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Friday, December 21, 2012
The global 3-D consumer market is thriving in a dynamic environment marked by clear and discernible growth across its major platforms, including cinema, home video and pay-TV video on demand, with international markets continuing to make major contributions to the industry, according to an IHS Screen Digest Cross Platform Intelligence report from information and analytics provider IHS.
Worldwide metrics are on the rise for 3-D technology as a whole. The number of 3-D screens is up fourfold over a period of three years, while 3-D box office climbed in the double digits from 2010 to 2011. The 3-D home-video market is also showing strong growth, bucking the overall trend of a declining physical video market, with U.S spending on Blu-ray 3-D nearly doubling in 2012 from last year’s levels. More 3-D TV channels worldwide are likewise now available, including one just launched in China, with plenty of potential for expansion in the years ahead for 3-D Video-on-Demand service.
The attached figure illustrates the strides made by the 3-D consumer market in the United States in particular, in which the principal metric used for tracking is consumer spending.
“In an age where consumers have at their easy disposal a virtual treasure trove of entertainment options to draw from, the encouraging growth of the 3-D medium is remarkable to behold,” said Tony Gunnarsson, analyst for video at IHS Screen Digest. “The continuing expansion of the industry is especially significant when one considers that 3-D is but a small niche of overall digital viewing, and that consumers have to shell out considerably more money for 3-D products, which are priced at a premium and not necessarily an easy sell in these economically uncertain times.” To read more click here.
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BIOGRAPHY
This is a series of blogs by Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., an internationally recognized inventor, digital imaging expert and visual effects pioneer. Dr. Sandrew is founder of three visual effects facilities that were among the largest and most prolific production studios in Hollywood. Over the past three decades he has been and continues to be instrumental in evolving the entertainment Industry's digital standards and processes in feature filmmaking.
Sandrew earned his doctorate in neuroscience from SUNY at Stony Brook. After winning a 2 year NIH Fellowship at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, he joined Harvard Medical School/MGH as staff Neuroscientist. In 1987, Sandrew left his academic and scientific career to found American Film Technologies (AFT) where he invented the first all digital process for colorizing black and white feature films.
At AFT he also invented a paperless animation process used to produce episodic animation for Fox Children's TV and a digital ink & paint and compositing pipeline that produced Spielberg's first digital animated feature film, "We're Back: A Dinosaur Story." Sandrew took AFT public while converting hundreds of movies for clients such as Turner, Disney, Warner Bros., Fox, Gaumont, TF1, ABC, and CBS, among many others.
In 1993 Barry Sandrew left American Film Technologies to co-found Lightspan, an animation and production edutainment studio that grew into one of the largest educational software companies in the U.S., marketing into entire school districts around the country. Lightspan ultimately went public and was later acquired by Plato Learning.
In 2000, Sandrew founded Legend Films, re-inventing colorization and a proprietary film restoration process using the latest in digital imaging technology. Over the course of the next 7 years, Legend Films converted to color approximately 145 black & white films as well as several TV series. Legend Films also produced visual effects for Scorsese's "The Aviator", HBO's "Entourage" and other high profile TV and film projects.
In 2007, with Jim Cameron's game changing "Avatar 3D" scheduled for a 2009 release, Sandrew leveraged his proprietary colorization pipeline, redirecting his company's entire R&D focus to embrace 2D-to-3D conversion and changing the company's name to Legend3D. Since 2010, Legend3D has lead the competitive field, producing 3D conversion and visual effects on over 35 of the highest performing box office tentpole films of the past 6 years.
In 2014, Dr. Barry Sandrew left Legend3D to focus on new immersive and web based media technologies as well his non-profit and for-profit board positions. He is consultant to Fortune 500 companies re: mobile 3D-sensing and motion tracking technology that he considers precursors to augmented reality. Most recently, he is Co-Founder and President/CEO of Graffiti Video, Inc. a company that is redefining the curation of web based media. | {
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One of my long standing areas of interests is Eastern Orthodoxy. Sparked many moons ago in a course at Redeemer University College, I have continued in fascination for these many years. I was thrilled while at McMaster Divinity College we were given the assignment for Church History class to attend an Eastern Orthodox service. Having already done so in the past, I was looking forward to “skipping” church to be part of a worship service in the Orthodox tradition- worship which embraces beauty, tradition, wonder, awe and experiential grace.
I think part of the reason I find it so fascinating is that I find myself in a place of tension. I adamantly disagree with large chunks of their doctrinal positions (paedobaptism, praying to saints, among other issues). But then when I read the spiritual side, I am floored. The intimacy of the Holy Spirit and worship which is engaging of the whole self blows my Western trained mind. Outside of Scripture, the book which has most informed my spiritual development is Kallistos Ware’s The Orthodox Way, which outlines the basic views and practice of Orthodoxy. Particularly appealing is the chapter called “God as Mystery” which outlines the tension of a God transcendent yet imminent, omnipotent yet tender. Ware writes, “We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery.” (Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way. Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2003, 14). Further,
God is not the conclusion to a process of reasoning, the solution to a mathematical problem. To believe in God is not to accept the possibility of his existence because it has been “proved” to us by some theoretical argument, but to put our trust in One whom we know and love. Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there. (Ibid. 16)
While I hope that few protestants would find this objectionable, my struggle is the fact that Protestantism rose up alongside the rise of rationalism, and so we have this Westernized approach of making all things about the intellect. Am I an anti-intellectual? No, absolutely not. I love study. But I find it drab, boring and dull if it is not rooted in something tangible. A gospel which is an idea to receive my intellectual assent, or perhaps the sum total of doctrines I must adhere to does not appeal to me- and I find it dangerous. If the gospel is rooted in doctrine(s), then salvation rests on being on the right team, thinking the right stuff, and given Christians inability to find consensus, and our propensity for schism and anathematizing, I would fracture psychologically pondering whether I had the right doctrine or if the other guys were right and heaven and hell rested solely on this decision. I find comfort in knowing that my doctrine will always fall short, but my salvation rest on God’s character and my trust in that. There needs to be a place for Holy Mystery. Where we throw up our arms and say, “Lord I believe, help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). We won’t “get” God intellectually. As Evagrius of Pontus writes, “God cannot be grasped by the mind. If he could be grasped, he would not be God.” The Orthodox apophatic approach to theology can be helpful- the idea that the human mind and language cannot fathom or describe God meaning we must then understanding that anything we proclaim about God is simply insufficient (negation to a positive effect). Of course, the Orthodox are without their own doctrinal debates and conflicts, but out of that has developed this understanding that even correct doctrine can only get us so far. God’s grace which extends down in revelation and experience, which is completely mysterious, is that which we can rest in.
Similarly, worship which consists of sing a few hymns, take up the offering hear a sermon, sing a song go home can get old very quickly. Orthodoxy when done poorly can be just as mechanized, some would argue even moreso. But when authentically lived out, Orthodox spirituality engages the mind while still being mystically oriented- we can experience and think about a God who is beyond us. Our worship “box”- the framework in which we feel at home can actually be limiting. The Orthodox liturgy may look mechanized or like vain superstitious repetition, but they understand each celebration of the liturgy to be an avenue for real grace- the actual worship of God is not the liturgy itself, but worship goes beyond- mystic union of the church universal gathering in recognition of the God who is outside time and space. Us baptists may affirm it in word, but seldom do we operate on that assumption. We simply do what we do because we get it.
I am a Baptist. There’s no way around that. But I have a love-hate relationship with my own denominational identity. My perspectives on baptism (more to come on that one- as I’m embroiled in some cool reading on Baptism in the early church), the priesthood of all believers, among other doctrinal issues leave me solidly within the Baptist community. However, I struggle at times, feeling like our doctrines don’t flow where they should, and don’t allow room for Holy Mystery, for authority of the called and gifted, and for a faith which rightly engages the mind and the spirit.
Luckily though, I’m also a Canadian and can, when necessary, play the fence, and enjoy the best of both.
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This is the personal blog of Graham Ware, Pastor @ Centre Street Baptist Church. It is intended to be a forum for reflection on events, news, theology, books, culture, and life in general.
Graham is a 30 something, a husband & dada, a Chelsea FC fan, a caffeine addict, a southpaw, an Anglo-Franco-Irish-Scottish Canadian, a music fan (but not a musician), a McMaster alum, and a nerd. He likes books, meat, strong coffee, fireplaces, bagpipes, chai tea, driving, autumn, photography, anything maple flavoured, Atlantic Canada, history, John Cleese, Henri Nouwen and the smell of vanilla.
*Note: The opinions expressed in this blog are those of Pastor Graham, and as such do not necessarily (but generally are attempted to) reflect the views of Centre Street Baptist Church or affiliate organizations.
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Define planning.
Conscious, systematic process of making decisions about goals and activities that an individual, group, work unit, or organization will pursue in the future. A purposeful effort that is directed and controlled by managers and often draws on the knowledge and experience of employees throughout the organization
What is considered the most fundamental management function?
Planning. Controversial because you're going to change and people may not like it.
Define the 6 planning process steps.
1. Situational analysis
2. Alternative goals and plans
3. Goal and plan evaluation
4. Goal and plan selection
5. Implementation
6. Monitor and control
Define situational analysis.
A process planners use, within time and resource constraints, to gather, interpret, and summarize all information relevant to the planning issue under consideration.
Define goal.
A target or end that management desires to reach. Specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-bound.
Define alternative goals and plans.
Should stress creativity and encourage managers and employees to think in broad terms about their jobs
Define plans.
The actions or means managers intend to use to achieve organizational goals
Define contingency plans.
Sets of actions to be taken when a company's initial plans have not worked well or if events in the external environment require a sudden change | {
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How Do You Find The Best AC Repair Company In Queen Creek, AZ?
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How Do You Find The Best AC Repair Company In Queen Creek, AZ?
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There is nothing to make you feel more frustrated than when you are having problems with your AC. When it is too warm out to bear and your AC is not working, you are going to quickly grow annoyed. You will want to have it fixed as quickly as you can, but you will first need to know who to go with to have it fixed. Who can you trust to come in and get it up and running again for you? Who can you trust to do the job and to get it done well?
There are many companies out there, but how do you know which AC repair company in Queen Creek, AZ will be able to get the job done the quickest? How do you know which AC repair company in Queen Creek, AZ will do the work the best, and who will get the AC up and running in your place again? Well, all that you have to know is which company is the most trustworthy. All that you have to know is which company cares about its customers the most. All that you have to know is which company will take care of your needs, and which one will make sure that they have the job done to the best of their ability. If you can know that all of that is true, then that is the best company to go with. We are the best company for you to go with.
We are a AC repair company in Queen Creek, AZ who takes care of its customers. We know how to take care of your AC repairs. We’ll get your AC up and running again soon so that you have to swelter in the heat no longer | {
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I recently noticed that the Sony Reader PRS-505 does not support the following Esperanto characters: ĉĝĥĵŝŭĈĜĤĴŜŬ. They just show up as question marks!
Anyway I'd like to have a script to be able to auto-convert these letters either by adding h to them, so ĉ would become ch, ĝ -> gh, and ŭ -> u. What would be the easiest way to write a script to do this? Could I write a plug-in for Calibre? Is there an easy way to load an ePub file into a free [Mac] editor and just run a global search and replace on the entire file? I'm really frustrated the PRS-505 doesn't have true unicode support. Thanks for any direction you can give me into how to go about this!
That's probably missing characters in the default font (Unicode is huge, don't expect any font to support all Unicode characters). I believe you can change the font in the Sony, that would be better than modifying the text.
By the way, modifying the text once the contents of the ePUB are unzipped would be fairly easy with any text editor or unix utilities such as tr.
It has no DRM on it, but how can I edit the CSS? Whenever I try to open an ePub file in a text editor, I just see garbage.
ePUB files are just zip files. Unzip it with Winzip or similar and you'll see the contents. When zipping back the files (if you do that) the only thing you have to consider is that the "mimetype" file has to be first in the archive, and stored with no compression.
If these files are just for personal use, your other option would be to change the fonts on your Sony Reader for fonts which do include the "central European" characters that Esperanto uses. Instructions for doing that are in the Sony Reader forum.
If these files are just for personal use, your other option would be to change the fonts on your Sony Reader for fonts which do include the "central European" characters that Esperanto uses. Instructions for doing that are in the Sony Reader forum.
Actually, the thread for changing the fonts in ePub for the 505/700 is a sticky in the ePub forum section. | {
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Request Assistance: Weapons Offense
The Regina Police Service is asking for information from the public to assist in an investigation into a weapons offense that occurred early Saturday morning.
On Saturday, March 7th, 2015 at approximately 1:00 a.m. police were dispatched to the 7100 block of Wascana Cove Dr. for a report of shots being fired with a firearm. Two females were sitting in a vehicle outside a residence when the vehicle was approached by an unknown suspect. The suspect discharged a firearm, hitting the vehicle, the females were not injured. The suspect then left the area in a vehicle. There is no description available for the suspect or the vehicle at this time.
Anyone with information that could help in this investigation is asked to contact the Regina Police Service at 306-777-6364 or contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS). The Regina Police Service thanks the public and the media for their assistance in this matter. | {
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Woman accused of battering officer
SEBRING — A woman knocking on doors of residences and urging occupants to call 911 ended up being arrested, according to a report released this week.
Eva Christine Jackson, 23, no street address given, Sebring, was arrested by the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office and charged with battery, aggravated battery on a law enforcement officer and resisting an officer with violence.
Residents on Sparta Circle told deputies that a woman wearing a pink/orange shirt was running around and yelling for someone to call 911, the report said.
A man reported that the woman knocked on his door.
“He stated that the female was banging on his front door, yelling, ‘Let me in,’ and ‘call 911,’ before she ran away,” the report said.
Another resident allowed the woman in after telling him that, “Someone is trying to kill me,” the report said.
When deputies arrived, the woman asked them if they were “real cops,” the report said.
A deputy wrote in a report that “she (Jackson) suddenly lunged toward me, and grabbed my radio and shoulder,” the report said.
Further investigation, the report said, led to contact with Jackson’s mother, who told deputies that Jackson struck her in the left arm. | {
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Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Community prayer breakfast to kick off Martin Luther King Jr.
Day; reservations due Jan. 6
GOSHEN, Ind. — The 2011 Goshen College Martin Luther King
Jr. Study Day on Jan. 17 will begin with prayer and remembrance at
the 11th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Community Prayer
Breakfast, beginning at 7 a.m. in the Church-Chapel Fellowship
Hall. The breakfast is open to the public and reservations are due
by Thursday, Jan. 6.
The breakfast will feature a presentation by Dr. Quinton Dixie,
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University Fort Wayne. Dixie's areas of interest include
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Courage of Hope: From Black Suffering to Human Redemption. He
also partnered with journalist Juan Williams on the 2003 PBS
documentary, "This Far by Faith," and the companion
volume: This Far by Faith: Stories from the African American
Religious Experience.
Goshen College's Voices-n-Harmony Gospel Choir will offer
musical selections during the worship program and local pastors
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Registration begins at 7 a.m. and the program begins at 7:15
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Chuck Hagel has emerged as the leading candidate to become Obama’s next Secretary of Defense and may be nominated as soon as this month, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Hagel, who served as an enlisted Army infantryman in Vietnam, has passed the vetting process at the White House Counsel’s office, said one of the people. The former Nebraska senator has told associates that he is awaiting final word from the president, said the other person. Both requested anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
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Trace-based just-in-time compilers use program analyses to optimise execution traces. These analyses are limited in scope to the parts of the program that have been traced. We conjecture that trace optimisations can benefit from extending the scope of their enabling analyses beyond these traces to the set of possible future execution states of the program. This by incorporating a static analysis which, however, necessarily over-approximates this set. We therefore propose to continuously refine the set of future states computed by an initial, ahead-of-time analysis using run-time information about the current execution state of the program. Additional static analyses launched at run time could further refine the information about the future of the current and all possible states. We expect that the resulting, hybrid program view of static and dynamic information may enable additional optimisations on collected traces and that these optimisations may overcome the computational overhead of keeping the view up-to-date. | {
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Vancouver-bound author James Douglass on JFK and the Unspeakable
Last Christmas I was standing in line at Chapters with a copy of the book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters when the man behind me commented, “That’s the best book on the subject.”
He might have been right. If it’s not the best, it’s one of them, partly because of the clarity author James Douglass brings to an event that can be overwhelmingly complex in its fine details. Indeed, JFK and the Unspeakable achieved a rare consensus inside the assassination research community for its wise and lucid organization of the known data. If you’re new to the subject, there isn’t a better primer.
But Douglass’ book is important because it also introduces a fresh and ultimately very rewarding way of viewing the assassination.
A Christian theologian and peace activist, Douglass employs the Trappist monk Thomas Merton’s concept of the Unspeakable to understand the events of Dallas, using the record of Kennedy’s presidency to demonstrate that JFK, particularly after the Cuban missile crisis, made a “turn toward peace.” This in turn put him at odds with his own national security apparatus.
It’s also an aspect of his presidency that official history seems determined to forget. Happily, and in contrast to most books on the subject that don’t hew to the Warren Commission’s version of events, JFK and the Unspeakable managed to gain some traction after it was published in 2008.
I mentioned this at the top of a phone interview with the B.C. born author, who comes to Vancouver this weekend to conduct a talk at the Canadian Memorial United Church (1825 West 16th Avenue) on Friday (March 8) called JFK, Gandhi, and the Unspeakable in 2013, followed by a workshop on Saturday.
And on Saturday night, there will be—get this!—a read through of Noah’s Ark, a play based on Douglass’ book that’s been arranged rather serendipitously by Nina Rhodes-Hughes, a Bowen Island resident who witnessed the assassination of Robert Kennedy and who has volunteered to assist Sirhan Sirhan’s new defense team. “It’s a great coming together,” Douglass exclaimed. “It’s dynamite stuff!” (More info here)
Georgia Straight: Given the topic and your perspective on it, JFK and the Unspeakable has actually done very well, hasn’t it?
Jim Douglass: Well, it’s a best seller. But that’s not because any print reviews have saturated the field. They’ve been quite light, but there have been some key moments, like when Oliver Stone went on Bill Maher’s show and promoted it. And the fact that Simon & Shuster, to my great astonishment, took it on as a paperback, that gives it a huge distribution even though it’s unreviewed in major print media.
How did Bill Maher react to Stone talking about the book?
He did not want to go there…
Right. Which reminds me that RFK Jr. made some extraordinary comments about the assassination in Dallas recently. But we haven’t been allowed to hear what he said.
That was remarkable, but again, this is Charlie Rose who’s asking the questions, and Charlie Rose, or his network, or Charlie Rose incorporated, whatever it is, they will not release that interview. I know people have been trying to get it to get the exact words, because it’s very, very important. He’s out there saying that his dad didn’t agree with the Warren Report, which isn’t a secret, but this is the first time RFK Jr or a member of the family is saying that. That is big news, except that it’s no news.
The reports that did surface excised RFK Jr’s remarks about “rogue CIA.”
Yeah, exactly. And his reference to JFK and the Unspeakable—which I knew he was supporting but this is the first time he’s said it publicly—the only report that actually mentioned that was a Dallas online thing, and most of it was devoted to a dismissal of the book by a guy who’s sort of notorious for his comments. It’s still a difficult subject, let’s put it that way.
What is the Unspeakable?
It comes from Thomas Merton, from his great book, Raids on the Unspeakable, in which he is suggesting a kind of systemic evil that includes such realties as the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, the nuclear arms race, and these assassinations. When he gets to the point where he’s actually describing it, he describes it as a “void,” an emptiness, a lack of compassion and responsibility, and when I was reading that description, I thought, ‘Warren Report.’
How would you describe JFK’s confrontation with the Unspeakable?
I would describe it as his encounter with that void in the midst of the Cuban missile crisis, where the world was on the verge of a total nuclear war. If that isn’t the void, I don’t know what is. And he and his greatest enemy in the world, in terms of ideology, Nikita Khrushchev, encountered that void simultaneously. And what was remarkable and what led to Kennedy’s assassination was that in that moment, when it reached the darkest point possible, and Kennedy felt he was losing power to his generals who were going to push through an opportunity for victory—because they had the dominant power; in their terms, for example, ‘We’ll get them for 150 million, they’ll only get 40 million on our side’; that’s victory to that kind of insanity; they actually talked that way—in the midst of all that, what Kennedy does is totally outrageous. He turns to Nikita Khrushchev, the enemy.
In the book you describe how Robert Kennedy was dispatched to speak to the Soviet ambassador, Anatoly Dobrynin, telling him that the president is losing power to his generals.
This is in Khrushchev’s memoirs, and it was in his son Sergei Khrushchev’s book about his father—I’m not inventing this. So then Dobrynin wires to Khrushchev that there’s this secret communication, and Khrushchev turns to his foreign minister, Gromyko, and he says we have to let Kennedy know that we want to help him. And at that moment the whole shebang turns upside down, and Khrushchev and Kennedy are closer to each other than either is to his own military command. And you know, this is not simple, there are many conflicts that continue between Khrushchev and Kennedy, but in essence from that point on they are moving, moving, moving toward an end to the Cold War. The major marks from Kennedy’s standpoint are his extraordinary June 10, 1963 American University address in which, as Norman Cousins says, Kennedy is calling for an end to Cold War. If you read the thing, you can see what he’s saying.
And then, as you point out, he manoeuvres around his generals to secure the test ban treaty.
And then he’s doing a back channel with Castro. And if Khrushchev isn’t the devil, then Castro is. So there he’s becoming even more of a heretic and a traitor. And then he signs National Security Action Memorandum 263 to end the Vietnam War—I mean, he’s off the charts in terms of what he’s doing. He’s out ahead of the peace movement. It’s an astonishing story, and it’s untold. And the reason it’s untold, of course, is because it’s the Unspeakable. Why was he killed? Simple. He turned from global war to a strategy of peace. That’s the why of his assassination. And given the Cold War dogmas of his government, his murder followed as a matter of course. It was a transparent act of state, and has been ever since, and nobody wants to go there, whether it’s Bill Maher or Henry Kissinger or President Barak Obama. Nobody wants to go there.
The Unspeakable seems to have an enormous support system. You mention back channel communications with Khrushchev and Castro, and his Vietnam policy, which was actually consistent with his foreign policy elsewhere—all of this is on the record. And yet it seems that most people would still describe JFK as a cold warrior. Why is that?
You ever heard the term, the Mighty Wurlitzer? That’s why. It’s the enormous propaganda that is put out through the media. The Mighty Wurlitzer is alive and well, to mix metaphors, and it pumps out this stuff through intermediaries, and for that to be happening 50 years after the assassination is itself a mark of what we’re faced with. It’s a question for all of us: what is going on here? It took me 12 years to write the book. [Bob] Woodward could have turned it out in six months with the resources he has, so what’s going on here? What’s going on is the Unspeakable. If they do that, that’s the end of their access inside the Beltway. They lose all access to all their future best sellers. They are, as the term goes, marginalized. That’s the nice, conventional term for the Unspeakable.
Oliver Stone barely survived his marginalization.
Exactly. He’s still wounded from what happened 20 years ago. When he talks about what happened he still shakes his head. They were attacking him two years before the film comes out and they don’t even know what’s in it. But they really do know… In the case of Martin Luther King I went to the only trial ever held for his assassination, for three weeks, 70 witnesses. And a jury—six black and six white—come back and say, ‘You know, he was killed by a conspiracy that includes government agencies.’ That’s explicitly in the verdict, so this is supposed to be headlined around the world the next day. Well—not quite.
JFK and the Unspeakable fleshes out and names many of the facilitators of the plot—people largely from the right wing, CIA-Cuban exile milieu– but how do we wrap our heads around the actual sponsors?
I approach it as what in the peace and justice movement is called consensus. I don’t think there had to be one grandmaster, say one of the Rockefellers or one of the other multi-trillionaires, I don’t think that’s the way it works. I think you have a process of propaganda, of ideology, ofsubverting one’s own conscience that’s going on on a very large scale, and certainly it is to the benefit of those at the very top of the pyramid, to put it mildly. But I think that process is so overwhelming, whether it be the Cold War, or the war on terror, which is the war of terror, it’s so overwhelming that when someone comes along and says, ‘I’m the president of the United States, and I’m going to turn toward peace,’ then you’ve got a consensus decision. Intolerable. This guy goes. And I don’t think it’s a question of somebody having to mastermind a plot; Fletcher Prouty describes the process wherein Allen Dulles is putting people in all these key positions year after year after year, whether it’s Secret Service or the White House—McGeorge Bundy for that matter is on record for having been working for the CIA when he was a dean at Harvard—so this isn’t very mysterious. When it comes time to stop all of this, they’re all working together. It’s a consensus decision. And for those at lower levels, it’s just overwhelming. People ask, ‘Why didn’t Robert Kennedy do anything?’ Robert Kennedy wasn’t any dummy. He knew a few things about this system. He and John Kennedy were very well informed. I think even they would be overwhelmed by a total understanding of what was really going on, and they were extremely sophisticated people. So Robert Kennedy was of course biding his time. ‘Until I become president of the United States, I can’t do anything.’ Well, I think that’s an illusion. The best thing possible for him would have been to become Gandhi, but of course, he wasn’t Gandhi, he didn’t believe totally in “truth force”, and if he had, the day after he would have said, ‘The CIA killed the president.’ And we would have had, as [Vincent] Salandria has analyzed, a major civil war on our hands. But it would have been better than the 50 years of millions of people being downed by this process.
Not to mention 50 years of illegitimate government.
To put it mildly. And fraud after fraud after fraud. But if you don’t deal with the origin of this—not the only origin but certainly a key one, which is the assassination of a peace-making president by his own national security state, done with impunity—if that’s not an origin of subsequent problems, I don’t know what is.
And that’s why it still matters.
As we say down in the south where I happen to live nowadays, ‘Amen, brother.’
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Robert Morrow
Mar 9, 2013 at 9:28am
If you want to get quickly “up to speed” on the JFK assassination, here is what to read:
1) LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination by Phillip Nelson2) JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters by James Douglass3) Brothers: the Hidden History of the Kennedy Years by David Talbot4) The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh5) Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty by Russ Baker6) Power Beyond Reason: The Mental Collapse of Lyndon Johnson by Jablow Hershman7) Operation Cyanide: Why the Bombing of the USS Liberty Nearly Caused World War III by Peter Hounam (LBJ engineered the attack on the USS Liberty)8) Inside the Assassinations Records Review Board Volume 5, by Doug Horne9) Watch "The Men Who Killed Kennedy - the Guilty Men - episode 9" at YouTube -best video ever on the JFK assassination; covers well Lyndon Johnson's role10) Google the essay “LBJ-CIA Assassination of JFK” by Robert Morrow11) Google “National Security State and the Assassination of JFK by Andrew Gavin Marshall.”12) Google “Chip Tatum Pegasus.” Intimidation of Ross Perot 199213) Google “Vincent Salandria False Mystery Speech.” Read every book & essay Vincent Salandria ever wrote.14) Google "Unanswered Questions as Obama Annoints HW Bush" by Russ Baker16) Google "Did the Bushes Help to Kill JFK" by Wim Dankbaar17) Google "The Holy Grail of the JFK story" by Jefferson Morley18) Google "The CIA and the Media" by Carl Bernstein19) Google "CIA Instruction to Media Assets 4/1/67"20) Google "Limit CIA Role to Intelligence" Harry Truman on 12/22/6319) Google "Dwight Eisenhower Farewell Address" on 1/17/6120) Google "Jerry Policoff NY Times." Read everything Jerry Policoff ever wrote about the CIA media cover up of the JFK assassination.
anonymous
Mar 9, 2013 at 11:54am
I'm the author of a new novel, News From A Parallel World, which supports what Douglass has been saying and writing about. We have an obligation to ourselves and to future generations to inform the people and keep the truth alive. Thanks for continuing to publicize Douglass and this urgent cause.
Adrian Mack
Mar 9, 2013 at 1:24pm
@Robert Morrow, I think if anyone wants to get "up to speed" on the JFK assassination they'd do well to avoid about half the things on your list, particularly anything premised on LBJ as a "mastermind" of the plot.
Every piece of legitimate evidence shows that Johnson had no role whatsoever, besides falling in with the cover-up and promptly reversing Kennedy's Vietnam policy -- and then only because he knew what was good for him. Douglass certainly doesn't suggest anything different.
And Dark Side of Camelot was a smear job that's been debunked by better historians than Seymour Hersh.
There's also no substance to any Bush involvement, but thanks for trying to muddy the waters.
Andy Chen
Mar 10, 2013 at 11:33am
Mack,
"Every piece of legitimate evidence shows that Johnson had no role whatsoever, besides falling in with the cover-up and promptly reversing Kennedy's Vietnam policy -- and then only because he knew what was good for him."
"There's also no substance to any Bush involvement, but thanks for trying to muddy the waters."
KIndly enlighten us and please present a single piece of legitimate evidence to the contrary.
Adrian Mack
Andy Chen
Mar 10, 2013 at 8:58pm
Adrian,
Of course LBJ didn't "do it" as if he personally opened fire on Kennedy in the motorcade with a high powered rifle while he was in a car behind in the motorcade. However the assassination and subsequent coverup, which was clearly a shambles, obviously could only have been executed at the very highest levels in Texas and DC.Funny how Lyndon just happens to be there.
Then there is the "cui bono" factor. Just by coincidence, Lyndon happens to be the key person to benefit once again.
However, the deathbed confession of E Howard Hunt, the Dealey Plaza tramp and Watergate burglar says enough to convince me that LBJ was much more involved in the "Big Event" than the Warren Commission report seems to have mentioned.
"Every piece of legitimate evidence shows that Johnson had no role whatsoever, besides falling in with the cover-up and promptly reversing Kennedy's Vietnam policy -- and then only because he knew what was good for him."
Again, kindly enlighten us and present a single legitimate piece of evidence to the contrary. The guide word is legitimate.
Ray McGinnis
Mar 10, 2013 at 11:25pm
Thanks for your interview of James Douglass and his book on JFK and the Unspeakable. It shifts the focus on JFK to a real profile in courage.His steps to turn away from the Cold War,1) shaping a trusting relationship with his "enemy" Krushchev ~ through secret correspondence ~ culminating in their helping each other back away from the Cuban Missile Crisis;2) successful passage of the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty;3) confidential correspondence with Fidel Castro toward normalizing relations with Cuba;4) his October '63 memorandum to initiate withdrawal of all US military and CIA personnel from Vietnam5) firing the top three staff in the CIA starting with Allen Dulles, reducing the CIA budget by 20% and stating he was "going to splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the wind,"~ these initiatives of JFK's put him on a collision course with other powerful persons in the US government. Jim Douglass' book and thorough endnotes, and surprising interviews of so many witnesses who contradict the Warren Commission, provides a refreshing re-appraisal of JFK as a more remarkable person and leader than the tabloids are already painting him in this 50th anniversary of his assassination.
Adrian Mack
Mar 11, 2013 at 10:08am
Andy, funny, I had a feeling you might bring that up. Did you also throw down 20 bucks for the DVD? Coz you might want to consider who or what the professional liar and author of spy fiction E Howard Hunt was loyal to, right until the bitter end.
Look, you can either do the work, and treat some 50 years of reputable research with the respect and time that it deserves, or you can swallow Hunt's poison pill and take your information from websites that promote Holocaust denial. The choice is yours. | {
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I read a story about a man named Bill. His wife left him and he became so depressed that his doctor sent him for psychiatric help. Bill told the psychiatrist his difficulties and surmised, “Life isn’t worth living.” The psychiatrist retorted, “Don’t be so rash, Bill; let work be your recovery. I want you to totally plunge yourself in your work. Now, what do you do for a living?” Bill looked even more distraught as he replied, “I clean out septic tanks.” So much for the power of positive thinking!
Karla Michelle Satterly, daughter of Kevin Mark and Patsy Satterly, and Timothy Joe Griffieth, son of Chester and Vida Griffieth, were married April 20, 2013.
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) has recommended names for elements 114 and 116. Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and at Dubna proposed the names as Flerovium for element 114 and Livermorium for element 116.
Flerovium (atomic symbol Fl) was chosen to honor Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, where superheavy elements, including element 114, were synthesized. Georgiy N. Flerov (1913-1990) was a renowned physicist who discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium and was a pioneer in heavy-ion physics. He is the founder of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. In 1991, the laboratory was named after Flerov - Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions (FLNR).
Livermorium (atomic symbol Lv) was chosen to honor Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the city of Livermore, Calif. A group of researchers from the Laboratory, along with scientists at the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, participated in the work carried out in Dubna on the synthesis of superheavy elements, including element 116. (Lawrencium -- Element 103 -- was already named for LLNL's founder E.O. Lawrence.)
In 1989, Flerov and Ken Hulet (1926-2010) of LLNL established collaboration between scientists at LLNL and scientists at FLNR; one of the results of this long-standing collaboration was the synthesis of elements 114 and 116.
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Budget 2016: Funds and Asset Managers
The 2016 Budget contains many measures affecting the asset management industry more or less directly, some confirming existing announcements but many new.
UK individuals’ tax rates and allowances
The Chancellor has confirmed that the £5,000 dividend allowance and £1,000/£500 personal savings allowance will have effect from this April, as expected.
Newly announced is that from 5 April, the higher rate of capital gains tax will be reduced from 28% to 20%, and the basic rate will be reduced from 18% to 10% on the disposal of investments (but not for gains on carried interest and residential property).
The government also intends to introduce a new £1,000 allowance for property income from April 2017, and, on the face of it, this relief will exempt property income distributions from PAIFs (and UK REITs) as well as rental income.
These two new measures were unexpected and potentially further undermine the tax-benefits of ISAs.
