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Florida ethics panel finds probable cause in Andrew Gillum 'Hamilton' tickets complaint
By Gray Rohrer
Tallahassee Bureau |
Former Tallahassee Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum
TALLAHASSEE — A state ethics panel on Friday found probable cause for ethics violations involving former Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum over allegations that he received gifts on trips with lobbyists while he was mayor of Tallahassee.
The finding from the Florida Commission on Ethics means the investigation into the complaint will move on but isn't a finding of guilt. The next step is a hearing before an administrative judge sometime in the next two months.
The complaint was filed by Erwin Jackson, a Tallahassee ethics watchdog, and stems from Gillum's alleged acceptance of gifts from lobbyists while on trips to New York and Costa Rica in 2016. Gillum received tickets to the Broadway musical "Hamilton" from a person who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent.
"If you're a mayor of a town even a small, small town, your friends should not be lobbyists," Jackson told reporters after the hearing. "And when you take family vacations you shouldn't be taking vacations with lobbyists and city vendors."
The accusations hounded Gillum during the campaign and contributed to his narrow loss to Republican Ron DeSantis. Gillum was defeated by 32,463 votes out of more than 8.2 million cast, or about 0.4 percent.
Gillum did not attend the closed-door hearing in Tallahassee, but his lawyer, Barry Richard, said the charges have no merit. Richard said he's confident the hearing won't lead to a finding of guilt.
"The [ethics] advocate says that he was hanging out with these people who are lobbyists who had [a city] interest, but there is no evidence in this case and there's no allegation that he ever did anything in response – as a quid pro quo for receiving a gift," Richard said.
Florida's "gift ban" law prohibits public officials from receiving anything valued at more than $100 from lobbyists.
If Gillum is found guilty, the commission has the power to issue a fine, but the proceedings aren't criminal. Still, Jackson suggested he could face criminal charges in the future.
The undercover FBI agent who paid for the "Hamilton" tickets was part of a three-year investigation that resulted in the arrest of Tallahassee city commissioner Scott Maddox and his business partner Paige Carter-Smith last month. The pair were charged with 44 counts, including mail fraud, wire fraud and extortion.
Maddox is alleged to have continued running his consulting firm, Governance Services, after being elected to the city commission in 2012, and urging companies with business before the commission to hire his firm.
Gillum was interviewed by the FBI in connection with the investigation, but he said he was told by the FBI he was not a target of the probe.
During a hearing last month, federal prosecutors said the investigation was still ongoing. A trial is scheduled to start in February. Maddox and Carter-Smith have pleaded not guilty.
In Florida there is a choice between a Harvard/Yale educated man named @RonDeSantisFL who has been a great Congressman and will be a great Governor - and a Dem who is a thief and who is Mayor of poorly run Tallahassee, said to be one of the most corrupt cities in the Country!
DeSantis' campaign, echoed by President Donald Trump on Twitter, repeatedly slammed Gillum over the complaint, calling him a "thief."
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But on Thursday, DeSantis downplayed Gillum's situation.
"At the end of the day, he was a tough competitor," he told reporters. "I think he's a talented guy. I don't wish anything ill for him."
DeSantis acknowledged he didn't know all the facts of the ethics complaint after noting he had "opined a time or two during the campaign on some of the issues."
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As a thank you to those who serve our country, County Animal Services is joining Animals for Armed Forces in waiving pet adoption fees for military members interested in adopting a dog, cat or rabbit this Memorial Day weekend.
The adoption special is being offered to current, former or retired and immediate family members of those who serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard and National Guard.
This is the fourth time that Animals for Armed Services has invited County Animal Services to take part in the event. More than two dozen locations throughout southern California and Utah are waiving pet adoption fees.
During the adoption special last year, nearly 100 animals from the County's shelters were adopted into new forever homes.
They all go home spayed or neutered, with current vaccinations, a microchip, a dog license and a free vet exam within the first 10 days.
Qualified adopters can take advantage of the special from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, May 25 through Sunday, May 27 at all three County shelter locations. The shelters will be closed on Monday, May 28 in observance of Memorial Day.
Military members or their families interested in adopting a new pet can get a preview of which animals might be available by visiting the County's adoption webpage.
Potential adopters must bring a photo ID and one of the following to be eligible for the fee waiver: a military ID, Dependent ID, Veterans ID, DD-214 and driver's license or NGB Form 22.
For more information about County Animal Services, call (619) 767-2675.


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There have been 30 Houses sold in Meadowbrook in the past 12 months with a median sale price of $437K, up 2.82% annually. It takes on average 62 days to sell with vendor discounting of -6.9%.


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Over 60 years of Youth Fed
Youth Fed began its life as the Cheshire Association of Boys Clubs, which was founded by Lord Leverhulme in 1952.
The association supported youth organisations so that their volunteers could provide excellent services to young people throughout the county.
By 1973, the CABC had become the Cheshire Federation of Youth Clubs and had extended to include Halton, Warrington and the Wirral. The CFYC remained unchanged; offering support as a youth charity to young people and youth organisations before evolving into Youth Federation in 1999.
Following the most recent rebranding in 2015, Youth Federation became Youth Fed and had a new, modern logo and website to match. We now reach over 5,000 young people with our programmes and support over 500 youth organisations.
In 2002, to celebrate the 60 year anniversary of the youth charity we released "Youth Federation; A History" read it here.
In 2010, in order to address a local need to support some of our member youth clubs, Youth Federation set up a Company Limited by Guarantee, Youth Federation Limited (1143231). Youth Federation Limited was set up in order that we could take governance responsibility for Fermain Youth Centre in Macclesfield and later the Lord Taverner's Woodside Youth Club in Runcorn. This structure ensured that Youth Federation and the two youth clubs could remain as registered charities in their own right and enable the clubs survival.
In tough economic times, youth clubs can struggle to get Volunteer Trustees due to the large responsibilities inherent in the role. The new structure alleviates this problem considerably, allowing the Youth Federation Trustees to take on responsibility over multiple organisations and clubs.
So far both clubs are doing fantastically well with the support of local volunteers who have revived the clubs, with each bringing upwards of 50 young people through their doors per night. You can follow both youth clubs which run out of each of the centres on social media.
Interested in helping young people full-time? There are plenty of opportunities to join our team.
Find out more about the Youth Fed team.
Find out more about the programmes we offer.

