You aren't going to like this post.
You may, in fact, be tempted to say I'm a Penn State apologist, or that I'm not being appropriately sensitive towards the victims of Jerry Sandusky's stunning and repulsive crimes.
Before you do — don't. I'm going to do nothing that suggests that Sandusky or the men responsible for covering up their crimes aren't guilty. Jerry Sandusky is going to die in prison; that's the fate he deserves and I would never suggest otherwise.
What I will suggest is this: A lot of other people are getting punished — athletes at Penn State, kids who need athletic scholarships to get a college education, business owners in State College — and they had nothing to do with Jerry Sandusky.
Who isn't being punished, at least not yet? Graham Spanier. Gary Schultz. Tim Curley. Who aren't we asking enough questions about? The university's board of trustees. Gov. Tom Corbett.
I suspect this is going to be something of a mess by the time I'm done. I hope you'll stick with me for a few minutes.
Current football players. Current football coaches. Students. Alumni. Business owners.
All people who had absolutely nothing to do with the Jerry Sandusky scandal. And all people who are going to suffer because of the NCAA's rash decision to club Penn State into submission.
In issuing its penalty to Penn State, the NCAA ignored its own policies dealing with major violations — NCAA President Mark Emmert cited the "Lack of Institutional Control" as one of a couple reasons for pursuing Penn State — and came up with a "solution" that is almost entirely collateral damage.
Generally — and I know this from recent experience — the NCAA takes time to conduct an investigation, once it is informed about a potential violation. Charges are presented to the school, which has an opportunity to respond. There is a hearing. And then the committee on infractions — again, a body I have become familiar with — issues its ruling, along with penalties.
There is also an opportunity to appeal, although I don't know of any that have ever been successful.
That's the NCAA's version of due process. I don't know of fans of any school who have been particularly happy once the committee issues its final opinion, but there it is; you school was charged, and you went through the months-long quasi-judicial process.
We didn't get that in this case, though; we got a rushed penalty, a severe one — and that one was an alternative to a multi-year death penalty. It damages nearly everyone connected with Penn State — except for the people responsible for the crimes and the cover up.
There is always collateral damage when the NCAA issues a ruling — you can ask Ohio State's seniors how they feel about not playing a postseason game this year — but this touches too many people.
It's impressive to see the number of players who are sticking with Penn State, in part because I couldn't blame them for leaving. And with the loss of scholarships, the football is going to get steadily worse — and that's where the potential for real damage awaits.
Wait, say, for three years. Penn State could not only be struggling with Indiana, but beating the MAC schools it has on its schedule might be tough. A natural reaction? Ticket sales drop off. People stop coming to games. And they stop getting hotel rooms, eating at restaurants, visiting beer distributorships, buying sweatshirts and hot dogs and Cokes. Are students alone enough to keep those businesses afloat? Business owners in town have already spoken up — and the answer is no.
And then when football revenue drops, what happens to the sports that rely on the $60 million the program brings in annually? That's easy. They disappear. Scholarships? Gone. There's no way to know how many of those kids needed that ride to get a college education — and thanks to the NCAA, we won't find out.
What did those kids have to do with Jerry Sandusky? Should the business owners in town be held responsible? What justice is done by punishing those people?
One — Jerry Sandusky — is in jail. Two — Gary Schultz and Tim Curley — face criminal charges. Another — Graham Spanier — hasn't yet been charged, and if we're accepting the Freeh report as gospel, those charges had better come soon.
What did the NCAA ruling do to them? Nothing. What could the NCAA have done? Lifetime bans from member schools. Show-cause orders. But while Emmert said he was willing to accept the Freeh report as providing plenty of evidence to punish Penn State — and, by extension, pretty much all of Centre County — he wasn't willing to do the same for the individuals involved.
And that makes absolutely no sense to me. On one hand, the NCAA has enough information to issue what is arguably the steepest penalties it's ever doled out to a member university, and it was certain enough to do so without bothering with pesky details like its own investigation or hearings; on the other, it refused to do anything to punish the people who were responsible. To be plain — that's wrong.
And I haven't heard much discussion about holding members of the university's board of trustees accountable for the actions of their school's administrators, either. I will grant that it's perhaps tough to act when you're not getting the information you need, but shouldn't the board's leadership have asked more questions? Isn't that why they hold the positions they hold? If we want justice in this case, if we want to know how the cover up happened and who should be held responsible, we should be asking questions about the board.
And if you're convinced that you need a pound of flesh from the university itself, you're going to get it. Penn State will likely take out a loan to cover the $60 million fine levied by the NCAA; the university will be paying on that for a long time. I'd be stunned if each of Sandusky's victims doesn't seek a civil penalty against the university; again, those will be significant financial investments. And finally, when the U.S. Department of Education completes its investigation of potential violations of the Cleary Act — a federal law requiring universities to report crimes on campus, something that apparently wasn't done at Penn State in the case of the Sandusky incidents and others — there could be other sanctions, like fines — up to $27,000 per violation — and lost federal aid for the school.
That's $60 million up front. The potential for millions more. I wouldn't call that getting off lightly.
Current Penn State governor Tom Corbett served as the state's attorney general from 1995 through 1997 and again from 2004 until 2011, when he took his current office. He also served as the United States attorney for the district that includes Pittsburgh from 1989 until 1993. He was always a no-nonsense prosecutor, and he built his career on chasing predators of children, even establishing a special unit to investigate those crimes as attorney general.
He became one of the university's most vocal critics after the Sandusky grand jury issued its findings of fact in November. He urged the board of trustees — the governor automatically has a seat on the board, but until November Corbett had not attended a meeting — to fire Joe Paterno and Graham Spanier back then, and he's continued with tough talk about Penn State since, especially about how officials there dragged their feet when they should have taken action.
And that's an interesting point.
The Sandusky grand jury was convened in 2008, after a parent of one of Sandusky's victims came forward; that kicked off an investigation that continued until last fall, when the grand jury issued its presentment.
Could there have been charges filed at that point, in time to get Sandusky off the streets and away from other victims? For whatever reason, Corbett's office — and presumably Corbett — didn't pursue that route. Could he have filed charges when another parent came forward in 2009, when the parent of another victim approached the attorney general's office? For whatever reason, the answer was no — and the assaults continued.
The interesting thing here is the interest that Corbett took in the case in 2011, after he had been sworn in as governor, versus the years before, when he was running — and in need of money from donors. Many of his best donors — to the tune of $641,000 — had connections with the Second Mile, the charity to help at-risk youth founded by Sandusky, either as board members of the organization or as people who had donated money to the non-profit. Was Corbett putting off the prosecution of Sandusky so he could rely on the financial support of his political friends who supported Second Mile and, presumably, Sandusky?
The governor has so far refused to answer any questions about his relationship with Second Mile donors and board members and the role that played in his decision to hand the Sandusky investigation over to a grand jury. In fact, he's been condescending and dismissive with anyone who has asked. Those questions will continue and if the governor wants to be re-elected, he's going to have to answer them at some point.
And I can't wait to hear what he says.
For me, this is the hard part.
I admired Joe Paterno. For years that was based on football alone. He ran a clean program and he graduated players, and he did both of those things while taking what could have been a relic of days long past — the heyday of eastern college football — and not only kept his school relevant but won championships along the way. And when I visited State College in January, to cover how the school and the town mourned Paterno in the days after he died, I was told by students and townies over and over what he meant to that community. Nearly everyone I spoke with talked about the person before they spoke about the football coach.
My Penn State friends point out that the Freeh report contains no direct evidence connecting Paterno to the Sandusky cover up. No emails or letters with his name. Only mentions that would qualify as hearsay in court.
They want to believe in the guy. As a kid who idolized Woody Hayes, I understand that.
But I always get stuck here: He knew. Football coaches know. Football coaches don't lose their top assistants to sudden, unexpected retirements without asking questions. Football coaches hold on to their positions for decades because they're in control of their programs, and they know the details of what's going on in their building, in their offices, on the practice field and in the locker room.
I want to be wrong about this, but I don't think I am. He knew.
And outside of the crimes themselves, that's the most disappointing thing about this entire affair to me.
As I mentioned previously, there are just a few people talking about what Corbett did — or didn't do — in relation to the Sandusky case, and that's something that needs to be corrected. Something that no one is talking about is the fact that Penn State is almost completely exempt from Pennsylvania's open records laws; there is a decent chance that if that was not the case in 1998, the Sandusky case would have had just one victim — and there would have been little opportunity for a cover up.
Pennsylvania's public universities are part of a two-tiered system. Most of the schools — the smaller ones, like Slippery Rock or IUP — are state-owned and governed. Penn State — along with Pitt, Lincoln University and Temple — are state-related universities; they receive state tax money, their employees are receiving state-issued paychecks and state-managed pensions when they retire. This distinction means those four universities are essentially a public/private hybrid; it also means they claim, with the apparent support of the people in Harrisburg who run the commonwealth, they are not subject to the state's open records laws.
Reporters were able to request copies of Jim Tressel's emails — albeit redacted versions — once Ohio State's scandal broke last year. It's hard to say for sure whether a journalist would have followed up on rumblings about Sandusky when he abruptly retired in 1998, but I bet someone would have. And if that reporter filed a records request and received the correspondence included in the Freeh report — the ones discussing how Sandusky's "retirement" should be handled — I think there's a pretty good chance that Sandusky would have been in prison for more than a decade by now.
But as it stood — and as it still stands — any reporters who would have filed that request in 1998 would have received a simple answer from Penn State: "No." And there's nothing they could have done about it.
Want to ensure there's a meaningful change at Penn State? Want to make sure something like this will never happen again? Make sure the state's flagship university is subject to the same records laws as its state-owned universities, school boards, and municipal governments.
Emmert said over and over that the NCAA's Penn State sanctions don't set a precedent. And yet there they are — no investigation, not even a weak attempt at following its own procedures for addressing major violations and arriving at the single harshest penalty it's ever doled out.
That, boys and girls, is a precedent. A scary one.
Another word that Emmert used over and over: "culture." He was referring to the football culture at Penn State, the one that the Freeh report concluded led Paterno, Curley, Schultz and Spanier to cover up Sandusky's crimes.
Think about college football culture. Big school. Big stadium. Athletics department handling millions of dollars a weekend, money it relies on to fund other sports, other athletes. A reputation that attracts students, student-athletes and donations.
A reputation that's enhanced by winning.
Freeh concluded that the culture at Penn State led to the cover up. And the NCAA implied that the culture at Penn State is somehow different than at other member institutions.
Think. Is it? Did I just describe the culture in State College a couple paragraphs ago? Or was I thinking about the one in Tuscaloosa? Or Ann Arbor? Baton Rouge? Austin? South Bend?
Or the one in Columbus?
I'll grant that a cover up was (and still is) easier at Penn State than it would be in Columbus, because of the records laws I've already discussed. But if you think the basic culture at name-your-favorite-college-football-school is somehow different than the one that just got hammered by Penn State, you're kidding yourself.
Consider this. Penn State fans are being portrayed as naive and blind at the moment, because of their continued devotion to their football program and their late head coach. But when presented with the information that Jim Tressel knew of violations by his players — and knew that those violations would at least mean lengthy suspensions for his starting quarterback and several other players — and broke a simple-but-serious NCAA rule, most Ohio State fans thought — and still think — he was treated unfairly.
Anyone want to explain to me about the differences between the cultures of State College and Columbus now?
From the moment that we learned that Tressel knew of the violations committed by his players, Ohio State did everything it could to paint its head coach as the one guy responsible for the cover up. It did so to prevent a Lack of Institutional Control charge that would have certainly been levied if someone else — other coaches, the athletics director, etc. — knew what Tressel had done.
Ohio State was successful. If it wasn't — and the tattoo scandal happened now — does the NCAA have grounds to do something similar? No investigation? No due process? Drop a bomb and go home?
Maybe I'm a little different from most of my fellow Buckeyes in that I haven't forgiven Jim Tressel for his cover up and the damage it did to Ohio State.
But I am complicit here as well.
As I made clear several times last year, I am tired of writing about scandals. I am tired of thinking about the NCAA. It became so exhausting last year that I pretty much stopped posting here, because outside of the Wisconsin game, there wasn't much to write about that didn't feel tainted.
Since then, Ohio State has hired a new coach. OSU is no longer waiting for the NCAA's final ruling. There are hardships the program will have to deal with, this year and for several years to come, and we're going to be reminded of those at every turn this fall.
Here's where I'm guilty. I want the same thing that my Penn State friends want. To get up early on a Saturday morning, pack up the truck and spend the day in a parking lot and the stadium.
To finally get back to normal.
The Season of The Unpleasantness is done.
As I said at the beginning of the week, I'm not going to get myself to wound up over what will or won't happen on the field for Ohio State. We play who we play, and we end up with the record we deserve. It may not be especially happy, but learning now will make for much better football later.
I've having a hard time maintaining a similarly rosy outlook over the continued presence of The Unpleasantness, however. It poked its head around the corner earlier this week, when we hear that Posey, Herron and a couple others were being suspended for getting paid for no-w0rk jobs over the summer. The Unpleasantness did more than tiptoe around in the background today, though — it stomped on Posey, who got himself another five games off the field because of his "employment" this summer.
And I don't care what the experts say — this looks like "failure to monitor" or, worse, "lack of institutional control" to me. And given that the NCAA has yet to rule on Ohio State's previous problems with memorabilia and tattoos and the rest of that fun stuff, I can't help but think that this is bad. Very, very bad.
Think about it. Just a couple months after the starting quarterback, starting left tackle, starting tailback and staring wide receiver were suspended because of Tatgate, two of those players — and two others — apparently thought it was OK to take some cash from a shady booster over the summer.
THEY HAD ALREADY BEEN SUSPENDED. THEY THOUGHT IT WOULD BE OK TO TAKE A NO-WORK JOB ANYWAY.
And then add to that the other three players who took money from the same shady booster to attend a charity outing. They were suspended as well.
I've never been so hot with math, but: five players suspended because of Tatgate. Three because of the charity thing. Another four — including two WHO WERE ALREADY ON SUSPENSION — for their summer "jobs." Twelve suspensions for ten players.
We've been told by AD Gene Smith and university President Gordon Gee this week that Ohio State doesn't have compliance problems. Gee even said OSU is the poster child for NCAA compliance.
Ohio State is the poster child for something, yes, but I don't think the rest of the country shares Gee's view. I know I don't.
After some consideration, I was willing to give the Tat Five the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they were unaware of the rules. Perhaps economic circumstances made the sales of Gold Pants, jerseys, helmets and trophies necessary. I get it, and because we're talking about 19 and 20 year-old-guys, I'm willing to write off one of these things as a mistake, albeit a costly one.
But given the attention — the scrutiny — that the university was under from the conclusion of the Sugar Bowl on, I'm not sure that we can gloss over another seven suspensions. I'm certain we can't do so in the cases of Herron and Posey, who definitely should have known better than to put themselves in this position a second time. And — AND — given that the head coach was fired and the quarterback left school — I don't think it's a stretch that the university itself should be expected to make an extra to ensure the program stays clean, at least until after the NCAA makes a decision.
Did it? Is OSU the poster child for NCAA compliance? I know the university has self-reported more violations than any other DI school in the last decade. At this point, I'd be willing to bet we have more suspended players on the roster than any other DI program at the moment as well.
And if this is a concern to me, I'd have to think the members of the NCAA's Committee on Infractions might also have noticed.
Here's what we do. Herron and Posey should be dismissed from the program. They were on suspension and took shady money from a shady businessman anyway. Once is a mistake. Twice is a problem, one that effects not only them, but the program as a whole.
The administration's claim that Jim Tressel was solely responsible for the initial issues is … possible. More importantly, the NCAA seemed to accept that explanation. Will the members of its infractions committee continue to believe that athletics department administrators — and I'm thinking specifically of Smith here — still had no knowledge of problems now that there have been another seven suspensions since Tressel left Ohio State? At a minimum, Gene Smith needs to go as well.
I was happy a few weeks back, when the NCAA said that it appeared — at that point — that failure to monitor or lack of institutional control penalties weren't necessary at Ohio State, because the university had managed to place the blame for its problems exclusively on Tressel.
Look at everything that's happened since Tressel was fired. Think the NCAA might be having second thoughts?
2003: Kellen Winslow Jr. and Nevin Shapiro during happier days.
The team started preseason practice today. Sure, there's plenty more of The Unpleasantness to come, but we're at the point of the year when we can finally — FINALLY — start talking about football.
I would say I started getting excited about football today, but that wouldn't be true.
I've been ready for football for a few weeks now.
But before we get to the games, we have to do a proper pregame, right?


