Science Fair. Aline and Kapinga are all refugees residing at Malawi's Dzaleka Refugee Camp.
The world's poor are bearing the brunt of global warming yet they have done the least to cause it. African countries have some of the lowest carbon emissions rates in the world, but their fields are drying up and their pastureland is vanishing. Still, all is not lost. If we want to find the answers to climate change, many of them exist within the communities already being impacted. These people understand the urgent threat posed by global warming and they are banding together to find solutions.
Promos suggest you can choose your identity. Join a tour to Kurdistan and you can become an adventurer. Buy an Aussie flag, sing loudly about boundless plains, and you can become a dinky di Aussie. Identity, however, is more subtle. It is formed by relationships, to the human race, to body, to place of birth, to language, to the significant adults of childhood, to possessions, to education and work, to hobbies, religions and political parties and to all the people met through these relationships.
Global targets can be used to benchmark countries – but measuring a reduction in stigma is harder than it sounds. As one of my colleagues asked, 'what's the international standard unit for one stigma?'
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Last week the Federal Government committed to a much smaller and 'just in our neighbourhood' aid program for the long term. This major shift sent a perplexing signal to the world, with Australia abandoning Africa's poorest at a time when Australian mining investment in Africa continues to boom.
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Associate Professor of Public Policy at Australian Catholic University, Gary Johns, has challenged the Government's growing support of African nations. In so doing, Johns blatantly dismisses the fundamental principles of solidarity, human dignity, common good and option for the poor.
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Software Developer, Semiconductor Mnf. Decision Support/Business Intelligence systems (sa004)
Act as the lead software developer for system planning, development, and deployment of a Manufacturing Decision Support system for fabs. The system in question involves joint consideration of statistical process control (SPC), defect/yield management, and cycle time/capacity management. To apply, please read job application details at the bottom of the listing.
- Be the in-house expert on the Decision Support/Business Intelligence platform used to implement the application.
- Be the in-house expert on the underlying Databases of the application and their implementation with MySQL.
- Be the lead programmer in the implementation of the overall "enterprise class" software, i.e. address data feeds, data pre-processing, and results presentation in reports & dashboards. Work with other team-members to implement data analysis algorithms, predictive calculations, and optimization.
- Organize and manage a basic source code management and bug tracking system.
- Quickly acquire a conceptual understanding of novel mathematical algorithms developed by other team-members and help implement them in code.
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- Lead the conduct of system performance and SQA unit & integration testing.
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- Participate in the creation of manuals, software implementation plans & roadmaps, and whitepapers.
- Take care of practical aspects related to hardware and software on servers running the Decision Support software.
- Be self-motivated in finding answers and learning what is needed to meet goals
- Conduct other related works per request, e.g. help with occasional in-house IT issues.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Graduate degree preferred in fields such as Computer Science, Engineering (especially Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and/or Systems Engineering), Management Science, Manufacturing Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, and Economics.
- Minimum 3 years of working experience with Java & SQL, and good exposure to c/c++, MySQL and MATLAB programming. 5 years of working experience if no graduate degree.
- Strong experience in Database, Data Warehouse, and OLAP design and implementation.
- Strong experience with all related elements of Mnf. Decision Support and/or Business Intelligence (BI) systems, e.g. ETL/Data Integration, Reporting, Dashboards, Data Mining, and Predictive Analytics. Experience with the Pentaho BI platform a very big plus.
- Work experience in semiconductor manufacturing (or related high-tech manufacturing) that includes exposure to Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Exposure to semiconductor Yield Management Systems (YMS) and general metrology, defect control, and yield management a very big plus.
- Demonstrated effective communication skills and an ability to work in a dynamic startup environment.
- An inherent desire to be a key contributor in a small startup and a willingness to get some fraction of the salary in the form of equity.
For individuals with the above education, skills, and qualifications, this job is a unique opportunity to become an early key member of a startup. In addition to quick advancement and monetary reward, associated benefits include an opportunity to establish a prestigious achievement & reputation in the semiconductor and general productivity industry.
The company is a startup pioneering a novel software-based productivity leverage to help fabs increase yields, reduce cycle time, and contain process control costs that are escalating quickly. The company enables this through a set of interdisciplinary innovations in factory modeling, yield modeling, queueing theory, optimization, and factory automation. The company has seed funding and strong partnerships in the semiconductor industry.
