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Filled with the art of poetry and prose, Angela Luevano's book is an emotion-stirring collection of short stories and poems. She finds elegance in words as she writes about her deepest of sorrows and highest of joys. "Faith and Positivity" (published by Xlibris) is a beautiful, inspiring pool of creativity that will lighten anybody's heart.
Angela Luevano speaks from her soul through her book, "Faith and Positivity." She has gone through numerous trials that have endlessly tested her devotion to her faith. Her writing stems from the hurricane that is squalled from her dating life, her sister's personal trials, her father's death, and various other life experiences. She remains positive in her outlook in life, and hopes that through this book, readers will find themselves inspired the same way she is.
Hoping to give comfort to others who are struggling, "Faith and Positivity" is creative as it is inspirational. This compilation of poetry and prose is sure to warm the hearts of anyone who come across it.
"Faith and Positivity"
By Angela Luevano
Hardcover | 6 x 9in | 82 pages | ISBN 9781499023749
Softcover | 6 x 9in | 82 pages | ISBN 9781499023732
E-Book | 82 pages | ISBN 9781499023770
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About the Author
Angela Luevano is a single mother of three children who has undergone numerous tests in her life. She finds sanctuary through writing and hopes others find strength through her works. She is currently residing in Manteca, Calif.
Xlibris Publishing, an Author Solutions, LLC imprint, is a self-publishing services provider created in 1997 by authors, for authors. By focusing on the needs of creative writers and artists and adopting the latest print-on-demand publishing technology and strategies, we provide expert publishing services with direct and personal access to quality publication in hardcover, trade paperback, custom leather-bound and full-color formats. To date, Xlibris has helped to publish more than 60,000 titles. For more information, visit xlibris.com or call 1-888-795-4274 to receive a free publishing guide. Follow us @XlibrisPub on Twitter for the latest news.
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Adams enters not guilty plea on DUI charges
Updated: March 16, 2006, 9:11 PM ETAssociated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. -- An attorney for Arizona's Hassan Adams has entered an innocent plea for his client to charges of drunken driving and speeding.
Neither Adams, who is in Philadelphia with the Wildcats for a first-round NCAA Tournament game on Friday, nor attorney Stephen P. Waitt appeared in court on Wednesday for arraignment. But a notice of appearance was delivered to the judge, canceling the need for Adams to appear.
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Small Bowel Obstruction
DefinitionSmall bowel obstruction means the small intestine is partially or totally blocked. When this happens, the contents of the intestine cannot properly get out of the body. Stools, fluid, and gas build up inside the intestine. This is a potentially serious condition that requires urgent medical care.
CausesBowel obstruction may be caused by a mechanical problem. In this case, something inside the body blocks the movement of material through the intestine. It can also be caused by an ileus, which is when the intestine itself does not work right. This nonmechanical type of obstruction is called paralytic ileus , or pseudo-obstruction. It is often the cause of obstruction in infants and children. Mechanical small bowel obstruction may be caused by:
- Adhesions—scar tissue left behind, in most cases by previous abdominal surgery
- Intussusception —telescoping of the intestinal wall
- Volvulus—the intestine twists on itself
- Impacted foreign bodies—items that were swallowed and got stuck
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Risk FactorsFactors that may increase your chance of having a small bowel obstruction include:
- Hernias
- Crohn's disease —an inflammatory bowel condition
- Abdominal, joint, or spine surgery
- Swallowing a foreign body
- Decreased blood supply to the small bowel
- Abnormal growth of tissue in or next to the small intestine
- Tumors in the small intestine
- Cancer
- Infection in the lining of the small intestine
- Kidney disease
- Long-standing diabetes
- Rarely, gallstones
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Small Business Expo 2015 - San Francisco
- Business & Professional
- 2 Marina Blvd, San Francisco, CA, 94123
East Bay Workforce Summit
East Bay Economic Development Alliance
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM (PST)
Building a Vibrant East Bay Economy:
Partnerships for Expanding Business, Strengthening the Talent Pool, and Capturing Innovation
Please join us for a stimulating conversation about how economic growth in the East Bay can be enhanced via new and more effective connections between the business community and educational and workforce preparation organizations at every level.
We will hear from three "best practice" regions about how industry drives and helps organize regional workforce strategies and investment in key sectors.
Dr. Alma Salazar, Vice President, Education & Workforce Development
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Erika Arias: Independence Day by Lost Melody
It's been almost a year since fans went crazy for our our last digital painting of Firefighter Kaitlynn by the gifted Chinese artist known as Lost Melody. Fortunately, he has delivered another beautiful piece of art just in time for the July 4 holiday—this time of our brave Air Force Airman, Erika Arias.
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The Making of SlickforceGirl Vanessa: Alien Blast
We had such excitement from our viewers when we posted Brett Parson's Alien Blast art starring our stunning space-traveler Vanessa Valentine. So here's a look at the making of that piece, from pencils to inks to final art. Thank you to artist Brett Parson for sharing!
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Mad Jess: Filthy Road – New art by Nick Saglimbeni
Desert Mechanic Jessica is the Girls' resident MacGyver. When she isn't prepping the team's vehicles for battle, she's in the shop working on her other top-secret inventions. But don't let the grease-monkey persona fool you. She's been known to take down a man three-times her size with a swift wrench to the face. Who says there's never a good mechanic around when you need one?
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This Memorial Day, we pause to remember those who have fought bravely—and in many cases, given their lives—so that others could be free. In commemoration, artist Chris Williams has drawn our hero Marine Melanie, with colors by our very own wonder woman, Ula Mos. To those who are no longer with us, as well as those who continue the fight: we salute you.
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Model Jessica Burciaga stars as our rugged femme fatale, and here is the first art of our newest character. Click the image above for the fullsize HD version!
