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Mike Adams
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February 24, 2012
What do you call a guy who is obsessed with destroying human sperm and depopulating the planet? The Sperminator, of course.
Much like the Terminator played by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movies, the Sperminator is a highly-intelligent death machine that seeks to use high technology to destroy humanity's future.
See the full-size "Sperminator" cartoon image here:
When it comes to Bill Gates and his dehumanization agenda, it's hard to even know where to begin: GMOs? Vaccines? Chemtrails? Genetically engineered mosquitoes?
Bill Gates has even funded a technology that can sterilize a human man by blasting his scrotum with a high-frequency ultrasound device. Bing! (http://www.naturalnews.com/028853_ultrasound_fetus.html)
That's where the idea for this cartoon came from, by the way.Word!
Microsoft has also teamed up with Merck, becoming a global "drug development partner" with the world's larger vaccine manufacturer. (http://www.naturalnews.com/034848_Microsoft_Merck_eugenics.html) As if we didn't already have enough blue screen of death in our lives, just wait until we start getting psychiatric drugs patented by Microsoft. Can you imagine the psychotic side effects of something like MS-Prozac? "Don't worry, you brain will reboot after it downloads and applies 47 update patches at the most inconvenient time imaginable. Do not disconnect power during this process…"
The Sperminator says: Kill the humans!
You read it right:Microsoft is now in the pharmaceutical business. And their focus is gene-targeting technology that could theoretically be used to develop race-specific bioweapons that, for example, kill only people of a certain color.
Then again, Bill Gates' depopulation agenda doesn't seem to be race specific… it's more like "Kill all humans" much like the Terminator in the first film. Hey, maybe Bill Gates will use his billions of dollars to build a time machine that transports him back into humanity's early origins where he can destroy the entire future of the race by vaccinating a young male child named John Conner.
None of this is a joke, by the way. The cartoon may be satire, but Bill Gates' depopulation agenda is 100% true. This is a guy who openly admitted on stage in front of a live audience that if society does a "really great job" with vaccines and health care, we can "lower the population by perhaps 10 to 15 percent." Watch that video yourself right here:
Or read our report on this at:
The Great Culling is upon us
The global depopulation agenda, you see, is hiding in plain sight. The monsters who are pushing to depopulate the planet are telling you right out in the open how they're planning on killing you. VACCINES, get it? HEALTH care, okay? These are the words Bill Gates uses right in plain sight.
It's all a big IQ test to see if you're paying attention enough to save your own life and avoid being part of the "great culling."
Check out that new documentary, by the way, at:www.TheGreatCulling.org
And above all, remember that if you are reading this, you ARE the resistance.
Spread the word. Stay alive. Avoid being "depopulated" by vaccines, GMOs, chemical food additives and pharmaceuticals. And most of all, avoid being "sperminated" by Bill Gates.
See my entire collection of outrageous cartoons at www.CounterThink.com
This article was posted: Friday, February 24, 2012 at 3:25 am


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This is the amazing work of Erik Johansson, a photographer and retoucher from Sweden who works out of Germany. Johansson's impossible scenes are full of fantasy and magical realism and they remind of the mind boggling work of Belgian photographer Christophe Gilbert who has been featured on LD before. Trippy stuff.
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Fernando Botero's usually genial subjects are comical, satirical and sardonic. And he has joined other contemporary artistic uber giants such as Picasso, Dali and Francis Bacon in paying tribute to the genius of Diego Velazquez. I find Botero's "fat" (to use the artist's own word) portrayals of some of the 17th century Spanish Master's most recognized and significant artwork involving royalty and court notables, jovially mischievous, vivacious and wildly entertaining. I think the work is Boterismo at it's very best!
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Two researchers who received financial support from the National Psoriasis Foundation have made noteworthy discoveries this year in our understanding of psoriatic diseases.
The respective findings of scientists Nicole L. Ward, Ph.D., and Anne M. Bowcock, Ph.D., offer shining examples of how the Foundation's investments in research can yield significant advances.
Treating psoriasis reduces cardiac risk
Recently published research conducted by Ward and her colleagues at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland broke new ground on two fronts: It established that psoriasis can cause cardiovascular disease and also demonstrated that treating psoriasis helps reduce the risk of heart disease.
Researchers have been studying a connection between psoriasis and both heart disease and strokes for some time, but now they have found evidence that psoriasis, as an inflammatory skin disease,actually can lead to cardiovascular disease, and that aggressively treating psoriasis lowers cardiovascular risk.
This discovery represents a dramatic change in the way researchers will think about the disease connections, says Ward, an assistant professor of dermatology and neurosciences and senior author of the study. She is a scientist with the Murdough Family Center for Psoriasis at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland and has a doctorate in anatomy and neurobiology.
Previously, epidemiologic evidence—that is, population studies—from thousands of patients provided strong evidence that people with psoriasis had a much greater-than-average chance of developing cardiovascular disease and dying from it.
Up until now, epidemiological studies have not been able to show that the skin disease directly promotes vascular inflammation or that it directly brings about outcomes related to heart attack and stroke, she says.
In their study, published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Ward and her colleagues were able to do both. They found that mice engineered to over-express a protein called Tie2 in the skin develop a skin condition similar to human psoriasis. Using this model, they showed that persistent, chronic inflammation in the skin can result in inflammation in large arteries, such as the aorta of the heart.
Ward's research also found that the presence of sustained skin inflammation causes blood clots to form much more quickly. "Importantly for patient care, we also demonstrated that if you aggressively treat the skin inflammation and reverse the skin disease, the effect on blood clot formation is also reversed." This finding suggests that if you target psoriasis with aggressive treatment, patients' risk for developing and dying of cardiovascular disease should also be decreased, she says.
Ward's work closely complements that of Dr. Nehal N. Mehta, a preventive cardiologist now conducting his research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. (His study was described in the spring 2012 issue of Psoriasis Advance.) In fact, Ward and Mehta currently are collaborating to enable her Case Western research team to use Mehta's methods with whole-body imaging to detect vascular inflammation.
Ward and her colleagues' work examining the direct link between skin inflammation and large-vessel inflammation in the aorta was a direct result of work done by Mehta and colleague Dr. Joel M. Gelfand. They used sophisticated imaging technology to find inflammation in the liver, joints, tendons and aorta of patients with psoriasis, even though the study participants had no symptoms or apparent risk factors for diseases that affect those organs. The test subjects who didn't have psoriasis did not show inflammation.
Ward credits the National Psoriasis Foundation for supporting this project "right from the start. We have received two $50,000 grants for this work, in 2009 and then again in 2010." The grants funded her work to the point where she had enough data to apply for and receive a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to allow her to continue work on this project.
