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This certifies that the heraldic arms of the Wesleyan College are registered as an original design and are described by the blazon below
Arms: Gules on a cross Argent five escallops Sable.
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The Wesleyan shield is a simplified version of a heraldic shield created in the early 1950s for display at the University Club of Chicago. Inspired by the family coat of arms of John Wesley, founder of Methodism and namesake of the University, President Victor L. Butterfield accepted the design as Wesleyan's official coat of arms in 1953. The red shield bears a cross decorated with five scallop shells. Decorated shields were used in medieval warfare to identify knights and their soldiers during the battle. Pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land wore a scallop on their hats, and so this shell entered the heraldry as the symbol for a pilgrimage. Later, the shell came to symbolize anyone who had made long journeys or voyages to foreign countries.
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log('Constructing Network Model ..... \n');
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model={};
model.imageNN = require('models.image_row')
model.animationFix = require('models.motion_embedding')
model.animationNN =require('models.motion_row');
model.jointNN_1 = require('models.classifier')
model.jointNN_2 = require('models.pairwisecosine_GEfix')
model.criterion =  nn.ClassNLLCriterion():cuda()

function model:infer(input, k)
  if not model.animFeatures then
    model.animFeatures = GetAnimationFeatures(model.animationNN)
  end
  -- Forward passs
  local tic = os.clock()
  model.fullNN:forward({input, model.animFeatures});
  local toc = os.clock()
  print("Forward time ", tic - toc)
  return model.fullNN.output
end

function model:LearningRateComp(iter)
  local lIter = (iter % config.nResetLR)+1;
  local regimes= config.regimes;
  for _, row in ipairs(regimes) do
    if lIter >= row[1] and lIter <= row[2] then
      return row[3];
    end
  end
end

function model:TrainOneBatch(input,target)
  -- Set into training phase (just active the droputs)
  model.fullNN:training();
  -- Forward passs
  model.fullNN:forward(input);

  -- Compute loss and accuracy
  local loss = model.criterion:forward(model.fullNN.output,target)
  local output = model.fullNN.output
  local _, predictedLabel = torch.max(output,2);
  predictedLabel = predictedLabel[{{}, 1}]
  local acc, per_class = GetPerClassAccuracy(predictedLabel, target)

  -- Make sure gradients are zero
  model.fullNN:zeroGradParameters();

  -- Backward pass
  local bwCri = model.criterion:backward(model.fullNN.output,target)
  model.fullNN:backward(input,bwCri);

  -- updating the weights
  model.fullNN:updateParameters(model.learningRate);
  return acc,loss;
end

function model:EvaluateOneBatch(input,target)
  -- Set into Evaluation mode (just deactive the dropouts)
  model.fullNN:evaluate();
  local loss = 0;
  local infer_output = model:infer(input,1);
  local max,predictedLabel = torch.max(infer_output,2);

  predictedLabel = predictedLabel[{{},1}] -- convert matrix to vector

  local _, bestFrame = torch.max(model.jointNN_2:get(2).output, 3)
  local acc, per_class = GetPerClassAccuracy(predictedLabel, target)

  return acc, loss, per_class, predictedLabel
end

function model:SaveModel(fileName)
  local saveModel ={};
  -- reading model parameters to CPU
  saveModel.imageNN       = GetNNParamsToCPU(model.imageNN);
  saveModel.animationNN   = GetNNParamsToCPU(model.animationNN);
  saveModel.animationFix  = GetNNParamsToCPU(model.animationFix);
  saveModel.jointNN_1     = GetNNParamsToCPU(model.jointNN_1);
  saveModel.jointNN_2     = GetNNParamsToCPU(model.jointNN_2);
  -- saving into the file
  torch.save(fileName,saveModel)
end

function model:LoadCaffeImageNN(caffeFilePath)
  local protoFile = caffeFilePath.proto
  local modelFile = caffeFilePath.model
  local meanFile  = caffeFilePath.mean

  require 'loadcaffe'
  local caffeModel = loadcaffe.load(protoFile,modelFile,'cudnn');
  caffeModel:remove(24);
  caffeModel:remove(23);
  caffeModel:remove(22);
  local caffeParams = GetNNParamsToCPU(caffeModel);
  if config.w_crop then
    caffeParams[1] = caffeParams[1]:repeatTensor(1, 5, 1, 1)
  end
  if config.train.mask.enable then
    local firstLayerRandom = torch.FloatTensor(96, 1, 11, 11)
    firstLayerRandom:apply(rand_initialize)
    caffeParams[1] = torch.cat(firstLayerRandom, caffeParams[1], 2)
  end
  LoadNNlParams(model.imageNN, caffeParams);

  LoadCaffeMeanStd(meanFile);
end

function model:LoadModel(fileNameImg,fileNameAnim)
  log('Loding Network Model ....')
  for mm = 19,16,-1 do
   model.animationNN:remove(mm);
  end
  model.animationNN:add(nn.Transpose{2,3}):add(nn.Reshape(10,4096,false)  );
  model.animationNN:cuda()

  if fileNameImg == "caffe" then
    model:LoadCaffeImageNN(config.caffeFilePath);
    model.jointNN_1:apply(rand_initialize);
  elseif fileNameImg then
    local saveModel = torch.load(fileNameImg);
    LoadNNlParams(model.imageNN ,saveModel.imageNN);
    LoadNNlParams(model.jointNN_1 ,saveModel.jointNN);
  else
    -- Initialize the model randomly
    model.imageNN:apply(rand_initialize);
  end
  model.jointNN_2:apply(rand_initialize);

  if config.caffeInit then
      LoadCaffeMeanStd(config.caffeFilePath.mean);
  end

  if fileNameAnim then
    local saveModel = torch.load(fileNameAnim);
    LoadNNlParams(model.animationNN ,saveModel.imageNN);
  else
    -- Initialize the model randomly
    model.animationNN:apply(rand_initialize);
  end

  model.animationFix:apply(rand_initialize);

  local featuresTable = nn.ParallelTable():add(model.imageNN):add(model.animationFix);
  local classifier    = nn.Sequential():add(nn.SelectTable(1)):add(model.jointNN_1):add(nn.MulConstant(config.lambda,true));
  local matcher       = nn.Sequential():add(model.jointNN_2):add(nn.MulConstant((1-config.lambda),true));
  local concatTable   = nn.ConcatTable():add(classifier):add(matcher)
  model.fullNN = nn.Sequential():add(featuresTable):add(concatTable):add(nn.CAddTable())
  model.fullNN:cuda();

  model:SaveModel( paths.concat(config.logDirectory, 'init.t7'))
end

function model:LoadModelFull(fileName)
  log('Loding Network Model ....')

  for mm = 19,16,-1 do
   model.animationNN:remove(mm);
  end
  model.animationNN:add(nn.Transpose{2,3}):add(nn.Reshape(10,4096,false)  );
  model.animationNN:cuda()

  if fileName  then
    local saveModel = torch.load(fileName);
    LoadNNlParams(model.imageNN ,saveModel.imageNN);
    LoadNNlParams(model.animationNN ,saveModel.animationNN);
    -- debugger.enter()
    LoadNNlParams(model.animationFix ,saveModel.animationFix);
    LoadNNlParams(model.jointNN_1,saveModel.jointNN_1);
    LoadNNlParams(model.jointNN_2,saveModel.jointNN_2);
  else
    -- Initialize the model randomly
    model.imageNN:apply(rand_initialize);
    model.animationNN:apply(rand_initialize);
    model.animationFix:apply(rand_initialize);
    model.jointNN_1:apply(rand_initialize);
    model.jointNN_2:apply(rand_initialize);
  end
  if config.caffeInit then
      LoadCaffeMeanStd(config.caffeFilePath.mean);
  end

