{"id":81018,"date":"2023-02-16T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/?p=81018"},"modified":"2023-03-10T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T23:01:09","slug":"volume-26-number-4-2-16-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/volume-26-number-4-2-16-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 26, Number 4 &#8211; 2\/16\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"81018\" class=\"elementor elementor-81018\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-60a10e55 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"60a10e55\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column 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cellpadding=\"0\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 9px 18px 9px 18px;\">\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100% !important; background-color: #b2880d; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"padding: 18px; color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h3 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 20px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #1e1e1e;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,sans-serif;\">Volume 26, Number 4\u00a0&#8211; 2\/16\/2023<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n                <\/tr>\n                <\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b50581e-7f5b-460a-8c24-b318122581e5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h2 class=\"null\" style=\"text-align: left; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 22px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;\">FUTURE FACTS &#8211; FROM THINK LINKS<\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Researchers\u00a0have\u00a0discovered\u00a0a\u00a0form\u00a0of\u00a0ice\u00a0whose\u00a0haphazard\u00a0molecular\u00a0structure\u00a0resembles\u00a0that\u00a0of\u00a0liquid\u00a0water,\u00a0despite\u00a0being\u00a0a\u00a0solid.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">Northern\u00a0Virginia\u00a0is\u00a0home\u00a0to\u00a0about\u00a0275\u00a0data\u00a0centers,\u00a0handling\u00a0at\u00a0least\u00a0a\u00a0third\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0world\u2019s\u00a0online\u00a0use.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">An asteroid&#8217;s unexpected flyby shows blind spot\u00a0in planetary threat detection.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\">NASA has helped to build a humanoid robot.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><a class=\"\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 480px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/100ef029-499b-0229-a8fe-7e8ed24c1b4a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" align=\"middle\" \/> <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 26px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #cc0066;\"><span style=\"font-size: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma,verdana,segoe,sans-serif;\">Debra Rose<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 30px;\">Addressing the Source of All Health<br \/>Simplifying the Path to Wellbeing<\/span><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\">Saturday, February 18th, 9:00-5:00<br \/>in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia<br \/>or via LIVESTREAM!<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnButtonBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnButtonBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnButtonBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 18px 18px 18px;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnButtonContentContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: separate !important; border-radius: 4px; background-color: #cc0066; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnButtonContent\" style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; padding: 18px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" align=\"center\" valign=\"middle\"><a class=\"mcnButton \" style=\"font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 100%; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; color: #1e1e1e; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; display: block;\" title=\"Click Here for Tickets and More Info\" href=\"https:\/\/arlingtoninstitute.org\/transitiontalks\/upcoming-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click Here for Tickets and More Info<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Albert Einstein and many other physicists have stated simply that everything in our universe is energy\u2026in fact, electrical energy. Because of that, all aspects of this reality respond (in some way) to the frequencies and intensity of the electrical signals within our bodies and those surrounding us in our environment.<br \/><br \/>Early in the last century, the extraordinary inventor and researcher, Royal Raymond Rife established conclusively that human cells \u2013 of all kinds \u2013 had unique energetic signatures. He went further to demonstrate that if one introduced enough energy into the body at the signature frequency of specific cells, say, cancer cells, the target organisms resonate and vibrate so greatly that that they destroy themselves.<br \/><br \/>Expanding on those profound discoveries, Quantum Biofeedback devices are now available to scan and assess the body for the underlying issues related to different imbalances and diseases, and to then respond with customized signals that target the area that is influencing the observed problem at the cellular level. The positive results of thousands of individuals speak to the efficacy of this approach.<br \/><br \/>Perhaps the most effective use of these principles involves focusing on the gut. Since all life begins in the gut, whether it\u2019s overall health, inflammation, aging, memory, or movement, the desirable performance of each function of our bodies depends upon one\u2019s absorption and digestion capabilities. Debra Rose specializes in relieving the stress associated with chronic or degenerative disease, thereby freeing up the body to heal itself as it was designed to do.<br \/><br \/>Many people\u2019s lives have been profoundly changed after being exposed to these therapies.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 588px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/c6e1e48f-d9bf-0bf3-0235-f279333294aa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">In our February 18th TransitionTalk, Debra will discuss how to detoxify from the newer pharmaceutical products that have flooded the market, how to establish healthy gut function, and how to amplify both absorption and evacuation. Learn more about what \u201chappens in the middle\u201d between eating and elimination\u2014and what we can do to supercharge our bodies.<br \/><br \/>Despite the modern challenges we face in an increasingly-polluted environment, attendees will learn how they can rid their bodies of harmful foreign material, reverse their declining health, slow the aging process, and get into peak metabolic performance.<br \/><br \/>Any acquired disease, i.e. hypertension, Type 2 Diabetes, high cholesterol, and more, can be turned around by the choices you make and the actions you take,\u201d says Debra. She regularly advises her patients, \u201cYour quality of life depends on you! YOU DECIDE BY THE ACTIONS YOU TAKE. The choice is always yours, and it is never too late.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Debra Rose will clearly explain this powerful approach to the TransitionTalk audience and will perform a live demonstration of how this revolutionary technology works in real time! Attendees will learn the difference between biofeedback, neuro-feedback, and quantum bioresonance\u2014and the differences are both fascinating and mind bending!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n\t<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n\t<![endif]-->\n<tbody class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnBoxedTextBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]>\n\t\t\t\t<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" \">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnBoxedTextContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; 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padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/4eda6ea7-665b-4ab3-5776-841acafcf739.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/> <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Listen to Debra Rose and John Petersen discuss her upcoming TransitionTALK!<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; 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mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnRetinaImage\" style=\"max-width: 898px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/0ff148a4-4021-2b55-d32b-291be75147f1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\"><em><strong>Debra Rose, BCN<\/strong>, is one of the leading quantum biofeedback authorities the United States. She is both a quantum biofeedback specialist and also an instructor. Quantum biofeedback is a non-invasive therapeutic technology that energetically scans and harmonizes stress and imbalance and could certainly be a key component of the future of healthcare. Biofeedback and bioresonance are scientifically-proven methods for reducing stress in the entire body.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\"><em>For nearly two decades, Debra has dramatically helped many thousands of patients as a holistic health practitioner using quantum biofeedback. She is a Board-certified naturopath through Trinity Schools and maintains practices on both coasts of the US.