Daily Archives: June 5, 2016
Mass. GMass. Gov. Baker highlights MBTA’s progress on rehab workov. Baker highlights MBTA’s progress on rehab work
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker yesterday visited a work site in Ashland to review the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority‘s (MBTA) progress on several infrastructure upgrades.
Gov. Baker visited a work site in Ashland, Mass., to highlight the MBTA’s recent infrastructure upgradesPhoto:MassDOT
In Ashland and along the Framingham-Worcester commuter-rail line, the MBTA is replacing more than 26,000 rail ties through early June, which will allow the agency to lift heat-related speed restrictions. Additionally, the agency has invested more than $600 million this fiscal year for state of good repair deferred maintenance, including an $83 million winter resiliency program; systemwide station improvements; and track, signal and power upgrades.
“Since last winter, the MBTA and its new leadership have undertaken a renewed focus on the important work of reducing costs and investing in infrastructure improvements to the core system that will ultimately mean more reliable public transit for commuters,” Baker said in a press release.
As part of the winter resiliency work, more than 36,000 linear feet of heater element infrastructure have been installed to support the Red Line’s third rail heating systems. Along the Orange Line, more than 200,000 linear feet of new wiring for third rail has been installed.
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Roundup Weedkiller Found In 75% of Air And Rain Samples, Gov. Study Finds
Source: SleuthJournal.com
Sayer Ji
May 30, 2016
The GM farming system has made exposure to Roundup herbicide a daily fact of our existence, and according to the latest US Geological Survey study its probably in the air you are breathingโฆ
A new study from the U.S. Geological Survey, accepted for publication online ahead of print in the journal Enviromental Toxicology and Chemistry, titled, โPesticides in Mississippi air and rain: A comparison between 1995 and 2007,โ[i] reveals that Roundup herbicide (aka glyphosate) and its still-toxic degradation byproduct AMPA were found in over 75% of the air and rain samples tested from Mississippi in 2007.
The researchers evaluated a wide range of pesticides currently being used through weekly composite air and rain sampling collected during the 1995 and 2007 growing seasons in the Mississippi Delta agricultural region.
The researchers discovered the following:
- Thirty-seven compounds were detected in the air orโฆ
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Todd Gould Named Honorary Commander at Luke AFB
Loren Data CEO, Todd Gould has been appointed Honorary Squadron Commander by the US Air Force DET 1 at Luke AFB, recognizing his 30-years of contribution of innovation and leadership on a global scale.
Lead by Commander, Lt. Col. Anthony Kuczynski, the mission of DET 1, is not unlike Loren Dataโs. Tasked with finding ways to lower costs of ongoing USAF training operations, world-wide. DET1 harnesses the power of innovation along with both traditional and state of the art tools to fabricate parts for training and simulation exercises.
Loren Dataโs relationship with the USAF goes back nearly a quarter of a centuryย to 1992, when as a young company Loren Data was awarded a Air Force-wide contract to develop a state-of-the-art procurement system. With this honor, Loren Data looks forward to supporting our military for the next 25 years.
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Sunday Jazz Concert: Jan Lundgren, Richard Galliano, Paolo Fresu – JazzBaltica
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1 Question Is All You Need to Judge Someone’s Personality
If you want to better understand someone’s personality, there’s no shortage of options. Psychologists have developedย various checklists and inventories to evaluate everything from whether someone is a card-carrying psychopath to a drama queen.
If you’re looking for a more holistic, research-backed approach, there are various tests of the so-called Big Five personality traits. Or you could always go with Myers Briggs, though be warned that despite its popularity in the business world, there’s no evidence it beats astrology at characterizing people.
All of these choices might be an insightfulย way to investigate your own character, but if you’re trying to get a handle on another person, they’re probably a little cumbersome. That new job candidate (or date) would probably look at you a little funny if you sent over an onlineย narcissistic personality test. Is there a quick and dirty–but scientifically validated–way to assess if a given individual has a certain personality trait?
Yup, according to a study out of Wake Forest University recently highlighted on PsyBlog.ย If you want to know if someone displays a certain characteristic, just ask if he or she thinks other people often do.
Can one type of question reveal all?
To reach this conclusion, a team led by psychologist Dustin Wood asked study subjects (in this case that typical psychological guinea pig, the undergrad) to rate the personalities of severalย acquaintances. Their responses said much more about themselves than they probably intended.
The more frequently people rated others as kindhearted, happy, emotionally stable, or courteous, the more likely they were to rate themselves as having these traits, and the more likely outside evaluators were to agree. And the results remained stable even when the subjects were tested again a year later. “Seeing others positively reveals our own positive traits,” Wood commented.
The same thing worked for darker personality traits, too. Those with a Machiavellian streak, for instance, are more likely to see others as manipulative. “A huge suite of negative personality traits are associated with viewing others negatively,” Woods added. “The simple tendency to see people negatively indicates a greater likelihood of depression and various personality disorders.”
Besides being a fascinating glimpseย into the weird and complex human mind, the findings also suggests a powerful hack for evaluating others people’sย character–if you want to know if they themselves display a trait, just find a way to askย how common they think it is in others. The more of a quality they see around them, the more they probably possess themselves.
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