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The object of this brief letter is to point out an argument previously overlooked, which suggests that the vacuum persistance probability for the production of charged lepton pairs in Schwinger' seminal 1951 paper \cite{one}, calculated for constant electromagnetic fields, is, in fact, a very good approximation to the same quantity in the limit of sufficiently intense fields. Previous approximations \cite{two} have given qualitative results for `` slowly--varying '' fields; but the relevant observation here is that, unless those fields vary appreciably over space--time distances on the order of $m^{-1}(m^2/e\vert F\vert)$, which for intense fields can be far smaller than the Compton wavelenght of each member of the produced pair, a respectable approximation to Schwinger's formula is obtained by merely replacing his constant $F_{\mu\nu}$ by $F_{\mu\nu}(x)$.

For equivalently small distances, we also note that the vacuum persistance probability for the production of high mass charged tachyon pairs, as suggested in a recent QTD model \cite{three}, can be given an expression quite similar to that of Schwinger; and that the resulting approximation for intense, external fields is essentially the same. Estimates of lepton pair production by crossed laser beams of high intensity \cite{four} are also simplified.

We follow the notation and functional techniques previously used \cite{two,five} for this problem, in terms of a convenient Fradkin representation \cite{six}, where the vacuum persistance probability $P$ is given by $P=\exp[2 {\rm Re} L[A]]$, with :
\begin{eqnarray}
{}&L[A] = -\displaystyle{1\over 2}\int_0^{\infty}\!{ds\over s}\,e\,^{\displaystyle{-ism^2}}\!\!\exp\,\biggl[i\int_0^s\!ds'\sum_{\mu}{\delta^2\over\delta v_{\mu}^2(s')}\biggr]\nonumber\\
&\times\displaystyle\int\!{d^4p\over(2\pi)^4}\,\,e\,^{\displaystyle{ip\!\cdot\!\!\!\int_0^s\!ds'v(s')}}\displaystyle  \int \!d^4\!x\,e\,^{\displaystyle -ie\int_0^s\!ds'v_{\mu}(s') \,A_{\mu}(x-\int_0^{s'}\!\!v)}\\
&\times\,{\rm tr}\biggl(\displaystyle e\,^{\displaystyle e\!\int_0^s\!ds'\sigma\!\cdot\!F(x-\int_0^{s'}\!\!v)}\biggr)_+\Bigg\vert_{\,v_{\mu}\rightarrow 0}\nonumber
\end{eqnarray}
In fact, $L[A]$ is a completely gauge invariant functional of the $F_{\mu\nu}$; this may be seen by following the little known functional argument presented in the book of ref\cite{six}, wherein the $A_{\mu}(x-\int_0^{s'}\!\!v)$ of (1) may, for this closed--loop calculation, be replaced by :
\begin{equation}
A_{\mu}(s')\equiv A_{\mu}(x,u(s'))\equiv\int_0^1\!\!\lambda\,d\lambda \,F_{\mu\nu}(x-\lambda u(s'))u_{\nu}(s')
\end{equation}
with $u_{\nu}(s')=\int_0^{s'}\!\!ds''\,v_{\nu}(s'')$; and the $L[A]$ of (1) is then clearly independent of gauge : $L[A]=L[F]$.

As in \cite{two}, it is convenient to formally introduce $u_{\mu}(s')$ as an independent variable, by means of the functional identity :
$$1=\int\!\!d[u]\,\delta[u(s')-\int_0^{s'}\!\!v]=N'\int\!\!d[u]\,\int\!\!d[\Omega]\,e\,^{\displaystyle i\int_0^s\!ds'\Omega_{\mu}(s')[u(s')-\int_0^{s'}\!\!v]}$$
where $N'$ is the appropriate normalization constant. With the aid of (2), (1) can be rewritten as :
\begin{eqnarray}
{}&L[F] = -\displaystyle{1\over 2}\int_0^{\infty}\!{ds\over s}\,e\,^{\displaystyle{-ism^2}}N'\!\!\int\!\!d[u]\int\!\!d[\Omega]\,e\,^{\displaystyle i\!\!\int\!\!\Omega u}\!\!\int\!\!{d^4p\over(2\pi)^4} \int \!\!d^4\!x\,\,{\rm tr}\biggl(\displaystyle e\,^{\displaystyle e\!\int_0^s\!ds'\sigma\!\cdot\!F(x-u(s'))}\,\biggr)_+\nonumber\\
&\times\,e\,^{\displaystyle i\!\!\int_0^s\!{\delta^2\over\delta v^2}}e\,^{\displaystyle i\int_0^s\!ds'v_{\mu}(s') \,[p_{\mu}-eA_{\mu}(s')-\int_{s'}^{s}\!\!\Omega(s'')]}\Bigg\vert_{\,v_{\mu}\rightarrow 0}
\end{eqnarray}
where Abel's trick has been used in rewriting $\int_{0}^{s}\!ds' \Omega_{\mu}(s')\int_{0}^{s'}\!\!ds'' v_{\mu}(s'')$.

The functional linkage operation of (3) is immediate, and one finds for the second line of (3) :
\begin{eqnarray}
{}&\hskip-0.3truecm\exp\Bigl[{\displaystyle -i\!\!\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,[p-eA(s')-\!\int_{s'}^{s}\!\!\Omega(s'')]^2\Bigr]}=\exp\Bigl[\displaystyle-isp^2 -ie^2\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!A^2- i\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!ds_1ds_2\,\Omega_{\mu}(s_1)h(s_1,s_2)\Omega_{\mu}(s_2)\nonumber\\
&\displaystyle+2iep\!\cdot\!\!\!\int_0^s\!\!A+2ip\!\cdot\!\!\!\int_0^s\!\!ds's'\Omega(s')-2ie\!\!\int_0^s\!\!ds'\,\Omega_{\mu}(s')\!\!\int_0^{s'}\!\!ds''A_{\mu}(s'')\Bigr]\end{eqnarray}
where $h(s_1,s_2)=\!\int_0^s\!ds'\,\theta(s'-s_1)\theta(s'-s_2)=\theta(s_1-s_2)s_2+\theta(s_2-s_1)s_1$. The $p$--dependent terms of (4) then yield :
\begin{equation}\int\!\!{d^4p\over(2\pi)^4}\,\,e\,^{\displaystyle-isp^2+2ip\!\cdot\!\!\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,[eA(s')+s'\Omega(s')]}={-i\over16\pi^2s^2}\exp\left\{{i\over s}\left[\int_{0}^{s}\!\!ds'\Bigl( eA(s') + s'\Omega(s')\Bigr)\right]^2\right\}\end{equation}
and, combining (5) with the remaining of (3), one finds :
\begin{eqnarray}
{}&L[F] = \displaystyle{i\over 32\pi^2}\int_0^{\infty}\!{ds\over s^3}\,e\,^{\displaystyle{-ism^2}} \int \!\!d^4\!x\,N'\!\!\int\!\!d[u]\int\!\!d[\Omega]\,{\rm tr}\biggl(\displaystyle e\,^{\displaystyle e\!\int_0^s\!ds'\sigma\!\cdot\!F(x-u(s'))}\,\biggr)_+\nonumber\\
&\times\,e\,^{\displaystyle-ie^2\Bigl[\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,A^2(s')-{1\over s}\left(\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,A(s')\right)^2\,\Bigr]}\\
&\times\,e\,^{\displaystyle-i\int_{0}^{s}\!\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!ds_1ds_2\,\Omega_{\mu}(s_1)J(s_1,s_2)\Omega_{\mu}(s_2)+i\int_{0}^{s}\!\!ds'f_{\mu}(s')\,\Omega_{\mu}(s')}\nonumber\end{eqnarray}
where $J(s_1,s_2)=h(s_1,s_2) - s_1s_2/s$, and $f_{\mu}(s')=u_{\mu}(s') - 2e\int_{0}^{s}\!\!ds'' A_{\mu}(s'')[\theta(s'-s'') - s'/s]$.