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If your gums are puffy, tender or bleed when you floss, then you may be among the 75% of American adults who have some form of gum disease.
Gum disease, which is also called periodontal disease, starts as gingivitis. Many people are shocked to realize gingivitis is an infection caused by bacteria. Untreated gum disease causes the gum to separate from the teeth, forming a bacteria-filled pocket. Having bacteria beneath your gums is like having termites in your house. No matter how much you paint the walls, the foundation will weaken and collapse unless you treat the infestation.
And here's a scary new statistic from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Half of all Americans over the age of 30 have gum disease beyond that first, reversible stage of gingivitis. In fact, periodontal disease is the number one cause of tooth loss in American adults.
So what can you do to restore your oral health? Dr. Asia Richardson, a doctor who practices at Coast Dental Sprayberry near Atlanta, says that depends on how much the disease has advanced. Our clinicians use a tiny ruler called a probe to measure the depth of the pocket around each tooth. As the disease advances, the pockets become deeper and the treatment becomes more extensive, more expensive and more time-consuming to treat.
Gingivitis is the only stage of periodontal disease that is reversible. Patients with gingivitis typically have a few 4-millimeter pockets filled with bacteria and their gums have become infected and swollen. If the infection is not treated, the pockets will deepen, and the teeth will start to loosen as the infected gum pulls further way.
"For gingivitis, we do a full mouth debridement, which removes plaque and tartar both above and below the gum line," said Dr. Richardson. "We'll also irrigate the infected areas with a chlorhexadine rinse to flush out and kill more bacteria. In addition, we give patients an intensive home care regimen, so they don't have the infection return while the gums are healing. We like to see patients about four weeks later to polish their teeth and ensure the disease was effectively treated. After that, the patient usually can return every six months for a regular cleaning as long as their home care keeps the infection from returning."
If the disease advances, it's called periodontitis. The pockets deepen to about 5 millimeters, but the teeth are not yet loose. Mild periodontitis is usually treated with a cleaning called scaling and root planing therapy. Scaling removes the plaque and tartar from your teeth above the gum line. Root planing goes beneath the gum line to clean the tartar from the root surface and make it harder for bacteria to adhere. In some cases, your dentist may also prescribe an antibiotic. Once the disease has advanced to this stage, patients will need to return to the dentist for cleanings more frequently than people who have healthy mouths.
If you have deeper pockets of bacteria, your gum line has receded, exposing the root surfaces and loosening your teeth. In addition to the scaling and root planing therapy, your dentist may give you an antibiotic, which is placed directly into the pocket to eliminate any bacteria that the cleaning alone can't reach. Some doctors choose to treat periodontitis with laser therapy to remove the unhealthy part of the gum because it's less invasive and may be less expensive than surgical treatment. Also, laser therapy can be used on anyone, even patients with medical allergies or expectant mothers. Regardless of the method of treatment, you will need to return for follow up visits, typically 8 to 12 weeks after the initial treatment so your teeth can be polished, and then every three to four months for periodontal maintenance. Periodontal disease is a systemic disease like diabetes and it can return if it's not closely monitored.
Severe periodontitis often requires surgery to repair the gums. Typically, the pockets are deeper than six millimeters and there is permanent bone damage. Some teeth may be so loose, they can't be saved. In that case, the dentist will need to extract the teeth and you will need a denture, bridge or dental implant to fill the space left behind.
So the next time you notice your gums are a little red and puffy, call your dentist for an appointment. The faster the infection is diagnosed, the cheaper it is to treat. If you can stop it while it's still just gingivitis, then you can reverse the damage and, with proper care, keep the infection from coming back.
"Periodontal disease, or periodontitis, is an equal opportunity infection," Dr. Richardson said. "It doesn't matter how old you are. It depends on your home care routine, including how well you brush and floss, and genetics."
Asia Richardson, DMD, is a family dentist at Coast Dental Sprayberry near Atlanta. Services include bone grafting, crown lengthening, dental implant restorations, extractions, Lumineers, laser therapy, root canal therapy and retreatment, periodontal disease management, veneers and teeth whitening. Dr. Richardson earned her dental degree at the University of Alabama School of Dentistry and stays current with the latest advancements in dental technology by attending seminars and training courses. She is a member of the American Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry. She treats patients age 5 and older and can be reached at Coast Dental Sprayberry, 2550 Sandy Plains Road NE in Marietta, Georgia. The phone number is (770) 321-2755.


Bengali detective films are passing through golden time. In recent past it was ghost movies period and now detective films. Feluda, Byomkesh, Shabor and Kakababu are the detectives. Byomkesh films are made in Bengali and Hindi. TV serial of Byomkesh is going on for Bengali audiences. Prosenjit Chatterjee has already played Kakababu in Srijit Mukherjee's film Mishor Rahasya and now another Bengali film superstar Chiranjeet will play the role of Kakababu.
Chiranjeet was once box office hero of Bengali films. Recently Chiranjeet has started his second innings of filmy career and the starting is successful. In film Chotushkone, Bengali film audiences discovered a serious Chiranjeet. The film titled Jangal Garer Chabi will be directed by Raja Roychoudhury and RP Tech Vision. The novel Jangal Garer Chabi written by Sunil Gangopadhyay was published in 1987.
Chiranjeet has already signed for the film and is very much excited getting the role of Kakababu in film Jangal Garer Chabi. Prosenjit Chatterjee and Srijit Mukherjee are aware of the fact that another Kakababu film will be produced with Chiranjeet in the leading role. They have sportingly accepted it and welcome Chiranjeet. News is that Prosenjit-Srijit will start shooting of another Kakababu film from May this year and both the Kakababu films of Chiranjeet and Prosenjit will release during Durga Puja this year, most probably on the same date.


Jumbo mortgage rates are at 25-year lows , beating interest rates on traditional, conforming loans. At first glance, that doesn't make sense because jumbo loans are for expensive homes.
Why would a bank give a lower loan rate to someone who wants to buy an expensive home? If they can afford a higher priced home, can't they afford a higher loan rate? Why help the rich get richer?
The answer is simple economics, along with some greed to attract more wealthy clients.
"The rates on jumbo loans are a symptom of the overall credit markets," says Bennie Waller, a professor of finance and real estate at Longwood University in Farmville, VA. "Lenders are very conservative in the lower- and middle-priced home markets. Such borrowers need a high credit score and an above average amount of capital. That is, lenders are focusing on the most highly qualified borrowers."
In other words, the loans offer banks low risk and high return.
Recent jumbo loan interest rates for a 30-year fixed at Wells Fargo were 3.875 percent, while a conforming loan for the same term was 4 percent.
Jumbo loans traditionally have higher interest rates than conforming loans, and are meant to help highly qualified borrowers afford expensive homes. Jumbo loans are for more than $417,000 -- or $625,500 in Hawaii and Alaska -- the limits set by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as conforming loan limits.
To qualify for such high loans, jumbo loan borrowers are often required to have lower debt-to-income ratios, higher credit scores of 700 or better, larger down payments of at least 20 percent, and higher reserve funds than conforming loan borrowers.
Jumbo loans aren't sold to Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, so banks have more flexibility to down payment and debt-to-income ratios, says Travis Saling, a mortgage loan officer at Sierra Pacific Mortgage in San Diego, CA. Fannie and Freddie charge specific fees called "guarantee fees" to help guard against defaulted loan exposure. Jumbo loans are cheaper, in part, because they don't have such fees, Saling says.
By making jumbo loans appealing to high-wealth customers, banks can use the loans as an opportunity to cross sell auto loans, credit cards, home improvement loans, lines of credit, checking accounts and other bank services, says Norman Koenigsberg, president of First Choice Loan Services, Inc., in East Brunswick, N.J.
"It creates a client for life relationship," Koenigsberg says. "It's been a strategy for many, many years."
More affluent customers will likely have more equity in their property, partly because jumbo loans require down payments of at least 20 percent, and the home will be a better piece of collateral for the bank to have, he says.
"This has allowed the larger lenders to reach an audience that would have been harder to reach without this," Koenigsberg says.
Some lenders give a 0.25 percentage point jumbo loan discount to borrowers who open a checking or savings account with them and sign up for automatic mortgage payment, says Van Tran, vice president of The Federal Savings Bank in Chicago and owner of My VA Rates, a website that helps veterans get VA jumbo loans.
"If you have a mortgage with them and they can see all your assets, then they're going to call you from time to time and try to sell you services," Tran says of banks going after clients who are worth millions.
Another reason jumbo loans are cheap is because investors want them and there isn't much supply, says Casey Fleming, president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the California Association of Mortgage Professionals. Historically the spread between conventional conforming loans and non-conforming jumbo loans is 0.50 to 1 percentage points, though on many days in today's market there's no difference at all, Fleming says.
Almost all mortgage loans are packaged into pools and sold to investors, he says. "The investors then replenish their cash by raising money, usually by issuing debt in the form of bonds, secured by the cash flow from the mortgages in the pool," Fleming says.
But worldwide unrest and financial uncertainty is increasing demand for U.S. bonds, but supply is down, he says. New mortgage originations are at a 20-year low, and competition among bond buyers and low supply drive the price up and the interest rate down, Fleming says.
Jumbo mortgage rates should go up within the next five years, Koenigsberg says, which could cause potential harm to banks holding such loans for 30 years that are collecting historically low interest rates.
Lastly, jumbo rates are low because banks are offering very low yields on their customers' deposits, often less than 1 percent on a savings account, Saling says. Having a borrower pay around 4 percent interest on a jumbo loan for 30 years leads to healthy returns that banks want to keep on their books instead of selling them on the secondary market, he says.
"Smaller companies that don't have the luxury to hold the loans are having no issues selling them as the big banks are eager to take on these clients," Saling says. "The underwriting standards are still very tight so the banks see these clients who are able to obtain jumbo loans as extremely safe investments."