  local featuresTable = nn.ParallelTable():add(model.imageNN):add(model.animationFix);
  local classifier    = nn.Sequential():add(nn.SelectTable(1)):add(model.jointNN_1):add(nn.MulConstant(config.lambda,true));
  local matcher       = nn.Sequential():add(model.jointNN_2):add(nn.MulConstant((1-config.lambda),true));
  local concatTable   = nn.ConcatTable():add(classifier):add(matcher)
  model.fullNN = nn.Sequential():add(featuresTable):add(concatTable):add(nn.CAddTable())
  model.fullNN:cuda();

  model:SaveModel( paths.concat(config.logDirectory, 'init.t7'))
end

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As a matter of government policy and corporate strategy, China has been intensifying its effort to set indigenous standards for homegrown ultra-high voltage (UHV) transmission technology. The country also aims to contribute to UHV standards internationally. Indeed, this process of standard setting, influenced by both economics and politics, will have ramifications far beyond China's borders. The potential internationalization of China's domestic UHV standards will almost certainly affect the global market share for both Chinese manufacturers and dominant multinational companies.
Two factors are creating a window of opportunity for Chinese UHV technologies to gain international acceptance and become the de facto global standard: first, China is the only country currently deploying UHV technology on a large scale; second, no international UHV standard has yet prevailed. China's effort to internationalize its own UHV standards, then, could yield greater global market share for Chinese UHV technologies.
In fact, China has already made some modest progress in becoming the default standard-setter for UHV projects outside its borders, in part by growing its global market share. One example is the joint development of a Sino-Brazilian UHV project. Another is the successful effort to promote three indigenous Chinese UHV AC standards as international standards of the global Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This paper delves deeply into these developments. It explores China's UHV standardization process and the myriad challenges it faces, from a technical, economic, and political standpoint. But beyond simply detailing China's strategy in pushing out its own UHV technology to the domestic and international markets, the paper discusses how China's ambition for its indigenous technology could ultimately pose a considerable challenge to global competitors who hope to sell comparable products. The paper concludes by outlining several potential scenarios for how China's UHV standardization process, and its relationship to global standard setting, may ultimately evolve.
This paper is jointly authored by staff members of the Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis (CEEESA), a constituent part of the Decision and Information Sciences Division of the Argonne National Laboratory. CEEESA activities focus in three areas: (1) power systems analysis, (2) energy systems analysis, and (3) environmental systems analysis. The unit's multi-disciplinary staff has in-depth expertise in the scientific, engineering, and social science disciplines and extensive experience in deploying multi-disciplinary teams of specialists to address complex energy and environmental problems. CEEESA specializes in the development of innovative methodologies, systems, and analytical tools that can be used for energy, economic, and environmental systems analysis and to facilitate credible decisionmaking. CEEESA's mission is to develop, apply, and transfer tools and techniques to analyze energy, environmental, and economic issues. The methodologies and tools it develops include computer-based simulation models of the energy system for national, regional, and international applications.


The struggling chip company's lofty guidance for this year requires that its upcoming graphics cards are a huge success.
Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ:AMD) has a plan to return to growth this year. It's an optimistic plan, and the company has a history of coming up well short of its own expectations. But investors seem to be on board with AMD's guidance, evidenced by the stock recently surging to levels not seen since 2014.
AMD's success this year depends on Polaris, its upcoming graphics architecture. The company is expected to officially announce new graphics cards based on Polaris as early as this month. Major improvements in performance and efficiency are expected, in part due to the move to a 14-nanometer manufacturing process. AMD's graphics card unit market share currently sits at about 20%, cut in half since early 2014, and the company is banking on Polaris to regain its former position in the industry.
Regaining substantial market share from rival NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) will be easier said than done. NVIDIA announced the first two graphics cards based on its Pascal graphics architecture on May 6. The GTX 1080, priced at $599 and available on May 27, replaces the GTX 980 and is more powerful and more efficient than the Titan X, NVIDIA's most powerful last-gen graphics card. The card sports 8 GB of high-speed GDDR5X memory, which provides more bandwidth than the standard GDDR5 memory used in most graphics cards.
NVIDIA claims that the GTX 1080 more than doubles the performance of the GTX 980 in certain virtual reality applications. In standard PC games, NVIDIA-provided benchmarks put the gain at around 1.5 to 1.75. Independent benchmarks aren't yet available, but it's clear that the GTX 1080 offers a major jump in performance.
The second Pascal graphics card, the GTX 1070, is more affordable. It replaces the GTX 970 and will be priced at $379 when it launches on June 10. The GTX 970 was a runaway hit for NVIDIA, with the card rising to be the most popular among Steam users. While the GTX 1070 is priced a bit higher than the GTX 970, the performance gains should be substantial.
According to AMD's first-quarter earnings report, Polaris won't focus on the high end of the market, at least initially. Two versions, Polaris 10 and Polaris 11, will target the notebook market and the mainstream desktop market, with the goal being to enable virtual reality applications at mainstream price points. We won't know for sure until AMD officially announces its new products, but NVIDIA's GTX 1080 may not have a new competitor at all.
AMD's focus on the mainstream may simply be an issue of resources. NVIDIA claims that developing Pascal required billions of dollars of research and development spending, with several thousand people working on the project for over two years. NVIDIA's R&D spending has ramped up over the past few years, with about $1.3 billion spent in fiscal 2016. That compares to just $950 million spent by AMD, spread across both GPU and CPU development. AMD has slashed R&D spending in recent years as the company has struggled with growing losses.
With NVIDIA focusing on the high end of the market, AMD's strategy could work out well if Polaris delivers enough performance at a low enough price to capture PC gamers who would have otherwise opted for the GTX 1070. But the market for VR headsets is very young, and AMD specifically targeting VR with mainstream graphics cards could backfire. The Oculus Rift costs $599, expensive enough that it likely prices out the majority of PC gamers. Those willing to pay such a high price for a VR headset are probably willing to pay a higher price for a graphics card as well, instead of settling for a mainstream part.
NVIDIA will no doubt launch mainstream Pascal graphics cards in the coming months. The GTX 960 came about four months after the GTX 980 and GTX 970 were announced, so new Pascal cards sometime this year is a good bet. AMD will also likely launch higher-end cards at some point in the future.
The wait for Polaris is almost over. AMD has made big promises, and its ability to hit its guidance this year depends on Polaris winning back market share from NVIDIA. For that to happen, AMD's new graphics cards need to offer compelling price-to-performance ratios. A lackluster launch, like the 2015 release of the Fury X, would be a disaster. AMD needs to be disruptive, like NVIDIA was in 2014 with the GTX 970. Anything short of that would likely lead to another disappointing year for AMD.


