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HomeworldTwo droppers from Supreme Court: LGBTQ decision and you can't believe who wrote this
Two droppers from Supreme Court: LGBTQ decision and you can't believe who wrote this
All of the Supreme Court's recent decisions on heated social issues come out 5-4, so Monday's vote 6-3 suggesting employers cannot fire workers for being gay or transgender is quite surprising.
Even more surprising is that the majority opinion was written by President Donald Trump's first designer of the court: Neil Gorsuch. Trump's most recent team, Brett Kavanaugh, was with the other two court dissidents, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Gorsukh came to court after Antonin Scallia's demise in 2016, and Kavanugh succeeded Anthony Kennedy, who wrote all gay rights regimes until he retired in Monday, 2018.
"The DCBT community was terrified that the retirement of their hero, Judge Kennedy, would give them a major setback in the Supreme Court. Instead, it's a big win," said SCOTUSblog editor Tom Goldstein of DC, Washington DC. The lawyer who often argues in court.
The irony here is that Trump's most conservative candidate writes general opinion, while Kavanaugh, who had more hope on the left, is with dissidents, "Goldstein said.
Supreme Court President John Roberts tasked Gorsuch with writing opinions, perhaps to underline that it is based on a strict reading of the law: the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, religion, and sex. , Among other factors
Undoubtedly, Gorsuch said, Congress was not thinking about sexual orientation or gender identity when it wrote the law 56 years ago. But what matters is the words of the law, it was not in the mind of Congress.
It is impossible to discriminate against someone without being discriminated against for their gender by being gay or transgender, "he wrote. If an owner fires a man to be attracted to other men, Gorsuch Continued, "The employer discriminates against him for his qualities or actions. You tolerate your coworker. "
Gorsuch points out that his predecessor, Scalia, also said that the laws have consequences that cannot be considered when the Congress has not passed them.
For example, Scalia ruled in favor of a man who was sexually assaulted by other men on an offshore oil platform. Lower courts held that only actions of members of the opposite sex could be considered illegal harassment, but Scalia said no. If the woman were, the worker would have been treated differently, so that he would have been gender discriminated.
Monday's decision was widely criticized by Gorsuch's conservative friends, as he certainly knew it would. Carrie Severino, a former Thomas employee, said: "Judge Scalia will be disappointed that his successor has misused textism so badly today because of appeals to university campuses and editorial boards."
Alito, in his dissent, was scaring the ruling by calling it "absurd", a method of legislating under the guise of a judicial decision.
"The question in these cases," he wrote, "is not whether discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity should be prohibited. The question is whether Congress did this in 1964. Undoubtedly."
Separating, Kavanugh agreed that the government had crossed the ruling line between branches. But he lacked bitterness in his opinion.
In summary, he said: "Millions of gay and lesbian Americans have worked hard for many decades to obtain equal treatment in law and indeed ... they have powerful powerful policy arguments and can be proud of today's result .


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Vacuum sealer bags for blankets will definitely help you save important storage space.
They have been around for years, but for some reason, they are only now starting to get traction. Our bed linings and blankets are usually one the biggest space takers in every house.
How many times have you found out that you could fit a lot more in your close if comforters and blankets would not exist? I can tell you it happened to me a lot of times.
First of all, you can clear some space. The amount of empty space you can extract from this operation is sometimes enough to fit your entire personal wardrobe.
No mold or bacteria will damage your comforters. We are so annoyed when our favorite bed sheet has holes or mold. With vacuum sealers, we can avoid such problems.
The question of dust and weird smells. Again, taking out your bed sheets and finding out they are full of dust or have weird smells isn't the nicest thing.
You can also put other things in those bags. Clothing, table covers or just about any textile you can think of.
Step 1: Try to make sure you insert clean bed linen into them. The cleaner, the better. When you eventually take them out again you can directly use them.
Step 2: Carefully insert them into the vacuum storage bag one by one. Try to respect the manufacturer's indications about the maximum quantity you can fit. Don't crowd everything in one bag. Close the zip bag.
Step 3: Take your vacuum cleaner and push it uppon the bag's nozzle. Now turn on your vacuum cleaner and let it do its magic. You will see your blankets shrinking immediately. It will take around 20 sec for full effect.
The biggest problem which you could face is a bag with holes in them. This can be visible or not, but it will definitely lead to overall deflation. The bigger the hole the faster it will deflate. General problems with such bags are usually the invisible holes or slow deflation.
We recommend that in such cases you must contact the supplier. Most reliable suppliers will just switch your product immediately, no question asked.
Don't worry too much if you see deflated bags. Contact the supplier and problem solved. They are not necessarily low quality rather it's just an industry thing. As I told you, most suppliers will immediately switch them, no question asked.
Another issue you might have is not being able to vacuum the air. This happens very rarely. In such a case, search for visible holes. If there aren't any, check if you haven't stuffed too many textiles inside.
Please, try not to stuff too many inside of them. The bags will work great, as long as you are reasonable with how many you are stuffing inside.
As long as you keep that in check, you will reuse them again successfully. Otherwise, they might even "explode". By this, we don't mean an actual explosion, rather than a very fast deflation.
More or less most vacuum bags for textiles do the same thing. But there are some aspects you should check before buying sealer bags specifically for blankets.
When you do need good vacuum bags for blankets, check the size they offer. We have seen most suppliers offer 40×30 bags. These are big enough to stuff a lot of bed linings in there.
They will also work great if you travel as you can fit a lot of clothing in there. Don't worry too much about the bag being too big, as long as you're reasonable with the load, you can fold them.
The above features 10 Jumbo Bags. This is for bed linen only.
The above product features 12 bags of mixed sizes. 3 Bags for each size. Can be used for traveling.
Make sure you are buying from a reputable source. This kind of manufacturer has sold enough products to be able to test his item. He also knows what material should be used for such a task.
Remember that your body is in direct contact with the material. No Mold, mildew or bacteria should be on them when you do use them. It won't do you much harm, but it's not a nice feeling to know you are sleeping in the mold.
To be honest, such products often tend to have defects. It's just the nature of this industry. But you still need to use them so you must find a way to work through this.
So focus on buying from sellers that will replace your bags if any problems occur. Don't panic, just contact them and they will help you with this.
Yes, you won't have your vacuum machine with you all the time. Therefore, either by a pump or just buy a product that includes a travel pump.
These are good to carry around with you on trips. They will help you carry more in less space. A word of advice though, also carry 2 replacement bags with you just in case the initial one stops working properly.
These bags are great solutions to free up some storage space in your closet.
Good quality ones will help you keep bed linen far away from mold or bacteria.
It is also a good solution to prevent any bad odors or even dust from getting on to them.
Not just bed lingerie can be stored in these bags. Just about any textile can be stored in these vacuum bags.
We provide information on various storage solutions that help you organize or clear your closet. Besides storing blankets, we can also help you with information on the storage of books and also on storage of photographs.


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Messiah is fully accessible to people with mobility challenges.
and comfortable, padded chairs as well as traditional wooden pews for general seating.
Appropriately leashed service dogs are always welcome.
We take communion at the rail, at the front of the sanctuary. Wheelchairs can be accommodated at the rail. If you do not use a wheelchair but have mobility challenges, feel free to stand or kneel as you see fit. If you prefer, mention to an usher that you would like to receive the elements at your seat and we will be glad to bring them to you.
Large-print hymnals are available for visually-challenged worshippers.
Hearing assistance is available in the sanctuary.
We would be happy to answer any other questions that you have. Please call the church office at 585-865-1866.


