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Actuate Makes Open Source Business Intelligence Enterprise-Ready
Saturday Sep 18th 2010 by Paul Shread
Actuate has added a number of user-friendly and advanced features to help enterprises make the most of the open source BIRT software project.
Actuate (NASDAQ: ACTU) has added new features to its open source-based business intelligence software to make development and deployment of custom applications easier.
Actuate, which ranked high in a recent Forrester analysis of open source BI software, this week unveiled ActuateOne, or Actuate release 11, which the company says offers developers and end users "a single common architecture for development and deployment, utilizing one design, one server and a seamless unified end-user experience that meets the dynamically changing needs of information consumers."
Based on the Eclipse BIRT open source project the company founded, including the latest version of BIRT iServer, ActuateOne "fulfills the vision that Actuate has had since the inception of BIRT to redefine the business intelligence category by moving away from a set of disparate tools to a suite of integrated capabilities within a single environment."
Actuate adds interactive and analytic features to BIRT, such as data integration, dashboards, analytics, data visualization, advanced Excel features and new in-memory online analytical processing (OLAP) analytics capabilities.
Nobby Akiha, Actuate's senior vice president of marketing, said the open source BIRT software is good for "straightforward, small-scale" jobs that make up "the large majority of tasks" conducted by users.
Actuate is aimed at larger and more complex uses, but it also contains a number of user-friendly features such as "EasyScript," an Excel-like scripting language designed to make BIRT easier to use.
Jay Lyman, enterprise software analyst with The 451 Group, said of the new release, "By integrating and simplifying how data from multiple sources is handled and unifying it for users, Actuate is able to transform the work of the open source Eclipse BIRT community into enhanced and extended functionality for BI and information applications, both open source and commercial."
It's those enterprise features that inspired Forrester to give Actuate its top ranking for open source BI software vendors and projects.
ActuateOne pricing starts at $500 per CPU for a perpetual license.
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2.1 Literary License
2.2 Logarithmetic behavior as metaphor
3 RRS Coincidence column
3.1 Questions
4 Pi in the News
4.1 Question
5 How stocks share in soccer sorrows
The weather man is never wrong. Suppose he says that there's an 80% chance of rain. If it rains, the 80% chance came up; if it doesn't, the 20% chance came up! - Saul Barron .
From: Statistical Quotations
Literary License
"'Four million ... heard it. Ten percent remember it. One percent of those matter. One percent of those do something about it. That's still' - he does the math - 'four people.'" From: _The Betrayal_, by Sabin Willett, NY: Villard (Random House), 1998.
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Logarithmetic behavior as metaphor
For many years Ed Barbeau has edited a wonderful column in the College Mathematics Journal called Fallacies, Flaws, and Flimflam. In Barbeau's column in the November 2005 issue of the College Math Journal Norton Starr provides a contribution called "Logarithmic behaviour as metaphor". Norton provides examples from a wide variety of writers who say that something is growing logarithmically when they mean it is growing exponentially.
Norton says that he became interested in this when a convocation speaker at his college (Amherst) said:
As opposed to all other appetites which are stimulated by deprivation and satisfied by food, good education stimulates with plenty so that appetite for knowledge and understanding escalate logarithmically to insatiability.
Norton finds examples among faculty, newspapers, television and of course on the web. He writes:
Here are three examples of metaphorical growth from the New York Times, with the third suggesting an improved understanding on the part of this newspaper:
from a review of Harlow Shapley's autobiography: "if the autobiographer opts for a method he believes will grant him immortality without industry, his risks rise logarithmically."
from a story about corruption and drugs:"' The drug situation is a horror story, increasing logarithmically.'"
from a more recent story: "Street crime, fed by an explosion of drug abuse, has risen exponentially."
RRS Coincidence column
Norton Starr, who provides our RSSNews Forsooth items, told us that the RRSNews now has a Coincidence column. He sent us the coincidence story from the Nov 05 RSSNews and suggested some questions relating to this story.
This month's contribution is from Pam Warner of the University of Edinburgh Medical Statistics Unit who relates a story told to her by a colleague named Wilma during a recent morning coffee-break.
Wilma had been waiting in a queue for a check-out (in Edinburgh) and a little boy, accompanying the lady ahead of her in the queue, struck up a conversation with her. He asked her what her name was, and on being told that it was Wilma exclaimed that was the same name as his granny (the lady he was with).
Wilma then returned the compliment, asking him what his name was, and he said Kieran. She in turn commented that that was funny as she had a young grand-daughter (in London) whose name was Kiera.
By this time Kieran's grand-mother (the other Wilma) was involved in the proceedings, and chipped in 'Next thing you will be telling me is that Kiera's Mum's name is Pamela...', to which our Wilma could only reply astounded, 'It is!'
(1) What's the likelihood of two instances of a grandmother, her daughter (even though in this case it might be daugher-in-law) and her grandson having the same names, say in Britain?
(2) How does the above probability vary with size of population>
(3) How likely is it that such a pair of trios would encounter each other in person?
Pi in the News
"Expressed in digits, pi begins 3.14159…, and it runs on to an infinity of digits that never repeat. Though pi has been known for more than three thousand years, mathematicians have been unable to learn much about it. The digits show no predictable order or pattern. The Chudnovskys were hoping, very faintly, that their supercomputer might see one." From: "Capturing the Unicorn," by Richard Preston, in _The New Yorker_, April 11, 2005
If you were trying to explain to your Uncle George what it would mean for the digits of pie to be a random sequence, what might you tell him?
Suggested by Laurie Snell.
How stocks share in soccer sorrows
How stocks share in soccer sorrows Phillip Coggan, December 01, 2005, Financial Times
Sports Sentiment and Stock Returns by Alex Edmans, Diego Garcia and Oyvind Norli, Social Science Research Network. www.ssrn.com
Motivated by psychological evidence of a strong link between sporting outcomes and mood, a new study claims a statistically significant link between a nation's soccer team's results and the subsequent day's performance of that country's stock market, attributed to sudden changes in investor mood.
