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2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
Post by Mike Bentley » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:59 am
Let's use this thread to discuss the questions at the 2011 NSC. FYI, I edited and wrote a lot of the history and I'll have some more to say about that later.
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Re: 2011 NSC Question Set Discussion
Post by Not That Kind of Christian!! » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:07 am
I edited and wrote all the biology, and wrote some questions for the rest of the set besides.
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Post by Skepticism and Animal Feed » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:16 am
I playtested a small portion of the history and found it egregiously difficult, but apparently the field disagreed as I have only heard good things about questions.
Post by Kyle » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:17 am
And I wrote about half the world history and most of the Islam, plus I wrote 23/25 of the geography and current events and edited the other 2/0. I would very much like to hear and address any concerns that you have with these questions.
Post by Angry Babies in Love » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:23 am
One of the tossups that struck me as really bad was the "rivers" tossup. Having "upper course" and "basin" in the first line or two was kind of ridiculous. It's definitely possible to write a limnological tossup on rivers, but this would not be how you would do it. Other weird ones included the lead-in snafu on the Secretary of Interior question (see other thread), and the Hamlet question that took a while before it actually talked about what happened in the book.
Regarding the history difficulty, some of the bonus parts were kinda rough, but that's to be expected at a national tournament. I can't remember any ridiculously hard history tossups, all were at least gettable by the end it seemed.
Morraine Man wrote: I playtested a small portion of the history and found it egregiously difficult, but apparently the field disagreed as I have only heard good things about questions.
Part of this may have been because I generally used the feedback from playtesting sessions to remove harder clues from the beginning of tossups and replace bonus parts and occassionally tossup answers that turned out to be too hard. I still think there were still a few things in this category that were too hard that made it into the final set, though.
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Post by Auroni » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:36 am
This was a pretty good set. Lots of great answer choices across the board, lots of great buzzes by all sorts of teams, excellent innovative questions on topics which have been written about several times before.
I do have a few criticisms however:
- The splitting of difficulty into prelim/playoff/superplayoff/final was a mistake. It's simply infeasible to calibrate difficulty that finely, and it would have put a significantly less strain on the editing crew to make everything uniform in the first place rather than to change the difficulty of individual packets constantly as the format was in flux. Regardless of what the plan was, I noticed several easier questions in the superplayoff rounds and some harder questions in the prelims.
- There were a few early clues that have been used trillions of times from good questions that could have been deleted or moved down in otherwise excellent tossups. I'm thinking of the antibodies questions which mentioned "VDJ recombination" right away. This isn't me complaining that something was too easy for power at all, it's me noting that all of the good teams probably buzzed on that clue because they've heard of this thing several times through packets, and adjusting the question so that people who read about antibodies from packets don't beat people who know things about antibodies to the question.
- Several social science questions were overly difficult. High schoolers probably don't know much about strain theory or about the guy who came up with the term "rational expectations" and isn't Lucas.
- There was that ablution repeat, a repeat about hydrophobicity, and possibly others as well. From what I know, this set was finished early, so a simple read-through the packets by someone would have sorted out these issues.
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Post by etchdulac » Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:47 am
Tossup 11 in round 15 was looking for turbulent flow (or turbulence), and midway through the question read "One contribution to the study of this phenomenon related the turbulent stresses to the mean flow". When I noticed I had read the answer aloud mid-question, I stopped and read tossup 21. How did others handle this?
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Wait, this happened? Since all teams are playing in the playoff and superplayoff, why should they be harder than the prelims? I can understand the finals being harder, but it's kinda pointless to make playoffs harder.
Post by Mike Bentley » Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:11 pm
Wurzel-Flummery wrote:
The instructions I received was to group the difficulty into 3 levels: prelims, playoffs and super-playoffs (which were to be at the same difficulty), finals (and I guess All-Star for a fourth level).
I think one thing that the editors need to do in the future is better checking of other categories. For instance, there were a few repeats between the history and the current events because I didn't do a dilligent enough job cross-checking answers from that category.
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Post by Steeve Ho You Fat » Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:13 pm
every time i refresh i have a new name wrote: - The splitting of difficulty into prelim/playoff/superplayoff/final was a mistake. It's simply infeasible to calibrate difficulty that finely, and it would have put a significantly less strain on the editing crew to make everything uniform in the first place rather than to change the difficulty of individual packets constantly as the format was in flux. Regardless of what the plan was, I noticed several easier questions in the superplayoff rounds and some harder questions in the prelims.
I support this generally, but because of the carry-over game I don't think the superplayoffs should have been of a different difficulty than the regular playoffs. I'm all for harder questions to better differentiate similarly-skilled teams, but when you have a carry-over game you have one game in the final standings that's being decided on different difficulty than the other games.
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Post by Papa's in the House » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:14 pm
I heard five of the packets throughout the tournament (most of them on Sunday) and thought that the questions were pretty good. The SS in the packets I saw wasn't as hard as some people have made it out to be, but the World History seemed to be 50% middle east and 50% everything else.
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Post by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:22 pm
Bentley Like Beckham wrote:
Raynell is absolutely right, and it's unacceptable that Andy Watkins did not think through the obvious implication of having the superplayoffs be harder than the playoffs, which is that it arbitrarily makes some of your superplayoff games on disproportionately easy packets and then tests a somewhat different set of skills for the rest of the games. Incredibly incompetent idea.
Post by Kyle » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:23 pm
Papa's in the House wrote: The World History seemed to be 50% middle east and 50% everything else.
There was in fact 5/5 Middle Eastern history in the first 20 questions over the course of 25 rounds (plus 1/1 in the post-20 range), for a total percentage of 20% Middle East and 80% everything else. I laid out the world history distribution back when Auroni was signed on as the history editor. I tried to do so in such a way that the world history would be balanced among all regions. The distribution was (post-20 in parentheses):
