"Glee" Tackles Beyonce As Brittany Tries To "Run The World"
In the upcoming Glee episode "Asian F," Mike Chang flirts with the sort of mediocrity the parents of most high school students can only dream of while Rachel and Mercedes prepare for a decisive and final Diva Off. As stress levels are high in the choir room, Brittany (Heather Morris) continues to celebrate her inner unicorn by beginning her campaign for student body president. It's hard for us to feel anything other than excited about Brittany's decision to run for office, giving a voice to all gay sharks that have gone silent up until now. And while there's a debate on the docket, obviously Brittany is sticking to what she know throughout her campaign: dancing and Beyoncé. Take the weekend to listen to the vocals on "Run The World (Girls)" while watching the original Beyoncé video on mute—it's likely there won't be much difference when it comes down to choreography. Morris did tour with her, after all. Other songs in the episode include Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight," a literal interpretation of how Mercedes sees her place in the glee club, Mike Chang's first vocal solo on "Cool" and Mr. Schuester taking the lead with Coldplay's "Fix You," because we're due for a good cry. Listen below.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Shows Correcting RNA Splicing May Help Treat Spinal Muscular Atrophy; PLoS Biology Publishes 'Enhancement of SMN2 Exon 7 Inclusion by Antisense Oligonucleotides Targeting the Exon'.
Ascribe Higher Education News Service March 12, 2007 Byline: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., March 12 (AScribe Newswire) -- RNA splicing antisense technology studied at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) effectively corrected an mRNA splicing defect found in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients, and is now ready to be tested in mouse models. "SMA patients who suffer from motor-neuron degeneration may benefit from our ability to correct the mRNA splicing defect that makes their SMN2 genes only partially functional," suggested CSHL Professor Adrian Krainer, Ph.D.
"Families and advocates are very pleased to see the advancement of this antisense technology for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy. We have high hopes for the success of the next phase of the work", said Cynthia Joyce, Executive Director of the SMA Foundation, an advocacy group that provides financial support for this project at CSHL.
Hua Y, Vickers TA, Baker BF, Bennett CF, Krainer AR (2007) Enhancement of SMN2 exon 7 inclusion by antisense oligonucleotides targeting the exon. PLoS Biol 5(4): e73. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050073 CSHL is a private, non-profit research and education institution dedicated to exploring molecular biology and genetics in order to advance the understanding and ability to diagnose and treat cancers, neurological diseases, and other causes of human suffering. For more information visit www.cshl.edu About Spinal Muscular Atrophy Spinal muscular atrophy is a genetic disease that causes the degeneration of spinal cord motor neurons and leads to progressive muscle weakness, atrophy and inability to walk or sit, and breathing difficulties. Children afflicted with this disease suffer a premature death due to respiratory failure, generally before reaching two years of agee. . The SMA Foundation estimates that currently over 50,000 people suffer from SMA in the U.S., Europe and Japan and that a conservative annual market potential for an SMA treatment could exceed $500 million.
About the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation The Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a treatment and cure for spinal muscular atrophy through targeted funding of clinical research and novel drug development efforts. Since 2003, the Foundation has awarded over $30 million in sponsored research agreements. In addition, the Foundation is committed to raising awareness and generating support for increased research efforts in SMA among the leaders of industry and government. For more information visit www.smafoundation.org or call (000)-000-0000.
- - - - CONTACTS: Adrian Krainer is available for comment at krainer@cshl.edu. For media assistance, contact Dagnia Zeidlickis (000)-000-0000, zeidlick@cshl.edu.


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Part of AJ10
Aerojet N2O4/MMH rocket engine. Study 1972. Engine used in Shuttle Orbiter Orbital Maneuvering System pods, for orbit insertion, maneuvering, and re-entry initiation. First flight 1981.
AKA: AJ10-190. Status: First flight 1981. Thrust: 26.70 kN (6,002 lbf). Unfuelled mass: 118 kg (260 lb). Specific impulse: 316 s. Burn time: 1,250 s. Height: 1.96 m (6.42 ft). Diameter: 1.17 m (3.83 ft).
The engine used in Shuttle Orbiter Orbital Maneuvering System (OMS). The Shuttle Orbiter carried two OMS pods (name coined by Aerojet), each housing a single Aerojet OM Engine for orbit insertion, maneuvering, and re-entry initiation. The astronauts had great faith in these engines, unlike other shuttle hardware, due to their simplicity. This did not stop NASA studying several times replacing them with complex pump-fed or cryogenic engines in order to get (unnecessarily) improved performance.
The engines never failed and never required replacement during the life of the shuttle program. They were designed to be capable of 100 missions and 500 starts in space. Rocketdyne built the shuttle SSME main engines which were supposed to have similar reliability. They didn't come close, and Rocketdyne was rewarded with billions of dollars over the decades in SSME repair, refurbishment, and improvement contracts. Aerojet's engines didn't need any of that, and the reliable designs required no further support.
First Flown: April 12th, 1981, on the Orbiter Columbia. Mounting: gimbaled ( 7 degrees yaw, 6 pitch by two electromechanical actuators for thrust vector control. Engine Cycle: pressure-fed (improvement underway for pump-fed). Oxidizer: 6743 kg nitrogen tetroxide in each pod (pods can be cross-linked). Fuel: 4087 kg of monomethyl hydrazine in each pod (pods can be cross-linked). Mixture Ratio: 1.65:1. Cooling Method: fuel regenerative for chamber, radiative for nozzle. Burn Time: qualified for 500 starts, 15 hr/100 mission life, longest firing 1250 sec, de-orbit. burn typically 150-250 secs.
Engine: 118 kg (260 lb). Chamber Pressure: 8.62 bar. Area Ratio: 55. Thrust to Weight Ratio: 23.0635593220339. Oxidizer to Fuel Ratio: 1.65. Coefficient of Thrust vacuum: 1.5638169936685.
Family: Storable liquid. Country: USA. Spacecraft: Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Endeavour. Launch Vehicles: Saturn Shuttle, IHLLV, Shuttle LRB, Shuttle C. Propellants: N2O4/MMH. Stages: Shuttle Orbiter OMS, Shuttle C stage. Agency: Aerojet. Bibliography: 225, 4457.

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Twain Would Be Amused
Nov 18, 2012 | coins, commemorative, legislative
Mark Twain in his gown (scarlet with grey sleeves and facings) for his D.Litt. degree, awarded to him by Oxford University
Under suspension of the rules, the House of Representatives voted 408-4 to pass H.R. 2453, Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Act. The bill has been officially enrolled and sent to the president for his signature.
When the bill becomes law, the Twain commemorative will be in 2016 to sell 100,000 $5 gold coins and 350,000 silver dollars whose designs "shall be emblematic of the life and legacy of Mark Twain." There will be the usual $35 surcharge for the gold coin and $10 for the silver dollar that will be distributed evenly to:
Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut
University of California, Berkeley for the benefit of the Mark Twain Project at the Bancroft Library
Elmira College, New York, to be used for research and education purposes
Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum in Hannibal, Missouri
After looking at the list, I could not imagine why Elmira College is on the list until I discovered the Center for Mark Twain Studies. Twain was married in February 1870 to the former Olivia Langdon in Elmira. While Twain and his family lived in Hartford, Connecticut, he summered at Quarry Farm in Elmira, the hole of Susan Crane, Olivia's sister.
Twain would be amused by the commemorative. While he had a love for science and technology, Twain did not embrace his celebrity as much as some do today. Even after he faced financial troubles from bad investments and the depression from the death of his daughter Susy of meningitis, friends pushed Twain to the lecture circuit. His lectures were humorous bordering on an early form of stand-up comedy full of self-deprecating humor. Part of his talks marveled how people would pay to hear his speak or seek him out for advice.
Samuel L. Clemens stamp, 1940
Twain always marveled at the concept of celebrity for the sake of being famous. He thought that the great thinkers and inventors should have been more revered. Twain befriended Nikola Tesla understanding that Tesla was a far greater innovator that people gave him credit for. At the same time, he become friends with Henry Huttleston Rogers, a principal of Standard Oil, who largely stayed out of the limelight while company founder John D. Rockefeller remained the face of the corporation.
Mark Twain, or Samuel Longhorne Clemens as he was born, was an interesting character in United States culture. It would be interesting to see if the design of his commemorative would honor his humor and character or go the safe route by honoring his writing. Using Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as themes would be safe designs. Basing a design on his humor would be more daring and fun.
Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.


