ow Children don't know how to get proper nutrition information online By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Elsevier) Children looking for health information online could end up more prone to obesity. A new study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, published by Elsevier, shows a lack of digital health literacy can lead children to misinterpret portions, adopt recommendations intended for adults, or take guidance from noncredible sources. Full Article
ow SAS Notes for SAS®9 - 65871: Enabling debugging for SAS Workflow Studio By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 10:47:22 EST This SAS Note provides instructions about how to enable SAS Workflow Studio log generation and debugging in order to troubleshoot a problem in SAS Workflow Studio. On the client machine where& Full Article WORKFLSTUDIO+SAS+Workflow+Studio
ow New Research Explains Why High-End Consumers Adopt Lowbrow, Low-End Tastes By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:01:43 +0000 Marketing Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 12:00 Columbia Business School research explores why elites and luxury brands mix and match upscale and downscale products. Full Article
ow Same Old Tune: Columbia Business School Research Shows Bias Against Women in the Music Industry By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 21:54:41 +0000 Leadership Operations Thursday, February 27, 2020 - 16:45 NEW YORK – In 2018, the Grammy Awards faced criticism when male artists swept the most prestigious music awards – prompting Recording Academy president Neil Portnow to say the solution is for women to “step up.” But the truth is women artists have been stepping up for decades, according to research from Columbia Business School’s Professor of Business Michael Mauskapf and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior Noah Askin. Full Article
ow How to Make Sound Decisions with Limited Data During the Coronavirus Pandemic By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Thu, 02 Apr 2020 17:56:26 +0000 Leadership Operations Risk Management Strategy Thursday, April 2, 2020 - 13:00 Coronavirus presents an unprecedented predicament: Everyday, leaders must make momentous decisions with life or death consequences for many—but there is a dearth of data. Oded Netzer is a Columbia Business School professor and Data Science Institute affiliate who builds statistical and econometric models to measure consumer behavior that help business leaders make data-driven decisions. Here, he discusses how leaders from all fields can make sound decisions with scarce data to guide them. Full Article
ow New Research Shows Macroeconomic Conditions During Youth Shape Work Preferences for Life By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:59:19 +0000 Business Economics and Public Policy Labor Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 12:00 The first-of-its-kind study from Columbia Business School finds that growing up in a recession vs an economic boom leads to differences in work priorities. As world economies grapple with COVID-19 impacts, research provides valuable insight for employers and labor markets Full Article
ow New Research from Columbia Business School Shows Radical Changes in Household Spending Habits During COVID-19 Epidemic By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 18:37:51 +0000 Business Economics and Public Policy Operations Risk Management Tuesday, April 28, 2020 - 14:30 Study provides first real-time view into household consumption during outbreak in U.S., showing an initial sharp increase in key categories, followed by a sharp decrease in overall spending Full Article
ow Lockdown Losses: Lack of Government Transparency during COVID-19 Pandemic Holds Back Businesses from Taking Risks, Making Financial Decisions By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:19:09 +0000 Business Economics and Public Policy Operations Risk Management Strategy Thursday, April 30, 2020 - 14:15 NEW YORK – Since the coronavirus outbreak began, states across the U.S. have implemented stay-at-home orders, disrupting businesses and causing many to shut down. In addition, almost half of U.S. states from New York to Oregon have extended their lockdown orders beyond the original end date. These extensions of lockdown policy, while clearly beneficial to address public health concerns, can damage the economy beyond their immediate impact on business closures and layoffs. Full Article
ow How small chromosomes compete with big ones for a cell's attention By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) Scientists at the Sloan Kettering Institute have solved the puzzle of how small chromosomes ensure that they aren't skipped over during meiosis, the process that makes sperm and egg. Full Article
ow Vitamin D linked to low virus death rate -- Study By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Anglia Ruskin University) A new study has found an association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases and mortality rates across 20 European countries. Full Article