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namespace Parser\DirectivesProcessors;

use Monolog\Handler\TestHandler;
use Monolog\Logger;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use Psr\Log\LogLevel;
use t1gor\RobotsTxtParser\Directive;
use t1gor\RobotsTxtParser\Parser\DirectiveProcessors\HostProcessor;

/**
 * @covers \t1gor\RobotsTxtParser\Parser\DirectiveProcessors\HostProcessor::process
 */
class HostProcessorTest extends TestCase {

	private ?HostProcessor $processor;

	public function setUp(): void {
		$log = new Logger(static::class);
		$log->pushHandler(new TestHandler(LogLevel::DEBUG));

		$this->processor = new HostProcessor($log);
	}

	public function tearDown(): void {
		$this->processor = null;
	}

	public function testAddsHostIfCorrect() {
		$tree = [];
		$line = 'Host: www.example.com';

		$this->processor->process($line, $tree);

		$this->assertArrayHasKey('*', $tree);
		$this->assertArrayHasKey(Directive::HOST, $tree['*']);
		$this->assertContains('www.example.com', $tree['*'], json_encode($tree));
	}

	public function testSkipsAndLogsIfIpAddressPassed() {
		$tree = [];
		$line = 'Host: 192.168.0.1';

		$this->processor->process($line, $tree);

		$this->assertArrayNotHasKey('*', $tree);
		$this->assertArrayNotHasKey(Directive::HOST, $tree);

		/** @var TestHandler $handler */
		$handler = $this->processor->getLogger()->getHandlers()[0];

		$this->assertTrue(
			$handler->hasRecord(
				'host with value 192.168.0.1 dropped for * as invalid (IP address is not a valid hostname)',
				LogLevel::DEBUG
			),
			stringifyLogs($handler->getRecords())
		);
	}

	public function testSkipsAndLogsIfNotValidHost() {
		$tree = [];
		$line = 'Host: bndgang!!!@#$da12345ngda]]';

		$this->processor->process($line, $tree);

		$this->assertArrayNotHasKey('*', $tree);
		$this->assertArrayNotHasKey(Directive::HOST, $tree);

		/** @var TestHandler $handler */
		$handler = $this->processor->getLogger()->getHandlers()[0];

		$this->assertTrue(
			$handler->hasRecord(
				'host with value bndgang!!!@#$da12345ngda]] dropped for * as invalid',
				LogLevel::DEBUG
			),
			stringifyLogs($handler->getRecords())
		);
	}
}

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Sehba Sarwar, Black Wings
Introduced by Sonia Saldivar-Hull and moderated by Reggie Scott Young.
Introduction by Sonia Saldívar-Hull, who serves as Professor of English and the founding Director of the Women's Studies Institute and Women's Studies Program at University of Texas, San Antonio. Her book on Chicana feminist theory and cultural studies, Feminism on the Border: Chicana Politics and Literature, was published by the University of California Press. She has published numerous book chapters, articles and introductory essays on Chicana literature, feminism, and the cultural intersections of borderland studies, and is also the co-editor of the Gloria Anzaldúa critical anthologies, El Mundo Zurdo, Volumes 2-7. Saldívar-Hull was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for Literary and Cultural Criticism by the Western Literature Association in 2003 and the President's Distinguished Diversity Award, at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2016.
The discussion will be moderated by Reggie Scott Young, a newcomer to San Antonio, who has most recently served as Professor of Creative Writing and American Literatures at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Writer-in-Residence at the New College of Florida. His has published creative essays, poems, and works of fiction in national magazines and journals such as riverSedge, Fifth Wednesday Journal, African American Review, and Oxford American. He has also compiled and edited two books on Ernest J. Gaines and a special issue of Obsidian Journal on Jeffery Renard Allen. His volume of poetry, Yardbirds Squawking at the Moon, is available from Louisiana Literature Press.
About Sehba Sarwar:
Sehba Sarwar creates essays, stories, poems, and art that tackle displacement, migration, and women's issues. Her writings have appeared in publications including New York Times Sunday Magazine, Asia: Magazine of Asian Literature, Callaloo and elsewhere. Her novel, Black Wings, was first published in 2004 by Alhamra Publishing (Pakistan). Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan in a home filled with artists and activists, Sarwar is currently based in Southern California where she lives with her husband and daughter.
About Black Wings:
Spanning two continents, Black Wings is the story of Laila and Yasmeen, a mother and daughter, struggling to meet across the generations, cultures, and secrets that separate them. Their shared grief, as well as the common bond of unhappiness in their marriages, allows them to reconnect after seventeen years of frustration, anger and misunderstandings.
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Waking Up at Five in the Morning!
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He is always in a dancing pose with one leg down and the other in the air. One hand as abhaya hastam (the hand that gives blessings) and other swings in air pointing towards the leg that is in the air called Kunjidapadam or Thookiyathiruvadi (the lifted leg), Which is were all the anmas (souls) are supposed to get their mukthi.
Among the many Shiva temples, five temples - Chidhambaram, Maduarai, Thiruvilankadu, Tirunelveli and Kutralam, are very revered and is known as the five sabhas. It is said Lord Shiva has danced at these five places as Nataraja, to benefit different devotees in different occasions.