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The response to Chris Williams' Erika piece was through the roof, so we thought you guys might like to take a closer look. Here are the beautiful inks by Jake Isenberg, on top of Chris' pencils. A stunning sight to behold!
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Vanessa Valentine: Alien Blast by Brett Parson
It's official—things are starting to get messy for Vanessa. The days of the "regular" bad guy are quickly coming to a close, replaced by a scarier—and much more disgusting—brand of nemesis. Fortunately, Ms. Valentine is tougher than your average purple-haired astronaut. Let's just pray she has enough ammo in that pulse gun of hers.
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Seems to help.
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I've taken it for about a month in conjunction with carbimazole for hyperthyroidism/ Graves Disease. Seems to calm anxiety, have regained some weight back. Hard to say if it's a combination of medication and/ or this product but it seems to work.
Helped my Sister with HYPER-thyroid
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I researched what things would be good for a person with hyperthyroid, as my sister was struggling with symptoms. With research, I found that this, as well as Lemon Balm (aka 'Melissa') were supposedly good at easing hyperthyroid symptoms and perhaps addressing the root causes as well. Also, people with Hyperthyroid can supposedly benefit from extra L-Carnitine in their diets, because too much thyroid hormone depletes the body of this amino acid. My sister took all three of these, so I'm not sure which helped, but it was part of the regimen that made a dent in her symptoms. Unfortunately, she still had to see a doctor, because her problem was too advanced. Packaging, shipping, cost, etc. are all satisfactory!
Works great!
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I was very happy to find this on iherb.com, as a less expensive formula to control my Grave's Disease symptoms. It has worked just as well for a fraction of the price. Only downside: I wish it was available in a larger size!
Seems to be helping!
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I have not had an episode of tachycardia in the 2 months that I have been using this product, and my depression and anxiety have lessened considerably.
Didn´t see any difference
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I use this for hyperthyroidism and didn't see any difference
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Noteworthy: Leininger has won the 16th annual Brazilian International Press Award in the radio category for the East Coast. The award was established in 1997 to celebrate Brazilian culture and promote a positive image overseas. She won the award for starting a Brazilian radio show on Carnegie Mellon University's WRCT 88.3 FM. Years later, the show evolved into the Brazilian Radio Hour or Cantinho Brasileiro no Radio. She founded Global Beats, a leading producer of global music events in Pittsburgh, and maintains the Brazilian Pittsburgh website.
Occupation: Web marketing project manager for Eaton Corp. in Moon
Age: 48
Residence: Rosslyn Farms
Family: Fiance Donald Tanner and sons Eric Murillo, 25, and Daniel Murillo, 27
Background: She arrived in Pittsburgh in the late 1970s when her mother pursued her post-graduate studies.
Education: A bachelor's in Latin American studies from the University of Illinois and a master's in journalism and mass communications from Point Park University
Quote: "We've got the World Cup and the Olympic games going to Brazil, so there's a lot of momentum for Brazilian culture. We get to bring to Pittsburgh a lively, entertaining and joyful culture. Brazilians are fun to be around. We have a zest for life."
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Don't these theoretical people own printers?
Maybe. I don't. I don't print much at all these days. Most of the time, I'm working from my home office and a printer or phone isn't worth the desk space to me.
And before you say 'no one has a land line any more, lol' while it's true there are plenty of people without one, more homes have a landline than don't.
That "land line" will often be VoIP, because they got the service in a bundle rather than buying cable a la carte.
And even in the example you give, why on earth wouldn't they just sign it and fax it back immediately, rather than waiting a day and making another trip to the store?
You read before you sign, don't you? I certainly read my mortgage application and that took more than a few minutes. Luckily, everything but the final documents were signed with e-sig and those were printed by the title company.


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|Milestone win: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce pass NBA legends in laugher over Raptors
|03.13.13 at 9:53 pm ET
Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce achieved significant NBA scoring milestones while leading the Celtics to a bounce-back 112-88 blowout win over the Raptors Wednesday night at TD Garden.
Garnett scored 12 points and passed Jerry West for 15th on the NBA's all-time scoring list with a dunk with 6:30 left in the first half. Pierce scored 15 and passed Charles Barkley for 20th place on the same list with a pair of free throws midway through the third quarters.
Both Pierce and Garnett received a video tribute during separate timeouts and a standing ovation from the Garden crowd.
Riding a two-game losing streak, the Celtics (35-29) raced out to an early 18-12 lead but thanks to six first-quarter turnovers, allowed Toronto to go on a 10-4 run to end the quarter and trailed the Raptors, 22-21, after 12 minutes. Seven Celtics scored in double figures and Shav Randolph was the only Celtic not to score.
The Celtics took better care of the ball in the second quarter and raced out to a 49-40 lead at the half, as Jeff Green scored 12 points in the quarter. Green finished with a team-best 20 points while Jason Terry and Jordan Crawford had 12 each off the bench.
THe Celtics quickly built their lead to 13 in the opening minute of the third, 53-40, but the Raptors came back to close to within four, 60-56. The Celtics finally put the game away with a 21-6 run to end the third and head into the fourth with an 81-62 lead. Former Celtic Sebastian Telfair picked up his second technical foul in the third quarter intermission and was ejected.
The Celtics built their lead up to as many as 25 in garbage time, allowing Doc Rivers to take out Garnett with just under 10 minutes left. However, unlike the night before, Garnett was getting rest because of a blowout lead.
The win came one night after arguably Boston's worst effort of the season in a 26-point loss to the lowly Bobcats in Charlotte. The Celtics have Thursday off and will practice Friday in advance of their rare Saturday night home game, a revenge contest against the Bobcats at the Garden.
The Celtics will conclude their three-game homestand with a Monday night game at the Garden with LeBron James and the Heat, who ran their win streak to 20 games with a narrow 98-94 win over the Sixers Wednesday night in Philadelphia. The Heat have road games against Milwaukee Friday and Toronto Sunday afternoon before taking on the Celtics in Boston Monday night.