5/5 (1/2) Latin America
5/5 (1/1) Middle East
5/5 (1/2) Africa
5/5 (2/1) East Asia
2/2 Southeast Asia
2/2 South Asia
1/1 Australia/Pacific
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Bentley Like Beckham wrote: The instructions I received was to group the difficulty into 3 levels: prelims, playoffs and super-playoffs (which were to be at the same difficulty), finals (and I guess All-Star for a fourth level).
As Mike just posted, the superplayoffs were not intended to be more difficult than the playoffs because games from the playoffs were carried over into the superplayoffs.
I guess it was just sample bias and bad memory that made me think that. Thanks for clarifying.
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Post by Mechanical Beasts » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:34 pm
Papa's in the House wrote: I guess it was just sample bias and bad memory that made me think that. Thanks for clarifying.
Also possibly the influence of some ME/North African geography and current events.
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Post by Haaaaaaaarry Whiiiiiiiiiite » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:35 pm
In addition, according to Matt Weiner, the prelim difficulty was applied to rounds 1-7, which meant that three of the playoffs were on intentionally harder questions than the other two.
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Sorry, I stupidly wasn't reading that carefully at all. Never mind. Although this 7 rounds thing is a laugh if true.
Jeremy Gibbs Freesy Does It wrote: Sorry, I stupidly wasn't reading that carefully at all. Never mind. Although this 7 rounds thing is a laugh if true.
It isn't. For something around two thirds of the year, we were operating on a sixty-four team format and editing the set to correspond to that, including the seven round prelims that the sixty-four team format requires. So, for a long time we had seven rounds of prelim-appropriate questions. Once the sixty team format was confirmed I ran through rounds six and seven to do any appropriate switches and tuning necessary to make their difficulty match the rest of the playoffs as well as any pair of rounds' difficulty can match. So, the playoffs were not played on two different difficulties of packet.
Post by Mike Bentley » Mon Jun 06, 2011 1:50 pm
Crazy Andy Watkins wrote:
I'd have to double check but it's also possible the Middle East history questions may have been spread out more into the rounds played by everyone than the rounds not played by everyone (e.g. tiebreakers, finals, emergency packets).
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Post by Matt Weiner » Mon Jun 06, 2011 5:26 pm
Watkins says it wasn't above. I was told it was by another editor. Contradictory information and a lack of communication to the control rooms was definitely the theme of this past weekend, so it seems only fitting.
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Post by The King's Flight to the Scots » Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:16 pm
I edited all of lit and mythology, with substantial writing help from Matt Weiner, Sarah Angelo, Auroni Gupta, Matt Jackson, and Chris Ray, as well as general advice from Evan Adams and Rob Carson. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, but some of my third parts were probably excessive, and some of my later world lit tossups were, perhaps inevitably, difficult. Any other comments people have?
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Post by jonah » Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:29 pm
I noticed two factual errors: a bonus part (I believe from packet 10) claimed that Shabbat ends at sundown—it doesn't; it ends when one sees three stars—and a bonus whose intro quoted some poetry that the first part claimed was by Leon Czolgosz (via asking for Czolgosz) but was actually by Charles Guiteau.
I wrote some math, a little bit of physics, and some religion for this set. Comments are appreciated.
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jonah wrote: and a bonus whose intro quoted some poetry that the first part claimed was by Leon Czolgosz (via asking for Czolgosz) but was actually by Charles Guiteau.
Argh, sorry about that. That was a sloppy error on my part. I hope that it did not impact the outcome of any games.
Isn't "the appearance of three stars" the definition of "sundown" for Jewish religious purposes?
Post by Steeve Ho You Fat » Mon Jun 06, 2011 6:54 pm
So on the whole I liked this set - some bonus variability issues and at least one absurdly simplistic lead-in (Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina for Locke), but a solid set that I enjoyed playing.
That being said, I'd just like to point out that the governor of California hasn't been a Republican for over a year and Tommy Thompson hasn't been secretary of Health and Human Services since around January 20, 2009. The former was an annoyance in a bonus along the lines of "Name one of the two states with Republican governors who got most of the money Wisconsin and Ohio turned down for high speed rail." Florida does have a Republican governor, California does not. The Tommy Thompson one did end up costing us our wild-card game: in a history tossup on politicians from Wisconsin, there was a clue along the lines of "The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from this state..." Buzz "...Tommy" My answer was along the lines of "What? That doesn't make any sense, but the current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from Kansas." My protest was denied because "All the previous clues pointed to Wisconsin and the moderator already said Tommy." I think according to the rules it should have been thrown out and replayed, which would have altered the outcome of the match.
Matt Weiner wrote: Isn't "the appearance of three stars" the definition of "sundown" for Jewish religious purposes?
Not as I understand it; in fact, the appearance of three stars is intentionally to signify something later than sundown: in order that we be sure it's been a full day since Shabbat began, we actually make sure it's been slightly more than a full day.
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Post by pray for elves » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:01 pm
Jonah's right on this one. A sundown-to-sundown holiday or fast starts a bit before the first sundown and ends when three stars are visible after the second sundown (or 18 minutes after sundown if the weather prevents stars from being seen). That said, it is nit-picky and most reform congregations just say sundown.
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Post by Nine-Tenths Ideas » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:02 pm
Joe N wrote: That being said, I'd just like to point out that the governor of California hasn't been a Republican for over a year and Tommy Thompson hasn't been secretary of Health and Human Services since around January 20, 2009. The former was an annoyance in a bonus along the lines of "Name one of the two states with Republican governors who got most of the money Wisconsin and Ohio turned down for high speed rail." Florida does have a Republican governor, California does not. The Tommy Thompson one did end up costing us our wild-card game: in a history tossup on politicians from Wisconsin, there was a clue along the lines of "The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from this state..." Buzz "...Tommy" My answer was along the lines of "What? That doesn't make any sense, but the current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from Kansas." My protest was denied because "All the previous clues pointed to Wisconsin and the moderator already said Tommy." I think according to the rules it should have been thrown out and replayed, which would have altered the outcome of the match.
As someone who worked for the Department of Health and Human Services answering letters addressed to the Secretary, I can tell you that Thompson hasn't been in office since 2005. It was sort of an office joke when we received letters addressed to Thompson, just because it indicated that whoever was writing didn't really have it all together. Your protest definitely deserved a look.
