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Common teenage problems are caused by relationships with the opposite sex or gender. Break ups are of the greatest factors of failing grades, dropping subjects, suicides and many other dramatic results. Teenagers have the third most delicate emotions yet they are the first among those who have the strongest hearts.
First, they get their hearts broken, then on the second day, they will be out or grabs again. They say that, partying all night and day is one of the best ways for mending a broken heart. Because of their immature minds, they thought that drinking and smoking would be the best way to end their miserable sorrow and correct their wrongs. As I say all these things, I feel the urge to say that I was one of the million girls that had experienced this kind of stupidity. Getting caught up in a broken relationship has taken its toll in my mind. It has taught me how to be a really bad smoker and to be a freaking alcoholic.
Being an alcoholic takes you to another level of pleasure and confidence, but truth be told, it also takes you to a new level of "angas", "yabang" and "katangahan". Worse of all, it takes you to a higher level of faults and stupidity. As a former irregular third year nursing student, I could actually say that both alcoholism and smoking will soon be attacking your respiratory system, circulatory system, nervous system and digestive system. And also, as a person devoted to study, knowledge and wisdom, I can state that both can destroy your study, work and lifestyle. I don't need people to repeat what I say or other people who will prove that it is true because I say it with my own foolish experience as a guide for my statements. Being like this for almost ten months had taught me so many ways of how to temporarily mend a broken heart. You can drink and party all night or just hang out with friends while smoking and eating or even having sex with someone you just met. They are some of the ways. I humbly say that it works most of the time.
All the problems will be back soon after the effects of alcohol is gone or even worse. After the effects go away, more problems would likely arise higher than the present problems. Dealing with situations like this is not as easy as one, two and three or easy as eating a pie. It is more complex than you think. Have you thought of what the people around you think about you?
Committing suicide is one of the common results of getting drunk or getting too much smoke in your system. It is the lowest thing that a man could do with his life. I personally consider this as a desperate way of saying that, "I quit and I am a born loser". Life is full of undying chances and opportunities. The end of a relationship is not the world's end. As they say, "When God closes a door, he opens a window". Meaning, He wants us to struggle and make ourselves stronger each time we struggle. Don't lose hope; keep living the life that suits you. Enjoy life. Why do you have to end your life's journey with one small failure if you can enjoy the thousand small and simple successes you have?
It is a good thing I remain positive about where my life is going or I could have been one of those crazy people doing all those stupid things. Having a good motto help you keep your mind straight and motivated. That's why, with every failure I have, I always keep this in mind, "Yesterday ended last night, and today is a new day with a new chance". I never kept my hopes up but I never lose them either. I keep on living my life as I wanted it to be and as God wants it to be.
When the going gets tough, I always remind myself to hold on and continue doing the things I do best. Maybe, it's one of the reasons why I keep on getting the success I want and deserve. Another factor is that I use my family as an inspiration and motivation in getting my dreams. As I've been like this in almost ten months, I've realized that doing things as I had done, is not the best way to pretend that you are not concern about what's happening. Actually, they are the worse ways that you could pretend. You will just end a bright future waiting for you. Don't do this to yourself, you deserve better. Don't let your peers talk you into something like this, something that could and would ruin your life in the near or far future, in our way of life, the stakes are high. We take chances that have small hope of doing well to us, to the ones we love and to the ones that love us.
A piece of advice, don't do this kind of things. And if you are currently one of the millions who do this, I am politely asking you to stop. There are so many ways of dealing with problems like ours. Most of them are even good with our body's health or even with our spirituality. Going to the gym once in a while would really help relieve stress, reading a good book will probably get your mind off of the memories, listening to music that you can relate to will most likely to take away those emotions that you cannot express, and even sleeping and eating will help you unwind.
Hanging out with friends and having a good clean fun can help you forget things that you don't need to remember. You'll have bonding with them and you'll be healthy as long as you do those kinds of things. If you don't want to mingle with other people, try writing into a journal. A journal can be a friend whom you can easily write and say something that you want to tell. Keeping a journal keeps your mind at ease, because you can tell away secrets and not be afraid that someone will know your secrets. This I could assure you. Why? I am one of those people who write in journals. I write on them because I get three amazing benefits from it. First, I satisfy my need to write. Second, I can practice speaking in English fluently when I pretend to actually speak out what I am writing. Third, I feel secured with writing because I know that no one could know what I really mean with what I write.
Going to places that lets you feel comfortable can help you overcome problems dealing with your emotional aspects. A good place to relieve heart aches is on the beach. Walking around the beach can stimulate your mind into realizing that you don't have to let those bad memories hang around anymore. How? You just have to feel that the waves that come ashore are the hands of God that takes all your pain, doubts, fears and sufferings. Feel that the sand between your toes are sponges that absorb every single bit of lonely memory.
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About 10,000 school children and Soviet Jewry activists packed the Yad Eliahu sports stadium here Monday night in a rally for the right of Jews to leave the Soviet Union.
They were addressed by the country's top leaders–President Chaim Herzog, Premier Yitzhak Shamir and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres–who aimed their remarks at Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, now in Washington for a summit conference with President Reagan.
The rally here came a day after Freedom Sunday, which drew more than 200,000 people to Washington for a pre-summit demonstration on behalf of Soviet Jews. The event in Washington was attended by some of the most prominent former refuseniks, including Natan Sharansky, Ida Nudel and Vladimir Slepak, who flew from Israel for the occasion.
The highlight of the rally here was a broadcast telephone conversation from Moscow with Yuli Kosharovsky, a refusenik since he first applied for an exit visa 16 years ago.
Kosharovsky, an engineer and Hebrew teacher, thanked all those in Israel and the United States who are working for the cause of Soviet Jews. "We will succeed if we continue to work. We will immigrate to Israel," he said.