The observation we wish to make follows upon performing the Gaussian functional integral :
\begin{equation}\sqrt{N'}\int\!\!d[\Omega]\,e\,^{\displaystyle-i\!\int\!\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!\Omega_{\mu}J\Omega_{\mu}+i\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!f_{\mu}\,\Omega_{\mu}}=e\,^{\displaystyle-{1\over 2}{\rm Tr}\ln(2J)}\,e\,^{\displaystyle+{i\over4}\int\!\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!f_{\mu}J^{-1}f_{\mu}}\end{equation}
where $J^{-1}(s_1,s_2)$ satisfies $\delta(s_1-s_2)=\int_0^s\!\!ds'J^{-1}(s_1,s')J(s',s_2)=\int_0^s\!\!ds'J(s_1,s')J^{-1}(s',s_2)$

The functional integral ( FI ) that results from the combination of (7) and (6) cannot, in general, be evaluated exactly; but, because it can be represented as a gaussian--weighted FI over $u_{\mu}(s')$, proportional to :
\begin{eqnarray}{}&\displaystyle\sqrt{N'}\int\!\!d[u]\,e\,^{\displaystyle {i\over4}\!\int\!\!\!\int_{0}^{s}\!\!f_{\mu}J^{-1}f_{\mu}}\,{\rm tr}\biggl(\displaystyle e\,^{\displaystyle e\!\int_0^s\!ds'\sigma\!\cdot\!F(x-u(s'))}\,\biggr)_+\nonumber\\&\times\,e\,^{\displaystyle-ie^2\Bigl[\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,A^2(s')-{1\over s}\left(\int_0^s\!\!ds' \,A(s')\right)^2\,\Bigr]}\end{eqnarray}
and contains non--gaussian corrections of $u$--dependence buried inside fields of form $F_{\mu\nu}(x-u(s'))$ and $\int_0^1\!\lambda\,d\lambda \,F_{\mu\nu}(x-\lambda u(s'))u_{\nu}(s')$, certain approximations are indeed possible.