- No third party applications.
- No outsourcing or remote work. Physical presence at the company office is required. The office is in the vicinity of San Francisco Airport. No offers for outsourced or remote work will be considered for this position, these offers will be ignored and applicable email addresses will be tagged as a spam source on the company system.
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The kid jumped and chested the ball down to the ground and tapped it away from the opposition player who lunged in a vein attempt intercept but he was too late and before he knew it the kid took off leaving him in the dust. Dribbling the ball closer and closer to the penalty area and with no other defenders in his way before long the kid was one on one with the goal keeper who started to dash out of his goal with his arms stretched wide making the kid's opportunity to score that much more difficult. He felt a presence to his right so he glanced quickly and noticed his best friend Nick coming up on his right. He smiled as he reached within a few yards of the keeper and kicked the ball. The goalie realized his error too late and couldn't get back in position in time. The kid kicked the ball to his right where Nick was waiting who ever so confidently tapped the ball into the net. A roar came from the sideline as the team rejoiced, they made their way to the side of the field that held the most of their fans and celebrated with them but the kid only had eyes for one person. He ran over ecstatically and laid a full passionate kiss on the lips of the love of his life, or lady luck as he likes to call her but everyone else calls her Barbara. When they finally separated Tommy's team went on to win the game thanks to that goal he assisted.
At 17 Tommy was an up and coming midfielder at the football academy, he was a true talent and most people said he was born with a golden foot. Tall with bright, long blonde hair and athletic most people naturally thought that he was just another dumb jock but he surprised everyone by having an intense intellect and curiosity as well. He was Barbara's pride and joy, she was his and they enjoyed every second of their time together but like all good times they must come to an end and this one did… tragically.
After the victory they decided to take the scenic route home since it was Spring and the forest was radiant with wildlife. They saw rabbits, squirrels, badgers and lots of singing birds it was almost as if they were walking through a Disney movie. Tommy led Barbara up a slightly steep hill that seemed to just lead to a hedge, Barbara looked questioningly at Tommy but he just urged her on. Tommy knew it would all be worth it when they get to the top and after what felt like forever they finally made it.
"This better be worth it, Tommy," she said blowing her hair out of her face.
"You'll see," he smiled that smile that made Barbara go weak at the knees. He turned to the hedge, found an opening and stepped through it to the other side. "Whoa Barb you got to see this," he said putting his arm out behind him for her to take hold of. She grabbed his hand and he led her through. The sight she saw next was one of immaculate beauty: the sun was high in the sky illuminating a large pond, it was directly under the sun making it shimmer and sparkle. Barb squinted slightly, she can just make out the ducks splashing on the surface having the best fun of their little lives. To the far left horses where racing around a flat field full of the greenest grass Barb has ever seen, she smiled greatly as she loved horses and rode hers as much as possible. Just out the way of the horses Barb could see a family of rabbits staring at the big beasts in bewilderment, it's the longest time Barb has seen a rabbit stay still. Directly to the side of them there was a large rectangular rock perfect for sitting and admiring the view so they both sat there and she turned to her love.
"It's perfect Tommy I love it, and I love you," she said planting a firm kiss on his lips.
"It almost is," he replied with a smug look on his face as he pulled out a bottle of wine and two glasses from his gym bag.
"Mmmmm naughty."
"I won't tell if you won't," he said with a wink, "besides I think we should make tonight as memorable as possible," he filled the glasses and passed Barbara a glass.
"My thoughts exactly," she smiled that killer smile Tommy always loved and was attracted to in the first place. It looked as if half of the smile seemed mischievously s**y and yet the other half was clearly innocent. "Here's to nights like these," she said simply. They clinked the glasses together and drank.
They talked and laughed for what must have been hours, kissed for so long that soon their lips started to go numb and drank like there were no tomorrow. After a while though they had to start heading back, they stood up and took one last look at the view.
"Barb, this is our spot from now on, agreed?" he asked.
"Agreed," she accepted resting her light head on his shoulder, "I love you, Tommy."
"I love you too, Barb," he kissed her head and stood there holding her watching the sun start to touch the hills in the distance. As he gazed at the setting sun something caught Tommy's eye. When the sunlight touched the hill it illuminated a hole running through the hill, it was a tunnel he has never seen before and leading somewhere he has never explored, an itch inside him started to grow.