Responding in a voice that cracked with emotion, Shamir vowed to pursue his case. He declared that after the Washington rally, "The world must know that the Jewish people are a power, and we are no longer a people without an address. We no longer say let my people go, but let my people go home, to Israel, to the homeland."
Peres called on Gorbachev to dismantle not only missiles, but the "land mine of hatred" for the Jewish people.
Herzog said the issue of human rights "is the litmus test which will show whether the rulers in the Kremlin are indeed bent on a genuine reversal of policy and a new path."
"There is no doubt that new winds are blowing and that many hopes have been raised and await fulfillment," he said. Herzog demanded "no more gestures, no more tokens, no more declarations of intent, but deeds–an actual change in the Soviet authorities towards the Jewish nationality in the USSR."


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I feel like I've been on maternity leave for a year and a half, but I can't lurk much longer. Two books coming out in 2012. My agent punned, "When it rains and pours, and 2012 is the year it Hales!"
- MIDNIGHT IN AUSTENLAND releases! Amazon says Jan 31 so I'm going with that. I should have a section on my website for that book by then.
- I'm doing more signings in Utah than I've done for any book, starting with the release party at The King's English on Feb. 4 and continuing through March. Also running out to the Indianapolis youth literature conference.
- Come here for your PRINCESS ACADEMY sequel updates, including the official title, cover, & release date. Bloomsbury will be doing some fun stuff to build up to it, including contests. I'm really excited about one thing we're doing and I just know some of you squeetusers will be involved.
- I will tour for PA2 this fall. I don't control where I go. Publicists usually send authors to areas where there's a strong bookstore to organize a signing event, usually in conjunction with school visits and radio/TV interviews. All of that goes through Katy Hershberger: Katy.Hershberger (at) bloomsbury (dot) com. If you want me, she's the lady to talk to!
- Oh yeah, and there's a movie in the works! I'm sure I'll have updates on the AUSTENLAND movie this year.
- Blog! Um, I'm a bit over my head at the moment, and talking to other twins moms, that may continue for the next 2.5 years. But I'll try to post at least once a week. I Twitter-talk a bit more often.
Come for the talk, stay for the photos of my twin girls, leave with a book or two. I'm honored to have you at squeetus.


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A couple believe their dog helped scare off thieves intent on stealing from their car.
Clare and Robert Montgomery were asleep last Saturday night when their dog, Bullseye, an eight-year-old Staffordshire terrier, started barking downstairs.
Mrs Montgomery, 56, of Hunt Avenue, Heybridge, said: "I woke up at about half past two in the morning when the dog started barking.
"He was going berserk, barking really madly."
In the morning, when Mrs Montgomery and her husband saw police on the street, they realised Bullseye may have scared off thieves.
Mrs Montgomery said: "We saw policemen in the street and we spoke to our neighbour who said that thieves had broken into his car and stolen an Ipod during the night.
"They had left a torch behind and all the doors open, as if they had rushed off.
"We think they were going to do our car next because we share a driveway, but they ran off when Bullseye started barking."


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Constitutional Patriotism
Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures. At the same time, he presents a novel approach to thinking about political belonging and the preconditions of democratic legitimacy beyond the nation-state. The book takes the development of the European Union as a case study, but its lessons apply also to the United States and other parts of the world.
Müller's essay starts with an engaging historical account of the origins and spread of the concept of constitutional patriotism-the idea that political attachment ought to center on the norms and values of a liberal democratic constitution rather than a national culture or the "global human community." In a more analytical part, he then proposes a critical conception of citizenship that makes room for dissent and civil disobedience while taking seriously a polity's need for stability over time. Müller's theory of constitutional patriotism responds to the challenges of the de facto multiculturalism of today's states--with a number of concrete policy implications about immigration and the preconditions for citizenship clearly spelled out. And it asks what civic empowerment could mean in a globalizing world.
"Is it possible to develop a 'patriotic' attachment to what is basically a set of intellectual positions? This is the question Müller attempts to answer in this short, bracing book. His analysis is centered on the Federal Republic of Germany, a government deliberately designed to eliminate the need to be 'German' in order to be a German citizen. . . . What can be learned from this experience can, Müller hopes, be brought to bear on similar problems facing the newborn EU. A clearly written, thoughtful, and enjoyable analysis."--M. Berheide, Berea College, for Choice
"In Constitutional Patriotism, Werner Müller, who teaches politics at Princeton, has provided a thorough and engaging defense of the concept."--Michael Lind, American Prospect
"[T]his is an interesting and thoughtful book. There are many open ended arguments and some gaps (for me the ambiguity of theoretical republicanism loomed large), however, overall it is be welcomed as a valuable contribution to current political theory."--Andrew Vincent, Nations and Nationalism
"I do not know a more precise or more careful account of the political and intellectual-historical context in which the debate about constitutional patriotism unfolded initially. Above all Jan-Werner Müller offers a masterful interpretation of this important concept, which clarifies many misunderstandings."--Jürgen Habermas
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Ever wondered how Barack Obama sums up his philosophy?
"Pragmatic progressive".
That's how the president-elect dubbed his philosophy on Thursday while introducing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as his pick to head the Democratic National Committee.
"Tim and I share a philosophy," said Obama. "It's a pragmatic progressive philosophy that was at the heart of my campaign and will be at the heart of this administration."
The alliterative phrase, which he has not used widely before, is a catchy shorthand for two themes he has long emphasized.
It encapsulates both the way in which Obama has presented himself as someone who can "disagree without being disagreeable" while, at the same time, reminding voters that there is an underlying progressive content to his politics that was most clearly on display when he opposed the Iraq War before it began.


