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The article offers information associated with Pentagon Papers, which is actually titled "Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force" which changed public opinion against the Vietnam War and ended U.S. participation in that conflict. It is evident that the Pentagon Papers were classified as "top secret-sensitive" leaked to mass media by Daniel Ellsberg, a recurrent employee of Rand.

The article offers information related to the speech about the Republic's democracy by former U.S. Navy James Stavridis at Metropolitan State University in Denver on December 13, 2019 . It mentions about the dangerous chaos and feral destruction of all the principles that should hold civilization together; and extraordinary collection of citizens of the colonies of Great Britain which were of course in the process of breaking away to eventually form the U.S.

In an effort to help the public better understand the mental health implications of gaming, an international foundation and a public health nonprofit this month released a white paper, calling it a first‐of‐its‐kind report, that analyzes the potential role of gaming as an innovative solution to the increasing mental health crisis in this country. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article looks at the paper stock used in American comic books throughout the history of the genre. According to the author, the first American comic book was published by the printing firm Eastern Color Printing and printed on the newsprint used for the firm's newspaper comic sections. The development of offset-printed comics created for a direct market of comic book specialty stores is discussed. Other topics include Baxter paper, flexographic printing, and computer coloring.

The article features the late author, printer, playwright, amateur poet and classics professor Claude Fredericks and his more than 65,000-page diary written from 1932 to 2013. The first part of his journal was acquired by the Getty Research Institute in 1990. The author recorded the gay underground in mid-century New York City and his encounters with such figures as Marcel Duchamp and Alice B. Toklas. It mentions the immortality achieved by Fredericks through his diary.

Health care payments continue to evolve and shift away from fee‐for‐service payment systems that typically reward volume and move to value‐based payment (VBP) models that incentivize high‐quality, cost‐effective care. While this is happening more for physical health services, there's more uncertainty about the role of behavioral health. A new white paper aims to tackle that question with information about existing models that have been implemented along with recommendations for federal and state policymakers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization or day treatment programs can provide more intensive levels of care with multiple types of therapy, more frequent sessions with mental health professionals, and clinically informed care coordination and case management. This observation on residential treatment is included in a new white paper released this month by the National Association for Behavioral Healthcare (NABH). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Investigations of the parasites associated with extinct avian species provide unique insights into the ecology and evolution of both hosts and their parasitic counterparts. In the present paper, a new quill mite species, Peristerophila conuropsis sp. n., belonging to the family Syringophilidae (Prostigmata: Cheyletoidea) is described from the Carolina parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis Linnaeus (Psittaciformes: Psittacidae). This new species was collected from museum dry skin of the Carolina parakeet, the only native representative of the Psittacidae in the United States, which was an abundant resident of the southeastern and midwestern states and has been extinct in the beginning of the 20th century. Comment on the current taxonomic state and host associations of the genus Peristerophila are provided. Based on the host associations and habitats occupied by Peristerophila and related genera on parrots, it is hypothesized with the high probability that P. conuropsis has been extinct along with its host. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author discusses relationship and reported attacks made by U.S. President Donald Trump against news media outlets. Topics explored include the treatment received by news organizations particularly journalists from Trump, the violence against journalists at political rallies, and the significant increase in leak investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) during the administration of Trump.

The article reports how digital media and paperless communication, as well as the COVID-19-related pressure, have caused a major decline in the U.S. pulp and paper industry over the past decade, as of April 2021, and projected to cost the industry 26 billion U.S. dollars.

The article focuses on writing faculty papers for Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) to help JPME faculty members for coaching and mentoring their professional colleagues. Topics discussed include the approach of theoretical grounding to broaden practice and to present the underlying ideas behind principles, need for making balance between theory and practice, and use of case studies, historical vignettes, and current events in the faculty papers.

The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an attempt by former President Donald J. Trump to deny the House Select Committee access to documents held by the National Archives on January 19, 2022. Associate justice Clarence Thomas was the only dissenter to the vote of the Court. The documents show the involvement of the Trump White House in the events which led to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. Also noted is the effort by Trump to promote a counter-narrative.

The article focuses on the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper from Jennifer L. Doleac and Anita Mukherjee, which found that greater opioid abuse and opioid-related crime has resulted from laws expanding access to the overdose-rescue drug naloxone. According to the study, there is no evidence that naloxone leads more people to search for fentanyl.

