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Tag: Rape culture
WELL, THIS IS A SILLY IDEA, BUT IT PROVIDES ME WITH AN INSPIRATION: Using A Pigouvian Tax To Reduce…
October 8, 2020 December 28, 2020 ~ karllembke
But I was inspired to think about a Pigouvian tax on a societal institution where that is clearly not the case: Higher Education. As we have been assured by all the leading authorities, 1 in 5 women who attend college is raped. We thus need to tax higher education institutions at a level sufficient to compensate the 20% of their female students who are victimized. Taxes laid on gross revenues would probably be passed on to students, so we'll need to tax the real stakeholders in universities who — since there are no shareholders — are faculty and staff. Assume an average damage of $1 million for a rape — surely no one would dare suggest a lower figure — multiply that by 20% of the female student body size, and apply that tax to faculty and staff salaries. That may not generate enough revenue, but we could also tax gross sports revenues — where taxes can't easily be passed on –to make up the difference.
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HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why does UNC have such a high sexual assault rate? Because it defin…
October 22, 2019 January 7, 2021 ~ karllembke
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why does UNC have such a high sexual assault rate? Because it defines nearly everything as sexual assault.
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Rape: Damned Lies And Statistics
June 18, 2019 January 13, 2021 ~ karllembke
If you torture data enough, it will tell you whatever you want.
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I've been writing on the social turmoil surrounding rape, and outlandish campus accusations of rape, for some time. I dealt with the issue most recently in Rape: The Consequences Of Bad Choices in June of 2016, and before that, Campus Rape And Social Justice: All Men Are Rapists in March of 2016 Perhaps most relevant to this article is Rape Investigation: Reality v. Narrative from March of 2015.
Contemporary urban conventional knowledge holds that 20-25% of all women attending college are rape victims. As Mark Twain wrote:
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
How to culture rape
Rape Accusations, Leftists, Blurred Lines, and poor Brett Kavanaugh
Item: Former Vice President Joe "Creepy Touch" Biden, when announcing that the Obama White House was creating a task force to address campus rape, stated "One in five of every one of those young women who is dropped off for that first day of school, before they finish school, will be assaulted in her college years."
In fact, that statistic goes far beyond being a lie or a damn lie. It's a complete fraud.
Here's the key takeaway:
[That "statistic"] comes from a study conducted over the internet at two large universities one in the Midwest and one in the South. The survey was anonymous no one's claims were verified and terms were not clearly defined. In round numbers, a total of 5,000 women participated. Based on their responses, the authors, not the participants, determined that 1,000 had been victims of some type of non-consensual or unwanted sexual contact and — voila! — from one vaguely worded unscientific survey we suddenly arrived at a rape culture on college campuses. Tellingly, the study authors have since explicitly stated that it's inappropriate to use their survey to make that claim. Much more comprehensive data from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics or "BJS" estimates that about one in 52.6 college women will be victims [sic] of rape or sexual assault over the course of four years. That's far too many, but it's a long way from one in five. The same BJS data also reveal that women in college are safer from rape than college aged women who are not enrolled in college — but the truth doesn't serve the purposes of feminist activists or vote seeking politicians. Lies work much better and the one in five claim is tantamount to a lie.
Let me say it again: the notion of a campus "rape culture" is a grotesque lie, based on a manifestly flawed study, that the Left peddles because it allow them to control young women and destroy young men. As Glenn Reynolds likes to point out, no sentient adult actually believes this statistic because no loving parent would ever allow his or her child to go to a place that has a rate rape comparable to the rate in South Africa, one of the most sexually violent countries in the world. The only ones who believe these statistics are college administrators and the terrified female students brought to heel by these statistical lies.
According to Time, a once reputable magazine, a Pentagon study claims that, at some military installations, more than 500 women, and quite a few men, are sexually assaulted every year:
A newly released Pentagon study revealed that many sexual assaults in the U.S. military occur across the globe at a relatively small number of bases and naval ships, including some installations where more than 500 incidents occurred in a single year.
The 119-page study, conducted by Rand Corporation, surveyed American service members to uncover where troops were most at risk of sexual assault and harassment. In many cases, installations with large populations of younger, single, and more-junior-ranking service members had a greater probability of these incidents occurring.
"Each service member's estimated risk of being sexually assaulted in the next year depends, to a surprising extent, on his or her duty assignment to a particular unit, command, and installation," the study said.
Rand said more than 1700,000 active duty service and Coast Guard members completed an online sexual assault and sexual harassment survey fielded in August and September 2014. More than 560,000 were invited to participate. [The actual number is 170,000 not, as Times' typo implies, 1,700,000.]
A total of 6,769 men and women reported assaults in the year that ended Sept. 30, up from 6,172 a year earlier. The reports came in from uniformed service members and civilian workers. It was the highest number of reported assaults since at least 2006, the last year the Pentagon has available on the data.
There are a few points to be made based upon the above.
First, assuming all those sexual assaults are rapes (which they are not), the U.S. military, made up of young men and young women in the prime of their sexual life, has a rape rate that's lower than 4%. Keep in mind, please, that we're repeatedly told that America's college campuses have a rape rate of 20% to 25%. Parents, if you want to keep your young'uns safe, send them to the military, not to college.
Second, back during WWII, when women were mobilized for the war, men and women were kept strictly segregated and chaperoned. The people in charge might have had Victorian minds (like sinks, you know), but they certainly understood that, if you want to prevent rape, you don't mix and mingle the sexes, especially when it comes to bedrooms and bathrooms.
Third, if you read the entire Time article, you'll note something interesting — it never once defines what constitutes "sexual assault." Only near the end does one learn that the number of "sexual assaults" claims includes everything from sexual harassment to actual rape. Depending on how a respondent to the survey defines harassment, that's like saying that the military is filled with terribly ill people, provided that one includes in the data set of illness everything from hangnails to cancer.
Re: Kavanaugh – Prosecutor, Rachel Mitchell, Releases Analysis of Christine Blasey Ford's Allegations
October 1, 2018 January 17, 2021 ~ karllembke
ICYMI, Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona prosecutor who questioned Christine Blasey Ford last week during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee released the following analysis and as expected, rabid Marxists are not happy. Mitchell's nine page analysis obliterated the Ford narrative which most of us knew from day one was full of holes. According to Mitchell, […]
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Raping Statistics
September 3, 2018 ~ karllembke
Source: Lies, Damned Lies, And Campus Sexual Assault Statistics | Ashe Schow
A potential draft of new federal campus sexual assault policies was leaked this week, so expect a new round of false and misleading statistics to be shared by those who claim due process "protects rapists" and "hurts victims."
Rape and sexual assault are serious offenses, and shouldn't be watered down to create a narrative that America is somehow the rape capital of the world, nor should we pretend that non-offenses are offenses. That hurts real victims.
I've taken down every one of these statistics before — sometimes many, many times — but it's time to debunk them all in one place. So here we go.
1-in-5 (or 1-in-4 or 1-in-3) Women Will Be Sexually Assaulted During College
Studies purporting to find such an astronomical amount of sexual violence on college campuses (numbers thousands of times higher than war-torn Congo or Detroit, America's most dangerous city) suffer from many of the same flaws. They are often not nationally representative, are produced by women's organizations determined to find women as oppressed victims in America, and are self-reported — a notoriously unreliable form of data.
The Majority Of Campus Rapes Are Committed By A Small Number Of Men
Sometimes known as the "serial predator" study, this one from David Lisak has been around for decades and was debunked just a few years ago. It claims that "90%" of rapes on campus are perpetrated by a few men.
For starters, Lisak didn't conduct the study himself but used data from studies conducted by his former grad students, who didn't limit their data to college students. As in the 1-in-5 stat above, this one was also not nationally representative, as the surveys were conducted near a commuter college with participants who didn't live on campus and may not have even been students.
The surveys were anonymous, yet Lisak has claimed he conducted follow-up interviews with men who admitted to committing multiple rapes (one questions whether such admissions would be so freely given to a stranger in the first place). Lisak did conduct 12 interviews during his dissertation research three decades ago, but he then combined those cherry-picked interviews into a single character — called "Frank" — which he used to tell school administrators how dangerous their campuses were. No such monster as Frank actually exists, nor is he a common problem across the country.
False Accusations Are Rare
The truth is, we don't know how many accusations are truly false, and even if we did, one can't walk into an investigation assuming they already know the answer.
We're often told that "just" 2% to 10% of rape accusations are false. College administrators are told this when "trained" on how to handle accusations of sexual assault. The implication is clear: Women just don't lie about rape, so nine times out of ten, you'd be safe in assuming the accused is guilty.
But that statistic is wildly misleading, as it only applies to accusations made to police that are proven false. Proving a negative is often impossible, especially in a "we had sex but it was consensual" situation. On college campuses, there is no punishment for a false accusation and thus no fear, as there is with lying to the police.
Further, the proven false statistic is one category of sexual assault classifications. The other categories do not all equate to "true," so implying that 90% to 98% are true is downright false and prejudicial. Other categories include "baseless," wrongly reported as sexual assault, cases without enough evidence for an arrest, cases with enough evidence but for some reason outside police control an arrest is not made, and cases where there is enough evidence for an arrest. Of the cases that lead to an arrest, a small percentage actually go to trial and result in a "guilty" finding.
Using the same logic as the peddlers of this statistic, one would only be able to say that 3% to 5% of rape accusations are true, since that's how many return a "guilty" finding.
It's Bad That 91% Of Colleges And Universities Said They Received No Rape Reports
I include this one because while one would think it would be a good thing that reports of sexual assault aren't rampant on college campuses, the "scholars" at the American Association of University Women think it's a bad thing. Because they've thoroughly bought into the debunked statistics above, no reports must mean that schools are somehow discouraging victims from coming forward or are sweeping reports under the rug. It's hard to believe either of these is the case when the media, lawmakers, federal institutions, and Hollywood are constantly claiming huge swaths of the female population are sexually assaulted on college campuses and begging people to come forward.
1-in-3 Men Would Rape If They Could Get Away With It
This statistic was quickly debunked as soon as it appeared in 2015. A woman who admitted to me at the time that she was seeking grant money (a good motive for finding alarming statistics in one's survey) claimed her study found that a whopping one-third of surveyed men had "intentions to force a woman to sexual intercourse."
Wow, right? Except, as I've pointed out with previous misleading statistics, this one suffers from many of the same flaws. It's not nationally representative, and the answers of just 73 men were used to arrive at the 1-in-3 number blasted out by the media and women's groups. Of those 73 men, 23 were found to have those intentions, based on the researchers own definition of what constituted bad intentions. Just nine guys said they would actually rape a woman. Nine guys do not an epidemic make.
These guys may not have been taking the survey seriously or they were answering a question from Plato's Republic: How many people would commit a crime if they knew they wouldn't be caught? One would believe many people would answer affirmatively to such questions about various laws, but that doesn't mean they'd actually commit them. One can never know if they will get away with it.
Colleges: Trump Wants College Women To Be Raped! — Stately McDaniel Manor
September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 ~ karllembke
As regular readers know, I've often written about the campus rape hoax. I don't suggest rapes don't occur on college campuses. Clearly, every crime that occurs elsewhere can occur on a campus. However, during the Obama Administration, rape, like virtually everything else, was politicized, and a "guidance" letter was issued to ensure progressive narratives would be […]
via Colleges: Trump Wants College Women To Be Raped! — Stately McDaniel Manor
Rape: That Doesn't Fit The Narrative
June 4, 2018 June 4, 2018 ~ karllembke
via Rape: That Doesn't Fit The Narrative
The Pence Rule — Not the law, just a good idea
November 18, 2017 ~ karllembke
Put me with Pence and Coates. I also have rules. I'll have lunch alone with female colleagues, but in more than 20 years of marriage, I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've had dinner alone with a woman not my wife. And I've managed that without ever disadvantaging or discriminating against any woman I worked for or with. I have other rules as well. For example, I travel quite a bit, but when I'm traveling alone I don't eat or sit at bars — especially hotel bars — unless there is no other place to sit.
I have those rules not because I think that without guardrails I'm going to assault someone, but because I understand human nature and because I respect women. I don't want any woman to feel like I'm putting her in an uncomfortable or compromising position. This may come as a surprise to critics of the Pence rule, but there are quite a few women who don't want to dine alone with male bosses. There are quite a few women who believe that dinner (especially with drinks) is unnecessarily intimate and that business can be conducted in the office or with other colleagues present.
But don't tell that to Pence's critics. This week Christianity Today's Katelyn Beatty took to the pages of the New York Times to write "The Christian Case Against the Pence Rule." Given her intelligence and theological knowledge, I was surprised to see this paragraph:
The Pence rule arises from a broken view of the sexes: Men are lustful beasts that must be contained, while women are objects of desire that must be hidden away. Offering the Pence rule as a solution to male predation is like saying, "I can't meet with you one on one, otherwise I might eventually assault you." If that's the case, we have far deeper problems around men and power than any personal conduct rule can solve.
No, no, no. Let's break this down in the simplest terms possible. The Pence rule (or its variations) arises from an accurate view of man's fallen nature. In this context, it means three things.
First, when men and women are alone — especially at night, especially with drinks — there is a far greater chance of mutual or one-sided attraction (not assault) than when they're in groups or in professional settings. Even if they don't intend the attraction. Even if they're happily married. If you doubt this reality then, well, I don't know what to tell you. Spend any time in professional settings, and you'll understand that workplace attraction happens, and when it happens it tends to happen not in the midst of conference calls but rather in those settings that get far more personal and less professional.
Second, variations of the Pence rule protect both sides from reputational harm. It's a simple fact that observing a married man alone at dinner with a woman other than his wife can start tongues wagging, and it's also a fact that leaders of Christian ministries have often had to take extreme measures to protect against intentional sabotage of their reputations. I know leaders who never travel alone in part because of actual past hostile attempts to place them in compromising positions (with photographic evidence). If we should understand anything in 2017 it's that our politics is vicious and poisonous. The more high-profile you become, the more careful you should be.
Third, surprise, surprise but there are actual predators out there, and women who operate under some version of the Pence rule gain an additional layer of protection. Moreover, corporate implementation of the rule is like a flashing sign that says, "This workplace aims to be safe and professional."
Beatty says, "All the people I know who keep the rule are men." This is yet another puzzling statement. Every Christian ministry I know that imposes the rule on its employees does so without regard to gender, and these are ministries that employ multiple powerful women. In fact, almost every powerful Christian woman I know keeps a version of the Pence rule.
But here's where critics of the Pence rule have a point. If you're in a position of authority, you should endeavor to create a workplace where equal opportunity is evident and gender-based favoritism is absent. It is unfair to take Luke out for dinner and never take out Laura. The better approach is to keep business matters in business settings, and that includes when it's late and folks need to eat.
Due Process Is Making A Comeback For Students Accused Of Rape
October 25, 2017 ~ karllembke
Source: Due Process Is Making A Comeback For Students Accused Of Rape
But due process appears to be making a comeback. By K.C. Johnson's count as of Sepember 8, 59 accused students had received at least partially favorable rulings from judges after they sued their schools for gender-bias and denying due process. I believe this count is now over 60.
Some of these judges decried schools shifting the burden of proof onto accused students, some stated cross-examination was essential, others noted the potential ramifications for expelled students that activists seem to ignore, and others simply said the campus kangaroo courts were "unfair." These are just four examples of due process wins for students, but there are dozens more.
Those are just the judicial wins. Accused students have been racking up settlements with their universities for years, with a seeming uptick in 2017. Some of the settlements came from high-profile cases, like Columbia University settling with the man accused by "Mattress Girl."
With court wins in the background, DeVos rescinded the Obama-era guidance that led to this chaos and denial of civil rights for accused students. She promised to create guidance using the proper notice-and-comment period that Obama's education department had ignored. She promised to hear from all parties with related interests, including victims and self-described victims, accused students, lawyers, schools, and others. The system she hopes to create will benefit both accusers and the accused, neither of whom are being served well now.


