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Developing software is an interesting process. There are times where I work very hard with little to show for it for several days. Then there are those days where I can knock out a ton of tasks on my "To Do" list with little effort. Usually, one state directly follows the other.
I recently spent several days working on the mechanism that Bullfrog 2 will use to load level and bug definitions. There was much reworking and testing involved. Now that the work is complete, designing new levels and bugs should take little time and effort.
In the original Bullfrog, the player was tasked with munching bugs as fast as possible. Bugs were randomly spawned on the screen based on a simple algorithm. This algorithm would generate a certain number of bugs depending on what round the player had reached. For example the gnat was generated using the following calculation.
Each bug type had it's own spawn formula and custom class. Each bug class would then be allocated and tracked in a NSMutableArray during the round.
This approach worked fairly well for a simple game using random spawn points on a simple game board. There were no level design elements to worry about. A bug was either alive and on the screen, or it had been eaten.
For Bullfrog 2, we really wanted to move away from randomly generated rounds and bugs to designed levels. We plan to have multiple levels with unique artwork and challenges. But how do we define bugs and have them spawn based on a definition file?
We could read in the definition and run through a big switch statement with a case block for each bug type similar to the code above (listing 2) used in the first Bullfrog. But, this gets nasty pretty quick.
We're also adding new game elements to Bullfrog 2. Players will have obstacles such as rocks and water to deal with while hunting down bugs. These elements also need to be defined and tracked inside the game.
With a bit of imagination, rocks and bugs are basically the same thing except for a few different attributes. Bugs can move, rocks can't. A mosquito can damage the player, but a rock can block the player's movement.
This lead us to a base class we're calling Actor. Each actor can be completely defined with a set of attributes which denote size, animation, and other things.
We still have the problem of needing unique AI (artificial intelligence) for the different bugs. Using just the Actor class won't provide us with customized code to define personality attributes such as chase and escape behaviors.
So we defined a set of Actor subclasses that provide the custom behaviors of the various bugs and other objects populating the Bullfrog world. But, with each new game object, our switch case grows in complexity.
This is where our decision to use Objective-C pays off. By using the dynamic nature of the Objective-C we can allocate and initialize our actors at runtime without using a huge switch statement.
Given the following Actor definitions (listing 3) we can dynamically generate the level's actors with a simple loop (listing 4).
The key piece here is the function: NSClassFromString(NSString *str). This Foundation function returns a Class object that can then be used just like your hardcoded class definition for allocating a new instance.
In the above function (listing 4) we get the "class" attribute from the XML and feed that into the NSClassFromString function to get our Class. Then pass in the XML for this particular Actor into the instance method -loadDefinition: on the Actor class. Some more Objective-C runtime magic reads in the defined attributes and stores them in the Actor instance properties using key-value coding (listing 5).
Now all actors for each defined level are easily loaded and we don't have to constantly rewrite or modify our code each time we add a new type of bug or game object.
The difference in complexity and number of lines of code in Bullfrog 2 is greatly reduced because of the magic that Objective-C provides. Dynamic class loading is very powerful and provides us with great flexibility moving forward.
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That's pretty cool. I can't wait for the Bullfrog 2 to come out!


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What Would Happen if We Lose All the Tigers?
Gaurav Gupta - October 5th, 2020
Being the country that holds half of the wild tigers globally, India is dubbed as the Tiger Land. It has an estimated tiger population of 2,967 tigers in 2018 that are scattered in the wild forest of national parks, wildlife parks, and tiger reserves.
If you want to learn more about tigers, going on a tour offered by teams, like the Tiger Safari India, is one of the top choices. These teams are well equipped with knowledge and information; you will indeed have a day of a fun and educational tour.
Everyone must know the importance of conserving our tigers. In the past century, we have already lost 97% of the tiger population worldwide, classifying it as endangered in the list of threatened species.
With that in mind, we may lose all the tigers in a few decades, which will wreak havoc to our planet. Here's what would happen if we lose all the tigers.
It will upset the ecological balance
If we remove a single element from our fragile ecosystem, it will have long-lasting and far-reaching effects on biodiversity. It will have a dreadful impact on other species that share the tiger's home, habitat, and even local communities.
The tiger is always at the top of the food chain in every ecosystem it lives in. Bearing that in mind, its job is to maintain the population of its prey species. Without the tiger, these species would overpopulate and ravage the vegetation, their food source.
Once they have destroyed the vegetation in the forests, smaller animals and insects would have a hard time thriving. The insects will move to farmlands, damaging the crops, which is our food source. It would have a negative impact on humans.
Other species may go extinct as well
Extinction of one species on the food chain would impact other species negatively as well. Losing the main predator will cause greater competition among the prey species. This brings a significant threat, and the prey species may go extinct too. Many of the species affected by the tigers' extinction may also be endangered and have been fighting to survive.
With that being said, the tiger's conservation ensures preserving a more significant number of other plants and animals in the forests.
Loss of jobs
Many people earn from tigers. These are the people employed in the sanctuaries and parks that are working to conserve the tigers. Most of these employees live the world's most impoverished communities, and the tiger's extinction will have negative economic effects on these communities.
Think about this, where there are tigers; there are tourists. Many communities around the area could start a business because of the tourists, thus making money. Tiger trails boosted Indian tourism by 230% in 2015.
Local communities, government offices, and NGOs are working hand in hand to develop ecotourism opportunities featuring the tigers. Without these big cats, these businesses will fail, and more people will lose their income.
It would cause climate change
Large tiger populations living in forests act as carbon stores. We will get good reserves by saving more tigers. However, if the tigers go extinct, the forests they are protecting as their homes would be ravaged by illegal loggers, converting it to agriculture and development. It would cause higher carbon dioxide emissions, hence, climate change.
Deforestation is one of the leading contributors to global greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and climate change.
Tigers are not just another wild animal species living in the forests. Tigers are feared, admired, and respected at the same time by people all around the world. If we don't take good care of these giant cats, all that will remain are photos, stories, and zoo sightings, if we are still lucky enough to have a few there. And the only one to blame is us.
We need to keep the tigers safe, not only for the future generations to see them, but also to save our planet from possible devastation due to tiger extinction. This is why tiger educational tours from groups like the Tiger Safari in India are essential. Not only are they protecting the tigers, but they are also educating everyone about the importance of these majestic giant cats.
Moreover, you also have to remember that by saving the tigers, we are also protecting ourselves. Let's put it this way: the tiger goes extinct; we go extinct as well. So, we have to do not only our best but everything to keep the tigers in the face of this planet.
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Q: Scale object to fit inside certain bounding box three.js In my project i am loading different kinds of model dynamically. How to scale the loaded object so that it fits completely inside a certain bounding box?
To clarify the situation, i do not want the loaded object to fit in my FOV. I already have a house loaded in my scene. I want the new loaded object to fit inside my house.