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Solid Transport in near horizontal drain lines: mechanisms and modelling under low water usage criteria
Gormley, M., 23 Apr 2014.
Solute transport modelling in unsteady river flows using DISCUS
Wallis, S. G., Neelz, S. & Manson, J. R., 2002, p. 1701-1708. 8 p.
Solution error models: a new approach for coarse grid history matching
O'Sullivan, A. E. & Christie, M. A., 2005, p. 9 pp. 9 p.
Solvent tolerant bacteria and algae: The potential for pollution abatement of volatile organic compounds
Bustard, M. T., Wright, P. C. & Mohammad, B. T., 2001.
Some exact results for quantum lattice problems
Eilbeck, J. C., 2003, p. 177-186. 10 p.
Some features of solute concentration-time profiles derived from tracer experiments in a small river
Wallis, S. G. & Burke, N., 2000, p. 5.21-5.22.
Some Issues in Monitoring Erosion-Corrosion in Liquid-Solid Slurries by Electrochemical Methods
Neville, A., 2001.
Some limiting properties of randomly forced 2D~Navier--Stokes equations
Kuksin, S., 2003, p. 875-891. 17 p.
Some observations from electrochemical response during slurry impingement and single impacts on high-alloy stainless steels
Neville, A. & Hu, X., 2001.
Some observations on the accuracy of the normal moment yield criterion for reinforced concrete slabs
May, I. M. & Lodi, S., 1998, p. 197-204. 8 p.
Some Paradoxes in Quality Implementation
Macleod, A. M. & Baxter, L. F., 1996, p. 502-511. 10 p.
Some reasons why high gravity brewing has a negative effect on head retention
Bryce, J. H., Cooper, D. & Stewart, G. G., 1998, p. 191-194. 4 p.
Some recent results on periodic, jumping nonlinearity problems
Rynne, B. P., 2005, p. 229-245. 17 p.
Some Results from a New Technique for Response Time Estimation in Parallel DBMS
Tomov, N., Dempster, E., Williams, H., Burger, A. G., Taylor, H., King, P. J. B. & Broughton, P., Apr 1999, p. 713-721. 9 p.
Sonopill: A Platform for Gastrointestinal Disease Diagnosis and Therapeutics
Cummins, G., Desmulliez, M. P. Y., Watson, D. E. G., Mitrakos, V., Faerber, J., Demore, C. E. M., Lay, H., Cox, B., Stewart, F., Steele, R., Nathke, I., Poltarjonaks, R., Seetohul, V. & Qiu, Y., 12 Sep 2016.
Soothing of randomly distributed data
Reinecke, H., Mo, M. G. & Grant, I., 2000, p. 9pp. 9 p.
Sorry! Do you want me to turn my signing space?
Quinn, G., 2 Sep 2011.
Sound radiation into dissipative media
Wilson, R., Craik, R. & Tomlinson, D., 2001, p. 1-4. 4 p.
Sound transmission throough motor vehicle structures using statistical energy analysis.
Steel, J. A. & Fraser, G., 1996, p. 1415-1418. 4 p.
Sound transmission through buildings using SEA
Craik, R., 1997, p. 337-348. 12 p.
Sound transmission through lightweight double walls using statistical energy analysis
Craik, R. & Smith, R. S., 1996, p. 2933-2943. 11 p.
Sound transmission through multi-layer lightweight partitions
Craik, R., 2001, p. 1-4. 4 p.
Sound transmission through ship structures using statistical energy analysis
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Sound velocity and interfacial tension measurements and predictions in petroleum reservoir fluids
Chapoy, A., Tahani, H., Kashefi, K., Tohidi Kalorazi, B., Malcolm, K. & Bell, K. M., May 2009.
Source scaling relations of km- to cm-scale (Mw 4 to 6) earthquakes: experiences from mining- and fluid-induced seismicity, volcanic-hybrid seismic events and laboratory experiments
Kwiatek, G., Dresen, G., Bohnhoff, M., Harrington, R., Charalampidou, E., Bulut, F., Goebel, T. & Orlecka-Sikora, B., 2013.
Source scaling relations of km- to cm-scale (Mw 4 to 6) earthquakes: Experiences from mining- and fluid-induced seismicity, volcanic-hybrid seismic events and laboratory experiments.
Sources of acoustic emission in metal cutting
Reuben, R. L., Araujo, A. J. M. M. & Wilcox, S. J., 2000.
Sources of value co-destruction in solutions marketing: a customer and provider perspective
Hamadneh, S., Caldwell, N. & Bititci, U. S., 2018.
Sparse representation based action and gesture recognition
Bomma, S., Favaro, P. & Robertson, N., 2013, p. 141-145. 5 p.
Sparsity averaging for radio-interferometric imaging
Carrillo, R. E., McEwen, J. D. & Wiaux, Y., 2013, p. 39. 1 p.
Spatial behaviour of energy in partially constrained thick elastic plates
Knops, R. & Payne, L. E., 1998, p. 77-104. 28 p.
Spatial distributions of extrusive vents within mud volcano systems from Azerbaijan
Roberts, K., Davies, R. & Stewart, S., Apr 2010, p. 1 pp. 1 p.
Spatial economic change and property rental trends
Jones, C. A. & Orr, A. M., 1996.
Spatial interaction and urban office rental trends
Spatial modelling of multi-layered LiDAR images using reversible jump MCMC
Hernandez-Marin, S., Wallace, A. M. & Gibson, G. J., 2007.
Markov processes
Potts model
Spatial scaling of effective modulus and correlation of deformation near the critical point of fracturing
Heffer, K., Sep 2004, p. 1 pp. 1 p.
Spatial variability effects in R/C frames
Dymiotis-Wellington, C., Chryssanthopoulos, M. K. & Kappos, A. J., 2001, p. 8pp. 8 p.
Spatio-temporal analysis of ground water contamination
Kanevski, M., Bolshov, L., Savelieva, E., Demyanov, V., Parkin, R., Timonin, V., Chernov, S. & McKenna, S., Sep 2003, p. 6 pp. 6 p.
Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Spatial Clustering of Curves: A Bayesian Approach Applied to Portuguese Regional Fertility Rates
Bhattacharjee, A., De Castro, E. A., Maiti, T. & Zhang, Z., 7 Aug 2014.
Spatio-temporal Modeling
Bayesian Approach
Special finite elements for high frequency elastodynamic problems: first numerical experiments
Laghrouche, O., Bettess, P. & Houédec, D. L., Sep 2001, p. 1-13. 13 p.
Speckle-free laser marking of metals using liquid-crystal-based spatial light modulator
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Spectral Imaging of the retina
Fletcher-Holmes, D. W., Harvey, A. R., Lawlor, J. & McNaught, A., 2002.
Spectroscopic determination of naphthenic acid composition from various calcium naphthenates field deposits
Mohammed, M. A. & Sorbie, K. S., Apr 2009, p. 10 pp. 10 p.
Speech Intelligibility in classrooms
Airey, S. & MacKenzie, D. J., 1999, p. 75-79. 5 p.
Craik, R., MacKenzie, D. J. & Airey, S., 1996, p. 299-306. 8 p.
Speech intelligibility in multilingual spaces
Kitapci, K., Galbrun, L., O'Rourke, B. & Turner, G. H., Sep 2013. 7 p.
Speech patterns for older adults while driving
Jones, C. M. & Jonsson, I. M., Jul 2005.
Speechreading-phone for the hearing impaired
Jones, C. M. & Dlay, S. S., Sep 1999, p. 39-40. 2 p.
Spotting social interaction by using the robot energy consumption
Lohan, K. S., Deshmukh, A., Lim, M. Y. & Aylett, R., 2014.
Energy utilization
Long Term Evolution (LTE)
Spread spectrum for universal compressive sampling
Puy, G., Vandergheynst, P., Gribonval, R. & Wiaux, Y., 2011.