Night Terror uses the rear camera of your smartphone and creates an augmented real life appearances, thus converting your home into a real scaring arena.
Are your crazy for Paranormal activity and its your fantasy to experience haunted home in real life then the new upcoming smartphone game 'Night Terrors' is the apt answer!! Now a super creepy smartphone game "Night Terror" has been developed for all those who like to watch horror films and would want to experience the terrifying effect in their homes.
Night Terror is a forthcoming smartphone game that uses the rear camera and flash of the smartphone to create augmented real life features converting your home into a frightening place which probably one would not like to stay after dark.
Night Terror game is designed in such a way that one needs to play it in their own home or apartment by switching off all the lights and using headphones, the game is effective only if user completely secludes themselves from the normal sounds and also in case there is complete blackout in their home. Now, the game uses LED flash and rear camera of the smartphone to scan the surroundings and starts building an internal map which would highlight certain best spots that will truly scare the user. The main goal of this game is to search the house of a young girl who is in need of rescue.
Basically the accelerometer of the smartphone locates the floor, walls and all the places of user's home and then this data is stored on the device which aids in apt functioning of the game. The game is designed to bring about a custom experience to the user based on the layout of their home.
User needs to move their abode in total darkness and throughout the hunt they will be haunted by supernatural entities. The headphones will ensure that creepiness is increased multiple times and also whatever user hears will come directly from the game itself which one would not expect to hear under normal scenario within the safety of their home.
When players move around their house in dark and using the rear camera and LED flash ON, the data from camera and headphone is sorted out in real time thus players encounter ghosts and monsters with creepy sounds when they move about the arena.
Developer Bryan Mitchell has worked really hard to make the game a success further he has also taken precautions by removing any bugs that players might encounter. In order to make the game more interesting and for a real time experience it has been developed in such a way that it calculates the behavior of a player; thus, Night Terrors manipulates players to move in a convincing direction.
Users can play this game to the extent that they can handle. For additional effect users can also put up some spooky decorations in their home that will add to the creepiness.
Developers have been working on this game for last fourteen months. Currently Night Terrors is seeking funds on Indiegogo and it has been successful in raising about 5% of the goal on the very first day however they still require more funds to meet their requirement.
The game has entered a contract and is expected to arrive on Apple's iPhone 5 by early 2016 and further developers visualize that the game will soon be brought to Android and Windows devices as well after its release.
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Un Centre Ressources Autisme (CRA) est en France une structure médico-sociale publique destinée aux personnes ayant un trouble du spectre de l'autisme (ou, suivant l'ancienne classification un trouble envahissant du développement), à leurs proches, et en relation avec les professionnels de santé et d'éducation et les organismes publics de l'État (handicap, éducation, formation, collectivités et administrations).