<br \/><br \/>She has seen many thousands of patients with chronic Lyme disease, various end-stage cancers, and severe brain issues completely turn their lives around with the help of the powerful tools she has in her arsenal. Debra is blessed to see many people turning their tragic situations into triumphant health opportunities and transformational, life changing events.<br \/><br \/>Always alert for the most effective way to address sickness, Debra focuses on cutting edge techniques to help her patients detoxify from the chemicals and popular pharmaceutical products that have been introduced to their bodies\u2014these substances affect all of us no matter how clean we think we are living!<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnButtonBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnButtonBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnButtonBlockInner\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; 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vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/468c380e-2290-450d-a201-08a79541c4d3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/theswisstimes.ch\/swiss-banker-files-criminal-charges-over-false-covid-vaccine-statements\/?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Criminal\u00a0Charges\u00a0Filed\u00a0against\u00a0Switzerland\u2019s\u00a0Future\u00a0President\u00a0\u2013\u00a0(Swiss\u00a0Times\u00a0\u2013\u00a0December\u00a07,\u00a02022)<\/a><\/h4>\nSwitzerland\u2019s Federal Interior Minister, Alain Berset, (who will become president in 2024, a rotating position) falsely claimed on national television that those vaccinated with Covid-19 vaccines could not spread the virus, but has not yet been held accountable. Pascal Najadi, a Swiss banker, wants to change that. He has filed criminal charges against Berset for making false statements surrounding Covid-19 vaccines. Berset, whose job also includes serving as the Swiss health minister, has been the head of Switzerland\u2019s Covid-19 response since March 2020. This response includes Covid-19 lockdowns, mask mandates and the introduction of the controversial mobile COVID certificate. On December 7, 2022 Once Swiss residents had obtained both Covid-19 vaccines, they were granted access to a mobile phone pass which allowed them to enter restaurants, venues and other establishments that were limited only to vaccinated people. On October 27, 2021 Berset went onto a national television show during prime time viewing hours and announced that those who have the Covid-19 vaccine cannot spread the virus. He said (in French) \u201cWith the certificate, you can show you are not contagious.\u201d But, a Swiss study published nearly three months before Berset\u2019s statement has proven otherwise. The study was published August 3, 2021 and led by Virginie Masserey, head of infection control and vaccines at the Federal Office for Public Health (FOPH). Masserey and her team of researchers found that the vaccine did not reduce the contagiousness of Covid-19, even if vaccinated people were not showing Covid-19 symptoms. Masserey\u2019s findings echo what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has reported. In addition, officials from the biopharmaceutical company Pfizer stated to the European Parliament\u2019s Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic that the company had not studied whether the vaccine quelled the contagiousness of the virus or not. Shortly before the vaccine\u2019s release, Pfizer\u2019s CEO emphasized that this was still being evaluated. \u201cIn my view, [Berset] has put people in danger because of false safety thinking,\u201d Najadi explained. Najadi contends that Berset\u2019s claim may have put many vulnerable Swiss people at risk of Covid-19 infections under the false belief that they could interact with vaccinated people without contracting Covid-19. \u201cPeople were spreading the virus all over the place!\u201d Najadi said. He underscored that the \u201cget vaccinated for the sake of others\u201d line used to promote vaccines was falsely marketed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2023\/02\/14\/federal-government-tracking-unvaccinated.aspx?ui=86cf26b083d2d25b11daae367d3535a3b68a38edc5b8ad7c311362c10734dada&amp;sd=20200509&amp;cid_source=dnl&amp;cid_medium=email&amp;cid_content=art1ReadMore&amp;cid=20230214_HL2&amp;cid=DM1340627&amp;bid=1720471873\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The\u00a0Federal\u00a0Government\u00a0Is\u00a0Tracking\u00a0the\u00a0Unvaccinated\u00a0\u2013\u00a0(Mercola\u00a0\u2013\u00a0February\u00a014,\u00a02023)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe U.S. government has secretly been tracking those who didn\u2019t get the COVID jab, or are only partially jabbed, through a previously unknown surveillance program designed by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), a division of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The program was implemented April 1, 2022, and adopted by most medical clinics and hospitals across the U.S. until January 2023. Under this program, doctors at clinics and hospitals have been instructed to ask patients about their vaccination status, which is then added to their electronic medical records as a diagnostic code, known as ICD-10 code, so that they can be tracked inside and outside of the medical system. These new ICD-10 codes are part of the government\u2019s plan to implement medical tyranny using vaccine passports and digital IDs. They\u2019re also tracking noncompliance with all other recommended vaccines using new ICD-10 codes, and have implemented codes to describe WHY you didn\u2019t get a recommended vaccine. They\u2019ve also added a billable ICD code for \u201cvaccine safety counseling\u201d.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/e4f0dc92-815d-6e22-f007-4da205f51d5e.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2023\/02\/13\/mental-health-data-brokers\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F391d5dd%2F63ea72b31b79c61f878f39d4%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F30%2F70%2F63ea72b31b79c61f878f39d4&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Now\u00a0For\u00a0Sale:\u00a0Data\u00a0on\u00a0Your\u00a0Mental\u00a0Health\u00a0\u2013\u00a0(Washington\u00a0Post\u00a0\u2013\u00a0February\u00a013,\u00a02023)<\/a><\/h4>\nCapitalizing on the pandemic explosion in telehealth and therapy apps that collect details of your mental health needs, data brokers are packaging that information for resale. One company advertises the names and home addresses of people with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or bipolar disorder. Another offers a database featuring thousands of aggregated mental health records, starting at $275 per 1,000 \u201cailment contacts.\u201d There\u2019s no law stopping them. In a recent study, a research team at Duke University\u2019s Sanford School of Public Policy outlines how expansive the market for people\u2019s health data has become. After contacting data brokers to ask what kinds of mental health information she could buy, researcher Joanne Kim reported that she ultimately found 11 companies willing to sell bundles of data that included information on what antidepressants people were taking, whether they struggled with insomnia or attention issues, and details on other medical ailments, including Alzheimer\u2019s disease or bladder-control difficulties. Some of the data was offered in an aggregate form that would have allowed a buyer to know, for instance, a rough estimate of how many people in an individual Zip code might be depressed. But other brokers offered personally identifiable data featuring names, addresses and incomes, with one data-broker sales representative pointing to lists named \u201cAnxiety Sufferers\u201d and \u201cConsumers With Clinical Depression in the United States.\u201d Some even offered a sample spreadsheet. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA, restricts how hospitals, doctors\u2019 offices and other \u201ccovered health entities\u201d share Americans\u2019 health data. But the law doesn\u2019t protect the same information when it\u2019s sent anywhere else, allowing app makers and other companies to legally share or sell the data however they\u2019d like.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rand.org\/pubs\/research_reports\/RR3226.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Internet of Bodies \u2013 Opportunities, Risks, and Governance \u2013 (Rand Corporation \u2013 2020)<\/a><\/h4>\nWithin the broader Internet of Things (IoT) lies a growing industry of devices that monitor the human body and transmit the data collected via the internet. This development, which some have called the Internet of Bodies (IoB), includes an expanding array of devices that combine software, hardware, and communication capabilities to track personal health data, provide vital medical treatment, or enhance bodily comfort, function, health, or well-being. However, these devices also complicate a field already fraught with legal, regulatory, and ethical risks. The authors of this report examine this emerging collection of human body\u2013centric and internet-connected technologies; explore benefits, security and privacy risks, and ethical implications; survey the nascent regulatory landscape for these devices and the data they collect; and make recommendations to balance IoB risks and rewards. Key Findings: As with IoB devices, there is no single entity that provides oversight to IoB data.