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US Army: Microsoft's 22 Billion AR Glasses Are a Real Mess
The US military values its reputation as the best-equipped military in the world. But sometimes this penchant for cutting-edge technology can also bring some unpleasant surprises; the US Army is experimenting with it right now with Microsoft's smart glasses, much to the chagrin of US taxpayers.
In 2021, the US government signed a massive $22 billion contract with Microsoft. The goal: to equip their soldiers with state-of-the-art "smart" glasses. In practice, these devices look a bit like HoloLens-like augmented reality goggles. On the other hand, these IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System), are much more sophisticated.
They should allow warfighters to access a whole panoply of advanced systems thanks to a single device. On the menu: high-definition night vision, thermal camera, real-time indications of the enemy's position… We immediately understand why he won over the General Staff.
unconvinced soldiers
But since then, this team has faced reality on the ground. And the least we can say is that it is still a long, long way from delivering on all of its promises. It is even the opposite; Until now, these glasses have given instructors more headaches than relevant information. According to the Business Insidernot only were the deliveries late and leaky, but the devices weren't even working properly.
They would have failed four of the six basic tests the army imposes on this equipment before even considering using it in real conditions. The source did not explain all of them; but says IVAS were found to be too heavy and cumbersome, to the point of affecting soldiers' mobility. Also, they drastically reduce the field of vision, anything but ideal in the middle of a battlefield.
And the icing on the cake is that the craftsmanship produces a characteristic shine… which can be visible from several hundred meters away — the perfect recipe for taking a bullet to the head. " This device would have killed us. "One of the testers quoted by Business Insider explains very soberly. Elements that look bad when we talk about an eleven-figure contract…
Towards a great industrial fiasco?
However, US military personnel continue to have confidence in Microsoft. An official spokesperson for the institution said that the program met "most" of the evaluation criteria, contradicting the evaluator interviewed by Business Insider. However, the same spokesperson admitted that the tests identified several points where IVAS did not meet expectations.
Microsoft, on the other hand, seems more lucid about the current state of its product. In an email retrieved by the same source in the spring, an employee explained in black and white that the Redmond firm expected " negative feedback "I would definitely go" remain negative as improvements have been minimal ".
So it will be interesting to see if these IVAS will finally be functional in the near future. In any case, Microsoft will have to pass the second; the army is now waiting 120,000 copies which must be delivered within 10 years. If she fails, it could be the first step in a vaster industrial disaster It's not the kind of publicity Satya Nadella needs, knowing that she has already drawn the ire of certain employees by agreeing to work with the military.
#Army #Microsofts #Billion #Glasses #Real #Mess

