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Whether we walk, bike, skate, wheel or drive, when we're on the road there are traffic lights, signs and signals we know we and everyone else needs to pay attention to. We also know we need to clearly give our own signals: when we turn, we use a turn signal for good reason, rather than muttering under our breath that we're going to be turning or just veering left in an intersection without signaling. All of that helps keep us and others from crashing or getting run over: we all agree to follow and give those signs as part of an ongoing, mutual agreement to help keep each other safe. As well, if we want to get somewhere, we usually have to pay attention to signs: if we keep ignoring the signs that say "Dead End," or don't read street signs at all, we're not likely to be able to get to where we meant to go.
Most of us understand being in transit means there's a possibility of getting hurt, hurting others, having a good time turn into a bad one or just not getting to where we intended, and to try and prevent those outcomes, we need to follow basic rules of the road like being attentive to and actively giving clear signs and signals. Just like it's important on the road, it's important between the sheets.
What is sexual consent? An active process of willingly and freely choosing to participate in sex of any kind with someone else, and a shared responsibility for everyone engaging in, or who wants to engage in, any kind of sexual interaction with someone. When there is a question or invitation about sex of any kind, when consent is mutually given or affirmed, the answer on everyone's part is an enthusiastic yes.
Willingly and freely choosing means we and our partners feel able to make and voice any choice without being forced, manipulated, intentionally misled or pressured. It means we're in an interpersonal environment where what we want is mutually meaningful, and where we aren't in a situation where the other person is not in a position where they have or have had, in our history with them, radically more power than we have and/or has not used that power to influence or guide our sexual choices. It means we and our partners are and feel safe. It means we feel able to say and accept yes, no, or maybe without fear, and that our limits and boundaries are completely respected. Feeling free and able to say yes and to say no isn't only important to keep from getting hurt or hurting others: it's important because a big part of a satisfying, healthy sex life and sexuality, one people enjoy, is grounded in free choice.
Participating means everyone is an active, whole part of what is going on. It means we or a partner are treated like a whole, separate person, not like a thing someone is doing things to. If consensual sex was a sport, participating would mean that we're out on the field running around with the team, not sitting on the bench while people throw balls at our heads.
What about enthusiasm? Sex that people really want and fully participate in does not tend to be a whatever or something we need to be dragged into. When we have strong sexual feelings and want and feel ready to put those feelings into action in some way, we experience that as a strong desire, much like we can feel when we're hungry and smell our favorite meal cooking. When someone shares our sexual feelings and also wants to put them into action at the same time, it's mutually exciting. Sometimes younger people express they have a hard time figuring out when they are and are not feeling sexual desire. While sexual desire doesn't always look the same way, so that's not simple to explain, when any of us really, truly wants to engage in something sexual, we'll feel enthusiastic, stoked and excited, not apathetic, bored, fearful or doubtful.
If you want one word to define consent with it's yes. Consent is a yes a million times over, for the love of all things sparkly, awesome and delicious, and not a minute longer if you want to do it too, please, yes. Everyone's yes doesn't always look or sound the same, of course, but there are often common threads. There also isn't always a question, exactly, to say yes to. Sometimes yes is inviting someone else to do something with us. Sometimes it's saying what we want, even if the other person says no or not now. Sometimes yes is using hands to pull someone closer, or an excited squeal or moan. A yes with words is a lot easier to understand and know as consent than some other kinds of yes.
Consent isn't something we just do or give once: it's something we're doing (or not) in every moment of every sexual activity. If someone consents to one thing, that doesn't mean they're consenting to anything, just to that one thing. Consent is also always something we or others can revoke: in other words, everyone gets to change their mind, at any time, including after they've already said yes.
Jaclyn Friedman, co-editor of Yes Means Yes, explains that well here: "Sexual consent isn't like a lightswitch, which can be either "on," or "off." It's not like there's this one thing called "sex" you can consent to anyhow. "Sex" is an evolving series of actions and interactions. You have to have the enthusiastic consent of your partner for all of them. And even if you have your partner's consent for a particular activity, you have to be prepared for it to change. Consent isn't a question. It's a state. If, instead of lovers, the two of you were synchronized swimmers, consent would be the water. It's not enough to jump in, get wet and climb out -- if you want to swim, you have to be in the water continually. And if you want to have sex, you have to be continually in a state of enthusiastic consent with your partner."
Consent works best centered in communication in words; words in whatever language everyone involved can use and understand. There are other ways to express and affirm consent, but they're way trickier, and when those ways work well, it's usually because the people involved already use and have used words with consent and have established good, solid patterns of communication with words.
This kind of consent is a must for:
Consent with words is about mutually voicing what we want and don't want, what our desires are and are not, and what we do and don't feel ready for. Sometimes it's about one person asking for something and the other replying, sometimes it's more organic. But when any of us says or expresses an "I want," we're voicing desire. Desire can be a strong feeling, so we might not always voice it delicately. The way we voice sexual desire matters when it comes to consent, though: we need to be mindful of how our words express what we want while still leaving room for others to express what they want, especially since we won't always want the same things or want them at the same times. There are ways to voice desires and seek consent that support consent and good sexual communication, and there are ways to voice desires or seek consent that can stifle mutual consent and communication, and make it hard for someone to make and voice their own choices freely in response.
