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An activist federal judge who declared "Black Lives Matter" in court last year evidently believes Muslims have an unlimited right to enter the United States.
Keep in mind this loon was appointed by George W. Bush.
From The Seattle Times:
A federal judge in Seattle has ordered a halt to enforcement of President Trump's controversial travel ban on citizens from seven predominantly Muslim nations.
U.S. District Judge James Robart ruled in favor Friday of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, who sued to invalidate key provisions of Trump's executive order. That order indefinitely blocks entry to the United States for Syrian refugees and temporarily suspends entry to citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries.
The temporary restraining order is granted on a nationwide basis, Robart said.
...In his oral ruling, Robart said Washington had standing to bring the case forward and provided evidence that Trump's order has immediate harm. And the lawsuit, the judge said, has substantial likelihood of success in its underlying challenge to the constitutionality of the order.
...In a legal filing asking for the restraining order, Ferguson argued Trump's travel ban targets Muslims, violating the constitutional rights of immigrants and their families.
"Federal courts have no more sacred role than protecting marginalized groups against irrational, discriminatory conduct," reads the filing by Ferguson, state Solicitor General Noah Purcell and Colleen Melody, head of the attorney general's civil-rights unit. FDR literally threw Japanese people in internment camps and that was ruled legal. There's a reason no other judge entertained this garbage. But in a response brief filed late Thursday, attorneys for the Trump administration said Washington state lacked standing to bring the challenge, and that the president has properly exercised his broad, border-security powers to protect Americans.
"Every President over the last thirty years has invoked this authority to suspend or impose restrictions on the entry of certain aliens or classes of aliens, in some instances including classifications based on nationality," reads the administration brief, submitted by Chad Readler, acting assistant U.S. attorney general, and other Justice Department lawyers.
The administration brief also cited previous court rulings that say there is no constitutional right of entry to the U.S. for foreign nationals. I'm surprised Robart didn't throw out a black power fist and scream "Muslim lives matter."
This incident from a few months ago should give you an idea of the type of intellect we're dealing with here.
From The Daily Caller:
A federal judge in Washington state declared "black lives matter" during a hearing Monday.
U.S. District Judge James Robart, a former President George W. Bush appointee, is presiding over the implementation of a 2012 consent decree requiring Seattle to adopt various police reforms. The city's police department was accused by the federal government of engaging in various practices, such as excessive force, that fell disproportionately on non-white residents and therefore violated their civil rights. The consent decree was reached so the city could avoid fighting a costly lawsuit against the feds.
This is the first time the contentious political movement has had its anthem officially supported by a judge in a federal courtroom.
Implementing that consent decree is requiring extensive negotiations with Seattle's police union, because some of the reforms it prescribes would modify their current contract. For instance, putting internal investigations in the hands of civilians, rather than police officers. Most recently, the union voted to reject a contract that would have implemented certain reforms while giving officers a small pay boost.
In a Monday hearing, Robart lashed out at the union for holding up the reform process.
"The court and the citizens of Seattle will not be held hostage for increased payments and benefits," he said from the bench. "I'm sure the entire city of Seattle would march behind me."
Then, Robart stunned the courtroom by explicitly tying the proceedings to the Black Lives Matter movement. According to The Seattle Times, he cited statistics that blacks represent 41 percent of all people shot by police, when they are just 20 percent of the population. This is a mistake on Robart's part; blacks are actually just 13 percent of the population.
"Black lives matter," Robart said to end his remarks, in a moment that apparently produced audible shock from the courtroom. Black Lives Matter has been active for three years as a movement, but this appears to be the first time it has garnered such explicit support in court from a federal judge. Watch federal judge James Robart's #BlackLivesMatter declaration, plus his challenge to Seattle's police union. pic.twitter.com/UDgQl2XCiu — Ansel Herz (@Ansel) August 23, 2016
This clown should be kicked off the bench.
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There is an extremely close relationship between confidence intervals and hypothesis testing . When a 95% confidence interval is constructed, all values in the interval are considered plausible values for the parameter being estimated. Values outside the interval are rejected as relatively implausible. If the value of the parameter specified by the null hypothesis is contained in the 95% interval then the null hypothesis cannot be rejected at the 0.05 level . If the value specified by the null hypothesis is not in the interval then the null hypothesis can be rejected at the 0.05 level. If a 99% confidence interval is constructed, then values outside the interval are rejected at the 0.01 level.Imagine a researcher wishing to test the null hypothesis that the mean time to respond to an auditory signal is the same as the mean time to respond to a visual signal. The null hypothesis therefore is:- μ= 0.Ten subjects were tested in the visual condition and their scores (in milliseconds) were: 355, 421, 299, 460, 600, 580, 474, 511, 550, and 586.
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Feb 5, 2016 - 14 Of The Best Simpsons Food Quotes We Found While Drinking At The Office ... know, Frinkiac is the Nobel Prize-worthy meme-generating Simpsons ... "The Food Wife" or that one where Homer enters the barbecue contest.
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What Legal Recourse Do Victims Of Fake News Stories Have?
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Fake news played a bigger role in this past presidential election than ever seen before. And sometimes it has had serious repercussions for real people and businesses.
That's what happened to a pizzeria in Washington, D.C., recently, when an armed man claiming to be "self-investigating" a fake news story entered the restaurant and fired off several rounds.
But once a fake news story is out there, and the harm has been done, what can a person do about it?
Derigan Silver, a professor of media, First Amendment and Internet law at the University of Denver, tells NPR's Audie Cornish that victims of fake news stories have legal recourse under defamation law.
"Fake news sites are clearly a situation where they're engaging in a defamatory statement, a false statement about another that damages that person's reputation," Silver says. "In that situation, that is certainly actionable."
Interview Highlights
On the legal recourse for victims of fake news stories
So in most of these situations, the person that has been harmed is going to bring a lawsuit that we call a tort. Now a tort is a noncontractual harm between two private individuals. It's a civil lawsuit, where you're alleging that one person harmed another. ...
So anytime one private individual harms another private individual, you can bring a lawsuit for a tort. So one of those torts that people can have advantage of is called defamation. Defamation is a tort that alleges that a communication damaged your reputation.
On who's accountable for fake news stories
They can hold accountable anybody who has communicated the defamatory statement to anybody else. That includes the person who originated the defamatory statement, but under something called the republication rule, it also includes anybody who repeated the defamatory statement. Now simply retweeting a defamatory statement is probably not going to be enough to qualify for republication, but passing on information that you heard from somebody else certainly is republication.
So you have some cases coming out of Texas, for example, where hundreds and hundreds of people were adding to a posting that had more and more and more defamatory contents. And if you can track those people down, if you can find out those identities, then yes, you can sue every single person who sort of adds to that defamatory statement or repeats that defamatory statement.
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On the challenges of filing defamation lawsuits
That's one of the problems with defamation law is once the information is out there, is monetary damages really what they want to recover? And should they have to be able to pay lawyers [$400], $500 an hour in order to recover their good name from a story that is clearly made up and clearly fictitious and clearly has no basis in reality at all?
On the current debate over defamation laws
I think that fake news really has kind of all set us back a little bit. One of the ideas behind the First Amendment is that we believe in something called the marketplace of ideas: that if you let "truthhood" and falsity battle in the marketplace of ideas, that truth will eventually win, that we have an assumption that people are rational, and they can determine truth from falsity.
And that's kind of making us rethink these kind of basic premises behind freedom of expression. Are we in a situation now where truth no longer matters, and people are not able to sort these things out?
Other people say, you know, the idea that truth is always going to win is idle sentimentality. The reason we have freedom of expression is not because truth will always win, but because without freedom of expression, truth has no chance of winning whatsoever.
And so this has been a really challenging election for a lot of people who believe in free speech, and media law has actually come up a lot in this election, and it's something that a lot of us are thinking deeply about.
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Prepare for traffic delays during Saturday's Woodlands Marathon
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The Woodlands Marathon, hosted by The Woodlands Marathon Management LLC, was reborn in the community in 2012, and since then has raised and donated over $650,000 to nonprofit and volunteer organizations across the nation.
The Woodlands Marathon is set for Saturday, March 4, and begins at 7 a.m. The run features different divisions, the full marathon and half-marathon, a marathon relay and a 5K Saturday, as well as a 2K Fun Run and Walk Friday evening.
The marathon is one of the largest athletic events in Montgomery County, having nearly 9,000 runners set to participate in this year's event. The 2017 event has raised over $150,000 and has a $6 million economic impact on The Woodlands community, said event director of The Woodlands Marathon Management Will Fowlkes.
Aside from the economic impact, it will force road closures across the community. Travel time will be extended during this time - approximately 45 minutes to an hour delay, according to the marathon's website.
Between 6:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., marathon officials recommend only residential traffic. A detailed list of road closures and delays can be found at thewoodlandsmarathon.com/event-details/traffic-guide/. However, check back on Friday, as the traffic guide will be updated then.
Fowlkes said residents should educate themselves on the ins and outs of the race, even if one is not participating. Fowlkes said the community should expect slight delays, but they'll still have the ability to commute around The Woodlands, they just may have to take alternative routes to get to destinations.
"Ninety to 95 percent of The Woodlands residents are OK with the events," Fowlkes said.
"It's just those residents that do not plan and educate themselves about the route that seem to get frustrated."
Specifically, Fowlkes said, the Town Center area on Grogan's Mill Road and Lake Woodlands Drive will be the most affected by the marathon and half-marathon.
Vehicles will be routed around those areas, but there will be rolling road openings throughout the race until 1:30 p.m. to ease delays.
Those interested in participating can still register online for $40 for the 5K run or $30 for the 2K Family Fun Run and Walk.
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Skip Bayless: McCaffrey is a brilliant receiver, but he's more of a 'luxury back'
"He can slash it between the tackles and he can flat out catch it sideways or upfield. They ran routes for him that were Dede Westbrook kind of routes, where he will catch it down the field like a wideout can. Obviously he is not Christian McCaffrey, who is a wideout by trade - he was born to be a wideout because he played with his father, who could catch the football and he could fly.
And [McCaffrey] can really fly, and we know how he did at the Combine and backed all that up. But I still wonder about Christian running between the tackles consistently as an every-down back. I'm just not sure he can take the pounding, because he started to unravel a little bit last year at Stanford. He was taking a lot of shots, and he was not healthy for the whole year. He was banged up most of the year because I thought they over-utilized him between the tackles.
… He's still got a bit of a 'luxury back' [feel] to me, where if you're really good, he can make you great, because he is very difficult to match up with. But you need to swing it to him, you need to toss it to him … whatever you want to do to get him in the open field."
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With their disappointing Premier League campaign coming to a close, Chelsea will be looking for a renaissance next year—and a young Canadian might just be part of that revitalization plan.
On Wednesday, 18-year-old defender Fikayo Tomori made his first appearance on the matchday roster for the Blues, in their penultimate league match of the season against Liverpool. Two days later, he was named the London powerhouse's Academy Player of the Year.
Well done to Fikayo Tomori - our Academy Player of the Year! #CFCPOTY2016 pic.twitter.com/WsDlSNkrpJ — Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) May 13, 2016
It's just the latest step for Tomori, who's been a part of the Chelsea system for most of his life.
Born in Calgary, Tomori has lived in England with his family since he was a toddler, and has been in Chelsea's youth system since age 8.
The right-sided player, who has played as both a central defender and a fullback, proved precocious as he worked his way up the ranks, debuting for Chelsea's Under-18 squad at age 16, before appearing for both the U-19 and U-21 squads the following year (2014-15).
The 2015-16 campaign has been even more eventful for Tomori, at both the club and international level. In November 2015, he made his debut in the Canadian program, joining a U-20 training camp under head coach Rob Gale.
"He loves to defend, he's an out-and-out defender," Gale told MLSsoccer.com on Wednesday. "He loves the 1-v-1 defending, he's very good in those situations. He has a desire, an aggression about him, to win the ball back. It's a trait we've almost lost in our modern defenders."
In March, he was back with the Canadian Under-20 team, wearing the captain's armband in the team's surprising 2-1 win over England in a friendly. Gale says Tomori's years of service in Chelsea's youth ranks made him a natural fit as captain.
"He brings a lot of experience to our group," said Gale. "He's not the most vocal of players, but that experience, you can see it in the way that he competes."
Despite his defensive-minded tendencies, Tomori has found the back of the net on occasion; most notably, he scored a goal in Chelsea's victory in the final of the 2015-16 FA Youth Cup, the club's second straight Cup title.
And, back in February, he scored some brownie points with cynical soccer fans around the world when he accidentally broke teammate Diego Costa's nose during a training stint with the first team.
Gale plans to call Tomori into the Canadian U-20 squad later this month, for a training camp and pair of friendlies in Costa Rica.
And while nothing is ever certain for any promising young player, fans will hope that Tomori – who is signed with Chelsea through the 2017-18 season – will be wearing plenty more blue (and red) for years to come.
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Did South African higher education have a hand in our resurgent student voice? Absolutely, student activists would argue, but for its lack of transformation serving as an obstacle rather than an ally in the project of change. Campus debates on change relate not only to transformation but also to how prominent and capable student voices feature in struggles for institutional identity, values and curriculum. Much more than Mcebo Dlamini's Hitler comments, it is the exciting commentaries on higher education change in campaigns such as #RhodesMustFall, #TransformWits and #OpenStellies that demand higher education examine its engagement of student provocateurs.
On the back foot
Despite their authentic attempts to expedite change, more often than not universities seem to be on the back foot when students disrupt established lines of thought and practice — a stance that would not be worrying if South African students could claim a well-established and accomplished position as co-creators of knowledge in the classroom and as co-authors of institutional transformation. A poo-protest to disrupt colonial history surely would read different when a university community already are engaged in difficult dialogues and openly debate difficult decisions on institutional change, as also would protesters chained to Paul Kruger's statue to protect their heritage.
One problem key to students' distrust of higher education transformation is that of a silent vanguard — the silent voice of the student affairs' division in the higher education debate. As a penultimate institutional environment that concerns itself with the holistic wellness and development of students, the student affairs' office offers campus communities access to and sites for talking and listening to students. There, in the residence hall, on the sport field, at the theatre or the freshers' ball, across the forum table, on social media and in counselling sessions, student affairs practitioners hear, see and discover the hearts and minds of students — the full range of social spaces that students live with are its concern, and its classroom.
Student affairs as vanguard
For this reason, as students offer a vanguard to society, student affairs could do so for higher education. At its best, student affairs as a vanguard contributes most to institutional debates when it facilitates a vibrant student voice in the authorship of an institutional narrative – the lived experience and sense of identity of a campus community, and its story then told. Student affairs must do what a vanguard should – move with next generation to discover new perspectives and translate its discoveries for a campus community that follows. Get it right and the university community knows what debates the next generation will point at, but get it wrong, and the vanguard is silent, or worse still, silenced, and the student voice left to a nervous condition.
Students become authors when they achieve that level of wellness and capability to critically reflect on their life narrative, identity and aspirations in relation to that of others and their society, and ethically act to change their environment and serve the common good. This project succeeds outside the classroom when student development and support combine well in daily student life – opportunities to develop activist skills and social support for quality of life are sides of the same coin in student affairs practice.
Teaching under trees
But what many campuses misjudge is the complexity of this interface of learning and support – the landscape of curriculum logic and pedagogy as a major part of professional support and student development programmes. It is for instance a complex matter to mentor leaders, while also administrating the logistics of housing, but this is precisely what student affairs as a higher education vanguard must do. This is teaching in the mode of serving students holistically. This is teaching under trees, a way of life.
While campuses value the vanguard voice of student affairs differently, often in worst cases limiting its contribution to operational planning and practice as support service environment, student affairs often are silent more than silenced. Silent, when student affairs environments do not appropriately engage the educational project required to facilitate authorship among students, or do not appropriately translate the student voice institutionally.
Strong vanguard voice
Its educational project for student authorship should consist of the curriculum design, pedagogical practice and assessment of student development programmes, such as for student leadership development, but also for student life and wellness programmes co-created by students and student affairs practitioners. Its translation project for student authorship should consist of institutional advocacy for depth and reach of student participation, establishment of safe spaces for challenging dialogue and facilitating a vibrant student initiative.
In vigorous pedagogy and unrelenting advocacy lies a strong vanguard voice.
What recent student activism unmasks is the silence of our vanguard – silent not for its lack of an educational project, but for the hidden and hesitant position of its curriculum and pedagogy. What student affairs in South Africa now needs, is to make plain its vanguard pedagogy, its teaching under trees.
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REVERSE MESSAGES IN JOHN TRAVOLTA'S MOVIE – PHENOMENON
By David John Oates
Copyright © 1996
New Reversals on movie soundtrack posted below (4/16/00)
Authors note: Recently I have been contacted by several people wanting to use this article and other reversals I have found on "Phenomenon" to bolster an argument that Scientology are using subliminal programming in this and other publications. I do not believe this to be the case! What you are seeing is the Reverse Speech phenomenon in action and it occurs in all forms of human speech. The deliberate "backmasked" section on Peter Gabriel's song is a common recording trick used by many artists for special effects. There is nothing sinister in this at all. To those people wanting to use this as an arguement, I say the same thing to you as I said to the fundamentalist christians when they went ballistic over reversed messages in rock and roll songs. Look at your own speech and publications before you jump to rapid judgement at others. You will find the same messages in your speech as you claim others are deliberately putting into theirs. Reverse Speech is everywhere – in the goodies as well as the baddies. It is a natural function of language, no more and no less. (DJO 4/2000)
In the middle of 1996, John Travolta's new movie Phenomenon was released. The movie was about a simple farmer who was hit by a strange beam of light from the sky. This gave him amazing new intelligence and unexplained powers.
Since the movie's release, controversy has begun to arise concerning its real message and purpose. According to the Globe tabloid, which quotes two disc jockeys from Flint Michigan, Phenomenon is riddled with secret references to John Travolta's belief in Scientology. Click here to see a reprint of the Globe article.
One of the specific claims is that the movie's theme song, "I have the touch", sung by British rocker Peter Gabriel, contains hidden backward messages. The most obvious, according to Mitch Gill and Tommy Walker (the Michigan DJs) is the very clear phrase, "Don't you miss Ron?" This is supposedly a reference to Scientology's founder, the late Ron Hubbard. I spoke with Mitch and Tommy by phone and was curious enough to do some of my own research.
As charges of intentional backmasking were denied by Peter Gabriel's publicist, I initially assumed that the song contained the standard speech reversals that I have discovered occur in all music and speech. As these reversals are a natural function of the human mind, they appear in all songs and are, naturally, unplanned by the recording studio or artist. It seemed fairly logical to me that speech reversals would occur that supported Travolta's belief in Scientology. There seemed to be nothing too sinister in that.
However, I was in for a shock when I finally obtained a copy for the album after being approached by the nationally syndicated TV program, "Extra", for my opinion on the controversy. The very first thing I noticed as I played the song forwards was an intentionally backmasked message right at the beginning of the album. Intentional backmasking is totally different from Reverse Speech. Reverse Speech naturally occurs in the human mind as an automatic function of language. Backmasking is a recording technique where the studio superimposes a soundtrack backwards over the forward soundtrack. It is easy to recognise. It sounds like gibberish when the track is played forwards and becomes an intelligible sentence when the track is played backwards.
Reverse Speech has no superimposed soundtrack and occurs solely by the way the words are sung or spoken at the time the recording is made.
Listen to the first example of a hidden message on this song. Notice that is sounds like gibberish forwards. When it is played backwards at three separate speeds, the words "Don't you miss Ron?" can be heard. It sounds a little strange because it has been hidden somewhat by echo effects. This is an example of an intentionally backmasked message (Backward Masking) at the recording studio level. I am somewhat surprised, therefore, that Peter Gabriel's publicist has denied putting this in because it is an obvious technical insertion. Maybe it was done in the recording studio after the song was made. Either way, there is nothing sinister in this. The message is meaningless.
The next thing I noticed as I listened to the soundtrack forwards is that there is also an example of a hidden subliminal message in the song. It is forwards, faint and fast, and occurs right at the very end of the soundtrack. It says: "Ron Hubbard, Ron Ron Ron, Ron Hubbard make contact." It is unclear whether this was intentional or not.
Finally I checked the soundtrack for Reverse Speech and my eyes really opened wide. I first found a very clear example
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The Portland Timbers will unveil the 2015 MLS Cup Championship banner at their home opener against the Columbus Crew on March 6 at Providence Park.
The Timbers beat the Crew 2-1 on December 6 to win their first-ever MLS Cup title.
Jim Serrill, the Timbers' original mascot fondly known as Timber Jim, and Joey Webber, the club's current mascot, known as Timber Joey, will help unveil the banner.
The Timbers will also celebrate their MLS Cup victory at the game by giving away commemorative MLS Cup Championship pennants to the first 7,500 fans to arrive at Providence Park and giving supporters the opportunity to see and take photos with the MLS Cup trophy at the game.
The Timbers have more details about the celebration on their website.
-- Jamie Goldberg | jgoldberg@oregonian.com
503-853-3761 | @jamiebgoldberg
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In yesterday's article we covered the beginner and intermediate versions of the pyramid routine. Today we will cover the advanced versions of weight training using pyramid routines – the Oxford Method and ascending rest-pause routine.
For some people, the Oxford Method is more of an intermediate pyramid routine. It is similar to reverse pyramid sets. You will use a really heavy weight for the first set and decrease as your muscles fatigue for each subsequent set. Your rep range will be dependent upon the type of training you want to do – low reps (4-6) for strength/power, average reps (8-12) for building mass and high reps (15-20) for endurance. To do the first set, choose a weight that you can JUST do 10 times and cannot do the 11th rep. For the next set, you will do the same thing except use a lower weight (usually 10% less than set 1). You should just complete 10 reps. For the third and final set, decrease the weight again and do 10 more reps. Depending on how aggressive you want to be, 2 sets may be enough or you may want to increase it to 4.
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The most advanced form of Pyramid Routine is the ascending rest-pause. The intent is to workout with larger weights but to mix in rest periods to allow your muscles to recover partially before continuing. Choose a weight that you can do for 10 reps but only do 5. Rest for 5 seconds and then do 5 more reps. Rest another 5 seconds and do 5 more reps. That makes one set. Add 5-10 pounds of weight (your 9 rep max) and do the same process but for 4 reps and rest for 10 seconds. Continue to 3 reps with 5-10 more pounds and rest 15 seconds then to 2 reps with 5-10 more pounds. This last set is done to failure; keep doing 2 reps with rest breaks until you cannot do 2 reps. For example:
Using this method will generate a lot of muscle growth by stimulating your muscles at their peak exhaustion level.
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After becoming the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in January, Sen. Patty Murray is among the leading backers of a White House plan to expand overtime pay for nearly 5 million Americans.
WASHINGTON — With only 8 percent of salaried workers currently covered by overtime rules, Sen. Patty Murray says it's time for the federal government to intervene.
After becoming the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in January, the senator from Washington state is among the leading backers of a White House plan to expand overtime pay for nearly 5 million Americans.
It could mean raises for 90,000 workers in her home state.
Murray faces resistance from retailers who fear that higher pay would force them to cut jobs and reduce work hours. She counters that the overtime rules are outdated, doing little to help workers who are routinely assigned to longer hours.
"It would mean a lot of money in people's pockets, and what it basically means is you're going to get paid for the work that you do," Murray said in an interview Tuesday.
In the mid-1970s, Murray said, 62 percent of the American workforce was covered by overtime rules, but that number has been in steady decline.
Under federal law, hourly employees are guaranteed overtime pay for working more than 40 hours per week, receiving at least 1½ times their regular rate of pay. But the rules limit overtime pay for salaried workers to those who earn less than $23,660 per year. Under the White House plan announced earlier this month by President Obama, that threshold would more than double, to $50,440.
Murray said she's confident that the new rule will take effect after the Department of Labor seeks comment on the proposal. Murray said the only way it can be blocked is if Congress intervenes. Even then, she said, Obama could use his veto power to prevail.
"This is something that is going to happen," Murray said.
So far, the proposal isn't causing much of a fuss in Washington state. The Washington Retail Association, based in Olympia, said it had not yet decided how to react, while Amazon, the Seattle-based Internet retail giant, did not respond to a request for comment.
In Washington, D.C., it's a much different story.
In a statement, the National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade association, called the plan an attempt to "build the middle class by government mandate."
"There simply isn't any magic pot of money that lets employers pay more just because the government says so," said David French, the group's senior vice president for government relations.
And House Republicans, anticipating the White House move, called a hearing on the plan in June, nearly a month before Obama announced the proposed change.
"Rather than providing more opportunities for individuals to earn overtime pay, it appears that the new regulations will only result in a more complicated law, requiring outside legal advice for small businesses, and more litigation," said Jamie Richardson, White Castle's vice president of government and shareholder relations, testifying before the House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Despite the opposition, Murray said the plan will boost the economy by helping people spend more.
"If they get that additional money for working more, they're going to have more in their pockets to take their kids out for pizza or to buy them another pair of shoes for school or to perhaps save for their college," she said.
