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Who likes porn sites better than Facebook or Twitter?
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Read into this whatever cultural generalizations you will: recent numbers show that citizens of Germany, Spain, the UK, and the US have higher appetites for porn than anybody on the planet.
The Guardian recently got an exclusive peek at metrics from SimilarWeb, a web measurement company based in Tel Aviv that tracks clicks online (rather than total traffic volume).
The numbers show that in the UK, for one, traffic to legal porn sites outpaces even that for social media sites, such as Facebook. In fact, porn makes up 8.5% of all UK traffic.
Steamy sites also get more UK traffic than those for shopping, news, email, finance, gaming, travel, and business/industry.
The UK isn't the top porn-loving place, though. That honor goes to Germany, where a whopping 12.5% of traffic heads to the X-rated.
The top porn-surfing countries and how much of their traffic went to the internet's gazillion shades of grey during June 2013:
Germany 12.5%
Spain 9.6%
UK 8.5%
US 8.3%
Worldwide average 7.7%
Ireland 7.5%
France 7.3%
Australia 7.0%
The only destinations more popular than porn in the UK were arts and entertainment (boosted, as it is, by YouTube traffic) at 9.5% and search engines at 15.7%.
The figures don't include traffic from mobile phones which might have told a different story.
Nor do they account for illegal searches for child abuse, which, as The Guardian notes, are typically hidden away in identity-masking networks such as Tor or peer-to-peer.
Daniel Buchuk, head of brand and strategy at SimilarWeb, told The Guardian that the world's preference for porn over chatting with our friends on social media sites – as in, not just a preference for porn over one social media site, but a preference for porn over all social media sites combined – is a tad remarkable:
"Traffic on adult sites represents a huge portion of what people use the internet for, not just in the UK but around the world ... It is astonishing to see that adult sites are more popular in the UK than all social networks combined."
Mind you, people aren't just fumbling their way into porn sites by mistyping, for example, Facebook as F**kbook, he says:
"People don't just 'stumble' upon adult content. More than 8% of Google UK searches led to adult sites in the past three months."
Of course, one doesn't want to pick on the UK, particularly given that its surfing predilections aren't the most sexy, by far.
Germany's about half as much more prone to porn surfing, for example.
But thanks to David Cameron, the UK lately has itself been introspective on the topic.
Last week, the Prime Minister gave a speech in which he announced new measures to protect children and challenged the internet's tech giants to shape up and do their part.
Upcoming changes to UK law include the criminalisation of possessing online pornography depicting rape and subjecting online videos to the same rules that pertain to those sold in licensed sex shops.
Beyond that, the more contentious changes include pervasive network-level filtering of adult content as a default position for internet access throughout the UK.
Is all this fuss warranted?
Well, kind of. Porn sites are, in fact, notoriously riskier than those serving vanilla content.
When the US Pentagon last August chewed out its missile defense workers for surfing porn on the job, a spokesman noted that the sites in question were known to have had virus and malware issues.
A government cybersecurity specialist also confirmed to Bloomberg at the time that many porn sites are infected.
Criminals and foreign intelligence services plant malware on such sites in order to gain access to and harvest data from government and corporate computer networks, the specialist explained.
So yes, porn sites carry a high risk of being boobytrapped (no pun intended).
But then again, so too do religious sites.
Nowadays, you're reportedly more likely to get infected by visiting a church website than you are when you surf porn.
When it comes to minimizing malware infection, one could argue not only for the separation of church and state, as laid out by the founders of the US, but also for the further separation of church, state, business hours and booty.
Images of computer porn and adults only courtesy of Shutterstock.
2 comments on "Who likes porn sites better than Facebook or Twitter?"
Hero of the day says:
Yay, Germany FTW!
James Wilson says:
You know if the governments are putting viruses on these porn sites then aren't they themselves committing cyber-crimes? I for one am not surprise porn is so widely accessed on the net. After all hasn't anyone heard the song done by Avenue Q called The Internet Is For Porn. It's really funny. lol
Age verification legislation will lead to porn habit database
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Angels Care is a well established childcare centre, based in Churchtown, Dublin 14. It was established in 1992 by Carmel, who at the time was a working mum finding it difficult to get quality care for her children.
Over the years we have expanded our créche and Montessori School. We now cater for 75 full time children. We have a large purpose built facility with dedicated areas for each age group and stage of development. We have an excellent nutrition program with an in house cook. Most importantly we have an excellent core of qualified, experienced, professional practitioners who have a genuine love of working with children.
At Angels Care we aim to provide a safe, loving, happy and stimulating environment where each child is treated equally. We strive to provide positive role models and a place of fun and learning so each child can meet their true potential.
What can our facility offer you?
Angels Care is a purpose built facility that can cater for 75 full time children.
All rooms are arranged to suit the age and stage of the children using them. We have recently updated our Wobbler and Toddler areas under the guidance of The Better Start Programme.
Angels Care has a state of the art kitchen and a full time cook who prepares all meals in house.
We are very lucky with the amount of outdoor space children have access to.
We have a large garden with lots to keep the children busy including an outdoor blackboard, sand pit, bikes, slide, tents, books, giant lego and a playhouse.
Children also have access to a covered play area. This means that no matter the weather we can get plenty of fresh air.
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"Show Up and Shine - Map Series # 15" (2016) by MaryLea Harris in Bend, OR.
24" x 24" framed with natural wood floating frame and wire, ready to hang (25" x 25" framed).
SUPER SALE! Marked down to move. Old inventory needs to leave my studio so I have room for my new work. My Map series is meant to explore our relationships between physical place, connection, belonging, and our collective personal journeys. I'm exploring color, texture, and line. I'm focusing on the interplay of "positive" and "negative" space as I reflect on my own positive and negative growth experiences from the past few years. The cracks are how the light gets in. I'm using these maps as a form of art therapy to explore living more simply while celebrating nature, color, texture, and line.
I want the viewer to feel happy and playful. I want them to be in the moment and feel joy. Life is short and meant to be celebrated. This particular painting was titled after a conversation with my dear friend and neighbor, Diane Fleck. She's a wise lady.