Joe N wrote: That being said, I'd just like to point out that the governor of California hasn't been a Republican for over a year
You're right. I'm really sorry about that.
As am I, since that's more or less just a silly thing I should certainly have been able to catch.
I am similarly sorry about error in the Wisconsin question. I don't know exactly how this error got in. The only thing I can think of is there was a disconnect between me reading "former Secretary of Health and Human Services" and then typing "current Secretary of Health and Human Services" or something. Hopefully this is the last of the errors in the history set that appeared in this tournament--it's already unacceptable that there were so many. Not that I'm currently planning on editing a subject for the tournament next year, but in my future editing efforts I'll make sure to amend my editing process to include a final fact checking pass-through in an attempt to catch things like this or error on the assassination bonus.
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Post by Deviant Insider » Mon Jun 06, 2011 7:31 pm
Florida has turned down the high speed rail money.
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Westwon wrote: Florida has turned down the high speed rail money.
Oh no, you're right. I completely screwed up that entire bonus part. The governor of California thing was just stupid all the way around; the Florida aspect was an instance of me not following the news after I had written the bonus in January. Let this be a lesson to all: write your questions soon before the tournament happens.
Kyle wrote: Let this be a lesson to all: write your current events questions soon before the tournament happens.
Lest that recommendation be taken over-broadly.
Unless I misheard, I believe a bonus part gave Enoch as Noah's grandfather, though Enoch is generally regarded as Noah's great grandfather.
In general, the religion seemed skewed towards Judaism and away from Christianity, though this perception may be due to some of the non-religious questions being related to Judaism.
Westwon wrote: Unless I misheard, I believe a bonus part gave Enoch as Noah's grandfather, though Enoch is generally regarded as Noah's great grandfather.
You probably misheard, or perhaps the moderator misspoke. Here is the bonus part I believe you're talking about (as I originally wrote it; it may have been changed, but I don't think so):
[10] Arnold Sorsby claimed that Noah was an albino based on a fragment of this apocryphal book, which is named for Noah's great-grandfather.
ANSWER: Book of Enoch [or Seifer Khanokh]
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Post by Irreligion in Bangladesh » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:07 pm
I felt this way as well, and am curious to see the religion subdistro to see how it was split amongst the various religions.
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Post by abnormal abdomen » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:12 pm
Speaking of religion subdistributions, I'd also be interested in seeing them. I also found it strange that there was 1/1 Islam in what I believe was packet 15, while I thought there wasn't very much of it otherwise. That packet had the apparently controversial "complications in Islam" bonus, and while I can now see why it was controversial, I thought it was pretty great and enjoyed hearing a different sort of Islam bonus. Also, can someone post the text of the Qur'an tossup?
EDIT: Clarification
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Post by Sir Thopas » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:33 pm
I edited (and wrote a fair amount of) the arts for this tournament, based on the following distribution:
6/6 before 1550
6/6 1550—1750
3/3 after 1900
5/5 leeway
7/7 opera
2/2 jazz
2/2 dance
5/4 architecture
4/5 sculpture
2/2 film
1/1 photo
1/1 audio leeway
1/1 visual leeway
I found this distribution very helpful, both for providing a large-scale framework and to ensure that the arts would be spread out on a packet-by-packet basis. I'll have more to say about what this taught me about biases in the canon in another thread at some point in the future.
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Post by Angry Babies in Love » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:38 pm
Yeah that bonus part confused me to no end. Current events questions should be written as close to tournament date as feasible.
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Post by sssssssskkkk » Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:48 pm
This tournament did a pretty good job of keeping the bonus parts to not be binary (i.e. bonus parts with two possible obvious answers) so that its a 50/50 guess besides the bonus about plant bio that went cotyledon/monocot/ovary. The second part mentioned something about this type of angiosperm being named for the number of cotyledons it had...We guessed dicot and it was easily picked up by our opponents on the bounceback. Other than that, I'm pretty sure the rest of the bonuses were alright.
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Post by No Electricity Required » Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:46 pm
I really enjoyed the questions as did the only of my two teammates who is fond of good quizbowl (I don't really know about the other one). I thought all the categories were excellent overall, and my aforementioned teammate praised the music questions for being more "real" that what he's used to; my only complaint was the occasional error (like the train money thing), and also, like Joe said, "Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina" was not a good leadin, but the problems were few and far between. Like others have mentioned I did perceive that the religion did seem to skew toward Judaisim and away from Christianity.
I would say the question quality is what made the tournament come off with such a positive feeling for my teammates, which I was glad for.
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Post by Kyle » Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:43 am
So that bonus part was doubly wrong, which is why you were rightly confused. Even so, I don't necessarily agree with your second sentence. Obviously it's important to do a better job than I did of making sure that things haven't changed since the question was written (oddly, Andy and I did have a discussion last week about the first part of the bonus because Scott Walker has since made himself more famous than he was a few months ago). But I think it's important that the current events distribution cover more than just the most recent events. For one thing, the NSC is an annual tournament, so a year's worth of current events should be given equal weight. But more important, in my opinion, is that the current events category should focus broadly on things that are important in the world today rather than just on particular events (a single election or a protest or whatever). That's why I wrote the high-speed rail bonus in the first place -- because it's an ongoing topic of continuing importance. I just stopped following it too soon and in the process really, really screwed up that bonus, for which I am sorry. That doesn't mean that current events questions have to be written closer to the tournament date so much as it means that the person writing them has to do a better job of paying attention to the news as it develops.
Post by jonpin » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:55 am
Joe N wrote: The Tommy Thompson one did end up costing us our wild-card game: in a history tossup on politicians from Wisconsin, there was a clue along the lines of "The current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from this state..." Buzz "...Tommy" My answer was along the lines of "What? That doesn't make any sense, but the current Secretary of Health and Human Services is from Kansas." My protest was denied because "All the previous clues pointed to Wisconsin and the moderator already said Tommy." I think according to the rules it should have been thrown out and replayed, which would have altered the outcome of the match.
Hey look, it's another team eliminated from championship contention on a protest resolution in direct contradiction to the rules!