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Under Raspbian with Frank Buss kernel everything works fine (temperature sensor DS18B20), but if I try Adafruit's Occidentalis image, then it's not working and I really don't know where is the problem.


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Loves Park, IL - Aqua-Aerobic Systems recently launched a new and improved "Request a Design" feature on the company's website at www.aqua-aerobic.com. The feature allows prospective customers to easily request a technical application design for any of the company's adaptive water treatment solutions, including aeration/mixing, biological processes, cloth media filtration and membranes.
"The online design requests were created to be user friendly with easy click-through options and simple data entry," says Advertising and Public Relations Manager Cheryl Kunz.
When a Design Request is submitted directly from the company's website, it is received and reviewed by an Application Engineer, who then works directly with the customer to provide a custom solution that best meets the plant's treatment goals and effluent objectives.
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Long before they sat down to write books, Charles Falco and George Rowe sold drugs and used them, raising hell as poor white guys in the desert small towns and exurban fringes of Southern California. They roamed with "tweakers" (meth addicts) and exploited them for cash.
But both Falco and Rowe saw the light. Eventually they joined the "good guys" in a crusade against the meanest, cruelest purveyors of darkness in their communities — the biker gangs that collectively share the name Vagos.
As it happens, Falco and Rowe each infiltrated the Vagos at about the same time, working on behalf of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They're also both in the federal witness protection program.
The authors didn't know each other, at first, though both ascended the same biker ladder between 2003 and 2006. Funny thing: They both end up being characters in each others' books, both of which are being released this month.
In their separate books, Falco and Rowe start as "hang-around" biker-gang wannabes, win promotion to "prospect" and finally become "fully-patched" members of the Vagos with the right to wear Vago patches on their jackets and to attend the biker meetings called "church." And their two books, both of which recount many assorted acts of biker depravity, make for equally page-turning, blood-curdling and nausea-inducing reading.
Falco rose to "officer" status in three biker gangs, and his book — "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws: My Infiltration of America's Deadliest Biker Gangs" — is the more polished, measured and authoritative of the two.
Having been caught and convicted of drug smuggling, Falco agrees to work for the ATF in exchange for a lighter sentence. He enters the subculture of the Vagos, acting first as a servant for "patched" members and pummeling rivals who threaten those members. His outlook shifts after witnessing the Vagos abusing women, intimidating civilians and killing rivals and innocent bystanders.
"I swelled with a sense of duty," Falco writes. "My role was no longer about self-preservation. It was about justice."
As an infiltrator, Falco's job is to gather the evidence (mostly recorded with a wire he hides in his underwear) that will get the most dangerous Vagos convicted in court.
Spending day after numbing day with the bikers, Falco witnesses not only the cruelty they inflict on rivals but also the ease with which they betray one another: "Code, club, colors was all illusion and delusion."
Falco writes of living with the constant fear that his identity as an informer will be uncovered. As he survives one close call after another, "Vagos, Mongols, and Outlaws" becomes an increasingly taut and tense book.
After getting arrested for an assault committed by his Vago "brothers," Falco enters a baroque jail subculture in which he's forced to punish other inmates. Then, to protect his identity, he volunteers for the mental torture of solitary confinement. In these passages, his book reaches a kind of Dantesque apogee.
"Prison code dictated that wolves devoured rabbits," he writes, describing the punishment meted out to a suspected child molester mistakenly mixed with the general jail population. "Survival required adaptation. Child molesters excluded; no one protected them."
Near the middle of Falco's book, a biker-informer named "George" enters. Similarly, a biker-informer named "Charles" enters about halfway into George Rowe's book, "Gods of Mischief: My Undercover Vendetta to Take Down the Vagos Outlaw Motorcycle Gang."
Rowe's book reads more like a true-crime confessional than Falco's. "Gods of Mischief" begins with Rowe agreeing to join the Vagos — not as part of a plea deal but to exact revenge for the Vagos' coldblooded, senseless killing of Rowe's friend in a Hemet bar. Becoming a "snitch" is, for Rowe, a way of giving something back to the neighborhoods he'd poisoned with the methamphetamines he sold.
"This ... was about paying back a community that I'd dumped on for years," Rowe writes. The Vagos "were behaving like animals and had to be stopped."
But stopping the Vagos requires that Rowe immerse himself in their ways. He makes it his goal to earn a member's patch; it bears the Norse god of mischief in the middle.
Along the way he also picks up a young girlfriend, Jenna, who is a heroin addict and who becomes pregnant with his child — without knowing Rowe is a federal informant.
The writing in "Gods of Mischief" is at once livelier and cruder than in Falco's book — but it's credible in its crudeness. Reading Rowe is a bit like sitting on a bar stool next to a biker for several hours as he tells his story: You endure the misogyny and the profanity because the man has an amazing story to tell.
"To the casual observer, hitting an opponent upside the head with hard plaster might have seemed a bit unsportsmanlike," Rowe writes, describing an assault on a rival inflicted with the cast on his arm. (It's one of the few passages of his book that can be quoted in this newspaper.) "But when you were confronting an angry drunk wielding a cue stick and you only had one good hand, you used what you had to."
For all its crudeness, "Gods of Mischief" also feels brutally honest, as Rowe begins with an extended account of the many sins he committed as a drug dealer. As an informer, Rowe is angry, but he's also trying to do right by the people who've loved him.
He too finds redemption in his mission to take down the Vagos, one the ATF dubs "Operation 22 Green," in which 30 people were arrested. "Because the hard truth was, I was a 42-year-old sinner who'd never done a damn thing he was particularly proud of in life."
Rowe and Falco both work to bring at least some Vagos to justice. The justice they find isn't perfect, but it's enough to make reading their books feel worthwhile.


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Nothing says hot-hatch like a Volkswagen GTI, and at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, VW showed off the latest version of the gussied-up Golf, which has subtle style changes a new platform and more power.