Yummy, Low Calorie Diet Food -- Plus Where to Buy!: Amy's Organic Toaster Pops - Like Apple Pie!
Amy's Organic Toaster Pops - Like Apple Pie!
The other day I heard this story on the radio where they compared two sets of dieters who ate the same amount of calories every day, but different sized meals. One group ate a 600 calorie breakfast (I know, pretty amazing) and the other group ate a more normal breakfast. The result they quoted was staggering: the group that ate the big breakfast lost ~20% of their weight, whereas the other group only lost ~4%.
As someone who usually eats a very small breakfast during the work week (I generally eat a 2 weight watchers point breakfast), I was both shocked and intrigued. Could this really be true? Well, I can't say that I'm going to find out by eating a 600 calorie breakfast (I'd barely be able to eat anything else for the rest of the day), but I am considering shifting around when I eat what, in an effort to see if this might work for me. My guess is that this is one of those things that probably works really well for some, and less well for others.
I realize that giving up dessert (and eating something more dessert-like in the mornings) would allow me to eat a bit more for breakfast, and less calories during the day. So, this is my plan, at least for a few days, to see how it goes. Which brings me to a food recommendation for today... Amy's "could almost be mistaken for apple pie" Toaster Pops!
As you know, I love Amy's foods. I've posted before about her soups as well as her soy macaroni and cheese (by the way, I recently discovered that she makes a yummy gluten free mac and cheese as well!). Amy delivers great taste and a wonderful breakfast through her organic, vegan, Toaster Pops that taste so good (the outside is like pie crust, the inside is like apple pie filling) it is difficult to believe that each one only has 150 calories! Each Toaster Pop is 3 WW points (a bit of a bigger weekday breakfast for me, without going crazy), and is well balanced with whole wheat ingredients, real organic apples, and only 3.5 g of fat, 6g of sugar, and 4g of protein.
If you are trying to keep your breakfasts less than 3 weight watchers points, than you might want to consider eating these as a 3 WW point dessert or snack with some fat free whipped cream. They are totally scrumptious. I usually buy Amy's at Whole Foods, but I've also seen them available at some Safeways.
I love these! I put a serving of PB2 on top as frosting and it makes an amazing snack!


Market Monetarism – Roadmap to Economic Prosperity takes readers though a succinct, entertaining and accessible history of United States monetary policy in the postwar era, and how the Federal Reserve Board propelled the nation into The Great Inflation (think 1960s-1970s), a brief Volcker Transition (early 1980s), then a pleasant sojourn to The Great Moderation (mid-1980s-2007), before a trip to The Great Recession (2008–). Abundant charts clearly and amply illustrate monetary and economic events. The concepts of Market Monetarism and nominal GDP targeting are also introduced, which provide a policy framework for the Federal Reserve Board and other central bankers to avoid future inflationary and recessionary traps.
Update: Scott Sumner also comments on the book.


It looks like it's going to be another snowy week in Halton this week.
According to Environment Canada, the region could see some snow almost every day.
Today (Feb. 11) the temperature is expected to be minus two with flurries.
Tomorrow will also be minus two and there is a possibility of some snow or freezing rain. Environment Canada is warning of a winter storm on Tuesday that'll include 5 to 15 cm of snow and ice pellets, freezing rain, and strong winds. Snowfall is expected to begin early Tuesday morning and transition to ice pellets later in the day.
On Wednesday it is expected to be minus one with periods of snow.
On Thursday, Environment Canada isn't calling for any snow during the day, however, the temperature is expected to be zero and it will be cloudy.
On Friday, heading into the weekend, it will be slightly warmer at two degrees and we will see periods of rain or snow.
Saturday, the temperature is expected to drop back down to minus four and there is a 60 per cent chance of flurries.


