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NARA Issues "Founding Fathers" Report to Congress
On Tuesday, May 6, 2008, Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein submitted a report, entitled The Founders Online, to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. This report is the National Archives response to concerns raised by the Committees that the complete papers of America's Founding Fathers are not available online. The Founders Online is a plan for providing online access, within a reasonable timeframe, to researchers, students and the general public.
The National Archives received suggestions from the editors of the papers of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington, university publishers, and others in crafting a blueprint for providing access to the already completed print editions and the raw materials for the editions to come. The plan is designed to make available on-line work in progress with the already complete editions, accompanied by transcriptions of the papers yet to be published. To hasten the transition process, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission plans to invest $250,000 as a demonstration pilot project.
The plan outlines three basic steps toward completion:
Digitizing the existing 217 volumes and publishing the Papers on a single website to allow for research and inquiry across America's Founding Era collections;
Transcribing and otherwise preparing for publishing on the web the remaining papers (approximately 90,000 documents) and replacing these raw materials with authoritative annotated versions as these are completed; and
Creating an independent oversight process to ensure that rigorous performance goals are established and met by the parties carrying out all aspects of the work.
To take advantage of existing online publication efforts of completed volumes and to accelerate the online publication of unfinished volumes, NARA proposes to engage a sole service provider to undertake transcription and document encoding for all Founding Father papers that have not yet been edited. This would prepare these documents for access on the Web.
NARA plans to issue a competitive request for proposals, as a test of concept, in 2008 to undertake work that will help put the unpublished papers in a usable format for online publication services, such as Rotunda.


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Early Wednesday morning, a Delta flight bound for Nice had to make a U-turn nearly halfway through the flight thanks to a broken toilet. And Bravo star Andy Cohen is pissed.
As the Daily Mail reported, Delta Flight 412 took off from New York City's JFK airport at 9:15 p.m. Tuesday and was excepted to land in France at 10:30 a.m. local time Wednesday. However, three and a half hours into the flight the pilots made a U-turn back to the U.S. despite being closer to Europe. The reason, Daily Mail explained, is because the airline had more staff available to fix the bathroom's issue on the ground in New York City than in Europe.
In total, the flight spent seven hours and 31 minutes in the air, a full 20 minutes longer than if they had landed in Europe.
Though this was unquestionably an annoying ride, Cohen made the best of it by sharing his hilarious take on the situation on Instagram.
"We were an hour outside of Europe, somebody pooped or put something down the toilet that didn't go, broke the toilets. Guess where we are? Back at JFK," Cohen shared in his Instagram story. "We had a round trip to JFK. I had a full night's sleep, at least." He then begged the man (or woman) responsible to come forward and take responsibility for their actions in the bathroom.
Following that post, Cohen left the airport, had a productive day at work, and was back again for round two of his flight. As he explained in his last story, the plane's captain did his best to comfort the tired and weary travelers and explained exactly what happened on their first flight.
Cohen isn't the only famous person to ever experience a flight to nowhere. In December, Chrissy Teigen live-tweeted her own U-turn ordeal after her flight to Tokyo was diverted back to Los Angeles because an "unauthorized passenger" was on board. But hey, they at least got good social media content out of it, right?


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A Venn Diagram of my woodworking motivations would consist of two, significantly overlapping circles: necessity and generosity. It turns out (unsurprisingly) my joy is in the making and I don't form great attachment to the finished piece. So unless there is a concrete need on my end, odds are high the final product is going right out the door (usually to someone who has a concrete need on their end) and I will move on to the next project. Some examples may help.
When I vacated my previous apartment for my leave of absence, I gave away almost all of my furniture, including my living room set (which I had acquired prior to taking up apartment woodworking). I did this on purpose, so I would have to build myself a coffee table, side table and media console while I was on my leave of absence. They had to be ready for when I moved back down full time to Connecticut because, otherwise, I would have an unfurnished living room, which is no fun at all.
Be it an original design or a reverse-engineering from a high end furniture retailer (I subscribe to all the catalogues), each piece is custom fit to my needs. As soon as my needs change, the piece goes out the door.
A footstool for my niece and nephew (a second, similar version is in the works).
An under-desk stool for my buddy to elevate his legs after a long run.
I enjoy making footstools. They're really just tiny tables (usually for tiny people, like my niece and nephew). The stock preparation is manageable (the biggest piece is usually 14″ x 11″ or so, at most) and the joinery is straightforward (dovetails and/or mortise/tenon). As an added bonus, they are meant to be literally stepped on and are usually stored on the floor (probably in the bathroom) for their entire working life, so a stray tool mark or other aesthetic imperfection is (relatively) meaningless. As a result, footstools make excellent scale test models for design elements in future projects.
I've made other pieces as gifts (benches, side tables, storage containers, other things), but footstools continue to be the most popular.
In the end, though, be it necessity or generosity, I don't think the reasons matter. Like I said, it is the making I enjoy most, not the having of the thing that I made.


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LEWISVILLE, Texas, May 22, 2018 – Rahim Hakimi has retired from the position of Vice President of Engineering after 35 years at Metl-Span. He served the company and industry well, having worked for Metl-Span from inception. Hakimi spearheaded the development of almost all proprietary products at Metl-Span.
Chad Draxler replaces Hakimi as Vice President of Engineering. Draxler, with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, was previously employed at Steel King Industries and ADC Custom Products.
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node-pardot
===========

A node.js library for the Pardot API

Availability to create a client by using email / password and a user key.

Alternatively, you can also create using just an apiKey.

Basic Usage Follows this Pattern:

```javascript

var nodePardot = require('node-pardot');

// Create client using email, password and user_key
nodePardot.PardotAPI({
  userKey: user_key,
  email: email,
  password: password,
  DEBUG: true
}, function(err, client) {
   // Authentication completed

});

// Alternative using Only API Key
nodePardot.PardotAPI({
  apiKey: api_key
}, function(err, client) {
  // Authentication complete
});

client.queryProspects(function (error, data){
  if(error) {
    console.log('Error while querying prospects');
  } else {
    console.log(JSON.stringify(data));
  }
});

```

###Current Available Functions for v3 API

_View code for available params. Pardot may or may not keep their params up to date._

[client.queryVisitors(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L138-L156) _currently have an email out to api@pardot.com because our visitor results are coming back empty_

[client.queryCampaigns(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L164-L182)

[client.createNewCampaign(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L191-L198)

[client.queryOpportunities(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L206-L229)

[client.queryProspects(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L236-L271)

[client.createNewProspects(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L273-L277)

[client.updateProspect(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L282-L289)

[client.createOrUpdateProspect(params, cb)](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/lib/pardot/PardotAPI_v3.js#L291-L347)