The issue is just one of many pro-labor plans on Murray's plate this year, after she replaced former Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin as the ranking Democrat on the Health, Education and Pensions Committee. Murray called it a "rewarding assignment."
While she has gained much attention for overhauling the No Child Left Behind schools law, she has also used her new perch to promote a series of labor issues.
Among them:
• She's the chief sponsor of the Raise the Wage Act, which would increase the federal minimum wage to $12 by 2020.
• She's the lead Senate Democrat on The Healthy Families Act, which would require employers to provide up to seven paid sick days per year. It would apply to companies with more 15 employees.
• She teamed up with Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, of Massachusetts, to introduce a bill aimed at giving workers more predictability in their work schedules. It would require retail, food service and cleaning employees to receive work schedules at least two weeks in advance, or one hour's worth of extra pay for schedules changed with less than a 24-hour notice.
• She has pushed to close the wage gap between men and women working the same jobs. And she released a report showing the challenges women face in retirement, with a poverty rate nearly double that of men among those 65 and older.
For Murray, a 64-year-old former preschool
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Breach of Confidence
In order to establish an actionable breach of confidence, the complainant must prove (a) that the information conveyed was confidential, (b) that it was communicated in confidence, (c) that it was misused by the party to whom it was communicated, and (d) detriment to the complainant. International Corona v Lac Minerals, [1989] 2 S.C.R. 574.
A person who receives confidential information in circumstances of confidence has a duty not to use that information for any purpose other than that for which it was conveyed. If the information is used for such an unauthorized purpose, and the person who provided that confidential information suffers a detriment, the court will grant a remedy.
"In establishing a breach of a duty of confidence, the relevant question to be asked is, "what is the confidee entitled to do with the information?" and not, "to what use he is prohibited from putting it?" Any use other than a permitted use is prohibited and amounts to a breach of duty. When information is provided in confidence, the obligation is on the confidee to show that the use to which he put the information is not a prohibited use." International Corona v Lac Minerals, [1989] 2 S.C.R. 574.
In certain circumstances, the recipient of confidential information will provide it to third parties. Where such third parties are in possession of confidential information, a key consideration for the court will be whether the third party knew or ought to have known that the information is confidential. This may be implied from the nature of the information itself or the circumstances in which the third party received it.
Roger D. McConchie has considerable experience advising clients with respect to breach of confidence claims.
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Because academics may be unfamiliar with the gentlemen's club subculture, some background may be helpful to understand why this is an ideal setting for investigating real-world attractiveness effects of human female estrus. The following information was gathered from interviews with local club managers and from the sociological and feminist literature on erotic dancing (Barton, 2006xBarton, 2006Barton, B. Stripped: Inside the lives of exotic dancers. New York University Press, New York;
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All participants in this study worked as lap dancers in Albuquerque "gentlemen's clubs" circa November 2006 through January 2007. The clubs serve alcohol; they are fairly dark, smoky, and loud (with a DJ playing rock, rap, or pop music). Most club patrons are Anglo or Hispanic men aged 20 to 60, ranging from semiskilled laborers to professionals; they typically start the evening by getting a stack of US$20 bills from the club's on-site ATM and having a
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Fresh off first-round wins in December, Erick Silva and Ben Saunders are set to collide in Brazil.
Silva and Saunders, who scored wins over Mike Rhodes and Joe Riggs at UFC Fight Night 58 and UFC on FOX 13, respectively, will meet at the upcoming UFC Fight Night 62 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 21. MMAFighting.com confirmed the bout following a report from Lance.
Hoping to start his first win streak in the UFC, Silva (17-5, 1 no-contest) gets back in action following a 75-second submission over Rhodes in Barueri, Brazil. The X-Gym fighter, who lost to Matt Brown prior to his win in December, has bounced between wins and losses since his UFC debut in 2011.
Saunders (18-6-2), who returned to the UFC after a 7-3 run in Bellator between 2011 and 2013, won back-to-back fights against Riggs and Chris Heatherly inside the Octagon, scoring the first-ever omoplata submission in the UFC history over Heatherly in August.
Headlined by a bantamweight clash between Urijah Faber and Raphael Assuncao, UFC Fight Night 62 takes place at the Maracanazinho gymnasium in Rio de Janeiro. A lightweight bout featuring Josh Thomson and Gilbert Burns is also agreed for the fight card.
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Apple Inc. sold twice as many Watches as iPhones in each device's debut year. Yet the smartwatch is dogged by a perception that seems premature given the history of Apple's most popular devices: disappointment.
As the Watch marks its first anniversary on Sunday—two days before Apple's quarterly earnings announcement—the product's fate is critical to the company. It is Apple's first all-new product since the iPad and a test of its ability to innovate under Chief Executive Tim Cook, when sales of iPhones are slowing.
So far, the numbers appear solid. Apple doesn't disclose sales, but analysts estimate about 12 million Watches were sold in year one. At an estimated average price of $500, that is a $6 billion business—three times the annual revenue of activity tracker Fitbit Inc.
By comparison, Apple sold roughly six million iPhones in its first year. As a new entrant, the Watch accounted for about 61% of global smartwatch sales last year, according to researcher IDC.
And yet, there are detractors such as Fred Wilson, co-founder of venture-capital firm Union Square Ventures, in December declared the Watch a "flop." Mr. Wilson, who owns shares of Fitbit through a fund, had earlier predicted the Watch wouldn't be a "home run" like the iPad, iPhone and iPod, saying many people wouldn't want to wear a computer on their wrist.
The Watch has shortcomings. It is slow, with an underpowered processor that is throttled at times to extend the device's battery life. It lacks mobile and Global Positioning System connections, meaning it must be accompanied by an iPhone, limiting its usefulness as an independent device. The battery needs to be charged every day.
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Perhaps the biggest challenge is the Watch's lack of a defining purpose. It does certain things well, such as activity tracking, mobile payments and notifications. But there is no task the Apple Watch handles that can't be done by an iPhone or a less-expensive activity tracker.
Joshua Stein, a 33-year-old app developer in Chicago, said he bought a Watch shortly after its release, but found the software slow and thought it was inconvenient having to charge it each night. In January, he sold the Watch on eBay and returned to using a $150 Pebble smartwatch with a longer-lasting battery.
"Basically, I didn't use it that much," said Mr. Stein. "The functionality of the Watch is still pretty limited."
There are relatively easy fixes for some concerns. Apple is working on adding cell-network connectivity and a faster processor to its next-generation Watch, according to people familiar with the matter.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment.
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Other problems run deeper. Forrester Research analyst J.P. Gownder says the Watch isn't useful enough. He expected more businesses to create apps like one from Starwood Hotel & Resorts Worldwide Inc. that lets customers check in, receive a room assignment and unlock a room door without stopping at the front desk.
Mr. Gownder said Apple hadn't done enough to build a broader ecosystem of services. "Apple needs to make it an indispensable thing," he said.
Still, the Apple Watch has fans who use it daily. According to research firm Wristly, 93% of 1,150 Apple Watch owners in an online survey last week said they were "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with the device.
In a sign of how users are personalizing their watches, Apple said in March that a third of users regularly change the bands for the Watch to match their outfits or occasion. "It's become a part of my day," said Dana Strom, a 31-year-old video editor from Santa Monica, Calif., who received the Watch as a gift from his wife in November. "I miss it when I don't have it."
He finds notifications and turn-by-turn directions useful, though he grows frustrated at times at how slowly third-party apps run on the Watch.
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The Watch's early struggles in some ways echo the iPhone, now considered a groundbreaking product that accounts for two-thirds of Apple's revenue.
The initial model didn't run on the then-fastest wireless network, didn't offer third-party apps and lacked basic functions such as copying and pasting text.
As it did with the initial iPhone, Apple in March cut the price for the least-expensive version of the smaller-size Sport Watch model by $50 to $299.
Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst with Bernstein Research, estimates Apple has sold 12 million Apple Watches in the first year at an average sales price of $500. Similarly, Neil Cybart, who runs Above Avalon, a site dedicated to analysis of Apple, estimates Apple sold 13 million watches at an average price of $450.
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I have 5 Raspberry Pi 2 here. I'm going to install FreeBSD 11.x on them. I've already done one. The second is started, and now I'm going to write it down so I know what to do the next time.
The wiki entry will contain the latest status.
The binaries
Rasperberry Pi 2 only runs FreeBSD 11.x (10.x will run on the B but not the 2).
If you have Rasperberry Pi B, you can run 10.x and you can find what you need at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/10.1/ Look for something like FreeBSD-10.1-RELEASE-arm-armv6-RPI-B.img.bz2
I want something from 11.x, so I'll grab something from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/arm/armv6/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/, specifically FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150601-r283896.img.xz. By the time you read this, the latest snapshot may different. Pick your download accordingly.
I downloaded this file to ~/Downloads/ISO/ and decompressed it with this command:
$ unxz FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150601-r283896.img.xz
This creates FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150601-r283896.img which we will use to burn the micro-SD card.
Burning to SD card
The kit I bought came with an adaptor allowing me to insert the micro-SD card into my Macbook.
OSX specific instructions
You can skip this section if not using OSX.
After inserting the card, I tried issuing the dd command, but it failed. The card was mounted read-only. You can verify the status using the Finder, and File | Get Info. If you need to, eject the card, slide the read-write switch, and reinsert. You might have to do this a few times to get it right. Keep checking via Finder.
Once the card is mounted read-write, you need to unmount it, but not eject it, so you can write to it. I opened Disk utility, I clicked on the media (mine was labeled NO NAME, then right click, and click on Umount NO NAME"
The burn
Here is the command I used to burn the micro-SD card:
sudo dd if=FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-arm-armv6-RPI2-20150601-r283896.img of=/dev/disk2 bs=1m conv=sync
On my system, this took about 13 minutes.
Eject!
Go back to Disk Utility and hit Eject on that micro-SD card before extracting it from your machine.
Boot it!
Place the micro-SD card into the Raspberry Pi. Hook up the keyboard and monitor. Then power it up.
I'm told the following:
The Raspberry Pi won't boot FreeBSD without a monitor attached due to a bug. (since proven incorrect)
The bug might be with FreeBSD / might be with the Raspberry Pi.
I have not verified any of the above.
Mine came right up, and I tweeted about it.
What I didn't do yet
I didn't get anything running. I didn't try ssh. I didn't try networking. That's for another day.
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"The Moat Portfolio" (Podcast)
(The Investor's Field Guide, Invest Like the Best hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, February 2018)
"Buying Companies with Economic Moats" (Podcast)
(The Investor's Field Guide, Invest Like the Best hosted by Patrick O'Shaughnessy, August 2017)
"Competitive Advantage and Capital Allocation" (Video)
(Presentation at the 14th Annual Value Investor Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, May 2017)
"Competitive Advantage and Capital Allocation"
(Delivered at the MIT Sloan Investment Conference, March 2017)
"Competitive Advantage and Shareholder Value" (Video)
(Talks at Google series, delivered at the Googleplex, December 2014)
"Positive Skewness"
(Delivered to the Value Investing Seminar in Trani, Italy, July 2014)
"Going Global"
(Delivered to Omaha Value Investing Conference, May 2014)
"10 Years, 100 Analysts, 2,000 Stocks: Learning from Experience"
(Delivered to Omaha Value Investing Conference, May 2011)
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The Chinese and Pakistani navies today concluded their two-day naval exercises in the East Sea in which two ships each from both sides took part.
This is the first time navies of both the countries conducted exercises in the East Sea which separates and Japan, official media here reported.
Two missile ships from each of their fleets took part in the exercises, state-run CCTV reported.
The exercises included anti-submarine drills, air defence, anti missile and mock confrontations. Commanders of China and gave instructions in rotation.
The Pakistani naval ships Shamsheer and Nasr arrived in on December 28 to take part in joint naval exercises in a bid to boost defence cooperation with their Chinese counterpart.
"It is a very significant exercise which will enhance the interoperability and cohesion between the two navies," Bilal Abdul Nasir, Commander ofPakistan's 25th Destroyer Squadron told state-run Global Times.
A total of 591 officers and soldiers are on board in the two Pakistani vessels.
More than 100 countries and international organisation
gave their support for OBOR project and over 40 countries and international organisations signed agreements or letters of intent to join it, Lu said.
Officials say besides Trump, China was also keen on the participation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But the Sino-Indian relations were bogged down by China blocking India's move to ban JeM leader Masood Azhar as a global terrorist by the UN like Saeed.
China also blocked India's bid for membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG).
Over Azhar's issue, China also faced allegations from India of double standards in fighting terrorism.
Officials say it is to be seen how much of these issues would figure in China- counter terror talks.
Also China is investing vast sums of money into the USD 46 billion China- Economic Corridor (CPEC) which is part of the OBOR over which India has raised objections as it passed through Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
China was also concerned about stepped up terror attack in its Muslim Uyghur majority Xinjiang province which is also the starting point for OBOR.
Chinese and Pakistani border guards have been holding joint patrols to curb infiltration.
Afghan government too has raised strong pitch against Pakistan's reluctance to crackdown on the Haqqani network which is creating havoc in Afghanistan, scuttling all moves to restore peace in the war torn country.
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Brisbane could see 50,000 new inner-city apartments added to skyline, industry expert says
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Brisbane could soon see 50,000 units added to its skyline, with demand for inner-city apartment living booming in the capital, industry experts say.
CommSec's latest State of the States report showed Queensland ranked fourth in the country for dwelling commencements.
Property economist Dr Lyndall Bryant, from the Queensland University of Technology, said much of that was due to an apartment boom in Brisbane.
"Dwelling commencements is both apartments and detached housing that you might have out in the suburbs, but the boom that we're having at the moment is certainly in the inner-city apartment market," she said.
Dr Bryant said the number of apartments being built in Brisbane was "staggering".
"There's around 10,000 apartments currently under construction in the Brisbane inner-city," she said.
"There's another 15,000 that are approved and another 15,000 apartments waiting for approval, and add to that another 8,000 that are mooted.
"Add that all up and that's just shy of 50,000 apartments that potentially could come onto the Brisbane housing market."
Bruce Goddard, from Place Projects real estate, said the boom was part of Brisbane's recovery from the global financial crisis (GFC).
Brisbane is approximately 50 per cent cheaper than Sydney and 35 to 40 per cent cheaper than Melbourne. Bruce Goddard, Place Projects
"Over the GFC there was almost no construction — we had no construction for three or four years," he said.
"So there's been a bit of catch up after the financial crisis, and it's that catch up that is showing high volumes now," he said.
He said most major residential buildings were going up in West End, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley and Teneriffe, with young renters increasingly looking to live close to work.
But he said the demand was being strongly driven by high property prices in Sydney and Melbourne.
"Brisbane is approximately 50 per cent cheaper than Sydney and 35 to 40 per cent cheaper than Melbourne," he said.
"International interest is growing reasonably rapidly, but I think we're seeing a lot of Melbourne and Sydney buyers because Melbourne and Sydney are so dear.
"We track the differences in values between Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, and the difference is now at a record high."
Mixed reports over possible oversupply in Brisbane
Despite a record number of major residential buildings going up in the city, Mr Goddard said Brisbane was not at risk of having an oversupply of apartments any time soon.
"An oversupply means that there are buildings being built, for which there are no tenants," he said.
"We are nowhere near that at the moment. As the buildings are being built, there are tenants, so there is good tenant demand, and the tenant demand is driving the buyer demand."
But Dr Bryant said she believed Brisbane was nearing its saturation point.
"As an industry we need to keep an eye on when the market gets to the saturation point, and I would predict that we are getting very close to point," she said.
"There's probably not enough demand to absorb all the supply that is proposed to come onto the market.
"If we meet saturation point, which is when demand sort of equals supply, then hopefully market forces would delay further apartments coming on the market.
"It is really important for the general economy that the property industry remain buoyant."
Topics: building-and-construction, business-economics-and-finance, brisbane-4000, qld, australia
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What is HopBox? Why is it special?
Whether you're a veteran brewer or are brewing your first batch of beer, HopBox homebrewing kits are designed to help you brew in style. Every aspect of brewing is provided for, from quality glassware to the durable, highly-portable handcrafted wooden base. Each kit is built by hand in our Somerville, MA workshop from rustic pine and locally-sourced components. Our home brewing kits are perfect for brewing cider, mead, and - of course - beer.
We offer 4 different models, able to brew 1 to 3 gallons of beer at a time (approximately 10-30 beers). Each HopBox homebrewing kit comes fully-equipped with a complete set of instructions, a brewers' log, ingredients*, and a recipe book with over 20 recipes to choose from.
Why Kickstarter?
We've been refining and perfecting our designs over various iterations, taking feedback from early adopters and our customers. After perfecting our process during the holiday season, we are confident that we're ready to take our operation to the next level to become a fully-functioning business.
Now that we've tested our product, we're ready for full-scale production. Which means upgrading our workshop situation. Your donations will go towards renting a bigger, better workshop and helping us to purchase our own tools. With a bigger workshop, we can house our production and shipping comfortably under one roof.
What's the plan?
In addition to establishing a better home for our business, we'd also like to use our workshop as a communal space where we can share the process of brewing and woodworking with the local community. We'd love for people to come see us build their kits so we can hand the product to them and walk them through their first (or even their hundredth) brew. Our most rewarding days are those spent chatting with other homebrewers, showing them our process and hearing about their latest concoctions. We want to provide a venue for those conversations - tastings, brewing sessions, and everything in between.
Our current shop space is small, dark, and cramped, and we don't always have access to the tools that we need--we share them with others who use the space. At the moment, all of our packing, shipping and grain-milling takes place in an apartment. Boxes are stacked to the ceiling, shelves are filled with supplies, and stray packing peanuts litter the floor. It's barely functional as a hobby, and nowhere near what we need to run a business. With your support, we can expand.
Growing pains.
And in return?
REWARDS! We've got rewards for days, including great discounts on all of our homebrewing kits, custom bottle openers and pint glasses, and lots of great swagger to fully outfit you for your next brewing adventure. Check out our offerings below!
*the Tall Boy (3 gallon) kit does not include a recipe kit.
What will your donations do for you?
Now that we've tested our product, we're ready for full-scale production. Which means upgrading our workshop situation. Your donations will go towards renting a bigger, better workshop and helping us to purchase our own tools. With a bigger workshop, we can house our production and shipping under one roof.
In addition to production purposes, our dream is to develop our future workshop as a communal space where we can share the process of brewing and woodworking with the local community. We want people to be able to come see us build their kits so we can hand the product to them and walk them through their first (or hundredth) brew. Our most rewarding days are those spent chatting with other homebrewers, showing them our process and hearing about their latest concoctions. We want to provide a venue for those conversations - tastings, brewing sessions, and everything in between.
Who's behind HopBox?
Two guys with a beer-fueled dream.
Mike Langone: I first discovered brewing five years ago. It was love at first brew. However, the brewing process left much to be desired. It was a ungainly process involving ugly plastic fermenters, a messy kitchen and thoroughly disgruntled roommates. I figured there had to be a better way to brew, one that would look at home in any environment and celebrate the process rather than hide it. In January 2013 I designed the first HopBox homebrewing kit. It was everything I wanted a brewing kit to be: stylish, portable, and accessible. I wanted to inspire people to brew, to experiment with new recipes, to feel the satisfaction that comes with sharing something you have made with family and friends. I also realized I wanted to make it more than a hobby - I wanted to make it my career. So I went all in! I quit my day job, emptied my accounts, and started living out my dream - one that I hope you share
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A bus driver refused to move his vehicle because it had a gay rights poster on its side.
He left travellers stranded for 20 minutes as he argued furiously with colleagues and passengers.
The unnamed man claimed the ad reading "Some people are gay. Get over it!", offended his Christian beliefs.
Passenger Rebecca Neill, 25, said the bus stopped to change drivers but the replacement refused to get on.
She said: "The drivers left us while they had an argument outside.
"Quite a few passengers and other drivers joined in. It was disgusting.
"I would never say, 'I'm not getting on your bus because you believe in God'."
The stand-off on the X78 route in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, ended only when the next bus arrived and its driver swapped with the protester.
A spokesman for operator First apologised but would not say what action – if any – had been taken.
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Winner of the 1984 American Book Award!
"...a perfectly marvelous book about the Queen of Sciences, from which one will get a real feeling for what mathematicians do and who they are. The exposition is clear and full of wit and humor..." - The New Yorker (1984 American Book Award Edition)
Mathematics has been a human activity for thousands of years. Yet only a few people from the vast population of users are professional mathematicians, who create, teach, foster, and apply it in a variety of situations. The authors of this book believe that it should be possible for these professional mathematicians to explain to non-professionals what they do, what they say they are doing, and why the world should support them at it. They also believe that mathematics should be taught to non-mathematics majors in such a way as to instill an appreciation of the power and beauty of mathematics. Many people from around the world have told the authors that they have done precisely that with the first edition and they have encouraged publication of this revised edition complete with exercises for helping students to demonstrate their understanding. This edition of the book should find a new generation of general readers and students who would like to know what mathematics is all about. It will prove invaluable as a course text for a general mathematics appreciation course, one in which the student can combine an appreciation for the esthetics with some satisfying and revealing applications.
The text is ideal for 1) a GE course for Liberal Arts students 2) a Capstone course for perspective teachers 3) a writing course for mathematics teachers.
The Companion Guide to the Mathematical Experience 120 pp. * Softcover * $14.95 * ISBN 0-8176-3849-0
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Sriracha is a tasty hot sauce manufactured by Huy Fong Foods that, for those with adventurous taste buds, makes everything from scrambled eggs to pizza a finer experience. But the process of manufacturing the substance has been unpopular among residents of Irwindale, California, a small town of about 1,400 just twenty miles outside of Los Angeles. And where Irwindale smells a spicy controversy, Texas cities smell spicy opportunity.
Sriracha hasn't always been based in Irwindale—the company relocated to the city in 2010, after being offered a sweetheart deal to build a $40 million factory. As the Los Angeles Times reported in November:
Huy Fong Foods decided to locate its factory in Irwindale three years ago when the city offered a loan with "irresistable" terms: pay only interest for 10 years, with a balloon payment at the end. Huy Fong took the loan and contributed $250,000 a year to the city of Irwindale each year as part of the deal, Tran said. The company then built a $40-million factory that at full capacity could generate about $300 million a year in sales, according to Tran's statements.
The problems started not long after the factory was built. It turns out that the manufacturing process on a spicy sauce (that enjoys what the Times hilariously refers to as "rock star status among condiments"—you're always on the outside looking in, mayonnaise) isn't the most pleasant thing to spend your days around. Reports soon came in about the not-unserious health problems that appeared to be popping up among local residents.
The city filed for a lawsuit against the facility to shut down the manufacturing after reports of "burned eyes, inflamed asthma," and an entire birthday party being forced to flee indoors "after the spicy smell descended on the festivities." That sounds like a joke, but in late November, a judge granted a partial injunction.
Shortly after the lawsuit against Sriracha manufacturer was filed, Denton city councilman Kevin Roden made a public bid to invite Huy Fong to relocate the facility to his fair North Texas college town.
The story continued to develop in recent weeks; Irwindale City Council backed down from its aggressive stance on the substance, voting to delay a decision on whether to declare the factory a public nuisance. And, over here in Texas, San Antonio threw its hat in the "we'd like to host the Sriracha factory" ring.
Mario Hernandez, president of San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, said the organization reached out two months ago to Tran, who indicated an expansion is more likely than a full-fledged relocation to the Alamo City, which would cost millions. "We would welcome the opportunity on a complete relocation, but a more likely scenario is future expansion," Hernandez said. San Antonio is an ideal location for production of the spicy condiment because it is close to the Rio Grande Valley, a region with a large agriculture industry that could easily grow chilies for the product, Villalba said. Because the chilies must be transported to a factory for production soon after being harvested, San Antonio, the largest city in South Texas, logistically would be a prime location for a manufacturing plant.
The excitement over the opportunity to host the Sriracha factory is all very charming. It's delicious! Texans love hot sauce! But also, the reason that the Sriracha factory is talking relocation is that the current host city is arguing in court that it lowered the quality of life so dramatically that it would rather lose 200 jobs and the tax benefits of hosting a factory that generates $300 million worth of revenue than continue to deal with the asthma/nosebleeds/sinus irritation/canceled birthday parties.
All of which suggests that, jobs and tax dollars or no jobs and tax dollars, the eagerness to take this on is a bit weird. It may be, as both Denton and San Antonio officials singing the Sriracha song claim, that those issues that caused such headaches (or nosebleeds) in Irwindale wouldn't affect Denton ("According to Roden, Denton's industrial sites are located 'far away' from residential neighborhoods, so Huy Fong won't need to worry about future lawsuits," our own Joseph Misulonas explained back in November) or San Antonio ("Hernandez and Villalba said they have no reservations about the fumes emitted from the factory because proper steps would be taken to ensure safety of nearby residents," reports MySA.com).
