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The May 2011 Vogue Swimwear edition features a brilliantly accessorized editorial that showcases bright colors and bold accessories for the coming summer! The Ilona Swagemakers Vogue Italy shoot showcases an array of neon and brightly colored suits, from one-pieces and bikinis to monokinis accessorized with large headpieces, patterned scarves, neckerchiefs, neon purses, various sunglasses and most noticeably, a copious amount of watches on each of Swagemaker's arms that complement her look.
Shot by Pierre Dal Corso and styled by Lydia Lobe, the myriad of accessories featured in the shoot complements the swimsuits as opposed to overpowering them. In addition to the styling, Swagemakers herself brings the clothes to life with her exsquisite features, tanned skin and eloquent posing.
The editorial strikes the perfect balance of creativity, fun, sophistication and sexiness.


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Open Mobile Alliance API Standards Expose Unique Operator Resources in an Open and Programmable Way
Posted by Publisher Cable & Satellite Services, Picture Gallery Wednesday, 21. September 2011
BERLIN — (Marketwire) — 09/21/11 — The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), an international specifications setting body, announces availability of API specifications for more than 40 network and device resources, with various language and protocol bindings. These new standards allow the creation of interfaces to the service infrastructure residing within existing networks and on devices. By deploying these programmable connections, service providers can increase their developer base, reduce time-to-market for new applications and services, and simplify wider deployment of existing applications and services.
"As the applications market has exploded with hundreds of choices of APIs that offer the same functionality, OMA has answered industry demand for standardized access to fundamental resources," says Musa Unmehopa, Chair of OMA-s Technical Plenary. "By deploying OMA API specifications, operators can now expose their specific assets for the common functions required by every developer of mobile applications — no matter what signaling protocols, platforms or other APIs they use."
Additional operating systems, development platforms and network capabilities have now become established in the market. This has added new market channels for existing global customers. At the same time, the ever-expanding number of APIs has fragmented the application development and service delivery markets.
"Estimates for the market potential of applications and services are in the range of tens of billions of dollars in the next four to five years," says Fred Harrison, Chairman of the Board of OMA. "Without standardization to support wide scale market growth, developers may find difficulty in working with a range of service providers, whilst customers and service providers may be limited in their access to the broad developer community."
"When combined with the wide and growing number of service delivery platforms, OMA APIs will enrich telecom services across networks globally," says Liliana Dinale, Chair of the OMA Architecture Working Group. "The wide variety of OMA APIs offer modularized control to service providers in order to facilitate application development in an efficient way. The scope of OMA-s API work enables traditional connection scenarios among applications and services. This directly supports the emerging class of Web 2.0 and mass market developers — who are extending network services to web-widgets and mash ups on both the client and server sides."
OMA is pleased with the growing support of its API Program from a wide spectrum of industry players. The list includes operators, equipment manufacturers, and software vendors from across the globe.
The following companies endorse OMA-s work in specifying APIs to enable operators and other service providers to expose existing network capabilities to as wide a variety of developers as possible. As the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry deploys the next round of advanced services, many of these services require access to core network capabilities, common across all operators globally. We state our endorsement of OMA-s standardized approach to offer access to core network capabilities. The OMA API program creates global API standards that expose these crucial capabilities in an open and programmable way.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across all geographical boundaries, on any bearer network. To date, OMA has published more than 100 enabler releases with ongoing maintenance, revisions and new versions of its work. OMA-s specifications support the billions of new and existing fixed and mobile terminals across a variety of mobile networks. Driven by the global demand for mobile data services, the member companies of the Open Mobile Alliance support the adoption of new and enhanced information, communication and entertainment solutions. The Open Mobile Alliance includes contributors from all key elements of the wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and efficient introduction of services and applications to the market.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) name and logo are trademarks of Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.
Bobby Fraher
OMA Communications
Smart Card Alliance White Paper Focuses on U.S. Mobile Payments and NFC Landscape PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 09/19/11 -- There is much buzz around the growth of mobile payments in the United States, with predictions that it will hit $214 billion by 2014.* But which of the many possible approaches -- including integrated NFC, non-integrated contactless, bar codes, cloud-based solutions, and text messaging -- is the best choice? The explains and compares the different mobile payment approaches in a new white paper released today, "The Mobile Payments and ...
Call for Speakers Now Open for Cloud Security Alliance Innovation Conference 2011 PALO ALTO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 08/12/11 -- The (CSA) Silicon Valley chapter today published the call for speakers for the inaugural , being held October 6th in Silicon Valley. In the spirit of the CSA Silicon Valley Chapter-s mission to foster education and transparency of emerging and innovative technologies supporting best in class solutions for Cloud Security, the conference will gather IT architects, senior executives, start-ups, and industry leaders to discuss current challenges, best...
Verizon Deploys Mobile Communication Resources in Paterson, New Jersey to Support Residents Affected by Storm WARREN, NJ -- (Marketwire) -- 09/04/11 -- As power outages and flooding continue in the aftermath of the devastating storm over the weekend, Verizon Wireless has coordinated with the Paterson Mayor-s Office to provide a mobile communications center to help residents contact family, friends and loved ones.The 53-foot trailer offers free domestic and international long distance calling, 110v outlets for charging cell phones and other electronic devices, and internet access. The Verizon mobile co...
Juniper Networks Delivers Mobilenext – Industry-s First Open Mobile Core For Service Innovation "Any G" Performance to Transform Mobile Experience and Economics for the Next Decade...
Real-time mobile money services open up new revenue channels How to get the bank to the unbanked...
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BBAW Day 2 – Blogger Interview!
Day 2 of Book Blogger Appreciation Week 2011 – This year's theme is Cultivating a Community of Bloggers and Readers. Today's topic is blogger interview swap. My interview partner is Linda from Silly Little Mischief ( http://sillylittlemischief.blogspot.com/). When I looked at her blog, I was amazed at her history – quite a lot to see and read! – and at the list of books that she reviewed and read. I asked to be her friend on Goodreads and found that we have quite a few books in common. What a fun way to meet a new friend!