Using the same MQB platform as the new Audi A3, the 2014 GTI loses 54 lbs, making it quicker and more fuel efficient. Power is up in the 2.0-liter engine to 220 hp and 258 lb-ft of torque. An optional performance package can bump up the car's power to 230 hp. All that boost leads the GTI to a 6.5 second sprint to 62 mph.
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The White House to send Susan Rice, Colin Powell, others to South Sudan's independence celebration
- By Robert ZeligerRobert Zeliger is News Editor of Foreign Policy.
The White House announced today that U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice will lead the country's delegation to South Sudan on July 9 to attend a ceremony marking the country's Declaration of Independence. She will be joined by former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Other members of the delegation include Rep. Donald Payne (D- N.J.), the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights; Johnnie Carson, assistant secretary of State for African Affairs; Princeton Lyman, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan; Brooke Anderson, deputy national security advisor; Gen. Carter Ham, commander of the U.S. Africa Command; Donald Steinberg, deputy administrator for USAID; Barrie Walkley, the consul general in Juba; and Ken Hackett, the president of Catholic Relief Services.
Notably absent from the delegation: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She was initially scheduled to make the trip, but the Washington Post reported last month that security concerns might prevent her from doing so.
Franklin Graham, an evangelical leader, will also be in attendance. He was supposed to travel with Sarah Palin, but Palin also canceled her plans to attend due to what she said were "scheduling problems."
Southerners backed independence in a January referendum — though since then clashes along the border with the north have led to growing fears that violence could escalate. Tensions between north and south Sudan are still high over the issues of oil revenue sharing and what's to become of Abyei, a disputed region on the border.
And today the Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project released images taken July 4 showing what appears to be an 80-car convoy of Sudanese military forces traveling through the disputed border region of Southern Kordofan. 73,000 people have fled fighting there since June.
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This Business Deployment article is for OLPC Korea to arrange XO deployment schedule in Korea: Larger XO. As Korea is on the way to a developed nation, there are full kinds of industries and our XO deployment for business sections in Korea will be a good sample for under-developed nations to follow.
Each item in the list below has 1~20 sub categories each of which represent One business service or product.
Until year 2010, OLPC Korea hopes to distribute about 15,000,000 Larger XO machines and about 150,000 business servers which will provide at least One business service which is a sub category of an item in the list below.
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Hint: it's not playing quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, either.
When these Onion spoofs are good, they're really good, and this PTI-style "report" on former Eagles second round pick Kevin Kolb finding another line of work had me laughing out loud. As fate would have it, the poor guy apparently is not doing such a stellar job at his new, ficitonal position.


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Community supports student diagnosed with cancer
A community is rallying support for an Oxford High School student battling a rare form of cancer. A fundraiser has been going on all day to help the student and his family with everyday life expenses.
Sebastian Cambron says, "It's been pretty scary, depressing. But I've been coping with it. I've been doing pretty well."
His mother, Beverly Cambron, says "It's called Epithelioid Sarcoma."
Oxford High School student, Sebastian Cambron, has missed the first part of this Senior year. His mother says he was diagnosed with a rare soft tissue cancer in June. "He had no real symptoms. He found a lump under his skin. It was doing CT scans and an MRI to figure out what is was and they eventually removed a mass."
Beverly Cambron says she's not working to care for him. That's why family and friends helped put on this concert and silent auction to raise money for gas, food and other expenses.
Family friend, Reba Snyder, says "Once we started getting out telling folks he was a local kid from Oxford High School, they started really listening. They started warming up and donations started coming in."
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Beverly says, "He's actually been my hero as far as that. He's handling it well."
Sebastian says, "It makes me feel good, how people will come together for a certain cause, just to help out."
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The latest innovation in green hearing aid battery technology has been introduced to the European market by Rayovac.
The UK-based manufacturer has begun shipping the first of its new high-performing zero mercury batteries to customers around Europe.
The new product, which is the longest lasting mercury free battery on the market, has been met with positive feedback and initial demand is strong. The latest International Electro-technical Commission (IEC) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) test data shows its performance is up-to 30 per cent superior to other competitive mercury free batteries.
It is introduced at a time when consumer demand for an environmentally friendly product that delivers optimal performance has never been higher. The US states of Connecticut and Maine, along with Canada, are banning mercury containing batteries on June 30th this year. The rest of the USA will follow suit by 2011.
Mercury a heavy metal - has traditionally been used as a stabiliser in hearing aid batteries. It is also a good electronic conductor and boosts the voltage of cells. Traditional mercury containing hearing aid batteries include upto 25 mgs of mercury per cell on average.
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Vince Armitage, Rayovac divisional vice president said: This is a major breakthrough in hearing aid battery technology and sets a new standard for the industry. It answers the call for an environmentally product that delivers outstanding performance. The initial response has been incredibly positive and demand is high.