If any of those things are going on, do yourself a favor and just get away from that person or situation pronto. If you were wrong, it's okay: no one is done big harm by not getting laid.
Some good ways to ask for and assure consent are questions like:
See how all of those were questions, or statements that ended with questions? That opens the door to communication and makes clear you understand that while you want something, that doesn't mean someone else does, or wants them with you, right then or without certain things they may need. Any time we ask a question like that where we haven't answered it first ourselves, we can take our turn answering it after the other person answers.
Some not-so-hot ways to voice desires and invite others into sex when it comes to consent are: Let's do [whatever sexual thing.] I want [whatever sexual thing]. Last week you really liked it when I [whatever it was you did], so we'll do that again tonight. I heard guys/girls really like it when someone [does whatever], so let's do that, you'll probably like it. Let's just do it: I'll take care of you. You're okay, right? I know you trust me, right?
Most of those are statements, not questions: they're conversation stoppers, not starters. They address one person's wants without acknowledging the other, or kind of make someone else into a non-person. Even the ones that are questions aren't really questions. "I know you trust me, right?" doesn't really leave room for the other person to answer: it basically answers the question for them and tells them there's only one right answer. It also makes having the wrong answer seriously loaded. Most of those statements are one person making decisions for everyone: that's not consent. Consent is about everyone involved actively making choices together.
Who's the person who should voice their desires and asks for a partner's own input and wants? Everyone. Not just one person, or one gender or one person with a given kind of body or of a given age. Obviously, someone has to make the first move sometimes and put it out there. Who does is usually who gets the gumption to first. In a healthy sexual relationship where both people share mutual feelings of sexual desire, mutual desire to enact them (even if not always at the same time or on the same days) and both feel ready to fully participate in sexual activities with a partner, there tends to be a lot of back and forth, rather than sexual initiation, and initiation of consent, being one person's doing.
What can consent-in-words and nonconsent tend to sound like, whether we're putting our desires out there, saying we don't want or aren't sure about, or providing an answer to someone else's voiced wants?
|What can consent sound like?
|What can nonconsent sound like?
|I'm sure
|I'm not sure
|I know
|I don't know
|I'm excited
|I'm scared
|Don't stop
|Whoohoo! Yippee! Hot damn! Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah!
|No more
|I want to...
|I want to, but...
|I'm not worried
|I feel worried about...
|I want you/it/that
|I don't want you/it/that
|Can you please do [whatever]
|Can you please not do [whatever]
|I still want to...
|I thought I wanted to, but...
|That feels good
|That hurts
|I love you/this
|I love you/this, but...
|I want to do this right now
|I want to do this, but not right now
|I feel good about this
|I don't know how I feel about this
|I'm ready
|I'm not ready or not sure if I'm ready
|I want to keep doing this
|I don't want to do this anymore
|[insert praise to your deity of choice here]
|[insert plea for help to your deity of choice here]
|This feels right
|This feels wrong
Really being able to give, withhold or share consent has a lot to do with feeling like an interpersonal environment or relationship supports consent. So many people have been raised with the idea that sex is a power struggle, a performance of gender or that they automatically don't have equal voice, so they may need to have partners affirm very clearly that their wants and not-wants are important. Some people may have been reared with ideas about sex that have given them the impression they don't have to seek out or ask for consent, or may have had partners in the past who did not assert themselves, so they got the impression they could just assume consent.
There are things we can say to each other to help support consent and make everyone involved feel more able to voice what they want, rather than just echo a partner or a cultural expectation. To help create that kind of environment, when we and someone else are talking about becoming sexual, we can make clear right from the start that we care about real consent, shared desire and mutual pleasure. To express that, we might say something like: "If something doesn't feel good or turns out to be something other than you want, please let me know. I only want to do what feels good for both of us." Or, "I think it's hot when someone tells me what they want during sex, rather than just me saying what I want." Or, "I'd rather put sex off for another time when someone isn't really into it. I don't want to have sex when the other person doesn't totally want it: each of us really wanting it is the best part!" Or, "This is about us doing something together that's from and for both of us, not about someone tending to just my needs or just my tending to theirs. It's really important to me that we're both always honest about what we want and don't so that it's really about both of us, and about pleasure and desire, not guilt or obligation."
Because consent is ongoing, it's also important to check-in with each other as we continue sexual activities. Check-ins don't have to be formal, or even stop anything we're enjoying. Of course, we can use moments to check-in that may already have presented a pause, like someone having to pee, the phone ringing, falling off the bed, switching up a position or a big laugh we're trying to catch our breath from.
Consent check-ins can sound like, How does this feel? Are you still liking this? Are you comfortable? Is there anything you need or want right now? You seem quiet: are you okay? Anything I should stop doing or do that I'm not doing? I feel good: are you feeling good?
Before we move into a more complex kind of consent, let's review. Columbia University Health Service's Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program provides these consent traffic lights:
You or a partner are too intoxicated to gauge or give consent.
Your partner is asleep or passed out.
You hope your partner will say nothing and go with the flow.
You intend to have sex by any means necessary.
You are not sure what the other person wants.
You feel like you are getting mixed signals.
You have not talked about what you want to do.
You assume that you will do the same thing as before.
Your partner stops or is not responsive.
Partners come to a mutual decision about how far they want to go.
