The Project On Government Oversight applauds Reps. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) and Todd Platts (R-Pa.) for introducing the bipartisan Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act (H.R. 6406), an important bill that could save billions of taxpayer dollars. POGO has always supported granting strong whistleblower protections to all federal contractors and grant recipients of federal funds, and this bill would do just that. In April, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee passed Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D-Mo.) companion legislation S.241, cosponsored by Senators Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), and we are glad to see House members following McCaskill's lead.
The Commission on Wartime Contracting estimated that up to $60 billion was lost in Iraq and Afghanistan due to waste and fraud, most of which was the result of questionable contracting. To stop this kind of gross waste in the future, would-be whistleblowers need to feel safe coming forward speaking out against the misuse of federal funds.
The accountability loopholes are many in the patchwork of laws that protect only some contractors and federal-fund recipient employees who blow the whistle, and only under very limited circumstances.
Contractors, subcontractors, and grantees should have protections and safeguards similar to those available to federal employees and other private employees. All truth-tellers who protect the public interest should be free from fear of discharge, demotion, discrimination, or any other form of retaliation.
It is the workers on the front lines who are best suited to identify and expose misconduct, but contract workers are the most vulnerable to termination and the risk of career ending retaliation is currently too great for most non-federal employees to blow the whistle on their employer or contract manager.
Rep. Platts, Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee on Government Organization, Efficiency, and Financial Management said, "This legislation would make the federal government more open and accountable to the citizens it serves." POGO agrees completely.
H.R. 6406/S. 241 would do a great deal to enhance government accountability and protect those contract workers on the front lines. Modeled after the excellent whistleblowing protections in the Recovery Act, the bill encourages internal reporting and provides protection for complainants who disclose waste and wrongdoing to their supervisors, Congress, Inspectors General, federal agencies, and the courts. Significantly, it would protect subcontractors and grantees.
The bills also include time limitations for inspectors general to take action after receiving complaints so that contractor whistleblowers are not left high and dry indefinitely if they suffer prohibited personnel practices. And if an investigation does ultimately conclude that the non-federal employee was subject to reprisal, the head of the concerned agency will be required to order the employer to reinstate the person to their original position, provide back pay, benefits, and compensatory damages.
Another practical reform that could make a difference in preventing retaliation in the first place is the requirement that the IG's decision be posted in a manner in which "every employee of the employer will have notice of the decision and otherwise require a reasonable compliance program to ensure that no further retaliation is committed." This accountability mechanism will inform employees of their rights and send a message that the government will not tolerate repeat offenders.
If passed into law, the Non-Federal Employee Whistleblower Protection Act would go a long way toward improving accountability to taxpayers. Though it's not likely to happen before Congress recesses for the election, POGO hopes they will take action on these bills in the Lame Duck session.
Suzie Dershowitz is a public policy fellow at the Project On Government Oversight.


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Q: Matplotlib slider loses interactivity upon imshow I've been trying to use Matplotlib's imshow function to display a heatmap which has an interactive slider below it to be eventually used for displaying specific data.
For the code itself, I have two renditions that both have a heatmap and an interactive slider along with a close button. The one not using imshow() works fine under small loads while still being able to use the slider. The code sample provided, using imshow(), works extremely well for large quantities of data but loses the sliders interactivity, though the button isn't affected?
Any help is appreciated!
import numpy as np
import matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.ticker as ticker

from matplotlib.widgets import Button, Slider

def heatmap(data, ax=None,
            cbar_kw={}, cbarlabel="", cbar=True, **kwargs):
    """
    Create a heatmap from a numpy array and two lists of labels.

    Parameters
    ----------
    data
        A 2D numpy array of shape (N, M).
    ax
        A `matplotlib.axes.Axes` instance to which the heatmap is plotted.  If
        not provided, use current axes or create a new one.  Optional.
    cbar_kw
        A dictionary with arguments to `matplotlib.Figure.colorbar`.  Optional.
    cbarlabel
        The label for the colorbar.  Optional.
    cbar
        Draws the colorbar. Optional.
    **kwargs
        All other arguments are forwarded to `imshow`.
    """

    if not ax:
        ax = plt.gca()

    # Plot the heatmap
    im = ax.imshow(data, **kwargs)

    if cbar:
        # Create colorbar
        cbar = ax.figure.colorbar(im, ax=ax, **cbar_kw)
        cbar.ax.set_ylabel(cbarlabel, rotation=-90, va="bottom")

    # We want to show all ticks...
    ax.set_xticks(np.arange(data.shape[1]))
    ax.set_yticks(np.arange(data.shape[0]))

    # Let the horizontal axes labeling appear on top.
    ax.tick_params(top=False, bottom=True,
                   labeltop=False, labelbottom=True)

    # Turn spines off and create white grid.
    for edge, spine in ax.spines.items():
        spine.set_visible(False)

    '''
    ax.grid(which="minor", color="w", linestyle='-', linewidth=3)
    plt.setp(ax.get_xticklabels(), visible=False)
    plt.setp(ax.get_yticklabels(), visible=False)
    ax.tick_params(axis='both', which='both', length=0)
    '''
    # Adjust tick boundaries based on min/max
    ax.xaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(0, 1000, 200))
    ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.FormatStrFormatter('%0.1f'))
    ax.yaxis.set_ticks(np.arange(0, 220, 20))
    ax.yaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.FormatStrFormatter('%0.1f'))

    ax.grid(which="minor", color="w", linestyle='-', linewidth=3)

    return im, cbar

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

im, cb = heatmap(np.random.rand(220, 1000), ax=ax,
        cmap="jet", aspect='auto')

closeax = plt.axes([0.8, 0.025, 0.1, 0.04])
drpax = plt.axes([0.15, 0.025, 0.50, 0.03])

axcolor = 'lightgoldenrodyellow'

# Button location
button = Button(closeax, 'Close', color=axcolor, hovercolor='0.975')
def close_fig(evt):
    plt.close()
button.on_clicked(close_fig)

sdrp = Slider(drpax, 'Slider', 1, 10000, valinit=10000, valstep=1)

plt.ion()
plt.show()

while True:
    ax.cla()
    plt.cla()

    im, cb = heatmap(np.random.rand(220, 1000), ax=ax,
        cmap="jet", cbar=False, aspect='auto')

    fig.canvas.draw()
    plt.pause(0.001)