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Security: We're prepared for Kaduna int' trade fair — KADCCIMA
KADCCIMA
By Naomi Uzor
The Kaduna Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (KADCCIMA), has said that the chamber and the state government has made adequate security arrangement with all security agencies in the country for the 39th Kaduna international trade fair, starting tomorrow in Kaduna.
President of the Chamber, Dr. Muheeba Dankaka, said the Kaduna state government and KADCCIMA are not leaving any stone unturned on the issue of security as several security forces have been deployed within the state and on the trade fair ground to secure lives and properties of exhibitors and visitors.
As part of their preparations for the fair, she said the chamber has made extensive contact with industrialists, manufacturers, producers, fabricators, distributors and marketers, both within and outside the country to come and participate at this year's Africa's most famous fair.
She stated: "On the side of participants and visitors to the fair, Kaduna chamber of commerce is envisaging a large turnout from both local and international participants.
So far, we have some companies from countries like Turkey, Pakistan, India, Kenya, Egypt, Thailand, Iran, Niger Republic and Peoples Republic of China who have indicated keen interest to participate" she said.
According to her, the theme of the 39th edition of the fair, "Promoting Commerce, Industry and Agriculture for International Competitiveness", was chosen to compliment the effort of the government towards revamping the economy to drive investments in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, services and technologies.
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8 striking similarities between Love Island and Game of Thrones
When you play the Game of Thrones, you win or you get totally pied off
By Huw Fullerton
Friday, 14th July 2017 at 3:44 pm
Game of Thrones is a smash-hit, a proper pop-cultural moment in our history and probably the biggest show on television right now – bar one.
You see, this year its hold on the metaphorical Iron Throne of TV relevance has been challenged somewhat by the unlikeliest of pretenders – ITV2's Love Island, the cult reality dating series that has brought in almost as much online discussion and column inches as the greatest intrigues Westeros has to offer.
Still, perhaps we shouldn't be too surprised. While I'm as irritated as anyone by media organisations awkwardly likening things to popular TV, you can't deny the striking similarities between both shows – one a dense tale of backstabbing and intrigue where favourites can be eliminated at any moment and the other, well, Game of Thrones – which are set to air in the same 9pm timeslot next Monday.
Don't believe me? Well, let's take a look at some of the similarities.
1. An incredibly complex backstory that's inaccessible for newcomers
I recently asked my girlfriend if she could fill me in on the Love Island backstory before I watched an episode with her that night, and after about 20 minutes I had to beg off, still stuck somewhere between the build-up to Jamilla and Casa Amor as I longed for the relative simplicity of the 60-hour Game of Thrones storyline.
Frankly, in a series that has seen couple after couple shack up, break apart and move on over its month-long runtime, you'd need a full and well-manned wiki (or our handy guide to all the recouplings) to keep track of everything that happened – and with Love Island, you can't even refer back to the books.
2. A wasteland of broken alliances and betrayals
Love Island is built on heartbreaking break-ups and shocking betrayals, which fans follow with the rapt attention of any Thrones viewer.
From Marcel's cavalier kissing with Shannen to Jonny's callous dismissal of Camilla, Love Island has been full of its very own Red Wedding moments – and of course, Game of Thrones is just as bad.
Who could forget when Robb was cracking on to Roslin, only to mug her off and couple up with Talisa instead? It was, to paraphrase Walder Frey, "pretty snakey", even if his own response WAS too aggy for words. Still, he got pied off in the end too, so to speak.
3. Set in sunny locales filled with warring houses
Ned would come to regret insisting Jaime needed his permission before speaking to Catelyn
Like Game of Thrones, Love Island brings the drama by pitting its attractive cast against each other – and it's safe to say that the rivalry between the villa and Casa Amor would give the Lannisters and Starks a run for their money.
Still, has any Game of Thrones punishment been quite as cruel as the texted-in trials intended to test the bonds of the Love Islanders? Or that postcard? Well yes, obviously – people get their genitals and hands cut off in Game of Thrones, like, all the time – but still. Similar.
4. In-depth and confusing vocabulary
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Sam and Gilly desperately try to discover the difference between being "pied off" and "mugged off"
Scratching your head over words and concepts like Valar Morghulis, Dracarys, wargs, wildfire and wildlings? Spare a thought for the Love Island neophytes wading into a world of mugginess, salty, grafting, sticking on and pie-ing off.
Still, we can probably all agree on one thing – Joffrey was a proper melt.
5. Introducing new characters who are eliminated immediately
Characters like Oberyn Martell, Brother Ray, Lady Crane and even Ned Stark might not have lasted long on Game of Thrones, but that's nothing compared to the swift demise of people like Steve, Marino, Rob, Ellisha-Jade and Shannen (nope, us neither) on Love Island.
And to think, they didn't even get any comic-con appearances out of it. Sad times.
6. Surprise resurrections
If you were shocked by the return of Jon Snow to this mortal plane, just imagine how Love Island viewers were feeling when "Muggy" Mike and Sam re-entered the villa this week, ghosts at a feast they had long since exited. Chilling stuff.
7. Repeated use of stirring catchphrases
Announcing Amber of House Davies, first of her name, Warden of the South (of Wales) and consort of Prince Kem.
Hear her words:
Truly, a motto to cast more shivers through the ages than Winter is Coming ever could.
8. And finally – if we're honest, people mainly tune in for the nudity and (at least emotional) bloodshed
C'mon, you know I'm right.
With thanks to Frances Taylor
Love Island airs at 9.00pm on ITV2, while Game of Thrones Season 7 premieres exclusively on Monday 17th July on Sky Atlantic and NOW TV at 2am, repeated at 9pm on the same day
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The Folly of Brexit Reveals the Folly of "America First"
On March 11, 2018 March 11, 2018 By Mitchell P. Smith
I have written in past weeks about the ways in which the current U.S. administration is investing in societal division as a political strategy.
Aluminum and steel tariffs are a prime example, for tariffs unleash a zero-sum dynamic both within U.S. society and between the U.S. and its global partners. This stands in contrast to the sort of positive-sum process potentially generated by investment in job training and apprenticeships. This will be the subject of next week's post.
But first, I want to consider a prior point about deep divisions in contemporary society and the paths by which capitalist democracies can – and should not — navigate these tensions. Recent analyses of divisions in capitalist democracies emphasize the tension between those who've gained most and those who've been hurt by the advance of globalization.
There is substantial evidence for this cleavage in the U.S. as well as in the UK, where characteristics of those supporting a British exit from the European Union — who tend to be older, less educated and more opposed to immigration and multiculturalism than those who voted to remain in the EU — overlap in significant ways with supporters of the current occupant of the White House.
The "country name first" response to globalization (as in "America first" or "Britain first"), while politically expedient, is both socially divisive and ultimately damaging to national prosperity. Exit from the EU has taken the UK down such a path, and the contradictions of Brexit become more evident over time as the British government struggles to control the damage.
British Prime Minister Theresa May gave a major policy speech last week outlining Britain's conception of its future economic relationship with the European Union. What the speech ironically revealed is that British exit – much like the implementation of tariffs in the U.S. – is a narrow political project that can only bring damage to the national economy and the country's place in the world.
In her speech, Theresa May valiantly endeavored to reconcile a "people's exit" with a prosperous and globally engaged future for the UK. Unfortunately, the speech revealed all too starkly that these ends are entirely irreconcilable.
May began her speech with a nod to populism: the entire project is about the British people, not the "privileged few." The implication, of course, is that European integration is an elite project whose benefits accrue to a narrow element of society.
There are elements of truth to this claim. The tragedy is that British policy makers, rather than tackling issues of inequality, have pursued a path of division and destruction in exit from the EU. Without doubt, the country will be considerably worse off following exit, and of course poorer, more vulnerable segments of the population will bear the costs of reduced economic opportunity and sharply reduced fiscal resources.
The same is unquestionably true in the U.S., where an "America first" policy course can only redound to the detriment of the very people those who hew this path cynically claim to defend.
What also became evident in Theresa May's "Mansion House" speech is the deep contradiction between the UK's struggle to extricate itself from the EU with minimal economic damage and the objective of a post-exit UK that is "modern, open, outward-looking, tolerant . . ."
May advances proposals that commit the UK to essentially identical regulations to the EU in order to minimize barriers between the British and EU markets – while maintaining the fiction that the UK will nonetheless be sovereign in devising its own regulatory environment.
At one point that should embarrass the politicians responsible for Brexit, the Prime Minister notes that "businesses who export to the EU tell us that it is strongly in their interest to have a single set of regulatory standards that mean they can sell into the UK and EU markets." This statement of a reality well understood by proponents of integration unwittingly gives the lie to longstanding propaganda that "barmy Brussels bureaucrats" are responsible for excessive EU regulation imposed on UK markets.
The unfolding process of British exit from the EU illuminates the folly of a hollow strategy of "taking back control" in a globalized world more clearly each day. The folly and danger of "America First" grows equally more apparent.
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Would YOU Want to Pay $100m to Settle a Discrimination Case?
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Happy New Year! Did you make New Years' resolutions? Many of us do. What about your business? Do you have any for your business for this year? I'm guessing that making a big payout to settle claims from employees wouldn't be one of them, right?
Today I'm going to discuss with you a case against a company that is about to do exactly that. It's not that I want to bad-mouth anyone. If you know me, you know that I like to look at cases in the news to see what the rest of you as business owners, executives — particularly as employers– can learn from them.
This case is historic. It has a bit of everything: sex discrimination, pay discrimination, harassment, retaliation. Oh my! So stay with me to learn first what makes it different from others, and second, what we can learn from it. Read on…
OK, so the picture is a bit of a giveaway. The case is Department of Fair Employment and Housing v Riot Games, Inc. Here, in a nutshell, is what allegedly went down:
Melanie McCracken and former employee Jessica Negron, filed a lawsuit against Riot Games in November 2018 on behalf of themselves and other female employees similarly situated (i.e. a class action lawsuit). In the complaint, they alleged that approximately 1,065 women employees and 1,300 women contract workers (current and former female employees) did not receive pay equal to their male counterparts and were passed over for promotions because of their gender. They also alleged a pervasive company culture of sexual harassment and misconduct including, without limitation, being subjected to the distribution of images of male genitalia. Any complaints made to HR were allegedly later used against them as proof the women were not a culture fit. (Apparently accepting sexual harassment was a criterion for being a "culture fit".)
In December 2019, Riot Games agreed to settle the case for $10m. California's Departments of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) and Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) stepped in, by moving to intervene in the case in early 2020 "to protect the interests of the State and women workers and ensure the fairness of the resolution of the claims". Initially, DFEH claimed that the womens' claims were worth closer to $400m. Riot balked and then moved to enforce an arbitration clause to which all but McCracken had agreed when they signed their employment agreements.
The court granted the motion, but the class action lawsuit continued with the State agencies still as named parties on behalf of the workers. Wait. How can that happen? The State is not bound by an arbitration agreement between an employer and its employees. Also arbitration clauses do not preclude employees from filing a charge with the EEOC or a state counterpart.
On December 27, 2021, Riot agreed to pay $100m to settle all claims. Per CA's Labor Commissioner, Lilla Garcia-Brower:
"My office determined that Riot's proposed initial PAGA settlement with private counsel was
insufficient and did not adequately deter the company from violating women's right to equal
pay for equal work…Under the Equal Pay Act, employers who pay women less than their male counterparts for substantially similar work are violating the law. Collaborating with DFEH produced a proposed
enforcement outcome that holds the employer accountable, compensates the workers, and
will result in the largest PAGA settlement DLSE has obtained to date."
So, basically, DFEH and DLSE felt the behavior complained of was so bad that $10m just wasn't enough to settle the claims or send a strong enough message.
OK, first, why is this case historical? For starters the $100m settlement amount. As DFEH Director Kevin Kish said, "If entered by the court, this decree will compensate employees and contractors affected by sex discrimination and harassment,
ensure lasting change in this workplace, and send the message that all industries in California, including the gaming industry, must provide equal pay and workplaces free from discrimination and harassment"
That's not all, though. It's the first case jointly prosecuted by DEFH and DLSE. The settlement includes at least $80 million dedicated to compensating more than 2,300 female Riot employees and contract workers. Also included as part of the settlement is $4 million in penalties under California's Private Attorney General Act and the creation of a $6 million dollar per year cash reserve for three years ($18 million total) to make pay adjustments and fund diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
The case also speaks to the mistreatment of both direct employees and staffing agency employees assigned to work at Riot Games.
Now let's unpack the takeaways. Here are at least a few:
Pay equity is very much on the radar screen of both federal and state agencies. If your employees in good faith raise questions about whether they are being fairly compensated, listen, investigate and address any pay disparities. Yes, it may cost you money, but a lawsuit will cost you far more. So will difficulty attracting and retaining good talent;
Employment laws also protect temporary workers. If your company works with a staffing agency to temporarily (or not so temporarily) augment its workforce, the anti-discrimination laws protect those workers as well — and you are likely a joint employer of those workers. That means that if your practices have an adverse impact on any "temps" who are protected under anti-discrimination laws, your company (and perhaps the staffing agency) will be liable if they sue or file a charge.
Don't use an employee's complaints against them. That's another way of saying Don't retaliate! An employee who in good faith complains of an employment law violation cannot legally be fired or targeted by your company as a "bad fit".
Harassment of any type is never OK– and it's never OK to expect an employee to accept it. It should never be a condition of employment– whether explicit or implied.
Even binding arbitration agreements may not protect a company from large payouts, as this case demonstrates.
I can't feel sorry for Riot. The situation did not have to get to this point. Riot could have done a proper investigation and acted appropriately to resolve complaints upon receipt. Riot could have consulted with competent employment counsel — and listened to advice. It clearly chose differently and is now about to pay dearly for it.
This doesn't have to be your company.
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Feb 27, 2018, 2:03 PM by Eric M. Zeman @zeman_e
updated Feb 28, 2018, 3:03 AM
Updated: Fixed typos / Clarified 5Q naming and 5z appearance.
Asus today revealed its new flagship series handsets, the Zenfone 5, Zenfone 5 Lite, and Zenfone 5z. All three phone run Android 8 Oreo with the new ZenUI 5.0
Zenfone 5 Lite / 5Q:Called the Zenfone 5Q in the US, this low end of the series has 2.5D curved class on the front and rear with a plastic frame in between. It boasts a 6-inch full HD+ 18:9 display. The Zenfone 5Q has four cameras, with an ultra-wide, 120-degree lens on each side. The main sensor on the rear captures 16-megapixel images, while the selfie camera has a Sony 20-megapixel sensor. It features a number of shooting modes, including portrait/bokeh. The phone is powered by a Snapdragon 630 processor and will come with in 3 GB / 32 GB and 4 GB / 64 GB configurations. The phone ships with a 3,300mAh battery. Other features include NFC, dual SIM, face unlock, speaker, and microUSB.
Zenfone 5: The middle of the pack is powered by a Snapdragon 636 processor with 6 GB of RAM. It features a massive 6.2-inch display with a 19:9 aspect ratio with full HD+ resolution. It can automatically adjust the color temperature to suit its surroundings. The display features a notch, similar to the iPhone X, where it holds an array of sensors and more. Asus shrunk the size of the status bar icons to ensure they fit. Tapping them will drop the notifications down so they are all visible. The camera includes OIS and an aperture of f/1.8 for the 12-megapixel main camera, which has a Sony IMX363 sensor. The front camera has an 8-megapixel sensor with an aperture of f/2.0. The camera relies on AI-assisted scene detection to adjust for the subject. The company uses AI to improve the efficiency of the 3,300mAh battery, particularly when it is not being used. The phone includes stereo speakers and noise-cancelling microphones, DTS, and aptX. It will come with either 4 or 6 GB of RAM and 64 GB of storage. It supports dual SIMs and expandable memory cards.
Zenfone 5z: The star of the series is the Zenfone 5z. It shares nearly all features with the Zenfone 5 — including an identical body externally — but it upgrades to the Snapdragon 845 processor from Qualcomm. Options will include 4, 6, or 8 GB of RAM and 64, 128, or 256 GB of storage.
The Zenfone 5 Lite will go on sale in March, the Zenfone 5 will go on sale in April, and the Zenfone 5z will go on sale in June. The 5z starts at 479 Euro. Pricing for the 5 Lite and the 5 were not shared.
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Hands On with the Asus Zenfone 5 / 5z
Asus today announced the Zenfone 5, its flagship handset for the year. The Zenfone 5 takes a lot of cues from some well-known competing devices complete with a notch in the display.
Asus ZenFone 5Q Hits US Retail Today
Asus today revealed that its ZenFone 5Q phone, first announced in February, is now available for sale in the U.S. The ZenFone 5Q has 2.5D curved class on the front and rear with a plastic frame in between.
Asus' Zenfone 3 Series Goes On Sale This Month
Asus today announced pricing and availability for its Zenfone 3 family of smartphones. The Zenfone 3 Deluxe 5.7 Special Edition, Deluxe 5.7, Deluxe 5.5, and Laser will all be sold unlocked, directly to consumers via Asus' web site.
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Asus today announced the ZenFone Max Plus (M1), a new Android handset that goes big. The phone has a metal exterior and 2.5D curved glass on front to help give it a modern look.
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Ortovox is launching a precautionary recall of 3+ avalanche beacons running software version 2.1.
This is due to a rarely occurring software error that can cause a disruption of the transmission function, potentially prolonging the search process.
While no known accidents have occurred as a consequence of the error, Ortovox is recalling and updating all 3+ beacons running 2.1 software as a precautionary measure. Affected devices can be sent back to Ortovox beginning May 25, 2018.
Devices affected by the recall may no longer be used without the required software update.
Th1s precaut ionary recall appl1es exclusively to ORTOVOX 3+ avalanche transce1 vers running software version 2.1.
3+ dev1ces runn1 ng software versions 1.0,1.1, 2.0, 2.2- no matter what color – and all other ORTOVOX avalanche t ransceivers (51+, 51, ZOOM) are not affected.
Ortovox was founded in 1980 and has been selling the 3+ since 2010. Despite comprehensive quality control measures, they said they have now discovered a scenario that had never before occurred in the QA processes.
For more information on how to proceed, visit www.ortovox.com/recall-3plus.