It's nice that the cities have thought about it, but it's strange to assume that officials in Irwindale didn't consider any of that when they made their bid to host the factory in recent years. It's possible, of course, that San Antonio and Denton would experience nothing more than an expanded tax base and a boost in jobs if they were to take on the task of hosting the Sr
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Tipperary 0-14
Dublin 0-12
TIPPERARY MADE HISTORY as they pulled off a remarkable second-half comeback and dethroned All-Ireland U21 football champions Dublin.
Tipp scored 11 of their 14 points in the second half to stun the Dubs and book their place in the All-Ireland final for the very first time.
Dublin looked to be on course for their second consecutive U21 final after Shane Carty extended their lead to 0-8 to 0-3 just after half time but the Premier County staged a roaring comeback.
The first half belonged to Dessie Farrell's men though, with Conor McHugh kicking three points to give the reigning champions a 0-7 to 0-3 advantage at the break.
The game began to turn when Josh Keane pointed five minutes into the second half to cut the gap to four. Three more scores followed in the next ten minutes before Cormac Costello hit back for the Dubs to give them a two-point lead.
But Tipperary couldn't be denied and further scores from Keane, Jason Lonergan and a Kevin O'Halloran brace saw the Munster champions go in front.
Ross Mulcahy and David Byrne swapped scores as the Dubs drew level but Stephen O'Brien engineered a bit of space in front of the posts to put Tiperrary ahead once more in injury time.
The champions couldn't respond, and one last O'Halloran free saw the Premier men book their place in their first ever All-Ireland final at the U21 age grade.
They will face Tyrone, who beat Roscommon 0-17 to 0-12 in Saturday's second semi-final.
Scorers for Tipperary: Kevin O'Halloran 0-4 (3f), Josh Keane 0-3 (3f), Steven O'Brien, Colin O'Riordan 0-2 each, Ross Mulcahy, Liam Casey, Jason Lonergan 0-1 each.
Scorers for Dublin: Conor McHugh (1f), Cormac Costello (3f) 0-4 each, Shane Carthy 0-2, Colm Basquel, David Campbell 0-1 each.
DUBLIN
1. Lorcan Molloy (St Annes)
2. Martin Cahalane (Cuala)
3. David Byrne (Naomh Olaf)
4. Eoin Murchan (Na Fianna)
5. Eric Lowndes (St Peregrine's)
6. Conor Mulally (Cuala)
7. Ross McGowan (Kilmacud Crokes)
8. Stephen Cunningham (St Sylvester's)
9. Shane Carthy (Naomh Mearnóg)
25. Aonghus Farrell (Na Fianna)
11. Andrew Foley (Clontarf)
12. Niall Scully (Templeogue Synge-Street)
13. Cormac Costello (Whitehall Colmcille)
14. Conor McHugh (Na Fianna)
15. Colm Basquel (Ballyboden St-Enda's)
Substitutes:
26. Shane Cunningham for Stephen Cunningham (25)
24. Shane Clayton for Foley (45)
17. Eoin Fletcher for Cahalane (49, black card)
Aaron Byrne for Basquel (49)
20. David Campbell for Scully (52)
TIPPERARY
1. Evan Comerford (Kilsheelan Kilcash)
2. Kevin Fahey (Clonmel Commercials)
3. Jimmy Feehan (Killenaule)
4. Colm O'Shaughnessy (Ardfinnan)
5. Ross Mulcahy (Moyle Rovers)
6. Luke Boland (Moyle Rovers)
7. Bill Maher (Kilsheelan Kilcash)
8. Steven O'Brien (Ballina)
9. Colin O'Riordan (JK Brackens)
10. Jason Lonergan (Clonmel Commercials)
11. Ian Fahey (Clonmel Commercials)
12. Liam Casey (Cahir)
13. Kevin O'Halloran (Portroe)
14. Josh Keane (Golden Kilfeacle)
15. Paul Maher (Kilsheelan Kilcash)
Substitutes:
Dean McEnroe for P Maher (59)
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President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence during a visit to a Carrier factory. Evan Vucci/AP Photo It's not an exaggeration to say that Elon Musk and Donald Trump have the most diametric brains on the planet.
They also differ widely in their views on a hot-button political issue: climate change. The Tesla CEO is the world's most prominent proponent of using innovation to do something about global warming, while the president-elect has said climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
But with the opening on Wednesday of Tesla's battery manufacturing factory in Nevada, Musk has suddenly wound up with a "surprising alignment of interests with the new presidential administration," says Adam Jonas, Morgan Stanley's lead auto analyst.
Jonas, one of the most strident Tesla bulls on Wall Street, made the comment in a research note in which he assessed the Gigafactory's opening and reiterated his view that the company's Model 3 mass-market vehicle won't launch on schedule at the end of 2017.
But the alignment "really seemed to sneak up on people," he added.
Of course it did — until you think about where the two line up. Tesla's a high-tech domestic hiring machine.
Here's Jonas, writing about the Nevada plant:
"As the bus drove up to the massive plant yesterday morning, one could not help but notice the hundreds of cars in the parking lot from the construction crew (yes, roughly 1/2 of the vehicles were pickup trucks), part of 2,100 construction workers running two shifts per day.
"To the extent that the creation of high-tech manufacturing jobs in the United States is a priority of the incoming administration, we believe Mr. Musk might have some interests that could be very much in alignment with those of President-elect Trump."
Old versus new manufacturing
It's worth pointing out that the Obama administration was also supportive of high-tech manufacturing and that it's unclear whether all US manufacturing jobs are equal in the eyes of Trump and the GOP. And don't forget that constructing Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory involved old-school labor, while the manufacturing of battery cells inside could eventually be almost completely automated.
But Jonas is onto something by highlighting what could be an unexpected and potentially awkward shared interest of Trump and Musk. The Tesla CEO did, after all, make the pilgrimage to Trump Tower along with the rest of the Silicon Valley tech elite.
However, all of Musk's companies require a type of government support that's futuristic rather than retro. Electric cars are a threat to the oil business. Solar power — Tesla just acquired SolarCity — has benefitted from government subsidies to gain a foothold against traditional grid electricity provided by burning coal and natural gas. SpaceX has NASA as its biggest customer.
Musk is a shining example of a businessperson who's making America great now. It remains to be seen if Trump can digest that reality and come to terms with how that reality has been achieved.
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Martin Harris Pageant Cast Members Are Performers, Missionaries
Contributed By Rachel Sterzer, Church News staff writer
Article Highlights Clarkston has been the home of the Martin Harris pageant since 1983.
It depicts the life of Martin Harris, who became one of the Three Witnesses to testify of the divine origin of the Book of Mormon.
Close to 36,000 visitors traveled to Clarkston to watch the pageant.
"Every time I step out on stage I get chills. I feel the Spirit every time. I know Martin saw what he saw because I feel it every time." —Brad Noble, actor playing Martin Harris
CLARKSTON, UTAH
Clarkston—population of about 670 at the last census—is nestled in the northwest part of Utah's Cache Valley. Its patchwork of gold and green fields are fringed by views of the mountains on each side. Directions to Clarkston often include the warning that the nearest gas station is 15 to 20 miles away. There is no grocery store. Yet from July 31 to August 15, this remote farming town received close to 36,000 visitors.
That's because since 1983, Clarkston has been the home of Martin Harris: The Man Who Knew, a pageant that depicts the life of Martin Harris, who became one of the Three Witnesses to testify of the divine origin of the Book of Mormon. The events leading up to the first publication of the Book of Mormon and Martin's role in those events are presented in an outdoor amphitheater adjacent to where Martin is buried in the Clarkston cemetery.
Included in those events is the incident involving the 116 manuscript pages of the Book of Mormon where, in June of 1828, after Martin's repeated entreaties, Joseph Smith allowed him to take the pages to show his family. Unfortunately, through Martin's negligence, the pages were lost. Both Martin and Joseph were reprimanded.
Brad Noble, who played the role of Martin Harris in the last two productions, said one of the big themes of the pageant is that of forgiveness and repentance. "There's a line that I love at the end of the play where Joseph explains to Martin that we all need forgiveness and it's Christ's Atonement that does that for each and every one of us," said Brother Noble.
Not only is Martin forgiven, but he also becomes one of three men allowed to see the angel Moroni display the gold plates. After the witnesses saw and handled the plates, a voice from heaven declared that the record was true and had been translated correctly.
Each performance begins with the testimony of the Three Witnesses that is now included in the foreword of the Book of Mormon. Brother Noble said, "Every time [I speak those words]—from the first time we did it in rehearsal and every time I step out on stage—I get chills. I feel the Spirit every time. I know Martin saw what he saw because I feel it every time."
The hour-and-fifteen-minute production is staged every odd year with a cast of about 80, with 150 volunteers. Cast members put in long hours of rehearsals and performances. However, many cast members are quick to note the blessings.
"This pageant is a smorgasbord, and, if you allow yourself, it is an absolute feast," said Jeff Richins, who played Joseph Smith Sr. in this year's production but has also played the part of Martin Harris and other roles. "You can't have an experience like this every night and not want to put yourself back in that environment."
Prior to each performance, cast members spent time talking with visitors, often answering questions about their character or about Joseph Smith and the Restoration. Brother Richins took the opportunity during every show to give away a copy of the Book of Mormon, in which he had written his testimony. Many other cast members reported similar experiences throughout the three-week performance schedule.
"We're here to perform, but we're also here to be missionaries," explained Maggie Porter, who was part of this year's ensemble cast. "This is my own little mission."
Terra Smith, who played Lucy Mack Smith, the mother of the Prophet Joseph Smith, has participated in various ways in the pageant for more than a decade. The pageant has provided an opportunity for her to strengthen not only her own testimony but also the testimonies of her children, now ages 14, 13, and 12.
"It's been a wonderful opportunity for [my children] to not only learn the story of Martin Harris and the story of how the Book of Mormon was first published and how it really came to be, but it also gives them an opportunity to really understand what missionary work is and to have that personal testimony built for themselves as well."
Travis and Angela Parry and their five children, ranging from age 11 to 2, all participated in the pageant together and made it a goal for each
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Chapter 61: Strength and reward.
Translated by: chua
Edited by: TN and Elkassar
The Overlord sped past the clouds at breakneck speed, entering straight into space within seconds. Then like a drizzle against water, it gradually faded away, with only Sheyan and Reef left behind. They seem to be trapped inside a formless screen, their surrounding the mysterious pitch-black universe, the mystical nebula with twinkling stars. Beneath them, was the titanous yellow-earth backdrop of the planet. Because they had entered this world as a temporary party, thus, the ending of this story was similar.
Following that, was naturally the battlefield overview reflection. Firstly, the screen shone with the encounters of Reef and the other bunch of contestants when accomplishing the main mission. The crazed resistance against the arachnids in Steel Whip base….encountering a flaming beetle on the way to Whisky base….reuniting with the Roughnecks…..finally, the deaths of Johnny Rico and the other main storyline characters.
Next, Sheyan's reflection of events were much lesser. Obviously, his unorthodox path led to his abandonment of the main mission. His first reflection was the moment he killed that gigantic scourge back in Steep Whip base. The second was fast-forwarded to the moment he reached the tragic scene of the main character. The third was the emotional explosion of the Tyrannical Spore Colony.
The battle summary finally concluded. The realm flashed out the following information:
Time: Galaxy era. Year 383, April 17th. 10 am in the morning.
Location: Planet P, sixth district, Steep Whip human base. (Latitude: 43.19 degrees. Longitude: 91.02 degrees)
Setting: Starship Troopers
Difficulty: Mid (C grade)
Pain limitator: 30%
Individual capability enhancement: 0%
Current setting exploration rate: 7.2%
Main mission: Failed
Mission theory exploration rate: 41%
Mission completion score: D (Main mission failed / only met the basic requirements of Lieutenant Colonel Dundee's mission)
Note: You possess 1 legend level, you will receive additional bonus.
Setting completion reward: Free attribute points: 1+1 points (Because of legend level). Requirements not met to receive utility points or potential points.
Current free attribute points: 2 points.
You can freely add the free attribute points to your basic attributes (Strength/agility etc), using it to enhance your body.
Seeing this string of notifications, Sheyan quietly glanced towards Reef and shrugged his shoulders. Reef sighed and said.
"Such an arduous main mission for this mid difficulty setting…..indeed it is a little too demanding of a temporary constructed party. But if everyone had worked and cooperated together, especially you Seaman. If you could've displayed your schemes right at the start, we would've been able to succeed."
Sheyan shrugged his shoulders, sincerely replying.
"Let's not talk about others. If I had tried to give orders at the start, would you have been convinced?"
Reef was stunned, sighing, sighing again as he shook his head and sighed once more. Then he forced out a smile.
Sheyan patted Reef's shoulder and continued.
"No matter what, we still managed to survive, that itself is enough. What are your plans from now?"
Reef raised his eyes to observe Sheyan, then he gently replied.
"Why? Trying to recruit me?"
Sheyan bluntly replied.
"That's right. If I missed out on you, or you missed out on me, wouldn't we regret next time?"
Reef earnestly replied.
"In my heart, I've always had one belief; and that is principles and impartiality! Everyone should have equal privileges and rights, even a storyline character! I firmly believe, everyone has a good side to them. As long as we don't give up on them and trust them, then justice and integrity would never die. I'll definitely make genuine companions!"
As he speaked on, Reef's voice steadily turned passionate. Sheyan carefully listened, before he hung down his eyes and replied.
"I can only say, I do agree with some of your ideologies."
Reef shook his head.
"This world is filled with evil, but we cannot be influenced by it. Instead, we must cleanse it!"
Sheyan suddenly asked.
"You should be of an European nobility origin in the present world right?"
Reef snorted coldly.
"That's right! Are you going to follow that up with the stereotype, horse rider,
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Microsoft Sells Dell's Venue 8 Pro Tablet For $99
You're unlikely to find a better Windows 8 tablet deal. How does Dell's tablet stack up to the iPad?
On Monday, for one day only, Microsoft's online store and retail locations will sell Dell's Venue 8 Pro Windows 8.1 tablet for $99, an eye-opening $200 off the new device's regular price. If you've been on the fence about buying a Windows tablet this holiday season, you're unlikely to find many deals better than this one.
Dell's 8-inch slate isn't the first mini-tablet to run the full version of Windows, including desktop apps. But earlier efforts, such as Acer's Iconia W3, were hampered by cheap hardware and slow processors, to say nothing of Windows 8's rough edges and infamous learning curve. Dell's Venue line, in contrast, has been generally well-received. Forrester analyst David Johnson told InformationWeek in October that the devices are compelling options that compare favorably to more expensive and ballyhooed options, such as Microsoft's Surface tablets.
But you'll have to act fast if you want in on this deal. The offer is good only on Monday, and each Microsoft location will sell only twenty Venue 8 Pros at $99. After that, the devices will sell for $199 - still a pretty good deal - until inventory is depleted. Microsoft's online store will offer the Venue 8 Pro for $99 to the first 100 customers. After that, the cost shifts to $199 for the rest of the day or while supplies last.
[ Buying a tablet this holiday season? Read Tablet Shopping Guide: 8 Tips. ]
The promotion is available only to customers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Each customer is also limited to one device.
In limited use, I've found the Venue 8 Pro to be snappy and responsive. Its quad-core "Bay Trail" processor is a noticeable improvement over previous Intel Atom chips, and though its screen doesn't boast the resolution of some competing options, the device's 1200x800-pixel display is still quite decent.
Dell's Venue 8 Pro supports stylus and keyboard accessories.
Windows 8.1 is also a major improvement over Windows 8. The update's app-snapping multi-tasking function is particularly welcome on an 8-inch display because it allows users to split the screen evenly between two apps. In the original version of Windows 8, one app had to occupy three-quarters of the display, which made multi-tasking impractical on smaller tablets.
Other Venue 8 Pro appeals include a preloaded copy of Office Home & Student 2013, 32 GB of storage and 2 GB of RAM. It also includes a Micro USB port and can run for up to 10 hours between charges.
Are there any reasons not to take advantage of this sale? A few.
For starters, buying a Windows 8.1 tablet isn't the same as buying an Android or iOS tablet. They're all fine for accessing the Web, sending email or watching Netflix, but if you're looking for an expanded ecosystem of touch-first apps, iOS and Android still set the standard. Windows 8.1's app store isn't as impoverished as it was once, but the Venue 8 Pro's major sales draw isn't touch apps; it's support for desktop software, particularly Microsoft Office.
Does this make the Venue 8 Pro more productive than an iPad? It depends. The Venue 8 Pro offers stylus support and can connect to third-party keyboards via Bluetooth. Dell also plans to release its own keyboard accessory soon. These tools will be useful to some, but desktop software will provide only so much utility running on such a small form factor. The Venue 8 Pro won't replace a laptop, but it could be a terrific secondary device for work.
Display resolution might be another concern. The Venue 8 Pro's screen is serviceable-- but it's also put to shame by the new iPad Mini's 2048x1536-pixel Retina display. Some might also be bothered by the awkward placement of the Start button; many Windows tablets place the button beneath the screen, in the middle of the bottom bezel, but Dell counter-intuitively positioned the button on the device's top-right edge. Other might be peeved that the device's 10-hour battery life can only be achieved if the screen brightness is turned down; otherwise, the battery runs closer to eight hours. The Venue 8 Pro also lacks an HDMI port for connecting the tablet to a monitor or television, though Windows 8.1's native Miracast support somewhat mitigates this concern.
But given that the device is being offered at such extreme discounts, most of these concerns are minor quibbles.
And if you miss out on the Venue 8 Pro 8, don't
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a portable, fully userland jailbreak. usage: - device must NOT have been used for development (if it is, reboot while Xcode is not running) - put a copy of theos in ./theos - update DeveloperDiskImage.{dmg,signature} for your firmware - change Makefile to use your dev profile - depending on the target device, change Makefile to build for the correct architecture - make sure your provisioning profile is installed - ./test.sh to build and go. - ./interact jailbreak to install cydia, etc - reboot (this may or may not be necessary) - re-run ./test.sh on each boot to jailbreak again NOTE: most binaries from telesphoreo (e.g. coreutils, most of apt, etc) are currently broken with the included bootstrap.tar on A6 devices, due to an old crt0.o used when building it. when jailbroken, only "resigned" binaries will run. that means they have the "platform-application" entitlement. this is due to the kernel usually restricting user signed executables to /var/mobile/Applications/. however, that check is disabled when the binary has that entitlement. NOTE: To build for ARMv7s from command line use "make PLATFORM=swifter", otherwise use make to target for ARMv7. Hopefully this saves you some time. NOTE2: for armv7s that involves makes, use ./test.sh -s to signify so.
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The Tempe Police Department is postponing its "Run From The Cops 5K" charity race scheduled for Saturday, because, well, that's kinda obvious, right?
Rumain Brisbon, an unarmed black father of four, was shot to death in Arizona Tuesday when a police …
Police Chief Tom Ryff's explanation, via the Arizona Republic:
"I have determined that out of sensitivity, respect and support for all sides of an important debate taking place all across our great country, it is necessary to proactively postpone this year's race," Ryff said.
When the annual event was named three years ago, the events taking place today couldn't have been predicted, Ryff said, adding that the department doesn't want the name of the event to misconstrue intentions.
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Image copyright EPA Image caption Hungarian troops patrol a razor-wire fence on the Serbian border to keep migrants out
The leaders of the Czech Republic and Hungary say a "joint European army" is needed to bolster security in the EU.
They were speaking ahead of talks in Warsaw with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They dislike her welcome for Muslim migrants from outside the EU.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said "we must give priority to security, so let's start setting up a joint European army".
The UK government has strongly opposed any such moves outside Nato's scope.
The Czech, Hungarian, Polish and Slovak leaders are coordinating their foreign policy as the "Visegrad Group".
Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said building a joint European army would not be easy, but he called for discussion to start on it.
The EU has joint defence capabilities in the form of 1,500-strong battle groups, but they have not been tested in combat yet.
Last year European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for a European army to give the EU muscle in confronting threats from Russia or elsewhere.
Post-Brexit planning
Slovakia will host an informal EU summit on 16 September to consider the EU's future without the UK.
No UK minister will attend, as the Conservative government is preparing the ground for Brexit, in line with the 23 June vote to leave the 28-nation bloc.
"Brexit is not just an event like any other - it's a turning-point in the EU's history, so we have to frame a careful response," Mrs Merkel said.
Germany wants the Visegrad countries to help house refugees from conflict zones, especially Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, but they oppose an EU quota system.
Germany took in more than a million non-EU migrants last year - a record influx.
New Hungary fence
Hungary and Slovakia are suing the European Commission at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), calling its quota scheme for distributing refugees illegal.
Hungary will hold a referendum on 2 October aimed at showing majority opposition to quotas.
Mr Orban announced plans on Friday to build a second razor-wire fence, taller and stronger than the first, along Hungary's southern border with Serbia.
The second fence would be to keep out any future wave of migrants arriving from the Balkans.
The BBC's Nick Thorpe in Budapest says Hungary currently allows around 30 people a day through two transit zones built into the existing fence. Migrants live in wretched conditions beside the fence, waiting to be allowed through, he reports.
Others pay people smugglers, who bribe police on both the Serbian and Hungarian side.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- One of Bernie Fine's accusers initially told Syracuse police the former Syracuse University coach molested him in early 2002 while he was attending an away game against the University of Connecticut, Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick said today.
But Fitzpatrick said that after law enforcement authorities discovered that SU never played UConn during the 2001-02 season, Zach Tomaselli changed his story.
Tomaselli then told police that Fine sexually abused him in a Pittsburgh hotel room in January 2002, the night before SU played Pittsburgh, Fitzpatrick said, questioning Tomaselli's credibility.
Tomaselli fired back today that Fitzpatrick's account is not true.
He said that he initially told a police dispatcher that Fine molested him after inviting him to an away rivalry game, possibly against Connecticut. But within 24 hours, a friend, whom Tomaselli would not identify, reminded him that he had gone to Pittsburgh to see SU play, he said.
"I was 13 at the time. I had been in the northeast less than three or four months. That was not something I remembered, the specific city. I did once I thought about it," Tomaselli said. "The minute I actually thought about it I knew it was Pittsburgh. One hundred percent."
Minutes later, Tomaselli said, "I don't think I ever told the police it was in Connecticut. I'm 90 percent sure I did not even tell Connecticut to a police dispatcher. That 10 percent, I might have said it was a rivalry game, possibly Connecticut."
Tomaselli, 23, is the only known accuser of Fine whose allegations could possibly result in a prosecution because of the statute of limitations, according to prosecutors and legal experts.
Tomaselli said he recalled that Fine had invited him to watch an away game in Pittsburgh - not in Connecticut - before police detectives met him and questioned him about the incident. He said he never knew that SU did not play UConn in the 2001-02 season until a Post-Standard reporter questioned him today. No police officials ever confronted him about that fact, Tomaselli said.
Fine, 66, who was fired by SU in November after three men publicly accused him of molesting them as children, has not been charged with any crimes. Through his attorneys, Fine has maintained he did nothing wrong.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Clymer, who is overseeing the investigation of Fine, declined to comment today on Fitzpatrick's assertions.
The spokesman for the Syracuse Police Department, whose detectives interviewed Tomaselli, did not respond to a request for comment.
Fitzpatrick's office initially launched an investigation of the sexual abuse allegations against Fine. But Fitzpatrick announced Dec. 7 that he was ending his investigation because no crimes had occurred in Onondaga County within the statute of limitations and the U.S. Attorney's office was taking over the case.
Staff writer Emily Kulkus contributed to this story. Contact Mike McAndrew at mmcandrew@syracuse.com or 470-3016.
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Some musicians are so idiosyncratic and distinctive that you can pick out their sound anywhere: Mark Knopfler and Jerry Garcia on guitar, Flea on bass, Stevie Nicks on vocals, and Trent Reznor on, well, everything.
It turns out that programmers are the same way.
"Stylometry," which helps identify creators through the study of the person's style was first applied to music, then to fine art. Now some researchers—led by Aylin Caliskan-Islam, a PhD student at Drexel University—have recently discovered that this technique can be applied to code as well to determine who programmed it.
"Every developer has preferences not only for things like spacing (spaces vs tabs), naming styles (CamelCase vs. snake_case) and commenting, but also how he or she implements certain types of functionality," explains Phil Johnson in ITWorld.
Other traits that that the researchers used included layout (such as the white space in the program) and lexical attributes (for example, counts of various types of tokens), Johnson explains. "Their real innovation, though, was in developing what they call 'abstract syntax trees' which are similar to parse trees for sentences, and are derived from language-specific syntax and keywords," he continues. "These trees capture a syntactic feature set which, the authors wrote, 'was created to capture properties of coding style that are completely independent from writing style.'"
In other words, "Programmers can obfuscate their variable or function names, but not the structures they subconsciously prefer to use or their favorite increment operators," the researchers say in a lecture about the project.