For more from the team of Mike Petraglia and Ben Rohrbach from the Garden, visit the Celtics team page at weei.com/celtics.
The shockwaves from the Wes Welker signing in Denver extended not only beyond New England but beyond the NFL.
Just ask Doc Rivers. The Celtics head coach is a close friend of Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and was the guest of the Patriots coach on Dec. 10 when the Patriots beat the Texans on Monday night football at Gillette Stadium.
So, Rivers, who grew up a Bears fan, actually felt badly for Patriots fans and acknowledged as much before the Celtics hosted Toronto Wednesday night at TD Garden, just hours after Welker's seismic signing with the Broncos.
'Say it ain't so, Wes,' Rivers said in opening his pre-game press availability Wednesday night.
But the most interesting part of Rivers' reaction came later when asked if he ever talked about team building and keeping it together. Rivers compared Welker's exit to that of Ray Allen to the Miami Heat.
'We lost Ray, it feels like, the same way that they lost Wes,' Rivers said. 'We wanted him, we did everything we could, and somehow they go somewhere else.'
The similarity is striking. Allen left via free agency for Boston's chief rival and defending champion Miami Heat. Welker is now going to the Broncos and playing with Peyton Manning, New England's biggest rival behind the Ravens in the AFC.
'Just like we wanted Ray to stay, I know they wanted Wes to stay,' said Rivers. 'It just sometimes doesn't work out.'
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|Ray Allen: 'I didn't expect to get booed the whole time'
|01.27.13 at 11:52 pm ET
All the mind games Ray Allen went through in an effort to get ready for returning to Boston couldn't prepare him for what he experienced Sunday each and every time he touched the basketball.
'I didn't know what to expect," Allen said. "The one thing I was gonna do is come into it and just focus on being prepared and getting the guys ready that were playing, that were starting the game. Early game is always tough regardless of the circumstances. I didn't expect to get booed the whole time, throughout the game, that I touched the ball. That was interesting.'
The day was the definition of surreal for Allen. There was walking into the visitors' locker room for the first time since he was with Seattle in 2007.
'It was very weird. And then going to the other locker room. It's been a long time since I've been on that side of the hallway, and again, it was an adjustment. The whole year's been an adjustment being in Miami after being in Boston for so long, so ya, it was definitely a weird feeling for me.'
There was the video tribute in the first timeout, when he was still on the bench. There were the boos reining down mixed with a standing ovation. And then there was the news breaking during the game of his former backcourt teammate Rajon Rondo out for the season with a torn ACL in his right knee. Ironic, considering how the two former teammates didn't exactly end things on the best of terms in Boston.
He did appreciate the video tribute.
'When you see something like that, you know when I saw it, just all those emotions came streaming back from all the great things we did here, and that's why I say I'll always remember the big games we played in and won, and I always know I'll always be a Celtic in my mind, regardless of what anyone else says."
As for the Rondo news, Allen was short and to the point.
'I didn't know until we got out onto the floor and he wasn't out on the floor," he said. "That was unfortunate.'
He was asked how difficult it will be for Celtics without Rondo.
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One of the many painful ironies of Sunday's stunning news that Rajon Rondo is done for the season with a torn ACL is who will be asked to step up and play a bigger role.
Avery Bradley's season didn't begin until Jan. 2 because of a pair of shoulder surgeries this past summer. One on his left shoulder ended his playoffs in May. Another in June on his right shoulder prolonged his downtime.
Now, it will be Bradley who will likely be the steadying force in the backcourt as the Celtics look to hold on in the final 38 games of the season for a playoff spot.
'Whatever Doc wants me to play, that's what I'm going to do," Bradley said of playing either shooting guard or point. "I'm going to go out there and give it my all. No matter if it's the '2' or the '1', I'm going to go out there and play as hard as I can.'
What the Celtics did Sunday to beat the mighty Heat in double overtime without Rondo will likely be the formula Doc Rivers calls upon to repeat itself down the stretch, tough defense from the likes of Bradley, Jeff Green and Courtney Lee.
'Like I always say, it shows what type of team we are," Bradley said. "We have adversity, we overcome it all the time. We had two back to back overtime games, you know we're tired. But we keep fighting, we play hard for each other no matter what. And it showed today when we got the win. Read the rest of this entry »
Paul Pierce hit the go-ahead jumper with 30.4 seconds left in double-overtime and earned a triple-double with 17 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists as the Celtics snapped their six-game losing streak with a heart-pounding 100-98 win over the Heat Sunday at TD Garden. It was Boston's second straight double-overtime game.
LeBron James scored a game-high 34 points and forced overtime with a clutch 3-pointer while Ray Allen had 21 off the bench in his first return to Boston since leaving for Miami as a free agent, and help the Heat rally in the final minute of regulation. The Heat fell to 28-13.
Kevin Garnett scored a team-high 24 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Celtics, who could not protect a four-point lead in the final minute of regulation but managed to improve to 21-23 on the season.
The game was played under a cloud for the Celtics, as they found out in the second half that Rajon Rondo tore the ACL in his right knee and was done for the season. Rondo returned in the third quarter and watched the rest of the game from just behind the Celtics bench.
With Courtney Lee starting for Rondo and Jared Sullinger in the starting lineup, the Celtics stayed close in the first quarter, trailing by just four, 26-24, after 12 minutes. The Celtics managed to stay close in the second and forged a 45-45 tie.
WIth news breaking in the third quarter that Rondo had a torn ACL in his right knee and was done for the season, the Celtics managed to put up a fight taking a three-point lead. Garnett's jumper 16 seconds into the second half gave Boston its first lead since early in the first quarter. Boston built the lead to 60-57 before Miami finished the period on a 11-4 run to take a 68-64 lead into the fourth.