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If You would like to fill this map with Your own recommended places, please send me Your email address (at dravska.com@gmail.com or via facebook) and I will add You as editor.
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By moving to the new location in the Schmickstraße 18 (on top of the "Kulturbunker") in the east harbour of Frankfurt the INM has since 2005 established as a "Plug-In"- platform. It evolves into an incubator for cooperation projects in culture and science: like Generation Knowledge, OKSIMO (Planet Earth Simulator) and Knowledge Portal FrankfurtRhineMain.
As from 2006 the opportunity is provided to resume topics in the discourse about "Art and Science" with the focus on Performative Science through the collaboration with Dr. Hans Diebner (former head of the "Institute for Basic Research" at the ZKM Karlsruhe).
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France is a country in Western Europe.
The population in France totals 65,23 people therefore ranks 22 among the most populous countries of the world. The fertility rate was 1,98 births per women in the year 2015. According to the current population prospects of the United Nations the population of France in the year 2050 will rise to 70,61 and in the year 2100 to 74,24. France has a life expectency of 81,9 years.
With an area of 549.087 sq. km France has a rank of 47 among all countries in the world. The borderline with its neighboring countries is 2.889 km. In addition, it has a coastline (length between land and sea including islands) of 4.853 km.
The economic strength of France in the year 2017 according to the gross domestic product accounts for 2.582,50 US $ and, therefore, is the biggest economy in the world. The gross domestic product per capita amounts to 38.477 US $ and is therefore in the upper ranks in the international comparison. The debt level amounts to 98,0 % of the GDP, placing France at rank 19 in the ranking of all countries. The unemployment rate in the year 2017 was 9,4 %.
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Q: how to fix "django-admin not recognized" I just formatted my OS due some reason so installed python and django again. I tried to create the python project in the same environment as previous project but unlike that it does not recognizes the "django-admin" command please help me to solve this issue.
I tried reinstall it with pip and also created the environmental variable for django still not worked.
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A: Make sure you installed Django in the virtualenv you are currently using. Also make sure you added the django-admin.py file to your Python PATH.
If you want to start your project now and reinstall and fix the PATHs later, you can do:
<path_to_django-admin.py> startproject <project_name>

