Pancreatic cancer is an especially difficult cancer to treat because it is usually diagnosed in late stages when complete removal of the tumor is not an option. If you have inoperable pancreatic cancer, there may be options to help alleviate pain and other effects from the tumor.
The combination of radiation and chemotherapy is frequently used for inoperable tumors. Although the treatment is unlikely to be curative, the possibility of decreasing tumor size can possibly prolong the life of people with pancreatic cancer and reduce symptoms that are a direct result of the tumor. Some concerns associated with inoperable tumors are their ability to block the flow of bile or compress major blood vessels. Additionally, regular treatments may slow the spread of pancreatic cancer to the surrounding organs. Depending on the stage of pancreatic caner and the size of the tumor, you may need more intensive treatment at the beginning and a lower dose later to maintain the benefits of treatment while reducing side effects.
Nanoknife is an alternative to surgery that may be used to destroy part of a pancreatic tumor that could not be removed through conventional surgery. Electrical currents are used in a precise manner to destroy all or part of the cancerous tumor. Fortunately, the procedure can be done on an outpatient basis by an interventional radiologist. Several electrodes are inserted into a major artery, such as one in the leg, and threaded up to the desired location. Once the electrodes are in place, the electrical signals are started. Normal cancer cells do not enter programmed cell death (apoptosis), but once treated with the Nanoknife the cancer cells go into apoptosis and are eventually eliminated by the body through normal waste removal. One of the major advantages of Nanoknife treatments is the procedure is highly targeted so healthy cells surrounding the tumor can be left unharmed. Additionally, since the procedure only requires local anesthetic where the electrodes are inserted, there is no significant recovery time.
Some procedures may be used to reduce or eliminate symptoms associated with blocked bile ducts. For example, if you have a large tumor that is blocking the bile ducts, a surgeon may perform a procedure to open the bile ducts and keep it open as long as possible. This type of procedure can be done without surgery and involves using a flexible camera inserted through the esophagus to find the blocked duct. Once the duct is open a stent is inserted and expanded to keep the area open, much like stents used for vascular disease. If a stent is not successful or would not work, a bypass can be used to achieve similar or better benefits. A new route is created so bile can flow to the small intestines and bypass the pancreas.
Even when a pancreatic tumor is inoperable, there are several options to reduce pain and minimize the adverse effects of a growing tumor.


A room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located; SYN. engine room.
The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; SYN. engineering science, applied science, technology.
The application of science to the design, construction, and maintenance of works, machinery, roads, railroads, bridges, harbor installations, engines, ships, aircraft and airports, spacecraft and space stations, and the generation, transmission, and use of electrical power. The main divisions of engineering are aerospace, chemical, civil, electrical, electronic, gas, marine, materials, mechanical, mining, production, radio, and structural.
Oblast primenjenih nauka: matematike, fizike, hemije radi proizvodnje dobara.


How is your knowledge level with respect to plumbing now? Are you aware of the specific piping in your house? What is your level of ability? Do you think you can use the information that will fix your system? Can you use the tools for fixing your plumbing system properly? Feel confident in your new insights and apply the knowledge as needed.


Hyundai Motor released today the official details of the Kona Iron Man Edition, which is set to be released on January 23rd in South Korea, with a total output of 1,700 units reserved for its domestic market. Prices will start at 29.45 million won (around $26,415 or 22,926€).
The new car will be only available with a single trim and only a 1.6-liter Turbo Gasoline engine matted to a 7-speed DCT transmission could be selected. The exterior color is matte metallic gray inspired by the dark matte gray of the Iron Man original suit, which appeared in the 1963 Marvel Comics series Tales of Suspense. Then, they have applied the exclusive red color of the Iron Man suits who is familiar from the movie to give a point of colour.
A total of 7,000 vehicles will be sold exclusively in North America, Europe and China, including the domestic market. Hyundai has placed 1,700 cars in South Korea to meet the demand of customers and the popularity of the Iron Man series. All wheel Drive is an option that could be added by paying 1.11 million won ($1,000 or 868€) extra.


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Frogard Ryan Headshot, Frogard Ryan © The Nature Conservancy
Dr. Frogard Ryan
State Director, Connecticut
climate change, conservation, beekeeping, veterinary physician
Alex Soucy
Email: Alex.Soucy@tnc.org
James Miller
Email: James_Miller@TNC.org
A passion for nature, a love of animals and a dedication to making the world a better place brought Dr. Frogard Ryan to the Connecticut Chapter of The Nature Conservancy as its State Director in 2011. Her responsibilities include implementing the conservation agenda, producing tangible and lasting results, and maintaining our organizational values. She also oversees fundraising, marketing, budgeting and setting priorities. As State Director, she is the Connecticut Chapter's liaison to the Worldwide Office and Board of Trustees and is the chief spokesperson for both internal and external constituents.
Conservation milestones during her tenure include: securing a conservation easement for the largest coastal forest between New York City and Boston, shepherding the passage of the Blue Plan for Long Island Sound through legislature, reopening hundreds of miles of fish migration routes along Connecticut's waterways, the development of a model coastal resilience building workshop that has been used throughout Connecticut, New York, and several other states, and developing the chapter's urban conservation program in Bridgeport. Frogard is often sought out for her expertise in structuring volunteer leadership, specifically systematic trustee recruitment. Frogard is skilled in recruiting and nurturing talent on the staff and the board and is a strong believer in life-long learning.
Previously, Frogard was the Director of Field Conservation for Eastern Colorado, where, working closely with private landowners and government agencies, she was responsible for putting together complex transactions to conserve large landscapes of ranchlands. She also worked extensively with the Colorado Chapter's Board of Trustees and major donors. Among the many recognitions of her work was her selection in The Nature Conservancy's Class of 2010 Leadership Excellence Program. And after intensive training courses and group sessions, she is now a Conversant Executive Leader. A special assignment brought her to Arusha, Tanzania, where she mentored the Executive Director of the Tanzania Land Conservation Trust in developing strategic plans and shaping the board. She has also served in an advisory role with the TNC Europe program.
Frogard came to The Nature Conservancy in 2004 from the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, where she was the Director of Education and Volunteer Services. She has a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the College of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover, Germany, and a Master's Degree in Basic Science from the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. She now lives in New Haven with her husband and Newfoundland.