The study analysed about 1,200 football matches played across 39 nations, focusing on the FIFA World Cup or on Continental competitions such as the European Championship. Elimination from those competition is, on average, associated with a stock market performance that is 38 basis points (slightly more than a third of a percentage point) worse than normal.
The Financial Times summarises the results by saying that the magnitude of the loss effect and its concentration in Western European countries with developed stock markets, suggests that investors would have obtained large excess returns by trading on these mood events. The effect seems to be strongest in small stocks, where local investor sentiment is most likely to be dominant. It seems to be unrelated to the potential economic effects - such as loss of merchandising revenue - that defeat might have.
The authors even suggest a profitable trading strategy
One such strategy would be to short futures on both countries' indices before an important match to exploit the asymmetry of the effect.
They also claim that the loss effect is stronger for more important games, robust to changes in estimation methodology and to the removal of outliers in the data. It seems that there is also a statistically significant stock market loss effect using cricket, rugby, ice hockey, and basketball games in countries where these sports are popular.
However, a similar positive effect was not found when teams won. That may be because sports fans have unrealistic expectations of their team's chances of success. For example, 86 per cent of fans thought England would beat Brazil in the 2002 World Cup quarter-final, even though Brazil were the world's top-ranked team and bookmakers assigned only a 42 per cent probability to an England victory. A loss is more crushing to sentiment than a win is helpful. Furthermore, success in one round still leaves the possibility of elimination in the next.
The Financial Times article goes on to say
The study seems to chime with other surveys which found that increases in heart attacks, murders, suicides and riots are associated with sporting defeat. The mood of the population is adversely affected by a loss, particularly for sports in which a large proportion of the population takes an interest.
Other academic work that suggests investors are not entirely rational and so can be affected by factors like the weather, holidays and even the annual switch to daylight-saving time in the US.


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Sublime craftsmanship from a man that appartly started making music using an ATARI. The radio edit is a party. The remix by Polar Sun got me from the moment I heard the ping pong balls.


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HHB Communications Ltd. has further strengthened its Technical Services Department with the appointment of Mike Rigby (pictured) to the role of technical sales support engineer.
Mike was previously the technical manager at Technical Earth, where he managed the sales, installation and upgrades of recording facilities and venues and specialised in Avid Pro Tools systems. He also studied audio technology and acoustics at the University of Salford.
Mike's experience reinforces HHB's renowned Technical Services Team, as he joins them in providing unparalleled services, including product configuration and installation, after-sales support, repairs and training for Pro Tools and other MAC and PC based DAWs. Having recently passed the PT400 course, he is now a qualified Avid Certified Support Representative.
Both HHB and Scrub, its Soho-based subsidiary specialising in serving the post production industry, provide technical support for clients, with a strong focus on Avid Pro Tools. They also offer an annual 'MOT Service' that offers maintenance and evaluation of existing equipment with suggestions for upgrades and improved efficiency.
Many of the UK's leading broadcasters and post production facilities have chosen to work with HHB and Scrub in planning and implementing multi-facility installations and upgrades, even during critical times in the working year. This includes leading post production, broadcast and music studios like The Farm Group, Molinare, ITV's Manchester and London studios, The BBC, Real World, Abbey Road, Unit Media, Castle Rock, Premier PR, Envy and more. These outstanding services have also lead to HHB's status as an Avid Elite Reseller.
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Upstream planning for school-university engagement with research requires careful, structured thinking involving teachers, researchers and (where relevant and possible) students, supported by effective downstream project management. And yet through the early stages of our partnership we noted a lack of suitable planning tools that work for researchers, teachers and students.
Planning for school-university engagement with research: preparedness, politics, people, purposes, processes and performance.
We developed a flexible and adaptable planning tool that can be used to support the development, enactment, and evaluation of school-university activities.
The framework is supported by a 'SUPI metric@ to make explicit the level of engagement required and to support stakeholders.
As an activity proforma: The activity proforma has been designed to support researchers make initial contact with schools in Milton Keynes. Feel free to adapt the proforma for use in your local context.
As a blog post: Holliman, R. (2016). 'Planning for a principled approach to engaged research.' Digitally Agile Researcher Blog. 13 December.
As a training pamphlet: Holliman, R., Davies, G., Pearson, V., Collins, T., Sheridan, S., Brown, H., Hallam, J. and Russell, M. (2016). 'Planning for school-university engagement with research.' Engaging Research Blog. The Open University, Milton Keynes.
As a paper: Holliman, R. and Davies, G. (2015). Moving beyond the seductive siren of reach: planning for the social and economic impacts emerging from school-university engagement with research. JCOM 14(03), C06, pp. 1-10.


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Minimum price for STAR Academy falls drastically as it goes to auction again
The minimum was set at $1M. The previous minimum was $1,680,000.
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By KEVN Staff
PIERRE, S.D. (KEVN) - The South Dakota Appraisal Board brought the minimum price of the remaining acres of the former STAR Academy down during its meeting Monday.
The STAR Academy, previously a juvenile detention facility in Custer, will be offered for $1 million in an auction at 10 a.m. Feb. 12, 2021, in the Custer County Courthouse.
The $1 million is almost half the state's minimum was willing to accept for the remaining space. The previous minimum was $1,680,000. This will be the fourth time the STAR Academy goes up for bid.
In September, 40 acres of the facility were auctioned off for $320,000. No bids were placed on the main complex. The whole site had been available for $2 million.
Then on Dec. 8, Gov. Kristi Noem suggested the Legislature tear down the complex and sell the vacant land. This would cost $1.7 million.
State School and Public Lands Commissioner Ryan Brunner is in charge of the sale. His office recently received a price estimate of nearly $675,000 from a Rapid City firm to demolish the main building, a connected group of four structures constructed in 1917, 1925, 1963 and 1990.
