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40 Facts That Prove That America's Moral Collapse Is Spinning Wildly Out Of Control
Edward Morgan
Are You Prepared For The Coming Economic Collapse And The Next Great Depression?
According to a brand new survey that was just conducted by the Pew Research Center, 77 percent of all Americans are either "very worried" or "fairly worried" about America's moral health. Of course the truth is that we should all be deeply concerned, because we can see evidence of the cancerous moral decay that is eating away at the foundations of our society all around us. In life, each one of us gets to make choices, and some of those choices can lead to very bad outcomes. We all have old friends that "got on the wrong path", and their lives ended up becoming cautionary tales. Well, the same principle applies to nations as a whole. America has been given very clear choices between good and evil, life and death, blessings and curses over and over again, and we have consistently made the wrong choices. If we stay on this road, there is only one result that will be possible.
As long as we are drawing breath, there is always an opportunity to turn things around. That is true for individuals, and it is also true for our entire nation. But if we continue running toward evil, it is only a matter of time before exceedingly painful consequences overtake us.
The following are 40 facts that prove that America's moral collapse is spinning wildly out of control…
#1 America has killed more than 60 million children since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973. The federal government endorses this activity by heavily funding the country's leading abortion provider, and after that abortion provider harvests the organs of the dead children, the federal government also heavily funds the research that is conducted on those harvested organs.
#2 According to a Quinnipiac University poll from last year, 63 percent of all Americans want to keep Roe v. Wade in place.
#3 America is a global leader in sexual depravity. If you doubt this, just check out what is going on in Cleveland at the end of this month.
#4 Americans are now more likely to die from an opioid overdose than they are from a car accident.
#5 In the city of Baltimore, approximately one out of every four babies is born as an opioid addict.
#6 Overdosing on drugs has now become the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50.
#7 McDonalds feeds approximately 70 million people a day globally. Pornhub gets more than 78 million visits a day.
#8 The teen birth rate in the United States is higher "than in any other industrialized country in the world".
#9 According to the CDC, approximately 110 million Americans have a sexually-transmitted disease right now.
#10 The CDC also tells us that there are approximately 20 million new sexually transmitted disease cases in the U.S. every single year.
#11 The number of married couples with children in the U.S. just reached a 56 year low.
#12 According to the United Nations Population Fund, 40 percent of all births in the U.S. now happen outside of marriage. But if you go back to 1970, that figure was sitting at just 10 percent.
#13 At this point, approximately one out of every three children in the United States lives in a home without a father.
#14 Approximately one-fourth of the entire global prison population is in the United States.
#15 By the time an American child reaches the age of 18, that child will have seen approximately 40,000 murders on television.
#16 According to a study conducted by the Mayo Clinic, nearly 70 percent of all Americans are on at least one prescription drug. An astounding 20 percent of all Americans are on at least five prescription drugs.
#17 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, doctors in the United States write more than 250 million prescriptions for antidepressants each year.
#18 Over half a million people are homeless in the United States right now, but more cities than ever are passing laws making it illegal to feed them.
#19 One recent study found that the average American spends 86 hours a monthon a cell phone.
#20 A different study found that one-third of all American teenagers haven't read a single book in the past year.
#21 Americans are obsessed with material things and are willing to go deep into debt to get what they want. At this point, 480 million credit cards are in circulation in this country. That number has risen by nearly 13 percent since 2015.
#22 37 million credit card accounts in the U.S. are "seriously delinquent" at this moment.
#23 According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately two-thirds of all Americans in the 15 to 24-year-old age bracket have engaged in oral sex.
#24 It has been reported that one out of every four teen girls in the U.S. has at least one sexually transmitted disease.
#25 It has been estimated that 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to adult websites.
#26 According to the Pentagon, 71 percent of our young adults are ineligible to serve in the U.S. military because they are either too dumb, too fat or have a criminal background.
#27 The city of San Francisco handed out a total of 5.8 million free syringes to drug addicts in 2018.
#28 During one seven day stretch last summer, a total of 16,000 official complaints were submitted to the city of San Francisco about piles of human feces littering the streets.
#29 When you include unfunded liabilities, the true size of our national debt is 222 trillion dollars. What we are doing to future generations of Americans is beyond criminal.
#30 The suicide rate in the United States is up 34 percent since the year 2000.
#31 Suicide is now the second leading cause of death for Americans from age 15 to age 24.
#32 We are literally destroying the planet that we have been given. It is being projected that the total amount of plastic in the oceans of the world will exceed the total weight of all fish by the year 2050.
#33 There are more than 850,000 registered sex offenders in the United States today.
#34 The number of American babies killed by abortion each year is roughly equalto the number of U.S. military deaths that have occurred in all of the wars that the United States has ever been involved in combined.
#35 About one-third of all American women will have had an abortion by the age of 45.
#36 Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of the destruction of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. Every single day, more than 3,000 American babies are killed by abortion when you include all forms of abortion.
#37 One very shocking study found that 86 percent of all abortions are done for the sake of convenience.
#38 An average of more than 100 churches are dying in the United States every single week.
#39 Only about 27 percent of all U.S. Millennials currently attend church on a regular basis.
#40 The number of Americans with "no religion" has increased by 266 percentover the last three decades.
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Jimmy April 15, 2019 At 8:00 AM
What would motivate people to realize their country is under attack via a "Regime Change" operation,… ??? i.e., US-Mexico incoming caravan "migrants" are being "recruited, instigated, motivated, rewarded & funded" by Soros & his "NWO Team of Nazi / Socialists / Marxists / Leninists Totalitarians" to come here & literally, "steal our socio-economic resources" in an attempt to bring America down to their 3rd world level status. The "main-stream-media" doesn't stop force-feeding us w/ fake-news propaganda & continues to push NWO ideas, such as disarming the population, govt control over people at all levels, early sex education to children, children are forced to accept night-club dancing & "drag-queen" life-style theater as normal behavior, the feminization of men & masculinization of women, transgenderism is normal, socialism is normal. Trump has been under the baseless & constant attack of a false accusation of Russian-collusion ever since he was elected. All of the alphabet agencies are corrupt to their core & have been secretly working against American constitutional values & attempted to overthrow the Trump administration. Americanism, nationalism, & Make America Great Again has been presented as perverse ideas that have no place in modern America. The list is much longer,… But when are we going to snap out of it, reject this nonsense & defend our country from all enemies foreign & domestic,… ??? There is no doubt,… "The Republic" is "Bleeding",… The question is,… is the water "near boiling" already,… ???
Beverly Skinner April 15, 2019 At 6:17 AM
Get rid of the Cell-phones!! Then insert an I.U.D. into every teen-age girl up to the age of 25 THAT will stop the Abortions!! HOUSE the Homeless and get them jobs. CLOSE the BORDER!! MOST of the problems SOLVED!!! OH, and take ALL CONTROL OUT OF THE HANDS of LIBS!!!
Carl April 14, 2019 At 1:48 AM
The question to ask is, what are Synder's definitions of "good" and "evil"?
He will soon realize that religions will never be needed in the future, only collective consciousness.
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Those who placed first overall for men and women were Jared Trent of Stuart and Brianne Cook of Des Moines, respectively. Volunteers and agencies including the Stuart Fire Department, Stuart Rescue, Stuart Police Department, Adair, Dallas, and Guthrie County Sheriff's Office, and Dexter Fire Department helped direct traffic and make the run a safe experience for all involved.