Post by theMoMA » Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:57 am
The text of the tossup read:
In this state's largest city, Victor Berger led the so-called Sewer Socialism movement. In the late 19th century, it was the site of the deadliest fire in American history, the Peshtigo Fire. One politician from this state joined George Norris in filibustering the Armed Ship Bill, much to the chagrin of Woodrow Wilson, and later ran for president with Burton K. Wheeler as his running mate. The current US Secretary of Health and Human Services, (*) Tommy Thompson, was once its governor. Another governor worked with university professors to push for legislation like primary elections and the country's first state income tax, a policy which became known as this state's namesake "idea". For 10 points, name this Midwestern state home to Progressive leader Robert LaFollette, Sr.
ANSWER: Wisconsin
The relevant rules states:
Two or more clues within the question uniquely describe different
answers or one clue definitely does not refer to the same answer as the
other clues—hence, there is no correct answer to the question. This
protest may be lodged by either team at the end of a question
converted by neither team or by the team that did not get the question
after a question is converted by one team. However, if this situation
arises on a tossup that the other team converted before the first clue
creating a contradiction was read, there may be no protest because the
team that missed the question was necessarily not misled.
We determined that the clue, though factually incorrect, did not "uniquely describe different answers" and the clue buzzed on could not be said to "definitely...not refer to the same answer as the other clues." This is for two reasons: the player (as we understood it) had heard the word "Tommy," but more importantly, the phrase that led to the buzz did not refer back to the answer. If the question had said "The current secretary of HHS, Kate Sebelius, once lived in this state before moving to Kansas," with the player buzzing after "Kate" with "Kansas," the issue would be essentially the same, and the protest would also be denied (assuming for this example that Sebelius actually did live in Wisconsin at one point). The rule in question confines its application to two very narrow circumstances, neither of which is present here. Both the actual question and the hypothetical above are misleading questions, but there is no recourse in any of the protest rules for this situation.
I hope this all makes sense. If the full logic of the protest resolution did not get back to the teams in question, I apologize.
jonpin wrote: Hey look, it's another team eliminated from championship contention on a protest resolution in direct contradiction to the rules!
I want to address the idea that the protest resolutions at this tournament were somehow unfair or ignored the rules. In all instances, we stove to apply the rules as written evenly and fairly to the protested questions. Furthermore, I want to make it clear that we considered only a fair application of the rules to the situation when we were resolving protests. We spent a lot of time reviewing the rules and going over protest situations before the tournament to ensure that we were prepared. When a protest came to us, we consulted the rules directly and applied them as written. When something was confusing or a situation presented a wrinkle we didn't anticipate, we sought out help from outside experts. When we needed to look up facts or consult experts in fields, we did. Any team that brought concerns to us about how we handled their protest received from us a detailed explanation, in some cases requiring us to confirm that our interpretation of the rules was correct. I stand by every protest resolution that we made.
I also want to add a personal note to this. The most heartbreaking loss of my quizbowl career came at the end of a protest resolution. I have been on teams eliminated from ICT contention twice following protest resolutions. I know how hard it is to be on the wrong end. But I also know that in each case, all of those tournament directors and protest committee members considered only what was fair in light of the situation and the rules. That's what we did as well, and it really disappoints me that anyone would think otherwise.
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Post by GBRodgers12 » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:23 pm
In short, no, this makes absolutely no sense at all. How does it not uniquely describe a different answer? The current Secretary of Health and Human Services, which is what was buzzed on, clearly leads to Kansas. Because the reader got another word out after the buzz should not change this. Even if in some convoluted way the stated rule does not apply (which I think it does anyways), I would think sense would prevail. The clue very clearly did not apply to the answer line and obviously led to the buzz and subsequent miss of the question. I don't see how anyone can try to justify this being the right decision.
It is absurd that a factually incorrect question can be stamped as "only misleading" and not thrown out once protested.
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Post by AlphaQuizBowler » Tue Jun 07, 2011 12:29 pm
I don't agree with this reasoning at all. The clue that Joe buzzed on was deep enough into the question that it was obvious the answer was a state. Thus when one hears "the current secretary of HHS," one can assume it is asking for that person's home state (and, in fact, it was asking for the home state of the person the question writer mistakenly thought was current HHS secretary). An equivalent situation would be if it were a geography question on Oregon and it contained a clue saying "The site of Yosemite National Park (*) is this state's neighbor, California." Who wouldn't buzz after Yosemite and say California if they knew where Yosemite was? The fact that he heard "Tommy" is irrelevant because he had also already heard the clue describing a different answer. By any reasonable interpretation of the rules, the question should've been thrown out and replaced.
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7.2.1 Secure funding toward a $500,000 preservation and maintenance endowment for the historic property that houses the National Headquarters of Omicron Delta Kappa.
7.2.2 Establish $500,000 general scholarship endowment for Omicron Delta Kappa.
7.2.3 Establish $1,000,000 programming endowment for Omicron Delta Kappa to support opportunities for delegates to participate in the biennial convention.
7.2.4 Secure funding toward a $400,000 programming endowment to underwrite the cost of nationally recognized speakers.
7.2.5 Endow at $1,000,000 the publication of The Circle three times of year in order provide print copies of all issues to collegiate members.
7.2.6 Secure an endowment of $1,000,000 to fund the work of the O∆K leadership consultants with an emphasis the development of leadership education initiatives.
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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham says as he wants to question former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch to find out if they gave Hillary Clinton a 'free pass' on her email investigation.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he believes the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email controversy and potential bias at the Department of Justice should be revisited.
Graham, who is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, also said he would like to find out why former FBI Director James Comey took over the investigation into then-Democratic presidential candidate Clinton's use of a private email server to send classified documents while serving as secretary of state.
Graham said that when it comes to the counterintelligence investigation, he wants to find out why no one told President Trump that there may be people in his campaign who were working with Moscow.
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Despite his calls for a special counsel to re-examine the Clinton email controversy, the South Carolina senator said he is not too worried about "retrying" Clinton.