ow Yellow-legged gull adapts its annual lifecycle to human activities to get food By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (University of Barcelona) The yellow-legged gull has a high ability to adapt to human activities and benefit from these as a food resource during all year. This is stated in a scientific article published in the journal Ecology and Evolution whose first author is the researcher Francisco Ramírez, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona. Full Article
ow New book shows how ancient Greek writing helps us understand today's environmental crises By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau) University of Illinois classics professor Clara Bosak-Schroeder writes about how the ancient Greeks thought about natural resources and how it is relevant to responding to climate change today. Full Article
ow Considering how many firms can meet pollutant standards can spur green tech development By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Carnegie Mellon University) A new study developed a model of regulation in which the probability of a stricter standard being enacted increased with the proportion of firms in an industry that could meet the standard. The study found that regulations that consider the proportion of firms that can meet the new standard can motivate the development of a new green technology more effectively than regulations that do not consider this factor. Full Article
ow How Laws of Motion Is Transforming Clothing Sizes for Women By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:44:15 +0000 Entrepreneurship Tuesday, September 3, 2019 - 20:45 Full Article
ow How to Find the Perfect Office, According to a Founder Who's Moved His Startup 5 Times By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 01:10:00 +0000 Entrepreneurship Tuesday, September 10, 2019 - 21:15 Full Article
ow How nonprofits can boost donations using the marketing mix By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (American Marketing Association) Nonprofits may better meet their missions by learning to effectively employ the entirety of the marketing mix to attract individuals to available donation opportunities. Full Article
ow How to win back customer defectors By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (American Marketing Association) The positive outcomes of customer reacquisition more than offset the costs. Successful reacquisition management, though, requires a failure-tolerant company culture and guidelines. Full Article
ow UIowa and UCLA studying ways to reduce risk of COVID-19 infection in emergency room staff By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 EDT (University of Iowa Health Care) A $3.7 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been awarded to the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to study ways to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection among frontline health care workers in hospital emergency departments. Full Article
ow Safely relaxing social distancing comes down to numbers By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Queensland University of Technology) Your house number could be the key to the safe relaxation of COVID-19-related restrictions if governments follow a new exit strategy proposal published today in the British Medical Journal. Co-authored by QUT statistician Professor Adrian Barnett, the paper proposes the use of an 'odds-and-evens' approach to allowing people to head back to work and enjoy other activities after weeks of lockdown. Full Article
ow Exoplanets: How we'll search for signs of life By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Arizona State University) An interdisciplinary team of researchers, led by Arizona State University, has provided a framework called a 'detectability index' to help prioritize exoplanets to study and provide scientists with a tool to select the best targets for observation and maximize the chances of detecting life. Full Article
ow Study reveals how spaceflight affects risk of blood clots in female astronauts By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (King's College London) A study of female astronauts has assessed the risk of blood clots associated with spaceflight.The study, published in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, in collaboration with King's College London, the Centre for Space Medicine Baylor College of Medicine, NASA Johnson Space Centre and the International Space University, examines the potential risk factors for developing a blood clot (venous thromboembolism) in space. Full Article
ow Hayabusa2's touchdown on Ryugu reveals its surface in stunning detail By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (American Association for the Advancement of Science) High-resolution images and video were taken by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa2 spacecraft as it briefly landed to collect samples from Ryugu -- a nearby asteroid that orbits mostly between Earth and Mars -- allowing researchers to get an up-close look at its rocky surface, according to a new report. Full Article