In the meeting, Bruner said that 20 parties showed interest in the main parcel and buildings at the September auction, but none placed a bid.


For example, it brought a bigger screen with Dynamic AMOLED capacitive touchscreen and 12 MP rear camera. 2019. It comes with 5.5 inches, 76.7 cm2 bigger screen that attracts the attention.
Smartphone cameras are now so advanced you don't need a point-and-shoot. Here are the best phone cameras on the market now.
Well, the Mi 9 comes with the best hardware currently. on the back we find a dual camera setup comprised of main 12.2MP and a secondary 5MP shooter. Read Also: Realme 3 goes on sale in India via.
News and Updates (March 2019) Recently posted smartphone reviews include the Galaxy S10, the Moto G7 and the Nokia 9 PureView with its five rear camera setup.; Smartphone Rumors. Pixel 3 Lite.
Best DSLR Cameras under $500. Despite the growth in popularity of mirrorless cameras, the humble DSLR camera still has pride of place as the number one format in use by photographers in 2019.
The trio of cameras on the rear of the Galaxy S10 Plus are among the best on the market, offering more features, shooting modes and overall clarity. It's a Samsung one-two, with the Samsung Galaxy.
2018 was a stellar year for smartphones, and while 2019 is set to be. Boasting the world's best display, advanced ultrasonic security, reverse wireless charging, exceptional performance and its.
It's not a novel concept in 2019 to suggest that nobody really needs a standalone camera anymore. By getting hold of one of the best camera phones on the market instead, you can now produce professional shots and video footage of a ridiculously high standard.
There's no doubt about it, the OnePlus 6T is one of the very best Android phones on the market. If you choose your mobiles based on the quality of the camera, then the incredible dual-lens snapper.
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Charles Barkley Won't Be In NBA 2K Until Older Players Get Paid
Photo: Stephen Lovekin (Getty Images)
It used to be in the '90s that Michael Jordan was the most conspicuous absence from licensed basketball games. These days it's Charles Barkley, not for any rights issues, but because of the way he believes 2K needs to help out some of the people it's using to make its millions every year.
The NBA 2K series doesn't just feature the league's current rosters, it also has a ton of classic players and teams as well. And while these are often led by superstars, a lot of spots on those teams were taken up by role players who weren't able to make the millions in contracts and endorsements that guys like Jordan and Barkley were.
Barkley explains that in this interview, which was actually done very wholesomely in July for a kid's account with 1.9k subscribers, but blew up over the weekend when it was shared on r/nba.
"Give the old retired players one million dollars and I'll be in the video game", Barkley says. "They piss me off every year, they call me every year and say, 'Have you changed your mind?'"
"Why in the world you think I'm gonna change my mind? Give the retired players a million dollars a year".
"I'm not talking about old retired players like me. There's this misconception that everybody's been making a gazillion dollars our whole life. There's players older than me who didn't make any money. Those are the guys, they're older and probably need the money, so that's why I'm not in the video game."
The minimum an NBA player could make last season, on the lowest rookie contract, was $893,000. The league minimum in 1985-86k, for comparison, was just $70,000 (around $170,000 today).
NBA 2K publishers Take-Two reported $3 billion in sales last fiscal year.
Barkley has been campaigning for veteran players to be paid for their virtual appearances for years now, citing this as the reason he not only doesn't appear in the 2K series as a classic player, but why he doesn't appear as an analyst either.
NBA 2K21: The Kotaku Review
When I sit down with 2K's new basketball game every year, I normally only take the time to review…


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Conservation in the Classroom
COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM PROGRAM GIVES STUDENTS AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE
A program that launched for the first time during the 2019-2020 school year to help young students spread the word on how to help with local conservation efforts leapt into action when everything suddenly came to a halt more than halfway through the school year.
Conservation in the Classroom was launched by the Coastal Discovery Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate, as a way for students, teachers and the Hilton Head-based museum to work together to educate the youth on local conservation efforts.
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DR. VANDERSLICE REMEMBERED FOR KIND HEART, PASSION FOR HELPING CHILDREN
Whether he was cracking jokes to provide levity to patients in the operating room or leading his family on another adventure, Dr. Rick Vanderslice seldom took the expected path.
Dr. Vanderslice, who died last month after a two-year battle with cancer, was the founder of The Urology Group on Hilton Head Island in the mid-1990s and a founding partner of the Outpatient Surgery Center. He was well-regarded for his work in the medical field at home, serving on the board of Hilton Head Hospital and receiving the Circle of Care Award from the Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, but he found a new passion with the first of a dozen or so medical mission trips to Tanzania in 2006.
FOOD LION DONATES $3,000 TO SECOND HELPINGS
Second Helpings received $3,000 from the Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation to buy fresh food for some of its agencies that are most impacted by the increased need for food during the coronavirus pandemic.
Established in 2001, the Food Lion Feeds Charitable Foundation provides financial support for programs and organizations dedicated to feeding the hungry in the communities it serves.
In Memoriam Carey F. Smith
Carey F. Smith, Hilton Head Island's first town manager, died July 5. He was 77. Smith served as town manager from 1983, when the town was first incorporated, until 1988. Current town manager Steve Riley said many of Smith's programs and policies are in place today.
Lauderdale, Award-Winning Columnist, Retires
Longtime Lowcountry journalist David Lauderdale announced his retirement after 43 years in newspapers. Lauderdale wrote in an Island Packet column that July 31 was his final day at the newspaper.
A columnist and senior editor for The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette, Lauderdale won two McClatchy President's Awards for journalism excellence, and was honored with the 2016 Hilton Head Island-Bluffton Chamber of Commerce's Alice Glenn Doughtie Good Citizenship Award for his "selfless community service in the spirit of brotherhood."