Municipal and industrial water users may have another source of water next year when a regional water pool program proposed by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District comes online.
Brad Wind, deputy manager of the operations division for Northern, said the regional pool was first approved by the district's board of directors in 2003, but this year has been the first year when sufficient carryover water will be available to offer the pool in 2010. The main reason the carry over is available is because of an abnormally wet spring and summer. For example, Greeley has received 18.5 inches of precipitation this year at the University of Northern Colorado, which is more than 5 inches more than the long-term average. In some areas of Northern's boundaries, that has been doubled or even tripled.
Wind, speaking at Northern's annual fall water users meeting in Loveland, said the pool will be implemented in years when the district has at least 200,000 acre-feet of water in reserve.
The pool will be limited to a maximum of 62,000 acre-feet each year. For 2010, it is expected there will be 37,000 acre-feet available, he said. An acre-foot is enough water to supply two families for a year.
That water will be made available on a competitive lease basis and will be open to any qualified water user within Northern's eight-county district.
"We see this as a wise use of excess (water) supplies," Wind said. The plan is to implement the first pool in January or February.
At the end of each water year, those entities who own C-BT units are allowed to carry over a limited portion of their unused water into the next water year. Unused water in excess of carryover limits will be moved to the regional pool. In addition, if an owner elects not to pay for the storage of its carryover water, that water will also be added to the pool.
Details on how the pool will be formed, how water in the pool will be allocated and how it will be leased will be worked out in the next few weeks.
Sean Cronin, water resources manager for the city of Greeley, said Greeley will not participate in the pool next year because the city had storage space available for the excess water it got through the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, where the pool water originates.
This year, he said, treated water brought to the city from its plants at Loveland and Bellvue will be about 2 million gallons less than in 2008, due to this year's wet conditions and conservation measures instituted during the past few years. In 2008, the city rented about 12,500 acre-feet of water to farmers in the area -14,000 acre-feet this year – and each year the city's water board has attempted to keep at least 20,000 acre-feet for storage at the end of each water year, which is Oct. 31.
"We could have rented more this year, but there wasn't a market for it," Cronin said.
As a result, he said, Greeley will have a lot of water available for rent next year as it has about 30,000 acre-feet in storage, with most of that being kept in Boyd Lake on Loveland's east side. Boyd, he added, has been full for most of this year, the first time in about 10 years.
"Hopefully, there will be some farmers out there who will need water and right now, they will be able to get it at a pretty cheap price," Cronin said.
Wind said ownership of Colorado-Big Thompson water has changed through the years. The largest transmountain water diversion in the state was built between 1938 and 1957. Originally, it was intended to provide a supplemental supply of irrigation water to farmers in northern Colorado by bringing water over the Continental Divide from the Colorado River, but now it provides supplemental water to 30 cities and towns as well. Currently, about 65 percent of the units of C-BT are owned by municipal and industrial users.
"As time goes on, the water portfolios of municipalities is more robust," Wind said, noting the demand for that water for municipalities is spread out over a longer time than that still used for irrigation of farmland. So the board began to think about ways to better optimize things and the regional pool became a reality.


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TV & Music
What's On The Box?! With Sarah
TV & Music	by Sarah Hurley May 2, 2017
I'm back this week with another round up of Netflix goodness!
First, one I wasn't so keen on. I had been anticipating the release of the GirlBoss series since it was announced.
I binge watched the whole thing over two days as soon as it was released but unfortunately I just didn't love it I have to be honest. Sophia, who came across pretty brash and forthright in the Girlboss book, was just made to be completely unlikeable in the series until right at the very end. She showed no consideration for anyone around her throughout and while some may see that as empowering and strong, for me it came across selfish and disrespectful. While entrepreneurs do have to be single minded and determined, it doesn't hurt at all to show consideration, kindness and respect for others, something that was sadly lacking in this, even towards her best friend who helped her so much. It was only right at the end she showed some humanity, when she was hurt herself, but by that time I think it was too late. I'm glad I watched it but I wouldn't go back for a second series if one is made.
Secondly, something I just noticed was added yesterday, Slasher! I actually have this on DVD and LOVE it but now it's on Netflix I will be watching it again. It's very much Scream-esque in its storyline and set up, it feels a little bit nostalgic 90's although it was only made last year and it's a definite must watch if you like a somewhat cheesy old-style horror (who doesn't!)
Last but not least, a good old Prison Documentary! LockUp – First Timers. This is a fascinating series behind the bars of various jails in the USA and speaking to lots of different criminals, giving you a look at the actual person behind the crimes and their reasons. It's a fascinating perspective on criminology (a throwback to my law days I guess!) The thing I found most interesting is where they take school kids who have got themselves in trouble (knives, drugs etc…) and give them a look at where they could end up if they don't change their ways. The prisoners play along to shake them up as much as possible and give them a real taste of what prison life is like and make sure they aren't tempted to misbehave again. If you're not a fan of the 'tough love' approach this may not be for you but for me I thought it was a great way to keep kids out of jail, show them it isn't like you see in movies and get them back on the straight and narrow before they go too far. Also, if you like slightly inappropriate humour, there are some laughs throughout which helps to lighten things slightly on an otherwise serious topic.
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I moved into a house as a tenant a few months ago. I began renting on 6th October but due to a crossover period between houses I didn't move in until 20th. On 20th when I moved in I took meter readings and set up a new account for gas & electricity with the supplier. The supplier has now contacted the landlord asking for overdue payment of gas & electricity for period 20th September (when I assume the previous tenant closed his account) to 20th October (when I set up a new one). Who would be liable for the utility bill during this period? Some of it covers my official tenancy as I was paying rent though it was before I moved in. The bill is £62 so quite excessive for a months empty house (heating was on frost only) so I'm wondering if perhaps the previous tenant didn't provide accurate readings and hence a larger gap in the readings and thus larger bill was made.
I haven't yet been asked to pay this bill however I'm anticipating I may be asked to so would ideally like to know whether I should contest it or if I am liable. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you.
I would say you are liable from the date you moved in/took possession. The meter readings you took, did you take pictures with date/time stamp? Did landlord record the same readings on check-in report?
The landlord/agent should have taken readings on check out (same/next day as Tenant leaves) and on your check-in. LL is liable for the bills in the 'void'.
If asked to pay the bill I would stand my ground.. 'Not my bill, I wasn't in possession, as soon as I moved in I took readings and moved the bills over to me'.
I think you are responsible from and should have taken meter readings from 6th Oct as that is when tenancy started. although you did not use any power because you were living elsewhere, there is still the standing charge to pay.
The landlord ,check in should also have taken reading that day to agree with new tenant.
You are responsible from the date of your tenancy but if your landlord can't supply readings it will be difficult to know who is liable for how much. Your landlord may just pay the bill but otherwise you could offer to pay half as your tenancy began half way through the billing period. In the meantime check you are on the cheapest tariff by using an online comparison site & change supplier &/or tariff to a cheaper one if necessary.
Thanks all, will keep this in consideration. In hindsight it does make more sense to take the readings on tenancy commencement to keep things clear.
As a landlord I have a form in the check in pack where we take all the meter readings (Gas, electric, water and Solar generation). 2x copies, both signed by both parties. and photos with datetime stamp.
On move out pretty much as soon as they are out/gone I go and take further set of readings along with photos, these are forwarded to the tenant (email/txt) and we phone the utilities that day/next day to confirm handover to myself and give final readings. I also confirm in writing with the utilities the same (handover to me on X date, final reading taken on Y day at Z time of XXXXXXX, photo attached).
No problems so far, keeps it as transparent as it can be.
You are liable for, and should pay, costs from when you took over the tenancy. If you go on holiday you dont expect the landlord to pay your bills when you are away! However you are not liable before your tenancy started and unless the landlord has proof of meter readings on that day they will have to apportion the charge and agree something fair.
Sensible landlords have photos of the meter.
I have the figures recorded on the inventory at start and end of tenancy and tenant's signature against each.
Tenant didnt move in at the start of the contract.and presumably didnt sign an inventory then either.
I was responding to your assertion on "sensible landlords", not the specifics of this case.
It is not beneficial. Only a fool lets a property without a detailed inventory.


