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Check Out New "Human Future" Biotech/Bioethics Blog
Jennifer Lahl, is the head of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She has a new blog that is worth checking out. Here is the link.
This Blog considers assisted suicide/euthanasia, bioethics, human cloning, biotechnology, radical environmentalism, and the dangers of animal rights/liberation. My views expressed here, as in my books and other writings, reflect my understanding that the philosophy of human exceptionalism is the bedrock of universal human rights. Or, to put it another way: human life matters. (The opinions expressed here are my own and not necessarily those of any organization with which I am affiliated.)
Jennifer Lahl, is the head of the Center for Bioethics and Culture. She has a new blog that is worth checking out. Here is the link.
Terri Schiavo was supposedly dehydrated to death because she supposedly told Michael Schiavo that she would not want to be maintained in an incapacitated condition. The evidence of her "choice" was extremely weak but deemed sufficient enough for courts to justify their death orders.
But this was really a veneer. The real reason Terri died, in my view, was that her life was deemed not worthy to be lived.
Now in Houston, we have a case of a woman whose husband needs a feeding tube and ventilator support. She wants the care for him, but the hospitals are saying no, that his treatment is "futile," and therefore, they can cut him off from sustenance unilaterally based on their values. So much for "choice."
Welcome to the world of "futile care theory." I have been pounding the drum against this form of oppression for years. Expect this to be the next big public fight in bioethics. And expect the same papers that editorialized in favor of Michael Schiavo's right to decide his wife's fate to editorialize that in futile care situations, doctors know best.
You see, it isn't about choice. It is about certain categories of people no longer being welcomed in life.
The Council of Europe has rejected calls to permit euthanasia. Interesting, that this AP story was not reported widely in the U.S. I had to go to Pravda, for gosh sakes, to get the story. Not surprisingly, when the General Assembly called by a margin of almost 3-1 for member states to outlaw all forms of human cloning, that story was also ignored by the media.
The National Academy of Sciences has published voluntary guidelines to govern therapeutic cloning and embryonic stem cell research. Unsurprisingly, they don't offer much in the way of limitations. For example, the NAS would permit biotechnologists to create embryos--either naturally or through cloning--solely for the purpose of research. (Remember when ALL scientists wanted was access to leftover IVF embryos due to be destroyed anyway?) The only acts the NAS suggests not be done "at this time" are: 1) Research on embryos beyond 14 days of development or the development of the primitive streak; 2) Placing human embryonic stem cells into primate embryos or other species stem cells into human embryos; and 3) Permitting animals that have had human embryonic stem cells introduced into their systems to breed.
That's about it. Oh, there is talk of having Institutional Review Boards monitor the research and all that blather. But that is no protection at all since the IRBs would be made up of scientists and others committed to moving human cloning research forward.
The media didn't pay as much attention to these guidelines as they usually do in such cases. Perhaps even they know that this is just a PR gambit to give the appearance of control when the real watchwords of the day are "anything goes."
I recently learned, to my astonishment, that Dolly was not the first cloned mammal. Now, scientists are stating that since primates have not yet been cloned to birth, it will almost surely never happen with humans. What a crock. Monkeys have already been cloned to birth several times using the same cloning technique that Ian Wilmut utilized in making the first cloned sheep--two years before the birth of Dolly. This matters, as I demonstrate in this article published in the current issue of the Weekly Standard.
I am often asked if videos of my speeches are available. Here is the video stream of one I presented recently at Seattle University School of Law. The topic was: Bioethics: Creating a Disposable Caste of People. Please, tune in. And if you don't like it, remember the old saying: You get what you pay for.
Many still believe that the goal of the animal rights/liberation movement is to find more humane ways for humans to make proper use of animals. That would be a noble goal, but it is not what animal liberationists were really after. Rather than supporting animal welfare--which acknowledges the human right to make proper and humane use of animals for human betterment, but which also insists that humans fulfill our moral obligation as humans to do so in the most humane ways practicable--animal liberationists insist that humans have no moral right to make use of any animal for any reason. Thus, when they equate cattle ranching with human slavery and eating meat to the Holocaust, they mean it.
Following this anti-human philosophy would lead to great human harm in many areas, explicitly including the stunting of medical progress, as this column demonstrates.
Advocates for euthanasia like to call it the "ultimate civil right." But you won't find traditional civil rights organizations joining along. Indeed, those who really want assisted suicide tend to be well off folk who have no fear of being denied quality health care.
More proof of this point comes with the announced strong opposition by LULAC to California's A.B. 654, which would legalize assisted suicide. LULAC (League of United Latin American Citizens) is California's oldest Hispanic civil rights organization.
The media likes to depict opponents as almost exclusively members of the religious right. LULAC's rejection of assisted suicide is more proof of the shallow, two-dimensional nature of this depiction.
Howard Dean, head of the Democratic Party, says that Democrats will use Terri Schiavo's tragedy as a partisan club with which to hit Republicans in the 2006 election. I am not involved in partisan politics, but this strikes me as the worst sort of opportunism. Dean seems to have forgotten that the United States Senate gave its unanimous consent to the federal law seeking a de novo federal trial of the Schaivo facts. Last time I counted there 44 Democrats in the United States Senate. Moreover, Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) was a strong supporter, and the compromise legislation was brokered by Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada).
In the House of Representatives, the Democrat Caucus split on the bill about 50-50.
I have a minority position on the federal law and its debate. I supported the law. But I think both sides were principled and argued their points positively and in the best American tradition. The side favoring the legislation were, consistent with the rule of law and American ideals, seeking to protect the life of one, helpless, profoundly disabled woman. The side arguing against the legislation were defending judicial independence, federalism and our system of shared sovereignty, key components of American freedom. I believe both sides were motivated by principle and integrity.
