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\section{Introduction}
Supernova remnants (SNRs) have long been considered as the primary
candidates for the origin of Galactic Cosmic Rays (CRs).
Specifically, diffusive shock
acceleration~\citep{Bell-1,BlandfordOstriker,Jones,MalkovDrury} is
widely accepted as the mechanism by which charged particles can be
accelerated to very high energies at collisionless shocks driven by
supernova explosions.  To maintain the energy density of the Galactic
CRs, the kinetic energy released in supernova explosions has to be
efficiently transferred to CRs with a conversion efficiency of $\sim
10\%$~\citep{Ginzburg}.  However, it has not yet been confirmed
whether strong shock waves in SNRs are indeed capable of transferring
this amount of energy into the acceleration of CR ions, and in doing
so generating a CR energy density comparable to the energy density
contained in the expansion ram pressure of the supernova.

Shock energy can be converted to another form of energy: turbulent
magnetic fields.  Recent theoretical work indicates that the
magnetic field can be largely amplified by streaming of CRs
themselves, as an integral part of efficient CR acceleration at
collisionless shocks \citep{BellLucek, Bell}.  Observations of
synchrotron X-ray emission in young SNRs have shown that the magnetic
field at supernova shocks can be amplified way beyond the factor of
$\sim 4$ that is expected for standard compression of interstellar
magnetic fields in the absence of CR modification of the shock's
hydrodynamic
structure~\citep{Uchiyama2007,Voelk2005,Bamba2005,Vink2003}.  The
amplified magnetic field would allow acceleration of protons up to the
\emph{knee} in the CR spectrum at $\sim 10^{15}$~eV, the presumed
endpoint of the Galactic component \citep{BellLucek}.

Cassiopeia~A (Cas~A) is the remnant of one of a handful of historical
supernovae; the explosion around AD 1680 that gave rise to Cas~A has
probably been the last Galactic supernova witnessed by
humans~\citep{Ashworth1980}. It is the brightest radio source in our
Galaxy \citep{Baars} and its overall brightness across the
electromagnetic spectrum makes it a unique laboratory for studying
high-energy phenomena in SNRs.  Cas~A has an angular size of
$2.5\arcmin$ in radius corresponding to a physical size of 2.34~pc at
a distance of 3.4$^{+0.3}_{-0.1}$~kpc~\citep{Reed1995}.
Cas~A was the first SNR detected in TeV gamma rays, first by
HEGRA~\citep{HEGRA:casA} and later confirmed by
MAGIC~\citep{MAGIC:casA} and VERITAS~\citep{VERITAS:casA}, firmly
establishing the existence of multi-TeV particles.  These
higher-energy gamma rays are generally attributed to particles
accelerated in the shock waves of the SNR, even though the TeV
gamma-ray source is not resolved. The emission mechanism(s)
  responsible for the TeV gamma-ray emission remained unsettled.
EGRET reported only upper limits on the gamma-ray emission in the GeV
band~\citep{Esposito1996}.

The advent of the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the \emph{Fermi}
Gamma-ray Space Telescope for the first time makes it possible to
detect GeV gamma rays from the shell of Cas~A.  The relativistic
bremsstrahlung of accelerated electrons has been predicted to lie
above the sensitivity of the LAT \citep{Atoyan2000}.  The prediction
of the bremsstrahlung flux is controlled by the strength of the
magnetic field and therefore the gamma-ray flux provides a measure of
the amplified magnetic field in the supernova
shell~\citep{Cowsik}. Inverse Compton (IC) scattering is another
important mechanism of gamma-ray production by high-energy electrons;
seed photons that can be upscattered to gamma-rays include the
interstellar radiation field, the cosmic microwave background (CMB),
and the far-infrared (FIR) radiation by Cas~A itself. In addition to
these leptonic emissions, the decay of $\pi^0$-mesons produced in
inelastic collisions between high-energy protons (and nuclei) and
background gas may contribute to the GeV gamma-ray flux. The
importance of the GeV observations of young SNRs is emphasized by the
fact that the energy density of the accelerated particles
is measurable thanks to the well-constrained gas and radiation density
in Cas A in addition to that of the magnetic field.  In this paper, we
report the discovery of GeV gamma-ray emission coincident with Cas~A
based on the first year observations with the \emph{Fermi} LAT.

\section{Observations}

The LAT onboard \emph{Fermi} is a pair-conversion gamma-ray detector
operating between 20~MeV and 300~GeV.
The LAT has a wide field of view of $\sim 2.4$~sr at 1 GeV, and
observes the entire sky every 2 orbits ($\sim 3$ hr for \emph{Fermi}'s
orbit at an altitude of $\sim 565$ km).  The full details of the
instruments are given in \citet{LATPaper}.

A total exposure of $3\times 10^{10}\ {\rm cm}^2\ {\rm s}$ (at 1 GeV)
has been obtained for Cas~A during the period between August 4th 2008
and September 4th 2009, corresponding to 394 days of observations.
The data analysis was performed using the LAT Science Tools package
with the {\emph{P6\_V3}} post-launch instrument response
function~\citep{Rando2009}. The standard event selection for source
analysis, resulting in the strongest background-rejection power
({\emph{diffuse}} event class) was applied. In addition photons coming
from zenith angles larger than $105^{\circ}$ were rejected to reduce
the background from gamma rays produced in the atmosphere of the
Earth. The analysis was further restricted to the energy range above
200~MeV where the uncertainties in the effective area become smaller
than 10\%.

\section{Analysis and Results}

The analysis of the gamma-ray event data was performed using {\it
  gtlike}, which is available as part of \emph{Fermi} Science
Tools\footnote{Software and documentation of the \emph{Fermi} Science
  Tools are distributed by the Fermi Science Support Center at
  http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc}.  The tool {\it gtlike} employs a
maximum likelihood technique to assess the statistical significance of
sources and to estimate spectral parameters~\citep{Mattox}.  The
background gamma-ray model includes background sources from the
11-month catalog of Fermi-LAT sources at fixed coordinates, the
galactic diffuse emission (using gll\_iem\_v02.fit) and an isotropic
component (using isotropic\_iem\_v02.txt).  The maximum likelihood
analysis is performed inside a region-of-interest (ROI) of $10\degr$
radius centered on Cas~A.  The independent tool {\it sourcelike} was
employed to determine the source position and constrain the angular
extent of the source.  {\it Sourcelike} performs a maximum likelihood
fit to simultaneously optimize position and extent of the source
(given an assumption about the shape of the source) in independent
energy bands.
{\it Sourcelike} can also be used to assess the test-statistic (TS)
value and to compute the spectra of both extended and point-sources.
The position determined with {\it sourcelike} is consistent with what
was found by the automated LAT catalog tool.  The spectral parameters
between {\it sourcelike} and {\it gtlike} for this best-fit position
are found to be consistent, yielding an independent check of the main
results of the paper.

The analysis clearly shows a source above the background coincident
with the SNR Cas~A (see Fig.~\ref{fig:Map}).  The source is detected
at a significance level of 12.2 $\sigma$ (or a TS value of 148) above
the background at a best fit position of $\alpha_{2000} =
23\mathrm{h}23\mathrm{m}17.5\mathrm{s}, \delta_{2000} =
58\mathrm{h}49\mathrm{m}43.1\mathrm{s}$ with a statistical uncertainty
on the location of $1.0\arcmin$ (68\% confidence level).  The
systematic error in the position due to alignment of the telescope
system and inaccurate description of the point-spread function of the
instrument is estimated to be $0.3\arcmin$. The position is spatially
coincident with Cas~A and with the MAGIC and VERITAS-detected TeV
gamma-ray source~\citep{MAGIC:casA,VERITAS:casA} as shown in
Fig.~\ref{fig:Positions}.  An upper limit on the size of the gamma-ray
emission has been obtained in a maximum likelihood fit by
investigating the decrease of the likelihood with increasing source
size. Under the assumption of a Gaussian shape this 68\% upper limit
amounts to $3.5\arcmin$ (1-$\sigma$ radius).  This value is larger
than the radius of the SNR ($2.5\arcmin$), which thus currently
cannot be resolved by the {\emph{Fermi}}-LAT. A check for variability
in this data set with one-month time bins shows no sign for any change
in the gamma-ray flux with time, indicating a steady source of
emission.

A spectral analysis of the gamma-ray emission has been performed in an
energy range of 200 MeV--50 GeV.  The source is detected only above
500~MeV. The spectrum shown in Fig.~\ref{fig:leptons} reveals a
relatively flat energy distribution and can be fitted by a power law
with spectral index of $\Gamma = 2.0 \pm 0.1$ between 0.5 and 50 GeV.
The systematic uncertainty in the spectral index determination from
the uncertainty in the normalisation of the Galactic diffuse emission
(conservatively estimated to be 10\%) amounts to $\sim 0.1$. The
integral photon flux above 500~MeV amounts to $(8.7\pm 1.3)\times
10^{-9}\ {\rm photons}\ {\rm cm}^{-2}\ {\rm s}^{-1}$.  A
likelihood-ratio test was performed to check the presence of a
spectral cutoff using a spectral function of $dN/dE = K E^{-\Gamma}
\exp (-E/E_{\rm cut} )$.  The presence of the exponential cutoff is
not statistically significant, given the resultant likelihood ratio of
$-2\ln (L_{\rm PL}/L_{\rm cutoff}) = 2.6$.  We formally report the
best-fit parameters of the cutoff power-law model to make a comparison
with LAT pulsars: $\Gamma = 1.7\pm 0.2$ and $E_{\rm cut} = 16\pm 9\
{\rm GeV}$.