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- Well thank you for inviting me, Jen. It's delightful to be here, at the Exploratorium. But it's really delightful to meet all of you, and to learn all of this great work going on in so many different levels, from cognitively how we understand these visualizations, to different ways that... let's start at the beginning here... to to the way people in laboratories are beginning to figure out how to do visualizations, and to all of us in the public education world, the way in which we're trying to advance this work. I'm going to start really... we've been here at this location for six years. I can't tell you how hard it is to move a museum, and I'm still not sure we're all here, doing this. It's all the planning, and then just getting used to the new place, and one thing that was really important to me when we moved here was this site, so I'm really going to talk a lot about how the work that we do comes out of being right here, on the urban edge of San Francisco Bay. To prepare us, it took three years to move here, and we had a lot of meetings talking about all the great ideas and somehow these metaphors came out of it, that our building was a laboratory. We understand that is always has been a laboratory, but the idea that would be a town hall for convening, what would that mean, is a museum really being a convening space, and appears a place of exchange. Historically, that's what these did. How could we do that, as an institution? The Bay Observatory is at the end of the pier, you've seen it. There's a restaurant underneath, and then the museum, the gallery on top. Inside, it's really a glass box. You know, most museums are black boxes. I like to say that everything that happens in that frame, of that gallery, is controlled. Usually, even where you enter and end, whether it's a story that's being told, or how we design our institutions are often to get the maximum value out of the story we're trying to tell. And in this case, we really tried to use the windows as the main theme of the story, which meant we had to try something really new, which was how do you couple an exhibit to a view, and would people understand that? So in some ways the exhibit isn't the phenomena, the view is the phenomena, and the exhibit is just a tool to help you understand what you're seeing out the window. One side of the room you see the city. And I have to say that the other story here is that we first used to say we were exploring the built in natural environment, but the built in natural environment is on both sides of the room. Most of the things you see on the Bay side have been built, or created in some way, and likewise on the city side, you do see a lot of natural things, but you also see a lot of built things. What that means, is really that the human imprint is embedded in both sides of the window, so how do we tell that story, the Anthropocene really. But we were very shy at first about talking about climate change, or using any terms, because really nobody knew us, in the museum world, for doing environmental science, so we approached it a little bit slowly. In order to understand this place, we wound up looking at a lot of maps and it turns out that people like maps, and so now we have a huge map table. And the interesting thing is that maps aren't exactly visualizations, although we have many maps on the table that are the results of visualizations, and maps are really cultural artifacts. Most people, we learned, think that maps are tools to help you find your way, but almost never are they that. They're usually an idea somebody has, a scientist or researcher, a geographer, about what this landscape is telling you. And so we really wanted to get that across, so everything on the table, the San Francisco, or California, or neighborhood, it's all located here, but different ways of thinking about that. The other thing we have in the room, I noticed some of you saw this, it's a daily board. So everyday we ask our explainers to put what the tides are doing and what the temperature is, and they take this all from the data that we collect, but then we also ask them to make an observation. And for some reason over these last seven years, this thing has become like this major effort that people put into it. Not all the explainers are great artists or anything, but I love that they start doing visualizations, they're responding to the things in the rooms, and in this case it's a whole, you know, thing about birds and the migration patterns because we are in the Pacific Flyway right here. Another exhibit that was one of the primary ones, and there's a number of people here, Eric Sokolowski, and... that have helped us develop this thing. There were probably five people on staff who helped develop this plus many scientists and researchers. It a topographic table upon which we project data. Initially we hoped we could overlap all this data, so you could learn about how fog might affect where people live, we have a census data, fog data, salinity is on this, we used to have a tide model, we have a sea level rise model, we have an earthquake model, and I was always hoping people would overlay them somehow. Doesn't seem like that happens, but we do notice from studying this, that the size of it, we made it different sizes, and we finally resolved it at this size, and it turns out that people would talk to each other, that don't know each other, and compare notes about what they're looking at, and we found that to be a really valuable thing so we know that anything that's about the size of a dining room table or a kitchen table is like, the perfect communication tool for engaging people and talking to one another. One visualization I want to show is a newer one, which is, we were going to do sea level rise, and then working with scientists we were convinced that maybe we should start back eighteen thousand years ago and talk about how the bay didn't even exist eighteen thousand years ago before the last glacial melt. So the water was way out by the Farallon Islands, really quite far away. And as the glaciers melted, the water started coming in, and eventually made the bay that we know. I didn't do this in exactly the correct sequence, but this shows about five levels, five feet of sea level rise. We didn't put any time projections on this, we just show that this the water will rise, and that it rises similar to the way it looked in about 1849, before a lot of people moved to the bay area, during the Gold rush, and started to fill parts of the bay. This image shows all of that brown stuff is fill, and you might notice that the SFO airport is missing, the Oakland Airport is missing, and so we used it as a tool to help people understand the consequences of sea level rise, and what is coming in the bay area, and to develop this, we wanted to be sure that this story wasn't exactly that scary and that negative. We once did a presentation with some school kids, and we put the flags from all their schools on the model and then showed what would happen with sea level rise, and they were visibly horrified, the ones who saw that their school was underwater. And first we had to convince them that they probably wouldn't be at that grade school when this happened, but then we also talked and we finally developed with our Bay Conservation and Development Commission and friends of ours from the port and other science agencies, a narrative that talked about all the wetland restoration, seawall refurbishment, horizontal levees, things that are happening in the bay area that are being planned through a great, coordinated effort. We also have gotten very kind of fixated a little bit on sea level rise because it's so eminent here for us, we were very interested in this project, out of UC Berkeley, called Resilient Infrastructures as Seas Rise. It's a project where the scientists who are looking at sea level rise are working with scientists looking at our transportation systems, and how at risk they are. And another social scientist is looking at all the governments in the bay area, we have nine counties and they all operate differently, and so if you're going to make a highway work better, or solve a sea level rise problem in one district, you kind of have to coordinate with everybody or it's not going to work. So this really interesting project that's really about how networks need to work together, became a really interesting kind of problem for us, and we were able to get a grant, which we called Artistic Practice Towards Urban Resilience, and attached an artist to work with that particular project to help think about how do you talk about these things with people, and what would be tools to make this a little bit more public? And she came up with the idea of a climate compass. So this is based on data, each one of these compasses, and we think of it as kind of a media campaign, would be placed at different locations that are at risk for some kind of inundation in the future. It has an arrow that points north, so the thing gets put on the ground with the thing pointing the right way. It has another line that points to the highest hill nearby, as if it's the evacuation route, based on the geography, and then what compasses usually don't have is a timepiece. So this tells you what the predictions are for that location over the next fifty years. We've been working with BART, Bay Area Rapid Transit, some of the different universities, there's a little theater in town that wants to have one of these, and we're really thinking of it as a media campaign, not that this solves any problems, of course, but it allows people to have a conversation so if you got on BART in Hayward, and you got off at the Civic Center, and there were two of these things, that you might begin to understand, this is really happening and this is serious. So we really love this dialogue that they had, and felt that this kind of visualization which is really more of a symbol, was going to be perhaps very useful and we're launching this in the Fall. We also, I think as you know, collect data. We try to present live aspects of this data. We thought it was really important that, to really talk about climate change, you know scientists know what they know because they've been taking data for at least since the early part of the twentieth century, and we wanted to be as close as that as we could so we host sensors from a number of different science networks around the bay area, and we're completely novices at this, so we depend on the scientists to really calibrate the instruments, to maintain them, and then we use the data, and we have a few exhibits in there, that are beginning to work with this live data as part of an interactive experience that people can have. We also felt like people don't know what we do here, because we weren't known for doing climate change, or environmental work, so we started having a lot of convenings, and when you were in the Bay Observatory you might have noticed that everything's on wheels. We didn't put everything on wheels because we knew we were going to do this, we put it on wheels because the room gets rented for lots and lots of money. So I promised that we would make it easy to move things out of the room and so we figured out a way to put these huge wheels on everything, but it turns out it's really easy for us, to turn it into a workshop, or turn it into a community gathering, or to invite the mayor to do whatever. So far, we've really built an audience around this work, and I'm especially excited that we have gotten very close to the policy people in the city, and the government's people, so that I feel like we're kind of following what's happening on this more political and policy level, which is new for us, that's the way we've sort of turned this place into a town hall. The other question we get a lot, I think all of us in the public education realm is, if you only are doing things that you can do in your own environment, how does that affect anybody else? And that we were kind of cautioned, we should really do stuff about global climate change, because everybody has that same thing to worry about, but we realized that climate change isn't going to happen the same way in even like ten blocks from here, and so it's kind of important to take that into consideration. So recently, we brought this work to Toronto, and we have a colleague there, these are mostly our artworks. We had a booth in a fair called Art Toronto, and we wound up setting up a map table, with Toronto maps and San Francisco maps, and we also did one of our exhibits, a lot of our exhibits in the Observatory you draw, and this one was a key one, which was asking people if they could draw the shape of San Francisco Bay, it's not really a bay, it's an estuary, and so it's kind of an odd shape. So we have thousands and thousands of these drawings, which people really enjoyed doing, and they're really cognitive maps, I think, they're what people know about the place, it's not a drawing test, it's not a memory test, it's what they know about where they live. And it turns out it worked in Toronto, too. People could draw the Toronto shoreline, and posed questions by looking at the maps that they had. So we're beginning to explore how these experiments we've done in place based learning might be translated as an approach for other places in the form of perhaps even considering many of us move out of our institutions and think of occupying smaller places like field stations, where we're really in these environments, and help people make connections to them, and be better travelers, I guess. Thank you.
The Exploratorium—Piers 15 and 17—San Francisco, Susan Schwartzenberg
Total Running Time: 00:15:06
Exploratorium Senior Artist Susan Schwartzenberg describes the Fisher Bay Observatory, a gallery focused on environmental science and the history of San Francisco Bay. The Observatory is a glass building sitting on the edge of the Bay with the city on one side and water on the other and features tools that help people explore the local landscape. Exhibits and displays include a map collection, real-time and past environmental data exhibits, and a carved topographic table on which datasets, such as sea-level rise, earthquake faultlines, and fog patterns, are projected.
This talk was part of the Visualization for Informal Science Education conference held at the Exploratorium, which explored themes of interpretation, narration, broadening participation, applying research to practice, collaboration, and the affordances of technology.
VISUALISE was made possible thanks to generous support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1811163. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Team: Oakland Raiders Ht/Wt: 6-0/242
Position: LB Born: 5/28/1988 Birthplace: Suitland, MD
College: Penn State Draft: 3rd round 27th pick by 49ers (2010)
Oct. 18, 2017 12:35 PM PT1:35 PM MT2:35 PM CT3:35 PM ET19:35 GMT3:35 12:35 PM MST2:35 PM EST2:35 PM CT23:35 UAE15:35 ETNaN:� - Bowman will make his debut with the Raiders on Thursday against the Chiefs.
Analysis: Bowman was released after seven-plus seasons with the 49ers on Friday and made the short move across the Bay, signing a $3 million, one-year contract with Oakland on Monday. Once one of the top insider linebackers in the league, Bowman brings a veteran presence to Oakland's young linebacker group that started rookie Marquel Lee and second-year player Corey James for most of the year.
Oct. 16, 2017 12:28 PM PT1:28 PM MT2:28 PM CT3:28 PM ET19:28 GMT3:28 12:28 PM MST2:28 PM EST2:28 PM CT23:28 UAE15:28 ETNaN:� - Bowman has agreed to a one-year, $3 million deal with the Raiders.
Analysis: Bowman earned first team All-Pro honors four times in his career, achieving it from 2011-13 and then again in 2015 after coming back from a devastating knee injury. Bowman then tore his Achilles tendon early last season and missed most of the year before coming back again this year. While he lacks some of the speed he had when he was younger, Bowman still could probably help a team at age 29.
Oct. 13, 2017 12:24 PM PT1:24 PM MT2:24 PM CT3:24 PM ET19:24 GMT3:24 12:24 PM MST2:24 PM EST2:24 PM CT23:24 UAE15:24 ETNaN:� - The 49ers have released Bowman after they reportedly were unsuccessful in trying to trade him.
Analysis: Leg injuries have slowed down the former All-Pro, but he should find a place somewhere in the league and could soon find a starting role with a team other than the 49ers for the first time in his career.
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2011 SF 16 107 29 2.0 11.0 0 0 0 8 0 3
2012 SF 16 92 51 2.0 9.0 1 11 0 7 1 0
2013 SF 16 118 25 5.0 45.0 2 93 1 8 4 2
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2017 Oak 10 58 31 1.5 7.5 1 0 0 2 0 1
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So much is being affected by the coronavirus outbreak; restaurants, bars, schools, stores, daycare and even shelter pets. We were notified that the VHS facility will be closed to all public walk-in traffic through March 30th. They will be accepting adoption applications online, and making appointments for potential adopters to visit with animals. At this time you may contact the VHS BY EMAIL ONLY at adoptions@vhslifesaver.org id you wish to inquire about adopting a pet.
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We are not accepting new Spay/Neuter Clinic appointments at this time. If you do not currently have an appointment, please contact us after April 1st. Our current bookings are scheduled out into late April/early May.
We are suspending our Low-Cost Vaccine Clinics until further notice.
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We are suspending our Cardio for Canines and Mutt's Morning Out programs for public safety and also the safety of our volunteers, some of whom are over 60.
Our Happy Tails Resale Shop will be CLOSED through Saturday, March 28th for both donations AND shopping. This is for the safety of our shop volunteers, most of whom are 60 or older. Keep an eye on the Happy Tails Resale Shop Facebook page for opportunities to purchase bigger or newer items by appointment!
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Federal RTI law finalized, To be tabled soon in the Parliament
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Karachi December 15, 2014: The Right to Information legislation has been finalized by the senate committee on Information and the bill will be tabled as government bill for which it has already been sent to the cabinet division for approval of the federal cabinet at its next meeting after which it will be tabled in the Parliament as government bill.
This was stated by Senator Farhatullah Babar who is also convener of the Senate subcommittee on RTI, at the national seminar on citizens' right to information and social accountability organized by the Sindh Madrasatul Islam University (SMIU) in Karachi today. The seminar was also addressed by VC SMIU Dr Muhammad Ali Sheikh, former Supreme Court judge justice Deedar Hussain Shah and former high court judge Justice Majida Rizvi.
He said that the underlying principles of the RTI Bill were ensuring maximum disclosure, end of blanket immunity in the name of national security, minimum exemptions, the right to appeal to Information Commission, provision of whistle blowing and imprisonment for willful destruction of record to avoid disclosure.
In addition to federal government departments and autonomous bodies it also covers NGOs, Parliament and the Courts.
Public record now includes information about transactions, acquisition and disposal of property, grant of licenses, allotments and contracts awarded by a public body to name a few, he said.
The definition of 'record' had been widened to also include noting on the files and minutes of the meetings.
He said the concept of blanket immunity in the name of national security had been done away with and exemptions limited only to defence planning, deployment of forces and defence installations. Furthermore, exemptions claimed will have to be accompanied with a detailed explanation.
The Bill also provides for Information Commission for deciding appeals but rejects the notion that its members must be only be retired judges of high courts and SC.
"Judges are honorable men but we reject the notion that they alone possess the integrity and competence to be members of Information Commission. We believe that there are outstanding men and women in all other walks of life including retired bureaucrat, outstanding lawyers, eminent media persons and academia and professionals who too can qualify to sit in the Information Commission".
However, senator Farhatullah Babar said, the real issue is not making a law but that of the culture of secrecy and of sacred cows.
We keep things under the wraps in the name of national security. The defence ministry, he said, had asked parliament against RTI legislation "till NOC of the Ministry of Defence", which was of course disregarded by the committee.
Likewise questions asked in the Senate some years ago like whether inquiry had been held in Kargil, whether defence officers declared their assets to their respective headquarters and whether there is a law under which ISI operated were not replied on the ground that national security was at risk, he said.
The tendency to have holy cows is another impediment, he said. Questions asked about the number of cases pending in some high courts were not answered on the ground that it impinged on the independence of judiciary.
He said that the enactment of RTI legislation the academia, the citizens and the civil society all have to wage a collective struggle against the prevailing culture of secrecy and sacred cows. This will be a long fight against a mindset and a worthwhile fight, he said.