\u00a0 Governance of IoB devices is managed through a patchwork of state and federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and consumer advocacy groups.\u00a0 Article provides link to the free downloadable 37 page report.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/05fa197f-59a2-431f-9c55-401a2efc8ef9.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/part-of-the-sun-has-broken-off-and-formed-a-vortex-what-the-heck-is-going-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Part of the Sun Has Broken Off and Formed a Vortex\u2026 What Is Going On? \u2013 (Science Alert \u2013 February 10, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nRight now the sun is done something decidedly peculiar. Material from a filament of plasma erupting from the Sun&#8217;s surface broke away and appeared to form a crown-like vortex over the solar north pole. Further analysis will be required to determine whether or not this is what actually occurred. For now, scientists are saying that they&#8217;ve not quite seen anything like it \u2013 and the footage itself is undoubtedly spectacular. Solar shenanigans are not entirely unexpected currently. The sun is ramping up its activity, getting rowdier with sunspot and flare activity. It has flared every day this year so far, and it spat out several X-class and M-class flares in January 2023, the biggest and second-biggest eruptions the Sun is capable of. Very normal for the Sun, it undergoes activity cycles every 11 or so years, from relatively quiet and peaceful, to absolutely rambunctious. These cycles coincide with fluctuations in the solar magnetic field. When the magnetic field is at its weakest at the poles, the Sun&#8217;s magnetic poles switch places, and the polarity of the magnetic field reverses. This is when the Sun is at its most active, known as solar maximum. We&#8217;re right on the cusp of solar maximum. Because the Sun is so enigmatic and difficult to predict, we don&#8217;t know precisely when the polarity reversal will occur (scientists can usually only make a ruling after the event), but we do know a rough ballpark: Our current predictions place it in July 2025. From very early on in the current cycle, which started in December 2019, the Sun&#8217;s activity has significantly exceeded expectations and continues to do so.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/medium-density-amorphous-ice-resembles-liquid-water-1850069785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scientists Discover Amorphous Ice That&#8217;s Weirdly Similar to Liquid Water &#8211; (Gizmodo &#8211; February 3, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nResearchers have discovered an ice form whose haphazard molecular structure resembles that of liquid water, despite being a solid. The peculiar ice, named medium-density amorphous ice (or MDA), also has a density similar to liquid water. Amorphous ice has been known before, but not at this middle ground for density. \u201cWe know of 20 crystalline forms of ice, but only two main types of amorphous ice have previously been discovered, known as high-density and low-density amorphous ices,\u201d said study co-author Christoph Salzmann, a materials scientist at University College London. To find the loosely structured, Goldilocks-density ice, the team shook ordinary water ice in a jar crammed with steel balls, cooled to about -376 degrees Fahrenheit (-200 Celsius.) The method is called ball milling and is a way of breaking up molecules using mechanical forces. The principle is simple: As the balls crash against the ice, the latter is pulverized. As a result, MDA looks like white powder; though it is a solid, it has the molecular composition of liquid water. MDA had a final quirk: When the material recrystallized into ordinary water ice, it released a large amount of heat. The researchers believe the discovery could have geophysical implications for ice on the surfaces of frozen moons like Europa, to which NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiter in 2024. \u201cAmorphous ice in general is said to be the most abundant form of water in the universe,\u201d said co-author Angelos Michaelides, a chemist at the University of Cambridge, in the release. \u201cThe race is now on to understand how much of it is MDA.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/space\/jupiter-12-new-moons-rcna69131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">With the Discovery of 12 New Ones, Jupiter Now Has More Moons Than Any Other Planet \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 February 3, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nAstronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. Saturn, the one-time leader, comes in a close second with 83 confirmed moons. These newest moons range in size from 0.6 miles to 2 miles. In April, the European Space Agency is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter to study the planet and some of its biggest, icy moons. And next year, NASA will launch the Europa Clipper to explore Jupiter\u2019s moon of the same name, which could harbor an ocean beneath its frozen crust. Jupiter and Saturn are loaded with small moons, believed to be fragments of once bigger moons that collided with one another or with comets or asteroids. The same goes for Uranus and Neptune, but they\u2019re so distant that it makes moon-spotting even harder. For the record, Uranus has 27 confirmed moons, Neptune 14, Mars two and Earth one. Venus and Mercury come up empty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/a03c0983-a12e-45bb-8928-c02a5c29b90e.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/01\/24\/ants-smell-cancer\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38f1aea%2F63d162561b79c61f87646fe0%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F42%2F72%2F63d162561b79c61f87646fe0&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">An Ant\u2019s Sense of Smell Is So Acute, It Can Sniff Out Cancer \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 January 24, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Ants have such a refined sense of smell, in fact, that researchers are now training them to detect the scent of human cancer cells. A study published in the journal <em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em> highlights a keen ant sense and underscores how someday we may use sharp-nosed animals \u2014 or, in the case of ants, sharp-antennaed insects \u2014 to detect tumors quickly and cheaply. \u201cThe results are very promising,\u201d said Baptiste Piqueret, a postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany who studies animal behavior and co-wrote the paper. He added, however: \u201cIt\u2019s important to know that we are far from using them as a daily way to detect cancer.\u201d For his study, Piqueret\u2019s team grafted pieces of a human breast-cancer tumor onto mice and trained 35 ants to associate urine from the tumor-bearing rodents with sugar. Placed in a petri dish, the silky ants (<em>Formica fusca<\/em>) spent significantly more time near tubes with urine from the \u201csick\u201d mice compared with urine from healthy ones. \u201cThe study was well conceived and conducted,\u201d said Federica Pirrone, an associate professor at the University of Milan who was not involved in the ant research but has conducted similar investigations into the smelling ability of dogs. But ants, Piqueret suggested, may have the edge over dogs and other animals that are time-consuming to train (and more expensive to maintain). Researchers have to do a lot more work before ants or other animals help make an actual diagnosis. Piqueret\u2019s team plans to test ants\u2019 ability to sniff out the markers of cancer in urine from actual patients. If ants are ever used in cancer screening, Piqueret wants to make one thing clear: No, they will not need to crawl on you. \u201cThere will be no direct contact between ants and patients,\u201d he said. \u201cSo even if people are afraid of insects, it\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/well\/2023\/02\/04\/cancer-vaccines-how-they-work-what-to-ask-your-doctor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cancer Vaccines Are Already a Reality\u2014But Your Doctor Might Not Tell You about Them Unless You Ask \u2013 (Fortune \u2013 February 4, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Cancer vaccines exist today. Clinical trials have long been underway using traditional vaccine technologies\u2014and participants are already receiving cancer vaccines, many personalized. A handful of vaccines have already received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. And cancer-preventing vaccines have been around since the 1980s. If this is news to you, you\u2019re not alone. Doctors don\u2019t always offer cancer-preventing or cancer-treating vaccines to patients\u2014due to lack of knowledge, or bias against certain racial, gender, or age groups. Cancer vaccines are not much different from vaccines for infectious diseases like the flu, measles, mumps, and COVID, said Dr. Keith Knutson, a professor of immunology at the Mayo Clinic who researches and develops cancer vaccines. Vaccines stimulate the immune system to fight a target\u2014usually a virus. In this case, however, the target is cancer. Right now, the bulk of cancer vaccines are therapeutic\u2014used to treat patients who already have advanced cancer, often in concert with other interventions like chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation. Two are currently approved by the FDA, according to the Cancer Research Institute: one for early-stage bladder cancer, and another for prostate cancer. But there are also vaccines for cancer survivors. They\u2019re given to those in remission with a high risk of relapse, Knutson says. Knutson\u2019s lab is working on a vaccine that targets six points of attack frequently found on breast cancer. Fortuitously, many are also found in lung, ovarian, and pancreatic cancers. \u201cWe may be generating immunity that targets breast cancer specifically, but we think that immunity may also be protective against other cancers as well,\u201d he says. Then there are the vaccines that can prevent cancer altogether. There are four that are FDA approved: three for HPV, or human papillomavirus, and one for Hepatitis B. Article goes on to discuss \u201cpersonalized\u201d cancer vaccines.