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You suggested: > select * from pointtable a, pointtable b > where (a.point <-> b.point) <= 1; Thanks, Thats what I'll do. > Making it fast is a more difficult problem :-( ... if you write the > above query as-is then the system will sit there and compare each row of > pointtable to each other row, looking for pairs of rows that match the > where-clause. Okay if you just have some thousands of rows, but on a > big table this will take longer than you want to wait. This query will only work on a few thousand lines, but I will have other queries on type point that will require comparing tables with millions of rows. Therefore I must learn how to build indexes on points. > A btree index on a point column would be quite useless, since btree > understands only a one-dimensional continuum with less-than, equal, > greater-than relationships. But I think you might be able to do > something with an rtree index. That much I know. I didn't find how I can use rtree to build an index on points, seeing how when I tried the following: "create INDEX Phot_point_a ON Phot USING RTREE (point_a);" I got this error: "ERROR: data type point has no default operator class for access method "rtree" HINT: You must specify an operator class for the index or define a default operator class for the data type." And then I found out that in postgres the only operator classes defined for rtree indexes are: bigbox_ops, box_ops and poly_ops. Neither of which works with points, only with type box and polygon. Therefore I also have to create an operator class. I didn't understand how to do that. Do you know how? > I'd look at making an rtree index on > the unit box around each point, and then using an "overlaps" test as > an indexable coarse filter before the exact distance check. I didn't understand this either. Thanks, Elinor
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Tennessee Eyes Bill to Make Colleges Stop Online File Sharing
The U.S. House of Representatives is not the only legislative group that is trying to force colleges to be aggressive in stopping students who swap music and video files illegally online. A bill introduced last month in the Tennessee State Senate, SB 3974, would force public colleges in the state to police their networks to prevent illegal file sharing.
The bill would require colleges to have a policy that prohibits infringement of copyrighted works via the institutions' networks, and to analyze their networks to determine whether they are being used "to transmit copyrighted works." The legislation would also demand that colleges either certify to the Tennessee Higher Education Commission that their networks are not used to transmit copyrighted material, or take steps to prevent the online infringement of such works. A companion bill has been introduced in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
The Senate Education Committee is scheduled to discuss the bill Wednesday.
Last year the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America named the University of Tennessee among the campuses with the worst records of online copyright infringement. —Andrea L. Foster
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Atrazine Update
Back in March, Dr. Tyrone Hayes came to DtaS to speak about the herbicide atrazine. In his studies, he showed an effect on the endocrine system of frogs, leading to reproductive problems. This he said was a possible explanation for the decline in the frog population.
However, Syngenta and other have been unable to replicate his work. The EPA also has been unable to replicate the results. Dr. Hayes has argued these problems stem from using different sets of trial conditions that do not accurately reflect reality.
In any case, studies have been slowly leaking out indicating immuno-disruption by atrazine in various animals. NPR reports on another study just released again pointing at atrazine.
Even though atrazine has been banned in the EU, it is still the 2nd most widely used pesticide here in the US (behind only Roundup). It is mainly used on corn.
There is a new study in Nature on flatworms, called larval trematodes, that seem to show another aspect in frog decline. In a perfect storm of ecological conditions, atrazine seemed to kill off floating algae, which led to greater numbers of floor algae, which led to greater numbers of snails, which carry the flatworms, which then infect the frogs.
It seems as if atrazine has been implicated again in a way that harms frog's immune systems. According to Dr. Hayes, atrazine only results in a 2-3% increase in corn production. If this is true, why continue atrazine's use considering the possible negative implications?
All this aside, habitat destruction/climate change is hurting frogs probably to a greater degree.
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people just don't arrest a six-year-old
sounds like an exorcism would be more appropriate
Indiana cops detained a "belligerent" six-year-old last week, after the cantankerous nipper kicked his school principal and threatened to kill two other members of staff. The unnamed perp, who reportedly has previous form for "hitting and biting staff", was escorted from Hendricks Elementary School in Shelbyville to a squad …
sounds like an exorcism would be more appropriate
Or a spanking.
I know people are against corporal punishment, but isn't putting others around this little sh*t exposing them to something quite similar to it?
Do what anotehr country did.
Just send all criminality mental types to an island. Then let themselves sort out their criminal violent behavior onto another criminal. It works! Look at DOWNUNDER!
They gave up the boisterous alpha mindset and decided to get along and live life as you should.
Indeed, which is why I find the end of this piece rather puzzling:
".....avoid suggesting execution is an effective deterrent.........."
The little sod obviously wanted some attention and the school going mental and OTT gave the little sod exactly what he was craving. He a got to see some cops up close and a free, no doubt, fun ride in a squad car! How stupid are these teachers?!
As any half decent parent knows when your little darlings start with "I WANT!" and throwing a paddy 'cos it's not forthcoming, the last thing you do is give in and give them any attention! You tell 'em to pack it in or you'll take away XYZ for the next week, then let them sulk on it!
Maybe it was "spanking" that caused this kid to be violent in the first place. Maybe he's physically brain damaged, or has bipolar affective disorder, or ate the wrong kind of mushroom. Or maybe he really is just an irredeemably evil little bastard (i.e. genetically predisposed toward antisocial behaviour). Anything's possible.
I'd start by asking the question that apparently hasn't even occurred to anyone else: why?
Nothing happens without a reason.
Impulsively "spanking" as a first and only resort won't reveal that reason, and thus will never solve the problem. Granted there are sociopaths who lack any reason, but even there "spanking" won't miraculously cure their affliction, because they're incapable of understanding why they should be punished. Short of imprisonment or termination or science-fiction cures like genetic reprogramming, there's not a lot you can do about it, beyond taking whatever measures are necessary to protect yourself and everyone else.
But surely those are rare and extreme cases. In every other case there's a reason, and therefore a potential solution. "Spanking" probably isn't one of them, though.
>He a got to see some cops up close and a free, no doubt, fun ride in a squad car!
Believe me when I say the punishment you get from your parents after the whole street has seen you being brought home in a police car, then havinng the car parked outside while the police explain to your parents what you've been up to is not a price worth paying.
However, maybe parents aren't as concerned about their offspring these days.
That's the biggest load of namby pamby tosh I've read in a long while.
To answer your question: Why? Because he can, it's fun, there are no repercussions and he'll continue until there are.
Before you get into why he should consider inflicting pain to fun, children just do. That's why they laugh when Tom stands on the garden rake ot the coyote gets squashed by his own anvil.
...the kid had it coming!
You're both a bit off base. Let's dispense with some misconceptions, shall we, and remember that all children are different, as any parent with more than one kid can tell you.
