Prompt: While Falcom are a more niche team then most other JRPG developers, they still manage to make some all-round amazing games that are enjoyable. Recently their titles, both new ones and older ones, are slowly coming out in english more and more. After a two years wait, Tokyo Xanadu, a recent title they developed, was released on the PS Vita in English. The PS4 version is to be released later in the year. This review will focus on the Vita version, but once the PS4 version releases and I have finished all the new content, I will add an extra

section down the bottom that will give my opinions and thoughts on the changes, additions and overall package of the PS4 edition. I am very much looking forward to it! This game might share some similarities with Persona but also tries to be its own thing and does it very well. Tokyo Xanadu starts off interesting straight of the bat, as within the first five minutes of the game the protagonist finishes his work for the day and gets caught up in some trouble immediately after, which leads to the start of his double life of having to pretend to be a normal high schooler while secretly defending his city from monsters called Greeds. Kou, the protagonist, is not alone and has several other members that soon get caught up in the hijinks and mischief happening to the town and just like in Trails of Cold Steel 1 and 2, you can hang out with them in-between story segments to learn more about their backstory and lifestyle. The story had me hooked and learning about the events that had occured before the game, as well as what is happening in the present was interesting and overall the plot to me was really well done with some really impactful scenes and emotional parts at specific points. The PS4 version expands on this with extra story elements, which will also be covered later. The game has an interesting story with twists and turns you don't see coming. I highly enjoyed the gameplay as it felt overall fun to go through dungeons defeating Greeds while finding hidden treasure and other little secrets. Gameplay wise, this game is action rpg with many dungeons and there are various ways to fight enemies with different skills and abilities and special moves you can use. The mechanics


Prompt: President Lyndon Johnson’s labor secretary, Willard Wirtz, reported that there was substantial discrimination against older workers and that the nation was needlessly denying older people “opportunity for that useful activity which constitutes much of life’s meaning.” Bolstered by Wirtz’s report, in 1967 Congress passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. It used parallel language to the 1964 act, which should have guaranteed older Americans comparable rights to other groups. It has not worked out that way. The courts have repeatedly thrown up barriers to age discrimination suits, long before the Supreme Court’s June decision. In 1993, in one of its

most damaging rulings, the court decided that if employers fire workers whose pension costs or salaries are high, they are not discriminating — even if the overwhelming number of people fired are older workers. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services. Thank you for subscribing. An error has occurred. Please try again later. View all New York Times newsletters. There are several possible reasons that age discrimination is not taken as seriously as other biases. Older workers are generally not victims of animosity, but rather of unfair stereotypes — that they work more slowly or do not adapt well to change. Many people also seem to agree with the appeals court in the light bulb case: that unlike racism, which is inherently wrong, there is something natural about the old making way for the young. Never mind that with the Social Security retirement age rising, and pensions disappearing, many older Americans have no choice but to work. As flawed as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act is, older people have fared even worse in constitutional law. The Supreme Court in 1976 rejected an equal protection challenge to Massachusetts’s mandatory retirement age of 50 for state police officers. The sole dissenter was Justice Thurgood Marshall, who had been a legendary litigator for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Older people, Justice Marshall said, are not in the same category as blacks when it comes to


Prompt: Both of them knew the conversation needed to happen. It had been simmering to the surface for quite some time, but it was only now, in June, at the Tour de Suisse that Shayne Bannan broached it. "Come back in the car with me," offered Bannan. And so he did. There's something about car rides that prys the heart and mind open. The unsaid, drips, then pours out, helped perhaps, by sparing eye-contact, and the gentle hum of the engine. They were frank. Bannan, mainly. There was no sugar-coating it, the partnership hadn't been anywhere near as successful as either

had hoped. After 10 minutes, all was said and done. Catharsis. Goss was out. The decision was mutual, as Goss tells it anyway. Still it's not something he would have anticipated, nor desired even 12 months before. Both had wanted things to work. They hadn't. In September, he finished his last race with the team, the Tour of Alberta, or rather didn't. A DNF is marked to his name for the final stage. An appropriately invisible close to Goss's time in Orica colours. In three years with the team he'd clocked just two wins, and for the first time since he'd turn pro, in 2014, he hadn't won once. Where exactly did it all go wrong for Matt Goss? What exactly happened to the world-beater that joined the team in 2012? At a time of accelerating development, strength, speed and confidence, the Australian, stagnated, then went backwards. For Matt Goss, these were the lost years. *** Internally at least, frustrations with Goss's non-performance at GreenEDGE had been building for some time. One must remember that the Australian, was, at least in 2012, by far the team's best paid rider, on a deal close to double that of any of his team-mates. And yet the return on investment from the now 27 year old, in retrospect, is among the poorest of the crop. At the time of Goss's signing, in 2011, his deal was vindicated. Here was a rider bubbling to his prime, and ready, or so it appeared to hit his stride in a new, ambitious team, unrestrained by the presence of other sprinters. He'd won Milan-San Remo, he'd very nearly won a world championship, in Copenhagen. The world was his oyster. But things never clicked. There's a confluence of factors that together unravelled Goss, the first, was the assumption


Prompt: A 50-year-old woman was injured in a struggle over her cell phone on Wednesday morning. Police report that the woman was walking with her cell phone in hand near 23rd Street and South Van Ness Avenue at 1:20 a.m. when she was approached by two unidentified men. As one of the men grabbed her phone, the woman resisted and a struggle ensued. The man then pulled out a handgun, which he used to hit the woman, causing her to fall to the ground. Both suspects reportedly ran to a vehicle and fled westbound on 23rd Street. The victim was transported

to the hospital for treatment of her non-life-threatening injuries — police do not have a vehicle description at this time and have not reported any arrests. On January 10, four men believed to be between the ages of 20 and 30 violently attacked a 29-year-old man at 16th and Mission streets. The incident occurred at 1:40 p.m. and was motivated by a verbal argument between the victim and one of the suspects, which escalated when all four attacked the man, knocking him to the ground and hitting him. The suspects fled on foot and have not been apprehended, and the victim was transported to the hospital in non-life-threatening condition. Two Mission District garages, and three in nearby neighborhoods, were targeted by burglars on Monday evening and early Tuesday morning. It is unclear if the burglaries are related. The first Mission District burglary is believed to have occurred sometime between 7 p.m. on Monday and 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when an unidentified suspect entered the garage of a 66-year-old man on Dearborn Street — near 18th and Guerrero streets – and stole the man’s bike, tools, and tool box. The victim discovered in the morning that the items he had secured in his garage were missing. Police have not reported any arrests. A 47-year-old woman also reported a burglary at her residence in which an unidentified suspect entered her garage to steal several items, including a bicycle and a tent. Police report that the burglary occurred sometime between 8 p.m. on Monday and 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, and that the woman awoke on Tuesday morning to find her garage door wide open and her belongings missing. No arrests have been made. Crime is trauma and the county offers different services, which can be found here. Victims of violent crime can also


Prompt: On August 7, Brandon Hudgins, 28, of Boone, North Carolina, became the 448th American to break 4:00 in the mile, and most likely the first to do so after overcoming granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA), a rare autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels. Hudgins’ 3:59.67 fifth-place finish in the Sir Walter Miler in Raleigh marked the culmination of a journey that has included three bouts with the disease, which is treated with chemotherapy and high doses of corticosteroids, in eight years. Hudgins, who says his sub-4:00 mile is a “dream come true, but something I always knew I could do,”

struggled to hold back tears in his postrace interview, as he talked about what it meant to accomplish a lifelong goal in front of family and friends after overcoming what seemed like insurmountable obstacles at times. “My goal is to inspire other people to persevere, whatever their walk in life is, to reach their goals, because it gets dark sometimes,” Hudgins told Runner’s World Newswire. “I can now say that it’s completely worth it. That feeling I had on Friday night when I broke 4:00 was definitely worth it.” After running 4:16 for 1600 meters to win a South Carolina state title as a senior, and running 4:07 for the mile as a sophomore at Winthrop University, Hudgins figured it was only a matter of time before he broke 4:00. But during his junior cross country season at Winthrop, he began to experience symptoms—starting as a cold that wouldn’t go away—that would eventually lead to his diagnosis. Because GPA, formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis, is such a rare condition, it can be difficult to diagnose initially. In his first encounter with the disease, Hudgins suffered 90 percent hearing loss in one ear and 80 percent in the other. His sinuses swelled and were covered in sores, he developed granulomas in his lungs and kidneys, and he came close to losing kidney function. After six months of chemotherapy most of his symptoms were reversed, but the disease and treatment had worn down his body. GET MORE NEWSWIRE: Sign up for the RW Daily newsletter By the time Hudgins was well enough to think about training and racing again, he had graduated from Winthrop, but he was able to use his remaining eligibility as a graduate student at Appalachian State University. He graduated from Appalachian State in 2011 with personal bests of