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Co-phasing primary mirror segments of an optical space telescope using a long stroke Zernike WFS
Author(s): Kate Jackson; J. Kent Wallace; Sergio Pellegrino
Static Zernike phase-contrast plates have been used extensively in microscopy for half a century and, more recently, in optical telescopes for wavefront sensing. A dynamic Zernike wavefront sensor (WFS) with four phase shifts, for reducing error due to spurious light and eliminating other asynchronous noise, has been proposed for use in adaptive optics. Here, we propose adapting this method for co-phasing the primary mirror of a segmented space telescope. In order to extend the dynamic range of the WFS, which has a maximum range of +/ − λ/2, a phase- contrast plate with multiple steps, both positive and negative, has been developed such that errors as large as +/ − 10λ can be sensed. The manufacturing tolerances have been incorporated into simulations, which demonstrate that performance impacts are minimal. We show that the addition of this small optical plate along with a high precision linear translation stage at the prime focus of a telescope and pupil viewing capability can provide extremely accurate segment phasing with a simple white-light fringe fitting algorithm and a closed-loop controller. The original focal-plane geometry of a centro-symmetric phase shifting element is replaced with a much less constrained shape, such as a slot. Also, a dedicated pupil imager is not strictly required; an existing pupil sampler such as a Shack-Hartmann (SH) WFS can be used just as effectively, allowing simultaneous detection of wavefront errors using both intensity and spot positions on the SH-WFS. This could lead to an efficient synergy between Zernike and SH-WFS, enabling segment phasing in conjunction with high-dynamic range sensing.
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 9904, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave, 99046D (29 July 2016); doi: 10.1117/12.2231736
Kate Jackson, California Institute of Technology (United States)
J. Kent Wallace, Jet Propulsion Lab. (United States)
Sergio Pellegrino, California Institute of Technology (United States)
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave
Howard A. MacEwen; Giovanni G. Fazio; Makenzie Lystrup; Natalie Batalha; Nicholas Siegler; Edward C. Tong, Editor(s)


As demonstrated few days ago via JScript ES3 Implementation, there is much more to know about every single engine implementation or interpretation and sometimes the only way to understand what is true and respected and what is not, is still features detection and/or tons of conformance tests.
I can't wait to read the next ES5 collection!
Thanks for the content, but perhaps the publishers should get a native English speaker to take a quick look at articles before publishing them?
I agree about the English. I think we reserve capitalised "He" for God… But this does look useful, so thanks!
I've read through these when they were announced by Dmitry on Twitter. They are absolutely fantastic; a must read! Thanks Dmitry.