Hilton Head Hospital Nurse Earns Prestigious Award
Kevin Ashdown of Hilton Head Hospital was awarded the Daisy RN Award. He was nominated for the award by former patients. Ashdown earned his nursing degree in 2003 and has worked in the emergency department ever since.
Beaufort County School District Releases Plan For Reopening
The Beaufort County School District's plan to reopen includes virtual and in-person options for students. The tenative start date is Sept. 8, pending final board approval. The district said it's possible it will begin the year with virtual- only instruction because of coronavirus concerns.
Students and staff are required to wear masks at all times, including on buses. View the district's entire plan at its website (beaufortschools.net).
Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Awards Scholarships
The Community Foundation of the Lowcountry awarded 156 local students with more than $717,600 in scholarships. This is the 25th year the Community Foundation has awarded scholarships, and more than $7.8 million has been awarded to more than 1,000 recipients.
Peacock Subaru Donates $10,000 to Volunteers in Medicine
Peacock Subaru Hilton Head donated $10,125 to Greater Bluffton Jasper County Volunteers in Medicine as part of its Subaru Share the Love campaign.
Hilton Head Bridge Project Gets $120 Million in State Funding
The State Infrastructure Bank granted Beaufort County $120 million to help pay for the replacement of Hilton Head Island's bridges.
The U.S. 278 corridor project proposes improving or replacing the Karl Bowers Bridge and J. Wilton Graves Bridge connecting Hilton Head Island to the mainland and adjoining roadwork from Moss Creek Drive to Spanish Wells Road.
Woman Attacked By Alligator
A 10-foot alligator attacked a woman during Independence Day weekend, according to S.C. Department of Natural Resources spokesman David Lucas.
Lucas said the 75-year-old Callawassie Island resident was trimming plants near an edge of the gated community's pond when the gator grabbed her leg and pulled her into the water. A man jumped into the pond and pulled her out of the water. Lucas said the woman had fractures and had undergone surgery.
Filing For Hilton Head Island Elections Ends Aug. 17
The filing period for the Town of Hilton Head Island's general election runs from July 31 through 12 p.m. Aug. 17. The Nov. 3 election is to elect Town Council members for Wards 1, 3 and 6.
Filing for candidacy is at Town Hall, One Town Center Court. A filing form will be available. Candidates should bring a photo ID and be prepared to submit a $35 filing fee, which may be paid by cash, credit card, or check made payable to the Town of Hilton Head Island.
Sparklers and Bottle Rockets
KNOW LOCAL LAWS TO HAVE A HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY
With public fireworks displays cancelled this summer, locals and visitors may be tempted to shoot off their own to celebrate Independence Day. And while nothing says summer fun like an evening of brightly colored pyrotechnics, it's important to know and respect local laws.
Laws vary according to where you are in the Lowcountry. The Town of Bluffton prohibits the possession, sale and discharge of fireworks within town limits, according to Bluffton Police Department community relations manager Joy Nelson. Anyone caught breaking this law can receive a maximum fine of $500 and 30 days in jail, Bluffton Police Department's Capt. Joseph Babkiewicz said.
Concours d'Elegance Motoring Festival Canceled
The 2020 Hilton Head Concours d'Elegance Motoring Festival has been canceled because of the coronavirus. The event brings classic cars, planes and thousands of visitors to Hilton Head Island. It was scheduled for Oct. 23-Nov. 1, but is now set for Oct. 29-Nov. 7, 2021. "While all of us will sorely miss seeing you in 2020, we are immediately shifting our focus to organizing an especially amazing event for the fall of 2021," a statement on the event's website said.
PETITION TO DROP THE WORD "PLANTATION" FROM LOCAL COMMUNITY NAMES STARTED
At least 4,300 people have signed a petition on change.org saying the county's resorts and gated communities should not be called plantations due to the association with slavery. "There is no place for the term "plantation," a word that conveys generations of racial violence in modern Hilton Head, outside museums telling the absolute truth about the horrors of slavery on plantations," the petition states. The issue dredges up a painful past for some and disdain of political correctness for others. Managers of some communities balk at how expensive or intricate removing the word would be. Others say it's nearly impossible to correct 50 years of legal documents.
A Social Awakening
TWO YOUNG ACTIVISTS ORGANIZE PROTESTS IN BLUFFTON
Desiree Bailey and Walter Wheeler have been side-by-side for most of their lives, growing up together in Bluffton and emerging as leaders of the Class of 2018 at Bluffton High School.
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Oxford is a very sociable University with a high reputation for sports, drama, music, and journalism, and a huge range of student clubs and societies to suit all levels of ability. These groups are an excellent way for visiting students to meet people, gain a fuller experience of life in a British university, and relax after days in the library. In Freshers' Week (at the start of Michaelmas Term) visiting students attend the College and the University Freshers' Fairs, where they can sign up for clubs, societies, and sports teams. Visiting students are also permitted to join the Oxford Union, the famous debating club. Mansfield has a bar and a student common room, where a wide range of social events is organised by the JCR. A visiting student representative is elected every year to represent visiting student interests on the JCR Bench (or organising committee).
The city of Oxford is alive with social and cultural activities, and Oxford is a short bus or train journey from London. The College Hall offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner throughout term, and all students have kitchen access in their accommodation. There are two Formal Dinners in Hall each week - to which gowns must be worn - and a Thanksgiving Service and Dinner is arranged in College every November.
For more information about the Junior Common Room and the clubs and societies on offer, please visit the Undergraduate Student Life page.


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Cherokee Language: Interesting Facts & Resources
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Today we showcase the Cherokee language! We've gathered some background information and interesting facts about the language. We also share information on our newest Cherokee children's books.
Where is Cherokee spoken?
Cherokee, a member of the Iroquoian language family, is spoken by the indigenous, Cherokee Nation of North America. Originating from the southeast region of North America, the largest Cherokee speaking population now lives in a tribal territory in Oklahoma. Altogether, about 2,000 people still speak Cherokee today.
How is Cherokee being preserved?