\section{Discussion}

The detection of gamma-ray emission from the direction of Cas~A raises
the following questions: ``Is there a compact source such as a pulsar
dominating the emission?"  and ``What is the radiating particle
population responsible for the emission?".  Two emission scenarios
seem plausible: emission from the central compact object (CCO) in
Cas~A or emission generated in the SNR. Since the GeV gamma-ray source
coinciding with Cas~A is a point-source in the LAT, these two
scenarios cannot be distinguished on positional grounds therefore
circumstantial evidence has to be considered.

The point-like central X-ray source \citep{Tananbaum1999} is generally
thought to be the left-over of the explosion of the massive progenitor
star \citep{Pavlov2000} and known as a CCO given that it is radio
quiet, un-pulsed in X-rays, and has an X-ray spectrum described by
blackbody with characteristic temperatures of about 0.4 keV without
indication of a non-thermal component.  A recent {\emph{Chandra}}
observation resulted in a 3$\sigma$ limit on the pulsed fraction of
16\% for periods larger than 0.68~s~\citep{Pavlov2009}.  The fact that
no pulsation has been detected at any waveband for the CCO does not
rule out, that the neutron star is emitting gamma rays. The
\emph{Fermi}-LAT has detected several neutron stars as gamma-ray-only
pulsars, pulsars not previously known from observations in other
wavebands~\citep{FermiCTA1,FermiBlindPulsars}.

We searched for gamma-ray pulsations from the source coincident with
Cas~A using the full data set.  We applied the standard
time-differencing technique~\citep{BlindTechnique}, using a maximum
frequency of 64 Hz, and a long time-difference window of $\sim$12
days. We found no evidence for pulsations which makes the neutron star
scenario less likely.
A comparison of the blind search pulsars discovered so
far~\citep{FermiBlindPulsars} and the known radio pulsars detected by
the LAT, suggests that the blind search is approximately 2--3 times
less sensitive than a standard pulsation search using the known timing
solution. This results in a 5$\sigma$ limit on the pulsed flux of
$\sim2\times10^{-7}\ {\rm photons}\ {\rm cm}^{-2}\ {\rm s}^{-1}$
\citep{FermiPulsarCat}. In addition, there is no GeV gamma ray source
in the 1st Fermi-LAT source catalog that is associated with a known
CCO.

Furthermore, the spectrum does not support a pulsar hypothesis. The
energy spectra of pulsars are usually flat at energies below 1~GeV and
show exponential cutoffs in the energy range between 1~GeV and
8~GeV~\citep{FermiPulsarCat}.  These characteristics do not mirror the
LAT spectrum which is best described by a power-law shape with an
index of $\Gamma = 2.0\pm 0.1$ up to 50~GeV with no significant sign
of a high-energy cutoff.  A formal fit with an exponential cutoff
model yields $E_{\rm cut} = 16\pm 9\ {\rm GeV}$.  This is rather high
for a gamma-ray pulsar; no LAT pulsars show $E_{\rm cut} > 8\ {\rm
  GeV}$ so far \citep{FermiBlindPulsars}.

The scenario in which the GeV gamma rays are emitted in the shell of
the SNR is therefore favored.  The gamma-ray emission could be
produced by electrons accelerated at the forward shock through
relativistic bremsstrahlung or IC.  Alternatively, the GeV gamma-ray
emission could be predominantly produced by accelerated hadrons
through interaction with the background gas and subsequent
$\pi^0$-decay.  Recent studies showed electron acceleration to
multi-TeV energies is likely to take place also at the reverse shock
in the supernova ejecta \citep{Uchiyama2008,HelderVink}.

First, we consider the shocked circumstellar region between the
contact discontinuity and the forward shock
\citep[see][]{Gotthelf2001}, assumed to have constant magnetic field
of $B$ (a free parameter) and shocked circumstellar medium with a
constant density of $n_{\rm H} = 10\ {\rm cm^{-3}}$
  \citep{LamingHwang2003}. Electrons are accelerated to multi-TeV
energies at the forward shock as traced by synchrotron X-ray outer
filaments \citep{Hughes}.  We adopt here an electron acceleration
spectrum $Q_{\rm e}(E) \propto E^{-2.34} \exp( -E/E_{\rm m} )$ to
match the radio-IR spectral index of $\alpha = 0.67$ \citep{Rho},
since both the GeV gamma-ray emission and the radio synchrotron
emission sample similar electron energies.  About half of the total
radio flux is attributable to this region (so-called {\it plateau}),
while another half is to the reverse shock region (so-called {\it
  bright ring}; see below). Given the radio flux and the effective
density ($n_{\rm eff} = \Sigma n_i Z_i(Z_i+1) \simeq 26\ {\rm
  cm^{-3}}$), the flux of bremsstrahlung is controlled by $B$.  In
Figure~\ref{fig:leptons}, we show a leptonic model with $B=0.12\ {\rm
  mG}$ (red curves), which can broadly explain the observed GeV flux.
The maximum energy is set to be $E_{\rm m} = 40\ {\rm TeV}$
\citep{Vink2003}.
Shown are contributions from bremsstrahlung (dashed) and from IC
scattering (dotted) produced by accelerated electrons that suffer
synchrotron cooling at high energies.  The bremsstrahlung spectrum
consisting of electron-ion and electron-electron components is
computed as in~\citet{Baring1999}.  The radiation field for the IC
component is dominated by FIR emission from the Cas~A ejecta,
characterized by a temperature of 100~K and an energy density of $\sim
2\ \rm{eV}\ \rm{cm}^{-3}$\citep{Mezger1986}, a factor of 8 larger
  than the energy density in the CMB.  The IC/FIR emission exceeds
  IC/CMB by a factor of 2.7 at a gamma-ray energy of 10 GeV.  The
  value of $B=0.12\ {\rm mG}$ is consistent with $B=0.08\mbox{--}0.16\
  {\rm mG}$ at the forward shock estimated by \citet{Vink2003} based on the width of a
  synchrotron X-ray filament.  Note however that a somewhat higher
  value of $B \simeq 0.3\ {\rm mG}$ was obtained by
  \citet{Parizot2006} using the same filament width but including
  projection effects. The total amount of electrons in this case is
$W_e (>10\ {\rm MeV}) \simeq 1\times 10^{49}\ {\rm erg}$.  Also shown
in Fig.~\ref{fig:leptons} is the case of $B=0.3\ {\rm mG}$ (blue
curves), which predicts a lower gamma-ray flux than the observed one.

In a scenario in which the gamma-rays are generated by $\pi^0$-decay
of accelerated hadrons, the gamma-ray spectrum can be well matched
with either the proton acceleration spectrum $Q_{\rm p}(p) \propto
p^{-2.3}$ (a red curve in Fig.~\ref{fig:hadrons}), or a harder proton
spectrum of $Q_{\rm p}(p)\propto p^{-2.1}$ with an exponential cutoff
at 10~TeV that is arbitrary introduced (blue curve).  Here $p$
denotes momentum of accelerated protons.  The gamma-ray spectrum is
calculated following \citet{Kamae2006} with a scaling factor of 1.85
for helium and heavy nuclei \citep{Mori2009}.  The total proton
content amounts to $W_p (>10\ {\rm MeV}\,c^{-1}) \simeq 3.8\times
10^{49}\ {\rm erg}$ in the case of the softer spectrum and to $W_p
(>10\ {\rm MeV}\,c^{-1}) \simeq 3.2\times 10^{49}\ {\rm erg}$ in the
case of the harder proton spectrum with the cutoff.  In both cases the
energy content corresponds to less than 2\% of the estimated explosion
kinetic energy of $E_{\rm sn} = 2\times 10^{51}\ {\rm erg}$.
Therefore, the cosmic-ray pressure would not be large enough to change
the hydrodynamics of Cas~A. This is consistent with
  \emph{Chandra} X-ray measurements of the remnant's spatial structure
  \citep[e.g.,][]{Gotthelf2001}; the ratio of the radii of forward and
  reverse shocks can be reproduced by hydrodynamical models that do
  not include cosmic-ray acceleration \citep{LamingHwang2003}.