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UPDATED: Woman killed after stabbing in Bagley
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A woman was killed in a stabbing in Bagley Monday night.
According to the Clearwater County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a medical emergency around 8:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 7, with another caller indicating there had been a dispute on the 14000 block of 336th St. in Bagley.
Bagley Police officers and Clearwater Sheriff's deputies responded and made contact with the suspect, who was uncooperative and fled on foot.
Officers were checking a neighboring residence when they heard a female inside the house yelling and observed a struggle between the woman and the suspect.
Law enforcement attempted to subdue the subject with a taser. The subject brandished a knife and stabbed the victim before running from the residence and into the woods.
Officers provided first aid to the victim, who was then transported to the Sanford Bagley Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
She was identified as 53-year-old Dawn Louise Swenson of rural Bagley.
The suspect was taken into custody after a several hour search. He was identified as 27-year-old Christopher Colgrove of rural Bagley, and he will be arraigned Wednesday, Sept. 9, in Clearwater County Court.
The Minnesota BCA, the Minnesota State Patrol, the Polk County Sheriff's Office, White Earth Tribal Police Department, FBI Headwaters Safe Trails Task Force assisted the Clearwater County Sheriff's Office and Bagley Police Department.
About Larissa Donovan
Larissa Donovan is the News Director for the stations of Paul Bunyan Broadcasting and has been, almost without interruption, since Election Day 2016. She covers events and issues in north central Minnesota, which include local government, crime, courts, education, environment and social issues. She studied communications at Bemidji State University and received her degree in 2018. Larissa, native to the great state of New York, grew up in Bemidji, and enjoys spending her spare time with her family and pet cat. She also loves Star Trek, punk rock music and the theater.
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UAE Cabinet adopts National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031
Sheikh Mohammed chairs cabinet meeting in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.
The UAE Cabinet, chaired by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031 during its meeting at the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi.
The Cabinet meeting was attended by Lt. General Sheikh Saif Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, and Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs.
The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031 aims at positioning the UAE as a global leader in artificial intelligence by 2031, and to develop an integrated system that employs artificial intelligence in vital areas in the UAE.
Sheikh Mohammed said that the UAE is moving ahead with its vision and aspirations through a well-defined plan for the UAE Centennial 2071. "We have launched a national strategy for artificial intelligence to make an integral part of our business, our lives and our government services."
Sheikh Mohammed asserted that the UAE is ready to embrace technological advances and seeks to employ modern technology to enhance the quality of life.
The National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2031 includes eight strategic objectives, a number of initiatives, along with a number of initiatives aimed at employing artificial intelligence in vital areas such as education, government services and the community wellbeing.
The strategy implementation is overseen by the Emirates Council for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transactions, in coordination with a number of local and federal entities.
The eight objectives include: reaffirming UAE's position as a global hub for artificial intelligence, increasing the competitive edge of the AI sector in the UAE, establishing an incubator for AI innovations, employing AI in the field of customer services to improve the quality of life, attracting and training talents for jobs of the future, attracting leading research capabilities, providing a data-driven infrastructure to support AI experiments, and optimising AI governance and regulations.
A number of vital sector will witness an immediate positive impact from applying AI technologies, such as the national economy. AI applications are expected to contribute to the national GDP in the coming years, which would create new economic opportunities.
The strategy also will focus on the following fields of priorities during the first phase of implementation: resources and energy, logistics and transportation, tourism and hospitality, healthcare, and cyber security.
The strategy also includes a plan to build a well-established UAE brand of artificial intelligence through artificial intelligence activities that will make the UAE a test platform for artificial intelligence technology, provide enhanced services with advanced technology, training and qualification programmes, talent building, research, data development and governance.
The UAE Cabinet also adopted the National Strategy for Integrated Chemicals Management to improve the chemicals management systems in a unified manner at the national level, reduce their health and environmental impact, and manage risks.
As for legislative affairs, the UAE Cabinet adopted a number of decisions and laws within the framework of the organisation of government work.
The resolutions included the preparation of a draft federal law to amend some provisions pertaining to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the amendment of some articles of the Federal Law on the Diplomatic and Consular Service.
The Cabinet approved granting of a school administration allowance to the managers of People of Determination centres at the Ministry of Community Development, to enhance the participation of the national workforce and develop their capabilities, efficiency, and productivity.
It reviewed the recommendations of the Federal National Council (FNC), on the Ministry of Health and Prevention's policy, the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation's policy, and the request by the FNC to discuss the Ministry of Economy's policy on supporting the tourism sector.
In international relations, the Cabinet adopted and ratified a number of international agreements, including the ratification of an agreement between the UAE and the Government of Botswana to avoid double taxation, as well as agreements with the Bahrain government, the Bhutan government and the Vanuatu government on air transport services.
Also among the discussions were an agreement with the Asian Paralympic Committee to host the headquarters of the Committee in the UAE, the adoption of an agreement with Uzbekistan on mutual administrative cooperation and assistance in customs matters, and the adoption of a supplementary convention to the Headquarters Agreement between the Government of the UAE and the International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA.
Mohammed Bin Rashid UAE Cabinet Artificial Intelligence
'Ministry of Possibilities' will boost quality of life
The UAE is a model state with a visionary leadership whose primary goal is ensuring the happiness of the people.
Sheikh Mohammed launches Ministry of Possibilities
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, on Tuesday launched Ministry of Possibilities.
VP honours 1st batch of AI Programme
Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has asserted that the future industry requires a comprehensive development process for all sectors and areas of government work, starting with a strong base of national talent capable of dealing with the tools and skills of the future, to the development of a new generation of governments based on the outputs of the new industrial revolution.
UAE Cabinet approves Strategy for Advanced Skills National Programme
Sheikh Mohammed, said that the UAE is making education a top priority and making it sustainable, diverse and adaptable to the requirements of future development plans.
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Q: Find all polynomials $p(x)$ such that $(p(x))^2 = 1 + x \cdot p(x + 1)$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$
Find all polynomials $p(x)$ such that $(p(x))^2 = 1 + x \cdot p(x + 1)$ for all $x\in \mathbb{R}$.

I assume that $O(p(x)=n)$   (Where O(p) denotes the order of p)
let $p(x)=a_nx^n+a_{n-1}x^{n-1}+a_{n-2}x^{n-2} \dots \dots +a_{1}x^{1}+a_{n-1}$ also $a_n \neq 0$
Then we have $a_n^2x^{2n} +\dots +a_0^2=1+a_nx^{n+1}+ \dots a_0x$
since $a_n \neq 0$ we must have $2n=n+1$ and hence $n=1$ hence the polynomial must be linear and hence there doesn't exist any solution(I proved assuming $p(x)=ax+b$)
Is it correct?

A: After observing that the degree is at most $1$ you can simplify the rest of the argument as follows: $p(0)^{2}=1$ from the equation, so $p(0)=\pm 1$. Also $p(-1)^{2}=1-p(0)$. By considering the cases $p(0)=1$ and $p(0)=-1$ separately it is quite easy to conclude that the only solution is $p(x)=x+1$.

A: Our OP SunShine has correctly deduced that $\deg p(x) = 1$, so that
$p(x) = ax + b; \tag 1$
we compute:
$p^2(x) = a^2x^2 + 2ab x + b^2; \tag 2$
$p(x + 1) = ax + a + b; \tag 3$
$xp(x + 1) = ax^2 + ax + bx; \tag 4$
$xp(x + 1) + 1 = ax^2 + ax + bx + 1; \tag 5$
$a^2 x^2 + 2ab x + b^2 = ax^2 + ax + bx + 1; \tag 6$
$(a^2 - a)x^2 + 2abx + b^2 = ax + bx + 1; \tag 7$
$a^2 = a, \; b^2 = 1, \; 2ab = a + b; \tag 8$
$a = 0, 1; \; b = \pm 1; \tag 9$
$b = 1 \Longrightarrow 2a = a + 1 \Longrightarrow a = 1 \in \{0, 1 \}; \tag{10}$
$b = -1 \Longrightarrow -2a = a - 1 \Longrightarrow a = \dfrac{1}{3} \notin \{0, 1 \}; \tag{11}$
thus the only solution is $a = b = 1$, so that
$p(x) = x + 1. \tag{12}$
CHECK:
$p^2(x) = (x + 1)^2 = x^2 + 2x + 1$
$= x(x + 2) + 1 = x((x + 1) + 1) + 1 = xp(x + 1) + 1; \tag{13}$
it thus appears that the only solution is
$p(x) = x + 1. \tag{14}$