The technique was developed by gathering publicly available C++ source code from seven years' worth of Google's Code Jam, an annual programming competition that attracts a wide range of programmers—more than 100,000 in total. Eventually, they achieved a 95 percent success rate, Johnson writes, which rises to 97 percent as the code sample sizes increase. The more complex the programming problem, the better success researchers had in identifying the coder, he adds.
Of course success first requires having a known database of programmers and their code with which to compare it. This was apparently left as an exercise for the reader.
Why is this a big deal? Does it really matter who wrote some piece of code? It does when you consider that stylometry could be used to help identify the author of malicious source code. It might also help resolve plagiarism and copyright disputes.
"Source code authorship attribution could provide proof of authorship in court, automate the process of finding a cyber criminal from the source code left in an infected system, or aid in resolving copyright, copyleft and plagiarism issues in the programming fields," the researchers write. Less seriously, it could also be used in computer programming classes to determine whether students are cheating on the assignments.
Stylometry is also being considered as a security method by organizations such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Army—where, incidentally, Caliskan-Islam served as a visiting researcher.
In fact, this research could put some programmers at risk, the researchers warn. Programmers could now be identified when they contribute to an open-source project—which could get sticky when they don't want their employer to know. It also becomes risky to work on something embarrassing—or dangerous. "An Iranian programmer was sentenced to death in 2012 for developing photo sharing software that was used on pornographic websites," researchers note. "Sadly but predictably, there is virtually no technical difference between security-enhancing and privacy-infringing use cases."
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Buy Photo Tiffany Compton, 29, Indianapolis, hunts with her hunting dog Oakley at Goose Pond Fish and Wildlife Area near Linton on Dec. 6. (Photo: Ryan Sabalow/The Star)Buy Photo
Tiffany Compton is a former police officer. She has worked as a guard in an all-male lockup inside a state prison. She knows how to use deadly force and take down bad guys twice her size.
But when Compton, 29, recently found herself alone and intimidated on a recent morning, it wasn't at the hands of hardened criminals. It was a group of duck hunters.
The Indianapolis woman had walked into a wildlife area office to sign up for her first public-lands duck hunt. She was the only woman in a room full of camouflaged men. Immediately, she felt the stares.
And then, with her back turned, she heard words that made her cringe. It was a father talking to his son.
"As I'm looking at the map," Compton recalled, "I can hear the dad chuckle, and he says (to his son), 'I know what you're looking at.' "
Women are increasingly making inroads into traditionally male-dominated hunting and shooting sports. Still, stories such as Compton's are common — and they illustrate a troubling hurdle for hunting groups, wildlife agencies and outdoor retailers seeking recruits to a sport that isn't growing.
Based on surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of U.S. hunters has largely stayed flat or declined in recent years, a factor hunting associations and wildlife officials blame at least in part to increased urbanization. The trend poses a particular challenge for state wildlife agencies, whose funding is almost entirely dependent on fishing and hunting license fees and taxes on hunting and shooting equipment.
"The very last thing you want to do is make a new hunter feel uncomfortable in a scenario like you described when she's simply trying to draw for a blind," said Nick Pinizzotto, president and CEO of the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, a hunting and shooting lobbying group. "Women hunting is the best thing that could happen to our sport."
After all, he said, female hunters — or even women who might be merely supportive of hunting — are key allies at the voting booth or in public policy debates about hunting and gun-rights issues.
'Be prepared to deal with that sexism'
Of the 13.7 million hunters in the U.S. in 2011, 11 percent were women — and that's up from 9 percent since 2001.
Women also make up a growing demographic among firearms owners.
For example, the number of women with gun permits in Indiana jumped 42.6 percent since 2012 — from 86,617 permits two years ago to 123,536 through the first quarter of this year. The National Rifle Association estimated that about 25 percent of 70,000 attendees at its Indianapolis convention this year were women.
With female hunters and shooters on the rise, companies have taken notice. Women now increasingly host big-game hunting cable television shows; outdoor retailers have begun marketing products and gear designed for women; and one of the nation's most venerable hunting magazines, Field & Stream, recently put a female hunter on its cover.
But Compton's story and several others that female hunters told The Indianapolis Star illustrate the depth of the problems women face from some male hunters. Women shared with The Star not only tales of sexism and mere rudeness, but disturbing examples of sexual harassment in the field, at outdoors retailers and at conferences.
"Men need to be involved in changing that climate," said Nadya Fouad, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee who has studied barriers to minorities and women entering workplaces dominated by white men. "That's going to take some time. Meanwhile, women need to be prepared to deal with that sexism."
'It is a lot of sexual comments sometimes'
Morgan Born knows a thing or two about that. The 20-year-old mother from Lake County says she basically taught herself, a female friend and her boyfriend how to hunt ducks.
But in spite of being as skilled as any man in the duck blind, she said, there are some public duck hunting areas near her home where she won't go because "a little circle of men" have repeatedly made her feel uncomfortable or were rude to her and her female hunting partner.
"It gets kind of weird at times," Born said. "You get a lot of comments like, 'I wish you would come in our blind.' It's like, 'Oh my God.' It is a lot of sexual comments sometimes."
Terri Millefoglie, a conservation officer with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, said now that she's an officer with a gun and a badge, male hunters are much more respectful, but she remembers what it was like being the only woman signing in at public hunting
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Technology Credit Union to become mutual savings bank By Eli Segall
– Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Oct 3, 2011, 1:03pm PDT
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– Reporter, Silicon Valley Business Journal Oct 3, 2011, 1:03pm PDT
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The condition of congenital amusia, commonly known as tone‐deafness, has been described for more than a century, but has received little empirical attention. In the present study, a research effort has been made to document in detail the behavioural manifestations of congenital amusia. A group of 11 adults, fitting stringent criteria of musical disabilities, were examined in a series of tests originally designed to assess the presence and specificity of musical disorders in brain‐damaged patients. The results show that congenital amusia is related to severe deficiencies in processing pitch variations. The deficit extends to impairments in music memory and recognition as well as in singing and the ability to tap in time to music. Interestingly, the disorder appears specific to the musical domain. Congenital amusical individuals process and recognize speech, including speech prosody, common environmental sounds and human voices, as well as control subjects. Thus, the present study convincingly demonstrates the existence of congenital amusia as a new class of learning disabilities that affect musical abilities.
Introduction
Language and music have many similarities. Notably, language and music are universal and specific to humans. Despite the complex abilities involved in both domains, linguistic and musical competence develop in the child spontaneously, without conscious effort or formal instruction. However, a few individuals suffer from severe language acquisition impairments, which are not consequent to any hearing deficiency, mental retardation or lack of environmental stimulation (e.g. Benton, 1964; Gopnik and Crago, 1991). Such a specific language impairment affects between 3 and 6% of the population (e.g. Wrightet al., 1997). Considering the similarities between music and language, we can expect that a similar proportion of individuals from the general population experience music‐specific impairments. Affected individuals would be born without the essential wiring elements for the development of a normally functioning system for music. This condition is variously termed tune‐deafness, tone‐deafness, dysmelodia or dysmusia in the literature. However, we prefer to refer to this learning disability with the less restrictive label of 'congenital amusia', because there may be as many different forms of developmental amusias as there are varieties of acquired amusias that result from accidental brain damage in adulthood.
Congenital amusia is a condition that has been known for more than a century, since the pioneering study published by Grant‐Allen in 1878. Grant‐Allen reports the case of a 30‐year‐old man with a solid education and without neurological lesion, who suffers from a severe musical handicap. The man was unable to discriminate the pitch of two successive tones, failed to recognize familiar melodies and could not carry a tune. He exhibited an overall indifference towards music. Yet, the musical defect could not be explained by a lack of exposure to music since the man had received musical lessons during childhood (Grant‐Allen, 1879). A century later, Geshwind published a similar case (Geshwind, 1984). The case was a man who came from a musically impaired family, despite their frequent exposure to recorded music at home. As a child, this man attempted piano lessons, but his teacher soon realized that he could not sing, nor discriminate between two pitches and could not keep time. Interestingly, this same subject could speak three foreign languages fluently.
Though indicative, these two studies are anecdotal since they are descriptive and not supported by systematic evaluations. Two large‐scale studies were run to quantify the musical disorder. In 1948, Fry evaluated a 1200 subject sample on tests requiring the subjects to compare two notes or two musical phrases in order to detect a change in pitch. From these results, Fry estimated that 5% of the British population were amusical. This author further argued that musical memory problems as well as a difficulty in pitch discrimination might be the major determinants of congenital amusia (Fry, 1948). However, these claims were not supported by data analyses. More recently, Kalmus and Fry ran another large‐scale study with 604 unselected adults who were required to detect anomalous pitches inserted in melodies (Kalmus and Fry, 1980). From these results, 4.2% of the British adult population were estimated to be amusical. However, this estimate is problematic. First, the measure lacks sensitivity since >90% of the participants were performing at ceiling. Secondly, a single measure of musical ability may have both poor validity and poor reliability. Above all, such a psychometric definition of congenital amusia is unconvincing because the sole consideration of one tail of the normal distribution on a single test does not provide convincing evidence that congenital amusia is a real affliction and not a statistical anomaly.
In summary, previous studies of congenital amusia provide valuable information regarding the nature of congenital amusia, while they do not offer a solid empirical basis. Thus, the major objective of the present study
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Start up the chorus of grumbling and shine up your best "What in the what now?" faces: AT&T has just added a $0.61 monthly administrative fee to wireless customers' bills. It's totally great for AT&T of course, as reports indicate the move could bring in about $518 million in extra moolah for the company in 2014. So, yay for you, AT&T?
Heralded as the "Mobility Administrative Fee," the new tariff actually went into effect May 1. Don't feel bad if you didn't notice, because we didn't either. Anyone with Consumer and Individual Responsibility User (IRU) lines should see this fee tacked on.
But what is the fee for, anyway? And should we be grumpy about it?
Grump as much as you want, but AT&T claims it's necessary to help "defray certain expenses AT&T incurs, including but not limited to: (a) charges AT&T or its agents pay to interconnect with other carriers to deliver calls from AT&T customers to their customers; and (b) charges associated with cell site rents and maintenance."
An AT&T spokesperson defends the new charge by telling CNET it's "consistent with similar fees charged by other carriers." To that end, Sprint and Verizon charge $1.50 and 90-cent administrative fees, respectively.
Some readers are wondering, and appropriately so, whether this surcharge will allow them to get out of their AT&T contracts without an ETF. It doesn't seem so, as Consumerist reader Eli writes that the common response to that question has been that because it's a fee and not a rate change, it doesn't count.
He says he was told by the Death Star itself: "The rate for the service is the same, ie if it was $69 a month before, it's still $69 now. There's just a new fee, which isn't the same thing as a higher rate."
Oh, okay…?
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GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana bow hunter is recovering after he survived a grizzly bear mauling by remembering a tip from his grandmother and shoving his arm down the animal's throat.
Chase Dellwo, 26, was hunting with his brother northwest of the town of Choteau on Saturday when he came face-to-face with a 350- to 400-pound male grizzly, the Great Falls Tribune reported.
Dellwo was walking up a creek bed, hoping to drive a herd of elk to a ridge where his brother was waiting.
He was only 3 feet from the bear when he noticed it. He said the grizzly had been sleeping and didn't see him coming, possibly because of the snow, rain and 30 to 40 mph winds.
Dellwo said he only had time to take a few steps back before the bear knocked him off his feet and bit his head.
"He let go, but he was still on top of me roaring the loudest roar I have ever heard," Dellwo said.
The bear then bit Dellwo's leg and shook him, tossing him in the air. As the bear came at the man again, Dellwo recalled a story he read in a magazine.
"I remembered an article that my grandmother gave me a long time ago that said large animals have bad gag reflexes," he said. "So I shoved my right arm down his throat."
The advice worked, and the bear left.
Dellwo rejoined his brother, who drove him to a hospital. Dellwo received stitches and staples in his head, some on his face, a swollen eye and deep puncture wounds on his leg.
"I want everyone to know that it wasn't the bear's fault. He was as scared as I was," Dellwo said.
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Democratic state Sen. Roderick D. Wright, convicted earlier this year on felony perjury and voting fraud charges, was sentenced Friday to 90 days in county jail and banned for life from holding public office.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy also sentenced the senator to three years' probation and 1,500 hours of community service. He must also pay $2,000 in restitution.
He is scheduled to begin serving his sentence Oct. 31.
Wright, 62, who represents an Inglewood-area district, was convicted in January on eight felony counts in a case that centered on whether he had lied to qualify for office.
Click here to read the full story on LATimes.com.
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First Saluki Comic Con opens on Family Weekend The Saluki Comic Con happened over the Family Weekend. It was a two day event filled with virtual reality, guest speakers, presentations and vendors while attendees dressed in cosplay.
GPSC vice president of graduate school affairs election null and void Awsumb said during the latest GPSC meeting the previous special election of Alex Davenport for vice president of graduate school affairs was appealed six times, and the election commission found errors in the way that election was held.
Student accused of being a Nazi no longer enrolled at SIU A Southern Illinois University Carbondale student recently accused of belonging to a neo-Nazi organization is no longer enrolled at the university, the Southern Illinoisan reported.
Saluki Elevator Pitch Competition has students compete to pitch their best business ideas Inspired by the TV series Shark Tank, the Saluki Elevator Pitch Competition will be held Wednesday, Oct. 3 at 6 p.m. at the Dunn Richmond Economic Development Center. The idea is to be able to market your idea to someone in a limited time frame.
Family fun on Family Weekend — here are the events Family weekend is right around the corner and if you're still not sure how to spend these long three days don't worry! There are a plethora of activities planned to make sure your family weekend is one to remember (or forget.)
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Enjoy this 5 minute video introducing you to the new ISBoxer 2 Alpha!ISBoxer 2 Alpha is currently available for testing, to those in the ISBoxer Beta group on isboxer.com forums. For info on joining, visit http://isboxer.com/wiki/ISBoxer_Beta #isboxertron
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A duel to the death with The Shadow Seven!
As Ninjak goes head-to-head with Fakir of the Shadow Seven, devastating secrets of his past stand revealed that will change his life forever! Plus: Roku makes her move… and an atom bomb goes missing. Yeah, that's right, an atom bomb is MISSING. The world's gone to hell…and only Ninjak can save it…that is if he lives long enough!
Pulse-pounding artist Clay Mann (X-Men) returns to join Juan José Ryp (Clone) and New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (RAI, DIVINITY) to bring "THE SHADOW WARS" to its conclusion!
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"Paint it (Vanta) black" - the world's blackest material is now in spray form
* new applications include consumer products such as cameras, and luxury goods
* new applications include consumer products such as cameras, and luxury goods
Newhaven, UK, March 11, 2016 --- A whole range of products can now take advantage of Vantablack's astonishing characteristics, thanks to the development of a new spray version of the world's blackest coating material. The new substance, Vantablack S-VIS, is easily applied at large scale to virtually any surface, whilst still delivering the proven performance of Vantablack.
Vantablack's nano-structure absorbs virtually all incident light, enabling the performance of precision optical systems to be optimized. The material's developer, UK-based Surrey NanoSystems, has mimicked the performance of its original Vantablack with a new version that can be sprayed onto objects, rather than deposited using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process.
Vantablack S-VIS greatly widens the potential applications space, making it possible to coat larger complex shapes and structures. It is applied at temperatures that are easily withstood by common plastics, further extending its use. Even though the material is applied using a simple spraying process, it traps a massive 99.8% of incident light. This property gives Vantablack S-VIS its ability to make objects appear to be two-dimensional black holes, as it becomes impossible to make-out surface topography.
The only other commercially-available material that is darker than the new S-VIS version is original Vantablack, which set a world record for absorption of light at a staggering 99.965%. Vantablack was originally developed for satellite-borne earth observation imaging and calibration systems, where it increases instrument sensitivity by improving absorption of stray ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. Since then, many other applications have emerged, including solar-energy collector elements, functional surfaces in buildings and architecture, cinematographic projectors, high-performance baffles and lenses, and scientific instruments. Its ability to deceive the eye also opens-up a range of design-possibilities to enhance styling and appearance in luxury goods and jewellery.
"The original Vantablack coating has had a big impact on the market, and is helping many companies to bring out higher-performing equipment," says Ben Jensen of Surrey NanoSystems. "We are continuing to develop the technology, and the new sprayable version really does open up the possibility of applying super-black coatings in many more types of airborne or terrestrial applications. Possibilities include commercial products such as cameras, equipment requiring improved performance in a smaller form factor, as well as differentiating the look of products by means of the coating's unique aesthetic appearance. It's a major step forward compared with today's commercial absorber coatings."
Vantablack S-VIS is so effective that its performance far outstrips that of any other conventionally-applied coating, typically achieving a reflectance of less than 0.2%. Unlike other black absorbers, it offers this exceptional performance across a wide-range of viewing angles and wavelengths, which is critical for optical instruments, as well as in many aesthetic applications. It is, for example, some 17 times less reflective than the super-black paint used for minimizing stray light in the Hubble space telescope.
The active element of Vantablack S-VIS is a carbon nanotube matrix. The coating is applied using a proprietary process that includes a number of pre- and post-application steps to achieve its ultra-low reflectance.
Vantablack S-VIS can be applied to most stable surfaces, with the only major constraint being the ability to withstand temperatures of 100 degrees Centigrade, making Vantablack S-VIS suitable for many types of engineering-grade polymers and composite materials. The process is scalable and suitable for high-volume production on a range of substrate sizes.
The structured surface of Vantablack S-VIS means that it is not recommended for applications where it is subject to physical contact or abrasion. Ideally, it should be applied to surfaces that are protected, either within a packaged product, or behind a glass or other protective layer.
Coating with Vantablack S-VIS is offered as a service from Surrey NanoSystems' processing centre in the UK. It is also available under license to companies wishing to integrate the coating into their production processes.
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Media contact: Ben Jensen, t: +44 (0) 1273 515899
Journalists have permission to use any picture from this article or from our pictures page as long as they are attributed to Surrey NanoSystems
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
A few of Vantablack S-VIS's technical specifications:
* THR (total hemispherical
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CINCINNATI -- It's been more than 60 years since legendary actress and singer Doris Day lived in Cincinnati, yet she stole the show last month during a Cincinnati City Council meeting.
Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld led a 25-minute presentation, displaying life-size photos of the smiling superstar at City Hall and playing a video presentation on the Cincinnati native's life for fellow council members. And 25 minutes later, council voted to rename a city street in her honor – Doris Day Way.
It was a sentimental gesture to recognize a famous Cincinnatian. But it is also an increasingly common way for City Council to spend its time as Election Day nears.
So far in 2017, as most of council faces re-election, it has renamed 20 streets to celebrate history or honor notable residents such as Buddy LaRosa and Bootsy Collins.
Meanwhile bigger issues, such as what to do about the dilapidated Police District 5 and the number of cancer diagnoses of officers who work there, seem to simmer without much attention.
The Doris Day presentation came just a day after another officer had been diagnosed with cancer while city leaders delayed plans to move officers from the troubled District 5 building for months.
It prompted Hamilton County Republican Party Chair Alex Triantafilou to tweet "While @CityOfCincy PD faces a real crisis in Dist. 5, your council is enjoying pictures of Doris Day. Get Serious."
While @CityOfCincy PD faces a real crisis in Dist. 5, your council is enjoying pictures of Doris Day. Get serious. — Alex Triantafilou (@ChairmanAlex) September 27, 2017
With the election weeks away, and six of the nine council members running for re-election, WCPO examined the number of resolutions it passed that don't change city policy in any way.
For example, in 2017, City Council passed 17 resolutions voicing their opinions on a range of state and national topics, such as the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and the nation's withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement.
Councilman Charlie Winburn chided his fellow council members for spending the bulk of a 28-minute meeting in September talking about President Donald Trump's order to end a policy allowing children of immigrants to stay in the United States legally.
He ticked off a number of issues – from the streetcar's operating budget to the heroin epidemic – that City Council should spend time on instead.
"Our time is better spent on these issues," Winburn said. "We are not being fair to Cincinnatians when we focus on taking symbolic stands on national issues."
Councilman Charles Winburn speaks during a Cincinnati City Council meeting on Oct. 18, 2017. Photo by Leigh Taylor
And taking a stance on national issues – particularly with a controversial president like Trump -- can be a good way for some council members to win favor with their base.
"If you're Chris Seelbach and you're saying things that appeal to a group of liberals in the community, they're happy when you speak out against (Donald) Trump," said Mack Mariani, chair of Xavier University's political science department. "They're thinking: 'This Seelbach guy is thinking exactly what I'm thinking.'"
It's not just national issues that have sucked up council's time.
They've spent plenty of time taking up political causes, such as promoting Genocide Awareness Month or opposing Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
Over their nearly four-year term, members created 68 resolutions recognizing citizen achievements – from marathon runners to Food Network cooking champions, often with speeches and lengthy presentations.
"There's a value in recognizing our history and a value in celebrating the good feeling people have for the city and its people," said University of Cincinnati political science professor David Niven. "But it can only be a part of the job. … When it's a regular, reoccurring and often central accomplishment of the day, that's where it becomes a reason to be concerned."
Councilman Chris Seelbach routinely honors city residents during LGBT Pride Month and Councilwoman Yvette Simpson does the same for Black History Month, as a way to recognize important achievements.
Sittenfeld has had a busy and productive year on City Council – from new policy that forces banks to maintain foreclosed properties to launching a 'Golden Cincinnati' Initiative that created an aging and accessibility czar at City Hall. He also spearheaded an idea to use technology to solve the heroin crisis.
The resolutions he's sponsored are just another way to respond to his constituents, he said.
"I'm not sure I've ever done a resolution without someone in the community saying 'This is really important,'" Sittenfeld said. "It takes almost no time, and it's almost always in response to sincere citizens who care about issues and want their elected leadership to take a position."
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Hemispherectomy has been performed in the treatment of epilepsy in association with hemiplegia for over 50 years. However, the optimal timing of surgery with respect to age at presentation and the influence of underlying pathology on outcome is only slowly emerging. This study reports on the clinical course and outcomes of 33 children who underwent hemispherectomy at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, between 1991 and 1997. Age at surgery was 0.33–17 years (median 4.25) with 1–8 years follow‐up (median 3.4). The underlying pathology was developmental in 16 (10 hemimegalencephaly, two polymicrogyria, two focal cortical dysplasia, one diffuse cortical dysplasia and one microdysgenesis), acquired in 11 (six middle cerebral artery infarct, three post encephalitis/trauma, and one each of hemiconvulsion–hemiplegia epilepsy and perinatal ischaemic insult) and progressive in six children (four Rasmussen encephalitis, two Sturge–Weber syndrome). At follow‐up, 52% were seizure free, 9% experienced rare seizures, 30% showed >75% reduction in seizures and 9% showed <75% seizure reduction or no improvement. Seizure freedom was highest in those with acquired pathology (82%), followed by those with progressive pathology (50%) and those with developmental pathology (31%). However, seizure freedom, rare seizures or >75% reduction in seizures occurred in 100% of those with progressive pathology, 91% of those with acquired and 88% of those with developmental pathology, indicating a worthwhile seizure outcome in all groups. Hemiplegia remained unchanged following surgery in 22 out of 33 children, improved in five and was worse in six. No significant cognitive deterioration or loss of language occurred, and four children showed significant cognitive improvement. Behavioural improvement was reported in 92% of those who had behaviour problems pre‐operatively.
Introduction
Hemispherectomy was described independently in 1928 by Dandy and L'Hermitte (Rasmussen, 1983) as a radical treatment for malignant glioma of one hemisphere, but with a failure to offer improvements in survival or quality of life compared with more conservative treatments. Further interest in the procedure followed the publication in 1950 (Krynauw, 1950) of a study of a series of 12 children with infantile hemiplegia, seizures and behaviour disorders who underwent hemispherectomy for epilepsy with good seizure outcome. The popularity of anatomical hemispherectomy subsequently declined in the late 1960s because of the delayed complications of the procedure (Oppenheimer and Griffith, 1966; Till, 1967; Brett, 1969), which included obstructive hydrocephalus, superficial haemosiderosis and intracranial haematomata in as many as 33% patients (Rasmussen, 1983). However, a modification of the procedure (Adams, 1983) and the development of the sub‐total or functional hemispherectomy (Rasmussen, 1983; Tinuper et al., 1988) largely abolished these complications.
Hemispherectomy can be considered for those with seizures arising from one hemisphere where there is a pre‐existing structural abnormality of that hemisphere. It is particularly suitable for those with a pre‐existing hemiplegia and/or visual field deficit, a group in whom co‐existing cognitive and behavioural impairments are common. However, it may be offered to those without such disabilities in circumstances such as Rasmussen syndrome, where inevitable deterioration in epilepsy is accompanied by deterioration of both motor and intellectual performance (Vining et al., 1997) and where lesser resections are unsuccessful (Platt et al., 1988).