Mission de service public
Les CRA sont définis par la loi 2002-2 du  rénovant l'action sociale et médico-sociale. Leurs missions, développement et organisation sont précisés au Bulletin officiel du , Encart , Politique de prise en charge des personnes atteintes d'autisme et de troubles envahissants du développement (TED). Ces structures sont soumises aux procédures des articles L. 313-1 à L. 313-9 du code de l'action sociale et des familles.

Organisation
Les CRA sont organisés au plan régional. Ils s'appuient et sont intégrés dans des établissements comme les centres hospitaliers universitaires et centres hospitaliers régionaux, ou autres établissements qui regroupent les compétences, les plateaux techniques et les activités de recherche adaptées.

Le premier plan autisme 2005-2007 a donné lieu en 2009 à une rencontre nationale entre les MDPH, et les Centres de ressources autisme, afin de .

GNCRA
Depuis 2017, les différents CRA sont outillés, structurés et administrés par le Groupement National des Centres ressources Autisme (GNCRA), dont le site web officiel a ouvert en février 2019.

Évaluation et suivi des personnes
Les principales missions d'un CRA sont :
 informer, conseiller, et orienter les personnes atteintes et leurs proches ;
 le diagnostic et l'évaluation pluri-disciplinaire des enfants et des adultes ; les bilans individuels établis évaluent une perspective de prise en charge ;
 le contact et l'information des professionnels ;
 développer un centre de documentation local.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
Loi handicap du 11 février 2005
 MDPH
 Commission des droits et de l'autonomie des personnes handicapées
Plan Autisme

Liens externes
Groupement National des Centres Ressources Autisme

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Droits des personnes handicapées
Handicap en France
Autisme en France

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Title: Decimal Number Pipe
Added: v3.4.0
Status: Active
Last reviewed: 2019-08-05
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# [Decimal Number Pipe](lib/core/src/lib/pipes/decimal-number.pipe.ts "Defined in decimal-number.pipe.ts")

Transforms a number to have a certain amount of digits in its integer part and also in its decimal part.

## Basic Usage

### Properties

| Name | Type | Default value | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ------------- | ----------- |
| digitsInfo | [`DecimalNumberModel`](lib/core/src/lib/models/decimal-number.model.ts) |  | A format to apply to the date value. [Date Pipe Formats.](https://angular.io/api/common/DatePipe#custom-format-options) |
| locale | string | 'en-US' | A locale id for the locale format rules to use. |

## Details

This pipe transforms a given number so it follows the set configuration for the pipe. You can change this configuration by changing the parameters in your `app.config.json`.

```json
"decimalValues": {
    "minIntegerDigits": 1,
    "minFractionDigits": 0,
    "maxFractionDigits": 2
  }
```

You can also overwrite this config by passing a [`DecimalNumberModel`](lib/core/src/lib/models/decimal-number.model.ts) as an argument for this pipe.

The number can be also localized so it applies commas and dots in the right place depending on the locale id in use.

#### Result

```ts
decimalNumberPipe.transform(1234.567);
//Returns '1,234.57'

decimalNumberPipe.transform(1234.567, digitsConfig, "it");
//Returns '1.234,57'
```

And now with a different config:

```ts
digitsConfig = {
    minIntegerDigits: 6,
    minFractionDigits: 4,
    maxFractionDigits: 4
};

decimalNumberPipe.transform(1234.567, digitsConfig);
//Returns '001,234.5670'
```

More info: [Angular DecimalPipe](https://angular.io/api/common/DecimalPipe)