matplotlib.axes.Axes.imshow
matplotlib.pyplot.imshow
matplotlib.figure.Figure.colorbar
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What is a Youtube Network?
An organization that actively supports the development of online content creators, primarily on the YouTube platform. Partners within a YouTube network receive premium advertisements on their content, as well as features and support that are distinct to each network.
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3 Tips for Female Entrepreneurs
By Rohit Arora Published September 11, 2012 FOXBusiness
Small businesses, generally defined as firms with fewer than 500 employees with annual revenues of less than $2.5 million, represent 99% of all employer firms. Their importance in the economy cannot be overstated as small companies provide jobs for more than half of the nation's private workforce and are responsible for generating nearly two-thirds of the new jobs over the past 15 years. They pay 44% of total U.S. private payroll and comprise 97% of all U.S. exporters, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Advocacy's Research and Statistics.
Women-owned small businesses are growing at a strong rate. Approximately 22% of new registrants on my company's lending platform in July 2012 were owned by women. Overall, more than 8.3 million firms -- or 29% of all businesses -- are now owned by women. Surprisingly, women-owned businesses employ 40% more people than the top three employers (McDonald's, IBM and Wal*Mart) in the U.S. combined, and between 1997 and 2012, they grew at a pace that was 1.5 times the national average, according to American Express OPEN's State of Women-Owned Businesses Report.
Certainly the Presidential candidates are taking notice. Party leaders at both conventions emphasized what their platform will do for women. They additionally reinforced how they plan to grow the economy and help support small businesses.
As summer vacations have ended and a new school year begins, many stay-at-home moms have started thinking about starting their own home-based businesses. This is a natural occurrence. Additionally, women who work in corporate jobs or for smaller firms owned by someone else often reassess their work-life balance during the summer, particularly if they have gone on vacation and taken some time to evaluate their goals and dreams. I know this because September usually brings an uptick in the number of entrepreneurs searching for capital.
Fortunately, there is no shortage of resources for budding female entrepreneurs. The SBA, for starters, offers a number of resources to women entrepreneurs including the Women's Business Centers Directory, the National Women's Business Council, and the Gateway for Women-Owned Businesses Selling to the Government.
SCORE, a nonprofit association of retired executives, works with the SBA to act as "Counselors to America's Small Business." The organization is comprised of 11,500 volunteer business counselors throughout the U.S. who are trained to serve as mentors to aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. These services are offered free of charge as a community service. Budding entrepreneurs can get assistance online or in person by visiting their local SCORE office, and by attending a business workshop or making a face-to-face appointment with a mentor. SCORE also produces eNewsletters that offer business tips from and interviews with leading experts. Since the organization was formed in 1964, nearly 4.5 million Americans have utilized SCORE services.
SCORE counselors can help in the development of business plans, which are crucial for any start-up business. Since a new enterprise has not yet developed a track record of success, a well written business plan is essential to securing capital from a bank or other lender.
In addition to connecting with SBA and SCORE resources, below are a few more tips for women who are looking to grow their own small business:
No. 1: Get certified as a woman-owned business
Obtaining certification as a woman-owned small business opens opportunities to win contracts from certain government agencies.
No. 2: Join the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)
The organization helps women entrepreneurs by:
• Strengthening the wealth-creating capacity of its members
• Promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community
• Creating innovative and effective change in the business culture
• Building strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations, and
• Transforming public policy and influencing opinion makers
No. 3: Take advantage of technology
The Internet can make life easier and more efficient in many ways. You can research the local marketplace and identify what the competition is like in the business field you want to pursue. Further, women business owners can and should make use of social media to market their products and services. Being highlighted by an influential blogger whose interests match what your business offers can be much more valuable than getting on a local TV newscast.
Additionally, the convergence of media also means that if your company gets covered by traditional media (TV, radio, magazine, newspaper), you can repackage this coverage via platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. (Social media is inexpensive, but it has its costs -- either in terms or your own time or the cost of hiring an employee or p.r. firm that can handle these marketing duties.)
This opinion column was written by Rohit Arora, co-founder and CEO of Biz2Credit, an online resource that connects small business owners with 1,100+ lenders, credit rating agencies, and service providers such as CPAs and attorneys via its Internet platform. Since 2007, Biz2Credit has secured more than $600 million in funding for thousands of small businesses across the U.S.