The Brooklyn Museum always has the coolest exhibits. If Killer Heels weren't your thing, then surely The Rise of Sneaker Culture must be. I go both ways myself. For me, the real excitement started with my first Reebok high tops around 1983. Of course, they had to be worn with my colorful array of EG Smith slouch socks. Speaking of, why hasn't anyone brought those back? I mean, a museum could do a whole show on the evolution of socks, and EGs would steal the spotlight for sure. But I digress….
The Rise of Sneaker Culture is a really fun show that includes more than 150 pairs of sneakers. More specifically, the exhibit takes viewers on a journey from pointy-toe creations from the mid-19th century to current rubber-sole icons. Formerly just a practicality for comfort and sports, the sneaker has become the ultimate status symbol for many individuals, and even entire cultures. Seriously, I know teenagers who are paying for their college education by continuously camping out for the newest Nikes and reselling them. The show features not only the best of the traditional sneaker manufacturers such as Nike, Adidas, Converse, Puma, and Reebok, but it also covers "fashion" sneakers by designers including Prada and Pierre Hardy as well as artist collaborations with some of my faves like Shantell Martin. The survey even shares private sneaker-collector archives. Hate to sound corny, but this exhibit really is the perfect family activity on a hot summer day–I always like to "sneak" in culture with Mr. Dottie and the kids any way I can!


This takes sweet and savory to a whole new level. It is a perfect two bite appetizer that is easy to grab off of a buffet line and will delight your guests with a flavor they have never had before. The sweet figs, tangy goat cheese and salty bacon make for a great balance of flavors.
These tarts are really easy to make. It just takes a handful of ingredients and a few minutes of assembly and you will have a pretty and delicious little bite. My cousin Emily was over for cousin cookie day part 1 and while I had her working, I snuck these in too! She was happy to help put them together. We had a great time making all sorts of goodies!
In a small saucepan stir together chopped figs, sugar and red wine. Cook over medium heat for about 15 minutes, stirring frequently, until it becomes thick and syrupy. Remove from heat and let cool.
In a small bowl, beat together goat cheese, cream cheese, lemon juice, thyme and a pinch of salt and pepper.
Spoon the cheese mixture into a small piping bag or plastic baggie.
Spoon fig mixture into toasted shells, pipe a dollop of the cheese mixture over the figs.
Top with a small piece of crispy bacon.
Scrumptious! And this dessert looks so pretty too! Pinning!
These sound fabulous! What a great party recipe. I have to admit that I've never made anything with figs before, but I'm going to give these a go!
I haven't done much with figs either, but it seems like the thing to do at Christmas. It's no figgy pudding, but at least it's a figgy tart!
Love this combo! Who needs dinner when you have a tray of these?!
I love fig and bacon! This is a great appetizer. Pinning!
I really loved the combo! Thank you!
Hi Carlee - I never in a million years would have thought of this flavor combo, but as soon as I saw it, I thought "That's so right together!" I can't wait to try them! Thanks for sharing this on Throwback Thursday - I'll be pinning it to our board, so make sure to follow! :) Happy Holidays!
Thank you! They were a lot of fun to make and it was even move fun to watch people look at them and try to decide what they were! The bacon drew them in every time!
Thanks for hosting! I don't think I've ever known anyone to go fig picking. Sounds like fun!
Mmmm... I was just think about appetizers for Christmas Eve (Yes... I really am that far behind!) And these sound perfect! Now... Can I get husband to eat figs? That's the question!
These look like such a nice, elegant, snack! Thanks for linking up to the Country Fair Blog Party!
Thank you! They were fun to make and serve!
What a great little appetizer Carlee!! Thanks for sharing on My 2 Favorite Things on Thursday! I'm excited to start the party back up this week...hope you can come join me! Happy New Year! Pinned!
Thank you! I can't wait to party again!


All that hullabaloo in the press just prior to the libel trial commencing in Lisbon. Spokespersons for the McCanns telling us they had been advised by the Metropolitan Police not to go, as they, the Met were there working in Portugal and they did not want a circus.
So what did Gerry and Kate McCann do – they went to Portugal to start a media circus. They ignored the advice they said they received from the Metropolitan Police!
There never was any warning - the McCanns were in effect the 'warm-up' guys for the bigger plan - the soon to be screened Crimewatch Programme!
Now is it not odd that the Metropolitan Police always come up with one of their stories at a time crucial to the McCanns by way of aiding them?
A libel trial going on in Lisbon which is going badly for the McCanns, and low and behold the press are now reporting on Crimewatch!
So there was no need for any advice, any warning to stay away from Portugal – because once again – Team McCann were lying!


Faith is not fluff ; but sometimes, it can feel like vapour.
It is hard to grasp and hold on to.
Over my fish lunch today I hear a friend share her struggles and she asks, "how is it faith doesn't seem to make a difference here?".
We look at our spouses, children, situations, and we ask, "how can it be done?".
How does God's kingdom come and will get done in this world bent of breaking it all apart?
How does it happen, and will I be able to really spot it?
How do I make it last long enough to become a happily-ever-after?
When will night give way to day?
when will the flowers finally open to the sky and bloom?
when will we really make a difference - that lasts?
We look at ourselves. And we wonder, "where is my faith?"
"Those are questions of a faith-filled heart. You have not lost faith. You have lost sight of what faith is built on."
The Cross and the Resurrection has done it: the deep reversal, the overturning, the upheaval.
We are in the season of the dust settling; so we see unclear.
And because it has been done; it will be done.
"...Christ is all, and is in all (and we God's people) are clothed with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience (where we are able to ) bear with each other and forgive whatever grievance..and put on love which binds us all together in perfect unity as the peace of Christ rules in our hearts...together with His Word so that we are able to teach and admonish one another with wisdom and praise God in song and psalm, with gratitude.
Then everything we do - let it be directed towards Jesus!"
"..if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it.
Pursue the things over which Christ presides."
"Don's shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, be alert to what is going on around Christ - what's where the action is. See things from his perspective."
Looks like we need to train our eyes to look past the obvious. Help each other here: share the good stuff worth looking at can?
And each of us on a quest: the perfect mate, the great marriage, the dream job, the 'calling'... place them where they belong: personal ambition, fear-prompted, envy-triggered or is the quest really initiated by God and is your Father's heart for you?
"throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.."
This week: what hinders you? What entangles and catches your feet so you stumble?
Share with us: fill a comment. You never know who you will lift up with what you share honest and faith-seeking.


Millie – No Nap Time!
Millie is the first of many collaboration customs to come with AC/DC-Vintage. AC/DC-Vintage specializes in refurbishing/maintenance/repair of old vintage sewing machines and also happens to be a very skillful dress maker!
Millie's beautiful outfit was wonderfully tailored by AC/DC. She comes with a cap, a full maid dress with apron complete with matching shoes and feather duster.
To stay with the black and white theme, Millie gets greyscale repaint too.
Clawdeen rocks short-styled hair. She looks great in glitter too!