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Microsoft to Layoff 10,000 Employees as Part of a Massive Cost-Cutting Initiative
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After Complaint, US Merchant Marine Academy Covers Painting of Jesus Protecting Sailors Lost at Sea
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US No Fly List Leaked After It Was Found In Unsecured Server Includes Over One Million Names
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The list from 2019 included over 1.5 million names and aliases.
The list was leaked on The Daily Dot.
Because the list is from 2019, it will not include the thousands of names of US patriots who were added to the list following the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington DC.
WalkAway Founder Brandon Straka told Tucker Carlson earlier this week that hundreds of Trump supporters were added to the "no fly list" following the 2021 DC protests.
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How Bill Gates functions as a true world dictator
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Police Arrest 6 After Fiery Atlanta Riots, Mayor Confirms Antifa Used Explosives
A protest in downtown Atlanta over a police shooting turned into a riot on Saturday night, as hooligans attacked the office tower home to the Atlanta Police Foundation, damaged other structures, and torched a police vehicle. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens told reporters police arrested six people -- and some of the ones arrested had explosives.
Along with three other buildings, rioters attacked 191 Peachtree Tower in the heart of Atlanta's Hotel District (via CBRE)
The mayhem along famed Peachtree Street -- in the heart of Atlanta's hotel district and right next to the Ritz-Carlton -- sent tourists scattering for safety.
Liberal Radio Host Raises Alarm, Says Biden Has Dementia: I Saw Him Talking to a Ghost
Liberal radio host Charlamagne tha God has raised the alarm about Joe Biden's mental state by warning that he believes the Democrat president has dementia.
Charlamagne tha God made headlines during the run-up to the 2020 election for his infamous interview with Biden.
It was during this interview that Biden made the "you ain't black" comments while arguing that African Americans should vote for him over President Donald Trump.
During Friday morning's "The Breakfast Club" radio show, the state of President Biden's mental health stirred up a debate between Charlamagne tha God and his co-hosts.
One co-host suggested that the commander-in-chief get tested for dementia.
The back-and-forth began when host Charlamagne tha God and co-host DJ Envy rattled off a list of reasons why they feel Biden is losing his grip on reality.
They argued that he should consider retiring as a one-term president.
Tags: WHITE HOUSE
Elon Musks Young & Peak Health Cousin Hospitalized with Serious Myocarditis after Booster
Twitter boss Elon Musk has revealed that his cousin, who he describes as "young & in peak health," has been hospitalized with a "serious case of myocarditis" after receiving a "booster shot."
Musk broke the news in a series of posts late on Friday evening.
He was commenting on new data that shows large numbers of Americans say they have suffered side effects after receiving Covid jabs.
The data was shared on Twitter by author Scott Adams on Friday.
Secret documents lift lid on WWII mutiny by US troops in north Queensland
An Australian historian has uncovered hidden documents which reveal that African American troops used machine guns to attack their white officers in a siege on a US base in north Queensland in 1942.
Information about the Townsville mutiny has never been released to the public.
But the story began to come to light when James Cook University's Ray Holyoak first began researching why US congressman Lyndon B Johnson visited Townsville for three days back in 1942.
What he discovered was evidence detailing one of the biggest uprisings within the US military.
"For 70 years there's been a rumour in Townsville that there was a mutiny among African-American servicemen. In the last year and a half I've found the primary documentation evidence that that did occur in 1942," Mr Holyoak told AM.
Tags: AUSTRALIA, HIDDEN HISTORY, WAR/DRAFT/ VETERAN AFFAIRS
The Drama Isn't Over: Ex-Cop Involved In George Floyd Incident Files For Appeal
An attorney for ex-police officer Derek Chauvin who made headlines in the murder case of George Floyd, says his client did not get a fair trial.
Attorney William Mohrman noted that procedural and legal errors prevented Chauvin's right to a fair trial. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died after then-police officer Chauvin pinned him down for 9 ½ minutes with a knee to his neck during an attempt to arrest him.
The alleged suspect had resisted multiple officers' commands before being pinned. Videos of the incident sparked a wave of national riots and protests. The former officer was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter and sentenced to 22 ½ years by Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill.
Chauvin later pled guilty to a federal civil rights charge and is serving his 21-year federal sentence concurrently in a federal Arizona prison with his state sentence. According to News Nation Now, Mohrman said:.
"The primary issue on this appeal is whether a criminal defendant can get a fair trial consistent with constitutional requirements in a courthouse surrounded by concrete block, barbed wire, two armored personnel carriers, and a squad of National Guard troops."
Republicans Turn on Each Other Over Ukraines Latest Request
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is unequivocal: there's no substitute for sending tanks to Ukraine.
With the country bracing for a possible, multi-pronged Russian offensive, or at least localized operations, the clock is ticking to build up defenses around strategic positions.
The U.S. Congress agreed to send a Patriot missile battery as part of Kyiv's latest $2 billion security assistance package. But more isolationist members of the Republican caucus aren't happy. Chief among them is controversial Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Tags: POLITICS/ ELECTIONS/ CORRUPTION, RUSSIA/ UKRAINE /BELARUS /CRIMEA, WAR/DRAFT/ VETERAN AFFAIRS, WHITE HOUSE
WEF Falling, Princess Lockdown Resigns: World Leaders Are Starting to Become Very Nervous Right Now
In a shock to the world, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced her resignation at the Labour party's annual caucus meeting Thursday (1/19/23).
Ardern said she "no longer had enough in the tank" to do the job. "It's time," she added. "I'm leaving because with such a privileged role comes responsibility – the responsibility to know when you are the right person to lead and also when you are not. I know what this job takes. And I know that I no longer have enough in the tank to do it justice. It's that simple," she said. — The Guardian
Tags: DICTATORSHIP, POLITICS/ ELECTIONS/ CORRUPTION
While mainstream Republicans increasingly back Greene's push to audit U.S. aid to Ukraine, there's plenty of pushback to her intransigence on providing the fledging democracy with more firepower to inflict further damage on the Russian Armed Forces and Vladimir Putin's global standing.
Ukrainian forces are suffering from a Tuberculosis epidemic and Medical systems are overwhelmed among other issues plaguing the AFU...
I'm sure this will be totally fine....
Eggs $16.97 18pk $10.99 12pk
Eurozone and Japan trade balance: Eurocommies need to pay much more for energy and..... they burn their capital with energy higher prices. Europes antidote: shut down ALL nuclear plants ASAP and forever! Just wow
The Gas Stove Scare Is A Fraud Created By Climate Change Authoritarians
World eminent Cardiologist Prof.Abdullah Alabdulgader calls for suspension of mRNA jab because of cardiac harm concerns
The more comfortable living - more mental disorders? US & Australia leading
US to hit debt limit on Thursday. FED promises special levers to keep US spending to avoid default. In 2023 the cost to service national debt to become the biggest expenditure, more than Social Security. Sound sustainable? But inflation is transitory
7th dead whale washed up on Jersey Shore bad news on top of bad news . Residents report loud rumbling sound
Video from inside cockpit shows moment two helicopters collided mid-air at sea world in Australia
The New Scooby-Doo is So Leftist Even Reddit Leftists Are Disgusted
We are in big trouble folks!
Federal Reserve remittances to the US Treasury keep falling, faster and faster! Now at -22.566 Billion per week
Whistleblower Alert! SEC Awards More Than $5 Million to Whistleblower
CNN blames Orange Man for Bidens mishandling of classified docs
MLK statue/sculpture unveiled in Boston...
2 months before he died, Rush Limbaugh predicted the regime would turn on Biden and described exactly what we are seeing right now
Adam Hamilton: Gold Buying Only Starting
Junk science study on monkeypox in women was 47% biological MEN

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"Dad!" – I couldn't tell you the number of times I hear that name every day. William and Kate love to have me around, and whenever I'm with them I feel like I am constantly in an echo chamber. "Dad, dad, DAD!" Usually, they call out because they need something or want something. They ask questions, show me things that interest them, or simply want my undivided attention. The requests never seem to end.
Humanly speaking, I can certainly be overwhelmed by the constant calls for attention. However, from another perspective it makes me realize their dependence on me. In their eyes, I am the big, strong adult, and they are relatively weak and powerless to change their world. I am the one who can really make something happen so they come to me for help. I know as they get older they will develop a growing sense of independence and their calls for "dad" will grow fewer and fewer. But for now, whenever I am with them, my kids' first instinct is to call for dad. This makes me think about my relationship with my heavenly father. How often do I assume I've got it all under control when I really should be calling out for "Dad"?
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
In this psalm, the writer speaks of all the trouble and dangers that we encounter in the world. Yet, he expresses his confidence in the ever-present help of the Lord Almighty. There are times in life when everything feels chaotic and it seems like the world is falling apart. Whenever problems arise, we can be quick to try to solve them by ourselves. We put our strength and understanding to work to find an answer. We try to figure it out as if everything depends upon us.
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Tommy Pellis reached first on a fielding error by ss.
Allen, Micah singled to left field; Robberts, Garett advanced to second.
Smith, Dillan singled to center field, RBI; Allen, Micah advanced to second; Robberts, Garett scored.
Austin Braendel singled to right field.
Austin Braendel advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Mittermaier, Carson singled to second base.
Tyler Zaluski singled to left field.
Tyler Peterson singled to third base; Tyler Zaluski advanced to second.
Allen, Micah singled to third base.
Smith, Dillan singled to left field; Allen, Micah advanced to second.
Austin Braendel doubled to center field.
Ryan Grieco pinch hit for Bayley Jamanis.
Ryan Grieco hit by pitch.
Ryan Grieco stole second; Austin Braendel stole third.
Kailen Grimm to ss for Ryan Grieco.
Hawley, Sam singled to left field.
Mittermaier, Carson walked; Hawley, Sam advanced to second.
Nick Stotler doubled to left center.
Kailen Grimm hit by pitch; Colton Carney advanced to second.
Andrew Chuba singled to left field, RBI; Kailen Grimm advanced to second; Colton Carney scored.
Rice, Sam to p for Peters, Devin.
Isaiah DiAndreth hit by pitch; Andrew Chuba advanced to second; Kailen Grimm advanced to third.
Nick Stotler hit by pitch, RBI; Isaiah DiAndreth advanced to second; Andrew Chuba advanced to third; Kailen Grimm scored.
Tommy Pellis hit by pitch, RBI; Nick Stotler advanced to second; Isaiah DiAndreth advanced to third; Andrew Chuba scored.
Tyler Zaluski doubled to left field, 2 RBI; Tommy Pellis advanced to third; Nick Stotler scored; Isaiah DiAndreth scored.
Kenny Wells to p for Patrick Monteverde.
Eifrid, Austin advanced to second on a wild pitch.
Hawley, Sam tripled to right center, RBI; Eifrid, Austin scored.
Mittermaier, Carson out at first 1b to p, RBI; Hawley, Sam scored.
George Coyle to p for Kenny Wells.
Moss, Logan hit by pitch.
Eifrid, Austin doubled to right center, RBI; Moss, Logan scored.
Hawley, Sam singled to left field, RBI, advanced to second on a fielding error by lf; Eifrid, Austin scored.
Isaiah DiAndreth homered to left center, RBI.
Tyler Zaluski doubled to center field.
Haley, Michael pinch hit for Allen, Micah.