# Contributors

- [Jeff Zabel](http://github.com/jzabel)
- [Blair Anderson](http://github.com/blairanderson)
- [Wyatt Benno](http://github.com/wyattbenno777)

# [MIT License](https://github.com/Datahero/node-pardot/blob/master/LICENSE)

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SPCA seizes 123 neglected animals from trailer in Fort St. James
Officials found 130 deceased cats in freezers behind a trailer in Vanderhoof.
Citizen staff Jun 14, 2022 1:20 PM
1 / 1 One of three Chihuahuas seized from a Fort St. James property.BC SPCA handout photo
The BC SPCA has seized 120 cats and three small dogs from a property in Fort St. James.
The animals, many of whom were emaciated and suffering from upper respiratory infections, extreme flea infestations, urine scald, eye infections, dental issues, ear mites and wounds, were being kept in filthy and unsafe conditions in a trailer.
"The entryway and hallway to the bedrooms were covered in layers of feces and the entire trailer was very hot and filled with an overwhelming ammonia smell due to the build-up of urine," said Eileen Drever, senior officer for protection and stakeholder relations for the BC SPCA. "The feces and urine were so thick that boot covers were pulled off within a couple of steps due to the stickiness."
Drever says the majority of the cats were hiding in kitchen cupboards, under the fridge and under furniture in the sparsely decorated trailer.
"No water was present for any of the animals. Some dry cat food had been scattered on the floor, but the food was contaminated with urine and feces," said Drever. "Many of the cats appeared very hungry and came up to our officer upon initial entry and immediately began eating the food that was offered."
Many of the cats were having difficulty breathing, Drever noted.
The three Chihuahuas who were seized are being treated for dental disease, hair loss and grooming issues.
In addition to the 123 animals seized from the Fort St. James property, the BC SPCA located 130 deceased cats in freezers behind a trailer where the same individuals had resided in Vanderhoof.
"Any time we are dealing with situations of animal hoarding it is devastating for both the animals and the people," said Drever. "We are just so glad that we were called in in time to rescue the remaining animals."
The seized cats and dogs are being cared for at SPCA shelters and will continue to receive ongoing veterinary treatment.
The BC SPCA is also seeking donations to help cover the cost of their care. $78 will pay for one initial exam and treatment.
"Our animal protection officers have been responding to many large-scale cases like this in recent months, which puts a lot of pressure on our resources as our shelters are already very busy," says Drever. "The BC SPCA is grateful for anyone who can donate to help off-set the cost of caring for these animals."
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BC SPCA community relations manager Lorie Chortyk said Crown counsel will decide whether to approve charges against those involved once investigators have finished gathering evidence, "but often in hoarding cases we do recommend charges in order that a ban on owning animals can be considered in sentencing to prevent the situation from happening again."
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Las Vegas, NV, United States (4E) – Songstress Christina Aguilera is heading to Las Vegas and has launched her residency called Christina Aguilera: The Xperience. The show will commence on March 31st this year at the Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino.
The pop vocalist joins other artists as the newest addition to the star studded line up currently occupying Sin City. What started as a new career catapult for Britney Spears has turned to a major cash cow for artists and an opportunity to bring Vegas back to its glory days when artists like Sinatra used to play for them.
Aguilera revealed to E News that it wouldn't be a far fetched idea to collaborate with Spears whom she's known since her 'Mickey Mouse Club' days. She also plans to call Lady Gaga whom she's performed with on 'The Voice' on their rendition of the latter's 'Do What U Want'.
Other artists in residency are Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and rumored to follow, hip-hop darling Drake.