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Scholarship at Penn Libraries
Reaching Out: What do Scholars Want from Electronic Resources?
Shawn Martin, University of PennsylvaniaFollow
The potentials for teaching and learning using technology are tremendous. Now, more than ever before, computers have the ability to spread scholarship around the globe, teach students with new methodologies, and engage with primary resources in ways previously unimaginable. The interest among humanities computing scholars has also grown. In fact at ACH/ALLC last year, Claire Warwick and Ray Siemens et al. gave some excellent papers on the humanities scholar and humanities computing in the 21st century. Additionally, in the most recent version of College and Research Libraries (September 2004), a survey was conducted specifically among historians to determine what electronic resources they use. The interest in this is obviously growing, and the University of Michigan as both a producer of large digital projects as well as a user of such resources is an interesting testing ground for this kind of survey data. Theoretically, Michigan should be a potential model for high usage and innovative research and teaching. In many cases it is; nevertheless, when one looks at the use of electronic resources in the humanities across campus and their use in both the classroom and innovative research, it is not what it could be. The same is true at other universities. At many universities across the U.S. and Canada, including those with similar large scale digitization efforts, use remains relatively low and new potentials of electronic resources remain untapped. Why?
Postprint version. Published in Proceedings of the Association for Computing in the Humanities/Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, 2005.
http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ach_allc_2005_abstracts_2nd_edition.pdf
Martin, S. (2005). Reaching Out: What do Scholars Want from Electronic Resources?. Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/52
Date Posted: 18 April 2008
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WEDNESDAY STUDIES: Join to our Wednesday Study in our new session of studies on "The Problem of Good and Evil" and it is followed by the Eucharistic Celebration and Coffee Time @ 10 a.m. Liturgical Colour: White. We pray for the Diocese of Busan, South Korea. Readings for this Wednesday, January 14th: Hebrews 2: 14-18; Psalm 105: 1-15 & St. Mark 1: 29-39.
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Google Maps has added street maps for Israel.
However, as you can see from the screen-shot above, Israel seems to be full of streets with no names.
That is unless you search in Hebrew. Then the names magically appear.
Perhaps Google don't have a Hebrew to English interpreter.
Google have now also added labels for cities and towns in Georgia. The Google LatLong Blog says that 'new data' for a number of other countries has also been added to Google Maps.
One of the 'other countries' seems to be the Isle of Man which now has street maps.
I wish they would add streets name into the English interface (English names of course).
Translating Hebrew names to English (especially using the default Hebrew spelling which has no pronunciation information) is extremely difficult to do automatically and I dare say is currently impossible.
So you need someone to manually go over every street name and translate it accordingly. There is also the question of how to transliterate names - Hebrew to English transliteration has several conflicting rulesets, and how to translate descriptive street names (those not named after a person) - the "official" translation is often a transliteration of the Hebrew name.
In short - its a mess and going to take time.
Perhaps, but considering that barely 10 million people have any fluency in Hebrew and about 3 billion are fluent in English, don't you think the English names have some significance?
Err this is a map of Israel and your arguing what exactly?
I don't think anyone is arguing anything. Just saying that it would be nice to have an English translation for non-Hebrew speakers.