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Q: Avoid expanding combo box on 'focus' or 'onclick' event Team,
I am having one problem where I donot want to expand combo box on certain flag and want to display the alert message.
there is no event like onClick in EXTJS so I tried with focus event but still combo box is expanding.
code
focus:function() {
    if(this.store.baseParams.donotExpandFlag) {
           alert("I should not expand this combo");
           // What to do here and out side of IF block so that there is conditional expansion
    }
}

A: You need to specifiy your ExtJS version and please format your code.
Here is what you can do for ExtJS4.x
Manually set/unset the isExpanded property. That should work (untested)
for ExtJS3.x you will have to override the the isExpanded() method and in additon apply a custom flag which indicates blocked/auto and get checked before the default code gets executed.
You may try this (untested)
_isExpanded:  true, // true means block, false auto
isExpanded: function(){
    return this._isExpanded || (this.list && this.list.isVisible());
},

No, this works. See the JSFiddle for ExtJS3.4
Second JSFiddle for ExtJS3.4 with a form

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The goal of the City of Fargo Special Assessment Assistance Program is to help alleviate the burden that special assessments can place on low and moderate income homeowners while at the same time facilitating the improvement of neighborhood infrastructure. The assistance is provided on an annual basis (as funds are available).
Have a special assessment with an initial balance that is greater than $500.
Assistance is not available to projects in new developments; the assistance is targeted to projects that are replacing/upgrading infrastructure in existing neighborhoods. (Note: The $500 threshold does not apply to your annual payment, but rather to the original balance per project that was assessed to your property).
Live in an owner-occupied housing unit.
If your residence is a rental unit or has rental units in it, or if it is owned on a contract for deed, it is not eligible for this assistance.
Have a qualifying household income.
Income eligibility will be determined using a household's 2018 income (includes the unadjusted gross income earned by everyone living in your household over the age of 18). Please note that Social Security and Pension benefits are included as income.
The City's Special Assessment Assistance Program will pay for a portion of the annual cost of the special assessment levied on a particular property. The homeowner will need to apply for assistance each year, as funds are available, on the basis of annual household income.
Income eligibility will be determined using a household's 2018 income (includes the unadjusted gross income earned by everyone living in your household over the age of 18). Please note that Social Security and Pension benefits are included as income. If you meet the above eligibility criteria and your household's total 2018 income was less than the amount listed in the below table, you should consider applying for the assistance.
How Will I Know When I Can Apply?
The City typically "spreads" special assessment costs to benefiting properties one year after the infrastructure project is completed. You will receive a letter from the City when the project starts in order to let you know the estimated amount of your special assessment, and you will also receive a letter from the City when the special assessment is actually levied against your property.
When you receive notice that your special assessment is being levied, you will also receive notice of the City's Special Assessment Assistance Program. If you feel you might be eligible, contact the Special Assessment Office in order to acquire an application. You will have approximately three weeks to submit your application. We cannot accept applications for assistance until you receive the program notice in the mail.
You may also be eligible to apply for the Homestead Credit, which provides property tax relief to low-income disabled and elderly homeowners.
There may not be sufficient funds to pay the entire annual special assessment of all qualifying applicants.
If this is the case, priority will be given according to geography, type of project and level of household income (see program description for more details about prioritization).
Eligibility in one year does not automatically assure that assistance will be available in future years, nor does it constitute a commitment to provide assistance in future years.


Note the introduction of a new 174gn 7.62 x 54R projectile – this is available in "super" [essentially an enhanced accuracy / sniper round] as well as the standard grade. The stock of 185gn FMJ will be phased out and production will be offered only in 174gn SP, 174gn FMJ and 203gn SP in this calibre. The Russian Army has adopted the 174gn as the sniper projectile and the 185gn appears to be loosing favour.
CENTAUR is a new line of ammunition being produced by BARNAUL which utilises HORNADY projectiles. At present, we have only imported the 6.16 x 51 (.243Win) calibre.
Barnaul is now a registered brand name and registered logo.


"Lose your mind and come to your senses"
Gestalt is a German word meaning a Whole or a completion that is greater than the sum of its parts. An integrated person is aware of all the elements that unite to make us whole – our body, feelings, intellect, and senses.
Gestalt Therapy aims to find wholeness and integration through awareness in the 'here and now'. It focuses on the present on how we block expression and spontaneity and explores ways of releasing trapped energy which is both liberating and exciting. As an approach to Psychotherapy, Gestalt is best experienced rather than spoken or written about. This is because it's emphasis is on our awareness rather than understanding as the key to change. And also because Gestalt emerged partially as a reaction to what it's founder, Fritz Perls, saw as the over-intellectualisation of psychoanalysis. Perls held the chief neurotic characteristic of our age to be that we live too much in our heads, that we are desensitised to our bodies and thus often unaware and ineffective in meeting our organismic needs. His catchphrase "Lose your heads and come to your senses," remains a cornerstone of Gestalt, seeking as it does to enable us to change and become more whole through a process of greater self-awareness. Gestalt therapy through dialogue and experimental methods allows us to expand our self-awareness. We learn self-regulation and methods to tackle the load of the past, which is in the way of adequate perception of present events. We should accept ourselves completely. The relief comes with full awareness. It helps us to be free from the burden, which keeps us captivated and directs our individuality. The development starts after we acknowledge the pain of the past and when we become free from fear and nervousness. Then we are completely responsible and in charge of what we do and the alternative we choose!


Which way do any of you see it going first? At first I could only see it going counter-clockwise. It wasn't until after I voted on the poll thing that I saw it go the other way.
I can get it to go both ways if I stare at it slightly out of focus.


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Having an ARC of your book and finding readers go hand-in-hand. As an indie author, it's all up to me. And if you're reading this, then you're probably in the same boat. So how did I find readers for my book? Well the process started months in advance. Here are the five steps that I followed.
2-4 months prior to the release of my book, be it through Facebook or Twitter (for me, I used Twitter more), I began following Book Bloggers that I thought might be interested in reading a copy of my book. For weeks and months, I actively communicated with them, either by retweeting their posts or commenting on a book they were reading. This is important! Be GENUINE. Communicate on a personal book-reading level. I kept track of the bloggers I followed until I reached a 100.
Create a media package folder that includes all the necessary info that a blogger may want to use. Information such as a jpeg cover of your book, an excerpt, Rafflecopter giveaway links, buy links, your bio, your picture, and any other promotional material. I zipped this folder, saving it for later.
6 weeks out from the release of my book, I began contacting my list of 100 bloggers. This is more complicated than it sounds. You will need to look up each blogger's website separately. Take a deeper look and discover answers to these questions below.
Do they take submissions from indie authors (self-published books)?
Are they open or closed for reviews?
Is there more than one reviewer? If so, which one is best for your book?
Do they review books of your genre?
If they are closed for reviews, will they do a book spotlight or "Release Day" spotlight?
Email each blogger separately and personally. Do not send out a blind, generic email to every blogger at once. Include something that you like personally about their blog, or mention that you read their review guidelines, or maybe you live in the same state, etc. Find a connection.
The first few lines of your email should be personal, short and sweet. Ask them if they'd be interested in reviewing your book (if it's for a review). Make sure to state what you can provide them in return (whether it be a Rafflecopter giveaway for their readers, or promoting their blog review to your followers). Then leave the details of your book AFTER the short and sweet intro. If they want to keep reading, they will. DO NOT include your book unless they ask for it.
Once you get a reply, send the blogger an ePub or Mobi version of your book, depending on what they prefer. Attach your zipped folder, the Media Package, allowing them to pick and choose what they would like to use. I created my ePub and Mobi versions of my book by using Calibre software.
Out of 100 bloggers that I found, I only emailed 50 of them. They were the ones open for either a review or spotlight. Out of those 50, 8 replied with a request for a review, and 5 replied with a yes for a spotlight, totaling 13 replies. I've given away one eARC on my Facebook and 7 eARCs to my Newsletter members. Two proofreaders read my book 2 months ago. Add all of those up, and I could potentially receive 23 written reviews before the release of my book in June.
You can find more in-depth explanations in the video below (also available on iTunes and Stitcher). SIGN-UP for my monthly newsletter to receive these tips straight to your inbox.