Prompt: The Uruguayan joined the rest of the squad in Asia having spent some extra time away from football following the World Cup. Chelsea are weighing up a move for Paris Saint-Germain striker Edinson Cavani, sources have told ESPN FC. - Lythell: Chelsea' ex files - Mourinho questions Lukaku mentality - Worrall: Chelsea youths need strong preseason A long-term link to Stamford Bridge, the 27-year-old Uruguay international joining Jose Mourinho's side would be dependent on a number of factors, not least Chelsea's need to comply with UEFA regulations. Apart from already having exceeded the quota for foreign players over the age

of 21 by one -- with Didier Drogba taking them to 18 -- the London club are also increasingly conscious of financial fair play. It is expected that Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech could move on, however, and that any purchase of Cavani would finally see the long-mooted sale of Fernando Torres. Furthermore, the departure of Romelu Lukaku to Everton brought in 28 million pounds, freeing up more funds. ALL-TIME HIGHEST TRANSFER FEES 1) £85m Gareth Bale -- Tottenham to Real Madrid, Sept. 2013 2) £80m Cristiano Ronaldo -- Man Utd to R. Madrid, June 2009 3) £75m Luis Suarez -- Liverpool to Barcelona, July 2014 4) £71m James Rodriguez -- Monaco to Real Madrid, July 2014 5) £59.7m Angel Di Maria -- Real Madrid to Man Utd, Aug. 2014 6) £56m Kaka -- AC Milan to Real Madrid, June 2009 Sources told ESPN FC that Chelsea have been quoted a price of 40 million pounds by PSG for Cavani, and that the player is eager to move to Stamford Bridge -- despite a public declaration that he would prefer to stay in France. There has already been preliminary contact between the London club and the player's camp, although Chelsea are still assessing the best course of action. With Mourinho having regularly complained about his forward line's lack of goals last season, signing Cavani and selling Torres would mean his attack has been completely overhauled, after the purchases of Diego Costa and Didier Drogba as well as the departures of Demba Ba and Samuel Eto'o. From a tactical point of view, Cavani would also provide the type of pace on the break that Mourinho favours in his teams, and that was sorely missing over the 2013-14 campaign. Edinson Cavani moved to Paris Saint-Germain from Napoli in July 2013. The Uruguayan has


Prompt: For unaccompanied minors traveling with American Airlines, parents pay an extra $300 on top of the ticket price to cover the additional care staff puts in to make sure a child gets from point A to point B safely. One mom from Charlotte, NC — who paid that extra cost to send her 11-year-old daughter to visit with family in New York — was failed by this system after being lied to about the whereabouts of her daughter, and wants to warn other parents. Corinne Chausse and her husband were expecting their daughter Maggie to arrive back in Charlotte at

8:50 p.m. on Monday, and although American Airlines confirms that the flight out of New York was delayed due to weather, Corrine didn't hear from Maggie until 1:30 a.m., when she called from Columbia, SC, after the plane was rerouted there. Maggie told her parents that she was being taken off her plane because her flight was canceled. The worried parents lost contact with Maggie for over an hour — they were halfway to Columbia to get her when American Airlines informed them that the flight was going ahead and would be on its way to Charlotte, but then as they got back to Charlotte, they were informed yet again that the flight was canceled. Frantic at this point, Corrine says an American Airlines employee tried to reassure her that her daughter was in a room for minors at Columbia airport, but five minutes later, Maggie called to say she was still on the plane. "They blatantly lied to me about where she was," Corrine told WSOCTV. This communication nightmare between Corrine and the airline is enough to make any mother never want to allow her child to ever fly alone, but on top of that, Maggie was on her plane for more than nine hours and none of the employees who were meant to be caring for her gave her anything to eat. Corrine has tried to contact American Airlines, but she hasn't heard back. "I don't want another parent to go through this," she said. "They need to look at this system they have in place. They're charging people $300 for it and they need to examine where it failed because it failed drastically." However, she says she's less concerned with a refund at this point because she now has a bigger problem to handle: after this experience,


Prompt: A notorious protester convicted of wilfully promoting hatred against Muslims and criminally harassing a Muslim man and his family was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in jail. Eric Brazau handed out a flyer that “vilified Muslims and disparages their religion,” Ontario court Judge S. Ford Clements said in February, when he found Brazau guilty. Eric Brazau was convicted of willful promotion of hatred against Muslims and criminally harassing a Muslim family. ( CARLOS OSORIO / TORONTO STAR FILE PHOTO ) The case was far from being on the borderline between “rough and tumble debate” and hate speech, as Brazau had

argued, Clements said in a College Park courtroom. Brazau handed out the flyer, which contained many offensive references to Islam and Muslims, in August and September 2012. While distributing it, Brazau sometimes yelled obscenities about Islam “in a tone of voice that suggested he was very angry and had little interest in debate,” Clements said. Brazau had argued that he did not intend to promote hate speech; instead he wanted to stimulate debate about censorship, “blasphemy laws” and Sharia law, Clements said. Article Continued Below Clements disagreed. “He knew the material would deeply wound and anger Muslims,” said Clements. The content was not humorous, ironic or satirical, he said. “Mr. Brazau is far too intelligent to believe this to be so.” The flyer also contained a somewhat blurred photograph of a Muslim family on a downtown Toronto street. The man in the photo testified that Brazau called him a “terrorist” on the day Brazau took the photo. In a second interaction a few weeks later on a sidewalk, the man, whose name is protected by a publication ban, said that Brazau approached him aggressively while photographing the family, making him “concerned and fearful.” Article Continued Below Clements found this to be criminal harassment. During sentencing submissions, Crown prosecutor Derek Ishak described Brazau as an “unrepentant hatemonger … who abused his right to freedom of speech in a planned, deliberate manner,” Clements said Tuesday in his sentencing decision. However, Clements said that while Brazau’s conduct was “despicable” and his beliefs “repugnant,” the maximum sentence of six months for a summary conviction on willfully promoting hatred was unwarranted. He also noted the defence submission that Brazau committed his offences in public, where he was easily identifiable, rather than by stealth. Instead, he gave Brazau a four-month sentence, plus two months for criminal


Prompt: By Ralph Nader The editor of The Hill, a newspaper exclusively covering Congress, said that Congress was not going to do very much in 2012, except for “the big bill” which is extending the payroll tax cut and unemployment compensation, which expire in late February. That two month extension will likely reignite the fight between Democrats and Republicans that flared last month. In 2012, Congress, the editor implied, would be busy electioneering. That is, the Senators and Representatives will be busy raising money from commercial interests so they can keep their jobs. There won’t be much time to change anything

about misallocated public budgets, unfair tax rules, undeclared costly wars, and job-depleting trade policies that, if fixed, would increase employment and public investment. So this year, Congress will spend well over $3 billion on its own expenses to do nothing of significance other than shift more debt to individual taxpayers by depleting the social security payroll tax by over $100 billion so both parties can say they enacted a tax cut! That is what the Democrats in Congress and the President call a significant accomplishment. Will someone call a psychiatrist? This is a Congress that is beyond dysfunctional. It is an obstacle to progress in America, a graveyard for both democracy and justice. No wonder a new Washington Post-ABC news poll found an all time high of 84 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Congress is doing. Both Republicans and Democrats say they want to reduce the deficit. But they are avoiding, in varying degrees, doing this in any way that would discomfort the rich and powerful. One would think that, especially in an election year, the following legislative agenda would be very popular with the voters. First, restore the taxes on the rich that George W. Bush cut ten years ago which expanded the deficit. So clueless are the Democrats that they have not learned to use the word “restore” instead of the Republican word “increase” when talking about taxes that were previously cut for the millionaires and billionaires. Second, collect unpaid taxes. The IRS estimates that $385 billion of tax revenues are not collected yearly. If the IRS budget increased and more people were hired, every dollar it spent would return $200 from tax evaders, including corporations and the wealthy. When taxes are not collected, the large majority of honest taxpayers are left with the unfair consequences.


Prompt: by Lucy Peltz From America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 to the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, Britain’s economic, social and political stability was in turmoil. Against this backdrop of revolution abroad, the relations between the sexes – and their proper roles — were increasingly challenged. While the figure of the respectable female writer of sentimental novels, poetry or didactic literature had become a cultural commonplace, there was a new backlash against the literary woman asserting her views in the more ‘masculine’ genres of history and politics. The tightening of gendered boundaries can be particularly identified in the

reception and troubled reputation of a new generation of political voices, including the radical Mary Wollstonecraft. In 1787, Mary Wollstonecraft was a relatively unknown writer who was running a school when she published Thoughts on the Education of Daughters. This was a ‘conduct book’, one of the few genres deemed acceptable for women writers. A year later Wollstonecraft wrote Mary, A Fiction, a semi-autobiographical novel in which she created an independent female protagonist whose ‘grandeur is derived from the operations of [her] own faculties, not subjugated to opinion’. It was also in 1788 that Wollstonecraft began to write for the Analytical Review. It was in this radical newspaper, that she first declared her admiration for the controversial republican thinker, Catherine Macaulay. This happened when Wollstonecraft was reviewing the older woman’s Letters on Education, where there was a clear overlap between Macaulay’s ideas and those Wollstonecraft had published in Letters on Education, especially around the importance of parental nurture and the coeducation of girls and boys. Wollstonecraft also empathised with Macaulay’s attack on the way girls were expected to ‘counterfeit . . . weakness in order to attract the notice of the male’. And while Wollstonecraft had formerly imagined herself the ‘first of a new genus’, in 1790 she was pleased to identify Macaulay as a female role model. Her enthusiastic sense of affinity with the ageing radical is evinced in the unsolicited and bold letter that Wollstonecraft wrote to Macaulay. Madam, Now I venture to send you < blank >, with a name utterly unknown to you in the title page, it is necessary to apologise for thus intruding on you – but instead of an apology shall I tell you the truth ? You are the only female writer who I consider in opinion with respecting the rank our


Prompt: The announcement that Pastor Maldonado will race for Lotus in 2014 was not wholly unexpected but it was greeted with universal disdain from Formula 1 fans. Maldonado will move across from Williams and join the affable Romain Grosjean in black and gold as the sport enters a new era. Maldonado is not the hopeless driver that many suggest he is, but his new partnership with Lotus is symptomatic of the deep-rooted problems facing Formula 1 at the current time. That Lotus – the fourth best team in 2013 and one that was within touching distance of beating Mercedes and Ferrari