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Billy Graham's full page ad: "Vote for those who protect life"
From CNN, October 18:
The most famous and revered pastor in America, Billy Graham, is calling on voters to cast a ballot for their faith in full-page ads in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other newspapers.
Graham's picture appears prominently in the ads, next to copy that reads, "As I approach my 94th birthday, I realize this election could be my last."
It continues, "I believe it is vitally important that we cast our ballots for candidates who base their decisions on biblical principles and support the nation of Israel. I urge you to vote for those who protect the sanctity of life and support the biblical definition of marriage between a man and a woman. Vote for biblical values this November 6, and pray with me that America will remain one nation under God."
The ad hit the prominent papers Wednesday and Thursday, and could hit a dozen more newspapers, a week after the famed evangelist met with Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at Graham's Montreat, North Carolina, home and less than a month after his son Franklin Graham issued a full-throated endorsement of Romney in a USA Today opinion piece….
Shortly after the meeting with the Grahams and Romney, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association scrubbed prior references to Mormonism as a cult from its website because, the association said, "we do not wish to participate in a theological debate about something that has become politicized during this campaign."…
After the 30-minute sit-down in Montreat… Romney campaign spokesman Rick Gorka told reporters that Billy Graham led a prayer for the Romneys, saying "I'll do all I can to help you. And you can quote me on that."
The evangelist, who has been called America's pastor and has prayed with every American president since Harry Truman, said in a statement following the meeting that "it was a privilege to pray with Gov. Romney, for his family and our country."
Graham met with President Barack Obama in 2010 and with Sen. John McCain when he was the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in 2008….
"The ads intentionally do not mention any candidate, political party, or contest, urging instead for readers to cast votes for candidates, at all levels, based on their support for biblical values," the group said in a statement….
The campaign also includes bulletin inserts and posters of the ad for churches to download and distribute.
[HT: reader Jim]
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Billy Graham was a huge Bill Clinton supporter back in the day. �I hope he has repented of all of that..
Dr Graham is not responsible for Bill Clintons bad behavior.� The Pope was not responsible for Jack Kennedys bad behavior!!!!!!� Preachers can preach, admonish�and pray and if people do not listen, it is not their fault!!!� Their calling is to save souls not approve bad behavior Andrew
kenthebirther
I can enthusiasticly endorse that non-endorsement of a particular party or candidate.
Mr. Graham delineated the big 3 issues of our day.
The 'sheep' who�are pro-GOD [of Abraham, Issac, Joseph and Jacob] will vote accordingly.
The 'goats' will do what their murdering, theiving and lying father does.
�If God were your father,� said Jesus, �you would love me, for I came from God and arrived here. I didn�t come on my own. He sent me. Why can�t you understand one word I say? Here�s why: You can�t handle it. You�re from your father, the Devil, and all you want to do is please him. He was a killer from the very start. He couldn�t stand the truth because there wasn�t a shred of truth in him. When the Liar speaks, he makes it up out of his lying nature and fills the world with lies. I arrive on the scene, tell you the plain truth, and you refuse to have a thing to do with me. Can any one of you convict me of a single misleading word, a single sinful act? But if I�m telling the truth, why don�t you believe me? Anyone on God�s side listens to God�s words. This is why you�re not listening�because you�re not on God�s side.�
Ex-GOP
Billy Graham certainly has his first amendment rights to run any ad he wants.
What I find most interesting for the long term is that American Christians, including Graham, have sort of stepped back and included Mormon's in their fold when traditionally, Mormonism has been viewed as a cult. �In fact, Graham had on his website that they were a cult, and now doesn't. �So does Graham accept Mormons fully into the world of Christians? �Are the theological differences simply washed away?
I know there is another thread right now blasting Catholics who have gone too soft on liberal Catholics – I wonder if during this election, we've (I'm talking Christians) have lost the message of what Christianity really is, and are willing to water down the message if it makes our political views more comfortable. �
Ex-GOP,
What word would you use to describe an organization that supports and celebrates as a right the deliberate terminating of a pregnancy? Is the Democratic Party not a cult?�
Ex-GOP do you have a real interest in the theological differences between Mormonism and Christianity or are you simply trying to cause trouble?�
Ex-GOP there is no such thing as liberal Catholics, only Catholics who have liberal views. No one is bashing Catholics or any person, just the liberal ideas that it is ok to show tacit approval of a death peddling President.���Mr. Obama has certainly watered down his understanding of the�faith and Jesus's teachings.
Tyler:
– Neither party is a Religious group �- so no
– Mr Obama focuses on different teachings of Jesus, just as you focus on different teachings of Jesus. �Furthermore, we'll all have differences in regards to the teachings of Jesus and what should and shouldn't be in the spectrum of law, and how the best way to tackle these issues are. �For instance, I believe that lying is a sin. �I also believe lying is often protected by free speech, and I don't believe that there should be heavy handed legislation to throw in prison anybody that ever lies. �I personally believe abortion is a sin. �The current path of dealing with abortion for EITHER party is not a path I agree with in dealing with that sin. ��
The ad is great, but why mince words?� Obama is a staunch�pro-abort, pro-boys "marrying" boys, and an Alinskyite/socialist/redistributionist revolutionary.� Furthermore in his votes against the Born Alive legislation in Illinois while serving as a state Senator he revealed himself as a very cold and heartless individual who was willing to let babies suffer and die unattended and untreated by medical professionals in a brutal calculus to try to save abortion rights. Surely Billly Graham knows all of this and�fears for the future of our country�if this fraud is re-elected to wreak havoc on our constitution for another�four years.
John Lewandowski
The Democrats worship Obama and abortion with the same fervor as a religious fanatic. �It isn't farfetched to call them a cult.
prolifist
Like Tyler, I am bemused by Ex-GOP's concern over Romney's Mormonism. Lest we forget, Obama comes from the United Church of Christ, which is essentially a slightly Christian-tinged version of Unitarianism. Whatever else can be said about the Mormon church, at least it doesn't regularly cast doubt on doctrines like the physical resurrection of Christ, or His virgin birth. To paraphrase J. Gresham Machen, Mormonism may represent a perversion of the Christian religion, but naturalistic liberalism is not Christianity at all.
Prolifist – Let me make sure this is clear – I'm not concerned over Romney's mormonism. �I don't believe that one's religion should be a litmus test for Presidency.
I'm concerned with a Christian organization teaching people about Christ to one day say mormonism is a cult, and the next day to not say that – and for that decision to be made because of what appears to be political pressure. �I'm afraid the message we're all sending here is that Mormons = Christians. �Personally, I don't agree with that. �
Mormonism is still a gnostic cult. �Whatever.
Mormon culture is a culture of life. �They understand that natural marriage and living children are good. �Mormons know that unnatural sexuality and contraception are bad. And they know that abortion is murder.
So, even though Christians and Mormons are in conflict over our understanding of the nature of God, we are allies in the cultural and political battle to save innocent lives.
I am a devout, orthodox Catholic.
I must choose between a devout, pro-life Mormon and a professed Evangelical secularist with a particular affection for the abortion industry.
Like some many desperate women who face abortion, this choice is no choice. �I am forced to vote for life.
Whatever my issues with Mormonism, they are not political.� The comment re: Mormonism from Graham's website was clear that the reason they removed the mentions was to avoid politicizing an issue of theology.� It has nothing to do with whether they view Mormonism as a cult on any given day of the week, and everything to do with them looking at the political climate of the moment.� That was neither unclear or unusual.� Now, you might feel that one should not moderate the volume of any given doctrinal message based on political concerns, and that would be a reasonable critique and one that would spark a much more thoughtful discussion.� "OMG, does Graham think Mormonism is a cult or not?!?� How can we know?!?" on the other hand, is either disingenuous or poor reading comprehension.
Del,
But, if "they know abortion is murder",� WHY do you think Romney is for "exceptions"?
�Being for "…except in cases of rape or incest" is NOT Pro-Life.
Pamela, many people, even the most staunchly pro-life, had a time in their lives when they had a rape exception.� I know personally that my support for such an exception was primarily based upon a persons right to self-determination.� Ever hear of the phrase "give me liberty or give me death"?�� It is not irrational for a person who values liberty over death to transpose those sentiments upon a women who loses her right to self determination to rape.� I am not saying I personally support a rape exception at this point in my life or looking to debate it with you; I am just explaining where many people's sentiments in support of an exception have come from.� And those sentiments are obviously held to be very strong; even to point of facing death rather than giving up that right to self-determination.
Ex-RINO,
cults are not necessarily defined by religiousity.� And the kool-aid drinking Obama minions are cult like and dangerous.
Carabella1
I thought that old geezer died a long time ago.
Carabella, yeah, I thought McGovern was dead, too.
"Mr Obama focuses on different teachings of Jesus, just as you focus on different teachings of Jesus.�"
Christianity is not a Chinese menu where you pick one from Column A and two from Column B, etc. It's all or nothing, and I'd rather have the all it offers than the nothing offered by no religion. �
Ok, that was a little cruel. We don't need to sink to their level. �
Luana -�
Politicians don't treat it as all or nothing – and quite frankly, you don't either. �Should we just go through part of the sermon on the mount?
Anybody who is even angry at his brother or sister is subject to judgment – anybody who calls somebody a fool �- anybody who even looks another woman (or man) has committed adultery. �And heck, our whole country is filled with oaths – should we get rid of those?
How many laws and wars are complete contradictions of when Jesus strikes down "eye for an eye", and then follows up with loving one's enemies?
Don't fool yourself Luana – we all pick and choose how we interpret verses, and what verses we think should actually become law. ��
Ex-RINO.� You always try to bring up war to deflect from your support of a pro-aborts.� Pointing to other peoples failings to rationalize your own sins.� Is that going to be your defense on judgement day?
Ex-RINO, your comments above remind me of Obama when he was mocking the Bible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhwduyiqeCU
rasqual
EG: So you're another wack who thinks the government's job is to turn it's other cheek?
Yet you're glad of whatever protections the police afford you, I'm sure.
War, bad. Police kicking ass if you're threatened, fine.
Consistency's never a strong point among religious liberals.�
Ex-RINO says: June 10, 2012 at 11:08 pm �For the record, I have three kids, my wife and I would never ever have considered an abortion, and I�m against it as I equate it to murder.�
Ex-RINO says: June 11, 2012 at 7:56 am ��at the end of the day, I�m more likely than not to vote DemocrRAT��
Ex-RINO says September 6, 2012 at 8:41pm �I�ve actually started to seriously think about not voting this election.�
Ex-RINO says September 9, 2012 at 8:27pm� �I�ve far from decided what I�m going to do this election� I can�t vote for Romney. But beyond that, I�m still deciding.�
EX-RINO �says� October 21, 2012 at 1:56 pm���" I�m afraid the message we�re all sending here is that Mormons = Christians. Personally, I don�t agree with that."
The issue is not Romney's theology, but the obamateurs idiotology.
b o claims he is a 'committed��christian'.�
b o has promoted infanticide.�
b o� has endorsed same sex marriage.
when�YOU can square those two�positions with Jesus and His FATHER and HOLY SPIRIT, �then get back to us about�who�is and who is NOT a christian.
Rasqual -�
I don't believe that – but some do – some take a very anti-war stance on the Bible. �Just as some take a very anti abortion, anti gay marriage, pro economic policies that help the poor, pro creation care. �For years, people defended slavery based on the Bible – people defended marriage laws where blacks and whites couldn't marry. �I'm simply stating that when people imply that we should legislate the Bible, and it all comes in one package, that this is a very tough thing to do.
There will always be debate regarding what should and shouldn't apply to the public square.
Simple minde people will say this approach is mocking God – I think it's furthest from the truth – it's struggling with His word, trying to figure out the applications in society today. ��
Trying to figure out how you can make applying the barbaric practice of� killing unborn children fit with God's Word/Will.�� It's called doing the Devil's work.
Hi Janet 10:35am
No Billy Graham was not responsible for Clinton's behavior, but he did not have to make excuses for it either. My respect for Billy Graham was and remains, lost.
EG: "There will always be debate regarding what should and shouldn�t apply to the public square."
Neither Romney nor Graham imply that what's being "applied" in the matter of abortion is a Christian article of faith. Your crap about whether folks are compromising �their view of cults is�obfuscatory.�
There's a difference between cobelligerents and allies.
Cobelligerent relationships may be misunderstood as uncritical alliances by those who do not share the sense of peril that bring otherwise disparate groups together in a common effort to oppose a common enemy.�
Which explains why you're not seeing the difference. �
xalisae
Ex-RINO is pro-himself, and faux-life. Every time he (figuratively) opens his yap, it becomes more apparent. Saving the lives of children is really not high at all on his priority list. Not at all.
If you�visit the Drudge Report right now, Matt has four photos of the obamateur providing an visual example the b o definition of 'lean forward'.
http://www.drudgereport.com/
Ex-RINO says September 9, 2012 at 8:27pm �I�ve far from decided what I�m going to do this election� I can�t vote for Romney. But beyond that, I�m still deciding.�
Ex-RINO says�� October 22, 2012 at 7:46 am
"Simple minded people will say this approach is mocking God � I think it�s furthest from the truth � it�s struggling with His word, trying to figure out the applications in society today."
Ex-RINO,�
Ex. 20:13 "You shall not commit murder."
When you have finished 'struggling' with that short sentence, which�in the�original language is, "No murder.", then please�explain to us how�Jesus nullifed or modified�that unambiguous prohibition.
What is there about 'no' that�you�won't or can't understand?���
October 22nd, 2012 at 1:07 pm
"Protect life" in the antiabortion world means "protect the fetus". �There is no real concerted effort to protect born innocent life in countries such as Iraq if George Bush is attacking Iraq like in 2003.
Pamela, at least you are consistent. � If abortion is murder, then it is still murder if pregnancy occurs because of rape or incest. ��
Doug McBurney
Should Romney win, history will view the confessing church's compromises with liberalism & Mormonism as the most significant result of the 2012 election.
Christians were convinced that normalizing Mormonism was in their best financial interest, and so the confessing church abandoned doctrine for filthy lucre.
Christians were convinced that a man who instituted homosexual marriage and tax funded abortion could be considered a conservative alternative to a man who had achieved neither of these leftist goals.
God help us, whichever child killing, progressive pagan wins!
"There is no real concerted effort to protect born innocent life in countries such as Iraq if George Bush is attacking Iraq like in 2003."
So the US military does not distinguish between miltary and civilians, then? �Or is that only when an evil Republican is president, and when there's a Democrat president our troops aren't murderers? �I wonder how someone can bear to remain an American citizen when they believe that our military is no better than the Nazis.
Good grief, Doug. Learn the difference between cobelligerence and alliance.�
Of all the hand-wringing, chicken-little, sky-is-falling, black and white thinking, alarmist, panicked . . . ARGH. Need more adjectives…
And Helen: You must be in favor of drunk driving, since you're not volunteering as a designated driver every weekend at your nearby tavern. Right?�
And if anyone cares to accuse ME of being nonchalant about Mormonism, I'll take you to the cleaners on that score. Believe me. � �;-)�
I love the pic of him bowing to the Japanese royal couple. An American businessman who resides in Japan and is often consulted on Japanese protocol said the smiles of the emperor and empress are polite Japanese for "what a moron".
Billy….who IS the pro-life candidate?
The one who we know is not…..Obama?
Or the one who tells your itching ears what you want to hear to get elected….but has the blood of more than 100,000 dead babies when Governor of Massachusetts ?
Billy…..get out of politics and back to pulpit….while you still have some life left.� I remember my father voting for Nixon in part because of you endorsement.� I voted in a mock election in Citizenship Class in the 2nd grade partly to you as well.� We now know you thought Jews controlled the country and told Nixon this as well over the phone.
Now you want me to believe you have the wisdom to once again CORRECTLY pick the right candidate?� Your track record is not so hot.� Ask the dead soldiers in Viet Nam even though Nixon ran on a platform to end the war in Viet Nam and bring the troops home.� Remember…."I AM NOT A CROOK ! "� Or all the babies murdered just so Romney could keep a promise to "PROTECT A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE"?
Sorry Billy…..your endorsement means nothing.
October 22nd, 2012 at 11:07 pm
xalisae –
Hogwash.
For some odd reason, you'd be more comfortable if my family had chosen to have abortions and then had an about face, but now vote straight ticket Republican. �Maybe if I was an abortion doc who now loved Romney, then you'd like me more.
Ken – lets put our big boy thinking cap on for a minute and read what I wrote. �This conversation has gone beyond the scope of one issue and encompassed the full Bible – in which I said, politicians and individuals alike pick and choose the issues that they want to advocate for.
Don't pretend that I'm stupid by presenting a picture that I'm not advocating for. �If you can't keep up with the debate, stay out of it. ��
Lana Puckett
November 3rd, 2012 at 12:17 pm
http://youtu.be/BYRpIf2F9NA �Billy Graham is a true man of God and the words that come out of his mouth would be the words of jesus cause jesus lives in his heart.I LOVE YOU BILLY GRAHAM AND YOU HAVE DONE SO MUCH FOR OUR COUNTRY.GOD IS PROLIFE AND PEOPLE NEED TO TURN TO GOD AND THE BIBLE AND LISTEN TO BILLY GRAHAM,A MAN OF GOD.GOD IS THE CREATOR OF ALL LIFE AND A HUMAN HAND SHOULD NEVER END A LIFE.GOD IS PROLIFE…..