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3jKNw2b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This Software Tries to Spot Lung Cancer Years Earlier \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 1, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Researchers have created an artificial intelligence tool that could predict whether a person will get lung cancer up to six years in advance, paving the way for doctors to spot tumors that are notoriously hard to detect early. The finding, announced by a team of researchers at Harvard\u2019s Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is part of a growing medical trend of using algorithms to predict everything from breast cancer and prostate cancer to the likelihood of tumors regrowing. Though research is increasing, scientists say more testing needs to be done before fully unleashing these products into clinical settings. The software tool is called Sybil, named after the prophet in ancient Greek literature. It is a deep-learning model, meaning computers parse through huge data sets to identify and categorize patterns. Sybil was trained on six years of lung scans of patients in the United States and Taiwan, researchers said. The study results showed Sybil achieved scores scientifically considered \u201cgood\u201d and \u201cstrong\u201d in predicting lung cancer over six years. It was stronger with its one-year prediction rates, the researchers noted. Building Sybil was a challenge, study authors said. Most of the imaging data to train Sybil didn\u2019t contain overt signs of cancer, since early-stage lung cancer is in small portions of the lung and can be hard for the naked eye to spot. To ensure the software could assess cancer risk, the study team \u201clabeled hundreds of CT scans with visible cancerous tumors\u201d and fed them into Sybil before unleashing the software on CT scans with limited signs of cancer, researchers said. (Paywall waived.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/02\/11\/radioligand-cancer-therapy-forces-manufacturers-to-race-the-clock.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radioligand Therapy, a Game-changer for Cancer Treatment, Forces Manufacturers to Race Against a Ticking Clock \u2013 (CNBC \u2013 February 10, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Radioligand therapy, also called radionuclide or radiopharmaceutical therapy, is a targeted form of cancer treatment that delivers radiation directly to cancer cells. While other forms of cancer treatment can target any rapidly dividing cells in the body, radioligand therapy\u2019s precision helps limit damage to healthy, surrounding tissue. It\u2019s an effective form of treatment that many experts and patients are excited about, but there\u2019s a significant catch \u2014 the medication expires within days after it\u2019s manufactured. A radioligand is made of a radioisotope, which emits radiation that damages cells, and a targeted ligand \u2014 a molecule that binds to specific markers on cancer cells. The radioactive component has a very short half-life, or the time it takes for the radioactivity to decrease by 50%. Once the radioactivity decays, it can no longer kill the cancer cells as effectively, which means radioligand therapy has a limited window of viability. By the time it is packaged and ready to ship, the treatment has to reach patients in a matter of days. Pharmaceutical company Novartis currently produces two radioligand therapy treatments called Lutathera, which treats neuroendocrine tumors, a rare form of cancer in the digestive tract, and Pluvicto, for patients with a specific type of prostate cancer. They were both approved by the Food and Drug Administration. As of October, Novartis had treated more than 16,000 neuroendocrine patients and 4,000 prostate cancer patients in the U.S. Pluvicto was approved only last March and demand is increasing. As many as 60,000 U.S. patients could ultimately benefit from the medicine, said Jeevan Virk, head of radioligand therapy at Novartis. But in order to realize that potential, Novartis has to move the medication through the supply chain (i.e. delivery issues, etc.) seamlessly. Producing radioligand therapy is expensive, and companies have to be willing to shoulder the costs and navigate a challenging supply chain in the hope that they can eventually make a profit. The list price (wholesale acquisition cost) of Pluvicto is around $42,500, while Lutathera is around $53,200, and most patients require between four to six doses. Novartis, which generated more than $50 billion in net sales last year, believes Pluvicto holds multibillion-dollar peak sales potential.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/ed464269-0e91-40c9-bef0-858171dc33ec.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2023\/02\/10\/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F391982f%2F63e7ccd21b79c61f878b307b%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F46%2F72%2F63e7ccd21b79c61f878b307b&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Virginia Is the Heart of the Internet. Not Everyone Is Happy About That. \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 10, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Northern Virginia is home to about 275 data centers, handling at least a third of the world\u2019s online use, with dozens more of the massive structures either under construction or planned as local officials seek to tap into the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue generated by an industry that requires few government services in return. But Amazon&#8217;s plans to invest $35 billion by 2040 to build multiple data centers across the state have sparked debates about local land use policies in neighborhoods where data center buildings \u2014 some the size of several football fields \u2014 sit less than 100 feet from the nearest home, creating serious noise pollution from cooling fans. The concrete and glass buildings just off Loudoun County Parkway in Ashburn, VA look like an ordinary collection of offices, save for the spiked metal fences and a security guard posted at the parking lot entrance. Inside is the beating heart of the internet in the eastern United States. Informally known as the MAE-East network access point, the Ashburn site owned and operated by the Equinix digital infrastructure company is one of several \u201cprimary nodes\u201d for the internet in the world. From it springs a web of underground fiber-optic cables linking to the region\u2019s growing number of data centers and to trans-Atlantic cables that connect Northern Virginia to other parts of the world. Ashburn became the center of the internet on the East Coast in the 1990s, after AOL and WorldCom Inc. moved their operations there, said Josh Levi, president of the Data Center Coalition trade group. Because the success of online computing is measured by the least amount of delay \u2014 or latency \u2014 in the movement of data, physical proximity to the MAE-East primary node is key, leading many of the earliest data centers to also set up their operations in Loudoun, Levi said. Each new data center built has meant more fiber-optic cable laid, increasing the network\u2019s density while broadening it outward \u2014 \u201cand it becomes this kind of snowballing of connectivity,\u201d he said. \u201cA lot of local governments in Northern Virginia, they look at data centers as local governments downstate look at casinos,\u201d said state Sen. Chap Petersen (D-Fairfax City). \u201cThey\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s free money.\u2019 It\u2019s not free,\u201d Petersen said. \u201c[If] you\u2019re going to get paid a lot of revenue, millions of dollars, believe me, there\u2019s going to be an impact on your community.\u201d (Editor\u2019s note: If you have time to read only one article from this issue of FE, chose this one.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/8b7b010a-45aa-41b7-832b-79a3b43ca7b5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/scientists-show-abandoned-oil-and-gas-wells-could-act-as-geologic-batteries-and-solve-renewable-energy-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Researchers Successfully Turn Abandoned Oil Well into Giant Geothermal Battery \u2013 (Good News Network \u2013 February 13, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">What if abandoned oil and gas wells across the country could solve the problem of renewable energy storage? 