Ward will continue to focus her work on demonstrating definitively that skin inflammation—in the form of psoriasis—causes cardiovascular disease, specifically hardening of the arteries, inflamed blood vessels and the risk of blood clotting. Her team also wants to examine whether biologic drugs that reduce psoriasis in patients will prevent heart disease in genetically engineered mice.
Along with continuing this project, Ward also is planning a new study that will focus on the contributions of a molecule called IL-17C in the development of psoriasis. She will use funding from a third $50,000 Psoriasis Foundation Discovery Grant she received earlier this year.
Identifying the first gene linked to psoriasis
Dr. Anne Bowcock and her colleagues at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified the first gene directly linked to the most common form of psoriasis, a discovery that may lead to more effective, targeted treatments for plaque psoriasis and other forms of the disease.
Bowcock believes that mutations in the gene, called CARD14, play an important role in the development of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. She will test this hypothesis by generating genetically altered mice that express the mutant gene.
Bowcock, professor of genetics, pediatrics and internal medicine, says her study so far shows that, when activated by some type of trigger in the environment, rare mutations in the CARD14 gene can lead to plaque psoriasis, the type characterized by dry, raised, red patches covered with silvery scales—patches that can be itchy and painful.
The discovery of the gene linked to plaque psoriasis is exciting, Bowcock says, because "it really starts to allow us to put together a pathway leading to psoriasis… We now want to understand that pathway better."
Published in two separate papers in The American Journal of Human Genetics in May 2012, Bowcock's research enhances understanding of the origin of psoriatic diseases, she says. The new findings also indicate that mutations in CARD14 can be involved in psoriatic arthritis and in some forms of the rare pustular form of psoriasis, which is characterized by clearly defined, raised bumps on the skin.
An 18-year quest
Eighteen years ago, Bowcock's laboratory published the first research linking psoriasis and a region on chromosome 17, a project supported by what was then called the National Psoriasis Tissue Bank, created by the National Psoriasis Foundation. The tissue bank preceded the National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank, established in 2007, which collects DNA samples for psoriasis research (see www.psoriasis.org/ biobank). At the time, Bowcock, who has a doctorate in human genetics, was the tissue bank's laboratory director.
The researchers in the project found a family in Kentucky with more than 20 members who had either psoriasis or psoriasis with psoriatic arthritis. "Our research indicated that a single gene could be mutated in this family and lead to these diseases," she says. "The gene that we found recently that is mutated in this family, and other rare mutations that we have found, confer a high risk for the disease, and we think they will be important in the search to find new, more effective treatments."
This research also suggests that these mutations may be present in at least some patients with different forms of psoriasis. In a separate case, Bowcock and her colleagues identified a mutation in the CARD14 gene in a young Haitian girl who had a severe form of pustular psoriasis. This mutation was not in her parents, so her psoriasis apparently had developed spontaneously and was not inherited. She had developed psoriasis in infancy.
"Our discoveries with this patient and the families with psoriasis used to identify CARD14 are significant because they tell us that CARD14 mutations alone are enough to lead to psoriasis, possibly after an early trigger such as an infection," Bowcock says.
In their research, Bowcock and her colleagues obtained and examined DNA samples from about 10,000 patients, made available through the National Psoriasis Victor Henschel BioBank, as well as DNA samples from collaborators in Michigan, Utah, California, Toronto and Newfoundland.
The researchers also found 15 other rare mutations in CARD14. In a finding that Bowcock says is statistically significant, these mutations occurred more often in 6,000 patients with psoriasis than they did in 4,000 people who did not have the disease.
How CARD14 mutations spark psoriasis
Here's how Bowcock and her colleagues believe that mutations in CARD14 are linked to psoriasis. Their research showed that, in specialized skin cells called keratinocytes, mutations in CARD14 increase the activity of a protein that turns on genes. This protein increases the production of certain molecules that attract inflammatory cells to the skin. This process unleashes the vicious cycle of inflammation that's seen in psoriasis.
Psoriasis affects the life cycle of skin cells, causing them to mature rapidly in just a few days and accumulate to form thick, scaly patches. In patients with CARD14 mutations, the study showed that the gene's activity increased in the skin's upper layers, where the flakiness that characterizes psoriasis appears.
Bowcock says the discovery of the gene linked to plaque psoriasis suggests promise for the next step: finding effective treatments and, the scientists hope, a pathway to a cure. She is excited by the discovery because "it really starts to allow us to put together a pathway leading to psoriasis, going directly from triggers in the skin, to the immune cell, and then back to the skin. We now want to understand this pathway better."
Bowcock says she wants to start screening for novel drugs that disrupt this pathway. With funds from a two-year, $200,000 Psoriasis Foundation Translational Grant she received earlier this year, she plans to use a mouse with an altered CARD14 gene that will potentially develop psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. The researchers would then be able to test these novel drugs as possible treatments for psoriatic diseases.
Driving discovery, creating community
For more than 50 years, we've been driving efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected. But there's still plenty to do! Learn how you can help our advocacy team shape the laws and policies that affect people with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis – in your state and across the country. Help us raise funds to support research by joining Team NPF, where you can walk, run, cycle, play bingo or create your own fundraising event. If you or someone you love needs free, personalized support for living a healthier life with psoriatic disease, contact our Patient Navigation Center. And keep the National Psoriasis Foundation going strong by making a donation today. Together, we will find a cure.


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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This naive and seemly innocent question has been around for quite a while. It was once a philosophical question that according to Wikipedia: "[is] identified [as] the first case of a circular cause and consequence." But, for those that even have a common understanding of evolution the question is nothing more than a game of words and a bluff. Fortunately, at least for the sake of atheists' amusement, theist are taking this question literally. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mORD8x8MYk8&feature=related In their opinion this question is "Atheist's worst nightmare." Of course, for them the question implies that the chicken or the egg just pop out out of the bloom (silly theists). In your opinion what should be the best answer to the question within the discussed context. Should one just facepalm and walked out? or should one really take the time to explain?
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I have always thought of it as a bluff question... neither really came first. Evolution, as we all know, takes thousands or millions of years. The chicken didn't just 'become' the chicken one day... it evolved into a chicken. Same can be said for the egg as we know it... it developed. So asking which came first would be like having a line-up of Neanderthals slowly progressing into the modern human and trying to pick the first human out of the line! In short.... no one could ever pin point the exact moment that the chicken became what it is today (nor the egg).... and the other thing...evolution is on-going. This means that the question could still remain thousands of years from now when 'our' chicken could have changed beyond recognition! PS... facepalm :)
Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Dinosaur, Egg, Chicken, Egg.
The egg, because of dinosaurs laid eggs and due to evolution the chicken came to be as it is; however, a dinosaur had to lay said egg before those events could occur.
opps did not realize that someone had already said this haha
The question is actually in relation to a CHICKEN egg. Dinosaurs are irrelevant. :)


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By Matt Helms
A federal judge on Wednesday approved a $120-million loan for Detroit to begin spending quickly on critical public services needs, saying the city made the case for what it calls a "quality of life" loan from the London-based investment bank Barclays.