"Hey Barb look at that," he said pointing to the illuminated tunnel, she turned and followed where he was pointing at.
"Looks like a tunnel, I wonder where it goes," she said with genuine curiosity in her voice, "wanna go see where it leads?"
"Always," he said taking her hand and leading her down to the odd tunnel. As they got closer they saw that the tunnel was quite large; around eight foot in diameter and stretching to about fifty meters, the inside was reinforced with abnormally shaped cobblestones but that's not what interested Tommy. What interested him was always what was on the other side.
"Dare you to go first," his princess said, smiling irresistibly.
"What do I get if I do?" he asked.
"Wait and see," she winked and he laughed, he pulled her close and stole a kiss. He started down the tunnel slowly at first but then as slight claustrophobia started to seep in he sped up and soon found himself on the other side. Because of the sun still shining through the tunnel all Barbara could see was Tommy's black silhouette, she thought it looked like the gun barrel sequence at the start of early James
Bond movies she giggled slightly and at that point she realized how tipsy she was.
"Barb its beautiful up here, you wont believe it!" Tommy exclaimed, Barbara was going to reply when a tall shadow figure materialized out of the side of the tunnel behind Tommy, it dwarfed Tommy, its head hugging the tunnel ceiling.
"Tommy behind you!!" she shrieked, Tommy turned and froze at the sight of the dark figure.
"Oh my…" he started to say as the figure came to Tommy's side and stared down at him. All he could do was stare right back since all his muscles seemed to refuse to move and for a few seconds nothing and no one appeared to move as if everything in the tunnel was frozen in time but time will always catch up. The dark figure broke the lock first and clamped its hands down on Tommy's shoulders. Barbara screamed as Tommy and the shadow both struggled with each other. On hearing her scream the shadow looked to her direction and tilted its head as if to consider her instead
"Barbara RUN! NOW! MOVE!" he yelled as the shadow took one step towards her with Tommy still grabbing its arm. With tears in her eyes she ran away not knowing if she'll see him again but too petrified to turn back or even stop until she got home.
The next couple of days where a blur to Barbara as she recounted her story top to bottom and left to right to her parents, Tommy's parents, police, her friends, everyone in town and eventually TV cameras. A search party was put together almost immediately and combed the woods night and day. They also guarded the tunnel incase the shadow came back but there was no sign of Tommy or the shadow.
What was truly odd though and threw slight doubt on Barbara's story was the fact that there was no divots or holes in the walls of the tunnel for the shadow to hide in so where it came from stumped everyone Barbara especially but most people put it down Barbara being drunk and others who heard stories about the tunnel kept quiet in case of sounding like as crazy as she sounded.
After a month of searching every day and every night the search was regrettably called off. Barbara was inconsolable with grief and later almost lost her sanity and her life in a failed suicide attempt since she felt incomplete as if part of her vanished that day too and everyone close to her only saw a shell of her former self as for the rest of her life she would never stop repeating the events that happened on that day in her mind nor will she forget what she heard the day after the search was called off. Many people still searched for Tommy the morning after police disbanded the search party. People including Tommy's parents who every morning journeyed to the tunnel opening in hopes of any clue turning up but what did turn up shocked everyone in the surrounding area to their core and for months after the community was petrified and suspicious of each other since the shadow was never caught and police suspected no one
of being the killer. As Tommy's parents dragged themselves to the tunnel yet again they were horrified to discover the skinned corpse of their son hanging upside down from the tunnel entrance like a piece of dead butchered meat.


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The 2019 "America's First Ladies" luncheon celebrated Betty Ford's legacy with special guests Anita McBride, Tina Tchen, Chef Roland Mesnier, Stewart McLaurin, and Martha Reeves. The event commemorated Mrs. Betty Ford's 101st birthday and highlighted the lasting impact and enduring legacy of one of America's most beloved First Ladies.
America's First Ladies Luncheon coincided with Mrs. Betty Ford's birthday celebrations and focused on 'Inside the White House: Behind the Scenes of the First Lady's Office'. The May 30, 2019 event was hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation and was held at the Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
This year's special guests were Anita McBride, former Chief of Staff to First Lady Laura Bush; Tina Tchen, former Chief of Staff to First Lady Michelle Obama; Chef Roland Mesnier, former White House pastry chef for five U.S. Presidents; Stewart McLaurin, President of the White House Historical Association, and Martha Reeves, Motown Legend. Michael Ford, Foundation Chairman and son of Gerald and Betty Ford, also attended.