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August 21, 2020 New Music
It's Friday, which means two things: giving this week the finger, and new music! Tune in every Friday for The Pit's round-up of new releases, from singalong hard rock to pus-drenched underground death metal. Keep those ears bleeding!
Unleash The Archer, Abyss (Napalm)
For fans of: Battle Beast, Dragonforce, Ensiferum
Standout track: "Soulbound"
"We race around the melted char of what was once a neutron star…" Jesus Christ, this ain't your typical street kid metal, is it? Abyss is part two of Unleash The Archers' massive space opera concept, the follow-up to 2017's Apex. And you can hear it — this is an epic culmination, a power-metal crater-leaver that'll have unironic fans losing their shit with arms slung over each other's shoulders. Admit it, you love this stuff.
Incantation, Sect of Vile Divinities (Relapse)
For fans of: Morbid Angel, Gatecreeper, Nile
Standout track: "Ignis Fatuus"
A new Incantation album is always a beautiful thing, because it means that you're about to experience the musical equivalent of your brain having an orgy with eighteen squids at once. The band's newest record is no different, an all-barbs-out whirlwind of eldritch darkness and wily-ass guitars. There are still moments of lumbering heaviness, without a doubt, but they only add a sense of menace to this otherwise intimidating death metal crusher. Not for the casual listener.
Hydra, From Light to the Abyss (Piranha Music)
For fans of: Pallbearer, Iron Tongue, Volbeat
Standout track: "No One Loves Like Satan"
Let's be honest, when you're looking for swaggering, nasty stoner doom, you rarely think, "Better check out the scene in Poland." But Pieszew quartet Hydra definitely bring the heavy and then some on their new record From Light to the Abyss. With soaring vocals and solidly galloping riffs, the band provide an approachable take on the genre without going too saccharine or easy to swallow. There's plenty of weed and Satan here, even if you can crank it in the car with your mom in the passenger seat.
Kill The Lights, The Sinner (Fearless Records)
For fans of: Trivium, Striker, Ice Nine Kills
Standout track: "Watch You Fall"
Sure, if you're a diehard black metal kvltist, Kill The Lights may not be your thing, but it's good to know a band like this exists. Ripping and roaring, sweating their sleeveless tees off, these dudes play the kind of metal you occasionally need at a big, crazy festival with a cold beer in a plastic cup. As fun for a rage vent as it is for a Friday night out, The Sinner is the kind of record that keeps metal alive. Dime would be proud.
LA Witch, Play With Fire (Suicide Squeeze Records)
For fans of: GRLwood, Bambara, Queens of the Stone Age
Standout track: "Gen-Z"
Wanna pile a bunch of your girlfriends into a car, drive out to the desert, and drink whiskey from the bottle while burning that box of letters in your closet? Let LA Witch take you there with their new album Play With Fire. Though not exactly metal, the record is still chock full of badass desert rock, with a solid dose of stoner atmosphere and some riot grrrl sneer to boot. Just because it's more Tarantino than Anselmo doesn't mean you won't find yourself loving on this jangly collection of ripped-jeans anthems.
Other crushers:
Brimstone Coven, The Woes of a Mortal Earth (Ripple Music)
Blue Pills, Holy Moly! (Nuclear Blast)
Precambrian, Tectonics (Primitive Reaction Records)
Voracious Scourge, In Death (Massacre Records)
Words by Chris Krovatin
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If you would like to register for the Fall Gathering, go to https://tincantourists.com/event/fall-gathering/, print out the registration form and put it in the mail postmarked on July 6th. The registrations received with the correct postmark will be randomly selected to provide Camp with a list for them to call for site selection. If you have a specific site in mind, let them know the site number. If it is available, they will assign it to you. If it isn't available they will discuss the site options available to you. To assist you in choosing a site, there is a site map at http://www.campdearborn.com/camp-map.
Do not panic, if you do not get a call on July 7th. The site selection process will take some time depending on the number of people that register.