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Gentle giant Robert Poynter was a real-life hero. The veteran firefighter was retired but no one had forgotten the lives he had saved, and they still instinctively turned to him for help.
Robert, 47, had spent 19 years fighting blazes while based at the University Park firehouse near Dallas, and eventually made Captain of his crew.
He'd earned the respect of his colleagues for being able to use his physical strength in life and death situations, but also his gentle side for comforting traumatised children at the scenes.
Robert had been active in the community but also went to Louisiana in 2005 to help search for survivors in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Robert was married and had two daughters when he met Chacey Morman.
At the time, Chacey was just 20 – 12 years his junior. But he was captivated by the blonde assistant nurse and eventually left his wife for her.
The couple married in 2009, and they settled in Royce City, Texas, with their six-year-old daughter.
By 2016, Robert was retired and his seven-year marriage to Poynter was in trouble. Robert confided in friends that he had considered divorce and that Poynter, then 29, had been unfaithful with multiple men.
He'd even installed a security camera at one point and had caught Poynter out with one of her lovers.
When concerned loved ones suggested Robert leave his wife, he seemed reluctant. With a divorce already behind him, and a potential custody battle ahead, Robert wanted to make it work.
The couple even went on a holiday to Mexico in the August, but things remained strained.
On September 9, around 10.40pm, Poynter called 911 in distress from a remote country road. She said that a tall, darkly dressed man had come out of nowhere and shot her husband as he sat in her Jeep.
When first responders arrived, they found Robert slumped over the passenger seat of Poynter's Jeep with a bullet wound in his right temple.
He was dead. Poynter was hysterical and struggling to breathe. The officers had body cameras on and recorded everything she was saying.
Poynter said she was driving to meet her husband at a local restaurant, but they had been travelling to it separately.
She explained that she'd missed her turning and taken the wrong road, which had left her on the muddy track usually used by farm vehicles. Poynter said her Jeep got stuck in the mud and she had called Robert for help.
Poynter claimed that while Robert was in the Jeep trying to get it out of the mud, a man had walked out of the shadows and shot Robert in the head.
She had no clue who the man was – or why he'd pulled a gun. Poynter said she hadn't seen the face of the assassin and nothing had been taken.
But as Poynter kept talking, her story started to jump around, which made the police at the scene suspicious.
They were also stunned when, despite her husband having just been killed, Poynter started talking about the problems in her marriage.
'I was young and stupid when we got married…' she was recording saying. '…I didn't want to be married anymore.'
Detectives cautioned Poynter but she continued to tell them that they were meeting at the restaurant to talk because he had been 'trying to take my daughter away from me'.
Within an hour of being at the scene, officers already knew that Poynter and Robert's relationship had been at crisis point. 'I love him,' she insisted, when she was pressed on details.
'He's a pain in the ass but I love him.' The only part of the story that made sense was that Robert would have come to Poynter's rescue.
There was no thinkable motive for anyone wanting Robert dead – but the police soon found one.
When describing where she was in the lead up to the shooting, Poynter admitted she had been visiting someone before meeting her husband. A friend called Michael Garza.
When asked if they were dating, Poynter confessed they were having an affair and she'd had sex with Michael, 39, that day.
She admitted that she had started the affair after meeting Michael on Facebook in the summer of 2016.
Astonishingly, Poynter talked herself out of being a grieving widow and into being the prime suspect.
Down at the station, Poynter was questioned some more. Why had the shooter let her escape from the scene? Why hadn't they taken anything?
How had she not seen his face when he was just a few feet from her? But as Poynter was pushed further, the new widow finally confessed that she did know the identity of the man who had killed her husband.
It was her lover, Michael Garza. But she insisted she had no part in the killing.
Poynter tried to discredit Robert. Saying he had a temper and was on steroids which made him aggressive.
There was no evidence he was ever violent and no witnesses to back up her claims. Poynter said she'd told Garza about her husband's anger issues and he'd agreed to 'scare' him.
'I didn't want him dead,' Poynter said. 'I just – I wanted him to know what it's like to be bullied all the time. Poynter said Garza was just supposed to confront Robert.
When Garza had pulled out a gun, Poynter said she'd screamed 'stop!' but he hadn't. Police weren't convinced and, the next day,
Poynter was charged with conspiracy to murder. Her daughter was taken in by family.
A SWAT team raided truck driver Garza's home, but he was gone. But the next day, he handed himself in and was charged with murder.
While they were both in custody, a farmer found the shotgun in a field less than a mile from where Robert was killed. Records showed it belonged to Garza's brother.
There were still so many questions. Had Garza acted alone to be with the woman he was obsessed with? Had Poynter manipulated him to murder for her?
Meanwhile, Captain Robert Poynter had the funeral of a hero. His former colleagues turned out from across Texas and lined the way in his honour.
His death came as a huge shock as his career had been fraught with so many risks yet he'd made it to retirement.
In July 2018, Garza faced trial. He'd pleaded not guilty to murder. In fact, he claimed he'd given Poynter the gun and she had been the one who'd pulled the trigger.
Garza said he was at the family farm at the time of the shooting, attending to a sick animal.
The jury didn't believe him. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 99 years. Poynter was up next.
In 2019, Poynter faced a jury. The prosecution said Garza was a pawn and Poynter had played him with sex and lies.
Garza wasn't the only man she was sleeping with – she had arranged to have sex with another man later that day.
The prosecution said she had tried to manipulate other men into killing Robert, but Garza had been the one who had agreed.
They said Poynter had been pushed into action because Robert had reached out to a divorce lawyer on Facebook and had sent the message: 'I'm thinking of a surprise attack.'
It was likely that he was going to file for divorce, sell the house and fight for custody of their daughter. But there was another motive: money.
Robert had a life insurance policy that was worth £685,000. Prosecutors said she hoped Robert would die from an accident so she'd get the money and when that didn't happen, she planned his murder.
At the trial, Poynter painted Robert as a violent and abusive husband. No one backed up her claims.
Poynter said she only wanted Garza to talk to Robert and explain they were going to live together. But the night before the murder, she sent Garza a text that read: 'I can't love you unless Robert is out of the picture.'
There were thousands of text messages between Poynter and Garza – as well as other men.
She made out to her lovers that Robert was a threat to her and suggested that she needed him 'gone'.
The defence said Poynter's affairs were wrong – but they didn't make her a killer. Poynter didn't take the stand but the jury did hear the recorded police videos.
At one point she put her head in her hands and said: 'Oh no. What have I done?'
After a two-week trial, Poynter, 32, was found guilty of capital murder. She was sentenced to life in prison without the chance for parole. Garza has appealed his conviction and still claims he is innocent.
It was a case full of sex and lies but at the heart of it all was a woman who was willing to do anything to get what she wanted.
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A Smithsonian magazine special report
These Actresses Were Never Nominated for an Oscar But Can Still Earn Your Vote
The National Portrait Gallery will hang the winner on its walls this winter
Last year, the National Portrait Gallery unveiled a special wall in our galleries, called "Recognize," as a place to highlight one important person in our collection as chosen by the Portrait Gallery's friends and fans. This is a chance for the public to help us decide what will go on display, from a group of three portraits currently in storage. The candidate with the most votes will be featured on the "Recognize" wall, near the north entrance to our museum. In the previous iteration, voters selected a photograph of baseball legend Roberto Clemente by artist Charles "Teenie" Harris.
With Oscar season upon us, we thought it would be entertaining to learn about some of the actors who were "robbed" of an Oscar. These three fan favorites did not receive a nomination during their illustrative careers. So turn back the clock and vote for the actor you think deserves to be recognized. You can vote once a day until the competition closes on December 18, 2015, at 6 p.m. ET.
You may view the winning portrait on the National Portrait Gallery's first floor from January 22 to March 6, 2016.
Rita Hayworth (1918-1987)
(Unidentified artist Halftone poster, c. 1945 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution S/NPG.89.22)
Born Margarita Carmen Cansino, Rita Hayworth began her career performing with her father as "The Dancing Cansinos." By the early 1940s, however, she had emerged as a Hollywood star in such films as The Strawberry Blonde, Blood and Sand, and You'll Never Get Rich. With Cover Girl, a 1944 Technicolor musical that co-starred Gene Kelly, Hayworth became a top box-office star.
Gilda (1946) was the film that solidified Hayworth's career and required serious acting chops for the eponymous role of the explosive, sexual Gilda.
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)
(Philippe Halsman (1906–1979) Gelatin silver print, 1952 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution © Philippe Halsman Archive NPG.98.45)
In 1959, Jack Lemmon was nominated for Some Like It Hot; however, his co-star, Marilyn Monroe, was not nominated for her signature role as Sugar Kane Kowalczyk. In fact, Monroe went her entire career without an Oscar nomination. Although Monroe's life is a familiar one, it is worth noting that she made twenty-nine films over her fifteen-year acting career. Philippe Halsman took this photograph of Monroe in 1952 for Life magazine. Halsman later said, "she smiled, flirted, giggled and wriggled with delight. During the hour I kept her cornered she enjoyed herself royally, and I . . . took between 40 and 50 pictures."
Mae West (1893–1980)
(C. Kenneth Lobben (1905–1961) Gelatin silver print, 1935 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Keith de Lellis S/NPG.95.119)
Beginning her career in vaudeville, Mae West advanced to Broadway, where her greatest success was as the lead in Diamond Lil, a play of her own creation. In 1931 she went to Hollywood, and two years later her films I'm No Angel and She Done Him Wrong were setting box-office records. She co-starred with Cary Grant in both pictures, and although She Done Him Wrong earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, West herself was not nominated. By 1935 she numbered among Hollywood's highest-paid stars.
Today, she is still remembered for such suggestively delivered lines as "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."
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Solving equations may look like a piece of cake to the math masters, but is it still easy when you need to spot the needle in the haystack? Come and check if you are observant enough in this interesting puzzle game with a mathematical twist! Your goal is to solve the given equations one by one, then locate the answers in a grid which contains numerous numbers. When the game starts, a question will be shown at the lower left corner, and the grid will be located on the right of the screen. After solving the equation, you need to click and drag the corresponding numbers in the grid. The numbers can be read horizontally, vertically or diagonally, and can run in any direction, such as from left to right, right to left, bottom right to upper left, etc. After marking the answer, you can click the Check button at the bottom of the screen to see if it is correct. If your answer is wrong, you need to calculate again in order to proceed. A timer at the top left corner will record the time you have taken to answer the questions. Calculate and find out the answers speedily to receive huge rewards!
This game was suggested by Tracy.