A: Since you do have the bounding box of the house (call it boxH) and the bounding box of the object (call it boxO), take the ratios of the bounding box sizes
var sizeH = boxH.getSize(); // get the size of the bounding box of the house
var sizeO = boxO.getSize(); // get the size of the bounding box of the obj

var ratio = sizeH.divide( sizeO ); // get the ratio of the sizes

Now scale() your object by the inverse maximum value in the ratio variable.

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IT HAS been an action-packed day here at Street Machine Summernats 30. It's has the first full day of the event and we kicked it off with the city cruise through Canberra with hundreds of tough street machines. Then it was time to bake some tyres with the Last Chance Wild Card Burnout competition. Not only did we have familiar faces like Peter Grmusa (in his new FDIS Ford F truck), Paul Cook in BLWNVC and Chris Genter in FROMHELL, but also our Kiwi competitors and legends like Chris Christou and Tony De Oliveira. Matt James had a massive fire in his UNWANTED Ute. The cruise route was also packed out for most of the day.
Check out the video to see all the action from Thursday, day two, of Street Machine Summernats 30 and stay tuned for more.


adidas is continuing to push the boundaries of golf fashion with adicross, the urban-inspired, non-traditional line that golfers can wear both on and off the course.
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We also have some favourites from the original adicross line that carry over into the 2019 collection that have been designed to shake up the traditions of the game.
The 2019 adicross line will also introduce new footwear: the adicross PPF and the Crossknit 3.0. The latter is the latest rendition of the popular Crossknit franchise that was first introduced in 2016.
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Drake Relays, Randy Matson
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Track athletics--Iowa--Des Moines
Shot putting--Iowa--Des Moines
Athletes--Texas
Randy Matson of Texas A & M competes in the shot put. Matson won the Relays shot put in 1965 (63-11 1/4), 1966 (65-3 3/4) and 1967 (68 8 1/2). He also won the discus event at the Relays for those three years.
In 1964 Matson won a silver medal in the Olympics. In the 1968 Olympics he captured the gold medal. Matson was the first athlete to break the 70' barrier, and in 1967 he set his personal best (and a world record) with a toss of 71' 5 1/4.
Clinton, John D.
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Happy day after Thanksgiving! We hope you all had a great time with your family and friends. We here at EPM took the day to eat, drink, be merry and thankful for how far we've come. As the year ends, I thought today was good as any to talk about getting back in the black (or staying there).


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disputed sovereignty
For me, 'tis the season of proofs. Recently I got proofs for my contribution to the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis, which is an essay on the Narnia books. Here's an excerpt:
Lewis once suggested that literary critics are, and have always been, neglectful of 'Story considered in itself'. They have been so focused on themes and images and ideological commitments that they have failed to notice the thing that decisively differentiates stories from articles or treatises. If we then try to consider the seven Narnia stories as a single story, what is that story about? I contend that the best answer is disputed sovereignty. More than any other single thing, the story of Narnia concerns an unacknowledged but true King and the efforts of his loyalists to reclaim or protect his throne from would-be usurpers.This theme is announced early in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe: when the four Pevensies first enter Narnia as a group, their first action is to visit the house of Mr Tumnus. There they discover the house ransacked and a notice of Tumnus's arrest that concludes with the words 'LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!' – to which Lucy replies, 'She isn't a real queen at all.' . . .Among the first facts established about Narnia are these: it is a realm in which authority is contested, in which the present and visible Queen of This World 'isn't a real queen at all' but rather a usurper, while the rightful King is frequently absent and invisible – but liable to return and assert his sovereignty. . . .This theme is repeated in several forms in the later books, and is never wholly absent from them. [Here I give examples from each book in the series.] . . .In short: there is a King of Kings and Lord of Lords whose Son is the rightful ruler of this world. Indeed, through that Son all things were made, and the world will end when he 'comes again in glory to judge the living and the dead', though 'his kingdom will have no end', in the words of the Nicene Creed. Meanwhile, in these in-between times, the rulership of Earth is claimed by an Adversary, the Prince of this world. And what is asked of all Lewis's characters is simply, as the biblical Joshua put it, to 'choose this day' whom they will serve.
5 thoughts on "disputed sovereignty"
Some of us, perhaps because of the reading that we grew up with, find the notion of The True King stirring – Arthur, Richard, Aragorn – and it becomes a way of understanding and emotionally engaging with the Gospel.
But I had a conversation with a friend in which I was trying to use this kind of language as a way of responding to some objection he had to Christianity, and I eventually realized that he found the concept of a True, Rightful King morally abhorrent. It was axiomatic to him that any such claim of authority could only be an attempt to unjustly exert control over other people. If he enjoyed Narnia or Middle Earth, it was in spite of that theme rather than because of it.
It made me realize that there are people for whom the idea of Christ as The True King could only come as a result of embracing the Gospel for other reasons, and not (as it has for me) serve as a means for making my heart disposed to accept the Gospel.
That's right, Michael: sovereignty itself is an offensive concept in a democratic culture, no matter who is disputing it.
but rather "an" usurper….
No, I think "a usurper" is correct (as does Cambridge University Press) — "a" or "an" is determined by initial sound, not initial letter, and "usurper" begins with a consonantal sound. Similarly, we don't refer to "an university."
Mea culpa! Thanks for the correction.