Partners clearly express their comfort with the situation.
You feel comfortable and safe stopping at any time.
Partners are excited!
Over time, people who have sex together will tend to get more comfortable with each other, and will get to know each other better, and so they may use less consent-in-words and start using more nonverbal cues. That's generally okay so long as it feels okay to everyone involved, but it's a lot trickier than words, because body language is often a lot less clear. Sometimes people try to have sex right from the start using only body language as communication. While it can work sometimes, more often it results in either someone getting hurt, having boundaries or lines crossed, or in people just not connecting well.
This kind of consent, paired with consent-in-words, is best saved for:
A lot of folks ask how they can tell by looking when someone is aroused, in part to try and establish nonverbal consent. The trouble is, physical signs of arousal are often lousy nonverbal signals of consent. Why? Because we can be sexually excited but still not want to have any kind of sex at a given time: just because we feel sexually excited around someone else, after all, doesn't mean it's right for us to act on those feelings. To boot, some ways people can look or feel when sexually excited are also ways they can look or feel because of other things. A wet vulva can mean someone is simply at a fertile time in their cycle, hard nipples can be about being cold, and an erection can be a physical response to friction. Some of the ways our bodies react with sexual arousal are also the ways our bodies can react when we're afraid, like flushing, having an elevated pulse, or breathing faster. When it comes to nonverbal cues, it's usually better to look to whole bodies or faces for those than to look to genitals.
A study recently done by The Havens Sexual Assault Referral Centres (Where is Your Line? Survey Summary Report) of over 1,000 people ages 18-25 found that less than half of young adults interpret someone pushing them away as a no, and over 60% would not assume crying means nonconsent. That same study found that more than one in five people expect intercourse after other kinds of touching, and that 25% of women have been silent when a partner did something sexual to them that they did not want.
What does that mean? That we need to be VERY cautious about ditching consent in words and make sure that before we do, we've established good communication and verbal consent first, and have it as a pattern and precedent we know we can fall back on any time we or a partner are not 100% sure we are interpreting or can interpret nonverbal consent correctly. We also want to be sure to still do check-ins with partners during less-talky sex time. And before moving on to this kind of consent, you should be very sure it's really the right situation and relationship to ditch a lot of talking, for you and for a partner.
The following are some very general nonverbal cues that can often -- but don't always -- signal consent or nonconsent.
|Possible nonverbal signs of consent
|Possible nonverbal signs of NONconsent
|Direct eye contact
|Avoiding eye contact
|Initiating sexual activity
|Not initiating any sexual activity
|Pulling someone closer
|Pushing someone away
|Actively touching someone
|Avoiding touch
|Nodding yes
|Shaking head no
|Comfort with nudity
|Discomfort with nudity
|Laughter and/or smiling (upturned mouth)
|Crying and/or looking sad or fearful (clenched or downturned mouth)
|"Open" body language, like relaxed, loose and open arms and legs, relaxed facial expressions, turning towards someone
|"Closed" body language, like tense, stiff or closed arms and legs, tight or tense facial expressions, turning away from someone
|Sounds of enjoyment, like a satisfied hum or enthusiastic moan
|Silence or sounds of fear or sadness, like whimpering or a trembling voice
|An active body
|"Just lying there"
If you and a partner are moving more towards nonverbal sexual communication, talk about it. Looking at a list like the one above, do you and/or your partner feel like these things are true for each of you? Do either of you know nonverbal cues or responses you tend to have when you want something sexual or don't that you can share with each other to make this kind of communication easier? Maybe you even want to some up with a safeword, or stop-word, to use when you want to be expressly nonverbal: one word or gesture you can use to say stop clearly that both agree means stop.
Everyone knows it can suck when we want something with or from someone else that they don't want to share or give, most certainly including with sex. Sometimes it's just a momentary bummer, and other times it can feel like a real heartbreaker.
But when someone is not clearly giving, sharing or continuing consent or is nonconsenting, there's only one sound way we should all respond: to absolutely accept and respect their response or their lack of agreement and participation, and to immediately stop the action (if something physical was going on) or not move forward. It's really important that while we are allowed to have whatever feelings we have that we manage our own feelings well, avoiding things like voicing anger, sulking or emotionally withdrawing, which puts sexual pressure on someone else.
We may need or want to work through our feelings and theirs (they might be bummed out, too!). That might be sensitively -- not manipulatively -- asking for some time to ourselves to clear our heads and cool down our heart rate, then calling each other later to check in and assure each other it's all okay. Maybe we'll need to have the other person affirm that they still like us. You can ask if they want to do something to share some comfort, or to get close in other ways, like having a cuddle, holding hands, or doing something else entirely, like taking a walk together, catching a movie or hitting some Karaoke to have a laugh. If we want to extend the on-the-road schtick, it's worth noting that sometimes running out of gas or getting a flat tire can actually turn into a whole new adventure on its own right, one more fun and interesting than our original plan (I know that's certainly true of a couple of my own thwarted road trips). It's always possible that what starts out seeming like a bummer can turn into something really great. Not having the sex we want blows, but if it means we wind up having an ad-hoc roof party, a moonlight swim together or a really deep talk that brings us closer than having sex would have, it can be a blessing in disguise.
