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Doing so violates core international, constitutional and US statute laws. Johnson didn't explain. Nor that drones mostly kill innocent civilians. |
A tiny fraction of deaths are so-called "high value targets." Innocent men, women and children comprise most others. It doesn't matter. |
Johnson calls "targeted lethal force" justifiable. "The essential mission of the US military is to capture or kill an enemy," he said. |
In a February 2012 Yale Law School address, he called US citizens fair game. |
"Belligerents who also happen to be US citizens do not enjoy immunity where non-citizen belligerents are valid military objectives," he said. |
America's domestic "war on terror" will be in good hands with Johnson. Expect freedom to suffer another major body blow. Perhaps it won't survive his tenure. Ends justifying means alone matters. |
Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. |
published Monday, July 9th, 2012 |
A bold stand |
The news is more encouraging in a number of other states: |
You're pleased that people won't have insurance, that they will burden emergency rooms instead of having effective health care provided through a free market exchange process? |
Gee, thanks for showing what you really care about. It ain't about genuine integrity, you can't even support your own ideas. But no, it's not a massive tax increase, and no, the Supreme Court decision did not say that. Stop reading what you want into things. |
A bold stand? No, the bold stand would be to stand against the partisan tide and do the right thing, and not refuse to implement your own idea just because you can't strand admitting that it's a good idea. |
But as we know, you don't have principles. |
July 9, 2012 at 12:31 a.m. |
nucanuck said... |
So let's see. The far-right controled Supreme Court fails to block Obamacare so the far-right functionaries are going to block implementation on the grounds that the minority should rule? |
I often say that the US has become ungovernable. This reaction to a duly passed law is a lovely example of why the US will one day, no doubt, break apart into smaller, more governable sub-units. Certainly the Southeast would make a like-minded political unit. Then possibly Texas, the Northeast, California, and the Nort... |
Surely the logical response to too big to govern should be to form smaller, more governable units. That's what happened in the Balkans and the old Soviet Union. World history is full of examples of political unions that broke apart because fundamental differences had become too great to continue as one. Religions famou... |
This may be where the far right is driving America. Worse things have happened. |
July 9, 2012 at 2:36 a.m. |
Livn4life said... |
It is truly amazing to read how people on both sides of this issue look only through their own lenses. This suggests that everything a leftist person reads, hears, embraces from that perspective, is absolutely true. That in itself is interesting, since many who claim to be liberal claim there are no absolutes which is ... |
July 9, 2012 at 10:57 a.m. |
nucanuck said... |
You are certainly right that we should work together to solve our problems, but what we see is increasing polarization...a wider divide. If the trend continues or gets even worse...then what? |
Countries come and go. Look at maps every hundred years back...lots of changes. Do you think that the US is so exceptional that we aren't subject to the same historical faults as others before us? Well, we are, and all it takes is time...maybe a little and maybe a lot...but time will reconfigure the US just as it has e... |
Also, look around the world at the countries that seem high in contentment...they are mostly small. Is that a coincidence or a contributor? Probably a contributor when you think about it. |
It certainly looks like Europe will not be united politically. China and India are certainly difficult to manage, partially because of size. Globalization means bigger and bigger corporations and countries. Who still favors that? Re-localization means smaller governments, more individual's the ultimate conservative sol... |
Are truly conservative solutions deluded? |
July 9, 2012 at 4:15 p.m. |
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Florida's Surfer Blood have written a hit song. I know this much to be true. When I first heard their song "Swim (To Reach The End)," I thought there was no way I heard it right. So I had to listen to those three-minutes and nineteen-seconds a half-dozen more times just to make sure. And, wouldn't you know, I heard it ... |
Not only does it have big time power-pop choruses sung so perfectly and harmoniously (a la Weezer), but it even manages to pack in a sick little noodling guitar solo that reminds me of Chicago indie rock right around 1994 (the circa I'm a sucker for). I'm also feeling a serious Cheap Trick vibe going on. And everyone k... |
Oh, and about those harmonious vocals -- they're perhaps similar to Animal Collective in sound, but less "enigmatic" and way more "happy." Surfer Blood definitely aren't lo-fi (which is often a gracious term for people who can't play their instruments all that well). These dudes are pros. Boy, that song is good. |
But anyway, these little musings of mine aren't meant to be song profiles. They're meant to be band profiles. Thankfully, self-ascribed arbitrary rules are made to be broken. That Surfer Blood song is a straight-up JAM. (P.S. Surfer Blood's other songs are pretty good too...). Oh and they list Flannery O'Connor as one ... |
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I use gframecatcher to generate thumbnail video galleries, i.e. something like this: |
enter image description here |
However this is a GUI tool and I want to create recursively a gallery for every video in a directory structure, so I am looking for a fast command line tool to do this. |
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Pull out the image captures (these are 100 pixels tall, and keep aspect ratio), the rate (-r) is per-second (this yields one frame every ~5 minutes), this also adds time stamp to output image. |
ffmpeg -i MOVIE.mp4 -r 0.0033 -vf scale=-1:120 -vcodec png capture-%002d.png |
Then use ImageMagick to build your gallery image: |
montage -title "Movie Name\nSubtitle" -geometry +4+4 capture*.png output.png |
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The 'imagemagick' package has utilities for stuff like this. |
There are API libraries using imagemajick for a bunch of languages too. |
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What would be the corresponding command? – student Feb 5 at 11:50 |
convert is probably the most general one. Look at the section headed General Thumbnail Creation on the first page I linked to. – goldilocks Feb 5 at 14:20 |
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Stages of viral infection |
Document Sample |
scope of work template |
Lecture 24: patterns of infection BSCI 437 |
Flint et al, Chapter 16 |
General points |
• Infection can be |
– Acute |
– Persistent |
• Effects can range from |
– Unnoticeable |
– Deadly |
Viral life cycles |
Cytopathic: rapidly kill the cell while producing a burst of new particles |
Non-cytopathic: infection yields virions without causing immediate cell death |
Incubation period |
The time between the initial infection and the onset of disease symptoms. |
Can range from a few days (cold viruses) to years (HIV) |
Stages of viral infection |
1. Primary infection- Infection of cells in the general location where virus enters. |
Common for example with cold viruses and Diarrhea causing viruses. Many viruses |
including HIV initially infect cells in the infected area. |
2. Viremia- Virus enters the blood system and can be detected in the blood stream. |
Not all viruses do this. Some remain only localized. |
3. Secondary infection- Infection of other organ of cell types by the virus. |
Many viruses have high affinity for specific organs due to the presence of receptors or |
specific cell metabolic functions. Examples are infection of salivary glands by mumps |
virus, brain tissue by encephalitis virus, and liver tissue by hepatitis virus. |
Stages of viral infection – Varicella zoster infection (Fig. 16.3) |
• Primary infection: VZV infects via conjunctiva and upper respiratory tract |
• Days 0 – 3: Replicates in primary lymph nodes |
• Days 4 – 6: primary viremia, |
• Days 6 – 13: replication in liver, spleen, other organs |
• Day 14: infection of skin and appearance of rash. Infection of sensory ganglia |
and establishment of latent infection |
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