The questions I asked Linda had a lot to do with her blog and blogging and less to do with her books and reading, but hopefully you learn something fun here!
Wow – you've been blogging a LONG time (since 2007!)! Can you talk about your blogging beginnings?
I started blogging because I needed a place to dump all my thoughts on my 2008 wedding. Since then I've added posts about my life (books, food and travel).
Your blog is really organized and interesting to look at. Can you talk about the technical aspects of your blog – have you always used your format or have you tweaked a lot throughout the years? Do you get help from someone? Do you have any sponsors?
Thanks. I've switched templates several times over the years. I know a little HTML but I rely on premade templates for most of my blog. If I see something I like on someone else's blog I'll email them to find out how I can get it. I don't take sponsors or paid advertising.
Do you follow a blogging schedule? Where do you look for topic inspiration?
I usually blog Monday through Friday. I try to post every day. I look for inspiration everywhere-other blogs, my life.
How about your blog reading – do you catch up daily? Twice daily? Weekly? with the blogs that your read?
We have read a lot of the same books – I'm definitely going to look for you on goodreads. Do you have a favorite genre or style of writing?
I generally read fiction (sci-fi, chick lit, YA, classics) but I will read nonfiction too.
What book do you love that other people seem to dislike?
I get a lot of grief from my real life friends about the amount of YA I read. A lot of them think I should be reading more adult books.
What book did you dislike that others love?
I've been trying to read some classics-Catch-22, The Sun Also Rises. I haven't really enjoyed too many of them. I did read Jane Eyre and enjoyed it.
What do you find to be the most rewarding thing about book blogging, or blogging in general?
I love the dialogue that comes with blogging. Not just the comments but the posts that come out of what someone else said. I don't blog in a bubble and I love interacting with other bloggers and my readers.
Thanks Linda! Great to meet you!
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Making new friends is my favorite thing about BBAW!
What a wonderful interview. Its great to get to know a little bit more about Linda. I had no idea you had been blogging since 2007. WOW..keep it up.
422 blogs? Crazy! I can't keep up with a few over a hundred.
Boo to friends who give you a hard time about reading too much YA. They obviously don't know how *great* a lot of it is!
I can't IMAGINE 422 blogs! I am under 100 but creeping up there during BBAW!


Status single / married / divorced / still wondering? – Still wondering but not wandering!
In-turn or out-turn? – Out. Sometimes both simultaneously.
Best ever curling memory? – Pulling on shirt with Ireland on my back for the first time, closely followed by winning World Senior Gold in Copenhagen last year.
If you had to switch careers, what job would you do? – King of Spain.
Favourite holiday destination and why? – Dingle Bay, County Kerry. The little bit of heaven that fell to Earth.
Best / worst subjects at school? – English (best) Latin ( worst) "Ars Longa, vita brevis"… As I often said.
Who'd be your four ideal dinner guests? – Jesus, Charles Darwin, Hilary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky.
The Irish Curling Association has announced a new sponsorship deal with R-Wear, a leading Irish sports wear company, ahead of the 2013 World Senior Curling Championships in Fredericton, New Brunswick, next month.
The Irish senior mens team heading to the championships will wear state-of-the-art base layers designed by R-Wear when they compete in the Grant-Harvey Centre from April 13-20 2013.
R-wear's base layer tops modeled by Peter Wilson, PJ Wilson, Neil Fyfe and Tom Roche of the 2013 World Seniors Mens team.
The clothing has been specifically designed for winter sports athletes and the male Irish players are delighted with the tops, which they wear under their national team kit, as they have proved to be both comfortable and warm.
R-Wear is a quality brand developed by Colin Rea for the sport and casual-wear market.
Colin developed R-Wear brand as he recognised the need for more interesting and diverse range of goods for customers.
The brand is stocked over 100 stores throughout Ireland and the UK. The main products are currently the R-Wear Connects reading glasses and sun glasses which are available in over 70 opticians throughout Ireland and the UK.
Colin comes from a family business background in Bagenalstown, Co.Carlow and also holds a University Degree in Economics.
R-Wear was founded in 2002 and the company is based in the family business department store in Bagenalstown, where Colin is the third generation of his family involved in the business.
R-Wear is a 100 per cent Irish-owned company.
On sitting down to write this report, and as I contemplate the end of my second stint as your President, I have to say that the events of last April still bring a smile and feeling of ultimate pride in that I was fortunate to be President when we won our first World Championship as a curling nation. The fact that I was also a player was the icing on the cake. Let this not be last time that a President is able to write that!! I could of course bore you to tears with another full account of what that win meant to the ICA but I know that I don't need to!!
We have had another busy international programme this year. Since the last AGM, David Smith and Yvonne Chalmers have represented us at the World Mixed Doubles in Erzurum and were then followed in September to the same place by the European Mixed team skipped by Robin Gray. That they all managed to get back in one piece is a testament to Irish fortitude and good luck more than anything else.
The men's European team took on a new look this year with a squad skipped by Alan Mitchell carrying the colours to Karlstad. They found it a steep learning curve after coming out of the blocks well against a strong Latvian team but all have gained experience of international competition and will look to gain promotion back out of the C league next season. I do hope that we may be able to field a Ladies European Team next season as well.
We have as you know already had playdowns for the World Seniors in Canada with Peter Wilson's rink running out winners against Johnjo Kenny's World Championship team and playdowns are soon to be played for the European Mixed Championships. On behalf of the ICA may I congratulate all of our international representatives for taking the time and money to represent Ireland and for being excellent ambassadors for yourselves and Irish Curling and also wish the teams competing in the World Seniors the best of luck. I must also mention the input of Gordon McIntyre who helped to prepare many of these teams. He now revels in being a World Champion Coach of course!! Carolyn has enlisted his help also in working with a ladies squad this and next season.
The lifeblood of the Association is our membership and it has been pleasing that we are now picking up some new and dare I say it younger curlers as members of the ICA which bodes well for the future both from the Associations point of view and also for representative curling.
The Bonspiels this season have been well supported – none more so than this one today – and I thank all of those who have participated in the various events that we have held. Feedback is always a good thing and would be gratefully received by the committee. Congratulations to all of the Bonspiel winners and participants.