– has had to employ a driver who scored a single championship point this year does not reflect well on the sport. The typically quirky Lotus social media team decided to announce the deal with a picture of Grosjean and Maldonado colliding in GP2 three years ago… Maldonado has raw speed – albeit he was trumped by rookie Valtteri Bottas this season – and at times he has aptly demonstrated his ability in the sport. Having stormed to the GP2 title in 2010, he joined Williams when the team produced a mediocre car. But his drive in Monaco in 2011 was sublime, while his weekend in Spain in 2012 was sensational, even if he was aided by the penalty to Lewis Hamilton. On that day in May 2012, he held Fernando Alonso at bay for 66 laps and delivered Williams their first win in eight years. There were also other good races – his performances in Spain and Abu Dhabi were mature, as he dealt with the adversity that was thrown his way. At those moments, he delivered when it mattered. Lesser drivers would not have done so. But for all of his high points, they are indeed contrasted with a tendency to get involved in trouble. He threw away a bagful of points through silly contact in 2012 – the prime example being his impatience in Valencia - while at times his approach to racing means he causes unnecessary problems for himself. It’s highly unlikely that Lotus will be able to change his attitude, for while he is a pleasant person outside of the car, his personality appears to alter inside the cockpit. When Grosjean made errors, he was a broken man and vowed to improve himself. He did. When Maldonado makes mistakes, he never accepts the blame and


Prompt: Officials doubted someone could have walked away from the crash The wreckage of a plane found near the town of Mammoth Lakes in California does belong to missing US adventurer Steve Fossett, officials say. A number plate confirmed the plane as the Bellanca Super Decathlon piloted by the 63-year-old millionaire. Body parts are reported to have been found inside. The search began after a hiker found items thought to belong to Mr Fossett. He vanished in September last year on a solo flight that took off 90 miles (145km) away in neighbouring Nevada. Click here to see a map of

the area A wide-ranging search operation conducted since then had failed to find any trace of Mr Fossett or his plane and he was officially declared dead in February. Fuselage shattered Madera County Sheriff John Anderson said the wreckage had been spotted late on Wednesday during an aerial search of a stretch of the Sierra Nevada mountains near Mammoth Lakes. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement A ground team later confirmed the identity of the plane, which seemed to have struck the mountain head-on, Mr Anderson said. "The crash looked so severe I doubt if someone would have walked away from it," he said. Most of the fuselage had disintegrated, with engine parts scattered several hundred feet away. Mr Anderson initially said no human remains had been found at the crash site. "It's quite often if you don't find remains within a few days, because of animals, you'll find nothing at all," he said. SOME OF FOSSETT'S RECORDS 1998/2002: Long-distance for solo ballooning 2001/2002: Duration for solo ballooning 2002: First solo round-the-world balloon flight First balloon crossings of Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, South Atlantic, South Pacific, Indian Oceans Seven fastest speed sailing titles 13 World Sailing Speed Record Council titles 2001: Fastest transatlantic sailing 2004: Fastest round-the-world sailing Round-the-world titles for medium airplanes US transcontinental titles for non-military aircraft In pictures: Steve Fossett Profile: Steve Fossett But reports later said that some remains had been found in the aircraft and would be sent for DNA analysis. Fifty people and five dog teams would carry out an extensive search of the site for Mr Fossett's remains, he added. On Thursday British entrepreneur Richard Branson paid tribute to his friend and fellow adventurer. "The most important thing is that the family know what's happened," he said. "He


Prompt: A suspect was killed in an officer-involved shooting in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles, and video shows the deadly confrontation.Authorities say officers responded to a robbery call around noon Sunday in the 500 block of San Pedro Street. When the officers came in contact with the suspect, an altercation occurred."The preliminary investigation revealed that during that altercation, at least one less than lethal device, a Taser, was deployed. However, at this time, we still do not know if that Taser did strike the suspect," said LAPD Sgt. Barry Montgomery.Officers continued to struggle with the suspect, and then

an officer-involved shooting happened. In the video shot by Anthony Blackburn, someone yells "drop the gun" just before shots were fired.The suspect, who was identified by witnesses as "Africa", was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead."Instead of handcuffing the guy, they straight out shot him," said eyewitness Larry Jackson.Yolanda Young said she was in the area visiting a friend when she saw the confrontation near the Union Rescue Mission."Three cops tased him. He went down to the ground. Next thing I know, he got up, he's swinging on the police," Young said. "They (were) fighting with him, wrestling with him ... They pulled out their guns and they shot him five times."Three officers, one of whom is a sergeant, shot the man as they struggled on the ground for control of one of the police officer's weapons, LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith said."Anytime we have an officer-involved shooting and there's a loss of life, people are upset and justifiably so," Smith said. "Nobody out there, no police officer out there, wants to be involved in a situation like this where you have to take someone else's life."The three officers who opened fire have since been placed on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.People in the crowd were heard on the video saying the man was not armed, but police say they have not yet determined if the suspect was armed.People on Skid Row who knew Africa say he wasn't violent."What did he do? He wasn't an aggravated person. He wasn't mad all the time. He just had mental problems," said Steven Tugmon.L.A. Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other city civil rights leaders called the L.A. Police Commission to hold a special hearing on the use of force by officers in Skid Row encounters


Prompt: Updated Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017, 9:10 p.m. EST: Several reports have identified the man who fired numerous times inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, as 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley. Advertisement The New York Times confirms that at least two anonymous law-enforcement sources told the outlet that Kelley, who lived in New Braunfels, Texas, was the perpetrator in the Sunday-morning attack that left 26 people dead. Victims ranged in age from 5 to 72 and included a pregnant woman and several children. The Times reports that Kelley had served in the Air Force at a base in New

Mexico and died shortly after he opened fire at the church. Advertisement Kelley was armed with a Ruger military-style rifle when he perpetrated the attack. Updated Sunday, Nov. 5, 5:30 p.m. EST: The 14-year-old daughter of church pastor Frank Pomeroy was one of the victims killed, CNN reports. Neither the pastor nor his wife was in the church when the shooting took place. Earlier: Another mass shooting has taken place in the United States, this time claiming more than 20 lives, according to reports. Advertisement CNN reports that the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and local police are now responding to the scene at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, where a gunman opened fire during Sunday-morning church services. A witness told the news outlet that she heard about 20 shots being fired in quick succession while a church service was underway. A law-enforcement source told CNN that a man walked into the church and began shooting about 11:30 a.m. local time. According to a local station, KSAT-TV, the unidentified shooter, a man, is dead. CNN reports that he died after a brief chase north into neighboring Guadalupe County. It is unclear if the shooter was killed by police or took his own life, a police spokesperson said. Advertisement The church’s Facebook page shows a recent Fall Festival with parishioners dressed up in Halloween costumes. Advertisement The incident harks back to a 2015 incident at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., where Dylann Roof shot and killed nine parishioners during an evening Bible study. That mass shooting was racially motivated. The First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs does not appear to be a black church. President Donald Trump tweeted his condolences from his trip to Asia. Advertisement Editor’s note: An


Prompt: "Galvani" redirects here. For other uses, see Galvani (disambiguation) Luigi Aloisio Galvani (;[1] Italian: [ɡalˈvaːni]; Latin: Aloysius Galvanus; 9 September 1737 – 4 December 1798) was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher, who discovered animal electricity. He is recognized as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark.[2]:67–71 This was one of the first forays into the study of bioelectricity, a field that still studies the electrical patterns and signals from tissues such as the nerves and muscles. Galvani's wife Lucia Galeazzi Galvani encouraged his

independent research, and served as a counselor and guide for his experiments until her death. Due to the conventions of the time she wasn't credited for any scientific work she may have done in the lab. She grew up with science and her father was a prominent member of the Bologna Academy of Science. [3] Early life [ edit ] De viribus electricitatis in motu musculari Experiment Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs Luigi Galvani was born to Domenico and Barbara Caterina Foschi, in Bologna, then part of the Papal States. Domenico was a goldsmith, and Barbara was his fourth wife. His family was not aristocratic, but they could afford to send at least one of their sons to study at a university. At first Galvani wished to enter the church, so he joined a religious institution, Oratorio dei Padri Filippini, at 15 years old. He planned to take religious vows, but his parents persuaded him not to do so. Around 1755, Galvani entered the Faculty of the Arts of the University of Bologna. Galvani attended the medicine course, which lasted four years, and was characterized by its "bookish" teaching. Texts that dominated this course were by Hippocrates, Galen, and Avicenna. Another discipline Galvani learned alongside medicine was surgery. He learned the theory and the practice. This part of his biography is typically overlooked, but it helped with his experiments with animals and helped familiarize Galvani with the manipulation of a living body. In 1759, Galvani graduated with degrees in medicine and philosophy. He applied for a position as a lecturer at the university. Part of this process required him to defend his thesis on 21 June 1761. In the following year, 1762, he became a permanent anatomist of the university and was appointed honorary lecturer of


Prompt: Director: Victor Flemming, George Cukor, King Vidor Writers: L. Frank Baum (novel), Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf (screenplay) Producers: Mervyn LeRoy, Arthur Freed (MGM) Photography: Harold Rosson Music: Harold Arlen, E.Y. Harburg Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Margaret Hamilton, Billie Burke, Terry the Dog, Clara Blandick, Charley Grapewin The Rundown Introduction There may be no greater testament to The Wizard of Oz than the vast demographics it covers, from theater types who adore Broadway’s Wicked to stoners who watch the film in sync with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.