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Gross payment of interest distributions
The gross payment of interest distributions from OEICs and authorised unit trusts (as well as investment trusts and peer to peer loans) will come in in April 2017. The legislation will be in the 2017 Finance Bill so details will be available in due course. This hoped-for change should enable managers to simplify the class structures of their bond funds by streamlining their net and gross classes, as well as reducing the administrative burden of interest distributions.
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Regarding authorised contractual schemes, the government will consult later this year on measures to streamline the tax rules for investors in ACSs and their reporting requirements. We are hopeful that this will extend to both the various outstanding technical points that we and HMRC are aware of, but also to the application of capital allowances in property ACSs.
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The stamp duty land tax regime for ACSs and seeding relief for ACSs and PAIFs has been confirmed as coming in to effect from Royal Assent to the Finance Bill 2016. We have heard direct from HM Treasury that the government has made a number of technical changes to the draft legislation, including changes to the calculation of the clawback on disposals of units so that it is not simply related to the number of units but the interest in the underlying assets. The clawback will apply at the group level in the case of corporate groups. In addition, investors will be able to elect to end the seeding period within 18 months by notifying HMRC.
Otherwise the overall policy design is unchanged. The draft legislation will be in the Finance Bill to be published on 24 March. The changes are welcome although they do not go as far as the industry wanted. The government has clearly decided to enact the measures without major changes and says it will work with the industry to assess the take up and efficacy of the changes after it comes in.
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The government has at last announced that it will amend the Limited Partnerships Act 1907 to make LPs a more competitive vehicle for unauthorised funds.
The government is also launching a consultation on how partnerships calculate their tax liabilities in order to bring more certainty to the area.
The government has, as expected, finalised the rules that determine when asset managers can pay capital gains tax rather than income tax on their performance-related returns (carried interest). The investment holding period has been reduced to 3 years, which is welcome, but it will be necessary to look at the details in the Finance Bill being published on 24 March. Meanwhile, for further details, click here.
It is also worth noting that the reduction in the rate of capital gains tax will not apply to those carried interests that are taxed as capital gains.
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The government has announced that it will allow ISA savings to continue after the death of ISA-holders for the benefit of their estate, which may simplify ISA administration. Fortunately, the government intends to talk to ISA providers about this before introducing it later this year.
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The government has announced that it will raise the ISA subscription limit to £20,000 from April 2017.
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The government intends to introduce a new “Lifetime ISA” in April 2017 for adults under the age of 40. They will be able to contribute up to £4,000 per year until they reach 50 and the government will add a 25% bonus for every pound saved. The Lifetime ISA funds, including the government bonus, can be used up to the age of 50. Taxpayers will be able to withdraw money from their Lifetime ISA, including the government bonus, at any time after 12 months from the opening of the account if it is used to buy a first home (maximum price £450,000). Otherwise the funds can be withdrawn from the Lifetime ISA with the government bonus from the age of 60 for use in retirement. It will also be possible to withdraw money at other times but the government will claw back the bonus (and levy a small charge).
The Help to Buy ISA will continue until November 2019 but individuals may receive only one government bonus, and those with help to buy ISAs will be able to transfer them into a Lifetime ISA during the 2017-18 tax year.
The government will also consider whether the Lifetime ISA funds together with the government bonus can be withdrawn in full for other specific life events in a similar way to US 401(k) plans.
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A number of the changes announced in the Budget will affect offshore property funds, along with other property investments. Briefly, the government has decided to lead the way in implementing the G20 and OECD BEPS (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting) recommendations and announced that from April 2017 it will cap the amount of relief for interest to 30% of taxable earnings in the UK (or based on the net interest to earnings ratio for the worldwide group, which is likely to be more relevant for MNEs). There will be exception for public benefit infrastructure and also a £2m de minimis allowance. This expected change is likely to affect markedly the balance of advantage of using a geared offshore fund structure for UK property as against a tax-efficient onshore property fund, and may well lead to more offshore property funds coming onshore. The government has thankfully gone with 30%, that is, the top of the OECD range of acceptable figures.
The government has not referred to the European Commission's recent proposal that excludes UCITS and alternative investment funds but it has confirmed that it will continue to work with the OECD on appropriate rules for the banking and insurance sectors.
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As states debate whether to expand their Medicaid coverage under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act, a new study by Harvard School of Public Health researchers finds that doing so may save thousands of lives.
The study compared health statistics in three states that recently expanded their Medicaid programs — Arizona, Maine and New York — with neighboring states that did not and found that when health insurance was extended to more low-income residents, death rates dropped by about 6%.
Currently, Medicaid, a federal-state program for poor or severely disabled people, covers about 60 million Americans. Under the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid eligibility will extend to millions more Americans — perhaps half of the 30 million who are now uninsured — starting in 2014. Last month, the Supreme Court ruling on the health care law gave states the option to accept or reject the law’s Medicaid expansion, intended to grant coverage to uninsured adults without children and with annual incomes of about $15,400. Most states are expected to extend their coverage to some degree.
The debate over Medicaid expansion has largely centered around cost and states’ rights. For the first three years of expansion under the new health care law, the federal government will pick up the tab, then scale back to give states more of the financial responsibility. Some critics argue that the costs aren’t justified because coverage under the program doesn’t lead to better health; they contend that because Medicaid pays doctors less than Medicare or private insurance, patients may not get the care they need.
Enter the new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which seeks to answer that very question. The study looked at three states that had expanded their Medicaid programs between 2000 and 2005 to cover low-income adults without kids or disabilities, a population that was previously ineligible for Medicaid. The researchers compared mortality rates in these three states five years before and after the expansions. They then compared the rates to four neighboring states that did not expand coverage: Pennsylvania, Nevada, New Mexico and New Hampshire.
In the five years before expansion, there were about 46,400 deaths per year in 20-to-64-year-olds in the three states combined; in the five years after, there were 44,900. For every 176 additional adults covered by Medicaid, one death per year was prevented, the study found. In the other four states where coverage was not expanded, death rates went up.
Drops in death rates were greatest among adults aged 35 to 64 years, minorities and residents of poor counties, populations who would be most affected by the expansion. The study also found that delays in care were 21% less likely to be blamed on cost, after the expansion. “Policymakers should be aware that major changes in Medicaid — either expansions or reductions in coverage — may have significant effects on the health of vulnerable populations,” the researchers write.
Because the study did not randomly assign its participants, the researchers can’t conclude that the Medicaid expansion caused the decline in mortality rates. The authors write:
One possible explanation for these findings is that expanding coverage had positive spillover effects through increased funding to providers, particularly safety-net hospitals and clinics. Publicity about the expansion may also have encouraged uninsured higher-income and elderly persons to obtain insurance from other sources, including those over the age of 65 years who did not meet lifetime earnings requirements for Medicare.
But the findings do fall in line with those of another study in Oregon, which also expanded Medicaid coverage in 2008. In that state, recipients were randomly chosen via lottery; compared with those who did not get coverage, they were more likely to receive regular medical care, including preventive screenings, and report better health.
It should be noted that the new study’s lead author, Dr. Benjamin Sommers, is currently working as an adviser in the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, but the research was completed before he left Harvard for the HHS stint. | {
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Levity: What If Black People Said The Stuff White People Say?
Then it would sound a little something like this.
Buzzfeed cooked up this hillllarious visual that flips the script on racial microagressions and it's down-right brilliant. From hair touching to musical tastes, and other well-meaning but highly offensive actions, questions, and statements --- the gang is really all here and all spun around into a 180 of "now doesn't that sound just stupid?" giving me revenge life after growing up in "only Black kid in class" suburbia. This is a supreme learning tool if there ever was one on how to not give into stereotypes.
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Why should Bill Gates have to do what you want him to? Surely the whole point of a free society and capitalism is he is free to do what he wants with his money?
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-----------"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever" Lance Armstrong
Uncle Grumpy wrote:Whilst the company wouldn't condone the use of illicit drugs, they have a duty to ensure their workers are fit for work.
i don't share your confidence there. some companies would be quite happy about it, if it meant they could keep earning 24/7.
Okay, I'll change that to:
"Whilst the company wouldn't publicly condone the use of illicit drugs..."
What goes on behind closed doors etc. But I'm not making an allegation that the company is aware of drug use and doing nothing about it. That is a matter for appropriate authorities to investigate the culture of the company.
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When you suggest making the car driver 'liable for all costs' are you suggesting that the TAC shouldn't pay out for car-cycle crashes and the cyclist will have to chase the deadbeat drug-addict bankrupt driver through the courts? It sounds like a good idea but has practical difficulties.
I didn't think it was legal to cycle along the break-down lane of freeways - this is a pretty good indication of why.
Westgarth wrote:I didn't think it was legal to cycle along the break-down lane of freeways - this is a pretty good indication of why.
In Sydney cyclists can legally use the breakdown lane of many freeways. Some would maintain that, in contrast to urban roads with all their hazards at intersections and driveway entries and limited road space, freeways are the safest roads.
Westgarth wrote:When you suggest making the car driver 'liable for all costs' are you suggesting that the TAC shouldn't pay out for car-cycle crashes and the cyclist will have to chase the deadbeat drug-addict bankrupt driver through the courts? It sounds like a good idea but has practical difficulties.
I didn't think it was legal to cycle along the break-down lane of freeways - this is a pretty good indication of why.
Here is NSW at least, riding on the Freeways/Motorways is allowed unless it specifically says you can't. I think the RTA reasons that by allowing riding on the Road Shoulders, and publishing the route in their official cycling maps, they can then clain they have provided "Cycling Infrastructure".On most of the Motorways, the shoulder is at least as wide as a regular traffic lane, so there is less risk riding on the Motorway than there is in heavy traffic. Of course, one does not expect to contend with drivers who find it difficult to stay within a marked lane. To subsquently blame such collisions on the Cyclist by saying "they shouldn't have been there" conveniently overlooks the fact that perhaps the driver of the car/truck should have been paying attention and stayed on the road!
The wheels of justice turn slowly - Channel 10 have reported that Stephen Day, the driver responsible for killing cyclist David Williams on the M4 way back in April 2010, whose driving was impaired by both fatigue & marijuana, has been sentenced. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 9 years jail. The report states that he gave up bail a year ago & his release is 6 years ago, so it sounds like the non parole period of is 7 years.
He is said to be appealing the severity of the sentence.
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I would link to a more reputable source, but it appears that the major newspapers did not deem it newsworthy.
My experience has been that most heavy truck drivers are the most considerate drivers on our roads, especially towards cyclists. Semi-drivers and B-double drivers will always give as much room as possible and change lanes well in advance to give you a full lane of room. However there seems to be a correlation between the value of the cargo and the responsibility of the driver and/or truck company.
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Slayer release first episode of 'Early Days' documentary series
Heavy metal icons Slayer followed up their announcement of the band’s impending split by posting the first episode of their multi-part documentary series on YouTube. The clip finds band members Tom Araya, Kerry King, Paul Bostaph, and Gary Holt reflecting on their nearly 37-year musical journey. Watch episode one of “Early Days,” in the video above.
King reveals his love of music started in high school in the premiere installment and how he looked for bandmates with “like-minded ideas.” He recalls meeting late Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman (who passed away in 2013) at a warehouse while auditioning for another band. King said, “He was playing songs I know on the guitar sitting at a desk. And I was like, 'Hey, are you in a band?' And he wasn't. So I said, 'Would you like to get together and see what happens?'"
King and Araya list some other jobs they held while trying to catch their music break. King worked at a mini-golf park and a pet shop, among other places. Araya worked at an emblem company. These jobs were a kind of fall-back if music didn’t work out and helped fund their career as it got off the ground.
Slayer has been nominated for five Grammy awards, winning twice. Both wins were in the Best Metal Performance category, with one in 2006 for “Eyes of the Insane” and the other in 2007 for “Final Six.” Both tracks hailed from the band’s 10th studio album, Christ Illusion, which dropped in 2006. The album hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200 chart and topped Billboard's US Top Tastemaker Albums chart.
The California band originally formed in 1981 and dropped their most recent studio album, Repentless, in 2015. Repentless is Slayer’s twelfth and final album. Slayer has long been considered one of metal’s four biggest bands, along with Metallica, Megadeth, and Anthrax.
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Virtual Currency Bitcoin is Fascinating, Terrifying, Maybe The Future
Welcome to the thirteenth installment of Queer Your Tech with Fun, Autostraddle’s nerdy new tech column. Not everything we cover will be queer per se, but it will be about customizing this awesome technology you’ve got. Having it our way, expressing our appy selves just like we do with our identities. Here we can talk about anything from app recommendations to choosing a wireless printer to web sites you have to favorite to any other fun shit we can do with technology.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could invent money? When one of my co-workers told me about bitcoin, my jaw hit the floor. Because basically, that’s what bitcoin is. A programmer or team of programmers who goes/go by the name Satoshi Nakamoto did that in 2009. He wrote a program that would create and mine a virtual currency and bam, money invented. What’s so special about this virtual money? It’s entirely virtual – bitcoin is completely unattached to anything. No government. No gold. No nothing. These virtual coins are entirely anonymous and untraceable, like cash, which means they’re frequently used to commit crimes. The software is open source, so anyone can view it to make sure it’s not doing something nefarious, like starting the Robot Revolution.
First, you install the bitcoin mining software. Your computer is then like a miner that works for you – it does a specified amount of work to get you a bitcoin. It arose, according to Nakamoto, out of the financial crisis and his distrust of governments to handle and regulate our money. But then merchants began actually accepting bitcoin, like this crèpe place in Brooklyn.
The bitcoin fell out of favor a bit when some of the websites that manage virtual wallets were hacked and compromised. But the bitcoin software/code actually was not compromised. It was too good, thus giving me a little bit more faith in something that seems so unreal. Not even the best cryptographers can break it. But as a result, not as many places take it anymore.
via siliconangle.com
I’m not saying we should all run out and convert all our dollars to bitcoins. In fact, I’m definitely not saying that, as the things you can buy with bitcoin are now very scarce. Its popularity really peaked in 2011, two years ago. As you know, I’m a huge fan of government. I generally believe that the government, and not the private sector, should be regulating our money. The thing I find interesting about bitcoin is that, with this software, it’s really neither. The thing I find scary about bitcoin – it’s basically run by one guy: Nakamoto. Who has since disappeared, saying he’s moved on to other things. No one has heard from him since. And the thing I find truly scary – these coins represent nothing. Absolutely. Nothing. At all. But then again, neither does the US dollar anymore. We haven’t been on a gold standard since 1971. So I guess for me, the thing that makes me the most uneasy is that the only difference between the currency we get paid and buy groceries with and bitcoin is a history of money having been attached to gold and silver. This history gives us faith. It’s what’s driven society to collectively decide that our currency has value. Weird, right? And yet I can’t help shake the feeling that the users of bitcoin are all government separatists and conspiracy theorists, even though I know that to be untrue. Interesting to think about either way.
It’s such a fine thread of faith holding our monetary system together anyway, why not have totally virtual money? We basically already do. But bitcoin is limiting – it’s basically a platform on which to buy computer parts and tee shirts. Will that change? I have absolutely no clue. All I know is I feel like reading this much about bitcoin has convinced me that bitcoin is the queerest thing to happen to money in a long, long time.
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I remeber being in Canada a few years ago and being in a bar and people were able to use some sort of money issued by a local chain store (or something). I think it had a scotsman on the face of it, can’t remember the name. The paper had value because it could be exchanged in the chain store for goods. I was a bit weird, but did highlight the way money is basically all about everybody pretending it represents something. Even the gold standard is that when it comes down to it.
Everybody should pay their doctor in live chickens! It’s the only reliable way!
1. Bitcoin is not entirely and automatically anonymous. (you have to do a little more research to understand bitcoin and TOR and anonymity on the web)
2. I don’t know that people use bitcoin “to commit crimes” per se (even thought that the the easiest aspect of bitcoin to sensationalize). But as you say it is just like cash, only you can essentially transfer bitcoin easily and instantly any where in the world to anyone else who accepts bitcoin as payments whether those enterprises or legal or otherwise.
3. But regardless of the above it it open source, on a distributed network (meaning no one person or entity can control or stop the flow of bitcoin), and anyone with a bitcoin wallet and connection to the internet can send and receive bitcoin.
You dont need to install bitcoin mining software to use bitcoin. In fact, unless you have very specialized hardware at this point you’re just better off buying or trading something for bitcoins if you want to acquire some. To use bitcoins you just need a bitcoin wallet, which you can run on your own like the mainline Bitcoin-Qt client, or you can use a web-wallet like blockchain.info or coinbase.com.
Satoshi Nakamoto does not control bitcoin at all either, in the same way the Tim Berners-Lee does not control the world wide web. Nakamoto developed and released a protocol. Since then, others have taken over the development of the software and there are implementations written by other teams. They all agree to speak the same language and if any programmer introduced a change that was not wanted, people simple can choose not to upgrade their clients and continue to run on the old rules.
Bitcoin is growing steadily, it had a bubble in 2011 but its incorrect to say that fewer sites accept it now that before, in fact new sites are accepting it _all the time_. WordPress. 4chan. Archive.org. LewRockwell. And more new sites every day it seems. Bitpay reports steady growth in the number of merchants they handle bitcoin payments for.
Lastly, regarding your views on government … how can government continue to exist when it cannot by force or any other means extract tribute. They cannot tax my bitcoins. Indeed they cannot even know that I (may) control any.
What, please do some research before writing such bull, bitcoin is not by one guy! Its run by no one and everyone! Its totally open source and amazing. There is nothing scary about it at all. Is cash scary? Its just digital cash.
Good article! I have been thinking about Bitcoin a lot lately since the ecosystem keeps growing.. meaning that the free market is accepting it and using it. Here’s the really important point, and you didn’t touch on it in your article;
Bitcoin is much more like Gold and Silver than it is like the US Dollar, or the Euro, or the Yen. Why you ask? I will tell you why – scarcity integrity. One of the reasons you see Bitcoin rising against the dollar (becoming more expensive to buy with dollars) is because they are becoming harder to mine. The algorithm that controls their creation makes them harder to create as time goes on and more are made.. in this sense.. Bitcoins are very much like Gold and Silver… as a natural resource, we have mined out most of the easy metal.. ore grades are decreasing, and it is taking more (expensive) energy to mine them… and this phenom… scarcity that is enforced by nature itself, if very different than the creation mechanism behind the major fiat currencies… like the dollar. Ben Bernanke can, and is, creating ever more breathtaking amounts of dollars (QE) and this will eventually debase dollars you may be hiding between your mattresses. It is not easy to imagine Bitcoins you buy today increasing in value,just like Gold and Silver will, while all unbacked fiat currencies devolve.
Obviously, all the guys posting here are members of the “bitcoin community” that just learned about this article. We are very excited about the prospects for Bitcoin, and we want to get more people involved, and also clear up misunderstandings. I want to apologize for Josh’s rudeness, whoever he is.
This is neat stuff. Thanks, Ali! Your last points reminded me of this podcast: http://99percentinvisible.org/post/23191508700/episode-54-the-colour-of-money
At the end someone speculates that U.S. currency is still so poorly designed because the government is afraid that redesigning it would remind Americans that money is a shared idea and not a real thing, which would lead to TOTAL ANARCHY AND THE (capitalized) DESTRUCTION OF CAPITALISM
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The bug in the .msi (RT#62853) that made it crash during relocation has been fixed (a few files were missing from the 5.12.1.0 and 5.12.2.0 .msi's. The build process now makes sure that all the files that will be in the .zip will also be in the .msi.)
The Math::BigInt::GMP and Math::GMP modules (and modules that have one of them as prerequisites) are now usable on older machines.
The 64-bit version does not contain all of the modules that the 32-bit version does. Strawberry Perl is waiting on updates to those modules, as the policy of Strawberry Perl maintainers is not to patch any CPAN modules themselves, but to report required patches to the module author for inclusion in the next version.Known issues are Math::Pari (RT#52146), Win32::API (RT#42685), Crypt::IDEA (RT#55158), Crypt::Blowfish (RT#55173), and Crypt::SSLeay (RT#52408).
There are other modules that are not included with Strawberry Perl that will also have problems with compiling in the 64-bit version that will compile in the 32-bit version. Please report any such problems to the module's author(s), and let us know as well.
PAR::Packer will work with the 32-bit version of Strawberry Perl. A compiled resource file for the 64-bit version will have to be created before PAR::Packer can be used with it. Watch RT#57273 for more information.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Remember this post from last May? It's ok if you don't. I almost forgot about it. To refresh your memory, we were trying to pick out the perfect navy for our master bedroom and I had it narrowed down to these three.
I had the swatches up on our walls for weeks and then finally took them down when they started to gather dust. Fast forward to January and we were back in the home improvement mode and pulled out the swatches again. We decided on Swatch #3 but it's actually called Newburyport Blue (Benjamin Moore) -I cannot get it right! It was the perfect middle ground between the two other blues hues.
Here's the color we had, it's Peanut Shell by Benjamin Moore. To see our bedroom transformation up to this point, click here (really, check out the stencil that came with the house!). I loved the color but I was ready for something new.
I didn't have much time to take "before" shots. We moved the big furniture to the center of the room and took out as much of the other furniture as we could.
We tried Home Depot's Behr Marquee paint this time and color matched it. Before I knew it, the cut-in paint was going up! He's fast!
It was a big, bold change!
as it was drying...
This is what I saw when I came up the stairs. Wow!
The old furniture looked great against the new blue background.
But I wasn't as crazy about the curtains, they looked a little dingy (bad photo).
I found some inexpensive panels at Home Goods that were just what I was looking for to brighten up the room.
The only other new purchases were the mirror over the bed and the faux sheepskin at the foot of the bed (also found at Home Goods).
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Enjoy (Don’t Destroy) Your Pool This Summer
West
Springfield Police District – As summer 2012 kicks off this Memorial Day
weekend, officers hope residents will enjoy their community pools safely
and responsibly. Along with the traditional slower pace and extra free
time in summer months, occasionally bored teens or other curious sorts
trespass onto private property pools and cause havoc.
In
2011, there were 26 destruction incidents and 18 theft/larceny incidents
at community pools in the West Springfield Police District. These
incidents cost homeowners’ associations thousands of dollars and often
result in extensive pool closures. So far in 2012, there have been two
destruction incidents and one larceny/theft. Officers have created an
informational poster that explains the serious consequences of pool
vandalism and are distributing them throughout the West Springfield
District.
Crime
prevention officers stress that inadequate or non-functioning lighting
are two of the major security deficiencies found at many neighborhood
pools. Residents are encouraged to notify management when they see lights
that aren’t properly functioning or don’t cover most of the property and
to help prevent their pools from being targeted by summertime vandals.
Violators
for these infractions may be charged with a Class VI felony, resulting in
1-5 years imprisonment and fines of up to $2,500.
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(Anglais) Within the numediart/HyForge research program, this project aims at studying techniques and developing software prototypes for interactive skimming audio contents. After surveying the stateof- the-art techniques for time-scale modifications of audio signals, we adopt a phase vocoding method. Some limitations of this method are identified and solutions are proposed. More especially, we derive an algorithm that allows adapting continuously the skimming parameters (i.e., the position in the sound excerpt and the playing speed) and investigate the use of phase locking and transient detection in order to compensate for spectral smearing and phasiness. Besides, we develop a software prototype as external objects within the PureData environment, namely a signal processing object and a visualization object that computes the audio output and visualizes the signal waveform, respectively, while skimming an audio file. This prototype performs efficiently in realtime and can be steered with various controllers through OSC support. It definitively provides a suitable platform for testing future developments. | {
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MEVITAS
Standard reports developed for use in the MKS that can produce data within recent history enable MKK participants to control their operational transactions quickly and effectively. In addition to reports, MEVITAS (Central Electronic Transmission Gathering and Analysis System) - a system application, allows members to request non-standard and historical data in the MKS environment. Participant data requests are met quickly and safely by file transfers that are carried out through the MKS. Besides participant requests, some specialized reports are periodically sent to participants through the application.
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In this excellent story on Matt Kalil our guy Dan Wiederer at the NFL Combine a few days ago, Vikings GM Rick Spielman offered a quote that we really hope is just posturing or -- at the most -- food for thought regarding USC offensive tackle Matt Kalil:
"Is the left tackle that important or is it more important to have playmakers on offense?" the Vikings GM asked. "Because when your quarterback evolves, he learns the system, he gets the ball out of his hand quicker and all of a sudden that left tackle doesn't need to be a Pro Bowl left tackle. He can be a functional left tackle. Because the quarterback evolves and he has playmakers."
We see Spielman's point; the quick-rhythm passing game, which the Vikings would like to run, doesn't require elite line play. That said, all offenses require good offensive line play. And having one great anchor is a wonderful start. With Steve Hutchinson getting older, Kalil could be that guy. Given the Vikings' draft position, he really should be that guy (even if the Vikings claim to be conflicted).
Sure, there are a ton of positions of need. Minnesota allowed the second-most points in the NFL last year, so upgrades all across that side of the ball could be in order. But given that Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III seem very likely to go 1-2 -- the latter probably via a trade, which St. Louis is reportedly more than willing to make -- the stage is set for a no-nonsense draft in two months. Just take Kalil and, if things go as expected, lock down a critical position for the next decade.
We're all for innovative thinking and explosive offensive players. We're also keen on seeing an improvement on the 32nd-ranked offensive line when it came to sack rate a season ago. The line is a great place to find hidden gems and develop them. But it's also such a critical -- and oft-neglected -- area that missing on Kalil just shouldn't happen.
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Installation
Please read through the manual before installing any tune into your vehicle - failure to follow proper instructions can result in a damaged or disabled ECU (Engine Control Unit).
User must ensure that the original Ford Factory Tune is in the vehicle’s ECU before installing the DiabloSport tune.
(Ford dealer reflashes are the same as Factory Tune).
Serious engine damage can occur if the Predator tune is installed over a non-factory/aftermarket performance tune.
Very important!
Do not perform any operations on Predator (except live data diagnostics) while vehicle is running. The vehicle must be parked and engine OFF.
Always have all the doors closed while installing the DiabloSport Performance Tune, and keep them closed until the process is complete.
Do not activate any electrical accessories while installing the DiabloSport Performance Tune. Ensure that there are no electronic Aftermarket accessories* wired or plugged into the vehicle that can cause a substantial voltage drop. Please contact DiabloSport if you are uncertain about the effect of devices that are on your vehicle.
Do not try to install any tune on a vehicle with a low battery voltage - charge your battery if necessary.
Unless instructed, never turn the ignition key OFF while the Predator is plugged into diagnostic port.
Do not unplug the Predator while it is installing the DiabloSport Performance Tune or the Original Backup.
Preparing the Vehicle for Tune Installation
*Important Note:
All electronic aftermarket add-on parts can create a potential power draw.
tachometer
electrical fans
shift light
audio/video equiptment.
gauges
trailer/ tow accessories.
Any change in voltage during flash programming procedures WILL interrupt the writing process.
Please disconnect or disable any such add on part.
In the event of such an occurrence, unplug the tool, wait 5 seconds and then plug it back in. The tool will recognize that a interrupted writing error has occurred and will automatically install the original back up. The vehicle is now in its original state. Please attempt to locate the voltage draw before Predator is used again.
Predator contains several predefined DiabloSport Tunes. These are thoroughly tested and approved by DiabloSport. You have a choice of either installing the DiabloSport Tune “as-is” into your vehicle, or customizing it to your personal taste.
If you are satisfied with your factory tuned vehicle and only have a desire to modify a parameter or two (example: change gear ratio), you might want to read the chapter ‘Customizing the Factory Tune’. Before you install any tune into your vehicle, when you use the Predator for the first time, it will read the Original Factory Tune out of your vehicle and permanently store it in its memory. This process takes a minute or two. For safety reasons, there is no way to overwrite this backup and therefore the Predator becomes ‘married’ to, and only to, your vehicle until original backup is restored. If there is ever a need to send the Predator back to DiabloSport, for any reason, the Orginal Backup must be put back into your vehicle, as described in the section Reinstalling the Original Factory Backup’, otherwise your Predator will not be accepted back by the reseller. To find out, which tune was last written to your vehicle, go to ‘Predator Options / Show Last Tune Written’ in the Predator.
DiabloSport Performance is designed to add power and torque for a stock to mildly modified vehicle.
87 Octane Performance is designed to add power and torque for a stock to mildly modified vehicle using 87 octane.
Factory Hp Tune is a adjustable factory tune with NO performance tuning.
Note: Performance tunes may vary from predator to predator. NOTE: WHEN CHANGING HP TUNES, THERE IS NO NEED TO RESTORE FACTORY TUNE BEFORE INSTALLING A NEW(DIFFERENT) HP TUNE. YOU WILL BE PROMPTED TO RESET PARAMETERS PRESS YES OR NO AS YOU DESIRE.
*Premium grade unleaded fuel must be used for all predator applications; AMOCO, MOBIL, SUNOCO fuels are recommended.
The very first time the Predator is used on a vehicle it will automatically create a backup of the original factory tune. (Installing the DiabloSport Performance Tune)
1. Plug the Predator into the Diagnostic Port of the vehicle, located under the driver’s side dash.
2. The first screen you will see is the startup screen with the name of the vehicle the predator supports (i.e.: lightning )
7. Highlight the tune you would like to install by using arrow keys. Press “enter” to continue
8. Verification of the tune will appear. If this is correct, Highlight “Choose” & press “Enter”.
9. The original Backup will now be saved. “press enter to continue”.
10. Follow the prompts to turn on & off the ignition (do not start the car at any time) press “enter” if prompted.
11. A status bar will show progress on the backup process. This might take several minutes.
12. When completed, a message saying “Original Backup has been saved” will be displayed. Press “Continue”.
13. At this point you have the option of installing the Diablo tune or modifying a tune. Highlight the appropriate choice by using the arrow keys & press Enter.
14. Follow the prompts to turn on & off the ignition (do not start the car at any time) press “enter” if prompted.
15. The tune should now be writing. Do not interrupt this process or ECM damage can occur.
16. When the Process is complete, the Message “ {xxxxxx} tune is now in vehicle. You may drive it now. Please unplug the tool”
Unplug the predator from the Diagnostic port. Cycle the key, and start the vehicle. You are now able to enjoy the force of the Predator!!
Modify Tune Procedures
1. When selecting the “Modify tune” function, a disclaimer will appear. Read and press “Enter” to continue.
2. The “modify Performance Tune menu will appear. You will have 2 choices:
Modify Parameters
Reset all Parameters
3. Highlight the appropriate choice by using the arrow keys & press “Enter”
4. In the “Modify Parameters” Menu the following choices will appear:
Axle
Spark Advance
Fuel Base
Tire Size
Idle Speed
OBD II
Rev Limit
RPM Shift Point
Shift Firmness
5. Highlight the appropriate choice by using the arrow keys & press “Enter”
6. Modify the appropriate parameter by using the arrow keys & press “Enter” to continue. [ These parameters should only be changed is you have a understanding of tuning. Engine or ECM damage can occur without proper knowledge.]
8. The display “this change will take effect next time you install the tune” will appear – Press “Continue”
9. Use the “ESC” key to go back through the menus and either continue to change parameters or go to the “install tune now?” menu. Press “Enter “ to continue.
10. The tune should now be building. Do not interrupt this process or PCM damage can occur.
11. Follow the prompts to turn on & off the ignition (do not start the car at any time) press “enter” if prompted
12. The tune should now be writing. Do not interrupt this process or ECM damage can occur.
During programming do not touch any buttons or open and close doors, the theft light will blink rapidly and on some vehicles the electric fans will come on during programming.
13. Follow the prompts to turn ON & OFF the ignition (do not start the car at any time) press “Enter” if prompted
14. When the process is complete, the Message “ {xxxxxx} tune is now in vehicle. You may drive it now. Please unplug the tool” Unplug the predator from the Diagnostic port. Cycle the key, and start the vehicle. You are now able to enjoy the force of the Predator!!
Modify Parameter Section
To adjust parameters, select parameter group, then select specific parameter, adjust parameter as desired then press enter button and follow prompts. Once desired parameters have been modified, press “ESC” to exit out of main modify parameters menu, you will automatically be prompted to install tune.
NOTE If tune is not installed at the prompt the adjusted parameters will not be lost, they will be saved, just not installed in the vehicle.
To reset parameters, simply press “Reset Parameters” button.
When switching from Performance Tune, Factory HP tune or Custom tune you will be prompted to keep or discard adjusted parameters.
Parameter Adjustments
Fan
Fan high speed ECT 1 ON Fan low speed ECT ON
Fan high speed ECT 2 ON Fan low speed ECT OFF
Fan high speed ECT OFF
NOTE: When adjusting fan settings, keep the factory spread of the on and off values. We recommend that you lower / raise all on / off settings by the same value.
Fuel Base
Fuel Table = WOT fuel table, adjusts fuel at wide-open throttle only, Predator allows for a / - 15% adjustment which equates to a 1 point plus or minus on a air/fuel scale.
NOTE: This adjustment should only be done with proper monitoring devices, such as air/fuel meter.
NOTE: OBD-II adjustments are to be done on off-road vehicles only! Not for street use, off-road vehicles only.
Rev Limit
Rev Limit drive = Rev limit when in gear.
Rev Limit neutral = Rev limit when in neutral, use this for manual transmission equipped vehicles.
The stock gear ratios on the 2005 mustang are 3.31:1 for the automatic transmission cars and 3.55:1 for the manual transmission cars. If you have changed your rear differential crown and pinion gears, (select the appropriate ratio using this parameter to correct your speedometer and shift points). Use this parameter to select the appropiate ratio to correct the gear ratio.