I don't recall Howard Dean opposing the bill at the time. But if Dean and Democrats try to revise history and claim that the law was exclusively a Republican venture, then they will be branding themselves cynics and demagogues,who, when the heat was on, meekly went along. But later, when some polls showed that the move was unpopular, they claim federal intervention was an attempt to impose theocracy. Talk about political cowardice and cynicism!
The question now becomes whether Democrat supporters of the bill to save Terri's life will speak the truth about their principled involvement or allow Dean to perform a tap dance of demagoguery on Terri's grave.
California euthanasia ideologues are working overtime to legalize assisted suicide in the Golden State (A.B. 654). They often point to Oregon as the model for a "good law." In other places, I have often noted, as have many others, that the Oregon law is NOT working as hyped. However, here is a little statistic that Rita Marker researched, which demonstrates how ugly assisted suicide could become in CA. There are nearly twice as many people without health insurance in CA (6.5 m.), as there are total people in Oregon (3.5 m.). Given that assisted suicide would be the cheapest possible "medical treatment" around if it ever were legalized, and noting that many assisted suicide victims in Oregon reportedly "chose" to die so they will not burden their families, the implications for the poor and uninsured if assisted suicide becomes lawful in California are obvious.
The publicity from the Terri Schiavo case has apparently saved its first life. Apparently an ill elderly woman was consigned to dehydration by her grandchildren despite having an advance directive stating that she only wanted no feeding tube if she were in a persistent vegetative state. She wasn't in such a state and had a treatable heart condition. Yet, a hospice agreed to dehydrate her and she went without food or water for a week. Other relatives intervened and she is apparently safe, for now. But look at how easy some now find it to deprive the cognitively disabled and frail elderly of all food and water.
One of the least covered but fundamental problems associated with human cloning is the need to use human eggs--one egg for each cloning try. Obtaining eggs involves an onerous process known as super ovulation, in which a woman is administered high doses of hormones to induce her ovaries to release 10-15 eggs in her cycle instead of the usual one. The eggs are then obtained surgically, usually by inserting a needle through the vaginal wall. This can be a dangerous procedure, leading to potential side effects such as infection, sterility, and in a few cases such as this tragic example, death. No wonder many feminists oppose human cloning as a technology that could lead directly to the exploitation of women.
During the last ten-plus years, I have had the privilege of working closely with two giants in public advocacy. One is Ralph Nader, with whom I co-authored four books. The other is Rita Marker, the head of the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide. Indeed, the powerful impact of Rita's book Deadly Compassion compelled me to begin my anti-euthanasia work.
In recent days, Rita has published two superb articles. The first, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, points out some of the many flaws of California Assembly Bill A.B. 654, the assisted suicide legalization bill that recently passed out of the Judiciary Committee. The second, dealing with advance directives, was published on National Review Online. Both are worth the read.
Last week's Nation, the left wing magazine on current events, hit a new low. The cover mocks Terri Schiavo by showing her being asked to smile to indicate yes when answering a series of questions, mostly meant to criticize her supporters, and her face not changing.
Not only is this to disparage a dead woman who was dehydrated to death because she had suffered a serious brain injury, it demonstrates that many on the Left really do consider people like Terri to be less than human, and hence, better off dead. What a disgrace.
Most of the media will ignore this Zogby poll, since it gets in the way of the story being painted of the government's efforts to save Terri Schiavo's life as a right wing vendetta. And polls by ABC and Time sure seem to have been written to obtain a desired result.
The Zogby poll isn't perfect either. To get a truly accurate picture, it should have mentioned the feeding tube more explicitly and the profound nature of Terri's cognitive disability. But I think it more accurately depicts the mixed attitudes of the American people on this issue than the other polls being relied upon to support the conventional media wisdom.
Even more than polls, however, remains the relative quiescence of the Democrat Party on this matter. If politicos were convinced this were a winning issue against Republicans, there would be no end of speechifying. But there were reasons that most Democrats in the Congress voted for the federal law. First, many believed it was the right thing to do, e.g., Sens. Joe Lieberman, Tom Harkin, etc. Second, the grass roots drove the matter in a truly democratic fashion.
The Dutch began euthanasia in 1973. It wasn't until circa 1990 that the killing agenda got around regularly to dispatching disabled and terminally ill infants. And it is only this year that there is a concerted effort to formally legalize eugenic infanticide in the Netherlands.
What took the Dutch more than 30 years, is happening in less than 5 in Belgium, which, a pending study in The Lancet shows, appears ready to move at the double quick toward the killing of seriously ill and disabled infants.
Such is the inescapable logic of euthanasia. Once killing is transformed from "bad" to "good" as a remedy for suffering, it doesn't take long before those who can't exercise the killing "choice" have it made for them.
Periodically, the Atlantic Monthly magazine publishes stories on biotech. These tend to be fawning puff pieces about the coming wonders of therapeutic cloning or, on occasion, warnings about the problems biotech is spawning for society.
There are two constants in these stories. First, they accept almost as a matter of course that all of the hyped promises of cloning and embryonic stem cell research will soon come to pass. No jaundiced eyes in the Atlantic Monthly! Second, they often get basic facts wrong.
"The Coming Death Shortage" by Charles C. Mann in the May 2005 edition keeps up the tradition. Mann assumes that embryonic stem cell research and other forms of biotech will, within this century, dramatically extend human life spans to the point that we may soon live in "a world of 200-year-olds."