3,000 feet below ground in a geological structure of porous sandstone, researchers from the University of Illinois deposited excess energy as heated water which could be used to generate electricity in the same way that geothermal power plants function. The Illinois Basin is ideal for oil extraction, but has no subsurface source of heat to produce geothermal power. The same reasons however that make it ideal for extracting oil make it perfect for a potential new method of solving the problems with renewable energy storage. The Illinois Basin boasts the correct thermal conductivity for the deposition of water heated through excess renewable energy production from solar or wind. Minerals with high conductivity are sandwiched between insulative layers, creating the conditions for the water to retain its heat enough to generate electricity. \u201cMany of the same properties that make a subsurface rock formation ideal for oil and gas extraction also make it ideal for geothermal storage,\u201d said lead researcher Tugce Baser, an environmental engineering professor at the University of Illinois. \u201cAnd because our test site is a former gas well, it already has most of the needed infrastructure in place.\u201d To test the heat storage capacity of the site, the researchers injected water heated to 50 degrees Celsius into the well for three days of injection in April 2021. After shutting down the well, the team monitored changes in pressure, thermal conditions, and hydraulics for five days. \u201cOur field results, combined with further numerical modeling, find that the process can sustain a thermal storage efficiency of 82%,\u201d Baser said. The study further reports an average overall net cost of electricity generation of $0.138 per kilowatt-hour, making the proposed system economically viable and profitable.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/dc436ab3-c7e2-41d0-a460-a87c628031bb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/2023\/02\/07\/ev-battery-power-your-home\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F390f716%2F63e288ed1b79c61f8780b356%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F56%2F70%2F63e288ed1b79c61f8780b356&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electric Vehicles Can Now Power Your Home for Three Days \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 7, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Here\u2019s what some automakers are now promising anyone with an EV: An enormous home battery on wheels that can reverse the flow of electricity to power the entire home through the main electric panel. Beyond serving as an emissions-free backup generator, the EV has the potential of revolutionizing the car\u2019s role in American society, transforming it from an enabler of a carbon-intensive existence into a key step in the nation\u2019s transition into renewable energy. Home solar panels had already been chipping away at the United States\u2019 centralized power system, forcing utilities to make electricity transfer a two-way street. More recently, home batteries have allowed households with solar arrays to become energy traders, recharging when electricity prices are low, replacing grid power when prices are high, and then selling electricity for a profit during peak hours. But batteries are expensive. Using EVs makes this kind of home setup cheaper and a real possibility for more Americans. So there may be a time, perhaps soon, when your car not only gets you from point A to point B, but also serves as the hub of your personal power plant. Bidirectional charging, the ability for vehicle electricity to flow both ways, is now a commercial reality in the United States. By 2024, numerous makes and models will be in dealerships. You can even buy one today: The Ford F-150 Lightning, an all-electric version of America\u2019s best-selling pickup truck. It\u2019s scrambling the economics of home energy. Ford changed how customers saw their trucks when it rolled out a hybrid version of the F-150, says Ryan O\u2019Gorman of Ford\u2019s energy services program. The truck doubles as a generator sporting as many as 11 outlets spread around the vehicle, including a 240-volt outlet typically used for appliances like clothes dryers. During disasters like the 2021 ice storm that left millions of Texans without electricity, Ford dealers lent out their hybrid F-150s as home generators. The Lightning, the fully electric version of the F-150, takes the next step by offering home backup power. Under each Lightning sits a massive 98 kWh to 131 kWh battery pack. That\u2019s enough energy, Ford estimates, to power a home for three days (10 days if rationing). \u201cThe vehicle has an immense amount of power to move that much metal down the road at 80 mph,\u201d says O\u2019Gorman. (Paywall waived.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/automotive\/auto-insurers-drop-coverage-2-vehicles-ease-of-theft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auto Insurers Drop Coverage of These 2 Vehicles Due to Ease of Theft \u2013 (The Street \u2013 January 30, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">If you frequented TikTok anytime in the last couple of years there&#8217;s a good chance you caught a glimpse of the &#8220;Kia Challenge.&#8221; It&#8217;s a viral trend showing just how easy it is to steal certain Kia and Hyundai models. The &#8220;Kia Boyz&#8221; problem has gotten so bad that State Farm and Progressive, two of the largest insurers in the country, have confirmed that they no longer write policies for some Kia and Hyundai models manufactured between 2015 and 2019 in certain cities. The vehicles being stolen lack electronic mobilizers that can make it harder for a thief to steal a car by just bypassing the ignition, according to the Highway Loss Data Institute. Immobilizers became standard on all vehicles produced after November 1, 2021. The trend became so popular that police in St. Petersburg, FL., said during a period in July that half the 56 cars stolen in the city were Kia\/Hyundai model years from 2021 and before that used key fobs to start. The trend reportedly started in Milwaukee, but thanks to the power of social media it is now national, the <em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em> reported. More than 1,800 Hyundais and Kias were stolen in the city of St. Louis as of August 2022. But to crystallize just how viral the problem is, about 2\/3 (1,200) of those thefts came in the months of July and August alone. Cities and citizens that have not been able to stop the problem through law enforcement now are looking to the courts. The city of Seattle filed a complaint in federal court against Hyundai and Kia for failing to install adequate anti-theft technology, according to <em>Car and Driver<\/em> magazine. Lawyers representing claimants in the Hyundai lawsuits are looking for more people to join the class action. &#8220;Engine immobilizers have been widely available since 1992, and there seems to be no good reason for Hyundai not to add them to cars,&#8221; according to Select Justice. Meanwhile, St. Louis has said that if the companies don&#8217;t do something about the thefts by Sept. 19, the city will be filing a lawsuit against them. (Editor\u2019s note: Some people are suggesting that TikTok should be sued for inadequate monitoring of its channel.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/d28f8223-b7a8-4682-9198-1d41761ed998.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/02\/01\/cut-light-pollution-health\/?utm_campaign=wp_week_in_ideas&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_ideas&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3907195%2F63df9a981b79c61f877c15df%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F51%2F78%2F63df9a981b79c61f877c15df&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial Light Harms Our Bodies and Souls. It Doesn\u2019t Have to Be This Way. \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 1, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nIn the last ten year, light pollution has grown by a troubling 10% each year, new data shows. In other words, the world\u2019s skies have doubled in brightness in less than eight years. One big culprit? The tsunami of electronic lighting such as LEDs \u2014 barely on the horizon a decade ago \u2014 that has washed over the planet. Too often, city planners assume adding more light is an effective way to address crime. Yet many lights are used in ways \u2014 unshielded and shining into the sky, blazing over empty parking lots through the wee small hours \u2014 that serve little purpose. While artificial light at night might make us feel safer, there is no clear evidence that it actually improves our safety. Worse, these lights take a toll on our health. Artificial light at night disrupts sleep cycles, hormones and more. It has been linked to chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes and some cancers. Now, our night skies face the expected expansion of low Earth orbit satellites from 5,000 to more than 100,000 in the next decade. Bright enough to be visible with the naked eye and to blind the world\u2019s most important research telescopes, these mega-constellations threaten to fundamentally alter humanity\u2019s experience of looking at the stars. Is all this light an unavoidable cost of modern life? Not at all. In the United States alone, for example, at least 30% of outdoor light is wasted. Worldwide, momentum is growing for smarter regulation and policy. At the United Nations, a new dark and quiet skies movement is taking shape. Last year, a promising new policy initiative at the European Union was spearheaded by the Czech Republic. The city of Pittsburgh recently adopted the most dark-sky-compliant lighting ordinance in the eastern United States while Mexico has made nighttime lighting subject to pollution regulations. With dimmers, movement sensors and more, the tools exist to light our nights differently. What is lacking is public awareness of the steep costs of light pollution and the political will to make smarter decisions about the future.