Comparing the leptonic and hadronic models, it seems clear that the
hadronic scenario can better fit the data due to the turnover at low
energies that is not well reproduced in the leptonic scenario. Given
the uncertainties in the diffuse model that have stronger effects at
the low-energy end, we refrain, however, from strong claims about the
radiating particle population at this point. Changing the diffuse
model normalisation by $\pm 10\%$ (a conservative assumption on the
uncertainty) largely affects the energy points at and below 1~GeV. The
resulting effect on the flux point at 1~GeV is a 25\% upward and 65\%
downward shift. A more detailed investigation of the lower energy end
of the LAT spectrum will be possible with future LAT data.

The shocked ejecta gas that emits strong radio and infrared
synchrotron light (known as the {\it bright ring}) is another
potential gamma-ray emitting region.  Using $M_{\rm ejecta} =
2M_{\odot}$ \citep{Willingale, LamingHwang2003} comprised of only
oxygen, we obtain $n_{\rm eff} = n_{\rm O} Z_{\rm O}(Z_{\rm O}+1)
\simeq 32\ {\rm cm^{-3}}$.  This happens to be similar to the value of
$n_{\rm eff}$ in the forward shock region.  Also, the baryon density
of $n_{\rm O}A_{\rm O} \simeq 7\ {\rm cm^{-3}}$ is close to that in
the forward shock region.  Therefore, the $\pi^0$-decay predictions
are essentially the same as those described above, though the energy
budget is tighter in the reverse shock. The total thermal energy
stored in the shocked ejecta would be only $\sim 1\times 10^{50}\ {\rm
  erg}$.  On the other hand, a combination of $n_{\rm eff} \simeq 32\
{\rm cm^{-3}}$ and the large magnetic field in the shocked ejecta ($B
\ga 0.5 \ {\rm mG}$) inferred by X-ray variability
\citep{Uchiyama2008} makes it difficult to attribute the gamma-ray
emission to the relativistic bremsstrahlung in the shocked ejecta.

Regardless of the origin(s) of the observed gamma rays, the total
content of CRs accelerated in Cas~A can be obtained as $W_{\rm CR} =
W_e+W_p \simeq (1\mbox{--}4) \times 10^{49}\ {\rm erg}$, and the
magnetic field amplified at the shock and the field in the shocked
ejecta can be constrained as $B \geq 0.12\ {\rm mG}$.  Even though
Cas~A is considered to have entered the Sedov phase, the total amount
of CRs accelerated in the remnant constitutes only a minor fraction
($\la 2\%$) of the total kinetic energy of the supernova.  The
bremsstrahlung spectrum and $\pi^0$-decay spectrum have rather
different predictions below 1 GeV.  The hard spectrum below 1 GeV
would favor the $\pi^0$-decay origin, though the current LAT data
quality does not rule out the bremsstrahlung model.

\acknowledgments
The {\it Fermi} LAT Collaboration acknowledges support from a number
of agencies and institutes for both development and the operation of
the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include NASA and
DOE in the United States, CEA/Irfu and IN2P3/CNRS in France, ASI and
INFN in Italy, MEXT, KEK, and JAXA in Japan, and the K.~A.~Wallenberg
Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the National Space Board
in Sweden. Additional support from INAF in Italy and CNES in France
for science analysis during the operations phase is also gratefully
acknowledged.

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Innovative mechanism helps those needing clothing access stock from charity shops
A new charity has been established in London, designed to bridge the gap between clothing stock in charity shops and people that cannot afford to clothe themselves and their families. Clothe Me – Thank You provides a monetary value voucher redeemable in partner charity stores, enabling people in need to choose their own clothes with dignity without having to rely on hand-outs.
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Clothe Me – Thank You initially launched with partner charity shop Geraniumacross their 27 shops around Greater London. Partnerships since grew including Royal Trinity Hospice in Fulham and Richmond charity branches of Vineyard Community, Fara and Fara Kids.
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Wrestling executives, Living people
George Barrios
March 2008 (WWE)
George Barrios joined WWE in March 2008 as Chief Financial Officer overseeing the company's financial, accounting and investor relations strategies and activities. He also oversees the company's IT, Facilities and Travel groups.
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synopsis (EN) A real-time action/adventure game for teens and adults based around several of the popular and enigmatic Skittles: Taste the Rainbow fantasy television commercials. It features a level-based, third-person-shooter style of design, but also includes a rich story line and a healthy dose of adventure game-type puzzles. Skye, our heroine, fights and puzzles her way through 30 real-time levels. Gameplay within each level is open-ended, free-roaming and non-linear. Magic takes the place of high-tech weaponry in the frequent combat encounters, while cutting-edge humor replaces blood and gore. The game is rendered in beautiful, high fantasy style and the quest is serious but Skye and her companion, a mouthy little gargoyle named Draak, make a steady stream of irreverent observations that poke fun at gaming cliches, themselves and their hopeless quest.


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Enjoy! Constructive feedback most welcome. Please note this is my first time creating a gearbox so it is not anywhere near perfect, but gives a general idea of an Allison 2100.
The gearbox is messed up and I had to switch to the old gearbox. This is because it jolts and at times it does not sound or feel nice to drive.
To conclude this I think this would be potentially a great sound mod but the gearbox drags it down and for those people who don't know how to change the gearbox to the other one this is not the mod for you. If this is still in W.I.P then maybe a next update could have some optimisation.


Here I am at home, the OI Girl is at work, all my Inner Space friends have gone home, I have no studying to do…. I've been doing laundry and reading a book called Marley and Me. A book about a dog. The OI girl gave it to me. My dog is 7 years old, he's still a puppy to me but he already has a gray beard. At 7, in the book, the dog Marley is already really old.
It's the first book I've read since I started my class, 10 months ago. I used to always be reading a book.
Also, I have a nice black eye, I whacked myself in the face with my dive computer. I was pulling a tank out from under the seat on the boat and my computer on my wrist/hand (see picture below) touched my cheek, It didn't hurt or anything, but I got a black eye from it. I've been telling everyone the OI Girl beats me regularly.
It's kind of weird, I finished my class the same time I started vacation, I went diving every day the first week, now that is finished and I don't have a fixed schedule, a routine to go by. I've already caught myself saying aloud "I miss studying" . . . Twice. I think I'll take Spanish next. Again. Yo estudio espanol mucho, pero no hablo mucho porque no tengo opportunidad al practicar. The OI Girl speaks fluent Spanish.
Here's a picture of me taken underwater that I really like. I emailed a copy to my Mom.
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Coronavirus In Chicago: New Drive-Through COVID-19 Testing Site For First Responders Fills Up In Matter Of Hours
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CHICAGO (CBS) — A new drive-through coronavirus testing site for Chicago area first responders was forced to start turning people away after less than four hours on Monday, as swarms of people flocked to get checked out for COVID-19.
The Illinois Department of Public Health opened a drive-up testing facility in the Dunning neighborhood, at the site of an old vehicle emissions testing facility at 6959 Forest Preserve Drive.
Starting at 9 a.m. Monday, first responders were allowed to line up to get tested for the novel coronavirus. By 12:45 p.m., the site already had reached its daily limit of 250 tests, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
The Fire Department said no more vehicles would be allowed to get in line. A new line will be allowed to begin at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Fire Department employees must be off duty to line up for the tests, and must bring proper identification. Retired firefighters, and relatives of active firefighters are not allowed to get tested at the site.
Illinois public health officials have been working with the federal government, Walgreens, and Wal-Mart to set up drive-through testing sites in the areas hit hardest by COVID-19. Those sites will focus on administering tests to those who need them most — seniors, first responders, and healthcare workers.
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This is one fearless raccoon! A crowd gathered below in Ocean City, New Jersey, watched in amazement as it scaled a building last week. But when the raccoon reached the ninth floor, down it went. The little critter bounced right back up and ran off, none the worse for wear. It's reminding many of the crazy raccoon from June that made it all the way to the roof of a skyscraper in St. Paul, Minnesota. Unfortunately, this New Jersey daredevil wasn't as successful.


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Q: Inequality with sup and continuous function I want proof of this theorem:
Let $A$ and $B$ non empty subsets of $\mathbb{R}$ with $A\subseteq B$; suppose that $\sup(A)$ and $\sup f(A)$ exist and $\sup A\in B$, let $f\colon B\longrightarrow\mathbb{R}$ a function continuous in $\sup(A)$. Proof that $f(\sup(A))\leq\sup (f(A))$.
Here is my attempt:
There are two cases:

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*Let $\sup(A)\in A$; then $f(\sup(A))\in f(A)$, so $f(\sup(A))\leq\sup (f(A))$.

*Let $\sup(A)\not\in A$. By hypothesis $f$ is continuous in $\sup A$. I call $c=\sup A$. By continuity $\forall\epsilon>0 \exists\delta>0 : \forall x\in B : |x-c|<\delta\Rightarrow |f(c)-f(x)|<\epsilon$.