ow Icelandic DNA jigsaw-puzzle brings new knowledge about Neanderthals By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Aarhus University) An international team of researchers has put together a new image of Neanderthals based on the genes Neanderthals left in the DNA of modern humans when they had children with them about 50,000 years ago. The researchers found the new information by trawling the genomes of more than 27,000 Icelanders. Among other things, they discovered that Neanderthal children had older mothers and younger fathers than the Homo-Sapien children in Africa did at the time. Full Article
ow Alternative resupply plan for RV Polarstern now in place By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research) Thanks to the support of additional German research vessels, the MOSAiC expedition will continue, despite the coronavirus pandemic. The new team will start in May. Full Article
ow 'Wobble' may precede some great earthquakes, study shows By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Ohio State University) The land masses of Japan shifted from east to west to east again in the months before the strongest earthquake in the country's recorded history, a 2011 magnitude-9 earthquake that killed more than 15,500 people, new research shows. Full Article
ow Bone proteomics could reveal how long a corpse has been underwater By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:00:00 EDT (American Chemical Society) When a dead body is found, one of the first things a forensic pathologist tries to do is estimate the time of death. There are several ways to do this, including measuring body temperature or observing insect activity, but these methods don't always work for corpses found in water. Now, researchers are reporting a mouse study in ACS' Journal of Proteome Research showing that certain proteins in bones could be used for this determination. Full Article
ow Ocean acidification prediction now possible years in advance By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (University of Colorado at Boulder) CU Boulder researchers have developed a method that could enable scientists to accurately forecast ocean acidity up to five years in advance. This would enable fisheries and communities that depend on seafood negatively affected by ocean acidification to adapt to changing conditions in real time, improving economic and food security in the next few decades. Full Article
ow Window to another world: Life is bubbling up to seafloor with petroleum from deep below By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Marine Biological Laboratory) Microbial life is bubbling up to the ocean floor along with fluids from deeply buried petroleum reservoirs, reports a team of scientists from the University of Calgary and the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. Full Article
ow Shrinking snowcaps fuel harmful algal blooms in Arabian Sea By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Mon, 04 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Earth Institute at Columbia University) A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago has been proliferating and spreading at an alarming pace. New research describes how the continued loss of snow over the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau region is fueling the expansion of this destructive algal bloom. Full Article
ow Democrats’ Desperation about Tara Reade Is Growing. So Is Their Hypocrisy. By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:15:20 -0400 There aren’t a ton of synonyms for the word “hypocrisy.” I’ve become aware of this problem ever since I began writing about the Tara Reade–Joe Biden situation. I keep gravitating towards phrases such as “despicable hypocrisy,” or “partisan hypocrisy,” or “unconscionable hypocrisy,” but you can only go to the well so often. Really, though, I’m not sure how else to describe the actions of someone like Senator Dianne Feinstein.You might recall that it was Feinstein, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, who withheld Christine Blasey Ford's allegation of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh from the Senate so that it could not be properly vetted, in a last-ditch effort to sink the nomination.Feinstein knew that Ford's credibility was brittle -- the alleged victim could not tell us where or when the attack occurred, hadn’t mentioned Kavanugh’s name to anyone for over 30 years, and offered nothing approaching a contemporaneous witness.At first, Feinstein did not want to provide Ford’s name, or a place or time of the alleged attack, or allow the accused to see any evidence against him, denying him the ability to answer the charges.Henceforth this brand of justice could be referred to as “The Joe Biden Standard,” since it’s exactly the kind of show trial the presumptive Democratic nominee promises college kids via Title IX rules.When finally asked about Reade yesterday, Feinstein responded: “And I don’t know this person at all who has made the allegations. She came out of nowhere. Where has she been all these years? He was vice president.”To put this in perspective, when Ford came forward “out of nowhere,” Feinstein said: “Victims must be able to come forward only when they are ready.”What’s changed?During the Kavanaugh hearings Feinstein