Jeff Green drilled a three from the left baseline to bring the Celtics within one, 72-71, and then after James missed a three, Leandro Barbosa put back a miss to give the Celtics a 73-72 lead with 8:26 left in the fourth. Green's one-handed slam over Chris Bosh with 7:48 left sent the Garden crowd into a frenzy and put the Celtics up, 75-72.
Pierce drove in for a go-ahead layup with just under six minutes left. Allen connected for a three with 4:38 left to put the Heat up, 78-77, and grabbed a rebound off a Pierce miss moments later. Jason Terry responded with a 15-foot step-back jumper to put Boston back up, 79-78, with just over four minutes left. James responded with a 12-foot fadeaway with three minutes left, putting Miami ahead, 80-79.
Garnett hit a pair of free throws with 2:40 left to put Boston back ahead, 81-80. Allen was fouled by Pierce with 2:19 remaining and Allen converted only one of two for an 81-81 tie. Pierce drove to the basket on a spinning move with 1:59 left to put Boston up, 83-81. After a missed three from Shane Battier, Garnett hit a mid-range jumper with 59.9 seconds left to give the Celtics their biggest lead, 85-81. Read the rest of this entry »
|Fast Break: Rajon Rondo-less Celtics defeat Heat
|at 4:08 pm ET
Ray Allen returned to Boston, and it wasn't even the biggest story of Sunday's battle between the Eastern Conference rival Celtics and Heat. While news of Rajon Rondo's ACL tear trickled out around halftime, the C's submitted their most impressive performance of the season in a 100-98 double-overtime victory.
Starting Sully: Celtics rookie Jared Sullinger's production was finally too much for coach Doc Rivers to ignore. The C's are 9.3 points better when he's on the floor than when he sits, the best of any player on the team, so his replacement of Brandon Bass in the starting lineup was practically inevitable. His rebounding, ability to score on the inside and willingness to hit the floor for loose balls helped the Celtics remain tied going into halftime.
Brazilian Blur: Likewise, Leandro Barbosa gave the Celtics an energetic lift off the bench, scoring seven points in 10 first-half minutes. Entering the game, Barbosa's 15.8 points per 36 minutes ranked third on the team behind only Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. While Jason Terry continues to struggle, there's no reason Rivers shouldn't give his minutes to Barbosa to kickstart a woeful Celtics offense.
"Pitbulls": Apparently, that's the nickname for the starting backcourt of Avery Bradley and Courtney Lee, who started in place of the injured Rondo. They lived up to the moniker, holding their Heat counterparts Dwyane Wade and Mario Chalmers to subpar nights. Even on a tough shooting night for both, their defense made a definite impact on the game. That's what the Celtics will have to rely upon going forward.
Heart of a champion: With Rondo out for the season, Celtics veterans Paul Pierce (17 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists) and Kevin Garnett (24 points, 11 rebounds, 4 assists) each came up huge in the final minutes of regulation and both overtimes, punctuating a valiant effort from a team without its brightest star. Pierce's sweet spin move past Allen in the lane and Garnett's 18-foot jumper gave the Celtics an 85-81 lead in the final minute of the fourth quarter. Pierce also fed Garnett for a pair of buckets to tie the game 93-93 with 1:14 left in the first overtime. And Pierce buried a jumper over LeBron James to give the C's a 99-98 lead with 30.4 seconds left in double OT.
Of course, Jeff Green's dunk over Chris Bosh didn't hurt, either.
|Celtics pay video tribute to Ray Allen
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Located in Castello, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Naval History Museum and Bridge of Sighs. St. Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace are also within 15 minutes.
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This hotel features a bar/lounge, a rooftop terrace, and dry cleaning. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities, a 24-hour front desk, and express check-in are onsite.
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A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access.
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Recent Summer dishes Non Q (pron)
Whipped up some teriyaki beef and made a Japanese Noodle salad with pickles, two types of toasted sesame seeds, slivers of cucumber and some Japanese dressing
Used Kim Chi to fill some pancakes along with PP and scallion, just delish
Looking good!
Damn! Pass the plate!
Man, that teriyaki beef and noodles looks farking awesome!! Pancakes, too.
good looking grub bucc
Lookin good Bucc! Food looks good too!
Looks good Bucc!
The first time I was in Asia and a friend said "Let's get a cold noodle salad"
I had the typical ignorant Aussie reaction of "WTF...cold noodles...oh gross, that is just wrong!"
Ate some and it was
"Oh holy moley, how is it that this stuff isn't in my country!!"
I was a little outraged, it is just so good, especially when it is a hot day.
You know, it still isn't available generally, only is special places.
Crazy, I have never introduced it to anyone and not had them love it.
Those pancakes look to die for, Buccs! The terriyaki ain't too shabby either.:becky:
Bucc they both look good but the first one I'd love to get the recipe for if you get some time.
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Last November I wrote about Dan Schultz and his Truth Goggles, a piece of software he's developing in partnership with PolitiFact that highlights suspicious claims in news articles. It's as simple as spellcheck.
Now, as Schultz finalizes his graduate thesis at the MIT Media Lab, he's conducting a user study to understand how people (anonymously) respond to a prototype of the tool. It's our first look at the software in action, and he wants you to give it a try.
Here's how it works. First you're asked to evaluate the veracity of several statements. "Over 40 percent of children born in America are born out of wedlock." "Some billionaires have a tax rate as low as 1 percent." No Googling; you have 20 seconds for each claim.
Next you're asked to read actual news articles that contain claims in PolitiFact's database. In "highlight mode," the claim in question is unobtrusively highlighted; click the text for PolitiFact's evaluation. In "goggles mode," all of the text that follows the first highlighted claim is blurred out, making it impossible to read on without engaging the claim first. In "safe mode," all highlighted phrases are blocked out, forcing the user to reveal each one by one.