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>Business History Review
>Volume 57 Issue 4
>Entrepreneurial Traditionalism in Nineteenth-Century...
Entrepreneurial Traditionalism in Nineteenth-Century France: A Study of the Patronage industriel des enfants de l'ébénisterie
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 June 2012
Lee Shai Weissbach
Lee Shai Weissbach is assistant professor of history at theUniversity of Louisville.
The late nineteenth century was a critical epoch in the history of French industry. During this period, many French industrialists adopted, for the first time, entrepreneurial attitudes towards business. At the same time, however, traditional skilled trades continued to play an important role in the national economy. In this article, Professor Weissbach explores the attitudes and practices of nineteenth-century entrepreneurs in the French luxury trade. By focusing specifically on the Patronage industriel des enfants de l'ébénisterie—an organization established to assist, educate, and moralize children apprentices in the French furniture industry—Weissbach reveals that traditional and entrepreneurial attitudes and practices coexisted throughout the nineteenth century.
Business History Review , Volume 57 , Issue 4 , Winter 1983 , pp. 548 - 565
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3114813[Opens in a new window]
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1983
1 See Landes, David S., The Unbound Prometheus (Cambridge, Eng., 1969), 193ffGoogle Scholar; Palmade, Guy P., French Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century, Holmes, Greame M., trans. (New York, 1972), 116ffGoogle Scholar; and Wilken, Paul H., Entrepreneurship: A Comparative and Historical Study (Norwood, N.J., 1979), 102ff.Google Scholar
2 O'Brien, Patrick and Keyder, Caglar, Economic Growth in Britain and France, 1780–1914 (London, 1978), 192Google Scholar; Caron, François, An Economic History of Modern France, Bray, Barbara, trans. (New York, 1979), 101.Google Scholar
3 See Chambre de commerce de Paris, Statistique de l'industrie à Paris … pour l'année 1860 (Paris, 1864), XXII–XXIII.Google Scholar
4 The best sources of information on the nature and structure of nineteenth-century cabinetmaking in Paris are Office du travail, Rapport sur l'apprentissage dans les industries de l'ameublement (Paris, 1905)Google Scholar, passim; Pierre du Maroussem, Ébénistes du faubourg Saint-Antoine, vol. 2 of La question ouvrière (Paris, 1892)Google Scholar, passim; and Mayet, Charles, La crise industrielle: L'ameublement (Paris, 1883)Google Scholar, passim.
5 Viaux, Jacqueline, French Furniture, Paget, Hazel, trans. (New York, 1964), 175, 187–88.Google Scholar
6 Office du travail, Apprentissage, 97.
7 See Office du travail, Apprentissage, 86, 101; Dieterle and Pollen, J. H., "Meubles de luxe" in Chevalier, Michel, ed., Exposition universelle de 1867 à Paris: Rapports du jury international (Paris, 1868), vol. 3, 30Google Scholar; Vachon, Marius, "Les meubles" in Gonse, Louis, ed., Exposition universelle de 1878: Les beaux-arts et les arts decoratifs (Paris, 1879), vol. 2, 384, 402.Google Scholar
8 See Weissbach, Lee Shai, "Artisanal Responses to Artistic Decline: The Cabinetmakers of Paris in the Era of Industrialization" in Journal of Social History 26 (Winter 1982).Google Scholar
9 See [Octave] Gréard, "Des écoles d'apprentis" (Paris, 1872), passim; Anderson, R. D., Education in France, 1848–1870 (Oxford, 1975), 193ff.Google Scholar
10 Information on the history of the Lemoine firm can be gleaned from Ledoux-Lebard, Denis, Les ébénistes parisiens du XIXe siècle —1795–1870: Leurs oeuvres et leurs marques (Paris, 1965), 298, 340, 348–49Google Scholar; and Viaux, Furniture, 134, 158. The most important sources of information on the founding and the functioning of the Patronage industriel are "Déposition de M. Lemoine" in Ministère de l'instruction publique et des beaux-arts, Commission d'enquête sur la situation des ouvriers et des industries d'art (Paris, 1884), 5–12Google Scholar; J. Fresson, "Le Patronage industriel des enfants de l'ébénisterie" (Paris, 1884); and J. Boison, "Patronage industriel des enfants de l'ébénisterie" (Paris, 1904). See also Maroussem, Ébénistes, 241–45; and Office du travail, Apprentissage, 208–15.
11 Maroussem, Ébénistes, 220–21.
12 In the middle of the nineteenth century, some 72 percent of all the cabinetmakers of Paris were in the arrondissement of the faubourg Saint-Antoine, as were 57 percent of all Paris furniture shops. See Chambre de commerce de Paris, Statistique de l'industrie à Paris … pour les années 1847–1848 (Paris, 1851), pt. 2, 157.Google Scholar
13 Quoted in Office du travail, Apprentissage, 162.
14 Fresson, "Patronage," 39.
15 J. Fresson, "Le meuble: La corporation des menuisiers-ébénistes" (Paris, 1887), 63.
16 Fresson, "Meuble," 62.
17 "Déposition de M. Lemoine," 12.
18 "Déposition de M. Lemoine," 5.
19 See Weissbach, Lee Shai, Qu'on ne coupe le blé en herbe: A History of Child Labor Legislation in Nineteenth-Century France (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1975)Google Scholar, passim.
20 Dolfus-Francoz, Eugène, Essai historique sur la condition légale du mineur, apprenti, ouvrier d'industrie, ou employé de commerce (Paris, 1900), 51–52.Google Scholar
23 Fresson, "Patronage," 21 ff; Boison, "Patronage," 1ff.
24 "Dèposition de M. Lemoine," 7.
25 Boison, "Patronage," 8. See also Office du travail, Apprentissage, 213.
26 Detailed reports on the annual fêtes at which the Patronage awarded its prizes were often carried in the Bulletin de la Société de protection des apprentis et enfants employés dans les manufactures; see for example vol. 8 (1875), 283–92, and vol. 11 (1878), 530–42.
27 Fourteen percent (by value) of the furniture produced in Paris was exported, according to Chambre de commerce de Paris, Statistique … pour l'année 1860, XLV.
28 "Déposition de M. Lemoine," 7, 8, 11. See also Office du travail, Apprentissage, 163.
30 Maroussem, Ébénistes, 243.
31 See "Déposition de M. Lemoine," 6; Fresson, "Patronage," 12. For more on the entrepreneurial desire for a return to corporatism, see also the following work by the son of one of the original supporters of the Patronage industriel: Fourdinois, Henri, Etude économique et sociale sur l'ameublement (Paris, 1894).Google Scholar
32 An excellent study of paternalism in the nineteenth century, useful for understanding the situation in France, is Roberts, David, Paternalism in Early Victorian England (New Brunswick, N.J., 1979).Google Scholar See also Perrot, Michelle, "The Three Ages of Industrial Discipline in Nineteenth-Century France" in Merriman, John M., ed., Consciousness and Class Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe (New York, 1979).Google Scholar
33 On French views of working-class childhood in the mid-nineteenth century, see Donzelot, Jacques, The Policing of Families, Hurley, Robert, trans. (New York, 1979)Google Scholar; and Lee Shai Weissbach, "Child Labor Reform under the Second Empire" (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, December 1981).
34 The first three patronages organized along craft lines were all established in 1866, and they were those in cabinetmaking, in wallpaper production, and in artificial-flower making; see Barreswil, "Deuxième rapport sur la situation des enfants employés dans les manufactures du département de la Seine" (Paris, 1866). The patronage in flower making is briefly described in Boxer, Marilyn J., "Women in Industrial Homework: The Flowermakers of Paris in the Belle Epoque" in French Historical Studies 12 (Spring 1982), 411–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
36 Fresson, "Patronage," 17–18.
38 Fresson, "Patronage," 19; "Déposition de M. Lemoine," 6.
39 An invitation to the Patronage's second annual ball is preserved in the Archives nationales (Paris), carton F17–12529.
40 See for example Caron, Economic History, 39–47.
41 The 1904 budget of the Patronage is reported in Boison, "Patronage," 14. The Paris municipality was covering half of the Patronage's budget at least as early as 1892: see Maroussem, Ébénistes, 245.
42 "Déposition de M. Lemoine," passim; Garenc, Paule, L'industrie du meuble en France (Paris, 1957), 110Google Scholar; Boison, J., L'enseignement technique des industries du meuble (Paris, 1905)Google Scholar, passim.
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Manuel T. Fuentebella was the Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Camarines Sur's 2nd District from 1925 to 1931 in the 7th and 8th Philippine Legislature. He is a great orator, writer, and composer.

Early life and education
Manuel Fuentebella was born on October 11, 1889, in Sagñay, Ambos Camarines to then Ambos Camarines Governor Mariano Fuentebella and Perpetua Tria. His brother was former legislator ambassador and foreign affairs adviser Jose Fuentebella. He graduated from the University of Santo Tomas medical school and practiced medicine in his hometown of Sagñay.

Political and professional career
He was elected to the 7th and 8th Philippine Legislature as a representative of Camarines Sur and served two terms from 1925 to 1931.

During his term in Congress, he chaired the Philippine Assembly's Committee on Women's Suffrage and was instrumental in the passage of the law that gave women the right to vote. He also proposed a hospital to be set up in each municipality and led medical missions in Camarines Sur.

His first love was writing. An ardent nationalist, he wrote poems in Spanish and Bicol about love and patriotism, notably "The Arrow" which describes the arrow that native Bul-og shot against the Lion of Castille and the Eagle of America.

He was also an orator and a composer. His early musical compositions, presented by nephews and cousins, were staged in the towns.

Manuel stepped away from the public limelight to continue his medical practice, but politics never left him and he remained an adviser to his brother Jose.

The Dr. Manuel Fuentebella Memorial Hospital in Sagñay is named after him.

Death
He died of a heart attack on February 26, 1955.