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Ryder Cup Tickets
The Ryder Cup is a golf trophy given to the winners of the Ryder Cup Matches, which is an event between teams from Europe and the United States every two years. Samuel Ryder donated the golf trophy. The competition is orchestrated by the PGA of America and the PGA European Tour, with competition every two years and the venue alternating between courses in the United States and Europe.
The competition began as an exhibition match in 1926 between an American team and a team from the British PGA held on the East Course, Wentworth Club, Virginia Water, Surrey, UK. In 1979, the decision to include teams from continental Europe after World War II due to the unfair advantage of the US with dominance over other teams. The change was due in part to the success of Spanish golfers such as Seve Ballesteros and Antonio Garrido, who both became the first Spaniard to play in the 1979 event. Team Europe has included players from Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden since that time.
The Ryder Cup golf matches are normally held the first part of October at various locations around the world. Tickets can be purchased for future events. The future sites of the Ryder Cup matches will be 2010 at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales; 2012 at Medinah Country Club in Medinah, Illinois; 2014 at Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Perth & Kinross, Scotland; 2016 at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota; 2018 To Be Announced but will be in continental Europe; and 2020 at Whistling Straits in Haven, Wisconsin. Purchase your Ryder Cup 2010 tickets today and be part of this year's biggest golf event!
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What's gone wrong at HMRC?
'Managerialism' and cosy deals for big business have sucked the life from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
Jenny Manson
HMRC (Britain's tax collecting agency) has been headline news recently, following its admission that it has prosecuted only one individual out of thousands reported to have undeclared Swiss bank accounts. Tory MP Richard Bacon told the Today programme last week that HMRC's troubles come from the merger with Customs and Excise in 2005 and from excessively complex tax law. He blamed Labour governments. What he didn't say was that the merger had cross-party support. Nor did he say that a complex tax code historically was intended to ensure fairness but that the recent huge expansion of tax legislation has been driven by government ministers' obsession with tax reliefs for risky "entrepreneurial' enterprises and the necessity for concomitant anti-avoidance rules that have become a playground for the tax-planners who promote these reliefs.
As I see it, HMRC has been emasculated by managerialism, a new style of punitive management, and the kid-glove treatment of big business. Politicians have very little understanding of the business world. Labour leaders are showing some recognition that business has to contribute to the greater good as evidence has grown that the trickle down of wealth didn't happen, but this is politically dangerous for them.
Then of course there are the cuts: their worst impact has been on the services provided to ordinary taxpayers who face endless delays on undermanned helplines especially since the closure of the last tax enquiry offices in 2014. Talent has been lost from the specialist areas as pay levels have been frozen. Big money 'customers' however have their own service relationship managers and so have no problem contacting HMRC.
Faced with a reducing budget and the leakage of high level tax expertise, tax staff have concentrated on the easier cases (as in the recent large-scale prosecution of plumbers, rather than bankers (see Private Eye no 1386 on "Plumb Tidings").
But money is found for expensive consultant-led courses on "behaviours" and "customer relationships" while gone is the continuous training on tax law changes which once matched the equivalent professional development outside HMRC among lawyers, accountants and others who advise on tax matters.
As I wrote on the dangers of managerialism in Public Service on the Brink (Imprint Academic Ltd, Exeter, 2012), reflecting on my time at HMRC:
I know what my job is and I want to do it as well as I can. Indeed I would love my work if I could get one day's peace to get on with it. But I am beset at every turn by unintelligible, time wasting and fruitless management initiatives, constant change, ill-judged targets, wrong-headed "commercial" exemplars and continuous and misguided restructuring. I have to watch as, instead of my "customers" (actually patients, pupils, taxpayers) getting a better deal from me, the only beneficiaries seem to be those who can lobby for special treatment.
In the same book Rodric Braithwaite quotes fellow ambassador Ivor Roberts in his final despatch from Rome in 2004. Imposed on the Foreign Office by the Cabinet Office and the Treasury was a "change-management agenda.. written in Wall Street management speak, already ... discredited by the time it is introduced. Synergies, best practice, benchmarking... roll out, stakeholder.... fit for purpose, are all prime candidates for a game of bullshit bingo, a substitute for clarity and succinctness."
In conversation, no one has a good word for managerialism but it is rampant and only gets worse. Lord Green (of HSBC fame) has just submitted a report for the Church of England, which according to Giles Frazer, advises clergymen to get an MBA! And last week the House of Lords EU Committee reported that the drainage of hard analysis from the Foreign office could explain how the UK took their eye off the significance of Russian resurgence.
At HMRC nonsense initiatives and the punishing reaction to non-conformity (managers are effectively obliged to classify 10% staff as 'failing') drives out some of the most able staff. I know of a manager who left rather than impose programmes he did not believe in and another who resigned when forced to apply for his own job, redesigned without any substance. Promotion is based on self-aggrandisement (the so- called competence based assessment system) so talk the talk wins instead of impartial evidence of career to date.
A contributor to ARC (the HMRC branch of a civil service union) writes in the current union journal:
"Ironically as I have progressed through the grades, departmental change has ensured that my autonomy has decreased... departmental focus on progress and ticking boxes leaves little time to actually lead... in the last three years I have felt more over-worked, more overpaid and less valued by my employer than any of the preceding 30 years."
This article was first published in the Camden New Journal.


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Rackley, Jacksonville St beat Austin Peay 71-59
foxsports Jan 8, 2015 at 11:14p ET
JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (AP) Darion Rackley scored 26, D.J. Felder added a career-high 18 points and Jacksonville State beat Austin Peay 71-59 on Thursday night.
Rackley made 11 of 11 free throws and grabbed eight rebounds, while Felder pulled down nine boards. Dontay Jackson had a career-high seven assists for Jacksonville State (8-9, 1-2 Ohio Valley).
The Gamecocks made 16 of 29 field goals in the first half and took a 41-28 lead into halftime before pushing its lead to 20 with 13:56 to go.
A 3-pointer by Josh Robinson capped a 17-2 Austin Peay (5-9, 0-1) run which made it 54-49 with 6:15 left, but Rackley scored 13 from there – going 8 of 8 from the free throw line in the final 3:33 – to hold off the Governors.
Chris Horton led Austin Peay with 19 points and 13 rebounds.
Jacksonville State, which never trailed, made 19 of 21 free throws.


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Q: Assign estimated location of a cell tower to the closest actual cell tower So I have a Dataset like this:
     Customer_id   Lat        Lon
 0.     A          40         12
 1.     A          np.nan     np.nan
 2.     A          np.nan     np.nan
 3.     A          43         12
 4.     A          45         13
 5.     B          43         14
 6.     B          np.nan     np.nan
 7.     B          43         16

Where the coordinates (40,12),(43,12),(45,13),(43,14) and (43,16) are the cell towers of a certain network.
Then I apply some interpolation functions and it results in something like the following:
     Customer_id   Lat        Lon
 0.     A          40         12
 1.     A          41         12
 2.     A          42         12
 3.     A          43         12
 4.     A          45         13
 5.     B          43         14
 6.     B          43         15
 7.     B          43         16

But these new coordinates are just estimates and not actual towers. I would like to then assign these estimations to the closest actual tower so that, for example, record 1 would be assigned to the tower (40,12).
I used this code
def haversine_closest_changed(towers, row):
    all_points= towers
    lat2= all_points[:,0] #the actual latitudes of the towers
    lon2= all_points[:,1] #the actual longitudes of the towers
    l=len(lat2) #how many towers are there
    lat1=row['Expected_Lat']  #make a column with the actual latitude my value and all the towers,
    #the point I'm looking at multiple times
    lon1=row['Expected_Lon']  #find the min distance and output the minimum

    lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2 = map(np.radians, [lon1, lat1, lon2, lat2])

    dlat = lat2 - lat1
    dlon = lon2 - lon1

    a = np.sin(dlon/2.0)**2 + np.cos(lon1) * np.cos(lon2) * np.sin(dlat/2.0)**2

    c = 2 * np.arcsin(np.sqrt(a))
    km = 6367 * c
    idx=np.argmin(km)
    closest_point=towers[idx,]

    return closest_point

where towers is a pandas dataset with all the towers that exist in the network (one column for Latitude and another for Longitude) and the columns Expected_Lat and Expected_Lon are what I called the columns after I did the interpolation.
This piece of code returns me only 1 value for the latitude and 1 value for the longitude repeated throughout the whole column. How can I change this code to replace only the points that I have interpolated/the points that were previously NaNs by the closest tower?

A: First we mark the rows to be interpolated, then interpolate and finally, with the closest distance calculation from this SO answer we find the nearest actual tower for all interpolated entries:
import pandas as pd
import io
from math import cos, asin, sqrt

s="""     Customer_id   Lat        Lon
 0.     A          40         12
 1.     A          np.nan     np.nan
 2.     A          np.nan     np.nan
 3.     A          43         12
 4.     A          45         13
 5.     B          43         14
 6.     B          np.nan     np.nan
 7.     B          43         16
"""

df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(s), na_values='np.nan', sep='\s\s+', engine='python')
df['Interpolated'] = df.Lat.isnull()
df = df.interpolate()
towers = df.loc[~df.Interpolated,['Lat','Lon']].drop_duplicates().values

def distance(lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2):
    p = 0.017453292519943295
    a = 0.5 - cos((lat2-lat1)*p)/2 + cos(lat1*p)*cos(lat2*p) * (1-cos((lon2-lon1)*p)) / 2
    return 12742 * asin(sqrt(a))

def closest_tower(row):
    return min(towers, key=lambda p: distance(row.Lat, row.Lon, p[0], p[1]))

df.loc[df.Interpolated,['Lat','Lon']] = df.loc[df.Interpolated,['Lat','Lon']].apply(closest_tower ,axis=1)