Finally, you're shown many of the same claims again — this time without the goggles — and asked to rate their trueness. Schultz wants to see whether his software influences the way people process information and make conclusions.
"All of the current interface prototypes are walking different lines between theoretical effectiveness and convenience. I'm just as curious as you to see if the interfaces end up creating different degrees of impact in the study environment," Schultz told me in an email.
I found that the latter two settings, goggles mode and safe mode, focused my attention on phrases I might otherwise have brushed past. Sure, my internal skepticism detector usually starts beeping whenever I see quotation marks, but this exercise also forced me to consider claims in a reporter's copy — e.g., "About 2.5 million young adults from age 19 to 25 attained health coverage as a result of the Affordable Care Act…" — the kind of information I'm more likely to assume is true.
After using the goggles for awhile, it was impossible to read articles without a skepticism bordering on incredulity.
If you don't want to wade through the study, there's also a static demo page available. Schultz said the study and the demo are both "canned," in that he preselected articles he knew to contain claims checked by PolitiFact. "Other than that, it's using a live working version of Truth Goggles," he said.
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So, by these standards, wouldn't Saida Grundy be considered a black supremacist?Can someone please explain the difference to me?
Posted 07/02/2015 11:45:11 EDT
If the cop doesn't show up for the hearing,the case is usually thrown out by the mediator.
Posted 07/02/2015 11:43:59 EDT
I am suspicious of anyone who does not have a valid driver's license. Unless there is a medical reason, he must have done something wrong. Either that or he is just lazy, which would explain why he wo more »
Posted 07/01/2015 02:31:27 EDT
I can't imagine anyone surviving a point blank shotgun blast to the chest, so bringing Velcoro back after that would be going way beyond the bounds of artistic license. I like his character and hope h more »
Posted 07/01/2015 07:39:26 EDT
$126 million insurance bond?That's a joke, right? Did you know that London was $10 BILLION in the red after their three week party ended? more »
Posted 07/01/2015 07:36:48 EDT
Well, it's a 'movement'. At least you have that right. more »
Posted 07/01/2015 07:33:23 EDT
Interesting choice of words - Mass residents opposed to this ridiculous endeavor are now referred to as a "weakness" to their plans. Instead of pandering to the USOC, Boston 2024 should be spending as more »
Posted 06/30/2015 03:28:52 EDT
This has nothing to do with NIMBYism.I can't speak for the other 30-40 percent, but people in and around Boston just aren't stupid. more »
Posted 06/30/2015 10:46:15 EDT
Just wondering if anyone can show an example of ANY large scale construction project in Boston that was on time and under budget. more »
Posted 06/30/2015 10:43:48 EDT
If the Big Dig is an accurate example, then expect construction to last 14 years. more »
Posted 06/30/2015 10:42:25 EDT
It is a known fact that London was over $10 Billion in the red after hosting the Games.I'm not sure how that equals "profitable". more »
Posted 06/30/2015 09:07:44 EDT
Pags is like the car dealer who tries to put you in the fully loaded luxury model you know you can afford and when you ask what the payments are going to be, he says, "Don't worry. We can work that ou more »
Posted 06/24/2015 03:34:48 EDT
You know this will be a point of contention in the next round of CBA talks.It could get ugly. more »
Posted 06/23/2015 10:41:39 EDT
I'm all for taking down the flag. That doesn't change the fact that Stewart is an ignorant buffoon. more »
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Jon Stewart is an ignorant, buffoon. The people of SC have shown more class in one week than this idiot has his entire career as a comedian. more »
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Goodell can't lose here. He knows that if it goes to court (and it will) and he loses, all he has to do is throw up his hands and tell the haters, "Hey, I tried. Sorry, it's out of my control." more »
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This is going to court. Unfortunately for the NFL, they have a losing track-record when an actual legal process takes place. Goodell knows this and when the suspension is thrown out, he gets to throw more »
Posted 06/22/2015 01:52:28 EDT
NTrain, Do yourself and the rest of your buddies over at Boston 2024 a big favor and stop talking. If you think insulting anyone who is against the Olympics is a good idea and will help your cause, by more »
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We know what we are opposed to. He just doesn't have the brains or common sense to understand it.Which only validates our point in the end. more »
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Probably Geico. more »
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It's no surprise that it took 3 months and several requests for Boston 2024 to make the bid city agreement document available to the public. They still don't seem to understand what the term "transpar more »
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It's no different from the slanted, exaggerated, biased crap that the BDC bloggers churn out here every day. more »
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It might be useful if it made you confused about which pedal is the brake and which is the gas. more »
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I think some of you are reading way too much into this. F/P and other companies see the writing on the wall and are simply appealing to any and all lifestyles in order to expand their consumer base. T more »
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The whole thing is DOA, anyway. more »
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Developing Property Sustainably
Developing Property Sustainably introduces readers to the key issues surrounding sustainable property development in the global marketplace. Pulling together received wisdom and original research, the authors provide a clear and practical overview of the sustainable property development process as...
Published June 22nd 2015 by Routledge
Sustainable Buildings
Series: Critical Concepts in Built Environment
The 'fit for purpose' of the built environment has been a focus of attention since classical times, both in the West and in the East. However, an explicit focus on 'sustainable buildings' is relatively new. The last two decades in particular have seen an explosion of published material on the...
Published July 30th 2014 by Routledge
The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook
A Commercial Property Guide to Managing Risks and Maximizing Returns
The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook explains the business case for property professionals to pursue solar projects. A project's value is determined by its potential risks and rewards; these are explained thoroughly in terms understood by the real estate industry. This...
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Design, Productivity and Ecology, 3rd Edition
This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design. The green argument has moved a long way forward since the previous edition, and this fully updated book addresses the key issues faced...
Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
The Earth's temperature has been rising. To limit catastrophic outcomes, the international scientific community has set a challenging goal of no more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) average temperature rise. Economists agree we will save trillions of dollars by acting early. But...
Published October 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Despite recent improvements in energy efficiency being made in new build, it is important that the existing commercial building sector also take action to meet emission reduction targets. The objectives and challenges of such action will reduce the risk of the sector becoming obsolete due to high...
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Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond. Much of this will rely on an increasing use of renewable energy. Within current technology this will...
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The embedding of energy efficiency in the management of individual housing organisations is crucial for the realization of current ambitious energy efficiency policies. This issue is examined for the first time in this book through an analysis of selected case studies in new 'green' buildings, as...
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This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores...
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Madea's Witness Protection
With his creation Mabel "Madea" Simmons, here starring in her seventh film, Tyler Perry has built a franchise around barking disciplinarian, commonsense solutions to societal ills—and being that Madea looks like a linebacker in a circus-tent housedress, she can back her moral arbitration up. In Witness Protection, Madea's wisdom is applied to no less a matter than the global financial crisis. CPO George Needleman (Eugene Levy) is greeted at the office one day by the sound of shredding documents, and the news that he has been made the fall guy in a giant Ponzi scheme with Mob ties. Taken into custody by the FBI, patsy George and his already imploding family are brought down to Atlanta by one Agent Simmons (Perry), where the white folks are conspicuously housed with Simmons's Aunt Madea (Perry) and father, Joe (guess who?). A pleasingly heedless use of extravagant narrative contrivances teaches a lesson in miscegenation—we're all family in America—and offers George an opportunity for redemption at a Sunday service. An agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here.
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if function takes three arguments, a condition, an if-true value, and an if-false value. Does Excel work out the value of all three arguments, or does it only work out the value of the condition and the corresponding result?
Clarification: I'm not wondering what the result of the
if will be, I'm wondering whether or not it calculates the value of all arguments before calculating the result of the function.
This is equivalent to asking whether or not the
if function uses lazy or strict evaluation. For example, the following pseudocode:
x = 5;
print x>2 ? "Bigger" : "Smaller" + 1/0
would throw a divide-by-zero exception in a language with fully strict evaluation, as it would evaluate the
1/0, even though the result wouldn't be required for the
?: operator.
In a lazy-evaluation language, the
?: operator would evaluate
x>2 before even deciding which expression to evaluate.
The problem is that in Excel,
1/0 produces a legitimate value (which happens to be
#DIV/0!) that can exist in expressions. Therefore, simply calling
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"When Dr. Yehonatan N. Turner regan his residency in radiology, he was frustrated that the CT scans he analyzed revealed nothing about the patients behind them-only their internal organs" starts the article in yesterday's New York Times. To get a real feel his work, he began to pretend that each patient was his own father. He soon came up with a better idea. He asked to have a photograph of each patient.
A rather unusual study grew out of this practice and the findings were surprising. When a photo is attached to the patient's file radiology reports were longer, more meticulous, included more recommendations.
Quoting Dr. Jonathan Halevey "When there is a picture, your attitude and approach changes-the human aspect is inserted."
What a simple and effective way to practice better medicine and enhance the work lives of radilogists.
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Filed under: Environment, Global Warming, Junk Science, Politics, Regulation | Tags: Arctic Sea Ice, Highest Extent Since 2005, Polar Bear Habitat
The Hill reports that the Fish and Wildlife Service has released a draft proposal for a plan to conserve the polar bear, which (they say erroneously) was declared endangered in 2008. Well, no, they declared the polar bear "threatened" in 2008. There is a difference. And, according to the most noted authority on polar bears, the bears are just fine.
According to Dr. Susan Crockford, last year:
Survival of polar bears over a hundred thousand years (at least ) of highly variable sea ice coverage indicates that those biologists who portend a doomed future for the polar bear have grossly underestimated its ability to survive vastly different conditions than those that existed in the late 1970s when Ian Stirling began his polar bear research.
The agency was undoubtedly told to emphasize the horrors of carbon dioxide, with the big climate meeting coming up, and Obama's push to get all nations to line up in his attempt to eliminate the dangers of CO². The article in The Hill is, naturally, accompanied by a picture of a baby polar bear. "It's for the children" or in this case — the polar bear cubs.
The top threat to the survival of polar bears is the increase in carbon dioxide emissions, the federal government's wildlife agency said.
That's the main finding released Thursday in a draft proposal of the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) first ever plan for conserving the polar bear, which was declared endangered in 2008.
"Polar bear conservation requires a global commitment to curb the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," Geoffrey Haskett, the Alaska regional director for the FWS, said in a statement about the draft plan. …
The agency identified several threats to the polar bear, but said that the loss of sea ice — caused by climate change — is the top threat. It predicts that three out of the four major "ecoregions" of polar bears will be decreased or greatly decreased by 2050, based on two separate greenhouse gas growth scenarios.
We cannot predict the future. Computer programs cannot predict the future either. Carbon dioxide is what we exhale every time we breathe. It is what polar bears exhale as well. Carbon dioxide is a natural plant fertilizer and essential to life on earth. There has been no warming whatsoever for 18 years. The extent of Arctic sea ice is at the highest level in a decade, since 2005, Melt is currently the slowest since at least 2004. Polar bears thrive in Hudson Bay, which is ice free three months a year.
A new paper from Dr, Susan Crockford explains that a fundamental problem with polar bear conservation is the fallacy that under natural conditions sea ice is a stable predictable habitat for polar bears and their prey. The essay in Watts Up With That? has a forward by Dr. Matthew Cronin discussing the problem of Lysenkoism in science, and if you scroll down, Dr. Crockford's Summary, "The Arctic Fallacy: Sea Ice Stability and the Polar Bear," and links to the paper and blog posts. Read the whole thing, and never fall for cute pictures of baby polar bears again. Don't you get tired of being manipulated?