Firstly, let us assume that $e\vert F\vert/m^2\le1$, $f_{\mu}(s')\sim u_{\mu}(s')$, i.e., the fields are weak. Then (8) becomes essentially a gaussian FI, with the natural constraints on the size of $\vert u(s')\vert$ given by $\vert\int\!\!\!\int uJ^{-1}u\vert\le1$. Since $O(J^{-1})\sim1/s^3$, and because the scale of $s$ is set by the factor $\exp[-ism^2]$, $O(sm^2)\le1$, it follows that $O(\vert u\vert)\le\sqrt s\le1/m$. Hence, if the fields $F_{\mu\nu}(x-\lambda u)$ do not vary appreciably over distances of a Compton wavelenght, the $u(s')$ dependence inside the $F_{\mu\nu}$ can be neglected; one then finds that the term of (8) proportional to $\exp\Bigl[-ie^2s<(A-<A>)^2>\bigr]$ becomes unity\footnote{This statement is literally true if only an electric field ${\cal E}_3(x_{\pm})$ in one spatial direction is considered, where $x_{\pm}=x_3\pm x_0$; but the inclusion of this exponential factor cannot change our order--of--magnitude estimates, unless exceptional cancellations were to occur.}, and one is left with the Schwinger, constant--field solution, although written in an unconventional way, where $F_{\mu\nu}\rightarrow F_{\mu\nu}(x)$. In comparison with Schwinger's constant electric field result for the vacuum persistence probability :
\begin{equation}
P=\exp\Bigl\{-{\alpha\over\pi^2}\int \!\!d^4x\,E^2\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}{1\over n^2}\,e\,^{\displaystyle-n\pi m^2/e\vert E\vert}\Bigr\}
\end{equation}
The restriction $e\vert E\vert/m^2\le 1$ means that each term in the expansion of $\ln P$ is exponentially small, $P$ remains close to unity, and the probability of pair production is very small.
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In contrast, let us now assume that $e\vert E\vert/m^2>1$. Then the dominant term of $f_{\mu}(s')$ is not $u_{\mu}(s')$ but, rather, $-2e\!\int_0^s\!ds''[\theta(s'-s'')-s'/s]\!\int_0^1\!\lambda d\lambda \,F_{\mu\nu}(x-\lambda u(s'))u_{\nu}(s')$, which produces a quadratic gaussian weighting in (8) of order $e^2\vert F\vert^2\int\!\!\!\int uJ^{-1}u$, which quantity is now restricted to be $<1$. This, in turn, leads to the condition that $O(\vert u\vert)<{1\over m}\Bigl({m^2/e\vert F\vert}\bigr)$, which can be much smaller than the bound of the weak field case. Therefore, unless the intense fields vary significantly over distances less than $(m/e\vert F\vert)$, one is justified in dropping the $u(s')$ dependence inside the $F(x-\lambda u(s'))$ and $F(x-u(s'))$ of (8); when this is done, there is no difference between Schwinger's constant field solution for $P$ and the expression generated by (8), except that $F_{\mu\nu}\rightarrow F_{\mu\nu}(x)$. And, in this case, the exponential terms in the expansion of $\ln P$ of (9) can take on significant values, at least until $n=n_{max}\sim e\vert E\vert/\pi m^2$.
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For realistic external fields $F_{\mu\nu}(x)$, it is just that simple. This observation should have been made by the present authors two years ago, in ref\cite{two}.
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text:
Glebe farm, Gidleigh
Farmstead dates to at least the 17th century, based on documentary evidence and the name indicates that it belonged to the parish church. Was the dwelling of the parish parson until the late 19th century, when the new Rectory was completed.
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Gidleigh
FARMSTEAD (XVI to XVII - 1600 AD to 1699 AD (Between))
Glebe depicted on the Tithe Map, 207 on Gidleigh apportionment (House, bartons etc). Dwelling is on the eastern side of the yard. Buildings to the north, south and west of the yard. Glebe meadow directly to the south-west of the farm.
Late 19th century map depicts the farm simply as 'Rectory'. One of the buildings shown on the tithe map is now gone. Possibly some alteration to the farmhouse.
Unchanged from late 19th century depiction, although the label is now 'Glebe Farm'.
Grumley-Grennan, T. + Hardy, M., 2000, Gidleigh. A Dartmoor Village Past and Present, 107-108, 110-113 (Monograph). SDV359347.
Documents dating back to the 17th century record the house as the Old Rectory or the Parsonage until finally it became known as The Glebe or Glebe Farm.
(Details of the parsons provided). After the rectors moved to the new Rectory in 1891, the house became known simply as Glebe Farm.
Included on list. No further detail supplied.
Modern map shows only the farmhouse and the building to the north/north-east remain, and appear to adjoin now. Now other structures depicted.
SDV359347 Monograph: Grumley-Grennan, T. + Hardy, M.. 2000. Gidleigh. A Dartmoor Village Past and Present. Gidleigh. A Dartmoor Village Past and Present. Hardback Volume. 107-108, 110-113.
MDV114017 Parent of: The Old Rectory, Gidleigh (Building)
MDV17740 Related to: Creaber Pound, Gidleigh (Monument)
MDV77356 Related to: Greenway farmstead, Gidleigh (Monument)
MDV53187 Related to: The Old Rectory, Gidleigh (Building)
MDV77684 Related to: Thule farmstead, Gidleigh (Monument)
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After all, if you flipped on a news or entertainment program for the last two weeks, you have likely been inundated with news and jokes about the three "scandals" affecting the Obama administration. The fact that this is the narrative shows how truly corrupted our political process has become, and how lazy the news media have become in utterly failing in their role as the fourth estate, holding elected officials accountable for their actions.
Yes, the coverage of the White House "scandals" is looking at what government officials did, but the issues are so unimportant compared to real malfeasance that is having a real effect on the country.
If the job of the press is to report on how the conduct of elected officials has an actual impact on how we live our day-to-day lives, and on behavior that is consciously and directly bad for the vast majority of the country and the day-to-day workings of the government, there should be a tsunami of coverage of how Republicans in power in Congress are trying to subvert American democracy and putting iron-clad ideological beliefs (that are far out of the mainstream) ahead of governing and doing what is best for the country. Specifically, Republicans in the Senate are abusing the filibuster to keep jobs — in both the executive and judicial branches — unfilled while sitting idly by and letting economic growth take a hit in the name of ideology.
I'll get to specifics in a minute, but first, no, I am not writing this because "my team" is being targeted. Let's quickly go over the three Obama administration "scandals" and why they are either non-stories or minor ones.
– Benghazi. Republicans are using the tragedy of the death of four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, to score political points. They have lied about what was in State Department emails. And they have been lying about what went on in the first place. Think the fact that Hillary Clinton would be a formidable presidential candidate in 2016 has anything to do with the Republicans politicizing an American tragedy? Considering Karl Rove's Super PAC ran ads smearing Clinton in conjunction with Benghazi, GOP motives are quite clear.
So while there may have been some unethical and/or illegal activity at the IRS, the Obama administration (and the president himself) has appropriately responded. Where is the scandal?
– AP. The fact that Republicans are complaining about government breaches in investigating media to determine the source of leaks is a dictionary-worthy example of the pot calling the kettle black. The GOP is screaming bloody murder over behavior they have engaged in for years. More importantly, like with the IRS investigation, there is no evidence that the president was involved in the decision to pull the AP phone records.
None of these "scandals" reveal any corruption in the Obama administration (or the president himself), and any wrongdoing is being investigated. None of what has happened has an impact on the life of the average American. The news media, of course, should cover what has happened, but they have to do so in perspective. None of these stories involve larger scale problems with the integrity of the government. And the impact is far less to the economy, our government and our democracy than what is resulting from what the Republicans are doing in Congress. The GOP's actions are unprecedented in modern history.
Which leads us back to the Republican abuse of the filibuster and other procedural devices that prevent Senate votes not only on legislation, but on confirming nominees for federal court judges and executive department positions. In fact, they are trying to incapacitate the National Labor Relations Board by not approving nominees for new members, so that when the chair's term expires in August, there will be nobody left on the board. What the GOP is doing is nothing short of an assault on the federal government.
There are 79 judicial vacancies in federal courts right now, an unprecedented number. The lack of judges is affecting the ability of the federal judicial system to function. The reason is simple: Republicans in the Senate are refusing to allow a vote on the president's nominees. And they've done so (I'm going to use the word again) in an unprecedented manner, with Obama having far fewer nominations confirmed than any recent president (42.8 percent compared to 86.8 percent for George W. Bush, 79.3 percent for George H.W. Bush and 93.1 percent for Ronald Reagan).
The GOP has become so detached from reality that when the president nominated three judges for vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit this week, Sen. Charles Grassley charged Obama with trying to pack the court. Think about that. The Republicans in the Senate have become so ideological they have turned a basic job of the president, to appoint judges, into something nefarious.
Now, I'm sure some people are saying, "Well, the Republicans are playing games with a few judicial nominations. So what?" But the problem is, the obstruction on the judges is part of a bigger trend. The GOP has gone filibuster crazy, blocking the chance for any legislation to pass. The Republicans in the Senate have used the filibuster far more often than any Senate minority party ever has. The GOP senators have forced 360 filibuster votes since the Democrats took control of the Senate in 2007. By way of comparison, the Democrats only required 164 filibuster votes in the six years the Republicans controlled the Senate during the Bush presidency.
And for what? Why is the GOP filibustering everything? Because they have devolved into a party that is out of touch with reality, wedded to a far-right ideology (including a commitment to austerity and the destruction of government that is based on trumped up data and advanced without evidence or logic) and unwilling to compromise in an effort to govern and move the country forward. Bob Dole, nobody's version of a liberal, spoke out last week on how the modern Republican party has gone so far astray, he, Nixon and even Ronald Reagan would have no place in the party today.
That is why the Tea Party senators, including Rand Paul, are not even letting the budget passed by the Senate go to conference with the House without imposing debt ceiling-related requirements. In response, Republican senators John McCain and Susan Collins condemned Paul's obstruction on the floor of the Senate.
That is why the GOP in Congress are happy to sit idly by and watch the sequester drag down economic growth and job creation.
So while the news media and late night comedy show hosts are obsessed with three so-called scandals involving the executive branch, our democracy is under attack by Republicans in Congress more interested in ideological purity than governing in the best interests of most Americans. And they are backing up their anti-government mission with unprecedented obstructionism intended to damage the country for strategic purposes.
Rather than be outraged by IRS audits and phone lists, the focus should be on how the Republicans have turned into a party that no longer has any interest in compromise or governing, and certainly doesn't have the best interests of most Americans in mind when they act. That is the real scandal going on right now, even if you wouldn't know it from turning on the television.
The times they are a changin', Black President, Gay Marriage, Crazy Weather, Fiscal Cliffs, Right Wingnuts and now….The Starbucks of Marijuana!!!!
A former Microsoft executive has announced plans to make marijuana a brand in the US.
Jamen Shively says he plans to launch an American chain which is the leader in both recreational and medical cannabis, much like Starbucks is the dominant name in coffee, he said.
"We are planning to build a national and international network of cannabis businesses," he said.
He says he is looking to target both social and medical users of the drug.
The use, possession and sale of marijuana is still banned under federal law in America.
However, 18 states have legalised use of the drug for certain medical conditions and two states, Washington and Colorado, voted to allow the recreational use of marijuana in 2012.
He's since bought cannabis dispensaries in the two states.
Jamen Shively, who spent six years at Microsoft, says he is looking for $10m (£6.5m) of investment for his company, Diego Pellicer Inc.
He says he is aware that his plans are currently illegal but would start his Seattle-based business by buying medical cannabis dispensaries in three US states that complied with local and state rules.
"If they want to come talk to me, I'll be delighted to meet with them," he said about the possibility of being visited by federal officials.
Speaking alongside Jamen Shively at a press conference in Seattle was former president of Mexico, Vicente Fox.
He said they hoped to legally import the drug from Mexico.
Plans for Jamen Shively's company also include a study into the use of concentrated cannabis oil in treating cancer and other illnesses.
He originally announced plans for his marijuana chain in December.
I struggle with good reasons why this meeting with the press about "how" the DOJ will be dealing with the press moving forward… will be "off the record"…but I'm sure there's a good reason, right?
A growing divide emerged on Thursday between news organizations who are willing to attend a series of off-the-record meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder and those who have refused.
Holder was set to meet with the Washington bureau chiefs from several top news outlets on Thursday and Friday to discuss his plans for reforming the DOJ's policies regulating the investigation of journalists. But many have objected to the off-the-record nature of the gathering, which prevents the people who attended from sharing what was discussed.
CNN and McClatchy said Thursday morning that they had joined the New York Times, Associated Press and The Huffington Post in declining Holder's invitation to the meeting.
Meanwhile, CBS told HuffPost's Michael Calderone it did not plan to attend.
Fox News—which, along with the AP, was directly targeted by the Justice Department—said it would not attend if the meeting was off-the-record. In a piece about the meeting, Reuters added its name to the list.
Others, however, have gone the opposite way.
Politico and the Washington Post both said on Wednesday that they would attend the meeting.
"Journalists routinely participate in off-the-record sessions, whether they prefer those conditions or not, and then continue to report on events," Post editor Martin Baron told the paper's Erik Wemple.
An ABC spokesperson said on Thursday that the network would send someone and "press" for the meeting to be on the record. The Wall Street Journal, the bureau chief for the Tribune papers, Bloomberg and USA Today were also set to turn up.
UPDATE: Journalists from five news outlets—the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Politico, the New York Daily News and the Wall Street Journal—attended Thursday's meeting with Holder.
If The Shoe Was On The Other Foot………………..
Senator McCain's public relations firm/staff said it would be "regrettable" if in fact he had been photographed meeting with suspected terrorists. "REGRETTABLE", they say. I wonder how loud the "liberal media", network TV, big cable, the New York Times and right-wing web sites would be screaming today if, instead of Senator McCain being in the photograph, it was a senator from the Democrat side of the aisle. Just sayin……..
Things are bad enough in the food world that we don't need to resort to hyperbole to be worried or even alarmed.
It's one thing to decry the lack of fairness and consumer protection when businesses and the government decide what gets produced, marketed, labeled, regulated and sold , and how. It also makes sense to be outraged by the health, environmental and economic damage caused by our food "system" and the diet it encourages.
So, while it's a point of pride and an overall good thing that we can say pretty much whatever we want in the United States, and that these opinions can now be heard or read almost anywhere, to whom should we be listening? Who speaks with authority?
When it comes to big issues, the answer is "actual experts," and it's almost always "not ourselves." This point is made convincingly in "Thinking, Fast and Slow," the 2011 book by the Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman .
In it, Kahneman demonstrates that our reasoning "System One" — our "blink," or fast-reacting system — may instantly judge and conclude based on information that is either inadequate or ill-considered, and frequently both. There is a second system of thought and judgment, says Kahneman, that's more rational, but we're usually too lazy to use it unless something forces us to. Difficult as it may be to accept (for sure, I have trouble), our opinions on almost everything are little more than snap judgments, not to be taken too seriously.
Our intuition — the "fast" thinking of Kahneman's book's title — is especially untrustworthy in areas outside our expertise, which is to say most areas. Developing expertise usually takes many years of work.
In matters where you've become a true expert, you should trust your intuition. Otherwise, it pays to literally stop and think. When I read a news story like this one, which claims that G.M.O.s are linked to leukemia, I might be scared out of my wits — Americans can't avoid genetically modified food without a huge effort, and even then there are no guarantees. So are we doomed to years of chemo? Perhaps not: If I sit down and do my homework all I can really say with intelligence is that it's premature to conclude that ingesting food with genetically engineered ingredients is safe.
As I wrote a few weeks ago, barely a day goes by that someone doesn't say to me, "There's nothing I can safely eat." Many of us are afraid of our food and of the way it's produced, and to some extent that fear is well founded.
In something like seven minutes, Maher expressed fear or hypercriticism of sugar ("really the enemy"), pasta, wheat, yeast ("yeast is bad") and dairy ("not chemically appropriate"). After the show, he called Monsanto "evil" (hard to argue with that one, as long as you equate it with "immoral" as opposed to a supernatural negative force), and though he didn't say "frankenfood" in this instance, he does use the word frequently.
It's easy enough to get caught up in this, but in a way it might make sense to stick to the facts. Since gun control was on the evening's agenda, for example, I would have liked to make the point that our hyperconsumption of added sugars may lead to more deaths each year than gun killings and will soon lead to more than lung cancer, or that Monsanto's much-touted Roundup has led to the development of what are generally called "superweeds," which in turn has led to Monsanto's developing new weed-resistant seeds . (In a major setback for the dominant seed producer, the Department of Agriculture has said that it wants to look further at the environmental impact of these before approving their planting.) None of this is the same as equating either sugar or Monsanto with the forces of evil.
When Maher, or anyone else, claims that corporations put profits over people's health, this makes sense. Monsanto, for instance, has shown a callous attitude toward farmers, consumers, agriculture, the environment and, in some respects,human life. And sugar is a substance that's relentlessly rammed down our throats and cunningly included in foods where it doesn't belong, a fact that threatens nearly everyone in the United States. Nothing "evil" or supernatural about that — but, if you ask me, it's still bad enough.
2. "Barely controlled anarchy" describes food production, marketing and sales better than "system." It's not as if there's any planning to benefit anyone but producers and marketers.
3. Kahneman's authority doesn't derive from his Nobel Prize in Economics but from his half-century of thinking carefully about behavioral economics and exposing his ideas to the scrutiny and testing of others.
4. Now! Even More Weed-Resistant!
5. Although one of Kahneman's arguments, demonstrated daily in all of our lives, is that we're most likely to believe evidence that supports our existing beliefs, whether it's good evidence or bad. Thus the audience cheers at Maher's most outrageous statements.
IN SEPTEMBER 2000 the heads of 147 governments pledged that they would halve the proportion of people on the Earth living in the direst poverty by 2015, using the poverty rate in 1990 as a baseline. It was the first of a litany of worthy aims enshrined in the United Nations "millennium development goals" (MDGs). Many of these aims—such as cutting maternal mortality by three quarters and child mortality by two thirds—have not been met. But the goal of halving poverty has been. Indeed, it was achieved five years early.
In 1990, 43% of the population of developing countries lived in extreme poverty (then defined as subsisting on $1 a day); the absolute number was 1.9 billion people. By 2000 the proportion was down to a third. By 2010 it was 21% (or 1.2 billion; the poverty line was then $1.25, the average of the 15 poorest countries' own poverty lines in 2005 prices, adjusted for differences in purchasing power). The global poverty rate had been cut in half in 20 years.
That raised an obvious question. If extreme poverty could be halved in the past two decades, why should the other half not be got rid of in the next two? If 21% was possible in 2010, why not 1% in 2030?