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Driving the message of Innovation for All, Villgro set to Host 10th Edition of Unconvention
By Vardaan Nov 21, 2019
The annual conference will witness the culmination of iPitch – Villgro's annual deal discovery platform, with investments of over INR 4 Crores being announced
Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and Villgro to launch 'Powering Livelihoods', a multi-million dollar programme to support large-scale commercial deployment of clean energy-based livelihood solutions
'Farming Futures: Emerging Social Enterprises in India' to be released at the event
Invite-only donor roundtable comprising foundations, CSR and other funders to be hosted
Villgro, India's oldest and one of the world's largest social enterprise incubators, is set to launch its annual Unconvention conference. Slated to be held at Taj Yeshwantpur, Bangalore on 6th-7th December 2019, the event will witness the confluence of over 700 delegates comprising social entrepreneurs, CSR professionals, impact investors, policymakers, and academia, to discuss the present and future of social entrepreneurship in India and globally. Themed 'Innovation for All', this year's event will highlight the power of low cost innovations and making them accessible to the next billion. The two day conference's second day is focused on parallel sector tracks of Education & Employability, Agribusiness, Healthcare, and Energy & Cleantech and deep dive into innovations in technology, partnerships, financing and policy for start-ups across agribusiness, health, education and energy domains.
This year, the Unconvention conference will be an eventful gathering that will witness some major developments that will reshape India's social sector. It will provide the backdrop for the launch of the joint initiative of Villgro and the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) – 'Powering Livelihoods'. The multi-million dollar programme will focus on bridging the commercial valley of death by providing financial, capacity-building, and sectoral growth support to enterprises deploying clean energy-based livelihood solutions. . The unique, paradigm-shifting program will be launched by Arunabha Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, Council on Energy, Environment and Water.
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Numerous innovative and interactive sessions including Investor Speed Dating, Mentoring Forum, Innovation Hallway, and masterclasses on Being Compliance Ready by SpiceRoute Business & Data Protection Law by Gamechanger Law Advisors will make Unconvention a hard-to-miss opportunity for entrepreneurs looking to connect, network and grow. More than 20 groundbreaking innovations will also be displayed at the venue.
The conference will also mark the culmination of Villgro's iPitch – a unique investment discovery platform that identifies and invests in for-profit social enterprises across sectors of medtech, edtech, employability, cleantech, and agritech. Upto 10 investments, to be announced at the event, will receive a total of over INR 4 crores in investment along with capacity-building support.
Speaking on the event, Mr. Srinivas Ramanujam, COO, Villgro Innovations Foundation, said, "We are thrilled to unveil the 10th edition of Unconvention, which is arguably one of India's largest gatherings of social sector entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and other key stakeholders of the industry. Villgro has been championing social innovations for 20 years now, and the theme of this year's conference, therefore, came from our approach and will focuses on insightful conversations about the need for holistic innovation – technological, financial, value chain and policy – to help promising start-ups across sectors thrive in the competitive Indian and subsequent global markets. With continuous support of Unconvention's Knowledge Partner Accenture, we have several interesting sessions lined up through the two days, and are anticipating the conference to be an interesting iteration of the much sought after event."
Unconvention will also feature insightful keynote sessions by Dr. Devi Shetty, (Founder – Narayana Health), NK Chaudhary (Chairman & MD, Jaipur Rugs), Bindu Ananth (Chairperson, Dvara Trust), Shobhini Mukerji (Executive Director, J-PAL), Varun Jhaveri (Officer on Special Duty to CEO, Ayushman Bharat – PMJAY, Government of India), Sridhar Venkat (CEO, The Akshaya Patra Foundation), Sharad Sharma (Co-Founder, iSPIRT), Reshma Anand (CEO, Hindustan Unilever Foundation) and Joe Madith (Chairman & Founder, Gram Vikas), among 80+ other key names. It will also witness a book launch – Farming Futures: Emerging Social Enterprises in India – by Ajit Kanitkar and C. Shambu Prasad. The event will present a unique opportunity for new and established entrepreneurs to catalyse the ecosystem through exhibiting and networking with potential partners, investors, mentors or even customers.
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Founded in 2001 by Paul Basil, Villgro was initiated with the mission of incubating early‐stage, innovative businesses. The organisation proposed to move away from the traditional form of charity to a more sustainable approach where the poor and marginalised can be stakeholders in their own growth.
Since then, the establishment has been growing an ecosystem that supports social entrepreneurs and businesses that place impact at the centre of their mission. In 2016, it launched its own VC fund Menterra, which takes innovations to the market and enables creation of impactful, innovative, successful, scalable businesses. Apart from India, Villgro also operates in Kenya, the Philippines, Vietnam & the US.
Catering primarily to social entrepreneurs, impact investors, corporates, policymakers and the government, Villgro has successfully incubated over 300 companies since inception, which have secured $1.79 billion follow on funding to create more than 3,500 jobs and impact 20 million lives. Some of the innovative Villgro supported social enterprises that are creating a difference in the country's rural demographics are Skymet, BookMyBai, Under The Mango Tree, Farm Harvest, 5C Network, Biosense, Vahan, Blackboard Radio, CoolCrop, GARV Toilets to name a few.
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ALL ACCESS LIVE with QUIET RIOT'S CHUCK WRIGHT
Long-time bassist for multi-platinum rockers Quiet Riot, Chuck Wright, proudly presents the release of the first single from his new solo album. Wright has also worked alongside such rock music luminaries as Alice Cooper, Greg Allman, Ted Nugent, various members of Guns N' Roses and Kiss to name a few, and now embarks on his first-ever solo excursion.
The first single is a hard-rocking, intense interpretation of Björk's 1995 hit "Army of Me" and is accompanied by a video that represents Wright's exploration into disorder and parallels with the recent chaotic state of world affairs. The visuals include a 3D animation of an "army" of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs, the late Supreme Court Justice, feminist icon, and steadfast advocate for women's rights and gender equality. "I chose to recognize the late Justice Ginsburg in this video as she was such a formidable presence on and off the bench. She challenged the status quo knocking down legal obstacles to women's equality and inspired an army of believers."
The track "Army Of Me" features several of Wright's musical peers including the late Pat Torpey (Mr. Big) on drums, guitarist Lanny Cordola (House of Lords), and Sven Martin (Jonathan Davis Band) on keyboards along with songstress Whitney Tai, the recent "Best Vocalist" winner at The Intercontinental Music Awards.
The full-length album from Chuck Wright's Sheltering Sky, coming in 2022, features over 30 guest performers including members of Mr. Big, Skid Row, Tesla, Dream Theater, Great White, Asia, Jefferson Starship, acclaimed solo artists Allen Hinds, Toshi Yanagi, and many others. Wright is finally stepping out on his own with a wide range of genres, from Jazz Fusion, Prog, Funk to in-your-face Hard Rock, which was in itself one of the things that led him to want to forge his own way and create this unique collection of songs within his "Sheltering Sky" project.
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PMD BRT Walkthrough - Joyous Tower walkthrough, Pokemon list, hints and guide.
When you go into Joyous Tower, your level is reduced to 1. However, your level returns to normal after you get out of this dungeon, so don't worry.
You can meet an extremely rare Pokemon, Chansey, in Joyous Tower.
Species of Pokemon you encounter in Joyous Tower.


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Health bosses in Scilly and Cornwall are warning islanders not to be fooled by cold callers who claim to have obtained information from the NHS and want to sell them a product or service.
A member of the public received a phone call from a claims handling firm offering hearing tests so that people can make industrial injury claims.
The complainant says the caller told him he had got his information from the NHS.