The 4 Nations was held in Ayr this year where we came up against some pretty strong opposition (although not always playing for the correct nation!!). We very narrowly lost the Turnbull Trophy to England and the Meikle Trophy to Wales but thankfully managed to wrest the Marshall Millennium Trophy out of Scotland's grasp by a similarly narrow margin. Again, we managed to give everyone who wished to play the opportunity to do so and congratulations and thanks to all of those who participated. It will be our turn to host the 4 nations next season.
The International Bonspiel at Stranraer was one of the best yet. I noted that I had suggested a handicap to the local rink skipped by PJ Wilson which must have worked to a degree as he was usurped this year by another Peter Wilson who fought off the challenge of Neil Fyfe in the last match to clinch the crown. Stranraer connections still hold sway!
The event was notable in that Jim and Kathie Nixon have decided to hand over the reins after organising a number of very successful weekends. Again on behalf of the ICA I must thank them most sincerely for all of their efforts.
I also noted that I wrote last year that we lost the Belfast Medal to Ardrossan Castle on 'unbelievably tricky ice'. I can report that this year we unfortunately again lost the medal by some 10 shots on 'absolutely diabolical ice' at Auchenharvie. We must endeavour to host this event next year at a different ice rink!
Talking of Ice Rinks, we have again been hugely frustrated with developments or to be more correct, lack of developments over the Irish Sea. As you know and was widely predicted, the Santry project stumbled and ultimately fell off the radar due to lack of funds. Since then, an organisation has built an Ice Dome in Belfast but there is no space in this facility for curling. The company has plans to open a number of these facilities around Ireland and there is hope that the site in Dublin may have sufficient space for a two sheet rink alongside the Ice Rink. We have again contacted the Dundonald Ice Bowl with little effect and so once again we seem to be back at the drawing board stage. This is hugely frustrating and it is very difficult to remain optimistic about the prospects of an Irish Curling presence in Ireland but we must remain positive. John Burns has followed up on all of these projects over the years and we are most grateful to you John, for remaining committed to the cause.
I must express my sincere thanks to all of the committee – Carolyn Hibberd, Peter Wilson, David Whyte, Marie O'Kane, Alan Mitchell and Steve Callan who has taken over the running of the 100 Club. It is not always straight forward juggling the different demands of the various activities within the ICA but I think they do a great job on your behalf. Thanks are also due to Isobel Fyfe for co-ordinating the bonspiels from ice booking to name gathering and so on, Louise Kerr and Christine Furey for co-ordinating the website and blogs.
There will be a major change in the committee this year with the retirement of Ron Paterson as Treasurer and John Burns as Secretary. We owe these gentlemen a huge vote of thanks for their work over the years in these posts.
My final thanks are to all of our members for their unswerving support for the ICA and also for me as I have carried out my two year's Presidency.
I have been hugely honoured to have been your President and hope that I have carried out my duties in a manner that is deserving of your representation. I will close as I started by unashamedly mentioning the World Seniors win in Copenhagen. The support that the team received both during the competition but particularly when we got back was overwhelming and humbling. It proved to me that the Association is in good heart and I retire my Presidency happy in that knowledge.
I thank you again for giving me the opportunity to serve this Association as President.


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The Studio SC specializes in gastronomic photography. The building was designed by Studio MK27, with authorship by Marcio Kogan, co-authorship by Suzana Glogowski and interior design by Diana Radomysler. Its landscape design was made by Isabel Duprat. The building is located in São Paulo, Brazil.
One of the Studio MK27 favorite designs, its architectonic conception was achieved through an internal competition that was realized between the design team. At that moment, the team was divided between three groups that worked during one day, designing different proposals. In the end, the project has got its shape by the synthesis of the most relevant ideas achieved.
This process started at the beginning of 2008 and the construction comprehends the main volume, where the studios are located, editing rooms, kitchens, and social areas. After the construction conclusion, in 2011, the space received an annex in the terrain right next to it, where is located the cupboard, the workshop, and services areas.
Taught by the professionals responsible for the design development, this course reveals the creative process of Studio MK27 and Isabel Duprat. Through croquis, perspectives, technical drawings, photography, and videos, it will be addressed topics such as design approach, materials, structure, lighting, interior design and landscape design.
Founder of the Studio MK27, Marcio Kogan is graduated in architecture and urbanism by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo - Mackenzie (1976). He teaches as invited professor in the Politecnico di Milano and Escola da Cidade, where he got a masters in education, society, and culture. He is an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) council.
Architecture design team coordinator at Studio MK27, Suzana Glogowski is graduated in architecture and urbanism by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo - Mackenzie (1997). Innovation and creative research leader, she is the co-author of many designs made by the studio, like Casa Paraty (2009), the Studio SC (2011) and the Casa K (2013).
Interior design coordinator of the Studio MK27, where she leads a team which has specialists in interior and industrial design, Diana Radomysler is graduated in architecture and urbanism pela Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo-Mackenzie (1983).
Founder of Isabel Duprat Plantas e Jardins, Isabel Duprat is graduated in architecture and urbanism by Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo - Mackenzie (1978). Author of many landscape designs in Brazil and other countries, she acts developing and executing her works.
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It will *not* attempt to parse any normally-defined command-line flags. Command-line flags are explicitly left alone and separate.
EnvironmentFlags is the default set of environment flags, parsed from os.Environ(). The top-level functions such as BoolVar, Arg, and on are wrappers for the methods of EnvironmentFlags.
Lookup returns the Flag structure of the named environment flag, returning nil if none exists.
Parse parses the environment flags from os.Environ. Must be called after all flags are defined and before flags are accessed by the program.
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The heatwave is in full effect, and along with it comes the summer gaming drought. Nothing new to be seen here, Mike continues with Hollow Knight, Ben nears the halfway point of Yakuza 0, and Jake becomes a pro at Dead by Daylight.
News is fairly light this week with the upcoming forum to determine if eSports will make it into the Olympics, a new character in Overwatch, the future of an EA Star Wars title in jeopardy, and a release date for the remasters of Shenmue 1 and 2.