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Dr. Paul A. Weiss has been practicing Pediatric Dentistry in Williamsville, NY and teaching Pediatric Dentistry at SUNY Buffalo since 1989. His expertise is in the dental care of infants, children and teenagers, just as pediatricians specialize in their medical care. The specialty of Pediatric Dentistry requires two additional years of postgraduate dental education following dental school.
Dr. Weiss grew up in the Kenmore area and graduated from Kenmore East High School. He then received his Bachelors degree from SUNY at Buffalo in 1983 and his DDS degree from the SUNY at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine in 1987. He then completed his specialty training at Children's Hospital of Buffalo in 1989.
Dr. Weiss is on staff at Kaleida Health's Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo where he is able to provide dental services for very young patients under general anesthesia.
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What are some renewable resources? Examples of alternative energy
The era of renewable resources and alternative energy has arrived. It's cheaper now than ever before to generate electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and other examples of renewable resources, catapulting them from fringe options to the fastest-growing energy resources in the country. In 2017, renewables set a record in the U.S. by generating 15% of all electricity, predominantly due to hydropower, solar and wind. What are some other examples of renewable energy? We'll go down the list.
10 Common Examples of Renewable Resources and Commodities
Though there are a number of popular technologies that generate renewable energy such as solar and wind power, there are also simple everyday resources that are considered renewables. In a sense, the concept of renewable generation is often solely tied to images of solar panels and wind turbines when in reality renewables span far beyond these two products. One can think of renewable energy in terms of the various natural occurring events that create it as well as common beneficial outputs (renewable commodities) that exist only because of renewables. Here is our top 5 list for each category:
List of Examples of Renewable Resources
Alcohol – can be used to generate bio fuel
Water – serves as a drinking source but also as a hydropower necessity
Methane gas – when methane occurs naturally in an environment (such as in manure) it can generate biogas
Natural oils (palm oil, vegetable oil, sunflower oil and soybean oil) can all be used to make biodiesel
Thermal generation – such as solar thermal or geothermal heat pumps
List of Examples of Renewable Commodities
Major grains such as wheat, rice and corn
Leather and meats supplied by animals
Paper, furniture and oxygen all supplied by trees
Bio based chemicals such as butanol and acetone
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Examples of renewable resources competing on a global scale
According to the Department of Energy, the costs of clean energy technologies like residential and utility-sized solar, land-based wind, and LED light bulbs have fallen by anywhere from 40 to 90 percent in the United States since 2008. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) declared back in 2015 that domestic energy use has "the highest renewable energy share since the 1930s, when wood was a much larger contributor to domestic energy supply."
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It's an exciting time for advocates of renewable energy resources. Bloomberg's forward-looking analysis on how the global energy market could shift in 2018 and beyond declares:
Renewables are no longer "alternative energy." Solar power is competitive with fossil electricity in more and more places every year—watch China, India, and Chile in 2018. Global demand for the sun reached a new high this year, and solar is that rare thing that liberals and many free-market conservatives in the U.S. can agree to love.
The practical implications of cost-competitive renewable energy are even more exciting. California academics at The Solutions Project recently found that, with the right incentives, the world could run entirely on electricity from renewable resources by the year 2050. In the United States, that means a lot of solar:
25 percent of electricity would be generated by utility solar plants
15.4 percent of electricity would come from rooftop solar (commercial and residential)
7.3 percent of electricity would be generated by concentrated solar power (CSP) plants
The takeaway – we have an opportunity to source nearly half of U.S. electricity from the sun! Other examples of renewable resources, such as wind energy, geothermal heat, and water (in the form of both wave energy and hydropower) would make up the rest.
Researchers aren't the only ones who see big opportunities in renewable resources. Even the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, one of the largest oil companies in the world, has predicted "without hesitation" that "in years to come, solar will be the dominant backbone of our energy system."
Should renewable resources still be considered "alternative energy"?
With goods like fruits, meats, grains and leather being products of a renewable generating world, it may be hard to believe that renewable resources are often categorized as "alternative" energy sources. Though solar power has certainly reached a high growth phase, there will need to be a transformation in terms of how people view renewable energy. In 2019, renewables are dominating in terms of percentage of new electricity sources added; in some time it's expected that fossil fuels will take on an association for being "alternative" energy once renewables have acquired norm status. There are a lot of financial and technological changes taking place in the energy industry across the world, and technology and policy improvements will have a large effect on the eventual outcome. To achieve global energy generation with 100 percent renewable resources, energy subsidies will have to evolve to match the times.
Estimates vary, but by every measure, subsidies for fossil fuels have historically been significantly higher than subsidies for renewable resources like solar. And with U.S. federal investment tax credits for renewable resources like the solar ITC scheduled to decrease over the next few years, many are calling for the government to reevaluate its energy incentives.
The International Energy Agency highlighted the disparity between fossil fuel and renewable resource subsidies in its 2014 World Energy Outlook, stating that the $550 billion a year that fossil fuels receive globally in subsidies are holding back investment in cleaner forms of energy. By comparison, renewable resources like solar, wind, and biofuels receive approximately $120 billion in annual incentives across the world. When you take into account the external cost of environmental and health effects associated with fossil fuels, this disparity grows even bigger.
Subsidies are most important in the early stages of growth for new sources of energy, and the oil and gas industries have historically received much higher subsidies than examples of renewable resources. In the United States, the oil and gas industry has benefitted from tax expenditures of $4.86 billion per year on average between 1918 and 2009. By comparison, the renewables resources industry has averaged just $0.37 billion per year between 1994 and 2009.
The good news is that those numbers are starting to change. Currently, annual subsidies for energy generated by renewable resources are actually higher than subsidies for fossil fuels: according to the Congressional Budget Office, almost three-quarters of tax preferences for energy in 2015 were for renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The important thing is to maintain that positive renewable energy momentum. Most tax preferences related to fossil fuels are permanent features of the tax code. In contrast, many preferences for renewable resources are temporary, and need to be extended. In 2015, the renewable energy industry lost $6 billion in tax revenue because of preferences that expired at the end of 2014.
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To find the smaller contractors that typically offer lower prices, you'll need to use an installer network like EnergySage. You can receive free quotes from vetted installers local to you when you register your property on our Solar Marketplace – homeowners who get 3 or more quotes can expect to save $5,000 to $10,000 on their solar panel installation.
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The bigger isn't always better mantra is one of the main reasons we strongly encourage homeowners to consider all of their solar options, not just the brands large enough to pay for the most advertising. A recent report by the U.S. government found that large installers are $2,000 to $5,000 more expensive than small solar companies. If you have offers from some of the big installers in solar, make sure you compare those bids with quotes from local installers to ensure you don't overpay for solar.
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There are multiple variables to consider when seeking out the best solar panels on the market. While certain panels will have higher efficiency ratings than others, investing in top-of-the-line solar equipment doesn't always result in higher savings. The only way to find the "sweet spot" for your property is to evaluate quotes with varying equipment and financing offers.
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Morgan October 2, 2017 at 8:59 am
Why can't we push for recycling to become a national law, because we need to start recycling better as a country?
Sofia October 5, 2017 at 8:23 pm
I agree with you. Why can't we just push everything for recycling and just become a national law because we all need to start recycling better than we do now and if we start recycling more then we and what i mean we I mean All of us are going to have a better country if we start recycling a lot more
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If it was a law to recycle (not that i'm against it) who would enforce it. Also there is the problem of where the money would come from to fund the recycling. The only answer I have for the funding is taxes and no one wants that
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Ukraine "ready to buy" controversial overhaul MiGs
Ukraine supports the investigation launched in Croatia into the overhaul of a number of its MiG-21 jets in Ukraine.
SOURCE: TANJUG, N1 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 | 13:09
This was the reaction of Ukraine's ambassador in Zagreb, Oleksandr Levchenko, who added he was "certain (Ukraine) would refute the scandal related to it."
Earlier this week, Croatian media reported that a large scale probe had been launched into the deal due to "the determined irregularities," and that corruption was suspected.
"We will check all irregularities - but who will be responsible for the damage done to Ukraine's reputation and to the factory, that is the best in overhauling MiGs?," he told N1 broadcaster in an interview, adding his country is "ready to buy the planes if necessary."
"12 planes for 14 million. The (overhaul) contract was five million euros cheaper for Croatia than the other option. They are nervous because we would not let them snatch those five million euros from Croatia. If somebody determines we should, we will repair them, so far nobody has determined that," said Levchenko.
Speaking about the MiGs, the diplomat said:
"They fly, they are combat (ready), cheap, and modernized. Aviation is expensive, and this project was relatively cheap."
Levchenko said his country was prepared to buy back the 12 jets as it is "defending its independence," while "in a war, any weapon is welcome."
N1 said on its website that the ambassador "would not comment on whether there were political motivations in this story," but said "Russian capital" was behind Croatia's daily Jutarnji List, which broke the story, and that "Russian services are behind everything."
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Хинчинбру́к () — остров у восточного побережья Квинсленда, Австралия. Вся территория острова, за исключением небольшого (в настоящее время не действующего) курорта находится в пределах национального парка «Остров Хинчинбрук», самого большого островного парка Австралии. Остров впервые был замечен Джеймсом Куком в 1770 году. Он посчитал его частью материка. Хинчинбру́к занимает территорию 393 км². Он простирается примерно на 50 километров вдоль побережья Квинсленда и имеет ширину до десяти километров. Высшая точка острова, , имеет высоту 1121 метр. Так как весь остров находится на территории национального парка, количество посетителей ограничено. Для путешествия необходимо разрешение.