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Domestic Urges, Foreign Obsessions
Constructive engagement with the post-Cold War world requires both a stronger America and clearer global goals. Domestic reconstruction must be a priority—but beware isolationism.
by Richard Barnet
In a typical week a reader of U.S. newspapers learns over bran flakes and coffee that the health crisis or the S&L bailout is bankrupting the country; that there is no money to repair bridges or to deal with nuclear waste; that schools and libraries are cutting programs or closing down; that tens of millions of young Americans will be unable to compete successfully for jobs in the new information-based economy because schools do not teach; that America's competitiveness problem is worsening; and that the government is presumably paralyzed because the federal deficit is out of control.
Nations prosper only by adapting to new circumstances. That means being willing to hear bad news and do something about it. Japan's great achievement at the end of World War II was to turn adversity to its advantage, as if by jujitsu. But since the curtain came down on the Cold War the adaptive mechanisms in the United States have not been working. The President is not offering a practical vision of a strong and democratic American economy, and the result is that confidence in American power and leadership is declining.
George Bush has made no secret of the fact that he prefers making foreign policy to grappling with any of these problems. The reflex reaction in the White House and the Pentagon to the collapse of the communist enemy has been to identify new enemies and to find ways to make such weapons as the B-2 bomber "relevant" to a world that has passed it by. In early 1990 President Bush announced that instability was now the military threat, and later that year the word acquired a human face when Saddam Hussein struck at Kuwait. Whether the Gulf War served the national interest is now a matter for the historians, but it surely served the interests of the President. As commander in chief the President is defender, father figure, and in a crisis, the embodiment of the nation. There is no solution to the health crisis or the banking crisis that will yield 89-percent popular support, as the Gulf War did. It is far easier to interpret the new political situation in the world to fit old strategies and old weapons systems, shifting targets where necessary, than to develop a new security strategy that fits the extraordinary changes that have taken place within the United States and the emerging world system.
The fact that foreign policy expenditures constrict domestic choices is a familiar, though inadequately debated, idea in American politics. Less familiar is the role of domestic economic weakness in circumscribing foreign policy choices. The United States is becoming increasingly locked into a world economy over which we exercise less and less control. The result is that the U.S. economy, debt-ridden and still unable to compete in the marketplace in critical areas of high technology and consumer goods, is transformed in ways that diminish the economic security and quality of life of millions of Americans. And the same loss of economic strength and the social instability caused by the neglect of mounting domestic problems undermines the ability of the United States to bring its power to bear on critical security problems beyond our shores.
It is incongruous that while pundits celebrate the emergence of the United States as the world's only superpower and every formerly communist nation wants a piece of the American Dream, the Bush administration is strangely passive in confronting the extraordinary new world in the making. The goal of United States foreign policy for almost fifty years has been achieved, but the White House does not know what to make of the collapse of Soviet power and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Does the United States favor more fragmentation in the name of self-determination or more union in the name of economic efficiency? The answers are not easy, but, tragically, the United States has neither a clear vision of what it desires, nor money to put behind its wishes, and what may well prove to be the most momentous events of the century are taking place beyond the reach of any significant American influence.
Even in the Middle East, where the U.S. rolled back Saddam's invasion and succeeded in dragging the Arab nations and Israel to the negotiating table after eight months of trying, the prospects of a comprehensive, lasting settlement are not encouraging. They might well be better were the United States in a position to make the sort of extravagant offers to promote regional economic development that Secretary of State George Marshall made at the end of World War II with respect to Europe. But that is now out of the question.
The nations of Western Europe have just voted to create the European Economic Area, the world's largest trading bloc embracing 380 million producers and customers from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, and this new creation threatens to pose even staffer competition for the United States. Yet Europe is by no means united, and the continent faces historic decisions about who will be in and who will be out, and on what terms. On the one hand, the myth of a Europe stretching from Gibraltar to the Urals has a powerful appeal, one on which the former communist nations of the East are banking. But to admit Poland, not to mention an independent Croatia, would dramatically widen the gaps among the members and would make steps toward greater monetary and political union more difficult. The wider these gaps, the harder it becomes to establish continental institutions.
The United States has an urgent interest in a Europe that is at peace and that does not wall off the huge continental market it is creating. While the United States hangs on to NATO to symbolize the fact that it is, in the words of senior administration officials, a "European power," the administration is mobilizing astonishingly little energy to address the critical economic issues that will play the dominant role in U.S.-European relations in the next century.
Bush's principal response to a united Europe has been to seek a North American free trade agreement as a step toward a Western Hemisphere free trade area. But this collection of the most debt-ridden countries in the world is not much of a bargaining chip in negotiations over global trade with Europe and Japan, nor in a world divided into blocs is it likely to be a bastion of economic strength. Over many years somewhere between a third and 60 percent of the U.S. military budget -- depending on definitions and what you count -- has been attributable to the defense of Europe. New policies can and should be developed that take proper account of the good news from the Cold War battlefields of Europe and the bad news on the domestic front.
Richard Ullman, professor of international affairs at Princeton, has written a fine book full of believable good news and practical ideas for taking advantage of it. Since so much of the United States military budget continues to be attributable to the security problems of Europe, which have also provided the primary drive behind the nuclear arms race, this is a book anyone interested in either national security or the fiscal crisis of the United States should read. Agreeing with George Kennan that the Soviet Union presented primarily a political challenge rather than a military threat, he points out that the political conditions under which NATO was established have totally changed. Historians can argue about whether the expenditures to arm against "worst-case scenarios" were worth the price the United States is still paying, but there is no justification now for spending well over $100 billion a year to defend Europe.
Ullman's analysis points to a clear conclusion. It makes no sense to keep alive either NATO's Cold War strategy or organization except for a brief transitional period during which a new European security system is put into place. For the foreseeable future the Soviet Union will have neither the incentive to attack the West -- if it ever had one -- nor the capability. The collapse of the Warsaw Pact and extraordinary changes inside the Soviet Union, as senior U.S. military and intelligence officials have testified, make a surprise attack virtually impossible. To reclaim its Cold War posture would take a long time even if new leadership in the Kremlin had the will to do it. The enemy against which NATO was called into being no longer exists. Neither do the weak, divided, and demoralized nations of West Europe that called upon the United States to be their protector.
All the major political underpinnings of NATO have been rendered obsolete by the Cold War victory. At the beginning U.S. troops had as their primary task the restoration of confidence in a war-torn West Europe facing Stalin's armed camp. The confidence levels and signs of stability in much of West Europe, judging by a number of social and economic indicators, now exceed our own. The strongest political argument for NATO was that it would anchor West Germany in the West and undermine the greatest power the Soviets had over the United States and its allies, the power to dangle reunification in front of the Germans and cause them in effect to change sides. But reunification is an accomplished fact, and the price was modest indeed. Germany has no interest in being a "loose cannon" in Europe -- quite the reverse. And if it did, 50,000 to 75,000 American troops left on German soil -- the figures talked about just a few months ago -- could do little about it. Any idea that an American division or two can play such a role can only irritate U.S.-German relations.
The favorable developments in Europe should point the way to new policies. Thanks to economic integration, and as Ullman points out, the growing perception that the physical control of territory is of declining importance and the use of force is of declining utility for great powers in securing political objectives in Europe, there is less incentive and less likelihood of war among nations on the continent than at any time in modem history. He argues that the United States should, therefore, encourage an independent European security system, building on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and the Western European Union (WEU). The goal should be the development of integrated European forces at significantly lower levels and machinery for peaceful dispute resolution such as the CSCE's new Vienna-based Center for the Prevention of Conflict.
The primary security threat in Europe in the coming years is likely to be civil war in the East and the stream of refugees left in its wake; the task of military forces will be to wall off and damp down such conflict before it spreads. The European response to the outbreak of civil war in Yugoslavia in June has been halting, confused, and as of late November, ineffective. But the United States is nowhere to be seen. It is, of course, in a much worse position than a European force to intervene militarily on the periphery of the Soviet Union, and to involve American troops in a bloody civil war in the Balkans is not an attractive option for the President. But the security dilemma in Europe makes it clearer than ever that a national security priority for the United States is far-reaching world disarmament and control of weapons traffic. As the world's greatest military power the United States is in a position to take advantage of the changes in the political climate around the world, including the settlement of the major Cold War-related civil conflicts in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, to initiate a process of demobilization and demilitarization which offers the only hope of controlling weapons development and arms traffic.
Although Bush's unilateral initiatives on curbing nuclear weapons are the most sweeping since the development of the atomic bomb, both the cost savings and the disruption of the U.S. arms industry are modest. Bush emphasized that there would be no "peace dividend." Indeed, the immediate impact would be a budget increase to pay for the "mothballing" and deactivation measures. Bush's program is designed to make living with nuclear weapons safer. Although he justified the move on the dramatic disappearance of the old Soviet threat, there has been no discernible rethinking of the relevance of nuclear weapons to the security problems of the post-Cold War world. Nuclear deterrence was built on the notion of a two-man chess game. But nuclear stockpiles do not deter drug traffickers or enraged mobs or terrorists or separatist armies any more than elephant guns deter flies. The idealized super-rational enemy, big enough, evil enough, and aggressive enough to be the target of a global war machine, has disappeared into thin air, leaving a disorderly world to which the established nuclear strategy is utterly irrelevant.
Given what has happened to the Soviet Union, the risks of unauthorized use of nuclear weapons in the event of civil strife there, the drive by Iran, Iraq, and other nations to acquire nuclear weapons and the disturbing indications that the spread of nuclear weapons technology in the international black market is accelerating, it is now urgent for the United States to rethink its nuclear policy. In the interest of slowing proliferation, saving huge financial costs and avoiding health risks, the President should announce that production of weapons-grade fissionable materials will not be resumed. He should also promptly negotiate a comprehensive test ban. Further, the U.S. should declare that once again -- as in the Acheson-Lilienthal proposals following the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings -- this nation takes seriously the goal of abolition of nuclear weapons, as a crucial component to reduce the role of force in international relations. Far from being a Utopian view, this approach's advocates include prominent former national security officials, such as Robert McNamara.
