The Mass Deportation Of Black Immigrants That You Haven’t Heard About | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2016/07/26/3801126/deportation-black-immigrants
#déportation #usa #afrique @cdb_77
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Warming-Caused Loss Of Oxygen Will Be Detectable Across The World’s Oceans By 2030
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/04/28/3773576/ocean-oxygen-levels-decreasingOxygen varies naturally in the ocean quite substantially,” Matthew Long, lead author of the study and scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. “Without any human-driven climate change we could expect oxygen levels at a particular location to go up and down in such a way that low levels may be persistent for a number of years, followed by a period of high levels.”
That means that, if scientists today measure oxygen levels in part of the ocean for a short period of time and observe a decreasing trend, they can’t say for sure if that trend is caused by climate change, Long said. But that should change by 2030.
“While there’s some ambiguity now, in the not too distant future, that ambiguity will be eliminated in places where we have long records,” he said.
Deoxgenation due to climate change is already detectable in some parts of the ocean. New research from NCAR finds that it will likely become widespread between 2030 and 2040. Other parts of the ocean, shown in gray, will not have detectable loss of oxygen due to climate change even by 2100. -
Ruée sur les ressources du Grand Nord
▻http://multinationales.org/Ruee-sur-les-ressources-du-Grand-NordL’Arctique se réchauffe et ses habitants souffrent. Mais la région polaire suscite aussi de plus en plus les convoitises des industriels et de nombreux États, qui lorgnent sur les ressources auparavant cachées sous les glaces. Dans ce grand jeu géopolitique et au milieu de tant d’intérêts puissants, comment se décidera de l’avenir de la région ? Cet article est le deuxième épisode d’une série sur les développements industriels dans l’Arctique et les projets d’entreprises comme #Total, #Areva ou #ArcelorMittal (...)
/ #Canada, #Russie, #Norvège, #États-Unis, #Industries_extractives, #Eni, #Shell, Areva, Total, ArcelorMittal, #Énergies_fossiles, #changement_climatique, #communautés_locales, #impact_social, #impact_sur_l'environnement, industries (...)
#industries_extractives
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The Growing List Of Anti-Islam Incidents Since Paris
▻http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/12/01/3726648/islamophobia-since-paris“The United States has seen an “unprecedented” spike in Islamophobia since the tragic terrorist attacks struck Paris, France on November 13, 2015, with Muslims all over the country falling victim to shootings, personal assaults, harassment, protests, and attacks on their houses of worship.
According to the Center for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the horrific mass murder in Paris — perpetrated by people claiming affiliation with the militant group ISIS — has sparked a widespread backlash against Muslims in the U.S., even though virtually every major Islamic group in the country condemned the attacks. CAIR, a Muslim civil rights group, published a preliminary report on the wave of hatred in late November, with a growing wave incidents occurring since then.
Using CAIR’s report and our own research, ThinkProgress has compiled an incomplete list below of anti-Muslim attacks and incidents that have occurred in the United States since the Paris attacks. Although our list of 27 46 51 65 incidents includes violent attacks, threats, assaults, protests, airport profiling, and instances of vandalism, it does not include the sharp rise in Islamophobic political rhetoric coming from Republican presidential candidates such as Donald Trump, nor does it include Republican and Democratic governors who are refusing to accept Syrian refugees on the grounds that they could be ISIS agents — a response some argue is Islamophobic. It also excludes harder-to-track everyday instances of Islamophobia, such Muslim schoolchildren who are labeled as terrorists by teachers and fellow students.”
#usa #map #islamophobie
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Even With Hard Evidence Of Gender Bias In STEM Fields, Men Don’t Believe It’s Real
▻http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/10/19/3713612/men-ignore-hard-evidence-of-gender-bias/?source=news« One landmark study found that science faculty at research universities rate applicants with male names as more competent, more hireable, and more deserving of a higher starting salary than female applicants, even when the resumes are otherwise identical.
Now, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) shows another level of bias: Many men don’t believe this is happening.
When shown empirical evidence of gender bias against women in the STEM fields, men were far less likely to find the studies convincing or important, according to researchers from Montana State University (MSU), the University of North Florida, and Skidmore College. (...)