The event celebrated Betty Ford's legacy during her 101st birthday celebrations.
Clare Shubert, Director Engagement and Programming for the DeVos Learning Center commenced the program with updates on the DeVos Learning Center which included an informational video of student programming.
Luncheon Chair Liesel Meijer provided welcome remarks and introduced Motown Legend Martha Reeves to the stage. Reeves sang two songs "The Star-Spangled Banner" and "Dancing in the Street" to begin the program. Mike Ford provided remarks on behalf of the Ford Family, including talking about how his mother, Betty Ford, was the foundation of his family during the years his father was focused on public service and away from the family.
Chef Roland Mesnier highlighted his 26 years of service as pastry chef of the White House. Many of his days were spent working 16 hour days, while being known to never have served the same dessert twice throughout his service for five First Ladies.
Moderator Stewart McLaurin discussed with Anita McBride and Tina Tchen topics including the background of staff for the First Lady, stories from their days as Chief of Staff to the First Lady, launching First Lady initiatives, embracing the age of social media, communicating messaging, raising a family in the White House, and what they would do today if they were the Chief of Staff in the First Lady's office.
Martha Reeves concluded the luncheon event with a performance of 'Heatwave'.


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NOTL will start paying Parks Canada for use of its parking lots by tourist buses.
Parks Canada was initially looking to charge 50 per cent of gross revenues for the use of its parking lot in Fort George. The town staff negotiated that down to 25 per cent.
For the past 18 years, the town hasn't been paying Parks Canada for using its parking lot at the fort. Tour buses drop visitors off there and then they are shuttled to downtown.
"(Parks Canada) were awesome to work with," Sheldon Randall, the town's director of operations, told council's committee of the whole meeting Monday night. "This lot is very valuable to the town."
"The time has come. There's a big push from Parks Canada that they need to change the way they're doing their business and this is the way they want to do business going forward."
"Sounds like we owe them a big thank-you note," said Coun. Clare Cameron in regards to Parks Canada allowing the town to use its lot for free in the past.
Lord Mayor Betty Disero made a motion to pay 10 to 15 per cent of gross revenues to Parks Canada instead of 25 per cent.
"It's too, too, too coincidental for me that on the same year we double the price for buses to park in that parking lot, all of a sudden Parks Canada wants (some) percentage of gross which is even worse for us," she said.
The town increased the bus parking fee from $25 to $50 this year.
Disero acknowledged the staff's efforts to negotiate the price down but said the lot brings added value to Parks Canada as it gets visitors to Fort George and into their gift shop.
"The $25 that we've added to the parking fee for buses, I guess (Parks Canada) decided they wanted it for themselves," she said.
Randall argued saying it was difficult to make people go on tour around the fort.
"The big impact for tourism in the area is downtown," he said. "Right now, Parks Canada's perspective is that primarily having their buses really does support downtown than it does them."
For a one-year contract, starting April 1, estimated gross revenue is $272,000. The estimated cost to operate the lot is $250,000 a year.
Parks Canada also owns 34 parking spaces at the former NOTL hospital site on Wellington Street. The estimated gross revenue for parking meters at the former hospital is $16,000. The town would receive 60 per cent of this gross or $9,600, and Parks Canada would have 40 per cent share of its gross revenues.
The committee approved Disero's motion to reduce the fee for Fort George lot. Town staff will report back next council meeting on March 11.


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[Met Performance] CID:83900
L'Africaine {26} Metropolitan Opera House: 04/2/1923.
Metropolitan Opera House
April 2, 1923
In Italian
Sélika..................Rosa Ponselle
Vasco de Gama...........Beniamino Gigli
Inčs....................Marie Sundelius
Nélusko.................Giuseppe Danise
Pedro...................Adamo Didur
Diégo...................Paolo Ananian
Alvar...................Angelo Badŕ
Grand Inquisitor........Léon Rothier
High Priest.............Léon Rothier
Anna....................Marion Telva
Usher...................Vincenzo Reschiglian
Officer.................Pietro Audisio
Conductor...............Artur Bodanzky
Review of W. J. Henderson in the Herald
Gigli and Danise Have Chief Roles in L'Africaine
Meyerbeer Opera Heard at the Metropolitan by a Large Audience.
