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Arthur Paul Pedrick (3 September 1918 – 15 August 1976) was a prolific British inventor who filed for 162 United Kingdom patents between 1962 and his death in 1976 or 1977. His inventions were notable for their humour and almost complete lack of practical applicability.

Personal life
Very little is known about Pedrick. He worked for many years as a patent examiner at the United Kingdom Patent Office but that it was only after his retirement that he began filing patent applications for his inventions. The Patent Office has stringent restrictions on improbable gadgets, but Pedrick's familiarity with the process enabled him to satisfy the requirements and get his applications granted.

During this period he was resident in Selsey, Sussex, England, according to his patents. Sometimes his residence would further be listed as "One-Man Photo-Electric Research Laboratories", or "One Man Think Tank Nuclear Fusion Research Laboratories", and so forth. These laboratories were staffed by himself and a ginger coloured cat, sometimes referred to as "Ginger" although it is not clear whether this was actually his name. Ginger was of great help to Pedrick in developing his inventions. Unfortunately, it is recounted in some of the patents how Ginger was unable to secure financing to put the inventions into practice.

His patent for laser induced fusion includes these autobiographical notes:

It is my personal experience based on a severe bout of Dive bombing by Stuka dive bombers in a light cruiser HMS "Dido", in 1941, evacuating mainly New Zealanders from Crete, who had been sent in by the late Sir Winston Churchill, but who, after the battle with the Nazi paratroops had made the island untenable, Admiral Cunningham, the Naval C in C in Alexandria, realised must be got out if possible, that the surface warships just cannot survive attacks by large numbers of aircraft, on their own, and it is only the chance of fate that I happened to be in After Engine Room of the ship, when a bomb came down on B turret and created a carnage of twisted steel and bodies forward, that I am writing this now, but the memory of the experience still gives me a "nightmare" at times.

I have suffered all my life even from a by product of the 1914–18 war even if I was born after it. It is a personal fact that my father was a Lieutenant (E) serving in the disastrous K class submarines, by which the Royal Navy tried to create a Submarine which could steam on the surface at 20 knots to keep up with the Fleet, and he died of a lung infection created by the appalling conditions in such submarines, even before I was born. If a women [sic] is in bad metal [sic] state when she is in pregnant, it is obvious that she can pass on her state of mind to the foetus. This has made me a nervous individual all my life, and there are many times in my life I wish I had never been born. There are endless arguments about the subject of abortion on the "rights of the foetus", and these could all be settled if, in some way, the future could be predicted for the foetus and it could decide whether it "wanted to be born".

Inventions

Chromatically selective cat flap
Many of Pedrick's inventions related to his cat, Ginger. His crowning achievement in this respect was a patent titled "Photon Push-Pull Radiation Detector For Use in Chromatically Selective Cat Flap Control And 1000 Megaton Earth-Orbital Peace-Keeping Bomb".

The idea was to detect the difference in fur colour between a ginger cat and a black cat. He came up with this idea because a black cat named "Blackie" from next door kept trying to steal his own cat's food. However, with Pedrick's new catflap design, if Blackie attempted to use the cat-flap he would not be allowed in. Ginger was impressed with the idea, and further suggested that the concept could be applied as a nuclear deterrent. Ginger's concern over the Cold War and the nuclear arsenals threatening the world was a regular motivator for Pedrick's inventions.

Extinguishing fires in high rise block buildings
Pedrick was also concerned with the safety of his fellow man, as described in an "Apparatus for extinguishing fires in high rise block buildings of uniform transverse cross-section or plan".

Here, Pedrick suggests that fire curtains could be secured at the roof level of a high-rise building. When released, they would envelope substantially the entire building. The curtains could be provided with apertures which when the curtain is released are located opposite rooms in the building, these rooms being designated as ones in which the occupants should congregate in the event of fire. The concern however was that such large curtains would have prevented escape from the building as well as increase the risk of suffocation.

Transfer of fresh water
Pedrick's concern for his fellow man is again shown in a patent titled "Arrangements for the transfer of fresh water from one location on the earth's surface to another at a different latitude, for the purpose of irrigation, with pumping energy derived from the effect of the earth's rotation about the polar axis".

In this patent, Pedrick describes in extremely long detail, with pages of mathematical equations, how snow and ice could be passed along pipelines from the Antarctic to irrigate the dry Australian outback, creating a "granary of the East" that could feed the burgeoning population of the world. Since the flow of water from one region to the other through such pipelines would not be practicable, according to Pedrick, the suggestion is to instead compress the snow into hard balls that could be fired along these pipelines as projectiles.

Notable quotations
Pedrick would often discuss, within his patents, the problems in the world that led him to his inventions and would also recount conversations between himself and his ginger cat. Some of these tangents in his patents show Pedrick to be a thoughtful, if slightly eccentric man, who was deeply concerned with the well-being of others and for the future of mankind, as well as being dismissive of modern capitalism.

Characteristic observations on the world around him include the following:
"Almost 2000 years ago, a strange character called Jesus Christ went about Palestine saying we should all love our enemies, but he was crucified before much notice was taken of him, and it is curious that the very land of Palestine is now one of the World "Trouble spots" in 1974."
"It being the opinion of my Ginger Cat, that those cats that you see sponsoring various brands of tinned cat food on T/V are just as hypocritical as the various actors one sees sponsoring on T/V various commercial products, and in fact my Ginger Cat prefers ordinary Corned Beef to most brands of Cat food."
"Unfortunately it is fact that thermo-nuclear weapons can be contained with the noses of Interncontinental-ballistic-rockets which results in the fact that distrust between governments of nations able to manufacture nuclear weapons, for example the USA and USSR, results in such nations keeping in readiness large numbers of such rockets to be used as a so called "deterrent" against an attack by such other nations.
"Clearly if one such nation, for example the USA, could be assured by some system, which would be quite automatic, that any other nation making a nuclear attack upon it, would be sure to bring upon itself a similar nuclear devastation, it could then allow a run-down of its own thermo-nuclear weapons stocks for the deuterium and tritium to be used for peaceful purposes to overcome the "energy shortage""
"As Ginger pointed out to me the whole unfortunate situation might have been avoided if Albert Einstein had not "doodled out" his equation E = mc2, in the Swiss Patent Office around 1905 instead of getting on with the work he was being paid to do."

Response
"Funny" patents, such as those published by Pedrick, and their popularisation in the media upset many patent examiners who feel they tend to trivialise the subject.

Patents
A selection from over 160 patents filed between 1962 and 1975.