Result:
    Customer_id   Lat   Lon  Interpolated
0.0           A  40.0  12.0         False
1.0           A  40.0  12.0          True
2.0           A  43.0  12.0          True
3.0           A  43.0  12.0         False
4.0           A  45.0  13.0         False
5.0           B  43.0  14.0         False
6.0           B  43.0  14.0          True
7.0           B  43.0  16.0         False


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Q: Authorization_IdentityNotFound on Microsoft Graph API request first time, It is now 2021, but I meet this issue again....
When calling the /users MS Graph API, it says:
{
    "error": {
        "code": "Authorization_IdentityNotFound",
        "message": "The identity of the calling application could not be established.",
        "innerError": {
            "request-id": "b2d9ec62-0b65-44eb-9e0f-4aec52b45750",
            "date": "2021-01-22T10:19:48"
        }
    }
}

I use the 'client credentials' flow, and I've already configured to get the admin consent to get the tenant id. Then use it to call https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenantId}/oauth2/token to get token.
And I configured the permissions/scopes as:
- Directory.Read.All
- User.Read.All
- Calendars.ReadWrite

Or even:
- Directory.Read.All
- Calendars.ReadWrite

The strange thing is that this error only happens with the token got by authorizing the app with a global admin account first time. It will work if use a second token gets back after a few seconds. And by comparing the two tokens, I found the differences are the not working one doesn't have 'roles: string[]` value in the JWT, while the working one has (see attached images).
token not working
token working
Anyone can help me out?
It's very appreciated!
Thanks

A: The reason for the error is not that you lack permissions, it is caused by the delay.
Your idea is correct. The reason why your first token call is unsuccessful is the lack of roles claim in the token, which means that the permissions are not injected into the first token. When you grant admin consent to the application, it will be delayed. If you get the token right now, it may cause the token to lack permissions. So, please wait a few minutes after you grant the admin consent before trying to obtain the token.


The weight of a diesel engine is largely determined by the need to contain high combustion pressures which are largely experienced at cold start conditions. To comply with legislation for reduction of exhaust particulates some treatment of the exhaust gas will be necessary for new engines.
Our compressor provides variable boost pressure on demand which provides high pressure for cold starting and lower pressure for normal operation. Lowered normal running pressure enables lighter engines to achieve the same typical diesel engine life. Whilst providing variable boost a sufficient supply of air can be passed to the exhaust system for treatment of exhaust gasses.


A C&O mine run is en-route to the mines with a train of empty hoppers at Elimer, KY on C&O's Sandy Valley and Elkhorn Subdivision. By this date, May 31, 1978, C&O's U25Bs were nearing the end of their lives and were being used mostly on mine runs and local freights. Looking a bit tired, No. 8101 has lost it's nose logo, either worn off over the years or in an accident repair.


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October 25: Military airstrikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq
Release No: 16-129 Oct. 25, 2016
Release # 20161025-01
SOUTHWEST ASIA - On Oct. 24, Coalition military forces conducted 11 strikes against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq. In Syria, Coalition military forces conducted three strikes using fighter and remotely piloted aircraft against ISIL targets. Additionally in Iraq, Coalition military forces conducted eight strikes coordinated with and in support of the Government of Iraq using attack, bomber, fighter, rotary and remotely piloted aircraft, and rocket artillery against ISIL targets.
The following is a summary of the strikes conducted against ISIL since the last press release:
* Near Abu Kamal, one strike produced inconclusive results.
* Near Mar'a, two strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two fighting positions, a mortar system, and a vehicle.
* Near Ar Rutbah, one strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed 11 vehicles.
* Near Mosul, five strikes engaged an ISIL tactical unit and two rocket positions; destroyed 22 fighting positions, eight vehicles, eight tunnels, seven mortar systems, six rocket rails, three heavy machine guns, three rocket systems, two light machine guns, two command and control nodes, a VBIED, a communications tower, an ISIL-held building and a mortar cache; and damaged a mortar system.
* Near Sinjar, one strike engaged four staging areas.
* Near Sultan Abdallah, one strike engaged an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed two vehicles and a weapons cache.
Strike assessments are based on initial reports. All aircraft returned to base safely.
A strike, as defined in the CJTF releases, means one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative effect for that location. So having a single aircraft deliver a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is one strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against a group of buildings and vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making that facility (or facilities) harder or impossible to use. Accordingly, CJTF-OIR does not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target. The information used to compile the daily strike releases is based on 'Z' or Greenwich Mean Time.
Ground-based artillery fired in counter-fire or in fire support to maneuver roles are not classified as a strike as defined by CJTF-OIR.
The strikes were conducted as part of Operation Inherent Resolve, the operation to eliminate the ISIL terrorist group and the threat they pose to Iraq, Syria, and the wider international community.
The destruction of ISIL targets in Syria and Iraq further limits the group's ability to project terror and conduct operations. Coalition nations which have conducted strikes in Iraq include Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Coalition nations which have conducted strikes in Syria include Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, France, Jordan, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
CJTFOIR


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Why Ukraine's business community has high hopes for the Biden presidency
Andy Hunder,
The American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine
US President Joe Biden visited Ukraine six times during his eight years as vice-president in the Obama administration. Throughout this period, he consistently and outspokenly championed the East European nation's efforts to reform and eradicate corruption.
Disappointingly, Ukraine has backpedaled significantly since the curtain came down on the Obama administration in January 2017. But President Biden now has an opportunity to continue where he left off. This means reinforcing US support for Ukraine in order to get the country back on the reform track. Over the next four years, Biden can play an historic role in helping Ukraine eliminate corruption and free itself once and for all from oligarch control.
Ukraine's transformation is arguably long overdue. Ukraine is not a poor country, but its people are among the poorest in Europe. Following decades of government mismanagement and cronyism, millions of Ukrainians have left their homeland to work abroad. Foreign direct investment remains pitifully low.
The process of de-oligarchization, launched amid much fanfare in 2015 with the express purpose of reducing the political influence of Ukraine's oligarch class, has long since ground to a halt. Instead, oligarchs continue to lobby for laws that give unfair advantages to their businesses. They own the country's mainstream media and dominate its fledgling democracy. According to a recent investigative report, one particular Ukrainian oligarch alone currently holds sway over a hundred members of parliament, or almost a quarter of all the country's MPs. This makes it extremely difficult for international investors to compete.
Ukraine's dysfunction plays directly into the hands of the Kremlin, which is determined to prevent its neighbor from becoming a model in the wider post-Soviet region for the transition from authoritarianism to democracy.
Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Ukraine since 2014. This ongoing offensive includes everything from military operations and cyber-attacks to economic measures and relentless waves of deliberate disinformation. Unsurprisingly, Moscow frequently finds common ground with Ukraine's oligarchs, allowing them to form an unholy alliance in order to derail reform efforts.
Biden's predecessor, Donald Trump, often appeared to be interested in Ukraine for all the wrong reasons and did not visit the country during his four-year presidency. The hope now is that a new page will be turned in the US-Ukraine relationship, and that the Biden administration will help Ukraine make up for lost time.
The top priorities of the Biden administration's Ukraine policy must be to curtail Russian aggression, reduce corruption, and contain the oligarchs. A Three P's approach towards reducing corruption would be a tremendous start, with an emphasis on preventing, publicizing, and punishing corrupt conduct. Nobody should be above the law.
What Ukraine's shady oligarchs fear most of all is US Justice. One Ukrainian oligarch is currently being investigated by a US federal grand jury for money laundering. Another is fighting extradition to the United States on bribery and racketeering charges. They know that the US is strong on the rule of law. This is what most Ukrainians themselves strive towards.
The most difficult part of any successful Ukraine policy will be the task of handling Russia. This year marks three decades since Ukraine declared independence and the Soviet Union collapsed. According to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fall of the USSR was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century. Russia still seeks to reverse the verdict of 1991, and categorically refuses to entertain the idea of a successful and democratic Ukraine that is no longer within the Kremlin's sphere of influence.
As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Ukraine became the world's third-largest nuclear superpower. In 1994, it voluntarily gave up its nuclear arms and acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in exchange for security assurances from the United States, Britain, and Russia. Moscow has since torn up these promises by invading Ukraine, firstly in Crimea, and then in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The United States must now review the assurances given in 1994 and step up.
Despite the disappointments of the past three decades, there are ample reasons to be optimistic about Ukraine's future. Over the past thirty years, many US and international companies have proven successful in Ukraine. Iconic brands such as Oreo cookies, Nespresso coffee machines, Mercedes, BMW, and Volvo automobile parts, and even the wheels on London underground trains are all made in Ukraine. Ukrainian IT companies are global competitive, while the country hosts R&D centers for many of the world's leading tech brands. Even in today's challenging environment, it is possible to thrive in Ukraine.
These success stories are just the tip of the iceberg. Ukraine's potential is huge, and it also ranks among the most strategically important nations on the planet. The American Chamber of Commerce believes in Ukraine. The business community is now pinning its hopes on President Biden to back Ukraine during what promises to be a decisive period in the country's independent history.
Source: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/why-ukraines-business-community-has-high-hopes-for-the-biden-presidency/
Email: president@chamber.ua
Categories: BRE2/2021Keywords: Andy Hunder, Ukraine