Meyerbeer's L'Africaine a was presented to the Monday subscribers at the Metropolitan Opera House last evening. The opera was heard by a large audience and the applause was of the nature to show that great pleasure was obtained by the assembly. There had been some doubt as to the representative of the dusky Nelusko, the baritone savage who, after the habit of operatic baritones, is unfortunate in love.
Giuseppe Danise, who impersonated Nelusko at the one previous performance of the work, had been ill and was unable to appear as Gerard in "Andrea Chenier" on Saturday. On that occasion Mr. De Luca was summoned to sing a part which had been unused in his repertory for twenty-two years. Mr. Danise had recovered and was quite able to deliver the music of Meyerbeer in his usual telling manner. Mr. Gigli was heard again as Vasco de Gama, one of the elitest seamen in all opera. The tenor again had a brilliant success, though it must be confessed that his best friends would be glad if he would be more considerate of his voice. He is such an excellent singer that it is unnecessary for him to try to arouse the audience by sheer dynamics. Furthermore, it will not benefit his voice, but is likely to take away from it some of the smoothness and mellowness which are its greatest charms.
One change in the cast calls for special mention. Mme. Marie Sundelius replaced Miss Queena Mario as Inez. Such changes in Metropolitan casts are incidental to the numerous requirements of the theater. They do not mean that the first singer was not satisfactory. Miss Sundelius sang the music well. She can always be trusted to sing agreeably and to meet the conventional calls of such a role as Inez.
Miss Rosa Ponselle had her second opportunity to warble the melodious measures of Selika, to rule a brief half hour over an island kingdom and to die of quick poison under the deadly manzanilla tree. She was in good voice and sang well. Mr. Didur as Don Pedro, Paolo Ananian as Don Diego and Mr. Rothier as the two high priests, Catholic and Brahmin. The spectacular features of the opera were well displayed. The ship blew up impressively and the ballet danced vivaciously. Mr. Bodanzky conducted again with excellent judgment.
Review of P. Charles Rodda in Musical America
Miss Ponselle was regal in voice and gesture as the captive queen, Selika. Her air "In grembo a me" in the second act was finely sung, and she was effectively dramatic in the subsequent encounter with Nelusko. Some of her best work was accomplished in the episode before the temple where she persuades Nelusko to support her in her efforts to save the life of Vasco. The final scene under the manzanilla tree, in which, a solitary figure, she sings of the lover to whom she has given freedom, was an opportunity she accepted with much beauty of tone. The last aria, during which she breathes the scent of the deadly manzanilla, was sung with much feeling.
Like Mr. Gigli and Miss Ponselle, Mr. Danise in the role of Nelusko, who is doomed to love in vain, had his great moments. He used his sonorous voice with much artistry in his many scenes, and his success was immediately conceded in the ballad "Adamastor, re dell'onde profonde," in which he warns the mariners of the approaching storm. He was also admirable in the "Figlia dei re" aria in the prison scene.
Fine Artists in Cast
The singing of the three artists discussed would be sufficient to ensure the success of the revival, but the rest of the cast was apparently chosen with as much care. Queena Mario was entrusted with the role of Ines and she did much agreeable singing during the evening. Miss Mario has had several opportunities to prove her merits during this, her first, season at the Metropolitan, but Ines was her most important assignment so far. With charm and grace she played a part which is ordinarily colorless. Her aria "Del Tago sponde addio" in the first act was confidently sung, and later her voice soared clear and musical in concerted scenes. Such an artist as Adamo Didur was found in the small part of Don Pedro and admirably he played it. Leon Rothier demonstrated that a Grand Inquisitor and a Grand Brahmin were both easily negotiable in the course of an evening. Marion Telva as Anna, Paolo Ananian as Don Diego, and Angelo Bada as Don Alvaro took a share in the proceedings, and Vincenzo Resehiglian and Pietro Audisio also found small parts.
The ballet had a fine time in the penultimate scene when they accommodated themselves to the measures of not altogether thrilling music. Mr. Berger revealed his hand in a decided manner and, although the figures of the dance were worked out on conventional lines, there was much vitality in it. The precision of movement with which the assembled dancers came down the terrace of the temple startled the staid opera patrons into tumultuous applause.