Five years ago, I came across the unclassiffiable work made by an artistic duo called The Callas. I realised that what I was seeing (incredible punkishly vibrant needlepoint) was only the tip of the iceberg. In fact it's an artistic factory producing music, films, artworks, magazines, events, art shows initiated by the brothers Lakis & Aris Ionas.
For the past 10 years they have been publishing significant magazines for the Athenian underground music/art/film scene such as Velvet magazine and Lust magazine. Their studio space is one of the most active cultural spaces in Athens. Going by the name Velvet Room, they organise art shows combined with music gigs and DJ sets involving some of the best new bands and artists in Athens.
I have recently discovered the very confidential but stunningly beautiful mosaic work from the seventies by Charles Gianferrari. Gianferrari was associated with many projects in close collaboration with Roger Anger, until Anger's last years when he devoted himself solely to the Auroville project (the incredible hippy utopia in India). He also made many monuments with Jacques Bertoux (born in 1923), architect and sculptor, with whom he participated in the founding of the L'Œuf, centre de recherche, literally : The Egg, Study Center.
Last week-end we went to Disneyland Paris. I had mixed feelings about it all. I had to admit that I was just as excited as my daughter but for completely other reasons: mine were more to do with confronting my childhood fantasies to the reality of French Disneyfied suburbs and learn from this contrast. However, I was also quite nervous that when looking at this mysterious reality of my childhood with experienced, objective adult eyes, I'd feel real disappointment. I did not want to kill my dreams! Although aesthetically, I know that as a five year old, I found a lot of beauty in the Disney experience, I feared that my cultured adult gaze, might find it all a bit corny and pinkish. This chiefly centred around one particular attraction: It's a small world. This ride used to put tears in my eyes. It's a sort of ode to universality, in which little dolls, dressed in traditional costumes from all over the world, sing together, in harmony: "it's a small world after all, it's a small small world!". I use to love it and it really shaped my primary vision of world citizenship. Moreover, the façade of this attraction epitomized beauty to me. So I was very happy to note that despite the disappointments that this day out at Disney had (partly due to the hysterical lower middle class crowds from all around Europe, looking like MickeyMouse fundamentalists, with the mouse ears and tails, taking selfies everywhere), It's a small world still worked for me. So I decided to do a little research to understand why.
"Mary Blair was responsible for the attraction's whimsical design and colour styling. Blair had been an art director on several Disney animated features, including Cinderella, Alice In Wonderland, and Peter Pan".
What Mary Blair brought to Disney's pictures is all the rigor of the fifties design and the play with contrasts between massive and slim shapes. So let's dig a little deeper into Mary Blair's style. It's really a breathtaking travel into with I find being the best imagination part of the Disney styles. Here are some examples of first concepts.
The whole Mary Blair experience is now summarized in a children's book by Amy Guglielmo (Author), Jacqueline Tourville (Author), Brigette Barrager (Illustrator) called Pocket Full of Colors: The Magical World of Mary Blair, Disney Artist Extraordinaire. As to why I like it, I think it's because at least 10 years before everyone else in the design field, Mary Blair assembled all her knowledge of fairy tales and of the 1950s aesthetics to create what can be called the first ever post-modern architecture.
We love this Century dormeuse by Andrea Branzi. To us, hlow team, it is above all one of his first statement solo piece. It was built in 1982, so 5 years before his Compasso d'Oro. Before this piece, his production is perhaps more theoretical, with Archizoom and Alchimia. After this piece, Branzi will be using curves that will precede the trend of organic shapes of the 90s.
but as a much more articulated form of thought.
To us, this piece is more about practical design, yet it uses such pictural codes and materials that it is also a cartoon piece, that really fits into the Memphis Milano production.
or the design of efficiency and technology of Konstantin Grcic for Magis and for Galerie kreo. .
Pilsen is a little town of Czech Republic half way between its capital, Prague, and Nuremberg, in Germany. At the beginning of the XXth century it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and some of its elite had had echoes of the trends in Vienna, among which, was the work of the architect Adolf Loos. Here is what you can read on Pilsen's website: "Adolf Loos worked in Pilsen in two periods, between the years 1907 – 1910 and 1927 – 1932. His clients were primarily the families of entrepreneurs from the rich Pilsen Jewish community. They lived in the area of today's Klatovska Street – a part of the city which was then considered a locality for luxurious living. The clients of Adolf Loos were a closed group of friends for whom his designs provided certain sign of social status and they recommended his work one to another. The Jewish origin of the Loos Interiors owners at the beginning of the 30´s of the 20th century tragically marked the fate of the families, as well as of the apartments which they were later forced to leave. Some of the apartments were transformed into offices; others were later demolished by their tenants. Only recently the work of Adolf Loos in Pilsen has been rehabilitated and one after another the apartments are being renovated to acquire their once lost splendour. At this time thirteen realizations form the collection of work of Adolf Loos in Pilsen, eight of them remained preserved up to now. Three of the interiors have been partially or fully reconstructed; the other apartments are in various degrees of damage and wait for their future modernisation. In comparison to other places where Adolf Loos worked, in Pilsen he was never awarded a project to design a whole new building. Mostly, he dealt with apartment adaptation design of the city houses which were in no way exceptional regarding their building structure. Therefore, an uninitiated observer cannot know that some of the ordinary houses hide real gems of world-class interior design. " Three guided tours have been organized to visit all of these gems, and this could be the ideal pretext for shortbreak or a continental European week-end, don't ou think? There is a very active community in Pilsen which is taking care of this inheritance, their incredibly cool website (here) features all the flats, with great pictures and explanations. They went as far as reconstructing the missing parts in cardboard, which gives an insolite contemporary render to the patrimonial project.
Antonin Kybal was a significant Czech textile artist and educator, founder of the Czech school tapestry. Kybal along with his wife Ludmila Kybalová, became a leading figure and pioneer of modern Czech textile art. After World War II, he founded in the Academy of Arts in Prague, "Kybalova textile school", whose activities were focused on tapestries and carpets, became an academic professor and taught two generations of textile artists.