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Pest control is a popular topic because there aren't many humans who enjoy an encounter with a cockroach, rodent, spider or trail of ants nibbling away at the bikkies in the pantry. I'm particularly paranoid about these little nasties and, as a writer with a big imagination, if I'm unlucky enough to see a single roach or rodent in my house, I imagine whole families of the species crawling into my house, kitchen, bathroom and even shimmying over my face while I sleep. Yuk. And though I do get a little jumpy at the thought of a roach or a rat, I believe my fears to be rational due to the fact that over the course of my life, I have had some less than favourable experiences with them.
Though there are some quick-fixes for getting rid of vermin around your home, your best bet is still to bring in the professionals for getting to the root of the problem. Try companies like Trusted Pest Management to get the problem sorted and for good. It is my belief that you can't put a price on this kind of sanity and that's why I save money elsewhere so I can afford to fix yucky problems like these.
I've had many experiences with cockroaches and I must say they are one of my greatest fears. There was the time I lived in Sydney alone in a flat prone to them. I would wake alone in the night to a large black roach making a clicking noise on the wall next to my bed. This was terrifying because these flying roaches weren't for the faint-hearted. I became a bit military-like in my dealings with them and would go to bed with an arsenal of sprays and fly swatter within arms reach ready for their nightly visits.
That night hubby and I enjoyed those wines out on the porch with a glass in one hand and a can of Mortein in the other. These cockroaches (and yes, they were 'this big') were literally crossing the lawn in (what we remember as) 'an organised army' as dusk settled in. Life out there was extremely challenging for a city gal like me. For most of my 'pre-desert' existence I had enjoyed the cooler climates of Melbourne and Auckland and generally a 'roach-free' life.
I've also had my share of rodents. The worst experience was in our previous no-dream-home-yet rental property. It appeared to be a lovely little cottage with a nice pool in the back for the kids to enjoy in the summer. But this 'idyllic' rental property turned out to be the 'house of horrors' unveiling a mouse plague in the middle of summer. Constant calls to the landlord resulted in her turning up about three weeks late with a few boxes of rat killer from the local hardware store. This was hardly a solution for a couple that successfully caught six mice in one week! Yuk!
The evening a mouse ran right between my legs while I was on the toilet. Let's just say that my scream probably scared that mouse more than the horror I was experience while running down the hall with my pants still at my knees. The little mouse, which moved faster than my vision of it, was especially scary because it had a weird white stripe down its back, which got me thinking it was more like a baby rat! The mouse would have been a cutie if it was running on a wheel in a lab, but no, this little furry animal was not cute at all in a loo scenario.
Of course, my family found my personal terror hilarious and they enjoyed a free gut-wrenching laugh at my expense and a lasting memory of their mother 'on the run' down a hallway with her pants down.
Strangely I haven't had as much fear of spiders as most people. Really I don't mind them at all apart from the large Huntsman spiders so common in Australia. I have had my share of those. There was the time one ran over my bare foot in country Victoria. The sensation was fluffy and fleeting like a feather. Then there was the one the kids and I caught in a caravan park cabin. Finally there are the 'randoms' I've found hanging out in toilets on rainy nights in various locations. Again – these moments are always an interesting experience for a city gal like me.
Fortunately our new home (which is old) is fantastic in terms of vermin. There hasn't been a roach, spider or mouse in site for close to two years now (and I'm touching wood as I write this) and as my 'dream-home-in-the-making' I am especially stoked about the fact that I don't have to creep around the house in the night in fearful expectation of running into any small furry or unattractive friends. But we do have an ant problem here created by a large filled-in swimming pool in the back yard which is the biggest sandpit ever. I spend my summers placing food into plastic containers and wiping down benches to what I call 'hospital grade sterilization level.' We've tried ant killer and natural and old-fashioned remedies like using vinegar and baking soda but the ants just seem to keep coming.
Though my blog is about saving money I believe in saving so that when necessary I have extra money for times I might want to spend on certain sanity or even luxury items. For example, I am being a ruthless penny-pinching project manager in terms of our renovation project. This is because at the end of this large-scale project I can spend the extra money on beautiful home furniture.
The same goes for pest control. Getting rid of vermin around the home is one such expense that I do invest money in. In the long run, this not only saves sanity but also the cost of buying 'quick-fixes' like cans of spray and the like.
If your vermin problem is small, you could try some of the home remedies listed on my baking soda and vinegar tip sheets. Alternatively a great solution is to bring in a professional who will get to the root of the problem and sort it out for good. When you think about the fear, time and headache caused by pests, paying a professional to sort out the problem is well worth the phone call and the money.
Finally modern pest management solutions are natural and safe for children, food and pets. The products are generally water-based, colour and odor free and do not stain furniture or appliances. They are also Government approved.
Have you had any horror stories with pests in your home or do you have any awesome pest control tips? If so, share them in comments below!