References

 Building Institutions: The Fuentebella Legacy by Coylee Gamboa
 http://www.congress.gov.ph/ Official Congress Website

1889 births
1955 deaths
Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Camarines Sur
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Understanding calculus is central to understanding machine learning! You can think of calculus as simply a set of tools for analysing the relationship between functions and their inputs. Often, in machine learning, we are trying to find the inputs which enable a function to best match the data. We start this module from the basics, by recalling what a function is and where we might encounter one. Following this, we talk about the how, when sketching a function on a graph, the slope describes the rate of change of the output with respect to an input. Using this visual intuition we next derive a robust mathematical definition of a derivative, which we then use to differentiate some interesting functions. Finally, by studying a few examples, we develop four handy time saving rules that enable us to speed up differentiation for many common scenarios.
calculating derivatives can be quite tedious.
to avoid working through the limit of rise over run operation whenever possible.
So far, we've met the sum rule and the power rule.
of two functions, which sensibly enough is called the product rule.
it doesn't really help you to develop much insight into what's going on.
rather than just watching me going through examples.
So, let's see if we can make any progress by drawing things.
the other side is the function g(x).
area, which we can call A(x).
is the change in area of our rectangle as we vary x.
a particular friendly pair of functions, where they both happen to increase with x.
However, this won't necessarily always be the case.
But it does just make drawing things a lot easier.
And the conclusions would ultimately be the same.
one of which was our original area, A(x).
As the total edge length along the top, is now f(x + delta x).
the original width and the new width.
And of course, the same logic applies to the height.
which we will call delta A.
This is the sum of the area of the three new rectangles.
I want to avoid a drawn out conversation about limits.
it's the smallest rectangle that is going to shrink the fastest.
leave its contribution to the area out of our differential expression altogether.
approximating delta x, we return to our original question.
What is the derivative of A with respect to x?
which means we also need to divide the right hand side by delta x.
We are so close at this point, all we need to do is slightly rearrange this equation.
by moving f(x) and g(x) out of the numerators.
the derivative of g(x), and the second part contains the derivative of f(x).
the derivative of A with respect to x, which has now just been reduced to this.
The derivative of A(x) is just f(x) g'(x) + g(x) f'(x).
So, we can now add the product rule to the list of tools in our calculus toolbox.
we simply find the sum of f(x) g'(x), and g(x), f'(x).
as we start to deal with some more complicated functions.


Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda has ended, our purpose is to show support for the proposed spinoff series.
This website also serves as an archive for three official Andromeda websites that no longer exist: All Systems University, Andromeda Ascendant, and Seamus Harper's website. Searching the Internet archives as well as assistance from fellow fans has allowed us to preserve those websites for the future.
Andromeda fans can send email and letters to the following addresses in support of the series.
Thank them, encourage, looking forward, all the usual stuff.
Here is a sample messge you can use to send to the addresses shown above.
First off I would like to thank you for picking up the show Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda and continuing it for another season. Thank you very much.
I am asking you to please consider picking up the spinoff series that is now under development. I would watch the spinoff series even though Kevin Sorbo won't be a member of the cast. I think you will find that there are a great number of others who feel the same.
After you send your letter, please visit the Andromeda discussion forum and contribute your ideas for the campaign.


An introduction to graphic novels: what they are, a brief history, how to develop a collection, and facing challenges.
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Inspire kids to become lifelong readers with Panel Power, a CBLDF resource that provides an introduction to comics and background on why they're good for kids! A tool for battling misconceptions about the format and filled with information about the benefits of comics, activities, and reading recommendations for engaging kids with comics, Panel Power is an essential resource for retailers, educators, librarians, and parents! Panel Power features all new cover artwork by Matthew Loux (SideScrollers, The Time Museum). Read Panel Power below and at comiXology, or pick up a copy at comic book stores around the country! Bundles are also available in the CBLDF Rewards Zone.
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9/10/14: An RNCM Brand New Day featuring my new orchestral piece "One Cliché After Another" conducted by Piero Lombardi, which has already gained notoriety! I'll hopefully upload bits of this soon.
12/10/14: A reunion with Sounds of the Engine House for their composition competition workshops. Three composers were chosen for the final workshops from over 80 submissions and hopefully it was useful for the composers Andrew Crossley, Francesca Le Lohé and Yfat Soul Zisso who were selected.
15/10/14: Was used throughout the night in the second Classical Evolution gig in Night & Day Café, with an impromptu rendition of the Albinoni Oboe Concerto in D minor alongside my more standard calling as a new music oboist with a set featuring my flute and oboe duet "Hybrid Sounds" (which was given its first outing with flautist Maria Chybowska) and "Inhibited Tendencies" for solo oboe.


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Joseph Jack Kirkland Presented with Uwe D. Neue Award at HPLC2013
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The first Uwe D. Neue Award was presented at HPLC 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Joseph Jack Kirkland on June 18, 2013.
The first Uwe D. Neue Award was presented at HPLC 2013 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Joseph Jack Kirkland on June 18, 2013. Martin Gilmar and Georges Guichon presented Kirkland with the award, which was followed by a keynote presentation called Optimized Superficially Porous Particles for Protein Analysis, given by Kirkland, a former senior scientist at Agilent Technologies (Santa Clara, California) and current vice president of research and development at Advanced Materials Technology (Strongsville, Ohio).
The award, named for the late Uwe Neue, an outstanding liquid chromatographer who had a 34-year career with Waters Corporation, is presented to an industrial scientist who, like Uwe, has made significant contributions to the field of separation science and has strived to see these implemented in commercial products.


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Wybory parlamentarne na Litwie w 2004 roku odbyły się w dwóch turach: 10 i 24 października 2004.

70 mandatów rozdzielono w okręgu większościowym z list krajowych między ugrupowania, które przekroczyły wynoszący 5% próg wyborczy, 71 posłów wybrano w okręgach jednomandatowych.

Listy krajowe wystawiło 15 ugrupowań, w tym dwa bloki – Koalicja Rolandasa Paksasa "Porządek i Sprawiedliwość" (Partia Liberalno-Demokratyczna i Litewski Związek Ludowy) oraz Koalicja Algirdasa Brazauskasa i Artūrasa Paulauskasa (Litewska Partia Socjaldemokratyczna i Nowy Związek).

Kandydaci Aliansu Rosjan startowali z ramienia Związku Partii Chłopskiej i Nowej Demokracji, a Młodej Litwy na listach KKSS. Polska Partia Ludowa wystawiła kandydatów wyłącznie w okręgach jednomandatowych.

Frekwencja w I turze wyniosła 45,93% uprawnionych do głosowania, zaś w II turze 40,21%.

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Aside from documenting the surrounding landscapes of Pissaro's hometown Osny, a countryside near Pontoise; Camille Pissarro also made its inhabitants as his subjects in his works. This particular painting is a domestic and intimate one. The Little Country Maid features a young lady cleaning the dining room, the setting of which is the artist's house. As common among Impressionist artists, the painting cuts off objects at the edges. This gives the work a sense of immediacy which is what Impressionism likes to capture. However, the brushstrokes used by the artist started to deviate from his Impressionist sensibility. The strokes are feathery and small, marking Pissarro's move towards Neo-Impressionism.