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Kiss it goodbye: Station meets unceremonious fate
by Amsterdam News May 6, 2012 October 19, 2021
On April 24, 98.7 Kiss FM's Twitter was still asking people to join them for the annual AIDS Walk New York on May 20, with a link to their page to sign up for participation. Kiss FM was still a functioning station for Black music in New York City, as it had been for several decades.
It would all end just a few days later.
Last Thursday, Emmis Communications, which owns Kiss FM, announced that the company had leased the 98.7 FM frequency to ESPN. ESPN would move its ESPN New York station to 98.7 FM from its 1050 AM dial, and 1050 AM will become ESPN Deportes, their Spanish-speaking station. YMF Media, the owner of 107.5 WBLS, bought the Kiss brand and plans on adding some Kiss radio personalities and programming to their station.
"I extend my gratitude and deepest thanks to many special people who created the memories and sense of community that Kiss FM delivered for 30 years," said Emmis New York SVP and General Manager Alexandra Cameron. "Emmis will be forever grateful. We are so very glad that a part of Kiss will remain remembered through WBLS programming as they welcome beloved personalities like Shalia [Scott] and Lenny Green."
Fatiyn Muhammad, executive producer of Al Sharpton's "Hour of Power" and "Open Line" on Kiss FM, spoke with the AmNews about the Kiss legacy and how it ties in to WBLS.
"One of the things is that we play similar music," said Muhammad as he sat in the AmNews' offices wearing a 98.7 Kiss FM jacket. "We've had known disc jockeys who've worked for both stations. And we've dealt with issues that affected our community. We are servers of the community and we serve the same community. How you go about serving that community is, of course, through the shows you put on and the people who are involved in those programs."
Over the past decade, new technologies have shifted the power of radio toward news and oldies-oriented stations. In 2007, the radio ratings service Arbitron changed the way it counted ratings by incorporating a new system called the Portable People Meter–or PPMs, as they were known in the industry. Arbitron said the system is more accurate in measuring ratings by precisely tracking radio signals. It also started the downfall of Kiss.
Under the old way of measuring ratings, Kiss and WBLS were at the top of the heap in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old market that advertisers catered to. Post PPM, they were falling between fifth and 10th on the ratings list or out of the top 10 completely.
"Not only did the host of our talk shows feel that this was somehow going to hurt Black or urban radio stations," said Muhammad, "Arbitron felt that through the diary [the previous way they listed listenership] that its ratings were 'elevated.' They said the PPM was gonna give you a more accurate reading and now the advertisers can look at how many people are really listening to you. The problem I had with that is, do you distribute the PPMs according to the demographics of your city?
"They wanted to roll this out so fast, but we said slow it down," continued Muhammad. "It got to the point where New York City Councilman Larry Seabrook held hearings about PPMs. Arbitron said they'd look at the issue, at least they said they did, but at the end of the day, we're still hurting." Arbitron settled lawsuits in New York and California over PPMs and said that they evaluated their methods but still stood by its ratings.
Michael Baisden, who had a syndicated show on Kiss FM, wasn't shuffled over to WBLS. In response, Baisden has started an online petition to get his show on the air at 107.5. Baisden released a statement to accompany the petition.
"After I received the devastating news on Thursday that 98.7 Kiss FM in New York was taking my show off and going to an all-sports format, I thought to myself: Who is going to sound the alarm in New York when the next Jena 6 happens-or Trayvon Martin-or presidential election?" said Baisden in a statement. "And who's going to promote mentoring to save our children and talk about domestic violence and child molestation? When you come up with a radio personality's name who can be trusted to consistently and passionately address these issues on mainstream FM radio, please let me know.
"I don't know about you, but I think we're going down a dangerous path as African-Americans, and as Americans in general, when we allow our voices to be silenced on FM radio while personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others continue to spew racist, divisive and sexist language over hundreds of radio stations across the country," said Baisden.
Deon Levingston of WBLS told the AmNews that the station plans on incorporating the community-oriented programming that Kiss FM provided. Levingston also said that while Baisden is a beloved personality, he wants his station to have a more local feel.
"My goal is to create a stronger New York-based station with a stronger New York voice," said Levingston. "That's nothing against Michael Baisden, but we want to create a show in New York. I wish Michael nothing but the best."
I think what we have to do is, we have to take the best of Kiss and incorporate it into WBLS, and we've already done that on the air with some of the personalities," continued Levingston. "[with the show] 'Open Line,' we hope to incorporate[it] and we have to take some of the community service things and do those as well. Kiss had 30 years of serving the community. We realize that we can't take one station and be the voice that two stations were, but we can take one station and make it a stronger voice."
The final song Kiss FM played on Sunday night was Willie Hutch's "Brother's Gonna Work It Out." When the clock struck midnight on Monday morning and the station switched to ESPN, Diddy's "Hello Good Morning" came on the air, followed by the voice of sports journalist and TV personality Stephen A. Smith. At midnight, Kiss FM's Twitter page also switched to the WBLS logo.
And just like that, it was over.
WBLS ratings are up despite the loss of 'Black Talk Radio' programming
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Google's Chromecast already has a handful of compatible apps, but the floodgates are about to open: On Monday, Google released a Google Cast SDK for developers to add Chromecast support to their apps and websites.
When we reviewed Chromecast shortly after launch, we loved how easy it was to send video from Netflix, YouTube, and whatever was playing in our Google Chrome browser over to the TV via Google's Chromecast HDMI dongle.
You can already use Pandora with your Chromecast; hopefully this SDK means support will come soon to Spotify, Rdio, Beats Music, and the rest.
Since then, Chromecast support has made it to additional apps like Hulu Plus, as well as HBO Go and Pandora. But Google controlled access to the platform, until this public SDK.
Tablo, a DVR that records over-the-air TV that you can watch on your tablet or smartphone, told us at CES that they planned to add support for sending that video to the Chromecast as soon as Google released this SDK, for example, and we expect many other apps to follow suit. It looks like the $35 dongle is about to get a lot more valuable, to developers and consumers alike.


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The Home Depot Foundation Announces $120,000 Grant to Volunteers of America Northern California & Northern Nevada to Help Homeless Veterans in Sacramento
Sacramento (June 19, 2014) – The Home Depot® Foundation today announced a $120,000 grant to Volunteers of America Northern California & Northern Nevada to address the critical housing needs of U.S. military veterans. This grant is part of $1.795 million in grants announced for 10 Volunteers of America homeless veterans programs in eight states. These grants will be used to refurbish or build 416 housing units nationwide for homeless veterans, as well as many of their family members.
The Sacramento area project provides funds to renovate an existing apartment building to create permanent supportive housing for veteran families. The new housing will add to a growing number of housing, financial and employment focused services already being offered to veterans and veteran families in Sacramento, El Dorado, Yolo and Placer counties.
"We are so grateful to Home Depot for stepping up to serve the most vulnerable," said Leo McFarland, President and CEO of Volunteers of America Northern California & Northern Nevada. "This funding will go a long way in helping us provide services to the brave men and women who served our country, but are now experiencing the ravages of homelessness."
Nationally, Volunteers of America serves more than 10,000 homeless veterans each year in 46 cities.
"We're proud to support the important work Volunteers of America Northern California & Northern Nevada is doing every day to help homeless and at-risk veterans," said Gaven Gregory, Executive Director of The Home Depot Foundation. "Here in Sacramento and in cities across the country, we're putting our dollars and the time and talents of our Team Depot volunteers to work toward our commitment to help ensure that every veteran has a safe place to call home."
In addition to the grants, Volunteers of America affiliates are supported by Team Depot, The Home Depot's associate-led volunteer force. Team Depot volunteers have already made a difference at Volunteers of America homeless veteran housing sites across the country.
About Volunteers of America
Founded locally in 1911, the Northern California & Northern Nevada office of Volunteers of America is one of the largest providers of social services in the region, operating more than 40 programs in eight categories: homeless services; homeless shelters; substance abuse treatment and recovery services; senior services; youth services; transitional housing; permanent supportive housing; and low income housing. In fact, Volunteers of America provides shelter or housing to nearly 1,500 men, women and children every night in the Greater Sacramento area.
About The Home Depot Foundation
The Home Depot Foundation is dedicated to improving the homes of U.S. military veterans through financial and volunteer resources to help nonprofit organizations. The Foundation has pledged $80 million to these efforts over five years, and since 2011 has invested more than $65 million to ensure every veteran has a safe place to call home.
Through Team Depot, the company's associate-led volunteer program, thousands of Home Depot associates volunteer their time and talents to positively transform neighborhoods and perform basic repairs and modifications to homes and facilities serving veterans with critical housing needs. Since its formation in 2002, The Home Depot Foundation has granted more than $380 million to nonprofit organizations improving homes and lives in local communities. To learn more and see our associates in action, visit www.homedepotfoundation.org.
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My Popsugar Must Have March box finally arrived this week! I was so excited to see what was inside. This box seems to take its sweet time getting to me. I feel like I see everyone's reviews before I get my box every month, so I always know what's inside. But that doesn't make me any less excited to see the items in person! And based on the spoilers I knew I was going to love this month's box!!!
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The food item included for March was Halfpops Half Popped Popcorn in the flavor Chipotle Barbeque. I'm not a fan of barbeque flavor, so I wasn't sure I would like these. Luckily it wasn't a large bag. My daughter wanted to try it right away, and I usually share whatever treat I get in the box with her, so I think she expects it now. We tried them and they're crunchy and pretty good, but definitely not my favorite snack from Popsugar. I think these would make a great beer snack!
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I loved the travel theme of this month's Popsugar Must Have box. I really need a vacation after a very long winter (that seems to never want to end), so this felt very fitting. It just may give me the push I need to book a vacation to somewhere tropical and warm!!!