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There's a gnat buzzing Beth Pearce's head | The Vermont Political Observer.
It is her green-eyeshade dedication to the job that informs her stand on divestiture. She wants investment decisions to be made on fidiuciary grounds; she doesn't want them hamstrung by political considerations.
Now, you can take a political stance in favor of divestment. But I can understand why the State Treasurer takes a strictly financial approach. I'd rather our Treasurer not be playing politics, thank you very much.
Okay, I can hear the chorus from the likes of 350.org and Rising Tide: fossil fuel stocks are actually money-losers, and fossil fuel companies are doomed in the long run. Why invest in the 21st Century equivalent of the buggy-whip industry?
The truth of the former assertion is questionable. It's based on a study by Trillium Asset Management, a firm that offers fossil fuel-free investment vehicles. It found that, over a three-year period, Harvard's endowment fund lost money on fossil fuel stocks.
The problem there is the time period. The last three years have seen dramatically depressed oil prices, and many operators have had to cut back or even close down. That history is not, as they say, indicative of future performance. In fact, in the longer run, fossil fuel stocks have been a safe and profitable investment. Bad for the planet, yes. Bad for pension and endowment funds, no.
As for the latter assertion, that fossil fuel corporations are fated for the dustbin of history, not so fast. These big corporations are unlikely to sit still as they crash into a brick wall. If they see fossil fuels as a declining industry, they will shift their focus toward renewable energy and other sectors — and they have the expertise and the resources to be highly successful at it. The long-term future of Big Oil is not fixed in stone.
That's why someone like Beth Pearce is fully justified in opposing divestment. Now, if you ask me, do I want Vermont to divest? I say yes. But that's a political discussion, not a financial one.
I say it's worthwhile risking a loss — or having to invest more creatively and nimbly in order to maintain revenues — to take a stand against Big Oil and Big Coal. Being the first state to divest would send an important signal to others. That's worth doing.
Just don't expect your State Treasurer to be happy about it. And don't expect me to vote against her because of this single issue.
Just don't tell her that Peabody, the largest coal company in the US, just joined about 10 other US coal operations in going toes up.


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Henry Pitts Brown (17 March 1916 – 27 February 1985), known professionally as Ray Ellington, was an English singer, drummer and bandleader. He is best known for his appearances on The Goon Show from 1951 to 1960. The Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the show, and Ellington also had a small speaking role in many episodes, often as a parodic African, Native American or Arab chieftain (but also often, with no attempt to change his normal accent, in counter-intuitive roles such as a female secretary or a Scotsman).

Early life
Ellington was born Henry Pitts Brown, at 155 Kennington Road, Kennington, London, England, the youngest of four children.  His father was Harry Pitts Brown (c.1877–1920), an African American music-hall comedian and entertainer, his mother was Eva Stenkell Rosenthal (b. c.1879), a Russian Jew. His father died when Brown was four years old. Ellington was raised as an Orthodox Jew and attended the South London Jewish School (1924–30), before entering show business at the age of twelve, when he appeared in an acting role on the London stage.

Life and career
Ellington's first break came in 1937 when he joined Harry Roy and His Orchestra as the band's drummer, replacing Joe Daniels. His vocal talents were put to good use too, from the time of his first session when he recorded "Swing for Sale." Ellington was called up in May 1940 when he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a physical training instructor where he served throughout the war. He played in service bands including RAF Blue Eagles (1945).

After demobilisation, Ellington resumed his career, fronting his own group, playing at The Bag O'Nails club. Early in 1947, he rejoined the Harry Roy band for a few months. The Ray Ellington Quartet was formed in the same year.

Ellington specialised in jazz but experimented with many other genres and his musical style was heavily influenced by the comedic jump blues of Louis Jordan. Ellington's band was one of the first in the UK to feature the stripped-back guitar/bass/drums/piano format that became the basis of rock and roll, as well as being one of the first groups in Britain to prominently feature the electric guitar. They were also reputedly the first jazz band in the UK to use an amplified guitar, which was produced and introduced by their guitar player, Lauderic Caton. The other members of Ellington's quartet were Dick Katz (piano) and Coleridge Goode (bass). When guitarist Caton moved on he was succeeded in turn by Laurie Deniz, Australian Don Fraser and Judd Proctor, who was a member of the quartet for six years from July 1955.

Early in The Goon Shows run, there were many jokes linking Ellington to the African nation of Ghana, thus leading Ellington to say that he came from Ghana. Ellington's recording of "The Madison" reached No. 36 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1962.

He was married to Anita West, who was to become the second female presenter of Blue Peter when she replaced Leila Williams, but she only lasted a few months in this role. They had had two young children (Lance and Nina) when the marriage ended in divorce. Ray's son Lance Ellington is a singer who has recorded several jazz-orientated albums, and is one of the backing singers in the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing. Lance Ellington also appeared in tributes to Peter Sellers, in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, where he played his father, and took his father's part in the Goon Show "50th Anniversary Cardboard Replica" first broadcast on 12 April 2001, the day after Harry Secombe died.

Ray Ellington died of cancer on 27 February 1985.