For the Top 5 this week, we select our favorite games released in the month of July!


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Q: How to groupby in Pandas and keep all columns I have a data frame like this:
   year       drug_name  avg_number_of_ingredients
0  2019     NEXIUM I.V.                          8
1  2016         ZOLADEX                         10
2  2017        PRILOSEC                         59
3  2017  BYDUREON BCise                         24
4  2019        Lynparza                         28

And I need to group drug names and mean number of ingredients by year like this:
   year     drug_name avg_number_of_ingredients
0  2019  drug a,b,c..     mean value for column
1  2018  drug a,b,c..     mean value for column
2  2017  drug a,b,c..     mean value for column

If I do df.groupby('year'), I lose drug names. How can I do it?

A: Let me show you the solution on the simple example. First, I make the same data frame as you have:
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(
    [
        {'year': 2019, 'drug_name': 'NEXIUM I.V.', 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 8},
        {'year': 2016, 'drug_name': 'ZOLADEX', 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 10},
        {'year': 2017, 'drug_name': 'PRILOSEC', 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 59},
        {'year': 2017, 'drug_name': 'BYDUREON BCise', 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 24},
        {'year': 2019, 'drug_name': 'Lynparza', 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 28},
    ]
)
>>> print(df)
   year       drug_name  avg_number_of_ingredients
0  2019     NEXIUM I.V.                          8
1  2016         ZOLADEX                         10
2  2017        PRILOSEC                         59
3  2017  BYDUREON BCise                         24
4  2019        Lynparza                         28

Now, I make a df_grouped, which still consists of information about drugs name.
>>> df_grouped = df.groupby('year', as_index=False).agg({'drug_name': ', '.join, 'avg_number_of_ingredients': 'mean'})
>>> print(df_grouped)
   year                 drug_name  avg_number_of_ingredients
0  2016                   ZOLADEX                       10.0
1  2017  PRILOSEC, BYDUREON BCise                       41.5
2  2019     NEXIUM I.V., Lynparza                       18.0


Technological advancements in space travel, hyperbole cars, communications, satellite technologies, sciences and research, and even in defense and military programs are based on the assumption that the speed of light is the fastest matter can travel.
The assumption is that nothing except well, it can actually travel with the speed of light. As an object (particle) approaches it, it decomposes into energy shedding its mass. Hence, it acts as an ultimate limit to how fast an object can travel within the confines of the known physical laws.
Of course, there have been reports of discoveries of particles breaking this momentum; however, rigorous testing has to be done, and the same result replicated before it can be accepted.
So, that still leaves it as the frame of reference in scientific calculations, the underpinning constant in space explorations, and the anchor in technological developments.
In this article, we'll explain what the speed of light really is, the nature of it, we'll also compare the speed of light with the speed of sound, then finally look at some areas of its applications.
It's simply how fast it moves in a vacuum – a vacuum is a space with nothing, no air, no matter, just space. It has a value of 299,792,458 meters per second which are approximately 3.0 * 108 m/s and is represented by the letter C.
According to the theory of relativity, it moves with a constant momentum regardless of how fast or slows the observer is moving. In orders words, the brightness maintains a constant pace no matter how fast you're moving towards it or away from it.
Bear in mind that light here means Electromagnetic radiation, which is the combination of all wave spectrum like the radio waves (has long wavelengths), infrared rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, and cosmic waves (short wavelengths).
The visible glow is only a tiny portion of the EM spectrum, and it lies somewhere close to the middle of the EM range.
When traveling through a different medium, it has been observed to be less than the one in a vacuum.
As it moves from one medium to another medium of varying density, it gets slowed down; this slowing is as a result of the scattering of the particles by the molecules of the material.
To illustrate this let's look at what happens when a beam of radiance travels from air to water. The beam bends as it enters the denser medium (in this case water); the change in the direction of the beam signifies a change which is always less than its momentum when moving in a vacuum.
As you can see from the list above, it decreases as the density of the medium it is traveling increases; this observation leads us to a concept known as refractive index.
As we have established earlier, light is slowed as it moves through different mediums. Whether it's traveling through the air, through a transparent object, or through water, its momentum is always impacted.
Hence, we can say that it's refracted when there's a change in its momentum and direction as it moves through a different medium.
So, the ratio in the vacuum and its momentum in any medium is called the refractive index of that material, and it is always greater than one.
Where n is the refractive index; it's always greater than 1.
In simple terms, this equation is saying that the speed of light changes as it travels through different mediums. It's also implying that is greatest as it moves to a vacuum.
With this equation, it's easy to determine how fast or slow a beam of brightness can travel between different materials.
Let's take a look at another phenomenon in nature – Sound. How does the velocity of sound compare to the velocity of light? Also, let's examine how the sound behaves when passing through different mediums.
First, the sound is a type of energy produced when an object vibrates. It needs mediums to propagate, unlike light which does not require any medium to propagate. And they travel through those mediums by vibrating the molecules of the material.
For instance, when traveling through a solid medium, sound waves vibrate the molecules of the material which are tightly packed hence, forcing them to collide with each other.
Just like the speed of light which is affected when it travels through a different medium, the velocity of sound is also impacted. Whereas, the speed of light is impeded, as the density of the material increases. Sound moves faster through the medium, the higher its density.
To illustrate this, let's look at how fast sound travels through different materials. In a dry clear air at zero degree Celsius, the velocity of sound is 331.2 m/s, it travels at 1484 m/s in water, 5120 m/s in Iron, and 12000 m/s in diamond. Hence, it's obvious then, that sound travels faster through solid mediums than liquid or gas.
So, how does these two compare? Light travels faster than sound. Remember, during a particularly stormy day with a thunderstorm, you always get to see the flashes of lightning first, before the rumbling of thunder follows. That exactly explains what I've been trying to describe for you.
Let's recap, as part of the electromagnetic spectrum, has a constant momentum in a vacuum, c which has been calculated to be 2.9 *108 m/s. As it moves through different mediums, it is refracted causing its momentum to change. The ratio in the vacuum with its momentum in the medium is known as the refractive index. But, sounds travel faster through a denser medium than light.