Stories like this are so overblown they usually aren't worth a mention. However, Mann claims that "the Bush Administration" has placed "so many strictures on stem-cell research that scientists complain it has been effectively banned in this country." The scientists' lament is patently untrue. But this canard has been repeated so many times by ESCR advocates that it has been transformed into perceived wisdom.
Mann claims that the Bush policy has driven the science over to China, where ESCR is practiced so freely that Chinese scientists are now deluged with offers from eager American venture capitalists seeking to throw money into the research. "Sooner or later," Mann warns darkly, "in one nation or another, someone ...will cut a deal: frozen embryos for financial backing."
Well baloney. First, the only limits Bush placed on ESCR is on federal funding of stem cell lines created after 8/9/01. Indeed, the feds have poured tens of millions into ESCR under the Bush guidelines. Moreover, it is perfectly legal under federal law to engage in ESCR to scientists' hearts content. Geron Corp. in Menlo Park, CA, for example, is actively pursuing ESCR, and Harvard researchers recently created a new series of embryonic stem cell lines backed by private money.
This means that if venture capitalists were so hot to trot for ESCR, they wouldn't have to go to China: There are bounteous opportunities for them cut the frozen embryo deals right here.
That they are not doing so in large numbers, as has been frequently reported in the business press, is primarily because their due diligence convinces venture capitalists that ESCR and its close sibling, therapeutic cloning, are not likely to generate a profitable return any time soon. Not wanting to throw their money into a black hole, venture capitalists instead zip up their wallets.
That is why Big Biotech and its supporters in university life science institutes masterminded the raid on the California treasury known as Proposition 71. They knew that voters desperate for cures, unlike venture capitalists, wouldn't do the extended research necessary to uncover the hype and speculation that is the backbone of ESCR and cloning research advocacy.
This John Leo column begins to connect dots in urgent need of connecting.
Thus sayeth the New York Times: "The death of Pope John Paul II came at a time when Americans have been engaged in an unusual moment of national reflection about mortality. The long, bitter fight over the unknowing Terri Schiavo was a stark contrast to the passing of this pontiff, whose own mind was keenly aware of the gradual failure of his body. The pope would certainly never have wanted his own end to be a lesson in the transcendent importance of allowing humans to choose their own manner of death. But to some of us, that was the exact message of his dignified departure."
The Times editorialist doesn't explicitly refer to assisted suicide, but the phrase "choose their own manner of death" is an assisted suicide advocacy slogan, which given their past, untiring support for that agenda, can be only what was meant.
The Pope didn't choose the time and manner of his death. His illness did. The Pope did not request heroic measures to prevent the inevitable for a few extra days or weeks. This is not only substantially different from a husband deciding that the profoundly disabled but non-terminally ill wife he abandoned should die, but it also disproves the canard oft stated that the Catholic Church is vitalist in its philosophy. Indeed, John Paul's continued public ministry to the very end demonstrates his wholehearted belief in the intrinsic dignity and moral worth of all human life--regardless of suffering, illness, disability, or other subjective criteria.
But that profound understanding is way above the heads of the editorialists of the New York Times.
Apparently Michael Schiavo is in hiding because of death threats. Anyone who threatens violence dishonors the memory of Terri Schiavo and the noble struggle in which so many participated. Indeed, the Schindlers said explicitly to put away hate.
The Pope forgave his attempted assassin. Terri's sweet face was full of love. Such threats have no place at this time of great grief for the passing of a truly good man and an innocent, defenseless woman.
As promised, here is an article in the current edition of the Weekly Standard magazine containing some of my initial thoughts on legal reforms that could help protect the lives of devalued people like Terri Schiavo.
The article speaks for itself, but allow me to share just a few additional thoughts: Reporters have been asking me if the goal of new legislation would be to force patients to stay alive as long as possible and to do away with written advance directives that allow people to decide in advance what kind of care they want and don't want if they become incapacitated.
The reporters are following this line of inquiry after being told by some who seek to discredit the defenders of Terri's life that we want to dismantle the laws of informed consent and refusal. Of course, these charges are ridiculous. Indeed, at a time when many bioethicists promote "futile care theory" that would give doctors the right to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment to patients one bioethicist once notoriously called "biologically tenacious", written advance directives are more important than ever TO ENSURE THAT REQUESTED CARE IS ACTUALLY RECEIVED.
Now, I readily admit that I don't believe that it is moral to remove feeding tubes from people based on quality of life assessments. But I am not the dictator and the society as a whole clearly has a different view. Nevertheless, if someone wants to die by dehydration in cases of severe brain injury, they owe it to their families and society to put that directive in writing. Absent that, every reasonable benefit of every doubt should go to providing food and water. Better to err on the side of life than a slow death by dehydration.
Ah, the Dutch. In their cold and sterile hands, there never would have been a public fight over Terri's life. The decision to stop the feeding tube wouldn't have been based on Terri's past-stated desires. It wouldn't have been based on what Michael Schiavo wanted. Nor, would Terri's folks have had a say. Instead, it would all have been up to the doctors.
The UK has a similar system in place as part of its system of socialized medicine. Indeed, a man with a Lou Gehrig's disease type condition was so terrified that he would be denied a feeding tube when he could no longer swallow, he sued for the right to receive food and water. He won in the trial court, but astoundingly, the government is appealing on the basis that with health care budgets so tight, the doctors should be the ones to make the call.
Now, lest we feel superior here in "choice central," that kind of pogrom, er, I mean program, is being prepared for us right here in the good ol' USA by the bioethics movement. It is called futile care theory, under which doctors (and health insurance executives?) are being empowered by hospital protocols to refuse WANTED life sustaining treatment if the patient's quality of life is seen as insufficient to warrant further care (other than palliation). In the event the family objects, an ethics committee decides. The way these protocols generally read, once the committee rules thumbs down on the treatment, the care can no longer be provided in the hospital, even if another doctor steps forward to provide it.