Cooling Fan - these temperatures are listed as fan off and fan on. To improve performance, lower all of them by 30 degrees. Remember that once the car is moving approximately 30 mph or more, that the fans will shut off. That is because once the car has a natural flow of air, the fans are no longer needed. This prevents the fan motor from “wearing out” prematurely.
Idle RPM – you can set your engines idle rpm as high as 1200 RPM and as low as 400 RPM. The automatic transmission equipped vehicles have two idle settings, Drive and Neutral. Manual transmission cars only have neutral idle RPM. The engine RPM will fluctuate with temperature. Adjusting the idle will adjust the base target idle speeds. Final commanded idle RPM is affected by RPM adders for temperature and closed loop fuel strategies.
This parameter is more effective for tuning your vehicles idle speed than simply turning the idle stop screw on your throttle body. Rev & Speed Limits – You can not adjust the speed limit, only disable or enable it.
Raise all rev limiters by the same amount to make sure your changes take affect. You can lower the rev limit to 3000 or raise it to 7000 rpm. There is a Rev Limit and a Rev limit Default, both should be changed by the same amount.
Spark Advance Menu
Global Spark Adjuster – this parameter will allow you to add spark advance much like you would adjust a distributor on the cars of yesteryear. You can globally add (advance) up to 4 degrees of spark timing or globally subtract (or retard) 10 degrees of spark timing.
Spark advance 2-4k – applied to 2000 to 4000 RPM ranges
Spark advance 4-7k – applied to 4000 to 7000 RPM ranges
- This is a percent adjustment to the spark table at peak loads. Peak loads occur at WOT (wide open throttle) the maximum advance is 10% and the maximum retard is -40%.
WOT Fuel
Fuel Table 2-4k RPM
Fuel Table 4-7k RPM
These parameters allow you to adjust wide open throttle air fuel delivery by a percentage. This is accomplished by changing the Stabilized Open Loop table at loads of 75% or more.
You can lean fuel as much as 15% or richen as much as 40%. It is recommended to use a wide band air fuel ratio meter on a chassis dynamometer while adjusting air fuel ratio’s at wide open throttle. Remember that in order for your WOT fuel changes to take affect, the computer has to go to the stabilized open loop table at WOT. If you have a cold thermostat, not enough load, cold air kit, aftermarket mass air meter, or the computer is in catalyst protection mode, your changes will not take affect
Features in the 2005 Predator
1. If you want to back up one menu you can simply click the left arrow.
2. The Predator can now hold 5 custom tunes. These tunes can be created by Chipmaster Revolution Dealer.
3. New software that allows you easy loading and unloading of tunes to your Predator or to your PC.
5. Live Data Display – allows you to look at the sensors and computer real time to diagnose and tune your engine’s performance.
Custom Tunes
The custom tune menu is for heavily modified vehicles that require additional adjustments beyond the capability of the programmer.
This option should be handled by dealers only, as they must transfer the original tune from Predator to PC and send it to Diablosport for modifications.
Export Tune
Before exporting Extra tune, user must first go to “Troubleshooting” then “Read Extra Tune”, follow prompts and complete this process. This process will read the current tune in vehicle and save it so it can be transferred to PC.
NOTE: Traction control ON/OFF can be reversed in some vehicles, if turning traction OFF does not work, turn it ON in tool and it should turn traction off in vehicle.
Custom Tune
The Custom tune menu is for heavily modified vehicles that require additional adjustments beyond the capability of the programmer.
This option should be handled by dealers only, as they must transfer the orginal tune from the Predator to PC and send it to Diablosport for modifications.
To export the extra tune or original backup, just connect the predator via serial cable to PC and then power Predator on. Predator go to “options” then “custom tune” then select “export custom tune”.
Select either “Original Backup” or “Extra Tune”, click “continue” on the following screen.
Then in software, click “Get File”, enter a file name and select proper folder to save the file in and click “OK” A status bar should appear in the bottom left corner. NOTE: Name the file appropriately with .frg as file type.
Make sure you note where you save the file on your PC so you will be able to find it after operation is completed.
Import Tune
1. On the Predator, go to “ Options ” then to “ Custom Tune “ Click “ Yes ” on the following screen, you want to overwrite extra tune.
3. Once transfered, the predator will process the tune and ensure that it is correct.
4. Plug the predator into vehicle and instead of the normal tunes you will now have “Custom Tune” there instead. Select Custom Tune and install or modify/ install the tune as usual.
Erase Custom Tune
Use this command to erase the custom tune in the predator and go back to default Diablosport tune. Options/Custom Tune then you will see a message saying “This option is for dealers and expert users only”. Hit (Continue)
Re-installing the Original Backup
There are three occasions when one needs to re-install the Original Factory Tune back into the vehicle:
Going to the dealer for vehicle maintenance or repair.
Returning the Predator to an Authorized Diablosport Dealer.
Using the Predator on another vehicle. To restore Original Backup go to Performance Tune and then select Original Backup.
When the Predator starts to write the Original Backup into your vehicle, a progress bar will indicate the status of writing. Follow all instructions on the Predator screen. The complete process will take about 1 minute.
Vehicle Diagnostics
Select the “Diagnostics“ item from the main menu of the Predator, then press the Enter key.
Diagnostics
Show Trouble Codes = Display any stored trouble codes in memory.
Clear Trouble Codes = Delete any stored trouble codes in memory.
Real Time Data = View real time data, this section is set up in groups of parameters to view.
NOTE: If switching tool from one vehicle to another vehicle you must go into the options menu and press live table reset Each group (when selected) allows user to show specific values or all values in the group. To see specific values choose “Show Select” then based on what sample rate you would like choose “Slow” or “Fast”. The next screen will show all parameters available. Highlight and press the ENTER (circle) button next to value you would like to display, once completed press “ESC” button.
DATA LOGGING
All live data groups can be data logged.
When specifying parameters to view you will be asked to choose “Slow” or “Fast” rate.
Fast rate will sample the values at a higher rate and will be able to log data for about 45min, the more parameters you select the lower the granularity for values will be, we recommend no more than 8 for best sample rate.
Slow rate will sample at a slower rate and will be able to log data for about 1hr 30min, when choosing to view all values the default rate is slow.
Once the proper sample rate is selected, the next screen will ask “DATALOG” yes or no, select “YES” and the data logging will start.
To stop data logging, press the “ESC” button.
Log Playback
To view the logged values, go back to main diagnostic menu and select “Log Play Back”.
Top right hand corner will display the total time data logged.
Top left hand will display elapsed time.
Top Center will display progress bar and mode of view.
Show Trouble Codes = Display any currenttrouble codes
Clear Trouble Codes = Delete any current trouble codes
Real Time Data = View real time data, this section is set up in groups of parameters to view.
NOTE: When switching tool from one vehicle to another vehicle you must go into the options menu and press live table reset
Each group (when selected) allows user to show specific values or all values in the group, to see specific values choose “Show Select” then based on what sample rate you would like choose “Slow” or “Fast” the next screen will show all parameters available, highlight and press the enter button next to value you would like to display, once completed press “ESC” button.
You will now be asked if you wish to data log (record data) or just view the parameters without data log.
Data Logging
All live data groups can be data logged.
When specifying parameters to view you will be asked to choose “Slow” or “Fast” rate.
Fast rate will sample the values at a higher rate and will be able to log data for about 45min, the more parameters you select the lower the granularity for values will be, we recommend no more than 8 for best sample rate.
Slow rate will sample at a slower rate and will be able to log data for about 1hr 30min, when choosing to view all values the default rate is slow.
Once the proper sample rate is selected, the next screen will ask “DATALOG” yes or no, select “YES” and the data logging will start.
To stop data logging, press the “ESC” button.
Log Playback
To view the logged values, go back to main diagnostic menu and select “Log Play Back”.
Troubleshooting
1. My Predator will not power up when I plug it into the OBDII port. Why?
A: Make sure that the cigarette lighter fuse in your vehicle is functional. You may also want to try plugging the Predator into any other vehicle with an OBDII port to see if it powers up. If it does not, please return to point of purchase for a warranty exchange.
2. My Predator lights up, but nothing happens.
A :Please return you Predator to point of purchase for warranty exchange.
3. My Predator says “Invalid license, tune in the vehicle does not match the last tune written,” and it will not install a tune.
A: Please call technical support at (561)908-0040.
4. My Predator is flashing a CAL_ID, and saying call technical support what should I do.
A: Check your Predator for the latest revision update. Look on the top of the main menu of the Predator after it boots up to see your revision information. Check the number after the word “Predator” and verify that it matches the latest revision on our website www.diablosport.com
5. How do I update my Predator to the latest revision?
A: Please go to our website www.diablosport.com and take a look at the “downloads section” where you will find all the necessary information on getting the latest revision update.
6. My vehicle is shifting really hard, why?
A: Make sure you give your vehicle at least 4-5 cold starts with the tune installed before you begin driving it with heavy gas. This is because your transmission needs to learn how to shift with the new tune in the vehicle.
7. My Predator says “FEATURE NOT SUPPORTED ON THIS VEHICLE,” What do I need to do?
A: Check your Predator for the latest revision update. Look on the top of the main menu of the Predator after it boots up to see your revision information. Check the number after the word “Predator” and verify that it matches the latest revision on our website www.diablosport.com
8. The Predator says “VEHICLE NOT IN DATABASE” what should I do?
A: Check your Predator for the latest revision update. Look on the top of the main menu of the Predator after it boots up to see your revision information. Check the number after the word “Predator” and verify that it matches the latest revision on our website www.diablosport.com. If you update your Predator and you are still displaying this message, please call technical support at (561)908-0040.
Options Menu
Display Serial Number = Show the Predators serial number
Show Last tune Written = Display the last tune written to vehicle
Custom Tune = Custom tune menu, see Custom Tunes section
Troubleshooting = See Troubleshooting section
Serial Baud = Set the serial baud rate of communications for Predator.
NOTE: When switching tool from one vehicle to another vehicle you must go into the options menu and press live table reset.
Troubleshooting Menu
Show Calibration ID = Display the hex code on the vehicle
Show VIN = Show vehicles VIN number
Read Extra Tune = Reads the tune in the vehicle for export to PC
Restore Original Backup = Restores the original tune and resets the tool for use on another vehicle.
Log Upload = Upload data log file to PC, see Diagnostics section.
Live Table Reset = Reset this when Predator is used on a different vehicle.
Verification = This is a troubleshooting feature and should only be used with the supervision of Diablosport tech support.
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A nostalgic journey to the past to relive the golden days of entertainment!
Friday, March 7, 2014
THE LAST DAYS OF VERONICA LAKE
One of the most beautiful visions of 1940s films was that of Veronica Lake. With her "peek-a-boo bang" she was an iconic image of film noirs. Some of her popular films of the time included ‘This Gun for Hire’, ‘The Hour Before Dawn’, ‘Hold That Blonde’, and ‘Out of this World’ among others. Veronica was a big screen name in the 1940s and her success in acting seemed unstoppable.
By the early 1950's however, Lake's career had hit the skids. Still suffering from schizophrenia, and in a state of paranoia, she turned to drinking heavily to relieve herself from the burden. This only added to her deteriorating mental state and, with the stress of three broken marriages, a domineering stage mother, a manic depressive personality, and a self destructive addiction to liquor she pushed herself over the edge. After 1952, she would make only two more films, both grade B horror flicks. The beautiful super star with the peekaboo hair do, who entertained and inspired so many, never received the professional help which would have saved her from the mental suffering and she would endure it alone. She eventually frequented cheap hotels in New York City and worked as a bartender where she obtained a steady supply of booze. She never revealed her true identity and even her co-workers were in the dark about her glamorous past.
By the late 1960's she had reached rock bottom, holing up in her apartment out of paranoid fears that the FBI was following her and tapping her phone. Those who knew her in the 60's said that the once great beauty had turned into a worn out mess, with rotting teeth, unwashed hair, and the pasty complexion of a bloated alcoholic. Saranac Lake native, James Quigley, recalls an encounter with her while she was working at a popular New York City bar at #1 Fifth Avenue in the 60's. He introduced himself as a Saranac Laker and Veronica seemed happy to meet someone from her old hometown. Jim said "I went to the bar at #1 Fifth Avenue, a very chic and popular bar for New Yorkers. Veronica was tending bar and when I told her I was from Saranac Lake she cried, kissed me and continuted to work. What a moment!"
In the early 1970s Veronica made a brief return to the spotlight with the publication of her autobiography, which earned her enough cash to relocate to the British Isles. She married for a fourth time- to an English sea captain, a commercial fisherman known as "Captain Bob" but that soon ended in divorce. In early 1973, she returned to the states. According to the doctors who treated her, she was already "pretty far along" with an acute case of hepatitis and she was not long in Saranac Lake before she was admitted to Will Rogers Hospital. According to her doctor in Vermont, Warren Beeken, Saranac Lake did not have the resources to treat her as well as the Medical Center in Burlington, so on June 26, 1973 she was transferred to the Fletcher Allen Hospital.
Her presence in the hospital was not publicized- because, according to her publicist William Roos- "Frankly, I didn't think she was going to die". He was not aware of the extreme state of her medical condition. According to Dr. Beeken, her case of hepatitis had persisted for some time before she entered the Fletcher Allen Hospital, and her condition had deteriorated rapidly. Word of her true identity quickly spread throughout the facility, and the hospital staff visited her room to pay their respects. She visibly brightened due to the attention, signing autographs for the nurses and speaking confidently of future plans. According to one nurse who attended her in her final days, "She was very cheerful and friendly, happy and looking forward to the future, and still retained a shadow of her former beauty." Yet, she was also utterly and completely alone- with no guests or phone calls, a sad state for one once so well known. Dr. Beeken looked in on her one last time on the evening on July 6, when acute renal failure had set in.
Early on the morning of July 7, 1973, Veronica Lake passed away, alone and forgotten at age of 50. After hearing of his mother's death, her son Michael, who lived in Hawaii, asked his father, Lake's 3rd ex-husband, Andre de Toth, for money to fly to Vermont, but his request was denied. Michael had to take a loan out to fly to Vermont to claim the body from the Corbin Palmer funeral home, located near the Fletcher Allen hospital. She was then cremated but her ashes were stored at the funeral home until payment could be made. Her sparsely attended Manhattan memorial service was paid for by a friend, veteran ghostwriter Donald Bain, who penned Lake's incomplete autobiography.
Not even her ashes made the event; as they were still stored at the funeral home in a squabble over money. Her ashes remained there until March 1976, when two friends volunteered to bring Lake's ashes to Florida. Bain sent the funeral home $200 to cover the back storage fees, and the ashes were shipped to the Park Avenue residence of a friend, William Roos. Roos and Dick Toman supposedly took the ashes south for their ceremonial deposit in the water off Miami but it appears that this isn't the end of the story. It is claimed that the ashes somehow found their way to a curio shop in the Catskills, a place called 'Langley's Mystery Spot', in Phoenicia, N.Y. Even in death, Veronica Lake did not get the respect and recognition she deserved. It was a shame and a tragedy...
I had to blink some tears in my eyes reading about Veronica. It always hurts to know how the old Hollywood I've always loved could be so uncaring and quick to shove someone like her under the rug with the rest of the debris. She really didn't have anybody, did she? Poor little thing ... at least she knows now that she is remembered and her work still enjoyed (my opinion anyway).
Her movies brought me a lot of joy. Jessica Rabbit: I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way. I don't know how the Jessica Rabbit character can be considered a caricature of Veronica Lake in any way besides her hair. But that's ok because it serves as a reminder of that charming and adorable little woman who graced the silver screen so long ago. No one could take their eyes off her when she was on the screen. She made the whole movie, the other actors were just filler in the background. She was a nice little lady who was taken from us far too soon.
The idea that Veronica had psychiatric problems was a story that originated with her bitter mother, not physician. Veronica and her mother had many problems while Veronica was alive. Veronica had cut off contact with her. And her mother went so far as to sue her for non-support. Apparently, she felt she deserved some of Veronica's money. Her mother and Jeff Lenburg combined to write; "Peekaboo: The Story of Veronica Lake". This is the only place where allegations of psychiatric issues appear. But, the damage it did to Veronica's reputation was immeasurable. It was hard for me to read this article that perpetuates these rumors about Veronica. I wish they would re-release her autobiography; "Veronica: The Autobiography of Veronica Lake" co-written by Veronica and Donald Bain. Copies can still be found but they are quite expensive.I don't feel this article was fair to the memory of Veronica.
Thank you so much for enlightening people of the truth. Lakes mother was a hideous creature whose actions alone are the cause of Veronicas deterioration. There is a void left behind when a child grows without loce and nurture, a void only self medication xan fill if not resolved appropriately. My heart hurts for her.
Where are her ashes now? Are they still for sale? Perhaps we need to crowd fund to buy and give the lady a fitting resting place like they did for Ann Sheridan, another lady whom suffered a similar fate.
She did a theater show, I can't remember the name but it made a Life Pictorial in the 1940's, where she and the woman who played the Wicked Which of the West did a good long staged catfight over a man who was playing them both. Plain Jane vs Beauty. Biting, scratching, hair pulling. Always had a crush on her.
I really think its a shame how Veronica Lakes ashes where at the funeral home for so long and not rested in peace. She deserved better. She was beautiful this 4 foot 11 inch tall women was an amazing actress in I married a witch and I watched it more than once. Alcohol was a real killer here and that was sad but she felt that it helped her. She had issues and a lot of us do. Alcoholism is real. So sad. She was beautiful. The peek aboo hairstyle made trends. RIP Veronica and God Bless. | {
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Slow Shutdown
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Shutdown on my notebook HP Pavilion dv9233cl, running Windows Vista with all
the latest updates,has become extremely slow--taking several minutes (about
5 minutes). I can't associate this prolonged shutdown with any particular,
installed program. Is there a way to establish which program, if any, is
responsible for the delay in shutting down? I have the same programs
installed on my desktop computer and it shuts down normally--just a short
delay while Windows closes everything. Any recommendations to reestablish a
normal amount of time to shutdown?
"Don Bouchard" wrote:
> Shutdown on my notebook HP Pavilion dv9233cl, running Windows Vista with all
> the latest updates,has become extremely slow--taking several minutes (about
> 5 minutes). I can't associate this prolonged shutdown with any particular,
> installed program. Is there a way to establish which program, if any, is
> responsible for the delay in shutting down? I have the same programs
> installed on my desktop computer and it shuts down normally--just a short
> delay while Windows closes everything. Any recommendations to reestablish a
> normal amount of time to shutdown?
>
>
Don Bouchard wrote:
> Shutdown on my notebook HP Pavilion dv9233cl, running Windows Vista with
> all the latest updates,has become extremely slow--taking several minutes
> (about 5 minutes). I can't associate this prolonged shutdown with any
> particular, installed program. Is there a way to establish which
> program, if any, is responsible for the delay in shutting down? I have
> the same programs installed on my desktop computer and it shuts down
> normally--just a short delay while Windows closes everything. Any
> recommendations to reestablish a normal amount of time to shutdown?
In addition to the excellent advice you got from Engel, here are some
general shutdown troubleshooting steps:
Shutdown issues are generally caused by a program and/or process that is
refusing to exit gracefully. The program and/or process can be from
malware or can be legitimate (such as an invasive antivirus like Norton
or McAfee). If you are using a Norton or McAfee product, uninstall it
and replace with a better program such as NOD32, Kasperksy, or Avast
(free). The Windows Firewall is adequate for most people. With Vista,
shutdown issues can also be caused by old/poorly written drivers so make
sure all drivers are updated. See Step B. below for general driver
directions.
A.The first step is always to make sure your computer is virus/malware free.
B. Drivers - The First Law of Driver Updates is "if it ain't broke,
don't fix it". Normally if everything is working you want to leave
things as they are. The exception is that heavy-duty gamers will usually
want to update their video and sound drivers to squeeze every last bit
of performance out of the hardware to get the fastest frame rates. If
you're not one of those people, you don't need to update your drivers if
there are no problems you are trying to solve.
Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get them from:
1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM
computer (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).
Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the drivers.
To find out what hardware is in your computer:
1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific
model machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers
anyway)
3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
Advisor or System Information for Windows.
Standard caveat: If troubleshooting the issue is too difficult - and
there is absolutely no shame in admitting this isn't your cup of tea -
take the machine to a computer repair shop. This will not be your local
BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place. Get recommendations from
family, friends, colleagues.
"Engel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hello Don,
>
> I'm sure you'll get more detailed help from the guys who know a lot more
> than me, but I hope this is enough to get you on the right road for now.
>
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/slowcom.htm
>
> Good luck
> --
>
>
"Malke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Don Bouchard wrote:
>> Shutdown on my notebook HP Pavilion dv9233cl, running Windows Vista with
>> all the latest updates,has become extremely slow--taking several minutes
>> (about 5 minutes). I can't associate this prolonged shutdown with any
>> particular, installed program. Is there a way to establish which program,
>> if any, is responsible for the delay in shutting down? I have the same
>> programs installed on my desktop computer and it shuts down
>> normally--just a short delay while Windows closes everything. Any
>> recommendations to reestablish a normal amount of time to shutdown?
>
> In addition to the excellent advice you got from Engel, here are some
> general shutdown troubleshooting steps:
>
> Shutdown issues are generally caused by a program and/or process that is
> refusing to exit gracefully. The program and/or process can be from
> malware or can be legitimate (such as an invasive antivirus like Norton or
> McAfee). If you are using a Norton or McAfee product, uninstall it and
> replace with a better program such as NOD32, Kasperksy, or Avast (free).
> The Windows Firewall is adequate for most people. With Vista, shutdown
> issues can also be caused by old/poorly written drivers so make sure all
> drivers are updated. See Step B. below for general driver directions.
>
> A.The first step is always to make sure your computer is virus/malware
> free.
>
> http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...moving_Malware
>
> B. Drivers - The First Law of Driver Updates is "if it ain't broke, don't
> fix it". Normally if everything is working you want to leave things as
> they are. The exception is that heavy-duty gamers will usually want to
> update their video and sound drivers to squeeze every last bit of
> performance out of the hardware to get the fastest frame rates. If you're
> not one of those people, you don't need to update your drivers if there
> are no problems you are trying to solve.
>
> Never get drivers from Windows Update. Get them from:
>
> 1. The device mftr.'s website; OR
> 2. The motherboard mftr.'s website if hardware is onboard; OR
> 3. The OEM's website for your specific machine if you have an OEM computer
> (HP, Dell, Sony, etc.).
>
> Read the installation instructions on the website where you get the
> drivers.
>
> To find out what hardware is in your computer:
>
> 1. Read any documentation you got when you bought the computer.
> 2. If the computer is OEM, go to the OEM's website for your specific model
> machine and look at the specs (you'll be there to get the drivers anyway)
> 3. Download, install and run a free system inventory program like Belarc
> Advisor or System Information for Windows.
>
> http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html - Belarc Advisor
> http://www.gtopala.com/ - System Information for Windows
>
> C. If the computer is virus/malware-free, drivers are current, and no
> Norton or McAfee programs are installed, then do clean-boot
> troubleshooting to see which program/process is the culprit:
>
> How to perform a clean boot in Vista and XP -
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/331796
>
> D. If you need more information, here is an excellent shutdown
> troubleshooter:
>
> http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/shtdwnxp.htm
>
> Standard caveat: If troubleshooting the issue is too difficult - and there
> is absolutely no shame in admitting this isn't your cup of tea - take the
> machine to a computer repair shop. This will not be your local
> BigComputerStore/GeekSquad type of place. Get recommendations from family,
> friends, colleagues.
>
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
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I was recently in this condo which was part of a large apartment complex being converted into condos. I opened up the main electrical panel and I did not find a single ground wire inside the panel. The branch circuits had no grounds coming to the panel, there was no main grounding system, I found no other panels in the unit. I opened up several of the outlets and found ground wires connected to the grounding terminals. The complex was 41 to 50 years old. All the outlets appeared to be grounded but where did the ground wires go? Where was the grounding system? I'm definately not an electrical genius so I need some assistance on this one. Any info will be helpful. Thanks.
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Now, I know the cricket season has finished and in most cases it was a season to forget on the field but I think you’ll all agree it’s been a much better atmosphere off it. Our social engagements/bar tabs have been significantly higher than previous seasons which is great to see.
With that being said, it’s time for my annual post regarding this years 11 aside Footie match, Xmas lunch and post season presentation. For all those that are new to the club, this has been a well attended social event for many years so would be great to keep that going.
Footie Match – Under 30’s vs Over 30’s
We will continue the tradition and have a club wide footie game, Under’s vs Overs’s (may be adjusted on the day depending on numbers). Kick off will be around 11.30am on the adelaide. If you are keen to play please contact Phil Dunnett.
XMAS Lunch
The lunch will commence in the clubhouse after the annual footie match. Peter Jouning is coordinating this, please confirm your attendance and the attendance of any guests you have to him.
As per the last few years, we will be having an end of season social at the completion of next week’s final league games. With the 1’s and 3’s still with a lot to play for, hopefully everyone can enjoy some form of celebration next week.
Nothing major, but like we have done throughout the season, a big drink up in the club along with some ordering of some food. We can then venture out if people are up for that too!
It was déjà vu all over again as, for the second week running, Southgate succumbed to the wiles of two left arm spinners.
Earlier, Southgate had performed reasonably in the field and never lost focus in the sweltering conditions.
Wickets fell regularly to the usual variations of slow bowling, the off spin of Ravi Desai and the medium pace of Dave Woffinden and at 71-4 after 23 overs Southgate were in control.
On came Ed Harvey to bowl his first ball in 1stXI cricket and what a debut ball it was. Not unlike the recently famous ‘Adil Rashid’ ball, it pitched, turned and lifted and Phil Dunnett took a fine catch of a ‘ripper’ of a leg break.
So, at 95-5 after 33 overs Southgate had hopes for a quick completion of the Wycombe House innings but it was not to be and the sixth wicket pair added 71 in good time, facing the various skills of Ed Harvey, Ravi and Woffers with equal confidence.
During this period the Southgate fielding did not falter with Daragh Edwards outstanding in the deep and at 166 the sixth wicket pair and those batsmen that followed decided to commit hari kari and test the catching abilities of the visiting out-fielders. These proved infallible and all catches offered were held as the home side collapsed to 185 all out. Woffers finished with 4-50 and Harvey with 3-56.
The wicket was described as not great, but during the first part of the match it seemed to have a certain amount of bounce.
That seemed to disappear at tea-time as batsman after Southgate batsmen fell to balls which scurried rather than bounced.
Only Shoaib Zulfiqar, with a typically aggressive 36, batted with any confidence. Tom Edrich was bowled by a short ball, attempting a pull, deceived by the non-existent bounce, one or two batsmen played back when they might have played forward and a couple who did play forward were lbw, with the umpires confident that the ball would not have gone over the stumps!
Captain Dunnett, having earlier added three more victims to his season’s tally,
was unlucky, playing on, yes you’ve guessed it, to a ball which kept low.
So, a heavy defeat, with ten players scoring a total of 26 runs between them.
Southgate rocked up to the North London ground in Walthamstow with promotion well within their sights albeit with a team understocked with regular bowlers. That problem looked even more serious when a quick inspection revealed a parched wicket which had more in common with the M25 than the usually lush strips that often present themselves at this level. The toss was lost and stand-in captain, Sal Syed was forced to send in Southgate to bat first.
Partha Dave and Peter McLoughlin opened the batting and they remained together until 78 runs and 24 overs later when Peter was removed, stumped off the bowling of Holford. Partha remained and he added 32 runs alongside Sal to leave Southgate 110-2 after 31 overs when Sal was bowled by Amin. The challenge was to add another 90 runs in 15 overs. With plenty of batting to come Joe McCormick and Partha added 20 before Partha was caught off the bowling of Maruf for an excellent 75. The challenge for the remaining batsmen was simple, take advantage of the pitch and score the 70 runs needed to get us to a self-imposed psychological target of 200 in the next 12 overs. Christian McLoughlin and Ankit Patel both pushed the score along with run a ball 21 and 23 respectively before falling in the same over with the score on 189. Ricky Gunn, Sam Larner, Mike Carter and Matthew Barrett then all contributed to the our total score before our declaration at the end of the 46th over thus setting North London a target of 208 to win from their allotted 46 overs.
After an excellent tea it was time to test the Southgate bowling, Mike and Ankit were handed the ball first. In total they would bowl 32 overs, giving away just 108 runs. Mike removed the three openers, one of them thanks to some astonishingly quick glove work from Ricky who was well and truly turning back the years behind the stumps. The game took a unexpected turn when Peter collapsed in the baking sun. He was immediately taken off to sit down and then off to the hospital along with Christian and Joe. Luckily, everything was fine but the quick work of everyone on the pitch and Joe’s efforts in particular were hugely commendable. We were now three fielders down but three of the younger lads from North London were press ganged in and sent out to field. The game was firmly heading for a draw, North London were behind the run rate but Southgate weren’t looking particularly threatening with the ball as the game headed into its 76th over. Barrett was able to winkle out another wicket but North London still had six wickets to call upon.
The turning point came when Sal threw the ball to Delmore Walters to send down some Sobers-esque accurate medium pace. After a couple of loosener overs Delmore’s eye was in and with Ankit supporting him from the other end, the dot ball was the most common outcome. With just 10 overs left it was time for some West Indian magic. Delmore bowled Lee to take the first of his wickets, there was blood in the water but the draw was still the favourite with limited time left and five wickets still to go. No problem for Delmore, he bowled the next four batsmen before Heptonstall chipped one up for Sam to catch at mid-off. Mike was now partnering Delmore up the slope but there were just two overs left when Delmore took the ball for his final effort. Five balls later and the last wicket was still standing and again the draw was the still favourite. But with the last ball of his spell, Delmore produced an arrow to trap 10th man, Tripp LBW for a famous and electrifying victory, finishing with impressive figures of 9-2-31-6 !!!
Credit goes to Ankit who bowled 14 overs for just 32 runs but he had some chances put down and was generally unlucky not to take a wicket. Partha carried most of the batting effort and his free scoring was vital in setting a defendable total. Southgate now have just three games left to play and sit just 2 points behind Harrow Town, who lie in second. We will play Harrow Town on the final day in what may prove to be the game of the season. For now however, focus is on the next game against Brentham who were able to frustrate Southgate earlier in the season when Southgate travelled to North West London.
Congratulations is in order to our very own Ashley Sivarajah in landing a contract on the groundstaff at Lords for 2016. It caps off a fine season for the left arm spinner who managed to pick up 39 wickets in the Prem this year after missing the first four games through injury.
This Saturday shall see the final weekend of Lasith Lakshan’s stay in the UK before he flies out on Wednesday 9th September back to his native Sri Lanka, where he starts his first class career playing for his new club Sri Lankan Ports Authority on friday in Columbo .
Although the big runs in the league have eluded him he has never looked out of sorts at the crease . The highlight being his 171 against Winchmore Hill in a cup fixture and a classy 60 in the league against a memorable win over Ealing . We are hoping he can sign off in style by getting that elusive league ton this Saturday at incidentally Ealing in our final league game.
His off spin bowling has been nothing short of brilliant this year for us teaming up with our own left armer Ashley Sivarajah and claiming 73 wickets between them thus far which has been a great return. Our Sri Lankan spin twins have teamed up and forged a formidable partnership causing havoc to all teams throughout the league. Lassy currently sits on 36 wickets and Ashley on 37 respectively so it will go down to the wire this weekend to see who comes out on top.
Lassy has been instrumental in keeping Southgate up in the top division and his all around great personality will be sorely missed throughout the club.
After the game a couple of tables have been booked at The Dipali for an end of season curry and a farewell to Lassy.
If you can make it could you please let me know ( 07823 338805 – [email protected] )
On behalf of the whole club we would like to thank Lasith Lakshan for his services and hope that we can get him back next year if the league allows. We wish him well in his future cricketing exploits and hopefully one day we will get to see him represent his country at the highest level . | {
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Dear Melissa: Grandparents Behaving Badly
September 9, 2015
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Dear Melissa,
My husband and I just finished a Whole30 and loved it! We lost cravings, bloat, aches, pains, inches, and a few pounds. We still have one huge obstacle that we can’t quite overcome. Our kids (12 and 10) are both obese, but will not get on the program. At our house Whole30 food is all available, but we live next door to my in-laws (their grandparents) who only eat highly processed, fatty, sugary junk food and drinks. They supply my children with this food whenever they want, in unlimited quantities. It’s so frustrating to me! I’ve talked to my in-laws and children about it, but it hasn’t helped. I’m so tempted to ban them from their grandparents’ home. Any advice? –B.F., New Mexico
Every time I get a question like yours, it makes me grateful that all the grandparents in my toddler’s life are fully supportive of our way of feeding him. However, this means I have no firsthand experience with how to deal with this—only my research, my instincts, and the experience I’ve earned helping thousands of Whole30’ers deal with social and family situations. Let the record reflect that my street cred here is solid, but not perfect.
This can be an incredibly divisive situation, and needs to be handled both directly and carefully. Let’s talk about your options, from least to most confrontational.
Note: For reference, I’ve written on this subject once before, directly to the grandparents. Perhaps sending them this article is a good first step, before diving into my recommendations below.
Present a United Front
There are a few things you need to have in place before you approach the situation. Make sure you and your husband are 100% on the same page with respect to how you want your children fed when they are away from your house. Not 99%, not “I’m sure he agrees,” not “he’ll do whatever I want.” Have the conversation. If you as parents don’t agree as to the amount, frequency, and quantity of junk food acceptable in your child’s diet, how do you expect others to follow your wishes?