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Time To Rethink License Suspensions Without Due Notice
By Brandon Garrett, Karima Modjadidi and William Crozier | December 8, 2019, 8:02 PM EST
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In North Carolina, one in seven adults has a suspended driver's license. These 1.25 million people cannot legally drive because of nondriving related reasons, like failure to pay traffic tickets or failure to appear in court.
Although these large numbers may suggest widespread lawlessness such that people choose not to pay or appear, we believe a more troubling cause may be at play. Many of these people may simply be unaware their license is imperiled. The results raise questions about the ways that people are punished for failure to respond to similar notices across the country.
In 44 states, driver's licenses are suspended for such nondriving reasons. Increasingly, litigation, legislation and policy efforts have focused on changing these harsh rules. In a study earlier this year, we showed how those suspensions disparately affect people based on race and poverty.[1]
In a followup to that work, we wanted to hear from people about how suspensions have impacted their lives.[2] After all, as the U.S. Supreme Court put it in Wooley v. Maynard, driving is "a virtual necessity for most Americans."
When the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles sends out notices telling people that their license is suspended, they do so by mail to the address on a person's license. The notices read, for example:
WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT EFFECTIVE [time and date], YOUR NC DRIVING PRIVILEGE IS SCHEDULED FOR AN INDEFINITE SUSPENSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH GENERAL STATUTE 20-24.1.
We surveyed a randomly selected 300 people in Wake County, N.C, who had their licenses suspended in the past two years. In summer 2019 we sent these surveys by mail and found something unexpected: The addresses on file for these people were extremely inaccurate. Over one-third had these mail surveys returned.
Specifically, out of the 107 returned envelopes, 32 were returned because of an insufficient address, 22 were not deliverable as addressed, 15 were "attempted to forward" but forwarded address was not known, 11 were unclaimed, 8 were listed as having no such street or number, 5 did not have a mail receptacle and 5 were returned because the time to forward to a new address had expired.
Our returned mailings suggest that large numbers of people, numbering perhaps in the hundreds of thousands, never receive actual notice of either their court date or the drastic consequence for nonappearance. Indeed, only eight people responded to the survey.
Many of the other 185 people may have also had undocumented mail delivery problems. And some of the few people who did respond to the survey stated that they did not know their license was suspended. They may have no idea the state suspended their license, and as a result, may suffer severe consequences if they are later stopped for driving with a revoked license. Indeed, about one-quarter of suspended drivers face a charge for driving with a revoked license in North Carolina.
This raises due process questions regarding the state taking action that infringes upon liberty and property without giving people adequate notice. Last year, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and other groups brought a due process challenge to the North Carolina law that permits a license to be suspended for nonpayment of a traffic fine, highlighting the problem.[3]
The judge "recognize[d] the hardships often attendant to the loss of a driver's license." However, the court emphasized that the state provided an adequate process for people to show that they were unable to pay those fines and did not willfully fail to do so. The judge found "this crucial opportunity for a hearing" decisive in finding no due process violation.
Yet a person can request a hearing only after receiving notice of a revocation. The judge discussed at length the typical notice sent to individuals in North Carolina when a license is suspended, and whether its text was sufficiently clear. The judge never considered that many individuals may not receive such a notice in the mail.
The North Carolina DMV must receive untold thousands of returned letters, if we received over a hundred in our small mailing. That means the state is itself on notice that it failed to provide notice. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in Jones v. Flowers, a ruling regarding the notice requirement of the due process clause, where a person's home was foreclosed without actual notice:
We do not think that a person who actually desired to inform a real property owner of an impending tax sale of a house he owns would do nothing when a certified letter sent to the owner is returned unclaimed.
While our survey results are from just one county, they suggest that the assumption of the judge in the North Carolina litigation — that individuals have a meaningful opportunity to be heard at a post-revocation hearing — may be misplaced. To be sure, individuals have a statutory obligation to update their address with the DMV within 60 days of a change in address. Yet people may have no idea they could lose their license or be charged with a crime for failing to do so.
Low-income individuals disparately affected by driver's license suspensions may also be more likely to change addresses. Indeed, court debt may contribute to evictions, making their mailing addresses less stable.
At minimum, states should reconsider imposing serious consequences for driving with a revoked license when a person has not received notice that the license was suspended. More broadly, we need better ways to ensure people actually know about important court dates and consequences.
North Carolina has a new text-based notification system, launched in fall 2018, but it sounds as if very few people are currently using it. Given advances in communication technology, we can surely rely on a better system than a snail mailed letter. We should not be depriving millions of people of their rights using mass mailings that are returned as undeliverable.
Unlike doctors or the cable company, courts do not let people reschedule appointments. Instead, they issue warrants, arrest and jail people, impose large fines or remove driver's licenses. Rather than punish vast numbers of people for failure to respond to mail, we should rethink these automatic and inaccurate systems.
Brandon L. Garrett is the L. Neil Williams Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law and the director of the Duke Center for Science and Justice. He is the author, most recently, of "End of its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice."
William Crozier and Karima Modjadidi are post-doctoral fellows at Duke Law and at the Duke Center for Science and Justice.
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[3] https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/federal-judge-rejects-temporary-block-of-law-that-allows-suspension/article_3ac2c45c-2731-5a13-b34a-bc06420da889.html.
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Q: Store Files in SQL Server or keep them on the File Server? Currently we have thousands of Microsoft Word files, Excel files, PDF's, images etc stored in folders/sub folders. These are generated by an application on a regular basis and can be accessed at any time within that application. As we look to upgrade we are now looking into storing all these documents within SQL Server 2005 instead. Reasons for this are based on being able to compress the documents, adding additional fields to store more information on those documents and applying index's where necessary.
I suppose what I'm after is the pros and cons of using SQL Server as a document repository instead of keeping them on the file server, as well as any experience you might have in doing this.
We would be using C# and Windows Workflow to do this task.
Thanks for your comments.
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How big are the files?
between 100k = 200k in size (avg. 70KB)
How many will be?
At the moment it's around 3.1 Million files (ranging from Word/Excel and PDF's), which can grow by 2,600 a day. (The growth will also increase over time)
How many reads?
This one is difficult to quantify as our old system/application makes it hard to work this out.

Also another useful link pointed out on a similar post covers the pros and cons of both methods.
Files Stored on DB vs FileSystem - Pros and Cons

A: I would have both.
I would keep the files renamed with an unique name, thus easier to manage, and i would keep all meta data inside the database (file name, content-type, location on file system, size, description, etcetera), so the files are accessed through the database (indirectly).
Advantages:

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*files are easy to handle; you can bring several drives in the mix

*the database can keep any number of meta information, including file description on which you can search against.

*keep track on file accesses and other statistic information

*rearrange the files using various paradigms: tree (directory structure), tags, search or context

You can have compression on a drive also. You can have RAID for backup and speed.

A: rule of thumb for doc size is:
size < 256 kb: store in db
265 kb < size < 1 MB: test for your load
size > 1 Mb: store on file system

EDIT: this rule of thumb also applies for FILESTREAM storage in SQL Server 2008

A: If you upgrade all the way, to SQL Server 2008, then you can use the new FILESTREAM feature, that allows the document to appear as a column in a table, yet to reside as a file on a share, where it can be directly accessed by a program (like Word).

A: What kind of documents are we talking about?
Storing documents in your SQL server might be useful because you can relate the documents to other tables and use techniques like Full-text indexing and do things like fuzzy searches.
A downside is that it might be a bit harder to create a backup of the documents. And compression is also possible with NTFS compression or other techniques.

A: Are these documents text based and are you planning on using SQL Server's full text search to search these documents? If not, I don't see any benefit in storing these documents on the database. Ofcourse, you can always store the meta data related to the documents including the path information to the database.

A: A big benefit of stroing docs in the DB is it becomes much easier to control security access to them, as you can do it all via access control in your app.  Storing them on a file server requires dealing with access priveledges at the file and folder level to prevent any direct access.  Also have them in a DB makes for a single point of backup, so you can more easily make a full copy and/or move it around if needed.

A: Rather than writing a custom DMS (document management system), you should probably consider buying one or using WSS / SharePoint as this will handle all the mundane details (storage, indexing, meta-data) and let you build your custom functionality on top.