If their no wasn't about sex full-stop, it is okay to ask if there's something else they'd like to do sexually. It's also okay to ask why someone doesn't want to do something sexual at all or anymore, but you want to make clear that question isn't about you trying to convince them to change their mind, or suggesting they need to justify their no. You want to be sure you're asking that at the right time, too: if they seem upset or stressed -- or you are -- it's probably not a good time and is probably best to talk about it a few days down the road when everyone is feeling less vulnerable. You can open a conversation like this with something like "I was totally okay with you not wanting to do [whatever it was] anymore yesterday, but if you're up for talking about it, I'd like to hear about why so I can better understand you and also do my best to help us create a sex life together that's best for us both."
Want to find out and explore more about consent? Here are a few of our favorite places and resources, including some that can offer help if you've read this and realized you've been sexually assaulted or abused:
Information on this site is provided for educational purposes. It is not meant to and cannot substitute for advice or care provided by an in-person medical professional. The information contained herein is not meant to be used to diagnose or treat a health problem or disease, or for prescribing any medication. You should always consult your own healthcare provider if you have a health problem or medical condition.


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I like the style of only drawing/marking the very important buildings in the city. I hadn't really thought of doing it that way before. I'll have to try that in the future. I also really like your coat of arms.
I just finished a map of the City of Erbsburg (peacastle) for a german Fantasy RPG.
Original data is A4 and 600 dpi.
Erbsburg has 2200 inhabitants, 300 of them are elves living in the elven quarter.
The lineart and typo is made by hand with black ink and calligraphy pens and
copic multiliners of different sizes. Not in one piece but many pieces being
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The colours were made in PS, too.
Despite the fact that the map is finished I would like to hear some thoughts of
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I like the style of only drawing/marking the very important buildings in the city. I hadn't really thought of doing it that way before. I'll have to try that in the future. I also really like your coat of arms.
The style of showing only important buildings came from the need of the game quite naturally.
In RPG adventures you have to visit special places for doing important things, meeting special persons and getting crucial clues for the plot.
That sort of map supports that type of gameplay.
Nice style and calligraphy but I'd prefer that you'd colored the city as well - now everything else is colored.
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My son had a few suggestions and a friend of mine found two typos, so I retouched the
whole thing to add some more detail.
It took me far longer than I wanted to work on it. I definitely close this
project now. More maps are waiting ...
Thanks Carnifex, I thought about that point quite a time, but I think it
looks more serious/authentic if it isn't coloured. And look at it as the
special touch to let the content inside the city stand out more clearly.
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I like the feel of the Map. Also the title banner is superb!
Nice fraktur. You can't beat the little variations of hand-done calligraphy, yet to look good everything has to be evenly *almost* the same. You've achieved that well.
I've done some hand-drawn and separately hand lettered maps, digitally composited. In my case I was just terrified one blotch would ruin hours of otherwise perfectly mediocre work ;-).
The buildings are great too. I can't figure out the elven quarter- do they have a hedge instead of a wall?
that's a lovely example of a handdrawn map - especially the header and typography. nicely done.
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I watched Harry Potter III some days ago and was inspired by the calligraphy in the end titles.
So the banner was made in the style of the invisible map of the school.
the fraktur letters are really not the best, I have to admit. Every master scribe would let me write that again - 10 times. But I liked the chaotic style because it is for a medieval fantasy game. And the city isn't very great. So I didn't even draw base lines.
Meanwhile I write long enough to avoid blotches, but in the case of this map I wrote the typo completely off the map and inserted it with photoshop.
And: yes, you're right. The elves have some living hedges to protect their part of the city.
btw: the signature (TM) is a hint to the Erbsburger cartographer Thomasus Mormann. He lives in a little house near the south gate, where he is selling his maps. My next project could be his map of Deutschen.
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Two years from now point guard Jaren Sina and big man Shannon Hale will be playing together for the University of Alabama basketball team. Last weekend, the two 2013 Crimson Tide commitments got a preview of what that will be like when they were selected to play on the same team at the Nike Elite 100 in St. Louis. The event is the nation's premier basketball event for the top underclassmen. "It was really good," Sina said. "I played really well. I got to compete against some of the top players in the country. I also got to play with Shannon Hale on the same team. It was a lot of fun. Having a big guy that talented on the same team at the camp helped so much. He's a great kid, and I can't wait to play with him in a couple years."Hale, a Rivals 100 player from Johnson City, Tenn., also enjoyed the camp and came away as one of the most outstanding big men who competed in the event. "It went pretty good," Hale said. "I liked it. There was a lot of competition. The coaches were saying I was one of the best-skilled big men there, so I think I did pretty good. As for playing together, there was no rhyme or reason for the two future Alabama players to be placed on the same team. It was a mere coincidence. However, both players noticed an instant connection on the court. "There was definitely a connection," Sina said. "With him being on my team, I tried to feed him a lot. It was kind of cool playing with him and knowing that I'm going to be with him in the next couple of years. He's a great post player. He can shoot, too. "I actually had a really cool play. I went down the lane, and I threw him an alley-oop, and he dunked it with two hands. It was pretty sweet."Hale also noticed the connection between the two and was impressed with the New Jersey point guard's court sense and overall feel for the game. "He's a good player, real high basketball IQ," Hale said of Sina. "I just liked playing with him because he knows what to do. We had a connection. He was throwing oops to me, and (we) used the pick and roll a little bit."Before the event, Hale and Sina had only met once at Alabama's individual camp last August, but the two have kept in contact through Facebook. Both players plan to attend the Crimson Tide's individual camp again this summer. Sina will be down in Tuscaloosa even sooner as he and his high school teammates from Gill St. Bernard's School in New Jersey are scheduled to compete in Alabama's high school team camp next weekend. The team plans to come down a few days early to help out with the tornado relief efforts. "At my high school, we raised some money for the tornado victims, and we're going to come down and help for four or five days," Sina said.Reach Greg Ostendorf at [email protected] ...More... To continue reading this article you must be a member. Sign Up Now!