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I am a believer in the Law of Attraction, have read the books, practiced the methods and have manifested my blessed life. I want to share with you my affiliate link to the (Book Series on Amazon.) Basically, it teaches you that whatever you put out there (negative or positive) you will attract those things to you. It's not what happens "to you" – it's who you choose to be in the moment. I choose happy.
Even Google and Facebook have created an algorithm for it. They call it "targeted ads". Facebook collects data about you, your likes, dislikes (even though there's no button for that yet), the text in your posts, etc. This allows marketing departments to place their ads on Facebook to only people that meet a specific criteria. Marketing Managers can choose who sees their advertisements and consumers, that know how this works, could (somewhat) control the ads shown on their Facebook page – either on the right side or in an in-feed article post.
I guess it's a little funny when you compare Target Advertisements and the "Law of Attraction". Well, you will probably like this comparison better. Below is a video of a girl that created a short scary film about Targeted Ads, except her spin on it was that of paranoia – which is what makes it funny. Watch this video about a woman who becomes paranoid when she finally "wakes up" and starts to notice the ads that she is being served is based on her previous likes and dislikes.
Since I try to surround myself with positive energy, I do not click on in-feed Facebook ads or articles posted or ads on the right that have anything to do with who is our person seen a lot these days in public media politics. This helps prevent unwanted ads being served to me. So here is a hint. If you don't like uh, Ducks…then never share images or videos (either positive or negative) about ducks and never type the word Duck into your post. You will just attract more Duck advertisements.