As Scott E. Hadland, M.D., senior author of a dramatic paper published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine puts it, drug use among adolescents is not getting more common — it's at its lowest in almost 50 years. But it's getting more deadly, due to fentanyl. In "The Overdose Crisis among U.S. Adolescents," by Hadland and lead author Joseph Friedman, Ph.D., the problem is laid out clearly: After guns and car crashes, overdose (OD) deaths are now the third leading cause of death among adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rhodiola rosea, also known as golden root or roseroot, is a succulent plant that grows in mountainous regions with severe winters. It has a long history of use as a medicinal herb, with records dating back to ancient times. Rhodiola rosea is rich in phenolic compounds and vitamin C, which have healing and protective properties for both humans and animals. Modern research has discovered that it is an adaptogen, increasing resistance to stress and improving physical and mental performance. It is also a source of antioxidants and has potential benefits for pain relief, headache, and memory loss. Rhodiola rosea can be grown in various regions, including the United States, and its seeds are readily available online. However, it is not well-known in the Western world due to most scientific papers being published in Slavic or Scandinavian languages. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the role that necessity played in the invention of paperweights from the late 19th century through the 1950s in the U.S., including the electrical engineer Charles P. Steinmetz's use of ad-hoc paperweights throughout his career. An overview of various items used to hold down paper, including rounded stones and horseshoes, is provided.

The article looks at popular-culture magazines aimed at teenagers in Great Britain and the U.S., focusing on the year 1966 and on their coverage of pop and rock music. It cites magazines including "Rave," "KRLA Beat," and "New Musical Express" and discusses the range of topics they covered, including the Vietnam War, the changing roles of women, and African-American soul music as the root of the era's popular music.

The article discusses the crisis relate to U.S. newspapers in 2016. Topics covered include the slow death of newspapers in the country due to the launch of online resources such as social networking sites. Also mentioned is the impact of the launch of advertising sites such as Craigslist on the demise of U.S. newspapers.

Over 13 months in 2016-17 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission conducted an "incentive auction" to repurpose radio spectrum from broadcast television to wireless internet. In the end, the auction yielded $19.8 bn, $10.05 bn of which was paid to 175 broadcasters for voluntarily relinquishing their licenses across 14 Ultra High Frequency (UHF) channels. Stations that continued broadcasting were assigned potentially new channels to fit as densely as possible into the channels that remained. The government netted more than $7 bn (used to pay down the national debt) after covering costs (including retuning). A crucial element of the auction design was the construction of a solver, dubbed SAT-based Feasibility Checker (SATFC), that determined whether sets of stations could be "repacked" in this way; it needed to run every time a station was given a price quote. This paper describes the process by which we built SATFC. We adopted an approach we dub "deep optimization," taking a data-driven, highly parametric, and computationally intensive approach to solver design. More specifically, to build SATFC we designed software that could pair both complete and local-search SAT-encoded feasibility checking with a wide range of domain-specific techniques, such as constraint graph decomposition and novel caching mechanisms that allow for reuse of partial solutions from related, solved problems. We then used automatic algorithm configuration techniques to construct a portfolio of 8 complementary algorithms to be run in parallel, aiming to achieve good performance on instances that arose in proprietary auction simulations. To evaluate the impact of our solver in this paper, we built an open-source reverse auction simulator. We found that within the short time budget required in practice, SATFC solved more than 95% of the problems it encountered. Furthermore, the incentive auction paired with SATFC produced nearly optimal allocations in a restricted setting and substantially outperformed other alternatives at national scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports on the history of money in the U.S. It mentions the use of bank notes as a form of private currency, the issue of counterfeiting money, and the use of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to get around government control of the creation of money.

An interview with military analyst Daniel Ellsberg is presented. Topics mentioned include the reactions of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger by the release of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 detailed in Ellsberg's book "The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner," the American military policy that has always been based on the assumption of an American first strike, and the 1964 film "Dr. Strangelove." Ellsberg also explains reduction of nuclear weapons as a more realistic solution.

The article discusses issues related to the potential impact of the use of bitcoin and other virtual currencies on the national security in the U.S. Mentioned are efforts of the government to secure the financial service sector against terrorists' organization. Noted is the verified attempt of Ibn Taymiyyah Media Center, an online jihadist propaganda organization, to raise funds through bitcoin.

The article focuses on the SPORE Project developed by Doug Rhodehamel in 2005 to support creativity and art education by constructing and planting mushrooms made from brown paper lunch bags in the U.S. Topics include how the idea behind the paper bag mushroom started, how it can be used by teachers as an instructional tool, and the opportunity it provided to discuss collaboration and temporary art.

The article focuses on paper terrorism, described by Anti-Defamation League senior research fellow Mark Pitcavage as the use of bogus legal documents and filings to intimidate or harass public officials, law enforcement officers, or private citizens. It is inferred that most paper terrorists are sovereign citizens and members of organized anti-government movement. It discusses the growth of the sovereign citizen movement, legislations that combat paper terrorism, and the threat it poses.