noted that “sharing an experience involving sexual assault — particularly when it involves a politically connected man with influence, authority and power — is extraordinarily difficult.”Is Biden not a politically connected man with influence, authority, and power? Feinstein is now arguing the opposite: She is saying we should dismiss Reade’s allegations because she failed to come forward against a powerful man earlier.But to answer Feinstein’s question about what Reade has been “up to” the past 27 years: Well, she’s been telling people that Biden had engaged in sexual misconduct. She relayed her story to her former neighbor, her brother, her former co-worker, and at least two other friends. It is also likely that her mother called Larry King Live asking for advice for her daughter the year of the alleged attack.Yesterday a document uncovered by local journalists in California -- somehow missed by Barack Obama’s crack vetting team -- shows Reade’s ex-husband bolstering her claim in 1996 divorce proceedings: “On several occasions [Reade] related a problem that she was having at work regarding sexual harassment, in U.S. Senator Joe Biden's office.”The reaction to the divorce papers has been extraordinary. Biden defenders argue that because Reade alleged “sexual harassment” -- a catch-all term used in the 1990s when men were getting away with despicable behavior far more often -- it proves her story has changed. Biden, through his deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield, alleges that “more and more inconsistencies” come up every day.Even if Reade didn't tell everyone everything that allegedly happened every time she mentioned the incident, that doesn’t definitively prove anything. If it did, none of us would have ever heard the name Christine Blasey Ford.Indeed, at time of Ford’s evolving story, there was a slew of journalists taking deep dives into the unreliability of memory and trauma and complexities of relaying assault allegations. I assume that science hasn’t changed in two years.Let’s also not forget that, despite Ford’s inconsistencies, Biden still argued that Kavanaugh should be presumed guilty. Why shouldn’t he?It is also quite amazing to see Biden’s defenders implicitly contending that Reade is only credibly claiming that she was sexually harassed for nearly 30 years, so her story must be politically motivated.Even if we concede that Reade is a wily Sanders operative or Putin stooge, what political motive could Reade possibly have had back in 1993 -- after working for Biden -- to smear the senator? What motive did she have to repeat that story to her family before Sanders was a candidate or Putin was running Russia?By the way, liberals have never argued that political motivations should be disqualifying. Ford came forward, by her own admission, because she did not believe the man who had allegedly assaulted her in high school should be given a seat on highest court in the land. Reade says she doesn’t want a man who allegedly assaulted her -- when he was in his 50s -- to hold the most powerful office in the world.Feinstein, of course, isn’t the only one to engage in this kind of transparent double standard. When asked about Reade, the idealist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, said, “I’m not sure. Frankly, this is a messy moment, and I think we need to acknowledge that -- that it is not clear-cut.”Where was all this hand-wringing and caution over the messiness of sexual-assault claims when nearly every Democrat and all their allies in the press were spreading Julie Swetnick’s alleged “gang rape” piece? Nowhere.AOC, whose position on Biden has evolved, invited Ana Maria Archila, the women who had famously cornered a weak-kneed senator Jeff Flake in an elevator and yelled at him about Kavanaugh, to the 2019 State of the Union address. Archila now says, “I feel very trapped.”I bet.People point out that there are numerous sexual-misconduct allegations leveled at Donald Trump. Indeed. If they haven’t yet, news outlets should scrutinize and investigate the credibility of those allegations, as they did for Biden but not for Kavanaugh. But it’s important to remember that Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll was given immediate and widespread coverage on cable news, while Reade reportedly wasn’t asked to tell her story by any major network -- save Fox News -- until this week.Of course, most Biden defenders are being purposely obtuse about the debate -- Mona Charen’s recent column is an excellent example. The problem isn’t that Biden is being treated unjustly, or that he should be treated unjustly; it’s that he is being treated justly by the same people who treat others unjustly. Democrats have yet to explain why Biden is afforded every benefit of the doubt but not Kavanaugh, and not millions of college students.Public figures such as Biden have every right to demand fair hearings and due process. Voters have every right to judge the credibility of both accuser and accused. Many women are victims. Many women are victims who are powerless to prove it. And some women are frauds. You can’t keep demanding that our political system adjudicate similar incidents under two completely differ set of rules. It’s untenable. Full Article