Both chorus and orchestra were at their best and each was an important factor in the success of the revival. Artur Bodanzky showed a full appreciation of his task as conductor. His work was forceful, the dramatic parts of the score being admirably stressed and, if there were moments when interest wandered, it was not because the tempo lagged.


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Taking the Headache Out of Change Management
Tuesday, August 6th
Presenters: John Morhous and Joseph Ondrus
Time: 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Nothing stays the same, especially in travel management where data science, new technologies & an evolving traveler demographic is forcing travel managers to revamp their policies.
Implementing change can also be painful, so how can the impact be minimized? This session will look at how external & internal factors can prompt change & how those changes impacted their travel programs; the roadmaps they followed, the rationale & the results. We will focus on the importance of engagement, communication & what best practice looks like in both arenas.


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My performance research work on performance and poverty is documented here in one place:
This is my most recent performance work: 'The House'. There are extracts from the final performance and also clips from the development.
Reading materials are here:
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The 49ers and Rams don't have much to play for other than pride during the last two weeks of the NFL season, but both teams still have plenty to learn about their roster before the offseason. Here are a few players that could have a lot riding on Week 16 and 17 for the bottom two teams in the division.
- With Shaun Draughn set to miss this Sunday's action with injury, America's favorite former rugby star Jarryd Hayne could be on track to get promoted from the practice squad back to the 49ers active roster, writes Cam Inman of MercuryNews.com. He would be the third running back, but getting called up depends if he would be one of the 46 players to dress for the game.
- 49ers rookie offensive tackle Trent Brown saw his first significant action last week, playing the fourth quarter at right tackle after guard Marcus Martin suffered a concussion. Erik Pears had been filling in for Anthony Davis at right tackle, but slid over with the injury opening up room for Brown to play. He did a good job against Carlos Dunlap, and is set to start this Sunday, writes Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle. More importantly, at close to 6'9″ and nearly 350 pounds, the physical specimen could potentially go from undrafted free agent to the future at right tackle in San Francisco if his work ethic can catch up to his natural gifts.
- Tight end Joseph Fauria visited with the Rams, according to Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle (via Twitter). Fauria most recently was on the Patriots' practice squad, but is best remembered for his 2013 season, when he caught 18 passes but seven of them went for scores with Matthew Stafford and the Lions.


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Coroner's warning after Lowestoft father addicted to alcohol was discharged from hospital without support
PUBLISHED: 16:55 11 June 2019 | UPDATED: 17:01 11 June 2019
A coroner has written to health bosses raising concerns that an alcoholic who died from diabetes complications was discharged from hospital without support in place.
Justin Brown, from Lowestoft, was found dead in his home in London Road South, on February 19, 2016.
At an inquest in March a jury found he died due to ketoacidosis, a complication related to the poor regulation of insulin in diabetics.
But this was overlaid by chronic alcohol abuse, which emphasised the effect of the illness.
Jacqueline Devonish, Area Coroner for Suffolk, has highlighted issues which may prevent future deaths.
In the report produced by Ms Devonish it said Mr Brown's sister Melodie Brown, who lived in London, called police concerned about her brother on February 18. Police went to his home but when they got no response on the intercom, they left, only to return the next day and find him dead.
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The report said Mr Brown had previously been in rehab and had been admitted to the James Paget University Hospital in Gorleston in a life-threatening condition in December 2015. When he was discharged he was referred to Turning Point, at the time the only drug and alcohol service available in Suffolk which could accept referrals from the JPUH.
The report said: "There was no direct means of communication with the service. In evidence, the court heard that the process for referrals was by a telephone message to an answerphone.
"There was no acknowledgement or confirmation of service user contact."
The report added: "Justin Brown had been discharged from hospital without confirmed support for his addiction between January 4 and February 19 2019. In light of his history of cooperation with the service the hospital would have been assisted by an agreed protocol and closer working with the commissioned drug service to enable monitoring of referrals sent and outcomes for the service users."
Speaking at the inquest Ms Brown said her brother was "such a lovely person".
She said: "He was the life and soul of the party. I don't know anyone who could say a bad word about him.
"He was a really good dad to his children and used to help baby sit for my little sister."