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LGBT & Pro-Life Week on Campus
William Dempsey
An April week brought to campus an LGBT protest of Vice President Pence, acknowledgment that the Gender Studies Program contradicts Catholic teaching, and celebrations of both same-sex marriage and pro-life champions.
NOTRE DAME, IN — A lot went on at Notre Dame just a few weeks ago.
On the LGBT front, Notre Dame student and alumni proponents of LGBT rights conducted a rainbow flag anti-Pence protest; the director of the Gender Studies Program acknowledged that the Program collides with Catholic doctrine; and the GALA presentation of awards to proponents of gay marriage was held on campus for the first time.
Simultaneously and as if by design as a counterpoint, the Center for Ethics and Culture held its annual Evangelium Vitae pro-life celebration.
For starters. There is more.
We begin with the most startling and consequential of these events: the acknowledgment by the director of the Gender Studies Program that the Program as conducted contradicts Church teaching.
The Gender Studies Program versus the Church
On April 29, the Gender Relations Program and GALA (the Gay and Lesbian Alumni Association of Notre Dame and St. Mary's) sponsored a panel discussion on the gay rights campaign in conjunction with GALA's annual awards celebration. (More on that later.)
Mary Celeste Kearney, the director of the Program, was a panelist. As recounted in the National Catholic Reporter, she "shared the challenges she's faced on a high profile Catholic campus." "Raised as a Catholic," NCR reported, professor Kearney " told her audience that a fundamental principle of gender studies flies in the face of traditional Catholic teaching."
"Gender studies," she said, "defines gender as a social formation that impacts all of our various identities, relationships, opportunities, employment and points of agency – for everyone." But the Church, she said, "argues that gender is biologically determined or ordained by God." Academic freedom protects faculty teaching concepts in the gender studies department that might contradict Catholic teaching.
To be sure, this may come as no surprise even to outsiders who have been attentive. Take the Gender Studies program for high school students that caught the eye of the National Review. It reported that students are asked "to explain how they know for sure whether they are male or female."
Are you male or female? How do you know? When you were a baby, did your parents dress you in pink or blue? Who dressed you, fed you, changed your diapers – your mother or father?
We have heard what one irate parent thought of this. Surely she was not alone.
Then we noted an Observer article about a panel on bisexual and transsexual issues that included an account of Dr. Abigal Palko's ahead-of-its-time advocacy of "bathroom activism" for transsexuals. Dr. Palko was then director of undergraduate studies in the Gender Studies Program.
Whatever might be said for the eccentric notion that academic freedom licenses Notre Dame professors to undermine fundamental Church teachings in the classroom, surely nothing can be said for the university's sponsorship of a program that fosters this dissent.
GALA Redux
In an earlier bulletin we described GALA's support of gay marriage, its efforts and successes in promoting its agenda on campus, and its petition (still pending) to be recognized by the Alumni Association as an official alumni organization. We report now on a new GALA success: For the first time, GALA held its Thomas Dooley awards dinner on campus.
What was not new was its celebration of gay marriage.
The principal awardee, St. Mary's alumna Kristen Matha, "is married to her wife Kendra, who together raise their son Micah." And GALA's award for Distinguished Academic Achievement went to Joseph Pequigney (ND '44), who dragged Shakespeare out of the closet by purportedly demonstrating that his sonnets were homoerotic and, indeed, that there was a "consummated sexual relationship" between Shakespeare and a male lover. Mr. Pequigney "and photographer Steven Mays have been together for 48 years and were married in 2008."
LGBT Pence Protest
As we've reported, a number of student organizations have protested Vice President Trump's selection as Commencement speaker. As one group put it, he is "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, offensive, or ostracizing to members of our community," and students "feel unsafe with the presence of Mike Pence on our campus."
During this third week in April, student LGBT supporters renewed the protest by distributing some 500 rainbow flags on the campus and hanging them from windows in dormitories, the Hesburgh Library, Nieuwland Science Hall, Geddes Hall with its theology faculty quarters, and perhaps other buildings.
They did this, according to the president of the student LGBT club and other demonstrators, to protest Pence's opposition to same-sex marriage, his support of the religious liberty of organizations and individuals to decline to collaborate in actions they consider immoral, and his support for reparative therapy for homosexuals who desire it.
That is to say, they object to Vice President's appearance at Notre Dame because he joins the Catholic Church in its teaching respecting marriage and its position respecting the religious liberty of individuals and institutions like Notre Dame.
The president of the LGBT club (PRISM), a graduating senior and popular student who was also president of the student body, was the 2017 recipient of the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, C.S.C. Award, one of seven Leadership awards to graduating seniors. He is an advocate of same sex marriage who attributes the Church's doctrine on homosexual sex to "centuries of homophobia."
The flag demonstration also served to welcome GALA to the campus. GALA in turn raised money for the project and urged "as many alums as possible to attend the Dooley Award Weekend and to see firsthand all the rainbow flags to be hung from dozens of buildings around campus."
Update: The Washington Post reported yesterday that protesting students plan to walk out of the commencement when Pence speaks; that they "expect scores of students and many more family and friend to participate"; and that "the university is OK with that."
Simultaneously, on April 29 elsewhere on the campus, the Catholic face of the university shone in the Evangelium Vitae celebration sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Culture.
The Center rightly describes the Evangelium Vitae Medal as "the nation's most important lifetime achievement award for heroes of the pro-life movement." This year the medal and the $10,000 prize went to the Jérôme Lejeune Foundation for its and its founder's groundbreaking work with Down syndrome children and others with genetic disorders.
Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes celebrated, and 25 Holy Cross priests concelebrated, the opening Mass (which you can view here); Pope Francis sent a greeting; and there were a number of notables among the 400 dinner guests. The guests included Father Bill Lies, C.S.C., Vice President for Mission Engagement, but not Father Jenkins, who has never attended.
All this in a week in April on the Notre Dame campus, contested territory.
As if by way of preface, a month earlier in the online Notre Dame Magazine a priest who is associate director of Campus Ministry observed that "the landscape of sexual orientation and of gender identity is changing" and that "the Church must listen to and read the signs of the times," as it had respecting, for instance, slavery. "There are many ways to love and to give our selves to one another," he said. "That we love may be more important than how we love."
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If you'll be at Notre Dame for Reunion Weekend (or you're in the vicinity) plan to attend Sycamore Trust's annual breakfast meeting on Saturday morning June 3. Our principal speaker will be Professor Gerard Bradley of the Law School, who will discuss the presidential election as it may affect the interests of the Church and Notre Dame. Click on the link below for tickets or to register for a live broadcast of the event.
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5 Responses to "LGBT & Pro-Life Week on Campus"
N.D. May 22, 2017 at 4:40 pm
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annedanielson May 20, 2017 at 1:50 pm
"God's Truth is mighty, and it shall prevail."
"It is about the marriage", in Heaven and on Earth.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlANWgyK2PY
It is Through, With, and In Christ, in the Unity of The Holy Ghost, that Holy Mother Church exists.
One bridegroom, one bride, on earth.
One Bridegroom, One Bride, (One Holy Mother Church), in Heaven.
To deny the sanctity of the marital act, which is Life-affirming, and Life-sustaining, and can only be consummated between a man and woman, united in marriage as husband and wife, is to deny that God, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity, Is The Author of Love, of Life, and of Marriage. To deny that God Is The Author of Love, of Life, and of Marriage, is to deny Salvational Love, God's Gift of Grace and Mercy, and thus deny The Divinity of The Most Holy And Undivded Blessed Trinity.
The denial of The Unity Of The Holy Ghost (Filioque), is the source of all heresy; There Is only One Word of God, One Truth of Love Made Flesh, One Lamb of God Who Taketh Away The Sins of The World, Our Savior, Jesus The Christ, thus there can only be One Spirit of Perfect Love Between The Father and The Son, Who Proceeds from both The Father and The Son, in The Ordered Communion of Perfect Complementary Love, The Most Holy And Undivided Blessed Trinity.
"Our Lady was the one who prevailed on her Son to work His first miracle at Cana in Galilee. She is still the one, through whose intercession He wants to perform miracles now, on earth, in our day. But there is one condition: We who have the faith, must believe. And we who have the grace, must use it to live lives of heroic virtue." Father John Hardon
"And he said to me: Write: Blessed are they that are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith to me: These words of God are true."
John Ryan May 20, 2017 at 1:40 pm
Having graduated as an undergrad in 1979 does not make one old in our society.
Many friends and associates deeply interested, even professionally involved, in issues of life and family don't consider ourselves "old fashioned;" conservtive or traditional in some respects, perhaps, but not "old fashioned."
Having led Right to Life on campus in my time, spent a few young years professionally involved in the life issues, and spent 40+ years actively involved in both life and family issues as a volunteer at every level from local communities to seats at the table for statewide and national organizations and issues, the LGBT issues and Catholic concerns relative to those issues are quite familiar.
Has Notre Dame's administration today not simply allowed positions overtly contrary to Church teaching to be legitimately raised and questionably promoted in the classrooms and academic elements of the institution, but also joined with enemies of the Church to condone and support those who make the case with all the energy they can muster, intellectual and physical, that those who support the Church's teachings MUST NOT be allowed to express themselves in the public square or the halls of the academy?
Different times and different issues, but there's a comparison based in principles to "Fr. Hesburgh's Notre Dame" in the 1960s and early 1970s. Issues of the day were certainly debated robustly in the academic confines of the institution, but Notre Dame's administration controlled protests in the public square and tightly. Fast forward to 2009 and pro-life people from the Notre Dame community, led by Bishop Darcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, were severely limited in their protests of a U.S. President openly attacking the teachings of the Catholic Church on several issues at every turn, most prominently abortion, and some pro-lifers including alumni and students protesting that event at the edges of the campus did so under threat of arrest and what turned out to be lengthy court proceedings due to Notre Dame's intransigence for those arrested for the slightest transgressions.
Yet, on April 29th guests from near and far for the the Evangelium Vitae Mass and dinner were allowed to be greeted by rainbow flags flying from numerous buildings on the campus including academic buildings where the administration ought have no problem what-so-ever controlling what is displayed hanging on the exterior of the building! Even if less identifiable, would Notre Dame Right to Life have been allowed to hang a flag or banner (even without event-specific verbage) in protest of the university's celebration last fall of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life's work attacking the positions of the Catholic Church?
. . . while academics acknowledge that the agenda of a whole academic department is at odds with Mother Church!
. . . and while campus ministry suggests that "the Church must listen to and read the signs of the times" with regard to sexual orientation and gender identity!
Has Notre Dame utterly abandoned the Catholic Church's 2000 year old tradition of pursuing truth in favor of the politically correct tendencies of the modern academy and American philanthropy and culture? Has her leadership declared those of us even remotely tied to the community who question this abandonment irrelevant to her future?
John Ryan '79
Francis Foley May 20, 2017 at 12:00 pm
I appreciate being kept informed. Perhaps Our Lady's University should be called the university of pagan "ignorants" and ignorance.
R. Thomas Forr May 20, 2017 at 9:23 am
Thank you for the information. Thank heaven for Bishop Rhodes and the twenty five Holy Cross priests who concelebrated the Mass and the honor bestowed on the Jerome Lejeune Foundation. From what remember, male and female He created them. May God bless you for your faithfulness to the teachings of our Church and to our Lady's university.