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Pagan Stones: A Review of Avengers: Endgame
April 26, 2019 at 2:00 pm by Ray Pride
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The directors and production executives of "Avengers: Endgame" want description held to a minimum on opening weekend. But it's big. I can tell you that. Lots of stuff rushes past, onward, ever onward, grandiose stuff, whispered stuff, great lashings of grief, some grandiloquent stuff, and veteran viewers in the enraptured opening Thursday audience had much to hoover up and enjoy: proud postures alternate with callbacks and climaxes and sniffly tear-tugs and lots of that wacky, weightless Marvel verbal humor. Plot synopsis would be spoiler after spoiler, depriving those small, telegraphic jolts of joy to those who can in an eyeblink decipher what's going on, based on the data input from the ingestion of the prior 2,299 minutes of the "Universe" entire. It's too complicated to synopsize in a rational amount of time and space: time is relative, even at the climactic episode's one-minute and three-hour running time.
Twenty-two episodes of pagan pageantry across eleven years with reasonably consistent internal logic, with an opulence of balderdash and culture of earnest tears: that's a saga, that's a cycle, that's a vast accomplishment in its own right. Even with adjustment for inflation, is Kevin Feige now the most successful feature-film producer of all time? (Beneath the pagan stones, the reach.)
Anyway, Walter Benjamin predicted this a century ago
— Katie Walsh (@katiewalshstx) April 25, 2019
What lasting aftertaste will "Avengers: Endgame" leave in pop culture and the world beyond? Politics, whether clearly indicated or clandestinely embedded, are an iffy thing to decode in or attach to a fiscal behemoth, especially one the production and promotion of which is likely to have exceeded $750 million and possibly even a cool billion. (The estimated opening weekend worldwide gross was $1.2 billion.) The remaining studios, especially Walt Disney, extract an onerously high percentage of box-office the first few weeks of a blockbuster's run, which is why the last of this line is opening in at least 4,600 North American locations (with actual screen totals to come), and will play around the clock around the world, from China to Korea to the local Landmark Century to India, displacing competition like a world-killing meteor.
Of early reflections of what lies beneath the surfaces of "Avengers: Endgame," the keenest is at the Stranger, where Charles Mudede writes that the crash-bang capper is a vision of a failed version of the "Green New Deal," and the screenplay of the Marvel mega-mega-movie would cheer the hearts of Trump confederates like Seb Gorka. "This is what the Green New Deal will apparently look like. The horror. It is the mission of the Avengers to restore the American way of life."
The marketing campaign is said to exceed $200 million, with additional cross-promotion by Audi, Coca-Cola, Geico, General Mills, Go-Gurt, Google, Hertz, Mastercard, McDonald's Happy Meals, OPPO Mobile, Stand Up to Cancer, Synchrony Financial, Ulta Beauty, Yoplait and Ziploc.
My spoiler-free review of Endgame is that Tessa Thompson is grace given form in literally everything she says and does and I love her.
— Matt Wallace (@MattFnWallace) April 27, 2019
With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, Josh Brolin, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston, Pom Klementieff, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Chris Pratt, Letitia Wright, Evangeline Lilly, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Sean Gunn, Gwyneth Paltrow, Frank Grillo, Tessa Thompson, Winston Duke, Stan Lee.
If you heard someone sobbing at the end of the Avengers movie it was me. I had no idea what the fuck was happening, I just cry when things get dramatic.
— Heather Havrilesky (@hhavrilesky) May 7, 2019
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Q: Nonzero expectation value of boson creation operator in ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate I was following along with these notes, and just above equation (32) on page 3, the author makes the claim that, "for a Bose condensate, the ground state boson creation operator acquires a finite expectation value, $\langle b^\dagger \rangle = \sqrt{n} e^{i\phi}$". How can one arrive at this conclusion? Naively, it seems to me that the expectation value for any isolated creation or annihilation operator should be zero because
$$ \langle n | b^\dagger | n\rangle \propto  \langle n | n+1\rangle = 0$$
Thanks for the help!

A: Since we are considering BEC, a ground state has a macroscopic occupation. It means that we can replace the field operators $a_{0}$ and $a^{\dagger}_{0}$ into c-numbers. Hence the ground state boson creation operator acquires a finite expectation value.