No nation has more to lose in a world of nuclear anarchy than the United States. Because this nation is the world's leading nuclear power, it retains considerable potential as a prime architect of a new security system. But that influence is waning fast, as weapons spread. Only a "minimum deterrent" force, ranging from dozens to about a hundred weapons, and a clear commitment never to use nuclear weapons except in retaliation for a nuclear attack, will send the message that the United States and the other nuclear powers are committed to a post-nuclear order. Sending such a message is essential to a non-proliferation strategy, but it is obviously not sufficient. The strategy will also require unprecedented cooperation among the present nuclear powers and tight international controls on fissionable materials and nuclear technology. To accomplish any of this will require the great powers to limit their use of arms sales as a prime lever of geo-political influence.
While the threat of great power nuclear holocaust has receded, the insertion of nuclear weapons into the disorders of the post-Cold-War world increases the risk of their actual detonation. Unlike the Cold War antagonists, some of the aspiring nuclear powers, faced with perceived life-and-death struggles, might actually use nuclear weapons. Technological advances, verification, and, more important, the more open world now emerging, make a post-nuclear order possible, and necessary. Therefore, the disorders of the post-Cold-War world make the elimination of the nuclear threat the highest possible foreign policy priority for the U.S. There can be no security as long as these weapons are considered legitimate instruments of warfare or politics.
In the emerging world order, peace and stability in Eastern Europe and outside of Europe will depend less on deterrence and more on crisis prevention -- the defusing of political situations before they erupt in violence. Crisis prevention machinery should be under a United Nations umbrella because the U.N., for all its problems, is the only international organization with both a political mission and a global charter. The task of keeping the peace and creating the conditions of stability in the post-Cold War world will take much more active and coordinated diplomacy among the Cold War-era allies, large amounts of money for the repair of environmental damage and for the re-tooling of industry to prevent further damage, for development aid and investment, and for a new set of minimum environmental and labor standards for the conduct of world trade.
As the economic, social, and ecological agenda becomes more central, more expensive, and more difficult, it is in the U.S. interest to downgrade the military dimension of its relationships with its allies and partners. The idea that the U.S. military role, either in Europe or in "out of area" conflicts can still be used to exact economic and political concessions from America's allies is dubious, given European behavior since the Gulf War. Moreover, it is in the U.S. interest to institutionalize responsibility for police operations, in an international force in the service of agreed international principles regarding the use of force. Taking over the policy role unilaterally has led to American weakness, not strength. And ad hoc military coalitions put together in crises are precarious and unstable. It is not a brilliant strategy to continue hectoring Germany and Japan to play a more expansive global military role at a time when economic conflicts between the U.S. and its principal allies are intensifying. All three economic powers share a common interest not only in diverting investment from the military to their industrial bases and supporting infrastructure, but also a common strategy to raise wages and improve living standards in developing countries in order to expand the world market. But no such common strategy yet exists.
The dismantling of obsolete military structures increases the possibilities of constructive American engagement with Europe. The U.S. commitment to Europe requires an evolving set of political and economic relationships that fit the world of the 1990s rather than the world of the 1950s. We are living in a world of increasingly visible violence, but neither the nuclear weapons stockpiles, the rapid deployment forces, the NATO forces, nor the 'low-intensity warfare" capabilities which make up so much of the military budget address the disorders of a world that is no longer engaged in a global conflict. A president willing to give up the illusion of organizing the world by projecting military power would have a decent chance to mobilize the money, energy, and will to rebuild and govern this society.
The United States can best influence the shape of the new Europe by rebuilding American society and defining and pursuing a global economic agenda. The faster the nation deals with its domestic crisis, the stronger will be its position with respect to the trade and investment issues that are the major source of conflict among the economic great powers. These include the irrationality of the present ground rules for world trade, the confusion about whether to welcome or fear European and Japanese investment in the United States, and the challenge of increasing the accountability of transnational corporate actors, irrespective of the flag they fly. We need new rules not only to redefine this nation's commercial relations with its trading partners, but to establish a common approach between nations and global private finance and industry. A concerted effort by the industrial democracies to deal with the global environmental crisis, which threatens the very processes by which wealth is created and life sustained, is an obvious security priority, too.
Thus, the primary political task for the United States is to develop a new foreign policy that will permit the renewal of our political institutions, industrial and commercial enterprises, and population centers. The primary intellectual task is to redefine the relationship of the United States to the radically changing political, economic, and ecological environment. Alan Tonelson, research director of a Washington think tank, has taken on this task in a recent issue of The Atlantic, and his efforts demonstrate how difficult it is to rethink the national interest. He attacks "internationalism" with familiar arguments, most of which I find congenial. In its Wilsonian quest for a new world order, the United States believed its own overblown rhetoric about the "indivisibility" of peace. The U.S. defined its "vital interests" in wildly extravagant and implausible terms, "bearing any burden, paying any price" to bring peace and prosperity to the farthest reaches of the globe. Military interventions, para-military operations, peace-keeping missions, foreign aid programs -- all of which the author lumps together as instruments of misguided idealism -- exhausted the country. "American foreign policy has been conducted with utter disregard for the home front largely because it has been made by people whose lives and needs have almost nothing in common with those of the mass of their countrymen." I nodded and read on.
I stopped nodding when it became clear that what Tonelson calls "interest-based thinking," a term I found intriguing, is astonishingly close to the "America First" mindset of the prewar isolationists. The isolationist impulse is in the American grain, reinforced daily by so many different forces in our culture. The "internationalism" of the Cold War era against which the author rails is in reality a virulent strain of isolationism; a nation that can realize its dreams of running the planet doesn't have to learn to live in it. Tonelson dresses up his prescriptions for withdrawing from the messy world beyond our shores with the language of hard-headed realism. Anarchy within and among nations is inevitable. All sorts of genies are out of the bottle. Nothing much can be done about the international system. Americans should look after themselves. Hunker down. It is by no means obvious that Tonelson's version of isolationism is a less honorable policy than the current version under which our leaders feel compelled to teach lessons, enforce international law as we define it, and set other societies straight in arbitrarily selected countries around the world. The problem is that it is every bit as much a dream as Pax Americana.
The "interest-based" foreign policy Tonelson recommends would not be a vehicle for spreading American values but would reflect tough-minded assessments of domestic interests which "can and must be distinguished from the interests of the international system itself." An exception would be made for policies that are against the national interest but are popular. There is "nothing intrinsically wrong," he says, with a policy that does not serve the national interest, provided it is based on "the preference or whim of the majority." We have entered a swamp.
This curiously old-fashioned analysis with its talk of "avoiding problems, reducing vulnerabilities and costs, maximizing options, and muddling through" is silent about the increasing dependence of the United States on the world economy, the AIDS pandemic in Africa that is spreading to Asia, the global ecological crisis, the huge mass migration that is transforming the demography of the United States and other places, and the transformation of the institution of the nation-state itself. His call for less bombast and mindless activism in foreign policy is a welcome corrective, but his policy is defeatism. He calls for "disengagement" from the Third World, correctly noting that hysteria, confusion, and complicity in corruption and human rights abuse characterized much of our policy in the past. His advice is to wall ourselves off from the tragedies that threaten the species to pursue policies that enhance "the domestic quality of life." True, Cold Warriors, muddled geopoliticians, and naive romantics have written a good deal of nonsense about the Third World, that peculiarly ethnocentric and now anachronistic designation we still use for the majority of people on the planet. But Tonelson's call is a contradiction in terms. Refugees, viruses, drugs, terrorists, and foul air are no respecters of borders. There is no way we can improve the quality of life for the next generation of Americans, much less posterity, by ignoring the conditions of two-thirds of the human species and the natural order in which we all live.
It is inconceivable that the world's major military and economic power will now shrink from trying to exert influence on the international system. Our own security and prosperity depends increasingly upon what happens to that system. This is a time when more issues are open and the system is less frozen than it has been in a long time. It is an exciting and dangerous time which cries out for real leadership in helping to shape a new understanding of what a nation is, of what the international system is becoming, and of how its anarchic character might be moderated. The United States could not impose its vision of world order even if it had one. To exercise leadership requires a healthy respect for this nation's limitations, but also a willingness to face the real world of which we are inevitably a part. Flinching is not an option.***
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Fire On Miami-Bound Cruise Ship Kills Three People
By Marybel Rodriguez December 12, 2014 at 11:59 am
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Three people are dead after flames erupted on-board a luxury cruise ship that was docked in St. Lucia.
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Passengers that were on the Oceania cruise ship Insignia arrived at Miami International Airport early Friday morning.
A passenger, after witnessing the tragedy that occurred, arrived at Miami international Airport early Friday morning and recalled the tragedy she had witnessed.
"I saw one fellow, they were resuscitating on the dock and he was already expired by the time they got to him but they tried very valiantly," said Elizabeth Barrett.
Around 8:30 AM Thursday a fire broke out in the engine room, according to Oceania.
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The fire started while the luxury ship was docked in St. Lucia.
One crew member and two contractors did not make it out alive, according Oceania. Two other crew members were injured as a result of the fire.
"The captain came on said they had a fire down in the engine room, one of the generators had burned up. After that I can't tell you anything else…obviously it can't be repaired or they wouldn't have sent us home," said Richard Black, a passenger on the ship at the time of the fire.
All 684 passengers were immediately evacuated and flown to Miami. The ship was expected was to arrive in Miami December 22nd.
Many passengers appeared visibly shaken following the incident.
"They got to be like family after all the time we were on the ship so yeah it makes you feel pretty bad," said Black.
The cruise line Oceania put out a statement in response to the incident, "We are deeply saddened by the tragic events that occurred this morning on Insignia. We have extended our heartfelt condolences to the family of those involved and are offering them our full support. This is truly an emotional time for all of us at Oceania Cruises."
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ShKO Hockey Club (), often referred to as ShKO Oskemen and literally as East Kazakhstan Region (), is the farm team of Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk. Formerly it known as Kazzinc-Torpedo-2 (2009–2014) and Torpedo Oskemen (2014–2015). They were founded in 2009, and play in the Kazakhstan Hockey Championship, the top level of ice hockey in Kazakhstan.