References

External links
 The prolific Arthur Pedrick – IP Review
 The High-rise Fire Curtain – BBC article
 A patently absurd invention? – BBC story
 Crazy creations of infamous inventor – The Argus
 Arthur Paul Pedrick's Patents

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General Hospital on Monday promises to be full of drama and plenty of contrasting feelings. Over the past few months, bonds have been disrupted, which has driven some down a dark road. After her breakup with Michael, Sasha Gilmore was exposed to drugs, and she uses them more often these days. She's going to run into Willow Tait and they're supposed to be sitting down to have a conversation.
The previews for Monday's General Hospital show them together, and when Willow suggests they share a glass of wine together, Sasha has a shocked look on her face. Before Chase and Sasha came up with the idea to throw Willow and Michael together for Wiley's sake, they used to be best friends. They're sitting in the darkness that cheating together with their exes was just a huge lie. The two women will work it out, according to spoilers by SheKnows Soaps, and they undoubtedly have a lot to chat about.
Fans of the General Hospital have been gearing up for either Sasha or Chase to finally confess their secret. As she sits down with Willow, this will be the best moment for Sasha to let the cat out of the bag. She is the one, however, who has been adamant about not saying anything. She knows that Michael and Willow are falling for each other and that they are going to be Wiley's family. Sasha will probably be forced through more medications by this meeting between them to relieve the pain and shame she has endured for months.
Chase will arrive at the gym at the same moment that Michael is trying to clear his mind while the women are having their talk. Michael warns Chase, with his boxing gloves on, that he is taking a chance. These two can hash stuff out between them as well.
Soap Central teases that sometime during the week of October 19, Willow is going to search out Chase. That suggests she may have heard about his and Sasha's secret, or she's worried about Sasha, and she asks about her ex.
Sasha hasn't had it easy lately, she's fallen into trouble with her work at Fraud with her continued drug use. She got very flustered during a presentation for a prospective investor as The Inquisitr had previously outlined earlier in the week. She got her act together finally, but no one has yet to find out exactly why she's been acting odd lately.
Sasha might overdose, and her conversation with Willow might just be the thing that drives her to it. If the truth doesn't spill out at General Hospital this coming week, her downward spiral may be the thing that makes it all erupt.
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Anthony "Tony" Richard Cottee (ur. 11 lipca 1965 w Londynie) – angielski piłkarz grający na pozycji napastnika. W swojej karierze rozegrał 7 meczów w reprezentacji Anglii.

Kariera klubowa
Swoją karierę piłkarską Cottee rozpoczął w klubie West Ham United. W 1982 roku awansował do kadry pierwszego zespołu. 1 stycznia 1983 roku zadebiutował w nim w Division One w wygranym 3:0 domowym meczu z Tottenhamem Hotspur i w debiucie zdobył gola. W debiutanckim sezonie jako 17-latek strzelił 5 goli, a w sezonie 1983/1984 stał się podstawowym zawodnikiem West Hamu. W 1986 roku został wybrany Młodym Zawodnikiem Roku, a West Ham zajął 3. miejsce w lidze. W sezonie 1986/1987 strzelił 22 gole i był to tym samym jego najlepszy dorobek strzelecki w karierze.

W sierpniu 1988 roku Cottee przeszedł za 2,2 miliona funtów do Evertonu. W Evertonie swój debiut zaliczył 27 sierpnia 1988 w zwycięskim 4:0 domowym spotkaniu z Newcastle United. W debiucie strzelił trzy gole. W 1989 roku doszedł z Evertonem do finału Pucharu Anglii, jednak Everton przegrał w nim 2:3 z Liverpoolem. W zespole Evertonu Cottee występował do lata 1994 roku.

Latem 1994 roku Cottee wrócił do West Hamu na zasadzie wymiany z Evertonem za Davida Burrowsa. W West Hamie grał do końca 1996 roku. Na początku 1997 roku wyjechał do Malezji i występował tam w zespole Selangoru, dla którego strzelił 14 goli.

W 1997 roku Cottee został zawodnikiem Leicesteru City. Swój debiut w Leicesterze zanotował 27 sierpnia 1997 w zremisowanym 3:3 domowym meczu z Arsenalem. Jeszcze w 1997 roku został wypożyczony do Birmingham City, a w 1998 roku wrócił do Leicesteru. W 2000 roku zdobył z nim Puchar Ligi Angielskiej.

Latem 2000 Cottee przeszedł do Norwich City. Pod koniec roku został grającym menedżerem Barnet, a w 2001 roku zakończył karierę jako zawodnik Millwall.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W reprezentacji Anglii Cottee zadebiutował 10 września 1986 w przegranym 0:1 towarzyskim spotkaniu ze Szwecją. W swojej karierze grał w eliminacjach do Euro 88 i do MŚ 1990. Od 1986 do 1989 rozegrał w kadrze narodowej 7 meczów.

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And cedes power to the military. My wife thinks chaos will ensue. I'm more hopeful. Let's pray I'm right, for Egypt's sake. For Israel's.
If democracy gains in the Middle East, there will be some demagogues, nationalists and jingoists, just as there are in America and Israel, and they may make diplomacy more complicated.
I think this is what is called a tri-fecta: 1.) use a mouthpiece to bash your least favorite political party, 2.) make sure that bashing includes equating the Republican party with the Muslim Brotherhood, 3.) then make sure to chime in that there are "demagogues, nationalists, and jingoists" in American, just like those horrible Muslim Brotherhood guys who are busy making "diplomacy more difficult" (for the anointed one, I suppose).
Update: Stumbled upon this post by David Pryce-Jones, Anyone Here Been Raped & Speaks English? a post named after the book of the same title. Seemed an appropriate addendum.
Do We Want the Brotherhood to Take Over Mubarak's Neighborhood?
I support Israel, and I also support a foreign policy that would be more concerned with spreading democracy and freedom and less concerned with supporting corrupt and oppressive regimes in the name of stability. That said, I am not a foreign policy expert. And that said, I am in favor of Hosni Mubarak stepping down as quickly as possible, but no sooner than a transition plan is in place that would make it difficult or impossible for the Muslim Brotherhood to take power.
Muhammad Ghanem: Hosni Mubarak and his regime are over, but he does not know it. In the beginning, we said that we wanted Hosni Mubarak to go. Now, we say that Hosni Mubarak, his VP, and prime minister must go. Now there are three of them.