This is especially important if it’s your spouse’s parents feeding your kids junk. While you need to have a unified front, one of you may have to draw a line in the sand, and it needs to be the one with the parents. If your husband may cave to his parents’ guilt trip, pressure, or other emotional entreaties, you’re fighting a losing battle—one that may harm your relationship with your in-laws and make you feel isolated and unsupported.
Action item: Create a plan for your kids, their grandparents, and junk food that you can both 100% stand behind. You may have to compromise on your ideal situation, but enacting compromise is a far better solution than failing to instill any change because your parents/in-laws divided and conquered.
Offer Alternatives
It’s possible that your parents or in-laws just need a little more information about what the kids can eat. They may be imagining your diet as bland and boring (grilled chicken and steamed broccoli), and the idea of offering your child raw carrot sticks instead of homemade cookies is a tough one for a baking-loving grandmother to accept.
Make a list of snacks or treats your child can eat at their house. Determine with your spouse your stance on ingredients like non-gluten grains and added sugar, and baked goods that are designed to mimic the “real deal.” Offer your parents options for baking or serving your kids snacks that will both feel like a treat while keeping them healthy. Again, you may have to compromise a little here, but if it helps to keep the peace in the family and keeps your kids from being plied with junk food you know is making them less healthy, it’s a net win.
Action item: Create a list of snacks and treats of which you and your kids approve, and provide it to their grandparents. Choose fun snacks like Sunbutter “ants on a log,” fruit “pizza,” or healthier versions of the baked goods your mother-in-law loves to make. Make a book of treats together with your kids to present to their grandparents the next time you visit.
Try Using Logic (Good Luck With That)
While I have limited faith that presenting them with logical facts will work here, it’s still worth a shot. First, your kids’ weight (even if they are obese) may still not be enough to convince them to lay off the junk food. They’ll cite upcoming growth spurts or “baby fat” yet to burn off as enough of a reason to “let them just be kids” and eat whatever they like. But there are things your parents aren’t seeing when it comes to your kids’ health, behaviors, and emotional state, and perhaps sharing them will help.
Make it personal. Your parents love their grandkids, so sharing the very personal ways their current diet is negatively affecting their health and happiness may have an impact. “Josh is getting teased at school; he tells us he really wants to look more like the other kids. Will you help him by having healthier snacks on hand at your house?” or “The last time they visited you, they had so much sugar that both kids were irritable and had diarrhea. I don’t want to ruin their weekend, so please give them fruit and meat sticks for snacks today.”
In addition, grandparents tend to listen to authority more than younger generations, so bring in the big guns: your pediatrician. Ask your doctor if sugar, wheat, or dairy may be behind some of your kids’ symptoms (skin breakouts, digestive issues, asthma, allergies, mood or attention span issues, etc.), or if their weight could signify potential health issues later in life. If they’re willing to agree that it could, you can bring that straight back to your parents.
Action item: Share your personal observations and/or your doctor’s recommendations that your children avoid these specific foods for these specific reasons. Some experts even recommend inviting your parents to the kids’ next doctor’s appointment so they can hear it firsthand—but only do this if you know for certain your doctor will back up your dietary strategy.
Find the Emotional Root
The above could be your first attempt, but chances are you’ve done this before, and it hasn’t worked. This is because it’s impossible to win an emotional argument using logic—and your parents allowing your kids to eat junk food against your wishes (and against your kids’ best health interest) is highly emotional.
It’s time to have a serious talk with your parents or in-laws—but not the logical appeals you’ve previously shared. Here is where you sit down (not over food), in a warm, neutral space and ask them about their experiences with food, and how those experiences may play into how they are feeding your child.
While this discussion may not change anything in the dynamic, it may give you greater insight as to your parents’ (or in-laws’) emotional relationship with food, and why they feel the need to “spoil” or “treat” your kids the way they do. If nothing else, it may help to repair what may have become a tense relationship, as you’ve been battling over food and your kids’ care for some time now.
Tell me about your experiences with food as a kid. Were you allowed treats, or were they limited?
Did your family use food for love, comfort, or praise?
Why do you stock up on treats for your grandkids?
How would you feel about saying “no” to their requests for junk food?
Can you think of other ways to show them how much you care?
Bonus: share some “insider” information about special activities your kids would love. Tell your parents that taking them to the zoo, science museum, or park; treating them to a mid-afternoon movie or theater offering; or playing their favorite board game or a round of mini-golf would mean more to their grandkids than a package of Oreos.
Set Healthy Boundaries
Finally, if none of these tactics change the way your parents feed your kids, it’s time to set some healthy boundaries. While you might be tempted to restrict your parents’ access to the kids until they comply with your dietary wishes, that’s not the solution. First, your kids (and parents) will see it as a punishment, and will either rebel, sneaking time (and junk food) behind your back, or resent you for standing in the way of their relationship. This will only lead to more of an “us vs. them” mentality around food,and it’s really not fair to either party.
However, it’s perfectly reasonable to limit the way your kids interact with their grandparents. You’re free to eliminate unsupervised visits, or restrict visits to your home or a neutral (non-restaurant) location, where they can’t ply the kids with junk food.
Action item: Make your boundaries (and the reasons for them) clear to the grandparents, but if at all possible, don’t involve the kids, especially if they’re young. They won’t understand why you’re changing the ground rules about visitation, and it’s not their job to comply—it’s your parents, as the grown-ups.
Finally, if your parents are still disrespectful of your wishes and boundaries, it’s time to take further action. At this point, I suggest working with a family counselor to determine a strategy that will be healthiest for you and your kids.
While dealing with friends and family can be difficult, I hope these tips will help you find a compromise that works for your family in a way that keeps everyone happy and healthy.
Remember, we aren’t answering questions about the Whole30 rules via this column (use the forum!), nor are we able to offer you specific advice about your medical issue, health condition, or body composition.
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Oni No Noroi page 27: Gouzaa and Maru
So now we find out why Maru likes Gouzaa so much..I really love this page though I sometimes wish I had cel shades it instead.. Oh well!This was actually my third attempt. The other two were just Gouzaa's face and I hated both of them. I stuck with this one and made it work even though I was skeptical of the pose working.
Fav'd.
I've compared this to Rurouni Kenshin, which I hope is better than comparing Charby the Vampirate to Joaquin Vasquez's work.
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Analysis:Colin Kaepernick got sacked 52 times last season, more than any 49ers quarterback ever in a season. After seven different starting combinations in 2014, stabilizing the line is a must, and it begins with replacing Pro Bowl left guard Mike Iupati (now on the Arizona Cardinals). If Brandon Thomas is fully recovered from the knee injury that voided his rookie season, he could be the favorite at left guard, although free-agent veteran Erik Pears will challenge him, as might Marcus Martin, who will also vie for the center spot with Kilgore. Pears also is suited to as a swing tackle behind Staley and Davis, whose 2014 season uncharacteristically was hindered by injuries.
Draft possibilities:Adding a stud tackle could be in order, seeing how bad the line suffered without Davis. Shoring up their interior is also wise with Iupati gone and Alex Boone entering his revised contract’s final year. Among the top-rated tackles are Brandon Scherff (Iowa), Austin Peat (Stanford), La’El Collins (LSU) and Donovan Smith (Penn State). A high pick seems unlikely for a guard, because the 49ers believe Thomas would have been a higher-round draft pick last year if he hadn’t torn an ACL and fallen to them in the third round.
GM Trent Baalke quotes: “We knew (2014) would be a redshirt year for (Thomas). But at this point, he looks very good. He s come off the knee injury very well. He s strong. He s moving extremely well. He s a veryengaged guy, very focused on what he needs to do and wants to do at this level. Can he align at tackle? He s proven in the SEC he can against the No. 1pick in last year s draft. Would we feel comfortable putting him out there?Yeah, but we also have Joe Staley sitting out there, Anthony Davis on the other side and a hole (at left guard) to fill inside. We brought Erick in to compete at that position as well, a guy that s had a lot of experience starting. We ve got Marcus Martin who started two years at guard at USC and made the switch to center. Kilgore coming back at center. We feel very good with where we re at in regards to the OL.” | {
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Parenting Issue: How a Disturbed Sleep Routine Can Damage the Health of Young Parents
Sleep—or lack of if for that matter, is an extremely common problem of the 21st century. We often hear parents complain that they don’t get enough sleep or get any at all. Becoming a parent is a wonderful experience but, let’s face it, it’s no stroll in the park!
Parenting- Not for the Weak and Wimpy
Let’s be realistic. You might have thought that parenting would be easy after adopting two cats – no way is it THAT easy!
Your child depends on you for each and every little thing — especially the little drooling ones (infants, toddlers and young kids). They demand constant attention from you and are rarely happy with your decisions. What’s more, you need to simultaneously prepare each and every detail of their day for them while keeping a close eye on them! Because we all know that it only takes one kitchen trip for your child’s juice refill, to come back to a Picasso baby scribbling away on those clean white walls. Constant supervision is not an easy task and can take a toll on a parent’s mental state easily, causing a rise in their stress levels. And here is where the trouble starts………
Aiming for Balance
If you are stressed and overworked, you will start experiencing poor sleep and suffer from sleep deprivation. This can seriously impact your parenting as well as your state of mind.
Sleep Deprivation = Zombie Parents!
Sleep deprivation might seem like a harmless little issue but its impact on your relationship with your kids can be quite gruesome. If you are sleep deprived, your ability to deal with your kids patiently is quite compromised — insomnia and poor sleep is very likely to steal the level of patience you exhibit towards your children during parenting. When your patience is compromised, anger, annoyance and apathy is going to replace the gentleness, kindness and love that you are supposed to exhibit towards you kids.
Bad Hair Days and Sleepless Nights!
Having kids will definitely mean sleepless and disturbed nights. Kids will steal your slumber. Not only will you be unable to get your required hours of sleep, the quality of sleep will start deteriorating as well. Kids have a tendency to get sleepy during playtime and hyperactive at bedtime. Getting uninterrupted sleep at night time as a parent is almost like getting a raise from your boss. Very rare!
Why Sleep Deprivation is a big No-No
Sleep deprivation has been linked to various medical conditions like cardiac diseases, cancer, blood pressure issues, diabetes, weak immune system etc. Although there has not been any solid scientific research done on sleep deprivation among parents and how it affects parenting (phew!), but, there is no doubt in the claim that sleep deprivation DOES negatively affect parenting.
The “I don’t sleep at all but my Kids turned out Fine” Lie
If you think that not getting enough sleep won’t affect your kids, you couldn’t be more wrong than Arnold Schwarzenegger saying that he never took steroids! As a sleep deprived parent, you will find it very hard to remain attuned with your kid’s emotions and feelings. In fact, sleep deprivation may result in you allowing your child to stay glued to the TV and remain busy in an activity that you, otherwise, would not approve of — if only you were not so tired and relieved that the kids are busy and quiet.
It can also lead you to a point where if your child is throwing a fits and complaining, you willingly and gladly hand over your phone/tablet to your child just to get a moment of peace. This is bad for your child in the long run and does not serve as a good lesson in discipline at all.
How to Avoid Spanking —Sleep
Another extreme situation that some parents resort to is — spanking — or feel the urge to spank as a corporal punishment when they are sleep deprived. Spanking your kids has a long term negative effect on their personalities and that is something that SHOULD NOT be practiced or even thought of at any cost!
Sleep deprivation can at times make you so annoyed that you may start finding it easier to discipline your kids by spanking them rather than making them understanding by talking to resolve the issue non-violently. It is not easy for parents to take out the time to get proper sleep while parenting but it is something that must be done.
What Hinders Parents from Getting Sleep
Parents should start rejecting the notion that loving their child means putting their sleep and mental health at risk. In today’s world of tough economic times, many parents are already struggling to keep up with work and not let it affect their family life. This is a stressful struggle itself. The social pressure for parents to equate themselves to zombies to care for their kids should be removed.
Useful Tips to Avoid Zombie Parenting in Society
Parents, just like every other being, need to rest.
A community of parents can be established to help each other cope with sleep issues and offer assistance to each other.
The government and the local community, all must chip in to address this issue.
Sleep assistance and sleep counselling should be readily available to the parents who require it.
Parents should be made aware of the negative impact sleep deprivation will have on them, and how this will hinder their relationship with their kids.
Parents should be told to take out ample time for themselves to rest.
If parents start taking the proper amount of rest they require, a society full of happy families would not seem like a distant reality.
Eugene Gabriel John
Eugene Gabriel has his BSc (Hons.) Degree in Psychology and has always been fascinated by the effects of good quality sleep, or the lack of it on human productivity and overall well-being. He has helped thousands of individuals suffering from sleeping problems by teaching them about the healthy changes they need to make in their lifestyle in order to sleep peacefully. Read his post on common sleep allergy solutions.
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Max Otto Lorenz was an American economist who developed the Lorenz curve in 1905 to describe income inequalities. He published this paper while a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison...
in 1905 for representing inequality of the wealth distribution.
The concept is useful in describing inequality among the size of individuals in ecology
Ecology
Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...
, where cumulative proportion of species is plotted against cumulative proportion of individuals. It is also useful in business modeling: e.g., in consumer finance, to measure the actual delinquency Y% of the X% of people with worst predicted risk scores.
Explanation
Every point on the Lorenz curve represents a statement like "the bottom 20% of all households have 10% of the total income." (see Pareto principle
Pareto principle
The Pareto principle states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.Business-management consultant Joseph M...
). A perfectly equal income distribution would be one in which every person has the same income. In this case, the bottom "N"% of society would always have "N"% of the income. This can be depicted by the straight line "y" = "x"; called the "line of perfect equality."
By contrast, a perfectly unequal distribution would be one in which one person has all the income and everyone else has none. In that case, the curve would be at "y" = 0 for all "x" < 100%, and "y" = 100% when "x" = 100%. This curve is called the "line of perfect inequality."
The Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper "Variability and Mutability" ....
is the area between the line of perfect equality and the observed Lorenz curve, as a percentage of the area between the line of perfect equality and the line of perfect inequality. The higher the coefficient, the more unequal the distribution is.
Calculation
The Lorenz curve can often be represented by a function L(F), where F is represented by the horizontal axis, and L is represented by the vertical axis.
For a population of size n, with a sequence of values yi, i = 1 to n, that are indexed in non-decreasing order ( yi ≤ yi+1), the Lorenz curve is the continuous
Continuous function
In mathematics, a continuous function is a function for which, intuitively, "small" changes in the input result in "small" changes in the output. Otherwise, a function is said to be "discontinuous". A continuous function with a continuous inverse function is called "bicontinuous".Continuity of...
In probability theory and statistics, a probability mass function is a function that gives the probability that a discrete random variable is exactly equal to some value...
f(y), let yi, i = 1 to n, be the points with non-zero probabilities indexed in increasing order ( yi < yi+1). The Lorenz curve is the continuous
Continuous function
In mathematics, a continuous function is a function for which, intuitively, "small" changes in the input result in "small" changes in the output. Otherwise, a function is said to be "discontinuous". A continuous function with a continuous inverse function is called "bicontinuous".Continuity of...
In probability theory, a probability density function , or density of a continuous random variable is a function that describes the relative likelihood for this random variable to occur at a given point. The probability for the random variable to fall within a particular region is given by the...
f(x) with the cumulative distribution function F(x), the Lorenz curve L(F(x)) is given by:
In probability theory and statistics, the cumulative distribution function , or just distribution function, describes the probability that a real-valued random variable X with a given probability distribution will be found at a value less than or equal to x. Intuitively, it is the "area so far"...
F(x) with inverse x(F), the Lorenz curve L(F) is given by:
The inverse x(F) may not exist because the cumulative distribution function has jump discontinuities or intervals of constant values. However, the previous formula can still apply by generalizing the definition of x(F):
In mathematics, the infimum of a subset S of some partially ordered set T is the greatest element of T that is less than or equal to all elements of S. Consequently the term greatest lower bound is also commonly used...
In mathematics, a continuous function is a function for which, intuitively, "small" changes in the input result in "small" changes in the output. Otherwise, a function is said to be "discontinuous". A continuous function with a continuous inverse function is called "bicontinuous".Continuity of...
. However, Lorenz curves representing discontinuous functions can be constructed as the limit of Lorenz curves of probability distributions, the line of perfect inequality being an example.
In mathematics, a real-valued function f defined on an interval is called convex if the graph of the function lies below the line segment joining any two points of the graph. Equivalently, a function is convex if its epigraph is a convex set...
.
The Lorenz curve is invariant under positive scaling. If X is a random variable, for any positive number c the random variable cX has the same Lorenz curve as X.
The Lorenz curve is flipped twice, once about F = 0.5 and once about L = 0.5, by negation. If X is a random variable with Lorenz curve LX(F), then −X has the Lorenz curve:
L − X = 1 − LX(1 − F)
The Lorenz curve is changed by translations so that the equality gap F − L(F) changes in proportion to the ratio of the original and translated means. If X is a random variable with a Lorenz curve LX(F) and mean μX, then for any constant c ≠ −μX, X + c has a Lorenz curve defined by:
For a cumulative distribution function F(x) with mean μ and (generalized) inverse x(F), then for any F with 0 < F < 1 :
If the Lorenz curve is differentiable:
If the Lorenz curve is twice differentiable, then the probability density function f(x) exists at that point and:
If L(F) is continuously differentiable, then the tangent of L(F) is parallel to the line of perfect equality at the point F(μ). This is also the point at which the equality gap F − L(F), the vertical distance between the Lorenz curve and the line of perfect equality, is greatest. The size of the gap is equal to half of the relative mean deviation:
See also
Distribution in economics refers to the way total output, income, or wealth is distributed among individuals or among the factors of production .. In general theory and the national income and product accounts, each unit of output corresponds to a unit of income...
The distribution of wealth is a comparison of the wealth of various members or groups in a society. It differs from the distribution of income in that it looks at the distribution of ownership of the assets in a society, rather than the current income of members of that society.-Definition of...
Welfare economics is a branch of economics that uses microeconomic techniques to evaluate economic well-being, especially relative to competitive general equilibrium within an economy as to economic efficiency and the resulting income distribution associated with it...
The concept of inequality is distinct from that of poverty and fairness. Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are used by social scientists to measure the distribution of income, and economic inequality among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific...
Economic inequality comprises all disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income. The term typically refers to inequality among individuals and groups within a society, but can also refer to inequality among countries. The issue of economic inequality is related to the ideas of...
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Lua is a lightweight multi-paradigm programming language designed as a scripting language with extensible semantics as a primary goal. Lua has a relatively simple C API compared to other scripting languages.- History :...
) for Atkinson, Gini, and Hoover inequalities
Users of the R data analysis software can install the "ineq" package which allows for computation of a variety of inequality indices including Gini, Atkinson, Theil.
A MATLAB Inequality Package, including code for computing Gini, Atkinson, Theil indexes and for plotting the Lorenz Curve. Many examples are available.
A complete handhout� about the Lorenz curve including various applications, including an Excel spreadsheet graphing Lorenz curves and calculating Gini coefficients as well as coefficients of variation. | {
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Alabama State Constitution, January 7, 1861
Revised by order of the Convention of the People, assembled at Montgomery on the Seventh Day of January, A. D., 1861.
We the People of the State of Alabama, having separated ourselves from the Government known as the United States of America, and being now by our representatives in Convention assembled, and acting in our sovereign and independent character; in order to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity – invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God – do ordain and establish the following Constitution and form of Government for the State of Alabama: And the boundaries of this State are established to be: Beginning where the thirty-first degree of North latitude crosses the Perdido river; thence East, to the boundary line of the State of Georgia; thence along said line to the Southern boundary of the State of Tennessee; thence West, along the Southern boundary line of the State of Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee river, and on to the intersection of said river by said line; thence up said river to the mouth of Big Bear creek; thence by a direct line to the North-west corner of Washington county in this State, as originally formed; thence Southerly along the line of Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico; thence Eastwardly, including all Islands within six leagues of the shore, to the Perdido river; and thence up the same to the beginning.
Article I
Declaration of Rights
That the general, great and essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, we declare:
Section 1. That all freemen, when they form a social compact, are equal in rights; and that no man or set of men are entitled to exclusive, separate public emoluments or privileges, but in consideration of public services.
Section 2. All political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their benefit; and, therefore, they have at all times an inalienable and indefeasible right to alter, reform, or abolish their form of government, in such manner as they may think expedient.
Section 3. No person within this State shall, upon any pretence be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshiping God in the manner most agreeable to his own conscience; nor be compelled to attend any place of worship; nor shall any one ever be obliged to pay any tithes, taxes or other rate, for the building or repairing any place of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry.
Section 4. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience.
Section 5. No person shall be hurt, molested or restrained in his religious profession, sentiments or persuasions, provided he does not disturb others in their religious worship.
Section 6. The civil rights, privileges, or capacities of any citizen, shall in no way be diminished or enlarged, on account of his religious principles.
Section 7. There shall be no establishment of religion by law; no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious sect, society, denomination, or mode of worship; and no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under this State.
Section 8. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Section 9. The people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and possessions from unreasonable seizures or searches; and no warrant to search any place, or to seize any person or thing, shall issue without describing them as nearly as may be, nor without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation.
Section 10. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused has a right to be heard by himself and counsel; to demand the nature and cause of the accusation, and have a copy thereof; to be confronted by the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor; and, in all prosecutions, by indictment or information, a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county or district in which the offense shall have been committed: he shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself, nor shall he be deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by due course of law.
Section 11. No person shall be accused, arrested, or detained, except in cases ascertained by law, and according to the forms which the same has prescribed; and no person shall be punished, but in virtue of a law, established and promulgated prior to the offense, and legally applied.
Section 12. No person shall, for any indictable offense, be proceeded against criminally by information; except in cases arising in the land and naval forces, or the militia when in actual service, or by leave of the court, for oppression or misdemeanor in office.
Section 13. No person shall, for the same offense, be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall any person’s property be taken or applied to public use, unless just compensation be made therefor.
Section 14. All courts shall be open, and every person, for an injury done him, in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay.
Section 15. No power of suspending laws shall be exercised, except by the general assembly, or its authority.
Section 17. All persons shall, before conviction, be bailable by sufficient securities, except for capital offenses, when the proof is evident, or the presumption great; and the privilege of the writ of “habeas corpus” shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion, or invasion, the public safety may require it.
Section 18. The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be detained in prison, after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Section 20. No person shall be attainted of treason or felony by the general assembly. No attainder shall work corruption of blood, nor forfeiture of estate.
Section 21. The estates of suicides shall descend or vest as in cases of natural death; if any person shall be killed by casualty, there shall be no forfeiture by reason thereof.
Section 22. The citizens have a right, in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances, or other proper purposes, by petition, address, or remonstrance.
Section 23. Every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the State.
Section 24. No standing army shall be kept up without the consent of the general assembly; and, in that case, no appropriation of money for its support shall be for a longer term than one year; and the military shall, in all cases, and at all times, be in strict subordination to the civil power.
Section 25. No soldier shall, in time of peace, be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner; nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Section 26. No title of nobility, or hereditary distinction, privilege, honor, or emolument, shall ever be granted or conferred in this State; nor shall any office be created, the appointment of which shall be for a longer term than during good behavior.
Section 27. Emigration from this State shall not be prohibited, nor shall any citizen be exiled.
Section 28. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate.
Section 29. No person shall be debarred from prosecuting or defending any civil cause, for or against him or herself, before any tribunal in this State, by him or herself, or counsel.
Section 30. This enumeration of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people: and to guard against any encroachments on the rights herein retained, or any transgression of any of the high powers herein delegated, we declare, that every thing in this article is excepted out of the general powers of government, and shall forever remain inviolate; and that all laws contrary thereto, or to the following provisions, shall be void.
Article II
Distribution of Powers
Section 1. The powers of the government of the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments; and each of them confided to a separate body of magistracy, to-wit: those which are legislative to one; those which are executive, to another; and those which are judicial to another.
Section 2. No person, or collection of persons, being of one of those departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except in the instances hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.
Article III
Legislative Department
Section 1. The legislative power of this State shall be vested in two distinct branches; the one to be styled the Senate, the other the House of Representatives, and both together “The General Assembly of the State of Alabama”; and the style of their laws shall be, “Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened.”
Section 2. The members of the House of Representatives shall be chosen by the qualified electors, and shall serve for the term of two years from the day of the commencement of the general election, and no longer.
Section 3. The representatives shall be chosen every two years, on the first Monday in August, until otherwise directed by law.
Section 4. No person shall be a representative, unless he be a white man, a citizen of the State of Alabama, and shall have been an inhabitant of this State two years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof, a resident of the county, city, or town, for which he shall be chosen, and shall have attained the age of twenty-one years.
Section 5. Every male white person of the age of twenty-one years, or upwards, who shall be a citizen of this State, and shall have resided therein one year next preceding an election, and the last three months within a county, city, or town, in which he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector, but no elector shall be entitled to vote except in the county, city, or town, (entitled to separate representation) in which he may reside at the time of the election.
Section 6. Electors shall, in all cases, except in those of treason, felony, or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections, and in going to and returning from the same.
Section 7. In all elections by the people, the electors shall vote by ballot, until the general assembly shall otherwise direct.
Section 8. Elections for representatives for the several counties shall be held at the place of holding their respective courts, and at such other places as may be prescribed by law: Provided, That when it shall appear to the general assembly, that any city or town shall have a number of white inhabitants equal to the ratio then fixed, such city or town shall have a separate representation, according to the number of white inhabitants therein; which shall be retained so long as such city or town shall contain a number of white inhabitants, equal to the ratio which may from time to time be fixed by law; and thereafter, and during the existence of the right of separate representation, in such city or town, elections for the county in which such city or town (entitled to such separate representation) is situated, shall not be held in such city or town: but it is understood, and hereby declared, that no city or town shall be entitled to separate representation , unless the number of white inhabitants in the county in which such city or town is situated, residing out of the limits of such city or town, be equal to the existing ratio or unless the residuum or fraction of such city or town shall, when added to the white inhabitants of the county, residing out of the limits of said city or town, be equal to the ratio fixed by law for one representative; and, provided, that, if the residuum or fraction of any city or town, entitled to separate representation, shall, when added to the residuum of the county in which it may lie, be equal to the ratio fixed by law for one representative, then the aforesaid county, city or town, having the largest residuum, shall be entitled to such representation: and, provided, also, that where there are two or more counties adjoining, which have residuums or fractions over and above the ratio then fixed by law, if said residuums or fractions, when added together, will amount to such ratio, in that case one representative shall be added to that county having the largest residuum.
Section 9. The General Assembly shall cause an enumeration to made in the year eighteen hundred and fifty, and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and every ten years thereafter, of all the white inhabitants of this State; and the whole number of representatives shall, at the first regular session after such enumeration, be apportioned among the several counties, cities, or towns, entitled to separate representation, according to their respective number of white inhabitants, and the said apportionment, when made, shall not be subject to alteration until after the next census shall be taken.
Section 10. The general assembly shall, at the first session after making every such enumeration, fix by law the whole number of senators, and shall divide the State into the same number of districts, as nearly equal in the number of white inhabitants as may be, each of which districts shall be entitled to one senator, and no more: Provided , that the whole number of senators shall never be less than one-fourth, nor never more than one-third, of the whole number of representatives.
Section 11. When a senatorial district shall be composed of two or more counties, the counties of which such district consists, shall not be entirely separated by any county belonging to another district; and no county shall be divided in forming a district.
Section 12. Senators shall be chosen by the qualified electors, for the term of four years, at the same time, and in the same manner, and at the places where they may vote for members of the House of Representatives; and no person shall be a senator, unless he be a white man, a citizen of the State, and an inhabitant thereof two years next preceding his election, and the last year thereof, a resident of the district for which he shall be chosen; and shall have attained to the age of twenty-seven years.
Section 13. Senators shall be chosen for the term of four years; yet, at the general election after every new apportionment, elections shall be held anew in every senatorial district; and the senators elected, when convened at the first session, shall be divided by lot into two classes, as nearly equal as may be: the seats of those of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of two years, and those of the second class at the expiration of four years, dating in both cases from the day of election, so that one half may be biennially chosen, except as above provided.
Section 14. The House of Representatives, when assembled, shall choose a speaker, and its other officers; and the Senate shall choose a President and its other officers, biennially: each house shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its own members; but a contested election shall be determined in such manner as shall be directed by law.
Section 15. A majority of each house constitute a quorum to do business,
but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Section 16. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish members for disorderly behavior, and, with the consent of two-thirds, expel a member; but not a second time for the same cause; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the legislature of a free and independent State.
Section 17. Each house, during the session, may punish by imprisonment, any person, not a member, for disrepectful or disorderly behavior in its presence, or for obstructing any of its proceedings: Provided , that such imprisonment shall not at any one time, exceed forty-eight hours.
Section 18. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and cause the same to be published immediately after its adjournment, excepting such parts as, in its judgment, may require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house, on any question, shall at the desire of one tenth of the members, be entered on the journals. Any member of either house shall have liberty to dissent from, or protest against, any act or resolution, which he may think injurious to the public or an individual, and have the reasons of his dissent entered on the journals.
Section 19. Senators and Representatives shall, in all cases, except treason, felony or breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest, during the session of the General Assembly, and in going to and returning from the same; allowing one day for every twenty miles such member may reside from the place at which the General Assembly is convened; nor shall any member be liable to answer for any thing spoken in debate in either house, in any court or place elsewhere.
Section 20. When vacancies happen in either house, the Governor, or the person exercising the powers of the Governor, shall issue writs of election to fill vacancies.
Section 21. The doors of each house shall be open, except on such occasions, as in the opinion of the house, may require secrecy.
Section 22. Neither house shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other place than that in which they may be sitting.
Section 23. Bills may originate in either house, and be amended, altered, or rejected, by the other; but no bill shall have the force of a law, until on three several days it be read in each house; and free discussion be allowed thereon; unless, in case of urgency, four-fifths of the house, in which the bill shall be depending, may deem it expedient to dispense with this rule: and every bill, having passed both houses, shall be signed by the Speaker and President of their respective houses: Provided , that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives, but the Senate may amend or reject them as other bills.
Section 24. Each member of the General Assembly shall receive from the public treasury, such compensation for his services, as may be fixed by law; but no increase of compensation shall take effect during the session at which such increase shall have been made.
Section 25. No Senator or Representative shall during the term for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office of profit under this State; except such offices as may be filled by elections by the people.
Section 26. No person holding any lucrative office under this State, or any other power, the office of Postmaster, offices in the militia to which there is attached no annual salary, justices of the peace, commissioners of the Court of County Commissioners, notary public, and commissioner of deeds excepted, shall be eligible to the General Assembly of this State.
Section 27. No person who may hereafter be a collector or holder of public moneys, shall have a seat in either house of the General Assembly, or be eligible to any office of trust or profit under this State, until he shall have accounted for, and paid into the treasury, all sums for which he may be accountable.
Section 28. The General Assembly shall meet annually, on such day as may be provided by law, and may continue in session not more than thirty days. The next session of the General Assembly shall commence on the second Monday in November, eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
Section 29. No special law shall be enacted for the benefit of individuals or private corporations, in cases which are provided for by a general law, or where the relief sought, can be given by any court of this State.
Section 30. Private property shall not be taken for private use, or for the use of corporations, other than municipal, without the consent of the owner; but the right of way may be secured by law, to persons and corporations, over the lands of persons and corporations; also, the right to establish depots, stations and turn-outs to works of public improvement: Provided , just compensation is made to the owner of such land.
Section 31. No power to levy taxes shall be delegated to individuals or private corporations.
Section 32. Taxes shall not be levied for the benefit of individuals or corporations, other than municipal corporations, without the consent of the tax-payer; but this section shall not be so construed as to effect the power of the General Assembly to perfect or secure any right or privilege arising under any existing law of this State; and no right or privilege arising under any existing law of this State, shall be affected by this section.
Section 33. The General Assembly shall not borrow or raise money on the credit of the State, except for purposes of military defense against actual or threatened invasion, rebellion, or insurrection, unless two-thirds of the members elected to each house, shall concur; nor shall the debts or liabilities of any corporation, person or persons, or other State be guaranteed; or any money, credit or thing loaned, or given away, unless by a like concurrence of each house, voting, in cases provided for in this section, by ayes and nays to be placed upon the journals.
Article IV
Executive Department
Section 1. The supreme executive power of this State shall be vested in a chief magistrate, who shall be styled the Governor of the State of Alabama.
Section 2. The Governor shall be elected by the qualified electors, at the time and places when they shall respectively vote for Representatives.
Section 3. The returns of every election for Governor, shall be sealed up, and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the speaker of the House of Representatives, who shall, during the first week of the session, open and publish them in presence of both houses of the General Assembly. The person having the highest number of votes shall be Governor, but if two or more shall be equal and highest in votes, one of them shall be chosen Governor by the joint vote of both houses. Contested elections for Governor shall be determined by both houses of the General Assembly, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Section 4. The Governor shall hold his office for the term of two years, from the time of his installation, and until his successor shall be qualified; but shall not be eligible for more than four years in any term of six years; he shall be at least thirty years of age, shall be a citizen of the State of Alabama, and native of one of the States of the Territories, lately styled the United States of America.
Section 5. He shall, at stated times, receive a compensation for his services, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected.
Section 6. He shall be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of this State, except when acting with any other power, in which case, the General Assembly shall fix his rank.
Section 7. He may require information in writing from the officers of the executive department, on any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
Section 8. He may, by proclamation, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly at the seat of government, or at a different place, if that shall have become, since their last adjournment, dangerous from an enemy , or from contagious disorders; in case of disagreement between the two houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adhourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not beyond the day of the next annual meeting of the General Assembly.