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Venue Troubadour (Hollywood, CA)
Date Dec 22, 1974
Total Length 46:05
1Intro00:15
2Squeeze Me03:09
3Any Old Time04:18
4Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You04:19
5Sweetheart03:11
6Monologue / Band Introductions02:14
7Doozy04:59
8It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)03:46
9Lover Man (Where Can You Be)05:29
10Walkin' One and Only02:44
11Don't You Feel My Leg (Don't You Get Me High)02:55
12I'm A Woman05:12
13It Ain't The Meat, It's The Motion03:34
Maria Muldaur - vocals; Benny Carter - alto sax; Plas Johnson - tenor sax; Shahib Shihab - baritone sax; Harry "Sweets" Edison - trumpet; Snooky Young - trumpet; Bud Shank - flute, clarinet, horn; J. J. Johnson - trombone; Marty Harris - piano; Mundell Lowe - guitar; John Williams - bass; Earl Palmer - drums
From her early 1960s jug band recordings to the present day, Maria Muldaur stands unique in her ability to transcend categorization. For over forty years, Muldaur has shared her deep love of roots music. By carefully selecting her repertoire from the best North American songwriters, she has encompassed the blues of the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans gospel and jazz, Western Swing, Appalachian bluegrass/country and everything in between. Best known for her 1973 hit, "Midnight At The Oasis," Muldaur has always been much more than a sexy one-hit wonder. Blessed with a voice that remains convincing regardless of the genre she chooses to tackle, her performances are a study in American musicology.
This performance, recorded at the legendary Trobadour in Los Angeles, followed the release of Maria Muldaur's second solo album, Waitress In A Donut Shop. Unlike the majority of her live performances from this classic era, it captures one of the handful of concerts where she was not backed by her usual band of hippie renegades. Instead, this rare performance features Muldaur accompanied by seasoned jazz musicians, who provide an infectious big band feel that swings in all the right places.
None other than the legendary Benny Carter directed Muldaur's band on this run. Admired as virtually any jazz musician ever, Carter was a contemporary of Duke Ellington (who he played with early in his career) and Count Basie and was universally respected for his abilities as a composer, musician and bandleader. Muldaur's ensemble on this night featured the likes of Harry "Sweets" Edison and Snooky Young on trumpets and trombonist extraordinaire, J. J. Johnson. This set also captures Muldaur at her commercial peak, performing genre-breaking music with a stellar big band before a very appreciative audience.
Right from the start, Muldaur sets a swinging mood, opening with her take on Fats Waller's "Squeeze Me," followed by Jimmy Rogers' classic "Any Old Time," a song she recorded on her self-titled first album. The bluesy "Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You," follows. Here Muldaur finds the perfect balance between sweet and sexy, with the musicians providing the perfect backdrop. Up next is "Sweetheart," the song that contained the lyric that provided the title of her album, Waitress In A Donut Shop. This was one of two songs that Benny Carter and his band actually recorded on that album. Hearing a live rendition, featuring virtually the same musicians as the studio session, is quite the treat. Following this, Muldaur takes a break and encourages the band to do their own thing on Benny Carter's original composition, "Doozy."
By this point, everyone is well warmed up and the set kicks into high gear. The classic "It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" is a perfect vehicle for Muldaur, taking the performance to the next level. This is such an obvious match, that one can only wonder why she didn't record it for the album. Her smoldering take on Billy Holliday's "Lover Man (Where Can You Be)" slows things down, while digging deeper into the emotional nuances of her voice. Her charm is undeniable and the performance is thoroughly engaging. Muldaur wouldn't get around to releasing this song until almost a decade later. This performance easily stands up to her finest material from this era. A sizzling up tempo romp through Dan Hick's & the Hot Licks' "Walkin' One And Only" actually manages to surpass the compelling studio version on her first solo album. The same can be said for the ultra-sexy "Don't You Feel My Leg" which is absolutely intoxicating with this big band backing.
Next up is one of Muldaur's signature tunes, "I'm A Woman (W-O-M-A-N)." She began performing this song during her tenure with the Jim Kweskin Jug Band in the early 1960s and it remains in her repertoire to this day. It's another fine example of Muldaur's distinctive voice, style and sense of humor. The set closes with a truly fantastic performance of "It Ain't The Meat, Its The Motion," the other song from her album that featured Benny Carter and a big band arrangement. This is totally infectious and swings harder than anything that proceeded it - a truly climactic ending to a remarkable show.
As this phenomenal recording clearly demonstrates, the music of Maria Muldaur is beyond any one niche and defies categorization. Her innate ability to balance sweetness, sexiness and strength within the blues, gospel, jazz or any style she chooses to tackle, makes this a truly rewarding experience for anyone willing to listen. It's an astonishing performance from beginning to end, and possibly the most compelling live recording of Muldaur ever, which only leaves one wishing for more.
Maria Muldaur Bottom Line Mar 23, 1976
Maria Muldaur Auditorium Theatre Apr 26, 1974
Maria Muldaur Wesleyan University Dec 1, 1972
Jerry Garcia Band Winterland Dec 19, 1975
Jerry Garcia Band Capitol Theatre Jun 24, 1982


Home > Medicare Part D Articles > What Vaccines are Covered by Medicare Part D?
If you are traveling outside of the United States, your doctor might recommend vaccines for other diseases such as yellow fever, typhoid and/or rabies.
What vaccines does Medicare Part D cover?
Medicare Part D is prescription drug coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare Part D coverage is offered through private insurance companies through either a stand-alone Part D Prescription Drug Plan or a Medicare Advantage plan with prescription drug coverage.
While Medicare Part B generally covers most vaccines that Medicare patients need, Medicare Part D generally covers vaccines that Medicare Part B does not cover. This would include the shingles (zoster) vaccine. All Medicare Part D plans are required to cover the shingles vaccine and its administration.
To see if travel vaccines are covered by your Medicare Part D plan, check with the plan's formulary, or list of covered drugs. A new preventative vaccine may not specifically appear in the Medicare Part D plan formulary but the plan may still cover the vaccine.
One flu shot per flu season. You pay generally nothing if the provider accepts assignment for giving the shot.
People at medium to high risk for Hepatitis B are covered. People at low risk may not be covered. You generally pay nothing if the provider accepts assignment for giving the shot.
All people with Medicare Part B are covered. You generally pay nothing if your provider accepts assignment for giving the shot.
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Q: Matlab: what is the correct way to get the convex hull I have  a 3D array of data which shows one concave figure. I want to find all points which don't belong to the figure, but are inside the convex hull. How can I do it?
I know I should use the convhull function, but I'm not sure how (the input is an array of size m by n, where m is the number of points and n is the number of dimensions, so 3 in my case). Also, I'm not sure how to process the output of this function - it has the same size as the input matrix.
I'd appreciate any examples.