The city sought the loan and renegotiated its terms after a previous agreement with Barclays collapsed. The initial loan included an extra $230 million that would have paid off a controversial pension debt interest-rate transaction from 2005. But U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, presiding over the city's historic municipal bankruptcy, rejected that offer and another involving the swaps deal.
The latest settlement between the city and UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch to pay off the swaps deal is for $85 million, and Rhodes is scheduled to take up that matter today.
Under the new loan, Detroit no longer pledges vital casino taxes as collateral, which had undercut the initial deal. The city instead is pledging income tax revenue and proceeds of future asset sales. A lawyer for creditors, including several European banks, questioned the necessity of the loan, including whether the city had sufficiently detailed what it would spend the money on and whether better loan terms might have been available.
But Brad Erens, a Jones Day lawyer for Detroit, said the city has multiple needs that it has deferred. The city last week provided a list of $179 million in projects it said would be ready for investment right away. Erens said the city's immediate needs include the maintenance and repair of the fleet of fire and police vehicles and hiring more public safety workers.
"We have actual hard asset projects that are ready to go," Erens said. "This is money that the city intends to spend and has deferred these projects for some time."
Erens also said that the Barclays loan is "the best loan available" for quality of life, even if the city will be paying 3.5% interest on the total value of the loan, no matter how much is spent.
"There's no reason to believe there's a better offer out there," Erens said.
The city has said it would pay back the loan with money freed up after its final bankruptcy exit plan is approved.
Rhodes made it clear that the loan fits in with his emphasis on restoring public services as a top priority in the city's bankruptcy case.
"This court has previously held that the city is service delivery insolvent. It is not providing sufficient services to meet the basic needs of its citizens," Rhodes said from the bench. He said the Barclays loan will begin to address those needs, and "the time to begin is now, if not before now."
Pressed earlier by Rhodes to explain in more detail how it would spend the loan money, the city last week said its largest proposals were:
- $36.2 million for the Detroit Police Department, including more cops, new vehicles, new precinct buildings and equipment such as as radios, vests and Tasers.
- $35.6 million for blight removal.
- $25.4 million for the Detroit Fire Department, including new vehicles and maintenance on its current fleet.
- $24.8 million for the city's General Services Department to hire workers, upgrade parks and its grounds maintenance fleet.
Meanwhile, Rhodes on Wednesday denied a request by one of the city's largest creditors, the bond insurer Syncora, to delay a hearing set for today on a proposed settlement of a disastrous swaps deal from 2005. After twice rejecting earlier proposals, the city reached an agreement to settle the soured deal for $85 million with UBS and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Syncora is on the hook for about $620 million in Detroit debt. Rhodes also agreed to set up a panel of three lawyers -- one representing the city and two representing creditors -- who will assist him in interviewing candidates to be an expert witness in the case. Rhodes late last month said he wanted to hire the expert to help him evaluate the feasibility of Detroit's bankruptcy restructuring plan.
Rhodes said he was looking for an impartial expert with municipal finance expertise, no conflicts of interest and a clear concern for Detroit's future. He set a deadline of April 9 for applications and said interviews of candidates are scheduled for April 18 in open court.
In addition, Rhodes moved a hearing date on the city's bankruptcy disclosure statement to April 17 from April 14 after creditors sought more time to review the document, which is a key statement in the city's bankruptcy restructuring plan.
(c)2014 the Detroit Free Press


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The GHC Commentary: Checking Types
Probably the most important phase in the frontend is the type checker, which is located at compiler/typecheck/. GHC type checks programs in their original Haskell form before the desugarer converts them into Core code. This complicates the type checker as it has to handle the much more verbose Haskell AST, but it improves error messages, as those message are based on the same structure that the user sees.
GHC defines the abstract syntax of Haskell programs in compiler/GHC/Hs.hs using a structure that abstracts over the concrete representation of bound occurences of identifiers and patterns. The module compiler/typecheck/TcHsSyn.hs defines a number of helper function required by the type checker. Note that the type compiler/typecheck/TcRnTypes.hs.
TcId used to represent identifiers in some signatures during type checking is, in fact, nothing but a synonym for a plain Id.
It is also noteworthy, that the representations of types changes during type checking from
HsType to
TypeRep.Type. The latter is a hybrid type representation that is used to type Core, but still contains sufficient information to recover source types. In particular, the type checker maintains and compares types in their
Type form.
The Overall Flow of Things
TcRnDriveris the top level. It calls
TcTyClsDecls: type and class declaration
TcInstDcls: instance declarations
TcBinds: value bindings
TcExpr: expressions
TcMatches: lambda, case, list comprehensions
TcPat: patterns
TcForeign: FFI declarations
TcRules: rewrite rules
TcHsTypes: kind-checking type signatures
TcValidity: a second pass that walks over things like types or type constructors, checking a number of extra side conditions.
The constraint solver consists of:
TcSimplify: top level of the constraint solver
TcCanonical: canonicalising constraints
TcInteract: solving constraints where they interact with each other
TcTypeNats: solving natural-number constraints
TcSMonad: the monad of the constraint solver (built on top of the main typechecker monad)
TcEvidence: the data types used for evidence (mostly pure)
TcUnify: solves unification constraints "on the fly"; if it can't, it generates a constraint for the constraint solver to deal with later
TcErrors: generates good error messages from the residual, unsolved constraints.
The best place reading for the constraint solver is the paper Modular type inference with local assumptions
Underlying infrastructure:
TcRnTypes: a big collection of the types used during type checking
- TcRnMonad: the main typechecker monad
TcType: pure functions over types, used by the type checker
Entry Points Into the Type Checker
The interface of the type checker (and renamer) to the rest of the compiler is provided by compiler/typecheck/TcRnDriver.hs. Entire modules are processed by calling
tcRnModule and GHCi uses
tcRnExpr, and
tcRnType to typecheck statements and expressions, and to kind check types, respectively. Moreover,
tcTopSrcDecls is used by Template Haskell - more specifically by
TcSplice.tc_bracket - to type check the contents of declaration brackets.
Renaming and Type Checking a Module
The functions
tcRnModule and
tcRnModuleTcRnM control the complete static analysis of a Haskell module. They set up the combined renamer and type checker monad, resolve all import statements, take care of hi-boot files, initiate the actual renaming and type checking process, and finally, wrap off by processing the export list.
The actual type checking and renaming process is initiated via
TcRnDriver.tcRnSrcDecls, which uses a helper called
tc_rn_src_decls to implement the iterative renaming and type checking process required by Template Haskell (TODO Point at new commentary equivalent). After it invokes
tc_rn_src_decls, it simplifies type constraints and zonking (see below regarding the later).