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Prestige, charitable deductions and other determinants of alumni giving: Evidence from a highly selective liberal arts college
Economics of Education Review Volume 28, Number 1 ISSN 0272-7757 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Private institutions of higher education are highly dependent on alumni support to cover operating expenses, fund endowments and fuel large capital campaigns. For example, in 2004, alumni at private liberal arts colleges generated nearly 43% of total voluntary support and funded 21.5% of total institutional expenditures. This paper uses 15 years of detailed data on alumni donations to a private liberal arts college to explore a full range of potential determinants of giving. Results suggest that wealthy alumni who live in states that allow charitable tax deductions are more generous than otherwise similar alumni in states without such subsidies. Alumni contributions also increase in years when the college has achieved greater athletic prestige but fall when academic prestige rises. Furthermore, recent alumni are more influenced by institutional prestige than older graduates. With regard to other determinants, females tend to be more generous, as do alumni living in wealthier neighborhoods within 250 miles of the college. Alumni who have close alumni relatives tend to give more as do alumni who participated in campus activities during their college years. Undergraduate major and occupational sector are also strong predictors of giving behavior.
Holmes, J. Prestige, charitable deductions and other determinants of alumni giving: Evidence from a highly selective liberal arts college. Economics of Education Review, 28 (1), 18-28. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved January 22, 2020 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/206464/.
This record was imported from Economics of Education Review on March 1, 2019. Economics of Education Review is a publication of Elsevier.
Full text is availabe on Science Direct: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2007.10.008
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In every season Bonn invites you to celebrate and enjoy life!
Springtime: In the first months of the year, Carnival attracts people of all ages to dress up and participate in one of the many parades in Bonn, Cologne and its surroundings! Shortly after, in April, DHL hosts a marathon and in the Old City Part the Cherry blossoms appear – a spectacle for which our lovely Bonn is now world-famous.
– and one of the world's best ice cream parlors treats you with a great reward!
In early September, the fair "Pützchens Markt" attracts around one million guests and in the weeks after that all kinds of classical and modern music fans celebrate "Beethovenfest".
And then the winter: A wonderful Christmas time! The fantastic Christmas market spreads throughout the city centre. Scents, music and greatly decorated market stalls attracts around one million visitors annually.
Do not miss our special rates for these or other big events!
Just in time for the start of spring season, the cherries have just blossomed! This internationally famous spectacle is unique in Bonn and only lasts around 10 days every year... So make sure to get your camera ready and catch a glimpse of this beautiful sight!
April, April - surprises at will! While the weather has not quite arrived in warmer temperatures, we offer you some great alternatives to spend your time here: Why not get yourself a bit of culture? Bonn is famous for its sensational "Museum mile".
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Q: Rendering a label for multiple dropdown selection I have a multi dropdown select that lets you chose food item,s then when clicked you can add a text value to the end.  I'm using 'semantic-UI-react' for the Dropdown component.  My problem is that when I add the new value to my nested object, the label disappears. I can set either the label or nested object with the desired values, but when I try to do it together,  the label always disappears.  Pics for reference

This is my code for it working this way:
const renderLabel = (item, i, { value }) => ({
    content: value,
    onClick: (e) => {
      const servingSize = prompt(value + ' serving size:');
      if (servingSize !== null) {
        value = item.text + ' ' + servingSize;
        e.target.firstChild.textContent = value;
      };
    }
  });

<Dropdown clearable id="breakfast-fruits1" renderLabel={renderLabel} search allowAdditions onAddItem={handleAddition} className="dropdown" placeholder="Fruits" fluid multiple selection options={fruits} onChange={handleChange} />

When I try to set state the last label disappears.
const renderLabel = (item, i, { value }) => ({
    content: value,
    onClick: (e) => {
      const servingSize = prompt(value + ' serving size:');
      if (servingSize !== null) {
        value = item.text + ' ' + servingSize;
        e.target.firstChild.textContent = value;
        setResult((prevResult) => {
          prevResult.monday.breakfast.fruits[i] = value;
          return prevResult;
        })
      };
    }
  });