Futile care theory is just now beginning to be applied against actual patients. Time will tell whether the American people will accept this new game of "Doctor knows best."
Forgive me for posting a favorable review of my most recent book, Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World. I do so not because it is a good review--although in truth, it is highly unlikely that I would post a bad review in this space. No, I am posting this review from the Claremont Institute because this reviewer really captured the essence of what I strived to communicate in the book. And for that, I am most appreciative.
I was traveling when Terri Schiavo died, the victim of a bitter injustice. It was a very sad day for her family and a black mark on the history of American jurisprudence.
We can create a lasting legacy for Terri by acting legislatively to provide greater protections for people, who like Terri, are incapacitated and dependent on others for their care. This will require careful deliberation. We don't want to dismantle a system that permits people to declare ahead of time what medical interventions they might or might not want in the event the become incapacitated. Yet, at the same time, we must not permit casual conversations to be elevated to the level of a deliberate and well thought out written advance directive when removing feeding tubes. Ralph Nader and I have some initial thoughts. I will fill out some of these ideas more fully in next week's Weekly Standard.


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Since Billy Ray has an ongoing thread about mapping, not wishing to highjack it, I will start a similar one.
Since I am retired, I spend a great deal of time trailriding horses. We ride everywhere, open fields, unmarked trails, marked trails, state parks, federal parks, etc.
I bought a Garmin Etrex for less than $100 a few years ago to help map, but mostly to track miles traveled and get me back to camp. First of all, I am not smart enough to follow the limited instructions that came with it. I needed close and personal help to get me started. A riding buddy of mine has an old Magellan that will run circles around mine. For instance, he will show that we have gone 8 miles, while mine will show only 6 miles. Now we are riding alot in the woods, so apparently mine is losing signal. Bottom line, I have given up and rarely take it with me, anymore.
Question, do I have to spend $300-400 to get one that is accurate and simple to use? All I want it to do is track where I have been and if I ride in a long circle, get me back to my horse trailer. Nothing fancy.

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10-15-2013 00:45:05 | More by Molson2000
Ontario (Canada)
1.53/5 rDev -23.5%
Bought a 660ml bottle from Quebec.
Poured a clear light brown, once the yeast fell in it really clouded over (so to speak).
Smell - not much in the nose, bitterness. Very difficult to get any sense of what to expect.
Flavor - Yikes. Bitter and Sour...Very Sour....Far Too sour...You can taste the malts hidden under the sour overtones. Almost like a Token Red Ale with lemon juice squeezed in. Very Lemony and sour grape. No real complexity at all. Finishes with a strong bitterness that is a bit much and linger's far too long.
Not my choice of beers. reminds me of a home-brew that just didn't turn out properly.
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1.5/5 rDev -25%
Appearance: Kind of a dark reddish brown. Very little head. Clumps (clots?) of yeast apparent. I love bottle-conditioned beers, particularly other Quebec ones. This was not normal.
Smell: Nothing particularly strong or memorable. Or maybe I just forgot it because of the taste.
Taste: In this swine flu season, I'm sure many of us have made the mistake of eating a finger food shortly after using an alcohol-based gel hand sanitizer. You can replicate much of the experience of this beer by doing that.
Mouthfeel: Very light carbonation. Seemed flat.
Drinkability: Literally could not drink this. I had one sip from my glass, one sip from my drinking companion's glass to see if something was wrong with mine (perhaps I'd inadvertently sanitized it, I thought, or perhaps it was the fault of the yeast chunks in mine - not so, unfortunately), and then could not drink any more. My drinking companion finished the bottle out of a desire not to waste it and is currently regretting it.
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Bottle: Poured a light reddish color ale with a small bubbly head with no retention and no lacing. Aroma is very bland with some light generic malt and nothing close to a Flemish sour as mentioned on the label. Taste is again dominated by some light sweet malt with no oak, no tart notes or any sourness. Light body with limited carbonation. The experience of drinking this beer can be resumed as a big waste of time and money.
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St. Bruno de Kamouraska, Bière Brune Sur Lie.
A: Copper-bronze, fizzy off-white head, no retention or lace.
S: Brown sugar, sour cherries, grain, candy.
T: Grainy astringency, light sourness, brown sugar, wet cardboard.
M: Light body & carbonation.
D: Not very drinkable.
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Unless you pay for it, or pirate it (we posted those links earlier), you won't be able to see the opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia.
In a small effort to circumvent NBC's live coverage blockade, here are several olympic images posted to social media platforms.
Take that Peacock.


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Welcome to Shondaland, the world of strong female characters, complicated love stories, and absolutely horrible parents. It's a world in which being the leading lady means a few things are certain: You will have an epic love, you will be excellent at your job, and you will have atrocious parents who will cause you tremendous amounts of pain. Take Grey's Anatomy's Meredith Grey and Scandal's Olivia Pope, for example. Mer has McDreamy; Olivia has Fitz. Mer is a respected surgeon; Olivia is the best "fixer" around. Mer's parents are/were awful; Olivia's parents are/were awful.
And after Thursday night's Scandal, in which we learned the truth about Olivia's mom, I couldn't help but ask myself: Whose parents are worse? Meredith's or Olivia's? Let's break it down.


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PATTANI, Thailand: At least five people were killed and almost 40 more were wounded Friday after a car bomb detonated in a packed market in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, officials told AFP.