The function
tc_rn_src_decls partitions static analysis of a whole module into multiple rounds, where the initial round is followed by an additional one for each toplevel splice. It collects all declarations up to the next splice into an
HsDecl.HsGroup. To rename and type check that declaration group it calls
TcRnDriver.rnTopSrcDecls and
TcRnDriver.tcTopSrcDecls. Afterwards, it executes the splice (if there are any left) and proceeds to the next group, which includes the declarations produced by the splice.
The renamer, apart from renaming, computes the global type checking environment, of type
TcRnTypes.TcGblEnv, which is stored in the type checking monad before type checking commences.
Type Checking a Declaration Group
The type checking of a declaration group, performed by
tcTopSrcDecls and its helper function
tcTyClsInstDecls, starts by processing of the type and class declarations of the current module, using the function
TcTyClsDecls.tcTyAndClassDecls. This is followed by a first round over instance declarations using
TcInstDcls.tcInstDecls1, which in particular generates all additional bindings due to the deriving process. Then come foreign import declarations (
TcForeign.tcForeignImports) and default declarations (
Now, finally, toplevel value declarations (including derived ones) are type checked using
TcBinds.tcTopBinds. Afterwards,
TcInstDcls.tcInstDecls2 traverses instances for the second time. Type checking concludes with processing foreign exports (
TcForeign.tcForeignExports) and rewrite rules (
TcRules.tcRules). Finally, the global environment is extended with the new bindings.
Type checking Type and Class Declarations
Type and class declarations are type checked in a couple of phases that contain recursive dependencies - aka knots. The first knot encompasses almost the whole type checking of these declarations and forms the main piece of
Inside this big knot, the first main operation is kind checking, which again involves a knot. It is implemented by
kcTyClDecls, which performs kind checking of potentially recursively-dependent type and class declarations using kind variables for initially unknown kinds. During processing the individual declarations some of these variables will be instantiated depending on the context; the rest gets by default kind * (during zonking of the kind signatures). Type synonyms are treated specially in this process, because they can have an unboxed type, but they cannot be recursive. Hence, their kinds are inferred in dependency order. Moreover, in contrast to class declarations and other type declarations, synonyms are not entered into the global environment as a global
TyThing. (
TypeRep.TyThing is a sum type that combines the various flavours of typish entities, such that they can be stuck into type environments and similar.)
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Types Variables and Zonking
During type checking type variables are represented by mutable variables - cf. the variable story (TODO Point at new commentary equivalent). Consequently, unification can instantiate type variables by updating those mutable variables. This process of instantiation is (for reasons that elude me) called zonking in GHC's sources. The zonking routines for the various forms of Haskell constructs are responsible for most of the code in the module compiler/typecheck/TcHsSyn.hs, whereas the routines that actually operate on mutable types are defined in compiler/typecheck/TcMType.hs; this includes the zonking of type variables and type terms, routines to create mutable structures and update them as well as routines that check constraints, such as that type variables in function signatures have not been instantiated during type checking. The actual type unification routine is
uTys in the module compiler/typecheck/TcUnify.hs.
All type variables that may be instantiated (those in signatures may not), but haven't been instantiated during type checking, are zonked to
(), so that after type checking all mutable variables have been eliminated.
Type Representation
The representation of types is fixed in the module TypeRep (TODO Update to the latest information) and exported as the data type
Type. Read the comments in the
TypeRep module! A couple of points:
Type synonym applications are represented as a
TyConAppwith a
TyConthat contains the expansion. The expansion is done on-demand by
Type.coreView. Unexpanded type synonyms are useful for generating comprehensible error messages.
PredTyconstructor wraps a type constraint argument (dictionary, implicit parameter, or equality). They are expanded on-demand by
As explained in compiler/typecheck/TcType.hs, GHC supports rank-N types, but during type inference maintains the restriction that type variables cannot be instantiated to quantified types (i.e., the type system is predicative). However the type system of Core is fully impredicative.
Type Checking Environment
During type checking, GHC maintains a type environment whose type definitions are fixed in the module compiler/typecheck/TcRnTypes.hs with the operations defined in compiler/typecheck/TcEnv.hs. Among other things, the environment contains all imported and local instances as well as a list of global entities (imported and local types and classes together with imported identifiers) and local entities (locally defined identifiers). This environment is threaded through the type checking monad.
Expressions are type checked by compiler/typecheck/TcExpr.hs.
Usage occurences of identifiers are processed by the function tcId whose main purpose is to instantiate overloaded identifiers. It essentially calls
TcInst.instOverloadedFun once for each universally quantified set of type constraints. It should be noted that overloaded identifiers are replaced by new names that are first defined in the LIE (Local Instance Environment?) and later promoted into top-level bindings.
Handling of Dictionaries and Method Instances
GHC implements overloading using so-called dictionaries. A dictionary is a tuple of functions -- one function for each method in the class of which the dictionary implements an instance. During type checking, GHC replaces each type constraint of a function with one additional argument. At runtime, the extended function gets passed a matching class dictionary by way of these additional arguments. Whenever the function needs to call a method of such a class, it simply extracts it from the dictionary.
This sounds simple enough; however, the actual implementation is a bit more tricky as it wants to keep track of all the instances at which overloaded functions are used in a module. This information is useful to optimise the code. The implementation is the module compiler/typecheck/Inst.hs.
The function
instOverloadedFun is invoked for each overloaded usage occurrence of an identifier, where overloaded means that the type of the identifier contains a non-trivial type constraint. It proceeds in two steps: (1) Allocation of a method instance (
newMethodWithGivenTy) and (2) instantiation of functional dependencies. The former implies allocating a new unique identifier, which replaces the original (overloaded) identifier at the currently type-checked usage occurrence.
The new identifier (after being threaded through the LIE) eventually will be bound by a top-level binding whose rhs contains a partial application of the original overloaded identifier. This papp applies the overloaded function to the dictionaries needed for the current instance. In GHC lingo, this is called a method. Before becoming a top-level binding, the method is first represented as a value of type Inst.Inst, which makes it easy to fold multiple instances of the same identifier at the same types into one global definition. (And probably other things, too, which I haven't investigated yet.)
Note: As of 13 January 2001 (wrt. to the code in the CVS HEAD), the above mechanism interferes badly with RULES pragmas defined over overloaded functions. During instantiation, a new name is created for an overloaded function partially applied to the dictionaries needed in a usage position of that function. As the rewrite rule, however, mentions the original overloaded name, it won't fire anymore -- unless later phases remove the intermediate definition again. The latest CVS version of GHC has an option '-fno-method-sharing', which avoids sharing instantiation stubs. This is usually/often/sometimes sufficient to make the rules fire again.