Any ideas on how to make it work or set up better?  I have tried many different ways to render the label and change the state/result.  Let me know if I can include anything else in the question to make it more solvable.
Here is my fruits state:
const [ fruits, setFruits ] = useState([
    { key: 'Apple', text: 'Apple', value: 'Apple' },
    { key: 'Apricot', text: 'Apricot', value: 'Apricot' },
    { key: 'Banana', text: 'Banana', value: 'Banana' },
    { key: 'Berries', text: 'Berries', value: 'Berries' },
    { key: 'Blackberries', text: 'Blackberries', value: 'Blackberries' },
    { key: 'Blueberries', text: 'Blueberries', value: 'Blueberries' },
    { key: 'Cantaloupe', text: 'Cantaloupe', value: 'Cantaloupe' },
    { key: 'Cherries', text: 'Cherries', value: 'Cherries' },
    { key: 'Grapefruit', text: 'Grapefruit', value: 'Grapefruit' },
    { key: 'Honeydew', text: 'Honeydew', value: 'Honeydew' },
    { key: 'Kiwi', text: 'Kiwi', value: 'Kiwi' },
    { key: 'Melon', text: 'Melon', value: 'Melon' },
    { key: 'Nectarine', text: 'Nectarine', value: 'Nectarine' },
    { key: 'Orange', text: 'Orange', value: 'Orange' },
    { key: 'Papaya', text: 'Papaya', value: 'Papaya' },
    { key: 'Peach', text: 'Peach', value: 'Peach' },
    { key: 'Pear', text: 'Pear', value: 'Pear' },
    { key: 'Pineapple', text: 'Pineapple', value: 'Pineapple' },
    { key: 'Plum', text: 'Plum', value: 'Plum' },
    { key: 'Raspberries', text: 'Raspberries', value: 'Raspberries' },
    { key: 'Strawberries', text: 'Strawberries', value: 'Strawberries' },
    { key: 'Tangerine', text: 'Tangerine', value: 'Tangerine' },
    { key: 'Watermelon', text: 'Watermelon', value: 'Watermelon' }
  ]);

Here is my onChange function:
const handleChange = (e, { value }) => {
    const newData = update(result, {
      monday: {breakfast: {fruits: {$set: value}}}
    });
    setResult(newData);
  };

Here is my handleAddition function:
const handleAddition = (e, data) => {
    console.log(data.value);
    setFruits((prevFruits) => {
      return [
        ...prevFruits,
        { text: data.value, key: data.value, value: data.value }
      ];
    });
  };

A: I would suggest breaking up the issue in 2 separate parts: renderLabel should only render label and return JSX to show on screen, and let's define a new function that handles the state updating. Render label can handle updating the new visuals if we can get the state updating functioning.
Let's begin.
Here the renderLabel function should have a single purpose, which is to display the label when the React component renders and re-renders.
In your code snippet number 2, it looks like you are trying to use a React Hook setResult to change the state of the app. It is recommended to define a separate function called e.g. onLabelClick, which then takes care of updating the state.
UPDATE
I wrote a CodePen on the issue and tested the functionality of your code.
You can take a look at My CodePen Dropdown Test It seems that when the option value is changed the text changes, too. These changes are not saved in options object.
I did not solve the problem, let's see if CodePen helps.
About state management
Finally, the code snippet 2 mutates the state of prevState, which is an antipattern in state updating systems. Always copy the previous state and merge with new substate, for example using
const newState = {...prevState, nameOfTheProperyToOverrideInPrevState: newValue};

this can prevent bugs in the app. Some popular state management systems are e.g.

*

*Redux

*Functional components using Hooks state

*Immutable.js

Reading about how they work can help realise why state updating can fail in more depth.