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Geraldine SSALI BUSUULWA is the deputy managing director of the National Social Security Fund (NSSF). She shared her story with Simon Kasyate on Capital FM's Desert Island Discs show.
Good evening and welcome to desert Island Discs.
Who is Geraldine? When, where and to whom was she born?
Okay, Simon you know I am a woman and I am nothing exceptional on my age. Not even my husband knows my age. He can only when I am on my deathbed and he has to sign on my consent form. But it's an approximation and it's between 30 and 30, and it will remain that way for the next 10 years. So, let us keep it a mystery.
I was born in Lubaga hospital to Agnes Ssali and Gerald Ssali; they are both Catholics. Our village is in Masaka, and I am proud to say that; but I was raised in Namungoona just after Kasubi tombs.
My childhood was full of hard work. I must say my mother was a very tough cookie; she has very tough love which you will only appreciate when you grow up. My father was also always very strict. Any expenditure was in relation to education and health – anything else was a luxury.
So, if you wanted a textbook, that one you would get, but if you wanted to do things like hair, buy new shoes, you needed to say I am now getting a chemistry book part three. You can go to part three up to part eighteen but it still remains a chemistry book and that is the only expenditure he understood, then you could do your hair and do your shoes.
How many children were you?
My mother gave birth to nine of us; I am number five but I lost a brother and a sister. As far as my family is concerned, I am still the Geraldine Ssali: they do not see me as an MD of sorts. They still maintain my position, as you need to stay in line. If I became a nuisance, they tell me off straight without any hesitation and probably lock me out of the house.
The famous Buganda Road PS. But I am telling you when I go passing over Buganda Road today, my heart falls.
I am very disheartened by the state of the school and I am wondering if the current product might turn out to be as fine as we are, but I am hoping that at some point they will find a ground where we are breeding the future leaders to a standard that is desirable for a country.
Did you have a sense of career guidance from your peers or your parents on what exactly you wanted to be?
Oh, my father is the most precise person on career guidance and I really thank him for that. I remember when I was at Gayaza HS in S4, there was an arts competition and I was very good in Art and I had that passion for art. I was the second best in the whole country and I got a prize.
And I don't want to mention the names of the principals at that time but he said to me that they were the poorest people.
"Unfortunately, Uganda doesn't recognize talent that way unless you go to London and do pieces which are going to be auctioned." So, he said to me: "Unless you are at that level of London which will take you like millions and millions of years – and your predecessors have not yet got there – your quickest route is going to be in accounts." He is an accountant himself.
But I tell you I have a drawing of a skull of a goat at the library of Gayaza HS.
A career in accounting, were you good in subjects that require you to do accounting?
But if I spoke to the headmistress of Gayaza HS around the time when you were there, how would she describe you, or how would you describe yourself?
You know I wasn't like the best in class but neither was I the last. I was near to successful students like your number five out of 40, but I believe that is what an all-rounder takes. But I know there was sometime where she believed I had caused a lot of insurgency but she never caught me.
So, which strike did you lead?
[Laughs] No, no! You know there was always a group of students not turning up to class and a moment the roll call is done I am there.
But the rest of my colleagues who think that I am with them, they look around and I am not [with them]; I am in the class. So, actually the teachers and the prefects never got an opportunity to catch me, because I always knew when to jump out.
You're talking about prefects, which means you were never one of them?
When I went for S5 at the same school, I was the council chairperson; so, I never got any punishment at all. I never stood in the punishment tree even once but somehow I was the kind of person who would say [for instance], 'let's do this'; but you know, you just tell people and they just run in without even thinking of the outcome.
If you were addressed a letter, say a character is from St Mary's College Kisubi, and it is dropped to your desk and you do not know the character, what would you do?
These are things I would never respond to; a character that I even didn't know, I would just tear up the letter; it wouldn't even waste my time. I was actually a big girl – you know girls mature very fast – it was very difficult to impress me. I am sorry to say but Gayaza girls will always have these airs around them.
At that school, I was not a born-again. I would attend the church and do everything but I remained a Roman Catholic and you know we Catholics, we drink wine but you remain who you are. Even in my [final] year, we were three of us who never became born- again even though we used to pray and sing the nice songs. We joined the choir; we respected the religion but the sign of the cross was always there with me.
Where did you go after Gayaza High School?
I found myself in Makerere University and you know sometimes we take these things for granted; there is certain part of life you will never know.
You think that everybody goes through nursery school, goes to primary then secondary school and automatically goes to Makerere University; but you don't realize how narrow the top is becoming when you get there.
How did you find Makerere with its unprecedented freedom?
For some strange reason, my parents always loved music and they wanted to be entertained. So, at home, we are always dancing for money and we always played music and my mother always allowed us to go out and she provided us with transport. But if you went and you were irresponsible, you would get a beating. We had these Makerere guild parties.
They allowed us that degree of freedom that killed your curiosity completely. So, I can stay at home and be allowed to drink a glass of wine and my father is sitting behind reading his newspaper.
You see this studio here when you go to my father's house, you will find it there with all the music equipment. He was creating a balanced individual. So, by the time I went to Makerere and people were getting excited about the music, I had seen it all. I could actually do turntables; I had a laptop loaded with all sorts of music.
How do your parents treat your children, are they spoiling them or they treat them as they treated you?
Geraldine, what followed after Makerere?
So, I flew to London and he booked me into his place of work; so, I started working in the accounts section. I had never worked before and then I realized at that moment the way the world was growing. I should have studied at Makerere University while working – IfI could turn back time.
I used to see people working while studying at Makerere University… Work while studying! Don't think you are going to succeed because you are applying 100 per cent of your time reading books. Avery successful individual will multitask.
Somebody was telling me that even Sudhir has 24 hours like everybody but he has achieved more. I went through this CIMA programme, I became an associate and before I knew it, I was going for a master's degree which I could actually get easily because I had CIMA and you could only do a thesis.
But my father said: "No, actually you have to go for the real thing at Manchester. Do it all." Before I knew, it was so expensive but somehow I managed to pay my way; my employers also helped me to finish this course.
I met my husband Victor Francis Busuulwa in London but I had met him here before because his mother and my mother were very close friends – actually his mother made my mother's wedding gown. She used to make our baptism clothes. I remember seeing him when I went to collect confirmation results at Uganda House; he was just behind the counter and I said, 'this man looks nice'.
It was just a thought and he never came into my mind and I even didn't see him again. But he used to hang out with my brothers. When I met him in London, I said: "You Victor how are you." So, when we started talking, he just said to me so funny things. You know, I don't like being very serious with love; it puts me off when someone gets into serious love, he scares me off.
So with him, he was like 'I am looking for someone who will cook for me', but I didn't take it serious. One day, I was looking for a car to buy and so, we went together outside the city. When you go outside London, there are many horses which people often use. He told me to leave the car so he could buy me a horse because it does not use fuel – it is cheap.
I just loved him because of his humor, he didn't try to impress me; he was just himself.
How did you get into NSSF?
Well, after my graduation again in London, I started applying for jobs in Uganda. I first applied to the East African Community; I applied to the auditor general's office, to NSSF. I applied for about seven jobs which I used to see on the internet and nobody responded.
But I had started a little scheme with my father and I wanted to open maybe a restaurant or something else just to get me started. My father said: "You come back, you will not fail to get something." As I did the application, I learnt that the jobs were still open and they were still doing the interviews. I came home and after three months I was called by NSSF to do an interview.
I didn't know even where the NSSF building was; my husband took me there.When we reached there, they said: "We don't have jobs for junior staffs but we have only jobs for MD [managing director], DMD [deputy managing director] and CS [company secretary].
I said those are the ones I applied for. And the head of human resources couldn't believe it. She asked for my name and said that the name was on our shortlist. She asked if I was the one with that CV and I answered in the affirmative. At that time I think you look unserious when you're just on a holiday and when I got the chance to do an interview and I came in a suit, she couldn't believe that I was the one.
When I got the job, she went back and told her people: "Guess what, the girl who was here in jeans is the one who got it." They couldn't believe it. She had called me before and told me that there was another job of head of investments which she encouraged me to try. I had given her my CV. She asked me for my pictures and they said: "But she is young. Is she going to manage?" But they entrusted me with the responsibility; and again, it is the theme of "you have to be responsible" regardless of your age.
If I must get you really angry, what could I have possibly said to you or done to you?
I think the thing that gets me angry is someone who would lie to me and think that they are too smart [and can] get away with it: that would be undermining my capabilities and intellectual capacity. But there are some petty liars and white-lies – those ones I let go – but where it is very critical and undermines my persona you will always feel my full wrath. That means I cannot work with you.
But if I want to get the opposite of your full wrath what would I have to say or do to you?
I like people who are very efficient and deliver results at all times and consistently. I like high performers, people with all round character; yes you are a performer but you are funny; that really excites me about people. People who have got qualities and values at all the time and they are rich at heart all the time.
Of all the people you have met, how many would you say fall in that category?
Not so many… I think people get to know your character, they don't want to be judged; so, somehow they stay clear. I will use this example of the former prime minister [Apolo Nsibambi]. People got to know he was always straightforward. So, if you're not that kind of person, you don't even bother to have a conversation with him.
It is the theme of self- branding. I brand myself in such a way that only people who mean to have a meaningful conversation come; those who mean to have laughter come because they know I am good at laughing.
Which type of food do you like?
I love my traditional food smoked fish absolutely. And I also love "binyebwa" [groundnut sauce] but I also love shrimps, crab-fish and that one is for my acquired taste.
Most of the time, I always go home and spend a lot of time playing with my kids. Music is always part of me and I always listen to music and I like to have good laughs with my siblings.
Then my husband – he is just the killer – sometimes he makes me laugh and I crawl across the floor in my bedroom and I can't get up. I also meet a lot of friends for lunches, dinners and many of them… I inspire and mentor them.
Do you actually save other than with NSSF?
I do have a small saving scheme that I left in London running because you know when you save money there and also your national insurance, you do not claim it until you are old. I also have a small savings account here in Uganda and I encourage other people to save. Actually I don't keep that money on a savings account; I moved it to fixed deposit.
How do you feel when a guy walks into the boardroom putting on a suit with labels?
When I see a guy putting on a suit with his labels on, what comes into my mind first is that he is Congolese. I am obviously thinking that he is not refined but if you knew better, you would not move with your labels. But not judging people physically; the matter is more in what they say than how they are dressed.
As one of the few women in the boardrooms, is it that rough for women in boardrooms in Uganda?
I think to a greater extent, it is because in the very beginning when I got my job, I was judged by my age. But Uganda is embracing more women; they are somehow moving past the age thing and the gender thing and maybe the tribe thing also. It is really about what you bring to the table.
If you were marooned on a desert island but you were given an opportunity to take with you one item or one individual, what or who could that be?
I wound take my husband with me because even in the saddest moments, he will crack a joke and every worry that you have, he will take it away. But he can also be a very annoying person you would want to kill; that person with that combination, nobody will know that I have killed him. But I would leave him breathing to crack the next joke.
Plays Canto Della Terra [The Mighty Sun] by Andrea Bocelli.