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The Staging Studio is owned and run by Melissa & Nancy. Melissa, a professional photographer and Nancy, former owner of "This Lady Can Paint" interior painting company teamed up to use their color sense and composition to create homes that fly off the market. The majority of our homes quickly go under contract, with many under contract the first day they are shown after we stage.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – For the third straight season coach Kathy Roulhac and the Tigers will take part in the OVC tournament.
Tennessee State finished the regular season 10-7 with a 6-10 conference record to earn the eighth and final seed in the conference tournament. In the first match the Tigers will take on regular season champion and tournament host Morehead State (24-7, 15-1).
The two East Division foes matched up twice in the regular season with the Eagles taking both contests in straight sets.
In the first meeting on Sept. 28 freshman Arijana Anderson totaled 13 kills with a .235 hitting percentage to lead the Tigers attack. Junior Naomi Wells also added in seven kills in the match.
Defensively both Wells and junior Ileanushka Moldonado totaled 17 digs apiece in the contest. As a team the Tigers logged three blocks on the day.
Both teams played again at Morehead State on Nov. 8 with the Eagles coming out on top 3-0. Junior Sherryce Butler logged 13 kills and hit .417 from the field.
On the defensive end the Tigers totaled 36 digs, Wells led the way with 10 scoops on the night. As a team the Tennessee State block finished with five blocks.
Tennessee State comes into the tournament with the conference's kills and points leader in junior Naomi Wells. The Huntsville, Ala. native is averaging 3.64 kills and 4.11 points per set.
Two-time All-OVC senior setter Erika Moss leads the Tigers attack with 10.24 helpers per frame. Her average is the third best in the Ohio Valley.
As a team the Tigers rank sixth in both kills and assists per set, with a 12.61 and 11.96 average respectively.
The Tigers are averaging 1.56 blocks and 15.09 digs per set while holding opponents to a .214 hitting percentage on the year.
For Morehead State it all starts defensively as the Eagles hold opponents to an OVC best .142 hitting percentage. Ranking in the top four in both blocks (3rd, 1.89 per set) and digs (16.18 per set). Leading the way for the Eagles defensively is senior Leslie Schellhaas with an average of 5.13 digs per frame, which ranks second in the OVC. On the Block the Eagles turn to sophomore Hannah Sigala, who averages 0.96 roofs per set.
Offensively Morehead State features a balanced attack ranking second in the conference in both kills (13.06) and assists (12.40) per set. Junior Colby Cameron leads the attack with 10.03 assists per stanza. Cameron organizies a balanced attack with four players averaging more than 2.34 kills per frame on the year.
The winner of Thursday's match will square off with the winner of the fifth seed Austin Peay and the fourth seed Southeast Missouri. That match will take place Friday at Morehead State with first serve set for 6 p.m.


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Top Line
When the Supreme Court takes on a politically heated case, as it recently did with two cases involving gay marriage, the justices are more likely to listen to their heads over their hearts.
So say Tim O'Brien and Martin Clancy, veteran journalists and authors of the new book "Murder at the Supreme Court."
"The justices often vote the law as opposed to their own feelings," former ABC News producer Martin Clancy tells Top Line."I mean time and time again, we've discovered in notes of Supreme Court conferences where justices are really conflicted."
Clancy and O'Brien's book looks specifically at how the Supreme Court has wrangled with the death penalty historically, but the book also sheds light into how the justices avoid getting personal opinions involved in their rulings.
"Sometimes justices will vote to uphold capital punishment even though they personally oppose it," says retired ABC News Law Correspondent Tim O'Brien. "No justice now thinks it's unconstitutional, per se, but a majority have doubts. We know that, about how it works."
Clancy tells a story about Justice Felix Frankfurter voting to uphold the death penalty in a 1946 case despite his personal objections. The case involved a 17-year-old Louisiana boy Willie Francis, who was facing the electric chair for a second time after he was unsuccessfully executed the first time when the chair malfunctioned.
"Frankfurter, who voted yes…went behind his justices backs, as it were, to Louisiana to try and get the verdict overturned," Clancy recounts. "It never happened. The boy was executed."
To hear more of O'Brien and Clancy's analysis of the Supreme Court's decision-making process, and to hear about how public opinion and state actions influence the Court, check out this episode of Top Line.
ABC's Eric Wray, Betsy Klein, Hank Brown, and Gary Rosenberg contributed to this episode.


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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in the latest update of Pottermore. As such, spoilers will be present within the article. Please take care when reading this article if you have not yet been through the latest update.
- "Stunning is one of the most useful spells in your arsenal. It's sort of a wizard's bread and butter, really."
- —Harry Potter[src]
The Stunning Spell (Stupefy), also known as a Stunner or Stupefying Charm[3] is a charm[1] that renders a victim unconscious and halts moving objects.[2]
This spell is also commonly used in duels; it is quite useful if one's opponent is unconscious and unable to continue the duel, and is a guaranteed victory for the caster. However, many Dark Wizards who are not afraid to kill (including Death Eaters, and especially Voldemort himself) will often prefer to go straight to the Killing Curse, since it is equally quick to cast (if you are willing and hateful enough), cannot be blocked, and results in instant death anyway, saving the duelist the task of finishing off a stunned enemy.
It is unknown who invented the spell, and when. In 1995, Harry Potter learned this spell in preparation for the third task of the Triwizard Tournament. He practised it on Ron Weasley who complained about it not being easy to aim where you fall when you are stunned. Harry also taught this spell to Dumbledore's Army during the 1995-1996 school year, during one of the meetings.[4] The spell was used numerous times during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, by both the D.A. and the Order of the Phoenix; it was also used during many other battles of the Second Wizarding War, such as the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, the Battle of the Seven Potters, the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor, the 1998 Break-in of Gringotts Wizarding Bank, and the Battle of Hogwarts.
It may be assumed that this spell was also used frequently during the First Wizarding War as well, by the wizarding community at large.
If this spell is used by multiple wizards aiming at the same target, the damage it causes is increased; for example, Professor McGonagall had to be moved to St Mungo's after being hit with the spell by multiple Ministry of Magic employees in 1996, and Madam Pomfrey expressed surprise that it did not kill her. Dragons are able to shrug off a single Stunning Spell, but if multiple Stunning Spells are aimed at a dragon, they should work.[5][6] It manifests itself as a jet of scarlet light.
The effects of a Stunning Spell may be counteracted by Rennervate, but will also wear off with time. It can also be deflected by a Shield Charm. Species known to be naturally resistant to the spell include dragons, trolls, giants and half-giants. Rubeus Hagrid was unaffected by this spell when, in 1996, several Ministry of Magic employees attempted to remove him from Hogwarts grounds.