"As of now five (are) dead including a paramilitary ranger and four civilians," a Sai Buri district hospital official told AFP, adding 14 of the wounded were in "serious condition".
Local police confirmed the death toll and said 37 had been wounded, among them 25 civilians.


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maybe the advocate could do a public service by providing the dress code in a upcoming paper. Not everyone has internet service or home computersAugust 10, 2010 at 12:01 a.m.
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Akka Example worked out by presenter. Calculating Pi using AKKa:
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Scala is native to Akka but works with Java (both use JVM). Designed for highly concurrent problems with lots of I/O. Default mode is no guaranteed delivery but left to design of individual "actors":
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NON-MBR (but OCJUG mbr) John Clingan http://meetup.com/members/88824... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT -put all on that in this thread.
* He attended last time: http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve...
*6:35pm~ -he arrived;
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NON-MBR (but OCJUG mbr) & SPEAKER Brian Maso http://meetup.com/members/10568... http://meetup.com/members/93502... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT -put all on that in this thread.
*6:30pm~ -he arrived; & is now setting up for his talk here http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve...
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The topic will be Akka
The presenter will be Brian Maso
"Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and fault tolerant event-driven applications on the JVM"
i.e. Akka is Sever Side Middleware for Java (or Scala) which uses the Actor Model of computing to simplify creating large distributed applications.
Actor Model
"The Actor Model provides a higher level of abstraction for writing concurrent and distributed systems. It alleviates the developer from having to deal with explicit locking and thread management, making it easier to write correct concurrent and parallel systems. Actors were defined in the 1973 paper by Carl Hewitt..."
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NON-MBR (but OCJUG mbr) Jeffrey Sward http://meetup.com/members/93502... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT -put all on that in this thread.
*6:38pm~ -he arrived.
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MEMBER Christopher Van Malsen http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/mem... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT -put all on that in this thread.
*Today "3:39 PM" HE RSVPed YES.
*6:34pm~ he arrived.
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This thread for: PRIMARY HOST OF THIS EVENT RE-LISTING &LEADER Martin Martinez http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/mem... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT.
*Per his title,Meetup auto-RSVPed u YES on listing create.
*Martin, great u been handling this early,notably writing&posting the topic here nearly 1 week in advance http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve... -see my cmts there!
*Martin sd be on time for this esp as
*U Martin will delightfully be assuming an even bigger leadership role @this mtg,as I'll likely not be at this1 so
**it'll be up to Martin to insure delegated&done r all our important in-mtg tasks
**esp there posting attendance&general mtg notes&nametags per our stds http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve...
**-all great prep 4the next bigger 1: our upcoming OCAndroid Main Meetup http://meetu.ps/D89R6 –where,as we planned,u lead the mtg by our agenda,ur 1st time.
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(+NAMETAGS if approved: pls try to talk OCJUG leaders (Ray) into it, as I&many can't remember names so love this.)
*-as we've done at all all recent OCAndroid events&more, via stylized event cmts: as page-search(Ctrl-F) for say "ATTENDANCE" cmts on our last OCJUG http://meetu.ps/DNjdl
*WHO WANTS TO VOLUNTEER 4this task? :-) If nobody speaks up, Martin or I'll pick 1 of u (a OCAndroid-member attendee who is not yet tasked with something).
*I've given a very big head start for the person doing this as I've already created an "ATTENANCE&REVIEW" thread for each member RSVPing YES here; so u'll only have to add these entries, by copying my example, for those attending but not RSVPing here. Then just reply on each when each arrived&left,or was a no-show.
*This will soon become an official&very important job duty for a few of our attendees,which will get u into our mtgs free (for mtgs with a fee) plus respect&appreciation.
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This thread for: MEMBER Michael Martel http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/mem... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT.
*Last time (his 1st time attending this) he was No Show, but nicely replies "won't happen again" 2013.04.12 http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve... .
*This time he RSVPed YES 2013.05.02 "1:24 AM" 1:24 AM .
*Michael, will be great seeing you again- this time at OCJUG: glad to see you're joining us & supporting our OCJUG events!
*So what catches your interest in this meeting? -topic http://akka.io http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve... .
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*This thread:
**is for MEMBER Mandy He http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/mem... 's ATTENDANCE&REVIEW OF THIS EVENT.
*she RSVPed YES 2013.04.25 "11:14 PM" (while attending our last (Main) mtg http://meetup.com/OCAndroid/eve... )
*Mandy, great to see you again, and glad to see you're joining us & supporting our OCJUG events!
*Yes, Java is great to know, and this is a fun group. What catches your interest in this event?
0 · May 8, 2013
Google I/O Extended (May 15-17 2013)
Irvine event closed to new registration.
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Next nearest locations are by LAX:
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Google I/O is the premier all things Google (including Android) developer event held in San Francisco for $900.
Google I/O Extended are related local events where local developers can gather and watch the sessions streamed live.
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The life of Rickey Cummings will soon rest in the hands of 14 jurors tasked with deciding whether Cummings will be sentenced to death or spend the rest of his days behind bars.
The defense team rested their case in the punishment phase of the trial Tuesday evening. They began calling witnesses just after 8:30 a.m. in the 19th District Court of the McLennan County Courthouse. The jury heard from 5 of Rickey Cummings' family members including his grandmother, two aunts, a cousin and the mother of his 4 year-old son.
Cummings' grandmother, Erma Richards, told the jury Rickey was "a good kid," though she admitted he didn't always follow the rules. "I did my best," Richards said. "We all did."
Annette Wilkerson, Cummings' aunt, said Rickey was a caring and positive person. "Regardless of the picture that's been painted," said Wilkerson, "that's not him." Wilkerson told prosecutors during their cross-examination that she had no knowledge of Cummings selling drugs or carrying around guns.