A: [K, V] = convhull(YourArray);

K are the indices of your points corresponding to the points on the convex hull, V is just the volume spanned by that convex hull. Thus, you can use this row index to find your points back in YourArray.
Using the below example:
YourArray= rand(1e3,3);
[K, V] = convhull(YourArray);

K gave me a 140x3 'double' containing the indices of my points and V=0.9291, the volume spanned by my convex hull. You can get the points on the convex hull back from YourArray by simply calling
YourArray(K)

Documentation link
Unsurprisingly more people have struggled with obtaining the points within the convex hull and have actually written code for this, see the MathWorks Central, code by John D'Errico.


So much has changed. A new study from U.S. PIRG and Tony Dutzik and Jeff Inglis of the Frontier Group, Millennials in Motion: Changing travel habits of young Americans and the implications for public policy looks at the reasons that millennials are driving less and finds that it is a lot more complex than just the economy and the cost of driving. It is an update of a study we covered two years ago, and finds some serious difference between the millennials and previous generations.
Millennials are taking a lot more transit, doing more biking and more walking.
Millennials consistently report greater attraction to less driving-intensive lifestyles—urban living, residence in "walkable" communities, and open- ness to the use of non-driving modes of transport—than older generations.
The past decade has seen a technological revolution, with the widespread adoption of the smartphone and social media and, more recently, the creation of a wide variety of new technology enabled transportation services, from bikesharing to real-time transit tracking apps.
There has also been an explosion in car sharing services like Zipcar that let people rent cars when they need them. TreeHugger has also previously noted studies which show that millennials are connected by their phones; you don't have to cruise Main Street to find your friends. And indeed the data show that this is the case, millennials and gen-xers are using tech instead of meeting. The telephone generation is much less likely to.
Driving less is often seen as an important step to reduce one's personal environmental impact. Some Millennials report that they drive less in part for environmental reasons. However, environmental concerns generally rank well below issues of cost, convenience and ownership of a vehicle in determining how many miles people will drive.
Given that the car is the single biggest factor in our carbon footprint, that's a real shame.
The Joel Kotkins of the world will continue to say that the suburbs are where people go to raise kids in single family houses, and that they will have to drive to do that. No doubt many will, but leading indicators like housing starts indicate that a lot more people are willing to start families in multi-family housing, which has recovered from the recession while single family housing has not.
...strategies that make more efficient use of existing infrastructure—such as transportation demand management—keep existing infrastructure in a state of good repair, and expand access to public transportation and other transportation options are likelier to deliver a sound return on investment amid an atmosphere of uncertainty about the future demand for driving.
See also Emily Badger in the Washington Post.
A new study shows that it's not just the economy, stupid, there is real change happening.


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Do you have a drama king or queen living in your house?
What about a three-nager acting like they rule the roost?
Or maybe you have the "real deal" (teen) causing all kinds of headaches.
Here's what we have found… When parents get silly, act and think like a child more, and add in positive drama opportunities themselves there tends to be less power plays. Adding in more silly and fun times might lead to more connection time between parent and child. This in turn leads to less attention and drama seeking behaviors from the child. So let your guard down and get dramatic!
We don't mean you need to mirror that yucky teen dramatic behavior (huffing and puffing around the house). We mean get silly, relax, have fun, add in role playing, funny voices, laid back antics and maybe you will avoid the power struggle. Laugh more, play more, create more, joke more and connect more. Don't be so serious all the time.
If your child wants to play pretend then follow along and join them on their adventure to a different world. Connect to the child where they are even if they are in make believe " la la land" . It is perfectly normal for 3-5 year olds to spend much of their day in the dramatic play world so join them.
Sticking to your guns and trying to forcefully change a child's mind simply won't work in the middle of their temper tantrums… So change up the vibe by adding in dramatic responses that are silly and engaging and connected to dramatic play experiences. These are the things that will help them regroup and get them off the temper tantrum track.
We know you will see behaviors shift and attitudes lift when you get silly and dramatic and mirror back a kid like perspective.


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Q: WebSQL Databases between two different pages? Is there any particular way in which we can access the Web SQL Database of one page, by other page. To make it more clear, suppose a.com creates the database DB and store some info. Now b.com comes and want to access the same database DB. Is there a way? Or are there any alternatives to do this? I tried to implement in HTML5 and Javascript but the databases as well as the localStorages are confining only to particular pages, I want this to be cross the pages.

A: If you want a script on http://one-domain.com/ to be able to read from the database of http://another-domain.org then no -- the Same Origin Policy is applied to localStorage and Web SQL databases, which means that only scripts running on the same domain as the script that created the database are allowed to have access to the database.
Your best bet in that case would be to send the data from one-domain back to the server and have the server of one-domain push the data over to another-domain (or else, if they are on the same network, provide a shared resource they can communicate over.)

A: You can accomplish this by including a utility iFrame with a database access script from b.com in your a.com pages and vice versa. You can then use cross document messaging to transfer information. Note that postMessage only transmits a simple string and if you're trying to pass structured information then a.com and b.com will have to agree on a serialization. So...it's a hack.


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Houston, we have a problem. Complex projects are difficult to transition
forward and Rubinius is a complex project. Rubinius is at the point of a major
transition and we need your help to move forward.