In addition, the commanders of the army are still going back and forth to America. The American position has changed, and we hope that the position of the military will change as well, but reality proves that Hosni Mubarak will not leave unless he is forced to, that Omar Suleiman is more dangerous than Hosni Mubarak, and that the appointed prime minister… They all come from the military, and they share the same interests. Like we say in Egyptian Arabic: They will not bite one another.
I don't want to speak ill of anyone, but Hosni Mubarak will not hesitate to kill the entire Egyptian people in order to remain in power. This is a maneuver of which we must beware. Hosni Mubarak is trying to stabilize his position. He is in Sharm Al-Sheik, protected by the Zionists, by the state of Israel. There is a helicopter ready to fly him to Israel.
As for the possible return of the security forces – this is inconceivable. If the people see members of the security forces, they will kill them all. These security forces are not part of the Egyptian people. Their allegiance lies with Hosni Mubarak.
I am absolutely certain that this revolution will not die, and that the next step must be one of civil disobedience. This civil disobedience will generate strife among the Egyptians. This disobedience must include halting passage through the Suez Canal, stopping the supply of petroleum and natural gas to Israel, and preparing for war with Israel.
Have I said that I'm not Islamophobic? I'm not. I am developing a phobia against the Muslim Brotherhood however.
For what it's worth, I think the realist philosophy of foreign policy helped create this mess. Whenever I find myself advocating a more neoconservative policy, I have to remind myself that this mess wasn't created in a day. It will take more than a few days, even years, to clean up. What bothers me is that innocent people suffer in the meantime.
What did Martin Luther King say? "justice too long delayed is justice denied." The Egyptian people deserve true freedom and a democratic way of life. They may have to wait a bit longer to get it or lose it to the thugs who make up the Muslim Brotherhood. But what do I know?
. . . requires that Mr. Mubarak stay on, but only for a short time, to initiate the election of an entirely new Parliament that could then amend all the power out of the presidency or even abolish it . . .
. . . the Egyptian Constitution . . . gives the power to dissolve Parliament and call new elections only to an elected president. Mr. Mubarak's successor, as an acting president, would be specifically prohibited from getting the parliamentary elections under way. A new Parliament is crucial to democratic reform, because only Parliament has the power to defang the Egyptian presidency, stripping it of its dictatorial powers through constitutional amendment.
Interesting dilemma. Hope the demonstrators have read and understand their Constitution.
Mubarak is a bumbling fool, but his bumbling will–or should–help Obama out of his box. Mubarak's jackboot on the neck of foreign press and human rights workers will–or should–give Present Obama reason to finally choose sides in this mess.
I've been following the crisis in Egypt, and I realize that options are few. Nevertheless, there are options–three of them actually–that stand out: support the protestors, support Mubarak, or vote present.
Guess which one the President Obama chose?
Jerusalem was also reported to have called on the United States and a number of European countries over the weekend to mute criticism of Mr. Mubarak to preserve stability in the region, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
"I remind you that the peace between Israel and Egypt has endured for over three decades, and our goal is to ensure that these relations continue," the prime minister said on Sunday as Egypt's powerful Muslim Brotherhood and the secular opposition united around a prominent government critic in hopes of negotiating with the Army for Mr. Mubarak's departure.
And there you have it: The U.S. has been supporting a very oppressive regime, and that regime is supposedly essential to stability in the region. My question for the realists is and always has been: In the long run, is supporting oppressive regimes in the pursuit of stability the best way to achieve stability? I think not; to wit: the Philippines (Marcos), Iran (the Shah), Iraq (Saddam), and now Egypt (Mubarak)–and that's just off the top of my head.
There is no long-term stability without freedom, and there is no freedom without democracy. The people must be sovereign.
The choice is not between a stable and predictable but undemocratic Egypt on the one hand, and dangerous instability and extremism on the other. There is now an opportunity to support gradual, responsible democratic reform. But the longer the United States and the world wait to support democratic institutions and responsible political change in Egypt, the longer the public voice will be stifled and the harder it will be to reverse a dangerous trend. Already there are signs that the Egyptian government plans to restrict opposition candidacies and civil society monitoring of the elections.
The United States supports free, fair, and transparent elections in Egypt as in any part of the world. Although the decision of who will run in or win the elections belongs to the Egyptian people alone, we have consistently encouraged the Egyptian government to adopt further political reforms to open political processes to wider participation and representation. We also believe it is important for Egypt to expand public discourse and relax restrictions on NGOs, political parties, journalists, and bloggers. Such action would increase the space for greater political participation and lead to greater transparency in Egypt's electoral process.
Senior Administration officials have engaged with the Government of Egypt in an ongoing, important dialogue with Egyptian civil society representatives and NGOs who share the desire for political reform and expanded democratic participation in Egypt. This Administration values its dialogue on these issues.
I'm just getting up to speed on what's happening in Egypt. In any case, I am not an expert on Egypt–or even the Middle East. Nevertheless, I've been concerned about Mubarak for a long time. I've been equally concerned that the Realists don't get it: long term, guys like Mubarak are not good for their people–a given–and not good for the United States. We should have been encouraging him to retire a long time ago. We shouldn't be supporting him now.
The problem isn't the Egyptian government–though it's certainly part of the problem. The problem is Mubarak and has been for 30 years. Just guessing here, but his people don't want him to appoint another government, they would like a hand in the appointing. Legitimate governments govern by the consent of the people. Point. Game. Set. Match.