In 2019, the Cherokee Nation voted to invest in the preservation of their language and culture. With a $16 million commitment, the Durbin Feeling Cherokee Language Preservation Act is the biggest language investment in the history of the Cherokee Nation. Then, just this past spring, Congress introduced the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act of 2021. This piece of legislation would provide important "health checks" for the preservation and revitalization of native languages in the United States.
Interesting Facts About Cherokee
In its written form, the language uses Cherokee syllabary. This means that in place of an alphabet, Cherokee employs 85 distinct characters. Therefore, each character represents a discrete syllable.
The Cherokee Phoenix is the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States. Also, because they printed their newspaper in both English and Cherokee, they became the first newspaper to ever be published in a Native American language.
Cherokee is composed mostly of verbs. While about 25% of all words in the English language are verbs, almost 75% of Cherokee words are verbs.
The Cherokee Nation offers free resources for educators and language learners interested in learning Cherokee.
Cherokee Books – Bilingual Children's Books
If you interact with children who speak Cherokee, or are learning the language, you may want suggestions on some of the best bilingual children's books. Language Lizard offers How Totsuwa Became Cherokee, a coming of age story of the Cardinal bird.
This bilingual children's book tells the story of how Totsuwa noticed his feathers were turning red. Then, Yona, the old bear, and Kananesgi, the wise spider, help Totsuwa overcome anxiety and fear through courage and action.
The author, Virginia Hamby, is a Cherokee Nation citizen and grew up in a home where only the Cherokee language was spoken. She is proud to speak and maintain her heritage language today.
Are you interested in learning about other languages as well? Check out our series of posts on world languages, including Oromo, Nepali, Hmong, Russian, and Japanese!
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(Lübeck, Germany, 1937) Artist and educator. Camnitzer is an Uruguayan artist who has lived in the USA since 1964. He is a Professor Emeritus of Art, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury. He received a Guggenheim fellowship for printmaking in 1961 and one for visual arts in 1982. In 2011, he was awarded the Frank Jewitt Mather Award of the College Art Association. He represented Uruguay in the Venice Biennial 1988 and participated in the Whitney 2000 and the Documenta XI. In 2018-19, he had a retrospective exhibition in the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid). He was curator for the Viewing Program of the Drawing Center in New York (1999 to 2006) and pedagogical curator of the 6th Bienal de Mercosur (2007). His work is in the collections of over 40 museums. Among his books are: New Art of Cuba (University of Texas Press); Didactics of Liberation: Conceptualist Art in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2007); On Art, Artists, Latin America and Other Utopias (University of Texas Press, 2010), and One Number Is Worth One Word (e-flux Journal/ Sternberg Press, 2020). His work is represented by the Alexander Gray Gallery in New York.
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Just in the past week, I've been harvesting the best broccoli I've ever grown. It is super-crunchy, very tasty, and robust enough to have warded off the usual attack of the cabbage worms.
This broccoli doesn't even make it through the front door without my 5 year old chomping into the florets.
He loves to help me find the crowns that are ready, then he waits stealthily until I'm occupied with pulling up a weed or picking another veggie — and he starts chewing away at it.
This broccoli is so good I've been just barely steaming it if I do cook it at all.
Now, in order to get my younger boy to eat it I have to put butter on it. But I'm just happy he likes it too especially considering how picky of an eater he can be.
The cauliflower plants aren't quite ready yet. I am curious if this guy will attack them post-harvest as voraciously as he does the broccoli…..
I always seem to be in the garden barefoot. Note inadvertently color-coordinated toenail polish shade. Trying to think of a good new cheezy name for that color…"Broccoli Breeze"….


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Why would we want to keep a tax cut that's failed? Why would we not want to go back to the Clinton tax code? And why would we not want to help every family more with a health-care plan like mine? Let's help average people. Let's be Democrats.
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I don't think we've done enough here on our continuity-of-government plan, ... It isn't enough to just have continuity in the executive branch. We need it in the judicial branch and the legislative branch.
I don't think we've done enough to train ourselves and the staff and media people that are in this building for how we're going to get out of this building in the case of an attack, ... I think we need to repeatedly train for how to get out.
I think by even President Bush's own standards, the themes that he used in the campaign and after, he hasn't measured up
He [Bush] said he wanted to be a compassionate conservative, ... He said he wanted prosperity with a purpose. He said he wanted to leave no child behind. I think the theme that he has really acted out over these 100 days is to leave no special interest behind in almost everything that's been done.
They realize they can't hold the majority unless they spend millions in soft money
Those young people in Afghanistan are not fighting for the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. They are fighting for the greatest country that has ever existed on earth. That is the United States of America.
I do not support gay marriage, but I hope the Massachusetts state legislature will act in a manner that is consistent with today's Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling.
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How Astronomers See The Universe Through Our Galaxy
Ethan Siegel
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The stars, gas, nebulae and dust in our galactic plane make it impossible to see through. But there are other forms of light.
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." –Jonathan Swift
When we look out at the Universe, our view is pretty consistently dominated by the stars within our own galaxy. Although we know that many interesting things lie beyond — globular clusters, individual galaxies, and rich clusters and superclusters of galaxies — being in the Milky Way makes it very hard to see a great many of them. This is because our own galaxy, from our vantage point within it, dominates a huge fraction of the sky overhead.
Image credit: ESO/B.Tafreshi, of the Milky way in visible light as seen from Earth.
The plane of the Milky Way itself obscures about a total of 20% of our night sky. What appears to be a white streak is actually the light from billions upon billions of stars whose light appears to blend together from our point of view, while the dark nebulae are actually neutral clouds of gas-and-dust that appear in the foreground, blocking the light that comes from behind.
At least in the wavelengths of light visible to our own eyes, this is an incredibly severe effect.
Image credit: GigaGalaxyZoom, via the European Southern Observatory.