Just over a year ago, Rubinius released version 1.0. Since then, dozens of
contributors have added over 2,200 commits to the master branch and we have
released seven new versions. At the same time, we have added nearly 450
commits on a development branch to remove the global interpreter lock (GIL)
and begin adding Ruby 1.9 and Windows support.

![Rubinius 2.0 Developer Preview](/images/rubinius-2-0-developer-preview-blog-post.png)

Today we are releasing *Rubinius 2.0 Developer Preview*. The primary focus of
this release is true Ruby multi-threaded concurrency. Additionally, it
contains the beginnings of Ruby 1.9 and Microsoft Windows support.

### Rubinius 2.0 Developer Preview

We are seeking developers interested in running their Ruby and Rails projects
on Rubinius to help us iron out issues as we work toward the final 2.0
release. Let's look at the details of the 2.0 developer preview.

One of the central features of Rubinius 2.0 is a fundamental change in the
threading architecture. In Rubinius 2.0, Ruby threads will run with true
concurrency. This means that if multi-core or multi-CPU hardware is available,
Ruby code on different threads will actually run in parallel.

Another central feature of Rubinius 2.0 is support for both Ruby 1.8.7 and
Ruby 1.9.2 syntax. The Rubinius 2.0 support for Ruby 1.8.7 should be 100%
backward compatible with the support in the Rubinius master branch. The full
Ruby concurrency is enabled regardless of what language syntax mode is active.

### Repository Migration

We are migrating the main Rubinius repository to the [Rubinius](
https://github.com/rubinius) organization.

The RVM project has already been updated to work with the new repository. So
`rvm install rbx` will use the new repository.  If you have an existing clone
of Rubinius, update and run `rake github` to point your existing repository to
the new one.

You can clone directly from the [new repository](https://github.com/rubinius/rubinius).

### Installation

For testing Rubinius with your application, installing with RVM is probably
the easiest. To install the 2.0 developer preview, ensure that RVM is updated:

    rvm get head
    rvm reload

Then, install the Rubinius 2.0.0pre branch:

    rvm install rbx-2.0.0pre

If you are interested in helping develop Rubinius, we suggest you clone the
repository directly and build. Rubinius runs fine from the source directory so
you don't need to install it. For more details about building from a clone,
see [Getting Started](http://rubini.us/doc/en/getting-started/).

### Configuration

The goal of Rubinius 2.0 is to fully support both Ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.2 in a
single executable. When running Rubinius, you can select which version to use.
There are configuration options to change which versions are supported and
which version is the default.

The first configure option is `--enable-version=X[,Y]`. This option sets which
language versions will be supported. An example is:

    ./configure --enable-version=1.8,1.9

The language versions can be specified as `18` or `1.8`. Multiple versions are
separated by a comma and no space.

The second configure option is `--default-version=X`. This option sets which
language version is the default when running Rubinius. An example is:

    ./configure --default-version=1.9

These options are intended to be used together. You must enable a version to
select it as the default, so the options must come in the following order:

    ./configure --enable-version=X,Y --default-version=Y

Once you have enabled support for a language version, to select that mode when
running Rubinius, use the `-X18` or `-X19` command line switches. For example:

    rbx -X19 -v

This command will run Rubinius with the 1.9 language mode enabled.

You may also use the `RBXOPT` environment variable to select the language
mode. Assuming that 1.8 is the default mode, the following command would run
Rubinius with the 1.9 language mode enabled:

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Right now, only the 1.8 language mode is enabled in the 2.0.0pre branch.
However, we will be enabling the 1.9 mode in the very near future. The default
mode will continue to be 1.8 unless you configure Rubinius to run in 1.9 mode.

### Building on Windows

On Windows, Rubinius uses the [MinGW-w64](http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/)
compiler to build a native application. There remains a lot of work to do for
Windows support but the Rubinius VM is currently compiling on Windows 7.

If you are a bleeding-edge Windows developer interested in diving into
Rubinius, here's how to get started:

1. Install *MRI 1.9* using [RubyInstaller](http://rubyinstaller.org/).
1. Install [MSysGit](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/).
1. Install the 32bit or 64bit MinGW-w64 toolchain.
1. Clone the Rubinius repository.
1. In CMD, run `ruby configure`.
1. Run `rake`.

### Moving Forward

In the near future, we will release another version of Rubinius from the
current master branch. We hope to merge 2.0.0pre into master as soon as
possible and continue working toward the 2.0 final release. We'll make that
decision based on your reports about how the 2.0.0pre branch is working with
existing 1.8.7 applications.

We greatly appreciate your help polishing up the Rubinius 2.0 release! Follow
us on [Twitter](http://twitter.com/rubinius) for updates and stop by #rubinius
on freenode.net to chat about anything on your mind.

### Rubinius Support on EngineYard AppCloud

Rubinius 1.2.3 is currently in beta on Engine Yard AppCloud, and we encourage
users to [give it a try](http://docs.engineyard.com/rubinius.html). Engine
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To learn more about Rubinius, join Engine Yard for a [Platform Options Webinar](http://pages.engineyard.com/RubyPlatformOptionsWebinarJuly212011.html) in July.