Glacier kayaking in the Cascade Mountains of British Columbia is a surreal experience. Most of us don't put snow and kayaking together, but Nick Drader of Compass Heli Tours makes the connection. Nick has been a professional pilot for the forest industry —- seed collection and wildfire suppression —- for over 10 years, but he also wanted to show others the epic "Super Natural" backcountry of British Columbia the way most people never see it, so he created Compass Heli Tours.
In late spring, the glacial lakes start to thaw, creating aquamarine meltwater highways which are perfect for kayaking. Eventually the entire lake melts, yielding a pristine water playground for kayaking and paddleboarding with ice and snow surrounding you. The best time to go is June -— when the waters are that unmistakable glacial blue (they turn clear later in the season).
The tour includes a 60 minute round trip sightseeing flight over waterfalls and ever changing landscapes that most people never set eyes on, photos, 4-hours on site, all your gear, and a gourmet picnic lunch. The only way to visit is via helicopter. Compass Heli Tours runs this operation from June-September.
Tours are available from June to September. The base price departs from their home base in Abbotsford, but they can also pick up from the Vancouver Heli-Port for an additional cost.
A 4-person tour costs $5000 CAD and lasts 4 hours on site — gourmet lunch included.
Everything is provided for you.
The meltwater is only that vibrant blue in June.
Tours run from June to September.
You have to take a helicopter to access the kayaking.
Nick is your pilot and your guide on every tour, so the helicopter never leaves the site.
He only offers one tour per day per location.