For a long time, the plane of our galaxy prevented us from seeing very much of anything that lay beyond it. Termed the Zone of Avoidance, searches for distant galaxies and nebulae turned up very few results in this 20% of the sky, while our discoveries elsewhere simply grew and grew. While we were discovering a plethora of objects beyond the galaxy in all other directions, surveying the portion of the night sky that was blocked by our own galaxy was prohibitive. The light-blocking power of the intervening matter — known as extinction — was simply too much to overcome.
And this would still be true coming all the way up to today if we confined ourselves to the light that our own eyes can see. Thankfully, however, we now know better.
Image credit: E. L. Wright (UCLA), The COBE Project, DIRBE, NASA, via http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap000130.html.
The inset image was the very first picture of the entire sky taken in the infrared, thanks to the COBE satellite's DIRBE instrument. (And yes, the "IR" in DIRBE stands for infrared.) The final results from COBE led to the main image, where many more stars are visible. You'll note that the light-blocking effects are tremendously reduced, which is a function of the fact that the "dust" that blocks visible light are actually particles of a certain size, and that size is much less efficient at blocking the longer-wavelength infrared light!
An even sharper view — in more wavelengths — has been provided by the two-micron all-sky survey (2MASS), as you can see below.
Image credit: 2MASS / J. Carpenter, T. H. Jarrett, & R. Hurt.
As you can tell, the light-blocking gas and dust has practically disappeared, and that's no coincidence. Although we don't normally think about it, the wavelengths of all types of light that interact with something is highly dependent on the size of the object itself. This is why there are large holes on your microwave door: they allow visible light through but block the microwaves that cook and heat your food. (Don't scrape the holes off, not even in the interest of science!)
And as we noted earlier, for the dust grains in our galaxy, visible light is easily absorbed while infrared passes through uninhibited. This is specific to the types of molecules and how they're bound together in the interstellar medium.
Image credit: NASA (original); SVG by Wikimedia Commons user Mysid. This shows the atmospheric opacity at different wavelengths.
If we take a look at our atmosphere instead, the converse is true: visible light passes through the molecules and particles present very easily, while infrared is more easily absorbed. That's why, to really get a handle on what's out there beyond the plane of our galaxy, we can't do it from the Earth's surface; the atmosphere's infrared light-blocking properties are simply too good.
To look beyond our galactic plane, and spy the Universe beyond, we simply have to go to space. Lucky for you, we have, and the results are mind-blowing.
Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / WISE Team.
The warm gas actually leaves an infrared signature, as seen in green from this all-sky mosaic in the infrared from WISE. What's really interesting, though, is that even with the warm gas, we can still find out what lies behind a large amount of the galactic plane from a survey like this. In fact, if you zoom in (they have a zoomable version) on the region marked IC 342 up there, you'll find a number of really interesting features.
For starters, IC 342 is itself one of the most interesting objects in the night sky. It should come as no surprise that Andromeda is the largest galaxy outside of our own as seen from our vantage point, followed by theTriangulum Galaxy, M33, which also lies within our local group. But what might surprise you is that the third largest galaxy as seen from our location is actually this rarely-seen galaxy, IC 342 (just left of the image center), which wasn't even first discovered until 1895!
Thankfully, WISE also imaged it at a far higher resolution than this wide-field mosaic shows, revealing a familiar spiral structure.
When it was discovered in 1895, there were not yet any such thing as an infrared telescope, and there certainly wasn't an infrared telescope in space, as we hadn't even developed the airplane at that point!
As it turns out, this galaxy can be seen in visible light, it's just very dim, and partially obscured by dust and by foreground emissions. Even the Hubble Space Telescope, for all its power, can only obtain an image that pales in comparison to the infrared shots that an observatory like WISE can take.
Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Legacy Archive, of IC 342, edited by me.
Not only does the dust obscure the visible light, but it makes it extremely dim. If the Milky Way weren't there, not only would this galaxy be bright and prominent, but it would also quite likely be visible to the naked eye, even though it lies far beyond the local group at an estimated 10 million light-years distant. (About five times as distant as Andromeda.)
What's maybe even more interesting is that there are tons of galaxies in the Zone of Avoidance that we just missed, for centuries, because of this exact problem, including many of the closest galaxies to our own!
Nearby IC 342, in the same region of the sky, you can see two prominent galaxies shining through some of the warm dust of our own Milky Way. If we zoom in, you can see a distorted spiral galaxy and a giant elliptical in far greater detail.
These galaxies are named Maffei 1 (for the elliptical) and Maffei 2 (for the spiral), after their discoverer, the Italian astronomer and infrared pioneer, Paolo Maffei. These are two of the intrinsically brightest galaxies close by, and in fact Maffei 1 is the single closest giant elliptical galaxy to us in all the Universe.
And yet, they weren't even seen for the first time until 1967, due to the tremendous obscuring power of the Milky Way's dust!
Images credit: Maffei 1 and 2, by the Hubble Legacy Archive / NASA / ESA, edits by E. Siegel.
More than 99.5% of the light from these galaxies are obscured by the intervening Milky Way; if not for our unfortunate galactic orientation, Maffei 1 (above left) would definitely be visible to the naked eye alone, despite being some 10-to-13 million light years distant! Although Maffei 2 wouldn't be, it's still gorgeous and worthy of study in its own right, and so different in the visible as compared with the infrared!
So if you were asking yourself what the Universe really looks like, and you saw the quite popular image (below), don't be fooled.
Image credit: Cosmic Flows Project/University of Hawaii, via http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/.
What we call "the Zone of Avoidance" isn't, as we commonly present it, a nearby region with very few galaxies. Although we've seen very few galaxies, in reality it's most probably a region with just as many galaxies as the rest of the Universe, that just happens to be hard to see from our vantage point!
The detailed observations that have been made of Maffei 1 teach us something incredibly valuable. You see, there's a myth going around that if you — a human being — were placed at a random location in the Universe, irrespective of planets, stars, or galaxies, you most likely wouldn't be able to see anything.Not a single star or galaxy would be bright enough to capture with your naked eye.