The effectiveness of hemispherectomy for epilepsy associated with congenital hemiplegia was initially evaluated by the degree of seizure relief it offered (the traditional outcome measure used in adult epilepsy surgery). Seizure outcome was impressive but positive effects on cognition and behaviour were increasingly reported and were replicated by other groups in the 269 published reports of the procedure by 1961 (Rasmussen, 1983). The cognitive and behavioural impairments associated with congenital hemiplegia may be profound, especially for those with very early onset epilepsy and dysplastic lesions in whom development appears to remain arrested until clinical and sub‐clinical seizure activity is abolished. Such secondary impairments, which constitute the severe epileptic encephalopathy suffered by these children, are emerging as the main target for epilepsy surgery in childhood. The aim is to offer surgery at a younger age in order to maximise the beneficial effects on developmental trajectory. This aim challenges our ability both to predict outcome and to justify major surgery in very young children. In the context of clinical decision‐making, it would be very difficult to randomize to early or late surgery. At this stage, therefore, we have to analyse our attempts to address these issues in the clinical setting and this is the main purpose of this study. We report the clinical outcomes of hemispherect
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Slim, Otis, Frank and Alex (three boys and a girl) form a group of snowboard and skate young bank robbers. They are known as masters of the runaway art. Slim, the thinking head hatched a plan for their final retirement: five consecutive burglars, in five days, involving 20 million dollars. But this time, they're gonna have to face both the police - and the mafia! Written by Anonymous
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Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography (Loose Teeth Press, 2005)
Joey Comeau's name sat in the back of my head for years before I actually got round to reading his work. A number of friends revere his work, and a particular online literary review zine, which must remain nameless or the review gets redlined at Amazon, championed his stuff as long as I read them. And given a title like Lockpick Pornography, I figured, how can you go wrong? Now, the book and its sequel are slated to be published in an om
Joey Comeau, Lockpick Pornography (Loose Teeth Press, 2005)
Joey Comeau's name sat in the back of my head for years before I actually got round to reading his work. A number of friends revere his work, and a particular online literary review zine, which must remain nameless or the review gets redlined at Amazon, championed his stuff as long as I read them. And given a title like Lockpick Pornography, I figured, how can you go wrong? Now, the book and its sequel are slated to be published in an omnibus volume from ECW Press, so what better time to write this review? (I actually finished the blessed thing last summer while on a roadtrip to visit relatives.)
As you may be able to surmise from the opening paragraph, I wanted to like this book. I wanted a good deal to like this book. But somehow I never got round to it. I didn't dislike it, mind you, but it never reached out and grabbed me. Normally, I'd give the writer of such a thing the benefit of the doubt, but I'm not going to in this case; I'm pretty sure the problem doesn't lie with me here. Comeau has a lot of big ideas, and it's really quite commendable that he's going to attempt to tackle them. The problem is, he never actually does. I'm not sure whether he's just throwing stuff out there with the belief that "if you're reading this book, you probably feel the same way I do about these things, so I really don't need to go into any detail" (which, at best, would be hopelessly naïve), simply using this stuff as plot device (which, at best, would be exploitative), or throwing it in simply for shock value (in which case, this would be bizarro fiction, but not as accomplished as the better bizarro authors). I toyed around with possibility #3 for about a week after finishing the book before throwing it out; there's enough passion in the places where Comeau makes an attempt at addressing all this stuff—the raging anti-capitalism, the gender dysphoria (and inventive ways his characters have of dealing with that), the sometimes-irresistable urge to take your experimental novel and turn it into a genre noir thriller—that I'm pretty sure he's not just trolling. And #2 doesn't quite feel right, either, and for much the same reason; I'm not sure someone using gender dysphoria solely as a plot device would be able to handle it with Comeau's sardonic-but-not-cruel take.
Which leaves me with choice #1, but I kind of feel like a heel employing it, no matter how naïve the resulting novel turns out to be.
The unfortunate part about it is that author naïvete turns into character shallowness, as no one in the novel ever gives even the most passing thought to why they're all doing this. In his defense, I should say that it seems Comeau either attempts and fails, or had thought about attempting and then abandoned the idea, to rectify this in the book's climactic sequence; I was planning on going on with that statement, but then realized we'd be well into spoiler alert territory, so trust me on this one.
I haven't yet read any of Comeau's more recent, and much more popular novels (my local public library, which is notorious for carrying very little other than Stephen King and Danielle Steel, even has a copy of One Bloody Thing After Another!), so I can't just pop out some sort of wry comment about how Lockpick Pornography is a rough early example of the style of etc., and yet for some reason I want to; that's what it feels like, anyway. It's very much a style-over-substance book, and I'd imagine it will have a great deal of appeal to the twenty-first-century version of the disaffected youth who flocked to see movies like Been Down So Long It Feels Like Up to Me back in the seventies. Be aware, however, you will have to fill in a number of wide, unbridged gaps that it doesn't seem to me you should have to. ** ½
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Meat and cheese lovers may have gotten excited recently when an article in the Washington Post was published with the headline "Atkins diet's return reflects idea that saturated fat shouldn't be demonized."
No doubt the Washington Post got excited, too, because there's no better way to pick up flagging newspaper sales than to tell people that it's okay to eat the foods they love.
Sorry, Washington Post, but it's NOT okay to eat foods high in saturated fat like red meat, cheese, butter, and full-fat ice cream.
Is saturated fat bad for you and your heart? Yes.
We know beyond any reasonable doubt that increased saturated fat intake raises LDL cholesterol levels; and over time, higher LDL levels promote more atheroclerosis and cardiovascular-related mortality.
To bolster this ridiculous claim, the Post referred repeatedly to a study published in the March issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The study analyzed several epidemiological studies (the studies' lengths ranged from 5 to 23 years) and found no significant evidence that dietary saturated fat is linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
But here's the problem: It has always been very difficult to find any significant correlation between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease using epidemiological data within a given population. The reason is not because a correlation does not exist but because of the way people's eating habits are measured. In these epidemiological studies, scientists used dietary recall data, "but dietary recall data are very inaccurate," points out Dr. Jay Kenney, Nutrition Research Specialist at the Pritikin Longevity Center.
In numerous investigations on the efficacy of 24-hour dietary records, scientists have found that the majority of people cannot estimate their food intake, or forget what they have eaten, or outright lie (Who wants to admit they wolfed down two cheeseburgers for lunch?).
And even when 24-hour food recalls are fairly accurate, they are still highly suspect as a measurement of people's overall food intake.
First of all, people often eat very different amounts of saturated fat from day to day. The day they recorded their sat fat intake may have been the day they had bean chili for dinner. The next day (the day that was not recorded) may have ended with a sirloin steak and crème brulee.
Secondly, people often change their diets over time, especially in industrialized countries like the U.S. Hence, what their daily diet was at the beginning of a 10-year study may have changed significantly two, three, or five years into the study.
"The point is: When your measurements of dietary variables are very inaccurate – and when you have no scientific tool to measure subjects' eating habits over long periods of time – the odds of finding a significant correlation, even if one exists, go way down," states Dr. Kenney.
Of course, if we study the actual cultures and eating habits of populations that we know eat far less saturated fat over their lifetimes, we see much lower levels of cholesterol in these populations, and much lower levels of cardiovascular events like heart attacks.
Here are two examples:
Okinawa
Researchers traveled to Okinawa and for years tracked the daily eating habits of the people living on this island off the coast of Japan. It was easy to confirm that Okinawa's people ate very little saturated fat because there wasn't much of the fat on the island to begin with. The population followed a diet (as they had for centuries) that was high in unrefined carbohydrates like fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. They ate up to 20 servings of unrefined carbohydrates daily. Staples included sweet potatoes, dark green vegetables, green peppers, rice, fresh fruit, tofu (and other forms of soy), as well as seafood rich in omega-3 fatty acids. While fish made up about 11% of the diet, only about 3% came from saturated-fat-containing foods like poultry and meat.
On this very low-in-saturated-fat diet, Okinawa's citizens were found to have 80% fewer heart attacks than Americans. They were also lean (Take that, Atkins diet proponents), averaging a body mass index of just 22. There's more good news: They had (and still have) the longest disability-free life expectancy in the world. They also have the highest percentage of citizens over the age of 100. Is there a correlation here between low-in-saturated-fat diets and very low rates of heart disease? You bet.
The China Study
Heralded as the most comprehensive study of diet and disease ever conducted, the China Study by Cornell University scientists looked at 16,700 individuals in the 65 provinces of China over a six-year period in the 1980s. It examined more than 1,000 separate diet, lifestyle, and environmental aspects relating to each of the subjects.
The provinces with the least amount of cardiovascular disease were those following a very low-
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"I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man. I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. Pulled over.... 'Let me search your car.' ... Go through the trunk of my car, look under the seats and all this kind of stuff," he said. "I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me."
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TORONTO — Jared Odrick hails a city cab on Spadina Avenue, the busy main drag of Chinatown, where open sidewalk displays lure passersby to buy fresh produce or bedazzled slippers or bonsai plants. He hops into the car, and gives the driver directions.
"You can make a right on Bloor," Odrick says, "and go up Bedford."
Jared Odrick is entering his seventh NFL season and second with the Jags. Gary McCullough/AP
Here in Canada's largest city, this American football player sounds like a local, because he is one. A few blocks back is the historic row house built circa 1883 that Odrick bought in mid-June, setting a new price ceiling for this neighborhood of Toronto. This is the first property Odrick has ever owned. Not in Miami, where he was a first-round draft pick by the Dolphins in 2010. Not in Jacksonville, where he signed a five-year, $42.5 million contract in 2015 free agency. The 28-year-old Pennsylvania native has found a home outside America and outside football.
"Team sports take away individuality," Odrick muses as the cab rolls along. "That's my lead-up to why I'm here in Toronto. I'm doing my own thing, and people think it is so weird when I go back."
It might sound ironic, but Odrick is breaking out of the football culture to maximize his career as a football player. For the next 12 hours on this day in June, he'll shuttle between four different appointments as part of a meticulous program to prime his 6-foot-5, 301-pound body for the 2016 season. He's the kind of guy who approaches life tactically, writing down bullet-point strategies for his goals in life. The time he spends in Toronto is central to his plan for How To Have A Successful NFL Career: Build your own team. Educate yourself. Have a life outside football. Find out more about yourself before you're done playing.
He leans over and asks the cabbie to take a detour to one of his favorite breakfast spots on Dupont Street.
"People get blinded by the religion of football," Odrick says. "Players, coaches, fans. But the best way to stay in the business is to keep your personal business running, and the best way to do that is to break some molds. Seek out knowledge on your own. Have individual thoughts. Be a little counter-culture."
That's what he's doing in Canada. As an American citizen, Odrick can only spend up to 180 consecutive days across the border. This was one of those days, a window into the experience that has given Odrick a different frame of reference than many of his NFL peers heading into his seventh professional season.
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10:59 a.m., Rose and Sons
Odrick enters under a retro storefront that simply reads "FOOD," a sign repurposed from the diner that previously occupied this space, People's Foods. This is a tiny casual-chic spot, the walls stocked with old books and blackboards listing the daily menu. Odrick has befriended the owner, Anthony Rose, a Toronto chef who has a colony of restaurants all over the city. Rose helps run a summer lunch program offering healthy and locally sourced meals to area kids, and as Odrick puts down roots in Toronto, he's hoping to lend a hand.
Settling into a wooden booth by the window, Odrick doesn't glance at the menu. He already knows what he wants: the All-Day Breakfast, with three eggs and bacon—he's skipping the pork chop today—and the grilled romaine Caesar.
"You have to have fat in the morning," he says. "That helps your brain wake up and function."
He follows wellness commandments like this all day. Odrick's breakfast arrives with a side of potato hash, but he pushes that plate away. He steers away from carbs, especially in the morning, instead choosing breakfast foods shown to boost stimulating neurotransmitters like dopamine. The results: His defensive lineman's frame has just 12 percent body fat.
Odrick would like to correct the football culture, at least the parts of it reflected in a sign he remembers hanging in the Dolphins training room: "Be a player, not a patient," a quote from Jason Taylor.
A few weeks ago, the Jaguars' Instagram account posted a Training Tip of the Week, sponsored by a cold-pressed juice brand: "Pre-exercise meals should be 200-300 calories and 75% carbohydrates and 25% protein." Even at the breakfast table, Odrick is doing his own thing. When he entered the NFL six years ago, he wasn't as discerning. He spent his offseasons the way
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News Releases from Region 09
U.S. EPA recognizes food recovery efforts in California
Winners from Daly City, North Hollywood and San Diego area receive awards
Contact Information: Nahal Mogharabi (mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov) 213-244-1815
LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of seven California winners participating in EPA's Food Recovery Challenge. Winners include Sprouts Farmers Markets in Daly City and Carlsbad, Calif., Ramona High School in Ramona, Calif., Food Forward in North Hollywood, Calif., Cherokee Point Elementary School in San Diego, Calif., the City of San Diego and the San Diego International Airport.
"Food Recovery Challenge award winners serve as role models in their communities and for other organizations," said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. "Their hard work and effective efforts to divert wasted food from landfills is paying off through social, financial and environmental benefits. I encourage other organizations to replicate the successful food recovery operations of our Challenge winners."
EPA recognizes Food Recovery Challenge participants and endorsers with awards in two categories: data-driven and narrative. The data-driven award recipients achieved the highest percent increases in their sector comparing year-to-year data. Narrative award winners excelled in the areas of source reduction, leadership, innovation, education and outreach and endorsement. Nationally, 16 participants received awards. The seven winners in California were:
Data-driven Improvement by Sector Winners:
Sprouts Farmers Market
Grocer: Carlsbad Store
Newcomer: Daly City Store
Sprouts acts on their commitment to Zero Food Waste through their Food Rescue and Food Waste to Farms programs, and through customer engagement, preventing more than 31 million pounds of wasted food from entering landfills and avoiding more than $1.5 million in landfill fees in 2016. Team members participate in training on the importance of food donations in the community, proper shrink management, and guidelines for donations. In 2016, Sprouts was able to provide more than 19 million pounds of nutritious foods to its communities, resulting in nearly 16 million meals. Through its various initiatives, Sprouts has developed successful business-to-business and non-profit relationships that illustrate the power of partnerships to reduce environmental impacts and eliminate hunger in communities.
K-12 Schools: Ramona High School (Ramona)
Ramona High School's Eco-Leaders, in collaboration with the County of San Diego and the Ramona Unified School District, run a district-wide, collaborative wasted-food reduction and composting program. Students weigh, measure, chart and keep accurate data from eight school sites. The data is sent electronically to the County each day. Nutrition staff reported revisions to their food preparation practices after seeing how much food was going to waste. Prepared food suitable for donation is placed in a walk-in freezer and collected weekly by a local pantry and distributed to the underserved in the community.
Non-Profits: Food Forward (North Hollywood)
Food Forward rescues fresh local produce that would otherwise go to waste. Produce is collected from over 750 private backyards, 22 weekly farmers' markets, and the downtown Los Angeles Wholesale Produce Market. In 2016, the Wholesale Recovery program rescued over 13.7 million pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables. This produce would have otherwise been sent to landfill. One hundred percent of the recovered food is donated, within hours, to hunger relief agencies across eight counties in Southern California. In 2016, Food Forward helped feed 1.25 million individuals facing food insecurity.
Narrative Category Winners:
Source Reduction: Cherokee Point Elementary School (San Diego)
Cherokee Point Elementary School is a leader when it comes to reducing and diverting wasted food. With an enrollment of approximately 400 students, all receiving free and reduced price meals, Cherokee Point is committed to reducing wasted food at the source. The school accurately forecasted the amount of food needed for student meals by using the "offer versus serve" model which allows students to decline some of the items offered that they don't intend to consume, recovered certain foods and beverages to use in another meal service, and reduced salad bar pan size. Additionally, students separate their food scraps at lunch so they can be sent off-site for composting.
Leadership: City of San Diego (San Diego)
The City of San Diego's Environmental Services Department's Commercial Food Waste Diversion Program has a comprehensive food recovery education program for commercial food providers. The program had over 80 participants in 2016, composting nearly 8,000 tons of wasted food. Participants included the largest generators of food waste in the city, and all its larger venues, such as the Convention Center, Zoo, Safari Park and SeaWorld San Diego, took part. During 2016, 17 of the larger generators alone increased their food donation by over 3,000 pounds per week.
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Dear Ms. Kaminer,
I read your article, What to Make of the Rape Accusations at Amherst College, today, and I feel it necessary to express how disappointed I am. If there's a subcategory in rape culture that angers me most, it's victim blaming. The harm that comes from blaming a survivor of sexual assault is so substantial, that it often is as traumatic as the assault itself. The blatant mocking of Epifano that occurs throughout your article is simply unacceptable:
"Put aside questions about the accuracy of Epifano's recollections and the soundness or gross insensitivity of the counselor's advice. Never mind the absence of discussion about reporting the alleged attack to law enforcement; rape is, after all, a felony, which courts are better equipped to address than colleges. Focus instead on Epifano's reaction to the prospect of a disciplinary hearing: Hours locked in a room with him and being called a liar about being raped? No, thank you. I could barely handle seeing him from the opposite end of campus; I knew I couldn't handle that level of negativity."
You see, Ms. Kaminer, Epifano denied even the thought of going through a trial in order to protect herself. Maybe that seems ridiculous to you, but sometimes after going through a terrible trauma, one cannot possibly bear the thought of recounting that trauma over and over. Also, Epifano may or may not have known this, but out of every 100 rapes, 46 get reported to the police, 12 lead to an arrest, 9 are prosecuted, 5 lead to a felony conviction, and 3 rapists will spend a single day in prison*. The long and frustrating battle to hope that your rapist is not one of the 97% who walk takes a toll on survivors that Epifano didn't want to subject herself to.
And that's okay. What you need to realize is that it's okay for Epifano to put herself first. If she didn't feel like she could handle an entire trial, then let's applaud her honesty and willingness to listen to her own needs, instead of criticizing her because you or someone else would've "done differently." In reality no one knows, not even another survivor, of what she's endured.
You then go on to question the trauma she felt from her rape:
"Is rape necessarily this traumatic? Are all rapes equal in the damage they inflict? Yes, according to some popular feminist wisdom. No, according to the diverse experiences of rape victims I've known — including women who've been raped while hitchhiking and by strangers who broke in to their apartments, as well as women raped by dates or acquaintances… I'm not criticizing or judging Epifano for being acutely frightened and depressed. I'm not presuming to tell women how they should or shouldn't react to being raped. Quite the opposite. I'm simply suggesting that different women react differently, according to their different circumstances, strengths and vulnerabilities. I'm not denying the horrors of rape and the outrage, shame, or fear it can engender, but I am questioning the assumption that it naturally and inevitably breaks women down. I'm wondering if that assumption isn't sometimes self-fulfilling."
First, I'd be willing to bet that the source you have for that "popular feminist wisdom" is incorrect. The feminist approach to rape crisis intervention is letting the survivor know their options and empowering them to make those decisions themselves, in order to put control back in their lives. Secondly, every person reacts entirely differently from any other person who's been raped. You say you understand this, just to go ahead and question the assumption that rape "naturally and inevitably breaks women down." For some, yes, it breaks them down. For others, they can go on with their daily lives as if a rape never happened. One can never assume any reaction from any survivor.
Epifano, no matter her decisions or reactions from her rape, did what she could in order to survive. Maybe you don't agree with how she went about it, but she knows herself better than you do, so stop judging her. She is strong and brave and an inspiration. Angie Epifano is a survivor.
Sincerely,
Chelcie Laggis, founder of endrapeculture.com
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According to the RID Annual Reports, the pass rate of the NIC is quickly dropping, from 77% in 2010 to a shocking 26% in 2014. With the current iteration of the NIC, the pass rate has dropped to nearly half that of the first year it was available (51% in 2011). This decline suggests that the current exam is invalid, and many are concerned that the testing format of 4-minute vignettes does not sufficiently mimic real-life interpreting scenarios.
Dr. Dennis Cokely sent a letter to the RID board in 2012 raising valid questions about the enhanced NIC exam. To quote Dr. Cokely:
"A clear, empirically supported explanation of why the current NIC assessment is valid and can be reliably assessed by raters must be provided to the membership."
(Click here to read his letter that explains his - and our - concerns in detail.)
More and more states are turning to licensing as a way to protect clients from unqualified signers, and often the requirement for licensure is RID certification. Therefore, it is imperative that we have a reliable and valid exam in place. We recognize that RID is in the process of assembling a certification task force, but we feel the following points need to be addressed with urgency:
Determine NIC exam validity and establish full transparency about the testing process
If the test is deemed invalid, develop a new test
Publish the NIC rubric so candidates may properly prepare before testing
Provide more in-depth, personalized feedback on test results
Offer certification process extensions to candidates until a valid test is in place
These actions will help ensure competent interpreters aren't forced out of the profession due to an invalid certification process.
Our goal is to get as many signatures as possible before August 7th, so that the petition can be seen at the RID National Conference. If you choose to sign this petition, we encourage you to use the "I'm signing because…" box to explain to the RID board why this is important to you, as well as indicate if you are an RID member.
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Goldstone says: "To echo Nigel's concerns, we have seen kind of a corporatization of what's going on on State Street, and unfortunately, the sad part of it is, the Orpheum has now been a part of that. I mean, a lot of people don't know this, but earlier this summer the Orpheum Theatre signed an exclusive booking arrangement with Live Nation Entertainment. For people who don't know who Live Nation is, it's a publicly traded mega-corporation based out of Beverly Hills, California, who doesn't have a single full-time employee in the state of Wisconsin. In the industry they're referred to as the Wal-Mart of promoters because they've basically built a business going into cities and either acquiring and downsizing local independent promoters like Frank Productions or simply running them out of business. And it's sad to see the Orpheum allow them into our market to attempt that as well." He then goes on to tout the still-unnamed new Frank venue as being locally owned and operated.
It's a little surprising that he's so openly critical of Live Nation, because Frank has co-presented shows with Live Nation, and there are still Frank Productions shows for which you can buy tickets through Ticketmaster, which is part of Live Nation.
Orpheum general manager Perry Blanchard, who was also a guest on the segment, counters: "First of all, the ownership of the theater is still local. We have a booking arrangement, and the person that books our room books the House of Blues in Chicago, and Billboard's just put out a list yesterday of the top 25 clubs in America, and the House of Blues Chicago was number 5. And when we were looking for people to book our room, we had many conversations with a lot of promoters, and Live Nation came to us and they were the most realistic about what they expected from our venue. And the reason we went with Live Nation was because we want the ownership of this theater to stay local, and we need events in our room to keep it thriving, and they're driving so much business into our room right now that we couldn't be happier with their involvement. And ultimately, with what the Franks had coming down the pipe, we needed to have the best company to help us compete with what was coming down the line."
Blanchard later adds: "You can say what you want about Live Nation but they're the best at what they do, and we're certainly happy to have them on board with us."
Anyhow, not entirely surprising to hear a business criticize a competitor, but it's a bit more heated than I would have expected. The segment overall is worth a listen—good on O'Shea for asking some hard questions and stirring up the conversation.
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Whether they are senior citizens, middle-aged fathers or barely able to drink legally, all men are inherently attracted to young women who are in their early 20s.
In his book Dataclysm: Love, Sex, Race, and Identity - What Our Online Lives Tell Us About Our Offline Selves, author and OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder used the data preferences found on his dating site to determine that men find women between the ages of 20 and 24 most attractive - no matter how old they get.
After [a man] hits thirty, the latter half of [OKCupid's] age range (that is, women over 35) might as well not exist,' Christian explained in an excerpt of his book, which was shared on Jezebel.
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Pretty young things: OKCupid co-founder Christian Rudder used the data from his site to determine that men think women look best when they are between the ages of 20 and 24
'Younger is better, and youngest is best of all, and if "over the hill" means the beginning of a person's decline, a straight woman is over the hill as soon as she's old enough to drink,' he noted.
A majority of the groups of men between the ages of 20 and 50 prefer women to be 20, while 21 was the next highest reported age.
And only one age group, 45, chose 24, the highest age reported, as the one that looks best to them.
Meanwhile, Christian found that women want a 'guy to be roughly as old as she is'.
Younger is better, and youngest is best of all
'This isn't survey data, this is data built from tens of millions of preferences expressed in the act of finding a date,' he said.
According to his research, women like men to be slightly older than them until they hit their 30s. Then they become interested in men who are their own age or slightly younger. By their 40s, women are most attracted to men who are two to eight years younger than they are.
'If we want to pick the point where a man's sexual appeal has reached its limit, it's there: 40,' Christian noted.
But an eight year age difference is nothing compared to the 28-year age gap between 50-year-old men who think 22-year-old women are ideal.
'Another way to put this focus on youth is that males' expectations never grow up,' Christian wrote. 'A 50-year-old man's idea of what's hot is roughly the same as a college kid's.'
However, there is no need to despair. Men may be most attracted to women in their early 20s, but many males end up with women who are in their age range or even older.
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In a warming world, we expect to see increases in some extreme weather events. The science is pretty clear that in some parts of the world, drought and heat waves have and will continue to increase. In other areas, more severe storms along with precipitation and flooding have increased. Drought, heat waves, and floods are examples of changes to weather and climate patterns that will have costs for human society.