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Arthritis is listed as one of the top three health concerns that trigger disability in the U.S. One of the common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis (OA) and it is estimated that this condition affects 30 million people in the U.S. alone. This degenerative joint disease, often called as the wear-and-tear arthritis, causes pain, swelling and reduced motion in the joints.
Several peer-reviewed studies have shown that osteoarthritis pain is linked with elevated risk of depressive symptoms due to its effect on fatigue and disability. It was also shown that knee OA was linked with issues that include initiating sleep (31 percent), difficulty in maintaining sleep at night (81 percent) and general sleep problems (77 percent).
Researchers at the University of Alabama confirm that among osteoarthritis patients, sleep disturbances are linked to pain and depression and not disability. They observed that poor sleep ups depression and disability but does not worsen pain over a period of time.
In the current study, the researchers gathered details of sleep disturbances, pain, functional limitations and depressive symptoms from 288 patients with knee OA. Patients were selected from various settings to get a broad representation of OA subjects. Sleep disturbances at the beginning of the study were used to calculate the changes in pain, disability and depression after a one-year period.
On analyzing the data they noticed that sleep was independently linked with pain and depression at baseline. However, there was no association between disability and baseline sleep disturbances. In those with high level pain, improper sleep and pain together intensified depression. Sleep disturbances at baseline elevated depression and disability but not pain at one-year follow up.
Dr. Parmelee says, "This study shows that depression plays a strong role in the sleep-pain connection, particularly with severe pain. Further investigation of sleep in disability progression may lead to new interventions that disrupt the cycle of OA distress."
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Cannabis stocks have been catching the eye of investors and analysts alike, especially following a bold 2018 for the marijuana industry. Canada made marijuana legal for recreation in October and since then all sorts of innovation has sprung up in the field — whether it be the actualization of cannabis companies that had not been legitimate before or companies that are using components of the plant for medicinal purposes, like Tilray (TLRY).
Tilray, a leader in the medical cannabis industry is getting the attention of Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Lavery. With enthusiasm about the possibilities of cannabis down the road, the analyst initiates coverage of the stock, rating it Overweight. (To watch Lavery's track record, click here).
Furthermore, Lavery sees the company as "having the ingredients" for long-term growth, suggesting its relationships with multiple different companies in different sectors is a pro. Tilray has partnerships with Novartis on the medical front, Privateer on the equity front as well as ABI for beverages.
"Market opportunity is $15-50B near-term, potentially $250-500B. We estimate a $250-500B potential long-term global market, with a near-term market of $15-50B. We expect recreational use to source from illicit trade and alcohol, medical use to source from other medical treatments (e.g. pain relief, sleep aid, opioids), and non-psychoactive CBD-infused cannabis products to source users from food, beverage, and personal care categories. Assuming further global legalization momentum continues in key markets, we estimate Tilray could be positioned for $3-10B in medium-term sales (2018E: $68M)," the analyst estimates.
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Bulling takes third in to final day
Date: Sunday, 27 May 2012
The BikeNZ-Pure Black Racing Under-23 team all finished in the peloton on the penultimate stage of the An Post Ras Tour of Ireland today.
The four cyclists finished in the main bunch after two riders skipped clear in the final 10kms to claim the major honours, won by Lasse Hansen (DEN), who is second overall in the under-23 battle.
Top kiwi hope Pieter Bulling and the hard working Scott Creighton were nvolved in crashes in the final 10kms of the 161km stage from Donegal to Cootehill. Both riders managed to get back on to the bunch with Bulling remaining in third place in the Under-23 best rider category.
The two-man attack went just before the New Zealand team's planned assault and they missed the opportunity to bridge across to the leading pair.
Cameron Karwowski was the best of the team today in 11th place, again prominent in the bunch sprint with the peloton finishing just 12 seconds behind the winner.
Frenchman Nicolas Baldo (Atlas Jakroo) retained his overall lead with Bulling best placed of the team in 26th place, 5m26s down on the yellow jersey.
Tomorrow's final stage is 139kms with five category three climbs before finishing with a two lap circuit in the now traditional finish at Skerries, on the east coast north of Dublin.
Results, An Post Ras Tour of Ireland, stage 7, 161km Donegal to Cootehill: lasse Hansen (DEN, Blue Water) 4L13.21, 1; Kai Exner (GER, Bike Aid) at 7 sec, 2; Sam Bennett (IEL) An Post Sean Kelly) at 12 sec, 3. Also New Zealanders: Cameron Karwowski at 12 sec, 11; Taylor gunman same time, 41; Scott Creighton same time, 69; Piet Bulling same time, 89.
General classification after 7 stages: Nicolas Baldo (FRA, Atlas Jakroo) 23:40.01, 1; Thomas Rostollan (FRA) Aix En Provence) at 13 sec, 2; Martin Hunai (CZE, AC Sparta) at 17 sec, 3. Also: Bulling at 5:26, 26; Gunman at 9:56, 35; Creighton at 21:37, 51; Karwowski at 21:45, 52.
Under-23: Richard Handley (GBR) 23:40.19, 1; Hansen at 4:18, 2; Bulling at 5:08, 3. Also: Gunman at 9:38, 8.


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For several hours in the next few weeks you are to inspect a site for their access or lack thereof. You should focus your observations on 1-2 sites (physical or virtual) that you go to in your everyday life. Some examples- your gym, your classroom, buildings in UT, restaurant, film theater, lab, online websites or gaming (look at several websites such as YouTube, Blackboard, facebook and check for captions and other features).
You are to check for access features in terms of their existence but also their usability and quality (i.e. the fact something exists does not make it user friendly, nice to look at or welcoming).
· Do you see any signs of purposeful access or accommodations? Are there any ramps, signage about access (who to contact for example)? Are there any visibly disabled people in this space? As customers, workers?
· How is information presented (on the wall, in the class, on a menu)? Is it also available in alternate formats for people who can't access information by reading? What is the size of the font used?
· Are the principles of Universal Design incorporated? How so? And if not, how so?
After taking notes on all the above (and also pictures if applicable, with permission if needed!), start analyzing your findings. Your paper should describe where you went and what you found (be specific with examples) and then analyze it by using readings and class materials. You are required to use at least 1 source from class to compliment your analysis presented in the paper.
· Who do you think this site built or designed for?
· Did the site make you feel welcome? Is it user friendly? For whom? What assumptions are made about the potential user/visitor of this site?
· What would full access or inclusion entail in relation to this product or environment? What would make people (yourself included) feel fully welcome in the space or by using this product?
· Can you think of alternative designs to rectify the situation?
· Why do you think this was designed in this way?
· What are the consequences of such designs, in relation to inclusion/exclusion? What are the potential social and cultural effects of such designs?
· Do you think it is a form of ableism? Do you agree with class readings that there is segregation by design or "design apartheid" towards people with disabilities?
The paper is due in class on the date designated on the syllabus.
The paper should be 750-1000 words.
Papers should begin with a clear introductory paragraph summarizing the aims and ambitions of your paper. From this introduction I should be able to decipher the site(s) your paper will focus on and which readings/materials from the class you will use to analyze this site.
You should divide the paper into several sections (marked off by subtitles if needed), which should flow together and demonstrate progression of your analysis. The paper should have a clear concluding paragraph where you summarize your main argument.
· Ferri, Beth A. and David J. Connor. (2006). Reading Resistance: Discourses of Exclusion in Desegregation and Inclusion Debates. New York: Peter Lang.
Papers will be evaluated on the quality of your research; your ability to make meaningful connections between your argument and course materials; the number and type of readings you incorporated into the paper; the use of disability studies thinking in applying the material to your paper; overall understanding of issues discussed in class, as they pertain to the paper; the overall organization, writing style, coherence, and flow of your argument; and your ability to follow the guidelines listed above.