Bodil Lundgren, Kulla Gunnarstorps Islandshästar: Radrik fra Bolstad is a dapple icelandic horse. I tried K9 and it works on her legs.
I just use a brush, warm water and K9 bright white schampoo and get a magnificent result that I never experienced before – thanks K9!


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Halenia garcia-barrigae är en gentianaväxtart som beskrevs av C. K. Allen. Halenia garcia-barrigae ingår i släktet Halenia och familjen gentianaväxter. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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If you consider a vehicle to be abandoned, you can report it to E.L.V.I.S. (End of Life Vehicle Impound Scheme). This is a county wide scheme for the collection and disposal of abandoned vehicles.
If you actually observed the vehicle being abandoned, please report it. The information may enable us to take legal action in order to recover the removal, storage and disposal costs from the person who is responsible for abandoning the vehicle.


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"""This demo sets a PWM frequency on pin 5, then measures it using a counter.

For measuring external frequency the PWM should be disabled.

"""

from nanpy.arduinotree import ArduinoTree
from nanpy.serialmanager import SerialManager
import time

EXTERNAL_FREQUENCY = False
GATE_TIME = 0.7  # sec

INPUT, OUTPUT = 0, 1

def counterdemo():
    connection = SerialManager()
    a = ArduinoTree(connection=connection)
    p = a.pin.get(5)

    if not EXTERNAL_FREQUENCY:
        p.write_mode(OUTPUT)
        p.pwm.write_value(128)
        p.pwm.frequency = p.pwm.frequencies_available[-2]
        print ('PWM frequencies_available: %s' % p.pwm.frequencies_available)
        print ('frequency set: %s' % p.pwm.frequency)

    t1 = time.time()
    fread = a.counter.read_frequency(GATE_TIME)
    t2 = time.time()

    print ('frequency read: %s' % fread)
    print ('gate time: %s sec' % (GATE_TIME))
    print ('time elapsed: %s sec' % (t2 - t1))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    counterdemo()

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We have 1 paperback copy of Nature's Confession as a book giveaway to our US readers.
As governments give $5.3 trillion a year to fossil fuel companies, while the media propagates the idea that solar and wind energy are unprofitable (IRL!), comes Nature's Confession, the tale of two teens in a fight to save a warming planet, the universe . . . and their love.


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Barefoot in Sedona: Bogus Claims About Grounding Your Feet to Earth Promote Medical Pseudoscience
Could it be that shoes are the world's most dangerous invention and the cause of health problems ranging from autoimmune diseases to premature aging? Harriet Hall, M.D. examines the claims of "grounding" or "earthing" — the idea that shoes are the most destructive invention ever and that maintaining health requires direct contact with the earth.
eSkeptic for November 18, 2015
In this week's eSkeptic: Science Salon: This Sunday: Lisa Randall on Dark Matter & the Dinosaurs Feature: An Internet Story for Our Time Skepticality: Based on The Bible SCIENCE SALON THIS SUNDAY Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe Event Date: Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015 at 2 pm Speaker: Dr. Lisa […]
An Internet Story for Our Time
Can venting angrily on the Internet lead to heart disease? Carol Tavris discusses some research that points to a significant correlation between our negative language patterns (such as anger, hatred, and aggression) and health risks such as heart disease.
Esther Dyson — The Future of Human Health & Longevity
Esther Dyson — the renowned computer analyst, journalist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur — discusses her latest project called HICCup and its Way to Wellville in which five places over five years will be measured with five metrics related to the production of the health of people living there, and considers how what they've learned may be applied elsewhere.
Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It
IN THIS EYE-OPENING, MYTH-SHATTERING EXAMINATION of what makes us fat, acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes argues that our diet's overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates — not fats and not simply excess calories — has led directly to the obesity epidemic we face today.
Religious Belief & Societal Health: New Study Reveals that Religion Does Not Lead to a Healthier Society
In this article, we report the results of a study examining the relationship between a nation's religiosity and its "moral health." The received wisdom would lead one to predict a positive correlation between national religiosity and national moral health — as one goes up the other goes up. In fact, that appears not to be the case, and the example of the United States is most striking; Americans are among the most religious people in the Western world, and yet we have among the highest rates of homicide, abortion, and teen pregnancies. To the extent that these measures are related to something that might be called "national moral health," the intuitive thesis that links religiosity to morality would seem to be gainsaid.
The Gospel of Food
In his latest debunking project (after The Culture of Fear), sociologist Glassner argues that frequent sensational headlines and scientific controversies about obesity, fast food, and food safety have left many Americans bewildered about what to eat…
Great Big Book of Tiny Germs: Bill Nye the Science Guy
Germs, germs, everywhere! We live with them all day, every day. Did you know that some germs are good for you, or even delicious? There are more germs inside you than there are people on Earth? Your body is constantly fighting germs, even when you aren't sick? …
In this week's eSkeptic, Patrick Johnson reviews The Obesity Myth: America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health by Paul Campos.


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Trump was joking about loving WikiLeaks, Sarah Sanders says
"Look, clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign," Sanders said. "Certainly we take this serious."
Julian Assange gives the thumbs up from a police vehicle on his arrival at Westminster Magistrates court in London on April 11, 2019.Jack Taylor / Getty Images
April 14, 2019, 3:57 PM UTC
President Donald Trump was just joking when commented during his campaign that he "loved" WikiLeaks, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Sunday.
"Look, clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign," Sanders told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace about Trump's past praise for WikiLeaks. "Certainly we take this serious."
Sanders spoke about Trump's WikiLeaks remarks after the Department of Justice charged the website's fugitive founder Julian Assange with computer hacking following his arrest in London partly in connection with a U.S. extradition warrant. Assange had been living for nearly seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition.
Watch Trump's mentions of WikiLeaks in days leading up to election
The Department of Justice indicted Assange on a charge of conspiring with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning to hack a classified government computer. Manning provided WikiLeaks with a trove of secret government documents that the website published in 2010. Assange has insisted the U.S. is trying to infringe on journalistic freedom.
Assange and WIkiLeaks were at the forefront of leaking stolen emails during the 2016 presidential campaign, including from 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta.
At the time, Trump routinely name-dropped WikiLeaks, praising the organization.
"I love WikiLeaks," Trump said in October 2016.
But on Thursday, when asked about Assange's organization, Trump told reporters at the White House: I know nothing about WikiLeaks."
"It's not my thing," he added.
On Sunday, Sanders said the Trump administration was "the only one to do anything about" Assange and WikiLeaks.
"Let's not forget that the reason Julian Assange is being looked at is because of the engagement he had with Chelsea Manning," she said before adding that Trump "was making a joke during the campaign" when he expressed love for the organization.
Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.


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MTV Stars Speak Out About What's Changed Since 'Teen Mom' Season Four
Lindsay Cronin
MTV stars Maci Bookout, Farrah Abraham, Catelynn Lowell and Amber Portwood recently spoke out about how things have changed since filming wrapped on Teen Mom season four.
Following the series' fourth installment, the MTV stars went their separate ways and got re-acquainted with life without the cameras. Then, over two years later, the MTV stars were approached to do a fifth season of the show, titled Teen Mom OG, which would update fans on how their lives have evolved since 2012.
"I felt like I was such a different person when the show last aired. I've really grown up, and not just because I have a kid and responsibilities, but mentally and emotionally," Bookout revealed to TV Guide on March 20.
After being asked to return to the show, Bookout agreed, explaining she felt it would be "cool" for her and the other MTV stars to show how their struggles as young parents have continued, even years after season four aired.
Portwood's story may have seen the most drastic change. When fans last saw Portwood, she was in prison, serving a five-year term for a probation violation. Now, as Teen Mom OG premieres, she's showing fans a different, much more responsible side of herself.
"I want to show the changes I've made and everything is pretty positive. I sometimes get in little fights with Gary, but he's probably the only person in my life I fight with."
Although Portwood, like her fellow MTV stars, continues to co-parent her child, her communication with Gary Shirley is kept to a minimum.
After leaving the network after season four, Abraham went on to star in an explicit film, which featured her and adult film actor James Deen. She also released a line of sex toys, and began writing an erotic trilogy. Now, Abraham hopes fans can learn from her experiences in the adult world.
As the Inquisitr reported, Abraham revealed her boyfriend, Simon Saran, would be appearing alongside her and her fellow MTV stars on Teen Mom OG. Abraham revealed the news in an interview with Radar Online.
For Lowell, the choice to rejoin her fellow MTV stars was simple.
"Me and Tyler from the beginning have always done this show to educate about adoption and showing how that works so we wanted to continue that, and that's why we decided to jump on and do it again."
For more of the MTV stars, check out Teen Mom OG, when the series premiers on Monday, March 23 at 10 p.m.
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Q: Why "Error: Could not find or load main class addstudent.AddStudent" is showing I am developing a project using NetBeans IDE. I am new to javafx. I created a class "AddStudent" in a package named "addstudent". When I ran the class, I got "Error: Could not find or load main class addstudent.AddStudent". Why this error is showing ? How can it solved ?