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Aristocracy of the dropouts
Polls show America's eligible voters overwhelmingly favor Democrats in today's election, but when the world is narrowed down to who actually votes, the Republicans prevail.
By Todd Gitlin
Is today's midterm election a referendum on (choose one) (a) President Bill Clinton, (b) Speaker Newt Gingrich, (c) Social Security, (d) local issues?
The answer is, none of the above. More than anything else, the election is a referendum on the American political system itself. And, election after election, the system flunks. But the big flunk does not make big news. The big story, virtually the only story of this election, is a nonstory: At the core of American politics is a yawning, black sinkhole where Democrats' hopes melt down and most of the electorate vanishes. For the key to this election, as to most American elections, is the electorate that doesn't turn up. It is disproportionately -- no surprise -- less affluent, less educated, less white, less Republican than the private club of regular voters. To say its members are alienated is to say the obvious. The no-shows explain why a country with a largely Democratic belief system gives rise to an electorate that votes Republican.
There is some good news. The American public is gamely trying to declare independence from the Beltway blowhards and petty inquisitors who have been trying to stampede them into deposing the president. The most unexpected good news about the slow-motion coup d'itat the Republicans have mounted since January -- courtesy of Kenneth Starr, Linda Tripp, Lucianne Goldberg, Newsweek, Matt Drudge and a supporting cast of thousands -- is that the public hasn't bought it. Poll after poll, for more than nine months, reveals a public convinced that Clinton lied, that Starr overreached, that the media ran amok and that impeachment would be wrong. The problem is that this vast public, whispering its tastes and distastes to the pollsters, muttering in the streets, is not what elects the American government. The electorate is a sector, a fraction. And not a representative one.
If registered voters beamed their likes and dislikes directly into a supercomputer, they would elect a Democratic Congress. So the polls say, and rather consistently. Here are some big, fat numbers to hold in your mind: According to a New York Times poll Oct. 26-28, registered voters prefer Democratic over Republican candidates for the House by a margin of 48 percent to 38 percent. It will take more numbers to drive the point home, so let me start by repeating. Forty-eight to 38 percent. If registered voters could cast their ballots simply by wishing -- leaving aside the ones who would sit it out even if they could vote with an act of mental concentration -- 56 percent of those who were prepared to choose when polled by the Times would choose Democrats over Republicans. A Congress elected in that way would consist of 243 Democrats and 192 Republicans.
But we haven't yet figured out how to tally votes via Spockian mind meld. For a host of reasons, turnout falls far short of 100 percent of registered voters. Unlike other democracies, we vote on a work day, not a weekend. No one gets time off to vote. We consider politics dirty, distracting, trivial, juvenile. So turnout has been falling throughout the 20th century, with the falloff interrupted only by upticks in the 1930s, jolted by the Depression and the New Deal, and in the 1960s -- jolted by hopes for the Kennedy and Johnson years, by the civil rights movement, the Vietnam war and the antiwar movement. The falloff resumed after the '60s and goes on. During presidential elections, we're lucky to get 50 percent turnout. And during off-year elections, without a superhero or supervillain to draw folks to the booths, forget 50 percent. In 1994, it was 39 percent.
Suppose that turnout this year matches the turnout of 1994. Then, according to the Times poll of Oct. 26-28, Republicans are preferred by 48 percent and Democrats by 43 percent. (The others are presumably undecided.) In the event voters turn out in those proportions, the House will number 229 Republicans to 206 Democrats.
Or suppose the turnout is at the low end of recent off-year elections -- 31 percent as opposed to the 39 percent of 1994. According to the Times' calculations, the Republican House margin would soar to 241-194 -- almost as great a Republican margin as the Democrats would achieve via the Spockian mind-meld vote.
On the other hand, even if Americans vote at a high rate -- if, say, a grand 47 percent of the voting-age population rouse themselves -- they'll still go for Republicans, albeit by a slender margin of 220 to 215 seats. Right now only one question is absorbing the pundits, spinners, counterspinners, advisers and consultants -- the whole electoral industry -- how Republican?
One reason people don't vote is that they're not registered -- that's 19 percent of the voting-age population, including convicted criminals in many states, who are disproportionately African-American, and many of the ill and the elderly. Getting an absentee ballot in many states is no picnic. (Before the September primary, in New York City, it took me two phone calls and a lot of voice-mail patience to get an application for an absentee ballot. After I mailed it, the actual ballot arrived too late. Call me a primary nonvoter.) Even after a Democratic Congress passed the motor-voter bill in 1993 and President Clinton signed it (after several Bush vetoes), many states dragged their feet setting up procedures to get the paperwork done. Making voting too easy might not be a good career move for many politicians.
But the nonregistered are only a minority of the nonvoters. Most nonvoters have gone to the trouble of registering and don't want to go to any more. Some are, they say, "not interested." Some think not voting is a positive act, a declaration of independence. They're voting with their feet -- voting against politics. Politics is for suckers, they believe. Politics has victimized them, left them behind, so they are taking revenge. There are more of these affirmative nonvoters every year, who think not voting is a righteous act, a sort of civil disobedience. Don't vote, goes the bumper sticker, it only encourages them. By not voting, this growing majority ensures that politics will be dominated by the politicians they despise. A luxurious attitude, befitting a sort of aristocracy of dropouts.
Enter the Republicans with their on-again, off-again attack ads that lots of people (not only high-minded do-gooders) hate with a passion. Why, since the public so fiercely disapproves of these accusations, do the Republicans still love to point fingers in living color? Why, after denying that they would do so, did the Republicans bring out their poison darts in the closing days of the campaign? In part, precisely because so-called negative ads are offensive, and being offensive is the Republicans' best defense. Ugly politics keep people away from the ballot box. The uglier the campaign, the more people decide that all politics are the work of the devil, and they want to stand clear of them. The more vicious the Republicans are, the more likely to convince the already estranged that politicians are unseemly and politics a pastime for fools. And therefore, the more likely the alienated citizen is to find something more absorbing to do on Nov. 3 than drag him- or herself to the polling place.
So inciting anger against politics serves a Republican purpose. One shouldn't exaggerate this, however. Left-wingers make the mistake of thinking that nonvoters are sitting on their hands waiting for a righteous party of the left, as if they constitute a reserve army of the potentially radical. There's no evidence for that, and a lot of evidence to the contrary. The liberal left has squandered its natural advantage on economic issues -- HMOs, the minimum wage, Social Security, education funding -- by resorting to a self-immolating identity politics that doesn't rely on its enemies to divide and conquer; it does the job itself.
But voter estrangement marries complacency in today's politics. This estrangement feeds on itself. Voters rule, nonvoters are ruled. The people who benefit least from politics as they exists are least likely to vote, and by not voting, preserve the lock the complacent have on the politics that works to the advantage of voters and the disadvantage of nonvoters. Thus, the self-fulfilling prophecy that rules American politics. Believing makes it so.
Prepare then for the next phase of the Republican Standoff -- the epilogue to their Revolution, which even in failing has succeeded in bottling up most Democratic initiatives, limited though they were, over the last four years. Despite the disappointments (for Republicans) of the Gingrich years, this failed Revolution still sets the boundaries of the possible for American decisions about wages, equality, health care, child care, labor law, trade, environment and whatever other issues you care to name. The best result Democrats hope for this week is a Republican victory too slender to support impeachment. True enough, rolling back the slow-motion Republican coup d'état that proceeded under cover of the prosecutorial Starr would be an achievement. It would be a fine thing to elect more than 41 senators, thus to remain cloture-proof. To put the Christian right in its place is a necessary condition for progress.
But for small-"d" democrats, a nondefeat defeat is a weak expectation indeed. Unhappy is a party that has need of such victories. Certainly Bill Clinton hoped for a better political legacy than mustering enough votes to avoid impeachment. The hope of making progress on the big questions in American politics is forestalled as long as nonvoters make up the majority party.
Todd Gitlin teaches at Columbia University, writes regularly for BillMoyers.com and Tablet, and is the author, most recently, of Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street.
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Sen—It may have two years left in its mission, but NASA's Cassini spacecraft is already bidding members of the Saturn system farewell. This week that list grew to include the moon Dione, one of a host of icy worlds surrounding the sixth planet.
With many questions about the moon still unanswered, many of Cassini's scientific instruments were zeroed in as the spacecraft arrived for its fifth targeted—and second closest—encounter. Skimming less than 500 kmfrom the surface of this 1123 km-wide object, the Imaging Science Subsystem was poised for some dramatic views.
In addition to its visible, infrared, and ultraviolet imaging systems, Cassini trained its thermal camera on some unusually warm regions of the surface noticed on previous visits and deployed the Cosmic Dust Analyzer in search of particles emanating from the moon. It also continued to develop a gravity mapof Dione, which will help scientists deduce its internal structure.
So what has Cassini taught us about this icy world? Like many of the other Saturnian satellites, Dione has been revealed as a more complex and active world than previously imagined. Its surface is marred not just by the typical accumulation of craters but also by chasms and ridges indicative of a more volatile past. Indeed, like its neighbor Enceladus today, Dione may once also have supported an ocean of liquid water beneath its surface. Perhaps it, too, had plumes that created their own now-lost ring of Saturn.