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Building information modelling and other digital processes used in construction — Methodology to describe, author and maintain properties in interconnected data dictionaries
This document establishes the rules for defining properties used in construction and a methodology for authoring and maintaining them, for a confident and seamless digital share among stakeholders following a BIM process.
Regarding the definition of properties and groups of properties, this document provides:
— definitions of properties and groups of properties as a list of attributes;
— definitions of all the provided attributes.
Regarding the authoring and maintaining process, this document provides:
— definitions and roles of applicants;
— definitions and roles of experts and the commission of experts;
— definitions of request's attributes;
— definitions of expert's attributes;
— requirements to establish the management rules to interconnect data dictionaries through the mapping process for properties and groups of properties.
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Josh and Kurt talk about hacking back, passwords, honeypots, and conspiracies.
Josh and Kurt talk about Equifax again, Kaspersky, TLS CAs, coming change, social security numbers, and Minecraft.
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Final Fantasy XII's Vayne Joins Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Today
Posted by Paúl Ordóñez | Apr 26, 2018 | News | 0 |
Square Enix announced today, that the legendary Final Fantasy XII antagonist Vayne Carudas Solidor is available now on Dissidia Final Fantasy NT as the game's first Season Pass character.
Check out the DLC trailer of Vayne Carudas Solidor, featuring some gameplay footage:
"Vayne's new abilities and playstyle add depth and new team possibilities to the fast-paced 3-on-3 team action of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT. He also comes with alternate costumes and cosmetic weapon skins, along with exciting, new story scenes that give players a glimpse at his role in the wider tale between legendary heroes and villains from the Final Fantasy series.
Vayne is available now as a standalone purchase, or as part of the Season Pass, which further includes five new characters, each with two additional skins and weapons.
The Weapons Pack is also available to download, offering several additional cosmetic weapon skins for many of the launch roster of Dissidia Final Fantasy NT.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT and the Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Season Pass are available now for the PlayStation 4 computer entertainment system.
About Dissidia Final Fantasy NT
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a fighting game with action role-playing elements developed by Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 4. The game is a follow-up to Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy, released for PlayStation Portable, and similarly allows players to battle one another using many characters from the Final Fantasy series. The game is a console port of the 2015 Japanese arcade game Dissidia Final Fantasy, and it released worldwide in January 2018.
Dissidia Final Fantasy NT's battle system was redesigned from the ground up, though some elements from the previous titles have been retained. Characters are divided into four combat classes: power-based Vanguards, agility-based Assassins, range-based Marksmen, and unique trait-based Specialists. Characters can perform Brave attacks, which increase the player's Bravery level based on the amount of damage done. If an opponent is attacked while their Bravery is at zero, a Bravery Break will be triggered, giving the player a substantial Bravery boost. Players can also perform HP attacks that will do direct damage to an opponent based on their current Bravery level. Using HP attacks will reset the player's Bravery back to zero, forcing then to perform more Brave attacks before they can directly attack their opponent again. The previous games' EX Mode has been tweaked, with players able to equip one HP attack and two EX Skills per character in battle."
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Originally the game was set for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3. According to Microsoft today, the game will know be on Xbox one there is no word about a Ps4 version yet. Murdered: Soul Suspect release date is TBA 2014, until then keep it glued on GaminRealm.com for more info regarding the game.


9:03 a.m. Vandalism report on N. Vanderhurst Ave.
9:12 a.m. Possession of marijuana on school grounds on Meyer St.
3:55 p.m. Narcotics arrest on Lynn St.
9:26 a.m. Vehicle was towed for expired registration on N. Third St.
2:25 p.m. CPS referral report on King St.
4:56 p.m. Vehicle tow on Bedford Ave.
6:59 p.m. Violation of probation arrest on Broadway St.
9:26 p.m. Arrest report on Broadway St.
9:37 p.m. Trespassing report on Canal St.
9:37 p.m. Warrant arrest on Canal St.
6:11 a.m. Stolen vehicle and recovery report on Bedford Ave.
6:55 a.m. Arrest report on S. First St.
12:46 p.m. CPS referral report on Bassett St.
7:17 p.m. Vandalism/Battery/ Criminal threats report on Sandown St.
7:39 p.m. Warrant arrest report on N. San Lorenzo St.
12:17 p.m. Fighting in public on Broadway St.
4:40 p.m. Arrest report on Broadway St.
11:50 p.m. Report of a domestic on Bassett St.
1:19 a.m. HFA was contacted for being intoxicated by 12th St.
1:59 a.m. Violation of probation on Hwy 101 North.
2:29 a.m. DUI on Hwy 101.
7:40 a.m. Medical assist on Hicks Dr.
11:46 a.m. HMA arrested for inflicting corporal injury on spouse on Pinnacles Ave.
6:00 p.m. DUI on private property on Morris Ave.
7:29 p.m. HMA cited and released for traffic stop with suspended driver's license and probation violation on 7th St.
9:19 p.m. Driving under the influence of alcohol on Morris Ave.
12:07 a.m. DUI on 3rd St.
10:27 a.m. Theft on Elm Ave.
9:38 p.m. Trespassing on Walnut Ave.
10:44 p.m. Suspicious subject on Tyler Ave.
11:40 p.m. HMA arrested for being drunk in public.
11:32 a.m. Possession of meth and paraphernalia on El Camino Real.
2:58 p.m. Suspicious circumstances on Clifton Ct.
3:12 a.m. Recovered a stolen vehicle on St. Charles Place.
1:22 p.m. Child endangerment with serious bodily injury on St. Charles Place.
4:16 a.m. HFA arrested for outstanding warrant on Apple Ave.
4:16 a.m. DUI traffic collision on 7th St.
4:58 a.m. DUI on 7th St.
6:14 p.m. Found property on S. El Camino Real.
7:08 p.m. A vehicle vs. building on Oak Avenue.
9:19 p.m. Officers investigated a report of sexual misconduct against child on Chalone Dr.
10:04 a.m. Traffic violation on 7th St.
11:38 a.m. Backyard burn on Apple Ave.
12:32 a.m. Driving without a license on S. El Camino Real.
1:59 a.m. Hit and run on Elm Ave.
8:26 a.m. Non injury traffic collision on Oak Ave.
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We offer two types of rides, featuring camping & inn lodging. Trips range from 5 or 6 nights, and include everything you need except personal clothing & personal affects.
There are several tour companies in the Moab area that offer guided trips on quarter horses. Others combine raft trips with one or two-night horse pack trips. If you arrive with your own stock you can choose from a variety of trails including Seven Mile Canyon, Pack Creek Trail, Red Rock Horse Trail, and others which snake through classic Old West landscapes, ranging from desert canyons to forested mountains.
Canyonlands National Park is ideally suited for exploring some of the park's more remote areas like the Maze and Orange Cliffs from a saddle. There are no commercial outfitters in the park, so you must transport your own stock. Due to limited water within Canyonlands you should contact the park at (435) 719-2313 for recommendations on where to ride. Keep in mind that backcountry permits are required and you must adhere to all regulations which includes the use of pelletized feed.