Image credit: ESO/ Digitized Sky Survey 2, via http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1019b/.
That's simply not true. While it is true that there are some locations — like in the middle of great, cosmic voids — for which you wouldn't be able to see anything, galaxies like Andromeda, Bode's Galaxy and Maffei 1 are abundant enough and spread out enough that the odds are at least one such galaxy (and more than that, on average) would be visible to you from any random location.
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And that means your view from outside a galaxy, at a random location of the Universe, you would still have a very good chance of being within viewing distance of the bright monsters of the Universe.
Image credit: Richard Powell / Atlas of the Universe.
Without any galactic dust (or atmospheric extinction, for that matter) to obscure your views of the Universe beyond, you'd be able to see at least something from almost anywhere, even with your pathetic unaided eyes.
But even from our location, there's a great lesson to be learned: if you want to see what lies beyond our galaxy — or any dusty galaxy — just look in the infrared, and watch the Universe open up to you!
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Why Facebook Is Mapping Human Settlements across the Globe
An estimated 10 percent of the world's population doesn't have access to the Internet. Facebook's Connectivity Lab is trying to find a way to bring isolated communities online, but in order to do so, it needs to know where they live.


REMINDER: The Port of Seattle will be holding a Public Meeting on its 'Sustainable Airport Master Plan' (SAMP) at Highline College this coming MONDAY, SEPT. 10, and all area residents who have concerns or questions about increased expansion, airport noise, pollution and other issues should attend.
This free, open meeting will run from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. in the Highline College Student Union building.
This will likely be one of the last opportunities to show up, hear from the Port, ask questions and get answers to any concerns you might have.
If this meeting is like a previous one held in Burien in July, it will include a long PowerPoint presentation from the Port on the SAMP (perhaps they'll use larger fonts for this one?), followed by a public comment/Q&A session (to see video from that meeting, click here).
The SAMP is the blueprint for Airport growth through 2027. Sea-Tac has added 97,000 overflights in the last four years – that's now 1,140 per day, 416,000 annually.
How noisy will it become in our region?
What are the risks to our health and the environment?
How does the Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) impact crime, property values, environmental justice, and our quality of life?
What health and mitigation studies are underway?
What does the global science say today about these risks?
What about the growth beyond 2027?
Below is the schedule of the remaining public scoping meetings for the Sea-Tac Sustainable Airport Master Plan (SAMP) Environmental Review documents being held by the Port of Seattle in September.
All meetings will take place from 5:30–8:30 p.m.
"These meetings and the written comments submitted during the scoping process will shape the environmental analysis being completed over the next year," the Port said.


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The type of central heating upgrades that we can offer domestic and commercial customers will not only help to keep you warm and comfortable at home or at work, they will also help to bring down your monthly and annual fuel bills with a more effective and efficient heating solution with a 10-year warranty on every new boiler we install.
There are ways of making your central heating system as efficient as possible, many of which will pay for themselves over the years. Improving your central heating system will also help reduce your carbon footprint, there are many small ways to do this that will make huge differences to the environment. Many aging systems can be upgraded so that they can run much more efficiently. Power Flush Wizard can supply and fit any of the below for you, at very competitive rates. Getting your central heating system upgraded as well as power flushed will maximise the efficiency rating of your home, as well as saving you valuable cash.
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The Eight Hundred (2020) Review
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The Eight Hundred is a truly epic war film with a genuine sense of scale; the lack of a main protagonist makes it hard to feel any attachment to the characters but it works in creating a chaotic nightmare and is a fitting tribute to those who fought in the Shanghai battlefield.
Plot: From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Review: The first Chinese film to be shot entirely on IMAX, The Eight Hundred recreates the final days of 1937's Battle of Shanghai and features a cast of thousands with some harrowing battle scenes and a truly epic scale.
With a budget of $80 million every penny is visible on screen during the plentiful action scenes; it's R-rated too so nothing is sugar coated giving us a visceral descent into Hell.
The movie doesn't really have a main protagonist; the action follows this entire group through the battle which lasts several days. It does mean that you generally tend not to really get to know anyone or truly care about them but it still works in keeping you engaged due to the sheer intensity.
The Eight Hundred doesn't shy away from showing the absolute terror the soldiers must have felt at the time with several main characters demonstrating cowardice in the face of danger but also showing the bravery of others making for a gripping watch. It must have been a horrific experience for the men as if they were to display any cowardice they were shot by their own superiors, so it was just a relentless nightmare.
The camerawork is superlative making us feel like we are right in the thick of it which just adds to the anxiety. It feels like a mixture of Dunkirk and 1917 so it will keep you on the edge of your seat. Despite the movie being 2 and half hours long it is most certainly never dull as you are wondering what awfulness these poor soldiers will have to endure next.
I probably wouldn't want to sit through it again as it's grim stuff but the performances are strong and it's visually stunning making it a movie definitely worth checking out in IMAX if you get the chance.
Overall, The Eight Hundred isn't exactly a fun time but it's an expertly crafted war film with several harrowing moments that haunt you after watching.


Washable Finger Paint Set - 4 oz.
Washable Finger Paint Set - 4 oz. is rated 3.7 out of 5 by 7.
Rated 5 out of 5 by EB83 from Washes well and good amount Bought these to paint little wooden planes and the kids loved it. I didn't use it as finger paint, but instead put the colors in little dixie cups and used brushes, but it wiped off easily from a plastic craft table and washed out of clothes.
Rated 5 out of 5 by PolishPrincessMI from Colorful Fun! Great paint for creative works of art with many nice colors!
Rated 1 out of 5 by Doctormama22 from These Stain Everything We bought these for my 2 year old and they stained her hands, her feet, my walls and floor. These paints are definitely not for fingers or messy kids!