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Q: Working with a matrix in R by rows and columns and deleting rows iteratively I want to compute the time interval that has been needed for pressing the different keys of the keyboard by writing a message.
In order to get the data I use a program that produces a .csv after writing a text. This .csv has three columns: the first one with the key pressed and released, the second column says if the key has been pressed (0) or released (1), and the last column registers the time for each event.
Then the idea is to compute the time interval that has been needed for each key, since it is pressed until it is released.
In the following extra simple example we can see that the key 16777248 has been pressed at time 5.0067901611328125e-06 and released at time 0.21875882148742676, therefore, the time interval for this key is 0.21875882148742676-5.0067901611328125e-06. The time interval for the key 72 should be 0.1861410140991211-0.08675289154052734.
16777248    0    5.0067901611328125e-06

72          0    0.08675289154052734

72          1    0.1861410140991211

16777248    1    0.21875882148742676

At the moment I have written a code in R that, first of all, reads the table in .csv. Then it searchs the first 1 in the second column and takes the corresponding key name. Next, it searchs for the previous key with a 0. It computes the time interval, saves this value in a vector and then deletes this two rows from the matrix. Following, it should repeat this until the are no more rows.
data.csv <- read.table("example.csv",header=F, sep=",", dec=".")
myTable<- data.csv
keySearched=0
timeInterval=c( rep( 0,length(myTable[,1]) ) )
L=(length(myTable[,1]))

for( i in 1:L ){
    if( myTable[i,2]==1 ){
        keySearched <- myTable[i,1]
            for( j in 1:(i-1) ){
                if( myTable[j,1]==keySearched ){
                    timeInterval[j] <- (myTable[i,3]-myTable[j,3])
                    myTable <- myTable[ -c(j,i), ]
                }
            }
    }

}

The problem is that sometimes the value myTable[x,y] is NA because the corresponding row has been deleted. In each iteration two rows are deleted (the one with the pressed key and the corresponding released key).
At this point I get the following error:
Error in if (myTable[j, 1] == keySearched) { :
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

How could I solve this problem?

A: You could try doing it like this:
key = c(3,6,3,8,8,3,6,3)
pressed = c(0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1)
time = c(12,14,16,17,19,22,34,35)
a = data.frame(key,time,pressed)

>a
  key time pressed
1   3   12       0
2   6   14       0
3   3   16       1
4   8   17       0
5   8   19       1
6   3   22       0
7   6   34       1
8   3   35       1

First order your data frame (or matrix if you prefer) by the key number and then the time.  This should group pressed and released keys together.  Then you calculate the time difference between the same keys using diff.  And finally, set to NA those diffs that don't make sense.
a = a[order(a$key,a$time),]
a$lapse = c(0,diff(a$time))
a$lapse[seq(1,nrow(a),2)] = NA

>a
  key time pressed lapse
1   3   12       0    NA
3   3   16       1     4
6   3   22       0    NA
8   3   35       1    13
2   6   14       0    NA
7   6   34       1    20
4   8   17       0    NA
5   8   19       1     2