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List of mantis genera and species

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A 3-Pronged Approach to Create an Impactful DEI Strategy
by Annie Lin
Written by	Annie Lin
Annie Lin, VP of People at Lever, explains her 3-pronged approach to integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into the actual operations of an organization by leveraging data and weaving your strategy into general processes and policies to make a real impact.
As well-intentioned as most diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are, there's a tendency among organizations today to create and execute them separately from their other programs and policies. When created in response to some singular event or held out at arm's length, the benefits of DEI often don't make it to where it matters most — into the actual fabric and day-to-day operations of your organization.
As the Vice President of People at Lever, a leading talent acquisition suite that has taken DEI seriously since day one, I can tell you that candidates today want to work for employers that are making real commitments to DEI that will outlive the current news cycle.
Today, I want to challenge us all to think differently about the way we approach DEI, and share a 3-pronged approach to DEI that can help you create an impactful strategy:
Leveraging data and setting clear goals
Infusing DEI throughout existing programs and processes
Finding opportunities to promote DEI in "everyday" moments
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1. Leveraging data and setting clear goals
It's so important to treat DEI like you would for any other business need. You'll need data, concrete targets and the ability to track progress. Business leaders are used to embracing this mindset for other parts of the business, but often lack in this area when it comes to DEI.
Before developing any sort of DEI strategy or program, you first have to know where you currently stand. It's important to start with collecting high-quality data first. If you don't have data, that is probably the best way to start setting goals for yourself — through tracking data. Once you've gathered meaningful data points, ask yourself relevant questions from the data about your "state of the union." Some of these questions can be:
What percentage of candidates do I have high-quality information about?
What is the distribution by gender, race, etc. among candidates at different stages within the interview process?
Overall, how are different demographic groups represented at each level of the company?
How does the above compare with where we'd like to go?
Where are we succeeding and where are there "hot spots?"
An analysis of your existing data allows you to review your company's strengths and gaps and is the first step in creating DEI goals.
Once you've done these steps, you can begin to identify your company's strengths and gaps and develop goals based on your existing state, and where you'd like them to be. Having that level of insight will allow you to set goals that are a strong balance of being ambitious with being realistic. For example, if only 5% of your candidates at a specific interview stage have historically been people of color, then it might be impractical to set a goal next quarter of 50%. But you should absolutely push yourself to make incremental progress.
As an example, last year I sat down with our recruiting manager to review Lever's current state of DEI. We quickly realized we needed more trustworthy, representative data. So one of the first actions we took was to encourage more candidates to (optionally and confidentially) fill out our Diversity Insights Survey (a tool within our own product, Lever, that we leverage to collect DEI-related data that respects the sensitivity of this type of information). Once we got our data to a better place, we were able to get a more accurate picture of where we were strong and where there were gaps.
From there, we looked deeply at the data and set concrete goals to make progress in what we saw as the most impactful areas. For example, this year, we have a company OKR (as well as team OKRs) related to the percent of candidates from underrepresented backgrounds at the panel stage (a late-round interview stage). We track progress weekly. To make sure we stay on track, we've revisited many parts of our existing recruiting processes.
2. Infusing DEI throughout existing programs and processes
With data and informed goals in place, the next step is to build DEI into existing programs and processes — and I don't mean one-off DEI efforts like hosting one-off training or a guest speaker event. For more of a sustained impact, you need to bake DEI into every program and process until it becomes a part of the company's core way of doing business. One way to achieve this is to always keep DEI top of mind.
At Lever, we do this by partnering with leaders across the company to align on the approach and desired outcomes. We hold regular meetings with hiring managers, quarterly meetings with each department's leadership team, and conversations with our execs during our biannual performance and compensation reviews, all to make sure we're looking at DEI-related data and acting on gaps throughout the candidate and employee journey.
For example, we've taken a critical eye toward our interview processes and built-in ways to check for diversity when putting together interview panels, and modified our interview feedback collection process to minimize "group-think" and bias.
The recruiting and HR teams also partner closely together at the offer stage to make sure our compensation decision-making process is based on objective data (we use third-party benchmarks to inform all internal and external comp and equity decisions) and check for peer parity. That way, equity is built-in right from the gate. The takeaway here is that you should be thinking about DEI at every stage of the employee process, and not as an isolated set of initiatives divorced from how the business "really" runs.
3. Finding opportunities to promote DEI in "everyday" moments
While a successful DEI strategy informs structure and systemic change, at its core, DEI is also very personal and emotional, so it's important to combine your bigger programmatic work, with an intentional focus on the small moments. The small, daily moments are often what people will remember the most.
An example of this at Lever, is we encourage our employees to include their preferred pronouns on Slack and in their email signatures, and we invite candidates to share their preferred pronouns with us if they so choose. This is a small but powerful step in showing that our workplace is welcoming to people of all gender identities.
And don't forget about emotional moments that happen around you either! It's been a tough year — and I believe companies have the opportunity and the mandate to acknowledge and support their teams, and it's also a great way to demonstrate your values in action.
For example, during the 2020 Election season in the U.S., we knew our teams (like much of the world) felt a ton of anxiety. Instead of pretending like it's not happening, we reiterated our values as a company (it's important to note that our emphasis is on our values, not political or partisan leanings) encouraged our employees to vote (in fact we made Election Day a company holiday!), shared mental health resources, and even held an open discussion that our CEO facilitated as a safe space for people to share without partisanship. Afterward, we heard from many people that they really appreciated it.
I'm proud to say that as of January of this year, Lever's team consists of 51% women and 51% racial minorities. At every step along the way leading up to this achievement, our goal has simply been to make DEI operational and integrate it where it matters most. We certainly have a ways to go still, but we're proud of what we've been able to accomplish so far.
If our success at Lever is any indication when looking at improving DEI in your own organization, I would encourage you not to approach it as a separate program, but instead, put as much focus on data and goal-setting as you would any other business need. Pair that with building DEI into existing programs and processes, and finding opportunities to promote DEI in "everyday" moments and you have a recipe for a strategy that will actually move the needle.
For even more insights into the state of DEI in the workforce, be sure to stay tuned for Lever's State of DEI report, coming in June! Until then, you can catch me speaking at the RallyFwd Virtual Conference now On Demand alongside an incredible roster of other TA, HR and Recruitment Marketing practitioners. Don't miss out, you can register for free today!
Annie Lin
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1. The typical house PC comprises 30 items of spyware and adware in accordance with an audit carried out in 2006 by safety firm Webroot Software program. The kind of infections vary from the comparatively innocent adware applications to malicious system screens and trojan horses. Adware applications are software program installations that show commercials. System screens are rather more malicious and monitor a pc person's Web exercise and seize private data. Trojan Horse is the title given to malicious software program which, though innocent itself, opens the way in which for extra malicious software program to be put in. Webroot Software program discovered that, on common, the 30 items of spyware and adware would include not less than 1 system monitor and 1 malicious program.
2. Your identification is usually a few mouse clicks away for criminals. Spy ware can collect and report all the non-public details about you together with bank card numbers, checking account particulars, person names and passwords. In accordance with The Id Theft Useful resource Heart, 13.Three individuals within the U.S. turn out to be victims of identification theft each minute. Though not all of those are as a consequence of spyware and adware, it is nonetheless a chilling thought that it will possibly occur so simply in case your PC is contaminated with this sort of malicious software program.
3. Spy ware can decelerate you laptop. Any laptop has a restricted quantity of system sources. Each time one other piece of software program is run the pc should share out its sources ever extra thinly. Malicious software program infections lead to longer boot instances and an total slowing down of the PCs efficiency.
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5. Spy ware can flip you right into a 'spammer'. Some spyware and adware can obtain different software program on to your PC that may relay Spam. In some instances this will likely result in your Web connection being blocked altogether in case your ISP (Web supplier) traces situations of Spam to you.
6. Spy ware can simply be put in in your laptop with out your information. In some instances only one piece of Spy ware can result in many, many extra because the preliminary an infection downloads and installs different malicious software program stealthily within the background.
7. Spy ware can permit hackers to manage your PC. Some variations set up 'backdoors' to your PC that may permit somebody from the skin to hook up with your PC over the Web and take full management of its use. Your PC can then be turned in to a 'zombie' that sends out spam, Trojan horses and laptop viruses of their tens of millions.
8. Some Spy ware removing applications set up Spy ware. Why would they do this? With a view to conceal their very own spying software program. Give it some thought. You put in an Anti-Spy ware program to guard your self towards Spy ware. The bogus Anti-Spy ware program sweeps your PC for all Spy ware besides it is personal secret checklist of allowed spy software program. You assume it is doing a terrific job and really feel safe in utilizing your PC when all of the whereas secret spy software program is sending out spam or monitoring your use searching for private particulars. See spywarewarrior.com for an inventory of bogus Spy ware removing software program.
9. The perfect Anti-Spy ware program solely finds 90% of Spy ware. Try the evaluation of Anti-Spy ware software program in any PC Journal and you will find that none of them detect any greater than 90% and most can not take away greater than 80%. Do not be fooled in to considering it is not price utilizing any Anti-Spy ware applications, after-all 90% is a complete lot higher than 0% which might be the detection charge with out the Anti-Spy ware software program.
10. Many laptop customers resort to wiping their PC and re-installing the whole lot once more with the intention to rid their system of Spy ware. Whereas this may do the trick, there is no such thing as a guard towards re-infection and is usually a waste of time or result in a lack of essential information. After the system is again in use it could solely be a matter of minutes earlier than it is contaminated once more (see the BBC 'Honeypot' report talked about on my web site).