A: I was getting the same error while running my javaFx program.
And now I got the answer about how to fix it.

*

*Create your javaFx project on netBeans

*New Project-> JavaFx

*Application-> Finish

When you do this, you'll see a class with the same name as the name of the project.
When you try to run that file you'll get this error:
Error: Could not load or Find main class classname

to fix this error, simply rightclick on your project and click run.
Your project runs and you'll see something like, "say hello world". After that it will work fine.
One more thing, when you try to run your project with webstart on netBeans  it will not work!
And it is possible to get an error like
Error : javaFxApplication.jar could not Be deleted.

to fix this open your task manager and go to Background Process look for Java() Binary file 32 bit, just end that task and you're back.

A: I'm running your code and it works fine. What I did

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*Created New -> JavaFx Main Class -> AdStudent -> Copy/Pasted your code

*Right click on Project -> Properties -> Run -> Browse Application Class -> Select class addstudent.AddStudent

*Clean and Build

*Run Project

I have a feeling the first 2 are fine for you. You may just need to Clean and Build.

A: In my case, the problem was the project path had some special (russian) chars, like
C:\Dev\Папка\MyApp\

Once moved to another folder, it worked:
C:\Dev\Good one\MyApp\

Also:

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*these characters are OK: äöü!@#$%^&_+-``~_',

*these are not: №;

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Two stories about infection. In, "Just Come Home," a relationship is infected by an outside force. In "Toe Infection," you get an ingrown toenail on your toe, that grows into something much worse.
A single story, revisiting a theme. In, "Dreams of Dead Energy," a man struggles with his work, the effect of leisure, and his insignificance in the face of an uncaring universe.
I've got a quick message for you, in anticipation of next week's episode. Death, Dying, and Other Things is joining The Modern Horrors Podcast Network, and I couldn't be more excited.
Eight stories… of eight hauntings.
A single story, told in fifty three voicemails. In "Cold as Hell," a man has an issue with the heater in his new apartment.
Two stories of weather and what comes with it. In, "The Raincaller," a drought causes a group of farmers to take justice into their own hands. In, "Oligach, Who Came From the Fog," two newcomers to a small mining town share one too many secrets.
Two stories of dreams and their consequences. In the first, "Beyond the Lucid Dream," a man ventures too far into his own dreams. In the second, "The Strange Dream of Mr. Bartlet," a man's recurring nightmare starts to affect his appetite.
A single story of a celestial event, in two parts. In "Starfall," a meteor shower brings with it more than just an evening light show.
A single story in two parts. In "What I Found in the Woods," a man must care for something he doesn't understand.


Google have no text to check? have no text to check? Click "Select Samples".has reportedly been hit by a severe hijack that routed the servers to China, Nigeria, and Russia causing long downtimes for many users. Google services such as YouTube, Gmail, and other cloud services were affected due to the traffic diversion that the company doubted was malicious. according to a report by The Wall Street Journal, Google acknowledged the issue and released a fix at 2:35 pm pt on monday (4:05 am, tuesday IST) post which all the services were back up running "as expected".
The internet hijack, which is termed as the 'worst ever' in the company's history hit the Google services including the company's corporate WAN infrastructure and VPN services. according to the report, the traffic diversion started when a Nigerian carrier MainOne wrongly declared that its servers were the right route to many information science addresses including those belonging to Google services. The malformed route was then received by China telecom and disseminated to other servers worldwide. Russia's Transtelecom and other major carriers picked up the incoming traffic from China and further re-routed the information science addresses.
Minutes after this happened, the same Nigerian telecom company again declared a wrong system that redirected the information science addresses from Cloudflare, a company that is in partnership with Google for firewall and online protection services. Meanwhile, all the Google and Cloudflare services suffered long downtimes, rendering many users affected. according to network research firm ThousandEyes, as many as 180 information science prefixes were impacted by the unfortunate interception by foreign servers, including China that is feared by most United States analysts to have been keeping a surveilling the internet in the country.
Google posted a public notice on its website later to address the issue and the steps it took to allay the situation. It said that the route interception didn't look malicious. It also said that no data was compromised. However, security experts believe this could be a 'wargame experiment', which means that this could be a kind of an attack that precedes a bigger, more dangerous attacks from the same nations.