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Unified Power Format (amb acrònim anglès UPF) és el nom popular de l'estàndard de l'Institut d'Enginyers Elèctrics i Electrònics (IEEE) per especificar la intenció de potència en l'optimització de potència de l'automatització del disseny electrònic. La versió IEEE 1801 -2009 de l'estàndard es va basar en una donació de l'organització Accellera. La versió actual és IEEE 1801-2018.

L'organització Accellera va formar un comitè tècnic de Unified Power Format, presidit per Stephen Bailey de Mentor Graphics. Com a reacció a la iniciativa Power Forward, el grup va ser proposat el juliol de 2006 i es va reunir el 13 de setembre de 2006. Va presentar el seu primer esborrany el gener de 2007, i es va aprovar una versió 1.0 per ser publicada el 26 de febrer de 2007. Joe Daniels n'era editor tècnic.

Els fitxers escrits amb aquest estàndard anoten un disseny elèctric amb la intenció de control de potència i potència d'aquest disseny. Els elements d'aquesta anotació inclouen:

 Fonts d'alimentació: xarxes de subministrament, conjunts de subministrament, estats de potència.
 Control d'alimentació: interruptors d'alimentació.
 Protecció addicional: canviadors de nivell i aïllament.
 Retenció de memòria durant èpoques de potència limitada: estratègies de retenció i estats d'alimentació establerts.
 Descripcions refinables de la potència potencial aplicada al sistema electrònic: estats de potència, transicions, un conjunt d'estats sim. , el tipus de pin d'alimentació/terra (pg_type) i els atributs de funció de les xarxes, i l'argument -update per donar suport al perfeccionament progressiu de la intenció de poder.

L'estàndard descriu extensions del llenguatge d'ordres d'eines (Tcl): ordres i arguments per anotar una jerarquia de disseny que s'ha llegit en una eina. La semàntica per inferir elements addicionals en el disseny a partir de la intenció es proporciona a l'estàndard. Els dissenyadors digitals, els proveïdors de blocs IP, els dissenyadors físics i els enginyers de verificació fan ús d'aquest llenguatge estàndard per comunicar la seva intenció de disseny i implementació respecte a la potència variable d'un sistema electrònic.

El Comitè d'Estàndards de Disseny Automatització (DASC) de l'IEEE Standards Association va patrocinar el grup de treball 1801, amb l'autorització del projecte aprovada el 7 de maig de 2007.