By $\sup$ properties i know that $\forall\delta>0\exists a\in A : c-\delta<a\leq c$; so obviously $\forall\delta>0\exists a\in A : a\in (c-\delta,c+\delta)$. Using continuity we have:
$\forall\epsilon>0 \exists\delta>0 : \forall a\in A : |x-c|<\delta\Rightarrow |f(c)-f(a)|<\epsilon$
So: $f(c)-f(a)<\epsilon$, and $f(c)<f(a)+\epsilon$
remember that $c=\sup A$, we have:
$f(\sup A)<f(a)+\epsilon$; this inequality is true $\forall a\in A\cap (c-\delta,c+\delta)$; so:
$f(\sup A)<\sup(f(A))+\epsilon$
But $\epsilon>0$ is chosen arbitrarily, so finally:
$f(\sup A)<\sup(f(A))$
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Abhijnan Rej is a New Delhi-based researcher, analyst, and consultant. His current professional interests lie in international security, Indian defence and foreign policies, emerging technologies and strategy, and complexity science. He has also published research on mathematics, theoretical physics, and economic policy in the past.
Rej's work has appeared in The Washington Quarterly, the US Army War College's online journal War Room, War on the Rocks, the Lowy Institute's Interpreter, The Diplomat Magazine, National Interest (online), Global Policy (online), Wired (online), Journal of Physics: A, and Contemporary Mathematics, along with numerous think-tank occasional papers, policy briefs, and book chapters including for the Observer Research Foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Educated as a mathematician at the University of Connecticut (BA and MS), Rej pursued doctoral studies in mathematical physics at the Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn. He was also a Scientific Researcher at the Fields Institute, Toronto. In Bonn and Toronto he researched mathematical structures in high-energy physics and string theory. His academic awards have included the designations of University Scholar (University of Connecticut, 2003), Marie Curie Early-Stage Research Fellow (European Commission, 2007) and Junior Research Scholar (Clay Mathematics Institute, 2008).
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Rove: Cheney 'squirmed' when offered VP spot
CNN's Charles Riley and Ed Hornick
Karl Rove's memoir offers a look inside the Bush campaign's VP selection process.
Washington (CNN) - A new memoir by Karl Rove details the circumstances that led to the selection of former Vice President Dick Cheney as President George W. Bush's running mate.
The highly anticipated release of "Courage and Consequence," purchased by CNN Friday at a Washington area bookstore ahead of its release date next week, is a wide-ranging look at Bush's rise in politics as seen through the lens of his longtime strategist and aide. Rove also chronicles his life and political career.
The parts of the 516-page book that cover the selection of Cheney as Bush's running mate suggest that the longtime Republican insider was not comfortable when offered the position.
"Cheney arrived at Bush's Crawford ranch in early July with a stack of binders on other prospects," Rove writes. "After they had worked their way through the pile, Bush took Cheney out to the backyard. I'm sure Cheney wondered what was up: Crawford in July is hot. Bush surprised Cheney by asking him to think about becoming his running mate. Cheney said he'd consider it but wasn't certain it was a good idea for Bush or for him."
Rove goes on to deny that Cheney, who was tasked with helping Bush vet potential vice presidential candidates, somehow manipulated the selection process to his advantage.
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Massa to resign Monday – 'deeply flawed,' he says
CNNMoney.com Deputy Managing Editor Rich Barbieri
Rep. Eric Massa said Friday that he would resign next week.
Washington (CNN) – Embattled Rep. Eric Massa, D-New York, said Friday that he will resign from the House on Monday afternoon.
"I [resign] with a profound sense of failure and a deep apology to all those whom, for the past year, I tried to represent as our nation struggles with problems far greater than anyone can possibly imagine," Massa wrote in a statement posted on his House Web site.
On Wednesday, Massa had said he would not seek re-election because of health concerns and denied reports that he had harassed one of his Capitol Hill staffers.
The House Ethics Committee announced Thursday that it was "investigating and gathering additional information" on allegations against Massa.
Massa, in the statement Friday, said he had already decided to quit because of concerns about cancer before he learned that a staffer had complained to the Ethics panel.
"After I decided not to run again I was told, for the first time, that a member of my staff believed I had made statements that made him feel 'uncomfortable,'" Massa wrote.
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Mass. independent's GOP hires
(CNN) - The effort to unseat Gov. Deval Patrick is kindling the bipartisan spirit in Massachusetts. Tim Cahill, a former Democrat who became an independent last year, announced Friday that he had signed up four veterans of Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid.
The McCainites include John Weaver, who was the senator's longtime political adviser, and speechwriter Mark Salter, who the Cahill campaign describes as McCain's "alter ego." Cahill also said he has brought on two other McCain political minds: John Yob and Mike Dennehy. "These guys are the best in the business," Cahill said in a statement.
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Music power couple Beyonce & Jay-Z got inside White House tour
CNN White House Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux
Photos posted online appear to show Jay-Z and Beyonce in the White House.
Washington (CNN) - Megastars Beyonce and Jay-Z, accompanied by a small group of friends, visited the White House on Wednesday for a special tour that included the White House Situation Room, White House aides confirmed.
A photo, apparently taken of the group in the Situation Room, was released on the Web site Rap Radar. The photo shows Jay-Z sitting at the head of the table, the seat normally occupied by the president. He is surrounded by his wife, Beyonce, and others in his entourage.
White House tours for the public normally do not include a stop inside the Situation Room. When occupied by the president and his national security team, the room is typically used to mobilize the administration during a crisis situation and communicate to officials around the world. But one White House aide said special visitors occasionally get access to the Situation Room.
"It's not like there's classified information laying around," the aide said. "It's really just a conference room."
Last December, the White House posted a virtual tour of the Situation Room, touting it as "an exclusive look inside one of the most secure spaces in the country."
White House aides confirmed that Jay-Z and Beyonce stopped by before Jay-Z's concert Wednesday night at Washington's Verizon Center.
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Paterson's vow: No plan to resign
CNN's Jeff Simon
New York Gov. David Paterson said again Friday that he would not resign his office.
(CNN) - New York Gov. David Paterson, who for the last several weeks has been the target of stinging reports in the press, said Friday that he will not resign.
"I don't have any plans to resign," Paterson said as he walked into his Manhattan office. "At a certain point, I will cooperate with the investigations and will be clearing my name."
Paterson again took a swipe at news outlets, which he did not name, that he says practice shoddy journalism.
"I think that people originally hearing about this thought that the governor should be allowed to clear his name," Paterson said. "But there have been a number of more articles with unsourced information. Rumors and innuendo and inaccurate information that when cobbled together over and over and over again, certainly have an effect."
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Jobs dip, Reid trips, GOP rips
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Sen. Reid in hot water over comments.
Washington (CNN) - The Silver State senator has proven once again that he lacks a silver tongue.
Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, took to the Senate floor Friday to trumpet the Labor Department's newly released jobless numbers. February's unemployment rate held steady at 9.7 percent as the economy shed 36,000 jobs. Not great, but the consensus forecast among economists at Briefing.com was for unemployment to rise to 9.8 percent with a net loss of 68,000 jobs.
Democrats wanted to seize on the numbers as evidence that the economic slide has stopped. Unfortunately for his colleagues, Reid mangled the message.
"Today is a big day in America," he proclaimed. "Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good." Reid noted that prognosticators had expected the numbers to be much worse.
Republicans immediately pounced on the campaign ad fodder from the four-term senator, who is facing a tough re-election fight this year.
"It's difficult to think of a Washington politician who is more out of touch with working Americans than Harry Reid," National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh said.
"Only in Harry Reid's world is it a good thing that 36,000 more Americans lost their jobs in February. Unfortunately, it's working families in Nevada who continue to pay the price for Reid's out-of-touch and failed leadership."
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Romney: Palin is qualified to be President
Washington (CNN) - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, considered to be a leading candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said Friday that he thinks potential GOP rival Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as president of the United States.
Romney, in an interview to air on "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," cited her service as a local and then state official as well as her selection as the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2008 as examples as to why she is qualified.
Blitzer, who was interviewing Romney about his new book "No Apology: The Case for American Greatness," specifically asked whether Palin is qualified to be president. "I sure do," said Romney.
He added, "She's been a mayor, she's been a governor, she's been part of a presidential campaign, she's got a lot of support."
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Tea Partiers, Democrats unite
CNN's Charles Riley
Rep. Parker Griffith and Rep. John Boehner are scheduled to appear together at a fundraiser next week that has drawn the ire of local groups.
Washington (CNN) - An Alabama congressman has managed to inspire a certain level of political bipartisanship, but not in a way that will make his colleagues jealous.
Former Democratic Rep. Parker Griffith rocked the political world in December when he switched parties and announced he would seek re-election as a Republican.
And now, only a few months later, his decision has prompted an unlikely coalition to form that is opposed to his re-election.
Democrats, Republicans and politically likeminded groups aligned with both political parties announced they will protest a fundraiser scheduled for March 8, in Huntsville. The headliner: House Minority Leader John Boehner.
Huntsville Tea Party, Left In Alabama, Athens-Limestone Tea Party Patriots, AAMU Democrats Student Club, The Dale Jackson Show, North Alabama Healthcare for All, Madison County Republican Executive Committee, and the Limestone County Republican Executive Committee issued a joint statement Friday announcing their intent to protest.
The involved parties share a goal, but have vastly different motivations. The Huntsville Tea Party said they will use the event to send GOP leaders the message that Griffith isn't their first choice.
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Yes, Virginia, there is an Illinois gubernatorial nominee
CNN Political Research Director Robert Yoon
Washington (CNN) - Illinois Republicans finally have a nominee for governor, 31 days after voters finished casting their ballots.
State Sen. Bill Brady prevailed over his colleague and rival, fellow GOP state Sen. Kirk Dillard, for the right to challenge Democratic incumbent Gov. Pat Quinn in the November general election.
The long and protracted contest ended Friday when the state's top elections officials met to certify the results of the February 2 gubernatorial primary, in which Brady narrowly beat Dillard by a margin of 193 votes.
Brady garnered 155,527 votes compared to 155,334 votes for Dillard.
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Politicians seek to capitalize on "new media"
CNN Radio's Bob Costantini
Washington (CNN) – From President Jefferson to President Obama, politicians have been using new media to promote their campaigns, besmirch opponents and bottom line: win elections.
Jefferson printed short opinion pieces known as tracts in the 1800 presidential campaign, while Obama is credited with successfully harnessing social media technology in his 2008 bid for the White House. Recently, Obama's White House staff has warmed up considerably to Twitter.
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Controlling Pakistan's Nukes:
by Ramindar Singh
Battalions of reporters and analysts who have been scouring the tinderbox region of South Asia and Central Asia since October 7--the start of the bombing of Taliban and al-Qaeda hideouts--have missed the significance of one of the biggest stories unfolding right under their noses in Pakistan. There is a good deal of circumstantial evidence that Americans have taken charge of the security of Pakistan's nuclear weapons and fissionable material.
One can piece this story together from apparently unconnected bits ofinformation, much of it public, that I have confirmed with public officials whomI trust. In order to avoid humiliating Pakistan, neither the United States norPakistan will confirm this shift--especially since every Pakistani regime to datehas projected the possession of nuclear weapons as a matter of national pride andas a way to keep its neighbor India in check. But a big hint of U.S. involvementcame from Pakistan Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar himself.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad on November 1, Sattar disclosedthat Pakistan had accepted an offer made by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powellto train Pakistanis "for security and protection of nuclear assets." Sattaradded: "Pakistani experts would be apprised of the security measures beingapplied by the United States [emphasis added]." If the foreign minister is to be believed, then even before Pakistani personnel had been informed or trained, the United States was applying security measures with regard to Pakistan's nuclear assets.
Several additional factors indicate that Sattar was hinting that America haseffective control over Pakistan's nuclear weapons. One is Pakistan's need toallay a spate of stories in the American press suggesting that fundamentalistgenerals sympathetic to the Taliban and al-Qaeda might unseat General PervezMusharraf in a coup and hand over nuclear material to Islamic radicals. In fact,Musharraf is surprisingly well entrenched. But the United States, as part of itsnew alliance with Pakistan, nonetheless needed stronger assurances that itsnuclear arsenal was secure.
A second clue is an indirect confirmation by Indian Defense Minister GeorgeFernandes: Without any provocation, he announced on October 30 that Pakistan'snuclear assets were in safe hands. This should have raised a lot of eyebrows, butit did not. And in case there was any doubt, Sattar, according to a report inKarachi's Dawn newspaper, "surprised" local and foreign correspondents by walking down to the foreign office briefing hall to read out a statement that declared, among other things, that "Pakistan's strategic assets are under foolproof custodial controls." He then proceeded to mention the offer made by Powell to teach Pakistani experts how to employ the security measures that the United States already had in place.
Sattar gave these assurances partly in order to deny a story in The NewYorker in which writer Seymour Hersh suggested that U.S. special-operations troops were training with Israeli commandos for a possible mission to "take out" Pakistan's nuclear warheads and prevent them from being transferred to al-Qaeda.
Sattar is a seasoned diplomat who has spent several decades inthe Pakistan Foreign Service and has held the most prestigious postings that theservice has to offer. He chooses his words with extreme care, as I discoveredwhen I covered him in the early 1990s, when he was Pakistan's ambassador toIndia. He is very precise when speaking on the record to journalists and has aknack of conveying the exact sense that he wants to convey.
So Sattar's choice of words is telling. About "custodial control" of thenuclear assets, he said that "dedicated formations of specially equipped forceshave been deployed for the security of Pakistan nuclear installations andassets"--without specifying whose custody and whose forces.
Fernandes's words are equally revealing: "Those concerned with Pakistan'snuclear weapons are responsible people." He did not say that thePakistanis guarding the nuclear assets were responsible people. Additionally, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton has quoted Fernandes as quelling doubts about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.
It is intriguing that, all of a sudden, U.S. and Indian officials stoppedleaking stories about the dangers of unsecured nuclear material in Pakistan andbegan issuing reassuring statements that the weapons were in safe hands. Yes, butin whose hands?
Colin Powell's offer of help in securing these assets was disclosed after hevisited Islamabad and Delhi on October 15. But this may have been part of theultimatum that the United States had issued to Pakistan in the first few daysafter September 11: Powell called Musharraf and insisted that Pakistan choosesides. Did the ultimatum mention nuclear-weapons security?
By the time the bombing of Afghanistan began, Musharraf had, according to areport in The Washington Post, ordered an "emergency redeployment" of the nuclear arsenal to at least six new locations. He had also begun relocating critical nuclear components. The threat to his prized weapons was patently manifest. He used this opportunity to reshuffle his top generals and create a strategic planning division within the nuclear program. Musharraf had even thought of moving his nuclear warheads for safekeeping to China, a friendly neighbor, according to The New York Times. China had clandestinely aided Pakistan's development programs for missiles and nuclear weapons.
Further confirmation that outside controls were being imposedwas provided by the December 2 arrival in Islamabad of two Italian arms-controlscientists. Dawn reported that they were there to "prepare a report on the status of nuclear security in Pakistan." The bland account of their arrival continued:
Sources said the visiting scientists, Prof Paolo Cotta-Ramusinoand Prof Maurizio Martellini, would be looking at certain key questions relatingto safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, the percentage of nuclear weapons thatare assembled, effects of the Sept 11 attacks and the Afghan crisis on thenuclear posture of Pakistan, Pakistan's reaction to possible Indian attack andthe public perception of the nuclear weapons. The report would later be submittedto the Italian government, they said.
The scientists, visiting under the auspices of the foreign ministry of Italy,have held deliberations with foreign ministry officials and think-tanks to assess the safety of nuclear weapons and the risks of proliferation of weapons ofmass destruction to terrorists and rogue states, the sources said.
Dawn then went on to comment that some of the questions being asked by the scientists "have raised concern in the security establishment" of Pakistan. Here, then, was Pakistan's leading Englishlanguage newspaper reporting that two European scientists were going around the country questioning Pakistani scientists about the extent to which the country's nuclear assets were weaponized and about whether some of these weapons could have been passed on to al-Qaeda terrorists. The Pakistan government did not deny this report or its contents, just as there had been no denial of Sattar's statement that the United States was applying security measures to Pakistan's nuclear assets.
It is inconceivable that these senior European arms-control experts are makingtheir rounds without the full knowledge and collaboration of the United States.One can surmise that the United States has apparently gone about verifying thestatus and number of Pakistan's nuclear weapons in a clever, roundabout mannercalculated to save Musharraf from embarrassment at a time when America stillneeds his help to sort out the mess in Afghanistan. More remarkable is the factthat the military government in Islamabad allowed a Pakistani newspaper to reportthis.
The scope of inquiries in Pakistan leaves nothing to the imagination. One needonly quote a few paragraphs from the Dawn report published on December 6:
In terms of nuclear proliferation risks the scientists areexploring the possible links of Pakistani nuclear scientists with the AfghanTaliban and the Arab Afghans in the past and present scenarios, effectiveness ofcontrol over Pakistani fissile material storage and production facilities,possible transfer of illicit nuclear material through Pakistan and Afghanistanand the effectiveness of control of Pakistan's radioactive sources and theirpotential illicit traffic.
They said that in terms of chemical and biological weapons the scientists havequestions about effective control of materials of concern for chemical andbiological weapons ... and transfer of illicit biological, chemical agents anddual use equipment through the border.
Some of the questions being asked relate to transfer of nuclear scientists andexperts to Afghanistan or any other country and the impact of recent events onthe scientific community, particularly on the community of scientists involved inmilitary and defence activities. The sources said the scientists would alsoreport the impact of Pakistan's nuclear programme on the role of Islamiccountries in the international arena and whether Pakistan's nuclearization hascontributed to any change in the role of the Islamic countries.
Are these among the "security measures being applied by theUnited States" that Sattar spoke of on November 1? Are there even more direct"security measures," including explicit U.S. operational control of Pakistan'snuclear weapons?
There are two possibilities: Either the Pakistani government is engaged inan elaborate charade, employing Italian decoys and fooling both the Americans andthe Indians (given the immensely high stakes of loose nuclear weapons in thehands of Islamic radicals, this is highly improbable), or Washington has takeneffective control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal while going to great lengths todeny it.
It is not surprising that the Indian defense minister should express happinessthat "those concerned with Pakistan's nuclear program are responsible people": Heknows that these concerned, responsible people are not Pakistanis.
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Star Trek Reviews
Thread starter The Overlord
Has anyone been to this site that reviews Star Trek episodes? It reminds me how much Star Trek Voyager sucked. http://www.youtube.com/user/sfdebris
Gothamite
Wow, that Wrath of Khan review is pretty astounding. Anyone who has ever shunned Star Trek should watch this review.
[video=youtube;8hIV3gLupqU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hIV3gLupqU[/video]
Nexus of the World
A FORTY minute review? I've listened to some of it, and it seems rather smart, but dammit, you watch this after you've seen KHAN. If you're willing to spend forty minutes listening to a guy talk about the movie, I think you'd have more fun watching it.
Well yeah. It's spoiler-filled and generally assumes that you've already seen the film.
I know a bunch of people who haven't given Khan as much respect as it deserves, though.
Ah, yes. The Soulless Minions of Orthodoxy.
There time will come, my friend. There time will come.
Man that review was great, makes me want them to remake wrath of Khan for the next reboot movie all the more.
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They definitely, definitely shouldn't try and remake Wrath of Khan. They already tried with the first reboot (vengeful villain who's lost everything, relentlessly coming after one of the main characters, mind-control-slugs, "I've done worse than kill you, I've hurt you," etc). Do something different.
STAR TREK ELEVEN IS WRATH OF KHAN. IT IS THE SAME MOVIE. IT EVEN HAS THE GODDAM KOBAYASHI-MARU AND THE CETI ALPHA EELS! THEY JUST SWITCHED KIRK FOR SPOCK AND SUBSTANCE FOR LENS FLARE!!!!!!!!11!11!11!
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Exactly. Which is why I'm sure STAR TREK TWELVE will involve the Borg. Or the Klingons.
The more I watch the new Trek movie the more I hate it. I am, however, really looking forward to seeing Pine and the rest as the crew. They were all terrific.
Has anyone seen the review of Voyager episode threshold? Now that's a classic review. Threshold may very will be the worst Star Trek episode, ever.
[video=youtube;Nsaucfx8lxI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsaucfx8lxI[/video]
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Star Trek is one of those films that is just so cool I can't bring myself to hate it. Pine and the gang were excellent (with the exception of Quinto, who was only okay) and it was clear that while the writers were trying to remake Wrath, that JJ was clueless to this. For better or worse, I'm pretty sure that he at least didn't know that that's what they were trying to do.
Again though, just keep Khan out of this. He worked great before, but that was only because of those particular stories and the way in which they were written. I'm not sure there's a great deal of versatility where his character is concerned.
And besides. I want me some Kling'ns.
I don't think the writers were aware of them ripping off Khan wholesale.
I like everything about the movie except the story. The more I watch it, the more I hate the story.
So you think it was JJ Abrams? Even though he came out and said that "There's no reason why Kirk couldn't face Khan in one of our movies! He could be out there!"?! Those are not the words of a knowing plagiarist. Plus, I'm fairly certain he's mentioned that he's never seen any of the previous movies or any of the other Trek shows.
You're thinking that someone intentionally copied KHAN. I don't think they did. They intentionally copied STAR WARS. That's why it's the "hero's journey" and they say as much in the extras. But Abrams, Kurtzman, Orci, and Lindelof are/were unaware that they just repackaged KHAN. All of them have said they would like to do Khan in the movie, completely oblivious they already remade it.
I don't think they're plagiarists, just completely oblivious to their own work, which is why the movie is so unfortunately shallow.
I'd agree with you except for the damn mind-slugs. Everything else could just be a happy coincidence, but when you put something so blatantly associated with Wrath of Khan in your movie, it seems difficult to believe that they didn't know what they were doing.
And an out-of-time villain hellbent on revenge with a planet-destroying weapon created by the Federation.
Oh, and, y'know, the Kobayashi-Maru.
Planet-man
Pfff, they could've gotten that name off the bottom of a coffee cup.