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By Danica Kirka, Associated Press (AP)
British Airways and American Airlines Plan COVID-19 Testing for U.S. Travelers
Starting November 25, the pilot program will offer voluntary testing for passengers flying to London's Heathrow from New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
Starting November 25, British Airways will offer voluntary COVID-19 testing for passengers flying to London's Heathrow Airport from New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
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British Airways said Tuesday that it will start testing passengers flying from the United States to London's Heathrow Airport for COVID-19 in an effort to persuade the British government it should scrap rules requiring most international travelers to quarantine for 14 days.
The airline says the pilot program will offer voluntary testing starting November 25 in partnership with American Airlines for passengers flying to Heathrow from New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
Passengers will be tested 72 hours before departure, on arrival at Heathrow, and again three days after arrival. British Airways says its goal is to show that a single test 72 hours before takeoff is enough to ensure travelers aren't carrying COVID-19, allowing authorities to end the quarantine requirement.
The predeparture test will be conducted at home by travelers, who will self-collect a nasal sample under the supervision of medical professionals by videoconference, BA said. The second test, which happens on arrival at Heathrow, will be a nasal swab conducted by health workers at the airport. The third test is a saliva sample taken alone by passengers three days after arrival in the United Kingdom.
Airlines are calling on the U.K. government to scrap the 14-day quarantine requirement, which they say is killing the travel industry and slowing economic growth. The quarantine rules apply to anyone traveling to the U.K. from a country that isn't on the government's "safe" list, making most business and holiday travel unrealistic. Countries are often added to the list with just a few days' notice, increasing the uncertainty for travelers.
"Without a preflight testing regime, we will be locked in a stop-start cycle where consumers are unclear about what the rules of the game are, and won't be in a position to travel with confidence," BA chief executive Sean Doyle said in a statement.
Because the quarantine rules remain in effect, all passengers will still be required to self-isolate for 14 days after arrival in the U.K., even if all three tests are negative. Passengers who test positive will be able to rebook their flights free of charge, BA said.
Heathrow Airport said last month that it had lost its place as Europe's busiest air hub as France and Germany relaxed quarantine rules and implemented testing regimes. The airport expects to see a 72 percent drop in passenger numbers this year.
BA said more airlines may join the testing program in the coming weeks.
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Coca Cola HBC AG
Issue of equity and total voting rights
Mar 01 2019 11:08 GMT Source: RNS
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Coca-Cola HBC AG
Zug, Switzerland - 1 March 2019 - Coca-Cola HBC AG ("Coca-Cola HBC") today announces in respect of the month ended 28 February 2019, the issue of 119,665 shares of CHF 6.70 each fully paid ("Ordinary Shares"), following the exercise of options granted under Coca-Cola HBC's share option plan.
Such Ordinary Shares were also admitted to the Official List of the UK Listing Authority and to trading on the London Stock Exchange's main market for listed securities under Coca-Cola HBC's block listing facility. Following this issue, Coca-Cola HBC has the ability to admit a further 28,201,602 Ordinary Shares under its block listing facility.
As at 28 February 2019, Coca-Cola HBC's issued share capital consisted of 371,946,894 Ordinary Shares, of which 3,968,257 Ordinary shares are held by Coca-Cola HBC AG and 3,430,135 shares are held by its subsidiary, Coca-Cola HBC Services MEPE, in treasury. Accordingly, as at 28 February 2019, the total number of voting rights in Coca-Cola HBC is 364,548,502 for the purposes of the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority ("DTRs").
Shareholders may use the above total voting rights figure as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the share capital of Coca-Cola HBC under the DTRs.
This announcement is made in accordance with DTR 5.6.1.
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Tel: +44 20 37 444 231
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About Coca‑Cola HBC
Coca-Cola HBC is a leading bottler of The Coca-Cola Company with an annual sales volume of more than 2 billion unit cases. It has a broad geographic footprint with operations in 28 countries serving a population of more than 600 million people. Coca-Cola HBC offers a diverse range of primarily non-alcoholic ready-to-drink beverages in the sparkling, juice, water, sport, energy, tea and coffee categories. Coca-Cola HBC is committed to promoting sustainable development in order to create value for its business and for society. This includes providing products that meet the beverage needs of consumers, fostering an open and inclusive work environment, conducting its business in ways that protect and preserve the environment and contribute to the socio-economic development of the local communities. Coca-Cola HBC has been listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices since 2008, and ranked among the top beverage companies in the Global and European indices for the past five years. Coca-Cola HBC is also included in the FTSE4Good Index, rated "AAA" on the MSCI ESG index, rated "A" for Climate and Water by CDP and listed on the Sustainalytics and Vigeo rankings.
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The Razer phone, upon release, had all the bells and whistles of a modern-day flagship. Branded as the world's first 'gaming phone' the device cut no corners when it came to hardware. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 SoC, 8GB of RAM, an Adreno 540 GPU, Dolby Atmos certified speakers and the world's first ever panel with a 120Hz refresh rate; the device had all it took to make short work of even the most demanding games. However, the grouse many people had with it was the fact that it shipped with Android Nougat out of the box, despite Oreo being out for a while.
A few weeks ago, Razer announced that the Razer phone would make the leap from Nougat to Oreo 8.1, bypassing 8.0 entirely, citing compatibility issues. Along with the announcement, the company released a developer preview of the update which users could sideload. Today, the update is being rolled out officially and can be downloaded OTA.
The update comes with all the usual Android Oreo goodies: notification channels, picture-in-picture mode, notification snoozing, background app optimizations, and more. However, there are some devices specific features included too. For starters, you can double-tap the lock screen to sleep. It isn't anything ground-breaking, but nice to have.
The latest update has a cleaner visual design, under-the-hood improvements for a better overall experience, Dolby Atmos app improvements and support for the Netflix widget. The update is rounded off by major security patches and bug fixes. This update brings the latest and greatest Android experience to the Razer Phone. The Razer Phone's existing features are better than ever, taking Netflix original HDR content, Dolby Atmos sound, and 120hz gaming to the highest level of entertainment.
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How Do I Copyright My Song?
If you're a music producer or musician, you know how important it is to protect the rights to your music. After all, if you don't copyright your song, someone may steal your hard work! Of course, as a musician, copyright law might not be your forte. We'll do our best below to help you better understand how to copyright your music and protect your artistic property from opportunistic thieves.
What Are Copyright Laws for Music?
Copyright laws are often confusing – they vary depending on the type of product you're trying to copyright. With music, copyright traditionally arises legally when your record a song. The only condition is that the song is original – if you copy someone else's work, you can't copyright it.
Copyright law can protect the underlying composition of any song you produce as well as the actual recording of the song (or, the master track). Keep in mind sometimes these two copyrights will be owned by two different entities– this is typically the case if you have a music deal with a label.
If you want to take precautionary measures and submit a formal copyright request for a song, you can start the process by applying through the appropriate national representative body. In Canada, go to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office website. In the U.S. go to the U.S. Copyright website.
in either case, you'll first need to create an account. Next, you should register the song you're trying to copyright and submit a copy. You'll then need to pay a fee and wait for confirmation of your registration.
How Much Is It to Copyright a Song?
Copyrighting a song is much cheaper than you might think – this is especially true because you don't need to use a lawyer to copyright your music. Typically, the fee for copyrighting a single song is $50 CAD in Canada, or $35 USD in the States if you register it online.
How Long Does It Take to Copyright a Song?
The amount of time it takes to copyright a song will depend on the avenue you use to copyright it. If you use the online platform, the average wait time is around three months after initial registration.
If you decide to use a paper application, the process may end up taking ten months. We suggest that you use online copyright registration as it is much easier and ensures you receive your copyright registration much sooner.
Can You Copyright a Song by Emailing It to Yourself?
Many people suggest that emailing or mailing something to yourself automatically ensures a copyright is assigned to your musical composition. The idea is that this will document a date attached to your property and ensure no one can claim ownership at a later time.
Unfortunately, this isn't true. Current copyright law dictates that your musical property automatically receives copyright when it's created – you don't need to send it to yourself. You should still register it with the U.S. Copyright Office to ensure you benefit from certain protections though.
If you want to seek damages for someone using your copyrighted material, it's essential that you follow the registration procedure mentioned in this article.
We hope this guide to copyrighting your music has answered all your questions and helped you protect your music for years to come!