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The Sales You Didn't Make
Bill Gates once said "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning". In that vein, we've found that much can be learned from thinking about the sales that you didn't make. In a number of recent instances, we've seen how a focus on the sales that you didn't make can inspire manufacturer-distributor teams to bring innovations into their relationship that turn those formerly lost sales opportunities into success stories.
A great case study of such a success was told by our friend Jerry McCabe, winner of the 2010 Automotive Aftermarket Industries Association "Innovator of the Year" award and formerly vice president of Affinia, the $1.8 billion company that manufactures filters, brakes, and steering/suspension parts under brands like Wix. He provided a "success story" involving their relationship with O'Reilly Auto Parts, the huge national automotive parts wholesaler with over 4,000 stores around the country[1]. They recognized that there were literally thousands of filtration SKUs, and that the only sales that were being made involved the much smaller number of highly-popular SKUs that moved rapidly off the shelves.
By linking the inventory systems of the two firms, Affinia and O'Reilly were able to immediately locate all SKUs that were available somewhere in the systems of the two firms, and achieve far more sales. Jerry summarized the projects results as follows: "What that effort did was create a situation that allowed Affinia to expand its business, O'Reilly to expand its business, and both companies to take a great deal of cost out of the system. Sales that would have been lost are now being made. Lots of redundant activities were eliminated at the same time, with significant savings." The outcome was a clear 'win-win' success story.
A second case study involved the relationship between a large electrical products manufacturer and their largest national distributor. While many of the products sold through this relationship were stock items, there were also ones that fell into the engineered to order category. An analysis of performance indicated that their market share realized in that engineered to order category was basically only about one-fourth that associated with the stock products that went into them. Clearly there was something wrong with the company's processes that was causing such a loss in share.
The conclusions reached were summarized by one of the distributor company executives: "Our partner had introduced a Product Configurator several years ago to allow us to respond to engineered to order demands. What we learned was that it was a 'Sales Terminator', not a 'Product Configurator'. It didn't work more often that it did. And subjecting a contractor to using it was like asking them to go through a root canal. When we benchmarked competitor offerings, even in cases where our system worked, it took four to five times as long to use and often ended up generating a requirement to call the manufacturer in order to complete the quote."
A joint team from the two organizations addressed this challenge. They came up with some out of the box ideas. They identified, for example, four common configurations that accounted for nearly 50% of demand, and introduced them as 'kitted' offers with a very short menu of options. For the remaining portion of the business, they rebuilt the configurator structure so that it achieved best-in-class status in terms of performance along metrics such as time to complete and user friendliness. As a result, their sales in the engineered to order category are now at roughly the same level of market share as the other lines of business appropriate for comparison. This has yielded significant gains for both organizations in terms of both the revenues and profits, and at the same time, eliminated a source of dissatisfaction among the contractors that are their key customers.
What has been learned from case studies such as these is that much can be gained from studying the sales that aren't being made, especially those that in some sense should be made given the product/technology base, customer relationships, and business systems that are involved. We've identified two things that manufacturers and their channel partners can do to achieve results like those described in these case studies.
First, it is all too common in manufacturer-distributor relationships to simply assume lost sales are the fault of the other party to the relationships. That was certainly the potential in both of these case studies. An executive from the electrical distributor involved in the second case study noted that "Our sales people recognized this problem for a long time, but just accepted it as reality and something they couldn't do anything about given the problems with the manufacturer's configurator".
Working as a team, thinking about the problem from a systems perspective, and often being willing to accept changes in the roles and boundaries between the two organizations is required to solve the problems that are resulting in sales that aren't being made. McCabe noted that while the initiative that he described was complex from a technical perspective, the more important, and more challenging, investment was in building a culture of trust between the two companies: "What was really important in retrospect was the change in the level of trust – it started with a handful of people seeing a small hole in a wall that they were able to chisel through and look at the other side. It shows how far things can go if two companies really work together."
The second key lesson is that insights about end customers are usually critical to finding why sales are being lost, and that such insights often have far more to do with services than with products and technology. In both of the case studies presented here, it was a key service element that was thwarting sales. In one case, the failure was being able to identify whether parts were available or not. In the other case, the failure was in being able to efficiently respond to a customer's need to configure a unique system for the application on which they were working.
Effective service delivery is often thwarted by unhealthy relationships characterized by distrust about end customers. The channel organization typically fears that the manufacturer will "cut them out by going direct", especially as an end customer begins to buy more and more. And the manufacturer fears that the channel partner will try to "substitute another product or even their private label brand", especially if the end customer is a big buyer.
We believe that the way to ensure stability in terms of end customer planning involves some basic blocking and tackling relationship elements – honestly, commitment over the long-term, good communications. There must be a good business reason for the relationship in the first place, one that is likely to endure and one that both parties must identify and acknowledge openly. When this is done, it's unlikely that suspicions of the type suggested above will arise. And, at that point, the two organizations can work as a team to solve service deficiencies that are causing them to lose sales that they should otherwise have made.
Today's environment is a challenging one for many firms, and finding new headroom for growth is a constant priority. Looking carefully at the sales that aren't being made can point the way to new growth options that can yield rewards for both manufacturers and their distributors. And, once such opportunities are identified, a strong trusting relationship and a focus on collaborative service delivery can result in a success story like those related in the case studies in this article.
Authors: Atlee Valentine Pope and George F. Brown, Jr.
[1] George F. Brown, Jr. and Atlee Valentine Pope, CoDestiny Relationships with Channel Partners, Velocity, Volume 13, Issue 1, 2011.
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Supreme Court Limits Progressivism
Two 5-4 decisions last week on the final decision day of the Supreme Court's term dealt with issues that illustrate the legal consequences of political tactics by today's progressives. One case demonstrated how progressivism's achievement, the regulatory state, manufactures social strife, and can do so in ways politically useful to progressives. The other case arose from government coercion used to conscript unwilling citizens into funding the progressives' party.
Under the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, any government action that substantially burdens religious practices will be subject to strict judicial scrutiny to determine if it, rather than some less intrusive measure, is necessary to achieve a compelling government interest. The Affordable Care Act, as supplemented by regulations, requires for-profit employers to provide health care coverage that includes all 20 FDA-approved birth-control methods.
These include four that prevent a fertilized egg from being implanted in the uterus. Some persons consider this tantamount to abortion and oppose these abortifacients for religious reasons. Why did Congress, having enacted RFRA, write this clearly incompatible birth-control mandate? Congress didn't.
In the ACA, Congress simply required health plans to provide "preventive care" for women. An executive branch agency decided this meant the full menu of 20 technologies. So, during oral argument in March, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked: "What kind of constitutional structure do we have if the Congress can give an agency the power to grant or not grant a religious exemption based on what the agency determined?"
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The answer is: The constitutional structure we have is the kind progressives prefer, wherein more and more decisions are made by unelected and unaccountable executive branch "experts" exercising vast discretion. In this instance, the experts were, to say no more, willing to provoke a predictable controversy that would be convenient for the Democratic Party's "war on women" trope. Today, this war consists of subsidizing only 16 of 20 birth-control methods. The court has held that some "closely held" businesses — often family owned and adhering to religious practices — have a right under RFRA to wage this war.
The court's other end-of-term case arose from overreaching by government employees unions and their Democratic allies. At issue were the First Amendment rights of people herded into unions after being made into government employees by government's semantic fiat.
The labor movement and the Democratic Party's funding depend on government employees, 35.3 percent of whom are unionized. So, in Illinois, two Democratic governors manufactured government employees out of home health care workers, a growing cohort — and a tempting target for dues-hungry unions — in a nation with an aging population and many infirm elderly.
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In 2003, an executive order from Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, of fragrant memory, decreed that thousands of home health care workers are government employees, and resulted in the Service Employees International Union being recognized as their representative. In 2009, an executive order from the current Democratic governor, Pat Quinn, designated even more home care providers, who essentially are independent contractors, as government employees. The tenuous theory was that they are government workers because their pay comes indirectly from government — from the Medicaid funds received by the persons who hire them.
Under a 1977 Supreme Court decision, which 26 states take advantage of, government employees can be forced to pay certain fees to unions even if the employees do not wish to be in the union and disagree with its positions. In last week's case, the court carved out an exemption for people like the home care providers who are not "full-fledged" government employees.
This certainly seems sensible as applied to the lead plaintiff, a woman caring for her severely disabled son. Because the court has now recognized her First Amendment freedom of association — which includes the freedom not to associate — and freedom from compelled speech, she no longer will be required to pay fees to a union she refuses to join. SEIU will have to look elsewhere for the approximately $10 million in fees it has siphoned annually from people like her. This is real campaign finance reform.
George F. Will is a syndicated writer in Washington. His email address is georgewill@washpost.com.
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