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Daughtry 1st Act Announced for Yuengling Golden Pilsner Concert Series at SteelStacks
Chart-topping, platinum-selling band Daughtry will rock SteelStacks when they perform at the Yuengling Golden Pilsner Concert Series Aug. 28
Monday, April 15, 2019 — BETHLEHEM, PA--Chart-topping, platinum-selling band Daughtry, along with special guest Augustana, will rock SteelStacks when they perform at the Yuengling Golden Pilsner Concert Series Aug. 28, 7 p.m. Tickets for the performance, which takes place at Levitt Pavilion at the base of the site's iconic blast furnaces, are $35 in advance and $39 day of show. They go on sale starting Tues., April 16, 10 a.m., to ArtsQuest Members and Fri., April 19, 10 a.m., to the public at www.musikfest.org and 610-332-3378.
Led by "American Idol" finalist Chris Daughtry, Daughtry has released five albums, all of which reached the Billboard Top Ten. Daughtry's self-titled debut was the best-selling album of 2007, containing four Top 20 hit singles including the GRAMMY-nominated smash "It's Not Over." The album Leave This Town also reached number one in 2009, while 2011's Break the Spell was certified gold and 2013's Baptized featured the platinum-selling "Waiting for Superman."
Performing together for over a decade, Daughtry's most recent album is Cage to Rattle, released last summer. The recording, which featured the single "Deep End," peaked at number 10 on the Billboard 200.
"As the 6th Generation of America's Oldest Brewery, my sisters and I are always looking for ways to give back to the community that has helped to build us," says Jen Yuengling, Vice President of Operations and 6th Generation Brewer, D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. We are thrilled to have such an acclaimed and talented band like Daughtry kick off our Yuengling Golden Pilsner Concert Series and hope our fans are as excited about his performance as we are."
The Daughtry performance is supported by media partner 100.7 WLEV. For more information on the concert at the Levitt Pavilion, located at 789 First St., Bethlehem, please visit www.steelstacks.org.
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Draconid meteor shower should hit peak tonight (weds 7th Oct).
In the UK, look to the northwest, shortly after nightfall:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54450553
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There must be a set character limit to this opt...
Re the Draconids tonight. A peak of five per hour, not the most spectacular and unlikely to trigger the Triffids.
kamalktk said:
Betelgeuse hasn't quite run out of geuse just yet. ...
eburacum said:
This astronomer posts regular updates about Betelgeuse. The star is slightly brighter than it was, and may be returning to normal. But this chap says it has remained constantly bright when viewed in the infra-red. That probably means this recent 'fainting' is due to dust. ...
Ongoing data analysis indicated we needed to revise our last estimates of Betelgeuse's distance, size, and probable time left before it goes supernova.
Betelgeuse Is Neither as Far Nor as Large as We Thought, And It's a Total Bummer
In the wake of recent fluctuations in Betelgeuse's brightness, astronomers have rigorously examined the star's vital statistics, and come up with a bit of a surprise.
According to the team led by researchers at Australian National University (ANU), the results change a few important things about our favourite red giant.
"The actual physical size of Betelgeuse has been a bit of a mystery – earlier studies suggested it could be bigger than the orbit of Jupiter," says astronomer László Molnár from the Konkoly Observatory in Hungary.
"Our results say Betelgeuse only extends out to two thirds of that, with a radius 750 times the radius of the Sun." ...
Betelgeuse has always been somewhat difficult to map with much accuracy. ...
In 1920, interference patterns among its light waves were used to come up with an angular diameter – the width of Betelgeuse's starlight as it hangs in our sky – of close to 47 milliarcseconds.
Based on an assumed distance of around 180 light years, the red star was initially thought to have a diameter equivalent to around two and a half times the distance between Earth and the Sun.
Since then there have been many more attempts to drag a metaphorical measuring tape around Betelgeuse's butt. ...
Revisions of its location in the past few years pushed it further back to a distance of 724 light years away, where those 47 milliarcseconds represented something more like 1,300 times the diameter of the Sun; a diameter that would see Betelgeuse swallow up planets roughly in Jupiter's orbit. ...
Using information collected with the space-based Solar Mass Ejection Imager prior to Betelgeuse's recent drop in luminosity, the research team developed models of the star's activity to come up with a better sense of just how close to retirement it really was.
"It's burning helium in its core at the moment, which means it's nowhere near exploding" ...
"We could be looking at around 100,000 years before an explosion happens."
The results also allowed the researchers to deduce the giant's radius, shaving a third off its previous girth. Based on this new figure, Betelgeuse can't be more than 700 light years away, either.
"Our results show it's a mere 530 light years from us – 25 per cent closer than previous thought," says Molnár. ...
Now that we know Betelgeuse is even closer to us than we thought, it's sure to be one heck of a display when it does eventually collapse. If you're at all concerned about the new seating arrangements, at 530 light years we still won't be close enough to feel the heat of its radiation either. ...
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-wer...-and-now-its-imminent-death-is-super-unlikely
PUBLISHED RESEARCH (Bibliographic data & abstract):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/abb8db
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I've always used a distance of 660 ly.
https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/460c3c2a8b657
530 ly is reasonable enough, but I expect we'll need to amend it again at some point. It's practically impossible to get a reliable distance to these irregular-shaped variable stars.
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It turns out that our solar system is flying through a supernova right now.
Might this be the true underlying cause of our global climate change?
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Bennu is literally exploding with news.
For the last year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been circling a large asteroid named Bennu that regularly passes uncomfortably
close to Earth. The spacecraft has been painstakingly mapping the asteroid's rocky surface using a suite of cameras and other instruments that will help it determine where to land next year. Once NASA selects a final landing site, OSIRIS-REx will kiss Bennu just long enough to scoop up a sample to bring back to Earth in 2023.
Many scientists expect the Bennu sample to revolutionize our understanding of asteroids, especially those that are near Earth and pose the greatest threat to life as we know it. But as detailed in a paper published today in Science, NASA has already started making surprising discoveries around this alien world. Earlier this year, the OSIRIS-REx team witnessed particles exploding from the asteroid's surface—and it's not sure why.
"No one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this," says Carl Hergenrother, an astronomer at the University of Arizona and the scientist who proposed Bennu as the target for OSIRIS-REx. "It wasn't that long ago that the conventional wisdom was that asteroids are these dead bodies that didn't change very much."
In January, the navigation cameras on OSIRIS-REx captured three ejection events that each spewed about 100 centimeter-sized asteroid particles into space. The spacecraft also detected a significant number of particles already orbiting Bennu like a cloud of gnats. Their diverse orbits suggest that particle ejections are a common event on the asteroid and occur all across its surface, rather than in a few select spots. Indeed, in the year since the three ejection events that are reported today in Science, Hergenrother says OSIRIS-REx has detected several other smaller ejections. ...
https://www.wired.com/story/no-one-knows-why-rocks-are-exploding-from-asteroid-bennu/
After almost two years circling an ancient asteroid hundreds of millions of miles away, a NASA spacecraft this week will attempt to descend to the treacherous, boulder-packed surface and snatch a handful of rubble.
The drama unfolds Tuesday as the U.S. takes its first crack at collecting asteroid samples for return to Earth, a feat accomplished so far only by Japan.
Brimming with names inspired by Egyptian mythology, the Osiris-Rex mission is looking to bring back at least 2 ounces (60 grams) worth of asteroid Bennu, the biggest otherworldly haul from beyond the moon.
The van-sized spacecraft is aiming for the relatively flat middle of a tennis court-sized crater named Nightingale—a spot comparable to a few parking places here on Earth. Boulders as big as buildings loom over the targeted touchdown zone. ...
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-touch-and-go-spacecraft-sampling-asteroid.html
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Success! Yay science!
They don't know just how much of the asteroid they've collected yet, but if they didn't get enough they have plans to do the maneuver again at another site.
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches Asteroid
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-osiris-rex-spacecraft-successfully-touches-asteroid
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I watched it live, very impressive. Also like the way they are going to check the actually have a sample - stick the arm out and spin around and compare readings with the last time (pre sample) they did the same manoeuvre!
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NASA to announce "exciting new discovery" about the moon.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-to-announce-new-science-results-about-moon
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Yeah we always think "exciting new discovery" = alien bases or some such and NASA actually mean they've found a new crater.
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I'm almost certain it's an alien obelisk this time.
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NASA MOON NEWS: CLUES EMERGE ABOUT 'EXCITING' NEW ANNOUNCEMENT
Nasa has provoked excitement across the world with the promise that it will reveal a "new discovery about the Moon" in a major announcement.
The space agency gave no details on what the announcement might be, apart from indicating that it "contributes to NASA's efforts to learn about the Moon in support of deep space exploration" and had been made with Sofia, a converted Boeing 747 that works as a flying observatory.
But clues have begun to emerge about what the announcement could be about to reveal.
As part of the announcement of the press conference – which will take place next week – Nasa gave a full list of the participants. It will include four different people from across the space agency.
Three of them – Paul Hertz, Jacob Bleacher and Naseem Rangwala – are all senior members of staff at various parts of Nasa's operations that appear to have been involved in the research. Together they represent Nasa's astrophysics division and its Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, both based at Nasa's headquarters, and the Sofia mission that helped with the discovery.
But the other person on the list is perhaps the most telling. The briefing will also include Casey Honniball, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.
As the blog Nasa Watch points out, Dr Honniball has conducted extensive research into how we might go about finding water on the Moon.
Her PhD dissertation, which is available online and is titled 'Infrared Remote Sensing Of Volatile Components On The Moon', includes a report that she and her team had "developed a new approach to detect the actual water molecule on the Moon", with the technique relying on infrared astronomy.
It goes on to make clear that the method had been put to the test using Sofia, or the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, which would be needed because such observations are only possible from an "airborne infrared observatory".
"Using data from SOFIA we report the first direct detection of the water molecule on the illuminated lunar surface," she writes at the end of the abstract.
In August, Dr Honniball was also the lead author on a paper titled 'Telescopic Observations of Lunar Hydration: Variations and Abundance' and published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. As the title suggests, that paper explored in the detail the possibilities of water on the Moon, and how it might behave.
As such, the list of names in the briefing would seem to suggest that the announcement has something to do with the detection of water on the Moon. While there has been evidence that there may be water there before, it is still not definitive, and researchers know relatively little about how that water might behave or where it could be found.
As Nasa's announcement indicated, the discovery of water on the Moon would be of keen interest as the space agency prepares to head back there, and to use a potential lunar base as a way of travelling deeper into the solar system, such as to Mars.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...t-water-hydration-lunar-surface-b1221638.html
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It's always about water.
Trevp666
It was like that when I got here.........honest!!!
Welwyn Garden City (but oddly, not an actual city)
Dunno if this is the place for it....but I'm currently watching 'nerdlecam' at Boca Chica as they assemble the spaceship SN8.
Putting the nosecone on with a BIG crane!
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And the nose is on!
And there is a youtube timelapse of it being done too.
Trevp666 said:
Now, they just need the astronauts to pose in front of it wearing 1950s-style spacesuits.
You man the moon isnt made out of green cheese but something proceesed?
(So meaning its not worth mining??)
Analogue Boy
The new Number 6
Kondoru said:
Helium Cheese apparently. It'll run the CheeseDrives in future Starships. Piloted by Kirk. Cheese. It's the future.
Wait a minute!!!!!
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The Bennu collection mission was so successful they can't close the door on the collector.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/23/world/asteroid-bennu-sample-update-scn-trnd/index.html
"The mission team analyzed images Thursday taken of the collector head of the spacecraft that showed that a substantial sample was collected -- but there is so much material in the head that the flap designed to keep the sample inside is jammed.
The mission was required to collect at least 2 ounces, or 60 grams, of the asteroid's surface material. Based on the images they analyzed, the researchers are confident that the collector head on the end of the spacecraft's robotic arm actually captured 400 grams of material. And that's only what's visible to them through the perspective of the camera. "
That looks familiar
https://airandspace.si.edu/collecti...astro-berzac-guided-missile/nasm_A20110031000
If there's an election? It's ALWAYS about funding.
So it wasn't a monolith after all...
Water on the Moon could sustain a lunar base
Published19 minutes ago
Having dropped tantalising hints days ago about an "exciting new discovery about the Moon", the US space agency has revealed conclusive evidence of water on our only natural satellite.
This "unambiguous detection of molecular water" will boost Nasa's hopes of establishing a lunar base.
The aim is to sustain that base by tapping into the Moon's natural resources.
The findings have been published as two papers in the journal Nature Astronomy.
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Perhaps it's the swimming pool for the alien bases that they're not telling us about?
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And some strange news from Titan
https://www.sciencealert.com/scient...URMGqwbqysFMQ2n-Wz90VyA2gWiZExv6iCmMCuJNW-2Ac
A molecule never detected in any atmosphere and so reactive it can only be found in lab conditions on earth or in deep space- now found in the atmosphere of Titan...
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DrPaulLee
Does the human brain resemble the universe?
Sad news about the Arecibo Radio Telescope
The observatory has played a key part in space exploration – and a few movies – but two accidents have rendered the 305m-wide instrument unsafe
Fri 20 Nov 2020 01.16 GMTLast modified on Fri 20 Nov 2020 17.43 GMT
A huge US space telescope nestled deep in the Puerto Rican jungle will be shut down after suffering two destructive mishaps in recent months, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries.
https://www.theguardian.com/science...arecibo-space-telescope-in-puerto-rico-jungle
Scientists Detect Hints of Strange New Physics in The Universe's Background Radiation
Source: sciencealert.com
Date: 27 November, 2020
Throughout all known space, between the stars and the galaxies, an extremely faint glow suffuses, a relic left over from the dawn of the Universe. This is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), the first light that could travel through the Universe when it cooled enough around 380,000 years after the Big Bang for ions and electrons to combine into atoms.
But now scientists have discovered something peculiar about the CMB. A new measurement technique has revealed hints of a twist in the light - something that could be a sign of a violation of parity symmetry, hinting at physics outside the Standard Model.
According to the Standard Model of physics, if we were to flip the Universe as though it were a mirror reflection of itself, the laws of physics should hold firm. Subatomic interactions should occur in exactly the same way in the mirror as they do in the real Universe. This is called parity symmetry.
As far as we have been able to measure so far, there's only one fundamental interaction that breaks parity symmetry; that's the weak interaction between subatomic particles that is responsible for radioactive decay. But finding another place where parity symmetry breaks down could potentially lead us to new physics beyond the Standard Model.
And two physicists - Yuto Minami of the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation in Japan; and Eiichiro Komatsu of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany and Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe in Japan - believe they have found hints of it in the polarisation angle of the CMB.
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-twis...adiation-of-the-universe-hints-at-new-physics
charliebrown
Not since 1623 Jupiter and Saturn will be next to each other on December 21st, the first day of winter.
Is this a good sign or a bad sign?