ow Despite lockdown, no letup in Chicago's murder rate By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 01:08:24 -0400 The streets of Chicago may be largely empty as residents hunker down from coronavirus but some of the city's most deprived neighborhoods are still echoing to the sound of deadly gunfire and raucous partying. While significant falls in crime have been one of the few positive side effects of lockdowns in much of the United States and elsewhere, they have barely made a dent in the homicide rate in Chicago, a city that has long recorded the most murders in the country. Chicago police say 56 murders were committed in April despite statewide stay-at-home orders -- only a fraction lower than the 61 for the same month in 2019 -- while last weekend, the first of the new month, four people were killed and 46 others shot and wounded. Full Article
ow Michael Flynn Confessed. Justice Department Now Says It Doesn’t Care. By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:43:04 -0400 It may not be a pardon. But the Justice Department has dropped charges against Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.Retired Army Lt. Gen. Flynn, an important figure in the war on terror who gave Trump’s 2016 run military validation, will avoid prison time after the Justice Department provided a deliverance on Thursday that Flynn had long sought. It is also the second redemption that Trump has provided the general, who served as his first national security adviser for less than a month. “The Government has determined, pursuant to the Principles of Federal Prosecution and based on an extensive review and careful consideration of the circumstances, that continued prosecution of this case would not serve the interests of justice,” wrote Timothy Shea, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and a former senior aide to Attorney General William Barr. Shortly before the filing, lead prosecutor Brandon Von Grack abruptly withdrew from the case.The Justice Department filing, in essence, portrays Flynn as the victim of an FBI frame-up job, and his lies to the FBI as legally marginal. Shea wrote that Flynn’s lies needed to have been “not simply false, but ‘materially’ false with respect to a matter under investigation.” Later in the filing, Shea referred to those lies as “gaps in [Flynn’s] memory,” rather than deliberate falsehoods Flynn conceded. “Even if he told the truth, Mr. Flynn’s statements could not have conceivably ‘influenced’ an investigation that had neither a legitimate counterintelligence nor criminal purpose,” Shea wrote.It was an astonishing turnaround since 2018, when a federal judge said to Flynn in a sentencing hearing, “arguably, you sold your country out.” That judge, Emmet Sullivan, could still decide to reject Shea’s filing and continue with Flynn’ sentencing. Michael Bromwich, a former federal prosecutor and Justice Department inspector general, tweeted that the extraordinary move represented “a pardon by another name” and called it a “black day in DOJ history.”Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the decision to drop charges was “outrageous” and revealed “a politicized and thoroughly corrupt Department of Justice.” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) added, “If Barr’s Justice Department will drop charges against someone who twice pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and who the White House publicly fired for lying to the vice president, there’s nothing it won’t do, no investigation it won’t taint.”Neither Flynn nor his attorney, Sidney Powell, responded immediately to requests for comment.Speaking to reports on Thursday afternoon, Trump said he had no prior knowledge of the Justice Department’s decision. “He was an innocent man,” Trump said, of Flynn. “Now in my book he’s an even greater warrior.”The dropped charges follow a years-long groundswell from Trump’s base, and particularly Fox News, to clear Flynn. His advocates claim that Flynn was set up by the same disreputable FBI figures who they believe persecuted Trump over phantom collusion with Russia.Flynn’s guilty plea, in December, 2017, has been no obstacle to the narrative, particularly since Flynn sought afterwards, unsuccessfully, to withdraw his plea. His sentencing, initially set for February, had also been delayed.Last month, agitation for a Flynn pardon intensified after documents emerged from two of Trump’s most hated ex-FBI figures, counterintelligence official Peter Strzok and attorney Lisa Page, discussing Flynn’s fateful January 2017 interview with the FBI. Page asked when and how to “slip it in” to Flynn that lying to an FBI agent is a crime, something that Flynn’s advocates believed showed the general being railroaded from the start. But veteran FBI agents and prosecutors have pointed out that the FBI is not legally obligated to inform an interview subject that lying to them is illegal. “Michael Flynn was very familiar with the FBI,” said Stephanie Douglas, a former executive assistant director of the FBI’s National Security Branch. “He would certainly have been aware of his