Some kids will kick an adult because they don't care about the consequences, which doesn't mean there aren't any. Some think it's fun. Some are would be lashing out against what they percieve as on unfair punishment (and such kids tend to think all punishments are unfair). For some kids right and wrong just aren't that important. That doesn't mean they're sociopaths. They just don't yet have a well developed sense of morality. Rarely do kids ever lash out like that just because they can.
And then there's how you deal with it. For every kid there are some punishments that are more effective than others. There are some kids that you can get down on their level and tell them that what they did was wrong and they'll never do it again. Other kids do best when put in time out to consider it for a while. Some kids you can get through to by taking away priviledges like TV or video games. Then there are kids whose attention can not be gotten by anything less than a firm spanking. You have to know the kids to determine which is the best approach.
Call it non-verbal communication instead of corporal punishment, clarifies the purpose.
So many calls for corporal punishment, it's really turning into the Daily Mail comments section here. Look at it this way, we know beating a dog is an ineffective way of training it so why do you expect it to work any better with a child?
Personally I think the principal did the right thing. It's not as if he called in a SWAT team who broke down the doors, forced the kid into a stress position and handcuffed him. He was lead calmly by one officer to a patrol car and was then taken to the station.
I was arrested when I was eleven years old for shoplifting and spent an afternoon in the cells whilst my cohorts were questioned. For a child that age it was a terrifying experience and it was made no better after I was released knowing I'd publicly humiliated my parents. I can tell you I certainly behaved a lot better from then on.
>Look at it this way, we know beating a dog is an ineffective way of training it so why do you expect it to work any better with a child?
Beating a goldfish is an ineffective way of training it so.... You get the idea, usless comparisons are just that, useless.
The problem with the anti-cp brigade is that they go to extremes and refuse to see nor accept the difference between what is chastisement and true corporal punishment.
It would be a useless comparison if training through violence didn't produce the same unsatisfactory results in all animals that can be trained to a reasonable degree.
If you want to talk about useless at least I picked an example (a dog) that has a similar IQ to a child, whereas you went down the reductio ad absurdum route and chose a goldfish.
>whereas you went down the reductio ad absurdum route
I'm glad you noticed that, so you should be able to realise that corporal punishment does not mean a beating about the head until black and blue. CP has been adopted to make simple chastisement sound like an horrific beating.
This being Indiana he's probably had plenty of spankings. Ethics aside, some children respond well to them others don't. Half the challenge of parenting is finding an effective method of disciplining each individual child which is a new challenge for each one.
First off, I didn't even mention beating somebody about the head until black and blue. Second, you seem to be failing to understand that any violence, even if it's just a slap on the arse is counter productive. It's an ineffective way of training a child.
I'm not sure what point you were trying to make with your last sentence. The dictionary provides two definitions for chastisement. One is a strong verbal reprimand (not corporal punishment), the other is a beating.
"Look at it this way, we know beating a dog is an ineffective way of training it so why do you expect it to work any better with a child?"
I challenge you to train EITHER of them if the dog/child doesn't think YOU are the one in charge. If the dog thinks it is in charge, you'll get bitten and if the kid thinks it, you'll get ignored.
You don't have to be violent towards something to assert your authority. Try thinking a bit ffs.
We'll just have to agree to disagree, but I do note that you consider a slap on the backside to be an act of violence. Also your reliance on dictionary definitions instead of an ability to grasp the gist of something may explain a few things.
I consider it violence because IT IS violence. It might be mild or barely of consequence or however you want to justify it but that doesn't stop it from being violence.
Unless you're going to provide your personal definitions of words, then yes, I will be relying on the dictionary.
>yes, I will be relying on the dictionary.
Then lookup up violence, all definitions include intent to cause injury, damage, abuse, etc.
violence, n - the exercise or an instance of physical force, usually effecting or intended to effect injuries, destruction, etc.
A smack on the arse is certainly an instance of physical force being used, and whilst it's not needed for the definition it does cause injury. Like I said, you can try to justify it by saying that it's a small or negligible injury, but that doesn't mean it isn't there.
Keep trying.
You write as if you are not a parent and don't remember being a kid either. Children are individuals and they are born with distinct personal attitudes. If they weren't, we'ld be worse off socially than we are. There are a lot of really scary folks out there who are parents of very decent children. With a kicker or biter the "reason" per se, may simply be that they are frustrated. The target of the agression wouldn't listen, wouldn't play, wouldn't help, wouldn't shut up, or something. With a principal, the cause was likely would not stop condescending long enough. With a six-year-old frustration is common enough. Ideally, yes, first find out "why," if possible. Then, explain the golden rule: don't bite unless you want to be bitten, don't kick unless you want to be kicked.
There's a profound difference between a spanking and a beating. That said, the entire purpose of any "punishment" is provide a learning opportunity about what constitutes acceptable public and social behaviour. I can say truthfully that as a kid, I would far rather have been spanked than had my mom bemoaning her embarassment and humiliation because I got into trouble.
"Half the challenge of parenting is finding an effective method of disciplining each individual child ..."
That is the real and awful truth. I have a son and a daughter. My son could be "chastised" with a look. My daughter, would likely not have yielded to to a club. Isolation worked wonders however - "you room, now." Every dog Ive' had was also that way as well.
Whilst there's a difference in the degree of violence inherent in a spanking or a beating, they're both still violent acts.
A behaviour instilled through violence is based upon fear. That fear needs to be maintained otherwise the behaviour will revert.
Are you trying to tell me the best way to raise a child is through violence or the threat of it?
Tempting as it may be, to do a bit of spanking, I'm not convinced it would help, At six it is "the parents who are to blame" seriously. If that kid isn't going to go off the rails for the rest of his life someone needs to get a grip on his home-life and what's going on. That might mean having to give them compulsory parenting courses. I really don't know.