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Headsets throughout the tourInside visits and special features: Shown in UPPERCASE in the tour description including admission charges where applicable.Sightseeing: Visits to Santarém, Fátima, Braga, Santiago de Compostela, Burgos, San Ignacio de Loyola, Carcassonne
Scenic Highlights: The Pyrenees and Costa DoradaMass/Religious Service: Fátima, Santiago de Compostela, San Ignacio de Loyola, Lourdes
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Welcome to Portugal! Check into your hotel, and tonight, meet your Tour Director and fellow travelers.
Henry the Navigator made Lisbon the 15th-century "Mistress of the Seas." On your guided sightseeing tour you'll see the enormous monument dedicated to him, as well as the fortified 16th-century Belém Tower, the Moorish citadel, impressive Black Horse Square, and the CATHEDRAL La Sé and Jeronimos MONASTERY, which dates back to the mid-1400s. Later, head north for a stop in Santarém to visit the CHURCH OF THE EUCHARISTIC HOLY MIRACLE. In the late-afternoon, arrive in FATIMA, site of one of the world's most famous Catholic shrines. This evening, why not join the rosary and candlelight procession at the Our Lady of Fátima Basilica? (B,D)
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Journey north this morning and stop in Braga, one of the oldest Christian cities in the world and nicknamed the "Portuguese Rome." Visit the Bom Jesus do Monte (Good Jesus of the Mount) SANCTUARY and see the unique zigzag stairway that is dedicated to the five senses—sight, smell, hearing, touch, and taste—and the three theological virtues—faith, hope, and charity. Cross into Spain and head for Santiago de Compostela. Later, attend Mass followed by the Rosary. (B,D)
This morning, visit St. James' CATHEDRAL. Santiago de Compostela has been known throughout history for the key 9th-century pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James, to its cathedral, which houses the Apostle James' remains beneath the high altar. Later, explore on your own or join an optional excursion to Cabo Finisterre, where pilgrims complete their walk and burn their robes. (B)
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Recorded: Wednesday, July 2, 2008
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The Second Amendments right to keep and bear arms has been among the most controversialand least understoodrights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Did the Founders intend to safeguard an individual right or a collective right?
Experts: Stephen P. Halbrook, Don B. Kates Jr.Type: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Crime, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Gun Control, Law Enforcement
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Guns and Violent Crime
Recorded: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
With the recent school massacre in Littleton, Colorado; the shootings of Jewish children in Los Angeles; and rampant drive-by shootings and other atrocities, what can and should be done to protect the innocent against violence in American society? Can government protect the citizenry against gun-related violence? What is the record of individual self-defense against violence in Britain and the U.S.? In this very timely Independent Policy Forum, acclaimed historian Joyce Lee Malcolm and civil rights attorney Don Kates will examine gun laws, violence, and rights.
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Senior Fellow Charles Pena on the Manhunt for the Boston Bombing Suspects
Recorded: Friday, April 19, 2013
Senior Fellow Charles Pena on the manhunt for the Boston bombing suspects.
Experts: Charles V. PeñaType: TelevisionIssues: Crime, Gun Control, Law Enforcement, Terrorism and National Crises
Is U.S. Justice Broken?
Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
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From fingerprinting to criminal sentencing, from lawyer licensing to judicial selection, and from eminent domain to wealth transfers via class-action lawsuits, how do perverse incentives impact the law and what reforms would create a more just and efficient legal system?
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Recorded: Thursday, December 9, 2010
Independent Institute Research Fellow Edward Lopéz, Associate Professor of Law and Economics at San Jose State University and editor of the new Institute book The Pursuit of Justice, talks with Institute President David Theroux about the faulty incentives at the heart of government legal failures and whether market-based alternatives can provide viable solutions to the serious problems caused by the bureaucratization and politicization of the law.
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Charles Peña on Increased Airport Security
Recorded: Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Originally aired on 12/28/09 on CNNs Anderson Cooper 360. Charles Peña, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, provides perspective on the fairness and effectiveness of the new TSA security measures implemented after the attempted bombing on Christmas day.
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Date: Thursday, April 7th, 2011
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Bush Memorial Auditorium - Troy
Sponsored by: English and Modern Languages Department
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2011 Carol Ann Donahue Poet | Kathleen Graber
Reading and Reception/Signing to follow
Kathleen Graber wrote her first poem when she was 35 and went on to graduate from New York University's Creative Writing Program. Her first book, Correspondence, won the 2005 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize, and she has received fellowships from the New Jersey State Council of the Arts and the Rona Jaffe Foundation. She is a recent Hodder Fellow in poetry at Princeton University and an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholar. Graber teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kathleen Graber's second collection, The Eternal City, chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets, published in 2010.