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A few years ago, the British anti-Semitism scholar David Hirsh remarked that while Israel was the ostensible target of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, first in the firing line were diaspora Jews. This shouldn't be surprising if you consider it carefully—Jewish organizations are typically called on by the media to defend Israel, particularly during times of conflict, and many individual Jews have faced ostracism within their own professional communities for speaking in support of Israel and against the boycott.
So, when I learned the news that the highest appeals court in France had upheld fines imposed on anti-Israel activists for "inciting hate or discrimination" during a demonstration promoting the boycott, I was reminded immediately of David's insight. For what the French court decision demonstrates—and too many people in the Jewish community, especially in Israel, still don't properly understand this—is that BDS is essentially a domestic form of anti-Semitism that attacks local Jews through the demonizing of the Jewish state. The only way for Jews to remove this stain is through publicly dissociating themselves from, and loudly condemning, the State of Israel. Quarantining Israel in order to eliminate it may be the stated goal of BDS, but its immediate and often only impact is upon those Jews in the vicinity of the movement's propaganda activities.
Here's the story of what happened in France. In 2009 and 2010, mobs of BDS activists began descending on supermarkets and forcibly removing Israeli products—many of which were available, for obvious reasons, at the kosher counter for Jewish customers. Video footage of one of these many supermarket invasions shows the protesters thuggishly chanting in favor of the boycott as they surround customers and staff, sealing off aisles where Israeli products are on sale.
By any standards of decency, these protests were both physically threatening and bigoted in their expression; few people would want to be caught in the act of purchasing an Israeli avocado by this rabble. In the eastern city of Mulhouse, 12 activists were charged with incitement after they distributed leaflets urging "Long Live Palestine, Boycott Israel," with another one warning customers that "buying Israeli products means legitimizing crimes in Gaza."
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After a local court found in favor of the prosecution, imposing a collective fine of $14,500 plus court expenses, the activists took their case to appeal. It's that appeal that has failed in recent days. In ruling against the activists, who had based their case on freedom of expression, the court cited "the French republic's law on Freedom of the Press, which prescribes imprisonment or a fine of up to $50,000 for parties that 'provoke discrimination, hatred or violence toward a person or group of people on grounds of their origin, their belonging or their not belonging to an ethnic group, a nation, a race or a certain religion.'"
BDS is on pretty shaky ground with most of those categories. Ultimately, that is why it is now legally regarded in France as a form of hate speech—and while we live in a country that guarantees all forms of speech, that shouldn't prevent us from recognizing BDS as hate speech nonetheless.
That's why it's worth thinking about the recent history that led to the French decision. Ten years ago, when the campaign in British universities to boycott Israeli academics became an international news story, the BDS movement was on the verge of achieving something that previous incarnations of anti-Zionism had failed to—the insertion of its skewed, mendacious presentation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into mainstream, liberal discourse. For a while, particularly in left-leaning media outlets, this strategy seemed to be meeting with success; it even started to pick up support from fraying celebrities like Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, gaggles of parliamentarians and columnists in Europe and America, and the odd prominent academic.
But here is where BDS has failed and continues to fail. It has had virtually no impact on Israel's economy, which continues to flourish. Same goes for Israel's academic sector, which continues to benefit itself and its partners through joint research programs and other international cooperation. Crucially, it hasn't delivered a single, tangible benefit for the Palestinians. If ordinary Palestinians living in places like the Jelazoun or Shu'afat refugee camps in the West Bank are to have even a hope of acquiring the kinds of villas and mansions owned by the Palestinian elite around Ramallah, they certainly won't get there through BDS.
As each of these failings has become more painfully apparent, the BDS movement's rhetoric and tactics have become uglier. What the French court decision does, therefore, is offer unprecedented clarification of what constitutes acceptable speech, as distinct from hate speech, in the context of BDS.
Increasingly, it's clear that a movement whose formal goal is solidarity with the Palestinians is not really focused on the Palestinians at all. Just as the Arab states turned on their own Jewish communities after failing to defeat Israel on the battlefield, the BDS movement compensates for its futile gesture politics by placing local Jewish communities in its sights. The elements involved in the act of boycotting Israel—picking a particular store at which to demonstrate, selecting products to place warning stickers on, waving symbols equating the Star of David with the swastika, repeatedly chanting insults against "Israel," a word that originates in the Jewish Bible after all—all carry the prospect of confrontation with local Jews before anything else. Therefore, what the BDS movement would have us believe is solidarity with the Palestinians is, for the vast majority of Jews, a form of harassment.
Small wonder, then, that the French appeals court came to the decision that it did. And note well: that decision doesn't mean the Palestinians can't advocate for their cause in France, a country where their plight has always attracted sympathetic attention. Visceral criticism still can, and will, be directed at Israel's policies. It's when that criticism turns into incitement—a term that captures the essence of the BDS movement inside and outside France—that the law gets involved.
Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org & The Tower Magazine, writes a weekly column for JNS.org on Jewish affairs and Middle Eastern politics. His writings have been published in Commentary, the New York Post, Haaretz, The Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. He is the author of "Some of My Best Friends: A Journey Through Twenty-First Century Antisemitism" (Edition Critic, 2014).
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Overview: There are a number of built-in MySQL commands and third party tools out there for generating data to help tune and diagnose your servers. All that information is great, but not always easy to parse through; especially if you are in the middle of an emergency. What do you do when you need to see only the non-sleeping processlist threads, pick out the top 5 longest currently running queries, or show the oldest open transactions from show engine innodb status? Sometimes you just need to be able to sort, split, or generally reorganize a lot of information quickly.
In this session we will give you some helpful bash one-liners with common MySQL commands and output files to make parsing all that information easier to read.
Agenda: The session will be a mix of presentation slides and demonstrations of commands.


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Kelser's diminutive size doesn't hold him back from making big plays for Walled Lake Central
By: Scott Burnstein, March 16, 2015, 10:46 am
Commerce Township – Walled Lake Central boys basketball coach Chuck Spolsky does a pretty accurate job summing up his star player, junior guard Walter Kelser, in two short sentences.
"Walter is simply a relentless competitor," Spolsky said. "He doesn't back down from anyone or anything on the basketball floor."
Watching Kelser play, those sentiments ring true.
Standing barely 5-foot-10, Kelser plays larger than his height, which seems natural considering his dad and uncle are Ray and Greg Kelser, respectively, a pair of 6-foot-7 string beans that played Division I college basketball in the frontcourt.
If Walter was that size, he might easily be a high Division I college recruit, getting looks from his uncle's alma mater, Michigan State and other Big Ten powers.
As of right now, he's still trying to make a name for himself on the statewide recruiting stage and in search of his first Division I scholarship offer.
His junior season is a significant step in that direction. A first-team all-Kensington Lakes Activities Association selection, Kelser is averaging 21 points, five rebounds, four assists and two steals per game on a Central club that is 19-4 and won a Class A district title.
The Vikings claimed a share of the KLAA Northern Division title and then on the shoulders of Kelser's last-second heroics won the program's first district crown in four years back on Friday with a 40-39 edging of crosstown rival Walled Lake Western.
With the game tied at 39-39 on the Vikings' own home floor, Kelser picked the pocket of a Western ball handler on the right sideline with seven seconds left. After his swipe, he was fouled and made the game-winning free throw.
"I just try to make plays," he said of his steal and subsequent free throw Friday night. "Those were two plays that I needed to make."
He made a few clutch plays the previous time he and the Vikings squared off with Western, too. In the KLAA championship game two weeks ago, Kelser scored 41 points in a 74-66 loss. That total is third most in Central history. Kelser was 24-of-25 from the free throw line, good for second-best all-time in the Michigan High School Athletic Association record book.
"I'm convinced he's the No. 1 player in Oakland County," said Spolsky of Kelser, who has been on varsity since he was a freshman and starting since last year as a sophomore. "He attacks the basket harder than any other player I've seen this whole year."
Protecting him from opposing teams overplaying his dribble drive is the fact that he's shooting close to 50 percent from 3-point distance and displays deep range.
"I fight hard out there on the court no matter what and positive things are occurring as a result," said Kelser of his current-season performance. "My teammates trust me to have the ball in my hands with the game on the line, I don't want to let them down, so I go at with everything I've got. I get into the lane or get into a rhythm from outside and that makes things happen for us."
The hoops heritage he spawns from – Ron played at Eastern Michigan and Greg is one of Michigan State's all-time greats and a retired pro – motivates him to keep improving.
"My lineage inspires me," he said. "It's my job to keep the family tradition alive."
Central plays Howell Monday evening at Holly High School in a regional semifinal. The Vikings beat Howell (2014 quarterfinalist) earlier in the season by double-digits.
"The Howell game is going to be tough," he said. "They are the kind of team that plays aggressive and we're going to need to match that aggressiveness. I have confidence in this team. If we stay focused, the sky's the limit for us."