After nearly 75 years, the film has transformed itself from mild box office showing to must-see annual TV event to timeless pop culture legend. It’s hard to think that the movie started as just that — a movie. It’s almost impossible to look objectively at a film that’s so burned into our collective conscious that every song seems our own, every word feels part of our vocabulary and every touch appears as if fate intended it to be there. The film has become so mythical that many fans can no longer separate fact from fiction. Didn’t a Munchkin hang himself on screen? Aren’t there hidden metaphors for government policies? Wasn’t there some on-screen accident? Some off-screen illness? Some of these myths have been busted; others embraced. But one thing is for certain — a film that spawns so many legends must indeed be a legend itself. Plot Summary The story originated with the beloved children’s book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum, who came up with the title by looking at the two letters printed on the bottom drawer of his filing cabinet (O – Z). (B) It’s a story we all know well. Restless teen Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) lives a dull life on a Kansas farm with her Auntie Em (Clara Blandick) and Uncle Henry (Charley Grapewin). For entertainment, she looks to dog Toto (Terry the Wire Terrier) and three farm hands, Hunk (Ray Bolger), Hickory (Jack Haley) and Zeke (Bert Lahr). Still, she feels underappreciated on the farm, and when a mean old neighbor, Elmira Gulch (Margaret Hamilton), threatens to take Toto to the pound, she decides it’s time to run away from home. After a brief run-in with fortune-teller hack Professor Marvel (Frank Morgan), Dorothy decides to return home — just as


Prompt: Two of the country's most-acclaimed fine-dining restaurants will trade cities and spaces for one week this fall. New York's Eleven Madison Park and Chicago's Alinea — three Michelin-starred restaurants both — will swap chefs, kitchens and dining rooms, opening in essence pop-up restaurants in each other’s space. Alinea will occupy Eleven Madison Park in New York beginning Sept. 26 for five consecutive nights. Eleven Madison Park will do the same in Chicago starting Oct. 10. Tickets go on sale in coming weeks via its Facebook page. A collaboration was first hinted at through a YouTube video released Friday. In it,

both restaurants dismantle their kitchen and dining rooms, packing everything up in boxes (including chef Grant Achatz). In layman's terms, at least to non-foodies who don't recognize Thomas, Heston and Ferran by a first-name-only basis (respectively chefs Keller, Blumenthal, Adria), it's the culinary equivalent of the New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra trading concert halls for one-week residences. Experiencing this will come at a premium. For Chicagoans hoping to score one of several hundred tickets for Eleven Madison Park, the exclusiveness of a five-night stand and hefty price tag means casual diners might sit this one out ($495 in both cities, not including tax and service). But for devotees of high gastronomy, the band of Michelin guide-clutching food tourists, it's a chance to sample one of the most-lauded New York restaurants in recent memory. The James Beard Foundation Awards — the Oscars of the restaurant world — has awarded Eleven Madison Park its two highest honors in consecutive years: Outstanding restaurant in 2011, and outstanding chef this past May for its 36-year-old Swiss-born chef, Daniel Humm. In the most recent "World's 50 Best Restaurant" rankings, a survey of 800 international restaurateurs and food journalists, Eleven Madison Park was voted the 10th best restaurant in the world, jumping from 24th place last year, and from 50th place in 2010. Alinea was No. 7 in the rankings. Those who previously dined at Eleven Madison Park will likely not recognize the iteration it plans on bringing to Chicago. Jeff Gordinier in The New York Times wrote the restaurant will soon reinvent its concept, "treating diners to flashes of Broadway dazzle: card tricks, a glass dome full of smoke, a blast of sea mist from a tabletop clambake and a cheese course that emerges from a picnic basket ... a risky move to


Prompt: France has become the first country openly to admit it has supplied the Libyan rebels with weapons – a measure banned by the UN Security Council. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has labeled the move as a major violation of the UN resolution. “We have asked our French colleagues if the statement about weapon supply from France to the Libyan rebels is true,” Lavrov said. “We are waiting for the answer. If that is proved to be true, that would be a major violation of the UN resolution 1970.” The move was also condemned by the African Union, while China

indirectly objected to it. A French military spokesman, Colonel Thierry Burkhard, said the arms, including machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, as well as munitions, were parachuted in to besieged rebels. According to the official, the deliveries took place in early June in the western Nafusa Mountains, when Gaddafi's forces encircled the civilians and refused to allow a humanitarian aid corridor there, AP reported on Wednesday. Chairman of the African Union Jean Ping has condemned the move in an interview with BBC, saying it threatens to put the entire region at risk. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei indirectly opposed France’s actions on Thursday, saying that countries should avoid actions that go beyond UN Security Council directives. Spokesman for the rebels Mahmoud Jibrilm who is now in Austria, said more weapons are needed to fight against Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. He also said the Benghazi-based Transitional National Council needs large amounts of money from foreign sponsors to fund its programs for civilians. Meanwhile the UK on Thursday said that it is supplying body armor to the rebels. Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said the UK was offering 5,000 sets of body armor, 6,650 police uniforms, 5,000 high-visibility vests and communication tools to Benghazi. The equipment is meant for the rebel police. “Armed rebels are not civilians, which the UN wants to protect” France has been among the main powers behind the NATO-led air campaign, officially aimed at protecting civilians from assaults by Gaddafi's forces. However, many view a change of regime in Libya as the main reason of the alliance’s involvement in the country. The Libyan National Transitional Council last week also received its first tranche of financial help from the international community to the amount $100 million, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague announced on Wednesday. The rebels are receiving funds from several


Prompt: At least she saved us from unisex toilets. Phyllis Schlafly died Monday at the age of 92, bringing an end to more than a decade of Wonkette comments beginning "You mean to say that old hater is still alive?" Schlafly made a career out of portraying herself as a simple housewife who was so driven by her love of American values and traditions that she had no choice but to to go to work to tell women to stay home and be mommies like God and George Washington wanted them to, or the Communists would win. In reality, she was

a shrewd political operator most of her life, even well before those nasty '70s feminists stopped shaving their legs and abandoned their babies at daycares so they could go become lesbian witches. If you read any other longform pieces about Schlafly beyond the mandatory New York Times obit, read Lisa Wines's fine Wonkette story about the time in 1966 when Schlafly started a riot at the 1966 convention of the National Federation of Republican Women. In fact, read that before you read what the Grey Lady has to say about the grey lady. In recent months, Schlafly had been busy working for the election of her new political boyfriend, Donald Trump, which led directly to an ugly internecine battle over control of the political group she founded, the Eagle Forum. The fight transformed Schlafly's family into a cut-rate wingnut version of King Lear, with all the acrimony and potential for violence, but none of the real sense of tragedy. As the Bard said, “Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise,” right? How bitter was the Schlafly Family drama? In a now-deleted (but still cached) Breitbart piece, Schlafly gave out her daughter's phone number and urged supporters to tell her to surrender. As the fuck-tussle progressed, we learned Ms. Schlafly (we always loved typing that combination) briefly considered naming fangirl Michele Bachmann -- who credited Schlafly with ending the Cold War -- as her designated successor, but ultimately decided Michele Bachmann was simply too fucking stupid for the job. Then again, maybe her chosen Presidential candidate wasn't any prize, either: The Cubs Schlafly is a real contender this year Trump almost immediately deleted the tweet, but screenshots are forever. Also, Donald, obituaries are not about you. Just kidding, of course they are. One of the reasons people


Prompt: “It’s incredible, the volume of stuff coming out” from Iran, said Matthew Weaver, who sounded exhausted Thursday evening after blogging for more than 10 days for The Guardian newspaper’s Web site. When rallies and conflicts occur “first the tweets come, then the pictures, then the YouTube videos, then the wires,” he said. “It’s extraordinary.” Most important, he said, what people are saying “at one point in the day is then confirmed by more conventional sources four or five hours later.” Photo CNN encourages viewers to upload pictures and observations to iReport.com, its Web site for citizen journalism. Every upload is

posted automatically on iReport.com, but each is studied before being shown on television. In the vetting process, CNN contacts the person who posted the material, asks questions about the content and tries to confirm its veracity. Lila King, the executive in charge of iReport, said the staff members try to “triangulate the details” of an event by corroborating stories with multiple iReport contributors in a given area. Farsi speakers at CNN sometimes listened intently to the sound from the protest videos, discerning the accents of Iranian cities and transcribing the chants and screams. Because the videos and images are not taken by a CNN employee, the network cannot completely vouch for their authenticity. But without professionals at the scene — CNN’s remaining correspondent was pulled out last week after the government imposed prohibitive restrictions — they provide the all-important pictures to tell the story. In an indication of how difficult the process can be, CNN had received 5,200 Iran-related submissions and had approved about 180 of them for use on television. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Iran is now the third biggest traffic driver to iReport.com, behind the United States and Canada. One month ago, Iran ranked No. 63 on the list of countries. Ms. King called Iran a “watershed moment” for citizen dispatches, and for the first time an iReport producer sits at the main CNN newsgathering desk. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address. Please re-enter. You must select a newsletter to subscribe to. Sign Up You will receive emails containing news content , updates and promotions from The New York Times. You may opt-out at any time. You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products


Prompt: Hardware developer CTA’s kiosk featured an array of third-party Playstation, Playstation Move™, Wii, DSi and Kinect peripherals on the CES floor, from induction charge stations to gun controller and bowling ball modifications. CTA’s product lineup suggested a willingness to take risks. While the concept of induction chargers isn’t a brand new one, CTA is releasing a line that mixes up the formula. Their Nintendo branded unit charges Wii remotes, as well as a DS, their PS3 focused unit charges 3 and includes external USB battery-packs that both allow for induction charging and extend play lifetime. CTA is also developing several

peripherals for the Kinect, designed mostly to make interaction easier. These included a playing mat with distinct zones for the solo or first and second player, and a plastic prototype for a handheld steering wheel. The Brooklyn-based developer specializes in online retail aimed at the US market. Trauben’s Impressions Some of the products on display here were kind of interesting. It seems an interesting statement on playing the Kinect that what amounts to specially-designed models serve as peripherals for it, while WiiMote and Move™ peripherals are housings built around the basic controller. The induction charger was a neat idea. I’m new to those. Huneycutt’s Impressions CTA’s biggest strength is its ability to unapologetically hurl itself at fun. Their products, from their Wii Bowling Ball to their line of their replica Gun controllers for the PS3 shows a gleeful design aesthetic with little concern for any criticism that their products may attract. And while some of their products aren’t of the highest-order of build quality, they’re an energetic and pleasant group of people who have an obvious love of their line, and that’s to be lauded. The fully-functional PS3 Gun Controller is a very different way to play an FPS, and their chargers are in many ways a curve ball: while its the same product, and achieves the same end, the means are subtly different. The inflatable Kart its unabashed fun, if unnecessary and a little impractical. But ultimately, that’s what makes CTA fun and interesting, and there are far worse things to be. And at the end of the day, all I really have to say is . . . inflatable Jet Ski for Wii. That’s right, I dropped that bomb. I cannot WAIT for a review copy of that. Check back at www.pixelatedgeek.com for updates of CTA’s product line!