Section 9. He shall, from time to time, give to the General Assembly, information of the state of the government, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he may deem expedient.
Section 10. He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
Section 11. In all criminal and penal cases, except in those of treason and impeachment, he shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons, and remit fines and forfeitures, under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by law. In cases of treason, he shall have power, by, and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to grant reprieves and pardons; and he may in the recess of the Senate, respite the sentence until the end of the next session of the General Assembly.
Section 12. There shall be a Seal of this State, which shall be kept by the Governor, and used by him officially.
Section 13. All commissions shall be in the name, and by the authority of the State of Alabama, be sealed with the State Seal, signed by the Governor, and attested by the Secretary of State.
Section 14. There shall be a Secretary of State, appointed by a joint vote of both houses of the General Assembly, who shall continue in office during the term of two years. He shall keep a fair register of all official acts and proceedings of the Governor, and shall, when required, lay the same, and all papers, minutes and vouchers relative thereto, before the General Assembly; and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by law.
Section 15. Vacancies that may happen in offices, the appointment of which is vested in the General Assembly, shall be filled by the Governor, during the recess of the General Assembly, by granting commissions, which shall expire at the end of the next session.
Section 16. Every bill which shall have passed both houses of the General Assembly, shall be presented to the Governor; if he approve, he shall sign it, but if not, he shall return it with his objections, to the house in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon the journals, and proceed to reconsider it; if after such reconsideration, a majority of the whole number elected to that house shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; if approved by a majority of the whole number elected to that house, it shall become a law: but in such cases, the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays , and the names of the members voting for or against the bill shall be entered on the journals of each house respectively: if any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within five days, Sundays excepted, after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Section 17. Every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of both houses may be necessary, except on questions of adjournment, shall be presented to the Governor, and, before it shall take effect, be approved by him, or being disapproved, shall be repassed by both houses, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
Section 18. In case of the impeachment of the Governor, his removal from office, death, refusal to qualify, resignation, or absence from the State, the President of the Senate shall exercise all the power and authority appertaining to the office of Governor, until the time, pointed out by this Constitution for the election of Governor, shall arrive, unless the General Assembly shall provide by law for the election of a Governor to fill such vacancy, or until the Governor absent or impeached, shall return or be acquitted.
Section 19. If, during the vacancy of the office of Governor, the President of the Senate shall be impeached, removed from office, refuse to qualify, resign, die, or be absent from the State, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall, in like manner, administer the government. If there is no President of the Senate, or no Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of State shall exercise all the duties and powers appertaining to the office of Governor, until the office of Governor is filled, as provided by this Constitution.
Section 20. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of State, during the times they respectively administer the government, shall receive the same compensation which the Governor would have received, had he been employed in the duties of his office.
Section 21. The Governor shall always reside during the session of the General Assembly, at the place where their session may be held, and at all other times, wherever, in their opinion, public good may require.
Section 22. No person shall hold the office of Governor, and any other office or commission, civil or military, either in this State, or under any State, or any other power, at one and the same time.
Section 23. A State Treasurer and a Comptroller of public accounts, shall be biennially elected by joint vote of both houses of the General Assembly.
Section 24. A sheriff shall be elected in each county by the qualified electors thereof, who shall hold his office for the term of three years, unless sooner removed, and who shall not be eligible to serve either as principal or deputy, for the three succeeding years. Should a vacancy occur subsequent to an election, it shall be filled by the Governor, as in other cases, and the person so appointed shall continue in office until the next general election, when such vacancy shall be filled by the qualified electors, and the sheriff then elected shall continue in office for three years.
MILITIA
Section 1. The General Assembly shall provide by law for organizing and disciplining the militia of this State.
Section 2. Any person who conscientiously scruples to bear arms shall not be compelled to do so, but shall pay an equivalent for personal service.
Section 3. The Governor shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the State, to suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
Section 4. All officers of the militia shall be elected or appointed in such manner as may be prescribed by law: Provided , that the General Assembly shall not make any such elections or appointments, other than those of adjutants-general, and quarter-masters general.
Section 5. The Governor shall appoint his aids-de-camp; majors general, their aids-de-camp, and all division and staff officers; brigadiers general shall appoint their aids, and all other brigade staff officers; and colonels shall appoint their regimental staff officers.
Section 6. The General Assembly shall fix, by law, the method of dividing the militia into divisions, brigades, regiments, battalions, and companies; and shall fix the rank of all staff officers.
Article V
Judicial Department
Section 1. The judicial power of this State shall be vested in one Supreme Court, Circuit Courts to be held in each county in the State, and such inferior courts of law and equity, to consist of not more than five members, as the General Assembly may, from time to time, direct, ordain and establish.
Section 2. The Supreme Court, except in cases otherwise directed by this Constitution, shall have appellate jurisdiction only, which shall be co-extensive with the State, under such restrictions and regulations, not repugnant to this Constitution, as may from time to time, be prescribed by law: Provided , that the Supreme Court shall have power to issue writs of injunction, mandamus, quo warranto, habeas corpus , and such other remedial and original writs as may be necessary to give it a general superintendence and control of inferior jurisdiction.
Section 3. The Supreme Court shall be holden at the seat of government, but may adjourn to a different place, if that shall have become dangerous from an enemy or from disease.
Section 4. The State shall be divided into convenient circuits, and each circuit shall contain not less than three, nor more than six counties; and for each circuit there shall be appointed a Judge, who shall, after his appointment, reside in the circuit for which he may be appointed.
Section 5. The Circuit Court shall have original jurisdiction in all matters, civil and criminal, within this State, not otherwise excepted in this Constitution; but in civil cases, only where the matter or sum in controversy exceeds fifty dollars.
Section 6. A Circuit Court shall be held in each county in the State, at least twice in every year, and the judges of the several Circuit Courts may hold courts for each other, when they may deem it expedient, and shall do so when directed by law.
Section 7. The General Assembly shall have power to establish a Court or Courts of Chancery, with original and appellate jurisdiction; Provided, that the judges of the several circuit courts shall have power to issue writs of injunction, returnable into the Courts of Chancery.
Section 8. The General Assembly shall have power to establish, in each county within this State, a Court of Probate, for the granting of letters testamentary, and of administration, and for orphans’ business.
Section 9. A competent number of Justices of the Peace shall be appointed in and for each county, in such mode and for such term of office as the General Assembly may direct. Their jurisdiction in civil cases shall be limited to causes in which the amount in controversy shall not exceed fifty dollars; and in all cases tried by a Justice of the Peace, right of appeal shall be secured, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by law.
Section 10. Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Courts, and Courts of Chancery, shall, at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall be fixed by law, and shall not be diminished during their continuance in office; but they shall receive no fees or perquisites of office, nor hold any other office of profit or trust under this State, or any other power.
Section 11. Chancellors and Judges of the Supreme Court shall be elected by joint vote of both houses of the General Assembly; but at and after the session of the General Assembly, to be held in the winter of the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine-fifty, the General Assembly shall provide by law for the election of judges of the circuit Courts, by the qualified electors of their circuits respectively, and for the election of Judges of the Courts of Probate, and other inferior courts, (not including Chancellors) by the qualified electors of the counties, cities, or districts, for which such courts may be respectively established; the first Monday in November in any year shall be the day for any election of such judges by the people, or such other day not to be within a less period than two months of the general election for Governor, members of the General Assembly, or members of Congress, as the General Assembly may by law prescribe; but no change to be made in any circuit, or district, or in the mode or time of electing, shall affect the right of any Judge to hold office during the term prescribed by the Constitution, except at the first election thereof, to be made by the people, after the ratification of these amendments or either of them, which elections shall then, all be had on the same day throughout the State, and the terms of the Judges then to be elected, shall commence on that day; vacancies in the office of Judge, shall be filled by the Governor, and the persons appointed thereto by him, shall hold until the next first Monday in November, or other election day of Judges, and until the election and qualification of their successors respectively; and the General Assembly have power to annex to the offices of any of the Judges of the inferior courts the duties of clerks of such courts respectively.
Section 12. The Judges of the several courts of this State, shall hold their offices for the term of six years; and for wilful neglect of duty, or other reasonable cause, which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachment, the Governor shall remove any of them on the address of two-thirds of each house of the General Assembly; Provided , however, that the cause or causes for which such removal shall be required, shall be stated at length in such address, and entered on the journals of each house; And provided, further, That the cause or causes shall be notified to the Judge so intended to be removed, and he shall be admitted to a hearing in his own defense, before any vote for such address shall pass; and in all such cases the vote shall be taken by yeas and nays , and entered on the journal of each house, respectively; And provided, also, That the Judges now in office may hold their offices until the session of the General Assembly, which shall be held in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, unless removed by address or impeachment.
Section 13. No person who shall have arrived at the age of seventy years shall be appointed to, or continue in, the office of Judge in this State.
Section 14. Clerks of the Circuit and Inferior Courts in this State, shall be elected by the qualified electors in each county, for the term of four years, and may be removed from office for such causes and in such manner as may be prescribed by law; and should a vacancy occur, subsequent to an election, it shall be filled by the Judge or Judges of the court in which such vacancy exists; and the person so appointed shall hold his office until the next general election; Provided , however, that after the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the General Assembly may prescribe a different mode of appointment, but shall not make such appointment.
Section 15. The Judges of the Supreme Court shall, by virtue of their offices, be conservators of the peace throughout the State; as also the Judges of the Circuit Courts in their respective districts, and Judges of the inferior courts in their respective counties.
Section 16. The style of all process shall be “The State of Alabama”, and all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name, and by the authority of the State of Alabama, and shall conclude “against the peace and dignity of the same.”
Section 17. There shall be an Attorney General from the State, and as many solicitors as the General Assembly may deem necessary, to be elected by a joint vote thereof, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years, and shall receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Impeachments
Section 1. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching.
Section 2. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be on oath or afffirmation; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
Section 3. The Governor and all civil officers shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and to disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit under the State; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, and punishment, according to law.
Article VI
General Provisions
Section 1. The members of the General Assembly, and all officers, executive and judicial, before they enter on the execution of their respective offices, shall take the following oath or affirmation, to wit: “I do solemnly swear [or affirm, as the case may be] that I will support the Constitution of the State of Alabama so long as I continue a citizen thereof, and that I will faithfully discharge, to the best of my abilities, the duties of_______________ according to law, so help me God!”
Section 2. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it, or in adhering to its enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or his own confession in open court.
Section 3. The General Assembly shall have power to pass such penal laws to suppress the evil practice of duelling, extending to disqualification from office, or the tenure thereof, as they may deem expedient.
Section 4. Every person shall be disqualified from holding any office or place of honor or profit, under the authority of the State, who shall be convicted of having given or offered any bribe to procure his election or appointment.
Section 5. Laws shall be made to exclude from office, from suffrage, and from serving as jurors, those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes, or misdemeanors. The privelege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon from power, bribery, tumult, or improper conduct.
Section 6. In all elections by the General Assembly, the members thereof shall vote viva voce , and the votes shall be entered on the journals.
Section 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of an appropriation made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public moneys shall be published annually.
Section 8. All lands liable to taxation in this State, shall be taxed in proportion to their value.
Section 9. The General Assembly shall direct, by law, in what manner, and in what courts, suits may be brought against the State.
Section 10. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to regulate, by law, the cases in which deductions shall be made from the salaries of public officers, for neglect of duty in their official capacities, and the amount of such deduction.
Section 11. Temporary absence from this State, shall not cause a forfeiture of a residence once obtained.
Section 12. No member or delegate to any Congress of other States or powers, nor persons holding any office of profit or trust under any foreign power, shall hold or exercise any office of profit under this State: Provided , that this section does not apply to any deputy, delegate or commissioner elected by this convention.
Section 13. Divorces from the bonds of Matrimony shall not be granted, but in cases provided for by law in chancery. But decrees for divorce shall be final, unless appealed from within three months from the date of the enrollment thereof.
Section 14. In prosecutions for the publishing of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence; and in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the courts.
Section 15. Returns of all elections for officers who are to be commissioned by the Governor, and for members of the General Assembly, shall be made to the Secretary of State.
Section 16. The General Assembly may, by a vote of two-thirds of both branches thereof, arrange and designate boundaries for the several counties of this State, which shall not be altered, except by a like vote of the General Assembly. But no new county shall be hereafter formed of less extent than nine hundred square miles, nor shall it contain, at the time, less than one hundredth part of the population of the State, and no existing county shall be hereafter reduced below such area or population by the formation of a new county.
Section 17. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass such laws as may be necessary and proper to decide differences by arbitrators, to be appointed by the parties, who may choose that summary mode of adjustment.
Section 18. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to form a penal code, founded on principles of reformation.
Section 19. Within five days after the adoption of this Constitution, the body or our laws, civil and criminal, shall be revised, digested and arranged, under proper heads, and promulgated, in such manner as the General Assembly may direct: and a like revision, digest, and promulgation, shall be made within every subsequent period of ten years.
Section 20. The General Assembly shall make provisions by law for obtaining correct knowledge of the several objects proper for improvement in relation to the navigable waters, and to the roads in this State, and for making a systematic and economical application of the means appropriated to those objects.
Section 21. In the event of the annexation of any foreign territory to this State, laws may be passed, extending to the inhabitants of such territory, all the rights and privileges which may be required by the terms of such acquisition: anything in this constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
Education
Schools, and the means of education, shall forever be encouraged in this State; and the General Assembly shall take measures to preserve, from unnecessary waste or damage, such lands as have been granted by the United States for the use of schools, within each township in this State, and apply the funds, which may be raised from such lands, in strict conformity to the object of such grant. The General Assembly shall take like measures for the improvement of such lands as have been granted by the United States to this State, for the support of a seminary of learning, and the moneys which may be raised from such lands, by rent, lease, or sale, or from any other quarter, for the purpose aforesaid, shall be and remain a fund for the exclusive support of a State University, for the promotion of the arts, literature and the sciences; and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly, as early as may be, to provide effectual means for the improvement and permanent security of the funds and endowments of such institution.
Banking
Section 1. No bank shall be established, nor bank charter renewed under the authority of this State, without the concurrence of two-thirds of each house of the General Assembly.
Section 2. Not more than one bank shall be established, nor bank charter renewed at any one session of the General Assembly, nor shall any bank be established, or bank charter renewed, but in conformity with the following rules.
The stockholders shall be liable respectively for the debts of the bank in proportion to their stock holden therein.
The remedy for collecting debts shall be reciprocal for and against the bank.
No bank shall commence operations until half of the capital stock subscribed for be actually paid in gold or silver, which amount shall, in no case, be less than one hundred thousand dollars.
Should any bank neglect or refuse to pay on demand any bill, note or obligation, issued by the corporation, according to the promise therein expressed, the holder of any such note, bill, or obligation shall be entitled to receive and recover interest thereon until the same shall be paid, or specie payments are resumed by said bank, at the rate of twelve per cent. per annun from the date of such demand, unless the General Assembly shall sanction such suspension of specie payments by a vote of two-thirds of each house of the General Assembly.
Whenever any bank suspends specie payments, the charter is thereby forfeited, unless such suspension is legalized, as is provided by the preceding rule at the then next ensuing session of the General Assembly after such suspension.
Slavery
Section 1. No slave in this State shall be emancipated by any act done to take effect in this State, or any other country.
Section 2. The humane treatment of slaves shall be secured by law.
Section 3. Laws may be enacted to prohibit the introduction into this State, of slaves who have committed high crimes in other States or territories, and to regulate or prevent the introduction of slaves into this State as merchandise.
Section 4. In the prosecution of slaves for crimes, of a higher grade than petit larceny, the General Assembly shall have no power to deprive them of an impartial trial by a petiti jury.
Section 5. Any person who shall maliciously dismember or deprive a slave of life, shall suffer such punishment as would be inflicted in case the like offense had been committed on a free white person, and on the like proof, except in case of insurrection of such slave.
Explanatory Provisions
Part I.
Relating To The Change From The Territorial To The State Form Of Government
Section 1. That no inconvience may arise from a change of territorial to a permanent State government, it is declared that all rights, actions, prosecutions, claims, and contracts, as well of individuals, as of bodies corporate, shall continue as if no such change had taken place; and all process, which shall, before the third Monday in September next, be issued in the name of the Alabama territory, shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State.
Section 2. All fines, penalties, forfeitures, and escheats, accruing to the Alabama territory, shall accrue to the use of the State.
Section 3. The validity of all bonds and recognizances, executed to the Governor of the Alabama territory, shall not be impaired by the change of government, by may be sued for and recovered in the name of the Governor of the State of Alabama, and his successors in office; and all criminal and penal actions, arising or now depending within the limits of this State, shall be prosecuted to judgment and execution in the name of said State, all causes of action arising to individuals, and all suits at law or in equityn now depending in the several courts, within the limits of this State, and not already barred by law, may be commenced in, or transferred to, such courts as may have jurisdiction thereof.
Section 4. All officers, civil or military, now holding commissions under the authority of the United States, or of the Alabama territory, within this State, shall continue to hold and exercise their respective offices under the authority of this State, until they shall be superseded under the authority of this Constitution, and shall receive from the treasury of this State, the same compensation which they heretofore received, in proportion to the time they shall be so employed. The Governor shall have power to fill vacancies by commissions, to expire so soon as elections or appointments can be made to such offices, by authority of this Constitution.
Section 5. All laws and parts of laws, now in force in the Alabama territory, which are not repugnant to the provisions of this Constitution, shall continue and remain in force as the laws of this State, until they expire by their own limitation, or shall be altered, or repealed, by the Legislature thereof.
Part II
Relating To The Secession Of The State Of Alabama From The Government Of The United States
Chapter I.
Section 1. Be it declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled , That the State of Alabama now withdraws, and is hereby withdrawn from the Union known as “the United States of America”, and henceforth ceases to be one of said United States, and is, and of right ought to be a Sovereign and Independent State .
Section 2. Be it further declared and ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled , That all the powers over the territory of said State, and over the people thereof, heretofore delegated to the government of the United States of America, be, and they are hereby withdrawn from said government, and are hereby resumed and vested in the people of the State of Alabama.
Section 3. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention Assembled, That the Constitution framed and adopted on the 11th day of March, 1861, by the Deputies from the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, in convention assembled, at Montgomery, Alabama, be, and the same is hereby Approved, Ratified and Adopted , as the Federal Constitution for the people of Alabama.
Chapter II.
Section 1. No law enacted by the authority of the State of Alabama, in force on the 11th day of January, A. D., 1861, and consistent with the Constitution of this State, and not inconsistent with the ordinances of this Convention, is affected by the ordinance known as the Ordinance of Secession, adopted on said day, and entitled “An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of Alabama and other States, united under the compact styled the Constitution of the United States.”
Section 2. No office, civil or military, created by this State, or under the authority of its laws, in force on the eleventh day of January, A. D., 1861, and no officer lawfully exercising the powers or duties of such office, is affected by said Ordinance of Secession, except the offices of the members of the House of Representatives, and of the Senators of the Congress of the United States of America, and these are abrogated.
Section 3. No offense against the laws of this State, committed before or since the adoption of said Ordinance of Secession, is affected by said ordinance, and no offender against said laws, is relieved or discharged from the consequences of such offense by said ordinance; and no amercement, fine, penalty, forfeiture, escheat, bond, or recognizance, accruing or enuring, in whole or in part, to the State of Alabama, whether in action or in judgment, is affected by said ordinance.
Section 4. No bond issued by authority of the laws of this State, or bills or coin lawfully used as money in this State, and no bond, obligation, debt or duty, due or owing to this State, or enuring, in whole or in part, to this State, before or since the adoption of said ordinance, is affected thereby.
Section 5. No process or proceeding of any Court of this State, is affected by said Ordinance of Secession.
Section 6. No right, title, franchise, easement, license or privilege given, granted or conferred to, or upon any person or body corporate, under and by authority of the laws of this State, and no right of possession of property, action or prosecution, title, claim, contract, agreement, obligation, debt or duty, of any person or body corporate, is affected by said Ordinance of Secession, unless the same is inconsistent with said ordinance, or is affected by some other ordinance of this Convention.
Section 7. No rights acquired, or vested in any body corporate under the Constitution of the United States, or under any act of Congress passed in pursuance thereof, or under any law of this State, and not incompatible with said Ordinance of Secession, is affected by said ordinance.
Part III.
Relating To The Changes In The Constitution Of Alabama
Section 1. Be it ordained by the people of the State of Alabama in Convention assembled , That no change made in the Constitution of the State of Alabama, by this Convention, shall have the effect to divest any right, title, or legal trust existing at the time of making such change. But all such changes shall have a prospective and not a retrospective effect, unless otherwise declared in the change itself.
Section 2. Be it ordained by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled , That, an ordinance adopted by the people of this State, in Convention, at Huntsville, on the second day of August, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, disclaiming forever all right to the waste or unappropriated lands lying within this State, is hereby repealed; but the navigable waters of this State shall remain forever free to the citizens of this State, and of such States as may unite with the State of Alabama, in a Southern slaveholding Confederacy. But no right heretofore obtained, by any person or corporation, to erect a bridge, or bridges, across the navigable waters of this State, shall be affected by this ordinance; Provided , That the navigation of such rivers be not obstructed thereby.
Mode Of Amending Or Revising The Constitution
The General Assembly, whenever two-thirds of each House shall deem it necessary, may propose amendments to this Constitution, which proposed amendments, shall be duly published in print, at least three months before the next general election of Representatives, for the consideration of the people, and it shall be the duty of the several returning officers, at the next general election which shall be held for Representatives, to open a poll for, and make a return to the Secretary of State, for the time being, of the names of all those voting for Representatives, who have voted on such proposed amendments, and if, thereupon, it shall appear that a majority of all the citizens of this State, voting for Representatives, have voted in favor of such proposed amendments, and two-thirds of each House of the next General Assembly, shall, after such an election, and before another, ratify the same amendments by yeas and nays , they shall be valid, to all intents and purposes, as parts of this Constitution: Provided , That the said proposed amendments shall, at each of the said sessions, have been read three times, on three several days, in each House; Provided further , That a Convention of the people of the State may be called by a vote of two-thirds of each branch of the General Assembly, under such rules and regulations as the Legislature may prescribe, to amend the Constitution or for any other purpose.
Adopted by the people of Alabama by the unanimous vote of their delegates in Convention assembled, at the Capitol, in the city of Montgomery, on this the twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and of the Confederate States of America the first year.
WILLIAM M. BROOKS President of the Convention of the people of the State of Alabama
Attest – A. G. HORN Secretary of the Convention
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Impeachments
Section 1. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeaching.
Section 2. All impeachments shall be tried by the Senate; when sitting for that purpose, the Senators shall be on oath or afffirmation; and no person shall be convicted without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present.
R.L. David Jolly holds a B.S. in Wildlife Biology and an M.S. in Biology – Population Genetics. He has worked in a number of fields, giving him a broad perspective on life, business, economics and politics. He is a very conservative Christian, husband, father and grandfather who cares deeply for his Savior, family and the future of our troubled nation. | {
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Wonder-lit, art-fueled and awe-inspiring, BLINK is unique, innovative, and reaches beyond Cincinnati to a national and international audience. Back for an encore in October 2019, BLINK Future City will be sky-high light spectacles, street art, murals, and live performances, with parties along the way. It will cover 20 blocks, from The Banks, through Downtown and OTR to Findlay Market. And this time lights will span the Roebling Bridge into Covington. BLINK will bring emerging and renowned artists to Cincinnati to collaborate with the talented creatives who call this city home. Buildings will be painted with light through projection mapping. Murals will dazzle and street installations will amaze. Hear Andrew Salzbrun, the mastermind behind BLINK, and Tamara Harkavy, who plays a significant role in reviewing proposals and selecting the participating artists.
Completed in 1923, The Doctors’ Building features an eight-story façade covered in tile and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Renovated by Tamara Schwarting, this Garfield Place treasure houses 1628 Ltd., a co-working space and a gallery with exhibits that change quarterly. View an exhibit of work from Cincinnati women artists while enjoying brunch and mimosas.
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Kenya National Archives and Documentation Services (KNADS) is situated at the edge of the central business district in downtown Nairobi along Moi Avenue next to Ambassadeur Hotel. The archives look out on the landmark Hilton Hotel, while on the rear side is Tom Mboya street. It was established in 1965. It holds 40,000 volumes. It was established by an Act of the Parliament of Kenya in 1965 and was placed under the office of the Vice President and the Minister of Home Affairs. It is currently under the office of the Vice-President and Ministry of State for National Heritage and Culture. The Kenya National Archives building also houses the Murumbi Gallery which contains African artifacts that were collected in the 19th century.
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The Kenya National Archives was established in 1965 and it holds 40,000 volumes of public records and archives.
Its mission is to offer consultative records management services to the public service; acquire and preserve valuable public as well as private records as part of the national documentary heritage; and ensure timely accessibility of records and archives to users.
The gallery is situated at the ground floor of the Kenya National Archives building and it is named after Joseph Murumbi, who was the second vice president of Kenya. It is currently the largest Pan-African art gallery in Africa and it contains ancient art collections from different regions and communities of Africa. The collected artifacts were acquired by the government of Kenya after a concessionary arrangement was agreed upon with Joseph Murumbi, who had initially turned down several huge offers to buy his collections by overseas bidders. | {
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This document lists the release engineers for at least the next four months of releases of bleadperl.
If there are fewer than four months listed as you make a release,
it's important that you extend the schedule AND identify the next release engineer.
Before adding a release engineer,
you must contact them and they must consent to ship the release.
When shipping a release,
you should include the schedule for (at least) the next four releases.
If a stable version of Perl is released,
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IN WHAT HAS BECOME A MOTOR CITY SUMMER TRADITION THIS YEAR'S $500 GOSPEL FEST BEST SINGING COMPETITION WILL HIGHLIGHT UP AND COMING MOTOR CITY GOSPEL TALENT
DETROIT, June 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Greater Grace Temple, The Master's Commission, WEXL Glory 1340, Grammy Award winning PAJAM Music, The Word Network, WADL and Cadillac Novi have teamed up for the 23rdANNUAL CITY OF DAVID GOSPEL FEST & CAR SHOW. This super-sized outdoor summer tradition will feature live music, food, rides, classic cars and hot rods. It happens Saturday, June 25th from 11am to 5pm on the sprawling campus of Greater Grace Temple and admission is FREE! Thousands are expected to bring their lawn chairs for a day of action packed FREE fun and food for a nominal fee. Our crowd favorite this year is sure to be the Gospel Fest Best singing competition. Ten of Detroit's brightest vocalists will square off on the Main Stage which will be draped in new luxury vehicles courtesy of Cadillac Novi. This "American Idol type" singing contest winner will receive $500 CASH and a vocal consultation with Grammy Award winning PAJAM Music. Gospel Fest Best semi-finalists have already been selected from previous auditions held at Eastland and Northland Malls.
Simultaneously, the car show will feature a variety of classic cars, hot rods and even new cars from dealers' showroom floors. The Best of Show winner will receive $250. In addition to the music and cars, there will be fabulous food, clowns, train rides, inflatables for kids, games, prizes and giveaways.
The roots of this event go back to the 1980's when the church would sell barbecue dinners as a fundraiser. Some of the deacons would bring their classic cars to the event, and it would draw crowds, and of course customers. Over the years, more aspects were added, and it evolved into an outdoor gospel fest and classic car show. | {
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The president was re-elected by people who want to work -- and who were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the president's policies were more likely to create work than were the policies advocated by my party.
randomjsa:The president was re-elected by people who want to work -- and who were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the president's policies were more likely to create work than were the policies advocated by my party.
Let me laugh even harder.
If you did, it would be a nice change of pace from all your whining and crying. So the article didn't get through to you at all, did it? Let me guess: David Frum is a RINO, a traitor, a commie, etc. Oh, and also Romney still had a chance at taking Ohio!
randomjsa:The president was re-elected by people who want to work -- and who were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the president's policies were more likely to create work than were the policies advocated by my party.
Let me laugh even harder.
I have no idea why you're laughing even harder, but the mere fact that you attacked it makes me think it's 100% true. Your track record of supporting complete and utter bs has preceded you.
I Like Bread:Speaking of which, here's an interesting article I dug up recently.Were the early 1960s a golden age for healthcare?
This is why Politifact sucks:
As soon as we heard this, we wondered whether his portrayal was accurate. We considered putting his comment to the Truth-O-Meter, but we decided that it was impossible to do so. We couldn't prove a negative -- that "there was nobody out in the street suffering with no medical care" during that era.
That's not attempting to prove a negative. The statement that "nobody suffered from lack of health care" is a testable assertion. All you need to do is find one destitute person who died of a treatable condition or a living person who had no access to health care in that time frame and recalls suffering for it.
randomjsa:The president was re-elected by people who want to work -- and who were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the president's policies were more likely to create work than were the policies advocated by my party.
Let me laugh even harder.
You'll have to laugh pretty loudly to hear yourself over everyone laughing at you.
Generation_D:Nostalgia is great when one can cherry-pick only the good parts.
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Good parts? I only watched two seasons, but from L: knocked up and ignored, dunno who that is, raped by her fiancee, too dumb to realize she repeatedly cheated on by her husband, nympho whoreson identity thief who shunned his brother before suicide, closeted gay, alcoholic, closeted gay
Ma Bell had the monopoly on the telephone system. They owned the phones, they owned the lines, they owned it all. If you had a working telephone, it was either owned by Ma Bell or stolen property. It was an absolute monopoly on our communications infrastructure. That's why you had a running skit on SNL with the punch line "what are you going to do, we're the phone company?".
Actually, yes. You rented your Western Electric phone when you subscribed from American Telephone and Telegraph. I'm pretty sure the other phone company out in the rural parts of the country did it exactly the same.
In the 1970s the only way to own Western Electric equipment was to buy it off of Bell system employees who were gray-market selling it at HAM radio fests.
Ma Bell had the monopoly on the telephone system. They owned the phones, they owned the lines, they owned it all. If you had a working telephone, it was either owned by Ma Bell or stolen property. It was an absolute monopoly on our communications infrastructure. That's why you had a running skit on SNL with the punch line "what are you going to do, we're the phone company?".
Look, I may be a RINO because I believe evolution is a thing and that men are likely warming the climate of the planet. But when did we get so far away from the conservative tenet of "If something does not work, return to the previous, working method."
The 90s had tax rates that worked for America. Start there if you want to start reigning this defecit in.
Actually, yes. You rented your Western Electric phone when you subscribed from American Telephone and Telegraph. I'm pretty sure the other phone company out in the rural parts of the country did it exactly the same.
In the 1970s the only way to own Western Electric equipment was to buy it off of Bell system employees who were gray-market selling it at HAM radio fests.
Yep and you had to pay a rental fee for each phone in your house every month. That is why homes back then only had one phone in them, and on the rare occasion they had two.
i think the memory of the 'bakelight harvest gold/baby-shiat green telephone with the rotary dial and the 500 foot long cord' is one of those indicators of age, kind of like remembering beer cans that had pull tabs.
there was a time when that was the phone you could get, because that's all that was being rented from the phone company - i could be remember it sideways, but i don't think it was a matter of 'owning a phone is illegal' so much as it was illegal for them to be sold - i remember when a phone store opened up in a local mall (right next to the Lowrey Organ, complete with fat housewifes playing ooompa-music) and it being a momentous occasion, at least.the day the world changed, and you could get a phone shaped like Garfield. Garfield! we didn't get our flying cars, but dammit we got garfield phones.
i think the memory of the 'bakelight harvest gold/baby-shiat green telephone with the rotary dial and the 500 foot long cord' is one of those indicators of age, kind of like remembering beer cans that had pull tabs.
there was a time when that was the phone you could get, because that's all that was being rented from the phone company - i could be remember it sideways, but i don't think it was a matter of 'owning a phone is illegal' so much as it was illegal for them to be sold - i remember when a phone store opened up in a local mall (right next to the Lowrey Organ, complete with fat housewifes playing ooompa-music) and it being a momentous occasion, at least.the day the world changed, and you could get a phone shaped like Garfield. Garfield! we didn't get our flying cars, but dammit we got garfield phones.
BarrRepublican:Look, I may be a RINO because I believe evolution is a thing and that men are likely warming the climate of the planet. But when did we get so far away from the conservative tenet of "If something does not work, return to the previous, working method."
You're really missing the whole "cherry picking" thing, aren't you?
See also: a lack of understanding of this concept when it comes to the modern GOP vs the modern Democratic Party:
Today's GOP blindly abhors every piece of watered-down conservative legislation that originates from someone with a D in front of their name. Rush Limbaugh's head would explode into thousands of oxycontin-soaked pieces if someone suggested an actual liberal policy. On anything.
randomjsa:The president was re-elected by people who want to work -- and who were convinced, rightly or wrongly, that the president's policies were more likely to create work than were the policies advocated by my party.
Let me laugh even harder.
It's certainly why I pulled the lever for Gary Johnson and went straight Dem downticket.
If only one side acts like adults and treats me with enough respect to say "here are the details of our plan" then they get my vote. Congressional Republicans acted like petulant children over at least the last two years.
And I work for a defense contractor. I know I'd see more work once Romney bombed Iran. That's how bad they've farked this up. I don't trust the GOP anymore after the shiat they pulled in the '00s.
No one should be required to register for the draft. More importantly, draft registry should have no bearing on the ability of a citizen to perform his/her voting duties and no affect on his/her ability to procure education aid.
Also, 91% is high to me and I fall somewhere within a triangle made up of Democrats, non-authoritarian libertarians and the Green party. I do, however, agree that taxes on the richest among us should be increased as well as cutting the defense budget.
clkeagle:BarrRepublican: Look, I may be a RINO because I believe evolution is a thing and that men are likely warming the climate of the planet. But when did we get so far away from the conservative tenet of "If something does not work, return to the previous, working method."