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The Last Word for Now…
Of possible interest to our readers, there was an interview yesterday on the BBC ("Today Programme") regarding the supposed controversy about the "Hockey Stick": A climate scientist Professor Michael Mann suggests global warming is caused by mankind (mp3 file). Also available on the BBC website is the real audio file of the interview.
How rapid-response works
Nature this week published a letter from Dr. Huang (U. Mich) highlighting how this 'brave new world' of science blogging works. He writes:
I was concerned to find that … [a figure] included an outdated and erroneous reconstruction of borehole data. … In my view, the website should have used a later version … To be fair, the authors of the website added a correction after I drew their attention to this.
In an early post, we used a figure that contained a minor error regarding how a borehole temperature reconstruction had been scaled. This mistake had been properly corrected in the literature, and so this was indeed an oversight on our part. Dr Huang was kind enough to remind us of this and we amended the caption immediately to point this out and direct readers to the correction should they be interested. Since this mistake was not central to the point being made in the post, we left the original figure in place.
The Internet is nothing if not flexible, and unlike in journals where mistakes can persist an awfully long time, we are able to correct such problems very quickly. In this respect, Dr. Huang's letter seems to indicate that things are actually working quite well here.
We would like to take this opportunity to re-iterate our commitment to getting the science right, and as importantly, getting it right in real-time. We welcome all corrections or clarifications and we will endeavour to fix any errors, great or small, as quickly as we can.
Filed Under: Climate Science, In the News
Why looking for global warming in the oceans is a good idea
23 Feb 2005 by Gavin
A lot of press and commentary came out this week concerning a presentation and press release from Tim Barnett and Scripps colleagues presenting at the AAAS meeting (The Independent, John Fleck ,(and again) David Appell…etc). Why did this get so much attention given that there is no actual paper yet?
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Dummies guide to the latest "Hockey Stick" controversy
by Gavin Schmidt and Caspar Amman
Due to popular demand, we have put together a 'dummies guide' which tries to describe what the actual issues are in the latest controversy, in language even our parents might understand. A pdf version is also available. More technical descriptions of the issues can be seen here and here.
This guide is in two parts, the first deals with the background to the technical issues raised by McIntyre and McKitrick (2005) (MM05), while the second part discusses the application of this to the original Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998) (MBH98) reconstruction. The wider climate science context is discussed here, and the relationship to other recent reconstructions (the 'Hockey Team') can be seen here.
NB. All the data that were used in MBH98 are freely available for download at ftp://holocene.evsc.virginia.edu/pub/sdr/temp/nature/MANNETAL98/ (and also as supplementary data at Nature) along with a thorough description of the algorithm.
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People in, people out
This is just to note some personnel changes at RealClimate. Amy Clement is unfortunately too overcommitted to be able to participate as much as she would like, and so is dropping out of the team. She states: "I fully support what the contributors of RealClimate are doing. It is a real service to both the community of climate scientists and to the general public". To balance that, we welcome aboard paleoceanographer Thibault de Garidel (Rutgers) , who some francophiles may have noticed has been helping organise the French translations of some of the posts. And of course, if there are any other scientists out there who'd like to contribute, we would love to hear from you.
Moberg et al: Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures?
by William Connolley and Eric Steig
The 10th Feb edition of Nature has a nice paper "Highly variable Northern Hemisphere temperatures reconstructed from low- and high-resolution proxy data" by Anders Moberg, DM. Sonechkin, K Holmgren, NM Datsenko, & W Karlin (doi:10.1038/nature03265). This paper takes a novel approach to the problem of reconstructing past temperatures from paleoclimate proxy data. A key result is a reconstruction showing more century-scale variability in mean Northern Hemisphere temperatures than is shown in previous reconstructions. This result will undoubtedly lead to much discussion and further debate over the validity of previous work. The result, though, does not fundamentally change one of the most discussed aspects of that previous work: temperatures since 1990 still appear to be the warmest in the last 2000 years.
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Filed Under: Climate Science, Instrumental Record, Paleoclimate
A disclaimer
14 Feb 2005 by eric
Readers of the Feb. 14th, 2005 Wall Street Journal may have gotten the impression that RealClimate is in some way affiliated with an environmental organisation. We wish to stress that although our domain is being hosted by Environmental Media Services, and our initial press release was organised for us by Fenton Communications, neither organization was in any way involved in the initial planning for RealClimate, and have never had any editorial or other control over content. Neither Fenton nor EMS has ever paid any contributor to RealClimate.org any money for any purpose at any time. Neither do they pay us expenses, buy our lunch or contract us to do research. All of these facts have always been made clear to everyone who asked (see for instance: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol306/issue5705/netwatch.shtml).
Strange Bedfellows
Here's a curious observation. Some commentators who for years have been vocally decrying the IPCC consensus are lining up to support the 'Ruddiman' hypothesis. A respected paleoceanographer, Bill Ruddiman has recently argued that humans have been altering the level of important greenhouse gases since the dawn of agriculture (5 to 8000 years ago), and in so doing have prevented a new ice age from establishing itself. This intriguing idea is laid out in a couple of recent papers (Ruddiman, 2003; Ruddiman et al, 2005) and has received a fair degree of media attention (e.g. here, and here).
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Filed Under: Climate Science, Greenhouse gases, Paleoclimate
Exeter conference: Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change
7 Feb 2005 by group
The conference last week in Exeter on "Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change" grew out of a speech by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. He asked "What level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is self-evidently too much?" and "What options do we have to avoid such levels?". The first question is very interesting, but also very difficult. As Roger Pielke has noted the conference organisers actually choose three "key questions":
For different levels of climate change what are the key impacts, for different regions and sectors, and for the world as a whole?
What would such levels of climate change imply in terms of greenhouse gas stabilisation concentrations and emission pathways required to achieve such levels?
What technological options are there for achieving stabilisation of greenhouse gases at different stabilisation concentrations in the atmosphere, taking into account costs and uncertainties?
It is worth thinking about the difference between the initial aim and the "key questions" chosen. Question 1 is essentially IPCC WGII impacts); question 2 is firmly WGI (how-much-climate-change); question 3 is fairly WG III (mitigation, including technical options). I guess they switched questions 1 and 2 round to avoid making the identification too obvious. The conference steering committee report makes it very clear that they are building on the IPCC TAR foundation.
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A trust is an agreement between the owner of assets and trustees. In terms of this agreement, the trustees agree to that they will administer the trust assets with the necessary care for the benefit of the beneficiaries.It is an efficient and flexible way to ensure that assets are properly looked after and well maintained.
It also ensures that assets are objectively managed and controlled by appointed trustees in the best interests of the beneficiaries.
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The Fiji Public Trustee administers trusts on behalf of minors in the following circumstances:
FNPF/Superannuation minor nomination. At the death or demise of an FNPF contributor, funds nominated to minors will be administered under section 35(2) of the Fiji National Provident Fund Act, Cap. 219. These funds are held in trust and administered for the benefit of the minor by the Fiji Public Trustee.
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When a minor is entitled to receive life insurance proceeds or money from an estate or trust and there is no other guardian of the child's estate willing or able to act, at the request of a member of the public when it appears appropriate to do so. In Fiji, the legal age of majority is 18. A minor refers to anyone who has not yet turned 18.
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Trust Services are managed by the Manager Estates & Trusts, a Trust Supervisor and a team of Trust Officers. Their major role in the administration of Trust Funds, including the acceptance, full-settlement full settlement, withdrawal and other legal works required by the Trust in- accordance with the relevant Acts. The Finance section deals with the maintenance of the trust accounts and the investments of the Trust Funds.
Executor refers to Wills whereby the Fiji Public Trustee is appointed as Executor.
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Overall, it is paramount to appoint the right trustee. A Trustee is expected to act prudently for the best interest of the beneficiaries whereby trust monies will be managed in accordance with legislation moreover stipulation of a trustee act.
Trust Services are managed by the Manager Estates & Trust, a Trust Supervisor and a team of Trust Officers. There major role is the administration of Trust Funds, including the acceptance, full-settlement, withdrawal and other legal works required by the Trust in-accordance with the relevant Acts. The Finance section deals with the maintenance of the trust accounts and the investments of the Trust Funds.


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Ms. Vandersteel is the head of GMO's Emerging Country Debt team. Prior to joining GMO in 2004, she worked at J.P. Morgan in fixed income research developing quantitative arbitrage strategies for emerging debt and high yield bonds. She began her career at Morgan Guaranty Trust, attending Morgan Finance Program #18, before establishing her career in emerging debt. Ms. Vandersteel earned her B.A. in Economics from Washington & Lee University. She is a CFA charterholder.
The GMO Emerging Country Debt Fund's objective is total return in excess of that of its benchmark, the J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global Diversified (EMBIG-D). The Fund invests primarily in external debt of sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns.
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At New Leaf last night I picked up an 8.8-oz bag of dry Israeli couscous — a product I had read about but not actually tried before.
The kind of dry couscous I'm used to looks kind of like crumbs, sand, or dry polenta, but to my inexperienced eye the Israeli couscous looked like the tiny white polystyrene balls used in bean-bag chairs and some packing material, that static-cling all over everything to the point of it being hard to get all of them off.
Slice and dice the carrots, potatoes, sweet peppers, and the white ends of the green onions, into a 3½-quart or larger cooking pot.
Finely mince the garlic and hot peppers in a food processor or otherwise, and add those to the pot.
Mix in the can of tomatoes, dry red lentils, salt, and other seasonings, and add water to cover.
Bring to a boil, and then turn the heat down and cover the pot, to let it simmer until all the vegetables are tender, and the lentils have pretty much just turned into a thick broth.
Add the package of dry Israeli couscous, another cup of water (because the couscous will absorb a bunch of the liquid), and the (drained, rinsed) can of beans.
Let simmer for another ten minutes or so, until the couscous is done, and has absorbed most of the liquid.
Turn off the burner, and finish by adding the diced green ends of the green onions, and the chopped cilantro.
It was very tasty, and I enjoyed the chewy texture of the Israeli couscous — if you've never had it before either, you might like to give it a try!
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Memorialisation of Ambedkar is no substitute for his political vision, that speaks for building an egalitarian society.
The Dalit unrest that rocked the country over the Supreme Court's order on the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act earlier this week and the opposition campaign that the Modi dispensation is insensitive to Dalit interests appear to have triggered the PM's fusillade.
There is a palpable sense of hurt in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's words when he complains that "everyone rushes to do politics in the name of Babasaheb Ambedkar" while "no other government has honoured, given respect to Babasaheb Ambedkar the way the present government has". To buttress his argument, the prime minister spoke about the public works that were launched in memory of Ambedkar by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government and the memorial the present government is to inaugurate next week.
The Dalit unrest that rocked the country over the Supreme Court's order on the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act earlier this week and the opposition campaign that the Modi dispensation is insensitive to Dalit interests appear to have triggered the prime minister's fusillade. Modi wants Ambedkar to be remembered as a visionary icon who gave the republic its Constitution and spoke for and created a host of institutions, including for waterways, irrigation and ports, as the PM reminded the country on Thursday.
The Modi government has held several events to memorialise Ambedkar, but could not claim Ambedkar's legacy because it has failed to recognise the living Ambedkar, who inspires political mobilisations that seek to affirm and assert the identity and rights of Dalits and other oppressed communities.
The Modi government, like the Congress governments of the past, has preferred to confine Ambedkar to a symbolic presence and freeze him in stamps and statues. A memorial, of course, has utility for it can boost a people's self-respect and inspire them to action — Mayawati's Ambedkar parks in UP exemplify the power of symbolism. But the political Ambedkar, who lives in the liberal — and in the Indian context, radical — vision that illuminates the Constitution, is compromised by the custodians of the republic.
The quest for an egalitarian society is fundamental to his political vision: The rights and freedoms — to equality, free speech, minority rights — detailed in the Constitution are meant to transform India from a hell-hole of inequalities, social hierarchies and oppression to a republic of free and equal citizens.
Seven decades after Independence and 67 years since turning a republic, this ideal remains unrealised. The restiveness of Dalit communities across the country only reflects the failure of successive governments and the political mainstream in translating the vision in the statute books into everyday experience.
The politicised Dalit identifies the Constitution, along with elections, as a powerful instrument to assert her self and citizenship; any talk of rewriting the statute or diluting its spirit is interpreted as an affront to Babasaheb's republican vision. An argument that pits the statue against the statute is a non-starter.