It is also possible to bewitch objects to be resistant to the spell. Fred and George Weasley bewitched their fireworks to explode when hit by Stunning Spells.[6]
Known uses
|Peter Pettigrew
|Ron Weasley
|Cast non-verbally with the wand of Remus Lupin, in order to make his escape.[7]
|Twenty Ministry of Magic employees
|During the chaos after Morsmordre was cast following the 1994 Quidditch World Cup.[5]
|Barty Crouch Jr.
|8-30 of Charlie Weasley's colleagues
|Hungarian Horntail (and possibly three other First Task dragons)
|Multiple wizards had to cast the spell at the same time for it to work.[5]
|Harry Potter
|Ron Weasley
|Used numerous times on during practice for the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament.[5]
|Viktor Krum
|During the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament to save Cedric Diggory from the Cruciatus Curse Krum was casting under the influence of the Imperius Curse.[5]
|Unknown Death Eater
|During the Battle of the Seven Potters.[8]
|Thorfinn Rowle
|During a skirmish at the Luchino Caffe in 1997.[8]
|A Muggle waitress
|While aiming for Antonin Dolohov during a skirmish at Tottenham Court Road.[8]
|Dolores Umbridge and Yaxley
|While infiltrating the Ministry.[8]
|Lucius Malfoy
|During the Battle of Malfoy Manor.[8]
|Fenrir Greyback
|During the Battle of Malfoy Manor, using three wands at once.[8]
|Barty Crouch Jr (in disguise as Alastor Moody)
|Fleur Delacour
|Used discretely during the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament in an effort to ensure that Harry won.[5]
|Albus Dumbledore
|Bartemius Crouch Jr.
|After Harry's return from the Little Hangleton graveyard, Dumbledore used the spell to subdue the disguised Bartemius Crouch Jr. after he had attempted to attack Harry[5]
|Molly Weasley
|Portraits at 12 Grimmauld Place
|After Tonks knocked over an umbrella stand and the portrait of Sirius Black's mother started shouting, Molly abandoned an attempt to close its curtains and began shooting Stunning Spells at other shouting portraits to shut them up.[9]
|Dolores Umbridge
|Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs firework
|At the start of Umbridge's reign as Headmistress at Hogwarts, she attempted to stun the Weasley twins fireworks in order to prevent them from spreading around the school[6]
|Five Ministry of Magic employees
|Minerva McGonagall
|The Ministry employees were trying to remove Rubeus Hagrid from Hogwarts, but attacked McGonagall when she offered him protection.[6] The concentrated effects were devastating enough to have her hospitalized, and was considered a miracle that she did not die.
|Nigel Wolpert
|Harry Potter
|Used in the Room of Requirement during a D.A. practice.[10]
|Hermione Granger
|During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries in defence of Harry Potter.[6]
|Mafalda Hopkirk
|As part of the Infiltration of the Ministry of Magic in 1997.[8]
|Gregory Goyle
|During a skirmish in the Room of Requirement during the Battle of Hogwarts.[8]
|Harry Potter
|Crabbe Sr. & Rabastan Lestrange
|During the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.[6]
|Hermione Granger
|Unknown Death Eater
|Ginny Weasley
|Luna Lovegood
|Unknown Death Eaters
|During the Battle of the Seven Potters.[8]
|Ron Weasley
|Xenophilius Lovegood
|Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger (attempted)
|As Death Eaters were arriving at his house, it hit his Erumpent horn instead, causing a colossal explosion.[8]
|Bellatrix Lestrange
|Scabior and three other Snatchers
|After they defied her authority at Malfoy Manor.[8]
|Ron Weasley (supposedly, as Dragomir Despard)
|A beggar
|The beggar lunged at Hermione while she was disguised as Bellatrix Lestrange with Polyjuice Potion.[8]
|Harry Potter
|Various Goblins at Gringotts
|During their escape from the bank after robbing it in 1998.[8]
|Hermione Granger
|Ron Weasley
|Luna Lovegood
|Alecto Carrow
|While searching for information on Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem with Harry Potter during the Battle of Hogwarts.[8]
|Fred Weasley
|Unknown Death Eaters
|During the Battle of Hogwarts.[8]
|Dean Thomas
|Parvati Patil
|Aberforth Dumbledore
|Augustus Rookwood
|During the Battle of Hogwarts
"Stupefy" comes from the English stupefy, which means "to stun" or "to amaze". It may also come from the Latin stupere, meaning "to be stunned".
Behind the scenes
- Another variation of the spell is Stupefy Duo.
- The Stunning Spell has been identified as a jet, a flash or a burst of red, blue, white or green light in the film adaptions.
- In the books, it is described as a "jet of red light," and appears as such at the beginning of the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, when Ministry of Magic Officials apparate near the trio and attempt to stun them after the destruction of the Quidditch World Cup fair grounds. However, from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix on, it is shown as blue light that often just knocks people off their feet.
- Harry counters unidentified green curses cast by Death Eaters with the Stunning Spell, causing the spells to collide and explode in midair. If these green curses were Killing Curses, then this would indicate that Killing Curse can be parried if it collides with another spell.
- In the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Stupefy is shown as a ball of red light, but when cast by opponents, it is green, like the Killing Curse. Also at the end after Harry defeats Bellatrix Lestrange outside Hagrid's hut he casts Stupefy but instead of the red light it came out as a green ball of light.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Hermione attempts to use a Stunning Spell on one of the enemy giants, but is prevented from doing so by Ron as it would "crush half the castle." However, it was Hermione herself who pointed out in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix that Stunning Spells are almost completely ineffective against Giants, even when cast by multiple wizards.
- In LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, it can be bought at Wiseacre's Wizarding Equipment in Diagon Alley.
- Flavius Belby tried to use this spell against a lethifold, however it had no effect as lethifolds can only be repelled by the Patronus Charm like with Dementors.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Hermione casts Stupefy at Blaise in the Room of Requirement instead of Gregory Goyle. This is due to Crabbe's part being replaced by Blaise and thus is Goyle is the one to conjure the Fiendfyre.
- It has been implied that Dobby does this to Wormtail in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. However, when Harry does this to Umbridge and Mafalda, they are instantly knocked out, while Wormtail stands for a few seconds, says "Ow" (hinting that the spell was quite painful) and collapses. This, as well as his unintended non-reappearance in Part 2, suggests that he may be dead, or that Dobby used a different spell to knock him out.
- Also in Deathly Hallows: Part 1, When Ron (disguised as Reginald Cattermole) hits Yaxley with a non-verbal Stunning Spell, it seems to strike his chest rather hard, causing him to groan in pain and leaving him incapacitated for several minutes before he catches up with the trio and attempts to stop their escape.
- In Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Voldemort casts Stupefy at Neville Longbottom out of anger, after Harry Potter seemingly came back to life. Neville was blown backward into the Great Hall, and remained unconscious until he woke to slay Nagini.
- In Harry Potter for Kinect Harry and Voldemort can use this spell against each other in the final battle during Voldemort's Last Stand as they engage in a normal duel.