Prompt: My interview series continues. I recently met up with my friend Gilmar Santos, a Brazilian guy whom I’ve known for some time. I’ve learned a great deal about social dynamics in Brazil from listening to his incredibly detailed breakdowns of the dating scenes in different parts of the country. Gilmar is also a man of broad knowledge and deep introspection, a combination that is becoming unfortunately all too rare these days. His insights on the impact of social media on the dating scene in his country, on physical fitness, and on spiritual development are valuable, and worth our careful attention.

During our last meeting, I asked him if he would be interested in sharing his observations on Brazilian game and other topics with the Return of Kings readership. What follows are the highlights of our conversation. Quintus: Glad you could join us here at ROK, today, cara. I know things are busy for you these days in Parana state. Gilmar: No problems, Quintus. Thanks for having me here. You guys at ROK have been on a roll lately [laughs]. Quintus: But all fortune is fleeting, right? [laughs]. So, you’re living in the city of Cascavel now, right? Give our readers a little information about your background. The city of Cascavel Gilmar: I was born in Sao Paulo and spent most of my childhood there. I lived in Portugal for a few years in my teens before returning to SP for college. My current job gives me plenty of mobility inside the country, so every 2 or 3 years I am given an opportunity to relocate. This was, in fact, one of the reasons I took the job, and because of this I got to live in the Amazon region for a couple of years, and am now in Parana, a state in southern Brazil. If all goes as planned, my next stop will be Minas Gerais. Quintus: I remember being really impressed with your English abilities when we first talked. You probably speak it better than most natives. Gilmar: [laughs]. Well, I have my moments. There is no such thing as an easy language. Quintus: How does your current city where you live compare with other Brazilian cities you’ve lived at in the past? Gilmar: Brazil is a big country, so there are a lot of cultural and racial differences according to region. Broadly speaking, the further north you go,


Prompt: Retirees eat in the City of Hope church cafeteria. The church serves one meal a day, which sustains many seniors who have seen the government cut off their pensions. (Photo11: Tatyana Goryachova) DONETSK, Ukraine — Retirees in Donetsk, the largest city in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists, are dying of hunger because their pensions have been cut off by the national government, rebel officials and residents say. Though Ukraine has not publicly discussed starvation deaths, it acknowledges there is a humanitarian crisis in the eastern region because of the conflict and blames the separatists and Russia for supporting the

rebels. The government cut off pensions this month to people in all areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by separatists to undercut support for pro-Russian rebels. The number of starvation deaths in Donetsk is hard to pin down, largely because the conflict between Ukraine and separatist forces has crippled government functions in the east, including medical and coroners' offices that record causes of deaths. The siege of the city that began in August has led to 40% of the city's 1 million people fleeing. Dmitry Ponomarenko, pastor of the City of Light Protestant church, said he believes the starvation toll is in the hundreds, perhaps thousands. His assessment is based largely on accounts from parishioners and 300 seniors who come to his church daily for a free meal. In one month, they reported more than 100 starvation deaths of pensioners in Donetsk, he said. Dmitry Ponomarenko, pastor of the City of Light church in Donetsk, Ukraine, says churchgoers reported 100 starvation deaths of seniors in one month. He says hundreds are dying of hunger in eastern Ukraine's biggest city. (Photo11: Tatyana Goryachova) The Ukrainian Independent Information Agency, citing aid workers, reported that 22 seniors in Donetsk, mostly single men, died of hunger in September. Irina Prodorova, who volunteers to bring meals to shut-ins, recently found the bodies of two men she had been helping. She said their emaciated condition indicated they died of hunger. Her group has resources to serve only one meal a week to shut-ins, she said. Alexander Zakharchenko, prime minister of the separatists' Donetsk People's Republic, has acknowledged that retirees are dying of hunger. In a meeting with Donetsk city officials Dec. 9, he said, "The main topic of discussion was paying social benefits to elderly and disabled pensioners because they are starving and cannot buy medicine." The


Prompt: BOSTON -- When the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League helped out with a reading program in a number of local schools last season, the experience was a little different for one of the players than the rest. The kids were tasked with doing projects on one of 8-10 books chosen for the curriculum, which was sponsored by the Marlies along with Scotiabank and First Book Canada; the winning class got to go to a Marlies game. One of the options was "The Bambino and Me." Another was "Hockey Hero." Each was written by Hyman. Becoming an author wasn't

exactly what Hyman had planned to do with his life. His goal was to become an NHL player, a dream he reached with his debut on Feb. 29; that it was with the Toronto Maple Leafs was doubly special for a kid who grew up in Toronto. That was what he would have said, had he been asked, about his aspirations back in elementary school or middle school or high school. Hockey was always his first love. But somewhere along the way Hyman found a parallel path, one that might last beyond the 24-year-old's playing days. "I didn't really expect much from writing," Hyman said Saturday. "I wasn't trying to go out there and be an author. But it's a big passion of mine and I just really, really enjoyed it, so once everything came together it was a no-brainer for me that I wanted to keep pursuing writing." It started when Hyman was in seventh grade, when he wrote the story that would become the basis for "Hockey Hero" for a short-story competition. He won. His father helped him explore the idea of self-publishing the book, which he eventually did. Inquiries led the pair to freelance book editor Janice Weaver, who often works on children's books. They began working together on "The Bambino and Me" when Hyman was in high school. The book is built, in parts, around real-life quotes from Babe Ruth. "What I really liked about that project, the thing that kind of struck me about it first, was that Zach had used so many of Babe Ruth's own words to tell the story," Weaver said. "I thought it was a really nice way of bringing the factual elements into a fictional story and giving you a good flavor for what that larger-than-life person was like. I


Prompt: HAUNTING PAST: The 63 tombstones at Satth Kabar in Bijapur today lie neglected HAUNTING PAST: The 63 tombstones at Satth Kabar in Bijapur today lie neglected History is not just about quests and conquests. Beyond the ramparts and the battlefields there were the ordinary men and women, the farmers, the shopkeepers, the housewives, the blacksmiths, the servants, who worked to keep the empires going. But their narratives lie frozen and unheard amidst the dead debris of time. If you look around carefully, you will find that every place has a nook or cranny which records history. It could be a

decaying log hut, an inscription on the rocks, perhaps a path long disused and overrun by weeds. All these have their own stories to tell. There's such a corner in Bijapur with a sad tale to relate. The rows of tombstones there tell a story that is redolent of the days when the world revolved around men, when women wilfully or otherwise immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre. They recall insane acts, like those of Sultan Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire who drowned his entire harem when he was told that one of them enjoyed a relationship with a eunuch. A concubine swam free and lived to tell the tale. None of the 63 noble women of Bijapur survived to recount their horrific experience. It was the year 1658, when Ali Adil Shahi II of the Shahi dynasty was preparing to go to war against Shivaji, the indefatigable Maratha ruler. Under constant pressure from Aurangzeb on one side and Shivaji on the other, Adil Shahi depended on his generals to stall the enemies, and he counted General Afzal Khan among his most trusted warriors. Khan was a brave man who had but one weakness: auguries and omens. When asked to lead a battle against Shivaji, Khan contacted astrologers who predicted doom - death at the hands of the Maratha soldiers. Fearing that his wives would remarry after his death, the anxious general chose to kill them. Some say they were pushed into a deep well, while others say they fell to his sword. The diviners proved correct, for Khan did die in battle. His wives lie buried just 5 km from Bijapur at a place that now bears titular testimony to the uxoricide - Saatth Kabar (60 Graves). Ironically, the tomb built by the general for himself, who wanted


Prompt: This article is from the archive of our partner . Just a few weeks ago, rapper Lil Wayne was not in good shape. He was checked into the ICU for six days, reportedly high on sizzurp, but he somehow managed to evade death even though the usually-right-about-celebrities-dying "reporters" at TMZ said he was on his way to higher ground. Now Weezy is telling everyone to relax, and not to worry, he's just epileptic. "The bad news is I'm an epileptic. I'm prone to seizures. This isn't my first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh seizure. I've had a bunch of

seizures, ya'll just never hear about them," Wayne told Los Angeles's Power 106 FM. He further explained his recent stay thusly: "But this time it got real bad 'cause I had three of them in a row and on the third one, my heart rate went down to like 30 percent. Basically, I could’ve died, so that is why it was so serious." So, this is the first time the world is hearing about Wayne's brush with death from the rapper himself, and his version of the hospitalization heard around the world cuts against what we were told at the time: that Wayne more or less overdosed on sizzurp—a mix of prescription strength cough syrup with codeine and soda—and that he was hanging onto life by his fingernails. Even TMZ, which has consistently been the accurate source of news on the death of celebrities like Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston, reported that Wayne he was receiving his last rites—a report TMZ later retracted. That did not go over well with Wayne, who compared the celebrity news outlet to his misbehaving children: That’s what they do. I can’t be upset at that. I get upset at my kids when they do things that I tell them not to do. I can’t be upset at TMZ for doing what they do. They gon’ probably come out tomorrow and say something else about somebody else that ain’t true. That’s what they do. The truth isn’t good enough for them, so they gotta twist everything up. Wayne's version of the events, of course, does not mention sizzurp—he traced the hospitalization back to his seizure problem, and stress. "[T]he reason being for the seizures is just plain stress, no rest, overworking myself. That's just typical me though." Wayne is planning a 40-show tour, which begins