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PKG = 'jsk_2015_05_baxter_apc'
import os
import sys
import re
import unittest
import yaml
from termcolor import cprint, colored

import rospkg
rp = rospkg.RosPack()
pkg_path = rp.get_path('jsk_2015_05_baxter_apc')
sys.path.append(os.path.join(pkg_path, 'scripts'))
sys.path.append(os.path.join(pkg_path, 'test'))

import jsk_apc2015_common

class TestRobotInput(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_bin_contents(self,  json_file=None):
        from bin_contents import get_bin_contents
        if json_file is None:
            json_file = os.path.join(pkg_path, 'data/apc-a.json')
        bin_contents = list(get_bin_contents(json_file))
        object_list = jsk_apc2015_common.data.object_list()
        for bin_, objects in bin_contents:
            self.assertIn(bin_, 'abcdefghijkl')
            for object_ in objects:
                self.assertIn(object_, object_list)
        self.assertEqual(len(bin_contents), len('abcdefghijkl'))

    def test_work_order(self, json_file=None):
        from work_order import (
            get_work_order,
            get_sorted_work_order,
            get_work_order_msg,
            )
        if json_file is None:
            json_file = os.path.join(pkg_path, 'data/apc-a.json')
        # for original work order
        work_order = list(get_work_order(json_file))
        self.assertEqual(len(work_order), len('abcdefghijkl'))
        object_list = jsk_apc2015_common.data.object_list()
        for bin_, object_ in work_order:
            self.assertIn(bin_, 'abcdefghijkl')
            self.assertIn(object_, object_list)
        # for sorted work order
        sorted_work_order = list(get_sorted_work_order(json_file))
        self.assertEqual(len(sorted_work_order), len('abcdefghijkl'))
        for bin_, object_ in sorted_work_order:
            self.assertIn(bin_, 'abcdefghijkl')
            self.assertIn(object_, object_list)
        # for msg
        msg = get_work_order_msg(json_file)
        self.assertEqual(len(msg['left'].array), 8)
        self.assertEqual(len(msg['right'].array), 4)
        for lr in ('left', 'right'):
            for order in msg[lr].array:
                self.assertIn(order.bin, 'abcdefghijkl')
                self.assertIn(order.object, object_list)

    def test_json_file(self):
        from interface_test import interface_test
        files = os.listdir(os.path.join(pkg_path, 'data'))
        r = re.compile('^apc.*\.json$')
        json_files = filter(r.match, files)
        for json in json_files:
            cprint('\nChecking: {0}'.format(json), 'blue')
            json = os.path.join(pkg_path, 'data', json)
            self.test_work_order(json_file=json)
            self.test_bin_contents(json_file=json)
            interface_test(json)

    def test_classifier_weight_yaml(self):
        yaml_file = os.path.join(pkg_path, 'data/classifier_weight.yml')
        with open(yaml_file) as f:
            weight = yaml.load(f)
        object_list = jsk_apc2015_common.data.object_list()
        for object_, weights in weight.items():
            self.assertIn(object_, object_list)
            for clf, weight in weights.items():
                self.assertIn(clf, ['bof', 'color'])
                self.assert_(0. <= weight <= 1.)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import rosunit
    rosunit.unitrun(PKG, 'test_robot_input', TestRobotInput)


The president's tweet endorsement of Kris Kobach could lift the controversial candidate one day before the crowded gubernatorial primary, creating a possible opening for Democrats.
President Trump on Monday waded into the Kansas gubernatorial race with a last-minute endorsement that could upend the race one day before primary ballots are cast.
Kris Kobach is the Kansas secretary of state, but is better known to Americans as the driving force behind the administration's short-lived Commission on Election Integrity, whose stated purpose was finding voter fraud.
Kobach is among six Republican challengers attempting to unseat current Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer in what has been an extraordinarily competitive primary.
The New York Times reported that Republican officials were hopeful that the president would remain neutral in the race, as Democrats could see an opening in the general election should Kobach be the Republican nominee.
Kobach's far-right, hardline immigration views could allow for a Democratic candidate to win over moderates in a state that saw Democratic leadership throughout much of the 2000s.
And there is evidence that these brief social-media posts from the president do make a difference in primary elections.
Just recently, in fact, Trump seemed to assist Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a two-person primary against the once-favored Lt. Governor Casey Cagle.
Kobach is perceived as one of the leading figures in attempts at voter suppression and was torn apart in a federal court in March for his claims about voter fraud. He was also held in contempt for failing to register potential voters in the state.
Among many traits Kohach shares with the president, one is particularly notable: Kobach is a birther and was among a group of Kansas officials to seek more information on former President Obama in 2012 before deciding whether to remove him from the state ballot.
As late as 2016, Kobach still seemed to be questioning Obama's citizenship.


Even after an investment of close to a billion dollars over more than a decade, about 10% of new compounds show adverse drug-host interactions. Although these situations can lead to a revised dosage regimen or a modified compound, more often the drug is pulled from the market by the F.D.A. or the pharmaceutical company. These harmful drug effects commonly result in toxicity in the blood, the cardiovascular system, or the liver.
Liver toxicity -- hepatotoxicity -- is an adverse drug reaction that accounts for approximately a third of withdrawals from the market. But testing drugs in development on animals can be expensive. Cell lines, on the other hand, lend themselves to high throughput screening and make excellent candidates for liver modeling. However, hepatocyte cell lines – liver cells -- are known to change dramatically after several days, limiting their use as models. Preliminary data suggest that drug metabolizing enzyme (DME) gene expression can be adjusted to reach levels characteristic of a fully functional liver, providing a potentially useful model.
"There are two words that describe my summer at the Broad Institute: access and experience. The access we were given, not only to the next generation in genomics tools and technology but also to the brilliant minds that compose the Broad, truly made for one of the most mentally stimulating summers I have ever had. I not only developed my critical-thinking and technical skills but also my communication and presentation expertise. The experiences I shared in the lab with my mentor as well as the time I spent with my colleagues will stay with me for the rest of my life. Genomics is the future of medicine and at the Broad you can be a part of it."
Peter Cruz-Gordillo, a neuroscience and biochemistry junior at Duke University, utilized HDACi to induce expression of drug metabolizing enzyme genes in liver cell lines with the goal of creating a more efficient and cost-effective human liver model for drug toxicity screening.


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Q: MVC 5 C# Window Authentication pop up when I navigate to a certain area I have an application with multiple areas. I have no problem navigating to any of them once logged in.
I've added a new 'Reports' area, now when I navigate to that area I get an 'Authentication Required' pop up appear which I think is something to do with Windows authentication which isn't being used in the application.
I'm using <authentication mode="None" /> in web.config.
This only happens when the site is live and not local (which makes sense if it's a windows authentication issue).
All controllers in the areas use the same custom authentication attribute, any ideas why I wouldn't be able to navigate to this new area even though going to others is absolutely fine, any ideas what i'm missing? I don't remember having to do anything in other areas to allow access.
Thanks.

A: I found the issue. The URL that was causing the issue was
www.domain.co.uk/reports
I remembered a while ago I was doing some testing using SSRS and setup the Report Manager URL as localhost/reports. This must have been causing the issue as once I had changed the Report Manager URL I could access the URL I was having issues with as expected.

A: That setting in your web.config should be working.
It could be that it's not overriding the settings in the applicationhost.config file as it should.
To test this out navigate to the "\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config" file and set  <windowsAuthentication enabled="false" />
Other things you can try.
Remove forms authentication - sites often default to this.
<system.webServer>
 <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true>
    <remove name="FormsAuthentication />
 </modules>
</system.webServer>

Disable security for that path.
 <location path="secureddir/newform.aspx">
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
  </location>