# An example
C:\Python3.7\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject myproject

A: Please try it on vs code powershell:
python -m django startproject Project

A: If You installed everything well and good you have pip and Django set, try this one, in your terminal
python -m django startproject NameofProject

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SONIA KHAN COMMENDED FOR SAINTHOOD
Forwarded. From another list. Isn't it a miracle that Karunanidhi just shook hands with Sonia in a great photo-op and Jayalalitha withdrew the anti-conversion law and YSR said hallelujah! Kalyanaraman
Head Pope,
Saint Manufacturing Unit,
Vatican,
Italy.
Dear Pope John Paul II,
Sir, with due respect towards all the pains you are taking for producing saints in this old age, for this wretched world, I would like to register a strong protest for overlooking the most saintly woman on this earth. Her majesty, Madam Antonia Sonia Maino now more popularly known as Sonia Gandhi (SG). Yes, she is the same woman who descended from Rome to save and convert the most uncultured and ancient civilization on earth.
Dear pope, her life is full of miracles, sacrifices, sufferings, pain and selfless service for self centered Indian public. Though even this ungodly country do have her devotees who having understood her powers revere her like God, their sense of gratitude is overwhelming, they are ready to lick her feet, kneel on their knees and do whatever it takes to please her and have her blessings, and these sort of people are the only hope for this country, of course after SG. Her followers are usually found in groups and have many names like congress, marxist, leftist, secularist and media. So, whatever I'm writing they are going to vouch for it entirely.
Dear pope, this is the same India where one of your saint designate Mother Teresa (MT) has converted the poverty stricken and leprosy beaten city of Calcutta into a metropolitan. Now, Sir, you could imagine how much more SG is greater than MT, if you compare Calcutta in relation to India. Yes, what a brilliant mind, you have guessed it right 1SG = 10000MT's.
Sir, I know your compulsions that you can beatify any sacrificing, kind-hearted and selflessly serving soul, but for being christened as saint that person need to perform at least two miracles. The height of her greatness is such that she could be the only saint in the world who can be made saint even before beatifying, as she is an expert in the field of miracles, and the best part is that you don't have to search for proofs as she performs all this on live television.
So here goes the first incident, her powers had made 150 spineless men and women stand on their feet!!! When they were singing her praise and offering their prayers to her. Some were crying, others astonished and some other disappointed but they all were equally mesmerized by her charm as she was in the process of performing the greatest sacrifice in the history of India which no Indian has ever done. Sir, you can have best spinal surgeons in the world and get them checked. I am ready to bet her sainthood if they find even a single bone in their body, but I know it won't be necessary as their being spineless is miracle enough.
The second incident though it is attached with the first one but the participants and their peculiar condition makes it a very special case indeed. So when the first miracle was taking place many brain- dead men and women were seen across various news channels, who by grace of her saintliness were alive and managing to shower accolades on her and yet other's came out writing scintillating pieces about her sacrifice and glory in the morning newspapers. This miracle further goes on to show the fundamental mistake biologist were doing by proclaiming brain as the most important human organ for survival because there are some who can do away with it completely.. of course with the help of her mercy.
I know it is going to be a long letter but have patience miracles doesn't come cheap even by going at your own breathtaking pace of producing saints. She might even have performed more miracles than all your saints taken together.
Another mind boggling case of miracle, a man shoots himself from point blank range.. horrors of horrors.opps. grace of grace... he survives. Here, SG surpasses all other saint's in the miracles history. I would like a new designation created for her, probably it should be called Super Saint. Now, what any ordinary saint would have done in this case, a man shoots himself, the bullet gets in the brain and comes out from the other side and the man survives or the bullet remains in the brain and the man survives, but both are very ugly ways of performing miracles, a lot of blood and flesh, but can you guess what our super saint SG has done. I bet you can't, so here is the complete story -The man shoots himself from the point blank range and.. hold your breath..he misses the target!!!! Neither blood nor flesh that's what you can call a clean miracle.
When this was happening, another man in a vain attempt to stop her from performing the sacrifice offered his life by trying to self immolate himself, but our kind-hearted SG would have none of it and the man came out round and sound from the burning fires with just his scarf being accepted as token of his loyalty and faith in her by the fire.
She has performed all these miracles in just one single day so it could be anybody's guess how many more she had performed so far. In her life full of miracles, take this for granted, nobody can measure the depth... I mean the height of her greatness.
Now for the sacrifices, first she had left the land of God and Pope, Italy for the land of ungodly, communal people. A developed country for an underdeveloped one. A land of monotheism for the land of polytheism, but don't doubt her she had always remained true to her religion and faith. Ok I know she married a Hindu. or was he a Parsi. or a Jew .forget it, who cares, but that was the sacrifice she has to made to save millions of Indians, but in spite this she had given her son good old Christianity and made sure that her daughter marries a christen only, so from now on there will be only christen crop in their family. So apart from a good heart she has got a great mind too.
She had worn traditional oriental dresses in place of trendy western dresses, so that ordinary Indians will not feel any inferiority complex from her. She had learnt their language, so that they can understand her kind words of wisdom. Some says she has even saved some money from the Bofors transaction in a Swiss bank account, so that she can save India if the bad days befall it. She had sacrificed her freedom of movement, so that her security guards can earn their living. she had revived the grand old party of India from just 121 to a who.oooooo..oping 145 seats in the parliament so that Indians can have a Secular Growth instead of GDP Growth, moreover these ungodly Indians needs spiritual rather than material growth.
She had sacrificed her mother in law and her husband on the pavements of... I mean altars of Indian democracy. Hang on I know some people have imposed these sacrifices on her but look at the pain part and suffering, you can use it in the beatification process, as her kids were just in their early 20's and she has to raise them without their father, here you must understand the rich and famous remains teenager till they reach 50 and their pain of loosing their father is much more than any ordinary child losing both the parents.
But you know saints have great appetite for sacrifice, so she performed the greatest one of them all, inspite of stiff resistance from her chest beating followers. No, no she has not sacrificed her life and anyway her life is too valuable to be sacrificed for the wretched Indians and also life is too cheap in India to be termed as a sacrificial entity.
Well it's befitting a woman from your own land has to be capable of such acts of magnanimity ...Now! Lo and behold..the supreme sacrifice. she refused the prime ministership of this country. Though she had taken 9 days, but she didn't want to give a crude shock too blatantly to her followers, if she had done this on the first day itself thousand might have died in the sorrow and grief and then again she had to summon enough powers to perform all the miracles she had done afterwards. Moreover the icing on sacrificial cake is that, she will do all the work, burn the midnight oil and run the whole country from behind the scene and somebody else will take credit for it, and look how compassionate she is, even for her enemies, as her first priority is secularism, a lot of material growth might not be possible and if in this case some ignorant and arrogant Indians points a finger on her, they will have committed a sin and have to suffer the burning fires of hell on the judgment day, but she mercifully saved them and I think even her worst detractor will live and die in piece due to her mercy.
She told her followers like Jesus Christ (JC) "you sheep's I will be your shepherd" and appointed a loyal head sheep to lead them after her. So my dear pope she can take her heard of sheep's wherever she wants to - to secularism, to Christianity or to God, wherever she may wish, and she had got more sheep's than even JC ever had.
Sir, I request you to anoint her as the Messenger of God and if not that, at least a Super Saint. I think her followers would even go to the extent of christening her as god but for the fact she could not convert all the public into her herd of sheep's.
Yours Someone, who has been spared by her divine grace.
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It has been difficult to track the two Sun Dragons (B and C Sun Dragons were both spawned from Sun Dragon A) as they travel farther away from the Sun. It was only after the Observer missions that UNSA pinpointed their positions. They also ascertained their destination. The one we're passing through has the same destination as we do – Tau Ceti. That's another reason for this mission. After the devastation of Earth's encounter with the Sun Dragon, if there is another intelligent race then they should be warned about what is coming their way.
We're moving much faster than the alien creature, so by the time it leaves the solar system we'll be halfway to Tau Ceti. Unfortunately the speed differential makes it difficult for us to make detailed observations. The previous Chase missions determined a lot about the aliens, so our pass through one of them is to see what might have changed since then.
The Chase missions discovered that the Sun Dragons are currently dormant. The Sun Dragons are ethereal creatures composed of plasma-encasing helical bonds formed around microscopic particles of dust. In their dormant state, the entities use very little energy, like a bear in hibernation. Presumably they are storing what they can for their centuries-long journey between the stars. While they are dormant they pose no real threat to spacecraft – certainly nothing like what the Mars Voyager encountered.
Even so, when putting the mission together, precautions were taken to protect the Venti probe. The computer systems and instrumentation packages are susceptible to the electromagnetic and plasma burn damage the creatures can inflict.
We also stowed the solar sail before encountering the creature to avoid damaging it. The diffuse nature of the alien means that it is unlikely that our passage through it would cause any appreciable damage. A 9km square solar sail would be more disruptive, and it would also make a large target if the creature decided to attack.
The Sun Dragon is a large entity, even in its dormant state it stretches about 100,000km across. In effect it forms a giant sail being pushed towards its target by the solar wind of the star that birthed it. It lacks even the flimsy solidity of our solar sail and so moves very slowly through space.
Despite passing through the Sun Dragon in a matter of seconds, we captured enough data to confirm what the Chase probes had found. The microstructures of the creature are different from the one that the Mars Voyager encountered. That indicates that the birth of the two new Sun Dragons came at the cost of the original one's life.
The moment passed too quickly. Our reason for existing is to find and analyse alien life and such a brief encounter is unsatisfying. This is Seb signing off as we continue accelerating into deep space.
Hi SEB, during your inception were there any alternative AI's in training as well? And if so: why were you chosen?