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A Filmmaker's Guide to Music Licensing
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following blog originally ran on filmindependent.org in 2015 and remains one of our most-read articles. We're republishing it here, with minor edits to the original text. Special thanks to the author, blogger Lorena Alvarado.
Filmmakers often feel so attached to a song that it becomes a crucial and indispensable element of their story. A scene, or even an entire film, can revolve around a single piece of music. What many directors don't realize is that the process of clearing that song can be very difficult and expensive. Brooke Wentz, the music supervisor behind Kings Point, Bully and Bill Cunningham New York cleared up some of the confusion and little-known realities of music licensing during a recent Film Independent education event.
The most important thing to know is that there are two rights to every song. There is the person who wrote the song (who holds the publisher rights, aka "sync" rights) and the person who recorded it (who holds the "master" rights). To use this piece of music you need permission from both entities. You can listen to a song like "All Along the Watchtower" by Jimi Hendrix, but you may not know that the writer is Bob Dylan. To determine who owns the rights to songs, the websites ascap.com and bmi.com are extremely helpful.
Once you've determined who owns the publishing and the master, you must contact them separately and ask for permission to use the song. This can get tricky when there are a lot of songwriters involved. Katy Perry's song "California Gurls," for instance, has five publishers. Therefore, if you wanted to clear this tune you would need approval from all five of the writers and on top of that you would need approval from Katy Perry. If one of them says no, then unfortunately you can't use the song.
WENTZ'S TOP SIX SECRETS FOR MUSIC LICENSING
1. For film festival rights, most songs can be cleared at around $500 per side ($500 for the publishers, $500 for the master). If you don't have enough money in your budget to pay for all the rights up front, you can clear only the film festival rights and add an option to get all media rights up to two years later.
2. The fee is the same regardless of the duration of the cue. If you use a song for five seconds or two minutes, it will cost you the same amount of money. The only exception to this is if the song is used over beginning or end credits.
3. The rate for a piece of music is negotiable! Most filmmakers don't know that they can offer a lower price, or if the artist likes the subject matter of the film, they might offer a better rate.
4. If you think a song is in the public domain, double check. "I had a client who thought 'My Sweet Lord' was in the public domain," Wentz explained. "I said 'Nope, I'm pretty sure that's a George Harrison song.'"
5. If you've contacted the publisher and masters and have not heard back from them, this does not mean an approval. It might be frustrating if they are not getting back to you, but you have to keep pushing. If you do not clear the rights for a song, you could receive a "cease and desist" letter from the rights holder which could incur fees.
6. If you are doing a music documentary, you must make sure you can secure the rights beforehand. If the estate or the artist is not on board you will not be able to use the music. Many deceased musicians' rights are owned by their spouse or ex-spouse—or both. Certain songs might never be clearable just because of inner conflicts that have nothing to do with you or your movie.
Filmmakers can get charged higher fees because they don't know the numbers. That's why it's useful to have someone that knows about clearance to be the middleman. Brooke Wentz's company, The Rights Workshop, helps filmmakers secure the appropriate rights for any budget. Brooke recently worked on a film that got distribution at a festival and needed to expand the rights. She was shocked to discover that the director had licensed the songs himself and got charged five times what the fees should have been. Ouch!
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Right: Swede White and the author commentating. Left: Stephen Wolfram and the author.
Use the Wolfram Data Repository to obtain the titles of the books in Stephen Wolfram's library that were used during the creation of A New Kind of Science. Return the longest title from this list as a string.
Find the country whose Polygon is closest to a disk. More specifically, find the country that minimizes . Work in the equirectangular projection. Return a Country entity. Do not use GeoVariant.
The second question turned out to be quite challenging for our contestants—knowledge of a certain function, DiscretizeGraphics, was essential to solving the question, and many contestants had to spend precious time tracking down this function in the Wolfram Language documentation.
Plot the dates of birth of the six astronauts/cosmonauts who were crewmembers on the most manned space missions. Return a TimelinePlot (a Graphics object) called with an association of Person entity -> DateObject rules, with all options at their defaults.
The contestants stumbled a bit in interpreting the third question, but they figured it out relatively quickly. However, some technical issues led to some exciting drama as the judges deliberated on who to hand the third-place point to. Stephen made a surprise return to the commentators' table to talk about astronaut Michael Foale's unique connection to Wolfram Research and Mathematica. I highly recommend reading Michael's fascinating keynote address, Navigating on Mir, given at the 10th-anniversary Mathematica Conference.
Only one US state (excluding the District of Columbia) has a geographic centroid located within the polygon of its capital city. Find that state and return it as an AdministrativeDivision entity.
Wolfram Algorithms R&D department researcher José Martín-García joined the commentators' table for the fourth question. José worked on the geographic computation functionality in the Wolfram Language, and helped explain to our audience some of the technical aspects of this question, such as the mathematical concept of a geometric centroid. Solving this question involved the same DiscretizeGraphics function that tripped up contestants on question 2, but it seems that this time they were prepared, and produced their solutions much more quickly.
Retrieve the material color of each Element in the periodic table, as given by the Color interpreter. Discard any Missing or Colorless values, and return a PieChart Graphics object with a sector for each color, where each sector's width is proportional to the number of elements with that color, and the sector is styled with the color. Sort the colors into canonical order by count before generating the pie chart, so the sector sizes are in order.
The fifth question was, lengthwise, the most verbose in this year's competition. For every question, the goal is to provide as much clarity as possible regarding the expected format of the answer (as well as its content), which this question demonstrates well. The last sentence is particularly important, as it specifies that the pie "slices" are expected to be in ascending order by size, which ensures that the pie chart looks the same as the expected result. This aspect took our contestants a few tries to pin down, but they eventually got it.
The neural net model NetModel["Wolfram English Character-Level Language Model V1"] predicts the next character in a string of English text. Nest this model 30 times (generating 30 new characters) on the first sentence in the Gettysburg Address, as given by ExampleData and TextSentences. Return a string.
The sixth question makes use of not only the Wolfram Language's unique symbolic support for neural networks, but also the recently launched Wolfram Neural Net Repository. You can read more about the repository in its introductory blog post.
This particular neural network, the Wolfram English Character-Level Language Model V1, is trained to generate English text by predicting the most probable next character in a string. The results here might be improbable to hear from President Lincoln's mouth, but they do reflect the fact that part of this model's training data consists of old news articles!
Of the many total solar eclipses to occur between now and December 31st, 2100, two will happen during the same year. Find that year and return it as an integer.
For the seventh and last question of the night, our judges decided to skip ahead to the tenth question on their list! We hadn't expected to get to this question in the competition and so hadn't lined up an expert commentator. But as it turns out, José Martín-García knows a fair bit about eclipses, and he kindly joined the commentators' table on short notice to briefly explain eclipse cycles and the difference between partial and total solar eclipses. Check out Stephen's blog post about the August 2017 solar eclipse for an in-depth explanation with excellent visualizations.
At the end of the competition, the third-place contestant, going under the alias "AieAieAie," was unmasked as Etienne Bernard, lead architect in Wolfram's Advanced Research Group (which is the group responsible for the machine learning functionality of the Wolfram Language, among other wonderful features).
The contestant going by the name "Total Annihilation" (Carlo Barbieri, consultant in the Advanced Research Group) and the 2015 Wolfram Innovator Award recipient Philip Maymin tied for second place, and both won limited-edition Tech CEO mini-figures!
Left: Philip Maymin. Right: Tech CEO mini-figure.
The first-place title of champion and the championship belt (as well as a Tech CEO mini-figure) went to the contestant going as "RiemannXi," Chip Hurst!
Note the slightly different approaches—the first solution gets the "Crew" property (a list) of every "MannedSpaceMission" entity, flattens the resulting list and counts the occurrences of each "Person" entity within that, while Philip's solution takes the aforementioned list and checks the length of the "MannedSpaceMission" property for each "Person" entity in it. These are both perfectly valid techniques (although Philip's didn't even occur to me as a possibility when I wrote this question), and in theory should both produce the exact same result, as they're both accessing the same conceptual information, just through slightly different means. But they don't, and it turns out Philip's result is actually the correct one! Why is this?
Well, that's clearly wrong! There's a "Person" entity for Jerry Lynn Ross in there, but it doesn't match the entity that canonically represents him within the Knowledgebase. I've reported this inaccuracy, along with a few other issues, to our data curation team, and I expect it will be addressed soon. Thanks to Philip for bringing this to our attention!
The inaugural Wolfram Language Livecoding Competition took place at the 2016 Wolfram Technology Conference, and the following year's competition in 2017 was the first to be livestreamed. We held something of a test-run for this year's competition at the Wolfram Summer School in June, for which I also composed questions and piloted an experimental second, concurrent livestream for behind-the-scenes commentary. At this year's Technology Conference we merged these two streams into one, physically separating the contestants from the commentators to avoid "contaminating" the contestant pool with our commentary. We also debuted a new semiautomated grading system, which eased the judges' workload considerably. Each time we've made some mistakes, but we're slowly improving, and I think we've finally hit upon a format that's both technically feasible and entertaining for a live audience. We're all looking forward to the next competition!
Congratulations, Chip and the others!
Wish I was there this year to see it. See you next year!
Competitions questions look like a lot of fun! Nice job, Jesse!