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/b939ecee-ce36-47c0-a2fc-8c3c5a410a9a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbaltv.com\/article\/catfish-alligator-combined-dna-research\/42778377#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why US Scientists Are Combining Catfish and Alligator DNA \u2013 (VBalTV \u2013 February 6, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Catfish is a heavily farmed fish: In 2021 alone, 307 million pounds of live catfish were produced in the U.S. \u2014 primarily in the southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas.\u00a0 Rex Dunham, who&#8217;s on the team working on genetic improvement of catfish at Auburn, said about 40% of the fish worldwide die from diseases between the time they&#8217;re born to the time they&#8217;re harvested.\u00a0 That&#8217;s largely because the farm ponds where they&#8217;re produced make the fish susceptible to infections. In order to reduce the chances of infection, researchers at Auburn University in Alabama are combining catfish and alligator DNA. The gene-edited fish were given an antimicrobial protein called cathelicidin that Dunham and other researchers believe make alligators more resistant to infections after being injured. The hybrid catfish are sterile because of the way the genes are swapped.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/990684dc-d4a9-42f8-9778-7df045165e24.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/40FOXzr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Military Wants AI to Replace Human Decision-making in Battle \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 March 29, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">When a suicide bomber attacked Kabul International Airport in August last year, the death and destruction was overwhelming: The violence left 183 people dead, including 13 U.S. service members. This kind of mass casualty event can be particularly daunting for field workers. Hundreds of people need care, the hospitals nearby have limited room, and decisions on who gets care first and who can wait need to be made quickly. Often, the answer isn\u2019t clear, and people disagree. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) \u2014 the innovation arm of the U.S. military \u2014 is aiming to answer these thorny questions by outsourcing the decision-making process to artificial intelligence. Through a new program, called In the Moment, it wants to develop technology that would make quick decisions in stressful situations using algorithms and data, arguing that removing human biases may save lives, according to details from the program\u2019s launch. Though the program is in its infancy, it comes as other countries try to update a centuries-old system of medical triage, and as the U.S. military increasingly leans on technology to limit human error in war. But the solution raises red flags among some experts and ethicists who wonder if AI should be involved when lives are at stake. DARPA\u2019s In the Moment program will create and evaluate algorithms that aid military decision-makers in two situations: small unit injuries, such as those faced by Special Operations units under fire, and mass casualty events, like the Kabul airport bombing. Later, they may develop algorithms to aid disaster relief situations such as earthquakes, agency officials said. The program is expected to take roughly 3.5 years to complete. Similar to DARPA, a NATO team is working with Johns Hopkins University to create a digital triage assistant that can be used by NATO-member countries. Peter Asaro, an AI philosopher at the New School, said military officials will need to decide how much responsibility the algorithm is given in triage decision-making. Leaders, he added, will also need to figure out how ethical situations will be dealt with. For example, he said, if there was a large explosion and civilians were among the people harmed, would they get less priority, even if they are badly hurt? \u201cThat\u2019s a values call,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s something you can tell the machine to prioritize in certain ways, but the machine isn\u2019t gonna figure that out.\u201d (Paywall waived.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2023\/02\/enter-the-hunter-satellites-preparing-for-space-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War \u2013 (Ars Technica \u2013 February 2, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">Former US Air Force major Even Rogers is worried about a space war. \u201cConflict exists on a continuum that begins with competition and ultimately leads into full-scale conflict like what you\u2019re seeing in Ukraine,\u201d he says. The US, he adds, is already \u201cin active competition with Russia and China for freedom of action and dominance of the space domain. And it\u2019s evolving very quickly.\u201d So in 2022, the former US Air Force major incorporated True Anomaly, Inc to \u201csolve the most challenging orbital warfare problems for the US Space Force,\u201d he later tweeted. According to a recent filing with the US Federal Communication Commission (FCC), True Anomaly is now gearing up for its first orbital mission. In October, True Anomaly hopes to launch two Jackal \u201corbital pursuit\u201d spacecraft aboard a SpaceX rocket to low earth orbit. The Jackals will not house guns, warheads, or laser blasters, but they will be capable of rendezvous proximity operations (RPO)\u2014the ability to maneuver close to other satellites and train a battery of sensors upon them. This could reveal their rivals\u2019 surveillance and weapons systems or help intercept communications. In their first mission, dubbed Demo-1, the Jackals will merely spy on each other, using thrusters, radar, and multi-spectral cameras to approach within a few hundred meters. If that goes well, Rogers envisages deploying thousands of autonomous spacecraft in service of the US military, controlled by a team of human operators and AI \u201cto pursue adversaries wherever they fly, and to provide the tools of accountability.\u201d Those tools start with understanding what technologies America\u2019s adversaries are deploying in space. \u201cBut an active defense is going to be required,\u201d says Rogers, now True Anomaly\u2019s CEO. In a series of posts, Rogers tweeted: \u201cTactically disabling enemy spacecraft can be the difference between the loss of an entire Carrier Strike Group or its survival&#8230; And there are many ways to destroy spacecraft that don\u2019t ruin the environment. After all, they are just floating computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1f55c21a-4c06-4011-a5d0-718ccb33dd60.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/wapo.st\/3jN2DZ9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These Radically Simple Changes Helped Lawmakers Actually Get Things Done \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 9, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">We hear a lot about the shocking dysfunction in Congress. But what about stories of shocking function? For example, if any congressional committee were set up to fail, it was the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress. It was the only House committee in the last Congress required to get a supermajority vote of its members to get things done. But it was also evenly split: six Republicans and six Democrats, so you do the math. Oh, and its mission? To fix Congress. No biggie. The last select committee created to reform Congress, which focused on budgeting, passed exactly zero recommendations by the time it ended in 2018. So, how did this modernization committee become one of the most high-functioning bipartisan workplaces on Capitol Hill, creating what a Roll Call reporter called a \u201cparallel congressional universe\u201d? How did it manage to adopt, in just four years, 202 bipartisan recommendations, about two-thirds of which have already been executed or made significant progress in that direction? This article lays it out. (Editor\u2019s note: This article proves that hope for a functional government is not complete folly.)<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/89e7707a-0a68-4699-8fef-f6e417fdb7f6.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/canadian-province-tries-decriminalizing-drugs-fight-overdose-crisis-2023-01-31\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian Province Tries Decriminalizing Drugs to Fight Overdose Crisis \u2013 (Reuters \u2013 February 1, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7285812473css-axufdj\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">The western Canadian province of British Columbia on Tuesday has begun a three-year pilot program to stop prosecuting people for carrying small amounts of heroin, meth, ecstasy, or crack cocaine, as part of an effort to fight a drug overdose crisis. B.C. accounts for about a third of the 32,000 deaths due to overdose and trafficking nationally since 2016, according to official data. The province declared drug overdose a public health emergency that year. The problem worsened with the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted illicit drug supply chains as well support services, leaving people with more toxic drugs that they used alone. By not prosecuting people carrying small amounts of drugs, the B.C. government hopes to tackle the issue as a health problem rather than through the criminal justice system. The drugs on the exemption list, which also includes fentanyl and other opioids, remain illegal and the exemption from arrest is only for possession of up to 2.5 grams for personal use. The province says the exemption is intended to reduce the stigma associated with substance use and to make it easier for people to approach authorities for guidance. Other Canadian communities, also facing a rise in drug overdose deaths, are closely watching the pilot.