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This French Philosopher Is The Only One Who Can Explain The Donald Trump Phenomenon : Barthes, Donald Trump et le catch
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Comment #Chevron tente d’imposer le #gaz_de_schiste à l’Argentine et au reste du monde
▻http://multinationales.org/Comment-Chevron-tente-d-imposer-le-gaz-de-schiste-a-l-Argentine-et-Face au changement climatique – dont elle n’admet encore la réalité qu’avec une certaine réticence -, la firme pétrolière américaine Chevron a déjà trouvé la solution idéale (pour elle) : le gaz de schiste. Et elle n’hésite pas à l’imposer par tous les moyens à sa disposition. En témoignent ses pratiques agressives en #Argentine, qui lui valent une nomination aux « prix Pinocchio du climat ». Aux États-Unis et même parfois en Europe, l’industrie pétrolière vante le gaz de schiste comme une « énergie de (...)
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/ Argentine, #Industries_extractives, #Énergie, Chevron, #Énergies_fossiles, gaz de schiste, #gaz_à_effet_de_serre, (...)
#influence
« ▻http://www.prix-pinocchio.org/nomine/chevron »
« ▻http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/09/hillary-clinton-fracking-shale-state-department-chevron »
« ▻http://www.occupy.com/article/invading-vaca-muerta-brief-summary-recent-events »
« ▻http://www.climatechangenews.com/2013/01/02/chevron-chief-dismisses-climate-change-concerns »
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10 Falsehoods That #Netanyahu Told During His Appearance At CAP
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Comment la fracturation hydraulique pollue l’eau des villes et des campagnes américaines
▻http://multinationales.org/Comment-la-fracturation-hydraulique-pollue-l-eau-des-villes-et-des-Aux #États-Unis comme ailleurs, la contamination de l’eau est l’un des principaux risques associés à la technique de la fracturation hydraulique, nécessaire pour exploiter le #gaz_de_schiste. Certaines images d’eau du robinet prenant feu au contact d’une allumette ont fait le tour du monde, mais les infiltrations de gaz dans les nappes phréatiques ne sont pas la seule source potentielle de pollution liée au fracking. Les réseaux d’eau urbain sont eux aussi exposés. Second volet de notre reportage sur (...)
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The Lifelong Effects Of The Gender Wage Gap | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/03/3698300/gender-retirement-gapWhen men and women’s incomes and retirement savings are stacked up against their projected health care costs and life expectancies, women are much farther behind men. At the same time, women will end up needing to make their money stretch further.
A new report from Financial Finesse found that both genders won’t have enough to replace at least 70 percent of their income in retirement. But 45-year-old men today who will retire at age 65 will fall $212,256 short, while women will be behind by $268,404.
The analysis looked at median incomes, deferral rates, retirement savings, life expectancy, and projected healthcare costs to determine how much the median 45-year-old man and woman would need to save in order to replace 70 percent of their income in retirement. “While both the median man and woman face a significant shortfall, the median woman has a lower lifetime income, has saved less, and yet faces higher overall retirement and healthcare costs due to a longer life expectancy,” it notes.
Thanks to the gender wage gap, men make a median income of $45,292 compared to women’s $37,388. That makes it easier to save for retirement, both because a given percentage of a man’s paycheck that gets put away in an account will be higher than a woman’s, and also because men have more financial cushion to use for savings. Men’s median retirement savings, then, is $63,875, while women’s is $43,446.
But women end up living longer and spending more on their health care. If they both retire at age 65, the average man can expect to live another 19.3 years, but a woman will live for another 21.6. And in that time, a man will spend a projected $275,035 on health care while a woman will spend $294,975.
Add it all up, and women will face a shortfall that is 26 percent bigger than men’s.
A big factor is a longstanding problem for women of all ages: the gender wage gap. Women who work full-time, year-round make 78 percent of what men make, and the gap is far larger for women of color. That means women will make an estimated $530,000 less over their lifetimes. Then they end up getting smaller Social Security checks based off of their smaller payroll contributions. And while men and women participate in retirement plans at the same rate and women even save more of their salaries, since those salaries are lower they end up with less money in their accounts.
Their lower earnings also lead to financial stress that can demote retirement savings on women’s list of financial priorities. While both genders rate it as the number one concern, women are much more likely to follow that up with prioritizing managing their cash flow and getting out of debt.