It's tricky to discern not only whether past extreme weather have changed, but also whether human-caused global warming is a factor. Scientists need high-quality records that go back many decades to see if there is any trend towards increasing or decreasing extreme weather. But weather is quite variable. We can see a rise or fall in extreme weather events with no apparent cause, human or natural.
While these trends tend to be shorter (over days, weeks, or perhaps months), some trends can have longer durations. How can we identify trends prior to high-quality instrumentation and how can we discern whether the extreme weather we see now is within natural variability? Those are the questions addressed in a new publication in the Journal of Geophysical Research by lead author Dr. Benjamin Cook and his colleagues.
The title of the article, "Spatiotemporal drought variability in the Mediterranean over the last 900 years" clearly indicates that this study considers almost a millennium of drought records and focuses attention on the Mediterranean region.
The authors use a powerful database called the Old World Drought Atlas to look back in time prior to modern instruments. This atlas is a collection of tree-ring data that measures drought using the Palmer Drought Severity Index. Within the Mediterranean region, there are 106 different tree-ring datasets. These datasets go back various lengths of time but since 1100 CE, the region is accurately sampled.
The Palmer Drought Severity Index accounts for changes in precipitation as well as changes in evaporation and storage of water within soils. By using this measurement, the authors are able to find multiple droughts throughout the Mediterranean region. Often times, the droughts occur simultaneously in different parts of the region. For instance, droughts are likely to occur at the same in in both the Western Mediterranean (Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) and in the east (e.g. Greece and Turkey).
What did the authors find regarding the recent droughts in the Mediterranean? Well in recent decades, there has been a persistent and long-duration drought in the regions of Greece and the Levant region. The authors found that although the Greek droughts have been severe, they do not deviate from droughts that have been observed in the past.
In the Levant region, the recent drought (1998–2012) exceeds what they have seen in the past 900 years. In fact, the recent drought is likely the driest period in the last 900 years and very likely the driest period in the last 500 years.
Here is what Dr. Cook told me:
To really understand the extent to which climate change is affecting extreme events, like droughts, you need to understand the full range of natural variability. This is why paleoclimate is so important - it gives us a way to extend our understanding way past the relatively short instrumental record of the last 100 to 150 years. In this study, we found that the recent drought in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean is likely worse than any comparable period of the last 900 years. This provides some independent support for other studies that have argued that climate change is intensifying drying in the region.
To be clear, this study doesn't prove that droughts are getting worse, and it doesn't prove that human emissions of greenhouse gases are making droughts more severe. In fact, proving such statements would be nearly impossible. What this study does is put recent extreme weather into historical context.
We know human carbon emissions will warm the world. We know that a warmer world affects precipitation and evaporation and this should affect droughts. We are observing that recent droughts are likely to worst on record. We also know that droughts and other extreme weather events have tremendous societal and economic consequences.
Was the recent extreme Mediterranean drought caused by us? Probably. Or, if not caused by us, certainly made worse. Can we prove it? Probably not. However, it is clear to people like myself that study this topic that we have enough information to make decisions about the future planet we want to live in. It is clear that if we want to avoid further increases in extreme weather, we need to reduce our emissions of global-warming gases.
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At long last, the numbers have been revealed about the sale of President Trump's boyhood home, located in a pleasant neighborhood of Queens, New York. The attractive Tudor home was sold five days ago to an unnamed buyer for $2.14 million — a tidy 54 percent profit for Michael Davis, the local real estate investor who purchased the property for $1.39 million through public auction only three months ago. He was praised by the press for "flipping" the property, built in 1940 by Mr. Trump's father Fred C. Trump, himself a real estate developer.
There is reason to fuss over the five-bedroom home. It could very well be declared a historic property, or become a lucrative tourist destination. There is always intrigue, though. Both the New York Times and New York Daily News note that the lawyer who represented the buyer "is known to represent Chinese investors." If that proves to be true, there will be a media frenzy over a "Chinese connection," or words to that effect — so stand by. Meanwhile, the property remains a cozy house, and Mr. Trump has publicly revealed that he still loves it.
"This property is so much more than just real estate; it's the childhood home of the 45th president of the United States, and it's a part of history. That intangible value makes it a perfect example of why special properties are appropriately sold by auction, just like art is. As they say, beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder," notes Misha Haghani, founder of Paramount Realty USA, which managed the transaction. Find the home here.
THE TRUMP TOUCH
"Donald Trump gets it. He really gets it," says an appreciative Joseph Bast, president of The Heartland Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit that favors free-market solutions to social and economic challenges.
"At the signing ceremony for his 'Energy Independence Executive Order' Wednesday, President Trump stood surrounded by coal miners, talked to them like the real people they are, and thanked them for what they do," Mr. Bast continues, citing Mr. Trump's vow to put the miners back on the job.
"President Trump stressed that this isn't about lowering standards for protecting health and safety, whether for miners or the public, but about ending unnecessary and costly regulations that kill jobs without producing any benefits. For many of us who were marginalized, ignored, or demonized for the past eight years, this is an occasion for real joy, celebration, and yes, vindication. We have a president who gets it — he really gets it," Mr. Bast concludes.
SPICER-ISM
The daily White House press briefing is an interesting showcase. On Tuesday, Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked about ongoing but unproven challenges to the Trump administration — "you've got Russia, you've got wiretapping, there are investigations on Capitol Hill," one reporter noted.
"If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection," Mr. Spicer responded, adding, "I appreciate your agenda here."
THE SESSIONS ERA BEGINS
"The number of federal criminal prosecutions has declined for five consecutive years and is now at its lowest level in nearly two decades," writes John Gramlich, an analyst for the Pew Research Center who combed through new data from the federal courts. "The decline comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions has indicated that the Justice Department will reverse the trend and ramp up criminal prosecutions in the years ahead."
In fiscal year 2016, federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 77,152 defendants, a decline of 25 percent since 2011, when 102,617 defendants were charged, and the lowest yearly total in two decades. The data here count all defendants charged in U.S. district courts with felonies and serious misdemeanors, as well as some defendants charged with petty offenses. They exclude defendants whose cases were handled by magistrate judges.
"Prosecutions for drug, immigration and property offenses — the three most common categories of crime charged by the federal government — all have declined over the past five years," Mr. Gramlich says. "The Justice Department filed drug charges against 24,638 defendants in 2016, down 23 percent from 2011. It filed immigration charges against 20,762 defendants, down 26 percent. And it charged 10,712 people with property offenses such as fraud and embezzlement, a 39 percent decline."
The analysts cite several factors for the trend, including then-Attorney General Eric Holder's direction in 2013 to federal prosecutors to ensure their cases "serve a substantial federal interest." Mr. Sessions, meanwhile, has pushed to increase prosecutions for drug- and gun-related offenses to reduce violent crime, which has risen nationally since 2015 according to the FBI — though such crime is "far below the levels recorded in the 1990s," Mr. Gramlich says.
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By Molokai Dispatch Staff
Homestead Gardening Program
Community Contributed
By Glenn I. Teves
The next round of the Hawaiian Homesteaders Gardening Program will start in late November. The purpose of this educational program is to increase homestead families access to fresh vegetables. Participants will be taught all aspects of establishing and managing a garden, and growing vegetables adapted to Molokai.
This program is open to all Hawaiian homesteaders residing on Molokai, and participation will be limited to 15 families. Classes will be held two to three times each month from 4:30 to 6 p.m., with occasional workshops. The choice of a Tuesday or Thursday meeting date will be determined by participants.
If you're interested in participating, application forms are available by emailing shirleyh@hawaii.edu, calling 567-6929, or stopping by the UH Cooperative Extension Service Office in Hoolehua. We're located next to the Hoolehua Post Office.
This educational program is sponsored by UH College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources-Cooperative Extension Service, the Hawaii Community Foundation, and Molokai Community Services Center.
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This rail attaches to the beryl rear sight block and allows for the use of iron sights when installed. We have both Variant A and B versions available. B is a NATO Picatinny and A is the first production, looks more like Weaver. Variant A will work for most Picatinny mounts that use a single rail notch.
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The Rev. John B. Clark, at that time pastor of the Second United Presbyterian Church, in Allegheny, and a clergyman of nearly eleven years' standing, at the close of his services on Sabbath, the 5th.of August, requested those of his congregation who were willing to enlist in the national armies, to meet him in the basement of the church on the following Monday evening. Many came, and in three days' time three companies were organized, of one of which, Mr. Clark was elected Captain.
Drill was immediately,commenced at the Allegheny Commons, and in a little time ten full companies had been recruited, and a regimental organization effected with the following field officers:
John B. Clark, Colonel
Frederick Gast, Lieutenant Colonel
Hugh Danver, Major
On the 29th of August the regiment, a thousand strong, proceeded to Harrisburg, arriving at Camp Curtin on the morning of the 21st, where it was armed and equipped, and on the evening of the same day started for Washington. Upon its arrival it crossed the Potomac, and went into camp at Camp Stanton. Drill was at once resumed, schools for the instrnction of ofhicers were established, and the command soon became proficient in duty, eliciting on parade the compliments of its superior officers by its fine soldierly bearing. It was assigned to the Second Brigade,1 Third Division, Fifth Corps.
On the 29th of August, at the opening of the Second Bull Run battle, the regiment was moved out in the direction of Bailey's Cross Roads, and formed in picket line, with orders to suffer no person to pass through in either direction. For a day and a half this order was rigidly executed. But as the battle raged and increased in violence on the plains of Manassas, the Union army was borne back, and the broken and dispirited troops came pouring in, until they could be no longer held, the confused mass breaking through and moving on towards Washington, whither the division was soon afterwards ordered to follow.
At the Capital, the regiment exchanged its arms, Austrian muskets, with which it had at first been supplied, for Springfield rifles. On the morning of the 14th of September, the command started on the march through Maryland, and arrived near Frederick at night-fall of the 16th. Here the division remained during the 17th, under orders to cover Frederick from the direction of Harper's Ferry. At sunset it received orders to move to Antietam, and at the moment of receiving the orders the sound of battle was heard for the first time that day. The command was again put upon the march, and for the entire night, up and down the rugged way it was urged forward and at a little after sunrise on the following morning, was halted on the Antietam battle-field, a short distance from Sharpsburg.
A renewal of the battle was momentarily expected, and the men, though worn out by forced marches, stood ready for the onset. The ground was strewn with the unburied dead. Hour after hour it waited, but no sound of battle came. Finally, it having been ascertained that the enemy had withdrawn the brigade was ordered to Shepherdstown Ford, where it was saluted by a few shots from the enemy's artillery, from the opposite shore, but suffered no, loss. At night it retired a mile back from the river, where it went into bivouac, and while it remained in Maryland, was studiously drilled and disciplined.
With the army it crossed the Potomac, and marched up, the Loudon Valley to Warrenton, where M'Clellan was relieved and Burnside put in command. From Warrenton the regiment marched to a point on Potomac Creek, four miles from Fredericksburg, where it went into camp and was engaged in drill and picket duty until the 12th of December, when it marched to the music of cannon towards Fredericksburg.
On the following day the battle opened, and at three P. M., after the corps of Hancock and French had been checked and terribly slaughtered, Humphreys' Division was ordered in. It was a forlorn hope, but gallantly it went forward, and charged again and again those impregnable heights. What brave men dare do, they did; but it was all in vain. No human power could stand against the storm that swept that fatal ground. The One Hundred and Twenty-third occupied a position in the line, with its right reaching nearly to the pike, and bore manfully its part in the battle, suffering grievously. Lieutenant James R. Coulter was among the killed, and Captain Daniel Boisol and Lieutenant George Dilworth among the mortally wounded. The entire loss was twenty-one killed, and one hundred and thirty-one wounded. All night long it lay in position, and through the weary
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France suspected the US of hacking into the president's communications network during the 2012 presidential election but American officials hinted that Israel may have been behind the cyberattack, according to the latest revelation on the National Security Agency (NSA) published in Le Monde newspaper.
Top French intelligence officials Bernard Barbier and Patrick Pailloux travelled to Washington to demand an explanation for for an attempt to compromise the Elysée presidential palace's communications system, according to a briefing note prepared in April and published by Le Monde.
At the time outgoing president Nicolas Sarkozy's teams were still working at the Elysée as he fought an unsuccessful battle to remain in power.
The Americans, who were so anxious not to upset the French that the note spelt out how to pronounce their names, denied being behind the hacking and said that most of their closest allies - Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand - also denied involvement.
But the branch of the NSA which handles cyberattacks, Tailored Access Operations (TAO) refused to vouch for Israel.
"TAO intentionally did not ask either Mossad or [Israel's cyberintelligence unit] ISNU whether they were involved as France is not an approved target for joint discussions," the note said - a statement that the Le Monde article, coauthored by former Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, interprets as a hint that the Israelis were responsible.
The attacks have been previously reported by French media, who said they were an attempt to insert monitoring devices into the system, but it is unclear whether the presidential networks were compromised for any time.
Both US and French intelligence work closely with Mossad but not without a certain amount of mistrust.
A 2008 NSA note leaked by the Guardian judged the Israelis "excellent partners in terms of sharing information " but added that Mossad is "the third most aggressive intelligence service in the world against the United States".
France is also reported to have protested about Mossad's use of its soil to plan operations such as 2010 assassination in Dubai of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh of the Palestinian movement Hamas.
"Israel is a country which is a friend, ally and partner of France and does not carry out any hostile activity which could pose a threat to its security," the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Le Monde.
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Turn Your 19" Rack into a Eurorack Synth!
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- A West Virginia police officer was charged with bribery for allegedly having sex with a woman who tried to get out of a speeding ticket.
Marcus David Slauer of Fairmont reportedly was arrested Friday by state troopers and charged with one felony count of bribery. His bond was set at $5,000.
AP reports, citing a criminal complaint, that Slauer pulled over a woman April 22, who told him she faced prison time if she violated any laws.
Slauer asked the woman "to give him a good reason not to write her a bunch of tickets," the complaint said.
The woman offered Slauer several items and then showed him her breasts. The two then drove to the Farmington Police Department, where they engaged in sex.
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A controversial Netflix series is prompting schools to warn parents about the risks of teen suicide.
"13 Reasons Why" tells the fictional story of 17-year-old Hannah Baker, a troubled high school student who takes her own life. She leaves behind a series of audio tapes describing the "13 reasons why" she did it. The themes are graphic and intense, tackling not only suicide, but also sexual assault and underage drinking.
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Netflix says it's intended for mature audiences because of explicit and disturbing content, and it aims to provide an opening to difficult conversations. But educators and parents are concerned that "13 Reasons Why" might be glamorizing teen suicide, reports CBS News' Tony Dokoupil.
The program's portrayal of Hannah's story has prompted school districts across the country to send warning letters to parents, saying "the show may be perceived as glorifying and romanticizing suicide."
"Suicide is a tough issue to talk about," said Dr. Christina Conolly. She works for Maryland's Montgomery County School District, where she helped write a letter which states "adolescents watching without an adult ... could be at increased risk of self-harm."
"Watching a suicide or knowing someone who has died by suicide can lead others to completing a suicide themselves," Dr. Conolly explained.
Netflix responded to the concerns in a statement, saying "we gave the series a TV-MA rating, [and] added explicit warnings on the three most graphic episodes … we hope that "13 Reasons Why" can serve as a catalyst for conversation."
Radio host Toby Knapp received a warning letter from his 13-year-old daughter Kyla's school, but only after she had already watched the series alone. "It's caused her mom and I to say, 'OK, what is our daughter watching, what is she spending her screen time on?'"
"I think it's all too real for most of the people my age to cope with and understand," Kyla said.
Mark Ralston / AFP/Getty Images
The series is designed to have an intense impact on viewers, according to executive producer Selena Gomez, who has struggled with depression herself. "They have to see something that's going to shake them. This show is as real as it can possibly get," Gomez said about the series.
In other words, it's meant to be a realistic show, which leads to real family dialogue.
"I'm glad we're having a lot of tough conversations, but I wish I had been tuned into those conversations sooner," Knapp said.
Those conversations are extremely important to have — regardless of how they get started. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, suicide is the second-leading cause of death among American teens between the ages of 15 to 19.
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Most Americans who've followed the investigation into Hillary Clinton and her private email server fall into one of two camps. The first — those who believe the system is rigged and that she engaged in criminal acts but got away with them simply because her last name is Clinton. And the second — those who feel Hillary was the victim of yet another partisan witch-hunt that ended up being much ado about nothing, and that she's being harassed simply because she's a woman intent on breaking the highest "glass ceiling" of all.
Undoubtedly congressional Republicans fall into the former group, so it was no surprise once the news broke that no criminal charges would be brought against Clinton that their first act would be to haul FBI Director James Comey in front of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to ask him for an explanation. Comey essentially argued that the applicable law — a 1917 statute based on "gross negligence" in mishandling classified information — wasn't actually applicable.
"No reasonable prosecutor would bring the second case in 100 years focused on gross negligence," testified Comey, a former U.S. attorney. "That's just the way it is. I know the Department of Justice, [so] I know no reasonable prosecutor would bring this case." The case against Clinton, Comey added, did not meet the "mens rea" legal standard of criminal intent.
Yet one has to ask: What, then, was Hillary's intent? Perhaps it wasn't necessarily criminal intent, but there certainly was a lot of shady dealing going on between the Clinton Foundation, foreign leaders and others in the private loop with Hillary at the center. Even aside from the likelihood of hackers accessing the classified information on her private server, the reality that the Clintons used the secretary of state's office to peddle influence and thereby enrich themselves is outrageous. The personal email setup likely helped her cover-up Benghazi, too.
Instead, the whole affair is chalked up to "carelessness." As Comey pointed out: "I see evidence of great carelessness, but I do not see evidence that is sufficient to establish that Secretary Clinton or those with whom she was corresponding both talked about classified information on email and knew when they were doing it that it was against the law." While Comey claims no "reasonable" prosecutor would bring charges, it's also true that one can indict a ham sandwich. Indeed, frivolous and politically motivated charges have often come from an overzealous prosecutor and a stacked grand jury bent on political mischief. (Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy picks apart this defense from Comey by comparing it to a similar type of case where criminal negligence is often determined.)
Or, taken the other way, how many who are accused of similar acts will now be using the "Hillary defense" to imply that they were only careless and had no criminal intent? One certainly could have lumped David Petraeus into that group had he been investigated post-Hillary.
It's more difficult to sit there with a straight face and assure Americans that the system isn't rigged, as Comey did, when two high-profile cases turn out so differently — to the benefit of the political party in power, no less. And when the top law-enforcement official in the country agrees to a secret meeting with the suspect's former-president husband, Comey's insistence that he "did not coordinate … with anyone" rings hollow.
No one in "the White House, the Department of Justice, or anyone outside the FBI family had any idea what I was about to say," added Comey. "I say that under oath, I stand by that. There was no coordination." We call bovine excrement on that: After all, why would Barack Obama be campaigning with Hillary on the very day she was cleared if he didn't know the fix was in? (Does anyone think a sitting president would share a stage with a politician who'd just been indicted?)
Comey didn't need to have a phone conversation with Attorney General Loretta Lynch or Obama or anyone else to know that Clinton was to be let off the hook. For one thing, Obama's been tipping the scales of justice since last spring, claiming during a "60 Minutes" interview that Clinton's malfeasance didn't pose "a national security problem." The FBI director is appointed by the president, and serves at the pleasure of the president. Comey knew the score.
There may be a second chance to give Hillary her due, though. In his opening remarks for the House hearing, Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), who chairs the Oversight Committee, asked Comey if the FBI investigation probed into Clinton's congressional testimony and whether she lied under oath. When it was learned Comey had not and was waiting on a referral from Congress to do so, Chaffetz assured Comey he will get one. While the case could be a slam dunk on the factual side, the problem may be in proving intent there as well. Republicans don't have a great record against Clinton perjury.
It will also be perceived, thanks to the mainstream media
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Armed Agorism: A three part series about obtaining and owning firearms through the Grey Market by guest contributor Atreidies. If you would like more background on Agorism, Black and Grey markets check this video .The following information is for educational purposes only. Please follow the advice in the article at your own risk.
Buying firearms is a potentially risky endeavor. If you are reading this article at the original source, you probably already understand that there is a defacto registration system in place on the federal level. This is not supposed to be the case, but most people wouldn't doubt the inability of the federal government to let go of a voluntary data collection system that by law requires a purge after 24 hours, especially regarding something as potentially dangerous to their power structure as firearms in the hands of ordinary citizens.
When buying from a federally licensed dealer (FFL), the purchaser fills out a form (4473) and the data collected on that form is either called in or entered electronically to check against a state or federal database, and the government decides if you can exercise your natural right to self-defense, or your enumerated and (supposedly) constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. The law requires that this data be purged every 24 hours, and the reality is that this is likely true. HOWEVER, it's highly likely that the names and unique identifying information provided (SS Number, DOB, etc.) are added to a list of gun owners. There are ways to avoid having more "hits" on that list, or if you've never bought a gun through a licensed dealer, to never make it on the list in the first place.
The 4473's are kept on file for 25 years or longer with the FFL, even if they go out of business. If the ATF or any other agency does a trace on a gun, they will go to the manufacturer, which will eventually lead them to the FFL that did the original sale and has the 4473 on file. If it is your name on the form, it is your door they will be knocking on. This is why private transfers are a great Grey Market solution, because they are essentially a dead end for the investigator.
Private transfers happen between two individuals, without the FFL process. The seller can be an FFL selling from his private collection. Some states require private transactions to go through an FFL, so purchases in these states should be avoided. There are several avenues to find a seller, which I will discuss later. More importantly, there are some things to avoid when buying from private individuals.
First, don't use a social media account that is traceable to your real identity. Second, don't provide your state of residence if you are buying out of state. Third, don't mention that you are ineligible to possess a firearm if you are ineligible. It is a federal crime for an individual to KNOWINGLY sell to someone who resides out of state, or is ineligible. If you don't tell them, they won't know, and you aren't causing them to run afoul of the law without their consent. Most won't ask, and if they do, just drop all contact and move on. Giving false information can trap you in a setup. As a seller, if a buyer ever tells you they are from out of state or that they are ineligible, DO NOT SELL THEM THE FIREARM. This is potentially a setup, so just halt the transaction and walk. Maybe they're just ignorant of the law, but you don't want to take the chance.
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A showdown between hunters and Canadian indigenous tribes in British Columbia (BC) is looming ahead of the upcoming grizzly bear hunting season. The tribes have announced they will be enforcing their own introduced ban on grizzly hunting on their territories along the BC north and central coasts, but hunters and hunting organizations say the ban is not legal and they will continue their grizzly hunts.
In 2012, The Coastal First Nations, a coalition of First Nations communities in British Columbia, proclaimed a grizzly bear hunt ban on their territory, regardless of the fact that it's sanctioned by the British Columbian provincial government, which continues to distribute trophy-hunting permits.
The resource director at the Guardian Watchmen and chief of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais Nation, Doug Neasloss, said "Coastal Guardian Watchmen" will be patrolling their lands to enforce the ban by telling hunters to stop and by scaring their prey away.
"We've been brought up to have respect for these animals and it's really unfortunate when people just come here and shoot these animals for sport. We like business to come to our territory, but there's some industries that are not accepted and not welcome, and trophy hunting is one of them." said Neasloss
When grizzlies are trophy hunted, their heads are normally cut off, the body skinned and whatever of the carcass meat the hunters don't want is usually left behind.
A BC provincial government spokesman said 300 grizzly bears in BC are killed each year in regulated hunts and that there are 15,000 grizzlies in the province - a figure disputed by conservation and animal rights groups. Canada's Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada says grizzlies are "a special concern" as they are "particularly sensitive to human activities or natural events".
Alberta banned grizzly hunting in 2006, declaring the bear a threatened species.
Although Neasloss said the First Nations' ban has reduced the number of grizzlies hunted each year and that many hunters have turned in their permits out of respect, experts say it is "unlikely the big business of bear hunting" will end anytime soon.
One company, Covert Outfitting, offers grizzly hunting excursions for $19,000. According to a Covert Outfitting spokesman, the number of grizzlies they hunt stays within limits set by the Government to sustain the bear population.
"Why do we personify an animal because it has a name and people take pictures of it?" said the spokesman "With grizzly bears, it's because they're beautiful and people think they're amazing, but if they were ugly and had no hair and killed people every day, everyone would want us to shoot them."
He added "A lot of people think it's total insanity, but it's not. Maybe it's insanity living in the top of a skyscraper in downtown Vancouver, and having no idea what nature is or where our food comes from."
However, Neasloss is confident they will win their fight for a ban on grizzly hunting, as he believes most British Columbians are against trophy hunting.
"I'm very hopeful that we're going to stop it. And I think the province needs to listen to us, to start listening to the people," he said.