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American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk Is Sunday Jeddah United basketball club has held a "friendly game" event to support the Zahra breast cancer association. One of them took place at Marlins Park in Miami, and the other at Huizenga Plaza in Fort Lauderdale.
Heartbroken Riyad Mahrez Pays Emotional Tribute To Leicester City Owner The Algeria winger enjoyed a good relationship with the charismatic Vichai before moving to City ahead of the current campaign. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and the families of the victims affected by this tragedy".
Venice inundated by exceptional tide; flooding hits Italy The high tide along the final stretch of the race meant participants had to jog through ankle-deep water to complete the course. The peak level of the water on Monday was the highest reached since December 2008, according to city statistics cited by AP.
Hamilton joins Fangio with 'surreal' fifth world title They did a superb job all year. "I hope that this kicks in soon, I'm definitely getting more excited as I think about it more".
India prepares to inaugurate the world's tallest statue Estimated to cost over $410 million, the committee overseeing the construction asked for the public donations to finish the statue.
Synagogue Shooter Held Without Bail After Court Appearance Bowers traded gunfire with police during Saturday's massacre at the Tree of Life synagogue and was shot multiple times. Cohen, who is also Jewish and a member of Tree of Life synagogue, said he stopped by Bowers' room.
IOS 12.1 user guide confirms Group FaceTime, Dual SIM support Make sure to give the new features a try and spam your friends with the new emoji tomorrow once the update starts rolling out. In particular, Apple highlighted new llama, mosquito, kangaroo and lobster characters arriving on the fresh operating system.
'Red Dead Redemption 2' Earns Record-Breaking $725 Million Opening Weekend It's actually the second-highest grossing entertainment launch, although Rockstar won't be too unhappy with that, given that the record-holder is Grand Theft Auto V .
Nicki Minaj wants to end Cardi B feud On her show Monday, Nicki said, 'You have your sister calling me a crackhead and leak numbers? If you really wanna talk about it, you know where to link me.
Google Pixel 3 XL gets horrifying second notch thanks to weird glitch This unholy phenomena is apparently caused by a software bug relating to Android Pie's screen rotation settings. Regardless of the outcome, it's safe to say that the notch's reputation just suffered another significant blow.
Couple who died at 'perfect photo' spot named as travel bloggers Together, they chronicled their adventures of travelling around the world in a blog called Holidays and HappilyEverAfters . The couple had recently moved from NY after Viswanath took a job as a systems engineer at Cisco , based in San Jose.
Apple unveils its most powerful Mac mini ever Apple claims that "together these advancements help to reduce the carbon footprint of the new Mac mini by almost 50%". Apple has done away with slow spinning disk drives, too; you can get up to 2TB of storage , and it's all solid-state.
China Trade War Rhetoric Weighing Further on the Chinese Yuan (CNH) USDCNH has weakened ever since trade wars started earlier this year, with the weaker CNH negating some of the effects of US-imposed tariffs.
Apple Updates MacBook Air with Retina Display The trackpad is being updated to use Force Touch and has 20 percent more surface area than on the previous MacBook Air . Apple said the MacBook Air is the most-loved laptop from Apple, and the new Air is the ideal device for portable use.
Kawhi Leonard: Why is Toronto Raptors star not playing against Milwaukee Bucks?
Good news, everyone! The planet-encircling dust storm on Mars is beginning to wane, which means NASA's solar-powered Opportunity rover, now in hibernation mode, will soon be able to wake up - assuming the storm hasn't irreparably damaged it.
The robot is battling a killer weather combination with the extreme dust storm, which is blocking light to its solar panels and coating it in a fine dust, while also fighting -100 degree Fahrenheit temperatures.
Mission controllers are already looking out to hail Different thrice per week, beaming beep-eliciting commands via the broad radio dishes of NASA's Deep Recount Network (DSN) at some stage in times when the rover would possibly also be conscious. "Assuming that we hear back from Opportunity, we will begin the process of discerning its status and bringing it back online". That effort addresses "the unlikely chance that there is a large amount of dust sitting on the solar arrays that is blocking the sun's energy", Callas said. At the time contact was lost with Opportunity in early June, tau has risen to 10.8, a record high value that indicated that the sun was nearly completely obscured by the dust storm.
"The Sun is breaking through the haze over Perseverance Valley (the rover's resting spot), and soon there will be enough sunlight present that Opportunity should be able to recharge its batteries", said John Callas, Opportunity project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, US.
Opportunity's tracks on Mars in 2017. At the end of that 45-day window while tau has still remained low, if we have not heard from the vehicle, we will stop our active listening (commanding) mode for Opportunity.
Kevin Anderson won his second title of the season at the Erste Bank Open on Sunday, sealing his place at next month's ATP finals. His fifth career title marks his first outside the ATP 250 level.
Should all go well, Opportunity will say hello and slowly be brought back online. The latest MARCI data shows no active dust storms to within 3000km of Opportunity's location. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ. Opportunity has shrugged off a lot of obstacles in its decade-plus visit to the red planet. Such "cleaning events" were first discovered by Mars rover teams in 2004 when, on several occasions, battery power levels aboard both Spirit and Opportunity increased by several percent during a single Martian night, when the logical expectation was that they would continue to decrease. However, even though skies above Mars have cleared up a bit, Opportunity may still have to wait a while for the chance to recharge and communicate again with its handlers.
For now, the scientists will continue attempting to contact the rover. The probe was created to travel just 1km, but in its many years of service it has managed to log more than 45km.
"In a scenario admire this, you hope for the completely but conception for all eventualities", Callas stated.
"We are pulling for our tenacious rover to pull her feet from the fire one more time", Callas said. After that, they'll run a full diagnostic check to see how the rover is doing. "And if she does, we are going to have the flexibility to be there to listen to her".
In its statement, NASA did not publish an updated value of tau.


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Giuseppe Di Prinzio (Ortona 1903 - Pescara 1998) foi um escultor e ceramista italiano.

Biografia
O escultor e ceramista Giuseppe Di Prinzio nasceu em Ortona, na província de Chieti, em 1903.
Após uma infância difícil, nos primeiros anos do pós-guerra, ele freqüentou a Escola Técnica de Pescara, onde, estimulado pelo professor de desenho, tendo obtido a licença técnica, decidiu freqüentar a Academia de Belas Artes de Urbino.
Após uma pequena participação, Di Prinzio abandonou seus estudos e, em 1923, começou a trabalhar no estúdio de Tommaso Cascella, onde abordou cerâmica e fez amizade com Emilio Polci.
Após alguns anos de experiência na fabricação "Bozzelli", em 1936, ele abriu seu próprio laboratório, a fabricação "Prinzio Ceramiche" em Pescara, onde produziu uma produção de majólica de arte, esculturas, placas de parede e painéis decorativos de inspiração modernista, executada em majólica vidrada e em peças únicas.
No mesmo ano, esteve presente no III ° Sindacale Abruzzese.
Chamado de armas no início da Segunda Guerra Mundial, ele não abandonou sua atividade artística e, em 1942, uma de sua terracota foi comprada pelo príncipe do Piemonte.
Em 1951, a convite de Giò Ponti, ele participou da Trienal de Milão, onde expôs algumas cerâmicas e, em 1952, participou da Exposição de Arte Sacra Angelicum, realizada primeiro em Milão e depois em San Paolo, no Brasil.
Em 1953, ele foi premiado em L'Aquila, na E.N.A.P.I. e em 1955 ele exibiu algumas de suas obras, em um coletivo de ceramistas italianos em Frankfurt, Alemanha.
Nos anos seguintes, inúmeras obras de mobiliário urbano foram encomendadas pelo município de Pescara e outros municípios italianos.
Em meados da década de 1950, ele era professor de figuras e adornado na Escola de Artes Misticoni em Pescara.
Os anos sessenta viram Di Prinzio menos interessado no figurativo e mais abstrato, especialmente nas decorações de cerâmica e nos anos setenta o viram particularmente envolvido em esculturas de bronze, mármore e gesso e na criação de medalhas e jóias
Ele trabalha até a idade avançada também realizando esculturas em prata e bronze, além de produzir algumas gravuras interessantes.
Ele morreu em Pescara em 1998.

Escultores da Itália
Ceramistas