Season-by-season record
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTW = Overtime/shootout wins, OTL = Overtime/shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Head coaches
 Vladimir Belyaev 2010–11
 Igor Dorokhin 2011–12
 Maxim Komissarov 2014–present

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1. There is a std. Cond typ for Basic Excise Duty JEXQ & a std acc seq was assigned to it. But the tables assigned to the acc seq were not meeting my requirement.
2. So I created new table with these keys: Country/ Plant/ Region/ Customer Group/ Material pricing grp.
3. When I created the table Package field was empty & I saved like that only. System did not give a request.
4. I assigned this new table to std. acc seq MSWT. Now system created a new request.
5. When I copied this new request from Dev I to Dev II, I did Test run. Sys gave err: u201CProg ended with err or warning, return code: 4. Message no. TA 146u201D.
6. So I stopped & did not copy.
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Despite growing profits, bonuses on Wall Street fell last year -- but they're still double the average New York City workers salary.
ALBANY – The average bonus paid out on Wall Street fell nearly 20 percent last year, but was still twice the average salary of New York City's workforce, according to a new estimate Tuesday from the state Comptroller's Office.
It was a good year for the securities industry in 2018 overall, though.
An 11 percent growth in profit saw members trading on the New York Stock exchange grow their profits to $27.3 billion last year — a $3.2 billion increase from 2017.
The industry as a whole saw a 6 percent increase in revenue, ballooning to $163 billion in 2018.
"Despite a sharp decline in the financial markets in the fourth quarter of 2018, the securities industry still had a good year with increased profits and employment," Thomas DiNapoli, New York's comptroller, said in a statement.
But the average bonus paid out dropped to $153,700, a 17 percent decrease from 2017, when the average bonus climbed nearly 20 percent from 2016.
That's double the average salary for the rest of New York City's private sector workforce, according to DiNapoli.
Wall Street salaries — including bonuses — averaged $422,500 in 2017, 85 percent greater than the average U.S. household income of $61,372 that same year, according to census data.
Wall Street bonuses only decreased because the number of those receiving bonuses increased, DiNapoli said.
The health of Wall Street is important to all New York. About 13 percent of all state revenue comes from the industry in the city.
New York City's securities industry added 4,700 new jobs last year, employing over 180,000 people total — the most in a decade.
But the industry is still 4 percent smaller than it was before the 2007 financial crisis.
Still, one in 11 jobs in New York City are tied to the securities industry, DiNapoli said.
And the average salary — including bonuses — in the industry was more $422,500 in 2017.
That's five times higher than the average private sector job in the New York City, which pays an average of $77,100.
The number of Wall Street bonuses has fluctuated since the financial crisis.
While the average bonus paid out dropped 17 percent last year, over $27.5 billion in bounses was still distributed.
That's 14 percent less than 2017 when over $32 billion was paid out at an average rate of $184,000 per person.
But more people received bonuses in 2018 than in 2017, according to DiNapoli, which accounts for the drop in average.
That state estimates the average bonus paid out for the 2018-19 fiscal year will decrease by 15 percent.
And New York City is estimating a 9 percent dip in securities bonuses the same year.
But future markets are filled with uncertainty, according to DiNapoli.
"It's too soon to say how the industry will fare in 2019, but trade tensions, a slowing global economy and greater economic uncertainty are all factors that could affect results," he said.