The gap in retirement savings, coupled with women’s longer lifetimes, puts them in a very tough financial situation in their golden years. Women over the age of 65 have a poverty rate of 11.6 percent, compared to men’s rate of 6.8 percent, and they make up more than two-thirds of all the elderly poor. And the number of elderly women living in extreme poverty has been climbing recently. That leaves them exposed to scams, foreclosure, and other serious financial trouble.
Beyond potential solutions for closing the gender wage gap over women’s lifetimes, there have also been proposals to expand Social Security so that it offers more of a cushion in old age. And some have discussed including Social Security credits for caregivers who have to take time out of the workforce to care for a family member, such as children or elderly parents, and miss out on payroll contributions. Those who take that kind of time off are overwhelmingly women.
#genre #vieillesse #femmes #femme
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New Study Shows How Climate Change Is Already Reshaping The Earth | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/09/03/3697620/expanding-global-dry-semi-arid-zonesA landmark study in the journal #Nature documents an expansion of the world’s dry and semi-arid climate regions since 1950 — and attributes it to human-caused global warming.
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The study uses the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system:
A: Tropical/megathermal climates
B: Dry (arid and semiarid) climates
C: Temperate/mesothermal climates
D: Continental/microthermal climates
E: Polar and alpine climatesThis map shows how the world is broken down by climate and sub-climate regime :
Map of the world’s climate regimes. A new study finds the dry zones (B) are expanding while the polar/tundra zones (E) are shrinking. University of Melbourne via Wikipedia.The study looks at changes in #temperature and #precipitation to determine changes to the various climate zones over time. A region can shift to a drier B climate zone if precipitation drops — or if temperature rises. Higher temperatures cause more evaporation and dry out soil.
The authors note that of all their results, “the most conspicuous feature is a worldwide expansion of B climate (mainly semiarid) at the expense of C and midlatitude D climate” (see figure below):
Linear trends in areas of 5 major climate types for 1950–2003; asterisks denote significant trends at the 5% level. A positive trend of high-latitude (north of 55°N) D climate and a negative midlatitude (south of 55°N) D climate are over-plotted in blue with the net negative trend of D climate in dark blue -
BBC News - The Hurricane Station: WWL, the New Orleans radio station that fought to keep listeners alive during Hurricane Katrina
▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-20ed5228-1f23-4906-9057-ffdd9d5272f2
On Friday afternoons in the Big Easy, people clock off early.
True to its reputation as America’s most hedonistic city, offices empty as bars and restaurants fill up.
On 26 August 2005, many were scrambling to watch their beloved football team, the Saints, play against the Baltimore Ravens in the New Orleans Superdome.
Built in the 1970s, the Superdome sits next to a spaghetti of concrete flyovers. An imposing steel structure with a white roof, it sits in stark contrast to the Spanish inspired balconies with lace-like finishes in the French quarter, where tourists flock.
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Katrina Washed Away New Orleans’s Black Middle Class | FiveThirtyEight
▻http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/katrina-washed-away-new-orleanss-black-middle-class
▻https://espnfivethirtyeight.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/new_orleans_lede.jpg?quality=100&strip=all
Ten years ago, shortly after the floodwaters subsided, James Gray stood in the ruins of his New Orleans home and tried to salvage what remained of his belongings. They fit inside a handbag.
“I don’t know if my wife will ever get over that,” Gray said recently.
But Gray and his wife have since restored the New Orleans East home where they have lived for more than 20 years. Most of their neighbors have returned, too. And Gray, who now represents the neighborhood on the City Council, points to other evidence of rebirth in a district that has long been home to much of the city’s black middle class: a gleaming new hospital, which opened last year; new schools open or under construction; national chains such as Wal-Mart and CVS that are returning after years of absence.
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A ’new’ New Orleans emerges 10 years after hurricane Katrina - CSMonitor.com
▻http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2015/0825/A-new-New-Orleans-emerges-10-years-after-hurricane-Katrina
New Orleans — American taxpayers put New Orleans back on its feet after hurricane Katrina. Matt Haines helped take it from there.
The young New Yorker came to New Orleans in 2009 as part of Ameri-
Corps to help resurrect the city after one of the worst natural disasters in US history, and, like more than 30,000 other people, never left. He bought a rickety house in the rough St. Claude neighborhood, fixed it up, then bought another. Today he still lives in that second shotgun house – a classic narrow rectangular box with a brightly painted Gothic facade.–-------------------
White people in New Orleans say they’re better off after Katrina. Black people don’t. - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/08/24/white-people-in-new-orleans-say-theyre-better-off-after-katrina-blac
This week marks the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in New Orleans. By all accounts, the city has made enormous strides since the 2005 calamity.