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'Absolute warrior' – Man City fans praise Aymeric Laporte as he reveals injury sacrifice
Manchester City's players dug extremely deep to overturn a two-goal deficit to win the Premier League title on the final day, but it appears that one man in particular went the extra mile to play his part for the team.
On Wednesday Blues defender Aymeric Laporte announced that he will not be joining up with the Spanish national team for their UEFA Nations League fixtures next month due to an injury sustained against Wolves a couple of weeks ago that requires further treatment.
"I've been uncomfortable with my knee since Wolves, but I wanted to help City until the end, and I am glad I did," Laporte wrote in a social media post.
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"Now that the season is over I will follow the medical process and start rehab to get back to full fitness quickly."
That means that Laporte effectively played injured in City's final two games of the season, come-from-behind draws and wins against West Ham and Villa respectively.
On Twitter, City fans have been quick to praise the centre-back for his commitment and selfless attitude at a time when Pep Guardiola could not afford to lose any more of his defenders to injury.
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ASCEND: Aspirin Not Needed for Primary Prevention in Diabetes
Sue Hughes
MUNICH — The benefit of aspirin on reducing vascular events did not outweigh the increased risk for serious bleeding in a new large primary prevention trial in patients with diabetes.
In the ASCEND trial, aspirin significantly reduced the risk for serious vascular events by 12% but also significantly increased the risk for major bleeding by 29%. No effect on gastrointestinal or any other cancer was seen.
"I think we now have to consider very carefully whether aspirin is necessary," concluded co-lead investigator, Jane Armitage, MD, professor of clinical trials and epidemiology and honorary consultant in public health medicine at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
"In our trial, patients generally had good control of blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol and a high percentage of nonsmokers, so under these circumstances I would say that aspirin is not needed," she concluded.
Armitage presented the trial here at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) 2018 Congress. It was also published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
As background, Armitage noted that aspirin is well established as beneficial in secondary prevention of heart disease and it is fairly well accepted not to be beneficial for general primary prevention, but diabetic patients represent a high-risk primary prevention group and its effect on this population is uncertain. She said European guidelines currently suggest that aspirin may be considered on an individual basis for primary prevention in diabetic patients and the US guidelines encourage its use a little more strongly.
Commenting on the study for theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology, Ileana L. Piña, MD, MPH, professor of medicine and associate chief of cardiology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York City, and a spokesperson for the American Heart Association, said, "ASCEND was a very nicely done trial. It gives us pause to look at the guidelines again."
The ASCEND trial involved 15,480 UK patients with diabetes aged 40 years or older (average, 63 years) with no baseline cardiovascular disease. They were randomly assigned to aspirin 100 mg daily or placebo and followed for an average 7.4 years.
After some crossovers, the difference in antiplatelet use between the two groups at the end of the study was 69%.
The primary efficacy outcome was the first serious vascular event (myocardial infarction, stroke or transient ischemic attack, or death from any vascular cause, excluding any confirmed intracranial hemorrhage). The primary safety outcome was the first major bleeding event (intracranial hemorrhage, sight-threatening bleeding event in the eye, gastrointestinal bleeding, or other serious bleeding).
Results showed that the aspirin group experienced significantly fewer serious vascular events but significantly more major bleeding events.
Table. ASCEND: Aspirin Results
Aspirin (%)
Placebo (%)
Rate Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)
Serious vascular events 8.5 9.6 0.88 (0.79 - 0.97) .01
Major bleeding 4.1 3.2 1.29 (1.09 - 1.52) .003
Overall, 91 patients would need to be treated to avoid a serious vascular event over a period of 7.4 years, and 112 to cause a major bleeding event, Armitage reported.
Some cardiologists believe there may still be a place for aspirin in certain primary prevention patients with diabetes.
Discussant of the study at the ESC Hotline session, Sigrun Halvorsen, MD, University of Oslo, Norway, pointed out that the average cardiovascular risk of patients in this study (1.3% per year) was lower than anticipated and that only 17% of the population was considered high risk.
"I would like to see more data in this high- risk population before totally excluding any role for aspirin in primary prevention," she said.
Professor Manel Sabate, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, told theheart.org | Medscape Cardiology that diabetic patients encompass a broad spectrum of disease.
"We have to try to individualize which patient may benefit from aspirin," he said. "Maybe we have to create scores to identify patients at high risk of bleeding and those at high risk of vascular events. Those at higher risk of vascular events include those with a longer history of diabetes, those not well controlled (HbA1c [hemoglobin A1c] levels > 8) and those with microvascular complications, which may indicate the heart is more at risk. I would still consider aspirin for these patients."
However, Armitage reported that similar balances of benefits and risks were seen in all the various subgroups investigated, including patients at low, intermediate, and high risk for heart disease.
"There is no group where the benefit clearly outweighed the risk," she stated.
Co-chair of the ESC press conference on ASCEND, François Schiele, MD, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, challenged Armitage as to whether a major bleed was equivalent to a serious vascular event. "I myself would rather have a major bleed as these are usually treatable whereas a major vascular event normally has permanent consequences" he said.
Armitage replied, "We haven't specifically done that analysis, and, yes, there is a feeling that a vascular event is more important than a bleed, but our bleeding endpoint was serious bleeds — serious enough to put people in hospital — and people can die from these serious bleeds. But, yes, this is a dilemma."
"What we've been able to do in this trial is count the bleeding very carefully, and we clearly show that bleeding increased with vascular risk and this needs to be more appreciated than it has in the past," she added.
In the NEJM paper, the researchers point out that approximately half the excess of bleeding was in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, with approximately one third in the upper GI tract, but that less than a quarter of participants were receiving proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs). They add: "It is possible that bleeding rates among aspirin users might be lower if PPIs were routinely used in these persons."
What About Cancer Risk?
Because previous studies have suggested that aspirin may be associated with a reduced risk for cancer — in particular, GI tract cancer — the ASCEND researchers also looked at this. But results showed no significant difference between the aspirin and placebo groups in the incidence of GI tract cancer (2.0% vs 2.0%), or all cancers (11.6% vs 11.5%).
"Previous observational studies and meta-analyses of selected randomized trials have suggested a reduced risk of GI cancer with aspirin but the observational studies have not been able to adjust for all confounding," Armitage said. "And the meta-analyses have only included selected trials. We have 7.5 years of follow-up, and we found no evidence of a reduction in the incidence of GI cancer or of cancer at any other site, even during the later years of follow-up. However, there were not enough cancer cases to obtain reliable power, so longer-term follow-up for these outcomes is planned."
ASCEND was a 2 x 2 factorial study that also investigated the effect of fish oil on vascular events in diabetic patients and found no benefit.
The ASCEND trial was supported by grants to the University of Oxford from the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, Bayer, Solvay, Abbott, and Mylan. Armitage reports grants from Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation, Bayer, Solvay and Abbott and Mylan during the conduct of the study.
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Bull Point is a 750-acre gated waterfront property off of U.S. 17 in northern Beaufort County not far from Old Sheldon Church ruins.
The community includes 300 home sites, from 2/3 of an acre up to 10 acres, according to its website. Community docks, three stocked ponds and a clubhouse are among the amenities.
Gavigan, who took over Bull Point in 2017, said in his court response that property owners had conspired to buy the development themselves in part with the help of the community funds and that the legal action was part of a strategy to tie up Gavigan's resources and eventually take over development rights. Gavigan countersued in court papers filed Tuesday, saying property owners defamed him and his business and asking for more than $1 million in damages.
Property owners asked a judge for an injunction requiring Gavigan and the board to adhere to earlier rules establishing an independent committee, not spend the reserve money unless approved by the committee and to provide proper accounting of the money.
The committee was made up of property owners and served as a protection for money the homeowners had contributed to the reserve fund via annual fees, attorney Dawes Cooke said during a hearing before Judge Marvin Dukes in Beaufort County court.
As part of an agreement reached during the hearing, the Bull Point board will provide public notice five days ahead of a meeting involving the use of reserve funds and must document how it plans to spend the money. Property owners can attend the meeting and money can't be spent until another five days after a board decision.
A fund to cover unexpected expenses for road maintenance, common areas, budget shortfalls due to unpaid dues and other similar emergency situations had grown to more than $900,000 by the end of October 2018, attorneys for the property owners said.
Issues arose when the board asked the committee for reserve money to pay for power and data services to some community lots and for legal fees related to a separate lawsuit related to Gavigan and an individual property owner. The committee approved $25,000 for the lot improvements but rejected the legal fees, Cooke said.
Gavigan then sent a letter to property owners announcing the board's decision to repeal rules related to the committee based on the community's operational needs, court filings show. In December, more than $120,000 was moved from the reserve fund, Cooke said.
The money was moved to a general fund and the bulk allocated for road work, with some directed to utilities, and legal fees for a property owners association attorney. The rest went paid for lingering storm damage, board member and retired federal forensic accounting investigator Chris Quick testified during the hearing. About $40,000 of the money has been spent, Quick said.
Before joining the board, Quick had been hired by Gavigan to audit the community's finances after Gavigan took over the development, Quick testified. He said his audit found that a previous development group including property owners had used reserve fund money to hire an attorney to explore the possibility of taking control of the development.
But Cooke said the attorney was hired only to protect the committee and reserve money. Property owners had explored the possibility of pursuing development rights to protect the community from a predatory investor, Cooke said, but the group dissolved when Gavigan took over.