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Thursday 5 April 2018 by Neil Tollfree
'I don't know why my nose is growing' insists Boris Johnson, as his nose visibly grows
Alleged Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has given a press conference to the assembled media in order to address the mystery of his strangely growing nose.
Mr Johnson's nose was currently holding fast at eleven inches long, having most recently grown a quarter of an inch several weeks ago whilst he claimed that a scientist from Porton Down had confirmed that the Salisbury nerve agent was definitely of Russian origin.
However, it visibly grew another quarter of an inch during the press conference as Mr Johnson denied knowing why it could be growing at a rate of a quarter of an inch per sentence uttered.
It first became visibly apparent to onlookers that the Foreign Secretary's nose was getting longer during the Brexit campaign, however, investigations have subsequently shown that even before that campaign it had grown somewhat during his tenure as editor of the Spectator when he published several stories about how much the EU cares about bananas.
"I have no idea why my nose is growing," said Mr Johnson, causing reporters to gasp as his nose noticeably grew a little longer.
"I can only conclude that it must be because of Jeremy Corbyn and his merry band of antisemites," he added before journalists in the front row were forced to duck to avoid losing an eye.
It is expected that thanks to Johnson's latest claims, at least one of tomorrow's so-called newspapers plans to run with the headline – 'Red Jezza hates Britain so much he used communist chemicals to make Boris's nose grow'.
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Yearbook Curled
Students are resurrecting "Corks & Curls," reviving the artifact of a physical book as a record of UVA history in a digital age. Yearbook alumni are providing the seed capital for the venture.
Matt Kelly, mkelly@virginia.edu
University of Virginia students have revived a longstanding, but recently discontinued, tradition: the Corks & Curls yearbook.
For those raised strictly in the digital age, yearbooks capture memories, in words and photographs, between hard covers.
First started in 1888 by representatives of each of 14 fraternities then on Grounds, Corks & Curls continued until 2008, when it fell victim to rising costs, dropping sales and an apparent declining interest, thanks to the digital age.
But last year, student editors Carly Buckholz and Michael Buhl, and a staff of 17, stepped up and published a 2014-15 edition of Corks & Curls, which is being delivered to pre-purchasers this fall. By delaying delivery, yearbook editors were able to include graduation and late-season sports information in the tome.
"It's like a coffee-table book with a feel of what the past year was like," Buhl said. "We talked to students and put their stories in the book."
(Related: Historic UVA Yearbooks, Photos To Be Available Online)
The book is broken into "Autumn," "Winter" and "Spring" sections, with stories about the Rotunda renovation, a cappella singing groups and days in the lives of engineering students and Cavalier Daily editors. There is a memoriam for Hannah Graham, a student slain in fall of 2014; a remembrance of the Take Back the Night event; and coverage of a student rally. There are statements from organizations such as the 7 Society and the 13 Society and athletic team recaps.
"This yearbook looks very different than past recent editions," said Tom Faulders, president of the UVA Alumni Association. "If you look back over the book through the years, it consistently changed. Students were always experimenting with the format to meet the desires of their contemporaries."
One thing that has not changed has been the name, which is also a UVA tradition.
"The name is derived from University slang at the time of its origin: to 'curl' an exam meant doing well, to 'cork' an exam meant failing," University historian Alexander "Sandy" Gilliam said.
Faulders said Corks & Curls alumni raised $20,000 for seed money for the operation and came up with another $5,000 in equipment, but he credits the students with having the idea, the drive and the enthusiasm to carry it through.
"They did this on their own," Faulders said. "I think this is another classic example of successful student self-governance."
Buhl, a systems engineering and economics double major from Belvedere, California, was already active in University life when he took on this challenge.
"I was on the Second-Year Council and some members of the alumni were talking about the yearbook," Buhl said. "I had worked on the yearbook in high school and I thought this is a UVA tradition, and we wanted it back."
Buhl also was inspired by his mother, Lilian Shackelford Murray, a 1980 McIntire School of Commerce graduate who still has her yearbook and revisits it with her son.
"I went home and looked at her book to get some ideas," Buhl said.
Buhl said editing the yearbook gave him a better appreciation for tradition. "When you experience it firsthand, it means a lot," he said. "There are a lot of cool people here and I loved getting to hear their stories."
Buhl said the stories that the students told, their descriptions of their lives and their year at UVA breathed life into the project and connected events within the book. There was a two-page feature on the Lighting of the Lawn, and elsewhere in the book a first-person account from a Lawn resident whose boyfriend proposed to her at the Lighting of the Lawn ceremony.
Buhl – now a fourth-year student – has stayed on the yearbook staff, working on marketing the book. He said it was hard to sell last year, because there had been a break in the tradition and students were not familiar with the yearbook. This year's edition should be easier to market, he said, because he has an edition he can show his prospective customers.
Fourth-year student Marnie Kremer, the current editor in charge of a roughly 30-member staff, stresses the permanence of the book in her sales pitches.
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"This is a history book," she said. "Thirty years from now, it will be same. Things can disappear on the Internet. This is something tangible."
The Internet was often blamed for Corks & Curls' 2008 demise. The current generation, observers suggested, had moved more online and away from books as artifacts.
"The students said, 'We don't need the yearbook because we have Facebook,'" Faulders said. "But the students have discovered that while they still have Facebook, it doesn't provide them with a lasting memory. Corks & Curls captures a year in time and it provides a very different experience."
The 2014-15 book includes 110 fourth-year student portraits in a separate section, and Kremer said she wants more for the next edition. "We want as many students as possible in the book," she said.
She said the design and photography is modern, with features-driven content that carries something for everyone and contains many student submissions.
The press run for the 2014-15, 244-page yearbook was 510. Editors presold 464 copies, and Buhl said they have just about sold the remainder.
Kremer is aiming to sell around 750 copies of this year's book at $80 apiece (or $85 with purchasers' names engraved on the cover).
Faulders estimated 1,500 to 2,000 copies would be strong sales of a yearbook for an undergraduate graduating class of some 3,800.
mkelly@virginia.edu (434) 924-7291
Historic UVA Yearbooks, Photos to be Available Online
Local historian and UVA alum Coy Barefoot is organizing a virtual museum celebrating all things UVA, from a complete collection of digitized yearbooks to hundreds of Ed Roseberry's historic photos.
U.Va.'s 'Big Data' Initiative One of 16 Projects Receiving Alumni Association Jefferson Trust Grants on Friday
U.Va.'s Big Data initiative and Saturday's Stan Winston Festival of the Moving Creature are among the 16 projects receiving grants from the U.Va. Alumni Association's Jefferson Trust this Friday. Since 2004, the trust has awarded nearly $3.5 million.
The History of Final Exercises
May 14, 2008 — Thomas Jefferson's original plan for the University of Virginia did not provide for a commencement ceremony, or even degrees and diplomas — though early students petitioned the Board of Visitors for diplomas, at least in part to improve their opportunities for employment. The board took no action until 15 months after Jefferson's death, directing in October 1827 that plans for the first "Public Day" be made.