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Q: Evaluating a Surface Integral of a Sphere with radius t I had a question about a Surface Integral, I'm not sure if I'm just not understanding the notation, or if I'm right. The Surface Integral is:
$$\iint_{\partial B(0,t)} \psi(\vec x) dS_{\vec x}$$
Where $$\psi(x) = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{ if } |\vec x|\leq 1 \\ 0 & \text{ otherwise}\end{cases}$$
Now, is the value equal to $4\pi t^2$, as we are just finding the surface area of the sphere with radius $t$? I'm not sure about the inclusion of $\psi$, but it's just stating that all vectors with magnitude smaller or equal to $1$ will give $1$, which wouldn't affect the outcome of the integral no?

A: I believe the answer to your above integral to be
$$
4\pi t^2
$$
for $t\leq 1$ and $0$ otherwise. As you said,
if $t\leq 1$, you are just evaluating
$$
\int\int_{\partial B(0,t)}dS_\vec{x}=4\pi t^2
$$
and integrating over $0$ otherwise.

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## PHP漏洞靶场搭建

1. Make sure you have Git installed. You can download and install [Git for Windows here](https://git-scm.com/download/win) and [Git for Mac here](https://git-scm.com/download/mac). If you're on a Mac, chances are you might already have git installed. You can check by opening up a terminal and typing `which git`.{{end}}
1. Go to [Github.com](http://github.com) and sign up for an account.
2. Click the **+** button in the upper-right corner and select **New repository**.
3. Name the repository something like **mydoctheme**.
4. Type a description..
5. Select the **Initialize this repository with a README** check box.
6. Add a license if desired.
7. Leave the other options at the defaults and click **Create repository**.
8. Click the **Settings** button.
9. Go to your repository's home page, and click the branch drop-down menu.
10. Create a new branch called **gh-pages**.
11. Click **Settings** and change the default branch to **gh-pages**.
11. Go back to your repository's homepage. With the gh-pages branch selected, copy the **https clone url**:
12. Open a terminal, browse to a convenient location for your project, and type `git clone https://github.com/tomjoht/myreponame.git`, replacing the `https://github.com/tomjoht/myreponame.git` with your repository's https clone URL that you copied.
13. Move the jekyll theme files into this new folder that you just created in the previous step.
14. Open the \_config.yml file and add the following:

   ```
   url: tomjoht.github.io
   baseurl: /myreponame
   ```

   Change the url to your github account name, and the baseurl to your repo name.

## Install Bundler

Bundler is a package manager for Ruby that will install all dependencies you might need to build your site locally. I recommend installing Bundler through homebrew. (Sorry, these instructions apply to Mac only.)

1. Install [homebrew](http://brew.sh/):

   ```
   /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
   ```
2. Install Bundler:

   ```
   gem install bundler
   ```

## Add the github pages gem

1. In terminal, browse to your Jekyll project directory.
2. Type `bundle init`. This creates a Gemfile and Gemfile.lock in your project.
3. Type `open gemfile`. This opens the gemfile in your default text editor.
4. Add the following in the gemfile (replacing the existing contents):

   ```
   source 'https://rubygems.org'
   gem 'github-pages'
   ```

5. Run `bundle install`.
14. Add the new jekyll files to git: `git add --all`.
15. Commit the files: `git commit -m "committing my jekyll theme"`.
16. Push the files up to your github repo: `git push`.

Github Pages will now automatically build your site. Wait a minute or two, and then visit tomjoht.github.io/yourreponame, replacing this path with your github account and branch.

## Customize your URL

You can also customize your Github URL. More instructions on this later....

{% include links.html %}

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An actress who appeared in just eight episodes of the original "Star Trek" — but made harrowing allegations in a memoir of sexual assault during her tenure — has died at 85.
Grace Lee Whitney — better known as Captain Kirk's sometime love interest, Yeoman Janice Rand — died of natural causes at her home in California, her son Jonathan Dweck told the Associated Press.
Whitney, a.k.a. Yeoman Janice Rand, fights Evil Kirk.
After "Star Trek," Whitney wrote that she fell into alcoholism.
Still, Whitney continued to appear on television and returned as Rand in the first "Star Trek" film, later reprising her role in some of the sequels and TV series. She cited Nimoy as a crucial force in helping restart her career.
Whitney's family wrote that she would rather be thought of as a force for recovery than as just another face on the bridge.
"Grace experienced 35 years of sobriety through continuous fellowship with others and through God and Jesus," her family said in a statement. She wanted to be remembered as a "successful survivor of addiction," they said.
William Shatner tweeted his condolences.