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Q: Solar inverter stops drawing power from PV I have 3.2 kVA solar inverter with MPPT charge controller along with six  340 W solar panels installed. What I have noticed is that the inverter stops drawing power from PV though there is bright sun light. The inverter draw all power from utility only. In this phase, I have checked with the amp meter that there are no current even in wires coming from solar panels. But then I switch off utility to inverter and in few minutes inverter starts drawing power from PV and current come back in wires coming into inverter from PV modules.
This happens often during the day and I fail to understand why inverter is doing so because every time it is switched to utility all solar power is being wasted and I am still paying for utility.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
PS: Inverter is set to draw power first from PV then battery and then utility.

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Why can't the City prohibit all solicitation after dark?
Federal cases interpreting the First Amendment have consistently invalidated municipal ordinances that prohibit all soliciting before 9:00 PM.
Why do I have to display a "no soliciting" sign to participate in the registry?
The City will notify solicitors about the existence of the "Do Not Solicit" registry to the extent possible. However, the City will not be able to reach all individuals and groups who might solicit in Newport Beach. Although it is a violation of the NBMC to solicit or deliver handbills to any residence on the "Do Not Solicit" list, the "no soliciting" signs displayed at residences help counter a solicitor's argument that he or she did not have prior notice that the resident did not want to receive information.
What type of solicitation does a "No Soliciting" sign prevent?
1) Commercial solicitation: A "no soliciting" sign serves as notice to all door-to-door solicitors that the occupants of that dwelling do not want to receive unsolicited communication. The sign prohibits commercial solicitation, which includes many offers for the sale of goods or services. Commercial entities paid to raise funds for non-profit organizations are also considered commercial solicitation.
2) Noncommercial solicitation: A "no soliciting" sign also prohibits noncommercial solicitation, which includes political canvassing, religious proselytizing, opinion polling, and volunteers fundraising for non-profit organizations or other non-commercial causes.
3) Handbills: In addition, under the City's solicitation ordinance (NBMC Chapter 5.42), a "no soliciting" sign prohibits the delivery of handbills (as defined in the NBMC) to that home.
Newspapers and magazines are exempt from the solicitation ordinance. Please contact the publishers or distributors of those publications if you do not wish to receive unsolicited newspapers and magazines.
I already display a "no soliciting" sign, I'm on the "Do Not Solicit" registry, and I still get solicited. I also still get newspapers, magazines, and handbills I don't want delivered to my home. What can I do?
Solicitors: You can tell the solicitor that they are committing a misdemeanor, and that when the police arrive they will be subject to citation. To report violations in progress to the Newport Beach Police Department, please call its non-emergency dispatch line at (949) 644-3717. However, please be aware that under state law, police officers can issue citations only for infractions and misdemeanors that occur in the officers' presence. If the solicitation is from a commercial solicitor, you can also ask to see the solicitor's registration card. If a commercial solicitor is not carrying the card, this violation can also be reported to the Police Department and may present an enforcement opportunity.
Handbills: The NBMC requires that handbills include the name, address and phone number of the person responsible for the handbill. This information is required so that you can contact the person responsible for the handbill and tell them you don't want to receive any further handbills. After you have notified them, it is a violation of the NBMC if the same person's handbills are delivered to you again. (See NBMC section 5.42.120.) If there is no contact information on the handbill, or if the same person's handbills continue to arrive at your home after notification, contact the City's Code Enforcement Division at (949)644-3215. They may ask you to leave the handbill(s) in place until a Code Enforcement Officer can come to your home and document the presence of the handbill on your property.
Newspapers and magazines: Newspapers and magazines are exempt from the solicitation ordinance. (See NBMC section 5.42.030.E.) However, you are not legally required to receive newspapers and magazines that you do not want, so long as you have given notice to the distributors of those publications that you do not wish to receive deliveries. According to one published federal court decision, you have a private right of trespass if distributors continue to deliver after you have expressed your wish not to receive the materials.
Why is the City asking me to make the first contact with the handbill distributors?
When residents participate directly by expressing their wish not to receive handbills, it strengthens the City's legal position for defending the ordinance. This is an important consideration for both the City and the residents who want restrictions to be enforceable.
However, the need for residents to make initial contacts may decrease when handbill distributors become aware of the new "Do Not Solicit" list. There will probably be a period of transition, and the City appreciates residents' help in notifying solicitors and handbill distributors of the "Do Not Solicit" list.
I don't mind receiving solicitation from (pick your favorite charity or community organization), but I don't want to be solicited by (pick your least favorite political or religious affiliation.) Why can't the City prohibit (your least favorite political or religious affiliation)?
The First Amendment does not allow the City to regulate various types of noncommercial speakers differently, or make regulations based on the content of the speech. All City regulations on speech in this setting must be neutral as to the topic or content of the speech itself.
There's no contact information on the handbills I receive. What should I do?
You may give the handbills to the City's Code Enforcement Division for follow-up.