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NFL Football Betting: Pittsburgh Steelers at San Diego Chargers
Added on October 12, 2015, in NFL Picks
AFC action on Monday Night Football this week as the Pittsburgh Steelers head West to take on the San Diego Chargers. Both teams are 2-2 on the season and still looking for direction. The Steelers are coming off a disappointing 'defeat snatched from the jaws of victory' loss to Baltimore while the Chargers are off a win against Cleveland.
The Pittsburgh Steelers have a problem and his name is Michael Vick. Vick is not only a miserable person but apparently a bringer of bad karma–not surprising given his past. After Steelers fans rationalized the signing of the most overrated quarterback in NFL history by thinking that "Vick won't play" behind the durable Roethlisberger here he is–the Pittsburgh Steelers' starting quarterback. Roethlisberger will be sidelined for at least the next month with his knee injury but after a month of Vick it might not matter. Vick is on a 6-14 run as a NFL starter. To his credit, he's tried to play within the Steelers' system more than he did in previous stops in Philadelphia and New York but that doesn't negate Vick's biggest liability as a starting quarterback. Well, one of them at least–you can't count on the guy to make the right decision or execute with the game on the line. But at this point project Landry Jones is their only other quarterback making Vick the best of limited–and bad–options.
San Diego isn't a great pointspread team. In fact, they're near breakeven in most situational breakdowns. They've got some significant injuries on the offensive line but they've got a significantly better quarterback in Phillip Rivers. They have played a tougher schedule than Pittsburgh–the Steelers' defense has looked OK against some mediocre teams but their offense has been pitiful under Vick. The Steelers have dominated head to head play but that's as much a function of their legacy of excellence than anything else. Steelers are 10-4 ATS overall against San Diego including 4 of 5 at home. But there's no reason to 'fix what ain't broke' and since I've made a ton of money betting against Michael Vick led teams ever since the laughable 'dream team' era in Philadelphia there's no reason to stop here.
BET SAN DIEGO CHARGERS -3.5 OVER PITTSBURGH STEELERS