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TiVo vs Comcast, Who Wins the DVR Battle?
Cable, satellite, over the air broadcast, streaming internet video – never before have we had so many choices of how to receive television programming. DVR, PVR, computer hard drive, external storage device; now we have choices in how to store programs for viewing later to consider as well. So what is true and what is hype when it comes to what's the best device? Let's peel back the layers and look at the information.
First, what is a DVR? A DVR, or digital video recorder, is a device that records video from a source for playback at another time. It often comes with a television programming guide included so you can easily locate shows you want to record. Most DVRs come with large capacity hard drives, though some have flash memory cards as their storage medium. There are a variety of types that range from small storage capacity and two tuners, up through several tuners and massive hard drive storage ability. You also can pause and rewind live TV, which is great when you want to create your own sports instant replays. Most DVRs also allow you to watch one program that was previously recorded while two others are recording, though some have greater capacity.
A TiVo is a particular kind of DVR that was first introduced in 1999. It requires a subscription to its own programming guide that can be purchased month to month, or as a "lifetime" subscription (that means the life of the TiVo, not your life, by the way). TiVos, like cable company DVRs, can record just one show or an entire season. TiVos have a smart feature which notices which shows you are watching and recommends similar ones to you based on how you rate current programs. It also uses these ratings to suggest shows to other viewers.
Let's look at a few of the main features of both so you can do a comparison. We'll look at five factors.
1.	TiVo vs Comcast: Cost and rent versus own
With a Comcast DVR, you are renting it from the cable company at a cost of $10 to $16 a month, depending on your market. There are no upfront costs, and should the device fail, you can swap it at no cost at your local Comcast service center. Some folks have found that the new X1 boxes are prone to crashes, so that free swap is handy.
A TiVo is yours to keep as long as it lasts or as long as you want it, whichever comes first. It has an initial cost of between $200 and $600, depending on the model. Plus, you have the subscription cost on top of the unit price, which is $15 a month or $500 for a "lifetime" subscription, which TiVo may or may not give you partial credit for should your device fail and you need a new one. Like the Comcast DVRs, some TiVo boxes are less than stable. It's the nature of electronics. TiVos also have advertising on them, which some Comcast channels do also, like MusicChoice, but not on all of them.
2.	TiVo vs Comcast: Services available
With a DVR from Comcast, you can only record shows that are broadcast on one of Comcast's channels or play shows that are loaded into its On Demand section. A TiVo can be connected to a number of sources, including cable via a cable card, and allow you to combine all of your viewing sources into the one box. It even connects to a high definition antenna.
The TiVo with cable card has access to all of the cable On Demand services, so in that sense it can replace all of the Comcast DVRs. However, the cable card is not free. It typically runs $1.50 per card per month, up to $2.50 per card on the Frontier system.
The menus are slightly different, as you can see below.
Comcast interface
TiVo interface
TiVos also recognize SD and HD as just different versions of the same show, instead of different channels like Comcast does, so you can set your DVR to just record HD. This makes it somewhat harder to just record HD on a TiVo.
Down the road, Comcast is planning the X2 system which would have cloud recording capacity, thus ending the need for a box in your house at all. TiVo has not yet announced such a plan.
3.	TiVo vs Comcast: Connection to a network
TiVos can be connected to your home computer network, and the newest one, the Roamio, comes with built-in wifi, for total freedom of use. Because it's on the network, you can stream shows from your computer through the TiVo box for later playback. It supports channels like Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Instant. You can also stream shows to your Apple portable devices and then take the shows with you on the plane or to the gym, or use the device as a remote control. (Android devices will have the same capacity soon.) The network capacity also means you can use your computer to control the TiVo box and view content wherever you are.
Some reviewers have also noted that the network set up is not as simple as it might be, and it requires some computer knowledge and ability. Unless you have a tech person nearby, novice computer users may not wish to set up the network.
The iPhone app remote screen looks like this:
A TiVo does have limitations of who can access which channels. For instance, it does not stream HBOGo, nor does it interface with Apple's TV programming. For that you still need an AppleTV device.
Comcast boxes simply do not network well. They are designed to broadcast the cable signals through your TV, but not on a home network. They are often easier to connect, however, just requiring a cable from the box to be plugged into the TV.
4.	TiVo vs Comcast: Recording capacity
The new TiVo, the Roamio, has as many as six tuners that can record at the same time with up to 150 hours of high definition programming. You'll never have another scheduling conflict again!
TiVos have recording capacities that range from 75 to 450 hours, depending on whether it is standard definition or high definition, and which device you are using. You can choose from three models of the Roamio. The base model costs $200 and has 75 hours of capacity. The menu and features are more limited on this one than on the others. There is a middle model priced at $400 that has the same six tuners as the high-end one but can only hold 150 hours of recordings. Then the top tier model costs $600 and has 450 hours of recording capacity, all of it in high definition.
The Comcast X1 DVR has four tuners and it can record them simultaneously. You can watch a prerecorded program while it's recording, too. It can hold 120 hours of HD or 600 hours of SD programming.
5.	TiVo vs Comcast: User interface
The Comcast X1 DVR system has a voice-activated interface and a completely different look and layout than their standard system has.
The basic Comcast remote is a multi-function remote and capable of controlling all functions, but it does not have the ability to connect to a portable device like a tablet or a smartphone to have connectivity that way like a TiVo can through an app. The remote has to be line of sight in order to work.
The TiVo device menu is in standard definition, so for those who have a high definition set up, you may find this a bit distraction or fuzzy. It does come with apps for extending what the box can do, including games for kids.
Many reviewers liked the interface on the TiVo better than the grid used on the Comcast service. The TiVo programming guide allows you to delete channels you don't watch so you're only looking at the channels you like. Comcast's guide covers every channel they offer, even ones that are not available on your tier of service.
With the TiVo Roamio, connecting to a tablet allows you to be in another room and still operate the "remote" for the TiVo DVR. Download the app onto your device and you're ready to go.
TiVo's device remote has a sleek layout called the "peanut".
What it all comes down to is looking at how you use your TV, where you get your sources from, and what your budget is. Each device has its own set of things that are appealing, and its own drawbacks. For flexibility of being able to use multiple sources and devices, the TiVo is the clear winner. For cost in the long run, it's almost a draw. For ease of connection to a TV, the Comcast box comes out on top. No matter which one you pick, you'll never run out of great programs to watch.
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Department of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Volodymyrska 64, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine .
A water-stable FeIV clathrochelate complex catalyzes fast and homogeneous photochemical oxidation of water to dioxygen with a turnover frequency of 2.27 s−1 and a maximum turnover number of 365. An FeV intermediate generated under catalytic conditions is trapped and characterised using EPR and Mössbauer spectroscopy.
TU Wien, Inst Appl Synthet Chem, Getreidemarkt 9-163, A-1060 Vienna, Austria.
Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Chem, Dept Fundamental Chem, BR-03178200 Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Chem, Dept Fundamental Chem, BR-03178200 Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland.
The use of enzymes for synthetic applications is a powerful and environmentally-benign approach to increase molecular complexity. Oxidoreductases selectively introduce oxygen and hydrogen atoms into myriad substrates, catalyzing the synthesis of chemical and pharmaceutical building blocks for chemical production. However, broader application of this class of enzymes is limited by the requirements of expensive cofactors and low operational stability. Herein, we show that morpholine-based buffers, especially 3-(N-morpholino)propanesulfonic acid (MOPS), promote photoinduced flavoenzyme-catalyzed asymmetric redox transformations by regenerating the flavin cofactor via sacrificial electron donation and by increasing the operational stability of flavin-dependent oxidoreductases. The stabilization of the active forms of flavin by MOPS via formation of the spin correlated ion pair (3)[flavin(-)-MOPS+] ensemble reduces the formation of hydrogen peroxide, circumventing the oxygen dilemma under aerobic conditions detrimental to fragile enzymes.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Warsaw, Poland.
Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Chem Engn, POB 54224, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates.
X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES) and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) provide a unique opportunity to probe both the highest occupied and the lowest unoccupied states in matter with bulk sensitivity. In this work, a combination of valence-to-core XES and pre-edge XAS techniques are used to determine changes induced in the electronic structure of titanium dioxide doped with nitrogen atoms. Based on the experimental data it is shown that N-doping leads to incorporation of the p-states on the occupied electronic site. For the conduction band, a decrease in population of the lowest unoccupied d-localized orbitals with respect to the d-delocalized orbitals is observed. As confirmed by theoretical calculations, the N p-states in TiO2 structure are characterized by higher binding energy than the O p-states which gives a smaller value of the band-gap energy for the doped material.
Silesian Tech Univ, Inst Engn Mat & Biomat, PL-44100 Gliwice, Poland.
Herein, it is presented a catalytic system for gas-phase hydrodechlorination of tetrachloromethane at low temperature and atmospheric pressure, using iridium supported on silica as parent catalyst. Iridium electronic configuration is suitable to catalyse the hydrodechlorination reactions, however, it has been rarely used in this reaction to date. The catalytic abilities were significantly improved when a second transition metal was added. Catalysts' stability and selectivity to the desired products (i.e. C-1-C-4 hydrocarbons) improved compared to conventional activation in hydrogen when catalysts were activated shortly with microwave irradiation. Microwave irradiation of catalysts favourably influences the homogeneity of the metallic active phase, both in terms of the size of metal crystals and the homogeneity of bimetallic systems. Addition of platinumto the 'parent' iridium catalyst improved its catalytic properties and decreased deactivation. Fresh and spent catalysts were comprehensively characterized using several techniques (BET, CO-chemisorption, XRD, XPS, electron microscopy and mass spectrometry) to determine structure-activity relationships and potential causes for catalyst deactivation. No significant changes in crystalline size or bimetallic phase composition were observed for spent catalysts (with the exception of Ir-Pd catalysts which underwent bulk carbide during the reaction).
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland..
Khalifa Univ Sci & Technol, Masdar Inst, Dept Chem Engn, POB 54224, Abu Dhabi, U Arab Emirates..
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland..
Phys Tech Bundesanstalt, Abbestr 2-12, D-10587 Berlin, Germany..
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland.;Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland..
Herein, we report a systematic study on the electronic structure of surface and bulk TiO2 doped with C, N or S. The results were attained with a semi-empirical method consisting of a combination between resonant X-ray emission spectroscopy (RXES) measurements and localized density of states (LDOS) simulations. Experimental TiO2 RXES data was used to fit FEFF code empirical parameters, and subsequently frozen for the theoretical analysis of LDOS of TiO2 doped materials. The results show significant electronic structure differences between bulk and surface doping, as well as in the nearest Ti atom electronic structure if it is located at the surface or sub-surface, with potential consequences to the photo-catalytic process. The methodology can be adapted to study other dopants, morphologies, structures and surface terminations and as well as other inorganic semiconductors.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Molecular Biomimetics. Natl Inst Technol Puducherry, Dept Chem, Karaikal 609609, India.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Ul Kasprzaka 44-52, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland.
The molecular water oxidation catalyst [Ru(bda)(L)(2)] has been incorporated into pyridine-decorated MIL-101(Cr) metal-organic frameworks. The resulting MIL-101@Ru materials exhibit turnover frequencies (TOFs) up to ten times higher compared to the homogenous reference. An unusual dependence of the formal TOFs on oxidant concentration is observed that ultimately arises from differing amounts of catalysts in the MOF crystals being active.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Kasprzaka 44-52, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland;Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Kasprzaka 44-52, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland.
Warsaw Univ Technol, Fac Chem, Noakowskiego 3, PL-00664 Warsaw, Poland.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Phys, Radzikowskiego 152, PL-31342 Krakow, Poland.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Kasprzaka 44-52, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Kasprzaka 44-52, PL-01224 Warsaw, Poland;Warsaw Univ Technol, Fac Chem, Noakowskiego 3, PL-00664 Warsaw, Poland.
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the most versatile semiconductor materials with multifarious potential applications. Easily accessible alkylzinc alkoxides have been widely exploited as single-source precursors of ZnO-based nanomaterials but their multi-step decomposition pathways have not been understood in detail. Herein, the formation mechanism of ZnO nanocrystals via solid-state thermal decomposition of a model pre-organised alkylzinc alkoxide precursor, i.e. [tBuZn(mu(3)-OtBu)](4), is elucidated using in situ valence-to-core X-ray emission (v2c-XES) and high energy resolution off-resonant spectroscopy (HEROS) in conjunction with theoretical calculations. Combination of in situ spectroscopic measurements and theoretical simulations indicates that the precursor structural evolution is initiated by the homolytic cleavage of the R-Zn bond, which leads to the formation of a transient radical ([center dot Zn(mu(3)-OR)][RZn(mu(3)-OR)](3)) species, which is responsible for the initial decomposition process. The ensuing multistep transformations involve the formation of intermediate radical zinc oxo-alkoxide clusters with gapless electronic states. Hitherto, the formation of clusters of this type has not been considered either as intermediate structures en route to a semiconductor ZnO phase or as potential species accounting for various defect states of ZnO NCs, particularly the singly charged oxygen vacancy, V-o(+).
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Department of Chemistry, Qena Faculty of Science, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt.
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Chemistry, Department of Chemistry - Ångström, Physical Chemistry. Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Direct proton photo-reduction to molecular hydrogen with a lead-halide perovskite photosystem is presented. The concept uses CsPbBr3 nanocrystals and Ru@TiO2 nanoparticles as light harvesters and catalyst, respectively. The photo-system attains charge transfer from donor to acceptor via collision events, established via static and ultrafast spectroscopy. The photo-system exhibits a photon-to-hydrogen efficiency of ca. 0.4%, a respectable efficiency for a system relying on effective collisions for the transference of electrons.
Polish Acad Sci, Inst Phys Chem, Warsaw, Poland.
Silesian Tech Univ, Inst Engn Mat & Biomat, Gliwice, Poland.
This work investigates the influence of activation by microwave irradiation on the catalytic properties of Pd-Au/C-Sibunit catalysts in the hydrodechlorination of CCl4. Pd and Pd-Au samples were thoroughly characterized by CO chemisorption, X-ray diffraction, TPHD and STEM, and used in gas phase hydrodechlorination of tetrachloromethane. The studies showed that homogenous Pd-Au alloys are formed more efficiently if short-time microwave activation is applied instead of conventional activation by H-2 reduction at 380 A degrees C. These catalysts show higher activity, stability and higher selectivity towards the desired products (C1-C5 hydrocarbons) than the catalysts activated by conventional reduction in 10%H-2/Ar flow.