Recently, scholars of the lawmaking process have urged their colleagues to devote more attention to the potential impact of bill content on legislative outcomes. Heeding their call, this paper builds an original dataset of over 5,000 pieces of state-level legislation addressing issues that span the ideological spectrum. It compares proposals that challenge the authority of the national government in a specific domain to proposals that lack federalism-related implications and finds that the former, all else being equal, make less legislative progress toward enactment. In addition, it categorizes the measures that resist national laws based on the specific nature of the challenge they pose. Its analysis finds that measures that are inconsistent with existing national law but work within the law's legal framework make more legislative progress than measures that seek to nullify the national law or that vow not to cooperate with it. It also confirms that sponsor characteristics such as majority status, the number of cosponsors, institutional rules such as hearing requirements, and state-level factors like party control of the state legislature affect howmuch progress proposals make toward enactment. Thus, the paper demonstrates the importance of legislative content as an explanatory factor and sheds light on the nature of intergovernmental relations in the contemporary United States. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

HEARTS in the Americas is the Pan American Health Organization flagship program to accelerate the reduction of the cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden by improving hypertension control and CVD secondary prevention in primary health care. A monitoring and evaluation (M&E) platform is needed for program implementation, benchmarking, and informing policy-makers. This paper describes the conceptual bases of the HEARTS M&E platform including software design principles, contextualization of data collection modules, data structure, reporting, and visualization. The District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) web-based platform was chosen to implement aggregate data entry of CVD outcome, process, and structural risk factor indicators. In addition, PowerBI was chosen for data visualization and dashboarding for the analysis of performance and trends above the health care facility level. The development of this new information platform was focused on primary health care facility data entry, timely data reporting, visualizations, and ultimately active use of data to drive decision-making for equitable program implementation and improved quality of care. Additionally, lessons learnt and programmatic considerations were assessed through the experience of the M&E software development. Building political will and support is essential to developing and deploying a flexible platform in multiple countries which is contextually specific to the needs of various stakeholders and levels of the health care system. The HEARTS M&E platform supports program implementation and reveals structural and managerial limitations and care gaps. The HEARTS M&E platform will be central to monitoring and driving further population-level improvements in CVD and other noncommunicable disease-related health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

State governments are tasked with making important policy decisions in the United States. How do state legislators use their public communications--particularly social media--to engage with policy debates? Due to previous data limitations, we lack systematic information about whether and how state legislators publicly discuss policy and how this behavior varies across contexts. Using Twitter data and state-of-the-art topic modeling techniques, we introduce a method to study state legislator policy priorities and apply the method to 15 US states in 2018. We show that we are able to accurately capture the policy issues discussed by state legislators with substantially more accuracy than existing methods. We then present initial findings that validate the method and speak to debates in the literature. The paper concludes by discussing promising avenues for future state politics research using this new approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Bibliometric techniques identify the productivity and influence on research. • Fuzzy systems are an area of study with potential for further research. • Zadeh is known as the most influential author in fuzzy research in North American. • The United States is the most productive and influential country in fuzzy research. The objective of this paper is to apply bibliometric techniques to analyze the evolution of fuzzy systems research (FSR) in the United States of America and Canada. The aim is to visualize the progression of FSR since Zadeh's first publication of fuzzy sets and the regional impact that these ideas have in the scientific community. This work obtains data retrieved from the Web of Science (WoS) scientific database. Using a hybrid methodology designed to maximize the obtention of representative results, we analyze 20,317 documents published between 1965 and 2020. The main findings show that Zadeh is the most influential author and that Pedrycz is the most productive author at FSR. Journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems (FSS) and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (TFS) publish most of the FSR articles. The results show a greater contribution by the United States of America compared to Canada in FSR. This analysis contributes to visualization and evolution in the field of study of FSR in diverse regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles the life and work of Mississippi newspaper the "Petal Paper" writer and political satirist Percy Dale (P.D.) East, particularly focusing on his criticism of the white supremacist movement in Mississippi and racism in the Southern states. It also discusses his satire of Mississippi politicians such as governor James P. Coleman.

The article offers a profile of the paper-flower artist Livia Cetti, including her decoration of paper flower petals, the costs of her paper flowers and the process of producing paper-flower art.

Statistics are given regarding bills and coins including the composition of the U.S. paper currency, the estimated strains of bacteria found on dollar bills that are circulating in New York City, and the symbolism of numismatic Great Seal