Gell Balls are excellent for all ages, but partularly recommended for younger age groups as a softer, safer alternative to traditional medicine balls.
Gell Balls are liquid-filled, small-sized weighted balls which are colourful and tactile, and feel great.
Gell Balls can also be used as an interesting alternative to free weights for strength development.
Available in 500g, 1kg, 2kg & 3kg weights.
Buy 2kg Gell Balls here.


Use the journey planner above to find all travel options from Bois-des-Filion to Pilot Mound. Plan your trip, combine and compare transportation providers such as for example: Via Rail, Greyhound, Air Canada, Air Transat, Westjet, Porter Airlines. Experience hassle-free trip planning on Combitrip as it will take care of your travel from Bois-des-Filion to Pilot Mound from door to door. All travel options will be presented to you in one clear and comprehensive overview. The trip to Pilot Mound is around 33 hours 2 minutes by car if you are travelling from Bois-des-Filion.
The nearest train station to the center of Bois-des-Filion is located at 16.5 km (19 minutes by car) distance and is called La Plaine. More train stations near Bois-des-Filion. The nearest airport to Bois-des-Filion is located at 26.2 km (27 minutes by car) and is called Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. More airports near Bois-des-Filion. CombiTrip also compares car rentals in Bois-des-Filion , in the same overview with all other travel options.
The nearest airport to Pilot Mound is located at 145.2 km (2 hours 9 minutes by car) and is called Devils Lake Regional Airport. More airports near Pilot Mound. CombiTrip also compares car rentals in Pilot Mound , in the same overview with all other travel options.


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Spider-Man will be sporting 4 different suits in Far From Home
Spiderman Far From Home: Tom Holland to sport 4 different suits in the Marvel film, watch video
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Spider-Man: Far from home is all set to hit the theatres on July 2. Here is something special for Spider-Man fans. The friendly-neighborhood superhero will be sporting 4 different types of suits. Yes as per a recent reports Tom Holland will be sporting a total of four suits in the film.
The suits will be from a classic Spider-Man look to the super-advanced Iron Spider suit from 'Avengers: Infinity War' and 'Endgame'. Along with them there will be two new suits added to Peter Parker's now very extensive heroic wardrobe.
The four suits are: The original suit from the first film, the Iron Spider suit gifted to him by Tony Stark at the end of Spider-man Homecoming, an upgraded suit that looks similar to the original Spider-man suit with the blue parts being coloured black, and finally, a new appearance called the Stealth suit. The original stealth suit was created in the comics in 2011 for a battle against Hobgoblin.
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Check out the four suits here:
The Stealth suit is given to Spider man by Nick Fury as Peter Parker is on vacation and needs Spiderman to remain incognito in a new city. The all-black suit is likely inspired by Marvel's Noir universe, a darker take on the existing universe.
New continent, new suit. #SpiderManFarFromHome 🕷
Spider-man Far From Home will also star Samuel L Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal, Zendaya, Jon Favreau, Marisa Tomei and many others alongside star Tom Holland. This is the first film to be released after Marvel's Avengers Endgame. Spider-Man: Far From Home will likely reveal what direction Marvel will take in its Phase 4.
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Texas prisons: Fed rules won't change treatment of transgender inmates
Filed under Politics at Mar 2016
Lauren McGaughy, Texas Government Reporter
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AUSTIN — New federal guidance aimed at reducing prison rapes says states can no longer make housing decisions for transgender inmates based solely on sex, but Texas officials insist this won't change how they treat the state's more than 250 transgender prisoners.
Inmates who are transgender (identify as a gender different from their sex at birth) and intersex (born with neither typical male or female anatomy) face a higher risk of being raped or sexually assaulted while incarcerated. In an effort to reduce targeted assaults of non-heterosexual prisoners, the U.S. Department of Justice released new guidance last week that clarified how prisons and jails must house and transgender and intersex inmates.
Previous federal policy under the "Prison Rape Elimination Act," or PREA, required prisons and jails to take into "serious consideration" an inmate's housing preference, and said they had to consider "on a case-by-case basis" whether to house a prisoner separately in order to protect them from harm.
But the new guidance added states that claim to follow the rules, but then break with them in practice, will risk being deemed non-compliant.
"Any written policy or actual practice that assigns transgender or intersex inmates to gender-specific facilities, housing units, or programs based solely on their external genital anatomy violates the standard," the PREA rules state.
Some criminal justice advocates applauded the new rules. Lovisa Stannow, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Just Detention International, said the rules "if adopted meaningfully, will go a long way toward ensuring the basic dignity of transgender people behind bars."
Others said the guidance simply clarified rules that are already in place, which states routinely ignore in practice.
"This is not a new policy. This language was in the PREA policy forever," said Flor Bermudez, Detention Project Director at the Transgender Law Center. "If PREA were effective, every single facility that houses people by their genitals would be in violation."
In Texas, the new guidance won't bring any change anyway, prison officials said.
When asked whether the Texas Department of Criminal Justice would need to alter its housing policy after the issuance of the new guidance, spokesman Jason Clark said no.
"Each offender within TDCJ is classified and assigned to housing based upon their individual safety, security and treatment needs," Clark said. "If it's determined that an offender cannot be safely placed in general population, the inmate may be housed individually or be placed in safekeeping at a unit that matches their physical anatomy."
Texas has struggled in recent years with housing non-heterosexual inmates. Prisoners can request to be housed separately if they think they're in danger, but those requests aren't always granted.
Passion Star, a transgender woman serving 20 years for aggravated kidnapping, sued the state in 2014 to force officials to house her separately after she said she was repeatedly raped and attacked by male inmates. Her face is permanently scarred after a gang attacked her with knives.
The state eventually acquiesced, but there is no guarantee she will remain in separate housing for the duration of her sentence, which is up in 2022. She continues to sue the state for damages and to ensure that her housing status remains unchanged.
PREA requires that all jails and prisons be audited to ensure they meet federal standards. TDCJ operates at least 90 of the 109 jails and prisons in Texas, of which 56 have been audited as of March, Clark said.
There are 257 transgender inmates in TDCJ prisons, according to the agency.
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Q: Laravel when sending mail giving unparenthesized expressions error I am trying to send mail but it is giving this error:
The behavior of unparenthesized expressions containing both '.' and '+'/'-' will change in PHP 8: '+'/'-' will take a higher precedence

following is my code in controller
                Employee::
                    where("organization_id", $billing->organization_id)
                    ->permission([ Permission::BILLINGS_FULL_ACCESS ])
                    ->withAllOrganizations()
                    ->get()
                    ->map(function($employee) use($billing) {
                        Mail::to($employee->work_email)->send(new BillingMail($billing));
                    });

and this my mail code:
class BillingMail extends Mailable

{
use Queueable, SerializesModels;
protected $billing;

/**
 * Create a new message instance.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function __construct($billing)
{
    $this->billing = $billing->load("organizations", "purchases");
}

/**
 * Build the message.
 *
 * @return $this
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public function build()
{
    $pdf = new BillingPDF();
    $pdf->AddSlip($this->billing);
    $pdfName = "Invoice-" . $this->billing->id + 20220301;

    $email = $this->subject("Tankhwa billing")
                ->view('emails.billing')
                ->attachData($pdf->Output('S', $pdfName), $pdfName, [
                    'mime' => 'application/pdf'
                ])
                ->with([
                    "billing" => $this->billing
                ]);
    return $email;
}

my other mail are sending which have used same logic but this one is giving error please someone help.