Tumi has collaborated with Samsung to release a Tumi edition of the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier. The most notable differences are: a custom-made Tumi watchface that is preloaded on the wearable, and a TUMI watch band made from Italian canvas.
While not the most elegant material out there, the canvas watch band changes the overall look and feel of the smartwatch. The band is earl grey-colored which matches the tone of the Fronteir pretty nicely.
The band also has a stainless steel fastening buckle. Samsung also says the canvas band is also resilient against the elements, so feel free to use it while hiking through the dirt or biking through the desert.
The Gear S3 Frontier Tumi edition is $449 in stores, $100 more than the standard Frontier version. Though, Best Buy is currently selling the Frontier for $299.
don't get me wrong it looks nice but no where near $100 price hike, thats insane you can download watch faces that look like that or better and as for the strap i doubt that worth $100. so why the hike ???


If you are planning an event and looking for comedians to perform whose comedic style includes observational humor jokes, then look no further than these great comics. They go far above and beyond the standard fair where comedians are concerned. All of these acts have the experience and the know how to keep your audiences laughing and entertained with their incredibly hilarious observational humor. Each entertainer brings their variety of humor to the stage, and their skill has earned them numerous television appearances, specials, film roles, and first place positions in comedy competitions. If you chose one of the following comedians to entertain for your event, then there is no way you can choose wrong.
Keith Alberstadt is a comedian with over ten years of experience making people laugh all around the world. With his sarcastic southern charm, his comedy will draw every member of your audience in. As a contributing writer for both SNL's Weekend Update and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Alberstadt has the entertainment experience to keep your audiences enthralled with his observational humor jokes.
Daren Streblow keeps the crowd laughing with his wry humor coupled with straight-faced delivery and uniquely comical and absurd perspectives on familiar topics. He hosts a successful radio show and has appeared in several comedy films. He is known for keeping his act clean, avoiding swearing and sexual matters, but instead focusing on the quirks and oddities that come up in everyday life and including an excellent dose of self-deprecating humor as well. Finding the comedy in life's experiences is a perfect synopsis of Daren Streblow's comedic stylings. Streblow has fine-tuned his well-oiled act with experience entertaining for Universal Studios and Disney Cruise Lines. Streblow Comedy is well practiced and will please and appeal to audiences of all ages young and old.
Taylor Mason is well-known not merely for his observational comedy jokes but also for his use of puppets and music. He has been featured in several comedy films and shows and performed at a number of venues, including the Disney Cruise Line. When he is not using puppets, he talks about funny incidents from his life, work, and travel, observing awkward situations that come up and poking fun at himself as a comedian. Taylor Mason has an act that defies all those who try and define it. Mason combines stand-up with tons of observational humor jokes, music, and ventriloquism. Mason's energy and comedic know how earned him the first place spot on Star Search and he will make your audiences roar with laughter.
Carlos Oscar is a comedian who strives for an act that appeals to all ages. With a charming and energetic stage persona, Oscar will make your audience laugh with hilarious stories that everyone can relate to and his various characters and voices. With appearances on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", HBO, and Comedy Central, Oscar has the experience to keep your crowds entertained.
With years of experience on television, not much needs to be said about comedian Sinbad. Sinbad has had his television show, "The Sinbad Show", and has acted in movies such as "Jingle All the Way", which Sinbad won an award for. Given Sinbad's experience and notoriety in the industry, there is no doubt that your audience will love his comedic stylings.
Everyone knows that life can be funny sometimes. Life can even be awkward and downright unpleasant, but even those hard situations can still be laughed at and viewed in a way that makes them funny. That is what observational comedy is all about. Comedians who tell observational comedy jokes, like the clean comics listed below, tend to talk about ordinary situations from everyday life, but they do so in a way that highlights the quirks and absurdities of these events and with a witty delivery that transforms the mundane into the hilarious. From job woes to marriage and family disagreements to traveling and visiting new cities, the content of these comic routines is full of scenarios that audiences can easily relate to. Watching observational comedy cannot only entertain audiences and get a few laughs out of many people, but it can also help ordinary people to recognize the humor in their everyday lives as well.
Anthony Griffith entertains audiences with his dry wit and casual delivery about experiences from his life. Originally from Chicago, he began doing stand-up comedy in college and has since had many appearances on TV and at venues throughout the country. He has the right life experiences to describe and knows just the right way to say things to keep audiences laughing throughout his entire performance.
Dennis Regan, the brother of well-known comedian Brian Regan, entertains with an enjoyable style of observational humor. Regan was also a writer for the sitcom The King of Queens for three years, in addition to his other appearances and comedic performances. Known as a clean comic, he recounts laughable scenarios that take place in day-to-day life, from restaurants to airports to marriage and everything in between.
All of these highly entertaining comedians are sure to be the perfect fit for your event and are guaranteed to keep your audiences laughing and entertained with their observational humor jokes. Given the skill and experience of each of these comedians, surely the only wrong choice to make would be to not chose one of these hilarious entertainers.
Sure, life can be hard sometimes, but these comics understand that life gets a lot easier when you can learn to laugh at it. A healthy dose of observational comedy jokes from their performances may be just what you need to see things from a different perspective and add a bit of laughter to your life.
Motivational speaker, actor and Comedian Anthony Griffith speaks humorously about his father's less than fortunate childhood, and how his family had to make do with what little they had. Being from the generation of "You Don't Know How Good You Got It," his dad knew a thing or two about sacrifice and was sure to let young Anthony know at every turn. While some of his father's memories may have seemed a little far-fetched at the time, Anthony hung onto every word, and it made such a positive impact on his life that he gladly shares these and other stories for all to enjoy and learn from.
Comedian Anthony Griffith has appeared on over twenty-five comedy television programs, including "Star Search" with Ed McMahon, "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson," Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," "The Arsenio Hall Show," "Evening at The Improv," "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and appearances on both HBO and Showtime specials. As Griffith, himself once said, "I performed anywhere and everywhere, in the hopes of learning and mastering the craft." Anthony Griffith demonstrates his ability to mine comedy, laughter and inspiration from the everyday experiences of a family man, without resorting to crude language or material.
Over his long career, Griffiths had managed to find laughter, comedy, and spirit to move forward. Especially during the darkest times in his life, as when he lost his young daughter to cancer or received a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis as he demonstrated in his performance at the well-respected "The Moth" story telling show.
Faced with the death of his two-year-old daughter, Griffith is a comedian who has dealt with a lot of pain and suffering in recent years. After dealing with this tragic loss due to cancer, he is attempting to keep his sense of humor, and his career by performing clean comedy throughout the country as a part of the "Apostles of Comedy" tour with fellow clean comedians Jeff Allen, Brad Stine and Ron Pearson.
Comedian Anthony Griffith knows from first-hand experience that laughter is the best medicine, and if life is getting you down, he knows the stories to get you smiling and back on your feet again. Whether it's a corporate event, church function or other large gathering, Comedian Anthony Griffith with his entertaining yet clean performances is sure to leave everybody entertained and inspired.