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For the last two years we've been working on a new platform to power CurseForge. In March 2014 we debuted the platform to support WildStar. In May 2014 we added Kerbal Space Program and then shortly after migrated Minecraft to the new platform.
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The Second Amendments right to keep and bear arms has been among the most controversialand least understoodrights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Did the Founders intend to safeguard an individual right or a collective right?
Experts: Stephen P. Halbrook, Don B. Kates Jr.Type: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Crime, Culture/ Society, Defense and Foreign Policy, Gun Control, Law Enforcement
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For more than a century U.S. foreign policywhether conducted by Democrats or Republicanshas been based on the assumption that Americans interests are served best by intervening abroad to secure markets, fight potential enemies far from American shores, or engage in democratic nation building. But, what is the record of such policies, including now in Iraq?
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Atomic Games has recently been cutting its teeth designing simulations for the American armed forces and intelligences services. It's hitting the civilian market January 26th with Breach, a multiplayer shooter that seeks to update the classic Counter-Strike "terrorists vs. good guys" conflict with a variety of bells and whistles.
There are obviously a number of technical innovations, and the above screen-shot shows the implementation of destructible scenery and the Havok-like behavior of destroyed objects and sprites. Added to these distinctively "game-y" touches are a number of extensively researched real-world devices that Uncle Sam has made available to highly trained soldiers who participate in "deniable ops" — devices that Atomic plans to make available, in their virtual incarnations, to Breach's playerbase.
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It's important to find a mouse sensitivity setting that you're comfortable with and that fits your play style. Close-quarter combat and twitch shots work better with higher sensitivities, whereas long-range sniping and methodical aiming are better suited for lower sensitivities.
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You can make some tweaks in the hidden Breach.ini file located in (steamsteamappscommonreach).
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General Gameplay
- Breach is a tactical shooter. Running out into an open battlefield without taking cover is a death sentence. Make use of the game's active cover system to fire around corners or over chest-high walls, sprint from cover to cover, and crouch to make yourself a smaller target when no cover is available.
- Teamwork is essential in most game modes. A team whose players stick together and provide cover fire for each other will be able to suppress a disorganized team and advance down the battlefield with ease.
- Watch your ammo counter. If you're low, reload before you enter a gunfight, while you're still behind cover.
- Keep an eye on your radar. Enemies that are not being stealthy will appear as red or blue dots, depending on which team you're on. Your radar can warn you of enemies before you have line of sight on them.
- If you manage to sneak up on an enemy, or surprise an enemy around a corner or doorway, use your knife for a stealthy melee kill.
- Make judicious use of the machine gun turrets. They don't have a wide turn angle, so avoid using them if there are enemies that can sneak up behind you or on your sides.
- Use the destructible terrain to your advantage. When strategically appropriate, blow out bridges, machine gun turrets, and enemy cover.
- Familiarize yourself with the locations of ammo caches and replenish your bullets, grenades, and charges before you run dry. Ammo caches hold a limited supply of rocket launchers–use them before your enemies do.
When picking which class you'd like to spawn as, you should take into consideration the map, the game type, and what the current situation is in-game.
The Rifleman serves as the general-purpose class. He is effective at all but the longest of ranges, and is equipped with Breach Charges. Use these to create an alternate entrance to a heavily-guarded building, or deploy them as traps. When in doubt about which class to choose, pick Rifleman.
The Gunner's light machine gun is perfect for laying down suppressive fire against groups of enemies. Not as accurate as the Rifleman, the Gunner packs a bigger punch and rarely has to reload. He is equipped with Frag Grenades, which can be used to either kill or flush out enemies entrenched behind cover.
The Sniper is the long-range solution to all your short-term problems. This class is most useful at the start of a match, when the two opposing teams have spawned at opposite ends of the map. As the match progresses, battles tend to become more up close and personal, rendering Snipers less useful. Like the Riflemen, they are equipped with Breach Charges.
The Support class is armed with a semiautomatic shotgun. Up to 8 shells can be loaded and unleashed in a rapid-fire barrage that is devastating in close quarters. Equipped with Smoke Grenades, this class can nullify the range advantage of Snipers or Riflemen and force enemies to fight on their terms.
Every class is equipped with a pistol as a backup weapon. A Sniper may rely on his pistol for close and medium quarters, while a Support may use it for longer range.
Game Types
In this game type, several control points can be found on the map, indicated on-screen and on your radar with letters within chevrons. Points are colored according to which team controls them, or white if they have yet to be captured.
Each point controlled by your team will award points over time, making this a highly offensive game type. While defending a control point may seem like a good idea, if there is no action at your location, then you're wasting time you can be spending capturing an enemy control point–and every second counts.
Points are captured by remaining in proximity to them for a few seconds. While a kill will generally earn you 5xp, capturing a control point is worth 10xp.
In this game type, one team must escort a convoy across the map within a given time limit, while the other team must stop it.
The convoy consists of two armored vehicles whose location is represented on-screen and on your radar by a white vehicle icon. When the convoy is moving, the icon takes the color of the escorting team. The path the convoy takes is demarked with signal flares; each time the convoy reaches a flare, time is added to the clock.