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The days of only finding professionally produced porn films on adult sites are long gone. Today, a large portion of the hardcore porn videos found on the web, are made by amateurs. Or they are filmed by people who are not professional porn actors. The rise in homemade porn is reaching levels never seen before. When it comes to the reasons behind this spike, there are several to consider. However, the most important of all these factors, is freedom. People being able to record themselves or others having sex, are free. They are free to showcase how they perform sexually and to share their sexual experiences with the rest of the world.
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Amateur porn is one of the best things to happen to those who enjoy attention received via exhibitionism. It's no secret that exhibitionist like the attention they receive; especially when it comes by them doing something sexually explicit. By allowing people to upload their privately made porn movies, adult sites have given these individuals a platform. Via this forum, anyone can showcase whatever attributes, gifts or sexual specialties they have.
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How do you simplify #2/3 + 1/6#?
Algebra Properties of Real Numbers Addition of Rational Numbers
Find a common denominator, then add.
To find a common denominator, we need to find the LCM, or least common multiple, between the two denominators. In our case, the LCM is #6# because #3*2=6# and #6*1=6#. Our expression now reads:
#4/6+1/6#
From here, it's simple addition.
#4+1=5#
#4/6+1/6=5/6#
How do you add rational numbers?
How do you write fractions with a common denominator?
How do you write mixed fractions into improper fractions?
How do you write #11 2/3# into an improper fraction?
How do you add #4 1/7 + 2/7#?
How do you add #3/5+2/8#?
How do you change fractions into decimals?
How do you find the sum of #2.5+2.57+3.1#?
How do you calculate #18/12 - 7/9#?
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Q: Calculating safest route in MATSim I am interested in calculating routes based on the weights of links for traffic simulation using MATSim API. Every link has an attribute of safety index and the calculated route should represent the safest path. The Dijkstra routing algorithm calculates shortest path. It is perfect to use it, if only I can specify that the algorithm should consider safety index instead of length. I don't know if it is possible to do it in MATSim and how. Or maybe other routing algorithms implemented in MATSim can suit better.
Thanks!