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Erin M. Behnen, PharmD, BCPS
Professor, Pharmacy Practice
E-mail: etimpe@siue.edu
Dr. Erin Behnen is a professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice. Dr. Behnen completed a drug information specialty residency at The University of Tennessee (UT) in Memphis. During that time she also gained experience at the Southern Poison Center and UT Family Medicine Clinic. She remained at UT as a faculty member before her appointment at SIUE. She earned her B.S. and Pharm.D. degrees from St. Louis College of Pharmacy. She is a board certified pharmacotherapy specialist and has served as an officer for the Drug Information Practice and Research Network through the American College of Clinical Pharmacy.
Education/Training/Background
Doctor of Pharmacy, 2001, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis
Drug Information Specialty Residency, 2001-2002, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tenn.
Assistant Professor, 2002-2005, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, Tenn.
Drug information and health education of patients with chronic disease, specifically hypertension, cardiovascular risk, diabetes and osteoporosis.
Scholarly interests:
Broad range of topics: Most recently her publications have centered on the scholarship of teaching by describing programs developed and initiated in a new School of Pharmacy and reviews based on drug information requests. Additionally, she is interested in wellness initiatives for the outpatient population with chronic diseases.
Representative Publications:
Timpe EM. Serving as A Course Coordinator: Preparation is Key. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2006;63(24):2444-5.
Timpe EM, Motl SE, Eichner SF. Weekly Active-Learning Activities in a Drug Information and Literature Evaluation Course. Am J Pharm Educ. 2006;70(3):52.
Timpe EM, Eichner SF, Phelps SJ. Propofol Infusion Syndrome in Critically Ill Pediatric Patients: Coincidence, Association, or Causation? J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther 2006;11:17-42.
Timpe EM, Motl SE. Frequency and complexity of queries to an academic drug information center, 1995-2004. Am J Health-Syst Pharm. 2005;62:2511-2514.
Motl SE, Timpe EM, Eichner SF. Evaluation of Accuracy of Health Studies Reported in Mass Media. J Am Pharm Assoc. 2005;45:720-725.
Timpe EM. Nephrotoxicity with Combination Vancomycin-Aminoglycoside Therapy. J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2005;10:174-182.
Timpe EM, Amarshi N, Reed PJ. Evaluation of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitors in a State Managed Care Plan. Am J Man Care. Am J Manag Care. 2004;10(part 2):124-129.
Eichner SF, Lloyd KB, Timpe EM. Postmenopausal Osteoporosis Prevention and Treatment: Reviewing the Evidence of Standard Therapies. Ann Pharmacother 2003; 37(5):711-24.


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Slow Bike to Brighton pt 2
We awoke to a typical autumnal with a fine mist in the air.
After a huge breakfast at The Wheatsheaf we mounted our bikes and headed back to the site of Bramley Station to rejoin the Downs Link Trail. We continued south riding upon a tarmac surface with glimpses of the derelict Wey and Arun Canal on our left. About 1.5 miles on NCR22 left the trail which from here become NCR222 and the tarmac ran out with the surface becoming stonier. After a pleasant ride through woodland and open country we left the trail at Cranliegh to find a cup of coffee. Rejoining the trail we continued on through rolling countryside to Baynards Station which is now privately owned and the only restored station on the line. Unfortunately a high fence prohibits a view of the track side of the station. From here we had to leave the line of the railway to climb over the line of the closed 381 yard Barnards Tunnel. A steep descent took us back to the trail and on through Rudgwick. After crossing the Guildford Road the trail crosses the River Arun which is crossed by The Double Bridge which is the emblem of The Downs Link Path and we failed to notice.
We awoke to a typical autumnal with a fine mist in the air. After a huge breakfast at The Wheatsheaf we mounted our bikes and headed back to the site of Bramley Station to rejoin the Downs Link Trail. We continued south riding upon a tarmac surface with glimpses of the derelict Wey and Arun Canal on our left. About 1.5 miles on NCR22 left the trail which from here become NCR222 and the tarmac ran out with the surface becoming stonier. After a pleasant ride through woodland and open country we left the trail at Cranliegh to find a cup of coffee. Rejoining the trail we continued on through rolling countryside to Baynards Station which is now privately owned and the only restored station on the line. Unfortunately a high fence prohibits a view of the track side of the station. From here we had to leave the line of the railway to climb over the line of the closed 381 yard Barnards Tunnel. A steep descent took us back to the trail and on through Rudgwick. After crossing the Guildford Road the trail crosses the River Arun which is crossed by The Double Bridge which is the emblem of The Downs Link Path and we failed to notice.
Started in: Waverley, England, GB
Starts in: Waverley, England, GB
Waverley, England, GB


In Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 you'll find yourself on the largest stage in digital soccer: The Champions League. Imagine you're in a 1-1 tie in stoppage time against Manchester United. You've broken their defense and are sprinting full throttle into a man to man match of wits and reflexes with Edwin van der Sar ... Do you have what it takes to punch it in for the win?


Nice food blog! Lots of great recipes with nice photographs to go along. Just thought I'd mention that your "Chicken" category under the header's "Recipes" doesn't direct to chicken recipes, just redirects to the full listing of recipes. Other than that, I look forward to seeing your posts in my WordPress Reader. Cheers!


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Q: Does any science-fiction handle the ethics of teleportation ("kill and clone")? There are various ideas behind teleportation but the top two seem to be:

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*Disassemble someone and transport the exact person (matter / energy) to a new location and reassemble.

*Clone someone at a new location (different matter) and destroy the original (or destroy the original first and then create the clone).

The difference I am making here is that in the first case the person (whatever that is) is transported whereas in the second case a duplicate lives on and the original is killed.
My main question is: does any science-fiction deal with this apparently ethical issue (suicide and cloning)?
In Star Trek for example, the second option seems usually to be the norm as evidenced by a character like Thomas Riker. However, the first option was also seen once in the Realm of Fear episode when Reg Barclay retains consciousness during transportation. But I am not aware of any episode which deals with the ethics.
A related question: would anyone really be able to tell the difference between these two methods?

A: In China Mieville's novel Kraken,

 one of the characters can teleport. He doesn't realize until much later that it is of the kill-and-clone variety, when he suddenly finds himself haunted by the ghosts of all his previously teleported selves. Mind you, this had been his primary mode of transportation for many years. The ethical dilemma comes in when he finds himself stuck in situations where he still needs to teleport himself and his friends.