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His departure from SGRE was announced last week as part of a raft of changes in the group's management with former Senvion chief executive, Andreas Nauen, named as Hannibal's replacement.
Hannibal joined Siemens in 2004, and since 2011 led the German manufacturer's offshore unit, prior to this year's merger with Gamesa. Before that he led Siemens' offshore division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and was head of offshore sales between 2004 and 2008.
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Oz Gym Boys Win Prestigious XBiz Award
Matt and Steve, better known to some in the cam-world as Oz Gym Boys, recently won the accolade of 2018 Best Cam Duo at the XBIZ Awards held in Miami, Florida. "When they called our names, we started clapping because we thought it was someone else," Matt and Steve said. "After only five months in the business, we really couldn't believe we [had] won. We were so speechless and emotional up on stage."
"This is a fantastic achievement for the men," said Adrian Griffiths of Aphrodite's Pleasure, Oz Gym Boys lead sponsor. "We are so proud of them for winning after such a short time working as cammers," Camming has allowed Matt and Steve to make changes to their lives. Matt has recently stopped work as a miner and Steve is also re-directing from his tradie role to camming role.
Matt and Steve started camming after attending an event in Sydney which had a cam set up and they experienced being watched for the first time. "Tuesday nights used to be our sexy night where we would try new toys and take videos," Matt and Steve said, "So we cammed the next Tuesday and discovered people enjoyed watching us." Within four weeks on the Cam4 platform they had become Australia's leading male cam couple.
Matt and Steve first met five years ago when they had a passionate and intense, yet short relationship. They remained friends and reconnected sexually four years later. That was over 12 months ago and are now sailing through their relationship. So we asked them questions about camming and their relationship.
How do you negotiate the difference between your relationship and your cam persona?
What makes us different from most cam models is that what we show on cam is the real us. People appreciate that they get to engage with the real us and not an act we put on for our shows. The fans know lots about us because we let them see everything.
Balancing your sex life must be difficult for the two of you. Does the sex on-screen impact on your sex lives off-screen?
Not at all. We are the horniest people you'll ever meet [laughter]. We enjoy sex – that is what led us to cam in the first place. We have so much passion for each other that we have sex multiple times a day.
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Our relationship is based on friendship. We spent four years as friends before we (re-)entered our relationship. So we are the best of friends as well as lovers. Like many couples, working together has allowed us to become closer and in some ways inseparable. Although we do have our alone time as well.
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We are just ourselves, fans tell us all the time that they appreciate that we take the time to talk to them and answer their questions where a lot of cam models are in it for quick money. If you have seen our shows you will also know that we can offer something only a few others can. We do everything from hard fucking to fisting and we even have a famous move that involve a chain, I will let your imagination work that one out. As hard, rough and dominating as our sex is the love that we have for each other is always apparent and our fans appreciate that.
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One final question, what is your fetish?
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Apr 7, 2021 11:54 AM EDT
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Senior Reporter Stephen Stirling, an investigative data journalist featured in FiveThirtyEight, PBS Frontline, USA Today and more. Stirling is a recipient of the IRE medal, two ONA awards and a Scripps-Howard award
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Earlier this July, the Augmented Reality (AR) game Pokémon Go, took the world by storm with its unusual graphics and mass appeal. Successfully combining nostalgia of a bygone era with cutting edge technology, Pokémon Go soon became a global phenomenon. With millions of downloads on both iOs and Android platforms, Pokémon Go has created history.
Riding on the coattails of Pokémon Go's instant success, Axis Bank aims to introduce the use of Augmented Reality feature in its mobile banking application. Borrowing Pokémon Go's location based feature, consumers will now be able to look for dining offers, cash backs, ATM locations and even apartments which are preapproved for home loans. This will ensure that consumers are a reward for their continued loyalty to Axis Bank. Since mobile banking has gained serious momentum in the recent years, introducing new features to its mobile application will be beneficial for Axis Bank.
Like Pokémon Go, the Axis Bank app offers a camera view, bird view and a map view that allows consumers to scan their surroundings for available offers. With the search feature located at the pre login stage, the app is extremely user friendly. Due to the introduction of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mobile banking applications become interoperable. This means that one mobile app can access multiple accounts and there is no need for repeated registration.
As the first mobile banking app to use Augmented Reality in India, Axis Bank has capitalized on the open source nature of AR. While the app is not the first game to introduce GPS based search features, it is the first to adopt the concept of Augmented Reality in such a playful manner. Consumers can simply use the apps camera to scan their surroundings to check for available offers. This is useful for consumers on the go as the app is updated at regular intervals.
Currently, the application is available to account holders as most of the offers are applicable to existing customers only. However, Axis Bank aims to incorporate the app into Pingpay as well. This will allow non account holders to gain access to the app and avail of the offers and discounts.
With mobile applications making websites redundant, it is important for businesses to always be on top of their game. Applications must be constantly updated so that consumers can continue their banking activities without facing any problems. At the same time, care should be taken that safety and security of consumer information are not compromised. Now that Axis Bank has created an app using AR, we can expect more and more banks to use this feature for their respective applications.


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"…Rick's program was one of the best attended and well received. His audience described him as an energetic and knowledgeable speaker providing information that was useful, helpful and practical."
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Once again, thank you for being a great supporter of the NRA Show and for lending your time and knowledge. I am confident the people who attended your session learned a great deal and that the information you provided will not only benefit them, but ultimately the entire industry.
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International Intellectual Property Law
International Intellectual Property Law (LAWS8136)
This course will cover the principal international institutions dealing with substantive IP law, current international debates, and the practice of WTO dispute settlement. Topics include:
The international framework for intellectual property law
Background to WIPO and the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Intellectual property as an international issue in relation to trade, development, technology transfer, the environment, and human rights
The law and practice of the WTO TRIPS Agreement
Current international responses to intellectual property issues Harmonisation and diversity in national intellectual property law
This course considers a number of key issues of the debate over intellectual property and development, including:
the WIPO Development Agenda;
the World Trade Organization and the TRIPS Agreement;
bilateral and regional TRIPS-Plus Agreements, and the proposed Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
the WIPO Copyright Treaties, access to knowledge (A2K) and the Creative Commons;
trade mark law, geographical indications, Fair Trade labels, and other certification schemes;
The Doha Declaration, the TRIPS Waiver, the WHO Global Strategy, and access to essential medicines
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, intellectual property and climate change;
The Convention on Biological Diversity, access to genetic resources, and traditional knowledge; and
The UPOV Convention, the FAO Agreement on Plant Genetic Resources, agricultural intellectual property and food security.
This unit will examine intellectual property law from an international perspective, ranging from current international policy debates on development, biotechnology, genetic resources and electronic commerce, to international dispute settlement under the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights. It is expected that students will have on completion of the unit:
An understanding of the history and comparative roles of the various elements of the international system which deal with intellectual property law
A capacity to analyse international policy issues concerning intellectual property, and the manner in which various international negotiations and institutions deal with these issues
A comprehensive knowledge of the issues concerning intellectual property and development
An understanding of the interaction between intellectual property law and legal mechanisms on trade, environment, and human rights
A practical grasp of the jurisprudence and procedure of the application of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism to intellectual property disputes
Familiarity with emerging issues and issues under negotiation, including those concerned with access to knowledge, biotechnology, climate change, trade marks and geographical indications, access to genetic resources, and the protection of traditional knowledge.
In keeping with the approach of the course, students can choose a topic in their area of interest or in consultation with the convenor.
Compulsory Research Essay. Word length: 6,000 to 8,000 words.
To enrol in this course you must be studying in one of the following programs; Master of Laws (7300) Master of Laws (Legal Practice) (7312) Master of Diplomacy/Master of Laws (7883) Graduate Diploma in Law (6300) AND have completed LAWS8182 OR You must be studying in one of the following programs; Master of Legal Studies (7305) Master of Environmental Law (7309) Master of Government and Commercial Law (7313) Master of International Law (7310) Master of Law, Governance and Development (7317) Master of International Security Law (7318) Master of Diplomacy/Master of International Law (7893) Graduate Diploma in Law, Governance and Development (6317) Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies (6305) Graduate Diploma in Environmental Law (6309) Graduate Diploma in Government and Commercial Law (6313) Graduate Diploma in International Law (6310) Graduate Diploma in International Security Law (6318) Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice (6303) Graduate Certificate in Environmental Law (6351) AND have completed LAWS8015 OR LAWS8182
Jeremy de Beer, (ed.) Implementing the World Intellectual Property Organization's Development Agenda (Ottawa, Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2009).
Commission on Intellectual Property Rights, Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy (London: United Kingdom Government, 2002).
Daniel Gervais, (ed), Intellectual Property, Trade and Development: Strategies to Optimize Economic Development in a TRIPS-Plus Era (2007); and
Amy Kapczynski, 'The Access to Knowledge Mobilization and the New Politics of Intellectual Property' (2008) 117 Yale Law Journal 804-885
Thomas Pogge, Matthew Rimmer and Kim Rubenstein, (ed.) Incentives for Global Public Health: Patent Law and Access to Medicines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, (forthcoming), http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521116565
Neil Weinstock Netanel (ed.) The Development Agenda: Global Intellectual Property and Developing Countries (2008)
World Intellectual Property Organization. 45 Recommendations under the World Intellectual Property Organization Development Agenda. Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization, 2007, http://www.wipo.int/ip-development/en/agenda/recommendations.html#c