But how much residents think that’s true depends largely on their race.
A new Louisiana State University survey found that black and white people in New Orleans had starkly different assessments of their community’s strides since the storm.
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Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30[thinsp]years : Abstract : Nature
▻http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v436/n7051/abs/nature03906.html
Theory1 and modelling2 predict that hurricane intensity should increase with increasing global mean temperatures, but work on the detection of trends in hurricane activity has focused mostly on their frequency3, 4 and shows no trend. Here I define an index of the potential destructiveness of hurricanes based on the total dissipation of power, integrated over the lifetime of the cyclone, and show that this index has increased markedly since the mid-1970s. This trend is due to both longer storm lifetimes and greater storm intensities. I find that the record of net hurricane power dissipation is highly correlated with tropical sea surface temperature, reflecting well-documented climate signals, including multi-decadal oscillations in the North Atlantic and North Pacific, and global warming. My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in tropical cyclone destructive potential, and—taking into account an increasing coastal population—a substantial increase in hurricane-related losses in the twenty-first century.
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Is New Orleans in danger of turning into a modern-day Atlantis? | Cities | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/24/new-orleans-hurricane-katrina-louisiana-wetlands-modern-atlantis
In the years before Hurricane Katrina, residents of New Orleans sought solace in the belief that the Crescent City could build itself out of all environmental threats. Despite a sinking urban footprint, a shrinking coastal buffer and rising sea levels, they had faith that strong stormwater infrastructure was enough to keep them safe. The huge, federally built levee system encircling the metropolitan area enshrined that belief.
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Hurricane Katrina | US news | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/hurricane-katrina
Hurricane Katrina: The latest news and comment on Hurricane Katrina. The Guardian is marking the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with the series Hurricane Katrina: 10 years on.
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10 Years After Katrina, Will California’s Capital Be The Next New Orleans? | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/24/3690955/sacramento-katrina-levees
A 2011 New York Times Magazine story sounded the alarm: “Scientists consider Sacramento — which sits at the confluence of the Sacramento and American Rivers and near the Delta — the most flood-prone city in the nation.” The article went on to note that experts fear an earthquake or violent Pacific superstorm could destroy the city’s levees and spur a megaflood that could wreak untold damage on California’s capital region.
#mississippi #katrina #nouvelle_orléans #états_unis #désastre #ouragan #climat
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The Dehumanizing History Of The Words We’ve Used To Describe Immigrants
The word “alien” will no longer appear in California’s labor code because it could be seen as disparaging to people not born in the United States, thanks to a new law that Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed this week. The move comes at a time when undocumented immigrants are dealing with a string of negative press stemming from Donald Trump’s incendiary comments about Mexican immigrants and the sensationalized killing of Americans at the hands of undocumented criminals.
▻http://thinkprogress.org/immigration/2015/08/13/3690746/california-alien-immigrant-law
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#Agriculture Might Be Emitting 40 Percent More Of One Greenhouse Gas Than Previously Thought
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/07/30/3686264/nitrous-oxide-agricultural-emissions-underestimatedSynthetic fertilizers are used throughout agriculture — and especially in the United States’ Corn Belt — to help plants grow. But the fertilizers also emit a greenhouse gas known as nitrous oxide (#N2O) that is almost 300 times more potent, pound for pound, than carbon dioxide.
Now, a recent study out of the University of Minnesota suggests that emissions from nitrous oxide have been severely underestimated, by as much as 40 percent in some places.
Le #protoxyde_d’azote, un gaz à effet de serre qui ne fait rire personne
▻http://www.inra.fr/Grand-public/Rechauffement-climatique/Tous-les-dossiers/Changement-climatique-gaz-a-effet-de-serre-et-agriculture/Protoxyde-d-azote-gaz-a-effet-de-serre/(key)/3 -
Why Researchers Are Sounding The Alarm About Climate Change’s Health Impacts | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/06/23/3672836/lancet-report-health-air-pollutionrising temperatures worsen air pollution by increasing ground level #ozone
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Stop Telling Women To Smile
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/stop-telling-women-to-smileStop Telling Women to Smile is an art series by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh. The work attempts to address gender based street harassment by placing drawn portraits of women, composed with captions that...