I'd argue that any child incapable of understanding that it's wrong to kick someone, for any reason other than justifiable self-defence, is either brain-damaged or a sociopath.
Understanding basic morality is not quite on a par with understanding, say, rocket science. Merely being a child is no excuse. The real "namby pamby" here is treating children like they are incapable of understanding anything, and therefore you have a free pass to use violence against them, because "you know, what else can you do?"
I don't assume children are retards. I just treat them like people, albeit short people. It amuses me how puzzled other adults are at children's behaviour around me, simply because I don't baby-talk them. They think I'm too "stern", but the fact is children adore me for it, and I've never had to lift a hand to any of them.
Other posters who pointed out it's the parent's fault are quite correct, of course. Clearly such a child has no moral grounding. All I'm saying is that beating the hell out of him probably won't instil that moral grounding, it'll just affirm everything he's learned about violence. If he has anything other than a cabbage for a brain, he should have the capacity for reason, but you won't appeal to that sense of reason with a fist.
If after your best efforts he still turns out to be an irredeemable sociopath, then so be it, at least you tried. Then please feel free to beat, lobotomise, torture, imprison, or execute him, or whatever else gives you satisfaction.
After living here in rainy blighty for twenty years: Either they stopped too early, or this simply doesn't work.
I agree totally. You try and reason with them and depending on their age, some will take it, some won't. Obviously, this depends on theri home life as well. If they've been dealt with reasonably from day one, they're more likely to think about it and try to reason it, whereas if they've been abused, neglected or pampered all their life, they're more likely to kick off and keep kicking or whatever. Nothing wrong with talking to children and trying to explain, it's just that we have to accept that some are either not capable or don't wish to think and reason it. Then, there needs to be a sanction. Nobody is talking about beating a child, but simply administering a smack or restraining them as a final resort.
Anyone who can't tell the difference between a smack and a beating needs to question their reasoning ability.
Alternativly embalming
sterilising his parents!?!?
No, firing the principal and his staff would be more appropriate.
When a police officer who has no particular qualifications with regards to childcare whatsoever is capable of calming down the "unruly" subject and making him walk voluntarily to the car my only conclusion is that the school staff is beyond incompetent.
99% of the time when I hear an incident like this the person at fault is the incompetent parody of an educator in front of the whiteboard. I used to do volunteer work in a school before the "all adults are paedos" Labor mandate.I remember out of a class of 12 in a private school I remember seeing the following breakdown (same age group - 6 year olds):
3 students hiding in the toilets
1 pretending to be sick
1 refusing to cooperate but in class
1 refusing to enter class and attached to the radiator in the hallway in a manner where the only means to detach her would be breaking a limb or an angle grinder to detach the radiator.
1 hiding in the library
All of that in an "elite" British private school with multiple _OUTSTANDING_ Offsted report ratings.
Are all these kids "at fault" - give me a f*** break. The teacher - yes. The principal - doubly so. Kids? I doubt it.
See as Voland's Right Hand demonstrates that he isn't a teacher and knows nothing about either teaching or the control of children.
Volunteer at schools? I don't think so.
"When a police officer ... is capable of calming down the "unruly" subject..."
I don't know the law in Indiana, but it might be as simple as a police officer being allowed to use reasonable force to restrain an offender, but the school teachers not.
My heart bleeds for the parents and teachers who actually want to parent and teach in the UK/US. Since the nanny-state and cotton-gloved numptys continue to expand I think I might begin offering Caribbean Attitudinal Neurological Integrated Nice-child Generating camps.
I think, calling in the police was a great idea. By the sounds of it; this little bugger probably only ever feared the cops (cause his parents could never tell him "no" for fear of him divorcing them; and so let him watch "Cops/Thin blue line/etc"). The Teachers & Parents have no effective means of control any more.
I don't beat my kids, but they're sure I will if they step out of line... so they don't. They have also been told that their Teachers have my authority to punish them any way they see fit; and if all that doesn't work, they know they're going to the local prison for the weekend.
This little &*(%^(* doesn't have that.
Working in a school, I can safely say that you, Voland's right hand, are an ignoramus.
Schools are there to teach children. Teachers are there to teach. They are not there to act as prison wardens, they are not there to be kicked, shouted at, abused or anything else.
If a child will not respect the role of the teacher, than it is the parents at fault for allowing their child to behave in that way.
Seriously?? In all your rant, you never once blame the parents?
Shifting parenting from the actual #!@!$ parents to the schools is the #1 problem with education in America.
And American cops carry guns. That will get a brat's attention.
Plus think about how cops are portrayed on American tv. It creates an image that, though not entirely accurate, is effective at getting a kid's attention.
Besides, maybe he associates police with his "uncles" being taken away and not seen again.
I am going to reply once, to avoid repeating the same thing to multiple posts:
1. The teacher is _NOT_ a prison warden. However, the "Crowd Control" part of teaching profession is officially a requirement. One of the criteria during an Offsted inspection _IS_ "Is the teacher in control of the class or not". If not, she fails automatically even on the rather loose UK criteria.
2. The teacher "in control" of that class blamed 4 kids as non-educatable and requested EP evaluations and statements on 4 of them (out of 12). Out of the 4, 3 that were _TAKEN _ _OUT_ by their parents and moved to a new school are doing fine now at the age of 11 (top of their class all of them). The remaining one has developed a fobia of school which to the point where she has a dislexic statement (I do not think she is dislexic - it is the little girl that attached herself to the radiator). Her parents are now sorely regretting that they did not take her out.