In order for the convoy to move, at least one member of the escort team must be within fifteen feet of the lead vehicle. Both vehicles are armed with turrets that can be manned: the lead vehicle has a machine gun, while the rear vehicle fires explosive rounds in three-round salvos.
A convoy will stop moving when it comes within fifty feet of a roadblock, represented on-screen and on your radar by a red X overtop a white vehicle icon. To destroy a roadblock, you need to grab a satchel charge from the back of either convoy vehicle and place the explosive on the barricade.
If a vehicle takes enough damage, it will break down and stop moving until it is repaired. While it only takes a few seconds to repair a vehicle, this can make or break the match if there is little time left on the clock.
A good tactic for the escorts is to have one soldier crouching alongside the lead vehicle, using it as cover from enemy fire, while the other escorts kill the enemies who threaten him. If you are the only escort moving the convoy, resist the urge to man the turret–this will make you an easy target. Stay in cover; you may not be getting kills, but you're moving your team toward victory.
The assault team needs to eliminate the priority targets: the escorts within fifteen feet of the lead vehicle. Every inch the convoy moves brings it closer to the next flare–and an extension on the clock. The assaulters need to be patient–they're job is to burn out the clock. Once the convoy has stopped moving, they should set up in tactical positions to suppress the escorts and kill anyone who approaches the convoy. The objective is to prevent the escorts from moving the convoy, not to rack up kills. Rocket launchers and breach charges are great for breaking down the convoy.
This game type has both teams fighting over possession of a canister that spawns in the center of the map. The objective is to pick up the canister and deliver it to a drop-off point in enemy territory. Points are scored each time the canister is dropped off.
When no one is holding the canister, a white icon appears on your radar and on-screen, along with a distance measurement of how far from it you are. When the canister is being held, the icon is replaced with the chevron icons for the drop-off points in the carrier's team color, complete with distance counters. This means that a held canister will not show up on your radar, regardless of what team you're on.
Certain maps lend themselves to Retrieval better than others. To avoid having matches end in stalemates, it is important to remember that the ultimate objective is to deliver the canister. If you want to win, you have to be willing to die for your team.
Rushing for the canister is worth the risk of dying–and you'll die plenty of times going for it–because once it's in your possession, you force the enemy to fall back to their base to defend the drop-off points because the canister is off their radar.
Defend your carrier–take a bullet for him, if necessary. With the canister in hand, a carrier can only melee. If he needs to fire, he must drop the canister, and dropped canisters return to their spawning point after a few seconds.
Aggressive, offensive play is what wins Retrieval matches. Passive, defensive play may prevent the enemy team from scoring–but it won't win you the game.
Team Deathmatch
The staple FPS game type, Team Deathmatch is a race to earn the most kills. What's important to keep in mind is that avoiding death is just as important as earning kills–every time you die, you feed the enemy team a point.
Raising your kill count while maintaining a low death count is the key to success. Someone with 10 kills and 2 deaths benefitted the team more than someone with 30 kills and 30 deaths. Because of this, defensive play styles can be a strong option; particularly sniping.
Sole Survivor
Sole Survivor is Team Deathmatch with a twist: once you die, you don't respawn. This makes stealth and defensive play even more important, and increases the usefulness of rocket launchers, because rounds generally won't last long enough to deplete all the rockets on a map.
Know the maps inside and out: the spawn points, the various routes, common sniping spots, the location of ammo caches, turrets, and important destructible terrain. Map control is what wins games, and in order to control a map, you need to know its nuances.
With its wide, open bases divided by a tight midfield of tunnels, this map offers varied gameplay. Both bases feature a number of wooden bridges that allow the teams to reach the midfield quicker, so these could be strategic targets to eliminate.
On Team 2′s side of the map, a mining tunnel and destructible bridge form a U, with a Retrieval drop-off point located at the bend. The tunnel offers cover, while the bridge provides an alternate route of access. It may be advantageous for Team 1 to take out the bridge to prevent Team 2 from adequately defending the drop-off point.
On Team 1′s side of the map, a wooden shack with a machine gun turret serves as a foothold for Team 2, with a drop-off point nearby. Team 1 should shoot out the shack's lower supports to collapse the front wall and deny Team 2 cover, while Team 2 should shoot out the bridge near the drop-off point to prevent reinforcements from arriving.
In the center of the map lies a sturdy metal bridge that overlooks the central tunnel and provides direct access from one side of the map to the other. Lined with sandbags and two machine gun turrets, this bridge is a highly contested area regardless of the gametype. It is impossible to move from one side of the map to the other without being spotted by someone on the bridge, making this location strategically invaluable for map control.
Two blast points–one on each side of the symmetric tunnels–provide a quicker route into the main tunnel. It is generally ideal to blast open your own route for ease of access.
This map is sniper heaven. Wide, open areas, plenty of places to hide, and a lot of high ground.
Team 2 spawns on the higher ground, but Team 1 is given a few terrain features to help level the playing field.
A tunnel system allows players to traverse a third of the map without exposing themselves to snipers, while also granting access to cliff-mounted shacks at various altitudes. While these shacks can grant cover and serve as sniper roosts in the early game, as a match progresses, they fall easily to rocket launchers.
A wooden bridge connects the highest points of both bases and is the quickest route to the enemy. This renders it a highly contested area. If the enemy is using it to gain map control over you, it's best to destroy the bridge. Once destroyed, this area serves as an excellent sniper's roost for both teams.