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This Is What Women Are Forced To Do To Avoid Street Harassment
The street harassment that plagues U.S. women in public spaces has far-reaching consequences for those women’s personal lives, according to new survey data released by the international nonprofit Hollaback!.
▻http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/04/16/3647702/street-harassment-women-impact
#sexisme
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Despite Historic Drought, California Used 70 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking Last Year
Even in the midst of its historic, ongoing drought, California used millions of gallons of water for hydraulic fracturing last year, according to state officials.
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/04/06/3643184/california-70-million-gallons-fracking
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New Heat-Resistant Beans Could Stave Off Hunger In A Warming World | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/26/3639265/climate-beans-the-magical-fruit... researchers at CGIAR, a global food research consortium, recently announced the discovery of new, heat-resistant beans that can survive even under the worst-case scenarios for global warming. In experiments, these 30 bean strains were able to tolerate nighttime temperatures of up to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, about 7 degrees warmer than the common bean can usually handle.
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The new bean varieties — or “lines,” as plant breeders call them — are the result of cross-breeding between popular lines of beans, like the pinto or the white bean, with less popular strains, like the tepary bean. The tepary bean, grown mostly by indigenous communities in the American Southwest, is a particularly hardy bean, showing resistance to both heat and drought. But it’s also small and low-growing, causing it to often be overlooked by bean farmers.
According to NPR, Colombian scientist Alvaro Mejia-Jimenez was one of the first to try and blend the heat resistant properties of the tepary with more common bean varieties. In the late-1990s, Mejia-Jimenez succeeded, growing a hybrid bean by fertilizing a common bean flower with pollen from a tepary bean plant. After a few generations, Mejia-Jimenez had created a line of bean that could grow on its own.
Mejia-Jimenez’s work sat largely unnoticed for years, until an alarming report warned of the extensive damage rising temperatures might have on world bean production. Hoping to find varieties of beans that could withstand a warming world, researchers at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) went looking through the thousands of bean strains that they keep in stored in seed banks (part of CIAT’s mission is to safeguard the genes of vital staple crops, like beans and cassava). They tested the beans in controlled plots along Colombia’s Caribbean coast, as well as in greenhouses, where researchers could adjust the temperature at will.
One variety of the heat-resistant beans researchers found through their testing is currently being grown in Costa Rica, and farmers are seeing double the yields of traditional beans.“What this shows us is that heat may already be hurting bean production in Central America far more than we thought and farmers could benefit from adopting the new heat-beater beans right now,” Beebe said.
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Bee Decline Could Cause Malnutrition In Developing Countries | ThinkProgress
▻http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/28/3616486/bees-matter-for-nutritionMany people in developing nations already face a range of challenges, including poverty, pollution, and climate change that’s helping make droughts longer and storms more intense. But according to a new study, residents of developing nations could also soon be struggling with something else: malnutrition fueled by the decline of pollinators around the world.
The study, published this month in the journal PLOS ONE, looked at dietary surveys from women and children in parts of Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique, and Bangladesh. The University of Vermont and Harvard University researchers calculated what percentage of five nutrients — vitamin A, zinc, iron, folate, and calcium — in the women and children’s diets came from foods that are heavily dependent on pollinators (crops such as cocoa and Brazil nuts, for example, rely on bees for pollination). The researchers found that, under a scenario in which all pollinators were removed, up to 56 percent of the people in the areas looked at would be at risk of nutritional deficiencies.
Those deficiencies can go far beyond simply not getting proper nutrition, the report notes: vitamin A deficiency causes 800,000 women and children to die every year, and has been found to roughly double the risk of death from measles, diarrhea, and malaria.
“The take-home is: pollinator declines can really matter to human health, with quite scary numbers for vitamin A deficiencies, for example, which can lead to blindness and increase death rates for some diseases, including malaria,” Taylor Ricketts, a UVM scientists who co-authored the study, said in a statement.
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Sinon cette nuit un attentat aux USA contre un centre pour l’avancement des gens de couleur, et dans les médias mainstream personne n’en parlait
▻http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/07/3608976/a-bomb-went-off-at-a-colorado-naacp-where-is-the-24-hour-news-cycle