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package com.ycsoft.beans.prod;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Date;

import com.ycsoft.daos.config.POJO;

@POJO(
		tn="P_PROMOTION_EASY_PROD",
		sn="",
		pk="promotion_id")
public class PPromotionEasyProd implements Serializable {
	private String promotion_id ;
	private String promotion_name ;
	private String promotion_code ;
	private String promotion_type ;
	private Date eff_date ;
	private Date exp_date ;
	private String prod_id;
	private String tariff_id;
	private Integer order_cycles;
	private String optr_id ;
	private Date create_time ;
	private String remark ;
	public String getPromotion_id() {
		return promotion_id;
	}
	public void setPromotion_id(String promotion_id) {
		this.promotion_id = promotion_id;
	}
	public String getPromotion_name() {
		return promotion_name;
	}
	public void setPromotion_name(String promotion_name) {
		this.promotion_name = promotion_name;
	}
	public String getPromotion_code() {
		return promotion_code;
	}
	public void setPromotion_code(String promotion_code) {
		this.promotion_code = promotion_code;
	}
	public String getPromotion_type() {
		return promotion_type;
	}
	public void setPromotion_type(String promotion_type) {
		this.promotion_type = promotion_type;
	}
	public Date getEff_date() {
		return eff_date;
	}
	public void setEff_date(Date eff_date) {
		this.eff_date = eff_date;
	}
	public Date getExp_date() {
		return exp_date;
	}
	public void setExp_date(Date exp_date) {
		this.exp_date = exp_date;
	}
	public String getProd_id() {
		return prod_id;
	}
	public void setProd_id(String prod_id) {
		this.prod_id = prod_id;
	}
	public String getTariff_id() {
		return tariff_id;
	}
	public void setTariff_id(String tariff_id) {
		this.tariff_id = tariff_id;
	}

	public Integer getOrder_cycles() {
		return order_cycles;
	}
	public void setOrder_cycles(Integer order_cycles) {
		this.order_cycles = order_cycles;
	}
	public String getOptr_id() {
		return optr_id;
	}
	public void setOptr_id(String optr_id) {
		this.optr_id = optr_id;
	}
	public Date getCreate_time() {
		return create_time;
	}
	public void setCreate_time(Date create_time) {
		this.create_time = create_time;
	}
	public String getRemark() {
		return remark;
	}
	public void setRemark(String remark) {
		this.remark = remark;
	}

}


Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA — The Performing Arts Department of Sonoma State University sought a way to improve the delivery of concert audio recordings to staff and students who requested them. The existing system involved manually locating CD-ROMs, duplicating and sending them via campus mail. The turnaround time was often measured in weeks, depending on demand and staffing.
Exit 445 designed and built a 100% web-based system, with FileMaker as the back end, that allows audio engineers to create online events and populate the events with audio files and program notes. Separately, we added a front-end that allows end users to login, search the music events, listen to audio tracks, put audio tracks into a shopping cart and then download the desired audio. The turnaround time of delivering audio files went from weeks to minutes and eliminated staff from to manually process requests.
"We are thrilled with the new Music Archive! This had been on my list for years!"


I am 28 years old and I am currently a student at UBC studying political science and am in my 3rd year. Was previously a cook in the restaurant industry. I live in Vancouver, BC Canada. I am politically conservative. I am also a huge hockey fan. My favourite team is the Toronto Maple Leafs. I love country music, watching movies, watching sports, reading books, and lots of food. This blog will be focused on politics, sports and entertainment news.