You're really missing the whole "cherry picking" thing, aren't you?
See also: a lack of understanding of this concept when it comes to the modern GOP vs the modern Democratic Party:
Today's GOP blindly abhors every piece of watered-down conservative legislation that originates from someone with a D in front of their name. Rush Limbaugh's head would explode into thousands of oxycontin-soaked pieces if someone suggested an actual liberal policy. On anything.
I understand the sentiment, hellObamacare is a heritage foundation product.
Barack Obama, despite the gasbags' penchant to label thing communist, is the best Republican president in my lifetime. Period.
Gulper Eel:RoyBatty: Did David Frum ever apologize for putting Iran in the axis of evil a few weeks after they offered sympathy and help to us after 9/11?
Because a transparently self-serving gesture totally makes up for 30 years of general asshattedness.
Without excusing the violence committed over the years by Iran, we can acknowledge that the United States committed grave offenses against the sovereignty of Iran and against the Iranian people for many decades before factions of that society turned to asshattedness. Perhaps, they should have sought a non-violent means of protesting U.S. interference in their affairs, but their failure to seek a path to peaceful resistance does not negate the role of the USA in our past conflicts.
clkeagle:Today's GOP blindly abhors every piece of watered-down conservative legislation that originates from someone with a D in front of their name. Rush Limbaugh's head would explode into thousands of oxycontin-soaked pieces if someone suggested an actual liberal policy. On anything.
it's worse than that even. Ther even abhor legislation that they proposed and spent two decades promoting because someone with a (D) said 'ok, we'll give your way a go'.
At 18, I think a firm argument could be made that they are still boys, but yes, males are still required to register for the draft. Draft requirements have been in place since Reagan was in office. There was no peace time draft requirement prior to Reagans' tenure. (Yes, I'm aware that we currently are at war.)
Lunaville:Without excusing the violence committed over the years by Iran, we can acknowledge that the United States committed grave offenses against the sovereignty of Iran and against the Iranian people for many decades before factions of that society turned to asshattedness. Perhaps, they should have sought a non-violent means of protesting U.S. interference in their affairs, but their failure to seek a path to peaceful resistance does not negate the role of the USA in our past conflicts.
While true, that wasn't even my point. My point was that in 2001/2002, regardless of our past histories, Iran and the US seemed to be at a good place to make progress towards each other, and Frum's speech, way too clever by far, alienated and positioned Iraq as an enemy when we might have been able to turn things around.
Look, they aren't EVER going to let go of the delusion that only white republicans have or want jobs. They are NEVER changing their tune on that, ever. That is their biggest and hardest selling point to their base.
It seriously turns them on to imagine themselves as this besieged, oppressed minority, valiantly struggling against the corrupt ravening hordes of evil, godless jobless liberals. Mighty Christian soldiers doing the Good Work but constantly under attack by the very people they labor for.
Reality of course is a little different. Reality has a liberal bias, and the simple facts are that RedStates are welfare states, that by and large survive by the largess of productive blue states. Liberals and democrats and humanist libertarians all over America work and pay taxes so that back country white trash can live on welfare and food stamps and angrily decry minorities getting "obamaphones"(that were a bush administration invention).
Both of my parents worked for the phone company. In 1962, we had a party line. It was prohibitively expensive to get your own line at that point, and there were long waiting lists even to get a party line. The phone was permanently installed; you couldn't unplug a phone and move it to a jack in a different room. You couldn't disconnect it or turn off the ringer either. If some jackass wanted to keep calling you at 2 AM, you could take the phone off the hook. If you did that, there would be loud tone coming from it for a few minutes. And the phone company didn't like you doing that; they considered that abusing the system, and they'd call you up and yell at you about it. Also, when the phone was off the hook, an operator could listen in. If someone was speaking near the phone, she could hear it.
I remember hearing my dad gripe about crazy little old ladies who would "just sit and talk all day." With disgust and scorn in his voice. What were they doing wrong? "Well they just sat there and talked...all day. About nothing."
How do you know they talked about nothing?
No response to that--I think he didn't like admitting that they all regularly eavesdropped illegally on people.
And why is it a problem? Isn't a phone to talk?
Yeah, but if everybody talked all the time, the lines would be busy all the time, and then nobody could make a call.
So is there a rule that says how much you can talk? When someone buys a phone, are they told, you can only use it a certain number of minutes a day?
No. But these crazy little old ladies, they just sit and talk...all day.
So that was 1962. Cranky white men angry about sad, lonely old women using telephones to talk to each other. Now rolling forward to 2012, and I hear cranky white men angry at, of all things, teachers, and I think, really, not much has changed.
i think the memory of the 'bakelight harvest gold/baby-shiat green telephone with the rotary dial and the 500 foot long cord' is one of those indicators of age, kind of like remembering beer cans that had pull tabs.
there was a time when that was the phone you could get, because that's all that was being rented from the phone company - i could be remember it sideways, but i don't think it was a matter of 'owning a phone is illegal' so much as it was illegal for them to be sold - i remember when a phone store opened up in a local mall (right next to the Lowrey Organ, complete with fat housewifes playing ooompa-music) and it being a momentous occasion, at least.the day the world changed, and you could get a phone shaped like Garfield. Garfield! we didn't get our flying cars, but dammit we got garfield phones.
saying it's illegal to own a phone is technically correct but doesn't accurately convey the issue.
No, it's not technically correct. You could own a phone. It didn't violate any law to own one. No one was ever arrested for owning their own phone.
The issue was that Ma Bell leased the phones to customers, it didn't sell them retail. While this had some disadvantages, it also had advantages: If the phone broke*, TPC would replace it for you. They were responsible for maintenance from "lip to ear", anything between those two was owned by the phone company, and they were responsible for fixing it if it went wrong.
But no, if you owned a phone, provided you didn't steal it (ie., walk off with TPC property that you were leasing), it wasn't illegal. You could even hook it up, it's just that TPC wouldn't fix it.
*Which they didn't often do, because they were built like a friggin' electronic tank.
"Compare the United States of 2012 to the United States of 1962. Leave aside the obvious points about segregation and discrimination, and look only at the economy."
While the article makes a fair point, this part in particular is what irks me. It would be easy to disregard that little bit of American social behavior of '62 if it weren't still being harped by the fringe of the right to this day.
It's just not PC to do so these days, so they've got to be subtle about it. Instead, you've got to turn the argument around and call those dirty liberals racist for demonizing their culture and placing preference on those damn minorities, what with their ever-growing voices in politics these days.
Whatever, I'm nit-picking a CNN article that actually made an honest attempt at being reasonable. I can at least say I somewhat agree. Nobody voted for socialism, and the commie boogey man isn't coming for anybody's money.
I do think the GOP is slowly becoming irrelevant, though, primarily because of their social stances. It'll take a lot more than reflection for them to regain their footing with the electorate.
*Which they didn't often do, because they were built like a friggin' electronic tank.
yah, again, i think it's just one of those things you either have as a memory, or you missed out - we lived in an era where it was not only easy, but so very tempting to *kill somebody with a telephone*.
and the sonofabiatch would still work after you caved someones skull in with it.
ok, it was babyshiat green, and nobody really missed anything if they don't have that memory, but...i need some kind of salve for the indications that i'm an old fart, and i'll take what i can get.
Monkeyhouse Zendo:The Evil That Lies In The Hearts Of Men: Don't all men still have to register for the draft?
It's called "selective service" now but yeah.
Odd that you don't see too many feminists fighting to get their names on that list. ;)
Unfortunately, there are a few. I've long opposed anyone being required for selective service. I formed my opposition in the nineties. I had this boyfriend that was quite knowledgeable about issues. He was the most truly peaceful person I had met at that time. He didn't just run his mouth about peace; he tried to live and practice what he believed. And he did not vote. Prior to meeting him, I had not realized how our selective service registration requirements tilt our electorate away from peace and toward war.
it is absolute discrimination against men. And it is discrimination against the most peaceful in our population. I repeat, no one should be required to register for the draft.
Our meeting for worship encourages boys to register as conscientious objectors and to proceed with voting, but they are still registered and it strikes me as wrong, wrong, wrong. As a Mom of a boy and a girl, I don't want both my children equitably discriminated against via a co-gender draft. I want draft requirements nixed for both of them. My son is just as valuable to me as my daughter is.
This statement is so long. If I ever go to grad school, I'm going to post my dissertation to FARK. Ha!
RoyBatty:Lunaville: Without excusing the violence committed over the years by Iran, we can acknowledge that the United States committed grave offenses against the sovereignty of Iran and against the Iranian people for many decades before factions of that society turned to asshattedness. Perhaps, they should have sought a non-violent means of protesting U.S. interference in their affairs, but their failure to seek a path to peaceful resistance does not negate the role of the USA in our past conflicts.
While true, that wasn't even my point. My point was that in 2001/2002, regardless of our past histories, Iran and the US seemed to be at a good place to make progress towards each other, and Frum's speech, way too clever by far, alienated and positioned Iraq as an enemy when we might have been able to turn things around. | {
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Little-Known PED, Blamed in Player's Death, Is Major Threat to Anti-Doping Fight
While the NFL argues over HGH testing and top baseball groups team up to put out a study about steroid usage, one of the drugs that recently came to light in the ongoing Biogenesis case out of Miami may be a bigger problem than either of those familiar substances.
With all that, it's not hard to see the threat of peptides as the latest problem for sports in their decades-long fight against performance enhancers. Simply put, these drugs could be killers, and expansion of their usage is a serious concern.
Let's be clear: "Peptides" is a broad category of substances. The term has come to be used generically, much in the way that "steroids" is used for a group of performance enhancers that are not actually anabolic androgenic steroids. In this case, we refer to substances that are technically known as GH secretagogues. Many peptides do have valid scientific or medical uses.
If these substances, such as GHRP-6 and CJ-1295, sound like lab experiments, it's because that is what they are. Peptides are not performance-enhancing in and of themselves, but they stimulate the production of substances inside the body that can then be enhancing. While HGH—human growth hormone—can be detected, the only way to detect the usage of something like GHRP would be to do a "biological passport" and note that the natural hormone levels had increased.
For most in the United States, the first sighting of these kinds of substances came in the documents leaked from Biogenesis, the Miami "anti-aging" clinic alleged to have provided banned performance enhancers to big-name MLB players like A-Rod and Melky Cabrera.
Jon Mannah, a player in Australia's National Rugby League, was 23 when he died recently of Hodgkin's lymphoma. The normally curable disease may have been re-ignited by the use of these peptides. Worse, the peptides reportedly were given to him by his team.
The same growth that these hormones create in the body also likely feed the growth and spread of cancer cells. Mannah was in remission from a previous bout with cancer, making it even more stunning that anyone would give him such substances.
Perhaps these news items will contribute to increased scrutiny of substances. But to this point, there has been little real scientific study.
Unlike HGH, which has been around for decades, or drugs like CERA or SARMs that came out of pharmacological testing, the particular peptides in question here are not being used for any approved medical treatments. And no American professional sport has them specified on a banned list (though catch-all language could make them a banned substance). Under these circumstances, any testing on these types of peptides has not been a publicized priority.
Still, it's surprising how few indications there have been that the peptides are being examined by major sports organizations. These aren't "new" substances. Increlex, a similar substance, is still not specifically banned by any league aside from MLB, despite being a known, in-use PED since 2004. I wrote about it being a loophole drug in baseball here in 2005! Peptides like GHRP-6 have been available since the mid-1990s.
But the attention of the NFL and MLB, for example, has been on HGH. And it was testosterone that made news last year in baseball's major leagues.
"They Work"
Anthony Roberts has been on the leading edge of performance-enhancing drugs for the past decade. As the author of Anabolic Steroids: Ultimate Research Guide, Roberts has his pulse on both the steroid underground and the drugs that are trickling into the mainstream. With peptides, Roberts says any fear they are being widely used is justified. "They work," he told me.
"These aren't actually new drugs, per se. They have been widely used in the bodybuilding community for the past several years...which generally means they are widely available on the Internet, through online storefronts and the like," Roberts said.
"The fact that they're potentially dangerous under certain conditions, or that we've seen some recent investigation into their use by athletes, isn't a reflection of their being new but rather a reflection of their being linked to a recent death (and perhaps their appearance on a list of drugs supposedly used by a certain ballplayer)."
Roberts noted that the authorities and governing bodies have noted the presence of the peptides, but that public consciousness of the issue lags.
"The FDA has been making busts in the peptide world for the past few years, although the only people taking notice are the people walking on this side of the street," he said, referring to the drug underground.
There's a problem with drugs coming into public consciousness. Once these peptides become more familiar, more and more people will try it, just as happened with anabolic steroids and HGH.
Formula for Increased Popularity
The normal pattern is that bodybuilders are the first to experiment with new substances. Since they do not operate under a testing program in most cases, they are not only free to use substances, they have a solid community that accepts these substances and shares results.
Once it escapes the bodybuilding community, a drug quickly reaches major sports. Football is normally first since the weightlifting component has a major overlap. This can quickly shift both vertically, down to college and scholastic levels, and horizontally, to other sports, major and minor. This pattern has been repeated again and again, since the first steroids went from the York Barbell Club to the nascent NFL.
These patterns became evident from my own study of the world of sports doping, detailed in my book The Juice.
But while the appearance of peptides in Australian sports, in the Biogenesis report and in Roberts' experience portends their spread through U.S. sports, they are not being publicized as a significant issue.
What we hear about in the news is that professional leagues continue to focus on HGH testing. MLB implemented broader blood testing for HGH during the 2013 season, despite having no positive tests in their 2012 debut. At the minor league level, there has been only one positive in four years of blood testing. WADA would not confirm the number of test-positive cases for this article, but anecdotal evidence indicates that the number is less than 10.
The NFL is still deadlocked on implementing its own policy on HGH. Michael Schottey of Bleacher Report broke down the issues in this article. It is clear that the NFL is moving in this direction largely due to public and political pressure. The NFL did not return calls or emails regarding this story.
Though Major League Baseball would not comment for this article, it stands to reason peptides are somewhere on its drug radar. MLB is currently engaged in a lawsuit against Biogenesis, seeking to gain access to clinic records that may shed more light on specific drugs.
Why should peptides be getting everyone's attention? Because they work, because there are signs they are becoming more popular and because anti-doping efforts can't afford to lag too far behind doping efforts.
Roberts has seen that peptides are effective: "Peptides work, in that they do exactly what they're meant to do—they raise your growth hormone levels to the point where you're getting a physiological advantage in recovery, strength, and lean muscle gains."
An effective, dangerous substance that's hard to detect? That's a major problem for sports and for those committed to keeping sports drug-free.
Quotes were obtained firsthand unless otherwise noted.
Will Carroll has been writing about sports injuries for 12 years. His work has appeared at SI.com, ESPN.com and Mind and Muscle. | {
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After our successful Festival of Wheels event last month we were pleased to invite two researchers, Leisel and James from the Menzies Centre to our meeting to receive the donation towards Men’s Health research. Leisel talked of her work in Genetic Studies in relation to Prostate cancer and the work going into better testing to enable earlier diagnosis. The common test used is the PSI blood test but is not always reliable. Four to five hundred males are diagnosed each year and about one hundred die. Interestingly Tasmania is perfect for genetic studies as there are various genes that are specific to Tasmania alone. President John presented Leisel with a cheque for $1200 towards the wonderful work being done into Men’s health.
Nine members of Sullivan Cove Rotary Club joined us to hear our guest speaker Jeremy Scott talk of his journey from London to New Zealand on his bicycle travelling 50,000 kms over two and half years. Born with a hole in his heart Jeremy had deteriorating health until an operation at age seven changed his life allowing him to do everything other kids could. It was while living and working in the UK that he was inspired to take on this epic journey. He met many challenges but also many amazing people which made for interesting and awe inspiring stories. He decided that his ride would raise money for the Heart Foundation and has produced a beautiful book complete with beautiful photos selling for $65 which would make a wonderful Christmas gift. Muriel helped sales with her great sales pitch. We wish Jeremy well on his next adventure planned from Alaska to the bottom of south America. Hopefully he will return to share the stories again.
Moonah Rotary Club’s inaugural “Festival of Wheels” was held on November 6th at Tolosa Park, Glenorchy. The event was a great success with over 100 vehicles attending and the unpredictable weather didn’t deter a good crowd of visitors. There was plenty to eat with the BBQ and Food Vans and the children were entertained by Jimbo the Clown and PP Peter Hall organised a “Throw it and Whack it” ball game. Pennants were sold to elect the favourite cars for the “Peoples Choice” and a a number of prizes were awarded to the enthusiastic car owners. Money raised will go to the Menzies Institute for research into Men’s Health and after such a positive response another bigger event is planned for next year. A huge thank you to Wally for the idea and his tireless work to organise this event and to all the sponsors and volunteers involved.
A good attendance at Tuesday’s meeting ensured a warm welcome for our newest member Andrea Sturges. Introduced by PP Barry Titmus, Andrea’s classification is “Children’s Services” as she has now taken on Barry’s role at Kennerley Children’s Homes. Elisabeth was pleased to induct Andrea and we all look forward to her joining our meetings.
Members of the Fire Brigade and the Police Motor Cyclists attended the award ceremony for the annual Junior Neighbourhood Support programme at Guilford Young College. Awards were presented to sixty-eight young awardees for their contributions to their school or local community. Next year will be the 1oth Anniversary of the project which was started by this club and instigated by PP Charmaine White. Thanks to Glenyse for her continued involvement.
At Tuesday’s meeting Muriel introduced guest speaker Lisa Blackwood, Manager of Eureka Clubhouse. Run by Colony 47 and based in Moonah it was established in 1994 following the closure of the Royal Derwent Hospital. The purpose of the Eureka Clubhouse is to help develop friendships, understanding and equality in a working environment for adults who have or have had mental health issues. The focus is also on workplace training. There is three paid staff and many volunteers. Members of the public are also welcome to visit for a coffee and a chat at any time. Lisa gave an interesting presentation on the operations and objectives of the Clubhouse.
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NEW MEETING LOCATION
We now meet at the Carlyle Hotel, 232 Main Road, Derwent Park. (Next door to the Metro Bus depot)
Our meetings are on Tuesdays at 1pm in the upstairs function room.
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Elk Grove Police Led on Short Vehicle Pursuit by Suspected Drunk Driver
An Elk Grove woman suspected of drunk driving led police on a short vehicle pursuit after she reportedly did not follow instructions upon contact.
Just before 2 a.m on Sunday, October 2 Elk Grove Police officers were dispatched to Calvine and Waterman Roads after receiving reports of an unresponsive person sitting in the driver's seat of the vehicle stopped in the middle of the road. When officers arrived, they attempted to contact 33-year old Judy Meychoy Saechao.
Instead of following officers instructions, Saechao allegedly drove away and led officers on a 1.3-mile pursuit. Once she stopped the vehicle, Saechao was contacted and reportedly displayed objective signs of impairment.
Saechao was arrested for DUI, and evading arrest. She was booked into the county jail and has been released on bail. | {
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Another thing…. you’d think with all the money she’s making, she could hire a decent photoshop artist to touch up her mug in that ghoulish photo. The right side of her face looks like it’s dieing, all rotten and yellow. | {
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UNC-TV visits Onslow County to film Lisa Godwin at work
UNC-TV visited Onslow County to film N.C. Teacher of the Year Lisa Godwin at work in the classroom.
Jannette Pippin Daily News Staff jannette_pippin
SNEADS FERRY | There is no place like home.
For North Carolina Teacher of the Year Lisa Godwin, a kindergarten teacher with Onslow County Schools, that means being back in the classroom.
As the state’s Teacher of the Year, Godwin has been traveling non-stop and just within the past few weeks she’s met with K-5 teachers in Lenoir County for a leadership seminar, attended an AdvanED North Carolina conference in Greensboro and made stops at Davidson County Schools and Appalachian State University.
“This time of service to North Carolina has been a blessing. It has been an honor to go to the conferences and meet with other teachers and educators but my heart is in the classroom,” Godwin said.
Godwin got a chance to return to the classroom Tuesday during a stop at her home school, Dixon Elementary School.
And she was all smiles as she waited to take over the kindergarten class of Marci Shell for a quick lesson.
“This just solidifies where my heart is; I love being in the classroom,” Godwin said.
As Godwin took over, the video camera was on her as she interacted with the class.
A crew from UNC-TV was there to talk with Godwin about her love of teaching and film her at work in the environment she is most comfortable, with her students.
Segments of the filming will be used on Rootle, UNC-TV’s 24-hour kids channel, and on their various platforms, including television and social media.
“A lot of our work is educational and we wanted to get her insight on why she loves teaching, why she got into teaching, and on things kids may be interested in,” said UNC-TV associate producer Jessica Edgar.
Godwin was ready with a lesson plan with a volcano theme. It began with reading the children’s book, "My Mouth is a Volcano," moved to an experiment on making a volcano erupt, and ended with the Volcano Dance.
It combined concepts including literacy, math and science as the kindergartners participated in reading, learned about experiments and ingredients for building a volcano, learned about safety and used goggles for their experiment and then closed out the lesson with a little dancing for fun and exercise.
The lesson was the same one she was using when she was being observed in the classroom during the Teacher of the Year competition.
Godwin is now finalizing her portfolio for the national Teacher of the Year competition.
Reporter Jannette Pippin can be reached at [email protected] or 910-382-2557. | {
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Are you ready for a kids party? Play the latest girl games and join these kids at an awesome event party! Curly is a cute girl that loves to party with all of her friends but before she leaves for the party she needs to get ready and you will get to help her out with this as best as you can. She needs a proper dress up and make over session and she is counting on you to help her out. You need to make her look great in time for the party so do your best and have a look through her closet to browse through all of her clothes to find the best match for her. She wants to wear a cute dress and you get to pick the best one for her so try to get one that matches her style. After you have the perfect outfit ready for her you can advance to the makeover part of the game and style up her hair in a new and fancy way. Try out different types of hairstyle on her until you find the one that matches her outfit the best. Make her look gorgeous and have fun! | {
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European Elections
This past weekend delivered one of the most entertaining spectacles seen in Europe in a long time. My readers will be forgiven for assuming that I’m talking about the Champions League Final between Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid, which did indeed deliver the top billing it had received[1]. But as much as I enjoy association […]
On May 10th, Angela Merkel hosted her French counterpart, François Holland, in the German coastal city of Stralsund. The event was planned as a show of unity, with joint statements on the future of the Euro and the Union’s response to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. And after 20 hours of discussions, the two did […] | {
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Commentary & Community
After the release of the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, discussion about impeaching President Trump heated up on Capitol Hill. Some Democratic members of Congress are calling for the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi is resisting doing so – for now.
Impeachment is the bringing of charges against the president, vice president, or other “civil officials,” such as cabinet officers. Impeachment does not remove them from office, however. Instead, impeachment refers charges to the Senate, which then must vote to remove that person from office.
Impeachment and the Constitution
The Constitution establishes the impeachment and removal process, explaining it in a few key sections:
Article I, Section 2: The House of Representatives “shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”
Article I, Section 3: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present. Judgment in Cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.”
Article II, Section 4: “The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
The U.S. impeachment and removal process is similar to the process that existed in Britain during the writing of the Constitution. However, the British Parliament impeaches and removes officials in one action. The framers of the U.S. Constitution made impeachment and removal two separate processes, thus weakening the ability of the legislative branch to remove executive branch officials.
How Impeachment and Removal Works
The House Judiciary Committee begins the impeachment process. Its members consider articles of impeachment, with approval coming with a majority vote. If approved, these articles of impeachment move to the full House of Representatives for a vote. The House then debates and votes on these articles. If a majority approves them, then that person has been impeached.
The Senate then begins its role. With the Chief Justice of the U.S. presiding, the Senate conducts a trial. The House of Representatives appoints members to manage the case before the Senate, laying out the charges contained in the articles of impeachment. The Senate then votes, with a two-thirds vote being necessary to remove that person from office.
Impeachment and removal may be for a public official’s criminal act, but they are not criminal proceedings. The only penalty, as the Constitution stipulates, is removal from office. The underlying crimes can be prosecuted by civil authorities, however, which may result in criminal conviction and penalties after impeachment and removal from office.
The History of Impeachment
The House of Representatives has considered over 60 impeachment cases, but most have failed. There have only been 8 instances where individuals have been impeached and removed from office. Fifteen judges have been impeached, as have 2 presidents:
Andrew Johnson: The House passed 11 articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson in 1868. The Senate came within one vote of removing him from office.
Bill Clinton: The House passed 2 articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton in 1998. The Senate vote to remove him from office failed.
In 1974, the House began the impeachment process against President Richard Nixon. The House Judiciary Committee approved 3 articles of impeachment against him, but Nixon resigned prior to a full House vote.
Federal Judge G. Thomas Porteous, Jr., was the last official impeached and removed from office. His impeachment and conviction occurred in 2010.
The Clinton Impeachment
The last presidential impeachment and trial took place over 20 years ago, when the House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton. If there are proceedings initiated against President Trump, it would likely follow the pattern set during these proceedings.
In 1998, Independent Counsel Ken Starr provided a report to Congress that contained evidence gathered in the course of his investigation into various allegations against President Clinton. The House Judiciary Committee passed four articles of impeachment. Two were for perjury, one was for obstruction of justice, and one was for abuse of power. The full House of Representatives passed two of those articles of impeachment, one for perjury and one for obstruction of justice, on December 19, 1998.
The House of Representatives appointed thirteen managers to present their case to the Senate, which began its trial on January 7, 1999. Chief Justice William Rehnquist presided. The trial lasted a month, with the Senate beginning closed-door deliberations on February 9. The Senate took a vote on February 13 on the articles of impeachment. The Senate defeated the perjury charge by a vote of 45-55 and the obstruction of justice charge by 50-50. Sixty-seven votes would have been necessary to convict the president and remove him from office.
While both the votes in the House and Senate were largely along party lines, there were members of Congress who broke with their party leadership on impeachment or conviction. Senator Arlen Specter, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania (who later became a Democrat), voted “not proved.” Many observers saw these proceedings as an example of partisanship on both sides. This is in contrast with the impeachment proceedings that had begun against President Nixon, where a bipartisan consensus was forming to impeach and remove him from office prior to his resignation.
What This Means for You
There is growing movement in the Democratic caucus in the House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump. These members accuse the president of obstructing justice and other crimes, saying that it is the House’s duty to impeach under these circumstances. Speaker Pelosi has cautioned members that such a move is politically risky, pointing out that Republicans lost popularity when they impeached President Clinton in the 1990s.
With Democrats controlling the House of Representatives, there is a possibility that it could pass impeachment articles. However, it is unlikely that the Senate would follow suit, given Republican control of the chamber. If the Senate would convict the president and remove him from office under this situation, then the vice president would assume office. | {
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You could place the following 3 lines into a file and then using the Info panel set the file to be opened in Terminal App when double clicked.
#!/bin/bash
telnet 10.1.0.102
exit
You'll also have to, from the terminal type the followling after you have created the file. I named mine termit.bash. The file needs execute permissions for the people who will run it. You'll need to do this and the ab ove Terminal App association for each system you copy it to. | {
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relation between personal values and the principles of Total Quality Management and thus to propose a tentative framework of relationships.
Design/methodology/approach: The paper is conceptual. It reviews some lists of values present in literature; and summarizes them in a more comprehensive list. Then it follows the definitions of these values according to some philosophical models; and the analysis of their implications in the business life in general. Thus; tries to explain the relation between them and the principles of TQM; passing through the two mediating variables passion and trust.
Findings: A model of quality management based on personal values is proposed.
Research limitations: The lack of empirical data that can validate the model; and the lack of specific hypothesis of investigation.
Practical Implications (if possible): Considering the emphasis placed on personal values; the model can have some practical implications in the field of recruitment; promotion; and leadership.
Originality/value: The model fills the gap between personal values and the principles of Total Quality Management; being the first attempt to present a comprehensive model of interactions. A novel framework that can provide a basis for further research into the profound nature of quality management has been proposed. Furthermore; some implications that should be useful for recruiters and managers are discussed. | {
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Friday, August 2, 2013
My top recommendations from this edition of What I've Been Reading include:
Ruta Sepetys is one of my new favorite authors. Both Between Shades of Gray (read earlier in the year) and Out of the Easy are fantastic historical novels. Just read them. :)
I particularly enjoyed the first half of Rootless. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it as a whole, but I was a little disappointed to discover that it's a series. I felt like if crafted just a little differently, it could have been a great stand alone YA novel. But still, I appreciated the dystopian world Chris Howard created. It's sometime in the future and there are no trees left (though there is a rumor about one remaining living tree somewhere), there are flesh-eating locusts, and genetically modified popcorn is what everyone eats.
The River of No Return is a time travel story about a young man from the 1800s who jumps forward in time 200 years to escape death. His world is, obviously, turned upside down, but he adapts; however, he is thrown a few curve balls by the Guild, time travel officials.
The World's Strongest Librarian is the memoir of librarian with an extreme case of Tourette's syndrome who uses strength training to help control it. Part of the reason I enjoyed this book is that I could totally relate to his stories about working in a public library. It is an engaging and easy read.
In previous posts I highlighted favorite quotes from Galatians for You and Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art.
May
Non-FictionThe Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life by Leo BabautaZen Habits by Leo BabautaHelp Thanks Wow: the Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
FictionThe Typewriter Girl by Alison Atlee
YAOut of the Easy by Ruta SepetysStrands of Bronze and Gold by Jane NickersonSlated by Teri TerryUnder the Never Sky by Veronica RossiRootless by Chris Howard
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Thanks for stopping by. Enjoy my semi-regular posts on life as a young married woman and the many things that fill my time: reading all kinds of books, cooking gluten-free, working at the library, spending time with my husband, learning who I am each day as a child of God. | {
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Skeletal remains found in Daytona Beach
Police in Daytona Beach are trying to figure out the identity of skeletal remains found in the woods Monday.
Police said a driver stopped to go to the bathroom in the wooded area on Clyde Morris, just north of Mason Avenue and discovered the remains just before 4 p.m.
The remains had clothes on the body and are believed to possibly be an adult male, police said. It is not believed they are connected to the case of a mother and her two children murdered in Volusia County.
The skeletal remains were collected and taken to the morgue to determine cause of death.
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Animal cruelty arrest made
August 10, 2011
A Big Spring man was arrested Tuesday and charged with cruelty to livestock animals in connection with the July 13 seizure of several horses suffering from malnourishment.
Joel Venegas Estrella, 51, was booked into the Howard County jail on a charge of cruelty to livestock animals just before midnight, following an investigation by the Howard County Sheriff's Office, according to Sheriff Stan Parker.
"He was taken into custody without incident,” Parker said.
Parker said his office received a complaint July 12 while firefighters were battling several blazes in the Crossroads area, including one believed to have begun near the intersection of Kenneth and Jill roads in the Sand Springs area.
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Why I DVRed This: Peeping Tom is one of those films I’d heard about for years and years but never had the opportunity to see (I mean, yeah, I could’ve Netflixed it or gone back in time and gone to Blockbuster to rent it if I really wanted to see it, but it wasn’t just presented to me ever…). It is one of those movies that divided audiences in its time but that has come to be regarded as a classic. I don’t know the context for this being on TCM, but I saw it on the schedule one night and DVRed it.
Presentation on TCM: TCM just played its “open all night” diner montage to indicate that this film was being shown in the wee hours. As I said above, I have no idea if TCM put it on for any reason or to fulfill any theme.
Synopsis: Mark Lewis (Böhm) is a freelance pornographic photographer who also works as a focus puller for a film studio. Additionally, he owns an apartment building he inherited from his father, a deranged psychiatrist who used his son as his guinea pig for experiments about human fear. He is unhappy and lonely and starts a relationship with one of his tenants, Helen (Massey). Oh, and there’s one more thing: Mark also likes to kill women by using a dagger attached to a camera. His goal is to try to capture fear on camera.
Analysis (contains spoilers): Peeping Tom is one of the defining horror movies of all time. It, along with Psycho, helped pave the way for the more sinister and psychological horror movies of the late 1960s and 1970s (as compared to the campy b-movies of the 1950s). However, unlike Psycho, which became a box office sensation (albeit with mixed reviews),
Peeping Tom essentially ended the career of director Michael Powell. He continued to work but not to receive the acclaim or fanfare he had received as one of Britain’s premier filmmakers of the post-war years.
And that’s a shame. Peeping Tom is a delightful film and one that seems to have been years ahead of the times. It is a film that is largely subjective in view and works best when it makes the viewer culpable in the action shown on the screen. If Psycho made everyone in the audience feel like a victim, Peeping Tom makes everyone in the audience feel like a killer. And, unlike Psycho, there is zero mystery about who the killer is, so the film becomes more an examination of human psyche than a straight thriller or mystery. But the psyche most explored is the shared bond between the killer and the spectator.
From the opening shots, Powell establishes this subjectivity. He makes it very clear the film will not be subject to mimetic staging (which works like a stage set—the world of the narrative is contained in a rectangle that is separate from the “real world”). Instead, the film shows primarily the perspective of Mark, our obvious psycho, but at first, we don’t see Mark—we just see Mark’s view, which becomes our view and, by extension, our actions.
The film opens on a closeup of an eye opening before we see a very expressionistic depiction of a street. A man snaps a photo of a woman through a hidden camera. We switch to his camera perspective of her. She is a prostitute (“it’ll be two quid”) and we follow her into her apartment (still in the camera view). She undresses for us (in a very untitilating way) before we begin to attack her and she screams at us. Then, and only then, do we cut to a projector showing the very movie and a man, Mark, watching it while some piano-heavy music plays and the title is revealed.