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Q: How to properly include a tikzpicture inside another tikzpicture? I have a command to create a sort of box that I use to write various things such as definitions or theorems. It involves writing the content of the box inside a tikzpicture to style the box the way I want (see minimal working example below).
The code is made by me off of bits I found on the internet and it certainly could be made very much better - but until now it has been working properly. That is, until I tried to include pictures in it. Nested TikZ environments are generally a bad idea but I do not see any other way to achieve the result I want. The command \tikz and the environment tikzpicture produce similar results.
In particular, the nodes do not appear quite at the position they are meant to (they are north east of where they should) and manually setting an anchor to them sends them way off at the left of the picture. Despite using \centering or the center environment, the picture is not centered horizontally.
It also looks like the vertical spacing above the text in the box is made wrong by the presence of the picture.
Any idea would be greatly appreciated, in particular I was thinking maybe it is possible to have TeX generate the TikZ picture first, independently of the fact it is nested, and then include it like with a includegraphics command (which works fine).
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{attachfile}
\usepackage{tikz}

\newlength{\saveparindent}
\AtBeginDocument{\setlength{\saveparindent}{\parindent}}
\newlength{\titlel}
\newsavebox{\boxcontent}
\newlength{\contenth}
\newcounter{saveequation}
\newcounter{savefootnote}
\newcounter{savefigure}

\newcommand{\boxedparagraph}[5]{
    \setcounter{saveequation}{\theequation}
    \setcounter{savefootnote}{\thefootnote}
    \setcounter{savefigure}{\thefigure}
    \settowidth{\titlel}{\textbf{#3} \textsc{#1}}
    \savebox{\boxcontent}{%
        \parbox[t]{0.88\textwidth}{
            \setlength{\parindent}{\saveparindent}
            #2\par\xdef\savedprevdepth{\the\prevdepth}
        }%
    }%
    \setcounter{equation}{\thesaveequation}
    \setcounter{footnote}{\thesavefootnote}
    \setcounter{figure}{\thesavefigure}
    \setlength{\contenth}{\ht\boxcontent+\dp\boxcontent}
    \begin{center}
        \begin{tikzpicture}
            \draw[color = #5, fill = #5] (0, 0) -- (0, 0.3cm + \contenth) arc (180:90:0.3) -- (0.88\textwidth + 0.6cm, 0.6cm + \contenth) arc (90:0:0.3) -- (0.88\textwidth + 0.9cm, 0.3) arc (0:-90:0.3) -- cycle;
            \draw[color = #4, line width = 1.5pt] (0, 0) -- (0, 0.3cm + \contenth) arc (180:90:0.3) -- (0.5cm + \titlel, \contenth + 0.6cm) arc (-90:0:0.2) -- (0.7cm + \titlel, \contenth + 1.1cm);
            \draw (0.4, \contenth + 0.9cm) node[anchor = west]{\textbf{#3} \textsc{#1}};
            \draw (0.3, 0.2) node[anchor = south west, rectangle, text justified, text width = 0.88\textwidth]{\noindent

            #2

            \par
            \prevdepth\savedprevdepth};
        \end{tikzpicture}
    \end{center}
}

\newcounter{definition}
\newcommand{\definition}[2]{
    \refstepcounter{definition}
    \boxedparagraph{#1}{#2}{Definition \thedefinition\ :}{orange}{yellow}
}

\begin{document}

\definition{Title of the box}{Text}

\definition{Title of the box}{
Text
\begin{center}
    \tikz{\draw (0, 0) circle(1); \draw (0, 0) node{$\bullet$};}
\end{center}
}

\definition{Title of the box}{
Text
\begin{center}
    \tikz{\draw (0, 0) circle(1); \draw (0, 0) node[anchor=center]{$\bullet$};}
\end{center}
}

\end{document}

A: Your box made with a tcolorbox could be something like this:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{attachfile}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage[most]{tcolorbox}

\newtcbtheorem[auto counter]{mydefinition}{Definition}{%
    enhanced,
    sharp corners=southwest,
    fonttitle=\bfseries,
    description font=\mdseries\scshape,
    attach boxed title to top left,
    boxed title style={colframe=white, colback=white},
    coltitle=black,
    colback=yellow,
    colframe=yellow,
    overlay = {\draw[orange, rounded corners, ultra thick] (frame.south west)|-(title.south)-|(title.north east);}
}{def}

\begin{document}

\begin{mydefinition}{Title of the box}{a}
Text
\end{mydefinition}

\begin{mydefinition}{Title of the box}{}
Text
\begin{center}
    \tikz{\draw (0, 0) circle(1); \draw (0, 0) node{$\bullet$};}
\end{center}
\end{mydefinition}

\begin{mydefinition}{Title of the box}{}
Text
\begin{center}
    \tikz{\draw (0, 0) circle(1); \draw (0, 0) node[anchor=center]{$\bullet$};}
\end{center}
\end{mydefinition}

\end{document}

As you can see, you use an environment with two parameters, the first one is the definition title and the second a label for further reference.