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Carbon Fiber Cool
A small company in Palmetto, Florida is making big waves in the world of sun shades.
Capt. Bill Pike
Photos courtesy Blackstick
A Carbon-Fiber Sunshade Solution
Nanette Hultgren lives in Palmetto, Florida these days and runs a thriving business there that sells an array of innovative carbon-fiber sunshade support poles. She calls the business BLACKSTICK and, over the past decade, the burgeoning little company has gradually supplanted and indeed eclipsed her original, awning and upholstery operation, Shellback Canvas. A Shellback, of course, is an honorific given to a salty soul who's crossed the equator by boat. Hultgren earned the designation in her more youthful years after a stint at Cal Maritime got her a job on a large, oceangoing tugboat. The long, bluewater voyages ultimately took their toll, however, and Hultgren decided that making biminis, cushions, boom tents, awnings, sunshades and other canvas products—and essentially being home every night—was a heck of a lot more fun than spending months on end plunging across the high seas.
Eventually, however, a niggling little problem bobbed to the surface. The only supports she could find for her biminis and sunshades, it seemed, were inferior to the craftsmanship she was putting into her Shellback products. The only stainless-steel poles she could find were too heavy, aluminum (even if it was fairly heavy-gauge stuff) tended to bend and PVC was too flexible to offer even reasonable wind resistance.
"So, I finally decided that carbon fiber was the best bet," she says. "It's light, strong and doesn't rust. But when I priced out the carbon-fiber poles from the mainstream manufacturers, the cost was prohibitive. So, I decided to make my own carbon-fiber poles. Little did I know, back then, that I'd be spending the next ten years developing a new approach to creating carbon-fiber composite tubes."
Carbon-Fiber Sunshade
See more in the gallery below:
Today, most carbon-fiber composite poles for sunshades, awnings and biminis are created via a rather complicated, expensive but long-standing industrial process. Typically, the whole thing starts off with woven fabrics that have been pre-impregnated with epoxy. Until these "pre-preg" materials are actually used, though, they must be transported and stored at very low temperatures to forestall a premature cure. The next step entails applying a release agent to a mandrel and then tightly winding on a swathe or swathes of pre-preg fabric until the desired tube thickness is achieved. Following the application of a form of shrink-wrap tape that tends to compress the rolled or wrapped fabric, baking the part in an oven or autoclave at a high temperature comes next. Then finally, extracting the mandrel with a dedicated machine completes the process.
The technology that Hultgren's invented and patented over the past few years is, she thinks, superior to the technology that's currently used to create most of the mandrel-wrapped, pre-preg shade and awning poles on the market. For one thing, it's comparatively less complicated and less expensive, in large part because pricey, difficult to store and handle pre-preg fabrics are not necessary and neither is a large oven or autoclave. And then she takes an entirely different approach to the composition of the carbon-fiber fabric that she employs .
"Instead of winding pre-preg onto a mandrel," she says, "I use a braided sleeve that goes over the mandrel very much like a sock goes over your foot. This creates a support pole that is extremely tough and flexible thanks to the multi-directionality of the fabric in the sleeve. It'll better handle the ever-changing stresses put on the pole, like wind and boat speed. By comparison, the pre-preg products are strong vertically, due to the orientation of the weave of the fabric, but not so strong laterally. This makes it hard for them to stand up to the wind and other sideways stresses without eventually failing. Some manufacturers even specify the use of support straps to keep their products from breaking."
Seriously detailed aspects of Hultgren's methodology are proprietary. But suffice to say that, in general, factoring in a two-part compression mold and a novel approach to releasing agents makes it possible for her to create a variety of support poles (thanks to a patented bell-shaped receiver, some can be broken down into two pieces for easy storage) that are basically made up of very resilient, wind-resistant, boat-speed-resistant braided carbon fiber that's been thoroughly infused with conventional epoxy resin.
"Because the BLACKSTICK products are so popular these days," she says, "I've had to get out of the canvas business altogether, although I do recommend Serge Ferrari Solstis 86 fabric to my customers since it's so dimensionally stable and doesn't stretch and sag over time. Otherwise, I'm barely able to keep up with demand."
Uncharted Waters: Hot Prospect
A Boat That Thinks
A Good Book and a VERY Big Wrench
Uncharted Waters: Magic Carpet Ride
A Tale of Two Captains
Sea Tales
Pirate of the Caribbean
Uncharted Waters: A Dark and Stormy Night
Uncharted Waters: Stranger Things


Can We Go Screen Free On A 3 Hour Flight?
If we weren't so focused on travelling the world, we'd be hippies… focusing on a natural, sustainable lifestyle. I imagine us shopping at farmers markets with our home-made bags, planting trees and vegetables, raising chickens, playing in a teepee in the garden, and doing crafts. Oh- wait a minute – we do all those things but we also drive a new car, and our fashion sense isn't hippy – more like utilitarian! We do, however, say no to plastics, use chemical free products and eat fresh organic food wherever possible. One of our biggest balancing acts is between the need to work (earn money) – while at the same time seeking natural alternatives which are also time consuming. We embrace the ideas of home-schooling and world schooling but haven't yet made the leap into either field. Our children attend a small, community based school that does follow the Australian curriculum but also has a great music program, gorgeous gardens (that the kids help out with) and a focus on the natural environment. Depending on the pace of life, we ebb and flow with our use of screens – sometimes they are present (especially kids TV/DVD) – and sometimes not so much. Small screens are very individual items and we try to limit their use. Here we share that you can be a travel family while also embracing sustainable living!


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Q: postgresql total database size not matching sum of individual table sizes My postgres database (version 8.2.3) is showing a size of 24 GB.
To get this figure I execute this query:
SELECT
  oid, datname, pg_database_size(datname) as actualsize,
  pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size(datname)) as size
FROM pg_database
ORDER BY datname

However, the sizes of the individual tables in the same database are not adding 24 GB when I execute this query:
SELECT
  schemaname, tablename, pg_size_pretty(size) AS size_pretty,
  pg_size_pretty(total_size) AS total_size_pretty
FROM
  (SELECT *, pg_relation_size(schemaname||'.'||tablename) AS size,
   pg_total_relation_size(schemaname||'.'||tablename) AS total_size
   FROM pg_tables where schemaname = 'public') AS TABLES
ORDER BY total_size DESC;

I've done sum up the individual tables size with pretty size and total_size, but the value does not match:
I am getting a pretty size of 3.5 GB
I am getting a total_size_pretty of 5.2 GB.
Where do I find out what the rest of the total space is being used for?

A: Normally i'm using the following two querys to get the size of database objects. Hope this helps.
SELECT pg_size_pretty(sum(pg_relation_size(pg_class.oid))::bigint), nspname,
CASE pg_class.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'i' THEN 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 't' THEN 'toast' ELSE pg_class.relkind::text END
FROM pg_class
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_namespace ON (pg_namespace.oid = pg_class.relnamespace)
GROUP BY pg_class.relkind, nspname
ORDER BY sum(pg_relation_size(pg_class.oid)) DESC;

-
SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(pg_class.oid)), pg_class.relname, pg_namespace.nspname,
CASE pg_class.relkind WHEN 'r' THEN 'table' WHEN 'i' THEN 'index' WHEN 'S' THEN 'sequence' WHEN 'v' THEN 'view' WHEN 't' THEN 'TOAST' ELSE pg_class.relkind::text END
FROM pg_class
LEFT OUTER JOIN pg_namespace ON (pg_namespace.oid = pg_class.relnamespace)
ORDER BY pg_relation_size(pg_class.oid) DESC;

A: And what's total size of all the indexes and large objects?


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George Clooney and Google launch satellite plan to avert Sudan violence.
George Clooney hopes that the Satellite Sentinel Project, funded by the Not on Our Watch organization, can 'stop a war before it starts'. Photograph: Kimihiro Koshino/AFP/Getty Images
Google has joined the UN, Harvard University and a pressure group founded by George Clooney to use satellites to scour Sudan for evidence of state-organised violence before next month's referendum that could see the country split in two.
Clooney said that he had launched the Satellite Sentinel Project to "stop a war before it starts" by warning the government in Khartoum that it would not be able to hide war crimes from the rest of the world, as it did for so long in Darfur, if there is violence in southern Sudan, which is likely to vote on 9 January to secede.
The project plans to reduce the waiting time for satellite images from more than a fortnight to less than 36 hours. The images will be scrutinised by the UN for evidence of mass movements of people, destruction of villages and other indicators of organised violence. The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative will also study the pictures.
The images will immediately be made public. If there is evidence of war crimes, appeals for action will be led in part by the Enough Project, an anti-genocide organisation led by the author and activist John Prendergast.
Clooney and Prendergast said today in a statement that there was a serious threat of violence.
"The government in Khartoum has armed militias in contested bordering regions, the government air force has bombed border areas, and both sides have massed military units and equipment along the hottest border spots," they said. "These areas have witnessed some of the most deadly conflict in the world since world war two. The former director of national intelligence says that southern Sudan is the place in the world most likely to experience genocide.
"We were late to Rwanda. We were late to the Congo. We were late to Darfur. There is no time to wait."
The referendum is the result of a 2005 peace deal to end more than two decades of civil war that cost more than two million lives. Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, has committed himself to respecting the result of the oil-rich south's vote. But there has already been violence amid accusations that the government is funding armed groups opposed to independence. Last week, the US vice president, Joe Biden, called Sudan's second vice president, Ali Osman Mohmed Taha, to express Washington's concern about potential violence.
Jonathan Hutson of the Enough Project said that advances in technology had given humanitarian organisations an advantage that should help not only expose violence but prevent it. "This project is leveraging Google map makers open source platform to wage peace. Unlike previous satellite imagery gathering projects which were after-the-fact documentation exercises, this project aims to stop a war before it starts," he said. "War criminals thrive in the dark. They behave differently when you shine a media spotlight on them, when you give them notice that satellite imagery can be quickly shared with the world. This is an open source public platform for waging peace and this transforms anti-war efforts from now on."
"Passing over Sudan at any given time are perhaps a dozen commercial satellites that have high resolution images available for purchase. The cost barrier has been the key factor that has limited the effective use of satellite imagery analysis in the human rights field," Hutson added.
The Sudan initiative is being funded for six months by Not On Our Watch, an organisation co-founded by Clooney and other film stars such as Matt Damon and Brad Pitt. "We want to let potential perpetrators of genocide and other war crimes know that we're watching, the world is watching," said Clooney.
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 29 December 2010 20.58 GMT
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