A: This should be possible be implementing your own TravelDisutility-Class. Have a look at the interface org.matsim.core.router.util.TravelDisutility. An implementation looking only at free speeds can be found in org.matsim.core.router.costcalculators.FreespeedTravelTimeAndDisutility. You might start with this and adapt it such that getLinkTravelDisutility() will return a value not based on the speed, but on your savety index. Note that values must be larger than 0, and small values (i.e. close to 0) are preferred over larger values.
I don't know how you calculate your safety index, but you should normalize it somehow by the length of the link. Otherwise, one long link could be preferred over a series of short links, even though they could all have the same safety value.
Once you have your implementation, you can bind it using Guice. An example for this could be found in the class org.matsim.run.InitRoutes. Then it should be used for the routing in MATSim.


Last year, ripped denim, long, rare hemlines, side-zippers, and "Pharrell" hats made up the better part of the thriving trends that have already trickled into 2015 with ease. But we also caught glimpses of the future—that next level of style that wasn't quite ready to catch fire but might have gotten a right-swipe. Now it's time for some of these patterns, fabrics, details, and items to cause a scene.
But should we really "hope" for a trend to pop off? Even though it truly is satisfying to be considered a "trendsetter," having something that you've personalized and made a part of your own comfortable style repertoire turn into something others adopt and beat like a dead horse—not so satisfying. But hindsight is 20/20, and since you do want others to relish sartorial decision-making that evolves with time, adoption of the best trends is inevitable, right? So let's start 2015's trend adoption off right.


Somewhere in fall, there is a final leaf falling slowly to the ground. The days are getting shorter and the air is crisp. It's time for the children to go back to school.
Somewhere in fall, the birds have flown south. The countryside becomes quiet, the animals snuggle down in their dens.
Somewhere in fall, life begins to change, enveloped in a cocoon waiting for spring.
Somewhere in fall, I look to the sky and pray. I pray for strength to endure the coming winter. I pray for guidance as well.
Somewhere in fall, God listens to every heart, catches every tear and surrounds us in His grace.
My name is Malinda and I am a Christian, Boy Mom to two very handsome young men, Cody and Christopher. I'm a daughter, sister, friend, blogger and I also work as a Community Health Worker at a local hospital in East Texas. I love to encourage and help people. God has been so good to me and I love to share the journey He has led me on with those that want to hear it. God bless and much love people!


Awards : Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 3 nominations.
A German spy carrying information that will reveal the target of Operation Overlord becomes involved with the wife of a crippled man on an isolated island off the Scottish coast while he waits to be picked up.