Stupefy in different languages
|Bulgarian (Български)
|Вцепени се (literally - "be numb")
|Animo Linqui
|Desmaius / Desmaio
|Lammer (Stunner)
|Αποχαυνώσιους - (Apochavnosius)
|जर्व्तम (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1) or बिसमित भव (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film))
|Portuguese (Portugal)
|Atordoar/Stupefy (Books); Estupidificar (VideoGames)
|Portuguese (Brasil)
|Estupefaça; Estupore (in the movie of Goblet of Fire)
|Окаменей (in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire); Остолбеней (in later books)
|Mdloby na tebe!
|Nehýb sa!
|Điểm huyệt!
|Suchu-pifai! 「麻痺せよ!」, pronounced "Mahi seyo!!" literally means, "Be paralysed!" in Japanese.
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7
- Harry Potter: Spells
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Motorbike Escape (Possibly)
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Wonderbook: Book of Spells
- Wonderbook: Book of Potions
- Harry Potter for Kinect
- Pottermore
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JK's official site (text only), accessed 28/7/2011
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Pottermore - From the Story: Stunning Spell
- ↑ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 4 - (Number Twelve Grimmauld Place)
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)


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|Public Alert
|Town Code - Animals
Listed below is the Town Code as it pertains to Dogs.
Chapter 61, ANIMALS
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Stony Point 6-9-1976 by L.L. No. 1-1976. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Birds -- See Ch. 70.
Fees -- See Ch. A221.
§ 61-1. Purpose. This chapter is adopted to promote the health, safety and welfare of the residents of the Town of Stony Point.
§ 61-2. Definitions. [Amended 8-14-1984 by L.L. No. 6- 1984] As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
PARCEL OF LAND -- A contiguous piece of real property owned by the same person or persons or by members of the same household. EN
§ 61-3. Dogs. [Amended 9-8-1976 by L.L. No. 2-1976; 8- 14-1984 by L.L. No. 6-1984] A. Title. This section shall be cited and may be referred to hereinafter as the "Dog Control Law of the Town of Stony Point." B. Legislative intent. It is the intention of the Town Board of the Town of Stony Point by the adoption of this section to preserve public peace and good order in the Town of Stony Point and to promote the public health, safety and welfare of its people by enforcing regulations and restrictions on the activities of dogs which are consistent with the rights and privileges of dog owners and the rights and privileges of other citizens of the Town of Stony Point. C. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: AT LARGE -- Any dog that is unleashed and on property open to the public or is on private property, not owned or leased by the owner of the dog unless permission for such presence has been obtained. No dog shall be deemed to be at large if it is: (1) A guide dog actually leading a blind person; (2) A police work dog in use for police work; or (3) Accompanied by its owner or other responsible person and is actively engaged in hunting or training for hunting on unposted land or on posted land with the permission of the owner of the land. DOG -- Any member of the species canis familiaris. DOG CONTROL OFFICER -- Any individual appointed by the Town of Stony Point to assist in the enforcement of this section. HARBOR -- To provide food or shelter to any dog. OWNER -- Any person, who keeps, harbors or has custody, care or control of a dog. Dogs owned by minors shall be deemed to be in the custody and control of parents or other head of household where the minor resides. Any person harboring a dog for a period of one week shall be deemed to be the owner of the dog for the purpose of enforcing this section. PERSON -- Any individual, corporation, partnership, association or other organized group of persons, municipality or other legal entity. D. Licensing requirements. Each owner of a dog more than four months of age shall make application for a dog license in accordance with and pursuant to the provisions of Article 7,
§ 109 through 111, of the Agriculture and Markets Law of the State of New York. [Amended 3-9-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004] E. Prohibitions. It shall be unlawful for any owner of a dog in the unincorporated areas of the Town of Stony Point to permit or allow such dog to engage in the following enumerated acts: (1) Running at large. It shall be unlawful for any owner of a dog within the limits of the Town of Stony Point to permit such dog, whether licensed or not, to be at large elsewhere than on the premises of the owner, or on the premises of another person without the knowledge and consent of such other person, unless such dog shall be on a leash or under the full and immediate control of a person in charge of said dog. (2) Nuisance. It shall be unlawful for any owner of a dog in the Town of Stony Point to permit or allow such dog to engage in habitual loud howling, barking or whining so as to create a public nuisance or create unreasonable noise disturbance across real property boundaries. (3) Dangerous dogs. (a) It shall be unlawful for any dog owner who knows or has reason to know of any dangerous and vicious propensities of said dog to permit the dog to run at large in the Town of Stony Point. (b) Any person may make a complaint of an attack upon a person or of an attack, chasing or worrying of a domestic animal to a dog control officer of the Town of Stony Point. Such officer shall immediately inform the complainant of his right to commence a proceeding as provided in
§ 61-3E (3) (c) and, if there is reason to believe the dog is a dangerous dog, the officer shall be empowered to forthwith commence such proceeding himself. (c) Any person may, and any dog control officer as provided in
§ 61-3C hereof may, make a complaint under oath or affirmation to any Municipal Judge or Justice of such attack, chasing or worrying. Thereupon the Judge or Justice shall immediately determine if there is probable cause to believe the dog is a dangerous dog and, if so, shall issue an order to any dog control officer or peace officer, directing such officer to immediately seize such dog and hold the same pending judicial determination as herein provided. Whether or not the Judge or Justice finds there is probable cause for such seizure, he shall, within five days and upon written notice of not less than two days to the owner of the dog, then order the owner of any dog, the control officer or peace officer to destroy the dog immediately or shall order the owner to confine securely such dog permanently or at such time as otherwise specified in the order. If the owner fails to destroy or confine the dog as required by such order, any dog control officer or peace officer shall destroy such dog on or off the premises of the owner. (d) Nothing contained herein shall restrict the rights and powers derived from the provisions of Title 4 of Article 21 of the Public Health Law relating to rabies and any rule and regulation adopted pursuant thereto. (4) Additional prohibitions. (a) Interference with enforcement officer. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hinder, molest or interfere with any officer or agent of the township in the performance of any of the provisions of this section. (b) Violation of section. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any provision of this section whether or not he has any knowledge of or intends any violation of said section. F. Impoundment. (1) The duly appointed dog control officer or any peace officer shall seize and impound any dog found at large in violation of this section. The dog control officer or peace officer shall deliver such dog to a pound or shelter or the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and notify the Stony Point Town Clerk of the identity of the owner of the dog if the same can be established. If the dog's owner can be properly identified, then the dog shall be held and maintained for a period of 10 days for redemption or, if it cannot be properly identified, for a period of five days, thereafter it may be held and offered for adoption for an indefinite period or humanely destroyed at the discretion of the dog control officer. (2) The fact that a dog is without a current dog license tag attached to the dog's collar or harness as provided in Article 7,
§ 109, of the Agriculture and Markets Law shall be presumptive evidence that the dog is unlicensed. (3) Any person claiming a dog from the pound or shelter of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals must produce a license for such dog and pay the cost of confinement. [Amended 6-8-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999]
§ 61-3.1. Defecation on public property; conditions for curbing dogs. [Added 3-9-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004] No person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog shall cause, suffer or allow such dog to soil, defile, defecate on or commit any nuisance on any common thoroughfare, sidewalk, passageway, bypath, play area, park or any place where people congregate or walk or upon any public property whatsoever or upon any private property without the permission of the owner of said property. The restriction in this section shall not apply to that portion of the street lying between the curb lines, which shall be used to curb such dog under the following conditions: A. The person who so curbs such dog shall immediately remove all feces deposited by such dog by any sanitary method approved by the local health authority. B. The feces removed from the aforementioned designated area shall be disposed of by the person owning, harboring, keeping or in charge of any dog curbed in accordance with the provisions of this chapter in a sanitary manner approved by the local health authority. C. Any person walking, accompanying or having a dog in his custody, possession or charge shall have in his possession a device sufficient to remove feces deposited by such dog.