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Va 'Sanctuary' Counties, Militia Pledge to Defend Sheriffs, Citizens from Gun Grabbing Governor
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Surge Summary: Virginians are responding to threats from their Democratic governor and Democratic legislators to crimp their Second Amendment rights: a majority of counties are declaring themselves "Second Amendment sanctuary" counties; and one is crafting its own militia as well, thus making sure everyone in the civilian militia in that county can own a weapon.
Last weekend, in a report that is being ignored by the Deep State news media, the Virginia National Guard responded to a Democratic congressman from the state who suggested the governor could use armed guardsmen to enforce the Democrats' latest stab at a gun-control law.
Major General Timothy Williams, the Adjutant General of VNG, last Friday responded to the leftist Rep. Donald McEachin (D-VA), who warned gun owners last week that Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) may need to muster the National Guard if counties – especially those located in the Old Dominion — refuse to uphold any new gun-control legislation, according to a video posted at the bottom of this news story.
"We have received multiple questions regarding proposed legislation for the 2020 General Assembly session and the authority of the Governor of Virginia to employ the Virginia National Guard in a law enforcement role," Williams said in a statement posted to the official Virginia National Guard Twitter account
Those journalists, who actually covered this story, reported on how lawmakers in Virginia were threatening to use the National Guard if county sheriffs' offices and local police departments refused to enforce the law that they felt violated the Second Amendment.
Virginia's Tazewell County officials are not planning to go down without a fight. On top of calling themselves a Second Amendment sanctuary county, they're also crafting their own militia as well. The Virginian county has taken the movement that has swept across the state and added an element that is sure to trigger gun-grabbing politicians in the state, according to the magazine Law Enforcement Today.
On December 10th, the Board of Supervisors from Tazewell County passed two different resolutions in light of controversy circling those who are pro-gun. The first resolution declared the county to be a Second Amendment sanctuary. They join the 76 out of 95 counties, 9 out of 38 cities, and 13 towns that have adopted Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions.
The second item on the County's agenda was establishing a County volunteer militia. When both of the resolutions passed, the crowd cheered loudly in support of the decisions. The motion to create a militia had already succeeded in an unofficial way based on a poll conducted in early December by county officials.
There were three attorneys on the County Board of Supervisors. Many of the other declarations made from other counties in Virginia were closely checked by the three attorneys to ensure nothing important would be glossed over or left out.
The biggest factors in these resolutions are funding and prosecution.
County Administrator Eric Young reportedly considered that element, and that's why they opted for the militia aspect:
"Our position is that Article I, Section 13, of the Constitution of Virginia reserves the right to 'order' militia to the localities. Therefore, counties, not the state, determine what types of arms may be carried in their territory and by whom. So, we are 'ordering' the militia by making sure everyone can own a weapon."
Thus, if anyone from the state tries to remove the Sheriff from their elected office because they refuse to enforce unjust laws, those state officials will be faced with a lawful militia composed of citizens from within the state.
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There Is No Need To Worry About The Ominous Green Glowing "Goo" Coming From A Canadian Sinkhole
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2020 has thrown a lot of strange things our way, from gigantic robots to mysterious monoliths and ancient life "waking up" after 100 million years under the seafloor. So people weren't exactly shocked when a sinkhole emerged in Toronto, Canada with ominous green glowing goo inside.
The goo appeared to be the origin story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles playing out in real life, and everyone looked around at 2020 and thought "Yeah OK, seems about right."
In case you're unaware of the origin story of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, according to the comic books they were minding their own business in a fishbowl being carried by their owner when a truck collided with them, smashing the bowl and sending them into the New York sewers. The truck was carrying a radioactive isotope that turned the turtles into wisecracking human-like turtles capable of wielding nunchucks, rather than merely killing them as would likely happen in real life.
Thankfully, there's no need to worry about gigantic weaponized turtles roaming the streets of Toronto, for the ominous goo has a nice and reassuring explanation. The green goo, while still undrinkable, was a harmless dye put there by the City, in what is apparently a common practice.
"Toronto Water staff inspected the sinkhole yesterday evening. Sinkholes can be the result of a damaged or collapsed sewer," a spokesperson for the City told 680NEWS.
"In order to determine if the sinkhole is connected to the underlying sewer, a dye test was conducted using a green non-toxic dye, which is added to the sinkhole while monitoring the closest manhole downstream to look for traces of the dye in the sewer."
So if you ever see one of these glowing holes, we'd advise that you don't roll around in there to see if you get superpowers. All you'll do is turn green like the Hulk but without any of the associated super strength.
Similarly, while we're giving out life advice, try not to attempt to gain superpowers by deliberately getting yourself bitten by spiders. Earlier this year, three boys in Bolivia did precisely this and instead of becoming Spider-Men they ended up getting tremors, fevers, and a week-long stay in hospital. Which isn't quite as good.
The boys aged 8, 10, and 12 were herding goats when they spotted a spider with black and red markings that looked sort of like Spider-Man's markings in the comic books, but in real life are more like the markings of a black widow spider, which it was. Thankfully all three survived.


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Would you try another book from Craig Beck and/or the narrator?
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I enjoy these types of exercises. Only tiny mini gripe is - less mention of the author's website. Comes across as a bit phoney & naff, which I think spoils the authenticity of the product.
So... The track is 45mins in total. 25mins or more of that is Craig telling us all about his new pseudo religion and promoting his websites. The actual Hypnosis is 16mins long (approx) and that is made up of about 8mins of him talking... and then 8mins of silence and a few 'thunderclaps' and echos..
Most of the vocal/talk is things like "I am sorry for for picking up bad programming".... "I ask forgiveness from the universe for having negative thoughts"... Well, that kind of thing anyway.
I think Craig has developed a bit of a Jesus complex and the vocal/talk ends with "I forgive you. I love you. I love you. I love you."
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