Let me introduce to you, the iCube from Euroo, a very portable mini speaker that you can bring anywhere. It is rechargeable and also comes in 3 different colors. Full review and price of this very nifty speaker after the jump.
When was the last time you brought a speaker along with your other stuff on your bag? I remember mine, it was long ago; when I was in high school I need to bring my PC speaker to school as a music solution for our activity practice. Two words: bulky, hassle.
Those where the times when speakers are of standard size which aren't be just to be called portable. This iCube speaker now changes everything.
Imagine how small it is. It can easily fit it on my bag, and it isn't taking much of a space! Though even small, this iCube speaker is a really powerful speaker that can play up to 3hours of continuous playback of loud and crisp sound from a 1hour charge time.
Charging time for the iCube is just 1 hour, and it will last for up to 3hours. You can also connect it directly via USB interface on your PC so it will never run out of power and use it as a normal speaker for your machine.
The iCube mini speaker (38mm by 38mm) comes in three different colors, also in Black and Red. I havent held any speaker that is smaller than this one. The bass is good, and the overall audio output is crisp and clear. You'll just notice that it will tremble once the battery power starts to get weak. However, when used with getting connected on a pc/laptop, you'll have no problem having an all-the-time-you-want playback hours.
Basically, the iCube's design seems like more of a sphere, which is cut on far edges to form a cube style. It's body is made from a metallic material, with a glossy finish. The black screen that covers up the main output side of the speakers isn't made from metal.
On the top, you can see its Euroo logo. While on the back, there is the port for its USB/audio cable, and the on-off switch. Very simple design, yet gives an elegant feel and powerful performance out of the box.
With its design and style, it looks like that its an ideal match for iPhone, iPod and MacBook's. But this speaker also works with other music devices, mostly every mobile handsets that can drive the wattage needed by this speaker.
Tested with Android phone, Nokia phones, and other mid to higher end smartphones. But when tested on low-class model of phones, especially those China made's, the device cannot fully support this external speaker. Its the input device limitation, not the iCube's.
Pretty clever buy, rather than wasting your pocket on a cheaper mini speaker at no class.


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Review: Frost Percussion Group in the category of world-class ensembles
Written By Nevena Stanić Kovačević
The Frost Percussion Group performed Feb. 5 at the University of Miami's Gusman Concert Hall. (Photo courtesy of Jessica MacLean)
Although Steve Reich is acclaimed as one of the most performed living composers, one does not often hear his music played in Miami. Part of the reason likely lies in its high-performing demands.
The Frost Percussion Group courageously tackled this and many other challenges in a well-attended performance Feb. 5 at the University of Miami's Gusman Concert Hall. The group's student members belong to UM's Frost School of Music percussion studio, led by Svet Stoyanov, whose matured career calls for admiration.
The ensemble consists of 15 male and one female virtuoso who demonstrated passion through every note of the well-curated repertoire. With fine dramaturgical changes, the percussionists alternated in their chamber and solo performances of some monumental pieces composed between the 1980s and mid-2010s, including works by Iannis Xenakis, Roger Reynolds, Steve Reich, Alejandro Viñao, James Wood and Andy Akiho.
Three large chamber music pieces stood out as pillars denoting the beginning, middle and the end of the concert: two quartets by Viñao and Akiho, and a sextet by Reich. These illustrated the group's musical and performing potential, making this concert a highly rewarding experience for the audience.
The first part of the concert was framed with two newly composed quartets. The concert opened with a long-awaited piece, "Stress and Flow" (2018), by Viñao, who is one of the most popular composers for percussion today. His affinity for rhythmic and timbral explorations between live percussion and electronics seized the audience from the opening notes of Antoni Olesik's resolute bass groove, which were followed by Kosuke Matsuda, who amplified the sonority of two marimbas.
Svet Stoyanov is director of Percussion Studies at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. (Photo courtesy of Frost School of Music)
In the first movement, "Bright and Dark," Stoyanov and Noel Holloway masterfully accomplished a fine timbre and articulation on vibraphones, making every note sound clear yet warm, often contributing to echo effects. Owing to the complexity of such a chamber performance, the performers appeared highly attuned to one another, and perhaps even more so to the invisible "fifth member" of the group – the track. One might wonder if Viñao's music might present itself to the audiences as a well-kept secret that only the players are aware of intimately; a braid of complex rhythms and grooves bouncily passed between the players. The intricate architecture of the piece came to life in a fascinating choreography of musical ebbs and flows.
The diptych of two Xenakis pieces followed as a sort of baroque prelude and fugue. "Rebonds B" (1987-89) for a solo percussionist displayed many expressive and dynamical shades under Katherine Fortunato's interpretation. Making a clear dialog between high and low register of the percussion set, she unified the contrasting timbres and promptly shifted between soft dynamics and powerful accents in unexpected situations.
"Okho" (1989) demands for complete control over the motif that transfers between performers, often in unisons. Nathan Coffman, Victor Sintchak and Dominic Grande had their ears wide open during another extensive Xenakis piece. Their performance was well thought-out with carefully executed equal accents. By the end of the piece, they successfully conveyed the dynamical and dramaturgical crescendo to the audience.
"Islands from Archipelago II: Autumn Island" (1986) by Roger Reynolds followed as a long sonic rest before the actual concert intermission. The audience could witness Matsuda's extraordinary memory, holding every notated detail of this melodically extensive and fragmented piece. Alone with his marimba under the beam of yellow light, Matsuda created a pointillistic musical monodrama. Every melody was brought as a flickering luminosity that would appear up and down the marimba's keyboard, depicting the imaginary landscape of this introverted musical experience.
"Pillar IV" (2016) is the second most recent piece from the repertoire, and the second dramaturgical column of the concert. Akiho uses a plethora of melodic-rhythmic resources within a repetitive phrase by continually adding more elements in an enthralling crescendo. Timbral resources include found objects such as a selection of glass bottles. With complete control over complex rhythms and excellent communication, Andrew Riley, Guillermo Ospina, Joseph Pazanowski, and Conor Mulford exhibited great attention to detail with authority and precision. Riley's groove on the bass drum anchored the ensemble in various moments. The quartet exhibited a masterful control over the projection of sound in the hall; a feat generously rewarded by the audience.
The Frost Percussion Group performs Steve Reich's "Sextet." (Photo courtesy of Jessica MacLean)
The second part of the concert, too, was designed as a diptych with one solo and one chamber work. Holloway performed "Rogośanti" by Wood, a composer well-known among the lovers of percussion music. In this piece, Wood evoked tribal ritualistic elements through singing and playing multiple membranophone instruments and a gong. Holloway immersed himself in the music, delivering a highly nuanced performance.
However, "Rogośanti" was just a prelude to the pinnacle of the event: Reich's "Sextet."
When introducing the piece, Stoyanov presented Reich as a champion of percussion. In "Sextet," Reich kept experimenting with repetitive pulses in piano and keyboards (with piano and organ sound) contributing to the timbral variety and register depth. The keyboard organ sound evoked the taste of an early Reich; the composer's retained arch form from previous compositions did, too, in which the motif often transforms through constant addition and subtraction of notes.
Cristian Zavala, Evan Saddler, Colin Williams, Ospina, Riley, and Tony Kirk delivered an engaging performance of the musical material's growth and decline. The slow middle movement unveiled an exceptionally lyrical contrast with effective long mystical bowed vibraphone sonorities. After the gradual crescendo and an impeccable resonance of resulting patterns, the concert culminated with the final bars of "Sextet," which caused the audience to erupt in standing ovations for the Frost Percussion Group.
Handling such a gigantic repertoire, the Frost Percussion Group demonstrated fine and skillful musicianship – which qualifies it to enter the category of world-class ensembles.


There are a great deal of people searching Google as well as Bing on How to Private Instagram Photos, how you can how to hide individual photos, or how to hide their likes from the followers feed. Some people are also browsing how you can remove pictures as well as comments. I should know I obtain a great deal of misdirected website traffic for these searches and so after doing some looking myself I recognized there actually aren't lots of instructions for these concerns.
This subject is extremely more crucial compared to a lot of users recognize because unless you specifically mark all of your Instagram photos as personal, any individual from a computer, apple iphone, or an Android phone could see exactly what you have actually uploaded when you uploaded it, and also where you were. So if you called out from work, and also uploaded an excellent image of your sugar macchiato you enjoyed with friends at Starbucks to Instagram you might very well end up discharged.
We have actually taken on a follower version that indicates if you're "public" on Instagram, any individual can sign up for follow your photos. We do, however, have an unique exclusive option. In this mode, an individual can ensure he or she needs to approve all adhere to requests before they undergo." -Instagram.
Ah makes good sense right? Well, there is no summary the best ways to locate this option. I needed to look around momentarily to locate it since it was below "Account" settings. Approved if you scroll a smidge even more it's right there as well as I in some way maintained missing this setting in preparation for composing these instructions.
-Your profile will be discovered on this display currently, formerly it was a settings and search screen.
3. At the very leading of the display, there is a switch shaped like a mechanical gear. That's the new settings switch.
4. On this display, you will see listings for discovering friends, images you have actually suched as, and account settings.
6. Press the toggle button as well as you'll be greeted with the adhering to message, "Toggle to require authorization before anyone can follow you. Your existing followers won't be affected." Seems motivating sufficient.
8. A popup will certainly show up asking you if you make sure, press "Yes, I'm sure.".
9. That's it! To every person yet your existing followers, your photos are personal.
Special note, this will just make your pictures personal to you as well as your fans, it will not hide that you adhere to, who is following you, or your personal information unless you remove them.
You cannot hide them per say however you could delete them from Instagram and also they will still be in your image library (Scroll down for instructions on how to erase photos). That will hide them from the Instagram public and also your fans. You will still have the ability to share the picture later from your picture library.
Bear in mind individuals that saw you post the picture in the amount of time it took to take it down. Bear in mind the net fasts so you have to be quicker; this destroyed Anthony Weiner.