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/1955eac6-467c-41bd-a8b7-b2ccd4454d33.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-01-specks-reveal-asteroid-secrets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Three Dust Specks Reveal an Asteroid&#8217;s Secrets \u2013 (PhysOrg \u2013 January 29, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe specks smaller than the diameter of a hair. The three minute particles from an asteroid called Itokawa show some of these space rocks are vastly older than was thought, and are much tougher. And that could mean we need bolder ways to prevent catastrophic collisions with Earth. The three samples were collected in 2005 from the peanut-shaped Itokawa, some 300 million kilometers (186 million miles) from Earth. It took the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa five years to return them to Earth, along with hundreds of other particles from Itokawa, and scientists have been analyzing them for clues ever since. Fred Jourdan, professor at Curtin University&#8217;s School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, wanted to see what the specks could reveal about the age of rubble-pile asteroids like Itokawa. These form when solid asteroids collide and the resulting fragments assemble into new structures. Solid asteroids are thought to have a lifespan of several hundred million years, and are gradually ground down by constant collisions. But rubble-pile asteroids have a very different structure, composed of rocks, dust, pebbles and a void, and held together by the gravitational pull of their various components. Analysis suggests Itokawa was formed by an asteroid collision at least 4.2 billion years ago, ten times older than solid asteroids of similar size are predicted to be. NASA&#8217;s recent DART test showed asteroids like Itokawa can be nudged off course, but that would likely require a lead time of several years. An asteroid just weeks from colliding with Earth would require a different approach, and Jourdan argues a nuclear blast might be needed. &#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;Armageddon&#8217;-style,&#8221; blowing it up, he hastens to add, referring to the 1998 sci-fi movie. &#8220;The shockwave should push the asteroid out of the way.&#8221;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/asteroids-sudden-flyby-shows-blind-spot-planetary-threat-detection-2023-01-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asteroid&#8217;s Sudden Flyby Shows Blind Spot in Planetary Threat Detection \u2013 (Reuters \u2013 January 28, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday, albeit one that posed no threat to humans, highlights a blind spot in our ability to predict those that could actually cause damage, astronomers say. NASA for years has prioritized detecting asteroids much bigger and more existentially threatening than 2023 BU, the small space rock that streaked by 2,200 miles from the Earth&#8217;s surface, closer than some satellites. If bound for Earth, it would have been pulverized in the atmosphere, with only small fragments possibly reaching land. But 2023 BU sits on the smaller end of a size group, asteroids 5-to-50 meters in diameter, that also includes those as big as an Olympic swimming pool. Objects that size are difficult to detect until they wander much closer to Earth, complicating any efforts to brace for one that could impact a populated area. The probability of an Earth impact by a space rock (meteor) of that size range is fairly low, scaling according to the asteroid&#8217;s size: a 5-meter rock is estimated to target Earth once a year, and a 50-meter rock once every thousand years, according to NASA. But with current capabilities, astronomers can&#8217;t see when such a rock targets Earth until days prior. The roughly 20-meter meteor that exploded in 2013 over Chelyabinsk, Russia is a once-every-100-years event, according to NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It created a shockwave that shattered tens of thousands of windows and caused $33 million in damage, and no one saw it coming before it entered Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. One major upgrade to NASA&#8217;s detection arsenal will be NEO Surveyor, a $1.2 billion telescope under development that will launch nearly a million miles from Earth and surveil a wide field of asteroids. It promises a significant advantage over today&#8217;s ground-based telescopes that are hindered by daytime light and Earth&#8217;s atmosphere. That new telescope will help NASA meet a goal assigned by Congress in 2005: detect 90% of the total expected amount of asteroids bigger than 140 meters, or those big enough to destroy anything from a region to an entire continent.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jan\/31\/less-clumpy-universe-may-suggest-existence-of-mysterious-forces\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Less Clumpy\u2019 Universe May Suggest Existence of Mysterious Forces \u2013 (Guardian \u2013 January 31, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe observations by the <a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/news.uchicago.edu\/story\/dark-energy-survey-releases-most-precise-look-yet-universes-evolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dark Energy Survey<\/a> and the South Pole Telescope chart the distribution of matter with the aim of understanding the competing forces that shaped the evolution of the universe and govern its ultimate fate. The extraordinarily detailed analysis adds to a body of evidence that suggests there may be a crucial component missing from the so-called standard model of physics. The results did not pass the statistical threshold that scientists consider to be ironclad enough to claim a discovery, but they do come after similar findings from previous surveys that hint a crack could be opening up between theoretical predictions and what is actually going on in the universe. The latest work uses data from the Dark Energy Survey, which surveyed the sky over six years from a mountaintop in Chile, and the South Pole Telescope, which looks for the faint traces of radiation travelling across the sky from the first few moments of the universe. In both cases, the analysis uses a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, whereby light is slightly bent as it passes massive objects, such as galaxies and clumps of dark matter, allowing scientists to infer the distribution of matter in the universe. The analysis indicates that matter is not as \u201cclumpy\u201d as expected. According to Professor Carlos Frenk, a cosmologist at the University of Durham who was not involved in the research, there are three likely explanations. First, it could be a result of noise in the data or a systematic error in the telescope. It is also possible that, rather than a major rewrite of cosmological theory, a poorly understood astronomical phenomenon could explain the results. \u201cFor example, supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies can produce huge jets of radiation that can, in principle, push the matter around and smooth it out a bit,\u201d he said. The third, most exciting option, is that the discrepancy is explained by entirely new physics, such as the existence of new kinds of neutrinos, exotic behavior of the dark energy or unconventional forms of dark matter. \u201cFrom the three possibilities, I hope it is the last one, I fear it is the second one but I suspect it is the first one,\u201d said Frenk.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/02\/04\/world\/nasa-niac-space-exploration-concepts-scn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sci-fi Ideas That Could Change the Future of Space Exploration \u2013 (CNN \u2013 February 4, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nHow will space exploration change in the coming decades, and what new possibilities will emerge? These questions are at the heart of NASA\u2019s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, which awards funding for concepts that could be part of future missions. The lastest NIAC competition selected 14 new concepts, awarding each $175,000 in January. Now, these researchers have nine months to use that funding toward refining and testing their ideas to see whether they can advance to the second phase of funding, which is $600,000 to flesh out their concepts and bring them closer to reality. Only five projects have made it to the third phase during the NIAC program \u2014 $2 million to make something implementable. Some of the latest NIAC-funded concepts include a fluid space telescope, self-growing bricks intended for Mars and a plane that could fly on Saturn\u2019s moon Titan, among others. Many of the ideas are the result of creative collaborations between experts in different fields challenging one another to come up with new ideas. \u201cIt really is a community of innovators,\u201d said Michael LaPointe, program executive for NIAC at NASA. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for ideas that will enable brand-new ways of doing things.\u201d\u00a0 Article reports in depth on a number of the projects that have been funded.