3. Parents can do very little if the Principal is an idiot and the teacher is a union protected incompetent. A principal that has so little authority in his school that he has to call police to put a 6 year old under control is beyond salvation. This means his authority is ZERO. ZILCH. NIL. That 6 year old will now be followed by a horde of others. 6 year olds behave that way. It does not matter what you do at home, you leave them for 2 hours in the presence of someone they know is a muppet and there will be an ongoing riot all right. If there is no riot, they are not "normal" 6 year olds. In fact, that is not different with any students (I have seen more than once 16 year olds behave the same way when they see that the teacher is a muppet).
4. There are plenty of ways for a principal (and a teacher) to have an unquestioned authority even in schools that in rather rough neighborhood. No need to be a prison warden to be respected even by year one. In fact "not being a prison warden" is probably a requirement.
5. While I am not a professional teacher, I have taught in secondary, high school and university and I have never, ever had any issues with "class discipline". In fact, for some of the "elected" classes I have taught I have had issues with overcrowding and too many people wanting to move to my class (despite it being more difficult). This means that you have to make the class interesting though which is beyond the abilities of a lot of people who pretend to be "teachers".
The boy is familiar with the teacher, he has kicked in the past without punishment, thinks he can kick again and does so. The police officer arrives in uniform, the six year old has at least enough sense to know you don't kick a copper, especially one you don't know. For all his bravado he's probably shitting himself so he does as he's told.
"When a police officer who has no particular qualifications with regards to childcare..."
So you researched this particular officer's training history, then? Or did you just presume that because he's a cop, he "has no particular qualifications with regards to childcare"?
You DO realize that there are officers specifically trained to work with minors (particularly difficult ones), and that police departments do try, when possible, to send out individuals qualified for the task at hand -- don't you?
I sincerely hope you weren't an English teacher.
Your an idiot. The staff can do very little against the little shit and teh little shit knows it.
Your still anidiot.
For example the girl with the radiator.
Teacher: Little girl, let go of that radiator at once.
Little Girl: No.
T: Let go or I will tell you to let go again in a slightly louder voice.
LG: fuck you
T: detension
LG: still fuck you.
T: Right you litle shit.
Pulls arm from radiator. Little girl gets tiny scrape. Teacher sent to prison. Papers full of abussive teacher headlines. Teach and school, and local authority all sued by little girls parents.
Volands Right Hand seems to be demonstrating his point rather well. I'm not going to deny there are a lot of useless teachers out there for a variety of reasons; lack of English being one of them (shared by Voland by the looks). However, nations have decided to give them no method of control. Yes, some don't make lessons interesting and complain when the kids kick off. That's their fault. However, there are some kids that kick off no matter what you do and then what? What options have the government given the teacher to control them? Discipline starts in the home and by definition then extends into the classroom as teachers are 'in loco parentis'. In other words, whilst in their care, the teacher is the parent.
However, if the parents don't do anything about bad behaviour at home, the teacher isn't going to stand a chance. The state has for years taken away right after right from parents and then complain when things go wrong. I wonder why. The state can't understand the difference between a reasonable slap or smack and beating the c**p out of a kid, so they ban the lot.
Teacher: Little girl, let go of that radiator at once.
Little Girl: No.
I am not going to call you an idiot, but you will never be a good teacher, you will always fail if you have to teach anyone anything and you will never be a good people manager as well.
1. She is not a little shit. She is an intelligent six year old which knows very well what she is doing with IQ well above average. She is non-violent. She may be stubborned, doing whatever she wants, etc but she is not a _LITTLE_ _SHIT_. No 6 year old is a _LITTLE_ _SHIT_. No human you are responsible for is a "LITTLE SHIT". Ever. Even if he kicks a principal. You need to understand why she has done so and deal with it. Part of the job do you like it or not.
2. The incompetent union protected dolt that was trying to herd the class into the classroom as described in the original post did not understand some of the very basics of her profession (as I said, crowd control is a key requirement both for an educator and a manager). You have to chose your battles and win them. She never bothered to actually sit down in front of the girl for 30 seconds and have a normal, human, non-"LITTLE SHIT" conversation with her. She was just running around like headless chicken, clucking, complaining and end of the day going to the principal.
3. By the way, I did a stint with the same class for a semester as a volunteer teaching assistant for an activity (they needed an extra person to take the kids swimming) and I did not have a problem with anyone in that class. Neither had their PE teacher. Neither had their "proper" teaching assistant. On the day when the "mayhem" was happening she was off sick so the actual "competence" of the teacher showed up with a vengeance.
Can't believe all the downvotes for Voland.
I agree completely with some of the follow-up posts that the number 1 responsibility for educating the child lies with the parents, but teachers and principles can't just blame the parents for all misbehaviour and have no control at school.
Calling in the cops = renouncing their authority. Kids are smart, they pick up these cues really quickly. From now on they know that the teacher and principle are no longer the ultimate authority in the school and can be 'beaten'. I think it would have been far more resourceful for the principle to call in one of the kid's parents


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I suppose it refers to FF lenses for SLRs compared to FF lenses for rangefinder camera (leica M), so the image circle should be the same.
Precisely what I had in mind.
The only difference is the distance from the lens to the film/sensor and this basically means that in an SLR lens the light reach the film/sensor with an angle closer to 90degree than in the case of a rangefinder lens. This is not a big issue with film, since it's not so important the angle of incidence of the light. With sensors it's different, since the sensitivity of a pixel is more affected by this angle. Therefore I would expect the effect to be present at the borders and being mostly vignetting. The fact that the sensor of X cameras is smaller than FF makes things better because you're only using the central part of the image circle.
This is indeed the information that I am looking for
Consider also that lenses specifically designed for digital cameras should have considerably reduced this effect.
I already have a complement of Fuji lenses, but was looking for possible tele solutions.
On the other side a rangefinder lens will be considerably smaller than an SLRs lens on an X camera... and this is an advantage not really to be neglected!
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