Filed under: Democrat Corruption, Freedom, Humor, Terrorism | Tags: Chick-fil-A, Confederate Flag, The Left Attacks
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Seven people were killed this morning when a Confederate flag walked into an Alabama shopping mall and started shooting.
According to local reports, the flag entered Cherrywood Mall outside Huntsville armed with two AK-47 assault rifles, a P 228 handgun and several grenades. It immediately proceeded to unload its ordinance on unsuspecting shoppers.
In addition to those killed, 23 people were injured and are currently being treated in area emergency rooms. Several are in critical condition and not expected to survive.
The flag's motivations are uncertain at the moment. However, according to witnesses the flag did specifically target White people with Northern accents.
"The flag chased us down the hallway screaming 'Die, Yankees Die!', says Justin Anderson, a aeronautical engineer originally from New Hampshire. "Luckily flags don't move very fast, so my girlfriend and I managed to outrun it."
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Hysteria seems to come and go. It was not long ago that Chick-fil-A was being demonized and attacked because of the Christian values of its owners, and there were efforts to boycott the stores. One opened here a few weeks ago in the location of a former Denny's and the drive-thru and parking lot have been so crowded that long lines of cars are choking up the intersection.
The American Customer Satisfaction Index named Chick-fil-A America's favorite fast food place. The ACSI asked more than 5,000 customers their opinion on fast-food chains and compiled a list of the best and the worst. Chick-fil-A finished in first place with the highest score ever given to a fast-food chain. Good service and good food apparently trumps hysteria every time.
The one here is still messing up traffic.
Filed under: Cuba, Foreign Policy, Iran, National Security, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Nuclear Weapons for Iran, Relations with Cuba, The Obama Doctrine
The messages from the Iran nuclear negotiation are mixed. Some informants say we are giving up all inspections in order to get a deal, the White House insists that this is not the case, but nobody believes Obama any more.
We are opening a consulate in Cuba, though Congress has refused any financing. Iran will honor an agreement not to develop nuclear weapons. Obama will walk away from the negotiations. ISIS is a JV team, Rachel Dolezal is black, Caitlyn Jenner is a woman, ObamaCare is working and popular, the polar ice caps are disappearing, but the military has been sent to measure them to see how fast. We are more respected around the world than ever before. What is one to make of all this? Reality is fleeting.
The best explanation for Obama that I have found is from Daniel Pipes at the Middle East Forum, which I will include once again:
As a man of the Left, Obama sees the United States historically as having exerted a malign influence on the outside world. Greedy corporations, an overly powerful military-industrial complex, a yahoo nationalism, engrained racism, and cultural imperialism combined to render America, on balance, a force for evil.
The Obama Doctrine is simple and universal: Warm relations with adversaries and cool them with friends.
Several assumptions underlie this approach: The U.S. government morally must compensate for its prior errors. Smiling at hostile states will inspire them to reciprocate. Using force creates more problems than it solves.
This is important, and it was confirmed today in the video below, by "Benjamin J. Rhodes, the deputy national security adviser to President Obama. He was the chief U.S . negotiator in the secret normalization talks with Cuba and has been a central player in the making of American foreign policy since 2009, both as key adviser and as the president's chief foreign policy speechwriter."
In this interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, national correspondent for The Atlantic, they discuss the worldview of President Obama, focusing on Cuba, the Iran talks, and the continuing crisis across the broader Middle East.
Valerie Jarrett has said that President Obama has just been bored all his life, presumably not having been sufficiently challenged. He had an adjunct job teaching constitutional law at University of Chicago Law School, but his students indicated that he taught mostly Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, which seems to be an advanced course in manipulating people to get them to do what you want them to do. That doesn't indicate any particular deep study of the Constitution.
Obama appointed an extraordinary collection of Czars, and asks that his briefings come in the form of a short paragraph or two, with 3 choices of actions to take, and he'll pick one. Other than that, he doesn't want much contact with members of his administration and associates only with his small inner circle, when he's not watching sports on TV or playing golf.
That kind of sums up what I have gleaned about what Obama does and why he does it. The mindset is so foreign to everything I know about Iran and Cuba that I find it almost impossible to absorb. I grasp his view of Iran, but I think he's subjecting both America and Israel to dangerous and immediate threat. Cuba, I just don't get. We are offered nothing, and by encouraging tourism and trade, giving Cuba the freedom to resume their anti-American arms dealing and drug trade across Latin America. They have no intention of offering more freedom to the Cuban people. Raul Castro has said so.
Having lost control of Congress, Obama, never willing to engage with Republicans, has determined to just go ahead and do everything he wants to do. Kind of a nyaah–nyaah–just try to stop me! He will use executive orders, executive notes, just order things to be done. They always say that inside of every Liberal is a tyrant trying to get out. Or did I miss something when Senate Democrats are voting to repeal the First Amendment so they can suppress political criticism?
Filed under: Capitalism, Domestic Policy, Environment, Junk Science, Politics, Regulation | Tags: Green Zealots, Power Grab, Rogue Agency
The EPA has just finalized one of the biggest land grabs in American history.
Just reprimanded by the Supreme Court, the EPA is anxious to try their luck again. Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA was granted the authority to regulate the navigable waters of the United States to see that they remained clean.
Under the Clean Water Rule, all "tributaries" will be regulated by the federal government. Broadly defined, which they intend, this means anything moist that eventually flows into something that can be defined as a "navigable river," including the roadside ditch above, and even smaller trickles.
Under the same rule, the word "adjacent" is stretched from the Supreme Court's definition of actually "abutting" what most Americans regard as a real water of the United States to anything "neighboring," "contiguous," or "bordering" a real water, terms which are again stretched to include whole floodplains and riparian areas. Floodplains are typically based on a 100-year flood, but a separate regulation would stretch that to a 500-year flood.