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the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness.


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Q: Rcpp upgrading legacy code questions I am taking over a project which involves upgrading to the latest version of Rcpp and thus I have to upgrade all the old style API calls (which is compatible with the CLassic version I believe). As there is no full API documentation, I am having to do this by trial and error and noting any "undefined reference" errors on linking and then looking through the vignettes/examples. The compile works fine but the errors arise on linking against \inst\libs\RLink.dll. I have manged to convert a lot of the code (mainly using Rcpp::List to extract and pack incoming and outgoing function parameters) but I simply cannot get equivalents for the following:

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*Rprintf or Rf_error and forward_exception_to_r.

*R_NilValue

*Rf_install

I am using Code::Blocks 10.05 IDE with RTools installed and Mingw64 referenced explicitly in the toolchain with the GNU GCC Compiler selected. I'd be grateful for any heads up. Thanks.
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I do have #include  and before that  and  (there was a series of errors that were occuring because I had included iostream before Rcpp, which was strange.

A: Can you please provide some concrete examples, maybe even on the rcpp-devel list?  The porting approach works, I too have ported legacy code from the 'classic' Rcpp API, and so have others on the list.
But you do not have to port. The short vignette in the RcppClassic package has details on how to use it in case you want to maintain the old API.

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Q: Spring Boot war deployment with Angular app as static resource I have a Spring Boot backend and an Angular frontend application and can successfully create a runnable jar file from them by simply copying the Angular app into the resources/static folder of the Spring Boot app.
Running the jar works fine, i can access the application on localhost:8000 (since i have the server.port property set to 8000) and it works as intended.
Now i would like to create a deployable war file instead of the runnable jar and deploy the app in Tomcat, so i've applied the war plugin and declared the following gradle dependency (as per this guide):
providedRuntime 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'

Now the build successfully generates a war file, and Tomcat can deploy and start it without any errors. After the deployment the app is available at localhost:8080/myapp
The problem is when i'm actually opening the app, it seemingly tries to fetch the Angular resources from the wrong location and thus resulting in 404 errors:

As you can see it it tries to fetch the Angular files from localhost:8080/filename, but i think it should be localhost:8080/myapp/filename (although i'm not sure).
I've tried changing the server.servlet.context-path property to /myapp, but it has no effect (i guess it would affect only the embedded container).
I'd really appreciate any advice on how to solve this problem.

A: I've managed to fix it.
First, i had to change the base href of the Angular app in its index.html from / to ./ as in:
<base href="./">

After this change the Angular resources did not throw 404 errors anymore, but the backend endpoints still did.
I had the following in my environments.prod.ts:
export const environment = {
  production: true,
  API_URL: '/api'
};

I'm calling my backend endpoints through this API_URL, so i had to change this as well in a similar manner:
API_URL: './api'

After these changes everything works fine.


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using System;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace JavaScriptCore.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class JSObjectTests
    {
        private JSContext context;

        [TestFixtureSetUp]
        public void Init ()
        {
            context = new JSContext ();
        }

        [Test]
        public void GetPropertyOverrideTest ()
        {
            var default_obj = new JSObject (context);
            default_obj.SetProperty ("name", new JSValue (context, "abock"));

            var override_obj = new JSObject (context, new GetPropertyClassTest ().CreateClass ());
            override_obj.SetProperty ("name", new JSValue (context, "ranger"));

            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"name\":\"abock\"}", default_obj.ToJsonString (0));
            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"name\":\"always this\"}", override_obj.ToJsonString (0));
        }

        [Test]
        public void SetPropertyTest ()
        {
            var obj = new JSObject (context, null);
            var prop = new JSValue (context, "happy days");

            obj.SetProperty ("str", prop);
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("str"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.GetProperty ("str").IsEqual (prop));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.GetProperty ("str").IsStrictEqual (prop));
            Assert.AreEqual ("happy days", obj.GetProperty ("str").StringValue);

            obj.SetProperty ("str", obj);
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.GetProperty ("str").IsEqual (obj));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.GetProperty ("str").IsStrictEqual (obj));
        }

        [Test]
        public void DeletePropertyTest ()
        {
            var obj = new JSObject (context, null);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "bar"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.DeleteProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsFalse (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, 99));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.DeleteProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsFalse (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void DeleteDontDeletePropertyTest ()
        {
            var obj = new JSObject (context, null);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "i am permanent"), JSPropertyAttribute.DontDelete);
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsFalse (obj.DeleteProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ReadOnlyPropertyTest ()
        {
            var obj = new JSObject (context, null);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "bar"), JSPropertyAttribute.ReadOnly);
            Assert.AreEqual ("bar", obj.GetProperty ("foo").StringValue);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "baz"));
            Assert.AreEqual ("bar", obj.GetProperty ("foo").StringValue);
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.DeleteProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsFalse (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void ReadOnlyDontDeletePropertyTest ()
        {
            var obj = new JSObject (context, null);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "bar"),
                JSPropertyAttribute.ReadOnly | JSPropertyAttribute.DontDelete);
            Assert.AreEqual ("bar", obj.GetProperty ("foo").StringValue);
            obj.SetProperty ("foo", new JSValue (context, "baz"));
            Assert.AreEqual ("bar", obj.GetProperty ("foo").StringValue);
            Assert.IsFalse (obj.DeleteProperty ("foo"));
            Assert.IsTrue (obj.HasProperty ("foo"));
        }

        [Test]
        public void DeletePropertyScriptedTest ()
        {
            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("a", new JSValue (context, "apple"));
            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("b", new JSValue (context, "bear"));
            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("c", new JSValue (context, "car"));

            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"a\":\"apple\",\"b\":\"bear\",\"c\":\"car\"}",
                context.GlobalObject.ToJsonString (0));

            context.EvaluateScript ("delete b");

            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"a\":\"apple\",\"c\":\"car\"}",
                context.GlobalObject.ToJsonString (0));

            context.EvaluateScript ("this.d = a + ' ' + c");
            context.EvaluateScript ("delete a; delete c");

            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"d\":\"apple car\"}", context.GlobalObject.ToJsonString (0));

            context.EvaluateScript ("delete d");

            Assert.AreEqual ("{}", context.GlobalObject.ToJsonString (0));
        }

        [Test]
        public void PropertyEnumerationTest ()
        {
            context.EvaluateScript ("this.a = 1");
            context.EvaluateScript ("this.b = 2");
            context.EvaluateScript ("this.c = 3");
            context.EvaluateScript ("this.d = 4");
            context.EvaluateScript ("this.e = 5");

            Assert.AreEqual ("{\"a\":1,\"b\":2,\"c\":3,\"d\":4,\"e\":5}",
                context.GlobalObject.ToJsonString (0));

            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("f", new JSValue (context, 6));
            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("g", new JSValue (context, 7));
            context.GlobalObject.SetProperty ("h", new JSValue (context, 8));

            var names = context.GlobalObject.PropertyNames;

            Assert.AreEqual (8, names.Length);

            Assert.AreEqual ("a", names[0]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("b", names[1]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("c", names[2]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("d", names[3]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("e", names[4]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("f", names[5]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("g", names[6]);
            Assert.AreEqual ("h", names[7]);

            Assert.AreEqual (1, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[0]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (2, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[1]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (3, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[2]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (4, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[3]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (5, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[4]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (6, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[5]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (7, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[6]).NumberValue);
            Assert.AreEqual (8, context.GlobalObject.GetProperty (names[7]).NumberValue);
        }

        private class GetPropertyClassTest : JSClassDefinition
        {
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It was National Onesie Day.
We dropped by the media giant's offices to offer our community a behind-the-scenes look at how to actually land a job at BuzzFeed.
Win 30 straight battles of ping pong? A keg stand from the kitchen? A listicle challenge?
We've cleared away the rumors and cliches to show you what the BuzzFeed interview process really looks like. From the resume and cover letter, to the phone interview, the in person interview, and even salary negotiation, Charlie Keinath, Head of Tech Recruiting, and Dan Geiger, Recruiter, sat down to let us in on their secrets.
First up: your resume. No two jobs are alike, so why have a "one size fits all" resume? BuzzFeed certainly believes in tailoring and so should you (especially when it comes to trimming out skills that are more generic than noteworthy)!
SRSLY. One Size Does Not Fit All.
The team at BuzzFeed checks out cover letters next. BuzzFeed's recruiters can spot a cover letter template immediately. So take that extra bit of effort to write a new cover letter for every job, especially when applying to a company like BuzzFeed. It will show you understand the job and culture.
Be Ready for the Hard Questions First.
If your application is a good fit, chances are you'll end up on a phone call with a BuzzFeed recruiter. They look to get the hard questions out of the way ASAP—those questions that confirm if you're a (super) serious candidate. So come with your game face (or rather voice?) on.
They WANT to Hire You.
When you make it to the in-person interview, a lot of typical advice applies. But if there's one thing BuzzFeed recruiters want you to know, it's this: If you've been invited into the office, they want you to get the job. It's as simple as that! So use the fact that both you and the recruiter are aiming for the same goal to your advantage.
Check out all of our classes from BuzzFeed here (there's more to be learned….).