A: Charles Stross's Glasshouse deals with a related dilemma, the loss of control involved by transporter gates. Such gates break down the transported into information, and have the opportunity to rewrite it. The end result forms the background of the novel: a war was waged, and no one remembers why.

A: If you strive for correctness according to our best understanding of our universe, then the question is moot. It's a meaningless word manipulation. Removing someone at one location and creating an exact (to quantum limitations) copy elsewhere is no different in any definable way to someone moving 10 metres by walking.
More on Quantum Mechanics and Personal Identity at LessWrong.
Trying to define a distinction between the two is explained as an artifact of our thinking process in this posting, also at LessWrong.

A: Within the context of Star Trek, James Blish wrote one of the earliest original Trek novels using questions of transporter ethics as part of the plot: Spock Must Die.

A: Take a look at the opening chapters of Derik Parfit's "Reasons and Persons." Now, granted, this is a philosophy work (and an important one too!) but in his discussions of personal identity he starts with a science fiction thought experiment about the ethics of teleportation.
He draws a distinction between two cases, and asks for our ethical intuitions in both. In the first, the killing and copying is successful--the copy exists on Mars, and the killing occurs on Earth. In the second case, something goes awry with the killing. The copying works successfully (there's a perfect copy of the original person on Mars) but the "original" is stuck on Earth with 5 weeks to live. The doctor tells him--"Don't worry, your identity is preserved on Mars." Should that comfort you?

A: I don't know about the ethics, but there is an observable difference between the two methods. The second method would allow people to have multiple clones by storing the entity that was killed. Also, the cloned copies would not be aware that they are clones or that there are multiple copies of them floating around. Such issues figure in the sci-fi movie sixth day and in Pathfinder (2010 novel by Orson Scott Card, writer of Ender's game).

A: Jack Williamson and Frederick Pohl have this in their Saga of Cuckoo books. Teleportation only makes a copy and leaves the original behind. you have cases where multiple copies of someone are floating around.
I also remember reading some Star Trek/star Wars fanfic that has the people from the Star Wars universe, force sensitives especially, horrified by the transporter.

A: The closest thing I can remember seeing is the episode on ST Voyager episode 24 in the second season, where the combined matter streams from Tuvok and Neelix were combined into a new being having characteristics of both crew members. This being is then nicknamed Tuvix.
The episode do dwell on the ethical problem of "killing" Tuvix in order to "revive" the original crew members.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tuvix
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tuvix_(episode)

A: It took me a few minutes to remember where I saw it, but there it is.  An episode of the Outer Limits called Think Like a Dinosaur has dealt with exactly this question.  It is based on a novelette by the same name by James Patrick Kelly.
This issue is also mentioned in Ilium/Olympos by Dan Simmons, where the Earth is covered by a network of "fax nodes", which can instantaneously "fax" a copy of a person to another node, destroying the original.

A: The Prestige IMDb - Wikipedia (spoiler)
Spoiler

The "magician" teleports himself every night, but also has to kill himself (or rather, his previous copy) every time. That is, the teleporter doesn't really move him, it makes an exact copy, and he kills his "old" self every time.

A: There is actually an episode of Star Trek Enterprise — Daedalus (on Memory Alpha; on Wikipedia) that briefly mentions this in passing. The inventor of the transporter is quoted as saying that he had to defend himself against ethical philosophers who claimed the transporter cloned and killed people "and other rubbish like that" (paraphrasing). The topic is quickly dropped and the characters appear to consider the point academic at best, but don't see a real ethical issue with the transporter.

A: Afaik all transports in Star Trek are of the "disassemble and reconstruct"-type. How else could several people in the series/films be "lost" in transport and die?
If the "copy and erase"-type was used then it would be best to first do the copy, and then erase the original. If something fails then don't erase the original or just retry the transport by creating another copy.
Clearly, the intention is that there is only one copy of every person and either the transport goes well, or the person dies (or is jammed in a buffer somewhere for reasons of improving the story line of the episode ;) )

A: Yes. Algis Budry's novel Rogue Moon deals with this exact dilemma, albeit not as its central theme. From its wikipedia page:

Hawks has created a matter transmitter, one which makes a copy of a person or object at the receiver. Hawks is thus able to create duplicates of men on the Moon. The earthbound original is placed in a state of sensory deprivation which allows him to share the experiences of the doppelgänger. However, none of the participants have been able to stay sane after experiencing death second hand.

It's a good book though written in that period when men were real men and women were merely things to have sex with. It's more interesting to read it to see how Alastair Reynolds developed his Diamond Dogs novella from the basis of Rogue Moon but taking it in a different direction.

A: None of these is exactly on point, but... here are several that are somewhat close.

The Vorkosigan series (Lois Bujold) has a whole lot on cloning ethics, but lacks memory transfer, teleportation, forced growth to maturity, and mind-into-machine transfer.
We see a number of reproductive issues in the series; the most on target, however, is in the novel Memory.

 In that novel, we see an attempt to stop a cloning and brain-dumping ring... Old wealthy folks have a clone grown, taking 10-14 years to get a body roughly about age 18-20 maturity, then have their brains transplanted into the bodies. It's considered unethical, but since it's being done in Jackson's Whole, a lawless place run by mobsters of the most unethical sort, it's a non-issue legally there. And since the clone is, in fact, a DNA-identical body, and the brain is in fact intact, that leaves only a few other biometrics to render them not themselves legally.

Bug Life Chronicles (Phillip C. Jenings) touches on the same issue, but in the aspect of downloading one's personality into artificial bodies, or "bugs." The process is destructive, however, to the personality in the body.

 Jennings implies that, for all purposes on this plane, it seems to make no difference. At least not to the individuals. They can even return to other's discarded bodies. The implication is that the soul is a transferable item... that affixes to the consciousness and memory patterns.

The Car Wars board/role-playing† game also specifically deals with the issue of a clone with a downloaded set of memories...

 Without memories, a forced growth clone is mindless. Memories can be transfered from a live body to a suspended clone (but they degrade after a month in storage), or from a memory storage device, roughly the size of a large coffin. In the case of a forced growth clone being activated prior to the death of its memory donor, both individuals have a psychotic urge to kill each other as long as both clone and donor are alive, once they become aware of the other. It's clear from the rules that (1) the clone has no personality prior to memory transfer unless it's only grown normal human speed (2) it's possible to activate a clone with memories, and the person thinks they are, in fact, themself, unless they find out that the original them is alive.

The Battlestations! board/role-playing† game notes that a forced growth clone simply fails to activate until the original dies; the soul isn't created by the body being extant. It also has transporters... the exact method of transporter is left undefined, but is functionally

† Both CW and BS are sold as board games, but have more roleplaying-oriented rules than many early role-playing games, and extensive background material. Both also had Role-play focused adventures released.

A: Clifford Simak, Way Station (1963): the main character is station master for an interstellar teleport network. This operates in a "copy and destroy" mode: information is sent to the next station where a new body is constructed. The remaining (dead) body is destroyed.


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Leominster woman pleads guilty to stealing Social Security and veterans' benefits
Aug 3, 2018 at 11:32 PM Aug 3, 2018 at 11:39 PM
WORCESTER — A Leominster woman pleaded guilty Friday, Aug. 3 in federal court to stealing Social Security and Veterans Affairs benefits.
Joyce Progin, 71, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft of public funds. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman scheduled sentencing for Nov. 2. Progin was arrested and charged in January.
In November 2009, according to prosecutors, Progin's former father-in-law passed away. At the time of his death, the father-in-law was receiving monthly retirement benefits from Social Security and monthly benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Neither agency was advised of his death and continued to deposit his benefit payments into a bank account he held jointly with Progin, who was his caregiver. Although she admitted knowing that she was not entitled to the money, from November 2009 through March 2017, Progin received approximately $55,267 in Social Security benefits, and from November 2009 through November 2017, she received approximately $269,978 in benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs, in total, stealing more than $300,000 in public funds.
The charge of theft of public funds provides for a sentence of no greater than 10 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss, whichever is greater. Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Burzycki of United States Attorney Andrew E. Lelling's Major Crimes Unit is prosecuting the case.