Horror movies primarily rely on an impulse in the audience to want—no, to need—to see things that should not be seen. That is why we scream “don’t open the closet” while praying that the victim does open the closet. Peeping Tom takes the whole notion further—we beg Mark to kill because we need to see the action. Of course, in seeing the action, we become sick too, but it’s our own fault for watching the film. With such logic, it’s no wonder the film offended so many during its first release. Today’s audience is more desensitized to such violence (see the success of the Saw franchise), so Peeping Tom seems thrilling more than sick. We enter a world we don’t know and commit actions we would never commit in real life—and that is the thrill. The thrill is of living vicariously through a psychopath, not of living vicariously through a detective investigating a psycho.
Peeping Tom also does a very good job of making it clear that, though Mark is psychotic, there are different manifestations of the same psychotic behavior in others. Mark works as an occasional pornographer, and there is a terrific scene early in the film in which he talks to the owner of a newsstand. The shops owner asks Mark which magazines sell best, and Mark replies “those with girls on the front covers and no front covers on the girls.” In the same store, an elderly man is buying pornography and a daily newspaper, and the shop’s owner reminds him not to forget the newspaper he’s purchased. This scene establishes that many others in England are equally sex-obsessed as Mark; it’s just their obsessions manifest themselves differently (and, obviously, more healthily).
Unlike those of the casual masturbators, Mark’s impulses are primarily violent. But his violence is itself established as normal in the world he navigates. When Mark photographs naked prostitutes, they both ask him to cover up their bruises. This implies that they are used to getting roughed up by their johns, and it also implies that they want to be aesthetically pleasing in the magazines. There is a girl with a cleft palate who is particularly worried about the way she is photographed, and Mark precedes to obsess over her deformity. The world is ugly and violent, but Mark is comfortable with—if not outright intrigued by—it.
While the girls being photographed are, of course, obsessed with the way they will be captured on film, other victims of Mark show an equal concern with their looks. Indeed, aesthetics and appearances seem to be an important part of the film. This is, of course, because the movie is mostly about looking. The Peeping Tom of the title is not Mark but, rather, the audience, looking at what Mark sees (or at what others see Mark see, as when he shows them his home movies). We in the audience become dazzled by the expressionistic technicolor canvasses that make up the disgusting figures that occupy one of Mark’s worlds, the filmmakers and actresses that occupy another, and the ordinary Britons that occupy the house Mark owns.
Color features prominently in the film too. While the worlds Mark occupies are all lavishly colored, he himself is always dressed drably in browns and dark greens. This provides him with an everyman status and helps explain his ability to navigate the interstices between his three worlds. The police are the only ones who even seem to suspect him of being capable of anything heinous, and only really after they follow him between worlds (a person who works on the set might not be a suspect in the murder of an actress on the set, but a person who works on the set and works as a pornographer certainly could be a suspect). Mark’s apartment too is plain and unassuming, with drab wallpaper and boring furniture. However, he of course has two rather interesting things in his apartment: a projector and a darkroom. He uses the projector to show Helen the films of the cruel experiments on fear that were performed on Mark as a child, and he also shows her the darkroom, a room that seems to serve as his objective correlative—it is the only world that unites all three of Mark’s worlds and that provides access to Mark’s dark inner life. And, as if to make even more manifest what is already apparent, the darkroom is colored red—the color so often used in the film to mark desire and sex.
Red is indeed the clearest motif seen in Peeping Tom. All of Mark’s victims either have red hair or something very red about them (a pillow in the background of his first victim who was first seen in a garishly cerise skirt). When we meet the redheaded Helen for the first time (when he shows her the darkroom), she is wearing a red dress. All the other victims are similarly red either in hair color or costume or both. And many of the scenes seem to have a red tint to them, as though the whole film took place in a red light district (which it kind of does—the red light district of the audience’s minds!). Red is, of course, the color of fire and blood, so it is associated in art and literature with war, danger, strength, power, desire, and passion. And Mark himself seems to gravitate to the color, like a bull.
One final note: Many have remarked that the film clearly delineates good girls and bad girls. We see, for instance, prostitutes and nude models contrasted with the innocent Helen. But it seems the film actually implies that there isn’t really a difference. After all, regardless of if they are good or not good, Mark has access to them. He can work the seedy underbelly of London’s streets and porn shops just as easily as he can charm a nice woman like Helen. And both the good girls and the bad girls often have red hair, implying that, to Mark at least (and arguably to any pervert/psycho), the good and the bad are all the same—easily preyed upon women. As Powell seems to put the onus for all the violence on the audience (the sick fucks watching Mark’s films), the implication seems to be that the very act of looking or gazing on another automatically corrupts her. That is, it doesn’t matter if a person is good or bad once that person becomes an object of lust.
Powell is all too happy to direct us to this conclusion too. It’s worth noting that the doctor in Mark’s childhood movies is played by Powell (with his son playing the young Mark). Mark’s dad was interested in studying fear and human emotion. The filmmaker’s job seems to be not to study fear and emotion but to force them out of an audience. Given the cruelty we see imposed upon the cast by the director of the film Mark works on (not to mention the obvious cruelty inflicted on the stars of Mark’s movies by the filmmaker), it seems the process of making and screening films is not a job for the benevolent.
Should I Have DVRed This On TCM: Yes, yes, yes. This film is so rich, and I could’ve discussed it on so many levels (the career of Powell, the psychology of Mark, the idea of spectatorship, the connections between Peeping Tom and other voyeuristic films, etc.). However, at the end of the day, I was most drawn to the look of the film and the question of how the film is supposed to make you feel. I felt drawn in to Mark’s world, and so I felt disgusted by my own culpability in the action of the film (while not wanting to turn the movie off), but I imagine a person with better morals might end up feeling superior to Mark and disgusted simply at the film’s very existence, as though the attempt to make the audience feel guilty for Mark’s acts was itself a venal sin. Regardless, this is a film that I know I will come back to and probably draw a totally different conclusion about when I do. | {
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EOHR will hold the third workshop entitled “strengthening the concept of citizenship among the youth” tomorrow, Tuesday December 24th 2013, at the organization’s headquarters, within the framework of the organization’s plan in educating the youth about the importance and usefulness of the concept of the citizenship, particularly at this important stage which requires all the political forces across the country to work together in achieving democracy in the country.
This workshop comes in the context of the desire of the organization to promote the concept of citizenship among the youth, since this concept is among the basic concepts that we should work on in the coming period to activate the mechanisms of the political participation, especially after the text of the draft constitution stressed on establishing the idea of citizenship.
From his side, Hafez Abu Seada, President of EOHR, has emphasized that the citizenship is working on lifting the differences between the people of one nation, contributing in the development of the society, and raising the level of civilization.
He further added that the provision of the value of citizenship among the youth will provide an opportunity of building a new generation with a great sense of responsibility towards their homeland and its development, and will do everything for the sake of the country.
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The author is a poet, counsellor, and occasional scholar-in-residence. Musings on everything from advaita ("non-dualism") to sustainable living, interspersed with poems. Thanks to Zvi Jaspan of Kibbutz Tzora for the name for this blog.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Paradoxes
If nothing matters then it does not matter that nothing matters
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It seems to me people who often take on the 'heaviest' responsibilities, or who are in positions of enormous responsibilty, paraoxically are those who are most comfortable with the notion of limited responsibility. Thus heads of state may send their armies into justifiable or unjustifiable conflicts, but usually don't take personal responsibility for the 10, 100 or 1 million deaths of their "own" soldiers - and never mind those of the enemy. If it were not so how could they continue to function. Indeed some , like Menachem Begin, could not, perhaps becuase he did not really possess this ability to shrug off responsibility. He seemed overwhelmed by the weight of the Israeli fatalities in the First Lebanese War, and became a recluse in the years immediately proceeding his death.
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I have faced my fear of fear, and am no longer afraid of being afraid
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a "hogeh deyot" - Hebrew for someone who thinks a lot about things that are not directly related to the daily round. I worships two G?ds, that are probably one and the same - creativity and balance. Sat. Chit. Ananda. Gila Rina Ditza ve Chedva. Adoshem Hu Elokim. Veshal-om shanti shanti. | {
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To watch any of the skateboarding commercials these days, you'd think that skateboarding was as illegal and immoral as highway drag racing. They all follow the same recipe—ending with skateboarders being chased away by the police or some sort of authority figure from wherever they were trying to indulge in their sport (with a few shots of disapproving elderly bystanders for that added touch).
While performing tricks and scoring in a free fashion was a total blast, I found trying to complete the various goals in the one-player mode to acquire tapes to be less thrilling. Like Dale previously mentioned, one of the major problems is repetition.
Having never totally experienced Sonic in all his 16-Bit glory, I was eager to get my hands on his first journey in the world of 3D. It may have taken almost a decade and millions of angry letters from disgruntled Saturn fans, but Sega has finally unleashed Sonic and friends into a 3D world. Unfortunately, Sonics blazing speeds and developer inexperience have him tripping over his own feet throughout the entire game.
Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling 2 (Brunswick 2) strives for that larger-than-life approach, but it can't get past the fact bowling just doesn't generate much excitement unless you're directly participating. Bowling is repetitious by nature, and there's little this game can do to change that.
For sheer spectacle, this is a game that would be difficult to top. However, it's downright disappointing that it couldn't be a more worthwhile playing experience. To say that Sonic Adventure is a treat for the senses would be an understatement, but that doesn't automatically translate into "fun game." Don't get me wrong, the game certainly has its moments, but the prevailing feeling here is that Sonic Team spent too much time trying to make the game look cool (no doubt the result of the pressure to make up for lost time) and not enough time thinking of ways to make it play better.
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PawSox reliever Fields picks perfect time for breakout season
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Sep 11, 2012 at 10:46 AM
PAWTUCKET -- When the Seattle Mariners selected Josh Fields in the first round of the 2008 draft, they sent him right to Double-A in 2009. He'd set the Georgia Bulldogs' career record for saves and pitched in the College World Series.
Brian MacPherson Journal Sports Writer brianmacp
PAWTUCKET -- When the Seattle Mariners selected Josh Fields in the first round of the 2008 draft, they sent him right to Double-A in 2009. He'd set the Georgia Bulldogs' career record for saves and pitched in the College World Series.
He was polished. He was ready.
He had a 6.48 ERA.
When the Red Sox acquired Fields from the Seattle Mariners as a little-mentioned part of the Erik Bedard trade in 2011, Fields had pitched in Double-A for parts of three seasons with the Mariners and finally seemed to have figured out the level. He'd even earned a promotion to Triple-A only to walk 13 hitters in 13 innings at that level.
The Red Sox sent Fields right back to Double-A for the rest of last season and the first part of this season. It was there that he met Portland pitching coach Bob Kipper -- and there that, it seems, the 27-year-old righty figured out how to pitch.
"More than anything else, it was just the mental game mixed in with the delivery," Fields said. "I simplified it in my mind, not thinking about different little things in my delivery, trying to focus on one or two big ideas and working on that and being focused enough not to let the small things get in my way."
Fields missed the first round of the Governors' Cup playoffs with groin tightness, but after throwing two bullpen sessions on the side, he's expected to be good to go when the PawSox host the Charlotte Knights in Game 1 of the Governors' Cup Finals on Tuesday night at McCoy Stadium.
But even a championship ring might not be a crowning achievement for Fields this season. After fighting through three years of struggles at the minor-league level, he's put himself in position to be added to the Red Sox roster in September or, failing that, to the 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft in December, putting him in consideration for a major-league job next spring.
Fields compiled a 2.62 ERA with 59 strikeouts and 16 walks in 44 2/3 innings pitched out of the bullpen for Double-A Portland this season. He bottomed out after a rough April in which he walked six hitters in a span of six innings pitched.
"When I started out, it was like always," he said. "I hit a rough spot at the end of the first month of the season, maybe, a rough patch of several outings where I just didn't throw very well. After that was when I really started to talk to Kip more one-on-one, and, for me, it helped big-time. I really tried to pay attention because he's done a lot and been there, places I've not been, and he's done more than me as far as this game goes. I tried to be a sponge, to soak it up."
Having simplified his delivery and his mental approach, he struck out 18 and walked one in 10 1/3 innings pitched in the month of May. After July 1, he struck out 19 and walked two while allowing just a single earned run in 15 1/3 innings.
Since an early August promotion to Pawtucket, he has struck out 19 and walked just two in 13 2/3 innings pitched.
"He's got power stuff -- plus fastball, tight, nasty, biting slider," PawSox manager Arnie Beyeler said. "He's 94-97-ish. That's what we've seen. When he's down in the zone, it plays up. Like all guys, when you're behind and up, you get hit, but it's power stuff."
Eye-popping numbers like that, even as a 26- and 27-year-old in the minor leagues, have made this an interesting offseason for Fields. After this season, he will have spent enough time in the minor leagues to be eligible for the Rule 5 draft. If he is not added to the 40-man roster by the Red Sox, other teams will be able to pluck him away and stash him on their roster -- though, by rule, they'll have to keep him in the major leagues all year.
In other words, the major leagues look closer for Fields now than they ever have before.
"I'd be lying if I said I never thought about it, but that's just human nature," he said. "That goes back to I've been learning this year about managing the distractions. The reality is that I'm here. I'm not in the big leagues. This is where I'm at right now. What I have to worry about is getting my job done today and then, ultimately, the game tomorrow is the next step. Understanding to just focus on what you're doing here, what you're doing now is hugely important to how well you perform. If my mind wasn't in it -- if I was worried about being protected, worried about getting that call-up, playing for that -- that's a distraction, and that's not something I want to be in the forefront of my mind."
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An empty shell of a new vain hope...
An ice-cold thread of a sober thought...
A shroud of emptiness covers the night,
Eclipses the flow of its warm liquid light
I leak through branches of the never seen past,
Stumbling the pace on shadows they cast
Unfold the clothes;
Let needles of chill drive warmth under the skin
Take a glance to the sky:
In the cold calm of stars, find the withering spark of my eyes
Come drive the sanity through the fog
Of doubt and falseness obscuring the world
To a world of unconscious spirits call,
Awaken the dreaming in my soul
3. Within The Without (3:37)
As shadows stretch to the east,
Laying down the world for sleep,
A turquoise sunset fades to ink
On diamond meadows spilled
I dissolve in a dream,
Fancying the universe let's me in;
A million eyes, sometimes called stars,
Pensively wink at me
I've been where stars can't glide to,
Have seen the universe from outside;
With raptured sinking heart,
Beheld it swaying among the alike
The without-so delicate-
Makes frightfully definite
What from within to a local mind
Had been so infinite
Beyond cognition cast,
Through space having carved its path,
A beam of light on a mirror sparks-
And dives to a speck of dust
What's inside the naught?
I've seen those colourful inner worlds
A thing within will always be
For inner things, the without
The within's thoroughness,
Its diverse minuteness,
Seems from without,
In shade of sky
A paltry commonness
The without-so delicate
Makes frightfully definite
What from within
To a local mind
4. Myth (5:11)
Born in expanse of the subtle unknown
With a wild intent to seize its meaning
Confiding five senses' blind touch
To wit's distorting mirror
Good old being –
Neatly learnt and thoroughly
Seen through a breach of senses –
Imprints on a mind a myth
Vast are pyramids of mythical lore;
Their peaks are deemed as goals to climb to
Why not? to dwell in the subtle unknown
One needs to build firm footing
Good old being –
Neatly learnt and thoroughly
Seen through a breach of senses –
Imprints on minds a myth
What is real?
In a vicious circle spin the wits,
Erecting a dome of self-mythology
5. Of Fate (4:40)
Day follows day until it's questioned why;
It enlaces with viscid, strangling wear
This errant, curious mind
Coloured were the wings of a dream
That cleaved against the wind;
On marble, through the flame,
Their ash so grey
Treat the thoughts like they have been your own,
Besotted with her whispered song;
Riding a decuman wave
Of destiny's storm-she breathes
Scope the links of knots in your web
Sharp emerald eyes to face:
Enchanting quiet of her intent glance to share
Deft, thorough hands sort breathing spheres
Of tiny snow-white flames
In yearning to be found,
Their lights are so frail
In maze of fate there are lots of turns to choose,
But narrow is the funnel throat they all lead to
6. A Misanthrope (4:05)
A dismal cloud of dispersed thoughts,
A glimpse of flare from outer worlds,
A sense of being far from here:
Within their sight but out of reach
Above their narrow simple minds,
Among the flickering streams of life,
Apart from hollow anxious deeds:
Along with calm of autumn leaves
A turbid, fury-wound shroud suppresses whispers of wisdom
The sucking depth of the offence, boils up blood for a fight
The honour demands satisfaction, devouring the seeds of repentance
Severe and burst with hatred; not to recover...
Stray on a straw of consciousness
In a world where frantic ravings rule,
Avid crowds by wealth commanded
Frenzied strength with cruelty use
In a world of pride and dominion, history runs dirty and wild
Baneful is the power of delusion in irritated vengeful minds
Chasing the imminence, a savage raises his club
Ages of violence... severe he remains through time
Emotions-unleashed and perverted,
Whipped by the serpents of wrath-
Collide in ravaging conflicts
For a right to denote who's wrong
The better sides of morals
Are by prejudices enlightened and locked
For centuries bound to be wallowed
In a ‘measure-for-measure' swamp
Lords, by vanity crowned,
In decorous plans disguise the greed
The souls, by hatred ground,
Supply our kind the feed
8. The Now (5:04)
The trail of bitter-red burgeons
On memory's swinging thorny shafts
Through a squeeze of fog-covered petals,
Gleam vivid lanterns of the past
In grace of the instant,
Looping its song,
The pendulum's whistle
Casts now to before
Rushing through history,
Gone centuries' drops
Get shattered to splashes
On now's ethereal walls
Let wheels of ages come to a stand still,
Stroke captured seconds with your hands
Time is an artificial abstract
Wound up by the mortal brain
What is the now if, being reached to, it slips the past,
With a sticky moan being torn away by time?
When is the now if it's being wrapped by the restless mind
In clouds of days that have passed by, or are yet to come?
9. Secret Levels (4:56)
Reconstructing the days i have outlasted
The memories of past...
Impassable doors that led to the worlds
Of beautiful sights
Some secrets to keep, some secrets to miss, some levels to hide
An invisible touch-like a painter's mistake on the canvas of life
Devastating the natural fear inside,
The fear within,
I cower in corners
Away from tides
That draws me in
Time passes so sightless,
Time wears out so doomed
Some devils to kill,
Some moans to hear...
They see through the walls;
My heartbeat they feel;
They're already here
10. Knots of Silence (5:18)
Cast in the abyss of gloomy tranquillity,
Weaving a shield of stray thoughts,
Fencing the mind from the void of reality,
Sating the dreams with rest being sought
Clad in shrouds of dismal thoughts,
The thick of silence knits its knots
In a cradle of dreams,
You bask in the woe
The spindle of sanity twirls;
Its yarn binds the throat
Yours is the time from sunset to dawn;
You dare to redeem the sins of your soul
The embrace of darkness, the cold breath of ghosts:
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Ghost Lyrics
ONLY THE YOUNG
Ghost Lyrics
[Charlie:]
My friends had you figured out
Yeah, they saw what's inside of you
You tried hiding another you
But your evil was coming through
These eyes sitting on the wall
They watch every move I make
Bright light living in the shade
Your cold heart makes my spirit shake
[Parisa:]
I had to go through hell to prove I'm not insane
Had to meet the devil just to know his name
And that's when my
[Parisa+Betsy:]
Love was burning
Yeah, it's still burning
[OTY:]
I keep going to the river to pray
'Cause I need something that can wash all the pain
And at most, I'm sleeping all these demons away
But your ghost
The ghost of you, it keeps me awake
I keep going to the river to pray
'Cause I need something that can wash all the pain
And at most, I'm sleeping all these demons away
But your ghost | {
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Taipei mayor says cancer housing plan to proceed
CHARITABLE:The project to provide housing for kids getting cancer treatment was resisted by those worried it could cause contagion, or worse, hurt the city’s image
By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNA
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin, center, yesterday visits the site for a Ronald McDonald House Charities shelter for children undergoing treatment for cancer and other critical diseases, to show his support for the project.
Photo: Chiu Shao-wen, Taipei Times
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) yesterday said the city government would proceed with construction of a temporary housing project for children undergoing cancer treatment and that the majority of residents in the area supported the project.
The planned project in Jinan Borough (錦安) in Taipei’s Da-an District (大安) by Ronald McDonald House Charities Taiwan recently met opposition from residents in the area, some of whom posted ads around the neighborhood claiming the project would hurt the city’s image.
While visiting the borough yesterday afternoon, Hau said that as the majority of residents supported the project, the city government would continue to facilitate negotiation with those opposed to the issue and endeavor to finish the construction as soon as possible.
A similar center in Neihu District (內湖) made residents feel that it was better to give than to take, Hau said, adding that he hoped Jinan residents would feel like this as well.
Meanwhile, the city government’s Department of Health said the project’s objective was to offer lodging for children from out of town or overseas suffering from cancer or cardio-pulmonary issues that are receiving intensive treatment in Taipei.
The children who would stay in the center would be carefully evaluated by hospitals or medical centers in Taipei before being granted a place in the house, the department said.
There should be no risk of transmitting infections or disease, the department said, adding that if residents have further questions, it would be glad to hold meetings to provide further explanation.
Jinan borough warden Kung Chih-hui (龔志慧) said some may oppose the project because they do not understand the disease and were worried, adding that the borough would invite specialists to a meeting with residents. | {
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Everybody Took Law In Their Hands: Top Court Hears Plea On Delhi Sealing – ( What did one say about Whos Who farmhouses ) The bench, after hearing the arguments, said as an interim measure, the seal of the premises would be opened. It, however, made it clear that basement of the motel would remain sealed and no pandals would be made there. Just wondering it stops here the sealing in this zone and heard of any such instance where premises have been unsealed ? )
“Everybody has taken the law in their own hands,” the Supreme Court said on Monday while hearing a matter related to sealing of unauthorised constructions in Delhi.
The bench made the observation while hearing a plea filed by the owner of a motel, situated near Chhattarpur area of South Delhi, which has been sealed by the authorities.
“Everybody has taken the law in their own hands,” a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur, S Abdul Nazeer and Deepak Gupta said, adding “why somebody has to say that please obey the law?”
Senior lawyer Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for the applicant, said that on September 14, the basement of the building was sealed by the authorities and then on September 20, the entire premises of six acres was sealed.
He said due to the wedding season, they had made pandals which was removed by them but still the premises was sealed despite the fact that they had already replied to the show cause notice issue to them by the authorities.
“Your client must be literate. Why literate people have to be told that you have to follow the law? Why do you want to endanger the people,” the bench told Mr Rohatgi.
To this, Mr Rohatgi said pandals were used traditionally during wedding ceremonies.
“But what about fire hazard,” the bench asked and observed that as per reports, there were around 51,000 houses in Delhi which were being used for commerical purposes.
Responding to the query, the senior counsel said they had the fire clearance to use pandals, which were also used during functions at the top court.
To this, the bench said, “We have the fire safety clearance”.
Senior advocate Ranjit Kumar, assisting the court as an amicus curiae in the sealing matter, told the bench that the motel had applied for regularisation on September 11. “They (motel owner) had applied for regularisation of basement. That means they also understand that it was not regular,” Kumar said.
The bench, after hearing the arguments, said as an interim measure, the seal of the premises would be opened. It, however, made it clear that basement of the motel would remain sealed and no pandals would be made there.
The top court asked the monitoring committee, which has been mandated to identify and seal illegal constructions in the national capital, to file its report in the matter within 10 days and posted the case for hearing after two weeks.
The top court had earlier ordered restoration of its 2006 monitoring committee to identify and seal the offending structures.
The monitoring committee, comprising K J Rao, former advisor to the Election Commissioner, Bhure Lal, chairman of Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, and Major General (Retd) Som Jhingan, was set up on March 24, 2006, by the court.
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The top court is also seized of the issue related to validity of the Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2006 and subsequent legislations which protect illegal construction from being sealed. | {
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Steven Sierra
Software developer with wide experience on web development and data mining using python, actually working on a big project to track vehicles using GPS units, this is being developed with Ruby on Rails. | {
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New Student Conferences
Aggie-STEM Summer Camp 2014
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Date
Begins: Monday, June 9, 2014Ends: Friday, June 20, 2014
Time
All day
Description
The Aggie center for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is holding it's 5th annual summer camp for middle and high school students July 7 – 18, 2014. The summer camp will provide students real world experiences in STEM education through STEM project based learning, improve SAT scores and provide a world-class university experience with Texas A&M University professors in STEM fields. Students will attend non-credit STEM classes by TAMU professors, use 3D printers, Chemistry of Cosmetics, Safety Engineering, Construction Engineering, Circuit Design, Learn to use XtraNormal Animation Studio and Photo Story, Advanced Mathematics, Code and Coding Theory, Plant Biology, PSAT/SAT prep class and a variety of social activities and local field trips. Students may choose from 3 different options, including the two-day camp options or the residence hall stay option. Registration begins immediately and ends May 10, 2014 or when filled. | {
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The Aztec V-Rod® now comes in a beautiful glitter finish! This hip bottle opener is the perfect way to open beers anywhere. We know the Aztecs didn't have glitter back in the day, but we think they would have added it if they did. | {
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Tel Dan Reserve
About this place
A beautiful place to hike and boasting thousands of years of history, the Tel Dan Nature Reserve is one of northern Israel’s most spectacular attractions. Located close to the border with Lebanon, the reserve offers hikes, trails, vantage points for views over the Golan Heights and shady greenery, all year round.
At the heart of the reserve is the Dan Stream - the Dan being the largest of the Jordan River’s three sources (and the only one located within Israel’s borders since 1948). Each winter, when the snow that has gathered on Mount Hermon melts, it trickles down to the springs here - which accounts for the crystal-clear water.
Springs and Pool
Within the reserve, there are three different trails for hiking, one specifically designed for those with walking difficulties and families with young children in buggies. As you hike, you will come across the Paradise Springs - a veritable ‘wetland forest’ which affords shade year-round, as well as the ‘Pooh Bear Tree.’ This old and large narrow-leafed ash is so named since it has a hollow trunk; not surprisingly, it is popular with children.
All trails give visitors the opportunity to enjoy the ‘Wading Pool’ - a place where hikers are permitted to dip their feet in the shallow waters. The remains of a four mill and nearby aqueduct are visible whilst hiking the trails. Although the mill has not been operational for almost 60 years, its walls have been conserved, and the aqueduct has been repaired, letting it deliver water to another part of the reserve.
Archaeological Ruins
What also makes the reserve so special is that, along with the lush, green forest area, it boasts archaeological ruins in the form of an ancient city dating back 5,000 years. Back in Canaanite times (and later, during the First Temple period), it was known as ‘Laish’ or ‘’Leshem’ and the Hebrew Bible mentions it as the city captured by the tribe of Dan. The city became a center of worship within Israel and only declined after Banias (a nearby city) began to prosper.
As a result of the excavations at Tel Dan, archaeologists made an impressive finding - the Abraham Gate (also known as the Canaanite Gate). Built out of mud bricks, it has three arches. A subsequent finding was the Israelite Gate - this is what remains of the entrance gate (and the fortification walls) to the ancient city of Dan - and fragments of a palanquin (a large box in which a leader was carried, supported by two horizontal poles held by four or six bearers). | {
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Twins City Youth Club Regatta
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A regatta was recently hosted by the Twin Cities Youth Rowing Club. There was an 8 plus race of the Men’s Varsity that was kicked off last weekend. The event was a popular one and drew in a large audience among the members and others of the Twin Cities Youth Rowing Club.
This club has not been new to hosting regattas. This was the seventh annual event that they hosted at the Bryant Lake. It was held on July 24th. The rowing clubs that took part in the regatta were from Madison, Wisconsin, Milwaukee and others like Minnesota boat club and Minneapolis rowing club.
The club was formed in 2008 by Alistair Scot who moved into the area after selling his Bareboat Yacht Charter Scotland business and hence it has completed nearly 8 years since its formation. The club has a total of 150 rowers who are from 30 different schools belonging to different parts of the Twin Cities. The latest event there were ten events included. There were the Women’s Varsity as well as Novice categories of 4 and 8 plus. There were Men’s Varsity as well as Novice 4 and 8 plus races. There was a mixed category Varity race of the 8 plus form.
As per performance, the club teams performed admirably. They won places in most races. For instance the club came first in the Men’s First Varsity 4 plus category as well as the women’s race of 4 plus and 8 plus categories. The club members had also competed in the Junior Regional that had been held at Bethel in Ohio. They had competed against other clubs of the Midwest. They even qualified for nationals to be held at Mercer Lake in NJ which is known to be the home town of Princeton University. There would be a summer camp that would be hosted by the club in the following month. | {
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Celebrating Solutions: Thirty Years of RMI
Rocky Mountain Institute turns 30 this year—an important milestone for us. RMI has long been an essential voice and player in energy and resource efficiency.
Today, green buildings, energy efficiency, and renewables are commonly recognized topics. In 1982? Not so much.
That year, a gallon of gas cost $1.25, there were boasts of “smaller and cheaper electronic gadgets,” and the first CD player was introduced. Voicemail technology was patented and its first greeting recorded; light years away, the iPhone and iPad were just a gleam in Steve Jobs’ eye.
In March 1982, a headline in the New York Times announced, “Energy Shortage Eases Materially,” with the corresponding article stating, “every day brings new announcements of price reductions for gasoline as world oil prices slide. And supplies—barring an upheaval in the Middle East—appear increasingly available.” What a roller-coaster ride we’ve been on with oil prices since then!
It's also when, in graduate school, I read Amory Lovins’ book Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace, which articulated two energy choices then facing the nation: a “hard path” (centralized, incremental) and a “soft path,” or the “prompt and serious commitment to efficient use of energy, and the rapid development of renewable energy sources.”
I was hooked.
RMI—and the sectors in which we work—have certainly come a long way in 30 years! But we still have a ways to go.
A major goal of RMI is to continually and meaningfully engage with our partners and supporters—both old and new—who are critical to our ability to fulfill our mission. Our shared vision keeps us motivated and focused on the outcomes we all want to achieve.
One exciting opportunity to do this is our upcoming 30th anniversary event on May 10 at the Empire State Building. We chose this venue—or perhaps I should say it chose RMI—because of the breakthrough deep retrofit that RMI helped lead several years ago. The results offer an example that can be replicated in commercial buildings around the world.
On May 10, the 61st floor of the Empire State Building will be transformed into a dynamic and interesting venue, hosting:
RMI staff to share the latest news about our initiatives
Actress Anna Deavere Smith to deliver a unique performance
An informative and spirited conversation among Amory, Empire State Building owner Tony Malkin, and Emmy award-winning journalist Frank Sesno
In addition, our colleagues from the Dutch Postcode Lottery will present the U.S. launch of this year's Green Challenge. Watch for more exciting information about that.
We look forward to celebrating RMI’s 30th year with all of you. Stay tuned to our blogs, Spark, Facebook, and Twitter outlets to learn more about how we are kicking off—from the heights of the Empire State Building—the next phase of RMI continuing to challenge conventional thinking and doing. Please join us on the journey. | {
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Bullfrogs finish third in Fairfield Invite
The Carmi Bullfrog swim team competed last weekend and finished third at the meet.
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The Carmi Bullfrog swim team competed last weekend and finished third at the meet.