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RS Fiber is a cooperative between Renville and Sibley counties and several cities, including Brownton and Stewart, to bring fiber-optic service to residents and businesses in those communities.
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Islamic State reportedly beheads antiquities scholar who oversaw Palmyra ruins
82-year-old refused to lead ISIS to artifacts
By Hugh Naylor and Sarah Kaplan Washington Post,August 19, 2015, 7:23 p.m.
Syrian citizens walked in the ancient oasis city of Palmyra, northeast of Damascus. Activists fear that members of the Islamic State group will destroy the UNESCO heritage site.JOSEPH EID/Getty Images
BEIRUT — Khaled Asaad was a respected scholar who devoted more than five decades of his life to preserving the majestic, 2,000-year-old ruins of Palmyra, a city in the Syrian desert.
On Tuesday, Islamic State extremists beheaded the former chief of antiquities in the city and left his mangled body hanging in public for terrified residents to view, according to the official Syrian Arab News Agency.
The murder of Asaad, confirmed by Syrian activists, marks not just another attack by the puritanical group's militants on the region's vast archeological heritage but also an assault on those who look after it. The 82-year-old archeologist was killed after refusing to divulge information on ''specific archeological treasures,'' according to SANA, which cited comments from the Syrian government's antiquities head, Maamoun Abdulkarim.
Abdulkarim told the news agency that the militants crucified Asaad's body ''on colonnades in central Palmyra.''
A photograph posted on Twitter purports to show Asaad's body hanging on a street lamppost. A sign hanging on the corpse described the killing as punishment for working with ''idols,'' an apparent reference to the area's Roman-era artifacts.
The Islamic State captured Palmyra in May, prompting fears that the jihadists would destroy the UNESCO World Heritage site, about 150 miles northeast of the capital, Damascus. Syrian activists say the group has killed hundreds of residents in the city, which had a pre-civil war population of about 200,000.
Last month, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, released a video showing child soldiers summarily executing 25 government soldiers in the city's Roman amphitheater. In the video, the boys are shown firing pistols into the heads of the soldiers, who are kneeling with hands tied behind their backs.
In addition to perpetrating mass murder, the Islamic State has carried out sweeping anti-idolatry campaigns, laying waste to precious artifacts in the areas of Syria and Iraq under its control.
The group uses extremist interpretations of Sunni Islam to justify the destruction, which often targets pre-Islamic artifacts and other symbols of multiculturalism viewed as idolatrous.
In March, the group used bulldozers and explosives to level Nimrud, an ancient Assyrian city in Iraq. A video released in February purports to show the group's militants wielding sledgehammers against statues in the museum of Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq.
In June, the militants blew up two of Palmyra's ancient shrines that were not part of its Roman-era ruins. No evidence has yet emerged that the rest of the heritage site has been ransacked. The group has mostly channeled its violence in the area toward people, such as Asaad, considered a pioneer in Syrian archeological circles.
Among other accomplishments, he authored volumes of scholarly works on Palmyra, and he teamed up with Western archaeological missions to excavate and research the city's ancient tombs and temples.


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FILM REVIEW  Cradle Will Rock
by Steve Schneider May 3, 2006
Miramax Films
Directed by Gavin Hood
Starring Presley Chweneyagae
At this point, appreciating Tsotsi is largely a matter of context. What does it say that this South African export won the 2006 Oscar for Best Foreign-Language Film when the similar but more shattering City of God didn't even place back in 2003? OK, so the Brazilian God received nods in three other categories a year later, but only a win is a win — and the evidence thus appears fairly firm that the Academy prefers its dark-skinned, underage gangsters to be at least partially redeemable. Basically, our esteemed voters would rather see juvenile hoodlums cradling tiny tykes instead of shooting them.
That's not a complete knock on Tsotsi, which recovers from a rather explicit early stumble to land some effective blows in the name of nonviolence. (It just lands them more softly, is all.) Arising from a shantytown on the outskirts of Johannesburg, a gang of youthful toughs roams the area's streets and train stations, robbing the unwary and even slicing them up like rump roasts when the spirit so moves. One of their number, the particularly sociopathic Tsotsi (the Swahili nickname means "thug"), gets more than he bargained for when he ventures into an affluent neighborhood to pull off a carjacking — and soon discovers that he's also laid inadvertent claim to a mewling infant that had been left in the back seat.
Silently resolving to keep his newfound surrogate parenthood a secret from his criminal cohorts, Tsotsi (Presley Chweneyagae) makes some disastrous attempts at diaper-changing before he retains (by force, naturally) the caregiving skills of a young widow who's already rearing a wee one of her own. It's a profane parody of domesticity — the frightened madonna/hostage (Terry Pheto) suckling the stolen baby while Tsotsi looks on (not, we pray, lasciviously). At least we're spared the prospect of a Soweto-set Three Men and a Baby, though Tsotsi's actions at first have us scratching our heads. If he's really the delinquent among delinquents, as the movie's opening scenes would have us believe, it's far more likely he would have abandoned the kid by the side of the road — or even perhaps tried to sell it — than have given in to pangs of paternalism.
The reasons for his spark of conscience are revealed via flashbacks that show how the orphaned Tsotsi reached the big nowhere he now inhabits. Aside from robbing us of that initial bit of comprehension, the structure pays dramatic dividends. This is a real fall-and-rise (and fall again?) story, and one infused with audiovisual portent. Ominous lightning crackles over apocalyptic tableaus of carefully framed poverty, the atmosphere of desperation given a pulse by a terrific kwaito hip-hop soundtrack.
The AIDS epidemic becomes a dreadful motif: Safety billboards in the background of master shots constantly remind us of the disease's decimating effect on the local population. Whenever a character refers to another having died, everyone's default assumption is that immunological decline came first. (In a milieu so prone to gun- and knifeplay, that says a lot.) Yet Tsotsi never stops looking for a small silver lining of human potential — the possibility that even the worst reprobate will do the right thing, given a choice. It's easy to castigate that impulse as naive, or to point out that it's another notion Oscar voters love, but Tsotsi vindicates it with some stirring performances and well-aimed filmcraft. If countless lesser pictures hadn't required the word "redemption" to be banished forever from the critical vocabulary, this one would deserve it a good deal more than most.