Due to the recent resignation of the AMFA Accident Investigation Team Alternate Party Coordinator, we are beginning the process to fill the vacated position.
We are seeking one individual well versed in all aspects of aircraft maintenance. The Alternate Party Coordinator will be responsible for assisting the Primary Party Coordinator with the responsibilities of team administration, preparing the annual team budget, ensuring team members are properly trained, as well as other duties as assigned by the National Safety and Standards Director.
Please note that every member is required to sign a four year commitment minimum, due to training costs. Also in the event of a major accident, members that are party to an NTSB investigation may be required to remain on scene for a few days or up to several weeks or months. Also your commitment to the team is important as these accidents don't always happen at the most opportune times and there are requirements that you need to comply with to participate.
Interested candidates should submit the attached application to your respective Local Safety and Standards Chairman or to Scott.King@amfanatl.org no later than 5:00pm et on November 6, 2017. An interview process will be conducted in accordance with AMFA National Policy to select the Alternate Party Coordinator.


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On Monday, Feb. 28, the House State Government Committee held a hearing on legislation backed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington to fix our state's unfair and ineffective procedures for restoring the right to vote to ex-offenders. HB 2062, sponsored by Representative Jeannie Darneille, ensures that offenders who have completed all other aspects of their sentence are not denied the right to vote solely because of financial reasons.
"Our current system is so complex and unreliable that many people are wrongly being disenfranchised permanently. We need a simpler, clearer system that enables voting officials to track accurately who has lost and who has regained their voting rights," said Jennifer Shaw, Legislative Director for the ACLU.
Problems in the 2004 election have made clear that the state's system for restoring voting rights to ex-felons needs a serious overhaul. Washington law disenfranchises individuals convicted of any felony offense. Even after serving a full prison sentence, many ex-offenders are unable to vote because they have not paid off all their legal financial obligations. It does not matter that they may have lived successfully in society for years since their release from incarceration, or that interest amounts accrued faster than payments could be made. Further, the system is so unmanageable that many ex-offenders have not been able to get their rights to vote restored even after they have paid off their financial obligations.
To address this problem, the ACLU is supporting legislation to allow individuals to regain the right to vote automatically once they have completed the conditions of their sentence, even if they still have to pay legal financial obligations (filing fees, fines, court costs, court-appointed attorney fees, etc.). The bill does not eliminate financial debts; it simply reinstates the franchise. Under this bill, the state can collect legal financial obligations from ex-offenders the same way it does from anyone who owes debt to the state, such as child support or student loans. The state does not strip these individuals of the right to vote, and it should not treat people with debts relating to criminal judgments differently.