Rickey Cummings' older cousin, Jared Embry, testified that he didn't think Cummings belonged to a gang. "He just wanted to play ball, get the girls and look fresh," Embry said. Embry pleaded with the jury to spare his cousin's life. "If you think he took someone else's life, why would y'all want to take his life?" Embry asked jurors.
The mother of Rickey Cummings' 4 year-old son, Britney Hays, told the jury Cummings was a great person and a great father. "I need him here for my son regardless," she said. Prosecutors, however, countered by pointing out that Cummings failed to pay her child support.
Judge Ralph Strother called for a recess in the trial just before 10:00 a.m. Testimony was supposed to resume at 1:00 p.m., but prosecutors asked to question the first witness before she testified. Amy Nguyen, a mitigation expert, was questioned outside the presence of the jury about her testimony.
Nguyen planned to present a PowerPoint presentation featuring maps that detailed the demographics of the neighborhood where Cummings grew up. After more than 40 minutes of questioning from prosecutors and an objection to her testimony, Judge Strother decided not to let her testify.
Only one witness took the stand in the presence of the jury on Tuesday afternoon. Frank Aubuchon, an expert in the criminal justice system, told the jury what life would be like for Rickey Cummings if he's sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
Aubuchon said Cummings would likely go to a maximum security prison where he would be classified as a member of the "Bloods Gang" because of the tattoos on his body. Cummings has a five-pointed star and the numbers "5" and "9" tattooed on his body. Aubuchon said those tattoos were enough "to confirm him as Blood member."
The sentencing phase will continue Wednesday morning at 9:00 a.m. After closing arguments from prosecutors and the defense, the jury will begin deliberating.
Cummings was convicted of capital murder on Friday, Nov. 2 after the jury deliberated for nearly three hours. He faces the death penalty or life in prison with no chance of parole for his role in the 2011 Spring Street murders. Tyus Sneed, 17, and Keenan Hubert, 20, were gunned down inside a car at Waco's Lakewood Villas Apartments.
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2:21pm Tuesday 6th November 2012 in Porthleven
"Seaside Rock" – the title of the children's holiday club held during the week, was also the theme for Sunday morning's family service, led by the Rev Beverly Turner.
The focus of the service was the gospel story of the man who built his house on a rock, with emphasis being laid on the fact that Jesus is the "rock" on whose life and example we should be building our own lives. The service included music, drama and humour: for instance one strangely moving item was a lively rendition of "I'm a believer" led by a group of puppets. The staff from the holiday club were all involved in the service, as were many of the children who attended. David Philp was organist.
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5:28pm Tuesday 30th August 2011 in Chorley CC
ANDY Holdsworth's Chorley maintained their amazing fight for honours on Saturday as they enjoyed a convincing Northern Premier League win at Fleetwood after restricting the home side to 122-8 in a game reduced to 41 overs.
Chorley, who finished bottom of the pile last season, have been this term's surprise package and once again showed their style in the game at Broadwater.
Fleetwood were captained by pro Ryan Smith with skipper Mat Clark on best man duties for wicketkeeper Lee Jones's wedding.
Adam Parker defied the visitors with a high class unbeaten 63 off 97 balls, his seventh 50 of the season.
Billy Smith and pro Gaurav Dhar each took three wickets for Chorley who reached their target for the loss of four wickets with 13 balls remaining. Openers Alex Weetman (29) and Jack Catterall (32) set them on the way with a stand of 68.
Darwen pro Mohammad Zaman Khan produced a fine all round performance but his side had to settle for a winning draw against Morecambe at Birch Hall.
He made 62 off 82 balls in his side's 145 as Morecambe pro Anwar Ali took 5-33 to take his seasonal tally to 67 wickets with Jono Gates also in form as he captured 4-47.
Morecambe had 33 overs to reach their target in a rain-reduced game but closed on 121-5 despite Khan taking 4-35 off 11 overs. Chris Williams and Ryan Pearson steered the visitors to safety after they had been 73-5.
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With three games remaining St Annes (219 points) lead the way from Leyland (210 points) and Chorley (197 points).
Darwen v Morecambe
J Cordingley ct Ullah b Ali 1
Zaman Khan ct Welbourne b Gates 62
C Clarke ct Cupit b Ali 7
N Cordingley b Gates 20
G Cordingley b Ali 33
K Anwar b Gates 6
J Clarke run out 0
N Burke ct Williams b Gates 0
M Emery ct Edge b Ali 2
N Jackson b Ali 2
C Wade Not Out 1
Extras 11
Total (all out, 30.5 overs) 145.
Ali 10.5 3 33 5, C Williams 5 0 25 0, J Gates 10 0 47 4, R Cupit 5 0 30 0.
D Welbourne ct Z'an Khan b N C'gley 20
M Woodhead b Zaman Khan 23
I Ullah b Zaman Khan 16
C Williams Not Out 33
Ali LBW Zaman Khan 0
L Edge b Zaman Khan 1
R Pearson Not Out 22
Extras 6
Total (5 wickets, 33 overs) 121.
K Anwar 6 0 18 0, N Cordingley 8 0 31 1, Zaman Khan 11 2 35 4, C Wade 4 2 7 0, N Burke 1 0 4 0, J Cordingley 3 0 21 0.
Darwen winning draw. Darwen 6pts Morecambe 4pts.