Prompt: Prominent atheists Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are paying lawyers to investigate the possibility of prosecuting the pope for crimes against humanity, their solicitor confirmed today. The pair argue that Pope Benedict XVI should be arrested when he visits Britain in September and put on trial for his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Last week a letter emerged from 1985 in which the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger urged that a paedophilic priest in America not be defrocked for the "good of the universal church". The Vatican has already suggested the pope is immune from prosecution because

he is a head of state. But Dawkins and Hitchens believe that because he is not the head of a state with full United Nations membership, he does not hold immunity and could be arrested when he steps on to British soil. This is the advice they have been given by their lawyers – solicitor Mark Stephens and human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC. "I'm convinced we can get over the threshold of immunity," said Stephens. "The Vatican is not recognised as a state in international law. People assume that it has existed for time immemorial but it was a construct of Mussolini, and when the Vatican first applied to become a member of the UN, the US said no. So as a sop they were given the status of permanent observers rather than full members." But the Holy See insists it is a state like any other. Earlier this month, Giuseppe Dalla Torre, Vatican tribunal chief, said: "The pope is certainly a head of state and he has the same legal status as all heads of state." Stephens said there are three lines of approach to put the pope in the dock. "One is that we apply for a warrant to the international criminal court. Alternatively, criminal proceedings could be brought here, either a public prosecution brought by the Crown Prosecution Service or a private prosecution. That would require at least one victim to come forward who is either from this jurisdiction or was abused here. The third option is for individuals to lodge civil claims," said Stephens. He said he had recently been approached by seven wealthy individuals who donated money to the Catholic church and were dismayed their money had not only been used to fund abuse but also buy the silence of victims. These people could


Prompt: It’s a well-kept secret, but 95% of the climate models we are told prove the link between human CO₂ emissions and catastrophic global warming have been found, after nearly two decades of temperature stasis, to be in error. It’s not surprising. – Maurice Newman, AC, Chair of the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Council, writing in The Australian newspaper, May 8, 2015. As the Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s top business adviser, Mr Newman is a person of influence in Australia so his public statements should be held up to scrutiny. In a recent newspaper column, Mr Newman said discrepancies between climate

model forecasts and recorded temperatures begged the question: “Why then, with such little evidence, does the UN insist the world spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on futile climate change policies?” All scientists would agree with Mr Newman that critical analysis of mathematical modelling is a crucial part of science. But it is a logical fallacy to leap from that valuable topic to describing climate change policies as futile. Climate models: what they can and can’t do There is a saying in science that “all models are wrong, but some models are useful”. In simulating any complex system, any model will fail to reproduce all facets of the system perfectly. Mathematical models may be imperfect but they are extremely helpful to predict the weather, design aeroplanes and even test new vaccines. They are essential to modern life. A major part of scientific research is not only developing models, but determining how they are best employed. When asked for a data source to substantiate his 95% claim, Mr Newman referred The Conversation to research by a range of scientists including Professor Judith Curry from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor John Christy from the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Mr Newman said these researchers had identified errors in climate modelling. Mr Newman also quoted former NASA scientist and University of Alabama in Huntsville research scientist, Dr Roy Spencer as saying: … the climate models that governments base policy decisions on have failed miserably. I’ve updated our comparison of 90 climate models versus observations for global average surface temperatures through 2013, and we still see that >95% of the models have over-forecast the warming trend since 1979, whether we use their own surface temperature dataset (HadCRUT4), or our satellite dataset of lower tropospheric temperatures (UAH).“ It’s true that over


Prompt: Israel Accused of Suppressing Terror Evidence to Help Out New Pal China Israel is a country desperate for friends. Isolated in the Middle East and hated in large parts of the Arab world, it struggles to make alliances. The few it has, it guards fiercely. So it should perhaps come as no surprise that for years Israel has been courting China, inking trade deals and fêting one another over champagne. But that process now finds Israel in an awkward bind, one that may lead the country to compromise on its core anti-terror policies. According to a report in Haaretz, the

Israeli government is currently under enormous pressure from Beijing to suppress evidence that the Bank of China laundered money for Islamic Jihad. In 2006, a Jewish-American teenager, Daniel Wultz, was killed in a suicide bombing carried out by Islamic Jihad at a Tel Aviv shawarma restaurant. His parents have now sued for damages — at the initial encouragement of Israel — and allege that the Bank of China laundered funds for the terror group, effectively bankrolling the operation that killed their son. Prior to filing the case, according to Haaretz, Israeli officials told the parents, Yekutiel and Sheryl Wultz, that they would support their case and provide evidence implicating the Bank of China. Now, at Beijing’s urging, they’re having second thoughts. So far, Israel has declined to provide the expert testimony they promised and are currently deliberating over whether to make Uzi Shaya, a former intelligence official, available to a New York City court. That’s right, under Chinese pressure, Israel may prevent the victims of a Tel Aviv terrorist attack from extracting damages from the people who bankrolled an operation that killed their son. Chalk it up to the cost of a new friendship. If the burgeoning alliance between Israel and China sounds unlikely, bear in mind that it’s a relationship forged in political and economic calculation. Israel was one of the first countries to recognize China following its Communist revolution, and while it took over 40 years for to China establish diplomatic relations with Israel, the two countries have something off an oddball history of military cooperation. Awash in seized Soviet weapons following the Six Day War in 1967, Israel quietly worked to upgrade China’s military arsenal. That relationship continued into the 1990s when President Bill Clinton furiously vetoed the proposed sale from Israel to China of an advanced


Prompt: Updated Sept. 12, 2014 to change “GiveWell Labs” to “Open Philanthropy Project,” in line with our August 2014 announcement.Throughout the post, “we” refers to GiveWell and Good Ventures, who work as partners on the Open Philanthropy Project. In our work on the Open Philanthropy Project, we’ve consistently found that the level of interest we show in a cause – including our perceived willingness to provide funding within it – is a major driver of what sorts of giving opportunities we’re able to find. This dynamic has been one of the major factors in the grants we’ve made so far, and

it’s also a major reason that we’re eager to “commit” to causes, as mentioned earlier this year. We believe that there’s a limited amount we can learn about a cause when presenting ourselves as “potentially interested in providing moderate amounts of funding” rather than “strongly interested in providing major funding.” We’ve come to believe in the importance of committing to causes in order to investigate them, and in the importance of “giving to learn” for the Open Philanthropy Project, via the following process: We initially envisioned a process that first gathers information on giving opportunities and then identifies which grants should be made. However, from observing the behavior of potential grantees and other funders, we came to believe that a funder must be highly prepared (and likely) to make grants in an area in order to find giving opportunities in that area. Many people will only make the relevant referrals, propose relevant ideas, etc. once they are convinced of a philanthropist’s serious interest in providing funding. As such, we have in many cases tried offering funding in an area – or at least expressed strong interest in the area – before knowing what giving opportunities would turn out to be available. This approach has led to multiple cases in which much of the learning value of a grant (from our perspective) comes from the process leading up to the grant. “Giving to learn” can mean multiple things. It can mean (a) funding research in order to gain specific knowledge; it can also mean (b) funding a project in order to learn from following the project’s progress. The dynamic laid out in the above bullet points represents perhaps the most counterintuitive meaning: “giving to learn” can mean (c) offering funding in order to learn from the process of finding grantees. This


Prompt: Giorno Giovanna will be joining Ore Collection! Giorno Giovanna has a dream! Take over the organization that runs the city. Use his Passione to become the Gangstar! This event will run during the period: 12/01 12:00 ~ 12/15 11:59 Gangsters Sparkling in the Darkness A passion filled visit to Italy is happening Weekly Shonen Jump: Ore Collection! Face up against the Strong gangsters from Passione! This event has 6 Stages that can be challenged on 3 difficulties: Beginner – Intermediate – Expert As with all the events this game has held so far; the harder the stage is, the better

the drops are. So for this event, the optimal stage for general farming is Stage 6 on Expert. The medals for Jump Awakening Giorno Giovanna are available from the store and from farming the stages. The medal drops are random so the best stage to farm medals is Stage 6 because the other drops are improved. In this event, The Passione Gang and their Boss will appear as enemies. These enemies will be Strength type so Agile units will be Super Effective! Passione’s boss Diavolo will appear on the final stage! He will use a Special Skill that will roll-back your skill gauges as well as a defence buff skill. Use skills that speed up your cooldowns and lower enemy defence power for the best chance of winning! Examples of units who charge skill gauges: Examples of units who lower defence Ganstars Gacha This is your chance to get a copy of Giorno Giovanna! He is exclusive to this banner so if you want him in your deck then act now! Banner Exclusive: Giorno Giovanna The gacha will feature all the normal “standard” gacha units but will include a boosted chance of pulling the 5* units : The pleasant rain of Tsunas best friend – Yamamoto Takeshi Leader of Sket Dan – Yūsuke Fujisaki (Bossun) Dream to be a GangStar – Giorno Giovanna This gacha will run during the period: 12/01 12:00 ~ 12/15 11:59 More info on these units here Ganstars Scene Gacha New Scenes from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and Sket Dance will be added in this gacha! Additionally these scenes will be made easier to pull during this event This Scene Gacha will run during the period: 12/01 12:00 ~ 12/15 11:59 What kind of event is this? In this event you can earn luxurious rewards by defeating