A cabin roughly midway between the two bases is Team 1′s ideal spot to gain a foothold. It is a solid structure with a machine gun turret and rocket launchers, with decent cover from enemy snipers. A defensible position with a view of a good chunk of the map, this cabin is essential for map control.
This map consists of two bases and a central mountain complex that houses a missile silo. Combat is generally mid-range, although it is possibly to snipe from base to base.
In Retrieval, the canister will spawn within the silo, which can be accessed by two winding walkways or two short bridges. The bridges offer the quickest routes to drop-off points, so blowing up the bridge on your side of the map is strategically advised.
Short tunnels offer alternate paths to avoid snipers, but they are not as useful as on other maps.
With two bases separated by a mountain, this map is superficially similar to Silo. On the opposite ends of the map are sniper roosts with a view that extends to the midfield.
A cave with an ammo cache lies in the midfield. Three bridges allow access to it: one from either base, and one from the central mountain. Destroy the enemy's bridge to secure this tactical position.
Opposite the cave is a small fort with two machine gun turrets–one pointed at each base, making this another key structure for your team to control.
Each team has a defensible outpost where players can take cover from enemies who control the midfield.
The central mountain has tunnels that connect the two outposts, the cave, and the fort. Each outpost accesses this tunnel system with a bridge; destroy your enemies' bridge, and you've cut off their access.
In Retrieval, two drop-off points (points B on the map) are easily accessed by bridges; destroy the bridge on your side of the map to prevent your enemies from scoring easily.
This map is The Passage at night. Streetlights, and lights within the tunnels, can be shot out to darken the environment, making gameplay more stealth-oriented.


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The Secretary of Energy, after consultation with the National Academy of Engineering, shall designate thirteen institutions of higher education at which university coal research laboratories will be established and operated. Ten such designations shall be made as provided in subsection (e) of this section and the remaining three shall be made in fiscal year 1980.
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(1) Those ten institutions of higher education designated as provided in subsection (e) of this section shall be located in a State with abundant coal reserves.
(2) The institution of higher education shall have experience in coal research, expertise in several areas of coal research, and potential or currently active, outstanding programs in coal research.
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Not more than one coal laboratory established pursuant to this subchapter shall be located in a single State and at least one coal laboratory shall be established within each of the major coal provinces recognized by the United States Bureau of Mines, including Alaska.
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The Secretary of Energy shall establish a period, not in excess of ninety days after August 3, 1977, for the submission of applications for designation under this section. Any institution of higher education desiring to be designated under this subchapter shall submit an application to the Secretary of Energy in such form, at such time, and containing or accompanied by such information as the Secretary of Energy may reasonably require. Each application shall—
(1) describe the facilities to be established for coal energy resources and conversion research and research on related environmental problems including facilities for interdisciplinary academic research projects by the combined efforts of specialists such as mining engineers, mineral engineers, geochemists, mineralogists, mineral economists, fuel scientists, combustion engineers, mineral preparation engineers, coal petrographers, geologists, chemical engineers, civil engineers, mechanical engineers, and ecologists;
(2) set forth a program for the establishment of a test laboratory for coal characterization which, in addition, may be used as a site for the exchange of coal research activities by representatives of private industry engaged in coal research and characterization;
(3) set forth a program for providing research and development activities for students engaged in advanced study in any discipline which is related to the development of adequate energy supplies in the United States. The research laboratory shall be associated with an ongoing educational and research program on extraction and utilization of coal.
Source(Pub. L. 95–87, title VIII, § 801,Aug. 3, 1977, 91 Stat. 526; Pub. L. 95–617, title VI, § 604(a), (c),Nov. 9, 1978, 92 Stat. 3166, 3167; Pub. L. 102–285, § 10(b),May 18, 1992, 106 Stat. 172.)
1978—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 95–617, § 604(a), substituted "The Secretary of Energy" for "The Administrator, Energy Research and Development Administration (hereafter referred to as 'Administrator' in this subchapter)" and "shall designate thirteen institutions" for "is authorized and directed to designate ten institutions" and inserted provision that ten such designations be made as provided in subsection (e) of this section and the remaining three be made in fiscal year 1980.
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95–617, § 604(a), (c), substituted in provisions preceding par. (1) "Secretary of Energy" for "Administrator" and in par. (1) "Those ten institutions of higher education designated as provided in subsection (e) of this section" for "The institution of higher education".
Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 95–617, § 604(c), substituted "Secretary of Energy" for "Administrator" wherever appearing.
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"United States Bureau of Mines" substituted for "Bureau of Mines" in subsec. (c) pursuant to section 10(b) ofPub. L. 102–285, set out as a note under section 1 of this title. For provisions relating to closure and transfer of functions of the United States Bureau of Mines, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 1 of this title.
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- Femtosecond laser pulses are useful for laser microfabrication through multiphoton absorption. However, it is difficult to create interference of femtosecond pulses for the fabrication of periodic structures. In this letter, we report the fabrication of two-dimensional periodic structures by means of multibeam interference of femtosecond pulses. Scanning electron microscopy revealed a rod structure arranged into a square lattice. The possibility of controlling the period of the lattice, rod thickness, and rod shape were demonstrated.
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