Fleetwood v Chorley
D Bell b Smith 23
W Clarke b Smith 5
A Parker Not Out 63
S Wright ct Holdsworth b Smith 3
M Clinning LBW Dhar 2
J Bell ct Smith b Dhar 1
R Smith st Mi Critchley b I Critchley 3
S Richardson LBW Dhar 2
K McGann b I Critchley 5
S Bell Not Out 5
Extras 10
Total (8 wickets, 41 overs) 122.
K McCullagh 9 3 25 0, B Smith 12 5 34 3, Dhar 12 4 29 3, I Critchley 8 0 30 2.
A Weetman ct Clarke b Bell 29
J Catterall LBW Clinning 32
Dhar ct McGann b Parker 26
W Moulton ct Bell b Clinning 0
J Bentham Not Out 17
I Critchley Not Out 6
Extras 13
Total (4 wickets, 38.5 overs) 123.
Smith 3 0 20 0, S Bell 3 0 11 0, K McGann 4 2 12 0, A Parker 9.5 3 23 1, J Bell 9 0 26 1, M Clinning 10 3 24 2.
Chorley won by 6 wickets. Chorley 12pts Fleetwood (0pts).
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By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Secretary Jack Lew said on NBC's Meet the Press that President Barack
Obama will keep trying to undo or ease the cuts in spending that he
reluctantly signed into law as part of the Budget Control Act in 2011.
no question that the deep spending cuts that are part of sequestration
are holding back the economy," Lew said. "The president's made clear
that we think you should replace some of the sequestration cuts with
sensible balance, entitlement, and tax reforms that put us in the right
direction for the future."
With Obama and Congress having ended their three-week standoff over
funding the government and raising the debt limit, the focus has now
shifted to negotiations among members of a House-Senate conference
committee who will try to devise a budget plan for the current fiscal
year and beyond.
As part of that process, Obama's negotiating
stance is to try to ease some of the cuts in discretionary spending on
items such as medical research, military training, and national parks,
replacing them with a combination of tax increases and curbs in future
spending in Medicare, Social Security and other entitlement programs.
said the good news on the fiscal front is that "our deficit is cut in
half as a percentage of the economy from when the president took
acknowledged that some of the deficit reduction was due to the spending
cuts which Obama agreed to in his 2011 budget negotiations with House
Speaker John Boehner.
But Lew said part of the deficit reduction
was from the tax increases – nearly $4 trillion over ten years -- that
passed at the end of last year.
He indicated that Obama still had
ambitions to increase federal spending in some areas. "There's a lot we
need to do to build and grow this economy," Lew said. "We need some
infrastructure. The farm bill needs to pass. The immigration bill is
hugely important to the economy. So I'm hoping that coming out of this,
we can find the places where we can work together."
But striking a
different note was Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., who said, "the real
problem is that we're continuing to spend money that we don't have on
things that we don't need. There's tremendous amounts of waste and
fraud. We have to protect the promises made to the American people and
we can do that – but we can do that (by) spending a whole lot less money
than we're doing today."
Coburn also reflected on the impasse
that ended Wednesday when both houses of Congress passed a bill to allow
discretionary spending to continue until Jan. 15, after Republicans
finally conceded that they lacked the votes to force Obama to accede to
cuts or delays in the landmark 2010 health insurance law, or Obamacare.
think focusing on Obamacare takes you away from the larger picture,"
Coburn said. "We have a $128 trillion of unfunded liabilities (for
programs such as Medicare) and the total net worth of our country is $94
trillion – and we have another $17 trillion worth of debt"
ABC's This Week, former Florida governor Jeb Bush voiced similar
sentiments about the just-ended standoff: "It was a mistake to focus on
something that couldn't be achieved…. I would argue that allowing
Obamacare to be implemented, two things would happen. One, it would be
so dysfunctional if it was implemented faithfully that it would be clear
for more people. Or… it couldn't be implemented because the government
is not capable of doing it. It looks like that, the latter rather than
the former, may be happening. But that was all crowded out by a
miscalculation of using something that shouldn't be used, the debt
ceiling limit and the continuation of the budget."
Coburn also
contended that Obamacare "is going to fail on its own right…. The sick
people are signing up, the healthy aren't -- and they're not going to
because the deductibles are so high and the costs are going to be high.
And the penalty is not great enough to force them to do it."
Sen. Charles Schumer, D- N.Y. said there's "huge interest" in enrolling
for coverage under Obamacare: "19 million individual visits to the
website, that's huge. Close to 500,000 people already filing
applications, even with the computer glitches."
He said the
problems with the Obamacare HealthCare.gov enrollment portal "will be
fixed" in a matter of weeks. "If you need health care, the fact that you
couldn't get on the computer right away isn't going to stop you two or
three weeks from now when they're fixed…."
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GREEN BAY (WKOW) -- Green Bay police plan to crack down on student truancy and curfew violations in hopes of reducing property crime.
According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette officers will increase patrols in areas often targeted by burglars, as well as neighborhoods where known young criminals live.
Police say young people who steal from homes and vehicles often do so at times when they should be in school or at home. Police Captain Bill Bongle says enforcing truancy and curfew rules will help reduce those types of crimes.
He also says parents need to do a better job of making sure kids are at home when they're supposed to be home.
A citation for violating curfew costs $83. Adults can also be cited for contributing to a student's truancy or curfew violation.


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Surbiton residents fear adult education classes will take away parking in Browns Road
2:00am Friday 11th July 2014 in News By Nazia Dewji, Chief reporter
Surbiton residents want to stop adult education classes moving to their road.
People in Browns Road say they have not been consulted about the plan to convert the former care home Newent House.
Nicholas Rumball, 64, said: "Having all these people driving in for adult education classes - it's going to have a massive impact for us.
"They are rail-roading the residents. We just want to know how they are going to resolve the issues that are going to arise with parking."