Top five finishers for the Bullfrogs were Callie Acord in fourth in the girls six and under 25-yard freestyle, Ethan Howard in first in the boys six and under 25-yard freestyle, Ella Wortman in fourth and Alyson Lamont in fifth in the girls eight and under 25-yard freestyle, Conner Colman in first in the boys eight and under 25-yard freestyle, Joshua Howard in second and Jacob Lamont in fourth in the boys 10 and under 25-yard freestyle, Josephine Hubele in third in the girls 13-14 50-yard freestyle, Jacob Howard in first in the boys 13-14 50-yard freestyle, Alexa Campbell in second in the girls 15-18 50-yard freestyle, Jacob Poole in first in the boys 15-18 50-yard freestyle, Kenlee Cole in fourth in the girls eight and under 100-yard IM, Conner Colman in first in the boys eight and under 100-yard IM, Haylea Allen in third in the girls 10 and under 100-yard IM, Joshua Howard in first, Jacob Lamont in third and Cooper Acord in fourth in the boys 10 and under 100-yard IM, Josephine Hubele in third in the girls 13-14 100-yard IM, Jacob Howard in first in the boys 13-14 100-yard IM, Alexa Campbell in third in the girls 15-18 100-yard IM, Jacob Howard in first in the boys 15-18 100-yard IM, Ethan Howard in first in the boys six and under 25-yard backstroke, Kenlee Cole in fourth and Alyson Lamont in fifth in the girls eight and under 25-yard backstroke, Haylea Allen in second in the girls 10 and under 25-yard backstroke, Joshua Howard in first and Cooper Acord in third in the boys 10 and under 25-yard backstroke, Brianna Stocke in third in the girls 11-12 50-yard backstroke, Jacob Howard in first in the boys 13-14 100-yard backstroke, Jacob Poole in first in the boys 15-18 100-yard backstroke, Kenlee Cole, Ivy Fields, Alyson Lamont and Ella Wortman in second in the girls eight and under 100-yard medley relay, Cooper Acord, Jacob Lamont, Joshua Howard and Conner Colman in first in the boys 10 and under 100-yard medley relay, Nikole Lamont, Brianna Stocke, Haylea Allen and Lauren Campbell in fourth in the girls 11-12 200-yard medley relay, Jacob Howard, Jacob Hubele, Jacob Poole and Cady Nausley in third in the boys 15-18 200-yard medley relay, Ella Wortman in third and Kenlee Cole in fifth in the girls eight and under 50-yard freestyle, Conner Colman in first in the boys eight and under 50-yard freestyle, Jacob Lamont in first in the boys 10 and under 50-yard freestyle, Brianna Stocke in fifth in the girls 11-12 100-yard freestyle, Josephine Hubele in second in the girls 13-14 100-yard freestyle, Ethan Howard in first in the boys six and under 25-yard breaststroke, Haylea Allen in third in the girls 10 and under 25-yard breaststroke, Cody Nausley in third in the boys 10 and under 25-yard breaststroke, Brianna Stocke in third in the girls 11-12 50-yard breatstsroke, Alexa Campbell in first in the girls 15-18 100-yard breaststroke, Callie Acord in fourth in the girls six and under 25-yard butterfly, Ethan Howard in first in the boys six and under 25-yard butterfly, Ivy Fields in fifth in the girls eight and under 25-yard butterfly, Conner Colman in third in the boys eight and under 25-yard butterfly, Haylea Allen in third in the girls 10 and under 25-yard butterfly, Joshua Howard in first and Jacob Lamont in fourth in the boys 10 and under 25-yard butterfly, Josephine Hubele in second in the girls 13-14 50-yard butterfly, Jacob Howard in first in the boys 13-14 50-yard butterfly, Alexa Campbell in second in the girls 15-18 50-yard butterfly, Jacob Poole in first in the boys 15-18 50-yard butterfly, Ella Wortman, Kenlee Cole, Ivy Fields and Alyson Lamont in first in the girls eight and under 100-yard freestyle relay, Jacob Lamont, Cooper Acord, Conner Colman and Joshua Howard in first in the boys 10 and under 100-yard freestyle relay, Lauren Campbell, Haylea Allen, Nikole Lamont and Brianna Stocke in fourth in the girls 11-12 200-yard freestyle and Jacob Howard, Cody Nausley, Jacob Hubele and Jacob Poole in fourth in the boys 15-18 200-yard freestyle. | {
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Sunset Overdrive is a fast-paced game with a hero that can move quickly with numerous traversal options. This presentation will show how we created enemies able to challenge a player that has such a high degree of mobility. We began development of this game by applying techniques used in previous Insomniac games such as Resistance 3 and Fuse. Ranged enemies used cover and attempted to flank, while melee enemies attempting to swarm the player. As the player's repertoire expanded and the game became faster and more vertical we found these paradigms to be woefully ineffective. This talk will contain detailed descriptions of how we solved some of the biggest AI gameplay problems faced during the development of the game. | {
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
WORLD NEWS ROUND-UP
New York magazine is reporting that real estate mogul Donald Trump is considering purchasing the New York Times. "Right now, it isn't bad," Trump said, "but with me at the helm, I intend to makethe Trump New York Times
the greatest newspaper in the world. First, I'm going to get rid of that
cow Maureen Dowd. I mean, she's just not pretty enough to give an
opinion. And the theater section can go, too. That's for the Village Voice crowd, if you get my drift. But the first order of business is putting up shiny brass and black marble pillars outside the Times
building. That's classy, the way a world-class newspaper should be." He
added that he looks forward to moving his office to Trumps Square.
The Pentagon is expected to announce today that women will be allowed to serve on the front-lines of combat missions. Recruitment will start with Chris Brown's ex-girlfriends.
The recent cold snap covering the northern part of the United States is part of a trend, scientists warn. "This phenomenon was known to ancient Greeks as 'χειμώνας'," Dr. Brad Lanes told reporters, "but meteorologists today call it 'winter.' And it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime before late March." He warned that we should expect it to be annual event for "the foreseeable future, if not more."
The family of the late linebacker Junior Seau has joined the ranks of 2,000 former pro football players who are suing the NFL. Hubert Frazier, a spokesman for the players, told ESPN, "The League has an obligation to warn players that being hit repeatedly in the head over the course of a decade or more can cause brain injuries."
During her testimony on Capitol Hill regarding the Benghazi debacle, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton explained the need for Marine security guards at US embassies. "Because as -- if you saw the recent movie Argo, you saw the Marines in there destroying classified material when the mob was outside in Tehran." She added, "And if you had seen Duck Soup, you would have seen the importance of puns during wartime and throwing fruit at your opposition leader." Mrs. Clinton went on to request two billion dollars for the purchase of oranges.
Finally breaking his silence on the 2012 campaign, former Vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan blamed his and Mitt Romney's loss on poor communication. "I was dead set against saying a thing during the campaign, and so was Mitt. But our advisers told us we had to talk. You know, give our 'positions' on things like the -- what did they call it -- the 'economy' and 'job growth.' And as soon as we opened our mouths, boom, that's when the problems started." If he runs again, Ryan said, "I'm just going to stand there and grin, period. People seem to like that." Oregon Representative Mitch Greenlick is sponsoring a bill that makes
cigarettes a Schedule III controlled substance, meaning it would be
illegal to possess or distribute cigarettes without a doctor's
prescription. "This is the best news we've heard in years," said tobacco industry spokesman Henry Dimsdale. "Selling cigarettes as a drug like Celebrex will finally allow us to advertise on TV again. But we're going to make sure we that we warn customers of possible side effects, like losing unwanted weight, looking cool and scoring with the best-looking chicks."
Peter Robbins was
arrested on a total of 12 counts of stalking and making criminal threats
against his girlfriend, who left him after he paid for her breast
enhancements. Robbins, best known as the voice of Charlie Brown in the
early "Peanuts" cartoons specials, bitterly complained to the judge, "I
thought I'd finally found a place where Lucy couldn't steal those
footballs."
Party stores, parades
and MRI's have been badly affected by the recent helium shortage.
Industry official Eric Augustine blames the shortage on a major
consumption by Kirstie Alley. | {
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Explanation:
A mere seven hundred light years from Earth, in the constellation
Aquarius,
a sun-like star is dying.
Its last few thousand years have produced the
Helix
Nebula (NGC 7293), a well studied and nearby example of a
Planetary
Nebula,
typical of this final phase of stellar evolution.
A total of 58 hours of exposure time have gone in to creating this
deep view of the nebula.
Accumulating narrow band data from emission lines of hydrogen atoms in
red and oxygen atoms in blue-green hues,
it shows remarkable details of the
Helix's brighter inner region, about 3
light-years across, but also follows fainter
outer halo
features that give the nebula a span of well over six light-years.
The white dot at the Helix's center is this Planetary Nebula's hot,
central star.
A simple looking nebula at first glance,
the Helix is now understood to have a surprisingly
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But who is the cock-a-roach in this situation? Is it Virginia’s House of Delegates, which killed the ERA bill in February, preventing the state from becoming the crucial 38th state needed for the federal government to consider passing the legislation as a constitutional amendment? Is it conservative interest groups like The Family Foundation, which peddle misogyny under the guise of protecting women and families?
Or is the problem more insidious? More imperceptible because it is not actually a person or thing but the idea of equality itself? Because here’s the rub: Equality is achieved through a measurably equal distribution of things. The more material or tangible the thing, the more equality is realized: It’s easier to measure, say, equal slices of pizza than it is to measure the lived reality of equal rights (all American citizens of a certain age have the right to vote, but a deep history of racist voter suppression proves that this is far from true).
Under the law, equality has proven powerful (such as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment) but not universal (voting rights).
Thus in society, equality is most clearly realized in forms of measurement: the law. This is why the language of the ERA contains the essential clause, “under the law:” “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” The law is measurable; the notion of “equal rights” is a standard of measurement. And under the law, equality has proven powerful (such as the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment) but not universal (voting rights).
Historically, the effort to address gender discrimination focused on increasing women’s legal rights. Women’s progress toward equality, therefore, has been measured in terms of the attainment of the same legal rights as (white) men: the right to vote; the right to own property; the right to education.
But the wider legal incorporation or distribution of equal rights does not automatically guarantee fair and equal treatment of people; neither does it automatically change how people treat each other. Legal change is not social change. In fact, I would argue that the term “equality” is often bandied about by people who are unwilling to recognize their own gender and racial biases. In this capacity, equality functions as a rhetorical band-aid that inadequately covers, but does not heal, deep historical injustices and systemic forms of discrimination.
"Stop ERA" national Chairman Phyllis Schafly leads members opposed to the equal rights amendment at a demonstration in 1976.Bettmann Archive
Just take, for instance, the political position of someone who advocates “colorblindness” as a way to justify a willful ignorance of racial discrimination. Equality by definition erases differences in order to create a system of equivalence — it must reduce all units of measurement (people) to sameness. The consequence is that progress toward equality is based in measurements determined by men: Equality in the workplace, for example, is often articulated in terms equal percentages of women and men in management.
It also sets up sameness as some kind of ideal — but, the increasing yet frustrating cultural fetishization of automation aside, do we really want to be the same?
Equality is a grand but false promise. Just ask black people about their “equal right” to vote — or, frankly, their equal rights in general. Constitutional amendments and federal and state policies have not safeguarded them from getting murdered simply for walking down the street, playing music in their car, or for riding public transit. In America, equal rights have not guaranteed liberty and justice for all. As we have seen time and time again, equal rights are ineffective in a society with deeply engrained prejudices — in a nation built on the backs of slaves and the oppressed — and which interprets justice, suggestively, through the framework of a criminal justice system.
What is fascinating is that in America’s broader cultural landscape, people seem to know that equality doesn’t quite make sense. This is why The New York Times’ Susan Chira recently asked, “Do We Still Need an Equal Rights Amendment?” What might have been intended as a rhetorical question comes across as genuine; the author suggests, but does not commit to, the necessity of the ERA. In fact, the strongest case made for the ERA comes straight from the mouth of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who contends it is necessary primarily for its symbolism: “I would still like to be able to take out my pocket Constitution and say that the equal citizenship stature of men and women is a fundamental tenet of our society like free speech.”
However, symbols are representations. And like all symbols, equality is imprecise, and often vague. My examination of a much discussed recent study on gender equality is case-in-point. The study reports that more Americans believe in gender equality than ever before, but more believe in gender equality in the workplace than in the home, where gender norms still prevail in the domestic sphere. Led by sociology professor Barbara Risman, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the study presented findings from 40 years of Gender Social Survey (GSS) data from 1977-2016 assessed by Risman and her collaborators, William Scarborough, a UIC sociology doctoral candidate and Ray Sin, a behavioral scientist at Morningstar.
What is fascinating is that in America’s broader cultural landscape, people seem to know that equality doesn’t quite make sense.
Reading Risman’s academic article, published in Gender & Society, I couldn’t quite move beyond the glaring problem that there was no given definition of “gender equality.” I contacted both Risman and GSS via email, who were both generous in their response to my query about this oversight. In their reply, GSS confirmed my suspicion that there was no set definition of gender equality. GSS wrote, “Generally, we do not provide definitions of terms to respondents, preferring to use the phrase ‘whatever that means to you.’” But, as even Risman argued in her study, “gender equality” means different things in different contexts, and it certainly means differently to different people.
GSS then explained that Risman’s study utilized a number of specific questions in their 40-year data collection, including:
Most men are better suited emotionally for politics than are most women (agree/disagree)
It is much better for everyone involved if the man is the achiever outside the home and the woman takes care of the home and family (strongly agree/agree/disagree/strongly disagree)
A working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work (strongly agree/agree/disagree/strongly disagree)
A preschool child is likely to suffer if his or her mother works (strongly agree/agree/disagree/strongly disagree)
Risman, in our email exchange, explained how she derived her conclusions about gender egalitarianism, or “the belief that men and women are equally suited to work and family life,” using the responses to these questions. For an assessment about workplace gender equality, for example, she relied on the first question. “This,” she proffered, “captures the beliefs that men are more naturally born leaders, and other research suggests that will be corrected with women in the workplace measures.”
GSS’s questions, and the data collected from them, reflect the trouble with equality — it’s ambiguous and it’s reductive. It is strange and unfortunate, therefore, that these findings are then applied to the advancement of women, and, more generally speaking, feminism. Because neither the questions nor the data reveal Americans’ opinions about women independent of men or children — the strictures of the patriarchal family continue to define women’s value. This is again the problem with equality: women’s value is set to men’s standards.
Respect for the human dignity of women demands the eradication of the systemic oppressions and discriminations against women. These oppressions are largely born out in heterosexual culture that privileges the family: sexual violence (from female genital mutilation to the continued legalization of child brides to sex trafficking); and the continual rejection and refusal of women’s right to control their own body.
Instead of talking generally about equality and positioning it as the cure all to social injustice, we need to elevate other ideas in our fight for social justice and individual autonomy.
Related
As I have written elsewhere, the political fight for equal rights must be supplemented by an ethical awakening that changes how we engage with the world: We must learn to hold ourselves accountable for our actions and beliefs; we must learn and recognize that how we live affects other people. To pull from existentialist and black feminist thought, this accountability elevates the critical importance of freedom.
Taking responsibility for oneself means that, no matter the conditions or the contexts, a choice is always made. Freedom is the liberation of one’s body and mind — which also demands the freedom of the bodies and minds of others. “To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given towards an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom,” Simone de Beauvoir writes in “The Ethics of Ambiguity.”
Understanding freedom in this way unmoors it from the control of right-wing ideology. It is time that we return to freedom as a powerful force for personal liberation and social justice.
Marcie Bianco
Marcie Bianco is a writer and an editor living in California. She is columnist at the Women’s Media Center, and her writing can be found both online and in print at outlets like NBC Think, Pacific Standard, Quartz, Rolling Stone, Salon, Vanity Fair, and Vox. | {
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Adele reprimands Donald Trump campaign for using her music without permission
It’s been a rough couple of days for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. In addition to that whole Iowa caucus thing, Trump has continued having difficulty finding a theme song for his campaign, with countless musicians having pulled their music, reports BBC.
Trump had recently taken to playing Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep” as his “warm-up” music. But not any longer.
“Adele has not given permission for her music to be used for any political campaigning,” her spokesman confirmed.
Mike Huckabee was also using Adele’s music in a “Hello” parody, which has since been removed from YouTube. New Jersey Governor and fellow presidential candidate Chris Christie had also used the popular song to attack competing candidate Marco Rubio.
Just last year, lawyers for Steven Tyler sent Trump’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter after the politician played the band’s hit “Dream On” at rallies around the country.
The letter said Trump’s use of the song gave the “false impression” that the Aerosmith frontman endorsed the candidate’s presidential bid.
Trump fired shots on Twitter, saying he had the legal right to use the song, but had found “a better one to take its place.”
“Steven Tyler got more publicity on his song request than he’s gotten in 10 years. Good for him!” he added.
Meanwhile, R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe told the campaign to “go f–k (them)selves” after demanding Trump stop using “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” Neil Young chose to simply express his preference for Bernie Sanders when asking Trump to stop using “Rockin’ in the Free World.”
U.S. copyright laws give politicians the opportunity to use recorded music at their rallies if the venue has a public performance license issued through a songwriters’ association, such as ASCAP or BMI.
That being said, there’s always room for an artist to complain that their image and reputation is being damaged by the repeated use of a song without their permission. | {
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Over the past century, Nikon has been instrumental in transforming the world of imaging. From professional photographers, hobbyists and fans, journey through 100 years of stories that Nikon has enabled people to tell. | {
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Getting Started
To get started with the My Business Hub app simply enter your Worldpay login details and you will automatically be prompted to compete the first time setup wizard.
Did you know...
You will need a gmail account to use My Business Hub, please ensure this is set up prior to your scheduled installation.
Upon first login you will be required to pair your keypad with your Hub. To do this, press and hold the tick button on your keypad until the Bluetooth icon on the keypad screen begins to flash. Your keypad should then be displayed in the “Available Bluetooth devices” list, select your keypad from the list, tap “Pair” and press the tick button on your keypad to confirm. Your keypad should now pair to your Hub.
Once you have paired your keypad the app will prompt you to test your Hub’s connection with the printer and cash drawer, to do this tap “Test” under the respective images. If you haven’t already done so you will need to connect all components of your Hub, the images on the base of your Hub guide you in this process.
Did you know...
Once you have successfully setup your Hub you will be directed to the Make a Sale page.
To get started with My Business Hub:
Login using your Worldpay login ID and password.
Connect and Pair the keypad.
Check Printer and cash drawer connections by selecting “Test” under each icon.
If you’re having issues with any of the peripherals make sure they are connected securely into the ports underneath the unit before switching your Hub off and on again. If you’re still experiencing difficulties after this please contact a member of our UK Customer Support team. | {
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The behavioural biometrics system studies the unique typing and behavioural patterns users display during the loan application process to capture a range of patterns. These include mouse movements and how fingers interact with a keyboard. The biometrics record patterns such typing speed, typos, flight time between keys, keystroke depressions, as well as the patterns from actual input.
“The six-month pilot of our behavioural biometrics system has shown enormous potential,” chief risk officer Ekaterina Kazak said. “It works by learning and understanding borrowers’ interactions with keyboards. And it uses these movements to establish a user’s unique pattern of behavior as a basis of authentication.
“Any deviation from normal usage patterns will raise a red flag even if a user’s password and username have been input correctly. Behavior patterns cannot be faked and behavioural biometrics offers one of the strongest forms of authentication. We are even considering replacing user passwords with this data.”
The behavioral biometrics system was developed in-house by ID Finance’s team of data scientists, risk analysts and developers. The pilot program operated at an accuracy level of 97.6 per cent and has now been rolled out to all seven markets of operation. Over time ID Finance expects the accuracy level to increase as the system gathers more data and continues to learn about its users.
ID Finance is also working on developing the technology to extend the system to cover mobile keypads and touchscreen devices. It will capture patterns on such as the amount of pressure applied to the screen and how quickly fingers swipe and type.
“We are always looking at ways to minimize risk,” co-founder and CEO Boris Batine said. “Our biometrics system has simplified the loan approvals process without compromising on security and in fact, stops crime before it happens. The increased security has strengthened our relationships with customers and as the technology is passive, there has been no impact on the customer experience.” | {
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Month: January 2017
I read this book back in December, and I loved it, that's why I was dreading writing this review. I pretty much decided not to write it, when I saw a great review by Liz at Adventures in reading, writing and working from home and it encouraged me to add my 2 cents to all that has …
I know it's already mid-January and I even remember to write 2017 when I write down the date, but I just realized I still haven't shared with you my lovely Christmas gifts book haul, so here we go. As I made it public knowledge that I need to read more in Polish, almost all my …
My first book of 2017 and possibly a sign of slight change in my reading habits since I started this blog. A year ago I would rarely reach for non-fiction, but over the course of 2016 I read more non-fiction than I would expect, so this follows the new pattern in my reading. It is …
The book is a story of Nell who throughout her life had to fight for herself. She gets married to escape her parents tight control. She tries to find her happiness by being a good wife and mother, but it doesn't seem to work for her. Her husband is very possessive and controlling and abuses …
There was a lot of hype about this book, so finally I caved and bought it. I read it as a break from my pretty depressing reading Ireland month. It was yet another non-fiction book for me in 2016, not a common thing for me. It is a book about overcoming depression, so I was …
The novel starts with a funeral of Molly Lane. Clive and Vernon, her former lovers, meet and chat about her husband George and another one of her lovers a right-wing Foreign Secretary Julian Garmony, who is about to challenge party leadership and become a prime minister. Clive and Vernon despise both the controlling and possessive …
2016 is gone, I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing, but let's not dwell on that, looking forward is probably the best way now. December was not easy reading-wise, I changed work, there was travelling home for Christmas and catching up with family and friends, so not much time left for … | {
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Researchers from Georgia State University have announced promising results that may place us one step closer to a universal flu vaccine. In a paper published today by Nature Communications, the group led by scientist Bao-Zhon Wang reports the generation of double-layered protein nanoparticles that induced long-lasting immunity to influenza A viruses in mice. [...]Read Full Article →
The discovery of a molecule that blocks the absorption of ghrelin, the also known as the “hunger hormone” due to its effect in regulating hunger, was reported today in Cell Metabolism. The molecule could pave the way for future medications to control hunger and influence the treatment of conditions as diverse as obesity [...]Read Full Article →
Research published today in The Lancet shows evidence of remission of Type 2 Diabetes by intensive weight management in almost 50 percent of cases. Obesity was already considered a risk factor for diabetes, but it is still undetermined whether the effects are reversible. In this study, researchers set to find out whether patients already [...]Read Full Article →
On Nov. 21, the FDA approved the first treatment that uses only two drugs to manage HIV, the virus responsible for AIDS. The new treatment consists of a once-a-day tablet, marketed under the name Juluca, which combines a fixed dose of dolutegravir and rilpivirine. Dolutegravir is an integrase strand transfer inhibitor, first approved by the [...]Read Full Article →
On Monday, Nov. 13, the FDA approved Abilify MyCite, a revolutionary pill that is expected to go a long way to improving adherence issues for medication. The pill consists of a small Proteus microchip covered by aripiprazole, a drug used for the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and as a complement for major depressive disorder. [...]Read Full Article →
Revolutionary advances in cancer detection and treatment were discussed by panelists at the Milenio Forum on cancer last week, where the talk centered around the technologies being developed for detection and treatment of the disease, stressing that they should be used intelligently. New techniques discussed included searching for proteins in blood, analyzing spit, and [...]Read Full Article →
Interview with Cristóbal Thompson, Executive Director of AMIIF Q: What are AMIIF’s main priorities for 2016? A: Our primary priority has always been to ensure effective access to pharmaceutical innovation and we are doing this through an extensive approval rate with public institutions, mainly IMSS, ISSSTE, and Seguro Popular. Currently, only 10% of innovative medicines are [...]Read Full Article →
New drug approval is the process through which regulatory agencies authorize a new medicine for commercialization in a specific jurisdiction after thoroughly reviewing the quality, safety, and efficacy of the drug. The number of new molecules approved in a country is a powerful indicator of the degree of access to innovation in healthcare. In 2010, [...]Read Full Article → | {
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After impressing in an extended trial at FC Bordeaux this spring, American midfielder Lester Dewee will hope to sign his first professional contract towards the end of the summer.
Dewee, 17, has been training with the reserve team from the defending Ligue 1 champions for the past month and a half. His time at Bordeaux follows an extended training stint at fellow Ligue 1 perennial power Marseille in 2009. When comparing the two different environments Dewee, feels as if the atmosphere at Bordeaux fits him better.
"It's good. I am playing with the second team here at Bordeaux," Dewee told YA. "It's going very well actually. I've been here over a month and a half now. I like Bordeaux. It is more relaxed than Marseille. Marseille was amazing with the quality of players but Bordeaux is more relaxed."
In the past few years, FIFA have gradually made it far more difficult for players under the age of 18 to play fulltime in foreign countries. Dewee, who is not a dual citizen with any other country, has therefore only been able to participate in training sessions and scrimmages in France.
Despite his young age, Bordeaux have been impressed with the young American and with his 18th birthday fast approaching, they may try to act quickly. Dewee said he will explore all options but he tends to prefer to stay in France.
"I am just training now because I don't have a player's license yet here. Bordeaux can't sign me yet until I turn 18 in August," Dewee said of his situation at club. "The contract offer from Bordeaux is in my hands right now but it's up to me in terms of if I want to commit to the club or if I want to look elsewhere. I kind of want to stay in France because France is a good place to grow and develop as a player."
Dewee, who is a native of Silver Spring, Maryland, came up through the youth system of DC United where he excelled on the field. His natural position is as an outside midfielder but recently at Bordeaux, he has been moved up front at forward.
"I played for DC United U16 and I was the captain there," Dewee recalled of his time with DC United. "They were all good players at the time. I developed there and it did allow me to come over here [to France] and be able to play at this level. I enjoyed my time there."
Dewee also received more positive news recently when he was invited by US U-20 head coach Thomas Rongen to play with the US U-20 national next month at the International Cor Groenewegen Tournament in Uitgeest, Holland. Dewee said he was both relieved and excited by Rongen's invitation.
"It was kind of funny because it was actually more of a sigh of relief after so many years of national team disappointment," Dewee admitted. "I was with the U-15's for awhile. But with the U-17s, I ended up getting sick at the most important camp and I had to go home that same day. So that ruined my residency and my World Cup chances."
"So getting called up to the U-20s, it was more 'thank you,'" Dewee continued. "Finally, now I get the chance to prove myself with the national team."
While Dewee is familiar with many of the other young Americans at his age group from his days with previous youth national teams, next month will be the first time he has played at the U-20 level. Dewee is excited to play with many of his former US teammates and he is excited also to play for Rongen.
"Rongen is a very straight forward guy and is a good coach," Dewee said frankly. "He doesn't take things lightly. Anytime you wear the USA jersey you have to go out there and perform 110%."
Dewee is optimistic that under Rongen, this current U-20 team has the talent and ability to make a deep run at next year's U-20 World Cup in Colombia.
"We have a chance to go far," Dewee concluded. "We have a lot of talented players. We now just have to find our rhythm, come together and perform."
Wow, great news for another up-and-coming American footballer. Bordeaux are a big big club w/ a history for developing players. It would be great for him to learn from players like Yohann Gourcouff, etc. Good luck to ya Dewee.
@JohnC, i caught what you were referring to. I half expected that myself and wasn't letting myself get too excited. But your right, his enthusiasm to impress at the national level is terrific.
allie
Wednesday April 21, 2010 5:02 pm
I think Mike may have been referring to France's non EU player limits. Ligue One allows 4 non EU players on their roster. I believe its also 4 for the reserves.
Mike
Tuesday April 20, 2010 9:52 pm
Does he have citizenship other than US?
joe4usa
Tuesday April 20, 2010 8:19 pm
I hope he's as good as he article sounds. He does seem excited which is good. JohnC read the article again, he doesn't have duel citizenship so he can only be excited about the US which is great!
Maldito8
Tuesday April 20, 2010 7:26 pm
My thoughts exactlly, gives the US some hope for the future. Now if only we could find a quality coach.
JohnC
Tuesday April 20, 2010 5:55 pm
I like this kid's take on playing for the national team- seems to be hungry and it is nice to hear a kid playing in Europe be excited about playing for the US National team- at first I thought this story was going to end with him telling everyone he won't decide on what national team to play for until he is 20 yrs old and that USA and Argentina or Italy or Serbia are all possibilities.
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Each month, we offer fans the chance to submit a question that guitarist Eddie Van Halen will answer in our Ask Eddie feature.
And in the latest edition, Robert Mclemore from Colorado wonders about Van Halen’s contributions to the development of the Floyd Rose Tremolo.
Mclemore:Eddie, I just got an EVH Striped Series guitar and besides looking and sounding fantastic, I really love the feel of the Floyd Rose, which got me thinking. What role did you play in pioneering this technology? If I’m not mistaken, the yellow and black guitar was the first to see an early prototype.
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Israel-Gaza Conflict: David Cameron Calls For End To Conflict As Sides Trade Missile Strikes
18/11/2012 08:39
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David Cameron has urged Israel to "do everything possible" to end the crisis in Gaza as its military continued to trade missile strikes with Hamas amid fears of a new ground war.
In a phone call with Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu last night, he expressed sympathy for the continued "unacceptable" rocket attacks by militants which have reached Jerusalem for the first time.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "The Prime Minister expressed his sympathy for the unacceptable rocket attacks that Israel continued to suffer.
"He also expressed concern over the risk of the conflict escalating further and the danger of further civilian casualties on both sides.
"The Prime Minister said that the UK was putting pressure on both sides to de-escalate and urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to do everything possible to bring the conflict to an end."
Mr Cameron's call came amid intensified international diplomatic efforts to prevent the violence escalating into a full-scale conflict.
Israel launched around 300 airstrikes yesterday on targets in the Gaza strip, including the Hamas prime minister's HQ, a police compound and a building used by Hamas for media broadcasts.
Tens of thousands of reserves have been mobilised while large numbers of troops and tanks have been stationed along the border as it considers whether to launch a ground offensive into Gaza.
Israel said it still wants to hit hundreds of targets.
Palestinian militants meanwhile raised the stakes by aiming some of the latest salvo of 100 rockets at the cultural and commercial centre of Tel Aviv as well as the Israeli capital Jerusalem.
The Israeli military said the onslaught raised the total number to roughly 500 since this week's fighting began.
Health officials said 48 Palestinians have been killed and more than 400 civilians wounded since Wednesday. Three Israeli civilians were killed earlier in the week and more than 50 have been wounded.
Egypt stepped up efforts to broker a ceasefire - holding talks in Cairo with Hamas and key allies Qatar and Turkey while the Arab League also convened an emergency meeting.
Labour urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to step in and lead a "full-scale diplomatic initiative" in the region within the coming days.
Shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander said: "We urge the UN Secretary General to visit the region this week to begin talks with all parties, and with partners in the region.
"The only hope for peace and security for the citizens of the region will be through re-starting the stalled negotiations towards agreeing a two state solution."
Children's charity Unicef appealed for the "utmost restraint" from both sides to prevent youngsters being killed and injured.
Six Palestinian children aged between 10 months and 15 years have been reported killed and 60 injured in airstrikes on Gaza, it said, with another fatally wounded by a rocket that fell short.
And Israeli schools within a 25-mile radius were closed because of the "indiscriminate" rocket attacks.
"Both rocket attacks and airstrikes are putting children and their families at risk, leaving them exposed to physical harm and mental distress," it said.
"Unicef calls on all parties to do everything to exercise the utmost restraint and to protect the rights and well-being of all children."
Meanwhile protesters gathered near the Israeli embassy in London yesterday condemned the British Government's stance on the conflict.
Speakers took to a podium to condemn the Government after Foreign Secretary William Hague said the Hamas regime in Gaza bore "principal responsibility" for the escalation of violence.
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A Palestinian man walks among debris after an Israeli airstrike at Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's office in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with more than 180 airstrikes early Saturday, widening a blistering assault on militant operations to target government and police compounds and a vast network of smuggling tunnels. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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23/11/2012 05:31 GMT
Clinton Warned Netanyahu: Don't Punish Palestinians For U.N. Bid
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during her talks in Israel this week not to take any extreme actions in response to the Palestinian move in the United Nations for recognition as a non-member state. Clinton said such steps against the Palestinian Authority could bring about its collapse. The Palestinians are planning to ask the United Nations General Assembly to vote on upgrading its status from non-member entity on the symbolic date of November 29.
The day after the cease-fire with Hamas took effect, Israel is preparing for the next crisis with the Palestinians, which is scheduled for six days from now. November 29th is the anniversary of the United Nations vote on accepting the Partition Plan in 1947, which led to the founding of the Jewish Sate. It is also the United Nations' International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
23/11/2012 03:50 GMT
Report: U.S. Urges Israel Not To Build In E-1 Areas
Washington is urging Israel not to allow construction in the area known as E-1 between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim as a possible response to the Palestinian bid for statehood recognition next week at the UN, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
Building in E-1, which would create contiguity between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim to the northeast beyond the Green Line, is something various Israeli governments have long wanted to do, but which US opposition has prevented.
23/11/2012 00:01 GMT
Life In Gaza's Courtyards
Inside a courtyard, there are faded remnants of “Congratulations from the uncles,” from the April wedding of a son of Ahmed al-Jabari, the commander of the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, whose assassination last week was the beginning of the latest round of intense battle between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
On the wall outside, the colorful Arabic script reads “Welcome hajji, Abu Muhammad,” a reference to Mr. Jabari’s return from a pilgrimage to Mecca last month. Nearby, the freshest paint pronounces a message from the troops: “Rest in peace. The mission has been accomplished.”
22/11/2012 23:19 GMT
PHOTO: Egypt Tunnel Into Gaza
Egypt Tunnel into Gaza:
An underground tunnel connecting through which I got into Gaza from Egypt. Israel has repeatedly targeted the tunnel network, trying to hinder flow of goods and weapons into the strip. (Photo by Mosa'ab Elshamy via Flickr)
22/11/2012 22:55 GMT
Soldiers Show Frustration Via Viral Facebook Photo
16 soldiers spelled out 'loser' with their bodies to critique Netanyahu and show frustration at not going into battle.
22/11/2012 22:29 GMT
Who Brokered The Ceasefire
The Economist discusses how the ceasefire was achieved and whether it could lead to lasting peace in the region.
Among others coming and going were the UN secretary-general, the American secretary of state and the foreign ministers of Turkey and Germany. But the real bargaining took place behind closed doors at the headquarters of General Muhammad Shehata, Egypt’s intelligence chief. There, in separate rooms, the Egyptians haggled with a legal adviser to the Israeli prime minister, and with representatives from Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that runs Gaza, and a smaller, more radical Palestinian faction, Islamic Jihad.
22/11/2012 21:22 GMT
Israeli Arab Arrested for Tel Aviv Bus Bombing
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's army spokeswoman says an Israeli Arab who is a member of Hamas has been arrested for Wednesday's bus bombing in Tel Aviv.
The bombing injured 27 people near Israel's military headquarters and threatened to scuttle efforts to broker a cease-fire to end fighting between Israel and Gaza.
Israeli military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich reported Thursday on Twitter that authorities had arrested the man who planted the bomb on the bus and identified him as an Arab Israeli from the village of Taybeh. She said he was a member of Hamas.
22/11/2012 20:28 GMT
Israel-Gaza Conflict Winners And Losers
While the cease-fire agreement between Israel and Gaza on Wednesday brought an end to the rockets and airstrikes, the political fallout is just beginning. The Associated Press offers a breakdown of who won and who lost as a result of the truce agreement: | {
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