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Q: Selecting
* value which contains the hidden  value I have the following code:

Test Case D

GPP1143

GPP2146

UDA0

Complete1

I want to show the value "GPP1" when I click it.
$( "li.cmdTypeE" ).on("click", function() {
    var selected = $(this).text();   //Can't work properly
});

However, it will show the value "GPP1143".
What can I do to fetch the value "GPP1" only?

A: Try the following code:

Test Case D

GPP1143

GPP2146

UDA0

Complete1

JS:
$(document).ready(function() {
$( "li.cmdTypeE" ).on("click", function() {
    var selected = $(this).contents().filter(function() { return this.nodeType == 3; }).text();
    console.log(selected);
    });
});

JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/Lxs210La/
Based on: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5915443/814110

A: Replace this:-
 var selected = $(this).text();

With:-
var selected = $("#left >ul").find("li:selected").clone().children().remove().end().text();

or
var selected = $(this).clone().children().remove().end().text();

.clone()    -- clone the element.
      .children()  -- select all the children.
      .remove()    -- remove all the children.
      .end()       -- again go back to selected element.

A: Try This:

Test Case D

GPP1143

GPP2146

UDA0

Complete1

on script:
function clickonthis(obj) {
    var selected = $(obj).text();
    alert(selected);
}

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SD Congressman Duncan Hunter, Wife Indicted for Misuse of Campaign Funds
The indictment details instances in which the Hunters illegally used campaign money to pay for personal expenses, including a family vacation to Italy, Hawaii, school tuition, dental work, theater tickets, among others.
By Michael R. Blood and Julie Watson	• Published at 5:26 pm on August 21, 2018
U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter and his wife, Margaret Hunter, were charged Tuesday with using more than $250,000 in campaign funds to finance family trips to Italy and Hawaii, golf outings, school tuition, theater tickets — even fast food purchases — and attempting to disguise the illegal spending in federal records, prosecutors said.
A 48-page federal indictment depicts the couple as binge spenders who over eight years pocketed a steady stream of dollars intended for campaign purposes, while their household budget was awash in red ink.
Prosecutors said the couple tried to conceal the spending, which ranged from the banal to lavish, by falsifying records.
In March 2015, Duncan Hunter told his wife he wanted to buy "Hawaii shorts" but ran out of money, the indictment said. Margaret Hunter told him he should buy them at a golf pro shop so they could later describe the purchase as "some (golf) balls for the wounded warriors," according to court documents.
"The Hunters spent substantially more than they earned," the indictment said. "They overdrew their bank account more than 1,100 times in a 7-year period resulting in approximately $37,761 in 'overdraft' and 'insufficient funds' bank fees."
Alex Brandon/AP
Asked for comment, a spokesman for Duncan Hunter sent an Aug. 6 letter from his attorney, Gregory A. Vega, to U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein asking the attorney general to postpone the indictment.
Vega contended that there was a "rush to indict."
There was "politically motivated" pressure to wrap up the investigation in order to tarnish Hunter before the general election after he handily won a June primary, Vega contended.
Duncan Hunter was among the earliest Republican members of Congress to endorse President Donald Trump and Vega's letter suggested his outspoken support made him a target for what he described as politically biased prosecutors.
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Duncan Hunter's Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, stopped short of calling on the congressman to resign.
"I think justice should run its course," he said.
Campa-Najjar said Hunter was "in it for his own interests" and that it is time to "get rid of the corruption and greed that has held Washington captive for too long."
The California secretary of state's office says there is no process in the elections code for Duncan Hunter to remove his name from the ballot, and there can be no write-in candidates for the November election.
In a statement, House Speaker Paul Ryan called the charges "deeply serious" and said Duncan Hunter will be removed from his committee assignments, pending resolution of the case. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi said Ryan should call on Hunter to resign.
In a statement, California Republican Party Chairman Jim Brulte said "individuals are presumed innocent" until a jury convicts them.
"The congressman and his wife have a constitutional promise to their day in court and we will not prejudge the outcome," Brulte said.
The House Ethics panel had investigated allegations that Duncan Hunter improperly used campaign funds to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses. The panel said in March that it was delaying the inquiry at the request of the Justice Department.
According to the indictment, in 2015 Duncan Hunter attempted to set up a day tour of a U.S. naval facility in Italy in order to justify the use of campaign funds during a vacation with his family. When the proposed date didn't work out, he told his chief of staff, "Tell the Navy to go (expletive) themselves," the documents said.
The couple spent more than $1,500 on video games in 2015; and spent $6,288.74 to take his family on a vacation to a resort in Lahaina, Hawaii, the same year, the indictment said. Other spending included dental work, lavish dinners and movie tickets, prosecutors said.
In April 2015, Margaret Hunter spent nearly $1,000 in campaign funds to fly her mother and her mother's boyfriend to Poland and later told the campaign treasurer they were campaign trips to New Orleans and Kentucky.
His lawyers said in 2017 that Duncan Hunter and his wife repaid the campaign about $60,000.
Duncan Hunter's office said at the time that one of the charges he repaid was a $600 fee for flying a pet bunny with his family. There was no intent to stick donors with the cost, then-Hunter spokesman Joe Kasper said at the time.
Associated Press writers Christopher Weber, Robert Jablon and Michael Balsamo contributed to this report.


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modules, but this bug has been masked by the first bug.
trusting keys in the kernel's secondary keyring for module signing.
signatures for loading modules under kernel lockdown.
but this is the intended behavior.
* Signature verification appears to be disabled, and cannot be enabled again.
untrusted keys taint the kernel instead of failing to load outright.
signature, or taint the kernel.
signature verification to function in an unexpected way.


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Q: GET-style urls in Grails is there any way to create old-style GET urls in Grails. e.x. if I click a link or button, a want to open a page with url like www.example.com/name=somename?surname=somesurname.
P.S. sorry for my english

A: To create URL/Links with query parameters, or GET style URLs as you call them, use the following:
<g:link controller="whatever" action="something" params="[name: 'somename', surname: 'somesurname']">My link</g:link>

and
<g:form name="MyFormName" controller="whatever" action="something" method="GET">
...
</g:form>