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If you're inclined to be skeptical about the title of this post, be assured that I understand. Aubergines (aka eggplant) can be hard to love, and it took me years to get to the the enthusiasm expressed here. Too often, we encounter them as oddly spongy, chewy things, either devoid of taste or unpleasantly bitter. But if treated right, eggplant really are delicious – tender, creamy, and oh so versatile in their uses. Maybe you knew this already, but the key is how you handle them before cooking.
Or at least that is what finally converted me to the purple side. I started with a technique from Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything, dry-pan roasting two medium eggplant until their skin was charred and blistered and their meat was soft and smoky, and then turned them into delectable fritters. That was good, if a bit time consuming. I recommend you try it. Continue reading
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The North Pole thawed recently hitting above-freezing temperatures, and experts say that's because of a burst of warm, southern air coupled with diminishing Arctic sea ice.
"We've basically got a weather system that's funnelling winds up into the Arctic from the Atlantic — from the south," said Walt Meier, senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.
"That's pumping in a lot of really warm air and that's warming up the Arctic."
Meier said the above-freezing temperatures over the weekend, reported particularly near the coast of Greenland, are a result of the jet stream getting "loopy."
Instead of flowing west to east, the jet stream can turn, said Meier, allowing cold air out of the Arctic while at the same time, steering the weather systems northward.
"It's something that happens from time to time," said Meier.
Historically, however, things haven't been this "extreme" until recently, he said.
"The last three or four years, they've had at least one of these events where the North Pole region or very close to the North Pole actually gets above freezing sometime in the middle of winter," he said.
"Which is really pretty remarkable because there's no sunlight there."
Temperature records 'smashed': climatologist
Temperatures in Canada's Far North were also warmer than usual over the weekend, according to David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada.
Alert, Nunavut — the northernmost location in Canada, about 800 kilometres from the North Pole — saw temperatures 10 to 12 degrees warmer than normal, said Phillips.
And earlier this month, on Feb. 16, Alert saw a high of –7 C, said Phillips.
On Feb. 17 it was a low of –4.7 C, followed by a high of –10 C on Feb. 18.
"That has literally smashed the previous record," he said, adding that normal highs should be around –30 C at this time.
"So we're dealing with temperatures here that were as much as 25 degrees warmer than they should have been at that time of the year."
Around the same time, there were also record-low levels of ice in the Greenland Sea, where "essentially it's open water," said Phillips.
According to Meier, thinning ice means warm, southern storms have an easier time penetrating into the Arctic.
"The storms feed off of the heat in the ocean and the moisture from the ocean, and when you have the sea ice there, there's no opportunity for either of those to strengthen the storm," said Meier.
He said with ice farther north than it used to be, storms will move farther north and have a bigger impact on the Arctic region.
Effects detrimental for northern communities
Warmer temperatures and depleting sea ice could not only be detrimental for the environment, but for people living in Canada's Far North, according to Trevor Bell, a geography professor at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and founder of SmartICE.
That's because Inuit rely on their Arctic environment for hunting, cultural activities and travelling, said Bell.
His project, which earned nods from the United Nations, is drawing on technology, remote sensing and traditional knowledge to help Northerners deal with their changing climate.
The goal is to provide them with near-real time information on ice conditions so they can travel safely, said Bell.
"Because Inuit and people living in the Arctic are so closely tied to the land … it has a huge impact," he said of changes in ice and weather conditions, adding that it can have both physical and mental effects on people.
"These unpredictable extreme events or unpredictable ice conditions cause people to have accidents on the ice, maybe leading to trauma," he said — something that is "really, really hard on communities."


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There seems to be great Republican resistance to the idea that their interventions in Iraq and the Muslim world are the main cause of both the mess in Iraq and the growing and increasingly powerful worldwide Islamist movement. To the extent that Hillary Clinton and other Democratic senators and congressmen joined the Republicans in illegally delegating the war-declaring power to George W. Bush there is a point to the Republicans' resistance. The correct formulation of the statement is that both parties are equally responsible for the mess in Iraq and for the formidable Islamist foe that now exists. Also a correct statement is that the bulk of both parties now want the United States to become an even stronger motivator of and recruiter for the Islamists by expanding the military re-intervention in Iraq that began in the summer of 2014. Before that occurs it would be best to review a few facts:
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2016-17 Departmental Results Report (DRR)
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