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Section 4 – Requirement for a landlord to be registered
8.A landlord who either offers or markets a dwelling for let, or lets one under a domestic tenancy must be registered with the licensing authority for the area in which that dwelling is located. Exceptions to this requirement are set out in section 5. A landlord for whom an exception does not apply, who is not registered and who does not have a reasonable excuse for not being registered commits an offence. Such cases would be heard in magistrates' courts. If convicted, the landlord is liable to a fine, which would be determined according to the standard scale for fines. In this case, the fine would not exceed level 3.
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 1870 - The classification of the Tineidae
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Al Gore's syndrome?
April 3, 2008 — budsimmons
Jerome J. Schmitt
Mark Shepard's excellent essay today entitled "Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy" suggests to me that premier climate alarmists, like Al Gore, may suffer what could be termed "Global Munchhausen-by-Proxy" Syndrome – an epidemic involving a new "strain" of the recently designated psychological condition, which, according to the website Kids Health
"involves the exaggeration or fabrication of illnesses or symptoms by a (child's) primary caretaker"
"Typically, the perpetrator feels satisfied when he or she has the attention and sympathy of doctors, nurses, and others who come into contact with him or her and the child."
For the child we substitute Al Gore's "planet with a fever". For the "perpetrator" we substitute anthropogenic "global warming" alarmists uninterested in accurate diagnoses.
The child and the planet are, in fact, healthy. It is the so-called 'caregiver' who is ill — with a mental condition characterized by an unhealthy and irrational desire for unwarranted attention and acclaim as extraordinary "caretakers" of the planet earth.
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Watergate committee staff boss: Hillary was fired for lies, unethical behavior
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Famous White Priest Defends Hussein's Pastor And Farrakhan
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Obama, the Pardoner, and his Tale
By Geoffrey P. Hunt
What are we to make of the extraordinary fervor of some of the supporters of Barack Obama? Stumbling upon a website called Is Barack Obama the Messiah? that chronicles the worship of Barack Obama as the second coming, I actually did a cartoon double take. The art work assembled there is stunning. Some is the stuff of Monty Python or Saturday Night Live, except that it is serious, it would seem.
Some of it is perhaps a result of what might be called educated stupidity. Orwell remarked on a separate issue,
"One would have to be a member of the intelligentsia to believe such things…no ordinary man could be such a fool."
There is also an element of the teenage infatuation obvious to anybody who remembers how Ed Sullivan was swept off his own stage by The Beatles.
But Obama as Messiah does have an authentic following among the gullible chattering class. Leading the genuflecting MSM elites is Hardball's Chris Matthews, now reduced to a pathetic and grotesque perpetual adoration.
Conversions often are accompanied by compelling witness, but not in Matthews' case. It was only a few months ago, as a Clinton shrill just before a string of inconvenient Obama victories, Matthews kept badgering a Texas State Senator, "What has Obama ever accomplished?" It's still a good question, not yet been answered, but suddenly is no longer important. While Matthews is but a parody of an earnest star-struck co-op student would-be investigative journalist, he often resembles the medieval herald-jester, calculating the political winds before delivering an entreaty, a roast or a riddle.
This sort of thing is nothing new. In fact, in some of foundational literature of the English Language, the character type of Matthews is depicted among the commoners in Chaucer's time, totally captivated by the eloquent speechifying of professional frauds, the pardoners, the most entrepreneurial of itinerant relic-hawkers.
While The Wife of Bath's Tale and The Miller's Tale are full of ribald humor, The Pardoner's Tale has that searing sarcasm so close to the truth that the Pardoner shakes off any embarrassment to boldly promote his own sleight-of-hand oratorical gymnastics. But at the same time Chaucer excoriates the sinners-willing victims of another scam-as they knowingly look past the forgeries and the hyperbole, easily parting with their silver and their self-respect, desperate for salvation but satisfied by entertainment value alone.
And by his flatteries and prevarication
Made monkeys of the priest and congregation
But still to do him justice first and last
In church he was a noble ecclesiast.
How well he read a lesson or told a story!
But best of all he sang an Offertory,
For well knew that when that song was sung
He'd have to preach and tune his honey-tongue
And (well he could) win silver from the crowd.
That's why he sang so merrily and loud.
From the General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, Translation Neville Coghill, 1951
It is the modern day commoners — Obama apologists, sponsors and supporters — who are willing to overlook Obama's disingenuous character, willing to embrace his phony exhortations for unity and willing to underwrite his distortions, half-truths and outright fabrications. These are the enablers for Obama, the Pardoner. Obama the Pardoner sells his own 21st century brand of indulgences, promising equal outcomes, harmony with all people economic redistribution and perhaps the most profound blessing — absolving white man's guilt by placing a black man in the White House — in exchange for a credit card authorization and a primary vote.
Much literary analysis of The Pardoner's Tale has been devoted to the cognitive dissonance of a prototypical pardoner's audience, willing dupes sincerely believing in a transcendent deliverer knowing the warrant is false and the relics just another bag of pig knuckles. Equally compelling is the study of the Pardoner as moral arbiter among the compromised. The Pardoner, imprisoned by his own hypocrisy, knowing that his penitents are fully aware of his deceptions, nonetheless takes the high ground because for the moment at least he is smarter than anyone around him,. After all, it's only his wallet that gets fatter:
If there be one among you that is willing
To have my absolution for a shilling
Devoutly given come! And do not harden
Your hearts but kneel in humbleness for pardon;
Or else, receive my pardon as we go.You can renew it every town or so
Always provided that you still renew
Each time, and in good money, what is due.
It is an honour to you to have found
A pardoner with his credentials sound
Who can absolve you as you ply the spur
In any accident that may occur
From The Pardoner's Tale, The Canterbury Tales,Translation Neville Coghill, 1951
Chaucer's pilgrims reach their moment of truth at the end of The Pardoner's Tale when the Pardoner beckons the innkeeper to be the "first to pay and kiss my holy relics right away… Come on, unbuckle your purse." The innkeeper will have none of it: "not I" replies the Host, "and may the curse of Christ descend upon me if I do."
The Rev Jeremiah Wright's unrepentant blasphemy and hate-filled racism is real enough. Obama would like us to believe it is nothing more than a see-through bag of fake relics and forged papal bulls. Obama's calculated cynicsm and patronizing disrespect of even his most fervent believers when he says Rev Wright has been falsely caricatured would make even the Pardoner gasp. How many Democrats will take a cue from Chaucer's Host to declare, "Enough!"
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Al Gore's Global Warming Therapy
By Marc Sheppard
On the surface, Sunday's 60 Minutes puff piece did little more than cheer the pending rollout of Al Gore's all-out 300 million dollar green media blitz. But on a deeper level, it also provided disturbing new insight into just what drives this man's unwavering and unfounded obsession.
Having dispensed with her CBS-requisite softball questions and genuflection to Mr. and Mrs. ex-vice-president, interviewer Leslie Stahl soon steered the conversation to an obviously painful topic. Gore appeared rather surprised when asked whether he had gone through "the seven stages of anger and grief" after he "lost the presidency when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of George Bush."
Failing to parry the dogged insistence that he must have felt anger, fury and rage, Al hesitantly admitted that he "strongly disagreed with the [court's] decision," and yeah, he "probably went through all that."
And although both Gores appeared somewhat unsettled by the topic, Stahl's voiceover pushed even deeper:
"His friends said they were worried about him and his state of mind, especially after he gained a lot of weight and grew a beard."
If you'll pardon the lay pop-psychology, it sounded as though Al may have had some coping issues to iron out. So then — just what brought the self-proclaimed once "next president of the United States" out of his dark funk?
According to wife Tipper, "Al's survival after his defeat in 2000 depended on his immersing himself in the climate cause." [emphasis added] Somehow, CBS didn't find this peculiar statement worthy of further exploration. I do — as it may suggest that the "PR Agent for the Planet" became so in an effort to lift himself from the throes of depression.
More from Tipper:
"I mean, I think that if you look at anyone who kind of went through what, what he went through and see what he's been able to do. I'm just really proud of the way that he has not given up. That he lifted himself and our family, you know, back up as well."
Of course, he did so "by turning his old slides that were gathering dust in the basement into that mega-hit documentary."
The same "mega-hit documentary" that became the quintessential bible of the Big Green Scare Machine's Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) cause, despite having the majority of its claims either disputed or outright disproved. And, on the subject of those who dare question the anthropogenic contribution to global warming, Al Gore told Stahl:
"I think that those people are in such a tiny, tiny minority now with their point of view. They're almost like the ones who still believe that the moon landing was staged in a movie lot in Arizona and those who believe the earth is flat. That demeans them a little bit, but it's not that far off,"
About this, Gore may have mistaken one group as two. In reality, the nutty International Flat Earth Research Society did challenge pictures of the obviously spherical Earth taken from the moon. Toward that end, they concocted this wild story that the Apollo moon landing had been "faked in Hollywood studios" and that science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke (who recently died and will be greatly missed) had written the script.
But referring to the thousands of scientists questioning AGW as a "tiny, tiny minority" while comparing them to a truly diminutive group of space-cadets who believe we live upon a disk-shaped planet is, itself, a bit nutty.
As is traveling the globe — 60 Minutes featured him in India — training others to "spread the word" by continuing to present his error-filled slideshow to others still. In fact, watching this arrogant cult-like geometric indoctrination method eerily brings to mind the "auditing" techniques the Church of Scientology employs in spreading its own brand of fantastic dogma.
In essence, then, we're dealing with a psyche that blamed at least Republicans and perhaps the world for having suffered the humiliation of a perceived power theft. While friends and family fretted over his response to that blow, he retreated to his basement to prove his mettle by resuscitating a lightly sleeping obsession. And when he reemerged, he did so reinvented — as a self-appointed savior of the planet armed with little more than an unsubstantiated PowerPoint presentation and an accordingly unreasonable mission.
A 1604 novel by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes told of another man who descended into fantastic delusions of grandeur as a victim of his own frustrated obsessions. Enraptured by tales of chivalry, Alonso Quixano fancied himself a knight errant and, sporting an old suit of armor, dubbed himself "Don Quixote de la Mancha" before embarking on an imaginary mission to save the downtrodden.
But while Quixote's delusions were mostly benign, Don Gore de la Tierra's are not. The "word" his misguided mission spreads has facilitated policies of potential calamity far exceeding the actual problem their implementation is meant to remedy. From economy starving Kyoto-style cap-and-trade treaties to population starving ethanol mandates, unintended consequences invariably turn such quixotic green solutions into sheer disaster.
Time and time again.
In one famous Cervantes scene, the delusional warrior encounters a group of windmills and mistakes them for "hulking giants," which he proceeds to do battle with. Of course, Gore sees industry and capitalism as his imaginary adversaries and windmills not as the problem but rather one of many needless solutions.
But his mission to engage the "hulking giant" which is the planet's chaotic climate system leaves little doubt which character is the more delusional.
And, needless to say — the scope and communicable nature of such fantasy make him infinitely more dangerous.
Marc Sheppard is a frequent contributor to American Thinker and welcomes your feedback.
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Jihadist posts anthrax-making instructions
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration Proposes Changes to the Premarket Pathway for Genetic Health Risk Tests
On Nov. 8, 2017, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published two final orders and a notice related to direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic tests with potentially important implications for developers of such tests. One of the orders, issued under new authority provided by the 21st Century Cures Act, finalizes the exemption from Section 510(k) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) Autosomal Recessive Carrier Screening Gene Mutation Detection Systems; FDA had proposed to exempt these tests after its landmark de novo authorization of 23andMe's Personal Genome Service. The other order codifies FDA de novo authorization concerning 23andMe's Genetic Health Risk (GHR) Assessment Systems (GHR Order). The notice, Exemptions from Premarket Notification for Class II Devices, proposes and seeks comments on a simplified path to market for Genetic Health Risk (GHR) genetic tests under which, according to an FDA statement, manufacturers of these tests "would have to come to FDA for a one-time review to ensure that they meet the FDA's requirements, after which they may enter the market with new [genetic health risk] tests without further review." The notice also proposes to exempt four other class II devices from 510(k).
This approach would be limited to GHR tests that rely on qualitative detection of indicated variants and do not provide an overall risk assessment of a person's likelihood of developing disease. It is unclear whether a test that provides a risk profile for certain diseases based on the presence of several variants associated with disease risk would fall within the relevant device classification regulation. In addition, to qualify for the new approach, the test could not be indicated for (i) prenatal testing, (ii) determining predisposition for cancer where the result of the test may lead to additional testing or treatment that may incur morbidity or mortality, (iii) certain pharmacogenomics indications or (iv) assessing the presence of deterministic autosomal dominant variants. See 21 C.F.R. § 866.5950(b)(4).
Under the proposal discussed in the notice, GHR tests must comply with these limitations on indications for use and other special controls to be partially exempt from 510(k). Other special controls in 21 C.F.R. § 866.5950 include extensive requirements for labeling, public disclosure of information about test performance, use of FDA reviewed or exempt sample collection kits and requirements to establish analytical and clinical validity. Partial exemption means developers of GHR tests would still have to submit a 510(k) before marketing a GHR test for the first time but could offer the test to detect additional variants or market new GHR tests without seeking FDA review. FDA's press statement compares the proposed policy for GHR tests to the precertification policy FDA is piloting for digital health products in that FDA is seeking a "firm-based" rather than product-based oversight model that focuses on the product developer's capabilities to consistently design and develop high-quality products.
By allowing test developers to market tests for the detection of additional variants following initial FDA clearance, the proposed policy, if finalized, potentially reduces burden on GHR test developers in two ways. First, premarket burden would be reduced because test developers would likely submit information concerning only their test's detection of a single or a small subset — as opposed to dozens or hundreds — of variants. Second, test developers would be able to expand the indications of their marketed test without further FDA review.
Importantly, however, the exemption from 510(k) remains subject to FDA's standard limitations on exemption, which describe certain changes to a 510(k) exempt device that trigger the need for a 510(k). The notice states that the proposal to exempt GHR devices from 510(k) applies only to GHR tests "for which a misdiagnosis, as a result of using the device, would not be associated with high morbidity or mortality." It is unclear how — or whether — this language would apply to genetic health information that is not being marketed for diagnostic purposes; if the language somehow applies, it is also unclear whether this language tracks the exclusion from the GHR classification of certain indications for use or expands the exclusion, potentially excluding indications other than those associated with prenatal testing, cancer, pharmacogenomics and autosomal dominant variants. Additional clarity from FDA in its final notice on these points is needed to ensure that genetic test developers reap the full benefit of the partial exemption from premarket review.
Interested persons can file comments on the notice by Jan. 8, 2018. Under section 510(m)(2) as amended by the 21st Century Cures Act, FDA must publish its final notice concerning the exemption of the five devices within 120 days or by Feb. 5, 2018.
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Mom Chi-Chi LaFlare shares what nursing is really like.
Most of us know that breastfeeding can cause changes in the size of a woman's breasts, but what may come as a surprise is how much a nursing mom's chest can fluctuate within a single day. Mom Chi-Chi LaFlare proved this point by sharing an Instagram post highlighting the size of her breasts before and after pumping one liter of breastmilk.
The first photo is a snap of LaFlare's chest when she woke up in the morning, just before her first pump of the day. The second shot is an image of her breasts shortly after pumping—and they were significantly smaller in size. "When you sleep in and wake up not knowing who that girl is with the huge knockers..." she cheekily wrote in the post's caption before sharing in the comments that she's "naturally an overproducer" of milk.
LaFlare runs Chi-Chi's Magic Milk, a nonprofit geared toward promoting breastfeeding and encouraging moms to share breast milk, so she's used to sharing intimate snippets of her nursing habits. LaFlare's Instagram followers frequently share their appreciation for her honesty by commenting on her posts, and reveal that she makes them feel less alone in their own breastfeeding journeys. Below, take a look at LaFlare's before-and-after post, as well as a few other posts highlighting the ups and downs of nursing.