The heavenly laws, customs, local and international laws guarantee the right of enjoying health care for every human being as a fundamental human right. It is the second most important right after the right to live.
Any depriving of this right would result in violating the people's right to live or they may be subject to disability, chronic or serious disease. There is no doubt that this right has been subject to many violations in the Gaza Strip because of the siege and the division, which have resulted catastrophic consequences.
The Gaza Strip witnesses a medical crisis that appeared in previous years and have been intensified since the beginning of April 2017. The medical supplement stopped reaching the strip because of these crises.
Various legal entities emphasize on the right of every citizen in health care. Internationally, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims the right of everyone to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself/herself and of his/her family, including nutrition, clothing, housing and medical care.
The WHO Constitution affirms that enjoying the highest standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being. The right being healthy includes access to affordable health care. It also stated that the States must create the conditions in which everyone has access to health care.
The Palestinian Basic Law affirms that the law should regulate social and health insurance and disability pensions.
* Gaza strip goes through one of the most dangerous periods since imposing the blockade. In addition to the blockade, necessary medical supplement does not reach the strip from Ramallah because of the division.
* In light of the suspension of remittances for treatment abroad, patients are not able to receive the necessary treatment in the strip. No one can receive a full treatment program. The patients are forced to complete treatment at their expenses with high prices despite the fact that they have health insurances.
* Health Ministry informed the patients that it does not have the necessary treatment for them and they must buy it from privet pharmacy if it was available there.
* Putting policies that support the local medical industry to enhance its development to fulfill the shortage.
* The Health Ministry must insure that all the patients have the necessary treatments, which must be covered by the insurance.


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import { push } from 'react-router-redux'

import { SET_REPORT_TYPE } from '../action_types.js'
import { nearMiss, positiveIntervention } from '../../constants.js'

export const selectNearMiss = () => (dispatch, getState) => {
  const site = getState().report.get('site')
  dispatch({
    type: SET_REPORT_TYPE,
    reportType: nearMiss
  })
  dispatch(push(`/report/${site}/near-miss`))
}

export const selectPositiveIntervention = () => (dispatch, getState) => {
  const site = getState().report.get('site')
  dispatch({
    type: SET_REPORT_TYPE,
    reportType: positiveIntervention
  })
  dispatch(push(`/report/${site}/positive-intervention`))
}

export const redirectUser = () => dispatch => {
  dispatch(push('/site'))
}


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using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using ME;
using UnityEditor.UI.Windows.Plugins.Flow;
using UnityEngine.UI.Windows.Plugins.Heatmap.Core;
using UnityEngine.UI.Windows.Plugins.Flow;

namespace UnityEditor.UI.Windows.Plugins.Heatmap {

	public class Heatmap : FlowAddon {

		private static HeatmapSettings settings;

		private Editor editor;
		private Texture noDataTexture;

		public override string GetName() {

			return "Heatmap (pre-alpha)";

		}

		public override void OnFlowSettingsGUI() {

			if (Heatmap.settings == null) {

				Heatmap.settings = this.GetSettingsFile();
				//if (Heatmap.settings == null) Heatmap.settings = ME.EditorUtilities.GetAssetsOfType<HeatmapSettings>(useCache: false).FirstOrDefault();

			}

			if (this.noDataTexture == null) this.noDataTexture = Resources.Load("UI.Windows/Heatmap/NoData") as Texture;

			var settings = Heatmap.settings;
			if (settings == null) {

				EditorGUILayout.HelpBox(string.Format(FlowAddon.MODULE_HAS_ERRORS, "Settings file not found (HeatmapSettings)."), MessageType.Error);

			} else {

				GUILayout.Label(FlowAddon.MODULE_INSTALLED, EditorStyles.centeredGreyMiniLabel);

				if (this.editor == null) this.editor = Editor.CreateEditor(settings);
				if (this.editor != null) {

					this.editor.OnInspectorGUI();