§ 61-4. Local dog license fees. [Added 2-8-1983 by L.L. No. 1-1983; amended 6-8-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999] A local fee of up to $10 may be charged for each dog license issued by the Town Clerk, and said fee in the Town of Stony Point shall be $2.50. Such charge shall be added to the fee mandated by state law to be collected by the Town Clerk in connection with the issuance of such licenses.
§ 61-5. Penalties for offenses. [Amended 6-8-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999; 3-9-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004] Any violation of this chapter shall be punishable as follows: A. Up to $250 or by imprisonment not to exceed 15 days, or both, for the first offense. B. Up to $500 or by imprisonment not to exceed 15 days, or both, for the second offense. C. Up to $1,000 or by imprisonment not to exceed 15 days, or both, for a third and subsequent offense.
§ 61-6. Enforcement. [Added 3-9-2004 by L.L. No. 2-2004] A. This chapter shall be enforced by a Dog Control Officer, the Stony Point Police Department or anyone else who shall be appointed by the Town Board to serve at the will of the Town Board and shall be paid such compensation as duly fixed for such services plus expenses, not exceeding, however, the amounts set forth in the budget therefore. Such Dog Control Officer shall have all the powers of a constable or other peace officer in enforcing this chapter and the applicable provisions of the Agriculture and Markets Law. B. The Town Board may also enforce obedience to this chapter by injunction.


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:[Black Hat and Cueball standing under a sign]
:Schrödinger's Comic
:Schrödinger's Comic
Revision as of 10:52, 14 March 2013
Title text: There was no alt-text until you moused over
Schrödinger's cat is a famous thought experiment proposed by Erwin Schrödinger to question the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Under the Copenhagen interpretation, an atomic nucleus is described by a wave function that allows one to calculate the probability that it is any given state. A radioactive nucleus with a half-life of one hour, for instance, would have a wave-function that would split, showing two distinct states (decayed, undecayed) that change over time until some "observation" forced the wave-function into one state or another (called "collapsing the wave-function). Before the wave-function is collapsed, it is incorrect to say that the atom has decayed or has not decayed; it is in a "superposition" of states, effectively half-decayed and half-undecayed.
Schrödinger thought this was absurd, and devised the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment to show this. The experiment goes as follows: Put a cat in a box, he said, with a device triggered by the decay of an atom with a half-life of one hour that would release a poisonous gas if triggered. Then, after waiting an hour, the Copenhagen interpretation would say that the atom is in a superposition of decayed and undecayed states, and thus, by extension, the cat would be in a superposition of alive and dead states. Only when the box is opened would the wave-function for the cat collapse into either alive or dead states. Since it is absurd for a cat to be both alive and dead, it is absurd for an atom to be both decayed and undecayed. Yet that's what quantum mechanics implied.
In this comic, Black Hat and Cueball are likening the last panel to the box with the cat: until you read it, it is in a mixed state (a superposition) of both funny and unfunny, and it's wave-function won't collapse until you read it.
The punchline is that the last panel simply says "Shit.", which indeed either applies to the fact that the panel is not funny (and thus the author thinks "Shit. It wasn't funny") or else the reader may be amused by the fact that the build-up of the first three panels leads to the punchline like "shit." Unlike absolute values like the death of a cat or the decay of a nucleus, the humour of the comic is subjective and, in fact, could be both funny and unfunny at the same time (to different readers).
The title text is more akin to the actual problem, suggesting that it did not exist until it was caused to be observed by the mouseover.
- [Black Hat and Cueball standing under a sign.]
- Schrödinger's Comic
- The last panel of this comic is both funny and not funny at the same time.
- Until you read it, there's no way to tell which it will end up being.
- Shit.
- Black Hat's hat is beginning to shorten from its top-hat look, although its height varies between panels.
- This is the forty-second comic originally posted to livejournal. The previous was 39: Bowl. The next was 46: Secrets.
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The holidays are upon us and chances are there will be a need for some holiday inspiration. OH NO ... time for some Photoshop Madness to try locating some decent resources!
PHOTOSHOP MADNESS is where you practically go mad trying to find the most useful stuff for Photoshop! This is continued from the previous 'actions' madness!
Photoshop visions for Thanksgiving
You've seen these before -- the site wants you to send in your photoshop files ... this one had the title "Thanksgiving"
This is a broad contest where you are asked to photoshop anything connected to Thanksgiving. Advanced Photoshop Pictures Gallery - 17 image entries
Full story : www.freakingnews.com
Here, Sample, or Download file
Erin Reid Turkey PSD
This is a Photoshop painting you can download -- in the native Photoshop file format.
I don't know what Erin was thinking about, but this looks like one of the holiday turkeys out of the Dover collection. (Available in the Publishers' Warehouse Loading Dock!)
Full story : ravenarcana.deviantart.com
Here, Sample, or Download file :Turkey_1_PSD_by_ravenarcana.psd
November Seasonal Icons
This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.
These are very good because created by the designers over at IconShock: 5 Icons in total including a Turkey, Pumpkin, Pilgrims, and the changing color of leaves.
Full story : IconShock, via tutorial9
Here, Download file: nov-icons/November-Icons.zip
FREE Thanksgiving and Holiday Photo Card Templates
For the Holiday Season! You can always do some nice things with these files, and they're free! Paper, frames, templates are nicely done and import directly into Photoshop.
Pretty nice collection of all kinds of wonderful visuals. These templates, digital papers and letters are compatible with Photoshop and Elements! No artist is named.
Full story : www.mcpactions.com
Download file PCB-MCP-Thanksgiving-Paper.zip
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