obligation to provide candid and truthful information. His claim he was tricked and manipulated doesn’t sound valid to me.” Shea, in his Thursday court filing, suggested the FBI officials were “fishing for falsehoods merely to manufacture jurisdiction over any statement.” In Shea’s view, Flynn’s lies were less germane to the prosecution than the FBI “lack[ing] sufficient basis to sustain its initial counterintelligence investigation,” and its pre-interview position that it ought to close the investigation before speaking with the then national security adviser.Former FBI deputy head Andrew McCabe said on Thursday that the suggestion there was no reason to interview Flynn was “patently false, and ignores the considerable national security risk his contacts raised.” He said Flynn’s lies added to the FBI’s concerns about his relationship with Russia. “Today’s move... is pure politics designed to please the president,” he added.U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen, who was appointed by Barr to review Flynn’s and other high-profile cases, said on Thursday that he concluded “the proper and just course” was to dismiss the case. “I briefed Attorney General Barr on my findings, advised him on these conclusions, and he agreed,” he said.The FBI Didn’t Frame Michael Flynn. That’s Just Trump’s Excuse for a Prospective Pardon.While serving as national security adviser, Flynn misled FBI interviewers about conversations he had with the then-Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak. In one of those late 2016 conversations, according to court filings, Flynn asked the Russians to avoid escalatory actions in response to sanctions and diplomatic expulsions then President Barack Obama enacted as reprisal for Russian electoral interference. Shea, in his filing, called Flynn’s Kislyak calls “entirely appropriate on their face.”The national security adviser’s lies prompted the holdover attorney general, Sally Yates, to warn the White House that Flynn had given the Russians leverage to blackmail him. But it would take weeks before Trump fired Flynn over “an eroding level of trust” concerning misleading Vice President Mike Pence on the Kislyak contacts. By May, Trump was said to have regretted dismissing the general. Flynn in 2017 agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. The general avoided charges for taking $530,000 in unregistered money from interests connected to the Turkish government—something he only declared with the Justice Department after his downfall as national security adviser. During a sentencing hearing in 2018, a federal judge castigated Flynn for disgracing the uniform Flynn wore for three decades. “Arguably, you sold your country out,” Judge Emmet Sullivan said. Two years earlier, on stage at the Republican national convention, Flynn had led a chant of “lock her up” about Hillary Clinton. Protesters outside Flynn’s courtroom did not let the general forget it. Trump’s enduring bond with Flynn is a testament to the importance of the role the general played in 2016.A host of national security officials, many aligned with the Republican Party, rejected Trump in 2016 as unfit to be president owing to his nativism, his penchant for brutality and his benign view of dictators like Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Flynn was the exception. And the general was an exceptional figure. As the intelligence chief for the Joint Special Operations Command during the mid-2000s, Flynn is one of a select few people who can be said to have personally prosecuted the most sensitive missions of the war on terror. Michael Flynn Putting Mueller Deal at Risk in ‘Dangerous’ New TrialIt was a pivotal credential in another way. Flynn emerged from the war on terror endorsing Trump’s view that the security apparatus, abetted by hidebound liberals and cowardly conservatives, had neutered the war on terror by refusing to see it was a civilizational conflict with Islam. “Islam is a political ideology” that “hides behind this notion of being a religion,” Flynn told the Islamophobic group ACT for America shortly after the 2016 convention. His hostility to Islam informed his sanguine view of Russia, which both Flynn and Trump saw as naturally aligned with the U.S. against what they called “Radical Islamic Terror.”It also meant that Trump and Flynn shared a common bureaucratic enemy. James Clapper, then the director of national intelligence, was a lead architect of an intelligence assessment finding Russia intervened in the election on Trump’s behalf. In 2014, Clapper fired Flynn as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was deeply embittering. Just four years earlier, Flynn had been hailed as an innovator after claiming U.S. military intelligence had misunderstood the Afghanistan war. While Flynn portrayed himself as a martyr, victimized by the ‘Deep State’ for daring to warn about radical Islam, Clapper and other intelligence leaders had fallen out with Flynn over what they considered an incompetent management style and an iffy relationship with the truth. Reportedly, Flynn believed Iran was involved in the 2012 assault on a CIA compound in Benghazi that killed four Americans, and claimed incorrectly that Iran was responsible for more American deaths than al-Qaeda. Aides referred to such untruths as “Flynn facts.” Flynn facts did not disturb Trump. They validated his instincts on national security. Trump rewarded Flynn by making him national security adviser, one of the most important positions in the U.S. security apparatus. It was the first time Trump redeemed Flynn. Thursday’s dropped charges represent the second. 