				}

			}

		}

		public override void OnFlowWindowLayoutGUI(Rect rect, UnityEngine.UI.Windows.Plugins.Flow.FlowWindow window) {

			if (Heatmap.settings == null) Heatmap.settings = this.GetSettingsFile();

			var settings = Heatmap.settings;
			if (settings != null) {

				if (settings.show == true) {

					var data = settings.data.Get(window);
					data.UpdateMap();

					if (data != null && data.texture != null && data.status == HeatmapSettings.WindowsData.Window.Status.Loaded) {

						GUI.DrawTexture(rect, data.texture, ScaleMode.StretchToFill, alphaBlend: true);

					} else {

						if (this.noDataTexture != null) GUI.DrawTexture(rect, this.noDataTexture, ScaleMode.StretchToFill, alphaBlend: true);

					}

				}

			}

		}

		public override GenericMenu GetSettingsMenu(GenericMenu menu) {

			if (menu == null) menu = new GenericMenu();
			menu.AddItem(new GUIContent("Reinstall"), false, () => { this.Reinstall(); });

			return menu;

		}

		private HeatmapSettings GetSettingsFile() {

			var data = FlowSystem.GetData();
			if (data == null) return null;

			var dataPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(data);
			var directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(dataPath);
			var projectName = data.name;
			var modulesPath = Path.Combine(directory, projectName + ".Modules");

			var settings = ME.EditorUtilities.GetAssetsOfType<HeatmapSettings>(modulesPath, useCache: true);

			if (settings != null && settings.Length > 0) {

				return settings[0];

			}

			return null;

		}

		public override bool InstallationNeeded() {

			//var moduleName = "Heatmap";

			/*var data = FlowSystem.GetData();
			if (data == null) return false;

			// Check directories
			var dataPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(data);
			var directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(dataPath);
			var projectName = data.name;

			var modulesPath = Path.Combine(directory, projectName + ".Modules");

			var settings = ME.EditorUtilities.GetAssetsOfType<HeatmapSettings>(modulesPath, useCache: false).FirstOrDefault();

			return settings == null;*/

			return this.GetSettingsFile() == null;

		}

		public override void Install() {

			this.Install_INTERNAL();

		}

		public override void Reinstall() {

			this.Install_INTERNAL();

		}

		private bool Install_INTERNAL() {

			var moduleName = "Heatmap";
			var settings = new[] {
				new { type = typeof(HeatmapSettings), name = "HeatmapSettings", directory = "" }
			};

			var data = FlowSystem.GetData();
			if (data == null) return false;

			// Check directories
			var dataPath = AssetDatabase.GetAssetPath(data);
			var directory = Path.GetDirectoryName(dataPath);
			var projectName = data.name;

			var modulesPath = Path.Combine(directory, projectName + ".Modules");
			var modulePath = Path.Combine(modulesPath, moduleName);

			if (Directory.Exists(modulesPath) == false) Directory.CreateDirectory(modulesPath);
			if (Directory.Exists(modulePath) == false) Directory.CreateDirectory(modulePath);

			foreach (var file in settings) {

				var path = Path.Combine(modulePath, file.directory);
				if (Directory.Exists(path) == false) Directory.CreateDirectory(path);

				if (File.Exists(path + "/" + file.name + ".asset") == false) {

					var instance = ME.EditorUtilities.CreateAsset(file.type, path, file.name) as HeatmapSettings;

					if (instance != null) EditorUtility.SetDirty(instance);

				}

			}

			AssetDatabase.Refresh();

			return false;

		}

	}

}


Lewy body dementia is a condition that is accompanied by conditions such as changes in behavior, movement, cognition and memory loss. The disease tends to worsen over time. An important feature of the disease is random eye movement sleep behavior disorder. This is a condition in which affected individual lose normal muscle paralysis, and act out their dreams. Usually, this may occur years before other signs and symptoms manifest. Other common signs and symptoms of the disease include visual hallucinations, alterations in alertness and attention. Others include difficulty in walking, rigidity, slowness of movement; the autonomic nervous system might also be affected. This disease might eventually lead to psychological problems such as depression, apathy, and even cause changes in the blood pressure, cardiovascular and digestive system. The exact cause of this disease isn't known yet. However, there are some factors that can lead to the development of the disease. Genetics and environmental factors have been implicated to be some of these factors. Lewy body dementia can be diagnosed based on the signs and symptoms presented by the patients. Other tests such as blood tests, medical imaging, neuropsychological tests can also be performed. There are some diseases that share similar signs and symptoms with Lewy body dementia. Examples of these diseases include Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, delirium, and psychosis. There is no cure for this disease. However, supportive treatments are given, to improve the patient's symptoms, such as the motor and psychological symptoms. Medications that might be given include acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, antipsychotics, and so on. Patients might have to rely on the care of friends, family or caregivers, especially in the later part of the disease. Scientists are working on neural stem cells that can be implanted in the brain to treat this disease.
The difficulty with movement: Patient might present with parkinsonian symptoms. These include rigidity of the muscles, tremor and shuffling when walking, slowed movement and so on.
Cognitive problems: Individuals affected with Lewy body dementia may present with cognitive symptoms similar to patients who have Alzheimer. Example of this includes confusion, attention deficit, memory loss, and visual-spatial problems.
Visual hallucinations: This is one of the initial symptoms presented by patients. Patients might have hallucinations of seeing different shapes, animals, and people that are not there, although it'd seem so real to the patient. Some patients might also experience auditory, olfactory and tactile hallucinations.
Sleep problems: Patients might also have sleep disorders. For example, patients might have a rapid eye movement disorder, which might make them act out their dreams, even when they are asleep.
Depression: Patients affected with this disease may fall into depression, during the disease.
Patients might also develop a loss of interest in what used to interest them.
Lewy body dementia is characterized by the abnormal development and accumulation of proteins into deposits. These materials are known as Lewy bodies. This type of protein has also been implicated in the development of Parkinson's disease. The exact cause of Lewy body dementia isn't known yet. However, the disease has been linked with a gene PARK 11. Lewy body dementia often appears intermittently and doesn't seem to have a strong hereditary link. The loss of cholinergic neurons has been said to be responsible for the neurodegeneration of cognition in patients.
On the other hand, the dopaminergic neurons have been implicated in the degeneration of motor control, which is responsible for its Parkinson's symptoms. Also, the deposition of abnormal proteins in some parts of the brain have also been noticed. These protein substances are known as Lewy bodies. Individuals with Lewy bodies in their brain also tend to have plaques and tangles, similar to what is obtained in Alzheimer's disease.
Age: It has been observed that Lewy body dementia predominantly occurs in people above the age of 60.
Gender: Lewy body dementia tends to occur more in males.
Family history: People that have a family member or relative that has suffered from the disease have a higher risk of developing the disease.
Trauma due to incessant falling.
Scientists are presently working on ways to develop neural stem cells that can be implanted in the brain, to repair and replace the damaged tissues. Stem cells can repair and replace injured tissues.