Did you know that the Silverlight community site has over 150 Silverlight 2 Beta 2 samples submitted by the community?! These range from short samples of specific functionality to full-fledged applications that people can use. I recently spoke of 2 of the multi-file uploader controls that were features in the gallery. There is a lot of good information being shared by our community.
WE NEED YOUR HELP – UPDATE YOUR SAMPLES!
Today I sent around a note to those who I could identify who had submissions in the gallery with some information pointing them to Silverlight RC0 information and how they can/should prepare their samples to be ready for Silverlight release. We want to continue to feature your great samples, but need you to have them ready/runnable for Silverlight release.
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The Definition of Air-Cured and Cold-Smoked Hams From Germany
German Mains
Pork Mains
By Jennifer McGavin
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Rohschinken (lit. raw ham) is ham which has been preserved through salting or curing (with pink salt) and then air - drying or smoking. The meat cures or "ripens" through an enzymatic process brought about by the presence of lacto - acid bacteria ("Milchsäurebaketerien"). It becomes softer and develops a typical aroma.
See also "Kochschinken" for country-style hams.
The Spruce Eats / Alison Czinkota
Air Cured and Cold Smoked Hams
Luftgetrockneter Schinken - air - cured ham - is often produced in southern European countries where the climate is conducive to slow air - drying.
So-called "Parmaschinken," or Prosciutto di Parma, is made in Italy and is lightly cured in sea salt for 100 days at cold temperatures, washed, then air dried for a year, losing one-third of its weight in the process. Parmaschinken is known for its mild smell and taste. Often served as an appetizer in very thin slices wrapped around melon pieces.
Serrano ham is made like Prosciutto.
Bundnerfleisch is a Swiss specialty of cured and air - dried beef (see this NYT article here).
Räucherschinken (smoked ham) is another type of "raw ham." This method is used in colder, wetter climates north of Italy and Spain, where the humidity causes air dried ham to spoil. Smoking imparts another layer of preservation, especially on the surface to keep fungal growth at bay. Smoking the meat also gives it its typical color and flavor. Typically smoked hams are:
Westphalia Ham - the meat stays on the bone throughout processing, giving it a specific character. Westfälischer Schinken has been produced since the early Middle Ages. The pigs were fed on acorns from the forests in the area.
The meat is dry cured and hung to dry in front of the fireplace, also called the "westfälischer Himmel" or ham heaven. It is then often cold-smoked for 3 to 5 months over beech wood. It turns dark red with a golden fat layer. Several more months of a drying finish the process. It is traditionally served with white asparagus.
Black Forest Ham or Schwarzwälder Schinken - a specialty of southern Germany, Black Forest raw ham is cured, dried, smoked over pine wood and aged further. The rub contains garlic, coriander, pepper and juniper berries. It has a strong aroma and black-brown skin.
Holsteiner Katenschinken is a northern German specialty whereby the ham is cured in a dry rub of salt, sugar, and spices for six to eight weeks, then cold smoked over juniper, beech or oak wood in a north German "Kate." Traditionally, the hams were hung in front of the open fireplace in the cotter's house or "Kate." The smoke from the kitchen fire smoked the ham over several weeks. When the fireplaces were finally outfitted with chimneys, special smokehouses called "Katen" were built to continue the tradition.
Katenschinken has a strong, sharp taste and is the color of mahogany. It is used for Schinkenbrot (a type of Butterbrot) as well as Strammer Max and alone with "Pellkartoffeln" and white asparagus. Some people like to add freshly ground, white pepper before eating.
Ammerländer Schinken from Lower Saxony. Brown sugar and sea salt together with pepper, allspice, and juniper berries are used in the cure. Beechwood smoked, it is then allowed to age for several months up to two years. Sometimes ham of the same name is not smoked.
Nussschinken is a small ham cut from the "Nuss," the muscle in front of the knee. It is very lean and is prepared by curing and cold smoking. It does not have a designated area or spices.
Lachsschinken (lit. salmon ham) is not salmon, nor is it meat from the hindquarters of a pig. It is a loin which has been prepared like ham or Rohschinken. It is very lean and the color of salmon, with a lightly salty flavor.
Pronunciation: row - shink- an
Varieties of Ham
German Smoked Pork (Schwarzwaelder Schinken)
What Is Schinken?
Ham Types and How They Are Made
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Cuts of Pork: a Pig Diagram and Pork Chart
Making Air Cured Ham - Dried and Smoked Pork Recipe
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The 5 Best Charcuterie Cookbooks of 2020
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An Introduction to Spanish Ham
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I'm a big fan of 'low-and-slow' cooking, and that's why I love my BBQ Smoker. That smoker is great for Ribs, Brisket or Pulled Pork. But it is not ideal for other pieces of meat. After doing some research, this weekend I tried something differently: "Sous-Vide". The result is delicious: this is by far the best steak I've ever cooked :-).
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While driving through Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota on my way home from a wild horse sanctuary in Hot Springs, SD this lone Bison paused long enough for me to get this lovely pic.


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China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released the new China RoHS - Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electrical and Electronic Products, which will eventually replace the existing China RoHS Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products from 2006.
Following extensive review, the new China RoHS, "Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electrical and Electronic Products" was announced by China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) on January 21 2016 [1]. This administrative measure shall apply from July 1 2016 and will, at the same time, repeal the current China RoHS edition of 2006 [2], "Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products".
Compared to the current China RoHS, the key adjustment of this new edition is the expansion of the product scope. The current product scope, of electronic information products (EIP), will expand to electrical and electronic products (EEP). The definition of EEP is "devices and accessory products with rated working electrical voltages that do not exceed 1500 V direct current and do not exceed 1000 V alternating current and function by means of current or electromagnetic fields and generate, transmit and measure such currents and electromagnetic fields". This definition is similar to that used in the European RoHS. Therefore, EEP will include products not currently included in the 'Classification comment on electronic information products' published in March 2006.