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Tomato – Target Spot (Early Blight)
Crop(s): Tomato
Disease(s): Target Spot (Early Blight)
Resistance Management Strategy for:
Group 2 Dicarboximide;
Group 3 Demethylation Inhibitor (DMI);
Group 7 Succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors (SDHI);
Group 9 Anilinopyrimidine;
Group 11 Quinone outside Inhibitor (QoI); and
Group 11 + 3 QoI + DMI.
Limit the use of Group 2, 3, 9 or 11 fungicides to periods when conditions favour disease development.
DO NOT apply more than four Group 2 sprays in one season. Apply no more than two consecutive sprays of a Group 2 fungicide.
DO NOT apply more than six Group 3 sprays in a season. Apply no more than two consecutive sprays of a Group 3 fungicide alone.
If applying Group 7 fungicides, DO NOT apply more than two consecutive sprays before changing to another group. DO NOT apply more than three Group 7 sprays per season. If consecutive sprays are used, then use the same number of sprays of an alternative group before using another Group 7, including sprays in consecutive seasons.
If three or fewer fungicide sprays for target spot are applied per crop, use only one spray containing a Group 9 fungicide. If four to six sprays are applied per crop, use a maximum of two sprays containing Group 9 fungicides. If seven or more sprays are applied per crop, use a maximum of three sprays containing Group 9 fungicides.
Apply no more than two consecutive sprays containing a Group 9 fungicide.
Apply Group 11 fungicides preventatively. DO NOT apply more than six sprays, or one third of the total sprays (whichever is lower) from Group 11 fungicides. DO NOT apply more than two consecutive sprays of Group 11 fungicides. If consecutive applications of Group 11 fungicides are used, then they must be followed by at least the same number of applications of fungicide(s) from a different group(s) before a Group 11 fungicide is used again, either in the current or following season.
Related fungicide Documents
Fact sheet – Fungicide Resistance
Fungicide Resistance Management Strategies
Fungicide Activity Group Table
Fungicide Further Information
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Virat Kohli's magnificent 45th ODI tonne against Sri Lanka sparks an incredible 'Jinxing is overrated' tweet from Ravichandran Ashwin that goes viral.
Virat Kohli, the former captain of India, continued his streak of prolific scoring in the first One Day International (ODI) at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium on Tuesday against Dasun Shanaka-led Sri Lanka. As Rohit Sharma and the company amassed an enormous score in the first ODI against Sri Lanka, Virat Kohli struck his 45th ODI century, moving one step closer to overtaking Sachin Tendulkar's global record.
Veteran Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin shared an interesting tweet concerning the first ODI between the two sides, in which he claimed that King Kohli will get a century in the series opener in Guwahati. Before Kohli turned his rapid fifty into a historic century, spinner Ashwin predicted that the former Indian captain will hit his 73rd international century on Tuesday.
How many of you believe that we will score 400+ with a 73rd for@imVkohli, just to take a go at it? #INDvSL," said Ashwin in a tweet. Kohli exceeded expectations by scoring his 45th ODI century, helping the hosts to a respectable 373 for 7 in 50 overs. The Indian all-rounder sent another cheeky tweet to win the internet after Ashwin's comments on Kohli became the talk of the town. Ashwin posted an amusing meme along with the statement, "Jinxing is overrated."
In the 50-over match, Kohli slammed a quick-fire 113 off 87 balls to aid Rohit's India in posting a big total. In the limited-overs format, the former Indian captain set a new record by scoring his ninth century against Sri Lanka, surpassing Tendulkar in the process. In the first game of the series, Kohli scored the most runs for India, although Rohit (83) and Shubman Gill (70) also contributed significantly for the Guwahati hosts. The legendary batsman Kohli is now only four centuries away from tying Tendulkar's ODI record of 49 hundred. For the two-time world champions, the 34-year-old has hit 45 tonnes and 64 half-centuries in 266 ODIs.


In California, if you are pulled over because an officer suspects that you are driving under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol, it is likely that you will be asked to participate in various tests that will help the officer determine if you are intoxicated. If a driver in the East Bay is found to have a BAC (blood alcohol content) of .08% or greater, he will be charged with DUI.
Even if there is no chemical test given, you can still be charged with "Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol and or Drugs." Further, if you refuse to take a chemical test, the police are authorized to get a warrant and do a "forced blood draw".
There are exceptions to some testing that need to be understood. If you are stopped, you do have the right to refuse to submit to the initial breath test, known as a preliminary test. This is true unless you are a minor (under 21 years of age), in which case you can be arrested for refusing the test. You also have the right to refuse to participate in field sobriety tests. These include the One-Leg Stand, Walk and Turn, and HGN, along with other tests.
You can refuse to submit to these tests because they are considered to be "voluntary" and "pre-arrest" tests that officers generally use to help determine a driver's level of intoxication.
Are There Penalties for Refusing to Submit to a Chemical Test in CA?
Under California law, if a driver is stopped for DUI, he is expected to participate in chemical testing because of the state's implied consent law. In general, this law says that a driver in California has already given consent to submitting to these tests by driving on state roads and having been given a California driver's license.
Technically speaking, you have the right to refuse a blood or other chemical test upon your arrest. These are often administered at a hospital or at the police station. However, refusing one of these tests can lead to serious consequences.
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If you have been arrested in Alameda or Contra Costa County for DUI and either submitted to or refused BAC testing, it is in your best interest to work with an experienced DUI defense attorney in that area. Lynn Gorelick has been defending clients in both counties for over 30 years. She has dedicated her practice to defending people just like you! Do not hesitate to contact Ms. Gorelick after an arrest to schedule a free, initial consultation.