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The 26th of June marked International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. Many people in Australia have been victims of state sponsored torture, including the many refugees who have fled brutal violent regimes, and David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib who were tortured whilst in U.S. custody.
Today, please spare a thought for the the 170 men who still remain detained in Guantanamo Bay- think of what it would be like to be separated from your family for almost 10 years, think of what it must be like to be subjected to beatings, cold rooms, stress positions, 24 hour lighting, loud noises, brutal interrogations, and a constant state of fear. Think about what it would be like to have everything taken away from you- including your basic human rights- and have no way of challenging your torture because you have been prevented from seeking a hearing in normal courts- not because you have been charged or convicted of any crime, rather, because of what you have been accused of. This is the position that all detainees in US custody are in, including those held at Bagram airbase and other military prisons.
Torture is about inflicting silence on its victim- it is about removing the voice of the person who has been violated. History has shown us that the credibility and character of torture victims are always torn apart so that doubt is cast over their claims of violence. They become publicly discredited, vilified and dehumanised to ensure that the public loses their outrage at what has been done to them. The torturers release statements that ensure the 'humane treatment' of their captives and reiterate a commitment to human rights whilst in hidden back rooms human beings languish in misery and suffering. This is what torturers do so that they remain unaccountable for their actions- this is how they continue to get away with this most horrible of crimes.
Members of The Justice Campaign remain opposed to torture of any kind and refuse to remain silent about torture. We believe that there is no excuse to torture another human being and those who sanction torture, condone it, cover it up or are complicit, must be held accountable as universally recognised human rights law dictates.
We must stand together and make our voices heard as silence is torture's greatest strength.
I served 25 years in the US Air Force, I was the Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years, and now I need your help.
I personally charged Osama Bin Laden's driver Salim Hamdan, Australian anathema David Hicks, and Canadian teen Omar Khadr. All three were convicted … and then they were released from Guantanamo. More than 160 men who have never been charged with any offense, much less convicted of a war crime, remain at Guantanamo with no end in sight. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where not being charged with a war crime keeps you locked away indefinitely and a war crime conviction is your ticket home.
As of April 29, 2013 – 100 of the 166 men who remain in Guantanamo are engaged in a hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention. Twenty-one of them are being force-fed and five are hospitalized. Some of the men have been in prison for more than eleven years without charge or trial. The United States has cleared a majority of the detainees for transfer out of Guantanamo, yet they remain in custody year after year because of their citizenship and ongoing political gamesmanship in the U.S.
That is why I am calling on Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel to use his authority to effect cleared transfers from Guantanamo and on President Obama to appoint an individual within the Administration to lead the effort to close Guantanamo. Obama announced on April 30 that he plans to do his part to close Guantanamo, but he has made this promise before. Now is the time to hold him to his promise and urge him to take the steps necessary to dismantle Guantanamo Bay Prison.
If any other country were treating prisoners the way we are treating those in Guantanamo we would roundly and rightly criticize that country. We can never retake the legal and moral high ground when we claim the right to do unto others that which we would vehemently condemn if done to one of us.
It is probably no surprise that human rights and activist groups like the Center For Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture and Amnesty International have been outspoken critics of Guantanamo. It may surprise you that a former military prosecutor and many other retired senior military officers and members of the intelligence community agree with them.
The Patriotic thing, the American thing, the Human thing to do here is to Close Guantanamo. Please join us in the fight by signing this petition.