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Making artificial intelligence ethical by design
Designing Australian values into artificial intelligence systems will be the focus of a new research project launched at The Australian National University (ANU) today.
The 'Humanising Machine Intelligence' project brings together philosophers, social scientists and computer science experts to design AI that represents and promotes "Australian values".
The project, which will receive over $1.5 million in ANU funding each year for at least the next three years, is led by philosopher Associate Professor Seth Lazar.
Associate Professor Lazar noted AI now underpins all aspects of the economy, from smartphones and search to recruitment, credit scores, and high finance. At the same time, all branches of the Australian public service are looking at how AI can help deliver services more efficiently and fairly.
"As we increasingly come to rely on systems like these it is crucial to get our values right from the start-not wait for a process of trial and error, with potentially catastrophic results," Associate Professor Lazar said.
"Machine intelligence has the power to realise incredible positive change. But it can also replicate the social injustice embedded in the data on which it is trained.
"AI is a decision technology. It has a 'picture' of the world, and a set of goals to achieve. We have to make sure it sees the world in a way that we endorse, and that its goals reflect our priorities.
"This means making fundamental progress not only in machine learning and other areas of AI, but also in philosophy and social science. To design our values into AI systems, we have to understand them ourselves, and then represent them in a way that a computer can act upon.
"Beyond designing AI systems themselves, this is also about shaping the governance structures that make moral machine intelligence not just possible, but probable."
Associate Professor Lazar said that, because AI cannot be morally neutral, we have to decide what values we want to build into it. As a democracy, this is something that all Australians need to consider.
"When we say that we want to shape machine intelligence around Australian values, we're not presupposing what those values are, or that there is one set of 'Australian' values.
"In fact, the opposite is true. Australia, like any society, is filled with moral disagreement. And we settle that disagreement through the democratic process-not just by voting, but through deliberation, public discussion, press scrutiny, and review.
"Machine intelligence is no different: the values we build in should be democratically legitimate."
The Humanising Machine Intelligence project is funded under the ANU Grand Challenges scheme which brings ANU researchers from different disciplines together to solve the most pressing challenges facing the world today.
Learn more about the project at https://hmi.anu.edu.au/.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. -- Utility workers are working to repair a broken water main along Country Club Boulevard Monday morning.
The break is in the southbound lanes of Country Club Boulevard, about a quarter mile south of Nicholas Parkway.
A boil water notice has been enacted for homes along Country Club Boulevard over to SE 10th Avenue, between Veterans Boulevard and SE 10th Street. Some may even be without water.
A detailed map showing affected areas can be found HERE .
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Why is Team USA still dressing like a bunch of preppy assholes?
ByChloe Stillwell
Since 2008, fashion titan Ralph Lauren has monopolized the designing of Team USA's Olympic Opening Ceremony regalia, in both the Winter and Summer games. While some might argue that Ralph Lauren is an American classic, others could say the aesthetic is a bit stuffy. You could also take it a step further and argue that American prep is a symbol of white privilege, and that in the year 2021, it would be nice if they perhaps ended Lauren's reign and let a person of color design what I'm sure would be a more nuanced, less douchey look. I mean come on, this year they wore...ascots. And while that might seem innocent, it makes a statement: not only that we refer to as classic American style is a very white staple look, but also that it's how we choose to present ourselves on the world's stage.
While past designs have all been preppy, this year's did seem to take it to the next level. Both in conveying of cartoon yacht-driving villain vibes, but also in that this year's uniforms actually included a small air conditioning system. As the New York Times reported, "The navy jackets of the flag bearers Sue Bird and Eddy Alvarez incorporate what the brand has dubbed RLCoolant technology, which 'disperses heat from the wearer's skin through a sophisticated device that monitors and optimizes temperature.'" And while that is pretty cool, literally, it just adds another air of elitism when not all teams have the funding or capabilities to do the same.
Regardless of how you feel about how Team USA represents us back home, Twitter had a field day mocking Ralph Lauren for making our talented Olympians look like something out of a 1985 catalog that's having coke done off of it. And now that I'm done with my jokes, please enjoy a roundup of Twitter's best digs, because we all could use a Friday laugh.
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August 2013 Editor's Note
My father was a front door man. Pardon my indelicate phrasing – the notion of Australia having two portals is the Government's metaphor, not mine – but I mean to say that he flew into this country, bringing his family with him. As far as I can make out, the main pull factor was space, that constant craving of the Dutch: space away from family; space to own land.
It's easy to overlook, but boat people – asylum seekers – don't come seeking land. They come seeking refuge. There is a gulf of difference between migrating and wanting protection. Migration can be orderly and considered; fleeing is anything but. To speak of back door versus front door, or of queue jumping, or even of people smuggling, or of border security, or of restoring orderly processing of arrivals, is to miss the point. Refugees will risk death and misery to get here, because their lives are hell. For all our hand-wringing over the miserable drowning of a baby girl at sea, and our rage at the miserable middlemen who put her there, it's worth considering that her parents had likely been crying for the length of her miserable life.
Is part of our problem that we can't, or won't, or are simply not prepared to distinguish a refugee from a migrant? Foreign Minister Bob Carr claims recent asylum seekers are mostly "economic migrants". (He is almost certainly wrong and, equally, almost certainly biased given his long-held belief in a "small Australia". Carr just doesn't want more people in this country, period.) There can be little argument that economic migrants cannot be allowed to pose as refugees. If our assessment process has become too loose (as Carr suggests, and there have been reports of agents "coaching" asylum seekers to embellish "persecution narratives"), it needs to be tightened. As an unusually animated Arthur Sinodinos, John Howard's former chief of staff, pointed out on Q&A recently, Australia does not owe asylum seekers a first-world lifestyle.
But we do owe them protection. That's the nub of the Refugee Convention.
In contrast to the convention, though, our ever-extending Indo-Pacific range of proposed solutions is not about protecting refugees from persecution. It's about protecting them from themselves, or so goes the political sell. Boat people must be stopped to prevent around one in 25 of them, as per present average, from drowning at sea. This statistic is evidently not horrible enough to deter desperate people from boarding more leaky boats. But it's harsh enough to justify us coming up with a seemingly more horrible deterrent: the spectre of a destination almost as dark as the situations they are fleeing.
The Government's PNG solution relies on Papua New Guinea's notoriety for lawlessness. Whether the stereotype is true or not, the Government's pitch is that if you board a boat bound for Australia – ha! – you will end up in a hellhole. It's the kind of 'gotcha' policy idea you might expect from a shock jock rather than a prime minister. Why not throw in some Alan Jones–branded chaff bags at the same time?
The policy doesn't deserve to work. It's meaner than Julia Gillard's Malaysia Solution, which the High Court struck down because Malaysia was deemed to offer insufficient protection for refugees. It's meaner than Tony Abbott's plan to tow boats back to Indonesia. And it's far meaner than John Howard's Pacific Solution, the second coming of which resulted in the devastating recent riot on Nauru. The PNG Solution is so mean, in fact, that it just might work. But that is only because the managerialist Rudd government, like the Abbott opposition, has narrowed its humanitarian obligations down to a single KPI: that of preventing the deaths of one in 25 boat people. The complementary statistic, that of the crushed hopes and condemned lives of the other 96 per cent, will remain invisible, untold and unrecorded.
John van Tiggelen
John van Tiggelen is a freelance writer and the author of Mango Country.
It's easy to overlook, but boat people – asylum seekers – don't come seeking land. They come seeking refuge. There is a gulf of difference between migrating and wanting protection. Migration can be orderly and considered; fleeing is anything but. To speak of back door versus front door, or of queue jumping, or even of people smuggling, or of border security, or of restoring orderly processing of arrivals, is to miss the point. Refugees will risk death and misery to...
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海外网,12月20日,当地时间19日,美国财政部发表声明,称俄罗斯情报局15名成员将被列入制裁名单。
According to the Russian Satellite News Agency, the statement of the US Treasury Department said: "Fifteen officers of the Russian Intelligence Agency have been placed on the sanctions list because they are involved in various malicious activities, including attempts to interfere in the 2016 general election of the United States, intrusion into the network system of international organizations and attempted murder in the United Kingdom."
Reported that the U.S. Treasury Department in a document submitted to Congress said that Russian business tycoon Jerry Pascal will continue to be included in the U.S. sanctions list. "Jerry Pascal will continue to be subject to sanctions, assets with more than 50% ownership will continue to be frozen, and businesses with more than 50% ownership will continue to be blocked," the document said.
In March this year, former Russian-British double spy Skipper and his daughter Ulia were found unconscious in Salisbury, England. The British government said that Scripals father and daughter were poisoned by "Novijock" nerve poison. Western countries, led by Britain and the United States, accused Russia of having something to do with it. After the incident, the United States threatened to impose sanctions on Russia for violating international law. In August this year, the United States announced that it had determined that the Russian government was behind the double-sided espionage case and opened a new round of sanctions against it.
The Russian side has also made several statements in response to the US sanctions against Russia in the case of double-sided espionage. The Russian Embassy in the United States had previously criticized it, saying that the United States had no evidence that Russia was involved in the incident. Russia has repeatedly refuted the US accusations of Russian interference in elections. Russian Presidents press secretary, Peskov, has said the charges are groundless. (Zhang Min, Overseas Network)
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If you thought Weezer was the end-all power-pop skewering of our culture's more vapid aspects, there are plenty of newer groups that also walk the line of providing a simultaneous soundtrack for and critique of our particular mindlessness. For Baby Teeth pianist and bandleader Abraham Levitan, that list would include a couple of Pittsburgh faves: Gil Mantera's Party Dream and Girl Talk.
"You have to be super nerds to come up with stuff like that," Levitan says, and he intends it as praise: He proudly cops to his own super-nerd status, and that of his Chicago-based band. Baby Teeth will play Your Inner Vagabond on Sun., Aug. 2 (a show organized by CP contributor Manny Theiner); the band's last Pittsburgh appearance was as part of the art event I Am a Heather.
The band, which includes drummer Peter Andreadis and bassist Jim Cooper, combines strutting, keys-based glam-pop with hints of ELO and Queen -- a snarkier, less hair-metal take on The Darkness, pehaps. Baby Teeth's new album, Hustle Beach, just came out on Lujo Records, and emerged out of Levitan's songwriting blog -- he generated a song a week for a year, which readers could rate.
The album's title track is "about somebody who finds this place that seems like paradise, and decides he's going to move there and work himself to death, to try to make as much money off that paradise as he can," says Levitan. Over suggestive, Miami Vice funk, he sings lines like "You ain't in a band unless the band makes money / You own a chain of lemonade stands before you're twenty / Nothing you do ain't bout that hustle." The cover art, a photo of a muddy business suit and briefcase washed up on a beach, suggests the hustler's demise.
Other songs are more ambiguous, like the anthemic opening track, "Big Schools," which gives Mellencampian fervor to the tale of a romance between a football player and a cheerleader just starting out at a big state school, and their eventual middle-age nostalgia. It's a perfect song to blast during a keg stand -- if you don't listen too closely to the words.
For the album's overall theme, "I was inspired by these kind of all-inclusive resort setups," Levitan says -- such as Sandals. "It seems like everybody who goes there is doing this forced march through these fun activities, and meanwhile there are hundreds of people behind the scenes trying to guide every move."
Ideally, Hustle Beach will work as both commentary and soundtrack -- part super-nerd manifesto, part bid for half-disdained popularity. "Maybe that's too ambitious," Levitan says, but "I'd like to think it's possible to be both."