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Q: Variant of Hotel Bookings Possible Problem Normal Hotel Booking Possible Problem can be worked out in O(NlogN), but I encountered a variant of Hotel Booking Possible Problem and I couldnt work out a solution less thant O(NM).
The Problem :
A hotel manager is trying to manage hotel booking for next M days with N bookings. For some reason, the number of available room for each day is different. You are given an array of rooms[M] where rooms[i] represents the number of rooms available on day i,  and a list of bookings contains number of rooms required, start time and end time (inclusive). If all bookings are possible, the algorithm returns the number of bookings. If booking fails, the algorithm returns the index of booking that failed first.
Given Data :
int[M] rooms

*

*rooms[i]  rooms available on day i

int[N][3] bookings

*

*bookings[j][0] rooms required for booking j

*bookings[j][1] start day

*bookings[j][2] end day

Return :
Number of bookings if all possible or index of booking that fails first
Example :
rooms : 2 8 5 8
bookings :
2 0 2
1 1 2
5 1 3
3 2 3
return: 2
Explain : The bookings[0] requires 2 rooms, starts from day 0 and ends on day 2 (inclusive). After bookings[0], the rooms avaliable becomes [0 6 3 8].Similary, after booking[1], the rooms available becomes [0 5 2 8]. For booking[2], there is not enough rooms because rooms[2] = 2 less than rooms required for booking[2], which is 5. Thus we return the index of failed booking 2.
It is very easy to come out a solution that works in O(NM)
for(int i = 0 ;i < bookings.length; i ++){
   int roomRequired = bookings[i][0];
   int start = booking[i][1];
   int end = booking[i][2];
   for(int j = start; j <= end; j ++){
   rooms[j] -= roomRequired;
   if(rooms[j] < 0 ) return i;
}
}
return bookings.length;

And it is easy to get first day that fails
int helper = new int[rooms.length + 1];

for(int i = 0 ;i < bookings.length; i ++){
   int roomRequired = bookings[i][0];
   int start = booking[i][1];
   int end = booking[i][2];
   helper[start] += roomRequired;
   helper[end + 1] -= roomRequired;
}
int bookingSum = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < rooms.length; i ++){
   bookingSum += helper[i];
   if(rooms[i] < bookingSum) return i;
}

But I could not figure out how to get the first index of booking that fails in less than O(MN) because the first day that fails does not necessarily caused by the first fail of booking.

A: Just a general idea.
First, turn each booking into a pair of events.  Booking starts, booking ends.
Sort events by time.
Now we walk through time keeping track of the following:

*

*Number of bookings open.

*Dictionary of which bookings are open.

*How many bookings are available each day.

If we arrive at a day with too many bookings, what we do is look at all of the bookings open on that day (which we have in a dictionary) sort by start, then walk through until we come to the number of bookings we have days.
The very next booking is the first booking to make that fails.
This will be O(n log(n)).


Possible to temporarily hide /isolate selected or non-selected objects.
This function enable to check the spelling of specified text in a drawing with suggestion vocabulary. Supporting 8 languages including English, German etc. Possible to check the text of all object types such as text, text in block, attribute ,etc.
Possible to check the text of all object types such as text, text in block, attribute ,etc.
It is able to check and edit the attributes of blocks in current drawing and apply the change to related block reference by running "Battman".
Line, Arc, Elliptic Arc, 2D Polyline, 2D Spline, Circle, Ellipse, 3D Polyline.
Able to switch off, freeze or lock non-selected layers..
Copy text while increasing the selected number or letter in the text pursuant to predefined rule. Very useful for automatic numbering.
Super hatch allows to use raster image, block, external reference etc. as hatch pattern.


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Merkel and Putin agree Iran nuclear deal should be preserved by all means
© Reuters / Pavel Golovkin
President Vladimir Putin and Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed that preserving the Iran nuclear deal is a matter of "tremendous importance" stressing that the agreement should be kept by all means necessary.
Both leaders believe that the 2015agreement, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), still can and should be preserved, despite the latest spike in tensions sparked by the US assassination of a top Iranian general.
Speaking to journalists in Moscow following her meeting with Putin, Merkel said that "everything must be done to keep the JCPOA going" and vowed to use "all the diplomatic tools to help this agreement."
It is not perfect but it is still an agreement and it involves responsibilities for all the parties involved. And we want to keep it.
Putin also described the deal as "tremendously important" and said that both Moscow and Berlin agree that all parties need to "come back to the deal."
After the US refused to abide by the agreement, Iran announced suspension of its obligations as well. I would like to underscore that these obligations were voluntarily embraced by Iran. Iran is ready to come back to full compliance with the JCPOA.
Iran has rolled back all the restrictions it had committed-to under the 2015 nuclear deal, following the US assassination of Quds Force commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, as well as a barrage of crippling sanctions imposed by Washington after America itself left the agreement.
Putin further expressed hope that a special-purpose vehicle called INSTEX Europe, created to facilitate trade with Iran and circumvent US sanctions, would soon "be up and running" and that European nations "would deliver on their promise to create an independent mechanism free of the dollar influence."
Also on rt.com Merkel in Moscow: As Trump pushes his weight around, Russia-Germany relations defrost
So far, Europe's endeavors in this area have not been particularly successful. The mechanism was originally created in early 2019, but was apparently limited to what the European nations called high-priority "humanitarian goods," such as food and medical supplies. Meanwhile, European companies have been in no rush to trade with Iran, out of fear of losing the American market as a result of possible sanctions.
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NetLisp is a language similar to Scheme or LISP. It's both interpreted and compiled, targetting the .NET framework. It includes three interfaces -- an embeddable .DLL, a command-line interactive shell/compiler, and a rudimentary IDE.
This project is the successor to the Boa language. As such, most of the back history can be found on the Boa page, and I won't duplicate it here. Boa was a nice scripting language, but it wasn't a big enough leap over the rest. What it lacked was the feature that makes LISP the most powerful programming language: macros. Many languages have a feature called a macro, but none come close to the power of the LISP macro system.
The reason I didn't just use one of the already-existing and excellent LISP/Scheme systems is the same as the reason I didn't use straight Python instead of writing Boa. That is, a lack of .NET support. So I started writing NetLisp. At first, I copied the Boa source and began to modify it, but eventually decided to start from scratch. In doing so, I came up with far superior solutions to many problems. The result is that NetLisp is much faster than Boa in many ways, and the ways in which it's currently slower are that way simply because I haven't optimized them yet.
Recently I've undertaken the task of refactoring both NetLisp and Boa into two languages that both target a framework designed to simplify the creation of dynamic languages for .NET. This will allow most optimizations to be automatically included in NetLisp, Boa, and any other languages I create due to them both being implemented in terms of the underlying dynamic language framework. Another goal of the refactoring is to allow languages implemented using the underlying framework to interoperate easily, so that a function or class written in NetLisp can be easily used from code written in Boa, and vice versa.
I had intended to create a modified version of Scheme, but continuations have proved difficult to implement efficiently. So it's like Scheme except that there's currently no support for manipulable continuations. Tail-call optimization is supported, though. For the standard library, I'd been following R5RS and the SRFI documents, for maximum compatibility. However, I recently started putting moving many standard library calls into modules, so as to reduce the number of global symbols.
The IDE has essentially been lifted from the Boa project, with minimal changes required to interoperate with NetLisp. I'd like to develop an IDE like the excellent DrScheme, but that'll be a tremendous amount of work, so currently it's very rudimentary. There are no screenshots available at the moment, but you can look at the Boa page for screenshots of the Boa IDE. It's basically the same thing.
Unfortunately, the IDE is not documented. Specifically, there are a number of undocumented keyboard commands to do autocompletion, code evaluation, object help, window switching, etc. (Currently, you'll have to look at the source code to discover them all.) The IDE is also somewhat bare. It doesn't provide any support for project files or similar things. It provides "support" for compiling an executable, and many other features, but the lesser-important features are just stubbed out right now.
The latest version of NetLisp can be downloaded here, and an older and less sophisticated but more functional version is available here. Alternately, if you can't figure out how to build it from source but still want to try it out, feel free to contact me.