Prompt: In the latest episode of To Be Continuous, Edith and Paul discuss the challenges and benefits of refactoring monolithic applications into microservices. They examine various approaches for creating microservice boundaries and dispel the myth that they should be defined as small as possible. Transcript 00:00:00 00:00:00 Paul Biggar: The idea of having something that you have a slow delivery cycle for some particular reason, or you have a normal delivery cycle but that still takes a day or whatever because there's code review and that sort of thing. And you want to have something really, really fast. You want to

have multiple stages, multiple speeds of delivery based on different needs of different parts of the company, and that sort of thing. Edith Harbaugh: I'm just so excited about this today, started talking about it. I mean this is really the promise of microservice. Like the old way was you had this monolith. The best thing I ever heard was a friend call it disgusting monolith, where everything was all tied together, and if you wanted to change one thing, you had to test everything all together. Paul: Right, and we've all been there I'd say. Edith: Yeah and it's very painful. It's very painful because then you get into this fix/release cycle. But decoupling things into different components that means that you can start iterating on some of them faster than others. Paul: Right, One of the questions that you get around microservices is, "How do you define microservices boundaries?" And a lot of people just go, "Oh you make them as small as possible" which I think is ridiculous. But the ones that have always made sense to me is that you have service boundaries where there's different teams, or service boundaries when there's needs to deploy the service at different pace from the services around it. Edith: Yeah, I mean I don't think you should decompose for the point of decomposing. Because that's when you end up with like 8,000 microservices, and you're like, "I don't know," this happens. I think you should decompose when, as you said, there's a functional reason why something has to move at a different speed. Paul: Right, so the obvious one apart from those two is that it makes logical sense as a dependency for the API. This is a good API boundary for all the things that rely on it.


Prompt: An Oklahoma high-school teacher charged with raping her 17-year-student is getting no jail time, leaving the parents of her victim stunned and outraged. Erin Kathleen Queen of Sand Springs, Okla., was arrested March 17, 2012, after she was found at the Candlewood Suites hotel in Tulsa with the teen son of Shasta and Adam Belty. Queen was a 27-year-old English teacher at Charles Page High School at the time. Although Queen was originally charged with second-degree rape and contributing to the delinquency of a minor for supplying the boy with vodka, the case was dismissed this month when Queen pleaded

guilty to a different felony count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. She received three years of probation, was fined $600 and ordered to surrender her teacher’s license. Read the WND story that started it all! The big list: Female teachers with students According to Title 21, Section 1115 of the Oklahoma Statutes, sex may be considered rape if “… the victim is at least sixteen (16) years of age and is less than eighteen (18) years of age and is a student, or under the legal custody or supervision of any public or private elementary or secondary school, junior high or high school, or public vocational school, and engages in sexual intercourse with a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and is an employee of the same school system.” On March 21, Tulsa County District Judge William Kellough gave Queen a three-year suspended sentence with no prison time and no community service hours. The outcome has the teen’s parents livid. “I think it’s crap,” Adam Belty told the Tulsa World. “Should it be rape? No. Should she be charged with a sexual count for something? Yes, but the way (it) was explained, there’s no count (less than) second-degree rape that they can charge her with.” “It’s very frustrating to us that she basically got a slap on the wrist,” said the boy’s mother, Shasta Belty. “I cussed. I cried. I totally disagreed with it. (Assistant District Attorney Amanda Self) was under the impression that we were OK with a conviction as long as (Queen) never taught again. Well, we were OK with a conviction of the second-degree rape … or something that represents the sexual misconduct.” The paper reports: “Within hours of Queen’s arrest, it seemed to the Beltys that the whole town


Prompt: The DNI report was more about slamming RT (Russia Today) propaganda than it was about proving the Russians hacked. The report doesn’t put much emphasis on Russians hacking elections, it focuses on Russians “influencing” them. What they ignore is the US media propaganda influencing elections. As you read this, keep in mind that no intelligence report refutes the content of the email leaks. Also note that since the first leak, our media has sought to cover up, ignore, and denigrate the findings. In these emails, you will find the American media operates as an arm of the Democrat Party. Wikileaks’

releases prove America’s trusted institutions and the media are lackeys of the left. Nearly 400 Newsmakers Received 80 Sets of Clinton Talking Points Email #5636 from donor-advisor Mary Pat Bonner to John Podesta shows the Hillary Clinton campaign worked with at least 372 news makers to shape an anti-Trump narrative across all mainstream media. Bonner is the link between Team Clinton and CTR. The pro-Hillary SuperPAC, Correct the Record (CTR) “has identified 372 surrogates including influential and frequent pundits on broadcast and cable news for Presidential 2016 politics and provided them around 80 sets of talking points.” CTR Controlled the Media CTR’s website explains their goal is to amplify Clinton’s “accomplishments”, smear Trump, and peddle phony narratives. One of those talking points was and is, “Russia is interfering in our elections to help Trump.” Consider all of this as you look at the documentation showing hundreds of media members using pro-Hillary talking points obtained from CTR. Those documents can be accessed here. Some of the findings: The collusion included media relations. There were 900 interviews to counter-punch Republicans and kill negative stories before publication. Team Clinton provided the nearly 400 media surrogates with 80 sets of talking points. CTR hosted 24 media training sessions across the country for 200 surrogates. Correct The Record also distributed media advisories to 960 members of the national media and 10,756 regional reporters in 28 states. Talking points and memos are also distributed regularly to 369 televisions producers and bookers. Media Told Americans Not to Read Wikileaks Emails The media desperately attempted to keep Americans from reading the emails by claiming it was illegal to read them, if not immoral. Sound advice on @wikileaks, from the #FakeNews. I’d be interested to hear Chris Cuomo’s legal theory that he can see this info but we can’t.


Prompt: When Kalimah Priforce was eight years old and in foster care, he got more books the only way he could. He went on a hunger strike. – RSVP for #StopRacism Weekly Calls – Every great story has its miracles. A few weeks before reaching nine years of age, impossible became a daily part of my life as a foster care resident of a Bedford Stuyvesant group home–deep in the heart of Brooklyn. It belonged to the very powerful Central Brooklyn Coordinating Council (CBCC) of New York City. There weren’t many leisure activities other than a single television that most of

the kids fought regularly over. Residents weren’t allowed to leave the premises except to attend school, group trips escorted by staff members, or chauffeured around in vans to fulfill medical appointments. Rather than engaging in squabbles with other kids about which shows to watch (Yo MTV Raps was very popular then), I monopolized a small library of donated books to satisfy my insatiable curiosity about the world. Don’t like ads? Become a supporter and enjoy The Good Men Project ad free I read every book, many of them twice. As a result, I approached one of the group home staffers and kindly requested that they order more books to expand the library in a, “Please sir, can I read some more?” Dickensian way. ♦◊♦ I was the first to make such an odd request, so they ignored me at first, but I was persistent. Several hours later, I got my answer that it was “impossible” and that there simply “wasn’t enough funding for more books.” I wasn’t convinced, and it didn’t help them that I had just finished reading the stories of Peter Pan, Encyclopedia Brown, Huckleberry Finn, The Little Prince, Pippi Longstocking, and other precocious youth. I wanted more books, and even tried negotiating with them. I was already a vegetarian by the time I arrived to the group home, and my dinner selections consisted mostly of salads and breads. I calculated that for every meatloaf or chicken sandwich I didn’t eat, that the agency was saving a dollar or two per day. My suggestion to them was that they use the money they were saving to purchase of books. They angrily declined and forcefully stated that it couldn’t be done. Since all my neogotiaitons failed. it was then that I decided, at eight, that if they couldn’t feed


Prompt: Even though the Big 12 might not be the most stable conference among the major ones in College Football, there are powers trying to push for an expansion to big TV markets, with Central Florida and Cincinnati the likeliest of candidates. A lot of the future plans for the Big 12 becoming bigger than 10 teams have to do with the identity of the next Texas Athletic Director, as Oliver Luck, the Director of Intercollegiate Athletes at West Virginia, is one of the premier candidates, having engineered the Mountaineers departure from the Big East (now the AAC) and procured money

for a new baseball stadium. But it’s not just Luck that’s pushing for more teams. In the reality that’s been formed over the last few years, it seems like it’s been a lot of eat or get eaten. The Big 12 lost Texas A&M and Missouri to the SEC, Nebraska to the Big Ten and Colorado to the Pac-12. For a moment there, Texas and Oklahoma were on the verge of forming a Pac-16 and breaking the Big 12 apart. The Big 12, however, brought in TCU and West Virginia, keeping it a 10-team conference, with better money sharing for current members. Rumors coming out of several media outlets including in West Virginia suggest that Fox Sports is behind the power moves by the Big 12 to attempt and expand, especially keeping an eye on Florida and the Midwest. There were previous talks about Florida State, which would be somewhat of an earthquake for the ACC, but that’s off the table for now. So who is there to take? The University of Central Florida, playing in the AAC, is having a strong season, but most importantly, they reside in a big TV market, not to mention being a part of the desired recruiting fields in Florida. TV money is important, but having a chance to tap in to the gold mine that is Florida high school football is also something Big 12 teams would clearly be in favor for. But if you’re adding an 11th team, there needs to be a 12th, right? South Florida, a more established football program than FIU or Florida Atlantic has come up as a candidate a couple of times, but is it really wise to recruit two teams from the same state? That brings us to Cincinnati, who seem like they’re just waiting for