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Q: Problem with iPad staying connected to wireless access point as signal strength decreases I'm not really a networking guy, but I need to solve a problem with some WiFi-only iPad 2s that I intend to deploy at work. I just installed six wireless access points (Cisco E2000s) throughout the building. The APs are configured with DD-WRT according to the specs in the DD-WRT documentation.
All of the APs have the same SSID and the same key. They use three different channels, and I tried not to position two APs with the same channel near each other.
I think I have decent coverage throughout the whole building, but there's still a problem.  When I walk around with an iPad, I go through periods when the signal is really weak, and the connection is degraded. What I think is happening is this: the iPad stays connected to a given AP, until the signal gets so weak that the connection is dropped altogether. At that point, the iPad looks for another, stronger signal to connect to. As I walk further away from that new AP, the signal is again degraded, and the cycle continues.
Is there anything I can do to force the iPads to drop a connection before it gets very weak? Seems like this is a problem that has already been solved somewhere by someone.
There aren't many parameters to change on the iPads, but maybe there is something I can do on the APs?  Should I be using a different configuration from the one I actually used?  If not, are there any settings that can be tweaked?


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O'Reilly & Fox Still Ignoring GOP Voter Registration Fraud Story
By: Steve - October 8, 2012 - 11:00am
On Monday, North Carolina election officials became the latest to announce they were taking a closer look at the unfolding voter registration scandal surrounding a notorious Republican consulting firm hired to sign up new voters in five key election states; Florida, Colorado, Virginia, Nevada and North Carolina.
The firm made headlines last week when potentially fraudulent registration forms were flagged in "at least 11" Florida counties, all submitted by the state Republican Party and collected by Strategic Allied Consulting. The firm is run by GOP operative Nathan Sproul, a former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona Republican Party.
At the center of the controversy are recently submitted registration forms deemed to be "questionable" by states elections officials. The suspicion surrounds "similar-looking signatures, missing information and wrong addresses on the forms," according to the Palm Beach Post.
In the wake of allegations, the Republican Party of Florida, North Carolina, and Colorado pulled the plug on Sproul's voter registration project. The Republican National Committee has also reportedly cut ties with the firm.
Do the allegations sound familiar?
Four years ago, Fox News helped lead the right-wing charge against ACORN, claiming the community activist group's allegedly crooked voter registration work represented a criminal extension of the Obama campaign. In order to bolster its flimsy "voter fraud" attacks, the network repeatedly stressed reports that ACORN canvassers had submitted questionable voter registration forms.
Which is actually an allegation of voter registration fraud, not actual voter fraud. And in many states organizations are required by law to turn in all forms they received even if they had reason to believe they were fraudulent.
In 2008, Fox's evening news programs aired more than 50 reports connecting ACORN to "voter fraud" between October 1 and Election Day, according to Nexis. During just one, three-day span (October 8-10) Fox's nighttime programs aired sixteen ACORN segments. And a lot of those matches were from the O'Reilly Factor, where Bill O'Reilly reported on it almost every night.
The Fox news team was relentless in attacking the left-leaning group and accusing it of unleashing election crimes across the country. And btw, by 2009, a majority of Republicans actually believed ACORN had stolen the election for Obama. Because of the false reporting O'Reilly and Fox put out, when it was not actual voter fraud.
Back then when it involved a so-called liberal group, the level of "voter fraud" hysteria was quite high on Fox.
Greta Van Susteren said this:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: There are huge fears of voter fraud in the presidential election. We're 26 days from the election, one of the biggest horse races in American history. And already there is threat of big trouble.
All eyes are on a handful of swing states where several voter fraud investigations are threatening a basic idea, whether or not free and fair elections will be held.
That was October 9, 2008. To this day, Van Susteren has not said one word about the fate of free and fair elections in America in the wake of the GOP's controversy.
In fact, the response so far to the widening allegations of Republican registration misconduct from the same high profile Fox hosts (Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Van Susteren) who toiled endlessly in the ACORN conspiracy fields four years ago?
It's been an eerie silence, confirming that previous concerns about voter fraud were nothing more than partisan right-wing talking points.
And it's not just Fox. It seems the entire GOP Noise Machine has made the same awkward decision to mostly ignore the burgeoning registration scandal after having relentlessly fear-mongered the same topic via ACORN four years ago.
Here are a couple new things you should know about the scandal, that you will never see reported by O'Reilly or anyone at Fox:
-- Sproul was paid directly by state Republican groups, and according to state party representatives, Sproul's firm was hired at the request of the Republican National Committee in Washington, D.C. The state parties also spent lots and lots of money for Sproul's services. The Colorado Republican Party spent half of its total budget paying for the operative's voter registration drive.
-- Sproul has a long history of fraud. The Nation's Lee Fang raised the red flag back in June with his piece at Republic Report, "Romney Quietly Hires Consulting Firm With Sordid History Of Destroying Democratic Voter Registration Forms."
-- Sproul got into a bit of trouble last fall when, in certain states, it came out that the firm was playing dirty tricks in order to suppress the Democratic vote: concealing their partisan agenda, tricking Democrats into registering as Republicans, surreptitiously re-registering Democrats and Independents as Republicans, and shredding Democratic registration forms.
-- Sproul's firm made news again during the 2008 campaign when allegations of destroying voter registration forms were made in Oregon and Nevada. And oh yeah, in Minnesota, Sproul's firm was accused of firing employees for registering Democratic voters.
Let's be clear that tearing up voter registration forms, which Sproul's firm has been accused of, is far worse than allegedly submitting fictional information on forms, which is what ACORN had to deal with in 2008. When forms are torn up, voters whose forms are destroyed won't be able to vote on Election Day, whereas a fictional registrant won't ever try to vote.
As Republican Congressman Chris Cannon noted during a Congressional hearing in May, 2008, "The difference between ACORN and Sproul is that ACORN doesn't throw away or change registration documents after they have been filled out."
Despite those very serious allegations of tampering with forms, Republicans still hired Sproul this year in 2012, as long as they weren't publicly linked to him.