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Hill Wallack Divorce and Family Law Partner Supti Bhattacharya has been appointed to the Access to Justice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Pandemic Task Force
Princeton, NJ June 3, 2020 --- Hill Wallack Divorce and Family Law Partner Supti Bhattacharya has been appointed to the Access to Justice Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association's Pandemic Task Force. This Committee will identify the legal needs of those less-advantaged and develop strategies to assist them, including promoting the NJSBA pro bono platform, Free Legal Answers, which helps members of the public get answers to their initial legal questions related to COVID-19. NJSBA Immediate Past President, Evelyn Padin, will serve as chair of the Access to Justice Committee of the Task Force.
The NJSBA has created a statewide Pandemic Task Force to examine the issues created by the COVID-19 crisis that affect the judicial system, the legal profession, the practice of law, and access to justice for the public. The Task Force will oversee five special committees that will focus on: 1) Law Firm Opening and Operations; 2) Resuming Jury Trials (Civil and Criminal); 3) Practice of Law Issues; 4) Courthouse Operations and Logistics; and 5) Access to Justice. The goal of the Task Force is to provide resources, information and relevant guidance in each of these critical areas to the New Jersey legal community and to all stakeholders in government – the Governor's office, the state Legislature and the Supreme Court. This newly formed task force will include retired judges and lawyers representing NJSBA sections and committees, local, affinity, and specialty bar associations. Past president Thomas H. Prol will serve as chair, and the entire Executive Committee of the Association will participate as members of the Task Force.
Ms. Bhattacharya also has been reappointed for an eighth term to the NJSBA's Diversity Committee, which she previously chaired, and for a seventh term to the NJSBA's Bylaws Committee, which she also previously chaired.
Supti Bhattacharya practices exclusively in the areas of Family Law and Matrimonial Law, including: Divorce; Separation; Domestic Custody and International Custody; Child Support; Alimony; College Tuition and College Expense Contribution; Child Emancipation; Equitable Distribution of Assets; Domestic Violence; Pre-Nuptial Agreements; and Mid-Marriage Agreements. For more information about Ms. Bhattacharya's background and experience, please visit www.hillwallack.com/supti-bhattacharya.


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package com.nuclearthinking.game.model.skills;

import com.nuclearthinking.game.model.StatsSet;
import com.nuclearthinking.game.model.interfaces.IIdentifiable;

import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 * Created by kuksin-mv on 24.12.2015.
 */
public class Skill implements IIdentifiable {
    private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(Skill.class.getName());

    private final int _id;
    private final int _level;
    private final String _name;

    public Skill(StatsSet set) {
        _id = set.getInt("skill_id");
        _level = set.getInt("level");
        _name = set.getString("name", "");
    }

    @Override
    public int getId() {
        return _id;
    }

    public int getLevel() {
        return _level;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return _name;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Skill " + _name + "(" + _id + "," + _level + ")";
    }
}


Since Russia's annexation of Crimea, the United States has instituted numerous sanctions on Moscow. Russia typically ignores or even mocks these American sanctions. That recently changed though.
While the Senate's desire to punish Russia for its election meddling, its war on Ukraine and its poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain is understandable, Medvedev's comments indicate that Moscow may see the imposition of dollar sanctions as crossing red line. Although Medvedev did not elaborate on what exactly a response by "political" or "other means" might entail, U.S. policymakers should be prepared for the Kremlin to retaliate against American interests in any number of possible ways.
Moscow might also escalate its war against Ukraine. For example, Moscow could move additional Russian troops and weaponry into Eastern Ukraine's Donbass region to increase military pressure on Kiev there. Alternatively, Russia might also move to take full control of the Sea of Azov. Moscow has reportedly deployed forty of its naval vessels in the Sea of Azov, and Russian forces continue to stop and harass both Ukrainian and international merchant ships traveling through the Azov to Ukrainian ports. Ukraine has increased its naval patrols in response, and it's easy to envision Russia provoking an armed confrontation in the Sea of Azov that could serve as a pretext for a significant Russian military escalation in the region—a step right out of Moscow's 2008 playbook for its war in Georgia.
Putin could also administer the coup de grace to Bosnia's 1995 Dayton Accords—a major American diplomatic success that ended Bosnia's bloody civil war—by openly supporting independence for Republika Srpska. This could give Putin a trifecta: establish Republika Srpska as a Russian client state in the heart of the Balkans; reignite the civil war in Bosnia; and push Serbian politicians to support Republika Srpska, thereby torpedoing Belgrade's chances to enter the European Union.
To be clear, Medvedev's threats may be mere bluster, and Moscow could respond to dollar sanctions by hunkering down even further and try to ride out the economic and political storm. However, if harsh sanctions were on the verge of causing the Russian economy to collapse—especially if this resulted in unrest which threatened the stability of the Putin regime—Moscow might well end up lashing out in unpredictable ways. American policymakers should be forewarned and prepared.
Josh Cohen contributes to a number of media outlets including National Interest, Foreign Policy, Reuters, Washington Post and others.


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Crytek paid Denuvo €140,000 for 12 months protection
Companies: #crytek #denuvo
Games publishers commonly deploy DRM to protect their games from easy copying and sharing, especially in the early stages of release – as this will usually be the most lucrative period for the release. We have seen a number of games launched with DRM only to announce the DRM has been removed a few months later - especially in cases where anti-piracy and anti-tamper technologies we thought to have caused gaming (or PC wide) performance issues.
One of the most widely used and known DRM technologies, Denuvo, is developed by a company called Irdeto. Denuvo deployment must be seen by games developers as a way to protect revenue generation, or else they wouldn't use it, especially when a game is new and selling fast. Thus bean counters in games publishing firms must have an idea about how much Denuvo deployment can typically save them, to assess whether the cost of Denuvo is worth it. But what is the cost of Denuvo?
Thanks to a Reddit leak of a document that appears to outline an agreement between Crytek and Denuvo, with regard to the release of Crysis Remastered on the Epic Games Store, we may have a good idea of how much is paid for DRM services. Fees are staggered in this particular case with two payments of €60,000 and €80,000 for Denuvo's anti-tamper protection and encryption services. That's €140,000 in total for Crysis Remastered. Other fees may be levied depending on the amount of games sold or for adding other distribution platforms (€10,000 per platform).
Interestingly the document leaks indicate that Crytek is stumping up the same fees to protect its release of Crysis 2 Remastered on the Epic Games Store for PC. That is interesting because Crytek is yet to announce this game release. With leaks like this please take the information divulged with a pinch of salt.