Prompt: Organ designers, chief drone experience designers, cybernetic director. Those are some of the fanciful new roles that could be created by the global design industry in the next few years. advertisement advertisement But what about current design roles? How will they favor over the next 15 years? Will every company by 2030 have a chief design officer, or will they all go extinct? Should a generation of creatives who grew up worshipping Apple’s Jonathan Ive put all their eggs in the industrial design basket? We talked to a dozen design leaders and thinkers from companies such as Frog, Artefact, and

Ideo to find out which design jobs could die out in the next 15 years, and which could grow. There’s no empirical evidence behind these picks, so they shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Still, they represent the informed opinions of people who get paid to think about the future. Design Jobs That Will Die UX Designers User experience designers are among the most in-demand designers working today. So how could their jobs disappear? According to Teague designers Clint Rule, Eric Lawrence, Matt McElvogue, “UX design” has become too broad and muddled. “The design community has played fast and loose with the title ‘UX designer,'” they write in an email. “From job posting to job posting and year to year, it jumps between disparate responsibilities, tools, and disciplines. Presently it seems to have settled on the title representing democratized design skills that produce friendly GUIs.” In the future, they predict that UX design will divide into more specialized fields. “The expanding domain of user experience and its myriad disciplines will push the title ‘UX designer’ to a breaking point, unbundling its responsibilities to the appropriate specialists,” they say. Visual Designers Visual designers are the ones responsible for the way an app looks. UX designers, meanwhile, are the ones who concentrate on how it feels. A lot of times, designers do both, but going forward, jobs that require just visual design skills are going to die out. That’s according to Charles Fulford, Executive Creative Director of Elephant, the San Francisco-based, Apple-centric stealth arm of the digital agency Huge. “Gone are the days of UX dumping a ton of wireframes on visual designers,” he says, as well as “the days of visual designers being clueless about usability.” What are needed instead are designers who can not only come up with the look of


Prompt: 0. List of contents 1. Requirements Basic knowledge about C programming CUDA supported device (CUDA GPU list) Installed CUDA SDK Eclipse/nvidia nsight (nsight recommended) 2. Goal The aim of this article is to get acquainted with bilinear interpolation technique and implement demo program which is going to scale given input image using nvidia CUDA SDK. The concept of interpolation is not explained here. 3. Optimus (hybrid graphics card) What if I have CUDA compatibile device as a secondary graphics card (optimus)? First of all (if you haven’t done it yet) install Bumblebee deamon. It’s available on many popular distros, for

instance: # Archlinux pacman -S bumblebee # Ubuntu 12.04 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bumblebee/stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bumblebee virtualgl linux-headers-generic After reboot perform: sudo tee /proc/acpi/bbswitch < <<ON modprobe nvidia Turned on nvidia device will shorten your baterry life 🙂 Be aware of that and plug in. 4. Bit operations in brief Let’s consider the situation that we have ARGB pixel located in memory and we want to get out the blue channel. How to do that? // Declare ARGB variable Uint32 color = 0xffd5b2c4; Ok! What is that 0xff….??? This is a ARGB color written in hexadecimal form. Hmm… So how to read this? /* Each of channels (alpha, red, green, blue) has value from 0 to 255. 1 byte is sufficeient to store the number, so on one octet (8 bits) you can write one channel. After decomposition: */ Uint8 a = 0xff; // 255 Uint8 r = 0xd5; // 213 Uint8 g = 0xb2; // 178 Uint8 b = 0xc4; // 196 /* How many bits do we need to store all four channels? 4*8 = 32 bits. Now it's perfectly clear the idea of Uint32 "color" variable. */ Let’s pull out channels from “color” variable printf("Blue: 0x%02x", (color && 0xff)); printf("Green: 0x%02x", ((color >> 8) && 0xff)); printf("Red: 0x%02x", ((color >> 16) && 0xff)); printf("Alpha: 0x%02x", ((color >> 24) && 0xff)); “&& 0xff” is a binary AND mask which extracts only last 2 octets. 5. Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) We’re gonna use SDL to read/write image from/to file. SDL is natively written in C, so I’m convinced that is good choice. In order to have SDL working, give linker a clue where to look for libs # Library search path -L /usr/lib/ # Library -l SDL -l SDL_image 6. Read image With the knowlege about


Prompt: History has not been kind to the legacy of William Graham Sumner. In his time (1840-1910), Sumner was one of the most prestigious and widely read libertarian intellectuals in the United States. Beyond his more technical academic work Sumner also wrote passionately and voluminously in defense of laissez faireon a wide range of social issues. His popular critique of protectionism, "The –ism Which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth" (1885) and his denunciation of imperialism in "The Conquest of the United States by Spain" (1898) are two of his most impressive polemical works. Sumner's most sustained investigation of questions of economic

policy and distributive justice appeared in a collection essays What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1883) which includes his most famous single essay – "The Forgotten Man" (1884). Unfortunately, Sumner's intellectual legacy suffered essentially the same fate as that of his contemporary Herbert Spencer, and for much the same reason. From near-ubiquity and respectability, Sumner's ideas have descended into obscurity and disrepute. To the extent he is remembered at all today, it is mostly for his alleged "social Darwinism." In this essayMatt Zwolinski, professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego, examines the charge of social Darwinism, and, more generally, the nature of Sumner's views on redistribution and our responsibilities toward the poor and vulnerable, and concludes that the charge of social Darwinism is mistaken as applied to Sumner, who is a principled libertarian, not a social Darwinist. Moreover, he is a libertarian who took special pains to demonstrate the ways in which a regime of liberty is especially beneficial to society's most vulnerable members. Matt is joined in the dicussion by Phillip W. Magness, a historian based in the Washington, D.C. region, Robert Leroux, professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, Fabio Rojas, professor of sociology at Indiana University, and David M. Hart, the Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project. See the Archive of "Liberty Matters". "LIBERTY MATTERS" A FORUM FOR THE DISCUSSION OF MATTERS PERTAINING TO LIBERTY Liberty Matters No. 29: Matt Zwolinski, "William Graham Sumner – Liberty's Forgotten Man" (July 2017) "Liberty Matters" Online This online discussion is part of the series “Liberty Matters: A Forum for the Discussion of Matters pertaining to Liberty.” EBook versions of these discussions in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats can be found at </titles/2516>. This discussion can be found in EBook formats at <abc>. [It will


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The third handgun recovered Sunday after police arrested four suspects in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood. Image 4 of 9 Lendale Warren, 21, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on forgery warrants and suspicion of felony burglary. Lendale Warren, 21, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on forgery warrants and suspicion of felony burglary. Image 5 of 9 Image 6 of 9 Marvin Session, 23, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Marvin Session, 23, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Image 7 of 9 Orlando Ware, 23, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Orlando Ware, 23, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Image 8 of 9 Paul Antoine, 28, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Paul Antoine, 28, was arrested Sunday in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood on suspicion of resisting arrest and weapons violations charges. Image 9 of 9 Cops bust 4 armed suspects in SoMa neighborhood 1 / 9 Back to Gallery Officers chased down and arrested four suspects armed with handguns in San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood, police said. Around 7:30 p.m. Sunday, someone called police about several armed men near Ninth Street and Market Street. Responding officers drew their weapons as they approached four men matching the suspects’ descriptions, police said. The suspects then took off running in different directions around Hallidie Plaza, but they were eventually caught and taken into custody, police said. Police arrested Orlando Ware, 23, Paul Antoine, 28, and Marvin Session, 23, on suspicion


Prompt: Make the Safe Choice - Be Aware of Your Surroundings SEPTA Expands Distracted Commuting Program with Bus Turn Alert Pilot Program View the transcript A new pilot program launched by SEPTA on Monday, March 16, 2015 will audibly warn pedestrians in the vicinity of a bus when the vehicle is making a turn. The "Safe Turn Alert System" pilot is an extension of the Authority's distracted commuter awareness program and designed to warn pedestrians - specifically those engrossed in their phone calls, text messages and music -that the bus is turning. "We are seeing more cases of people unaware of

their surroundings," said Scott Sauer, SEPTA's Chief Officer of System Safety. "The Safe Turn Alert system uses an audio warning and a strobe light to make pedestrians aware that the bus is making a right- or left- hand turn. This is an added layer to our already extensive "Make The Safe Choice" campaign, not only geared toward our customers, but to the millions of area residents and visitors that interact with SEPTA on a daily basis." Protran's Safe Turn Alert Systems have been installed in 12 SEPTA buses for the pilot program. The device is connected to the bus' steering column and the "Caution Bus Turning" alert is triggered when the operator makes a turn. In addition to the external warnings, an announcement is made to the operator inside the bus. SEPTA's pilot program will run through October 2015. The Safe Turn Alert-equipped buses will be used on specific routes at each of SEPTA's eight bus districts, operating throughout SEPTA's five county service area. One route per week will use the buses in regular service. "To get an accurate snapshot of the system's functionality, we chose routes where buses make many turns," said Sauer. SEPTA's Callowhill District will test the devices first, beginning with the Route 31 during the week of March 16-22. "Our Operations, Training, System Safety and Vehicle Engineering and Maintenance Departments will evaluate the system throughout the pilot program," said Sauer. "We will examine the volume of the alerts during turns, reactions of passengers and pedestrians to the audio and visual warnings, additional technical issues and the general upkeep of the system." SEPTA System Safety, Operations and Training staff will ride the buses at various times and days of the week to review the system in action and gauge public response. Operators will also complete questionnaires about