Sproul said he created Strategic Allied Consulting at the RNC's request because the party wanted to avoid being publicly linked to the past allegations. The firm was set up at a Virginia address, and Sproul does not show up on the corporate paperwork.
"In order to be able to do the job that the state parties were hiring us to do, the RNC asked us to do it with a different company's name," Sproul said.
A YouTube clip began to go viral last week, showing a young woman in Colorado out registering voters, but "only Romney" voters. Asked who she worked for, she said worked for the county clerk's office. In fact, she worked for Sproul's firm.
Can you imagine how many times that clip would've aired on the Factor and Fox News this election cycle if the young woman had been working for a progressive organization like ACORN, lied about her employment, and was caught admitting she was only interested in registering Obama supporters to vote?
I'm guessing a million times! But it has not aired one time on the Factor, or any Fox News show.
Fox News made its bogus ACORN "voter fraud" claims back in 2008 with its ACORN crusade. Now, with the spotlight on allegations of Republican fraud, Fox talking heads like O'Reilly won't condemn, or even discuss, possible GOP attempts to taint the election process.
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The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office (SCSO) is going to "outrageous lengths" to produce law-abiding lonely guys into intercourse offenders. That's in accordance with Noah Pransky, a journalist that is fearless happens to be addressing Florida's addiction to entrapment for decades.
In September, SCSO arrested 23 males for presumably soliciting girls that are underage sex. Pransky's latest piece in Florida Politics chronicles the elaborate to and fro between some of those males and a officer pretending to become a female that is young. Pransky writes:
In a single instance from a 2017 procedure, SCSO invested two times trying to seduce a 20-year-old guy whom revealed no desire for making love with a kid. Detectives, whom posted an advertising for an woman that is 18-year-old Tinder, matched with all the child and proceeded to swap "getting-to-know-you" texts for longer than one hour; only then did detectives tell the man he was communicating with a 14-year-old woman, maybe maybe not an 18-year-old.
Undercover detectives proceeded in an attempt to discuss intercourse aided by the guy the very next day; he once again rebuffed the efforts, but continued the little talk because he suggested he had been bored. Detectives then delivered unsolicited, flirty pictures into the guy; a strategy that violates guidelines and ethical requirements because of this style of stings.
The thing that is terrible this instance is the fact that sheriff's workplace isn't attempting to save yourself any real children. It is only looking to get a simple victory.
Many moms and dads whom be concerned about predators online are picturing a guy that is creepy on some kiddie site where he lures naive youngsters away to a sordid encounter during the Dairy Queen.
Nevertheless the SCSO people flip that scenario completely. They log onto adult web internet sites, claiming become adult age. It is only one time they establish some sort of relationship with an adult who went online looking for a legal-age friend which they then confess they are underage.
Typically, the SCSO destroys the records among these stings, avoiding the public from understanding the process that is sordid produced the arrest associated with the supposed sex offender. However in the case highlighted above, the 20-year-old man ended up being really a civilian worker regarding the SCSO, and then he preserved the talk log:
Even though the man never recommended fulfilling up by having a child that is underage never brought up sex in their two complete times of online chats, and seemed to be a model worker, he had been suspended because of the sheriff's office after the exchange. He stated he had been then forced to resign to help keep the episode private.
I would personally stress him to help keep it private, too, if We'd been because duplicitous as the SCSO:
The chat log reveals detectives prepared to devote hours attempting to build the trust — and intimate interest — of a person who believes he could be conversing with another adult, before informing the person that the girl showing him love is obviously four years more youthful him to believe than she had led.
Detectives "swiped right" regarding the Tinder profile of this sheriff that is 20-year-old office worker, whoever profile read, "literally just want to hang with some body and also eat and never feel judged." On morning, May 20, he introduced himself to 18-year-old "Stephanie," told her he was bored at work, and the two spent the rest of the day texting back and forth sunday.
Their little talk covered the weather, life in Sarasota, and dirt monitor racing. When "Stephanie" said she would liven up the guy's slow workday ("I'll stir up difficulty for you personally"), he steered the discussion back once again to their shared hobbies. When detectives recommended speak about drugs, the person steered the conversation back once again to Sarasota life.
But detectives kept pushing, suggesting they get together. "Just lookin for a pal to chill with," they published the guy, then telling him "Stephanie" had been just 14 years old.
The rate associated with the conversation slowed up, but the two proceeded to speak about work, where they spent my youth, and a coffee dining ukrainian brides dining table the person had been thinking about buying.
Chances are they sent a fake photo and asked the man to deliver one in return. He did not.
Ultimately, they attempted to steer the discussion toward intercourse. "we like older dudes … I've never really had intercourse before … we waant," penned 'Stephanie.'
The mark reacted: "You're 14 just relax growing up is not all the buzz."
The 20-year-old cut off the conversation after another day of this aggressive flirting on the detective's part. Had he taken the bait, he could possibly be years that are facing jail and enrollment as an intercourse offender. Alternatively, he simply destroyed his work.
An additional article, Pransky profiled a man that is 62-year-old did use the bait: Hamid Keshmirian, whom decided to go to a website that purported to present adult escorts. He began speaking with a person who claimed become a grown-up feminine, but when a relationship had been founded, she unveiled by herself become prostitute that is 14-year-old to own intercourse with old males.
Your ex ended up being really a cop. "Deputies went in terms of to place a person regarding the device with Keshmirian, claiming to end up being the girl's father, offering permission for the encounter," Pransky writes.
Keshmirian's daughters state their dad had battled despair for eight years. He was immediately arrested and thrown in jail when he went to meet the "girl" on his birthday, September 19. Two times later friend bailed him down.
He killed himself that evening.
Sarasota Sheriff Tom Knight posted about their group's present successes at getting predators, composing, "If just I really could say these operations had been no further needed but again and again, even with we make a large number of arrests, these guys keep finding its way back to get more."
Somebody keeps finding its way back to get more. It is it "these males," or perhaps the cops?
Lenore Skenazy is creator of this book and we blog Free-Range Kids, and president for the nonprofit allow Grow.
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