There are already some double yellow lines in Browns Road and no designated parking spaces for residents.
Councillor Andrea Craig, lead member for children, youth and adult learning, said she had not heard from anyone about parking problems.
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11:03am Fri 11 Jul 14
Simon Attwood says...
The day we put self interest and convenience ahead of self improvement, and then label it "Fear", is the day we begin to reverse our evolution.
4:42pm Fri 11 Jul 14
fizzypetal says...
Lack of parking is not a new issue as the result of Newent House change of use. It is going to worsen an existing problem for the residents that live in this neighbourhood. Since the CPZ went in around Surbiton Station, we have struggled to park our cars near to our houses...we residents compete with all the surrounding schools, businesses and Surbiton Station rail users for the 'convenience' of trying to find parking within a 10 - 20 minute walk of our homes.
It is bad enough during peak hours - as people arrive for work or to catch the trains in the mornings, visit surrounding businesses, schools, the park, etc., throughout the day. With Newent House going in, we will have to contend with the extra cars and noise that is likely to bring in to the area well into the evening as the school is offering music and ballroom dance lessons in the evenings.
I don't think any of us are against further education. What we are unhappy with is that residents were not given the opportunity to raise the concerns about the already overstretched parking situation here. We want resident's parking permits. We've wanted that for many years - we petitioned for it as the Surbiton Hospital site rebuild was underway. We hope the council will revisit their plans and consider the further impact 1000 visitors a week to the school is likely to have on the residents who live near to it.
5:39pm Fri 11 Jul 14
SimonMC says...
"FearInteresting comment on the semantic use of the word 'fear' but hardly relevant...
Personally I would like to see comment on the change of use notice and the potential attempt to rush planning through without proper consultation.
Is the Council stepping on my democratic rights now considered 'self interest' ?
9:02pm Fri 11 Jul 14
vallinnapod says...
I am shocked that Councillor Craig has not heard of the current parking issues residents who are not fortunate to have off street parking have.
A simple solution to the concerns around the change in use of Newent House would be to change the area to resident's parking, allowing households one permit to park a car in close proximity to their house.
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These arrests are drawn from the log book of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's Eden Substation serving Castro Valley, Ashland, Cherryland and San Lorenzo.
Thursday, March 28
A 47-year-old man with no home address provided was arrested at 3:13 am at the 7-ELEVEN at 477 Hacienda Avenue in San Lorenzo, for failing to appear for a parking summons.
Two related men, one 42 and the other 41, were arrested at 4:45 pm at the home they shared on the 18900 block of Sydney Circle in Castro Valley on charges of growing marijuana for sale and possession of marijuana for sale.
An Oakland man, 33, was arrested at 4:46 pm on the 3700 block of Castro Valley Boulevard for suspicion of burglary.
Friday, March 29
A 49-year-old Hayward man was arrested shortly after midnight at the intersection of Somerset and Stanton in Castro Valley for possessing a large volume of marijuana, violating his probation, public intoxication and driving under the influence.
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A 22-year-old Castro Valley man was arrested at 4:16 am at Redwood Road and Vegas Avenue in Castro Valley for driving under the influence.
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Sunday Peak is short up-and-back hike located on the Greenhorn Summit in the Kern River Valley. There used to be a fire lookout on the summit, and the view is fantastic. This forest hike is on the maintained Sunday Peak Trail (31E66), and it is just over 3 miles round trip with an elevation gain of 1100 feet. From the summit you can see hundreds of prominent features including Mount Whitney, Dome Rock, Black Mountain, and much more. At a casual speed this hike takes between two and three hours. Sunday Peak is a perfect place for the family to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.
Sunday Peak is accessible all year round, but in the winter the access road is closed due to ice and snow, but it is possible to snow shoe or cross country ski to the trailhead. If the snow has melted but the gate is locked it is a nice mountain bike to the trailhead. The gate is usually open so that you can drive to the trailhead from Memorial Day to Labor Day, but these dates fluctuate due to the weather. If the snow is clear the gates remain open, and if there is snow the gates close. You can call the Kernville Ranger Station to see if the gate is open.
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The Sunday Peak Stovepipe Cache set in July of 2004 is located at the summit.
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It's a new year, new you, and a new workout. But for many people, hitting the gym can be a bit of a yawner. Sometimes it's good to change things up. So get your pets involved, because our pups can sure use the exercise, too.
On a Saturday morning, a grassy spot in a park in Washington, DC is full of people exercising with their pets.
Duchess, Titus, and a few other furry friends, are part of a new fitness program called "Thank-Dog Boot Camp." The four-legged athletes, along with their owners, are getting in shape together by participating in a work out designed for man and beast.
"Our goal is to help people get healthy, primarily and then work on obedience at the same time, so that their dogs become better citizens," says Karen Krieg, the director of "Thank Dog-Boot Camp."
Lauren Stauffer's taking the boot camp class. She says she's an exercise fanatic and hits the gym regularly, but she also loves her Golden Retriever, Bentley and finds this to be a perfect program they can do together.
"There's something motivating when you're running and your dog looks up to you and I think, 'all right, I can do this a little bit longer.' So it keeps it fun, and energetic and it's different every day," says Stauffer.
Although the "Thank-Dog Boot Camp" workout originated in California, the program is popping up in major cities across the country.
Don't let the presence of these pooches fool you. Although they're allowed to take a break, their owners are constantly moving. The hour-long workout covers running, pushups, lunges.
"It is a boot camp workout," says Krieg. "I am a drill sergeant. I am here to make sure that you walk out of here knowing you've worked hard on your dog and on yourself."
And that's nothing to sniff at.