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ow Working women, and especially single moms, are hit hard by coronavirus downturn By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 12:10:19 -0400 Now Swain, 40, spends her evenings having dinner with her girls, age 5 and 8, and studying for her real-estate license, which she hopes will provide more long-term stability for her family after the coronavirus crisis upended her livelihood. "I can't be put in a position like this again," said Swain, a bartender for 20 years. American women are taking an outsized hit from the early wave of unemployment caused by the pandemic, due to the nature of the jobs that were lost in the business shutdowns to control the spread of the coronavirus. Full Article
ow ‘A Start Towards Victory’: Gregory and Travis McMichael Charged With Murder of Ahmaud Arbery By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 20:31:50 -0400 SAVANNAH—Gregory and Travis McMichael have been arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault in connection with the February killing of Ahmaud Arbery, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced Thursday. According to police, the white father and son, 64 and 34, chased Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, after he ran by Travis McMichael’s home in the Satilla Shores neighborhood of Brunswick on Feb. 23. He was unarmed and jogging at the time. “This is a start towards victory,” Thea Brooks, Arbery’s aunt, told The Daily Beast on Thursday. “This only the beginning though, but this is what we were all hoping for.”The McMichaels said they believed Arbery was a burglar responsible for a series of break-ins in their neighborhood and that they pursued him in their pickup truck while armed with a shotgun and a .357 magnum. The GBI alleges the McMichaels confronted Arbery, and that Travis shot him. A local prosecutor previously indicated a third man, William Bryan, took part in the chase and filmed the incident.‘It’s Murder’: This Shooting of an Unarmed Black Man Is Roiling GeorgiaAt least two shots hit the 25-year-old, the Glynn County Coroner’s Office told The Daily Beast last week.Video that Brooks said depicted her nephew’s death elicited a furious reaction nationwide, and residents of the area protested the initial failure to prosecute a case on Tuesday.“It’s murder. It’s heartbreaking to even look at. The whole city has seen it,” Brooks told The Daily Beast after the video was released this week.The Georgia NAACP echoed her words in a Thursday response to the McMichaels’ arrest: “The murderers of Ahmaud Arbery have been arrested.”Gregory McMichael, a former cop and investigator with a local prosecutor’s office, previously told The Daily Beast he “never would have gone after someone for their color.” He also said the “closest version of the truth” about the incident was captured in a letter effectively clearing him and his son that was written by a prosecutor who recused himself from the case, George Barnhill. McMichael also admitted he had no direct evidence that Arbery was a thief. “But he’s the guy who’s there without permission,” he said from behind the closed front door of his son’s home.The owner of an unfinished home just down the street from Travis McMichael's home, Larry English, told The Daily Beast earlier this week that he had surveillance footage that appeared to show Arbery stopping to look at the foundation of his still-under-construction home. While Gregory McMichael claimed to police that Arbery had been caught on surveillance video, it was not immediately clear what video he was referring to. English told The Daily Beast he had no knowledge of the McMichaels seeing his surveillance footage. McMichael’s ties to law enforcement helped fuel a haze of suspicion around the killing from the beginning. Barnhill was one of two area prosecutors who looked into the incident before recusing themselves. A third prosecutor—District Attorney Tom Durden—sought a GBI probe ahead of the arrests this week.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more. Full Article
ow Can you reuse a disposable mask? Yes, if you follow these steps By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 15:22:00 -0400 Disposable masks can be used more than once, but it's important to make sure the mask isn't carrying coronavirus. Full Article
ow Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation awards new quantitative biology fellowships By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation) The first class of Damon Runyon Quantitative Biology Fellowship Awardees launched their research in novel directions that may lead to the next breakthroughs in cancer research. Nine brilliant young scientists will apply their quantitative skills to design innovative experiments and interpret massive data sets that may help solve important biological and clinical problems. Full Article