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Q: nsIProperty.get to something other than nsIFile - fastest way to get special path strings Is it possible to use nsIProperty.get to get special path into something other than a nsIFile? I tried nsISupportsString but it doesnt work. There's gotta be something other than nsIFile it should get on right, why else would they make it an argument?
Im looking for the fastest way to get special path strings, because this stuff is happening on a 200ms animation of a panel element these times are critical to me.
Heres some speed analysis:
// FileUtils.jsm :: getFile
// average time: 3.85ms
console.time('path'); var path = FileUtils.getFile('DefProfRt', []).path; console.timeEnd('path'); console.log(path);

// nsIDirectoryService :: nsIProperties :: get - nsIFile
// average time: 0.07ms
console.time('path'); var path = Cc["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].getService(Ci.nsIProperties).get('DefProfRt', Ci.nsIFile).path; console.timeEnd('path'); console.log(path);

// OS.Constants.Path
// average time: 0.12ms
console.time('path'); var path = OS.Constants.Path.profileDir; console.timeEnd('path'); console.log(path);

I don't get why OS.Constants.Path takes longer than nsIProperties.get as OS.Constants.Path is hardcoded I thought.

A: All three ways end to the same native code, but the nsIDirectoryService approach involves less javascript than the other two.
You can't get any faster, nsIFile is not a bottleneck here since no filesystem operation occurs. Merely string concatenation.
If 0.07ms is not good enough, you 're doing something wrong.


hasn't all the videos bashing 9/11 conspiracy lunacy been done to death?
I'm sure you'll do a great job, but if someone already did a 3hr debunking of LOOSE CHANGE, then they were probably pretty thorough!
I've got an angle I think I want to do, that goes beyond a simple debunking, but I don't know if I can pull it off or not.
True. But even people who witness these things, or could easily research the tons of other places that debunk it... still think it's real. Tons of resources exist, but people still go around thinking it's true.
Also, I think Shane does a very logical, detailed, and comprehensive job in explaining things.
"All the people saying the same things, in the same manner."
"People way too eager and way too composed to explain the situation."
"Eye witness reports that reporters are 'disappointed' to hear."
"Reports and people saying there's no plane, then news stations always saying. 'NO, we just saw another plane! It was a plane.' while people say, 'Are you sure? I dont see a plane.' "
If you ever do this... Watch out. These are the types of questions and responses you'll get. In fact, everytime I start to research this crap I always find things that even convince ME that there weren't any planes and there was a conspiracy.
That's why I'd love someone like Shane to pool together in one video all of the videos out there, the stuff I linked above, etc.
lol, yeah, a 3rd grader could debunk that.
What about th Giant Rainbow Hamster? He could have sunk it!
Great link. I honestly think you should do this next. Throw in some cap'n awesome clips for humour would be cool too.
At least they're coming up with new stuff. That's more than I can say for the creationists.