Rated 1 out of 5 by Birthdayparty16 from Do NOT purchase! This finger paint stains clothes, skin, furniture, etc.! You can imagine my surprise and horror finding this out AFTER my toddler painted. In fine print on the bottle it says "may cause staining." What a joke! This is FINGER PAINT...it's made to be touched. I'll be contacting customer service for a refund.
Will this paint work well with fabric?
We are wanting to make a pillow case for a camp and want to put the kids hand prints on them. Will this paint wash out if the pillow gets wet?
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Center for Technical Education and Vocational Training commonly known as CTEVT was formed in 1989 AD (2045 BS). The slogan of CTEVT is that "People with skills are the assets of the nation and the people without skills are the liabilities." This is an autonomous authority for technical, vocational education and training (TEVT) in Nepal established with major purpose of producing efficient manpower in this sector. The major work responsibilities of this organization includes policy formulation, quality maintenance, preparing competitive curriculum, developing skills standard, testing the skills, research works, assessing the needs of trainings, etc. There is the provision of assembly of twenty four members and governing board (council) of nine members. Both the body is headed by Minister of Education. The council comprises of Vice-Chairman and Member Secretary as a full timer undertaking the responsibilities of driving this organization.
Vision: This institution has vision to skill Nepal for people's affluence.
Mission: To make CTEVT a vibrant organization by developing competent manpower as per the glocal needs with TEVT framework.
Escalating the TVET programs to make sure that it is fairly reachable to all.
Making sure of the qualitative, applicable and competent TVET system.
Increasing the usefulness and proficiency of CTEVT management.
Forming NVQF for checking whether it is matching with education outline.
To form TEVT fund by expanding various input.
To create strong coordination with and among the different stakeholders.
The CTEVT is conducting different courses related to engineering and agriculture, health and medical for diploma level or PCL. For 15 month course student should pass SLC but for those who have not passed SLC, the course duration is of 29 months.
One can be eligible for bachelor level after passing this course.
One can be eligible for BPH after studying above course but for MBBS one should pass the deficiency course of HSEB. For Bachelor of Nursing, two years of work experience is needed. One can also study, pharmacy and medical laboratory technology after pursuing above course. One should be very clear that above mentioned course can be studied in bachelor only if they have studied same course is proficiency level.
Entry requirement: For SLC passed the course is of 15 and 18 months, under SLC: 29 months.
Students who have passed above course by getting at least 68.66 percent are eligible to sit in entrance examination of I. Sc. Ag.
Special requirement: Students should pass SLC along with passing above course for appearing in entrance examination of upper level study in related subject.
One can get the detail information about these organizations in the official website of CTEVT.
National Skill Testing Board (NSTB).


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Frankenweed – What you need to know about Monsanto's patent on marijuana
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By Gregg Prescott, M.S.
Despite marijuana being classified as a Schedule 1 drug under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, GMO conglomerate Monsanto was recently approved for a patent on marijuana (U.S. Patent No. 6630507).
At one point in time, you could actually be arrested for NOT growing hemp, as mentioned in the article, " The Marijuana Conspiracy":
REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
The United States Government, through the Department of Health and Human Services, filed a patent for cannabis to be used as a neuroprotectant and antioxidant in 2003.
Because medical marijuana is now considered medical treatment in the United States, the terms for it being a Schedule 1 drug have been violated.
A Schedule 1 drug means that:
The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse
The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the US
There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision
One must ask:
Why would anyone would need a patent on a "weed"?
Why would glyphosate even be needed to eliminate potential insects from harming a weed?
What kind of detrimental health effects would people be receiving if they were to smoke this product?
What types of longitudinal studies has Monsanto run on this patent and what were the results?
What other non-privatized groups have run unbiased studies on this new patent and what were their results?
The answer is quite simple: it's all about greed, control, and eugenics.
Government admits marijuana cures cancer
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) recently reported that "recent animal studies have shown that marijuana can kill certain cancer cells and reduce the size of others. Evidence from one animal study suggests that extracts from whole-plant marijuana can shrink one of the most serious types of brain tumors. Research in mice showed that these extracts, when used with radiation, increased the cancer-killing effects of the radiation."
Cancer is a $162 billion per year industry. According to Dr. Leonard Coldwell, there are over 300 cures for cancer but because this industry generates so much money, none of these will see the light of day.
In the end, it shows how the government is pushing the eugenics/depopulation agenda as our air, water, and food supplies are all being poisoned and the government is doing nothing about it.
The future of marijuana
With Monsanto getting their greedy little fingers into the marijuana industry, one can foresee how nasty and dangerous additives will be included in this new form of frankenweed. Damaging health effects will most likely become the reason to abolish all other forms of marijuana, with Monsanto blaming natural growers of marijuana for health problems that their Frankenweed will inevitably cause. This excuse will also be used in further government regulations and taxation of marijuana.
Marijuana and hemp have been proven to be one of the most versatile cash crops ever known to man as they could:
easily stop the production of oil and be used as a replacement for gasoline. Hemp is clean, renewable, and could replace every other form of energy on this planet
be used for clothing
stop deforestation (FACT: no tree or plant species can produce as much paper as one acre of marijuana)
GREATLY reduce pollution by the elimination of oil mining, deforestation, gas emissions, etc..
replace GMO cotton and double the production of fiber in 1 acre
replace most facets of home building with hemp, such as using hempcrete, which is 3x more resistant to earthquakes. It can also be used for wall insulation, flooring, walls, and roofing and is fire-proof, waterproof, and termite resistant.
nutrition through hemp seeds as they're very high in protein
Of course, there are MANY other vast benefits from marijuana and hemp but the main focus of this article is why Monsanto needs to profit from something that grows naturally and can benefit mankind in so many ways.
As we've seen with the comparison between organic food and Monsanto's GMO's, organic food has substantially more nutrients and substantially less health detriments, so why would anyone want genetically modified marijuana?
Would you trust genetically modified marijuana?
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