Last 2017 the film "Suspiria" by Dario Argento turned 40 years old and fans of the genre of terror anxiously awaited the premiere of the reboot, not remake, of the 1977 classic that was being prepared by the Italian director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name , Blinded by the sun) starring Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Jessica Harper (leading actress in the original film) and Chloe Grace Moretz.
Suspiria – Luca Guadagnino's movie – Cartel The wait is over, Amazon Studios has released the first trailer of the film and we can see the look of this new horror film that will hit theaters on November 2, 2018.
The new script has been written by David Kajganich, creator of the series "The terror" who already worked with Guadagnino in "Cegados por el sol". Thom Yorke, singer of Radiohead, has been in charge of composing the music of the film that was filmed in Italy and Germany between October 2016 and March 2017. The main location of "Suspiria" is the 'Grand Hotel Campo dei Fiori' in the province of Varese of Lombardy (Italy) that serves as the Dance Academy.
Last April, a scene from the new "Suspiria" was shown to attendees at CinemaCon (the largest and most important meeting for the American film industry) showing the Dakota Johnson dance for the school's main teacher, played by Tilda Swinton. Their movements control the movements of another dancer in another room. The character of Johnson begins to dance, but with each turn the girl in the other room is thrown against the mirrors. During her performance the other student ends up dying with broken bones and soaking the duel of blood, drool and urine, reduced to a knot convulsing on the floor. The images provoked commotion and horror in the CinemaCon audience.


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SAMUEL DE WILDE 1751-1832
SUGGESTED ADDITION <For several years from 1807 under the name of 'Thomas Scrutiny' he produced prints for 'The Satirist' edited by *George Manners*.>
CURRENT TEXT "All that is known about his wife is that she was called Eleanor and that they had two children, Louisa Harriet (b.1801) and George James De Wilde (1804-1871)."
SUGGESTED CHANGE <He may have been the Samuel de Wilde who married Sophia Stevens at St James Clerkenwell on 26 April 1772, and had two daughters and a son Samuel c.1779-1845, who became a trumpeter and servant to Captain *Charles Rowley* of the Royal Navy and was admitted to Greenwich Hospital in 1838. Samuel the artist later had a partner called Eleanor and they had two children, Louisa Harriet (1801-1885) and George James De Wilde (see below). With his next partner Christiana Martha (1778-1862) he had seven children, Frederick Augustus (b.1807) who was an ironmonger in St Pancras in the 1841 census, Henry (1809-1810), Caroline (b.1811) who was an annuitant in Leicester in the 1851 census, Henry John (born c.1814) who was an upholsterer in London in the 1851 and 1861 censuses, Juliana (b.1817) who was a childrens' nurse in the 1851 and 1861 censuses, Gertrude Antonia (b.1820), and Clara (b.1823) who was baptised at St Michael Highgate on 6 October 1839 as daughter of Samuel De Wilde artist, and was living with her recently widowed half brother George James De Wilde (1804-1871) at Hornsey in the 1841 census.>
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The last two Thanksgivings I have spent with family in Kauai. This year, we decided not to do a family trip. But I really can't let a four day weekend go by without some travel (my family gets it).
My original plan for Thanksgiving was a visit to the Maldives for cheap. However, that was only one way, and sitting in Economy for that long sounded painful. So I canceled and decided to look some place more local for the long weekend. I decide on New York.
The easiest way to get to NYC from Seattle is to fly direct on Alaska. But as it was Thanksgiving weekend, First Class seats were going for 60,000 miles each way. Spending 120,000 miles for a weekend in NYC was a lot. Even if I flew Economy, it would still be 60,000 miles. Paying cash was an option, but I had already qualified for MVP Gold 75K for 2018 and cash prices were outrageous unless you wanted to fly a red eye (see: Thanksgiving).
I figured I could get creative and enjoy some premium flights.
One option that I love is JetBlue Mint. I have a bunch of JetBlue points. However, JetBlue currently doesn't fly their Mint product SEA-JFK and positing to SFO, LAX, LAS or SAN is expensive.
Back to Alaska miles. I was able to snag a Virgin America flight routing through SFO in First Class. Virgin America's First Class is easily a step or three above Alaska. And it was only 25,000 miles + $5.60 in taxes. Every once in a while you can find a Virgin First redemption at the saver price point. The only downside was I would have to travel on Thanksgiving day. For me, that wasn't a problem. I'm looking forward to trying out Virgin America First one last time, and my first time on a transcon flight.
Getting back home, direct flights in First were all 60,000 miles even with a connection. So once again, I got creative. Alaska is partners with Cathay Pacific, though you can't search for award tickets at Alaska's website (I use ba.com instead). Cathay has my favorite First Class. They also fly their 777-300 on a "Fifth Freedom Route" between JFK and Vancouver before heading on to Hong Kong. The Alaska phone agent that booked it for me hadn't even heard of the routing. For 35,000 Alaska miles + $18.10 I was able to book JFK-YVR in Cathay Pacific First Class. Dare I say it is the best North American transcon flight available? One of the added perks is getting to try out the exclusive American Airlines Flagship Dining at JFK.
There are two problems with booking this flight for me, however. First, it doesn't get in to Vancouver until 11:45pm, after all the Alaska flights to Seattle have left. This means I have to fly back on Saturday night, spend a night in Vancouver, and finish the trip on Sunday in order to get back for work on Monday. Second, because it is a routing that goes US-Canada, I can't book the final YVR-SEA leg on the same ticket as it is against Alaska rules. Instead, I had to book a second award flight for 5,000 Alaska miles + $43.76 (apparently YVR charges some hefty taxes) to get me home. I may end up renting a car and driving the last leg.
So in all, I am spending 65,000 Alaska miles + $67.46.
What do you think? Am I crazy to do this over Thanksgiving weekend?
I'm a bit curious as to why you think VA has a better FC product than AS, though. I've flown VA first and not found it any better.
More leg room, less seats (8 vs 12), better seats.