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Every day if you talk to him, he'll walk out. Go back in and he'll be there and tell you of a Pokémon that is inhabiting the place today. Sometimes its a Rare Sinnoh Dex Pokémon, others its a Non-Sinnoh Dex Pokémon so be alert. They are however there all day so you can go back. Their level averages at Lv. 16 to Lv. 19 so bring a Pokémon of that level. You have up to two of these Pokémon at once, they have a low encounter rate in the Mansion and the two Pokémon are the one allocated Today and Yesterday
Below are all the Mansion Pokémon and the routes/areas they swarm in:
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In the fall of 2008, Brooke and I, newly parents of our second daughter, floated a dream that one day we would take month-long vacations. First, we wanted to be able to really experience a location, have enough time to visit all the sites. Second, we had recently returned from a week-long Disney Cruise and I observed that around day 5 or so, you start to notice this enveloping feeling of euphoria, a deeper stage of vacation relaxation; where you are comfortable enough with your surroundings that your mind no longer has to focus as much effort on learning and adapting, but instead can focus solely on enjoyment and time spent together as a family. At this stage, your trappings at home, work related stress and other concerns have been muted. Maybe some of these feelings were purposefully implanted by Disney, but in any case, I felt that there is more to gain from longer vacations and tapping into this emotional stage. Third, we love to travel and being able to do it for month would be fantastic. Fourth, we know that children that travel more are smarter, more socially aware, accepting and more easily adaptable. Now, we were faced with four major hurdles in order to accomplish this.
How do we afford such trips? How do we arrange for our kids to go on trips like this with us? How do I collect enough vacation time to take a month off? What do we do with our dog?
One of the biggest hurdles was the cost, but with some planning and scrimping, we were getting close, but it was taking a long time. Just after our 10 year wedding anniversary, I decided to upgrade Brooke's rings and she helped pick out her dream set. After having it resized and then trying it on, however, she decided that she would rather spend that money on our California trip and create family memories than to have a material possession such as this when she liked her current rings well enough. We eventually worked out the other hurdles and in 2015 began making travel plans and reservations for our first month-long trip, a road trip in California! The dates of the trip shifted slightly throughout planning and the direction in which we were traveling (we changed from South to North to North to South), but the winter and spring of 2016 had us heavily into travel planning and other arrangements. Finally, on June 21, 2016, we arrived at the Tampa Airport (TPA) and flew out to San Francisco (SFO) by way of Saint Louis (STL) on Southwest Airlines. Our trip began and I began to document our experience for our future enjoyment.
A big thank you is due to my cousin and best friend, Graham, who house and pet sitted while we were gone and this trip would not have been possible if he had not volunteered to do so.
When we returned, family and friends also asked for details of our experience and I shifted that documentation online through simple pictures and eventually that evolved to this blog. Find the log of our fantastic trip below, listed by date and let me know what you think! I have starred the days that particularily stood out to us!
June 21: TPA to SFO
June 22: San Francisco, CA *
June 23: San Francisco, CA
June 24: San Francisco, CA *
June 25: San Francisco, CA to Yosemite
June 26: Columbia, CA
June 27: Yosemite *
June 28: Yosemite
June 29: Yosemite to Monterey, CA
June 30: Carmel, CA *
July 1: Monterey, CA to San Simeon, CA
July 2: San Simeon, CA to Studio City, CA *
July 3: Studio City, CA
July 4: Santa Monica, CA & Studio City, CA *
July 5: Huntington Beach, CA *
July 6: Los Angeles, CA
July 7: Los Angeles, CA
July 8: Santa Monica, CA *
July 9: Los Angeles, CA *
July 10: Studio City, CA to La Jolla, CA
July 11: San Diego, CA *
July 12: San Diego, CA *
July 13: San Diego, CA
July 14: San Diego, CA to Sedona, AZ
July 15: Grand Canyon *
July 16: Sedona, AZ to PHX to TPA
By the numbers (I am a stats guy, so this stuff is extra interesting to me):
We stayed at 4 different hotels, all two nights or less.
We stayed at 5 different vacation home / town homes, all of which were two bedrooms.
We spent a total of $2,276.49 on food, an average of $14.60 per person per day . Of that, 34% was spent on groceries and 66% was spent on eating out. We weren't very strict with budgeting
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MOBILE, Alabama - NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks will join with local Alabama chapters of the NAACP for a statewide protest of the nomination of Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III for U.S. Attorney General.
Alabamians Against Sessions for Attorney General will include five protests at the five Alabama offices of Sessions, located in Mobile, Huntsville, Dothan, Birmingham, and Montgomery.
"As a matter of conscience and conviction, we can neither be mute nor mumble our opposition to Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions becoming Attorney General of the United States. Senator Sessions has callously ignored the reality of voter suppression but zealously prosecuted innocent civil rights leaders on trumped-up charges of voter fraud. As an opponent of the vote, he can't be trusted to be the chief law enforcement officer for voting rights," said NAACP President and CEO Cornell William Brooks.
President Brooks will be joined at a January 3 press conference and protest at Sessions' office in Mobile by Alabama State Conference President Benard Simelton and Mobile Branch President Lizetta McConnell.
"Despite 30 years of our nation moving forward on inclusion and against hate, Jeff Sessions has failed to change his ways," said Alabama State Conference President Benard Simelton. "He's been a threat to desegregation and the Voting Rights Act and remains a threat to all of our civil rights, including the right to live without the fear of police brutality." The press conference featuring NAACP President Cornell William Brooks, Alabama State Conference President Benard Simelton and Mobile (AL) Branch President Lizetta McConnell, will take place in Mobile: on January 3, 2017 at 11 A.M. at the Office of Senator Jefferson Sessions, 41 West Interstate 65 Service North, Mobile, Al 36608 "Some of us in Alabama recall, Senator Sessions saying he liked the Klan," said Mobile Branch President Lizetta McConnell. "He said it was a joke, but saying something like that while discussing a case where the Klan murdered a young black man says a lot about a person. We need someone who realizes that attorney general has to actually care about the people's rights he's protecting and not just doing it because it's his job." Local members of the NAACP will hold multiple Press Conferences around the state on January 3 at four of Sessions' district offices: 200 Clinton Avenue West #802, Huntsville, Al 35801
Vance Federal Building, 1800 5th Avenue North, Birmingham, Al 35203
100 West Troy Street #302, Dothan, Al 36303
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Turkey's Transport, Maritime and Communications Minister Ahmet Arslan has said that the long-anticipated Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project, which has prospects of to double Turkey's railroad transportation capacity, will be completed within two months. Talking to reporters regarding the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project in Ankara on Saturday, Arslan said that despite the heavy winter conditions, they have continued to move forward with construction efforts and will finish the project within two months. The Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway project will span a total of 838.6 kilometers, connecting the Turkish province of Kars with the Azeri capital, Baku and the Georgian capital, Tbilisi in Central Asia.
Arslan said the route will became an important part of the middle corridor in "China's One Belt, One Road project." He said the project was likely to double Turkey's capacity in railroad transportation. "It will take from 45 to 62 days to transport goods from China to Europe via the north corridor of the 'One Belt, One Road project.' However, this may be reduced to just 15 days when using the middle corridor," he said. The Transport Minister added, "All the other countries on this route, including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan will continue to make investments in infrastructure accordingly." He added that Turkey's rail transportation capacity was expected to double when the middle corridor becomes fully operational.
"We are currently transporting 26.5 million tons of cargo on railways. Only Kazakhstan is planning to divert an additional 10 million tons of cargo to this route. Moreover, if we get only 10 percent of all Chinese transportation to Europe, we will get an additional 24 million tons," he said. This rail line is designed to become a key part of the southern route of the emerging New Silk Road network of trade and transport corridors that are being constructed to connect China and Europe.
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Share. BioWare's new RPG is familiar, but different. BioWare's new RPG is familiar, but different.
E3 2004 is a show of sequels. Half-Life 2, DOOM 3, Sims 2, Knights of the Old Republic II. Sure, they all look great, but we still like being a little surprised, and seeing something new at the big show. Thankfully, BioWare delivered today with an RPG that, although familiar, is something completely new at the same time.
Although BioWare is probably best known for their Dungeons and Dragon's based Baldur's Gate series, Dragon Age isn't another foray into the D&D universe. As Joint-CEO Ray Muzyka told us, "Dragon Age is the spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate." However, Dragon Age has nothing to do directly with Baldur's Gate.
Although set against a traditional fantasy backdrop, BioWare is hoping to do something a little different with Dragon Age, and the world won't be inhabited by Dwarves, Elves and Halflings -- although it will be filled with Dwarf-like, Elf-like and Halfling-like races. While this may sound like a cop-out, Ray explained that BioWare wanted to try something a little different, but still wanted it to be familiar to fantasy RPG players. Although nothing is finalized at this point, Dragon Age will feature archetypal races and classes (you know, fighters, clerics, mages and the like), and BioWare is looking to the community to decide exactly which classes and races they want to see in the game. We did see one completely new race that will be in the game, though. Although they don't have a name as of yet, or at least BioWare wasn't saying what the name was, the characters sport horns on their heads and look rather lizard (or perhaps dragon) like.
BioWare is known for their intensive research when building universes, and as with all their RPGs, BioWare strives to create an extremely deep and rich lore to go with their worlds. Dragon Age will be no exception, and they have already developed a backstory and culture for the playable races as well as the non-playable races in the game. BioWare even has a few linguistics PhD students developing entirely new languages for Dragon Age. When asked about the significance of the title, BioWare told us that, like the Stone Age and Iron Age, they wanted to indicate that the game takes place in a time where dragons are prevalent.
Like most RPGs, in the beginning you'll create a party of characters and tailor them to your desire. You'll also be able to hire henchmen during the game, and BioWare promises you'll run into some characters with a lot of personality, like Minsc from Baldur's Gate.
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The experience in the tank, though, can be "brutal and unflinching in its portrayal of you and your reality," said Rogan. "That's a terrifying thing to a lot of people -- the fact that you're alone with your unconscious thoughts, with everything that's truly troubling you. It's the only time that you are untethered from your body."
He's not alone in describing that untethered feeling as a potentially intense emotional experience. Your mind begins to run rampant. With nowhere else for thoughts to go, whatever problems, worries, or guilt sits in the back of your brain has to be confronted. As it's been put before, inside that tank, you have to face yourself.
"It can be uncomfortable in the sense that you really can't run away from any of the things that are subconsciously troubling you, but I love that," Rogan said. "I'm not a big fan of running away from reality. I like handling all of the issues that bother me in order to go through life truly happy. There's a lot of people out there with ghosts, a lot of demons haunting their mind. In my opinion, this is your chance to face it head on and try to come up with a better path."
But a fear of facing oneself shouldn't be a deterrent to any type of therapy. Sensory deprivation has become a popular exercise throughout the world, with validated positive results that extend into everyday life. Namely stress and anxiety reduction, but also as an adjunct for chronic physical pain.
Dr. Darren Weissman, a holistic physician who has floated weekly since 1986, explains, "I really feel that it's a result of floating and getting myself out of the way that I saw how all these multiple disciplines that activate the healing potentials of the body actually work together."
Floating isn't just about facing the negative aspects of life. It's also about being more aware of, and appreciating the good. Letting the little, good moments simmer -- instead of just moving to the next thing -- helps them feel (and actually become) more real.
As Dr. Weissman says, it "allows us to recognize our body's potentials. It opens us to a whole different level of awareness and of who we are. We start to notice things. It awakens consciousness."
Matt Frederickson, an avid user of floatation tanks, says, "Since I started doing it, I've become more calm, especially in my work life." A long-time sufferer of chronic neck, head, and back pain, Frederickson took his first float after hearing Joe Rogan's praise of the physical benefits of the isolation tank on Marc Maron's WTF podcast. "I thought it sounded interesting because I personally suffer from a lot of chronic pain, so that's what initially drew me to it."
Frederickson tried therapies for his chronic pain, a lot of which worked a little, but he's found that no other practice produces results as consistently effective as the isolation tank. But, like Rogan, he gets more out of it than he initially sought. "I still use it mainly for the pain," he says. "It really helps lessen that, but I think the secondary benefit, for me, would be the anxiety that's tied to the pain."
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トム岸田 Kodansha International , Sep 24, 2004 - Antiques & Collectibles - 155 pages 0 Reviews https://books.google.com/books/about/%E9%9D%96%E5%9B%BD%E5%88%80.html?id=z6oB6eFRjZkC The 8,100 swords manufactured in the grounds of the Yasukuni Shrine between 1933 and 1945 are an exceptional legacy, as artifacts that preserved not only time-honored forging methods but the aesthetic and spiritual traditions of the samurai warrior.
No other weapon in the world can boast of possessing such a high spiritual quality as the Japanese sword. For over a thousand years the sword was revered as the very soul of the samurai warriors who wielded it, commanding awe, respect, and an almost religious devotion. The tumultuous events of modern Japanese history and the nation's relentless drive toward technological advancement, however, irrevocably sealed the sword's fate, and, along with the samurai class, the sword became an anachronism, both culturally and militarily.
As Japan entered a period of unprecedented Imperial expansion in the early twentieth century, the Japanese sword, despite its limited practical effect, became a feature of the soldier's arsenal-an echo of the mythical status it enjoyed in feudal times. The Yasukuni swords emerged during the build-up to World War II, in part to help meet the huge demands of the Imperial Army, but more importantly out of a desire to preserve time-honored forging methods, and to revive the spirit of the samurai. For these reasons, they were notably distinct from so-called "Showa-to," which were mass-produced and inferior in quality and artistry.
All swords were banned in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and the decades that followed have seen a decline in the popularity of Yasukuni swords, largely because of their associations with that war and the military. Another factor has been the stigma attached to Showa-to, which has helped to stereotype wartime swords in general.
Recent years, however, have seen a renewed interest in the surviving Yasukuni swords. Many collectors and appraisers have acknowledged the workmanship of these swords as displaying a perfect blend of technology and tradition, and a quality that can rival even that of the great classical smiths.
In his tribute to the Yasukuni smiths, acclaimed photographer and sword enthusiast Tom Kishida has compiled an extensive study of these rare and exceptional swords, drawing on a variety of sources to shed light on this often little-understood chapter of Japanese sword history. With his unique eye for capturing the beauty of the blades in his photographs, he has provided the reader with the most lavishly detailed book on Yasukuni swords to date. This will be an important addition to the libraries of specialists and connoisseurs, and to those who wish to deepen their understanding of these fascinating wartime weapons. Preview this book »
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Curtis Granderson, bottom, and Justin Verlander were big-time contributors for the Tigers during Detroit's run to the 2006 World Series. (Photo: Otto Greule Jr, Getty Images)
In a postseason that began with more than a dozen former Tigers in the mix for a World Series ring, three still are standing.
And two just happen to be among the best Tigers' draft picks of not just recent history, but all-time.
Justin Verlander, the new ace of the Astros, and Curtis Granderson, an outfielder for the Dodgers, each will play in their third World Series when things get started Tuesday night — and each will be searching for their first World Series ring.
"No, no," Tigers general manager Al Avila said this week, when asked about his rooting interest — though it's worth noting, his father, Ralph, remains a consultant for the Dodgers, as does Tommy Lasorda, the godfather of Alex Avila. But his relationship with Verlander is deep, too. "What I usually like in these series is that it goes seven and it's really exciting."
Houston also has another former Tigers celebrated draft pick, outfielder Cameron Maybin, who had two stints in Detroit. But few Tigers have been celebrated by fans over the past dozen years like Granderson, a third-round draft pick out of the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2002, and Verlander, the No. 2 overall pick out of Old Dominion University in 2004.
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By 2006, both were full-time, big-time contributors in Detroit, Granderson as the starting center fielder and Verlander as the ace of the staff, as the Tigers stunned baseball and — three years after losing an American League-record 119 games — made it all the way to the World Series.
That year not only marked the beginning of Tigers baseball renaissance, but also the start of two promising careers, one which should land Verlander, someday, in Baseball's Hall of Fame, and another which should at least get Granderson some consideration, depending on how much longer he plays.
Verlander's 56.6 career WAR (Wins Above Replacement), per BaseballReference.com, is fourth-best ever among a player drafted and subsequently signed by the Tigers, while Granderson's 45.8 is fifth-best.
They are easily the two biggest draft successes in the Dave Dombrowski/Al Avila tenure, which began in November 2001. Nobody else comes close.
In the history of Tigers drafts — we're counting only June drafts here, not the now-defunct January draft — only Lou Whitaker (74.9, fifth round, 1975), Alan Trammell (70.4, second, 1976) and John Smoltz (69.5, 22nd, 1985) have gone one to accumulate higher career WARs than Verlander and Granderson.
And Verlander, 34, is not anywhere close to being done adding to his career WAR, as he's shown in his nine-game run with the Astros. And Granderson, 36, probably isn't either, though he has struggled mightily in the couple of months since joining the Dodgers — so much so that he was left off the World Series roster, when the Dodgers announced their final 25 on Tuesday afternoon.
More: Dodgers leave slumping Granderson off World Series roster
Justin Verlander is 4-0 with a 1.46 ERA and 24 strikeouts in 24.2 innings this postseason with the Houston Astros. (Photo: David J. Phillip, Associated Press)
NO. 1 WITH A BULLET
The Tigers' first two first-round draft picks under the Dave Dombrowski-Avila era were total disasters. In 2002, Detroit selected a high-school shortstop from California named Scott Moore. In 2003, the Tigers took Wake Forest right-hander Kyle Sleeth. The two would combine to play 152 games in the major leagues, all by Moore, and none with the Tigers.
When June 2004 rolled around, though, they were certain they had the man that could alter the franchise's fortunes. Other teams might have liked this guy or that guy. Verlander was no consensus. But the Tigers were all in on the lanky right-hander — and even better for them, they got word the Padres, with the No. 1 overall pick, planned to take a high-school infielder named Matt Bush with the No. 1 overall pick.
"I can tell you one thing," said Avila, "Verlander was the guy we wanted."
More: Avila defends analytics department: 'We went from nothing'
Bush's story is well-documented. He struggled with injuries and substance and alcohol abuse, and several franchises later, he found himself in prison. He's turned his
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A term implied in National Security Study Memorandum 200 written by Henry Kissinger . It basically implies that there are too many "useless eaters" consuming valuable resources would be better used by a "reduced" world population.
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A cock and a hen roosting together. Image: Wikimedia Commons. University of Adelaide research has shown that when students are taught to train chickens their attitude to chickens changes. Learning that chickens are smarter than most people think, and that they can be trained, promotes much more positive attitudes towards the birds.
The research, published in the journal Animals, demonstrates a way of promoting more positive attitudes to animals. Through 'clicker training' chickens, students also learnt to train animals using 'force free' methods (encouragement rather than coercion) ─ important in future careers working closely with animals.
The study, with first-year School of Animal and Veterinary Science students at the University's Roseworthy campus, investigated the attitudes of the students before and after they had practical classes clicker-training chickens.
"We showed that attitudes to animals are linked to how clever we think that they are," says lead author Dr Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer in Animal Behaviour in the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences.
"When students learnt to clicker train the chickens ─ who pick up colour discrimination incredibly quickly ─ they were more likely to think that chickens are intelligent than before the class. The students were also more likely to think chickens can experience boredom, frustration and happiness.
"It was also a very effective class for teaching students the basics of animal training, and a number of students have told me afterwards how they have used that information in training their own animals."
The students paired clickers with food, so the chickens learnt the click meant they have done what was wanted and would be rewarded.
The students' first task was to get the chickens to peck on a red target. This behaviour was 'shaped', meaning initially the chicken was clicked and rewarded immediately with food when it looked at the target. Progressively rewards were only given when the chicken got closer, and closer, until it actually pecked the target. Chickens soon learnt colour discrimination. They learnt to peck on the red target, rather than green or yellow.
"Animals learn all of the time, even when we are not deliberately training them," says Dr Hazel. "Understanding how they learn is integral to being able to manage or train animals effectively.
"Chickens are descendants of wild jungle fowl, and to survive had to learn quickly what food was good to peck at and what they should ignore. The students not only learnt about how to train an animal, but they learnt chickens are much smarter they had realised, changing their views of chickens forever."
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More information: "'Chickens Are a Lot Smarter than I Originally Thought': Changes in Student Attitudes to Chickens Following a Chicken Training Class." Animals 2015, 5, 821-837. DOI: 10.3390/ani5030386
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I got an awesome organic tea set, and some quirky kitchen accessories! The dog is an over mitt and the matroyshka dolls are measuring cups! I loved it, this is totally the kind of stuff I love. Thank you so much! :)
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As it evolved, somatization became a way to think about and classify unexplained symptoms. The word somatization fell out of favor because it always implied psychogenicity. It was an hypothesis that was often inconsistent with observed data, and was mired in different schools of psychiatric thought and argument. For better or worse, it lacked face validity to many physicians. Still, it stayed around because it described common symptoms and situations that didn't fit in otherwise and which, at some level, made at least a little sense. In a previous post, John Quinter writes disparagingly of somatization: It 'in fact only reflects the medical observer's "psychologization" of the clinical problem.' John's comment exposes the opposition to somatization and a psychosocial basis for fibromyalgia. Dan Clauw, together with a group of truly expert co-authors, writes
In the final analysis, physical versus psychologic distinctions regarding unexplained symptoms might rest on preconception and perspective rather than a priori hypothesis testing. Historically, observers of syndromes of unexplained symptoms have often drawn differing conclusions from like presentations. Whereas some observers have preferred to see a common physiological mechanism that explains symptoms, others have postulated common psychologic traumas ranging from childhood abuse to current stressors. Still others have invoked the tendency for some individuals to seek relief from social predicaments and for some clinicians and scientists to derive novel illnesses that accommodate them.1
Beginning at the end of the 20th, a clearer recognition of the limitations of the somatization concept was acknowledged. Sharpe wrote in 2006 'The assumptions that (a) bodily pathology can always explain bodily symptoms, (b) psychopathology can always explain bodily symptoms in the absence of bodily pathology, and (c) dichotomizing bodily symptoms into biomedical and psychiatric types is clinically useful were all found to have questionable validity and utility.2 He wrote further that 'Alternative multiaxial diagnostic approaches for the classification of bodily symptoms are proposed. These are intended to (a) give greater prominence to bodily symptoms in their own right, (b) allow etiology to be conceptualized in terms of multiple factors, and (c) provide the basis for integrating medical and psychiatric approaches to patient care.
Such ideas are also found in the designation of illnesses like fibromyalgia and similar disorders as `somatic syndromes disorders,' 'physical symptom disorders,' 'functional symptoms disorders,' 'somatic and multisomatic symptom disorders.' It became clear that the line between psychiatric conditions and physical ones was difficult to draw, and as Sharpe said, etiology should be to be 'conceptualized in terms of multiple factors.'
'Somatization' was also confounded by the specialties that invoked it. The psychiatrists clearly had in mind a psychiatric disorder—the type of illness that I never saw in my patients with fibromyalgia. The primary care physician input, led by the careful, thoughtful and ultimately very helpful work of Kurt Kroenke and others in his group, noted that somatic symptoms were ubiquitous and mostly transitory. Rheumatologists saw a different pattern in chronic pain patients: persistent increased numbers of somatic symptoms and symptom severity.
Kroenke developed as series of Patient Health Questionnaires (PHQ) that identified those with many somatic symptoms, and he couched descriptive language in non-psychiatric terms. In 1997 he wrote, 'For clinical or research use in primary care, the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for somatization disorder are too restrictive, while the criteria for un- differentiated somatoform disorder are overly inclusive. In this article, we examine the validity of multisomatoform disorder, defined as 3 or more medically unexplained, currently bothersome physical symptoms plus a long (≥2 years) history of somatization.'3 In 2012, he developed an 8-item question that could be used together with the (disputed) DSM-5 Somatic Symptom Disorder. The items included GI-GU problems, back pain, joint and muscle pain, headaches, chest pain, dizziness, fatigue, trouble sleeping. It is a veritable checklist for fibromyalgia, but is neutral as to psychogenicity—as was the multisomatoform disorder.
Without intending it, the 2010 ACR fibromyalgia made clear the prominence of somatic symptoms in fibromyalgia. Given multiple painful regions, the diagnosis of fibromyalgia is dependent on somatic symptoms. Maybe, as some have suggested, fibromyalgia should be considered as a kind of somatic pain disorder. Noll-Hussong in 2011 used the term, 'Pain-predominant multisomatoform disorder.'4 Not a bad phrase for fibromyalgia, to my mind.
Collecting data on the number (or the number and severity) of somatic symptoms provides insights into fibromyalgia. Symptoms increase with age; people with fibromyalgia report many more symptoms than non-fib
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I was in a public parking lot, trying to get my starving, exhausted, tantrum-throwing kids into the car when a little old lady tottered up to me and said, "Enjoy it while they're little! It goes by so fast!"
I looked up at her as I was karate chopping my son's stiff-as-a-board body into his car seat and gave her a smile. A smile that said, "I want to strangle you."
I wanted to strangle her because it's true. It does go by so fast. And I know I should be enjoying every minute of it. BUT I CAN'T!