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Q: principal curvature of the flat torus I am looking at the Hopf-fibration and I am looking at the preimage of the equator in $\mathbb{S}^2$. I think that I have proved that this is just the flat torus and now I want to calculate the principal curvatures of this torus. My general approach to the problem has been:
I consider $\mathbb{R}^4$ as $\mathbb{C}^2$ and $\mathbb{S}^3$ to be "the unit circle" in this "plane", every point on the circle determines a line through the origion. And the lines through the origion intersects the sphere in a unique circle. Mapping $\mathbb{S^3}$ to the space of lines through the origion gives me an onto map to $\mathbb{C}\mathbb{P}^1$ which I diffeomorphically identify with $\mathbb{S}^2$. The preimage of any point $(z_1:z_2)$ in $\mathbb{S}^3$ is just the circle $\frac{z_1}{z_2}=z$. Hence the preimage of the equator is all circles satisfying $\frac{|z_1|}{|z_2|}=1$, i.e $|z_1|=|z_2|$, hence the preimage is a product of two circles, i.e a torus.
Since my torus is just $S^1\times S^1$ in $\mathbb{C}\times \mathbb{C}$ it is equipped with the product metric, and hence in this case flat.
I am now stuck, here is two ways I would like to go forward:
Calculating the Weingarten map.
Using the parametrization $(e^{i\theta },e^{i\psi })$, what is the normal direction inside of $\mathbb{S}^3$?
I have also tried to look at the normal curvature of curves in $S^1\times S^1$ are these just "circles wrapping around the torus" the smaller ones curving more then the bigger? This way of thinking would give me principal curvature $1$ and something depending on where on the torus I am being $-1$ in "the inner circle"?

A: One (of the possible two ones) unit normal vector of $\mathbb{S}^1 \times \mathbb{S}^1 \subset \mathbb{S}^3$ at the point $(e^{i \theta},e^{i\psi})$ is the vector $$\eta(\theta,\psi) := \frac{(e^{i \theta},-e^{i\psi})}{\sqrt{2}} \, .$$ Indeed, the scalar dot product of two vectors $\mathbb{v} = (v_1,v_2) ,\mathbb{w} = (w_1,w_2) $ in $\mathbb{C}^2$ is given by $$\mathbb{v} \cdot \mathbb{w} = real(v_1 \bar{w_1} + v_2.\bar{w_2}) \,. $$
To see that $\eta(\theta,\psi)$ do the job just notice that the normal space of $\mathbb{S}^1 \times \mathbb{S}^1 \subset \mathbb{C} \times \mathbb{C} =\mathbb{C}^2$ at the point $(\theta,\psi)$ is spaned by the two vectors $$(e^{i\theta},0) \, \, , \, \, (0,e^{i\psi})$$
so you just need to look for a linear combination of this two perpendicular to the normal of the sphere which is the position vector $\mathbf{p} = (e^{i \theta},e^{i\psi})$.

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Most people would choose to activate their body into other activities oversleep. This is because to some, taking a nap is considered as an act of being lazy and unproductive. Well, there are secrets behind sleep that you don't know. Beauty sleep paves the way for your body to repair and rebuild various cells. This process only happens when you sleep. If you are sleep deprived, then your body cells do not repair or rebuild, and this will have an effect on your skin. Also, when you sleep, your body reduces the stress hormone, therefore, giving you a healthy skin growth.
Maintaining a beauty culture is expensive. However, nothing defines how you are than the way you present yourself to the public. Even if you put on the most expensive makeup and you have a dull, restless skin, you will still appear dull and ugly. You don't want this to define you. This is not who you are. Therefore sleeping is a powerful ingredient for a better skin development. Here are a few other reasons as to why you should embark on beauty sleep for healthy skin.
Don't just hit your face on the pillowcase no matter how soft and silky it is. The last thing you want is to wake up with a puffy face and thick lines on. As you age, the overnight wrinkles continue to get permanent since the skin loses its elasticity thus making it hard to bounce back to its normal state. Additionally, some of the forehead lines and wrinkles are hard to fix even with the best ant-aging products due to dirt and pillow grease. Therefore, holding your head upright while you sleep although it seems difficult, it works magic. It gives your skin enough space to breathe and eliminates the possibilities of attracting early wrinkles.
Before throwing yourself under the sheets at bedtime, create few minutes to wash off every makeup from your face. Whether you have strong foundations or just simple eye shadow and lipstick, you don't need to look beautiful in bed. Sleeping with your makeup prevents your skin from getting fresh air. It also prevents your pores from breathing and in return, you accumulate plenty of dead skin.
For you to have a good and resting sleep, you must ensure to track what you eat every time. Avoid heavy meals at late times. Stay away from caffeine products past noon. Eat at least a bowl of cereals every day. Starch is very helpful in attracting beauty sleep. A good sleeping diet will help maintain a certain cycle of sleep, and your body will function better to pave the way for improved healthy skin growth.
Night creams have their magic on your face and skin shaping. Night creams provide you with a soft and smooth skin, and they minimize the amount of time you will spend behind the mirror for makeup. A little moisturizer for rosaceous before bedtime gives you more snoozing time and next day beautiful looks. Ensuring that your skin is moisturized before you sleep, ensures that your skin is soft and free from dead skin. Additionally, the night creams open your pores to allow your skin breath in the fresh and clean air.
However, you should ensure that every time you get to sleep, you are ready to take the best time in bed and focus on the positives. A positive thinking at night gives you the ability to rest faster than when you keep your mind engaged on all the negative things. Nevertheless, quality sleep is beneficial to not only your skin but also your health in general. When you sleep, your body generates a hormone that keeps you stress-free, motivated and energized to face the day.
Quality sleeping keeps you beautiful even without makeup on. When you sleep right with at least 7-8 hours of rest, your skin reforms faster and it gives you younger looks. It's, therefore, the best remedy for aging. However, you must ensure to follow the right sleeping standards to eliminate the possibilities of early wrinkles and aging. Also, ensure that the products you use are right for your skin type.


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