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Q: Prove that there is a surjection $ f:X \to Y$ if and only if $ |Y| \le |X| $. Here's the problem:
Let $X$ and $Y$ be sets.
Prove that there is a surjection
$$ f:X \to Y$$
if and only if
$$ |Y| \le |X| $$.
My work so far:
I am working on the following direction:
If $ |Y| \le |X| $ then there is a surjection $ f:X \to Y$.
I was given the following "hint" in class (though it hasn't done me much good):
Consider the function $h:Y \to X $
with map $y \mapsto h(x)$.
Take $f(h(y))=y$.
What if $x \ne h(y)?$
So, the idea makes intuitive sense to me, that if the cardinality of the domain is greater than or equal to the cardinality of the codomain, then there is a surjection because, well, there'd have to be more elements in the codomain for the elements in the domain to map to in order for it not to be surjective, but that's hardly a proof. Anyway, any guidance here would be appreciated. Thanks!

A: The statement is wrong, unless we assume $Y\ne\emptyset$. So I'll go on under this additional assumption.
If $|Y|\le|X|$, there is an injection $f\colon Y\to X$. Let $y_0\in Y$. Define, for $x\in X$,
$$
g(x)=\begin{cases}
y & \text{if $f(y)=x$, for some $y\in Y$}\\
y_0 & \text{if $x\ne f(y)$, for all $y\in Y$}
\end{cases}
$$
Note that the $y$ in the first case is uniquely determined, because $f$ is injective.
Now it's clear that $g\colon X\to Y$ is surjective. And it's also clear why $Y$ must be nonempty.
For the converse, use the fact that a surjection has (under the axiom of choice) a right inverse.