I can't because raising young kids isn't always enjoyable. Sometimes it is—there are precious moments of absolute parental bliss. Moments when my son places a chubby hand over my larger, dishwash-weary hand and asks me to play with him. Moments when my daughter blows me a kiss that I catch and tuck into my heart under my shirt. Moments when the three of us snuggle head-to-head-to-head reading a book.
But a lot of the time having young kids sucks. It's relentless and boring and exhausting and infuriating. And the fact that I'm not loving every tantrum-filled, pooped-smeared, yogurt-coated, sleep-deprived moment makes me panic. Because it's going by so fast.
The days of my children's childhoods are slipping through my hands faster than E. coli-infested sand and I know I'm not enjoying it enough, lady in the parking lot, so please don't remind me.
When I creep into my kids' rooms at night and watch them sleep, my heart fills with love and peace … and regret. Regret that we didn't all enjoy the day that just ended more.
I know one day the pain of it all will fade and I'll look back with a rosy tinge and think to myself, "I really enjoyed when my kids were little. It all went by so fast."
But the one thing I promise to never do, is stop a young mom in a parking lot and tell her to enjoy it. Tell her it all goes so fast.
Instead I'll tell her that I know raising young kids is hard. I'll tell her it's OK to cry. It's OK to scream. It's OK to fall to pieces at 5pm when the kids are pushing her every last button. I'll tell her to breathe. I'll tell her to hide in the bathroom if she needs to. I'll tell her to laugh at the insanity that is her life. And I'll tell her to kiss her baby's toes, not because they won't be little forever, but because it will bring her a moment of joy in her otherwise insane, chaotic day.
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It's a delightful story I've heard dozens of times, and retold a few times myself: Abraham Lincoln faced with some thorny issue that could be settled by a twist of language, or a slight abuse of power, asks his questioner how many legs would a dog have, if we called the dog's tail, a leg. "Five," the questioner responds confident in his mathematical ability to do simple addition.
"No," Lincoln says. "Calling a dog's tail a leg, doesn't make it a leg."
But there is always the doubt: Is the story accurate? Is this just another of the dozens of quotes that are misattributed to Lincoln in order to lend credence to them?
I have a source for the quote: Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by distinguished men of his time / collected and edited by Allen Thorndike Rice (1853-1889). New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1909. This story is found on page 242. Remarkably, the book is still available in an edition from the University of Michigan Press. More convenient for us, the University of Michigan has the entire text on-line, in the Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, an on-line source whose whole text is searchable.
However, Lincoln does not tell the story about a dog — he uses a calf.
Rice's book is a collection of reminiscences of others, exactly as the title suggests. Among those doing the reminiscing are ex-president and Gen. U. S. Grant, Massachusetts Gov. Benjamin Butler (also a former Member of Congress), Charles A. Dana the editor and former Assistant Secretary of War, and several others. In describing Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, George W. Julian relates the story. Julian was a Free-Soil Party leader and a Member of Congress during Lincoln's administration. Julian's story begins on page 241:
Few subjects have been more debated and less understood than the Proclamation of Emancipation. Mr. Lincoln was himself opposed to the measure, and when he very reluctantly issued the preliminary proclamation in September, 1862, he wished it distinctly understood that the deportation of the slaves was, in his mind, inseparably connected with the policy. Like Mr. Clay and other prominent leaders of the old Whig party, he believed in colonization, and that the separation of the two races was necessary to the welfare of both. He was at that time pressing upon the attention of Congress a scheme of colonization in Chiriqui, in Central America, which Senator Pomeroy espoused with great zeal, and in which he had the favor of a majority of the Cabinet, including Secretary Smith, who warmly indorsed the project. Subsequent developments, however, proved that it was simply an organization for land-stealing and plunder, and it was abandoned; but it is by no means certain that if the President had foreseen this fact his preliminary notice to the rebels would have been given. There are strong reasons for saying that he doubted his right to emancipate under the war power, and he doubtless meant what he said when he compared an Executive order to that effect to "the Pope's Bull against the comet." In discussing the question, he used to liken the case to that of the boy who, when asked how many legs his calf would have if he called its tail a leg, replied, " Five," to which the prompt response was made that calling the tail a leg would not make it a leg.
I believe it is fair to call the story "confirmed." It's not an exact quote, but it's an accurate story.
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Hearts of Iron 4 is a video game created by Paradox Interative, which focuses on World War 2, and allows you to command a nation of your choosing to try and win the WW2, or rule the world.
Hearts of Iron 4 (HOI4) has had great modding support from day 1 of release with many mods, small and large alike, being released. This site is for those people. The ones who wish to create mods.
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While the modding tools are in development, this site is on the back burner.
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Consider the paddy wagon. From the mid-19th century through the mid-20th, this was the common term for the vehicles in which police hauled convicts and arrestees to jails, courts and prisons. Consider, now, the origin of the term. The "paddies" were Irish immigrants, who were flocking to the United States in the 1840s and '50s, fleeing the great famine that had descended on Ireland. And the Irish, some right-thinking Protestant Americans believed, were inherently a criminal bunch.
In the 1840s and '50s, there were enough of those right-thinking Americans to form a political party: the American Party, they called it, though (because when asked about their doings, many apparently paranoid members responded, "I know nothing") it soon came to be known as the Know Nothings. With Irish and German immigrants flooding into the country (the Germans largely fleeing the repression that followed the failed revolutions of 1848), the Know Nothings experienced a brief surge of popularity until the far greater conflict between slave states and free states led to a more fundamental reshuffling of political parties. Some Know Nothings drifted into the ranks of the newly formed Republican Party. One early GOP leader, Abraham Lincoln, did everything he could to squelch their influence and make clear that German, Irish and all other immigrants were welcome additions to the party and the nation.
Like most immigrant groups, the Irish took the hardest, most thankless jobs — building railroads, for instance. Nonetheless, the nativist leaders of the time — the 1850s version of Fox News chief Roger Ailes — insisted that guys with names like Hannity and O'Reilly were inherently disposed to crime and violence, undeterred by the absence of data that backed up their claims.
'Twas ever thus. Italians were criminals or anarchists; Jews were criminals (as in "The Great Gatsby") or communists; Mexicans, if you believe Donald Trump, are rapists and murderers. Never mind, as a recent voluminous study by the National Academy of Sciences makes clear, that the linkage between immigrants and crime is not merely fictitious but actually inverse: After close statistical analysis, the study concludes, "Immigrants are in fact much less likely to commit crime than natives, and the presence of large numbers of immigrants seems to lower crime rates." Based on the findings of at least 30 academic papers, the study concludes that foreign-born young men have an incarceration rate that is one-fourth that of native-born, and that "neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have lower rates of crime and violence" than other socioeconomically equivalent neighborhoods.
Indeed, the growing number of the foreign-born over the past quarter-century goes a long way to explaining the huge drop in crime and violence that the nation has experienced during that time. The number of murders in New York City dropped from 2,245 in 1990 to 328 last year; in Los Angeles County it fell from 1,944 in 1993 to 551 last year, even as the number and share of their foreign-born residents skyrocketed. Nationally, in 2014 violent crime rates were at their lowest level in 20 years, according to the FBI.
The immigrant crime wave that right-wing media and many Republican politicians rail about, then, is either a figment of their imaginations or an article of faith that, whatever their individual beliefs, they seek to instill or inflame in their followers. These beliefs are as valid as their predecessors' claims that the Irish or the Chinese, say, posed a danger to the United States and that no more of them should be allowed in. They are in the grand tradition of Madison Grant's hugely influential 1916 book "The Passing of the Great Race," which argued that the "Nordics" of Northwestern Europe were a superior race to Southern and Eastern Europeans (Italians, Jews, Greeks et al.), and that immigration from anyplace other than Northwest Europe should be banned. In 1924, Congress did just that, enacting a law that effectively restricted immigration from all but the "Nordic" nations, a law that stayed on the books until the Great Society Congress of 1965 repealed it.
So to those who want to repeal birthright citizenship and send those dangerous Mexicans back to their homeland: Why stop there? Donald Trump's claims about the dangers posed by Mexicans are no more valid than Madison Grant's about the Italian and Jewish menace, or the Know Nothings' about the criminal tendencies of the Irish. Deporting the Gonzalezes makes sense only if we also deport the O'Reillys and the Hannitys and, yes, the Meyersons. See you all, ladies and gentlemen, on some distant shore.
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District 3 Councilman Zim Zimmerman was campaigning early Saturday at the polling place at G.I.F.T. Ministries, 300 Expedition Street. He was joined by Raz Shafer, who was campaigning for Brian Byrd, Zimmerman's opponent. Joyce Marshall jlmarshall@star-telegram.com
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It's not exactly a secret that Peter Molyneux/22cans deity simulator, Godus is coming to iOS. However, we were able to learn about a few more specifics here at GDC.
Godus was really designed with mobile in mind from the beginning, and it shows when watching the game in motion. "My passion has been to reinvent a genre of games I stumbled upon back in the early 90s called Populous," said Peter Molyneux, "I wanted to reinvent the genre around this beautiful, wonderful, incredible device. What you've got here is a god game reinvented for this touch device, and reinvented for the audience."
What's more, the game will feature a sort of continuous form of multiplayer - kind of like an MMO. When you play, you're playing with however many other players/gods are on at that moment (possibly into the tens of millions), all at the same time. And all of their lands are connected as a part of one extremely large and continuous world filled with other islands and other gods.
This even carries over into the game's cross-platform functionality as changes made to your land on the iPad, iPhone, or PC will display in real time on any of the other platforms. "You're connected to thousands, even millions, of people," explained Molyneux, "We tried this out on this crazy app called Curiosity, and we connected together hundreds of thousands of people who simultaneously touched on the cube. Well now we're connecting millions of people together. We did a cube, and now we're doing this vast planet."
It's also been confirmed that Godus will be free to download for iOS, but no specifics have been given on its approach to monetization. The plan is to encourage players to want to spend money, but not force or require them to. "I love free to download. I never want to go back to having to pay money before having an idea if I'll like something," stated Molyneux. "What we have to do is get people to want to spend money, rather than need to spend money," he continued, "I'm inspired by the way that the supermarket, especially American supermarkets, tempt you to spend money. We call it 'Invest-to-Play'." Personally I'm rather curious to see how all of this will work in practice.
Godus will be soft-launching in select territories (New Zealand, The Philippines, Sweden, Ireland, and Denmark) within the next few weeks.
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Background: Previous studies have demonstrated that methamphetamine abuse leads to memory deficits and these are associated with relapse. Furthermore, extensive evidence indicates that nicotine prevents and/or improves memory deficits in different models of cognitive dysfunction and these nicotinic effects might be mediated by hippocampal or cortical nicotinic acetylcholine receptors. The present study investigated whether nicotine attenuates methamphetamine-induced novel object recognition deficits in rats and explored potential underlying mechanisms. Methods: Adolescent or adult male Sprague-Dawley rats received either nicotine water (10–75 μg/mL) or tap water for several weeks. Methamphetamine (4×7.5mg/kg/injection) or saline was administered either before or after chronic nicotine exposure. Novel object recognition was evaluated 6 days after methamphetamine or saline. Serotonin transporter function and density and α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor density were assessed on the following day. Results: Chronic nicotine intake via drinking water beginning during either adolescence or adulthood attenuated the novel object recognition deficits caused by a high-dose methamphetamine administration. Similarly, nicotine attenuated methamphetamine-induced deficits in novel object recognition when administered after methamphetamine treatment. However, nicotine did not attenuate the serotonergic deficits caused by methamphetamine in adults. Conversely, nicotine attenuated methamphetamine-induced deficits in α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor density in the hippocampal CA1 region. Furthermore, nicotine increased α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor density in the hippocampal CA3, dentate gyrus and perirhinal cortex in both saline- and methamphetamine-treated rats. Conclusions: Overall, these findings suggest that nicotine-induced increases in α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex might be one mechanism by which novel object recognition deficits are attenuated by nicotine in methamphetamine-treated rats.
Introduction
Methamphetamine (METH) abuse is a significant public health problem with annual prevalence rate of abuse in 2013 in >1% of adolescents and young adults (Johnston et al., 2014). Extensive clinical evidence indicates that METH abuse causes significant neurocognitive deficits (Kalechstein et al., 2003, 2009; Gonzalez et al., 2004; Hoffman et al., 2006; Cherner et al., 2010; Casaletto et al., 2014). For example, episodic memory is reduced among participants with a history of METH abuse (approximately 11 years), as assessed by performance in learning and recall tests (Casaletto et al., 2014). METH users also present with deficits in learning, motor ability, and working memory tests (Cherner et al., 2010). Neurocognitive deficits occur not only in individuals currently using METH (Simon et al., 2000) but can also persist long after METH is discontinued (4 days to 7 months) (Kalechstein et al., 2003, 2009; Gonzalez et al., 2004; Hoffman et al., 2006; Cherner et al., 2010; Casaletto et al., 2014). Among the different types of neurocognitive deficits caused by METH abuse, METH-associated neurocognitive deficits are greater for episodic memory, executive functions, information processing speed, and motor skills and lesser for attention, working memory, and verbal fluency (Scott et al., 2007). Notably, relapse is associated with episodic memory deficits but not other types of cognitive dysfunction among METH abusers (Simon et al., 2004).
In addition to its impact on cognition, METH abuse causes brain abnormalities in areas important for memory, such as the hippocampus and cortex. For example, Thompson et al. (2004) reported that METH abusers have 7.8% smaller hippocampal volumes than control subjects as assessed by MRI, and these deficits correlated with deficits in deficits on a word recall task. The integrity of hippocampal and cortical neurons can also be assessed by the binding of the serotonin transporter (SERT), a marker highly expressed in these neuronal regions (Lawrence et al., 1993; for review, see Meneses et al., 2011). Loss of presynaptic serotonergic markers such as SERT indicates loss of this population of presynaptic serotonergic terminals. Studies have reported significant loss of serotonergic markers in the hippocampus and cortex of individuals with cognitive dysfunction, such as in METH abuse or Alzheimer's disease (Chen et al., 1996; Sekine et al., 2006; Ouchi et al., 2009). For example, positron emission tomography scan revealed that SERT densities are reduced in several brain regions of abstinent METH abusers (Sekine et al., 2006).
Novel object recognition (NOR) is an established preclinical model for evaluating recognition memory deficits (for review, see Kinnavane et al., 2014). This test relies on the instinct of rats to preferentially explore novel objects over familiar objects, thus requiring the animals to remember which object is familiar. The perir
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Where is the Hillary Preference Cascade?
It's now been 2 days since Donald Trump unofficially secured the GOP nomination but there is an interesting dynamic that is getting no attention.
One of the signs that a race is over is something called a preference cascade. It's the point where it becomes apparent that a particular candidate is going to win both and both pols and voters start lining up behind the person who is going to win (It's also worth noting the candidates remember who was with them before the cascade came, the true believers, vs those who decided to join the parade when there was no other in town) but I digress.
That more than anything else is why Donald Trump starting pulling over 50%, once people decided that Trump was going to win attitudes started to change, that's when you knew, press coverage not withstanding, baring something incredible it was all over.
And that brings us to Bernie Sanders.
Lost in all the commotion of Ted Cruz and then John Kasich dropping out of the GOP race after Indiana was Bernie Sanders chalking up an unexpected primary win.
Sanders told reporters this evening, "I understand that Secretary Clinton thinks that this campaign is over. I've got some bad news for her. I know all the pundits thought we were supposed to lose but that apparently is not what all the people of Indiana concluded." Sanders also scoffed at the idea that staying in the race could hurt Democrats' chances against GOP front-runner Donald Trump. "Not at all. Not at all," he said. He pointed to polls that showed voters saying the primary invigorated the party. "I have no doubt, zero doubt that what we have done in this campaign, what we are doing now and what we will do in the next 6 weeks is good for the democratic party and it will result in a higher voter turnout," he added. It will likely remain mathematically possible for Sanders to win the Democratic nomination until at least June 7 because the large number of superdelegates, who overwhelmingly back Clinton now, but are free to change their minds. Clinton currently needs to win 70 percent of remaining delegates in order to clinch the Democratic nomination using only pledged delegates.
For quite a while the MSM has been declaring the Democrat race over, but oddly enough the voters don't seem to agree, and more importantly the normal preference cascade that would be the sure sign of a race that's been won just plain hasn't taken place.
So let's review:
Until Ted Cruz's defeat and decision to pull out of the GOP race the media has maintained that the GOP race was not over.
Yet even with Bernie Sanders victory in Indiana and the fact that Hillary needs 70% of the elected delegates to win the nomination outright the media has no problem dubbing Hillary the winner and completely dismissing Bernie Sanders even though the voters have shown no sign of the preference cascade that would normally follow a winner.
I wonder why?
Update" Day by Day is thinking preference cascades today too
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In two dramatic cliffhangers, Ryan Li beat Eric Lui in back-to-back games Friday to sweep the AGA Pro Qualification Tournament finals, becoming the American Go Association's fourth professional. Li had won their game in the round-robin section earlier in the week, so Friday's wins gave him a 3-0 sweep of the best-of-five finals (he only dropped one game in the entire tournament, against Matthew Burrall). Click here for results and game records and check out the AGA Facebook page for photos.
"Eric was a really tough opponent," Li told the E-Journal after the final round. "I definitely felt a lot of pressure from him and just wanted to try my hardest, do my best and see what happens. It's still all sinking in." Li is in his third year at the University of Toronto, where he's studying physics. He's also an avid soccer player. His future go plans are a bit up in the air at the moment. "I had planned to play in the World Amateur Go Championships this year but of course now I can't do that," he said, laughing.
"I am tremendously impressed with Ryan's progress since last year's pro tournament," said AGA President Andy Okun. "His poise and seriousness all week were a real inspiration, as was his steadiness during some truly grueling games." Okun also said that he was "pleased with the overall strength of the field; clearly we're onto something here."
Lui took a solid cash lead early in the morning game and hundreds of viewers on KGS thought he seemed to be in a good position after deftly surviving Li's splitting attack. But Li kept up the pressure and as Lui went into byo-yomi, the game kept getting more and more complicated. Eventually, with the life and death of multiple groups at stake, several huge kos and even a seki, both players were battling the clock as well and in the end, Lui, behind on the board, lost on time as well. In the other two morning games, Jeremy Chiu's kill of Ben Lockhart's large central group evened the score at 1-1 in their battle for third place in the tournament, while Matthew Burrall's win against Daniel Gourdeau put him within one game of clinching fifth place (Gourdeau lost their match in the round-robin section earlier in the week). The afternoon game between Li and Lui was another no-holds-barred contest, closely followed by hundreds on KGS, who were also treated to a live commentary by Myungwan Kim 9P, with Andrew Jackson. The other two afternoon games were each decided by half a point, Lockhart defeating Chiu to take a 2-1 lead, and Matthew Burrall beating Gourdeau to claim fifth place. Lockhart and Chiu will continue their struggle for third place — and seed in the next pro tournament — in a game Saturday at 9:30a that will be broadcast on KGS; if a fifth game is needed it'll be played and broadcast at 4p (EST).
- report/photos by Chris Garlock
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Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Washington is coasting. For the past several years, chroniclers of the relationship between the president and Republicans in Congress have searched in vain for new ways to describe chaos. When chaos wasn't on order, the task was to find new ways to connote stasis—the lack of progress that filled the exhausted interregnum between periods of chaos.
John Dickerson John Dickerson is a co-anchor of CBS This Morning, co-host of the Slate Political Gabfest, host of the Whistlestop podcast, and author of Whistlestop and On Her Trail.
Now the job has changed a bit. Crisis budgeting that led to tense moments is largely gone, mostly because House Republicans have decided not to stage confrontations. That is healthy, but there seems to have been a collective decision that like the convalescent, no politician is going to risk tearing the stitches by doing much more than padding around the ward. No one is going to do anything big or risky. The pace of action is neither chaotic nor energetic but just shy of slipping on a Snuggie and settling in for a Lord of the Rings marathon.
This is, of course, pathetic. Republicans and Democrats are both so frightened about creating fights within their own parties during an election year that they are leaving the big questions unanswered. Today, House Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp put forward a set of fundamental tax reform proposals. It was the product of years of work between Camp, a Republican, and his Democratic counterpart in the Senate, Max Baucus. The two traveled across the country holding hearings, taking in mountains of input, and engaging in all the other kinds of activity that most people like to think of when they think of elected representatives doing their jobs.
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All that work is going nowhere. No one in either party wants to risk taking on the complicated and tricky issue that might offend big contributors or stir up voters in the wrong way. There will continue to be talk on both sides, but no one is going to get anything done. Budget expert Stan Collender thinks that means no action on this issue until 2019.
The pace of action in Washington is just shy of slipping on a Snuggie and settling in for a Lord of the Rings marathon.
Trade and immigration are two other items that have gone from the back burner to the freezer. House Speaker John Boehner won't start a fight in his party by bringing up immigration reform, and President Obama won't force his party to take up trade legislation that the president says will help the economy.
The stakes are so low in Washington that Obama and Boehner could even sit down and meet again after a long pause. Tuesday, the two men talked for an hour in what was their longest noncrisis conversation in years. Boehner emerged calling it a "nice meeting" and then went back to beating up on the president and his health care law.
So if nothing is going to get done, what did they talk about? Well, just because no one in Washington is going to do anything big or meaningful doesn't mean they have totally banished their chance to do a little something.
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There is a possibility that the appropriations process will actually take place in some form this year. Spending items may actually be considered by a committee in which people will have their say about the merits of each program. Although the big budget questions of our time—big new spending or entitlement reforms—are still out of the conversation, at least spending levels won't be determined by sequestration. There's also a slim chance that Congress might work together on the transportation bill, flood insurance, and a water resource bill in the way that members worked together to pass the farm bill.
Those are not grand pieces of legislation, but they are what one top congressional aide calls the "meat and potatoes" of operating a government. A cynic might also call them the least lawmakers can be expected to do and still deserve the name. Of course, even limited progress is the optimistic view. Though the temperature has lowered and chaos is on pause, it's still possible that lawmakers could slip from risk-free coasting to a full-on coma. Given how few legislative days are scheduled for this election year, it may be impossible even to handle the meat-and-potato basics. Congress may, for example, once again resort to passing a continuing resolution instead of having a proper appropriations process.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are in trouble. So are the Houston Rockets. And the Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors may no longer have a chance.
The Dallas Mavericks have emerged as front-runners in the Dwight Howard sweepstakes.
That's the only conclusion we're left to draw after Brad Townsend of The Dallas Morning News (h/t CBS Sports) wrote that Dallas-Fort Worth-area Raising Cane's restaurants are prepared to load Howard up with protein for the rest of his life—for free:
As the wooing of Dwight Howard officially begins, Dallas-Fort Worth-area Raising Cane's restaurants are offering free-agent center Howard food for thought – for the rest of his life. On Monday, Raising Cane's will kick off a campaign inviting Mavericks fans to help persuade Howard to sign with Dallas. The company has leased six electronic billboards to help publicize its cooked-up offer to Howard. Raising Cane's marketing manager Adam Reed says that if Howard signs with the Mavericks, "he will be welcome to come by any of our (20) local restaurants to enjoy seriously delicious chicken fingers at any time, on us, for the rest of his life."
Howard's first thought: Where do I sign?
Free chicken fingers are no joke. They're delicious, and also expensive. At least, over the course of Howard's life they would be.
Townsend posits that if Superman were to hit the drive-through once a day for the rest of his life, Raising Cane's would be on the hook for anywhere between $192,628 and $530,621 worth of chicken. That's quite the signing bonus.
A cursory once-over of Larry Coon's CBA FAQ reveals that there is nothing against fast-food joints offering lucratively edible incentives to other teams' players before the NBA's free-agency period officially begins. So neither Raising Cane's nor Mark Cuban should be fined for tampering.
Instead, the rest of Howard's suitors must now scramble in every direction, searching for a way to match this incredible negotiating ploy.
Perhaps the Lakers could offer Dwight the opportunity to chase championships and taste the rainbow, bestowing upon him a lifetime supply of Skittles.
Maybe the Hawks can appeal to Howard by landing him an endorsement with the pizzeria of his choosing, as he once revealed those slices of heaven were his favorite food.
And if I'm analytics guru Daryl Morey, I'm poring over video footage of Howard's chocolate-chip cookie talents and getting Nestle Toll House to roll out the red carpet before the league's moratorium period is lifted.
The rest of his suitors could also keep it simple. Free chicken is already the standard: All they have to do is find a restaurant willing to match and get it to toss in unlimited dipping sauces.
I can't tell you how many free-agency coups I suspect have been decided by an extra cup of ranch or another meal-time dressing. Though each member of the Miami Heat's Big Three took a (slight) pay cut in 2010, I'm convinced there was an never-ending supply of honey mustard involved to help offset the monetary difference.
In related news, I'm starving.
Please excuse me while I go work on my jump shot in hopes of one day making it to the NBA and being compensated with an ever-replenishing reservoir of deep-fried poultry.
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