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Leeds Indie Food goes weekly
Thom Archer 24 May 2017
A new, regular food fair is coming to North Brewing Co. Taproom this Summer
As Leeds Indie Food enters the final week of this year's festival - an annual calendar of events celebrating and showcasing our city's independent food and drink community - the team have unveiled a new legacy project to keep the party going throughout the Summer.
EatNorth is a brand new food fair taking place every weekend at the North Brewing Co taproom, located at the brewery in Sheepscar (don't worry, it sounds far away but it's only five minutes past The Reliance). Starting on Saturday 17 June, it'll be the city's first ever weekly street food event, finally bringing Leeds up to date with London and Manchester.
North Brewing Co. Taproom Nick Porter
"Events in other Northern cities, like GRUB, show there's a real appetite for good food and good beer, and we're excited to offer a bite of Leeds Indie Food every week, all Summer" says LIF organiser Matt Dix. "We've been trying to get a weekly street food event off the ground for ages, and we're really chuffed that everything has fallen into place with EatNorth - We've booked some killer street food traders from all over the UK, with plenty of new faces to Leeds."
While it's unknown whether EatNorth will continue into the Autumn and beyond, the first six weeks are already fully booked with more than thirty traders on board. Expect a rotating lineup of six traders each week mixing up old favourites with brand new ventures, and at least one trader making their Leeds debut each week.
North Brewing Co. Jessie Leong
John from North Brewing Co was excited that their taproom is the home of EatNorth: "The opportunity to work with Leeds Indie Food is really exciting, especially given the reaction to this year's festival. The quality and variety of the food traders looks incredible, and we love that there will always be something different for people to try with the core range of North Brewing Co. beers and new releases we'll have on the bar."
Two special edition events are planned during the initial six-week stint: Friday 7 July is a collaboration between EatNorth and Hopulance, North Brewing Co's late night funk and soul night, and on Saturday 15 July some of the best vegetarian and vegan traders in the country will be serving up a totally meat-free menu at VegNorth - all accompanied by a bar stocked with vegan beers and wines.
Full line-up announcement coming next week. Dates for your diary:
Saturday 17 June - Launch
Saturday 1 July
Friday 7 July - EatNorth Vs Hopulance
Saturday 15 July - VegNorth
North Brewing Co., Taverners Walk Industrial Estate, Sheepscar Grove, LS7 1AH
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← Three Streams Scriptural Emphases
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Three Streams Interaction
Posted on 8 March 2012	by Fr. Brench
In my original article about the the three streams, Fr. Jürgen argued that almost every local church is primarily in one stream, and occasionally you'll find one representing two streams, but I'd argue that there's a bit more intermixing than that. Much of this stems from my earlier reflections about how it can be misleading to associate these three streams too closely with modern American Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, and Roman Catholicism, respectively. The three streams are named after them, but only in very general terms. All told, I've got seven clarifications that I'd like to expound.
The evangelical stream's commitment to scripture
is shared by all denominations.
Of course, this may be a point of argument. Different groups of Christians define the authority of the Bible in different ways. Evangelicalism today has extensive definitions of biblical inerrancy that may seem overly elaborate to the Roman Catholic Church, for example. But at the end of the day, all authentic Christians uphold the Bible as the primary source for their faith, regardless of their interpretive methods.
The evangelical stream's focus on preaching the gospel
is picked up in most charismatic churches.
The Pentecostal movement starting in the early 20th century wasn't just an inward-focused revolution of Christians seeking new levels of holiness (although that was part of the movement's agenda). It was also highly evangelistic, as evidenced by the fact that there are hundreds of millions of charismatic Christians across the globe barely 100 years later. Clearly they inherited the evangelical stream's priority for sharing the gospel. In this particular sense, it's fair to classify Pentecostalism as a form of Protestantism even though it's becoming increasingly fashionable to classify them separately.
Charismatic stream's contributions of individual spiritual gifts
and equality has vastly intermixed with evangelicalism.
Complementing the previous point, the Pentecostal movement of the early 20th century has also had two or three waves which swept back into the classic Protestant denominations, carrying with it a sharper focus on the power and meaning of the individual Christian within the Church. This has been aided with Western individualist culture, arguably to an extreme, but the charismatic stream's contribution of realizing the value of individual spiritual gifts has definitely made a comeback in most Evangelical churches by now. And besides, the evangelical stream's focus on the need for personal repentance and commitment to Christ made it pretty compatible with this aspect of the charismatic stream, anyway.
The charismatic renewal has brought a new-found appreciation
for the miraculous in evangelical & catholic churches alike.
On a similar note to the previous point, the charismatic stream's immersion in the supernatural has also left its mark in current Evangelicalism and Catholicism. To be fair, I say this only in terms of recent history, for Protestant and Catholic theology alike had been plagued by 'modernist theology' for a couple centuries, creating increased doubt in the supernatural workings of the Holy Spirit in the present age. But earlier in history, the Protestant and (especially) Catholic churches were very much aware of the supernatural power of the Spirit, through the sacraments as well as through other miracles from time to time.
Evangelical & charismatic streams have developed their own traditions.
The catholic stream's contribution of providing a tradition in which to receive and interpret the biblical faith has been copied by Protestants and Pentecostals alike. In general, they've looked primarily at the history of their own denominations or movements, and received their doctrines accordingly. Although this can make for authentic living traditions just like the catholic stream offers, it is not on the same historic scale as the catholic stream's tradition. But the fact that the other streams naturally develop their own traditions is a sign, I think, of the necessity to embrace tradition on purpose rather than by implication, because we ought to face up to the foundations of how we interpret the Bible, and who does and does not inform us in that process.
The catholic stream's emphasis on the creeds
as the center of a "right interpretation of scripture"
is largely intact in the evangelical and charismatic streams.
This statement also may start a lot of arguments. There are lots of denominations and church groups (among some Protestants and especially non-denominational churches) who claim "no creed but the Bible." They can repeat that until they're blue in the face, but when it comes down to it, "no creed but the Bible" is itself a creed. And, if they were to be honest, they pretty much affirm everything in the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed anyway. It may not be "official" for them, but unofficially, it's still affirmed. Granted, there are many theological questions not touched by those creeds, but the unity preserved in what they do say is profound. In that light, it's my opinion that those who claim "no creed but the Bible" but still believe what the creeds say should just admit it and explicitly teach from them, because of their powerful unifying roles.
Anglicanism has held the catholic and evangelical streams in tension since the Reformation, and is recapturing the charismatic in varying degrees.
The degree to which "catholic" tradition is upheld in Anglicanism varies to a wide degree, but the bare bones of the catholic stream remain: celebration of the Eucharist, central role of the Creeds, and apostolic succession. At the same time, the evangelical stream has been enforced by the content of the Prayerbook (particularly in its emphasis upon the gospel by shoving aside some of the more potentially 'distracting' traditions) and the 39 Articles (by clearly stating that the Bible contains "all things necessary for salvation"). And, as already pointed out, the charismatic stream has made its mark in Anglicanism along with the Catholic and Protestant groups. This is not to say that all Anglican churches are balanced three-stream churches, but within Anglicanism as a whole, all three can be found somewhere.
In light of these seven clarifications, I think it's safe to say that every Christian church is a three-streams church in some sense – there are at least trickles of each stream. Authentic Catholicism and Evangelicalism are reliant upon the power of the Holy Spirit, just as Catholicism and Pentecostalism are founded on the biblical gospel, just as Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism affirm the same basic credal doctrines as the Catholic churches. Certainly, most individual churches have their one or two favorites, but these three streams are not the sole property of the denominational groups they're named after!
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This program is designed to allow organizations or individuals an opportunity to commemorate an event through the perpetual growth of a tree. Modeled after successful programs from across the country, the City of Reynoldsburg LIVING LEGACY program can fit most any need.
The cost of the tree will be $200.00. The Parks & Recreation Department will secure a 2" – 3" caliper tree.
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A specific site may be requested and the staff will make every attempt to honor the request. In the event no site is specified, or the donor's request cannot be accommodated, the staff will determine a planting site.
The City will assume the maintenance of the tree.
The tree will be planted in Reynoldsburg, on public land, including City owned facilities.
The recipient and location are remembered on a permanent standard plaque, designed and fabricated by the City. The recipient / family will receive a certificate and a card acknowledging the gift. The donors will be contacted prior to the planting of the tree.
Trees not only provide us with wood, paper, nuts, shade, natural beauty and a buffer against noise, they play an important role in a natural cycle. Trees capture carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide, and release oxygen. Trees also help prevent flooding and assist with controlling soil erosion. Besides all these practical benefits, trees add value and beauty to their surroundings.
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Service members who are experiencing suicidal thoughts may not explicitly ask for help, but that doesn't mean they don't need it. If you or someone you know are experiencing suicidal thoughts, then don't hesitate to reach out to either the Military Crisis Line at 800-273-8255 or the Suicide Hotline number for your state.
In June 2018, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) released statistics from a recent analysis of Veteran suicide data they had gathered from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
While veterans, especially women, are at a higher risk of suicide, Craig Bryan—a psychologist and leader of the National Center for Veterans Studies—says that "The key message is that suicides are elevated among those who have ever served."
This data underscores the important fact that suicide is a national public health concern that affects people from all walks of life. It also shows that service members are at an especially high risk for suicide. This is further evidenced by statistics The Guardian reported on in September 2018, which outlined how service members between the ages of 18 to 34 are at a higher risk of suicide than any other age group in the country.
There are ways you can help. Everyone can and should contribute to the prevention of military suicide. With the following facts and techniques, you can equip yourself with the tools needed to spot the telltale signs of suicidal behavior and the knowledge needed to help reach out to those who are in need.
Everyone handles things differently. While there are certain behaviors that are often linked to thoughts of suicide, there's no foolproof way to know something someone hasn't vocalized.
These are only a few of the many warning signs you should be alert to, but it's a good place to start.
You don't have to be an expert in the mental health field to help someone who is dealing with these kinds of feelings; you just have to be willing to listen, talk, and to be the support someone needs to get healthy.
Knowing how to help someone in a difficult situation can be challenging. But if you feel like they're struggling with something, then the best thing you can do is to ask them about it in a non-judgemental, straightforward, and ultimately supportive way. You want them to feel safe with you, and the safer they feel, the more willing they'll be to speak to you about the difficult subjects and feelings they may be dealing with.
Asking a question can feel daunting, but it doesn't have to be. The more open you can be, the easier it'll be to open the door for an effective dialogue about the emotional pain someone may be experiencing. Once that door is open, then it allows everyone involved to see what kinds of steps need to be taken next in order to properly support and care for whoever is in need.
Sometimes the most important thing you can do is just listen to whatever it is someone needs to say. If you can show them that you care, that you want to hear how they're doing—how they're really doing—and want to see them live full and healthy lives, then you'll be showing them that, whatever it is they're going through, they're not in it alone.
#BeThe1To says that one of the best ways to keep someone in this position safe is by "putting time and distance" between the person and whatever method of suicide they have either talked to you about or you suspect they may have considered. Additionally, and more importantly, seek professional help right away.
Calling the Military Crisis Line at 800-273-8255, which offers free and confidential help, is a great place to start. Calling a local crisis center, dialing 911, or even taking an individual to the closest emergency room can be effective ways of providing someone with the first steps they need to take towards living a healthier, fuller life.
When we train ourselves to spot the warning signs of someone struggling with suicidal thoughts and equip ourselves with the tools to reach out a helping hand, we can all play an important role in providing the kind of care and compassion that helps prevent suicide from touching the lives of all the past and present service members in our life.