A: The problem is likely encountered in this line
$pdfName = "Invoice-" . $this->billing->id + 20220301;

Try changing it to
$value = $this->billing->id + 20220301;
$pdfName = "Invoice-" . $value;

More information: The behavior of unparenthesized expressions containing both '.' and '+'/'-' will change in PHP 8: '+'/'-' will take a higher precedence

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Idaho Dance Academy
Owner/Instructor
With 38 years of dance experience it is obvious Miss Amber has a passion for dance. She has been dancing in the Treasure Valley for the past 32 years. She has studied classical ballet, jazz and tap with many of the nations top choreographers and has been teaching for 22 years, sharing her talents with sports teams, beauty pageants and professional ballet companies. Miss Amber is currently the children's rehearsal director for Eugene Ballet Company, showcasing local talent in The Nutcracker, Alice in Wonderland, Swan Lake, Cinderella, and Mowgli. She believes each child should be given the opportunity to enjoy dance in a structured and loving environment. Although Miss Amber does not have children of her own, she has many "little dancers" around the valley. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree and attended and studied Sports Management at The College of Idaho. Continuing her education at Goddard College in Vermont where she focused her studies in Dance.
Mictr Meao
Ballet "Meow"ster
With 10 years of experience, Mictr is well known for his pas de chat, which also happens to be his favorite dance step! Mictr Meao (Italian for Mr. Meow) came to us from the streets after a rear leg amputation, from injuries received in a car accident. Although this unfortunate accident forced him to retire from performing at the age of 4, it also opened the door to further his career in the capacity of Ballet Master. His expertise has been shared with us for 5 years. Getting head scritches, napping and watching the kids dance are some of his favorite job duties. When not at the studio he enjoys roadtrips to McCall, backpacking, and cheering on the Red Sox!
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Just so you know, I have saw dust In places I shouldn't have sawdust, thanks Yots!!
Heh. Did you get the G07 working?
Does anyone know if you can pay at the door, or do you have to pre-register? I have a prior commitment with my daughter for most of Sat and Sun afternoons, so not sure what day/time I can get to ZapCon, but definitely going to get there. The website didn't have any info on that.
Could someone please move this to the Zapcon 6 thread. I posted using Tapatalk and didn't pay attention to the fact that this is the wrong Zapcon thread.
My offer still stands for the free room. Be warned, I snore.
I have some money I didn't spend at the MGC last weekend. Would 100 dollars toward airfare help?
Would 100 dollars toward airfare help?
I am just paying forward to this community. It is not charity. Yots said this is the last time he is planning a BYOAC get together. The more the merrier.
If you don't want to accept my offer, I will not press the issue any further. I respect your position.
Thanks. Any idea if the price is higher if paying at the door? And is there a list of what vendors will be there? Saw the list of games, can't wait!
You gonna come out Friday night and run with the rest of us???
Sorry to hear that. I was holding on to hope you would make it this year. I'll just have to find an excuse to take a work trip near you.
Sadly, no. Have the same time-commitment with my daughter Friday evening. For some reason I thought it'd be a good idea to volunteer to head up concessions for her middle school play.
Been there, done that brother. See you this weekend!
For those with significant others attending Zapcon.
Mike, when are you flying in again?
OK, I'm in. See you Friday.
TacoTownCharlie weighed in. 'Tis truly ZapCon season!
I don't think I have played that game in a decent cab since I was a kid. That is looking really good.
I just played it at the MGC and the cab was in terrible shape. My local arcade has it. It is also in an abomination of a cab.
Dang and that looks to be original artwork as well. I thought nearly all of those were butchered to be converted to Street Fight II cabs back in the day.
That's cool you guys think it looks original. That some generic kung fu artwork I got from Joymonkey's website. I just photoshopped in the Yie Ar stickers.
It'd look better with an LCD playing Galaga.
Secret Badge #1 - Revealed!!!1!
More Secret Badges to come!!
you don't have to actually play that crummy game do ya? You can just cracker shuffle in front of it, right?
Never got to see the gingerballs badge from last year.
Well that's embarrassing on my part. I've gotta be honest though, the only YAKF cabs I've seen out in the wild were mutilated beyond belief.
I think it was pretty much a kit. I haven't really been able to find any dedicated artwork for it, other than the marquee and control panel overlay.
That's interesting... It was released in a period where I wasn't really in the arcades..... I started going regularly in the 90's during the fighting craze.
That is a beautiful machine, but where does the fish tank go?
My daughters room, where it belongs, away from the BIDEO GAMEZ!!!
Are the RGB LED buttons on order? Those plain buttons are just place fillers I assume.
Well those plain buttons are not going to match up with the LED T molding you are obviously going to install.


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NewsLocal NewsHamilton CountyCincinnatiLower Price Hill
Sunday morning homicide is eighth deadly shooting in less than two weeks in the city
Judge issues $1 million bond for Navonta Snow
A homicide Sunday morning in Lower Price Hill marks the eighth deadly shooting in Cincinnati in less than two weeks. One shooting suspect was in court Monday morning.
CINCINNATI — A homicide Sunday morning in Lower Price Hill marks the eighth deadly shooting in Cincinnati in less than two weeks.
Officers from the Cincinnati Police Department were called to the 600 block of Naeve Street around 2:45 a.m. after gunshots were heard in the area. When they arrived, officers found 39-year-old Shawn Hope, who had been shot, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Then, around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, police arrested and charged 23-year-old Navonta Snow for the death of Hope. A judge on Monday issued Snow a $1 million bond.
The other homicides happened in Columbia-Tusculum, Evanston, East Price Hill, the West End, Mount Airy and Bond Hill. Only one other suspect has been arrested at this time.
On May 30, Brandon Miller, 29, was found shot near Alms Park in Columbia-Tusculum around 10 p.m. He died at the hospital, and one suspect was placed in police custody in relation to his homicide, according to police. The suspect's name has not been released.
RELATED: Police ID man shot dead in Columbia-Tusculum
Someone shot and killed 25-year-old David Lynn Jr. on May 31 in Evanston near the 3100 block of Durrell Avenue.
On Sunday, a suspect fatally shot Taher Taher, 32 , in East Price Hill near Bassett Road at Purcell Avenue.
Someone shot and killed Gannon Hillman, 25, in Bond Hill Wednesday morning near 1931 Garden Lane. In Mount Airy the same day, a suspect shot and killed 19-year-old Brandon Phoenix at a bus stop on Colerain Avenue near North Bend Road.
On Thursday, a suspect fatally shot 37-year-old Ricky D. Lackey in Bond Hill near the intersection of Reading Road and Berkley Avenue.
Someone shot and killed a person Friday morning near 1049 Central Avenue in the West End. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Paris Crosty.
RELATED: City of Cincinnati sees 6 fatal shootings in a week
Friday morning, Lt. Col. Michael John with the Cincinnati polcie Department called the number of recent shootings "alarming." John also said the police need people to come forward with tips to help catch the people responsible for these homicides.
Snow is scheduled to appear in court on June 19.
If you have any information about any of these homicides, you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 513-852-3040. All tips can remain anonymous.