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/c1c5845a-2cc1-4f99-9312-ad9c819c9be2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/science\/the-humanoid-robot-nasa-is-helping-build\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Humanoid Robot NASA Is Helping Build \u2013 (CNET \u2013 February 5, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nWe&#8217;ve seen impressive developments in humanoid robots over the last few years. Elon Musk and Tesla introduced the Optimus robot last year, and every few months Boston Dynamics teaches its Atlas robot a few new tricks. Now meet the new kid on the block: Apollo.\u00a0 Apptronik calls its newest robot Apollo, in part because it partnered with NASA on commercializing the robot. Though there aren&#8217;t plans to send Apollo to space, the space agency wants to encourage the development of humanoid robots that could one day lead to a robotic space-explorer. We haven&#8217;t seen any official images of Apollo, but Apptronik has released several videos over the past few weeks showing off some of its prototype robots that ultimately helped lead to Apollo&#8217;s design. &#8220;Apollo is the robot that we&#8217;ve always wanted to build,&#8221; CEO Jeff Cardenas told CNET. &#8220;We&#8217;ve designed the whole world for the human form. Having a robot that&#8217;s the same footprint as a human and can use all the same tools that we use and fit in the same places, is incredibly useful.&#8221; Embedded video has more.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/33a86720-2925-4edd-a373-9d326d952424.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2023\/02\/how-precision-scheduled-railroading-at-norfolk-southern-caused-a-toxic-vinyl-chloride-mushroom-cloud-over-east-palestine-ohio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How Precision Scheduled Railroading at Norfolk Southern Caused a Toxic Vinyl Chloride Mushroom Cloud over East Palestine, Ohio \u2013 (Naked Capitalism &#8211; February 12, 2023) <\/a><\/h4>\n<p class=\"yiv7673665933MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 10px 0; padding: 0; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left;\">This post will not cover what has been well-covered elsewhere: The derailment itself (50 cars, 20 of which carried toxic materials, 14 of those vinyl chloride), the subsequent fire, which burned for three days, the ultimate \u201ccontrolled release\u201d of the poisonous gas, the toxicity of vinyl chloride, the effects of the poison on locals, their pets, and their streams, or the arrest of the reporter who asked questions at Governor DeWine\u2018s presser. Rather, I shall begin from the very concrete (\u201cfor want of a nail\u2026\u201d) and move to the very abstract: From the wheel, to the truck, the cars, the firm (Norfolk Southern), and the owners. The crux of the matter is Precision railroading or precision scheduled railroading (PSR). It is a concept in freight railroad operations adopted by nearly every North American Class I railroad. It shifts the focus from older practices, such as unit trains, hub and spoke operations, and individual car switching at hump yards to emphasizing point-to-point freight car movements on simplified routing networks. The result is an often substantial improvement in railroad operating ratios and other financial and operating metrics at the cost of less-reliable service (particularly to smaller customers), long-term capacity issues, increased derailments, and other safety risks associated with longer trains and crew fatigue. This article details what went wrong and why. The short version is that equipment wasn&#8217;t properly monitored and maintained in the service of profit; the specifics shine a strong light on current rail transportation practices. See also: <a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/transportation\/2023\/02\/10\/east-palestine-train-derailment-video-fire-axle-alert\/stories\/202302100070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Footage Showing a Fiery Axle 20 Miles before East Palestine Train Derailment Raises Questions about Alert Timing<\/a> for more technical information.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/795386b4-b7b2-4a33-8c48-67b4ccad05b4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/02\/08\/severely-understaffed-hospitals-shouldnt-be-buying-super-bowl-ads\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3911c4f%2F63e3cf2f1b79c61f878325d9%2F5e876a849bbc0f0a2e14608c%2F56%2F73%2F63e3cf2f1b79c61f878325d9&amp;wp_cu=e9566cddf5919d659b8a87c177b08eff%7CA266C910E7810C4DE0530100007F0657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Severely Understaffed Hospitals Shouldn\u2019t Be Buying Super Bowl Ads \u2013 (Washington Post \u2013 February 8, 2023)<\/a><\/h4>\nEmergency rooms across the country have become chronically overcrowded and understaffed. Hospitals often claim they don\u2019t have the funds to hire more employees to meet the urgent needs of patients. Yet in between Super Bowl advertisements for Flamin\u2019 Hot Cheetos and Bud Light Seltzer Hard Soda, it\u2019s now commonplace to see commercials for institutions such as the University of Rochester Medical Center, NYU Langone Health and Inspira Health. Multiple studies have demonstrated that overcrowding is directly associated with an increase in patient mortality. To make matters worse, a 2016 report by the American College of Emergency Physicians found that over 90% of American emergency rooms are routinely crowded; that number has only increased since then. At the same time, a recent investigation revealed that many American hospitals have spent years pursuing an \u201cindustrywide movement\u201d of keeping labor costs low by wringing \u201cmore work out of fewer employees.\u201d Indeed, hospital administrators often measure success by determining how much they can lower operating expenses by reducing the number of \u201cemployees per occupied bed.\u201d In other words, low staffing levels are not a result of the coronavirus pandemic, staff burnout or a tight labor market \u2014 they are a business model. Simultaneously, as hospitals save money by cutting staffing, hospital marketing budgets have skyrocketed. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, between 2004 and 2016, direct-to-consumer advertising by hospitals and health-care systems jumped 74% to $1.4 billion per year. Many hospital executives would insist that marketing is a necessary operating expense that a modern hospital must invest in to succeed. But if spending on advertisements is nonnegotiable but hiring enough nurses to save patients\u2019 lives isn\u2019t, who is our health-care system truly serving? At what point can it be said that this system has lost its way and the margin has, in fact, become the mission?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; padding: 0 9px 0 9px;\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mcnImage\" style=\"max-width: 1200px; padding-bottom: 0; display: inline !important; vertical-align: bottom; border: 0; height: auto; outline: none; text-decoration: none; -ms-interpolation-mode: bicubic;\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/916d9ff25098a781af857b468\/images\/4063f239-99a1-4f52-a34a-427565a2378c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<h4 class=\"null\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0; padding: 0; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 125%; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #ffffff; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t-QhaFw-zy8&amp;ab_channel=omozoc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handmade &#8211; Stop Motion Woodworking \u2013 (YouTube \u2013 July 19, 2022)<\/a><\/h4>\nThe pros on <em>This Old House<\/em> and woodworking channels make it all look so easy and everything always comes out perfectly. Well, a Japanese YouTuber named Omozoc also knows how to make everything look effortless, apparently turning out a lovely tissue-box holder with just his hands and in hardly any time at all. And it only took 22 days and 791 individual photos to make the minute-long video.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\">\n<table class=\"mcnImageContentContainer\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageContent\" style=\"text-align: center; 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-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" valign=\"top\"><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n\t\t\t\t<tr>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<td valign=\"top\" width=\"600\" style=\"width:600px;\">\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]-->\n<table class=\"mcnTextContentContainer\" style=\"max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnTextContent\" style=\"mso-line-height-rule: exactly; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; word-break: break-word; color: #ffffff; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; padding: 0 18px 9px 18px;\" valign=\"top\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\">Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.<\/span><\/em><br \/><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;\">\u2013<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Victor Hugo<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><!-- [if mso]>\n\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t\t<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t<![endif]--><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table class=\"mcnImageBlock\" style=\"min-width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; mso-table-lspace: 0pt; mso-table-rspace: 0pt; -ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnImageBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnImageBlockInner\" style=\"padding: 9px; 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