achev’s closest advisers and now is a professor in a Geneva school of diplomacy. Here he discusses various of Vladimir Putin’s possible motivations, none of which are very praiseworthy. He says that the current Russian threats of war against Ukraine are not really about Ukraine, but are motivated by Putin’s concern about his country’s status in the world, especially vis a vis the West. Likhotal also believes that Belarus is more important to Russia than is Ukraine. Maintaining significant military bases in Belarus would be strategically important in any attempt to separate the Baltic states from the rest of NATO.
Pervez Hoodbhoy is a physicist in Islamabad. Pakistan. M.V. Ramana is a physicist from India now living in Vancouver. Both are concerned about the potentially catastrophic effects of nuclear war and even the non-explosive but detrimental effects of radioactivity on health and the environment. They discuss the political relations among the nuclear weapons states and the prospect for nuclear disarmament — which they both consider bleak. They also worry about the effects and economic prospects of the widely-proposed small modular reactors, which are expensive and unlikely to be as numerous as some suggest as a solution to climate change.
Pavel Palazhchenko has been interpreter and close aide for Mikhail Gorbachev since early in Gorbachev’s tenure as Soviet leader. Before that, he served as interpreter in the foreign ministry, especially to Eduard Shevardnadze. He interpreted all the international negotiations in which Gorbachev played such a historic role in ending the Cold War. He remains in close touch with the 91-year–old Gorbachev. who remains in isolation because of the pandemic.
Ellen Judd is an anthropologist specializing in China; Barry Stevens makes films, mainly about war; and Zachary Jacobson is a mathematician concerned about global warming. As a schmooze day, this conversation was unplanned; everyone gets to discuss a favorite topic, and the discussion turned to the difficulty of addressing China’s obvious human rights violations within a fair abd constructive context instead of exacerbating tensions. Is it right to consider the current forcible integration of the Uyghurs as “genocide”?
Jenni Harris’s family owns White Oaks Pastures, a farm in Georgia USA that raises and processes animals in ways that sequester more carbon than they emit. Cows, for example, are allowed to graze and are rotated from one paddock to another, day by day, thereby adding their excretions and stirring up the soil just the right amount. The slaughter and packing of meat occurs on the farm, which offers an organic restaurant, general store, guest lodging, and training programs on regenerative agriculture. We discuss the health and climate impacts of this approach to farming.
Vasily Yablokov is a staff member of Greenpeace in St. Petersburg. He notes that there has been a significant change in Russian public opinion about climate change during the past two years — but that nevertheless the majority of the population remains rather oblivious to the issue, though Russia is the country that already is suffering most from it. There are only 30 monitoring stations along the long Siberian coast. Greenpeace may be doing research with Sergey and Nikita Zimov, the Siberians who maintain Pleistocene Park and who are concerned about the emissions of methane from thawing permafrost.
Sandra Leigh Lester advises architects about ways of making buildings more sustainable, healthful, and beneficial for the wider community. Claire Adamson is a retired architect in Montreal. They both have issues with the fashionable ways of renovating homes. Adamson dislikes the trend toward “open kitchens.” Lester says some of her clients want granite countertops and other things they don’t need; they should pay more attention to such things as valves to keep sewage from backing up into their basements.
Ashrith Domun is a chemical engineer working on the de-carbonization of vehicles. Craig Smith is a retired engineer who served as president of a construction corporation and more recently cao-authored a book with William Fletcher: “Reaching Net Zero..” Ashrith reports that the larger the vehicle, the more difficult the challenge in making it move sustainably. But trains are fairly easy to decarbonize; they just change over to. green hydrogen, and this can be done within the next five years.Les cristaux du diméthyl-1,9 triphényl-3,5,7 tétraoxa-2,4,6,8 diazonia-1,9 bora-5 diborata-3,7 tricyclo[5,4,0,03,9]undécane sont orthorhombiques avec a = 9,4026(3), b = 9,4663(2) et c = 24,7462(9) Å,Z = 4 et groupe d'espace P21,21,21.

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Crystals of 1,9-dimethyl-3,5,7- triphenyl-2,4,6,8-tetraoxa-1,9-diazonia-5-bora-3,7-diboratatricyclo[5.4.0.03,9]undecane are orthorhombic, a = 9.4026(3), b = 9.4663(2), c = 24.7462(9) Å, Z = 4, space group P212121.&gt;I don’t feel bad for the poor financial decision making and wish people would just take a step back before jumping right in rather than approaching college with the **“any degree is as good as any other degree” mentality**

Except, 30+ years ago, it really was the case that any degree was as good as any other degree (mostly). Parents of today's college-aged kids are often boomers or early gen-x, who may still believe this. You really can't blame students for making decisions *they were advised to make by the people they trust*. 

Very few can figure out life all on their own with no outside help. Fewer still can do so while being subjected to bad advice, sincerely given from loved ones.<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: PrettierCI master Sync
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<issue_comment>username_1: Added prettier configuration; will try again.Art or Monkey Fart?
For those who need a break from following the news on what has turned out to be a horrific day, we offer this short bit of humor — 2 minutes and 46 seconds of hilarious art satire.
The video is a critique of “Monkey Farter,” a pen on lined paper drawing by “the artist known as Will.” The drawing with text — or the “assemblage of both textual and representational elements,” as the narrator refers to it — is a crude stick figure representation of a monkey farting … or is it?
“On closer inspection, the objet does not so readily give over to the expectations of monkey or monkey-ness, rather looking like a Cubist bird or an angry clown, perhaps a jab at Picasso’s harlequin phase,” the narrator explains as he leads the viewer on a nearly breathless, harrowing, often alliterative journey into the heart of the artwork.
We express our dismay that our Ontario guest had to experience this in tranquil Qualicum Beach after a perfect B.C. vacation.
My daughter drove from Kamloops to Victoria last week to meet an old high school friend she’d kept in touch with since their cheerleading days in Lorne Park (Mississauga) in the mid-70s. It was her friend’s first visit to B.C., and a wonderful reunion. They saw all the highlights of beautiful Victoria and a visit with me in Qualicum Beach, where we enjoyed a sunset and a starry night at the beach.
She and my daughter then had a wonderful drive up island, stopping at Cathedral Grove and Little Qualicum Falls en route to Long Beach and Tofino. They enjoyed perfect weather and Vancouver Island hospitality, and after an idyllic holiday, returned to my home in Qualicum Beach to inquire whether I’d like to see the sandcastles before they returned to Victoria, where our friend was to catch an early morning flight the following day.
We were enjoying a refreshment on the patio when my daughter fortuitously returned to her vehicle, parked 50 feet up my driveway, to find a young man on a bicycle at her vehicle. Two boys nearby were able to provide a full description of the fellow, who had taken our friend’s purse, containing passport, wallet with all her ID, prescription glasses and numerous personal belongings.
She and my daughter,