And, finally, under the rule, the EPA cynically throws in a catch-all "significant nexus" test meant as a shout out to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's opinion in Rapanos v. United States when, in fact, the EPA's rule makes a mockery of Kennedy's opinion and of no fewer than three Supreme Court rulings.
Under the three approaches, no land or "water" is beyond the reach of the federal government, never mind the traditional understanding of private property or state and local control of land use.
Farmers, ranchers, dairymen and everyone in rural America are in panic mode. Not only does this rule allow the EPA onto their land, but it throws wide open to environmental group-led citizen lawsuits that promise to go far beyond what the EPA envisioned. Citizen lawsuits are controlled only by the rule. The rule carries with it fines to the tune of $37,500 a day. The EPA has a habit of imposing fines big enough to scare the accused of whatever violation into immediate compliance.
I grew up very rural, and I'm sure city people cannot imagine the havoc this rule could cause. Although here in the Seattle area, a good portion of our lawns could be considered wetlands for a portion of the year. It rains a lot, and there is runoff. Farmers and ranchers spend a significant amount of time ditching, or controlling the flow of water where it is not wanted.
The goal of the Environmental Protection Agency has little to do with the environment, but only to do with how environmental regulation can be used to further their political goals of control, ending private property, and bringing on the utopia where everyone is, at last, truly equal. Well, except for those in charge, of course.
Filed under: Economy, Global Warming, Junk Science, Military, National Security, Politics | Tags: Measuring Arctic Ice, Military Tasks, Misguided Priorities
You may remember the president's commencement speech at the Coast Guard Academy. He told the graduates "I am here today to say that climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country. And so we need to act — and we need to act now." A lot of people giggled at that one.
The Defense Department, obedient to their commander in chief, calls global warming a true national security threat and has begun instituting a host of environmental measures which range from building clean energy projects at military installations to the use of expensive green fuels in military planes. Military officers who question the president's strategies seem to face early retirement.
A recent report from the Government Accountability Office, according to the Washington Times, notes another example— the commitment of U.S. Military forces to monitor sea ice levels in the Arctic. The administration argues that decreasing ice could force the Pentagon to "institute a military and homeland security presence in the region."
Critics charge the president is directing the military from its real mission of protecting America, but that is not high on the president's list. Last Monday, the White House tried once again to justify its climate change agenda with a new report claiming tens of thousands of lives will be saved through restrictions on carbon.
Difficulty in developing accurate sea ice models, variability in the Arctic's climate, and the uncertain rate of activity in the region create challenges for DOD to balance the risk of having inadequate capabilities or insufficient capacity when required to operate in the region with the cost of making premature or unnecessary investments. DOD plans to mitigate this risk by monitoring the changing Arctic conditions to determine the appropriate timing for capability investments.
Republicans on Capitol Hill are taking aim at the EPA's budget and restricting the president's ill-advised global warming agenda through funding cuts. The Supreme Court decision coming Monday will have a bearing on all this.
On would think with the rise in ISIS terrorist attacks across the world, measuring the ice in the Arctic, since surveys show it to be unusually extensive, could be put off for another day. There has been no warming at all for over 18 years, and things are getting colder — not warmer.
Filed under: Israel, Middle East, National Security, Politics, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: Fighting Terrorism, ISIS, Middle East Aflame
(The Imam Sadiq Mosque in Kuwait City after a suicide
bomber killed at least 25 Shiite worshipers at prayer)
Peter Brooks, senior fellow for national security affairs at the Heritage Foundation wrote today that: We have had nine terrorist plots this year in the United States. So far all of the plots in 2015 have had ties to ISIS off in Iraq and Syria, whether the plotters were direct (recruited by ISIS) or indirect (inspired by ISIS). FBI Director James Comey said in February, that his agency is investigating Islamic State-related cases in all 50 states.
They heavily use social media, using publicly available encryption found on the internet to chat in complete privacy. They can hide their computer IP addresses, and are moving over to the so-called "dark web" where a lot of very bad actors reside. Their technology is pretty good, their propaganda is increasingly capable of reaching and radicalizing those here who would do us harm.
In Britain, Lord Richards of Herstmonceux, the former Chief of the Defense Staff, has warned that Muslim extremism is a "real threat" to the world, and he condemned dithering politicians who are too reluctant to lead the way. He warned that a "hell of a lot of damage" is going to be wreaked by ISIS in coming years, and leaders are failing to plan properly. "I think the problem is that we have not seen that we need to approach the issue of Muslim extremism as we might approach World War Two back in the Thirties.
He said "Right now, in the ranks of the armed forces, and the army in particular, are the most experienced, battle hardened people since the end of the Second World War.
Jihadists like anniversaries, so their three terror attacks took place on the eve of ISIS declaration of a caliphate last June 29. They only took credit for one of the atrocities — a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in Kuwait, where 27 people were killed, but all going off at the same time.Ramadan began last week, and an ISIS spokesman called on "mujahadeen everywhere" to make it "a month of disasters for the infidels."
In Tunisia, a gunman posing as a tourist killed at least 37 people, most European vacationers at a beach resort. In France, a car-bombing attempt at an American-owned chemical plant near Lyon failed to cause major damage, but not before the attacker planted the decapitated head of his boss on the plant's gate, along with an Islamic flag.
President Obama recently deployed 450 additional trainers to help the Iraqi army fight, but they aren't getting enough Iraqi volunteers, which in the wake of ISIS drowning captives, removing heads, burning in cages is not really surprising when the Americans have such restrictive Rules of Engagement, and have demonstrated that they are undependable allies. ISIS is a direct threat to the West as well as to the region in general, and it needs to be dealt with that way.
Obama's view of the Middle East and ISIS isn't a policy for dealing with this problem. As he explained, he doesn't have a complete strategy yet. Little late in the game for developing one.


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