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Details on the recent Anthem Breach.
An argument for Why Women Should Code, prompted by this seemingly mid-1960s post, and Yes, You Should Code, also prompted by the latter.
ux.stackexchange: Hay guise, is this rotating cube interface user-friendly?
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We are still talking with industry participants about the benefits and costs of expanded book-entry hours. On one level, Fedwire is a critical element in the infrastructure of the payments mechanism.
Expanding its hours is one way to remove barriers to vital private sector innovation. Thomas Gainor* First Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Retired May 1, As the Federal Reserve banks contemplate the U.S.
payments system of the 21st century and the role they should play in the evolution of that system, they must refer early and often to their "prime directive," that is, their mission in payments. It is based on this that this research paper looks at the available past literature on e-payment adoption across the world, with a view to highlight the scope, methodology and Information System.
As noted throughout this report, the data collection system for U.S. international capital transactions has relied heavily on manual reporting by large financial intermediaries located in the United States, with an emphasis on banking activities. However, liberalization of world capital markets.
CiteSeerX - Document Details (Isaac Councill, Lee Giles, Pradeep Teregowda): this paper studies the effects of the past usage of a given payment mechanism on future spending. For instance, there is compelling evidence to suggest that consumers who predominantly use credit cards `overspend' relative to those who don't.
(ColeLea, Webley and LevineTokunaga ). Committee on the Federal Reserve in the Payments Mechanism Federal Reserve System Introduction Page 1 of 39 Section I: Introduction In OctoberChairman Alan Greenspan appointed the Committee on the Federal Reserve in the Payments Mechanism to examine the payment services provided by the Federal Reserve to depository institutions.
Mar 01, · Research reported in this article shows that the mechanism used to make past payments influences spending behavior. Specifically, payment mechanisms were shown to influence the memory for and the aversive impact of past expenses, and hence moderate the effect of these past expenses on spending anwalt-sbg.com by: Effects of Payment Mechanism on Spending Behavior: The Role of Rehearsal and Immediacy of Payments Specifically, past payments strongly reduce purchase intention when the payment mechanism requires the consumer to write down the amount paid of a given payment mechanism on future spending.
Prior research in marketing has looked at the. In the NC General Assembly Session, a law was passed (Session Law /House Bill ) amending the Town of Chapel Hill Charter to allow the Town to establish a payments-in-lieu system to collect funds for transit improvements in lieu of requiring roadway anwalt-sbg.com: Elizabeth Brisson.
mechanism as well as under the payment mechanism D, which is described subsequently. As revealed by the empirical data, monthly payments done similar to payment mechanism C. Oct 01, · allowability of costs, activities, selected items of cost, allowed expenses, fringe benefits Allowability of Costs/Activities.
The governing cost principles The government-wide principles, issued by OMB (or, in the case of commercial organizations, the Federal Acquisition Regulation [48 CFR 21], or, in the case of hospitals, 45 CFR 75, Appendix IX, "Principles For Determining Costs.
May 17, · During its audit of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) fiscal years and financial statements, GAO identified a new control deficiency regarding changes to master file programs that contributed to IRS's continuing material weakness in internal control over unpaid assessments as of September 30, As discussed in detail in Chapter 3, the committee's research, analyses, and deliberations led to the conclusion that Congress should relate provider payments to outcomes arising from the actions of specific health care decision makers rather than to average outcomes in geographic areas.
4 Payment and Organizational Reforms to Improve Value Author: Joseph P. Newhouse, Alan M. Garber, Robin P. Graham, Margaret A. McCoy, Michelle Mancher, Ashna Kibr. Payment systems: liquidity saving mechanisms in a distributed ledger environment 1 Background A Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a set of tools for recording data, such as asset holdings or financial transactions, allowing a network of computers to verify and store updates without a single central management system.
In December The Balance of Payments Adjustment Mechanism in a Rational Expectations Equilibrium Richard H. Clarida. NBER Working Paper No. Issued in June NBER Program(s):International Trade and Investment Program, International Finance and Macroeconomics Program.
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Cash payments are tightly "coupled" and have high salience and vividness and the highest pain of payment compared to other mechanisms (Prelec and Loewenstein ; Soman ). Cash payments have high psychological salience, as they involve handing over a visible amount of cash, driving home the fact that the benefits are being paid anwalt-sbg.com by: Jul 01, · Offering payment to clinical research subjects, in an effort to enhance recruitment by providing an incentive to take part or enabling subjects to participate without financial sacrifice, is a common yet uneven and contentious practice in the US.
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By contrast, the majority, by volume, of all payments in the United States, particularly those involving retail transactions, continues to be settled through the use of paper-based instruments, particularly cash and cheques.
The use of electronic.Jun 01, · Reviews and Testimonials. This book provides an extensive overview of the world of payment systems. It starts by presenting the basic concepts and risks, describes traditional and advanced payment systems, provides useful insights in the trends and innovations in the payments landscape and ends with a description of the developments in a number of important currency areas, including the .
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Sharon I agree with your points of fore thought.
job. That is the sad part that many managers forget.
they dropped sometimes, but it was better than nothing.
there are a lot of questions to be asked at a later date.
and business resumption plans ---for years to come.
strikes are my records. I will concern myself with my family.
It is my job now to plan for the worst way before the worst ever happens.
way just to move papers? Come on...people died down there.