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Our precious little Frog Dogs! They are so cute. They Have the temperament and personalities of a big breed, but in a smaller package.
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Q: Ubuntu 17.04 doesnt suspend automatically at critical level My system does not hibernate or suspend automatically when asked to in dconf configuration files. I have tried some workarounds and I eventually found a script that used to work however with a new fresh installation of Ubuntu the script just poweroff the whole system (Won't Hibernate when Battery Critical - answer by Goghard). I also tried to modify the grub file by myself, with no success unfortunately.
My ultimate scope is to suspend the system at a critical level defined by % battery level.
I attach also the partitions of my system, I added recently another swap partition to attempt to fix the problem.
    NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 256,2G  0 disk

─sda1   8:1    0   476M  0 part /boot

─sda2   8:2    0  55,9G  0 part /

─sda3   8:3    0   3,7G  0 part [SWAP]

─sda4   8:4    0    95M  0 part /boot/efi

─sda5   8:5    0 186,3G  0 part /home

─sda6   8:6    0   9,8G  0 part [SWAP]

sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

The grub file reports the following:
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# For full documentation of the options in this file, see:
#   info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration'

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume=/dev/sda6"

# Uncomment to enable BadRAM filtering, modify to suit your needs
# This works with Linux (no patch required) and with any kernel that obtains
# the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...)
#GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef"

# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console

# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
#GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true

# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"

# Uncomment to get a beep at grub start
#GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1"`


Among the many ways America is exceptional is this: Average citizens living in the heartland often carry more wisdom in their guts than the elites living in the intellectual capitals hold in their heads.
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll demonstrates this truth yet again. Asked, "Do you agree with the new military policy of initiating preemptive strikes," fully 63 percent agreed. Only 25 percent disagreed, with 12 percent unsure.
That's a landslide. But more interestingly, it is a result that would never be expected by anyone talking (or listening) to "experts" in Washington or on the vast majority of America's campuses. In such places, the idea of preemption conjures up distasteful visions of Rambo bursting from the jungle, machine guns blazing.
In part, this represents a divide between interests and values.
If I were to say to you: "Give me $100 and I can save the life of a child in Bolivia," you might give me the money - based on your humanitarian values.
But if I were to say to you: "Give me $100 and I can save your child's life," you'll do it - based on your own self-interest.
Average Americans, having absorbed the hard lessons of 9/11, are no longer content to sit back and wait passively as terrorists draw up plans to burn and bury as many innocent men, women and children as possible. Average Americans understand that their interests are ill-served by a government policy of only punishing terrorists after atrocities have been committed. Their interests are better served by preventing future attacks. Realistically, that can't be accomplished unless the war is taken to the terrorists and their sponsors - in other words, it can't be accomplished without preemption.
By contrast, intellectual elites are often adept at putting aside their interests in favor of their values. Those values include adherence to long-established principles of international relations, among them this: Recourse to war can only be justified as resistance to acts of aggression or to imminent attack.
How strict has the definition of "imminent" been? In 1967, with Egyptian tanks massed on Israel's borders and Gamal Abdel-Nasser calling for Arab states to join together to destroy Israel once and for all, President Lyndon Johnson advised Israel's leaders not to strike "preemptively" but to absorb the first blow and retaliate afterward.
But what the unwashed masses today see more clearly than do the well-groomed elites is the fact that the world is not what it used to be. A taboo against preemption made sense when conventional leaders were deploying conventional military forces and using conventional weapons. Such a taboo encouraged restraint and provided time for diplomacy to work.
But when the enemy is terrorists who defend no territory, wear no uniforms, target civilians and may have access to weapons of mass destruction, diplomacy's uses are limited. Where suicide terrorists are concerned, deterrence is not an option.
In such a world - the world of the 21st century - the elites' opposition to pre-emption has to be seen as reactionary - a commitment to a principle from a bygone era, a failure to recognize that, in a dramatically changed international environment, rules, too, must change.
No one is arguing that the United States should adopt a policy of going to war at the drop of a hat, of initiating hostilities against those who merely oppose us or disagree with us - a list that would include France, Germany and Russia, among many others.
What proponents of a policy of preemption do say, however, is that we can no longer ignore the threat posed by violently anti-American terrorist groups and the regimes that support them. Preemption should always be a last resort. But groups and individuals that plan terrorist acts must be made to comprehend that their actions will have serious consequences.
In war, soldiers do not wait until the enemy fires on them. And this is a war we're engaged in, a war that began before 9/11 and didn't end with the destruction of the Taliban or the fall of Baghdad. Most Americans get that. It's only the intellectuals who are too smart to understand.


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Does anyone have feedback on Hydro-Turf for a 2000 Speedster. I like what I have seen for pictures but I am curious how well it stands up.
I have it on mine and I couldn't live without it.
There are some pics of the turf on my boat here, http://seadoosportbo...?album=7&page=2.
Got it on my sportster scic . Into 2nd year in hot Florida sun. Gets plenty of use. Had one small corner lift , reglued ok . I agree with Kevin , once you have it you will wonder how you ever did without it.


Rebounding on my bellicon is incredibly fun. I love the quiet and smooth bounce action. I can't believe how toned I am getting in such a short time (less than 2 months of daily use). I'm losing weight without even trying and I feel so good physically as well as mentally, even after a short bounce session.
I'm so glad I decided to shell out the extra money for the best bouncer in the world.


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Most Expensive Google Acquisitions
Most Expensive, Technology Gabriela N. Friday, 26 September 2014, 08:41 1
Most Expensive Google Acquisitions | TOP 10
We all know Google and how powerful the company is, so what's coming next is no surprise for anyone. Especially if you know that Google is one of the top companies in the world.
In the last ten years, Google has made several acquisition worth billion.
Whatever they want, they can have it. So let's take a look at what they wanted and see how much they paid for it.
The most expensive Google acquisitions are…
10. dMarc Broadcasting: $102 million
So, Google wanted to acquire an advertising company and eventually they did it. They thought the advertising company named dMarc Broadcasting will be a good fit.
It happened on January 17, 2006. It might seem to you like a good amount of money, but we are talking about Google here – nothing is too much.
The dMarc Broadcasting is an advertising company started by Chad Steelberg & Ryan Steelberg.
Google acquired the dMarc Broadcasting Company because they needed a broadcasting service when they turned to commercial radio.
And so, by purchasing the company, Google had their hands on the new way of advertising via the radio.
The acquisition cost Google $102 million.
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