ow Benefits of higher doses of certain medicines fail to justify costs and risks, study shows By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Oregon State University) Clinical trial data behind drug dose recommendations for elevated cholesterol and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease illustrate how larger doses may not be worth the extra costs for many types of patients. Full Article
ow Study shows wetter climate is likely to intensify global warming By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Virginia Institute of Marine Science) New study indicates the increase in rainfall forecast by global climate models is likely to hasten the release of carbon dioxide from tropical soils, further intensifying global warming by adding to human emissions of this greenhouse gas into Earth's atmosphere. Full Article
ow How does nitrogen dynamics affect carbon and water budgets in China? By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Scientists investigate how nitrogen dynamics affects carbon and water budgets in China by incorporating the terrestrial nitrogen cycle into the Noah Land Surface Model. Full Article
ow Public would obey major changes to antibiotic advice, research shows By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (University of Exeter) The public would comply with major changes to medical advice - but would then be less likely to follow other new guidelines in the future, research shows. Full Article
ow How do police view legalized cannabis? In Washington state, officers raise concerns By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Crime and Justice Research Alliance) A new study evaluated the effects of legalizing cannabis on police officers' law enforcement efforts in Washington. The study found that officers in that state, although not supportive of recriminalization, had a variety of concerns, from worries about the effect on youth to increases in impaired driving. The study can inform other states' efforts to address legalization. Full Article
ow Clemson scientist receives $455K NSF grant to study how flowers adapt to heat and cold By www.eurekalert.org Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 EDT (Clemson University) While the world admires the beauty and fragrance of flowers, most of us are missing out on the extraordinary processes these seemingly delicate life forms are carrying out every moment of the day. Matthew Koski, an assistant professor at Clemson, is not only paying attention, he is advancing his research with a three-year, $455,000 grant from the NSF for a study of flower adaptations titled 'Modifying the floral microenvironment: elevational divergence in floral thermoregulatory mechanisms.' Full Article
ow From DSME to DSMS: Developing Empowerment-Based Diabetes Self-Management Support By spectrum.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2007-10-01 Martha Mitchell FunnellOct 1, 2007; 20:221-226Articles Full Article
ow Insulin-Related Knowledge Among Health Care Professionals in Internal Medicine By spectrum.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2007-07-01 Rachel L. DerrJul 1, 2007; 20:177-185Feature Articles Full Article
ow Motivational Interviewing and Diabetes: What Is It, How Is It Used, and Does It Work? By spectrum.diabetesjournals.org Published On :: 2006-01-01 Garry WelchJan 1, 2006; 19:5-11Lifestyle and Behavior Full Article
ow Reonomy: Selecting a Growth Strategy in New York City’s Proptech Sector By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 14:19:42 +0000 What strategic path would lead Reonomy, a successful commercial real estate proptech startup, to future growth and profitability within a reasonable time frame? Full Article
ow Stylysh revives IG show By jamaica-star.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 05:01:34 -0500 Dancehall artiste Stylysh is set to restart her Instagram (IG) show, which is centred around love, sex, and relationships. Last season's guests included the likes of Shauna Chin, Destiny Sparta, and Gaza Sheba, who spoke candidly of her sexual... Full Article
ow Small business owner looks for silver lining By jamaica-star.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 05:01:52 -0500 Deborah Fearon is a bar owner who also has a small chicken business. She depends on both for a living. Before the COVID-19 outbreak she was doing well, and had plans of completing her house this year. However, she has been hit hard by the economic... Full Article
ow Leading Through a Protracted Crisis: How to Drive, Survive, and Thrive in a Crisis By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Management professors Adam Galinksy and Paul Ingram, together with Jonathan Laor ’21, CEO of Applicaster, advise on leadership during a crisis. Full Article
ow Governments Should Be Transparent When Planning to End Lockdowns By www8.gsb.columbia.edu Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 -0400 Businesses will benefit from clear policy guidance from lawmakers Full Article